No such person [criminal investigation]

Jinhe Community, 10th Floor, No. 7 Apartment Building, Room 702.

This is one of Xu Ci's residences.

After waking up early in the morning, Xu Ci walked into the semi-open kitchen, made himself a cup of coffee with a hand-cranked coffee machine, put the toast into the bread machine in an orderly manner to heat up, fried an egg, and cooked a small portion Pasta, fried with butter, tomato minced meat poured on the surface, and finally served with a boiled broccoli.

The breakfast was put on the table, and it looked very delicate, even the shape of the eggs was very regular.That's because he purposely used the mold when he fried the eggs.

After breakfast, washing the dishes and clearing the table, Xu Ci walked slowly into the study room, took out his mobile phone and found a photo, which was the murder scene he took at the bathroom entrance of the villa last Saturday.

Xu Ci was looking at the blood writing on the wall above the bathtub——

kill you, eat you.

I have you in my body and you outside of my body.

You stay with me, I stay with you, and we die together like this.

Putting down his phone, Xu Ci opened the glass door of the bookcase, rummaged through a pile of books and notebooks for a while, and took out a painting.

It was a shoddy painting with messy lines and a very untidy look, like a non-professional's scribbled.

But you can barely see what is painted on it——

An indistinguishable man was lying on the ground. His belly was very big and swollen. The belly was open, as if he had been cut open by a knife when he was pregnant.

Inside the open belly, between the flesh and blood, stood a child. His facial features were somewhat blurred, there was no smile on his face, and his eyes could not be said to be indifferent or empty.

Black and red are the main colors of this painting.

With the messy lines, the whole painting looks very depressing.

Xu Ci was very familiar with this painting.

It was in the psychological consultation room, under the guidance of a psychologist, he drew it himself.

Afterwards, a psychiatrist tried to diagnose his mental state based on the contents of the painting.

She asked Xu Ci: "Does the child you draw represent yourself?"

Xu Ci looked at her expressionlessly. "Maybe. It's up to you to tell me. I'm simply drawing what I've just had in my head. I can't analyze my own mind."

"So, in your opinion, is the adult corpse next to the child male or female?" The psychiatrist continued to ask, "Do you think he is the mother of the child?"

……

At the end of the diagnosis that day, Xu Ci looked at the psychiatrist, and said in front of the camera lens used for diagnosis and treatment records: "I have you in my body, and I have you outside of my body. You accompany me, and I accompany you , we will die together.”

The sentence that appeared at the scene of the murder at the Baiyun Mountain villa had a great overlap with what I had said to the psychiatrist many years ago.

Xu Ci frowned slightly.

Then he opened the drawer, found a lighter, and burned the old painting directly.

After burning the painting and checking the time, Xu Ci picked up a binoculars from the desk and walked to the screened window in the living room.

Opening the window screen slightly, Xu Ci raised his binoculars and looked two streets away—there was the office building of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, Xu Ci saw an off-road vehicle with tail number 57 speeding away from the compound, and then quickly moved away from his sight.

That was Qi Zang's car.

The off-road vehicle quickly disappeared, Xu Ci narrowed his eyes slightly, and then slowly put down the binoculars.

When he raised his hand to close the window, he suddenly felt a burst of electric current at the tip of his right finger, which made him withdraw his hand unexpectedly, and felt a slight itching all over his arm, which disappeared after a few seconds.

When he was at home, Xu Ci habitually wore an insulated finger cot on his left hand, and no protective device on his right hand.

He has placed special weak current devices in windows, doors, cabinets and other places in his home. If his right hand touches it, an electric shock reaction will occur.Painful stimulation again and again will make him remember that he must use his left hand all the time.

Xu Ci did this to forcibly turn himself into a left-hander.

After years of conscious or unintentional training, he has rarely made mistakes.But just now, he accidentally shook his head, and subconsciously moved out his right hand first.

Frowning and staring at his right hand, Xu Ci clenched it into a fist and then released it. After doing this movement a few times, his cell phone rang.

Turning around and walking to the coffee table, Xu Ci saw the word "Meng Yu" written on the phone's caller ID.

Taking off the insulated fingertips, he answered the phone with his left hand.

Meng Yu, this is Xu Ci's assistant.

This time he went to Beishui Store to do an audit inspection with Xu Resignation. He originally planned to go to the villa team building with him, but thinking that the audit report for this inspection did not even write the beginning, so he stayed in the office area of ​​Beishui Store and worked overtime. .He never expected that there would be a murder case in the middle of the team building.

"Mr. Xie, are you coming to the Beishui store today? Or do you want to rest?"

Xu Ci said: "Go to the Beishui store. After finishing the audit work, we have to do an internal investigation."

"Internal investigation...?" Meng Yu quickly realized what was happening, "I understand."

It seemed that Xu Ci didn't think it was a suicide, but a homicide.

