today's island

He said that he could only sleep for three or four hours during the investigation, not much more. At three o'clock in the morning, Lu Yuanzhe was awakened by the phone call. Most of the calls from the bureau were related to the case.

"Captain Lu, you said that you were notified of a case. There is indeed a case. It's on Gushan Street." The colleague on duty told him, "The police in some jurisdictions have already passed by. The reporter said that there were three people who jumped off the building. You'd better hurry up." .”

"Understood, thank you for your hard work." He answered and hung up the phone, turned to the group number on the phone to wake up the others, and rushed to the next door to knock on Cheng Mo's door.

"Cheng Mo!" He yelled, and twisted the door. Unexpectedly, Cheng Mo didn't have the habit of locking the door, so he rushed in as soon as he twisted it.

Hearing his shout, Cheng Mo poked his head out from under the quilt, and met his eyes when he rushed in.Cheng Mo, who had just woken up, was a little confused, but fortunately he didn't seem to be getting up.

He found that the furnishings in the room had changed a little, the bed was moved to the side near the door, Cheng Mo slept almost against the wall, and there was still a small night light on the desk, emitting a soft light.

"Is there a case?" Cheng Mo quickly realized and asked him as he got out of bed.

"...Hmm." He was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses, nodded and said, "Wash and tidy up in 5 minutes, on Gushan Street, he may be the person we are looking for."

"Got it." Cheng Mo nodded, fully awake.

He also went back to his room to wash, between brushing his teeth, the scene he had just seen resurfaced in his mind.Cheng Mo's bed was next to his room, and there was a night light on which hurt his sleep a bit. He could only have one guess - Cheng Mo was afraid of the dark.

No way... It's hard for him to understand that Cheng Mo, a criminal policeman, would be afraid of the dark. Although Cheng Mo had a big reaction last time when he killed someone, he felt that fear of the dark was two different things. , No matter how you look at it, you don't look like a timid person.

He remembered that Cheng Mo woke up suddenly in the hospital, and Cheng Mo said that he had a very light sleep, maybe although this guy went to bed early and woke up early, he was really prone to nightmares.

But Cheng Mo got up very quickly, he had already washed up quickly enough, and Cheng Mo sat on the sofa one step ahead of him and waited for him.

He hurried back to the living room, after thinking for a while, he took out a pack of wafers and threw it to Cheng Mo: "Here, let's eat it for breakfast."

"It's only three o'clock." Cheng Mo looked at the time in a daze, and it wasn't because he was sleepy.

"Who knows when the work is over, and besides, you still have to see the doctor to do the autopsy and go to breakfast halfway through?" He asked back, thinking about it, and reminded, "Didn't the doctor tell you not to stay up late on an empty stomach?" .”

Although Cheng Mo looked much better and was able to swim in the winter, he also saw unfinished medicine on Cheng Mo's table, and felt that following the doctor's advice was still very important.

"That's right." Cheng Mo lowered his head and smiled, and opened the wafer, "Thank you, Captain Lu."

·

Braving the drizzle, Lu Yuanzhe parked the car on the road and led Cheng Mo into the yard where the crime took place.

The crime took place in an unfinished building. There should have been few people passing by. The security guard in the next street ordered takeaway. The takeaway boy went to the wrong place, and only saw a few people lying on the ground.

I didn't dare to take a closer look, the takeaway boy delivered the food after reporting to the police, and entrusted the two security guards to take a look.After drinking some wine at night, it was cold and raining outside. They bet each other on whether the other would have the guts to look at it. In the end, the two of them grabbed the flashlight and went together.

Running into the yard with a flashlight, the two of them saw three corpses lying on the ground. The [-]th-floor unfinished building had a concrete floor, and even the skulls were shattered.

As soon as Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo finished understanding the situation, Ding Chenyu and Ling Xi arrived behind. Ling Xi did a preliminary autopsy while waiting for the car from the forensic department to arrive.

"The time of death was around ten o'clock last night. It should have fallen from the top floor." He looked up at the exterior of the building. "There are some scratches on his body, maybe he hit the building."

