today's island

On New Year's Eve, the brightly lit Wanghai Square is full of people waiting for the New Year's Eve.No matter how many levels of sea breeze blowing, or even several bouts of drizzle, they couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for counting down.

After eleven o'clock, the rain stopped, and people from various buildings in the pedestrian street began to flow to the square. Most of them were young people, and they all came to this annual event.

Daocheng TV Tower, the first landmark building built in Daocheng 12 years ago, is also the tallest one so far. This year is the [-]th year to live broadcast the countdown to the New Year.

Although the TV Tower is located in the center of Daoxin Square, it is more comfortable because of the slightly higher terrain compared to Daoxin Square, where a large number of locals gather.

This is the third year for Lu Yuanzhe to come here for New Year's Eve. The first year is to handle the case, the second year is for insomnia, and this year is to take a look for Team Zhou.

Zhou Ming's house is nearby, he likes the lively atmosphere more, and he will be even more proud if he can teach a few hooligans a lesson.Now that Team Zhou is gone, Lu Yuanzhe decided to make a voluntary inspection instead of him.

The fountain on the square is changing with the music. I don’t know whether it is the treated seawater or the illusion brought by the sea breeze. I always feel that there is a faint salty taste in the water.

Even so, some children tried to play in the water, but were held back by their parents, so the noise continued one after another, adding more harsh noise to the already noisy environment.

Because of the noise, the man ran out of the buildings on the edge of the square and ran all the way to the center of the square before anyone noticed that he was not cheering or drunk, but crying.

He pushed aside the crowd frantically and roughly, roaring indistinctly, and finally let the crowd separate automatically for him.

After this separation, Lu Yuanzhe caught the source of the sound, and looked at the lunatic across the fountain.

Just at this moment, the lunatic's voice suddenly turned into a shrill voice. Everyone was frightened that a man could shout such a voice.

Before the plainclothes police approached, the man's body suddenly burst into dazzling flames, far higher than the brightness of ordinary burning, like a flash bomb, temporarily blinding those who got close.

The crowd boiled all of a sudden, and everyone squinted their eyes away from the fire point. Frightened by the blowing heat waves and screams, they completely lost order, pushing and shoving, and almost caused a stampede accident.

Lu Yuanzhe didn't run away, but stood frowning in the crowd against the current, and saw the whole story clearly.

The man cried and staggered forward, and subconsciously jumped into the fountain, but the fire did not diminish at all, and a new round of dazzling flicker lit up the entire fountain pool. Fortunately, Lu Yuanzhe was wearing sunglasses, otherwise he would have been blinded for a few seconds.

After 10 minutes, the riot gradually stopped.The scene of the crime was quickly surrounded, and the people who ran into the building were also cleared one by one. The entire area around Wanghai Square was as empty as a suburb.

No one paid attention to the countdown to the New Year's Eve. At 0 o'clock in the morning, when the TV tower broadcast various colorful patterns, only the police were left at the scene of the crime, and no one looked up.

"Why are you here?" Sun Yan gave Lu Yuanzhe a dissatisfied look.

He is also Zhou Ming's apprentice, although Sun Yan is six years older than Lu Yuanzhe, but Lu Yuanzhe feels that Sun Yan is more petty than him, and often takes the initiative to target him.

In the same office before, Su Xiaozhi felt that the two of them "loved each other and killed each other", but after being divided into two departments, Su Xiaozhi had already seen through Sun Yan's character and gave up on this character who failed in both appearance and temper.

"I'm not here, I'm here, and I'm your precious witness." Lu Yuanzhe smiled, put his hands in his pockets, and replied casually, "If you don't like it, I'll leave immediately."

He didn't want to really leave, he just said casually.Sure enough, for such a big event, Sun Yan didn't want him to leave just like the witnessing policeman, and walked up to him in a big way: "Tell me, what's going on?"

"What else can happen?" He pointed to the trace inspection and forensic experts who were already working. "They must be able to tell at a glance that it is flammable particles such as aluminum powder."

