The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

The first witness was a student from the Conservatory of Music. She was carrying a schoolbag and riding a bicycle. She was going to the library when she passed the lakeside of the school and found a body floating in the lake.Because a nearby gymnasium was holding a singer competition, the music in the venue was deafening, and the audience screamed one after another, but the girls' screams did not attract everyone's attention.

Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao just walked out of the venue, and only then did they discover the anomaly in the lake.

Hearing Xiao Lou say "Call the police", the girl who was so pale with fright took out her mobile phone, dialed 110 with trembling fingers, and said in a stammering voice: "You, hello, this, this is the streamer from Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music, Liuguang Lake, a dead body was found in the lake..."

There were only the three of them by the lake at this time.

Xiao Lou winked at Liu Qiao, and Liu Qiao immediately jumped into the lake while the girl was not paying attention.

At night, the light was dim, and no one noticed that Liu Qiao used a card to conjure a fish tail. She dived into the depths of the lake, and soon swam under the floating corpse.Liu Qiao turned on Ye Mingzhu and carefully observed the surrounding environment. After a while, she swam back to the lake and reported the result to Xiao Lou in a low voice: "I didn't find any stones, grass or other things under the body, and there was no blood in the lake. Specifically The cause of death is up to you, Professor Xiao, do I need to drag the body up?"

Xiao Lou shook his head: "Don't destroy the scene, wait until Han Jiang comes over. The protection of the crime scene is very important, and the police may come to a different conclusion. I will do the autopsy, but not in private now."

Liu Qiao frowned: "But, since this Captain Yu is not the one we know, can he be trusted?"

Xiao Lou gently rubbed his temples, and said uncertainly: "If he is Yu Hanjiang from the past, then he must be reliable. Hanjiang is a very good criminal policeman, and he can solve even difficult cases. But what I am worried about is, The world we live in is a space created by the gatekeepers based on our memories, whether it is Yu Hanjiang or Ye Qi, they are equivalent to NPCs now, and they may not necessarily cooperate with us."

If the past Yu Hanjiang was directly brought into this world, solving the case would become very simple.But the Gatekeeper can't be so kind.What Liu Qiao was more worried about was that Yu Hanjiang and Ye Qi might be hunters, not to mention helping them solve the case, maybe even wanting their lives?

A gust of night wind blew, and the girl who reported to the police shivered for a while, her face was so ugly that she was about to cry, she helped up the bicycle that had fallen beside her, and said in a trembling voice: "The police have sent someone over, I, we want to Wait here?"

"Of course. You are the first witness. The police will definitely ask you a lot of questions when they come." Xiao Lou stepped forward and said gently, "Don't be nervous. As long as you have nothing to do with the deceased, the police will not ask you for routine inquiries." It's hard for you."

"Hmm..." The girl bit the bullet and wrapped her coat tightly.

A moment later, two police cars appeared in Xiao Lou's field of vision.In order not to attract the attention of too many students, the police car did not sound its horn when entering the campus.The car soon stopped on the side of the road, the door opened from the inside, and a man in civilian clothes got out of the car.

——It turned out to be Yu Hanjiang.

He frowned slightly, with a stern expression on his face. He walked slowly to the three of them by the lake, and at the same time waved his hands at the colleagues behind him. The two police officers immediately cordoned off the surrounding area.

Yu Hanjiang picked up the flashlight to shine on the lake, and sure enough, he found a dead body in the middle of the lake. He turned his head to look at the girl by the lake with sharp eyes: "Who called the police?"

The girl stepped forward timidly: "Police officer, yes, it's me."

Yu Hanjiang took out a notebook and a pen from his pocket, and said coldly, "Name, age, occupation."

The girl said: "I, my name is Xu Mingyue, I'm 19 years old, and I'm a sophomore in the Conservatory of Music."

Yu Hanjiang quickly recorded and asked, "When was the body found?"

"Just now, around nine o'clock."

"Why did you pass by here?"

"The final exam is coming soon. I wanted to go to the library to read books tonight. When I passed by here, my bicycle suddenly blew out. I stopped to check, but I saw something floating in the middle of the lake. I walked over to take a closer look and saw it. A human face scares me to death..." The girl has calmed down now, and her expression is quite clear.

"These two are also witnesses?" He turned his head and came in front of Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao who were standing behind the tree. The moment he met Xiao Lou's eyes, he suddenly froze, "Professor Xiao, why are you here?"

"Han..." Xiao Lou coughed, and quickly changed his address: "Captain Yu, my students and I came to the Conservatory of Music to watch a singer competition. When we came out of the gymnasium just now, we heard a scream coming from the lake. We walked over and found There is a dead body in the lake, and I suggested that this classmate Xu call the police."

"So that's how it is." Yu Hanjiang nodded clearly, and waved to the young policeman behind him, saying, "You and Xiao Wu fish up the body first, and go to the lake to see if there is anything unusual."

"Yes, Captain Yu." Two young criminal police officers quickly took off their coats and went into the water, followed by another car that drove in and parked beside the police car. A capable female forensic doctor in a white coat put on gloves and came to Yu Hanjiang to ask : "Captain Yu, where's the corpse?"

"It's being salvaged." Yu Hanjiang looked around, "Let me take a look at the scene first."

"Yeah." The forensic doctor was sorting out the toolbox at the side, and Yu Hanjiang walked around the area with a flashlight. Xiao Lou kept following him, trying to find some clues through him.

Soon, Yu Hanjiang was squatting under a nearby tree. Frowning, he turned over the soil on the ground and found a few nails. He put the nails in a sterile bag, and carefully observed the surrounding trees.

