I come from the abyss

"Only son, underage, just finished the college entrance examination, sensible and filial, just passed one-fifth of his life." Chen Jie sighed: "Even if you are very angry, you don't need to kill people. If you have unresolved conflicts, you can call the police and let a third party intervene in mediation Isn't it better?"

Ji Chengling: "Emotions can make people lose their minds."

Chen Jie: "The only contradiction I can imagine is the extra fare of tens of dollars."

Ji Chengling: "You misjudged the greed of unscrupulous drivers. Some unscrupulous cars have just charged hundreds of thousands of fares. Their ability to watch dishes should not be underestimated, and they especially like to form gangs."

Chen Jie: "I read in the survey report that Ge Xiangdi's teachers and classmates all said that he has excellent grades, is cheerful and helpful. Besides, he is only 17 years old, and a minor with a good reputation will blackmail passengers? Blackmail Is the amount so high that the murderer has to kill him? I don’t think it’s a money dispute, and even if there is a money dispute, it’s not necessarily Ge Xiangdi.”

Ji Chengling: "You mean that Ge Xiangdi may be implicated because of the money dispute between others and the murderer? Do you think that Ge's father had a dispute with the murderer, and the murderer sought revenge and killed Ge Xiangdi to avenge Ge's father? This is premeditated Homicide does not meet the characteristics of homicide without motive and passion."

Chen Jie put forward a hypothesis: "Maybe the murderer is a regular customer. He was chatting with Ge Xiangdi, and he was provoked by Ge Xiangdi's words during the chat, and he himself had conflicts with Ge's father, so he strangled Ge Xiangdi to death... Otherwise, the murderer and Ge Xiangdi What kind of contradiction can Xiangdi produce? If the murderer is not an acquaintance, and they have no intersection before this ride, then what kind of contradiction should prompt the murderer to kill a minor who has just finished the college entrance examination? If Ge Xiangdi, who met for the first time Without extortion and overcharging, he has no reason to quarrel with the murderer and provoke the murderer. If the above conjectures are correct, should the murderer's killing behavior and killing motive be redefined."

Ji Chengling thought carefully about Chen Jie's reasoning.

Lao Zeng knocked on the table with a pen, "Duk Tuk Tuk", and said: "It's not impossible. Before the murder case comes to a conclusion, any possibility exists. Who will notify Ge Xiangdi's parents today?"

Someone raised his hand: "Me." The young criminal policeman came out and said, "Ge Xiangdi's parents are both at the forensic office. After seeing Ge Xiangdi's body, they were overwhelmed with grief and emotional breakdown, so they couldn't ask. But Team Li Over there, I was with Ge Xiangdi's parents."

Chen Jie was surprised: "Isn't the boss the most difficult to deal with the family members of the deceased? Is it raining red?"

Old Zeng thought about it and said, "Maybe you guessed it right." Even Chen Jie noticed the problem, how could Li Zan not notice it?

The sub-bureau specially split a piece of land and moved it out to be used as a forensic office.

The lamp is a cold light, the wall is a white gray wall, and the floor is a reflective cold white brick. The forensic office made of various small elements has become a hospital "mortuary".

However, when a case occurs or an academic seminar is usually held, the popularity is sufficient, and the forensic office does not appear so gloomy.

Now this moment is an exception. At three or four in the afternoon, the sun is a little westward, and the cold light in the room and corridor is half turned on. The light is not enough, and it looks cold and dark.

Weeping could be faintly heard in the long corridor, and from time to time it was a prolonged and sharp cry, which penetrated the corridor, but was blocked by layers of white walls.

There is also a small hall in the medical examiner's office, where the family members who need to be questioned after the body identification are waiting.

The small hall, which had been quiet for a while, suddenly burst into roars. The woman's sharp cries and the man's uncontrollable roar of pain merged and swirled, like a flood of water pouring over the sky and covering the earth.

For those who don't know it, it's noise, but for the people involved, it's their catharsis.

Zhong Xueru glanced at Li Zan, who had not changed his face. The other party had been facing Ge Xiangdi's parents who were constantly venting their sadness, but they didn't escape, and sat with Ge Xiangdi's parents for nearly an hour!

Li Zan kicked the leg of Zhong Xueru's chair and said, "Bring a pack of tissues here."

Only then did Zhong Xueru realize that the paper towels on the table were gone, and the carton containing the paper towels was behind him.

He hastened to replenish the goods, and comforted him uselessly: "Please forgive me."

