Mystery Pursuit

In the middle of the night, the light rain turned to heavy rain, accompanied by rumbling thunder.

Yu Ye opened the closet, a set of well-matched clothes, ironed upright, hung in the center of the closet, he chose a set of dark-colored clothes to put on, walked to the shoe cabinet, and picked out from rows of brand new shoes Putting on a pair of black clothes, he took out an umbrella from the umbrella storage rack, and then picked up the car keys and went out.

At the scene of the crime, Yu Ye saw Wu Yuzhou who was taking notes in the corridor. When he walked to the door, he looked away, put on shoe covers and gloves and entered the room.

One meter away from the door, there was a male corpse lying in a pool of blood. Yu Ye squatted down to check the condition of the corpse.

Seeing him coming in, Cheng Xiaolu hurried to report the situation, "We met the deceased last night. His name is Wu Sheng, male, 43 years old, a physics teacher in No. 27 Middle School. kill."

Yu Ye nodded and looked around the deceased. There were bloodstains on the snow-white wall from top to bottom, rubbing against the ground, facing the head of the deceased. The shoes on the shoe rack next to him were neatly arranged, and there were no traces of fighting around.

Hanging on the living room wall are old photos from more than ten years ago. The couple are holding a four or five-year-old boy in their arms. The boy's eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Wu Yuzhou.

The sofa and the coffee table were all neatly arranged. Yu Ye went to the window to have a look. There was no sign of the flowerpot on the balcony being moved, and the window was locked inside. It was obvious that the murderer walked in through the door openly. "Where is the other victim?"

"In the bedroom." Cheng Xiaolu followed Yu Ye, and said as she walked, "Liu Qin, female, 42 years old, 12 years ago, her son went missing and was stimulated, and she has been insane ever since... Her condition is worse than Wu Sheng's."

Yu Ye stopped, turned around, and asked her with his eyes: What's wrong?

Cheng Xiaolu curled her lips, "You...go in and see for yourself...I, I won't go in."

In the bedroom, Lin Jie, the forensic doctor and others surrounded the bed, and Yu Ye squeezed in to take a look, and then understood why Cheng Xiaolu didn't come in.

The floral bed sheets were stained red with blood, and the corpse was lying on the bed in large characters. The upper body was stabbed several times, and the flesh was already bloody. An exaggerated analogy is that the corpse was pierced into a sieve by the knife.

Yu Ye has been in the police force for more than ten years, and there are many kinds of murders, but he is still shocked by the murderous scene in front of him. The deceased has been insane for more than ten years. Who would have such a deep hatred with a lunatic?

He looked around, the alarm clock on the bedside table was standing upright, the second hand was ticking, there were blood splatters on the wall, no scratches or bloody fingerprints, the sheets were flat, ladies slippers were neatly placed on the bed Beside the bed, the entire bedroom is the same as the living room, with no signs of fighting or struggling.

Forensic doctor Tang Xiaoran straightened her back, "Captain Yu, the body is seriously damaged, I'll take it back first."

Yu Ye patted him on the shoulder, "Thank you."

During the conversation, Wu Fei came in from the outside with a face full of displeasure, and complained: "Boss, the reporter is too uncooperative, so he won't say anything when asked."

Yu Ye glanced outside the door, Wu Yuzhou was still taking notes, "Take it back first."

Wu Fei gestured OK and went out again.

The sky was light and under the drizzle, a group of people left Liu Qin's house and returned to the city bureau.

In the interrogation room, Wu Fei looked sad, "If you don't explain why you went to Liu Qin's house late at night, don't even think about leaving."

Wu Yuzhou stared at the window of the interrogation room, expressionless.

Yu Ye felt a bit of coolness in his eyes, not as cold as ice, but as cool as an early autumn morning.

Yu Ye got up and pushed the door in. Lin Jie followed closely behind. The two replaced Wu Fei and another colleague. Lin Jie asked directly, "What's your relationship with Liu Qin?"

Wu Yuzhou clasped his ten fingers together, casually placed on the table, his eyes were as light as the surface of a lake, "It's okay, I don't know her."

