heart poison

Hua Chong took off his latex gloves, his eyes were half-squinted because he was facing the sun, and the light leaking from the corners of his eyes revealed a bit of elusive coldness, which made him look calm and majestic.

"Hello, I, my name is Qiu Dakui." The middle-aged man was very uneasy, and he kept raising his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, his voice had a kind of shivering that didn't match his body shape, "I just sold out the fried dough sticks, and I'm going to make lunch later." lunch box. What can you do for me?"

Hua Chongliang showed his ID and raised his chin towards the nearest bungalow, "Is that your house?"

"Yes. My old man's house. We have lived here for decades."

Hua Chong looked at the apron Qiu Dakui hadn't taken off, and asked like gossip: "Which intersection do you usually sell buns and fried dough sticks at?"

Qiu Dakui froze for a moment, then relaxed a little, and said "Hey", "If you're lucky, you can get a good location like a subway station or a bus station. If you're not lucky, you can only sell it in Erli Lane."

"Wake up early to make breakfast? It's hard work."

"Yes, yes, you have to knead the noodles and grind the meat." Qiu Dakui thought for a while and added: "But I can't compare with you police comrades, you work harder."

Hua Chong smiled, "If you wake up early, you will also go to bed early?"

Qiu Dakui bit his dry lips, picked the calluses on his hands, "Uh, um, I went to bed very early."

Hua Chong stared into his eyes, "Go to bed early and get up early, why do you still lack sleep?"

"Ah?" Qiu Dakui raised his head, feeling uneasy again, with an inexplicable and timid expression on his face.

"You look very tired." Hua Chong pointed to Qu Zhi beside him, "Well, both of you have heavy bags under your eyes, and your eyes are not bright, which will happen if you don't get enough sleep for a long time."

The tune of playing games all night without a case: "..."

Qiu Dakui swallowed, not daring to look at Hua Chong: "I like playing cards at night."

"Oh? Where to fight?"

"It's at the old Zhao's house." Qiu Dakui became more and more nervous as he said, "We play small games, and the winning or losing is only a dozen yuan. No, it's not a gathering to gamble, right?"

Hua Chong didn't answer, but asked again: "When do you usually call home?"

"That's right, just eleven or twelve o'clock, don't dare to be too late, I have to get up at three o'clock in the middle of the night to make breakfast."

Hua Chong changed the topic: "Then after playing cards recently, did you hear anything when you came home?"

"No! It's really not." Qiu Dakui said quickly: "My family is just me, my daughter, and my old man. The old man and my daughter went to bed early, and I went home to wash my face and soak my feet. What's the matter?"

"You told the criminal police at the branch yesterday that you went to the wasteland behind the house because you smelled a strange smell?"

"Yes. I wanted to come over and see what it was, but I didn't expect it to be a corpse!"

Hua Chong raised his eyebrows slightly, "I didn't expect it to be a corpse? Then what do you think it is?"

Qiu Dakui was so nervous that he was sweating, "I, I, I just said it casually. I didn't think it was anything. Who would have thought that there was a corpse thrown behind my house! Comrade police, this case has nothing to do with me. I really didn't take random pictures, and I didn't call those who destroyed the scene."

Hua Chong nodded, "Well, don't be nervous. You said it casually, and I also asked casually. It was you who discovered the victim, and I will trouble you to cooperate with our work in the future."

Qiu Dakui rubbed his hands, "Yes, yes. Police colleagues, if there is nothing wrong, I will go back first. My old man is still waiting for me to get lunch. He has a big temper, and I have to be nagged by him when I go back late."

Hua Chong motioned for him to leave, and after he ran a few steps, he suddenly called out: "Qiu Dakui."

Qiu Dakui almost staggered when he heard the sound, and said impatiently, "Comrade policeman, what's the problem?"

"You were the first to discover the victim, why didn't you call the police immediately?"

"I..." Qiu Dakui stood in the same place, looking at a loss, "I" for a long time before saying: "This is the first time I saw a dead person, and her death was so scary, her feet were gone, eyes, only two eyes left. A bloody hole, just staring at me in a daze. I was scared. I was so frightened at the time. I just shouted. How could I get the police? The police at the police station told me yesterday that it was all because of my voice that attracted Killed so many people. Hey, I...I really regret it!"

Hua Chong looked at him kindly, and for a moment, he suddenly smiled politely, "Okay, I almost understand, you can go back and do your work."

Qiu Dakui didn't dare to stay any longer, so he turned around and left.

Hua Chong stood on the spot and watched, feeling that his running was more desperate than the monkey just now.

But the monkey is still a child, and he ran away because he did the bad thing of "playing in the wasteland" and was worried about being scolded by his parents.Qiu Dakui is a big man, why is he slipping around so fast with his tail between his legs?

Could it be that he did something wrong?

Is it a pity that I failed to protect the scene?Still didn't call the police immediately?

Hua Chong rubbed his chin, feeling that both are far-fetched, so he put it aside for now, turned to Qu Zhi and said, "How is the investigation going?"

Qu Zhi shook his head: "There are all old households who have lived here for decades. Those with money and connections have all moved out. There are basically no new residents in the empty houses, and there are usually no outsiders. My brothers and I went door-to-door and asked. They all said they had never seen Xu Yujiao before."

Xu Yujiao was the name of the deceased.

Hua Chong lowered his eyes, the color of his pupils gradually darkened.At this time, the ringing of the mobile phone broke the eerie silence, like a long and thin opening in the inexorable corpse odor.

Hua Chong picked up the phone, said in a low voice, "I'll be right back."

