demons lurk beside you

On the banks of the Qing River, the police officers were busy doing some peripheral reconnaissance work.

At this moment, apart from the police officers and other related staff, there was no strange figure on the river bank.

The body was found by an old man who just came here to fish.

According to the dictation of one of the police officers, the old man is old and his sense of smell is not very sensitive, so he can't smell the smell of corpses. What really made him yell at the police officers in the Public Security Bureau when he reported the crime was his own eyes. The floating and sinking corpse I saw.

"Besides him, are there any other witnesses?" Lin Xin asked the male police officer who was reporting the incident to them.

The male police officer lowered his eyes and shook his head: "No, he said that when he found the body, he was the only one on the river bank, and he was frightened to death."

"Is that him?" Lin Xin pointed to the old man who was still standing outside the security zone and was poking his head at the corpse.

"Yes, it's him."

"Okay, I'll ask him a few words." After Lin Xin finished speaking, she strode towards the old man.

When the old man saw a woman in beautiful casual clothes walking towards him, the old man blushed and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Old man, wait." Lin Xin's gentle call made the old man stop.

When he saw Lin Xin's beautiful and refined face, his whole face turned red, he didn't even dare to lift his head, let alone look into Lin Xin's eyes.

"Old man, I just want to ask you some questions related to this case." Lin Xin directly explained the purpose of coming to the old man.

Unexpectedly, after the old man heard her words, he half-raised his hands and swayed wildly in the air. The teeth in his mouth had already fallen out in sevens and eights, so even his speech was a little slurred. He said: "No, no, I didn't kill him, he... I didn't kill him!"

Seeing his appearance, Lin Xin smiled a little, knowing that she had frightened him by directly explaining her intentions just now, so a smile appeared on her face.

She said, "No, I didn't say you killed people. I just want to ask you, do you often come here to fish?"

Lin Xin's words immediately made the old man let go of a hanging heart.

It turned out that she came to talk to herself not to accuse herself of killing someone.

So, he mustered up his courage and couldn't help talking more, he said: "Yes, I often come here to fish, sometimes three times a week, sometimes twice, sometimes when the weather is not beautiful, I just come here to fish." Just don't come."

Lin Xin gave a "hmm" and asked again, "Then when was the last time you came here to fish?"

The old man narrowed his eyes, counted with his fingers bent, and said, "Last Saturday."

"Today is Friday, so that means it's been 6 days since you came fishing last time?" Lin Xin stared at him with piercing eyes, wanting to see if he was lying to herself.

Without turning his eyes, the old man just nodded in response: "Yes."

"Then did you meet any suspicious person here last Saturday?" Lin Xin asked again.

The old man shook his head resolutely, and said, "I haven't seen it. Last Saturday, Lao Huang and I were just sitting in the old place fishing."

"Who is Old Huang?" Lin Xin raised her eyebrows and asked.

"He is an old friend of mine. Sometimes we meet here to fish. But neither of us noticed the corpse at the time." As the old man talked, the topics gradually increased.

"The deceased was estimated to have been dead for five days, and you came here to fish last Saturday, so the deceased was probably still alive at that time. But now, the body has been severely decomposed, and it has been completely changed beyond recognition." Lin Xin said with a frown.

Although Yangshi is a busy city, it is located in a remote place, so not many people will come here.The young people have already gone to the city to work to earn money, and only the elderly and children are left here, so apart from this old man, Lin Xin thinks that no one has ever seen the deceased haunt here, let alone anyone recognize him.

Lin Xin wanted to get some clues from the old man's mouth, hoping to find the source of the corpse.However, even the old man who often came here to fish said that he had never seen any other suspicious persons, which meant that the murderer had chosen a very appropriate time when he abandoned the corpse.

All she could think of was that the murderer chose to come to Qinghe at night, and then threw the body into the river.The fact that the murderer was able to leave no traces at the scene of the corpse throwing is enough to show that he was extra careful when handling the corpse.

And it was just a chance for Lin Xin to ask the old man about the timing.

