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Xinbei Village has a total of eight unit buildings, which are unified into six-story buildings, with four households on each floor, and there is no elevator.Unit 3 where Zheng Qi rented has been cordoned off, and the students gathered in twos and twos to discuss, all looking a little uneasy.

They were different from the students who watched the police search for body parts in the grove with great interest yesterday.Driven by curiosity, those people spontaneously ran to watch the excitement, whether they said they were big-hearted or heartless, in short, they had nothing to do with themselves, so they seemed relaxed.But for the students living here, the murder happened around them.People living in the same building were killed and brutally dismembered. No matter how good their psychological quality was, it was inevitable to be frightened at this time.

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin quickly walked through the cordon and ran towards the sixth floor where Zheng Qi lived.

"Flower team!" Qu Zhi stood at the door of 6-1, throwing two pairs of shoe covers forward, "Li Xun and the others are still collecting traces inside."

Hua Chong took the shoe covers, gave them to Liu Zhiqin, and turned around to look at the structure of the building.

The four households on each floor are divided into left and right sides by stairs. No. 1, No. 2 are on the left, No. 3 and No. 4 are on the right. The public area in the middle is not big, and there is a blue trash can.

Hua Chong walked to the trash can and took a look inside. There was nothing in the black trash bag, but there was a faint layer of dust on the part where the bag hung on the edge of the bucket.

"Only Zheng Qi lives in this floor?"

"Yeah, I wanted to ask the neighbors next door if they heard any noises. The man in charge of registration told me that only 6-1 was rented out on this floor." Qu Zhi glanced at Hua Chong after finishing speaking. , "How did you find out that there are no other people living on this floor?"

"There is ashes on the garbage bag, which proves that it has not been replaced for a few days. There are four households here. If the other three households are not unoccupied, there will be no household garbage in the pocket." Hua Chong frowned, "No one in Xinbei Village Are there many houses rented out?"

"Not many, but the location of this building is not good. It is the farthest from the gate and has the fewest renters. About half of each floor is empty."

Hua Chong briefly recalled that the location of unit 3 seemed to be really bad.

The planning of Xinbei Village is poor. The unit building is one building to the east and one building to the west. Unit 7 and Unit 2 are near the gate, and Unit 3 is at the innermost.

"The management here is too backward. At any rate, it is a newly built community. It turns out to be the same as the staff building in the old campus. There is no property management, no security personnel, and the monitoring is negligible. There are only a few retired old men who are responsible for registration at the entrance." Qu Zhi said: "I just asked a few students, and they said that there was a murder case in the school, and they only needed to register for entering and leaving today. In the past, they didn't even need to register. They came and left whenever they wanted."

Hua Chong walked to the door, bent down to check the lock, "It wasn't damaged, it wasn't forced to break the door."

"Hmm. The murderer was 'Soft Calling'." Qu Zhi said, "This also proves that it was indeed an acquaintance who committed the crime."

"Not necessarily." Hua Chong shook his head, "Now it's different from the past, and those who deliver courier and food can also be called to open the door."

Qu Zhi scratched his hair, "Didn't you say that there is a high probability that an acquaintance committed the crime?"

"That's right. But 'soft calling' is not evidence of an acquaintance committing the crime." Hua Chong said: "Be rigorous."

At this time, Li Xun shouted from the room: "You can come in."

The indoor area is small, more than 30 square meters, one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom and one kitchen. The living room looks normal, but the small bedroom is shocking.

There were a lot of blood splatters on the snow-white wall, and the bamboo mat had been soaked black.There is no doubt that the murderer killed Zheng Qi here.

But the strange thing is that the ground is very clean.

"The murderer cut Zheng Qi's neck artery here, and after confirming that he was dead, he was transferred to the kitchen for dismemberment." Li Xun said: "The ax is in the kitchen, and there are no fingerprints on it. Gloves."

Hua Chong went to the kitchen, "It's... cleaner than the bedroom."

"After committing the crime, the murderer washed the floors of the bedroom, living room, and kitchen with water." Li Xun squatted on the ground and ran his fingers across the floor tiles. , but the luminol test is still responsive."

"The murderer has washed the ground, that is to say, the footprints cannot be extracted indoors? There are cleaners cleaning the outdoor public areas. Now that the weather is hot, the floor will be cleaned for at least three days." Hua Chong said: "The murderer's footprints are gone. exists?"

"I thought it was the same. The murderer was very cautious. He washed the floor not to clean up the blood, but to eliminate the footprints. But I extracted a series of clear footprints from the living room to the bedroom."

Hua Chong's eyes deepened.

"These footprints belong to the same person. Judging from the length and width of the feet, they are males, and they are exerting themselves normally. There is no sign of wearing discomfort, that is, signs of wearing small shoes for big feet or wearing big shoes for small feet. It is impossible to deliberately wear a pair of ill-fitting shoes to mislead. We." Li Xun continued: "After he entered the room, he first walked quickly to the door of the bedroom, paused there for a while, then returned the same way, and left quickly. Judging from the footprints, this person is about 1 meters tall , weighing 8 to 65 kg."

"This body type should be considered relatively thin. Let Yuan Hao and the others check to see if there is a person of this height and weight in the surveillance at the gate." Hua Chong glanced at the kitchen, "The murderer is dismembering the body here, and there is a lot of movement. If you live downstairs People, should be able to hear."

