Brain Science Event Book

The incident occurred in a bungalow in Xindian District, a traditional single-family building.

In addition to the building, a nearby church was also intentionally set on fire, but firefighters quickly brought the fire under control because of the empty alleyway next to it.

Lian Huizhu's driving speed was not as fast as Zhou Jinglin's, which aggravated Tang Yingli's uneasiness. She didn't say a word during the whole drive, and only frequently stepped on the floor mat with the toe of her shoe.

Finally arrived at the scene!Fang Zijun and other police officers stayed on the outermost side to command order. Many nearby onlookers were blocked from the blockade, and two fire trucks were already doing rescue work.

"Captain Fang!"

"Teacher!" Fang Zijun recognized the owner in the black dress, and quickly notified the police to let him go, "Are you in class? I'm so sorry!"

Looking at the one-story house that was still partially burning, Tang Yingli pursed her lips tightly and said, "I heard that someone died?"

"Well, the owner, Ms. Xin Sumei, is an old lady in her 60s. She is not good at walking. She was probably still resting when the fire broke out... I asked all the neighbors and they said they didn't see her escape. Maybe it's bad luck!" Fang Zijun noticed Lian Huizhu who was following her, "This is..." Doesn't it look familiar?

"Hello, team leader! I'm Lian Huizhu, and I just gave a speech at the criminal police station a few days ago."

"Ah! That's right! Doctor Lian!" He pointed to Tang Yingli and asked her, "Why do you..."

"I belong to Eri-senpai..."

"Let's talk about gossip later! Can we go into the scene?"

"The fire should be under control...Let me ask!" Fang Zijun contacted by radio, nodded after a while, "It's ok. Teacher, this way please!"

Without waiting for Fang Zijun to lead, Tang Yingli rushed to the fire scene first, "Teacher!" Fang Zijun was shocked, glanced at Lian Huizhu, and ran in after him.

Tang Yingli left her overcoat in the hospital, and she was wearing only a foreign dress against the cold air that was approaching evening, but the whole building was still warm enough to prevent people from feeling cold.

The firefighters at the door were surprised by her appearance. She walked into the courtyard in a black dress, like a swift cat.

Before approaching the house, the owner's body was carried out in a body bag, and she glanced, "Where did you find her?"

"Uh! In the living room." The fireman pointed to the approximate location. "The back door near the inner courtyard, probably because of inconvenient feet, I couldn't escape in time..."

She ran to the place and vaguely heard firefighters yelling, "The whole house is structurally damaged, be very, very careful!"

The scene was a mess, with watering foam and water stains everywhere, and her high-heeled shoes seemed a little unstable when stepping on the muddy road; she walked around the house and came to the other side of the living room that the firefighters said was the point where the owner was found.

"Senior sister... Senior sister! Wait for me!" Lian Huizhu managed to get past the police officers, and almost slipped when she stepped on the slippery ground.

Seeing that Tang Yingli was about to approach the house, Fang Zijun immediately reminded him tensely, "Teacher! The structure of the house is a bit damaged, you must..."

She rested her chin, "Why did she come here?"

"what?"

"Just now the firefighters said they found the owner's place here, but the back door is obviously blocked." She pointed to the cabinet placed by the back door. Are you running in the same direction?" This is unreasonable.

"This...could it be looking for something valuable..."

"Go in and have a look! You can also find the cause of the fire by the way." Tang Yingli walked further, and it seemed that he planned to go around the house for a week and then search the house!

"Old, teacher!" Fang Zijun rubbed his forehead, "Why does it feel like the teacher has been infected by Jinglin?" The action became very active!

"Isn't she always like this?" Lian Huizhu pursed her lips and followed without hesitation.

Under the eaves outside the house, there is a circle of cement-paved corridors, which are slightly elevated to prevent flooding into the house in case of floods. Small openings for drainage can be seen everywhere at the bottom of the corridors.

Tang Yingli looked inside through the window and found that one place was charred black, and the cement exterior wall also disintegrated due to high heat.

"Miss, don't get too close, it's dangerous!"

"Is this the point of fire?" She looked up and met the firefighters who warned her.

"Uh...it should be."

"What causes it?"

"I'm not sure yet! But it may be caused by the overheating of the electric heater." The firefighter speculated: "Oh! Just after the new year, the weather is sometimes very cold. The electric heater in the old man's house is turned on all day long. Put some towels or blankets, if you are not careful, it will burn..."

Strange, accidental and not deliberate arson...?

Putting her index finger against her glasses, Tang Yingli came to the main entrance, raised her skirt and was about to step into the house——

"Wait. Get down!" Lian Huizhu rushed to her side, holding two yellow hard hats in her hand, "Wear it! The roof has partially collapsed!"

"Where did you get it..."

"I borrowed it! Just put it on!" Lian Huizhu said in an undeniable tone.

Looking at the hard hat in front of him, Tang Yingli sighed. After fastening the hat strap, he put on gloves for searching.

"Has the power been cut off?"

"Don't know...but there's a lot of water on the ground, I suppose?"

The bag was left in Lian Huizhu's car, and Tang Yingli used his mobile phone as a flashlight, and walked straight to the location where the firefighters found the owner just now.

Looking around at the scorched and messy room, with residual heat and burning smell, Lian Huizhu couldn't help covering her nose. "Sisters are like this... did you come to the scene to search?"

