Fire to the Abyss

Xia Yan followed Yang Ming into the small private room, and really experienced the feeling of the [-] beauties of the harem who were randomly selected—everyone brought their female relatives, some were fat and some were thin, some were tall and some were short, some were innocent and some were mature, some were young and some were young. Huoshuyinhua has a complete range of varieties, filling the small private room to the brim.

When everyone saw Xia Yan coming in, they immediately pulled him over and introduced them one by one, who's sister this is, this is their little niece, this is Yun Yun, the second uncle's daughter.

Xia Yan was burnt to ashes by the fiery enthusiasm of the crowd on the spot. The hand supporting Yang Ming's shoulder was almost embedded in his flesh. Yang Ming struggled several times without success.Finally, after the round was over, Xia Yan let go of his hand slightly, and whispered in Yang Ming's ear, "Is this kind of blind date popular now? Am I too rustic?"

"That's not true, the main reason is that you have a lot of face," Yang Ming smiled wickedly, and pulled a pretty girl in the corner, "Let me introduce to you, this is my sister Yang Xing, who is still in her junior year. Your younger brother is the same age, he studies law, his hobbies are reading books and watching movies, he can do all the housework, he has a gentle and stable personality, generous and decent..."

The girl gently tugged at Yang Ming, and interrupted him in a low voice: "Brother, stop talking."

Yang Ming pulled Xia Yan aside, whispered into his ear, "If you think the age is inappropriate, you can introduce it to your younger brother."

Xia Yan immediately rolled his eyes at him: "Do you think you sell cabbage? I think you are so talkative, selling vegetables in the vegetable market will definitely be able to support the whole family. Such a dangerous job as a policeman is not suitable for you."

"That can't be done. My hobby is watching beautiful people. The people who come to buy vegetables are all uncles and aunts. My eyes will not agree."

"It's simple, you go to set up a stall, I buy vegetables from you every day, and let you see them for free."

"Captain Xia, do you have any misunderstanding about your appearance?"

It didn't take long for Yang Ming to study the feasibility of selling vegetables to support his family, and a table of delicious, delicious dishes was served. Xia Yan was carried by everyone to sit in the middle of a pile of red, green, and green. It is even more uncomfortable for relatives to pour poisonous chicken soup.Some lesbians are very bold. At the dinner table, there are all kinds of flirtatious flirting. Xia Yan just feels like sitting on pins and needles. Don't listen or don't want to, just focus on fighting the pig's trotters in the bowl.

Fortunately, a phone call brought this strange gathering to an early end. Xia Yan has never been so grateful to Liu Xiuyun.

Liu Xiuyun reported the case, and Chen Zhifeng found it, but what he found was a dead body.

Liu Xiuyun's house is a two-story bungalow, located in a relatively backward area of ​​Chengzhou City.There are not many residents, and there are five or six bungalows side by side, all of which have similar shapes. It is said that a row was built by an official in the early years, so that his relatives lived here.Later, the officials committed some crimes and were arrested. The whole family ran away overnight, and the house was vacant. Finally, it was taken over by the government and sold not long after.

There is a one-car-wide road in front of a row of houses, and there is a traffic camera at the intersection with the main road, which can clearly take pictures of pedestrians and vehicles entering and leaving the road.It was this camera that captured the day Chen Zhifeng disappeared. He turned into the path in a hurry by himself, and never came out again.

Liu Xiuyun has been very irritable since her husband disappeared. In addition to being violent in the police force, she often yelled, knocked and smashed at home, and was complained several times by her neighbors.After there was no news from the police, she gradually changed her mind. She thought that the police force and Chen Zhifeng might be cooperating to deceive her. Thinking of the old affairs that Chen committed when he was young, Liu Xiuyun decided that he thought he was old and lustful, so he abandoned his wife. Abandoned daughter, took other women away.

Xia Yan was very speechless about this kind of speculation. The whole detachment knew that his daughter-in-law was called Xiangdong, and Lao Chen would never dare to go west. Besides, he got a daughter when he was old, and he loved her very much. Even if he wanted to abandon his wife, he would never abandon his daughter. Coupled with his usual frail appearance, even if he had an idea, he would not dare to implement it.

But Liu Xiuyun is obviously not a master who listens to advice, scolding the detachment and scolding her husband, regardless of the occasion, there is no taboo.In order not to have a negative impact on the child's education, under Xia Yan's tactful gesture, Chen Zhifeng's old mother took their daughter Qianqian to her hometown for the winter vacation.

On this day, Grandma Qianqian made an appointment with some relatives and friends, and brought Qianqian back to see Liu Xiuyun.Usually the small bungalow was crowded with people, and Liu Xiuyun was also infected by the lively atmosphere, and felt much more relaxed.Unknowingly, it was dinner time, and Liu Xiuyun planned to open a fire to entertain the guests by herself. She remembered that there was still some bacon in the cellar prepared years ago, so she went to the cellar to get it by herself.

