The slaughter of the bones [criminal investigation]

There were very few people in the coffee shop. After all, it was the morning of the weekend. Looking out the window, the weather was not very good, with dark clouds, and the weather forecast said it would rain, but the actual situation would not be known until today.

Sitting on a seat by the window was a dignified man with a straight posture, but his eyes kept glancing at the door.There were two cups of hot coffee in front of him, and his own was already half-drinked.

He glanced at the time: it was almost time for Yu Lu to come.

"Hello, Officer Xiaokai." Yu Lu opened the door and came in, and walked towards him when he saw Xiaokai.

The two sat facing each other without speaking. Yu Lu took a sip of coffee and looked quite relaxed, but neither of them seemed willing to be the first to speak.

Yu Lu was actually very nervous, his heart was beating fast, but at least he had adjusted his emotions before entering the door, at least he could still look relaxed before the topic completely became serious.

He crossed his legs and took a deep breath: "Speaking of business?"

Xiao Kai looked at the desktop, nodded slightly, and took out the mobile phone in his pants pocket.Yu Lu didn't see him recording, he just clicked twice and put the screen face down on the table.

"Three years ago, there was a serial murder case. All the dead had their throats cut." Xiao Kai's voice was a little hoarse.

Seeing Xiao Kai's appearance, Yu Lu understood that he already knew everything. He didn't pretend to be puzzled, and said straightforwardly: "I am the person involved."

"You are a suspect." Xiao Kai frowned and glared at him.

Yu Lu stretched his waist and took two deep breaths: "The suspect should be dead, right?" He tried his best to maintain his relaxed tone of voice.

Xiao Kai opened his eyes wide in surprise and hesitated for a while, then coughed lightly: "Can you... explain it?" He somehow lost confidence in his heart.

"I can't explain it," Yu Lu took a sip of coffee, deliberately covering his slightly sad expression with the cup, "I said I'm not a murderer, do you believe me?"

Xiao Kai frowned, and shook his head after a while.Seeing someone honestly admitting that he knew what happened three years ago, he didn't know how to proceed. He could only swallow all the words he had planned to persuade him to confess his guilt.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?" Yu Lu supported his head with one hand, and put the other hand under the table. Xiao Kai had no time to pay attention. Only Yu Lu knew how hard he was pinching, so now he can't hold back , he just wants to run away now.

"Tell me what happened," Xiao Kai pinched the edge of the table with both hands, "Also, why did you approach Team Nie?"

Before Yu Lu came again, he knew that these questions must be answered, he sighed, a little reluctantly: "This matter is very complicated, and what you asked me to say will be somewhat subjective..."

He lowered his head and looked up at Xiao Kai: "Because you are a policeman, I won't say that this matter has nothing to do with you, but... I am not only telling you that I am not the murderer, but I am hiding it from Team Nie now." Apart from finding the real culprit, there is nothing else to say."

He took a sip of his coffee, and they both fell silent for a while.

"Is there any reason to convince me?"

"How could it be?" Yu Lu spread his hands and smiled wryly.

Xiao Kai frowned, picked up the phone, and showed Yu Lu the screen: "Do you have any impression of this person?"

What Yu Lu saw was a photo of a young man who looked to be in his twenties or thirties at most, wearing a suit with a smile on his face.

Yu Lu's eyes were a little flustered for a moment, and the coffee he drank was almost nauseated several times. He covered his mouth, propped his other hand on the table, and stood up slowly: "Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom." He left in a hurry, I asked the waiter where the restroom was, and rushed in staggeringly.

Xiao Kai looked at him, glanced at the photo, turned to the chat interface with Nie Zheng on the phone, he had already written Yu Lu's "crime" before coming here, and he originally wanted to use it to force Yu Lu to confess honestly. It seems no longer necessary.

He hesitated for a while, and just deleted the last period before exiting the interface, sighed: "waiter, sorry, two more cups of coffee...it's cold." He felt that both he and Yu Lun needed to calm down .

Xiao Kai originally insisted that Yu Lu was a murderer, but now, he felt more and more that this assumption was untenable—how could a murderer tell everything so frankly.

……

Yu Lu washed his face with cold water over and over again at the sink. Fortunately, there was no one in the bathroom at this time, otherwise someone would definitely think he was crazy.

Of course he knew the person in the photo that Xiao Kai showed him, although he was not sure what the relationship between that person and Xiao Kai was, but Yu Lu suddenly discovered that the other party knew more than he thought.

He eased his breathing, and reappeared opposite Xiao Kai, with an extra cup of coffee in front of him, he nodded his thanks, and took a sip.

Xiao Kai grabbed his knees with both hands: "The person in the photo disappeared three years ago..."

Yu Lu swallowed his coffee, before he could continue to say: "He's dead." Yu Lu blinked, as if apologetic.

Xiao Kai seemed to have collapsed and was speechless.