After briefly describing what happened, he thought for a while, but didn't mention that the victim gave him a strange look.This was his intuition, Sun Yan would not believe it.

Originally, because of the case a few days ago, Sun Yan still had high hopes for him, but after hearing what he said, he realized that he was just an ordinary witness who happened to be there, and immediately waved his hand to drive him away.

"You can't drive people away after hearing the testimony." He sat down on the flower bed next to him. "I won't affect you, and I won't steal your limelight. One more person has more opinions. What's the point of hearing it?"

What he said made sense, Sun Yan gave him a sideways look, but in the end he didn't argue with him in front of everyone.He watched the forensic doctors take away the corpse, and then leaned over to look at the autopsy report.

The deceased was wearing a vest, which contained a large amount of quicklime, aluminum powder and iron powder particles, all of which could react chemically with water.According to the preliminary autopsy, it was first caused by the exothermic urine. The deceased jumped into the fountain in a panic.

The scene was chaotic, and it was difficult to collect eyewitness testimony. Fortunately, surveillance footage captured the victim smashing the door with an escape hammer and running away.

It was a commercial building at the end of the pedestrian street that had not been fully renovated. There were only odd shops on the 1st to 5th floors for rent, and the 6th to 7th floors were some interest classes and fitness classrooms, which were closed on holidays.

The shops on the 1st to 5th floors were closed that night, and the surveillance cameras at the entrance of the shops did not capture the deceased. They searched all the way to the seventh floor, only to be attracted by an empty dance studio.

Because there is nothing to steal, the door lock is false.Lu Yuanzhe took a closer look and noticed the dirt on the carpet.

It may not be obvious without the lights on. They turned on the lights and could clearly see half of the footprints rubbed on the carpet.It rained several times last night, and the soles of everyone's shoes were more or less muddy.

Trace Inspection collected samples, went around the house again, and found some things. The specific analysis results may not come out until daytime.

There was surveillance at the entrance of the building, and everyone checked again from the beginning, but no suspicious person was found.Before closing at nine o'clock, a large number of guests came in and out, and the deceased also went in at that time, but after that, only the deceased broke the gate and ran out, and no one else was seen leaving.

"Leaving early? Or did you not leave?" Sun Yan guessed suspiciously.

Lu Yuanzhe didn't speak, and walked around on the first floor, and finally found the unlocked back door, and called his colleagues from the trace inspection to come and have a look.

There is no beach in Wanghai Plaza, it is full of reefs. This building faces the sea, and there is only a very narrow walkway from the back door, which is parallel to the main road of the pedestrian street.People usually walk here to enjoy the sea view, but the TV tower is blocked by various buildings in the pedestrian street, and no one will stand here during the New Year's Eve.

He walked along this promenade for a while, turned his head to look at the main road of the pedestrian street, walked 20 meters, finally stopped, and grabbed the assistant policeman who was still going forward.

Back in the building, Sun Yan was instructing everyone to check every corner of the dance studio, and contacted the teacher of the dance studio, and called the nearby police station, asking for assistance in investigating the surveillance of the square to see if there were any suspicious people watching or fleeing in a hurry.The rest of the people searched around the back door to see if there were any suspicious items discarded by the prisoners.

While Sun Yan stopped at the door for a moment, Lu Yuanzhe stopped him: "Sun Yan."

"What's wrong?" Sun Yan stopped impatiently, "What details of the case did you remember?"

"Look at that camera, does it seem to be able to capture the prisoner slipping through the back door?" He pointed to a small black spot in the distance and asked.

It was originally installed on the side door of a building across the street to take pictures of himself, but it was unknown whether it was in disrepair or accidental damage, the camera was tilted a little, far away, and it happened to be able to see the intersection where he stopped before.

Although it was New Year's Eve, someone in that building worked overtime all night, and they were successfully transferred to the surveillance.Sure enough, after the commotion, a middle-aged man carrying a large black bag hurried across the narrow walkway near the sea, and flashed past the gap between the buildings.

