The Book of Death by Heart Poison

The Municipal Bureau of Chuanming City used to be built in the center of the city, but moved to a new location in the north of the city a few years ago, only one street away from the No. [-] Middle School where Hua Chong once attended—this was something Hua Chong did not expect before coming to Chuanming City.

The police car drove all the way from the new campus of No. [-] Middle School. When it was about to reach its destination, it passed the mottled school gate of No. [-] Middle School. Hua Chong subconsciously turned his head away, his eyes reflecting some old emotions.

"Just take me in for a stroll." Liu Zhiqin said.

Hua Chong looked away, "You want to visit the campus before you have a clue about the case?"

"I didn't say I was going to go shopping soon." Liu Zhiqin smiled, "And when you have no clue, shouldn't you develop ideas through various channels? I think it's good to go around the campus. The case is related to the teacher, maybe the clue It's hidden in a corner of the campus."

Hua Chong tilted his head to look at Liu Zhiqin, and said for a moment, "Brother Xiao Liu."

Liu Zhiqin: "Huh?"

Hua Chong stretched out his hand and pinched his face lightly, "You are really good at finding an honest reason for your selfishness."

Liu Zhiqin squeezed back with a smile, "I'll take it as you are praising me."

Hua Chong was about to withdraw his hand, but he heard Liu Zhiqin say: "Also, Team Hua, your hands have been very restless recently."

Hua Chong paused with his fingers, and the spear calluses on his fingertips brushed against Liu Zhiqin's chin.

"Pinch the team members' faces at every turn." Liu Zhiqin said, "Is this considered power oppression in the workplace?"

Hua Chong's eyelids twitched, "Are you an ordinary player?"

Liu Zhiqin narrowed his eyes cunningly, "Oh, I'm not an ordinary player?"

The sound was very low and slow, like spring water warmed in the afternoon, it made a few bends and flowed to Hua Chong's ear.

Hua Chong grabbed his neck gently, and pushed away the handsome face that was close at hand, "Family, you are enough."

At this moment, the car stopped outside the city bureau. Liu Zhiqin smiled, pushed the door open, and Hua Chong got out of the car right after him. There was another person who pinched his face and neck.

When I came to the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau, some greetings were indispensable.Although the development of Chuanming City is average, it is still much richer than Xiling City, a small border city - this can be seen from the size of the city bureau.

Regardless of the specific case, the head of the criminal investigation detachment, the pressure of the four missing teachers' cases is all on the shoulders of the deputy head Yuan Tie. He is 39 years old and has a firm face. There are quite a few criticisms about the arrival of the special operations team.

Yue Yue didn't go to the new campus of the No. [-] Middle School to participate in the investigation. He rushed to the Municipal Bureau as soon as he got off the plane. He had a lot of contact with Yuan Tie and other members of the disappearance case team, and was cold-hearted several times by the other party.

"I can see that this Yuan Tie is very intent on grabbing merit." While waiting for the meeting in the conference room, Yue Yue said to Hua Chong: "He was transferred from the sub-bureau the year before last, and he especially wanted to solve major and important cases. I am reluctant to let go of a small case. I heard from people in the Criminal Investigation Detachment that when the second missing case last year could not be solved for a long time, the bureau intentionally reported it and asked for support, but Yuan Tie assured that it would definitely be solved. The result was not only not solved , There was also a third and a fourth case. As soon as the fourth case happened last week, the detachment leader and several deputy bureau chiefs couldn’t sit still, so they reported to us.”

As he said that, Yue Yue looked in another direction of the meeting room——Yuan Tiezheng was sitting there, "He is very upset with us."

Hua Chong raised his eyes, meeting Yuan Tie's eyes.

When we met and exchanged greetings just now, it was the team leader who was enthusiastic. Yuan Tie kept a straight face from the beginning to the end, and the gaze he shot over at this time was even more unfriendly, full of temptation, disdain, and undisguised suspicion.

Hua Chong looked back without flinching, showing his sharpness.

He can be gentle, but also sharp. When others respect him, he respects them. If others try to challenge him, he won't hold any sympathy.

Whether it is Hua Chong, the captain of the Los Angeles Serious Crime Squad, or Hua Chong, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Special Operations Team, they are all first-class and ruthless characters at work.

