heart poison

In the early morning, the forensic department completed the autopsy, and the DNA comparison and missing persons investigation are still in progress.

"The deceased was a male. Judging from the state of the pubic symphysis, he was around 22 years old." Xu Kan handed over the detailed autopsy report to Hua Chong, "The body was divided into 19 parts, the heart was missing, and the broken section of the right hand showed signs of life. It was an injury during his lifetime, and the rest of the wounds did not respond to life, and they were dismembered after death. The deceased had blunt trauma to the head, fractured nasal bone, multiple restraint injuries on his body, and a dislocated jaw, so it can be confirmed that he had suffered abuse."

The autopsy report was accompanied by detailed pictures. Hua Chong looked at it and asked, "The fatal injury is in the neck?"

"Yes." Xu Kan nodded, "After a series of torture, the murderer cut open his carotid artery and trachea with a sharp weapon. Then he used an ax to dismember the body."

"Can you determine the general type of axe?"

"There are many scars on each section. The murder weapon is not big and not sharp. The most common one is the ax of a butcher in the vegetable market. This kind of ax is rarely used by ordinary families now."

Hua Chong continued to look down, "The time of death was 7 days ago..."

"This is calculated from the length of the maggots." Xu Kan said: "The temperature has been getting higher and higher recently, and the corpses have become more rotten."

"22 years old, dead for 7 days, the body was decomposed and discarded in the grove of Luo University." Hua Chong stood up, resting his chin on one hand, and paced around the table, "It is not a small possibility that he is a Luo University student."

"The face of the deceased was severely damaged, and the DNA comparison cannot produce results for the time being." Xu Kan put his hands in the pockets of his overalls, "There is one more thing."

"Ok?"

"The ten fingers of the deceased were burnt with gasoline."

Hua Chong stood still, "Is it to erase fingerprints?"

"It seems to be. However, it is not common to wipe out fingerprints by burning gasoline." Xu Kan said: "This is very troublesome. Since the murderer has an axe, why doesn't he just chop off the dead's ten fingers and discard them? And the murderer has already given them to the deceased. After dismembering the body, if you don’t want us to check your identity through fingerprints, just put your hands in other places.”

"That's right, gasoline burning is time-consuming." Hua Chong thought for a while, "Even if the murderer thinks it's troublesome to throw them separately, he can directly corrode the ten fingers of the deceased with strong acid."

"The loss of the heart is also more suspicious." Xu Kan held his forehead with both hands, "I thought about the possibility of black market organ trading, but judging from the cutting surface, it is definitely not a normal transplant. The murderer cut open the chest of the deceased, It just ripped out the heart."

"The murderer has a strong feeling of venting anger, and the probability of acquaintances committing the crime is higher." Hua Chong said: "We have to wait until the source of the corpse is determined before we can start the investigation."

At this moment, the team members who stayed at the scene came back.

Zhang Mao described the situation as embarrassing, "Flower Team, the North District of Luo University has basically searched, but they have not found the deceased's clothes or lost heart. There is no news from the school yet. There are too many colleges, and they don't know if any students are missing. "

"Okay, let's take a rest first." Hua Chong poured a glass of water for each team member who came back, "We will hold a meeting after the DNA comparison results come out."

After running all night, Hua Chong's head hurt a little, he took a cigarette and a lighter and walked to the terrace, but was stopped by Liu Zhiqin halfway.

"Want to smoke second-hand smoke?" Hua Chong joked, shaking the cigarette case.

His voice is deeper at night than during the day, not much deeper, not enough to be a smoky voice, but just a little more magnetic.

"So stingy?" Liu Zhiqin followed, "You just greet me with second-hand smoke, and you can't give me a piece?"

Hua Chong was surprised, "Aren't you a non-smoker?"

"I don't like smoking very much, it's not that I can't smoke."

"Tsk, I thought you didn't know how to smoke." Hua Chong threw the cigarette case over, "Take it yourself."