"Quickly, follow that road to adjust the monitoring." Sun Yan ordered to go down immediately, and turned to look at Lu Yuanzhe, "You also go to help..."

What about Lu Yuanzhe? Within a minute of seeing the figure, Lu Yuanzhe slipped out of Sun Yan's range. He knew Sun Yan too well, and he loved doing carpet searches the most, and he was not afraid of wasting manpower and material resources.

Let him investigate the case, but he will not obey Sun Yan's orders.

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It was already two o'clock when I got home, Lu Yuanzhe thought he would quickly catch up on sleep, and went to the police station early to inquire about the news, but the whole night his mind was full of the frightened face that collapsed, and he couldn't sleep at all.

Whether it's intuition or hidden truth, the dead man's stare at him can't get rid of it in his mind.

At six o'clock in the morning, it was daylight, and after tossing 10086 times in bed, he finally sat up anxiously, washed up, made breakfast, and then drove to work.

This is his first check-in in the new year, and it may be the earliest this year.

As usual, he parked the car in the low-rent housing complex where Cheng Mo lived. He looked up to the 12th floor and saw that the lights were off.

Cheng Mo has been in the task force for a few days, and he hasn't shown any clues.The "tell" he was talking about was not why Cheng Mo showed such a dignified expression at the door of the special case team, or why Cheng Mo was sent to the special case team.

As long as he can do things casually, Cheng Mo's answers are casual, he is not picky or greedy, he will eat the snacks given to him, but he will never ask for more.He doesn't take the initiative to gossip, and he doesn't refuse to listen to everyone's gossip. He can always put on a cute and curious expression, and doesn't ask questions. In Lu Yuanzhe's opinion, he is actually not interested.

There was nothing to be busy a few days ago, they each fished for their own fish, and Cheng Mo was reading the classic cases in the bureau, and it took a day to read them.

Instead of letting Lu Yuanzhe believe that Cheng Song has raised an extremely excellent son, it is better to let him believe that Cheng Song is a genius programmer, which is an artificial intelligence prepared for fully automatic investigation and handling of cases in the future.

He is quite interested in artificial intelligence. If possible, he would like to customize a beautiful robot for family companionship. Chang Chengmo would be good, and he feels very satisfied.

With his mind full of hype, he absent-mindedly punched in the task force with his scooter in hand. As soon as he opened the door, he met Cheng Mo's eyes, both of them looked stunned.

"Good morning, Team Lu." Although Cheng Mo was surprised, he still greeted him politely.

"You so early?" He looked down at his phone.He knew that Cheng Mo was the first to arrive every day, but it was only before seven o'clock.

"Yeah." Cheng Mo nodded.

"You know there's a case?" he asked.

Cheng Mo didn't seem to know, and he was stunned for a moment before he figured it out: "Captain Sun and the others are investigating the case? I saw them coming in and out, but I don't know what it is."

"Then you are... so early every day?" He couldn't believe it, "What time?"

"... Around 06:30 to [-]:[-]." Cheng Mo frowned and thought.

"Why?" It's hard for him to imagine that contemporary young people still get up so early, and Cheng Mo doesn't feel sleepy during the day, it doesn't look like he wakes up early due to long-term insomnia.

"I went to bed too early at night, so I can't sleep in the morning." Cheng Mo replied, sounding sincere, as if it was true.

Guessing why it is useless to ask why such an old man works and rests, Lu Yuanzhe thought for a while, walked to him, supported his desk and asked: "Are you interested in a new case, I will take you to see the situation?"

He was very interested in this case, and just needed a good helper to inquire about information.

"Can you?" Cheng Mo raised his head. Although he only met him for a moment, he seemed really interested in the case.

"Of course." He smiled, and graciously led Cheng Mo away from the task force.

Bureau Tang said it well, Cheng Mo is their mascot, and the mascot must look like a mascot.