today's island

At lunch time, the light outside didn't get any better, and it always looked like the gloom before the total solar eclipse.

Everyone sat at the same table again, the wine they drank yesterday seemed to be still in their minds, this time only two or three people ordered some beer, and no one else drank.Dishes are being served one after another, but no one has arrived yet.

"Where are Xiao Liu and Xiao Qiu?" Director Jiang asked.

When he asked, Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo glanced at each other quickly, and indeed they hadn't seen them since breakfast.

"I'm going to call out, young people are going to go back to sleep, so it's better to take a typhoon vacation." Cao Zhijie stood up, intending to call his two apprentices, "Eat first, I'll teach them a lesson." sentence."

Knowing that Cheng Mo was going to follow, Lu Yuanzhe held him down before he could speak, and stood up by himself: "Master Cao, I'll go with you."

"What are you going to do?" Cao Zhijie waved his hand to let him sit down, "I can do it alone."

"It's okay, it's okay, don't embarrass the two young people too much, everyone likes to sleep in." Lu Yuanzhe grabbed Cao Zhijie's shoulders and said a few good words for Xiao Qiu and Xiao Liu.

boom.Before he finished speaking, the door of the cafeteria was knocked open by Xiao Qiu. He stumbled and fell to the ground, his legs were still shaking.

"Xiao Liu..." He looked out the door in fear, and subconsciously crawled two steps towards the dining table, "Xiao Liu..."

Lu Yuanzhe stretched out his hand to support him, and when he touched him, he hugged his arm tightly. Only then did everyone notice the blood on the sole of his shoe.

"What's the matter? It's okay, it's okay." Lu Yuanzhe helped him to the chair and sat down.

"Go and have a look!" Xiao Qiu didn't dare to say anything, curled up into a ball hugging the back of the chair.

"Stay here." Lu Yuanzhe ordered, pulled out his gun, walked two steps, and blocked Cheng Mo who wanted to follow with his eyes, "You wait here too."

Everyone stood or sat, and formed a circle around the dining table. Cheng Mo moved to Xiao Qiu's side and handed him a bottle of mineral water.

Xiaoqiu couldn't even drink the mineral water, so he just held the bottle in a daze.

After waiting for 3 minutes, the sound of Lu Yuanzhe's footsteps came from the door, and those who had just sat down stood up again, waiting for Lu Yuanzhe to speak with anxious eyes.

Lu Yuanzhe glanced at everyone, and explained the situation seriously but calmly: "Xiao Liu was killed in the room, can someone find some tools to move the body? Stretchers, raincoats, lab coats, etc."

Everyone was shocked, some looked at each other, some were looking at Xiao Liu, and some were completely stunned and didn't move for a long time.

"I, I'll go find it." Minister Hua raised his hand.

"Let's go together, Captain Hu, pay attention to everyone's safety, and don't separate casually." Lu Yuanzhe instructed, and then looked at Cheng Mo, "Let's go up."

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Xiao Liu had his throat cut to death, lying on his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.The bloodstain on the bed sheet was already half-dried, but not on the ground. There were a few obvious footprints on the bed, which should have been left by Xiaoqiu.Judging from the traces, Xiao Qiu leaned over to his bed and took a look, then went straight to the door and escaped from his room.

"The key is by the bed." Cheng Mo wrapped the key up, "They didn't lock the door at night."

After the door is locked, the key must be used to open the door regardless of whether it is inside or outside. Xiao Qiu went straight to the door, which shows that the door was not locked from the beginning.

"It's not necessarily that they didn't lock it, it may also be that the murderer came." Lu Yuanzhe replied.The door was not locked when He Zhigang was killed, so I don't know if it has something to do with this situation.

The other party was an expert, and when he cut his throat, he covered Xiao Liu's neck with a towel, and didn't spray himself all over.The towel was thrown into the bathroom sink, already soaked dark red.

Xiao Liu should have been attacked while he was asleep, and the opponent was quick and accurate. He didn't even have the strength to get up, and he lost consciousness due to suffocation and blood loss.