Yu Lu looked at him, and the last trace of relief on his face disappeared at this moment: "If you have investigated, you should know that a warehouse caught fire and collapsed, and there was a charred corpse inside, right?"

Xiao Kai nodded.

Yu Lu recalled the situation at that time, and began to tell, with a somewhat depressed expression.

On a moonless night three years ago, he followed a suspicious guy who couldn't see clearly, chased him all the way, and finally entered a warehouse in a daze.

He saw a person looking around in the warehouse, and without thinking too much, he asked, "Hello, did you see a person about my height passing by here?"

The man shook his head to show that he didn't know, Yu Lu asked him why he was here later, the man only said that an acquaintance invited him here, Yu Lu nodded.

He was wearing a ragged coat that he bought some time ago, maybe he wanted to show his ruffian, or maybe the clothes were really uncomfortable to wear, so he threw the clothes in this place that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. warehouse door and left.

Yu Lu tried to look around for the figure he had chased all the way before, but unfortunately he didn't find any trace of that guy.After going around, he returned to the warehouse.

The moment he stepped into the door, blood flowed to his toes and spread to the soles of his shoes. Every time he moved, there was an unnatural blood mark on the ground.

Looking forward, the man who was waiting for an acquaintance had his throat cut, and the murderer was squatting beside him with a knife in his hand.But under the dim light, not to mention his face, even his body shape could not be seen, only the blood on the ground glowed dimly.

Yu Lu wanted to escape, but before he could move his legs, the murderer stood up, walked aside, took out a lighter from his pocket, and lit the ground—Yu Lu found it in the light of the fire. was filled with oil.

"Stop! Hey!" He yelled, but the murderer naturally didn't listen to him. He dropped the lighter and the knife and walked to the door. Yu Lu also chased him to the door.

"The man on the ground is still breathing." The murderer said in a low voice, and then completely disappeared without a trace.

Yu Lun was never a person who left others alone. Maybe the murderer took advantage of this to gamble. When he was hesitating whether to rush out to save himself or rescue the dying man, the only entrance and exit of the warehouse was blocked. locked.

He kicked the door, kicked the wall, smashed the door and smashed the wall, but it was useless after all. Although the warehouse was old, it was not insecure. Yu Lu tried his best to break open a hole for escape.

As the fire gradually climbed to the roof, he dragged the dying man to an area farther from where the fire was most intense.Looking up, the fire is already eroding the roof.

Then the warehouse collapsed, and the two people were crushed under the fallen wall. Yu Lun's back was burned, and he was close to unconsciousness countless times. He used his last strength to push himself up from the wall, and his body was covered with blood. , the other person next to him has completely stopped breathing.

He wanted to move the man's body to a safer place, but he really didn't have the strength at that time, so he fled the scene with his last breath.Thinking about it now, the thing he regrets the most is that he didn't call the police while he was still conscious.

He went all the way to the door of Qiao Xiaozhi's clinic, fell down the stairs, was treated by Qiao Xiaozhi, and fell into a coma for more than a week.When he woke up, many things had become a foregone conclusion...

"After some investigations...you should know," Yu Lu knocked on the table and looked at Xiao Kai, "there was a little bit of clothing fiber that was not completely destroyed at the scene. It was on my coat that was thrown on the scene. The material may be relatively rare, so I found the same fiber composition in my original residence during the investigation.”

He took a sip of his iced coffee, and when he told others about his past, he always felt like he didn't want to stop, at least someone was willing to listen:

"I suspect that the murderer didn't actually throw the knife on the ground at that time, or picked it up soon. At least when I watched the news, I heard that another different knife was placed in the warehouse with a sense of ritual. beside."

After listening to his narration, Xiao Kai obviously had an expression of "you wait, I need to slow down", with a gloomy face, rubbing the handle of the water glass with his hands: "So the person who died that day was the photo I showed you The one on it, not you?"

Yu Lu said "Yes": "Believe it or not, to be honest, I have no evidence to prove that what I said is true." In fact, he was praying in his heart that Xiao Kai would believe it.

"Why are you following the murderer?" Xiao Kai asked again.

Yu Lu scratched his head in embarrassment: "By the way, I forgot to mention just now," he cleared his throat, "Remember the switch knife I told you about, it should be the blood of the person in the photo on the knife , but the knife found at the scene was not."

Xiao Kai continued for him: "It was another crime scene not far from the warehouse, and it also died from the blood of a person whose throat was cut."

Yu Lu had nothing to say: "That's it, and I found the murderer just before he left the other crime scene, I don't know if he found me in the first place, anyway, I followed him like a brain twitch He's all the way."

"By the way, by the way, who is you in the photo...?" He asked cautiously before Xiaokai opened his mouth to say anything else.

"It's my brother," Xiao Kai lowered his head even lower, "Ah, correct me, it's not a relative, you can understand it as a friend who has been playing with since childhood."

Yu Lu lamented in his heart, and knew that now was not the time to comfort him, so he only nodded to express his apology and condolences.