The city bureau is surrounded by bustling neighborhoods, shining brightly before 12 o'clock, and the roads are like long rivers paved with golden lights.Now it is the middle of the night, there are no pedestrians on the road, and only the billboards on the top of the high-rise buildings are still lit. Although they are reflected in the street lights, there is also a different kind of loneliness.

Hua Chong leaned on the railing to blow the wind, and Liu Zhiqin borrowed a fire from him, his movements were smooth, and when he exhaled the first puff of white smoke, his eyes narrowed habitually.

Hua Chongxiao, "I found that your smoking posture is quite chic."

"Really?" Liu Zhiqin held a cigarette between his fingers, "Then I'll show you a few more cigarettes in the future."

"I'm not curious." Hua Chong withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the night in the distance.

"I read the autopsy report, and the murderer this time is even more ruthless than Meng Xiaoqin." Liu Zhiqin said: "Based on the experience of the last case, I am more curious about whether the murderer is a man or a woman."

"The deceased was 1 meters tall and relatively strong. Xu Kan said that judging from the scars on the corpse, it did not meet the characteristics of multiple people committing the crime. Physical and chemical tests proved that the deceased was not poisoned. It must be very difficult to control a man who is 84 meters tall alone. So I think that the murderer should be a man. However, it cannot be blindly identified, and everything has to wait until the identity of the deceased is determined." Hua Chong said.

"It's been sunny this week, and there hasn't been any rain, and there isn't a lot of blood in the grove, which means it's just a place where corpses are dumped, not a crime scene." Liu Zhiqin smoked quickly and put out the cigarette butt, "The deceased was restrained and abused during his lifetime. There must have been screams. The murderer bound his limbs and gagged his mouth. The school is a public place, and the concealment is not strong. The murderer should not have killed him in the school. But he deliberately threw the body parts in the school. What is there? intention?"

"Maybe for the murderer, Luo University is a safe area." Hua Chong said: "It seems that the murderer is very familiar with Luo University, knowing that the students are concentrated in the southern district, and almost no one goes to the northern district. Even the cameras are just for display."

"There are no more than three kinds of people who are active in Luoyang University and its surrounding areas: students, faculty members, owners and helpers of off-campus restaurants. They all know Luoda University's planning and structure."

"It's hard to talk about this case now." Hua Chong sighed, "I hope the DNA comparison can confirm the identity of the deceased, otherwise it will take time to find the source of the corpse."

After speaking, he glanced at Liu Zhiqin, "Are you going back today?"

"It will be dawn in a while, why are you still tossing back and forth?"

"Then my bed will get half of your share."

"It doesn't need half of it." Liu Zhiqin said politely, "I'll just hang it on the side."

"Fuck you." Hua Chong lightly kicked his calf, "Am I such a leader who doesn't care about the sleep quality of his subordinates?"

Having said that, when he really lay on the bed in the lounge, Hua Chong still occupied most of the bed, and he didn't even notice that Liu Zhiqin gave way to him.

Liu Zhiqin moved to the edge of the bed, very tired but unable to fall asleep.

The breathing behind him never calmed down, Liu Zhiqin knew that Hua Chong hadn't fallen asleep either.

"Flower team?"

"Ok?"

"It's nothing."

"You still call me for nothing?" Hua Chong turned around, "Sleep! I have to be busy again at dawn."

For the two men, the bed was still too small, and Liu Zhiqin could clearly feel Hua Chong's breath on the back of his neck.

"Good night." After several seconds, he lowered his voice and said, "I'm going to sleep now."

The lounge was just a place to rest. When solving Meng Xiaoqin's case, Liu Zhiqin slept a few times, but they were all light sleeps and never slept peacefully.This time was no exception, the more I wanted to fall asleep, the more excited I became.

Since Hua Chong turned around, he didn't turn back, he lay motionless, but the hot air he exhaled sprinkled on his neck one after another, itching and numb, like a wonderful sober medicine.

He regretted sleeping with Hua Chong.

There are a few sofas outside, and there are extra lounges for the technical investigation team and the trace inspection department. Sleeping anywhere is better than sleeping here.

At dawn, Hua Chong fell into a drowsy sleep, and put his arm up, resting on his waist.He looked down, wanted to move away, but finally gave up.

