I died on the first day of the game

Huaixi is a small city with an underdeveloped economy. The street park is older than Yimian. Many people are used to its existence, and the local area has never thought of installing an additional surveillance system for it.

Even though it was Monday, there were still sporadic pedestrians in the park.

The small football field is in front of the woods, surrounded by a simple fence, surrounded by several stone tables and stone piers.

The two old men hunched over and placed a chessboard on the stone table.

Yi Mian walked over and took out her police officer ID with one hand: "Hello, can I answer a few questions?"

The two raised their heads together, one of them had a long white beard, his eyes were confused, and he turned his ear to one side: "Ah? What assembly?"

The other old man in a vest didn't seem surprised at all. He turned his head and made a prohibitive gesture to the white beard, and then nodded to Yi Mian: "Oh, you can ask, did you also come to see that fat boy from yesterday?"

It was so close to the small football field that they might have actually seen something.Yan Qi hurriedly asked: "Have you seen him? When did you see him? Have you noticed any strange people around?"

The old man seemed to be thinking, he raised his left arm, opened his cuff and looked at his old-fashioned watch: "I come here to play chess every day, that fat boy plays here, I can see him every weekend, the day before yesterday he Stay until four o'clock in the afternoon, and leave with the ball."

"Then did you notice other people? Especially strangers who are not usually in the park?"

"How many are there? There is a man, quite tall, carrying a fancy bag. His bag is too eye-catching, so I just took a second look."

The old man babbled, but apparently his eyesight was in line with his age, he could only see the outlines of a few strangers clearly,

"I haven't seen them in the park usually, hey, not necessarily, the memory is not very useful when people are old..."

Yi Mian interrupted suddenly: "There are seven or eight students playing football every week, why do you only remember Xiaoshan?"

The old man didn't seem to expect that he would ask this question. He scratched his head strangely and said, "Because I know Xiao Yang, ah, it's his mother. I live in the same community as her."

Yi Mian nodded thoughtfully, and wrote down the information conveniently.

The two asked some more questions before saying goodbye to the two old people and walking into the woods in the park.

The area of ​​the forest is not large, but the distance between the trees is very close. After decades, the thin saplings have grown into towering trees.

"If you want to kill people and throw away corpses, this is the most suitable place."

Yi Mian stepped on the yellow-brown land, pushed aside the layers of branches and leaves, and said casually.

Unexpectedly, Yan Qi, who looked tall and cold, shivered, and quickened his pace in fear: "Don't say that, we haven't confirmed whether Xiaoshan was killed, maybe he was just playing some game of running away from home .”

Yi Mian knows that Yan Qi is a native of the country and loves his hometown.In this city with an extremely low crime rate, he wouldn't have guessed in the worst direction, but he just had a bad premonition for no reason.

"Hopefully."

The two continued to move forward and stopped on a piece of soft ground.

Yan Qi's expression changed: "I don't think...it's very good."

Yi Mian exchanged glances with him, and slowly stepped on the ground under her feet: "I hope it's not what I thought."

"Captain Zhang, bring someone here..."

Yan Qi quickly dialed the captain's phone number.

Yi Mian knelt down and twirled the clods of soil. He easily inserted his two fingers into the soil and felt a little wet.

Captain Zhang received the call and acted vigorously. After a while, the ground was surrounded by a fluorescent yellow cordon.

He stared at the continuously excavated ground, his already serious face was so gloomy that it seemed to drip water.

After the top layer of loess is thrown away, scattered dark soil is exposed below.

"Team Zhang! We found a dead body!"

"God..."

"how is this possible?!"

The police could stop the residents from going forward, but they couldn't stop them from watching from a distance. They also saw a small human figure dug out of the soil, and the discussion exploded in an instant.

Everyone returned to the bureau in an emergency. Team Zhang did not accept any interviews, but the headlines of the next day were still printed with a big murder case, "children" and "throwing corpses". The description of the situation is extremely shocking.

Rumors of a "killer" swept through the city like a hurricane.

In the office, a team member surnamed Zhou held a pen and kept typing on his laptop.

"There is too much pressure from public opinion."

Yan Qi said with a cold face: "It's normal for the people to panic, Huaixi hasn't had a murder case for many years."

The rookie Xiao Li was involved in a big case as soon as he entered the game, he didn't dare to intervene, his immature face was half nervous and half frightened.

"Okay, let's all watch this."

Team Zhang slapped a new stack of information paper on the table, and put the autopsy report on top.

Yan Qi flipped through the report: "The cause of death was a fatal wound on the back of the head. The shape of the wound was very strange. It was not a conventional weapon. The murderer was strong enough to kill him with one blow."

"In relative terms, killing a child only requires the strength of an ordinary adult."