Just then, there was a flash of thunder and lightning in the sky.When Lin Xin looked up at the sky not far away, she saw that it was already covered with dark clouds, and she thought that there would be a heavy rain soon.

The forensic doctor who was examining the corpse at the scene heard the thunder and said quickly: "Take the corpse to the autopsy room, or the rain will wash away the evidence."

That being said, the body had been submerged in the river for days, so important evidence should have been washed away by the river.

After the forensic doctor packed his things, he got into the reconnaissance vehicle without looking back.

Leng Yu and Huang Lin came to Lin Xin's side. The three of them unanimously decided to go back to the Federal Bureau and report to Director Wang about the initial investigation on the scene.

Leng Yu turned the steering wheel of the car, and suddenly asked: "Lin Xin, do you know that the witness old man who talked to you just now is an old bachelor?"

"What?" Lin Xin was taken aback by Leng Yu's sudden question.

At this time, Huang Lin, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, smiled softly: "He has a big red face from the time you came to talk to him until you left. If he ever married a wife and gave birth to a son, You shouldn't feel so shy after meeting a prettier woman."

Lin Xin turned her head and gave Huang Lin a hard look, then secretly watched Leng Yu who was driving, and when she saw that the other party was also looking at her, she hurriedly said, "Don't think nonsense, don't talk nonsense. , he is old enough to be my grandfather."

Leng Yu glanced at Huang Lin in the rearview mirror, and motioned her to stop talking. The three of them remained silent until Leng Yu drove the car to the gate of the Federal Bureau.

They quickly opened the car door, jumped out of the car, and rushed to the police station.

***

The project meeting was called urgently. Boss Wang was standing at the front of the conference hall, looking down and thinking. There were already more than a dozen police officers sitting under him, while Leng Yu and Lin Xin were sitting side by side in the last row.

Boss Wang glanced at everyone's faces one by one, and said in a low voice: "I received an emergency call from Officer Wu of the Yang City Public Security Bureau this morning, and he said that a rotten corpse was found on the bank of Qinghe River. However, he is currently busy with another case, so he called me and asked for our assistance, hoping that the Federal Bureau of Investigation can take over this case."

Having said that, Boss Wang cast his gaze in Leng Yu's direction, and said, "Officer Leng, please report to everyone the preliminary investigation situation at the scene."

Leng Yu nodded, cleared her throat slightly, and a cold voice cut through the entire conference hall.

Just listen to her say: "According to the preliminary forensic examination, the deceased was a male, aged between 70 and 80 years old. Five days after his death, the body was discovered by an old man fishing. The head of the body was Knocking by a hard object is initially suspected to be a fatal wound of the deceased. After killing the deceased, the murderer threw the body into the river. Interestingly, the Qinghe River and the sea meet each other, so the body will eventually flow into the sea along with the river Few people set foot in the Qinghe area, and the murderer threw the body into the Qinghe because of the continuous torrential rain a few days ago. The corpse will most likely be eaten up by the fish in the sea. To put it simply, he wants to destroy the corpse, because if the corpse is never found, no one will suspect him. "

Leng Yu paused, glanced at everyone's faces, and then said: "However, I suspect that the murderer is not very familiar with the Qinghe area, and he should rarely come to such a remote area. If If he was familiar with the Qinghe area, he should have discovered that there was an old man who often came to fish there, and this old man was the one who reported the discovery of the corpse. According to the old man, he would come there at least two to three times a week. Qinghe is fishing, so if the murderer is familiar with it, he should know that when he abandons the body, he is likely to be discovered."

Boss Wang touched his chin with a sparse beard, and asked, "So, Officer Leng means that the murderer might not be from Yangshi? However, Yangshi is so big, and we live here all year round, but we also live here all year round. We seldom come to the Qinghe area, but that doesn’t mean we’re not from Yangshi, right?”

