The slaughter of the bones [criminal investigation]

"The face was pale when he died... Suogou's appearance also fits the characteristics of being hanged." Yu Lu held his mobile phone in his hands and was looking at the autopsy results sent to him by Nie Zheng. "Captain Nie, do you think this Shen Shu committed suicide?"

Nie Zheng paused for a moment, and stopped walking. He didn't look at the phone, because he had already remembered the contents clearly: "Looking down, the ingredients of sleeping pills were detected in the body."

Yu Lu took a look, it was true.However, the deceased did take sleeping pills frequently during his lifetime, and this alone cannot determine whether it was suicide or homicide.

"Has Captain Nie ever taken sleeping pills?" He looked at Nie Zheng, who had serious words written all over his face, with a smile still on his lips.To be honest, he really wanted to experience the taste of sleeping pills.

Nie Zheng answered the word "no" very cheerfully, and Yu Luxin thought the same thing. Mr. Police Officer's trouble is probably lack of sleep rather than insomnia.

Yu Lu: Dear Dr. Qiao Xiaozhi.

Qiao Xiaozhi: Which muscle is wrong?

Yu Lu: Just ask, if you take sleeping pills to sleep, can you usually wake up?

Qiao Xiaozhi: What's wrong?Stuck in depression or afraid of being killed in sleep?

Yu Lu: Shit, I'm helping Team Nie solve the case, why don't you give me some medical advice.

Yu Lu: [image]

Yu Lu: It seems to be called this name.

He sent Qiao Xiaozhi a screenshot of the autopsy report.

Qiao Xiaozhi wanted to throw away the scalpel in his hand now.

Qiao Xiaozhi: I haven't tried it, but this seems to be able to force people to sleep, and they can't wake up without external stimuli.

Yu Lu: Generally speaking, you can only wake up naturally?

Qiao Xiaozhi: It’s okay if you understand it that way.

Yu Lu: OK, thank you Doctor Pig.

Qiao Xiaozhi: You f*cked me up just after asking for advice, right? ... Let your team Nie come to my clinic in the past two days to help him review the wound.

Yu Lu looked up at Nie Zheng, then turned his gaze back to the phone screen: I know.

He turned off the phone, and Nie Zheng walked faster than him. In the blink of an eye, he could only see Nie Zheng's back.

He could still recall the scene when he brought Nie Zheng covered in blood to the clinic, but now that he thought about it, he could only smile to himself, thinking that it was really Duan Nieyuan.

"Captain Nie, Dr. George asked you to review the wound in the next two days." Yu Lu ran to Nie Zheng, bent down slightly, and found a position where he could see Nie Zheng's expression.

Nie Zheng touched his abdomen subconsciously, then quickly withdrew his hand: "Got it."

The two of them were going to the hotel where Shen Shu and the man named Qin Yi stayed together. They got off the taxi, and then walked on the small street where cars were prohibited from entering.

They could already vaguely see the shadow of the hotel, and they quickened their pace a little.

Yu Lu felt a little flustered, and asked Nie Zheng knowingly: "Captain Nie, I wanted to ask before, what kind of injury is Dr. George talking about?"

Of course he knew the answer himself: a knife wound, the kind where a dagger cut straight across his abdomen.

He still remembers what he said when watching Qiao Xiaozhi put on a reluctant face and doing a series of tasks for Nie Zheng, such as stopping the bleeding from a close distance: it is a miracle that this police officer can come back to life.

However, a series of events later made Qiao Xiaozhi realize that miracles exist.He didn't know whether to say that Nie Zheng was lucky or his fate was hard.

When Yu Lu recalled it now, he almost couldn't help laughing out loud, but in the end he suppressed his laughter and listened to Nie Zheng's scribbled narration: "I suffered a small injury some time ago, and Dr. Qiao will see him regularly in case something goes wrong."

Yu Lu: Yes, those that almost kill you are called minor injuries.

But on the surface, he still said things like "Captain Nie, pay attention to your body!"

If Nie Zheng is willing to answer truthfully, Yu Lu still wants to wonder how Nie Zheng was seriously injured, but in this case, he dare not expose Nie Zheng's lies.

The two stepped into the hotel one after the other. The furnishings were all okay, but it was not a dirty, low-level hotel, and there were people who looked like high-ranking people who came to stay.

Nie Zheng locked his eyes on the front desk, and when the front desk lady respectfully handed over the room card to a certain guest, he stepped forward and showed his police officer ID: "Hello, we learned that a tenant here committed suicide before, please cooperate with our investigation."

The front desk lady was taken aback, and after a while she called the hotel manager over.

Yu Lu sat on the back of the sofa beside him, listening to the communication between the two, without saying much, Nie Zheng told the general situation and asked the manager to take them back to the front desk to adjust the monitoring.

Yu Lu: So, Miss at the front desk, what is the point of calling the manager...?

——Maybe it’s to be on the safe side and report to the leader first.

He walked around and ran behind Nie Zheng, looked up and looked around the hotel lobby. The monitoring equipment seemed to be quite complete, and there should be no deadly corners.

The front desk lady quickly called up the surveillance video of the corridor at the door of the room where Shen Shu and Qin Yi lived that day based on the date and approximate time that Nie Zheng said.