"I've already asked, and they said I didn't pay attention." Qu Zhi said.

"Didn't pay attention? It shouldn't be." Hua Chong picked up the ax and swung it at the ground with [-]% of his strength. There was a loud "clang" that pierced people's eardrums tight. It won't be so sharp. But everyone has heard the sound of someone chopping ribs upstairs, it's muffled, one after another, how could it be possible not to pay attention..."

Having said that, Hua Chong suddenly paused and scolded: "Fuck!"

"What?" Qu Zhi hadn't reacted yet.

"It is precisely because the sound of chopping ribs upstairs has been heard, so the residents downstairs are used to it. Even if they heard it, they would not care about it, let alone go upstairs to find out. The murderer killed someone in the bedroom, but it was unnecessary to move Come to the kitchen to disassemble, because the sound of the kitchen chopping bones and meat is normal." Liu Zhiqin said: "Flower team, is that what you mean?"

Hua Chong raised his eyes and nodded, "Find the owner of these footprints first. Li Xun."

"exist."

"Are there any other directional traces at the scene?"

"Not found yet."

In the duty room of the community, the white-haired Uncle Liu brought out two folding chairs for Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin to sit on.

"I have worked as a dormitory supervisor at Luo University for decades. I came here as a guard two years ago. This is the first time I have encountered such a thing. It is very uncomfortable." Uncle Liu beat his leg and sighed, "Luo University is doing very well. All of them are pure and simple, when I was a dorm supervisor, I never even had a theft incident, how could I have thought of... hey!"

"I heard that there is no property manager in the Xinbei Village community, but you retired comrades have been helping to manage it?" Hua Chong asked patiently.

"Hey, what kind of property management is needed, and how much money will it cost?" Uncle Liu said, "Our old bones have been doing the work of dormitory management all our lives. How can we not compare to those property management?"

Hua Chong sighed secretly, his heart is really inferior.At the very least, if the community introduces a formal property management unit for management, there will at least be more cameras than there are now, and it will not let unrelated people in and out at will.

Uncle Liu looked puzzled, his sparse eyebrows were furrowed, "The people living here are all students, it's almost like a dormitory, why would someone come here to commit crimes?"

Liu Zhiqin said politely: "Although the university is not as good as the workplace society, it is also a relatively open environment. Uncle Liu, do you usually see Zheng Qi often? Have you seen anyone brought back by him recently?"

"Last year, I often saw him. He left early and came back late. Sometimes he came back late at night, and he would bring us some supper or something. He is a very nice guy, and he is very popular. He often brings his classmates back."

"Student?" Hua Chong asked, "Male or female?"

"Where did you think! He didn't talk about friends, and all the boys he brought back were male classmates." Uncle Liu said.

Bringing a male classmate back does not mean that he has no friends. Hua Chong asked again: "What about surveillance, there is no surveillance in the community, there are always entrances and exits, right?"

"Do you want to see the classmate he brought back? That's not possible, I won't see it." Uncle Liu waved his hand.

Liu Zhiqin asked: "Why?"

"Zheng Qi hasn't brought his classmates back in the past one or two months, but he has rarely come back by himself!" Uncle Liu pointed to the camera above the gate, "We keep the video here for a month, and it will be gone after a long time. He seems I practiced in the city, so I didn’t live here anymore.”

"Then I still have to trouble you to retrieve the full-day video from May 5th to 9th." Liu Zhiqin got up and said.

Having dealt with surveillance all the year round, Hua Chong watched the videos extremely fast, sometimes he couldn't keep up with him, and even complained that he had a motor in his eye.

Now Liu Zhiqin is watching the video faster than him. For the first time, he felt a feeling of "losing". He sneaked a glance at Liu Zhiqin and found that the distance between himself and the other party seemed too close—he was sitting in the armchair Inside, Liu Zhiqin was standing behind him, supporting the back of his chair with one hand, and pressing the other hand on the mouse, his eyes were focused, and his jaw was slightly tensed.

Just as Hua Chong was about to look away, Liu Zhiqin suddenly pressed the pause button and made eye contact with him.

"..."

"Flower team."

"what?"

"Is something on my face?"

Of course Hua Chong knew what he meant, pretending to be stupid and innocent was not his style, but being tough was the way to go.

"You are good-looking, but I am dazzled by watching too many videos. I see you relieve eye fatigue." Hua Chong said.

Liu Zhiqin smiled, "I still have such effects?"

The embarrassment was resolved, Hua Chong clicked, "Keep watching."

Time passed by, and the moment Zheng Qi appeared on the screen, Liu Zhiqin clicked the mouse, "9:9 p.m. on the 22th."

Since then, Zheng Qi has never been caught by the camera again, and there are no suspicious-looking people among the people who entered or exited the gate.

"Wait a minute, back up!" The mixed light and shadow picture flashed by, and Hua Chong leaned forward, staring at the display screen intently.

"This person?" Liu Zhiqin understood.In the frozen frame, there is a tall, thin man with a panicked expression, "This body conforms to Li Xun's deduction."

"He?" Uncle Liu walked over to have a look, "He doesn't live here, but I've seen him come here a few times, and he's also a student of Luo University."