The murderer does not leave after killing someone, but stays at the scene pretending nothing happened. This kind of thing happens a lot in novels and movies, but it is not common in reality.

But everything is just in case, what if there is such a murderer among their group of employees?

No one knows who the body parts and organs in the bathtub belonged to.Everyone can only be sure that the person is not an employee of the Beishui store.There are not a few people in the Beishui store who participated in the team building. There were 11 people when they went there, and 11 people came back.

As for the girl lying in the bathtub and suspected of drowning, the employees of Beishui store are all familiar with it.Her name is Liu Na, and she is the daughter of Liu Lixing, general manager of Qingfeng Group.

Liu Na is 17 years old this year, and she will be promoted to the third year of high school after school starts. Although it is summer, she is still in class.

Liu Lixing was so busy that he couldn't keep his feet on the ground, so he asked the store manager Jiang Xue to help take care of his daughter.

Liu Na often does her homework in the office area of ​​Beishuidian, and she is familiar with the employees. She came over from school yesterday and learned that they were going to hold a villa party and wanted to join, so everyone brought her along.Unexpectedly, she will die in the villa.

Regional General Manager Liu Lixing, rank L9, belongs to the ranks of group executives.

It is still unclear what the murderer's motive is, and the possibility of deliberate revenge by competitors or partners cannot be ruled out.Once any scandal at the group level is involved behind this, Qingfeng will fall into a passive situation, and the stock price and financing may all be affected immeasurably.

So Meng Yu figured out that Xu Ci wanted to conduct an internal investigation first, at least to investigate the employees' suspicions clearly, so that the public relations department could prepare a sufficient public relations plan before the police disclosed the case.

Meng Yu said: "I will let everyone stay in Beishui store. Don't worry."

"Yeah." Xu Ci said again, "Buy some coffee and food to prepare. I guess we have to deal with the next round of police inquiries."

Meng Yu was puzzled: "After reporting to the police on Saturday, didn't you already make a record?"

Xu Ci said: "That's in the branch office. The Baiyun Mountain area is located in the suburbs, the land is sparsely populated, and the police force of the relevant branch office is the weakest in Jinning City. Such vicious cases should be transferred to the city bureau. In order to investigate Liu Na's social relationship, the police from the city bureau should come again. Hang up, see you at Beishui store in 20 minutes."

Xu Ci soon arrived at the Beishui store.

A lively girl died right under everyone's noses, and there might be a murderer hidden among colleagues. The office area lost its usual bustle, leaving only lifeless.

"Thank you, sir."

"Good morning, leader."

……

Xu Ci nodded lightly, as a response to everyone, and then walked into the store manager's office.

This place has been requisitioned by him as his temporary office, and the store manager Jiang Xue works with other people in the large office area outside.

Just as Xu Ci sat down, Meng Yu came over with a pile of documents, and closed and locked the door by the way.

Meng Yu joined Qingfeng Group after graduating from graduate school at the age of 25. He joined Qingfeng Group as a management trainee. In the first year, he was rotated in various departments of the group headquarters. Later, after two-way selection, he stayed in the internal control and audit department as an assistant to Xu Ci.

He works as a business assistant and regards Xu Ci as his real master. From business to conduct, he is following Xu Ci in everything.

He has always taken care of his clothes, trousers and hair meticulously. He also has a sullen face when he is doing audit inspections outside.

Xu Ci looked at him and asked, "What do you think about this case?"

Meng Yu sat down and straightened his back. "I really don't understand how to solve the case. If Liu Na didn't commit suicide...there were tapes and strange stickers at the scene, the murder seems to have been planned in advance."

Xu Ci nodded: "Yes. But Liu Na is not an employee. Who can let her go to Baiyun Mountain with everyone?"

Meng Yu: "Jiang Xue? Jiang Xue has been helping her father take care of her. They have the best relationship."

Most of the employees in the Beishui store are actually not familiar with Liu Na, only Jiang Xue is considered one of her own by her.If Jiang Xue wants to kill her, there are many opportunities in private, there is no need to pick when there are many people.

Xu Ci asked Meng Yu: "About this team building, I seem to have an itinerary? Is it with you?"

"Yes." Meng Yu quickly found out the itinerary and gave it to Xu Ci, "It was sent to us by HR Wang Yueran last Wednesday."

When Wang Yueran handed out the itinerary, he didn't dare to pass it directly to Xu Ci, who was at the vice president level, and asked Meng Yu to hand it over for him.

There is a lot of information on the itinerary, Meng Yu extracted the itinerary, summed it up in a very concise language, and sent an email to Xu Ci.

This is the first time Xu Ci has actually come into contact with this itinerary.

The landscape photo printed on the front is very delicate and beautiful, almost like a leaflet, or an enlarged version of a postcard.