The light in the cellar is not good. There are light switches on the top and bottom of the stairs, but the upper switch is broken and has not been repaired. Only the lower switch can still be used. People have to go down the steps to turn on the lights.

Liu Xiuyun used the light of her mobile phone to go down the steps. She saw some marks of different shades in the middle of the steps, and complained that Chen Zhifeng didn't pay attention to hygiene, and didn't know how to clean the dirty floor.

When she got down to the bottom floor and touched the light switch, the sudden light dazzled her eyes. Liu Xiuyun put her hand on her forehead to cover the direct light from the incandescent lamp, and walked with her head down, staring at the ground.Only then did she see the mark on the ground clearly, it was an uneven strip mark, as if she had dragged something to walk over it.The trace was black, and there was a slight smell of blood. It was obvious that it was a bloodstain.

Her hairs were standing on end, her heart was beating wildly, and a bad premonition came to her heart.But there was still a little Ah Q spirit in her body, and she quickly comforted herself, and found a plausible explanation for everything in front of her—there was pork in the refrigerator, which should be the trace left by Chen Zhifeng who came down and cut a piece of pork .

But when she looked up, the bloodstains stretched all the way to the front of the freezer. This kind of stupid self-comfort was finally completely untenable—even if she had never been involved in criminal investigation work, she knew that there was frozen meat in the freezer, how could it be possible? Leaving so much blood?

Liu Xiuyun stretched out her hand to press her violently heaving chest, as if trying to suppress her beating heart, she walked slowly to the freezer, took a deep breath, and pulled open the door of the freezer. Straight out.Liu Xiuyun only took one look, then ran out screaming and called the police immediately.

That thing is Chen Zhifeng.

When Xia Yan arrived, he was on the ground with his face facing the ground, Liu Xiuyun didn't turn him over, she just glanced at his clothes and figure and knew it was him.

Chen Zhifeng was completely frozen into a popsicle, and some tissues were broken when he fell to the ground. Xia Yan turned him over and saw a bloody face. Several young colleagues rushed out and vomited on the spot.

A group of relatives and friends have been evacuated, and only Liu Xiuyun, Qianqian, and Chen Zhifeng's old mother are left at home.Liu Xiuyun was frightened and was in a daze, repeating in her mouth: "He is dead, he is dead..."

When Chen Zhifeng's mother wanted to see the corpse, she was persuaded by several policewomen, so she had to sit by holding Qianqian and kept crying.Cici was obedient, she had just started elementary school, she sat quietly on grandma's lap, neither crying nor fussing, she even patted grandma's shoulder to comfort grandma, as if she didn't realize what happened.

The body has been frozen in the freezer for too long, and it is difficult for forensic science to determine the exact time of death. However, Chen Zhifeng was still wearing the clothes he wore on the day of his disappearance. Xia Yan speculated that he was killed shortly after returning home on the day of his disappearance—this The house was already heated during the season, so he would definitely take off his coat when he got home, but the coat was well worn on the body, and only a few buttons were unbuttoned, indicating that he was killed before he could take off his coat in a comfortable and warm environment.

According to this judgment, Chen Zhifeng has been stored as frozen meat in the freezer in his cellar for a month.

There are continuous traces of dragging in the cellar. Although it has been frozen into popsicles, Chen Zhifeng’s heels and clothes can still be seen with obvious scratches. It is obvious that he was dragged to the freezer to hide his body after he was killed. The cellar is not The scene of the first crime.

The trace team sprayed a large amount of luminol reagent in the room, and the luminol reacted with the remaining hemoglobin in the blood to emit blue-purple fluorescence, reflecting the whole room in an extremely strange way.The trail of blood stretched from the exit of the cellar to the door of the study. The colleagues in the study greeted Xia Yan, and when Xia Yan entered the door, there was a shocking blue light.

"Captain Xia, this should be the scene of the first crime. Look, there is still blood on the spine of the book at the bottom."

Xia Yan squatted down next to the trace inspector, and carefully looked at the books on the bookshelf: "That's right, the blood on the floor is relatively easy to clean up, but it's not easy to clean up the blood on the book, it can't just happen to be blood. The books are at the bottom, and the murderer probably moved them deliberately to see if there are any fingerprints on the books."

"Ok."

Xia Yan squatted on the ground and carefully studied the bloodstains in the room. The biggest pool was on the floor, and there were some blood spots on the wall and table, but not many.There are some incomplete blood footprints left in the bloodstains on the ground, and several comrades are measuring and comparing them.

It didn't take long to come to the conclusion: the bloody footprints came from two pairs of shoes, both in size 44, one pair was worn by Chen Zhifeng, and the other pair undoubtedly belonged to the murderer.On the path where the murderer hid the corpse, he also left several relatively clear footprints.