There were no traces of rummaging in the house, and no footprints were found, which shows that the prisoner didn't look for anything.Lu Yuanzhe carefully took out Xiao Liu's mobile phone and found that there was a lock screen.

The fingerprints after death can't open the lock screen, so they can only give up, and Wan Yi has to do it.

There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and Lu Yuanzhe immediately retreated to the door, stopping Director Jiang and other ministers who came to deliver the stretcher and other transport tools: "Don't come in, or you won't be able to explain clearly."

Several of them slammed on the brakes, and then they were all covered their mouths and noses by the bloody smell coming towards their faces. Minister Tao even bent down and almost vomited.They didn't intend to help, and quickly went downstairs, leaving Director Jiang hesitating and not moving.

"What's the situation?" Director Jiang asked, rubbing his hands, quite nervous, probably feeling that Cheng Mo's position was more towards him, and looked at Cheng Mo who came out later.

"I don't know yet." Cheng Mo replied, and then looked at Director Jiang seriously, "Do you have any clues to provide?"

"Me?" Director Jiang was stopped by the question, his eyes drifted and he hesitated for a long time, "Could it be a business rival?"

"I don't know, there are only so many people on the island, aren't they all your acquaintances?" Cheng Mo tactfully denied his answer.

"My own people can't do it..." Director Jiang obviously resisted this conjecture.

"You go back to the dining room first, we'll go and ask questions later." Cheng Mo returned to the room after finishing speaking, leaving Director Jiang to look at the closed door, taking half a step back, his legs were limp .

·

Although they are all well-trained criminal police officers, it is still not easy to lift an adult male who weighs nearly [-] kilograms.

After locking 303 and carrying the toolbox, they carried the stretcher and slowly moved to the first floor.

The others didn't go back to their rooms either, they were all staying in the dining room. At this time, Sister Zhao looked around for a while, and immediately shrank back when she saw the blood on the stretcher and the plastic sheeting.

There was a strong wind outside, and they took a lot of effort to send the body to the laboratory building. Captain Hu and Minister Hua waited in the lobby of the laboratory building, opened the door for them, and moved a freezer for them.

Opening the toolbox, Cheng Mo took out the thermometer, and made a calculation based on the rectal temperature of the corpse: "He died around four o'clock in the morning."

Lu Yuanzhe checked his body surface and found no other scars. It seems that the other party has no other demands other than murder.

"It's not embarrassing us if the method of killing is so direct, otherwise we might not even find the cause of death." He sighed.

"Yeah." Cheng Mo nodded, and glanced at Xiao Liu's neck again, "It's a fatal blow, he must be a professional killer."

"Of course, would a layman dare to kill like this when there are other people in the room?" Lu Yuanzhe also glanced at Xiao Liu's rolled flesh, and if the knife went a little deeper, it would be the scene of a ruptured artery like a fountain.

Focusing on the room, they braved the rain and returned to 303.

Having removed the body, they searched the entire house thoroughly.Cheng Mo opened the curtains and took photos with less than ideal light. Lu Yuanzhe packed up the deceased's mobile phone and computer, and prepared to take them together to ask Xiaoqiu to see if there were any clues about the password.

Xiaoqiu and Xiao Liu's room was much messier than He Zhigang's. The clothes to be washed were piled up in the basket by the bathroom door, and some freshly washed clothes were thrown on the sofa.The closet is a mess, and I guess only I know where the things I want to wear are piled up.

They found no traces of rummaging, whether it was the door card, various documents, keys, notes, or USB flash drives.Besides, there was a living person in the house, if he searched around, he would wake up no matter what.

"You said... Is it possible that they were given sleeping pills?" Lu Yuanzhe picked up the cup by the bed and smelled it, but couldn't tell if there was any problem.

"It's possible, it's not normal to sleep for hours in such a strong smell of blood." Cheng Mo replied.