Baiyun Mountain is full of greenery, and there are several small and freshly decorated villas hidden in the clouds and mist, just like a paradise.

The indoor pictures of the villa are also quite brilliant, together with words such as "all night game", "home party", "terrace barbecue", it is easy to attract the attention of young people.

The back is the real itinerary——

After get off work at 6 pm on Friday, everyone gathered at the east parking lot of Beishuidian, took a bus to this villa in Baiyun Mountain, ate hot pot barbecue, drank beer, sang, and played games.

Saturday's activity plan is mountain climbing and outdoor team sports.

Free activities on Sunday morning, and in the afternoon everyone will take the bus back to the urban area.

Putting the itinerary back on the desk, Xu Ci said, "Saturday is a rainy day, but the activities are all arranged outdoors. When HR Wang Yueran made the arrangements, didn't he check the weather forecast?"

Meng Yu frowned. "Normally, you wouldn't do this. This is the most basic common sense. But... Wang Yueran is really off-line, and maybe he made a mistake at work."

Xu Ci tapped the itinerary with his index finger. "Take a closer look, do you find anything else wrong?"

As an employee of the Internal Control Audit Center, sometimes it is necessary to unravel internal investigations.It is not as complicated as the police to solve the case, but it also requires employees to be as careful as possible.

Meng Yu picked up the itinerary again and read it from beginning to end, and finally found something wrong. "Nail from the stapler in the upper left corner!"

The itinerary was only one page, but a nail was actually stapled with a stapler.

why?

Is it because the itinerary was originally more than one page, but the back was torn off?

Meng Yu hurriedly said: "When I received it, there was only one page. I haven't torn it."

"In addition, there is another doubt." Xu Ci said, "In order to save costs and control expenses, the group has been advocating 'paperless office' since the second half of last year. For things like schedules, sending WeChat and email It’s ok, why do you have to print it out and make it so beautiful?”

Meng Yu: "The store conducts promotions every day, and I'm used to printing leaflets. This time, the Beishui store's sales performance is the most beautiful. It's understandable that they pursue a little holiday ritual. When I got the itinerary, I still thought about it. The store just didn't implement the 'paperless office' in place..."

After thinking for a moment, Xu Ci looked up at Meng Yu. "If the itinerary is sent by email, only internal employees can see it. But Liu Na is not an employee.

"The beautifully printed itinerary with the words 'Villa Home Party' and placed on many desks can easily attract the attention of a prospective senior high school student who is under pressure from studying."

Working in such a large shopping mall, outreach activities are essential. Except for financial affairs, the rest of the employees are all good at playing, drinking, playing outrageous games, and telling nasty jokes, basically everything is easy.After finally finishing the big promotion, the employees wanted to take the opportunity to let themselves go when they had the opportunity to host a party in the villa on the mountain.

They will not take the initiative to invite a minor to participate in team building, it is too disappointing.What's more, this minor is the daughter of their superior regional general manager.

If there was a murderer who did this, once Liu Na died, his unusual behavior would be easily caught out.

On the contrary, it would be a lot more logical to use this kind of extremely publicity itinerary to quietly lure her to offer to go.

These doubts seem to be very small and nothing at all, but they are like the tip of an iceberg floating on the sea. If you think about it carefully, it is a bit frightening.

Meng Yu's expression inevitably became solemn. "Is there really a murderer hiding among the employees?"

After a long while, Xu Ci said: "If it is true that the staff deliberately guided Liu Na to Baiyun Mountain on a rainy day... the only thing I can think of for the time being is to hide the footprints of the torrential rain on Saturday. But if the staff don't need to leave the villa at all, so what Would it be necessary to hide the footprints? Maybe he is more likely to be an accomplice."

With just an inconspicuous itinerary, Xu Ci can reason to this point, and Meng Yu really admires him.

In his opinion, every time the group inspection department conducts investigations, it will pull "Xie Qiao", and it is not without reason.

He is a bit inferior to work in the company, he should really be a criminal police officer.

Glancing at Meng Yu's expression, Xu Ci said calmly: "I'm not a policeman, and I can't solve the case at all. Everything I said just now is mostly guesswork, and it's nothing. Don't think too much. When I go out to face everyone later, Be natural, too."

After finishing speaking, Xu Ci lowered his head and turned on his laptop, entered the group's BI report system, exported the sales of Beishui Store's self-operated supermarkets on a monthly basis, made a summary table in Excel after deducting value-added tax, and then imported it from the financial SAP system The corresponding sales revenue was derived, and the formula was used to compare the two.

After a while, he said to Meng Yu: "Look for the accountant of the branch company and ask for the bank statement of this store, which must be specific to each day.

"Also, call Wang Yueran to the office for me. I'll ask her about the itinerary."

·

On the other side, Qi Zang led the team to Baiyun Mountain in an off-road vehicle.