"Are you talking about clothes?" Seeing Lian Huizhu nodding, she responded indifferently, "Well, unless it's a special occasion, I always wear it like this."

Isn't this occasion special to her? "But wearing high heels here..."

"very convenient."

Seemingly noticing something suspicious, Tang Yingli narrowed his eyes and approached quickly.

In fact, Lian Huizhu wanted to say "very distressed"!Her satin high heels, which must have cost a fortune, were ruined by this pile of dirty water and foam on the floor.

But I didn't expect her answer to be even more shocking!convenient?What did she just hear?

The silvery-white light circled overhead, and then to the place where the suspected owner was lying down. The windows were almost closed. Rather than being burned to death, it was more likely to be choked to death after being fainted by the high temperature.

There are many cabinets in the space behind the living room, which looks like a warehouse... But what really caught Tang Yingli's attention was the cage-like thing hanging by the window.

When I got closer, there was really a bird inside!But it was dead, its feathers all blackened, lying on the bottom of the cage.

But what really puzzled her was the fact that its neck was bent at an unnatural angle.

She picked up the flashlight to check carefully, and reached out to the hanging ring; this place is located in the low part of the eaves, and the position of the hanging ring is naturally very low, only about 160 cm, which more or less shows the actual height of the owner.

"Is that... a birdcage?"

"Yeah." When Lian Huizhu, who was a head shorter than her, followed her, she said "Ah", "You came just in time! Try holding this."

"Me?" Lian Huizhu was at a loss, and stretched out her hand to the ring according to her words. "Is it like this?"

Just in time to touch. "Yeah! That's fine. How tall are you?"

"I... I'm only 150 two."

"Almost." The test is over!She pushed Lian Huizhu away and tried to open the cage to catch the charred bird.

"Hey... Senior sister... Is this the only role I have!" Use it as a scale!Lian Huizhu suddenly wanted to cry.

"You helped a lot." But the tone was perfunctory!Tang Yingli carefully observed the bird in his hand with the light, "The neck was broken?" And the attack was very decisive and vicious.

"what?"

She narrowed her eyes, "This case...maybe it wasn't an accidental fire!" She put the bird back in the cage, looked down at the location where the owner died, and then quickly walked to the bedroom, which is the presumed fire spot, to investigate.

The bedroom was very dark and messy. The scorched blackness in the corner reached to the top of the wall, and even broke through the roof tiles. One can imagine the intensity of the fire at that time.

Bending down to look for possible clues, Tang Yingli found something that seemed to be on fire among the piles of charred waste.

An electric heater.It's an old-fashioned electric heater in the form of a heating tube, and there's nothing else on it except the basic switch and timing device.

"It burned so badly... Is this the place where the owner of the house was burned to death?"

"No, it was there just now." After carefully checking the timing device, Tang Yingli pushed his glasses, "Hui Zhu, help me take this picture."

"what?"

"Take a picture of the style and model of the electric heater... and most importantly, the scale of the timing device."

Lian Huizhu didn't wear gloves, so she could easily operate the phone.Just as she started to take the photos, Fang Zijun had already led the police officers from the criminal team into the scene to search for evidence.

"Teacher! We came in to search for evidence... Did you find anything suspicious?" He noticed that they were looking around the small electric heater.

"The reason why the owner went to the back door is, I guess, to save his beloved pet."

"Ah?" Fang Zijun and Lian Huizhu exclaimed at the same time.

"The bird, you can see a cage by the window at the back of the living room, but unfortunately, it died before it caught fire."

She got up, the lens flashed the white light of the flashlight, "Killed by the invading murderer!"

"So, the meaning of the teacher..."

"This is a deliberate arson, and the instrument used by the murderer is this." She pointed to the old-fashioned electric heater that was charred black, "Use a timer device, match the messy debris here, just cover it properly, and wait for it to be covered If any flammable material catches fire, it can kill a person!"

"But... I heard that some people witnessed someone throwing flammable objects at the house..."

"Flammables?" New information!

"Hmm! It's something like a handmade gasoline bomb. The teacher was busy checking the room just now and maybe he didn't find it."

"But the traces left at the scene show that this is the culprit. But there is still a doubt..." She pointed to the electric heater, resting her chin on the back of her hand and said, "I didn't find a walking aid." I heard that Xin Sumei is not good at walking .

"Walker?"

"Speaking plainly, it's a crutch. I haven't seen it in the room or the death scene; that thing should be inseparable from her body, if not..."

"Sister!" Lian Huizhu almost lay on the ground, her bright yellow sleeves sinking deeply into the muddy water at the scene.She looked up to Tang Yingli, her eyes sparkling, "I seem to have found what you said!"

"Oh?"

She pointed to the inside of the raised bed.Tang Yingli bent down and saw a one-handed walker buried deep below. The part touching the ground has four fulcrums, which is very common; she stretched out her hand and pulled out the crutch.

"It's almost certain." The crutch appeared where it shouldn't be! "This is a homicide by arson..."

"Boss!" Chen Huomu's intervention interrupted her conclusion, "I'm back!"

"Who?"

"The owner's son!" He pointed his thumb at the door behind him, "The one who does the banking!"

Taking off the gloves, Tang Yingli narrowed his eyes, "Where is he?"

"It's right at the gate! Crying to the ground..."

Pushing his glasses, his rosy lips raised slightly, "I'll meet him!"