Yi Mian added.

If Yang Xiaoshan is 30, 20, or even a teenager, they will give priority to whether the murderer is his enemy.

But the little boy was only nine years old.

Boys at this age are still dealing with children's toys. His mother told the police that Yang Xiaoshan is usually very obedient and rarely goes to other playgrounds except for playing football. His daily contacts are limited to classmates and teachers in school, parents, relatives and A guest at home.

"There were several bruises and red marks on the body. The time was within 48 hours before death. It is not sure whether it was caused by struggle."

"Another way of thinking, the murderer may have a grudge against Yang Hongmei." Team Zhang flipped through the photos of the scene one by one, frowning, "Go and ask her what's unusual recently, and tell us no matter what."

Yang Hongmei came very quickly. It is said that she divorced very early. Later, she saved some money and quit her job. She was busy with her son's affairs every day.

When asked if there was anything abnormal in her life, she widened her eyes in confusion and shook her head firmly: "No, really not, I can't think of it, I'm just like usual..."

The woman gave them a detailed description of the trajectory of her life on Saturday.

She gets up at seven o'clock in the morning on time, prepares breakfast for two, and then wakes her son up.

After the meal, he spent another half an hour cleaning up the room, while urging Yang Xiaoshan to do his homework, went out to the vegetable market and supermarket to buy ingredients at nine o'clock, and returned home at ten o'clock to prepare lunch.

After dinner, Yang Xiaoshan went out to the park to play football, and she did some part-time jobs at home, such as sewing and knitting and other manual work, and waited for Yang Xiaoshan to come home before discussing what to have for dinner.

"I am like this every day. From Monday to Friday, Xiaoshan goes to school, and I occasionally go out to pick up some jobs."

Yang Hongmei's work refers to setting up a small stall in the market. Her craftsmanship is very good, and several regular people will ask her to mend clothes.

There is no doubt about women's life, it is simple and monotonous.

Acquainted friends and neighbors also said that Yang Hongmei is a very good person. She hardly conflicts with others and always treats others with a smile.

——She came back to the bureau these few times, but she came here crying, this thought circled in Yi Mian's mind, and as the woman cried again, he took it back to the bottom of his heart.

The same is true for the investigation. Starting from Yang Hongmei's background, they did not find any potential suspects.

Yi Mian had to accept another possibility. The murderer had no reason to target Yang Xiaoshan, which meant that he only attacked Yang Xiaoshan indiscriminately to vent his anger and take revenge on the society.

This is far more terrifying than revenge killing.

Captain Zhang immediately decided to ask all the police officers to reorganize their thinking and focus on investigating the relevant people who were in the park on Saturday. He also opened an emergency hotline, and citizens are welcome to report suspicious people they have seen.

The phone has been beeping all afternoon, but the clues provided by most people are useless, and they still need to go door to door.

As the sun dipped into the horizon, the lights of the police building came on.

Yi Mian clamped the phone on her shoulder and answered the call from her roommate.

"what happened?"

He flipped through the documents, and the sound of paper rubbing together with his voice was transmitted to the opposite side of the phone.

Chu Wu seemed to be cooking, and his voice was muffled: "It's nothing, are you coming back tonight?"

Yi Mian was absent-minded: "Maybe it will be later, you should eat first."

Chu Wu's voice became clearer: "I saw the news, was that child killed?"

"It is basically certain..."

Yi Mian understood her roommate's personality very well, so she told him some simple facts about the case, "By the way, I remember you also went out on Saturday afternoon, did you see anything?"

"No, I didn't pay attention." There was a knocking sound of plates and shovels on Chu Wu's side, "I left stewed beef and fried bamboo shoots for you, and the rice is in the pot. Don't stay up too late."

"Thank you, I will try to go back as soon as possible."

Yi Mian hung up the phone, crossed each page of paper with a pen, and sighed silently.

Xiao Li listened to him from the side, and asked enviously, "Brother Yi, is your girlfriend waiting for you at home?"

"Where's the girlfriend?" Yi Mian didn't look up, "It's my roommate who asked me if I would go back for dinner."

Xiao Li leaned his head on the printing paper listlessly. He has been running outside today, and he wrote down half a thick volume of notes: "Please, this is more enviable, okay, I'm so hungry too, I can't analyze anything now Come out, I have to sleep to recharge the battery."

"Otherwise, let's go home first..."

"I think so."

"I agree with both hands and feet."

Exhausted, the police officers walked out while discussing, but saw a familiar figure outside the gate.

Yang Hongmei had two dark circles under her eyes, but her expression was very excited: "Fortunately, you are still here! I just remembered something, maybe it has something to do with Xiaoshan!"