Ge Hong held back his grief, bowed his head habitually, his temples were graying, his shoulders seemed to be pressed against a heavy mountain, so heavy that he couldn't support his back, curled up, bent his thin back.

He kept saying mechanically: "Thank you, thank you comrades in the police, for your trouble. I'm sorry, I have caused you trouble, I'm sorry, thank you, thank you." At this point, Ge Hong was stunned, as if he had suddenly broken into pieces. Know what to do next second.After a while, he suddenly remembered what he should say, and he asked: "Comrade policeman, why was my son killed?"

Ge Hong asked carefully and softly: "Why were you killed? Why? Did we do something wrong? My son is very good. He knows that we work hard, and he will help with housework every time he comes home from school. He doesn't dislike us. Poor, and said that the university is working and studying to help reduce the burden on the family—" He spoke quickly, and soon realized that he was afraid that his eagerness would cause discomfort to others, so he lowered his voice: "It is impossible, impossible for my son to be with you. Enmity with other people, really. He is very good, I don’t know why that person wants to kill him, if he has a grudge against me, he can come to me, why did he kill my son?”

Zhong Xueru: "Calm down, calm down. Regarding Ge Xiangdi's murder case, the police are still screening. You wait for the news first, and we will notify you as soon as the case results come out. Now, we hope that you two can cooperate with the police's investigation." investigation."

Ge Hong: "You ask."

Zhong Xueru looked at Li Zan, who hesitated, rubbed his thumb and index finger unconsciously, and said amidst Ge Xiangdi's mother's weeping and Ge Hong's anxious eyes: "You didn't have any enemies?"

Ge Hong shook his head: "No."

Li Zan: "Have you had any quarrels with others recently?"

Ge Hong racked his brains to recall, as carefully and laboriously as picking sesame seeds in a pile of gravel.

"...No. I didn't quarrel with others. I don't dare to charge too much money for this kind of car. For the same way, I charge half the price of a regular taxi. I dare not run when I meet a car checker. , but I will send the passengers near the bus station and refund the money. If I do this, how can I become enemies? How can I become enemies?"

Li Zan was silent for a moment, looking at Xiangmei, Ge Xiangdi's mother.

Xiang Mei shook his hands, took a few deep breaths, swallowed saliva and intense fatigue, his voice was hoarse, and he wailed almost as soon as he opened his mouth.She looks to be in her fifties, she is very thin, her clothes are simple, her color is dull, her hair is dyed into the wine red that many middle-aged women like, and now it is scattered on her cheeks, looking embarrassed and desolate.

"I...no, no, I, I didn't quarrel with anyone." Taking a few deep breaths, Xiangmei could barely speak long sentences, "I have worked in the factory for more than ten years, and I am familiar with the colleagues in the factory, and we Most of them are neighbors in the neighborhood. Even if there was a quarrel, but, how could there be such a deep hatred to kill my son? They watched my son grow up, how could there be such a deep hatred?"

With his fingernail poking at the pulp of his index finger, Li Zan asked Ge Hong, "Where do you usually get your customers from? Which area do you visit most often? When do you basically come out to pick up customers? Are there many repeat customers?"

Ge Hong nodded: "There are many repeat customers. My customer source is actually very fixed, because I am a trustworthy person, and I charge less money. I will not suddenly charge more. I usually run in the two districts of Dongcheng and Beitian, and occasionally visit neighboring cities. Order. 8:8, 8:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] a.m. There are few people at this time, and there will be no license checks. Sometimes when I encounter traffic police, most of them are checking for drunk driving. I tell them that I am sending off friends or relatives, and I can usually go there .In addition to the regular source of customers, there are also roadside stops, and sometimes they will take the initiative to pick up customers on the roadside. Sometimes it is introductions from repeat customers, that’s all.”

"By the way!" Ge Hong suddenly remembered something, thumped the table and said, "My son called me last night, and he said he received an order to go to the beach at 1 o'clock in the morning. For several days, I was not in good spirits during the day. I originally wanted to call him back and stop work for a day, but he said that the passenger was in a hurry, so he was generous, and he took the initiative to call and introduce an acquaintance. went."

Ge Hong regretted pulling his hair, slapped himself twice, and blamed himself for not insisting on letting his son go home.

"Did Ge Xiangdi say who introduced him?"

"No. He didn't mention it."

Xiang Mei hurriedly said: "Mobile phone! The murderer has contacted my son! Comrade police, check my son's mobile phone, you can find the mobile phone number—"

"Ge Xiangdi's mobile phone and ID card are gone." Li Zan said regretfully.