Everyone looked up and saw that the building was coming to an end, because the management of the company had a major economic problem and shelved it. In fact, it was almost completed, but there were no doors and windows, and there were some iron frames that had been spent.

"Let's go up and have a look." Lu Yuanzhe told Ling Xi to go into the building.

On a rainy day, because the windows were not sealed, some water splashed in the building, and most places were covered with dust.

The police from the surrounding police stations arrived before them, and now they have sealed off the scene, and even set up a cordon in the corridor.

"The footprints are quite clear." The policeman introduced to them, "When we came, we pulled the cordon, and only three people went upstairs. We only roughly compared the footprints, and they should be theirs."

Ding Chenyu compared the pictures on his mobile phone, and it was indeed the pattern on their soles.

Climbing all the way to the fifteenth floor, they got into the drizzle again.The relics of the three deceased were piled up on the empty rooftop. They all took off their down jackets and threw their belongings aside.

After it rained, the down jacket was almost soaked. Cheng Mo put on his gloves and looked through his documents: "I brought my student ID card or ID card."

The three are students from various schools in the island city, two of them seem to be in the same class, and the remaining one is from another school, two freshmen and one sophomore.

The suicide notes were also in their respective pockets, already wet with water, and like last time, they were copied as they were without signatures.

"It looks like a typical suicide scene." Ding Chenyu judged, "No matter what, it's impossible for someone to float up out of thin air."

"You also said it 'looks', there are no footprints on this side, what about the other end?" Lu Yuanzhe walked from this side to the roof entrance on the other side.

"No, we took a look before." The policeman introduced.

There was indeed no downward footprint, Lu Yuanzhe stopped at the entrance and did not go downstairs.

Others also wandered around on the rooftop. Except for the pile of down jackets where the three girls fell, there were no sundries in other places, and there were no traces of dust to judge in rainy days. There were really no more suspicious traces. .

Lu Yuanzhe stood in the center of the roof, looked around for a while, and finally locked his eyes on the elevator shaft.This is the working elevator used for building repairs in the past. It can go directly to the top floor, but there is a seal, and the elevator also stops downstairs.

"You don't think the prisoner climbed up from the elevator shaft, do you? Even if it's a man, it's basically impossible." Ding Chenyu noticed his eyes, "Or did he come up by the elevator? This building is ruined and can still have electricity? "

"How do you know if you don't try?" Lu Yuanzhe walked to the elevator and pressed the button.

Although the panel was completely dark, he pressed a few more times, and the elevator moved miraculously, and there was a sound of chains turning in the elevator shaft.

Cheng Mo turned his head from the side of the falling building, took a look in surprise, and strode to the elevator: "Will the unfinished building still have power supply?"

"I only know that the seals of unfinished buildings are not exposed to wind and rain and are still so strong, and they are still attached to the door frame." Lu Yuanzhe carefully peeled them off, and both ends of the seal were attached to the frame of the elevator shaft. The wind was blowing and the rain was blowing, and I didn't know where to go. "It seems that the murderer is afraid that we will be lazy and take the elevator, so it's a bit unnecessary."

Inside the elevator was spotless, like new.

"In this way, at least there is more than one route up the stairs?" Lu Yuanzhe asked Ding Chenyu as he watched the elevator box go up slowly, and then he looked up at the sky, "What the prisoner is waiting for is this rain. Footprints and the like can’t be found now.”

Although there is no autopsy yet, it is impossible to determine the whole story of the whole case, but at least it is not as simple as three people going up the stairs together and jumping down.

They took the elevator downstairs, but the police didn't follow, and waved their hands and refused: "Forget it, let's go on with this dilapidated building."

"Don't scare me." Lu Yuanzhe joked at him, "Are you crow-mouthed? I'll let Xiao Cheng go down if you are smart, otherwise Bureau Tang will definitely drag me out of the morgue to criticize."

"Don't scare me." Ding Chenyu also got out of the elevator, leaving Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo to take the elevator downstairs.

"Aren't you afraid?" Lu Yuanzhe glanced at Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo shook his head, and seriously reasoned with him: "The prisoner can bring three girls upstairs, and the weight of the two of us should be fine."

"I thought you would answer that you are willing to live and die with me?" Lu Yuanzhe joked as the elevator wobbled a little.

