Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 33 Black Mandala (13)
Death of Erjie Chengliang

On the seventh day after Lu Shanru was imprisoned in the detention center, another person was murdered.

The deceased died in Room 606 of the Diamond Concert Hall. After receiving the alarm, the No. 1 Crime Team quickly went to the Diamond Concert Hall. When they arrived at the Diamond Concert Hall, there was only a floor attendant and the club's manager Mou at the door.

The waiter Xiaoli told them the situation at that time: the guest rooms had to be cleaned after noon. When she cleaned up to 606, she knocked on the door several times, but no one responded. She thought the guests had checked out and left, so she opened it with the electronic key. At the door of the room, she saw that the guest was naked and lying curled up on the bed. She thought that the guest might not be awake yet, so she went forward to wake him up. But when she approached him, she found that the guest's face was white and his lips were white. He turned blue and felt something was wrong, so he ran out of the room and called the manager to come up. After Manager Mou came, he walked to the bed and touched it. He found that the guest was cold all over and had been dead for a long time.Manager Mou immediately called the police and waited for the police to arrive.

They investigated the scene and found the ID card from the deceased's suit pocket. The deceased's name was Cheng Liang, male, 40 years old, from this city, and lived at No. 12, Lane 58, Zhongshan South Road, Jiangbei District.

Luo Jin said: "The corpse spots and rigor mortis of the deceased have formed. The corpse spots are cherry red. They can fade when pressed with fingers. Remove the pressure and recover. Turn the body over. The original corpse spots will gradually disappear or shift, and appear again in the new lower parts. Reappeared. Judging from the color of the body spots that had formed, the deceased should have died of cyanide poisoning, and it was basically judged to be homicide."

Jiang Yiming extracted a few fresh footprints on the carpet and a few fingerprints on the doorknob. When Jiang Yiming opened the suit of the deceased, he suddenly saw a black mandala, but it had withered...

His mind suddenly buzzed and he thought: How could this happen?Isn't Lu Shanru being held in the No. [-] Detention Center?How could he come out to commit a crime?Did he escape from detention?Jiang Yiming called the director of the No. [-] Detention Center to inquire. Director Ma said: "Captain Jiang, are you kidding me? Is our detention center Lu Shanru's back garden? You can come and leave whenever you want?"

"Check for me whether Lu Shanru has ever left the detention center from yesterday to now."

"No need to check, I have been working in the institute from yesterday afternoon to now, and Lu Shanru has never left." Director Ma said.

Are the suspicions about Lu Shanru wrong?Could other murderers use black mandala to kill people and divert the attention of the police?And the two cases were not committed by the same murderer?It is very simple to prove whether the killings of Luo Xiaoxiao, Che Xiaoqin and Cheng Liang were committed by one person. Conduct evaporation identification on the black mandala. If the water evaporation degree is the same, then it should be the same murderer. No matter how smart the murderer is, , and it was impossible for him to know that the mandala left at the death scene of Luo Xiaoxiao and Che Xiaoqin was purchased at the same time.

On the third day, Luo Jin made the autopsy report. He said: "Cheng Liang did die from cyanide poisoning. The time of death was approximately between 12 and 23 o'clock in the morning on December 1. The murderer was very cunning. He took the solid cyanide and The chemical is put into a hangover capsule, and after the deceased takes it, the capsule slowly dissolves in the stomach, and then achieves the purpose of killing, thus providing an alibi."

"Can we detect when the murderer let the deceased eat cyanide from the slow-release process of the hangover capsule?"

"Yes, but it's not very accurate. It was probably between 10 o'clock and 11:[-] that night. If we want a more accurate time, we need to do a more precise test."

"Has the evaporation of water in Datura been detected?"

"It has come out. It is the same as what was left at the death scene of Luo Xiaoxiao and Che Xiaoqin."

"So, the murderer of Luo Xiaoxiao, Che Xiaoqin and Cheng Liang is the same person?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"I have no right to draw conclusions, I only draw conclusions based on the test results." Luo Jin said.

"Nine times out of ten, they are the same person. The characteristic is that the murderers know how to set up the murder." Wu Jiang said.

"If so, were we wrong to regard Lu Shanru as a suspect? Or has our investigation gone astray?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"It must be like this. It's impossible for Mr. Lu Shanru to fly out of the detention center to kill people and then fly back after killing people, right?" Xiao Ke said. "Although our investigation direction may be wrong, we cannot give up monitoring Lu Shanru. He is the key to the entire case. Otherwise, why would he know every deceased person? And Cheng Liang was his childhood friend," Jiang Yiming said.

"Captain Jiang, why do you say so evil things?"

"Whether it's evil or a premonition, that's what I feel anyway. Of course, we have to release Lu Shanru first, otherwise Lu Shanru's lawyer will come to us and cause trouble. Now we need to find out what happened in Room 606 of the Diamond Concert Hall? It's Cheng Liang himself. Someone sent him to room 606. Cheng Liang is a small shop owner. His income can barely support his wife and daughter. The Diamond Club is an extremely luxurious place for consumption. The cost of accommodation for one night is no less than 1000 yuan. How could he be willing to go there to spend money?"