"Xu Yujiao, female, 28 years old, customer manager of the Shangke Road Branch of the Bank of Xinluo, Luo'an District. After an autopsy, it can be preliminarily estimated that the time of death was three days ago—that is, from 3:13 to 10:11 p.m. on March [-]. Between. Judging from the bloodstains and plant indentations at the scene, the place where the body was found should be the first scene."

The windows of the meeting room No. 2 of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau were closed. Forensic doctor Xu Kan stood in front of the projection screen in a white coat, facing the gloomy light of the projector. Dark light slipped across the gold-rimmed rims of his glasses, reflecting a smooth shadow.

The criminal police of the serious crime team sat around the conference table, but Hua Chong stood by the window, pacing very lightly while meditating.With one hand in the pocket of his uniform pants, he was playing with a lighter in the other. The cuffs of his shirt were rolled up, and the skin of his forearm was shrouded in the cold shadow of the curtain.

From Xu Kan's point of view, the line of his chin and the bridge of the nose seems to have been finely polished, the dividing line between his forehead hair and forehead is straight and rounded just right, his thin lips are slightly pursed, and the corners of his eyes have a natural drooping arc that is not obvious , his face was pale because of the light from the projector, and the light and shadow in his eyes overlapped, confusing a heavy search.

No one knew what he was thinking.

Xu Kan withdrew his gaze, coughed twice, immediately turned on the infrared indicator light, and drew a circle on the head of the deceased, with a deep voice, "Xu Yujiao had 14 violent injuries all over her body, the head was the most serious—two eyes were cut, Both ears were cut off at the root, and the cochleas on both sides were smashed by sharp instruments. However, these injuries did not respond to life and were caused after death. The fatal injury was located in the back of the head. It was struck many times, and from the analysis of the degree of damage and shape, the murder weapon was a household hammer."

As he spoke, Xu Kan clicked the mouse to zoom in on the details of the on-site photos taken by the criminal police of Fukang Branch yesterday.The cruel scene of torture and killing stimulated everyone's nerves. Hu Qianqian, a new policewoman from the technical investigation team, sat in the corner, shrinking her neck slightly.

Xu Kan paused for a while, then transferred the infrared light to the lower body of the corpse, and continued: "The murderer sexually assaulted the deceased, but he was very careful not to leave any traces of semen, hair, skin tissue, etc. that can be tested for DNA. Evidence. We detected the lubricating oil component of the condom in Xu Yujiao's genitals, and he was wearing a condom when he committed the assault."

"Have you checked your mouth, anus, thighs, and chest?" Hua Chong asked suddenly.

"I checked." Xu Kan shrugged, "Nothing was found."

Hua Chong narrowed his eyes, and switched the lighter to the other hand, "Continue."

Xu Kan nodded, "Xu Yujiao's ankle was smashed by a blunt object, and her feet and legs were separated. One of the murder weapons was a household hammer that caused fatal skull injuries, and the other was a knife used to cut eyes and ears. Like facial trauma, severed limbs There is no life reaction anywhere, and it was caused after death. Xu Yujiao's clothes have been taken for physical and chemical tests, and sesame oil and poppy residues were found."

"Poppy?" Qu Zhi leaned forward.

"Two hours before the incident, Xu Yujiao had eaten hot pot and skewered food." Xu Kan said.

Hua Chong looked at Yuan Hao, the leader of the technical investigation team, "immediately call the surveillance around Daoqiao Road from 13:8 pm on the 6th to [-]:[-] am the next day."

Yuan Hao was a few years younger than Hua Chong, and he was born with a rough appearance, like a middle-aged rough man.But this rough man spoke with a bit of a girl's reserve, and whispered: "Daoqiao Road is the most chaotic street in Fukang District. I took someone to adjust the surveillance in the morning. Guess what?"

"Few cameras work?" Hua Chong didn't seem surprised.

"Yeah!" Yuan Hao raised his eyebrows, "We don't report it if it breaks down, and some places still use the old cameras that were eliminated a few years ago."

Hua Chong pulled out an armchair and sat down, "Check first."

Yuan Hao grinned, "Okay."

Xu Kan continued: "When the deceased was found, the body was covered with wooden boards, and the ID card and bank card were pressed under the right leg. The trace inspection department has already checked, and the murderer did not leave fingerprints or DNA on these items."

Hua Chong paused for a moment, then turned his gaze to Xu Kan, "The scene was severely damaged, and there was no information left on the body of the deceased that could point to the murderer, so the identity of the murderer cannot be determined for the time being, right?"

Xu Kan turned off the infrared indicator light, with a slightly dignified expression, "That's it."

"The technical investigation team will work overtime and go through all the videos that can be retrieved after 13:8 pm on the [-]th." The lighter in Hua Chong's hand made a soft sound on the table, "Cong value, you share it with everyone." One group continued to visit on Daoqiao Road. People may not be able to see where the cameras cannot capture; the other group investigated Xu Yujiao's social connections. Work harder, start with Xu Yujiao."

"Also." He said and turned to Yuan Hao: "Haozi, you go to the Shangke Road branch in person, and check the video of the bank and surrounding public surveillance before and after get off work hours on the 13th."

Everyone got up quickly, Xu Kan put away the projection screen, pulled the curtains, and the early spring sunshine lazily illuminated the entire conference room.

Hua Chong didn't leave immediately, he propped his chin with one hand, fiddled with the lighter repeatedly.

"What are you thinking about?" Xu Kan stretched his waist and leaned his back against the edge of the table.

Hua Chong closed his eyes in the pouring sunlight, and there were shallow wrinkles between his brows.

"The killer's behavior was contradictory," he said.