Cheng Mo smiled, and didn't tease him like he did a few days ago.

Tsk, did you really not pick up his jokes?It was really difficult for Lu Yuanzhe to understand Cheng Mo's state of mind, so he secretly glanced at him several times, but did not wait for Cheng Mo to speak.

·

The on-site investigation did not end until dawn, and the power supply in this area was unstable. At that time, for the sake of construction progress and safety, a generator was specially installed under the elevator, but someone turned it on.

Wan Yi and Su Xiaozhi arrived at the scene at four o'clock, and happened to participate in the search for the elevator on the lower floor. Wan Yi knew a little about the structure of the generator, and said that it would be troublesome to turn on the system, but the other party had the awareness of anti-detection. Some messy footprints and palm prints were left behind, which were deliberately messed up and had no search value.

After returning to the police station early in the morning, they had a makeshift breakfast in the community where Cheng Mo lived before.

"I'm starving to death." Ding Chenyu ordered beef noodles, which was not enough, and ordered another pancake with soy milk. "The other party has been watching our movements all day long, but the location of the crime was far enough away."

When he shouted that he was hungry, Cheng Mo glanced at Lu Yuanzhe very quickly, then lowered his head and continued to eat his noodles silently.

"Of course I'm hungry for work at night." Lu Yuanzhe also glanced at him, but the topic did not move up, and returned to the case, "The other party chose a location close to the deceased, otherwise how could he fake the suicide scene?"

"I hope these people can have some kind of intersection." Wan Yi said, sighing.After getting a few mobile phones and cracking them successfully, he started looking at the life trajectories of the three people. Two of the three people are classmates, and they have no contact with the other. They are all not too far away from their own life circle. People are hard to come across.

It must be said that they are all melon-eating girls who are active on the Internet.In addition, judging from the time when their chatting frequency decreased, they may have met the prisoner at five or six o'clock in the evening.

"They're all star-chasing girls, is there someone trying to trick them in the name of being a star?" Su Xiaozhi had already finished a whole bowl of rice noodles, and even wanted to have another bowl.

"You should be a primary school student. Adding a fake QQ account can make you happy for several days, and besides, they like different celebrities, so they can't hang out together." Wan Yi squinted at her, "If the fan group who has quarreled, say Maybe we have to fight face to face, so we won't come out to meet each other."

"Is this so?" Su Xiaozhi was surprised. She really only watched the excitement on the Internet, and never got into the fan group. She drank the soup unsatisfactorily, and she muttered again, "Then why are these Internet addicted girls one by two? They were all tricked out of the house? Is there really a mysterious social software that Wan Yi doesn't know about, that specializes in suicide?"

"Now it's even more impossible to say that it was a suicide." Lu Yuanzhe reminded, "We have to wait for Lingxi's autopsy report to analyze it."

Wan Yi couldn't be reconciled: "Human life is a matter of heaven, and he even wrote a suicide note. Is it something that can be exchanged with a few chat records that are deleted casually?"

"By the way, is there no new suicide note this time?" Su Xiaozhi asked.

"Not yet." Lu Yuanzhe shook his head, "It's not the best. The other party creates cases so frequently, which is not good for us. It's best that he can't screen out suitable victims for a while."

Cheng Mo didn't say much, and turned over and over in his phone, still those few suicide notes.This time, the three copies in the hands of the deceased were photographed again. Although the content was the same, he was looking back and forth again.

"Do you have any questions about handwriting?" Ding Chenyu asked.

"No." Cheng Mo shook his head. "It takes a long time to practice imitating handwriting. I don't think the murderer has this kind of spare time. Besides, professional appraisal will reveal his flaws."

"Then what are you looking at?" Lu Yuanzhe also moved over curiously.

"I still don't think...it doesn't sound like someone who is about to commit suicide." Cheng Mo replied hesitantly.

"Who thinks it looks like it?" Lu Yuanzhe glanced at everyone, and everyone shook their heads.

From the time the first suicide note was sent, they didn't feel that it was what a suicidal person should leave, otherwise they wouldn't be so persistent in finding out the suspicion of homicide.