At around seven o'clock in the morning, two people pushed the black suitcase and squeezed into the room, and they never went out after that.

"Fast forward." Nie Zheng propped his hands on the table, staring straight at the small computer screen, holding his breath and concentrating.

Yu Lu glanced at him, then quickly looked away, watching the time displayed on the screen jump rapidly.

At one or two o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Yi smiled and pushed Shen Yu out once, and came back about an hour later, with a bag in his hand, it seemed that he had gone shopping around.

There is no gold content, Nie Zheng rewinds it two or three times to confirm that this clip is meaningless, so he continues to fast forward.

The surveillance video showed movement again at night, the door was opened, Qin Yi came out of the room, Shen Shu covered his stomach with one hand, and waved goodbye to him.

Qin Yi nodded, and went out with a smile on his face - according to Qin Yi's own description just now, he should have gone to buy dinner for Shen Shu.

The two continued to watch, and when Qin Yi opened the door and came back, they saw this man running back to the door, trembling and collapsing on the ground with his mouth slightly open, probably in shock.

After a while, he walked in again, probably because he didn't believe his eyes were going to confirm it, and when he ran out, he felt like he was about to collapse.

They watched this episode back and forth for a long time, but unfortunately they didn't find anything new. Even if it was acting, the expression had to be handled too much.

"The alibi is too obvious," Yu Lu smiled, "Captain Nie, do you think this Qin Yi is suspected of killing his girlfriend?" There was a feeling of doing the opposite.

Nie Zheng was noncommittal: "Not sure... show us the guest room where the deceased stayed." He turned to look at the manager behind him, and the manager agreed.

The three of them took the elevator upstairs. The entire hotel has seven floors, which is quite high, and the room they were looking for was on the fourth floor.

The manager opened the door with his room card and respectfully brought in the two people who came to investigate.

The guest room in front of him was very ordinary. Because it was treated as an ordinary suicide at first, all the items on the scene had been cleaned up long ago. Now this room is no different from the others, but it is not used as a guest room for the time being due to bad luck.

Yu Lu strolled to the window next to the double bed, opened the window, and found that the window was locked, and even if it was not locked, it would be difficult to open it from the outside.

He probed down, the height from the ground was high enough to make a person accidentally fall into a disability, and the outer wall was so smooth that there was no place to grab on the outer circle.

He denied the possibility of climbing in through the window.

"Do you have a rooftop here?" He glanced at the panicked manager standing at the door.

The manager nodded: "The seventh floor can lead to the roof, and there is a small open-air garden above, er, but don't worry, the outer fence is very high, and it is generally impossible to climb down."

Yu Lu thought for a while, and felt that even jumping from the top to the fourth floor was not advisable, after all, if he was not careful, he would experience an extended version of the [-]-degree vertical slide.

At this time, Nie Zheng happened to get closer and noticed the lock on the window: "When your cleaning staff came, was this lock locked?"

The manager couldn't answer for a while, so he ran to the side to make a phone call, and came back and replied: "It should be locked. Our cleaning staff said that the room was still clean at that time."

Yu Lu and Nie Zheng looked at each other, their opinions were a little shaken, and they couldn't help guessing whether this Shen Shu really committed suicide.

"Captain Nie, do you think Miss Shen Shu committed suicide... Speaking of which, she seemed to be wearing the same dress she bought just this afternoon when she died."

"Well," Nie Zheng tapped his chin at the second knuckle of his index finger, "I can't tell if he committed suicide. I'll ask that Qin Yi tomorrow."

I don't know whether it's the sixth sense or a tacit understanding. They all feel that it is impossible to close the case by suicide.

It was already night when they finished dealing with everything, Yu Lu went home first, and Nie Zheng had to go to the office to see if those colleagues had discovered anything.

……

When Nie Zheng returned to the office, the three people who were supposed to be there were all there, and the seat of a certain newcomer who was missing was still vacant.

"Welcome Team Nie back," said Jiang Jiu, who was drinking coffee comfortably, "How's the investigation going?"

"It's a bit suspicious," Nie Zheng sighed while sitting on his seat. "How about you? Have you completed all the assigned tasks?" He looked at Tai Mingming and Wu Wen, both of whom were sitting in front of the computer intently.

"I went to comfort their parents. It took me all my life to comfort that old couple. According to their description, it is completely impossible for Shen Shu to commit suicide. I really don't understand why such a good little girl behaved so well. I just committed suicide, I don’t understand, I don’t understand, I don’t understand…”

"Her former classmates also asked about it, and they said that the little girl was very cheerful, so I didn't hear about the suicide case. I haven't heard about this child's depression..."

Tai Mingming managed to make the moment when he was scratching his head and complaining became the focus. Except for Wu Wen, the other two stared at him wordlessly for a long time, then lowered their heads again.

It took a long time before someone answered him.

"Well," Nie Zheng didn't raise his eyes, "I don't understand either, maybe it wasn't suicide."

Jiang Jiu raised his eyebrows to express his interest.

"Captain Nie," Wu Wen said suddenly, frowning, "I've watched this surveillance video many times, but I still find it a bit strange."

Nie Zheng got up and walked over, bending down to look at the computer screen.