Their eyes met silently, Hua Chong was calm, but Yuan Tie gradually frowned, and finally turned his eyes away with a "tsk".

He probably didn't expect that this "vase" with thin skin and tender flesh and hanging eyes was so powerful when gazing at people. He had to admit that the aura he showed on purpose was easily smashed by the opponent.

Is this what special operations teams are for?

Yuan Tie spat in his heart, still feeling dissatisfied.

He is a native of Chuanming. After graduation, he worked at the grassroots level and worked in the police station for five years before he was transferred to the criminal investigation team of the sub-bureau because he assisted in the detection of many murder cases.In the face of vicious and vicious criminals, he was reckless, took the lead, and was injured many times. He was an absolute hero in the Chuanming police circle. One is that it takes time, and the other is that he needs to "get" serious cases. Otherwise, with his background, even if the position of the chief of the detachment becomes vacant, someone else will take it.

The three disappearance cases of teachers are undoubtedly an opportunity, as long as he solves them, it must be regarded as a great achievement.But he tried his best and led the team to investigate without sleep, but the case still had no substantial progress.Not only that, but the No.4 missing teacher also appeared.

This time, the bureau leader didn't give him a chance, and immediately reported it to the special operations team.

As an old policeman who climbed to his current position by himself, he especially disliked the behavior of "asking for support".He grew up in Chuanming City and devoted his youth to the security of Chuanming City. No one knows this city better than him.What happened to the special operations team?Does high level mean strong ability?The detachment leader is higher in rank than him, is his investigative ability comparable to him?

Yuan Tie seemed to have gotten into a dead end, the more he thought about it, the more hesitant he felt.

Inexplicably becoming a thorn in the side of others, Hua Chong is very calm, because this face is not so similar to a serious criminal policeman, every time he cooperates with a criminal policeman he does not know, he will more or less receive some questioning eyes.

He doesn't care about these things, he is here for work, not for a blind date, he is the first to solve the case, as for whether he can make friends with the criminal police by the way, that depends on fate.

This meeting involved four disappearance cases. The information of the four missing teachers was displayed on the projection screen, and the police in charge of the investigation were talking about the conclusions of the investigation from last year to today.

The first case of disappearance was reported on October 10 last year. An octogenarian couple reported to the local police station that they had not been able to contact their daughter Wang Yuxia for a week.

Wang Yuxia is 53 years old. She is a third-year Chinese teacher in No. 5 High School in the city. She is also the leader of the Chinese language team and the head teacher of Class 10 of the liberal arts experimental class. She divorced when she was young, and her daughter works in other places.Wang Yuxia lives alone in the old community of Nineteen Middle and Foreign Countries. Because of her busy work, she leaves early and returns late for a long time.After investigation, she may have disappeared from the evening of October 25 to the early morning of October 10.

Disappearances of adults occur frequently in the city. Some people leave inexplicably and reappear suddenly after a while.The disappearance of Wang Yuxia did not attract the attention of the police station, and she was not even reported to the police station.

Until the No.2 missing teacher appeared.

On December 12 last year, a director of Jianshan Vocational High School went to the police station in the jurisdiction to call the police, saying that Zhang Xu, a teacher of the fitter group, had not been to school to teach students for three days, his mobile phone was turned off, and there was no one at home.

Zhang Xu, male, 30 years old, from Chunsha County, Chuanming City, with a college degree. He applied to Jianshan Vocational High School six years ago. He is very popular among students because of his witty conversation and excellent professional skills. He is single. He just bought a second-hand house last year. .

On the evening of December 12, Zhang Xu had dinner with some students at a food stall near the vocational high school. The surveillance of his community failed to capture him that night, and he probably disappeared after the dinner.

Both cases of disappearance occurred in the Diyue District, and the missing persons were both teachers. The branch office began to pay attention to it and stepped up police investigations. However, starting from the interpersonal relationship of the two missing persons, the reason for their disappearance was never found.After the case was sent to the Municipal Bureau, the special case team raised the possibility of "enemy against teachers", suspecting that someone committed crimes against teachers.

On February 2 this year, the Nici District Bureau received a case from the police station——Xu Yufan, a chemistry teacher in the second grade of No. 15 Middle School in the city, was missing.