It's a pity that it is very difficult to judge whether there are sleeping pills or not. At this time, Lu Yuanzhe really regretted it, no matter what, he should have taken Ling Xi by force.

When they went downstairs, Xiao Qiu was still sitting in the dining room in a daze, but surrounded by everyone, his mood calmed down a lot.

"I didn't wake up until just now." He told how he ran to the restaurant, "When I woke up, Xiao Liu fell on the bed like that... As soon as I touched him, he was already cold... I rushed out... ..."

He talked intermittently, and while Lu Yuanzhe comforted him, he added some questions and basically restored what happened.

They slept late last night, turned off the computer at one o'clock in the morning and climbed into bed, and the power was cut off before two o'clock, so they went downstairs to see what was going on, and met Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo.

At that time, Xiao Liu was very normal, and he sent Lu Yuanzhe to check the freezer, and he didn't find anything wrong when he came back. After all, it was getting late, and they both climbed into bed immediately.As soon as Xiao Qiu fell on the bed, he felt extremely sleepy, and fell asleep quickly. He remembered that Xiao Liu was yawning and not playing with his mobile phone at that time.

Then it was morning, he didn't wake up until just before rushing in, Xiao Liu had already had his throat cut, and he didn't hear a sound in the middle of the night.

"Did you lock the door last night? I don't think you have the key." Cheng Mo asked him while holding the key to 303.

Xiao Qiu was stunned for a moment, and he had just realized the question: "I remember locking it...the chain was still hanging when I came out, but it did open as soon as I turned the handle...I remembered locking the door."

Cheng Mo glanced at Lu Yuanzhe, but Lu Yuanzhe didn't speak.

"Is it He Zhigang's wronged soul?" Xiao Qiu also looked at Lu Yuanzhe, and asked him in a nagging voice, "You went to see the corpse last night, did you see anything? He said that only you two went in."

"Of course I didn't see anything, otherwise would I be here?" Lu Yuanzhe looked at him helplessly, patted the back of his hand to let him loosen, wondering how a scientific researcher could become superstitious.

I also felt that this kind of conjecture was a bit outrageous, Xiao Qiu let go of his hand, and lowered his hair in a daze.

With his help, Xiao Liu turned on his mobile phone and computer, and found nothing wrong with the local records, which were all experimental records.

"You also often do experiments late at night?" Cheng Mo asked while looking at the experiment records.

"Well, we young people, of course we have to work harder." Xiaoqiu lowered his head and replied.

"But not recently?" Cheng Mo continued to scroll down, and they went less at night in the past two months.

"Yeah." Xiao Qiu nodded, he was still a little in shock, and his speech seemed to be broken, "I haven't been very busy recently, working on projects is a series of tasks, busy for a while and idle for a while..."

Cheng Mo glanced at Lu Yuanzhe, and handed the phone to Xiao Qiu: "Do you have any recent experiment plans, and does it have anything to do with He Zhigang's experiment?"

"No..." Xiaoqiu replied anxiously, took the phone, flipped through it, and couldn't find it in Xiao Liu's phone, so he turned on his own phone, "We do similar things, you see, this is a recent experiment , He does the gas production of microorganisms, and we do the cultivation of another kind of microorganisms, which is completely different."

Cheng Mo took a picture of his phone, said thank you, and stopped asking questions.

"Sister Zhao, please arrange a new room for him. Let's accompany him to get a change of clothes later." Lu Yuanzhe ordered, "Others, go back to your room and be careful. We will ask about yesterday's clothes one by one in a while. Late situation."

Xiao Zhang and Xiao Tang volunteered to accompany Xiao Qiu, and the others went back to their rooms, leaving only Lu Yuanzhe and Cheng Mo in the cafeteria.

"Did you also notice something was wrong?" Lu Yuanzhe looked at Cheng Mo.

"Yeah." Cheng Mo nodded.

"Let's finish asking everyone first." Lu Yuanzhe patted him on the shoulder, but didn't immediately point out the problems they noticed.