Xiang Mei was speechless.

Li Zan asked Ge Hong: "Do you have the contact information of repeat customers?"

Ge Hong: "Yes. I have phone book records."

Li Zan: "Give it all to me."

Ge Hong nodded again and again: "Okay, I'll go home and get it now." After speaking, he pulled Xiang's eyebrows and left the forensic office.

Li Zan didn't say anything to persuade them not to be in a hurry, because for Ge Hong and his wife, finding the murderer and avenging their son has become their mainstay.

Zhong Xueru: "Get the records in the phone book and call back one by one?"

"It's a way to solve the case."

"Indeed. But if the murderer is lying, he didn't find Ge Xiangdi through the introduction of an acquaintance, but took the initiative and premeditated for a long time. There is no obvious motive for committing the crime, no strong conflict, and the money in the car is still there. The murderer killed Ge Xiangdi It’s unlikely to be a money dispute. Ge Hong is honest and the price is fair. Under his influence, Ge Xiangdi should not charge more money, and from the description, the murderer was in a hurry so he gave more money.”

All this shows that the murderer did not kill Ge Xiangdi because of a money dispute, and the last phone call between Ge Xiangdi and Ge Hong also showed that he did not know the murderer, so he has no enmity with the murderer.

Neither Ge Hong nor Xiang Mei had feuds with others, so vendettas can be ruled out.

As if his tongue was scalded, Zhong Xueru said in a hissing voice: "It's not good to push it like this. If it's been premeditated for a long time, the previous inference of killing people with passion is untenable, so it has to be pushed. It's not love, hatred, money Killed without any motive, and chose to murder in a residential area, a conspicuous area where he would be seen at any time, as if he was seeking excitement, and killed Ge Xiangdi to satisfy a certain psychology."

"Ge Xiangdi is not the first, nor will he be the only victim." Li Zan said: "The murderer's modus operandi is still very clumsy, but he did not hesitate or let go of his strength when killing Ge Xiangdi, so in the Before Ge Xiangdi, the murderer may have committed a failed murder."

Li Zan got up: "Check to see if anyone in each district has reported the crime."

The autopsy results had come out, and Zhong Xueru had nothing to do next. He personally sent Li Zan away, sighed heavily, and returned to his office.

***

Criminal Investigation Office.

Trace Inspection is talking: "The hotel check-in records and monitoring records have been retrieved, and the rest of the list is here after excluding the guests with itinerary conflicts. This list is quite special. They are all participants of a beach wedding, and there is a groom , the bride and relatives and friends of both parties, as well as the team of the wedding company and the team of makeup artists, there are hundreds of people in the list."

"The hotel's surveillance investigation can tell that some of them check in at noon during the day, go to the beach at six o'clock in the evening to play, and play until four o'clock in the morning to return to the hotel."

Ji Chengling felt a headache: "There are two to 300 people on the hotel check-in list, and it's too much to check one by one."

"There is also the use record of shared bicycles, and no abnormal problems have been found."

"Having never used a means of transportation, it is impossible for the murderer to run for nearly an hour to the last stop. He probably went to the beach at the next stop. Could the murderer be among the residents of the beach hotel?"

"What if it's a hotel or beach staff? There is a huge flow of people on the beach. Yesterday was Friday, and today is Saturday. There are at least tens of thousands of people flowing in and out. There is no security surveillance in the triangle area, and the street surveillance is broken. At that time, there are no buses, There's no one there, and there's nowhere to start." Lao Zeng asked the other detectives: "Is there any resident who might have seen the murderer? Or heard the noise?"

A criminal policeman said: "Yes. A resident said that when he was sleeping in a daze, he heard a little noise downstairs and thought someone was playing with a car shock. Later, he went to the balcony to take a look and found that the car was very peaceful. There was a figure walking out on the street. He described it as a girl with long hair, a tall and slender figure, and thin and white legs... The comrade said that he paid special attention to the legs because the girl's lower body was a super short pleated skirt and her upper body was light pink With a long-sleeved sweater and a pair of sneakers, she looks pure and beautiful."

Old Zeng leaned forward and quickly asked, "Did you see the front face?"

The detective shook his head.

Lao Zeng held up his index finger and looked for a pen everywhere: "Describe well, what kind of skirt, clothes, and sneakers are, and if the resident sees the girl's back again, can he recognize it?"