Xu Yufan, female, 25 years old, has only been a teacher for two years. She has a gentle personality, and her lectures are easy to understand. During the internship, she was very popular with students.

Xu Yufan came from a middle-class family. Her parents bought a house worth over one million yuan for her, but the house was still being renovated. Before Xu Yufan disappeared, she rented an apartment building next to No. [-] Middle School.

The opening time of No. 2 Middle School is February 18, and teachers are required to report to school on February 2.Xu Yufan, who was always on time, did not show up for a long time, and his mobile phone could not be reached. The school called the police after contacting his parents who were on vacation abroad.

On February 2, Xu Yufan had a phone call with her parents, and she should have disappeared after that.

For the fourth case, the timeline is clearer. From the night of May 5 to the early morning of May 2, Jia Bing, a second-year math teacher from No. 5 City Middle School, disappeared.

Jia Bing is 24 years old this year. There is only one stepfather in his hometown. He left home in early years and came to Chuanming City.

The atmosphere in the conference room was dignified. Halfway through the meeting, many people started smoking.

"We have investigated the backgrounds of Xu Yufan, Zhang Xu, Wang Yuxia, and Jia Bing in detail. We thought we could find a certain connection, but in fact, they have no intersection except that they are all teachers." A criminal policeman said. : "Xu Yufan, who has been working for less than two years, teaches chemistry, has a good family background, looks beautiful, and a male teacher is chasing her. Zhang Xu, a teacher in a vocational high school, has a different teaching method from ordinary high schools. His parents are farmers in the county. She has worked as a farmer all her life. As for Wang Yuxia, she is the oldest. Although she earns a lot of money, her parents are old and have a lot of expenses for medical treatment and nursing care. The nineteenth middle school allocated a room for senior teachers, and her apartment is rented out. to the students, and she herself lives in the old house."

Another criminal policeman added: "The first three schools, plus the new campus of No. [-] Middle School, are scattered in three different jurisdictions. The four of them don't know each other and have no mutual friends. Teachers are a special group with high social status. It has a great impact on students. They are ordinary people, but they cannot be completely regarded as ordinary people. There are countless pairs of eyes staring at them. Once they make a mistake, it is easy to cause hostility from the outside world."

The criminal police turned over a page of the PPT and sighed, "We initially thought that they might have a certain degree of misconduct, but each of them can be called a model teacher. Especially Wang Yuxia, she has been rated as the most popular teacher for many years. Students love their homeroom teachers."

Hua Chong shook his head, "There are too many possibilities for a person to be targeted, and misconduct is only a very small aspect of it."

Yuan Tie suddenly said, "You mean, our investigation is useless?"

Hua Chong glanced at him, "I mean, your investigation can go further."

The conference room was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder. Yuan Tie clenched his fists tightly, as if about to explode, he stood up abruptly, but suddenly noticed another set of extremely oppressive gazes.

He turned his gaze and saw the man sitting next to Hua Chong.

The man smiled half-smile, looked at him like a warning, or just cast a glance inadvertently.He couldn't describe that look, but he knew instinctively that this person was not easy to mess with.

If I remember correctly, the man's surname is Liu, and he is a technical detective.

Yuan Tie never thought highly of the technical scouts, thinking that they were so weak that they could only sit in the department and watch the surveillance.This was the first time he saw wolf-like gazes in the eyes of technical scouts.

The meeting lasted all afternoon, and in the evening, the leaders of the Municipal Bureau came to invite the special operations team to have a "light meal". When Hua Chong heard the location, he knew it was not a light meal at all.

"Let's save this meal after the case is solved." Hua Chong refused with a smile, "We don't have many people, and we need the cooperation of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. I hope you can help."

"What is this talking about?" The deputy director said, "You are here to help us investigate the case, Hua Dui, don't worry, if you need anything, just let me know, I guarantee the full support of the Criminal Investigation Detachment!"

As night fell, the special operations team settled their dinner in the canteen of the Municipal Bureau, and instead of resting, they rushed to the schools where the three missing teachers worked.