The heavy rain is no longer falling, but there is still light rain in the mountains.Qi Zang took the lead to open the road, went up the mountain against the wind and rain, stepped on the clutch, braked, and shifted gears, driving on the mountain road like walking on flat ground, and soon arrived at the villa where the crime occurred.

Branch policeman Wang Chen, two police officers from the Baiyunshan Police Station, and a branch forensic doctor named Du Zhuang were already waiting here.When Qi Zang arrived, they quickly led him across the cordon into the scene.

On the way, Qi Zang had already called Wang Chen and learned that one of the deceased was named Liu Na. At present, it is judged that she was indeed drowned.There were obvious mushroom-like foams at the mouth and nose of the corpse, the volume of both lungs was obviously enlarged, there were bleeding spots, and the liver was obviously congested.

The corpse has been soaked in cold water, which will accelerate the formation of rigor. The time of death is estimated to be between 7:20 and 0:1 on Saturday, July [-].

Liu Na had some non-fatal scars on her body, and it was suspected that she had had friction with the murderer before her death, but there were no signs of being beaten or sexually assaulted.

As for the other body parts and internal organs that appeared in the bathtub, after DNA comparison, it was determined that they belonged to the same person.

The body parts are mainly several pieces of soft tissue without bones, one foot, and three fingers.The organs include a kidney, a liver, and a part of the stomach. At present, some autolysis has occurred. The time of death should be much earlier than that of Liu Na, but the specific time of death, gender, age, etc. of the deceased are all unknown.

The DNA of the deceased has been matched in the database, and the branch office has also begun to investigate the current report related to the disappearance, but there is no result for the time being.

As for how to verify the identity of the deceased, it was up to the city bureau's forensic doctor and criminal police to figure out a solution.

In addition, there is another key point. The blood in the bathtub is basically fake blood from props, artificially made with honey and pigment.

Therefore, the air is full of sweetness, and the bathtub is now full of ants.

At this moment, the corpses and body parts have been sent to the forensic department of the sub-bureau on Saturday, and the water vapor on the ground has almost evaporated. At this moment, only the prop blood in the bathtub, ants, and the wall directly above are left in the bathroom. Posted in blood.

Wang Chen handed the on-site photos taken during the first survey to Qi Zang and asked him to compare them.

Qi Zang looked at the photo for a while, then looked up at the writing on the wall.

"Kill you, eat you."

After reading this sentence in a low voice, he asked Du Zhuang, the forensic doctor of the sub-bureau. "The first autopsy has been done? What's the condition of Liu Na's stomach contents? Is there human flesh in it?"

"No." Du Zhuang shook his head, "According to my personal opinion, Liu Na is just a 17-year-old high school student, she shouldn't have the ability to kill and dismember the body. , This can only be done by a very professional person. It is really impossible for her to 'kill him' and then 'eat him'."

Qi Zang: "Well, if this is the case, these words are just a gimmick. She didn't kill anyone or commit suicide, she was a simple victim."

Wang Chen seemed to have a different opinion, and said to Qi Zang, "But Liu Na does have the tendency and possibility of suicide."

Wang Chen and the others had already visited Liu Na's school, flipped through the books she left on the desk, and took pictures.

He first showed Qi Zang the photo of Liu Nayu's document, and the content on it was indeed a little surprising——

In every text, if there is a word like "death", she will circle it.There is more than one circle, probably because every time she sees this word, she will draw more.

It is almost conceivable that during the class, Liu Na was reading the textbook on the surface, but in fact she did not read the article at all, and was thinking about death-related things from the beginning to the end.

Pulling the phone, Wang Chen hurriedly showed Qi Zang another painting.

This painting is shoddy, and at first glance it looks like it was drawn by someone who has no art skills.

The content of the painting is a bit strange. There is a person whose stomach has been cut open, and a child with no expression is naturally standing in the open stomach.

There are a few lines of text written at the end of this painting, which are actually very similar to those at the scene of the crime.

Wang Chen said: "In this way...the possibility of Liu Na committing suicide by imitating this painting and the words on it cannot be easily ruled out."

Qi Zang frowned and asked, "Can the artist of the painting see it?"

"In the lower right corner, there is an inscription suspected to be the author's signature, with a 'Xie' written on it, maybe the author's surname is 'Xie'?" Wang Chen said, "Coincidentally, there is a person named Xie among the employees in the Beishui store. His name is Xie Qiao. I took his notes on Saturday. He seemed very calm and intelligent and very…”

Qi Zang: "What else?"

Wang Chen deliberated for a while and chose a word. "He was a very handsome man."

If Qi Zang heard that someone used the word "beautiful" to describe a man before he met Xu Ci, he would feel very strange.

Now of course he doesn't think so anymore, he just doesn't care very much——

No matter how beautiful that Xie Qiao is, it is impossible to compare with Xu Ci.