One of the trees was engraved with small characters "Zhang Hengyu and Ning Xue will be together forever", but the handwriting was a little blurry. Yu Hanjiang took photos to collect evidence, and then went to the lake to look for clues.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang cooperated several times in the secret room world, so he naturally knew that he was looking for footprints.

If it was a homicide, whether the deceased was pushed into the lake or moved into the lake after being killed, the murderer's footprints should be left by the lake. Yu Hanjiang himself is a master of trace studies, so of course he would have thought of this.

Xiao Lou followed his gaze and found a series of footprints by the lake. The person who left the footprints should be wearing flat shoes. The footprints are very small, more like a woman.

At this time, the corpses in the lake were also salvaged, and the two police officers who went into the water reported the results of the investigation—it was consistent with Liu Qiao's preliminary investigation of the diving just now, no blood was found in the lake, and there were no weeds, stones, etc. A tool for sinking corpses into lakes.

The female forensic doctor started the preliminary autopsy. Xiao Lou was just an outsider at this time and had no right to intervene in the police team's process of solving the case. But standing nearby, he could roughly see the characteristics of the corpse, including changes in skin, muscles, and plaques.

The female forensic doctor said softly: "The deceased was a woman around 20 years old. No fatal injuries were found on the body, and there were no signs of struggle or fighting. It can be said that she died peacefully. Judging from the performance of the mouth and nasal cavity, the cause of death can be preliminarily judged. It was suffocation caused by drowning, and the specific situation has to be taken back for a detailed autopsy."

The young police officer next to him glanced at the footprints on the ground and analyzed them positively: "Captain Yu, these footprints are the same size as the deceased's feet, and the pattern of the footprints is also the same as the pattern on the soles of her sneakers. Only the footprints were found by the lake. Does the footprint of the deceased prove that the girl committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake?"

Yu Hanjiang said lightly: "Don't jump to conclusions lightly."

The young policeman blushed, scratched his head, and coughed lightly: "I'm just guessing..."

Yu Hanjiang turned to look at him: "Call the security guard who is on duty tonight, and the school leader in charge of the student office. Let's confirm the identity of the student first. Before the cause of death is revealed, we will check the girl's social relationship in detail."

He fixed his eyes on the tree in front of him, staring at the two names thoughtfully.

At this moment, the girl who called the police suddenly had a ghostly expression on her face, her eyes widened in horror: "Xiao, Xiaoxue?!"

Yu Hanjiang suddenly turned around: "Do you know her?"

Xu Mingyue stiffly pointed at the dead body on the ground, and said: "The face is so swollen, I can't tell who it is, but her clothes and shoes are exactly the same as my roommate Ning Xue's clothes. This is what we had on her birthday the day before yesterday. A few went shopping with her!"

Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao looked at each other—it was a good thing, Xu Mingyue, who found the deceased, happened to know the deceased.However, is Xu Mingyue's appearance by the lake really a "coincidence"?

Yu Hanjiang walked up to Xu Mingyue and asked lightly, "Are you sure this dress belongs to your roommate?"

Xu Mingyue nodded vigorously: "That's right, I helped her choose this dress."

Yu Hanjiang raised his chin: "Call Ning Xue immediately."

Xu Mingyue dug out the address book and dialed the phone number of her roommate. The state of "No one answered the phone" was always in her ears. Her face became even paler, and she stared at the corpse on the ground in shock: "It can't be true, it's Xiaoxue, right? ?”

Yu Hanjiang: "Do you know where Ning Xue went tonight?"

Xu Mingyue said: "It seems that I went on a date with her boyfriend. Tonight is December 12st, and tomorrow is the New Year. She said in the dormitory that she wanted to spend New Year's Eve with her boyfriend and go to the square to watch fireworks..."

Yu Hanjiang glanced at the names on the tree: "Is her boyfriend's name Zhang Hengyu?"

Xu Mingyue nodded: "That's right, her boyfriend is very handsome, he seems to be the senior of the medical science department next door, the forensic department."

Yu Hanjiang recorded all the information, walked up to Xiao Lou, and asked in a low voice, "I'm going to trouble Professor Xiao again. Did you know that there is a student named Zhang Hengyu in the Department of Forensic Medicine?"

Xiao Lou looked calm: "I know, he is the class monitor of our junior year in the Department of Forensic Medicine. This afternoon, in my professional class, he even came to the classroom and sat next to classmate Liu Qiao."

Liu Qiao was stunned, recalling the class in the afternoon, there was indeed a boy sitting beside her, she remembered that the boy had a handsome face, with slender and fair fingers, and he listened very carefully throughout the class, when Xiao Lou talked about key knowledge points, he would Take notes in a notebook.

He wrote a good hand, neatly like print.The name on the notebook is indeed Zhang Hengyu.

Liu Qiao nodded in agreement: "Professor Xiao is right. Zhang Hengyu sat next to me in class in the afternoon. He listened carefully to the class, and his expression didn't look unusual."

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly, and glanced at the line of words carved on the tree again.

Zhang Hengyu and Ning Xue are always together.

Among them, the word "forever" was painted red by ink for some reason.

Xiao Lou obviously noticed this too. He frowned lightly, looked at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Could it be...the relationship between the two of them had disputes, leading to love killing?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "It's not that simple."

He glanced at the three people present, and said calmly: "Please, please, come back to the police force with me to make a record."

Xiao Lou was keenly aware of what clues Yu Hanjiang had found, but Yu Hanjiang refused to tell him a word—it's no wonder, after all, Yu Hanjiang is now the captain of the criminal police brigade, and Xiao Lou just happened to pass by the scene of the crime. passers-by.

When the police handle a case, of course they cannot leak secret information to passers-by.

How to pry Yu Hanjiang's mouth open?What did he think was wrong?