With the same expression on Leng Yu's face, she said slowly: "Whether the murderer came from Yang City or not, we haven't found out yet, but the tire marks of the car were found at the scene of the body dumping, so what we can prove is that the murderer may be I came here by car. Besides, we know that only Qinghe and the sea meet each other in Yangshi, and the murderer chose Qinghe to throw his body, so it can be explained that he probably has some common sense of geography. Since he came here by car, we can preliminarily deduce that he committed crimes in different places first, then put the body in the car and came to Qinghe to dispose of the body. I think the murderer may not be from this city, but he should come I have stayed in this city for several years, so I can more or less grasp the terrain here."

"Well, Officer Leng's analysis is good. However, the clues you mentioned must be further investigated. Besides these, are there other clues?" Boss Wang looked in Leng Yu's direction and asked.

Leng Yu let out a "hmm" and continued: "We found holes of different sizes on the clothes of the deceased. The strange thing is that the edges of these holes are very neat, as if they were deliberately cut out, but it's just that there are holes in the clothes of the deceased. For what purpose it was cut, we are still investigating. As for the trousers of the deceased, no holes were found."

"The case still sounds tricky.. Now that's the case.. Then Officer Leng, you can take over this case. As for Officer Lin, I received another call for help from Officer Wu of the Public Security Bureau this morning, asking us to step in and help with the investigation The murder in the mountains, so I need you to help him."

After the two heard Boss Wang's order, they nodded in agreement, and each took over a different case.

Just as the two stepped out of the conference hall and were about to separate, Leng Yu called out, "Lin Xin, wait a minute."

Lin Xin turned her head to look at Leng Yu, and saw that she took a step towards her, and quickly planted a kiss on her lips, before she raised the corners of her mouth and said, "We may have a There is no way to see each other in time, so when you are in the mountains, you have to be careful and take care of everything, and let Yang Cong go with you if necessary."

"Officer Leng, you don't have to worry about me. On the contrary, you are the one who makes people worry. Think about it, this case is not simple at all, and..." Lin Xin stopped talking when she said this, no I would like to continue talking.

Leng Yu guessed her thoughts, she said: "Do you think the murderer should be a serial killer, and there is a high possibility that he will continue to commit crimes. Even, are you afraid that the murderer will kill me?" Leng Yu Yu asked softly.

"Shh, don't talk nonsense. I think the hole in the deceased's clothes was probably not cut by the murderer on a whim. He must have another purpose, but I can't figure out what the purpose is. But, I think if the murderer doesn't achieve his goal, then there will be more victims in the future, and he will only stop when he has achieved his desired goal." Lin Xin said.

Although the two have solved countless major cases and experienced many hardships and dangers, the identities they have given each other have long been different, so they both raised a little bit of thought and worry for each other, and more of them were concerned.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Leng Yu's firm tone reassured Lin Xin a little.

"Then I'll go first." Lin Xin winked at Leng Yu.

"En." Leng Yu nodded slightly, watching her leave.

Just after the two said goodbye to each other, Huang Lin's voice came from behind Leng Yu: "She has gone away, what are you looking at?"

Leng Yu didn't turn her head back, but heard her say coldly: "Huang Lin, I think there should be some results from the forensic doctor now. What I want to know is what style of clothes the deceased wore? Is it fancy?" Is it following the fashion trend, or is it just an ordinary shirt? And, most importantly, is the logo still on it?"

When the body was salvaged, after soaking in the river for a long time, the clothes worn by the deceased had already been covered by a pile of mud, and the original appearance could not be seen.

After Huang Lin listened to Leng Yu's question, she took out her mobile phone from her trouser pocket, handed it to Leng Yu, and motioned her to read the news that the forensic doctor had just sent.

Leng Yu took the mobile phone that Huang Lin handed over, looked down at the information from the forensic doctor, with a clear expression on her face, and only heard her say: "Hey, I am so old and still want to go to the Fengyue place to play A woman. However, the deceased seemed to be in good health before his death, but this time he encountered something and was murdered by the murderer."

Huang Lin's eyes widened when she heard that: "What did you say?"

Just based on a few words from the forensic department, Leng Yu was able to deduce that this old deceased who was over half a century old had actually been in and out of the Fengyue place.

Has her ability to predict things like a god has reached the point of perfection?