"I don't know what to do at her house in the middle of the night? You should know that even if you call the police, you can't rule out the suspicion. After all, there are people who love to act, and like to direct and act on their own to deceive the police."

"If I wanted to kill her, I would never choose my home as the place where the crime happened. It is common for a madman like this to get lost. Find a deserted wilderness and bury her. No one will find out for ten or eight years, or Take them to a wild lake and put them in a pile, saving the time for burying the corpses, these methods are safer than dying at home." The coolness in Wu Yuzhou's peachy eyes, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth that seemed to be a half-smile, seemed like he really did that Pass.

Facing a person who looked exactly like Zhou Qizheng, Lin Jie seemed to have returned to his student days, but Wu Yuzhou's words were like pouring cold water on his head, shattering the youthful dream he had just entered, and a firm voice suddenly sounded in his ear : This person is dark and cold, there is no way he is the soft and cute Zhou Qizheng.

During the silence, Yu Ye's cell phone rang. He lowered his eyes, got up and went out. It was his master who started the industry, Zhang Chun, who is now the director of the city bureau, "Hello, master!"

"Is Wu Yuzhou with you?" The hurried voice could feel the panic even through the phone.

"Well, he is a suspect in the new case, Lin Jie is interrogating inside, what's the matter?"

"Release him immediately."

"This person is very strange. He has many doubts on his body and cannot be let go."

On the other end of the phone, Zhang Chun took a deep breath to calm down, "Wu Yuzhou is an insider, and it is impossible for him to kill people. The provincial department called me and asked us to release him immediately."

"He showed up late at night at the home of an unrelated victim"

In the middle of the conversation, Zhang Chun interrupted him, "Wu Yuzhou has just been transferred back from Tibet, and he is currently on vacation. He once made a first-class meritorious service and was directly promoted to a second-level police supervisor. If such a policeman wants to kill someone, he will never let him You caught people on the spot."

Yu Ye's thoughts drifted to other places, and he asked casually, "Why did he go to Tibet because he is a local? Which case is the first-class meritorious student?"

"You release him first, and I will discuss the specific situation when I go to the bureau."

Yu Ye responded, but Zhang Chun was worried, and told him to release him quickly before hanging up the phone.

Yu Ye didn't go in right away, and stood outside the door holding his mobile phone for a while, what did Wu Yuzhou want Liu Qin to do late at night?Investigate?Liu Qin is a father and daughter in an ordinary family, and has been crazy for more than ten years. What kind of case can he be involved in?After thinking about it to no avail, he squeezed the space between his brows, walked towards the monitoring area, and said to Lin Jie inside, "Let him go."

Let go without asking anything?Lin Jie couldn't believe it, but relying on his years of understanding and trust in Yu Ye, he still opened the door and let Wu Yuzhou go.

Wu Yuzhou's brows and eyes were always clear and cold, showing a sense of alienation, and he didn't say a word to Lin Jie before leaving.

It rained intermittently all night, and now it began to drizzle again.

Yu Ye leaned his elbows on the window sill of the corridor and looked at the police compound. Colleagues from other departments did not come to work in the early morning, and no one came and went. The courtyard was empty and cold, the sky was hazy, and the drizzle was falling. .

Lin Jie knew what Yu Ye was looking at, leaned over and smiled and said, "You heard what Wu Yuzhou said in the interrogation room, and with his indifference, it can't be Zhou Qizheng, let's porridge."

Before he finished speaking, the people around him had already run out with umbrellas.

Yu Ye is tall and has long legs. He went down two stairs in one step, and quickly caught up with Wu Yuzhou, "It has been raining continuously for the past few days. Since you are an insider, you should take this umbrella first."

The dark blue men's umbrella bloomed above his head, blocking the continuous drizzle and covering a small piece of sky. Wu Yuzhou tilted his head subconsciously. The hand holding the umbrella was white and slender, with clean and neat nails. I saw these hands yesterday, and Wu Yuzhou guessed it by hand. The one who held the umbrella was Yu Ye, and said bluntly, "It's too troublesome to hold an umbrella, thank you, Team Yu."