He didn't know how he fell asleep afterwards. When he woke up, there was no one around, and there were footsteps coming from outside. It was probably the result of the DNA comparison.

"The name of the deceased is Zheng Qi, a senior student at the School of Architecture, Los Angeles University, from Zhangcheng." Hua Chong called the criminal police from the serious crime team, the trace inspection department, and the forensic department to the meeting room, and waited for Xu Kan to explain the autopsy report in detail. , and began to assign tasks.

"The murderer's various behaviors show that this is a premeditated crime committed by an acquaintance, and the murderer has great hatred for the deceased. Zheng Qi was killed 7 days ago, and his heart is still missing. The small forest is just a corpse dumping place, not the first scene. Qu Zhi, immediately take someone to Luo University after the meeting to check Zheng Qi's social relations."

Qu Zhi raised his hand, "Understood."

"Yuan Hao, you tuned in to the monitoring of Luo University and its surrounding area on May 5th, and went through all of them, paying special attention to strong men who are over 9 meters tall."

"Have you confirmed the characteristics of the murderer?" Yuan Hao asked.

"Not sure." Hua Chong shook his head, "But Zheng Qi is 1 meters tall and not thin. It is unlikely that the murderer was a woman."

"It's strange. I had contact with several teachers and student union officials from the School of Architecture yesterday, and they all said they didn't notice anyone missing." Zhang Trade said, "Zheng Qi's murder has been going on for seven days, yet the school has never heard anything about it. "

"This is normal. Zheng Qi is a senior. Although the undergraduate degree of the Department of Architecture is one year longer than other departments, many students have been practicing outside since their senior year." Hua Chong put his fingers together, "It is already May, and the fifth year He is graduating soon, and Zheng Qi may have already contacted the internship unit. The new campus of Luoda University is remote, and he may not live in a dormitory at all, and he does not have to attend classes. It is reasonable for his classmates and teachers not to know that he is missing. In short, check first, and don’t miss anyone Details. In addition, immediately notify Zheng Qi’s family to come to Los Angeles.”

The fact that the deceased was a Luo university student quickly caused a storm on campus. Hua Chong, Liu Zhiqin, and Yuan Hao went to check the surveillance, and received a call from Qu Zhi before they had seen the name.

"Zheng Qi is a man of the hour." Qu Zhi said: "Until the end of last year, he was still the chairman of the student union of the School of Architecture. I live in a dormitory, and I live alone in the 'Xinbei Village' off campus. His classmate said that he didn't have any classes in the second semester of his senior year, and he went to Wanqiao Real Estate for an internship after the Spring Festival, and he hasn't been to school for a long time."

"Wanqiao Real Estate?" Hua Chong subconsciously drew two strokes on the notebook.

Liu Zhiqin turned his head when he heard the sound.

Hua Chong gestured to him, and mouthed: "Come with me."

Qu Zhi reported for a while, and Hua Chong said: "Notify Hen Jian, go to Zheng Qi's rented house immediately, and I will be there soon."

Xinbei Village is just across the street from the west gate of Luo University. It was built by the school for the convenience of the faculty and staff, but most of the teachers have cars. Those who don’t have a car or don’t want to drive can take the shuttle bus to and from the new and old campuses. Almost no one wants to live there. In the desolate Xinbei Village, houses are basically rented out to students who do not want to live in dormitories.

On the way to Xinbei Village, Liu Zhiqin asked, "Zheng Qi is an intern at Wanqiao Real Estate?"

"I'm also a little surprised." Hua Chong said: "Meng Xiaoqin's third target is Luo Xiang, the niece of Wanqiao's real estate boss. Zheng Qi is an intern in Wanqiao, and even two cases have something to do with Wanqiao."

Liu Zhiqin said: "That's not what I thought."

"Ok?"

"Your old teammate is also Wan Qiao's employee."

Hua Chong stopped abruptly, and was about to speak when the phone rang suddenly.

Qu Zhi shouted: "Flower Team, there is a lot of blood in Zheng Qi's rented house, it may be the first scene!"