"Both the first disappearance case and the second disappearance case occurred in the Diyue District." Hua Chong opened the map and drew a line between the Nineteenth Middle School and Jianshan Vocational High School. "This area is the old town of Chuanming City. The buildings are dense, mostly old houses, and the people are complicated. Many outsiders like to live here because of the cheap rent.”

Liu Zhiqin calculated the distance, "The two schools are not far apart, only 3 kilometers away."

"Yes." Hua Chong found the city's No. 14 Middle School in Nici District on the map, drew a circle, and connected the line. "In comparison, No. [-] Middle School is far away from them, and the shortest distance is [-] kilometers. No. [-] Middle School The new campus is farther away, in the urban-rural fringe.”

"Then if the four cases were committed by the same person, the scope of this person's daily activities is likely to be in the Diyue District, and a little narrower, near the [-]th Middle School and Jianshan Vocational High School. According to the law of serial cases, he and the [-]th Middle School Maybe there is a connection." Liu Zhiqin paused at this point, "But the more I understand these cases, the deeper my doubts."

Hua Chong raised his head, "The merger is far-fetched?"

Liu Zhiqin said: "The basis for the merged case is that the four missing persons are all teachers. In Jia Bing's case, someone may have guided Fu Jun and the others behind the scenes. If you don’t realize it, there’s a high probability that it’s hidden in No. [-] Middle School. Doesn’t this separate Jia Bing’s case from the other three cases?”

Hua Chong said: "So I plan to ignore their previous investigation results for the time being, and conduct a detailed investigation in our way. They currently believe that the four missing persons are perfect as teachers, but this may just be an appearance. But you What you just said is not quite right.”

"Ok?"

"What the four have in common is not just their profession, but their lifestyle."

Liu Zhiqin nodded, "They all live alone, leaving early and returning late for work."

"If I were the perpetrator, I would give the target a rating." Hua Chong said: "Single, busy with work, often walking home at night, living in a complex of people, and sparsely monitored, this type of target is difficulty N. And those with families , socializing frequently, living in a community with complete security facilities, the difficulty of this type of goal is S. N and S, of course I will choose N to start."

A horn sounded ahead, and the narrow roads in the old town were blocked.

Hua Chong said: "Serial cases, ordinary disappearance cases, imitation cases, all of them are possible. We may not be able to drive ahead, so we will get off here."

This place is next to Nineteen Middle School, about 700 meters away, is Wang Yuxia's residence.There are three key middle schools in Chuanming City, including the No. [-] Middle School and the No. [-] Middle School. If we want to find common ground for the missing, Wang Yuxia and Jia Bing are the most similar.

It was close to 8 o'clock, and there were almost no students on campus, the classrooms were brightly lit, and the students were either doing quiet self-study, or listening to the teacher's evaluation of papers.

The Class 5 of the third year that Wang Yuxia led before her disappearance was in the critical period of sprinting for the college entrance examination, but during this evening self-study, people kept passing notes and whispering.

"Another teacher is missing, this time from No. [-] Middle School!"

"I heard that like Teacher Wang, he also leads the experimental class? Oh my god, is this the teacher who is aiming at the experimental class?"

"It's not aimed at the teacher of the experimental class, the other two missing are just ordinary teachers."

"Mr. Wang won't already have that?"

"It's been so long since I found it, I'm sure it's that one."

"Hey, Mr. Wang is my favorite teacher, how could this be?"

"You all like her? I don't like her. Old women only like handsome boys."

"You are talking nonsense!"

The teacher who stayed at night for self-study greeted him several times a night without stopping, and suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "Zhang Aiyi, how many words do you have? Don't even look at how many months it is now, you should immediately I want to take the college entrance examination! Stand up for me!"

The girl named stood up, bowed her head and pouted.

The teacher was still angry, and pointed to the students next to him and said: "You all stand up, if you don't want to study, don't affect others, go out and stand!"

The shortest girl said in a low voice: "It was Zhang Ai who said bad things about Teacher Wang, so I argued with her."

Zhang Aiyi rolled his eyes and looked disdainful, "Why, you are allowed to vote her to be the most popular class teacher, so I am not allowed to have any opinions on her? Tsk, I just don't like her, she deserves her disappearance, you guys I don't know how many shameless things she has done, but I know it."

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin heard these words as soon as they walked outside the classroom door of Class 5.