"Then I'll take you to—"

Before the three words could be spoken at the gate, Wu Yuzhou had already stepped away, and his back with light steps quickly disappeared into the police compound, and Yu Ye returned to the office building with an umbrella.

Stepping into the second floor, there was a burst of sneering from the end of the corridor. Lin Jie, who had witnessed everything, smiled with eyes narrowed, "Yu Ye, you also have today...haha..."

Yu Ye went over and punched him in the stomach, "Shut up."

Lin Jie suppressed his smile, took out the cigarette case and opened the lid, took out the cigarette and handed it to Yu Ye, "One?"

"No smoking." Yu Ye looked out of the window again, and the taxi Wu Yuzhou was sitting at the gate of the courtyard had disappeared.

"Back then you were the first smoker in our dormitory. Because porridge hated the smell of smoke, you quit as soon as you said you had quit. After more than ten years of quitting, you really belonged to me." Lin Jie took a breath and looked out the window, the smoke slowly Melting into the air, "I remember that both you and Congee hate rainy days. You think the mud will stain the sides of your shoes and trousers. He hates the gloomy rainy days that affect your mood. Every rainy day, the two of you live in the dormitory very tacitly. Now I think he It’s to chase you, deliberately saying that I don’t like rainy days, so that I can have the opportunity to be alone with you.”

Yu Ye didn't speak, his eyes seemed to be stained with a layer of drizzle, hazy and unable to see through his emotions.

Lin Jie glanced at his shoes and trousers, "The sides of the shoes are dirty."

Hearing this, Yu Ye immediately went to touch the wet wipes. Hearing Lin Jie's laughter, realizing that he had been cheated, he threw the wet wipes on Lin Jie, "You're free."

Lin Jie tore open the package of wet towels and took out the wet towels to wipe his hands, "Smelly problem, just like my wife, you have to change your clothes when you get home, you can go to bed after washing your feet, and you have to iron your clothes before you can wear them... I will take care of you Tired of work..." After complaining all the time, he remembered the business, "Why did you let Wu Yuzhou go? I'll help you adjust his profile later and have a look."

"Don't bother, his information may not be true."

"What do you mean?"

Yu Ye repeated Zhang Chun's words, and Lin Jie was dumbfounded, "He, he...Second Police Superintendent...Damn it! Fortunately, he was released."

Yu Ye patted Lin Jie on the shoulder, "Don't think about it, let's go and see how the forensic doctor is doing."

In the taxi, Wu Yuzhou put on the earphones, leaned back slightly, and leaned against the back of the chair. An old song came from the earphones, "I Like You" by the band beyond

"Once again, the countless thoughts in my heart,

The past moment of laughter still hangs on my face..."

Listening to the familiar melody, he slowly calmed down. When he got home last night, another letter was inserted under the door. The letter said: Don't be angry, it's not so easy to find someone. At two o'clock in the morning, come to Unit 3, Building 2, Lilai Community 401, I'll wait for you there, see you soon. "

Wu Yuzhou crumpled the letter paper into a ball, threw it into the trash can, lit a cigarette and smoked slowly. Only the leaders of the provincial department and his aunt knew about his return to Beijing and Sichuan this time, but the sender not only knew that he had returned to Beijing and Sichuan, but also knew that he was back. the goal of.

How did the other party know his whereabouts?

What's the purpose?

No matter from which point of view, the writer knows his past well. This alone is enough for him to take risks, except that he just came back, and he has no clue about the past. He vaguely hoped to find clues through this letter. He picked up Flatten the letterhead and write down the address.

Wu Yuzhou went to the address in the letter on time according to the agreed time. At that time, the door of 401 was unlocked, and no one answered when he knocked on the door. He pushed the door and went in. The lights in the room were turned off. In the dark, he vaguely saw a person sitting by the wall and asked a few times. No one answered, and the first time I turned on the light, I saw Wu Sheng lying in a pool of blood.