In the following time, the Chengzhou detachment searched Liu Xiuyun's home inside and out, but failed to find other traces left by the murderer.Xia Yan wasn't idle here either. He, Yang Ming, Zhang Chi, and the team's most amiable beauty detective, Sun Fangfei, spent almost a whole night sorting out some of Liu Xiuyun's nonsense. a useful clue.

Liu Xiuyun spent the whole night tossing and snoring loudly in the lounge, but Xia Yan and the others had to continue working with their panda eyes on.The murder of a policeman was no small matter. Zheng Xing arrived in a hurry just as the bell rang for work. Xia Lin heard the news from nowhere and came early in the morning.

Xia Yan drank two big cups of coffee, washed his face with cold water to refresh himself, and then called everyone into the meeting room.

Zheng Xing briefly said the opening remarks to express his anger and determination, and Xia Yan introduced the case straight to the point: "The deceased Chen Zhifeng, male, 44 years old, criminal policeman of the Chengzhou Detachment. The time of death is estimated to be 1:7 pm on January 06th. In the future, it is impossible to accurately determine what time it was before, and the death interval is tentatively set as after 30:06 p.m. A double-edged sharp weapon about five centimeters in length. There was no matching weapon in the deceased’s home, so it should have been carried by the murderer himself, so impromptu homicide can basically be ruled out.

"The scene of the first crime was in the study room of the deceased's home. There were three wounds on the deceased's body, all of which were near the chest. The knife stabbed the heart. Through the identification of blood stains at the scene, it is speculated that Chen Zhifeng was stabbed first, and then fell to the ground. The murderer made two stab wounds, whether the murderer was afraid that he would not die or out of hatred to vent his anger is temporarily doubtful.

"According to Liu Xiuyun's testimony, there are not many people who know the cellar of her house. They are all close relatives and friends. On the day Chen Zhifeng was killed, she was out of town, and her daughter Chen Zhiqian was at grandma's house. He was the only one at home. Liu Xiuyun returned half a month later When I got home, the house was no different, it was even cleaner than before she left home, the murderer must have cleaned it up. Liu Xiuyun usually doesn’t go in and out of the study room, the door of the study room is always locked, and the cellar is the same, basically not going there a few times a year , so she didn't find anything unusual.

"Basically, it can be concluded that this is an acquaintance's crime. The murderer knew the location of the cellar of Chen Zhifeng's house and knew that Chen Zhifeng was alone at home that day. He sneaked into Chen Zhifeng's house with the murder weapon, killed him in the study, and dragged him to the freezer. It was hidden in the cabinet. He was meticulous and thoughtful. He wore gloves when he committed the crime without leaving any fingerprints. A few incomplete blood footprints were left.

"In summary, the murderer is a man with a shoe size of 44. It takes a lot of strength to stab the heart through thick clothes in winter, so he should be strong and strong, about 25-40 years old , is familiar with Chen Zhifeng, and should have been a guest at his home.

"That's all the clues for the time being. Next, we will mainly focus on the relatives and friends who fit the description of the murderer and have a relationship with him. Also, during the previous investigation, the traffic camera at the intersection did not capture any suspicious people coming and going. The five neighbors should be the focus. Investigate objects."

After Xia Yan finished speaking, everyone discussed a few words with each other, and soon the meeting ended, working hard, catching up on sleep.

When Xia Yan sent Liu Xiuyun away to drink cold water and take a nap in the lounge, Xia Lin walked in, took out a chocolate and handed it to him.After tossing and tossing for the whole night, Xia Yan basically drank some plain water, carbohydrates and coffee. His stomach couldn't bear it long ago, so he unceremoniously took it and tore open the packaging bag.

Xia Lin sat down opposite him, and said slowly, "Brother, I think we need to add a little bit more to the direction of the investigation. In the cases Chen Zhifeng handled, there were people who hated him."

Xia Yan chewed the chocolate and said, "How do you say it?"

Xia Lin: "The doubtful point you just said, I think the murderer repaired the knife after Chen Zhifeng fell to the ground for some special reason, not because he was not afraid that he would not die. As you said, the murderer's mind is very careful , he handled the blood stains in the house perfectly, but he didn't clean up the traces in the cellar, which shows that he is not only thoughtful, but also an efficient murderer, because he knows that few people go to the cellar, so he didn't spend time and thought on cleaning it up This point can also be confirmed in Chen Zhifeng's wound. He stabbed his heart with a knife, and did not waste his energy on stabbing some insignificant parts. Every knife is fatal. He knew that Chen Zhifeng was dead the first time he stabbed. There is no need to make up the knife for fear that he is not dead. This is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and there will be more blood stains and it will be more difficult to clean up.

"So, the two stabs he made later can be regarded as ceremonial, with a clear purpose - he made up his mind from the beginning to stab Chen Zhifeng three times in the chest. Except for those who have deep hatred, few people do this .”

Xia Yan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "Well, it makes sense, and the number 3 of the three swords should also be noticed."