Wu Jiang quickly said: "Someone took Cheng Liang there. Unfortunately, in order to protect the privacy of the VIPs, Diamond Concert did not install monitors in the entire building. There was no way to know who sent Cheng Liang there. We checked the floor attendants and the general manager on that day. Taiwan, they said that a middle-aged man named Guo Jing sent Cheng Liang there. At that time, Cheng Liang smelled of alcohol and must have been drunk. Guo Jing used his ID card to open a room for Cheng Liang, but Guo Jing's ID card was fake. This shows that Guo Jing came prepared, Guo Jing has serious murder suspicions, we must find Guo Jing."

Jiang Yiming released Lu Shanru from the detention center and walked outside the detention center. Zuo Li said to Lu Shanru: "We want to tell you some news. Is it good or bad for you?"

"what news?"

"Chengliang is dead. He was killed by Black Mandala."

When Lu Shanru heard this, he was extremely surprised. He said: "How is it possible? He is my best friend. I will avenge him and find the black mandala..."

Three brothers who depend on each other for life and death
"Mr. Lu, I would like to know what kind of relationship you have with Cheng Liang?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"Cheng Liang and I were growing up. We went to the mountains to cut firewood, go down to the rivers to catch fish, and went to school until we graduated from high school. I was admitted to the Yangtze River Chinese College, but my dream of going to college was shattered because of the sudden death of my adoptive father. My life has since entered a trough. I could only go home to farm. I was not willing to go back to a small mountain village and deal with the soil all my life. I was determined to become a rich city man, so I came to the Yangtze River without hesitation. Cheng Liang also had the same ambition. With this ardent dream, we came to the Yangtze River with me and worked in an electronics factory together. However, the electronics market at that time was immature and the technology was not up to standard. The goods made by the boss were often returned by customers. Fires broke out at the city gate, which affected Chiyu. Cheng Liang often doesn't get paid. Two years have passed and we have gained nothing, but what we have lost is precious youth..."

"Can you make a long story short and talk about how strong you are?" Zuo Li interrupted him and asked.

"Later we met a boss who mined gold and asked us if we would like to go to northern Sichuan to mine gold. He said that we could earn at least [-] to [-] yuan a year. Cheng Liangyi and I discussed it and thought it was a rare opportunity. It was a good opportunity, so we went with the boss. It was a remote mountain village, and the process of mining gold was very difficult, far beyond our imagination."

"We were digging a cave on a mountain 2300 meters above sea level. Because it was a private mine, we could only use steel drills and iron picks. Our hands were so shocked that they bleed all year round. When the sharp cold wind blew, it was like a knife blowing It hurts all the same, but this is not the most uncomfortable. The most uncomfortable thing is loneliness. We have been digging for a year and have never seen a young girl. The only woman we have seen is the aunt who cooks. In the evening we ordered pineapple. Even with an oil lamp, it is difficult to read a book because the wind is strong on the mountain and the pine oil lamp is often blown out, but I still insist on reading books, especially books on collecting, to pave the way for me to stand out.”

"In the summer of 1990, heavy rains fell for a whole week. Water seeped into the mine and the entrance suddenly collapsed. We had 15 workers trapped inside. Two workers were hit by rocks and died of excessive blood loss soon after. I was also hit by a stone and my head was bleeding. I thought I would die like the two workers soon, but Chengliang held my hand tightly, cried my name, and told me not to give up. I walked deeper into the mine, looking for other exits, but as I walked, I gradually lost strength. My mind was confused, my hands and feet were cold, and death was approaching me step by step. After I collapsed, Cheng Liang He carried me on his back and walked forward step by step. He said that as long as he was around, he would never leave me behind..."

"Four hours later, I woke up from a coma. I was lying on the bed in the mine shed. It was Chengliang who saved me. He is my reborn parent. Our relationship is deeper, deeper than that of biological brothers. Half a year later, we each returned to Changjiang City with 4 yuan. He found a shop in Jiangbei District and opened a grocery store. Because Cheng Liang was a kind and generous man, the surrounding residents liked to come to his shop to buy things. Over the past few years, After that, he accumulated some money, bought a small house, married a wife, gave birth to a beautiful and lovely daughter, transferred his rural household registration to the Yangtze River, and became a real city person."

"I have never been willing to be mediocre. I used the knowledge I learned to start collecting art. After many years of hard work, I became a moderately successful collector. All of this should be attributed to Cheng Liang. Without him, I would not be where I am today. Results? But you said he was murdered. Is this possible? He is so kind and kind, and he never makes enemies. How could he be murdered?" Lu Shanru said with tears in his eyes and his expression was excited.

"Mr. Lu, the deceased is gone. Don't be too sad. The most important thing now is to catch the murderer. Who do you think murdered Cheng Liang?"

(End of this chapter)