His first reaction was to squat down to test Wu Sheng's breathing. The fingers under the tip of his nose couldn't feel any air flow. He was already dead. He got up and walked indoors, and found Liu Qin's body again in the bedroom.

The couple died tragically at home, Wu Yuzhou called the police, and the police rushed to cordon off the scene, and he became a suspect inexplicably.The scene of the crime was pestered by the police to take notes, but he failed to investigate carefully, so he decided to go to the scene again.

At the door of 401, he put on shoe covers and gloves and entered the door. After calling the police and waiting for the police to come, he took a general look at the room. The kitchen door was on the right side of the door, and the kitchen door was only one step away from the door. To get to the master bedroom, you need to go through the living room.

Wu Yuzhou glanced at the blood on the ground, and turned to the kitchen. The kitchen door was wide open. The first time he came, the kitchen door was closed. At that time, his attention was all on the corpse, ignoring the kitchen. This time he entered the kitchen, and the ground was very clean. , The newly replaced trash bag in the trash can contains only an empty can-style Sprite bottle.

His eyes were like precision instruments, quickly and accurately scanning every inch of the kitchen floor, and there was a pink thing on the door handle.

Wu Yuzhou knelt on the ground with one knee, looking down. It was a piece of pink non-woven fabric, which was too small to be ignored by the police last night. He picked up the non-woven fabric, put it in the evidence bag, straightened up and stood in front of the window, welcoming Looking at the light, you can see that one side of the non-woven fabric is stained with mud, and the other side is clean.

It was scratched on the door stop, and it is made of non-woven fabric. It should be a shoe cover. The police shoe cover is uniformly blue. This pink shoe cover does not belong to the police. It is impossible for Liu Qin and his wife to wear shoe covers at home. Wu Yuzhou He was also dressed in blue, excluding these, the shoe cover on the door stopper could only belong to the murderer.

What did the murderer do in the kitchen?

Wu Yuzhou opened the door of the refrigerator, and there were not many things in the freezer, cabbage, beans, and radishes, two plates of leftovers in the middle layer, and five bottles of Sprite in cans on the upper layer. He took out one bottle to see the production date, which was produced in June last year. Yes, the expiration date was about to expire, so he picked up the Sprite can in the trash can. The brand, packaging, and production date were exactly the same as those in the refrigerator.

Liu Qin and his wife are born in the [-]s, so they are not interested in young people's drinks like Sprite, otherwise they wouldn't drink it until the expiration date.If Liu Qin and his wife didn't drink Sprite, then the Sprite can in the trash can might have been drunk by the murderer. Wu Yuzhou put the Sprite can in the evidence bag and took it out of the kitchen.

Around the dried blood on the ground, the police drew a map of the corpse with pens. The distance between Wu Sheng's death and the door frame was less than one meter.

Wu Yuzhou exited the door and reopened the door. The door of Wu’s house opened outwards. The person who opened the door inside the house would have an arm stretched out of the door. In this situation, the deceased died before he could react.

First deal with Wu Sheng, who is in a normal state, and then sneak into the master bedroom. The murderer killed Wu Sheng twice, but stabbed Liu Qin dozens of times. The murderer's real target was Liu Qin.

The master bedroom is directly facing the bathroom, and the windowless bathroom is between the master bedroom and the kitchen, which blocks the line of sight and is relatively far away. People in the master bedroom can't hear the slightest sound from the kitchen at all. Wu Yuzhou recalled carefully, when he entered the door The kitchen door was closed. After calling the police, he stayed in the master bedroom to investigate the incident. When the police arrived and went out to take notes, the kitchen door was open, which meant that the murderer was hiding in the kitchen when he entered.

He entered the door suddenly, and the murderer didn't have time to leave?Or hide it on purpose?

The letter led Wu Yuzhou to the scene of the crime, and 401 did not lock the door. When the two were connected, he had a bold guess. The murderer deliberately hid in the kitchen and waited for him, trying to kill Liu Qin and him at the same time, killing two birds with one stone. But why didn't you do anything to him in the end?