A lot of tricks

() Wang Dong, Tao Jiahao, and Ouyang Min died one after another, and the three of them had a faint connection.Assuming that there is a behind-the-scenes murderer manipulating all this, then the deaths of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao are undoubtedly caused by him, which can be seen from their successive deaths and the same way of death.

As for Ouyang Min, I still believe too much that he really just died like this, or in other words, I am actually full of hope for him.But when I saw Ouyang Min's death information in the files of Liutaihe City Public Security Bureau, I had to believe the fact in front of me.

"Since the deceased is from Anyin City and is an important person in the case you are investigating, we will apply to our superiors to transfer this case to you as soon as possible." The person who spoke was Ouyang Min, who was in charge of the Liutaihe City Public Security Bureau. Jiang Xingjing of the case.

"Well, no problem." Although I nodded, I was very upset. In their view, this is not a major criminal case, but they are so eager to entrust this case to us. There is a feeling of receiving a hot potato.

"Actually, we also conducted an on-site analysis of this case. The deceased's room was in Room [-], just next to the elevator. He lived on the [-]th floor, and the elevator was running normally, but he chose to take the stairs. Then it started to burn in the stairs again, we think this is very likely a suicide case." Police officer Jiang analyzed to us.

It is absolutely impossible for Ouyang Min to commit suicide!If he committed suicide, then who was the person who pretended to be him to call me after his death and ran away with his mobile phone? As soon as the word "suicide" came out of Officer Jiang's mouth, I absolutely denied it in my heart.

"Suicide, is it too cruel to choose to commit suicide?" Xiao Zuo also felt that something was wrong.

"If the psychology is extremely distorted, is it normal to choose this way?" Officer Jiang continued to defend.

"Since he was going to commit suicide, why didn't he choose to commit suicide in the room, but in the stairway?" Xiao Zuo continued to ask, as if he would not stop until Jiang Jingjing asked him to deny his deduction.

"Room [-] is a non-smoking room." Officer Jiang's words immediately blocked Xiao Zuo's next words, making Xiao Zuo speechless and had to look to me and Zhang Jiewei for help up.

It's not right, if you choose the stairwell just because [-] is a non-smoking room, it is very unreasonable. After all, there are fire prevention measures in the stairwell, and it will also trigger a fire alarm.According to what we know now, when the fire broke out in the hotel building tonight, the fire alarm did not sound, and it is very likely that someone deliberately sabotaged it.

But what is the purpose of sabotaging the fire alarm?Burn more people?I don't think the murderer's idea is that simple.If the fire alarm is destroyed, it will not be easily noticed when a fire occurs, and the fire can burn even bigger.If less fire is greater, then...

There will be less and less important evidence!It was even completely destroyed in a fire!

So at least the train of thought became clear. First, the murderer managed to make Ouyang Min burn himself in the stairwell, and then destroyed all the evidence with a fire before we arrived.But...why didn't the fire be set off before the investigators from Liutaihe City Public Security Bureau went to the hotel, but after all the investigators from Liutaihe City had left?Does he know we'll go there again, what we're sure to find there?

"The videos before and after Ouyang Min's death are all transferred here?" There is always a feeling that this is the only clue that person is willing to leave me.

"Yes." Officer Jiang nodded.

"I want to take a look."

"No problem, these materials will be transferred to your side sooner or later. You see, this is room [-]." Police officer Jiang called out the video for us while talking.

Zhang Jiewei and Xiao Zuo also came up together, the three of us stared at the computer screen, and I seemed to have returned to the scene when I watched Wang Dong's weird video last time, feeling a chilly wind blowing over my head.

From the shooting angle of the camera, room [-] is just on the left side of the whole screen. Not long after, the door of room [-] was opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit appeared in the screen .The installation height of the camera is very ingenious, just enough to see the appearance of the middle-aged man clearly.Although I haven't really communicated with Ouyang Min face to face, his appearance has left a deep impression on me. Of course, this is all thanks to the mysterious email.

After Ouyang Min came out of the room, he walked straight towards the camera, his steps were not fast and steady, even a little stiff and mechanical, which made a feeling of deja vu emerge from the bottom of my heart.

"This side is next to the corridor. There seems to be something wrong with the camera on the other side of the corridor yesterday. It didn't capture the scene of Ouyang Min's death." Police officer Jiang glanced at the screen and continued to add for us.

"Could you please play it again?" I asked, staring at the screen.

"can."

The video was played again, this time I observed more carefully, and I was unwilling to let go of any detail. You must know that sometimes the most subtle places are the key to the success or failure of things.

"Wait! Rewind!" While I was still watching Ouyang Min's every move in the video, Zhang Jiewei's voice suddenly rang in my ears.

I glanced up at him, and I was sure he had made some unusual discoveries, too.

"Go back a little bit more." Zhang Jiewei said immediately.

"Here it is! Zoom in."

When the image was enlarged at the moment requested by Zhang Jiewei, Xiao Zuo and I focused on the enlarged face in front of us again.This face is indeed Ouyang Min's face, but it always gives me a very weird feeling. I can't tell what's wrong, but there must be something blocking my thinking.

I closed my eyes to clear out the messy thoughts in my head, and opened my eyes again, only to find a detail that had been overlooked before: Ouyang Min's eyelids on the screen were closed!

Upon discovering this situation, I immediately turned my head and looked at Zhang Jiewei. From his affirmative eyes, I already knew that this was his discovery.Moreover, Zhang Jiewei and I also thought of going to the same place, this must not be as simple as a coincidence.

I quickly switched the video back to the scene when Ouyang Min came out of the room, and took screenshots of all his faces while walking and arranged them in order.

Sure enough!

Every image is Ouyang Min's face, but no matter what moment, whether he is standing still or walking forward, his eyes are always closed!

"Brother, what are you doing?" Xiao Zuo couldn't understand, and kept asking me.

"If it was before, I would have thought it was a phenomenon of sleepwalking." I took a deep breath, as if speaking to Zhang Jiewei and Xiaozuo, but also to myself.

"But now..." I slowed down my speech, "Haven't you noticed yet?"

Hearing what I said, Xiao Zuo also began to observe carefully, and then he patted his thigh suddenly: "So he is the same as Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao!"

"Hehe, you finally understand." The corner of my mouth twitched slightly, I don't know if it was a smile or a twitch in their view.

As I said just now, if this happened to Ouyang Min before, I would definitely forget about the direction of sleepwalking.But now, after experiencing the bizarre incident of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao, no, it should be said that they were two corpses, I have every reason to believe that Ouyang Min was already a corpse when he walked out of the room!

It's just a pity that there is no evidence for "burning" now.

"I want to take a look at Ouyang Min's body." I raised my head and said to Officer Jiang.

"Okay, I'll get you in touch with the person on duty over there." Police officer Jiang didn't show any dissatisfaction or evasion towards my request.

I glanced at my watch. It was only ten past six in the morning. Although I hadn't slept all night, the current situation did not allow me to lose a moment.Obviously, this is a serial case. If the case cannot be solved as soon as possible, maybe Wang Dong and the others are not the only ones who died.

Having said that, even though it was early in the morning, the mortuary of the Liutaihe City Public Security Bureau was also very gloomy.The three of us were walking in the corridor behind Police Officer Jiang. I turned my head and glanced suspiciously at my empty left side. I always felt an inexplicable turbulent air flow surging on my left side. ...it follows me...

"Brother Lei?" Xiao Zuo's voice rang in my ears, I turned my head to look at him, only to find that I had fallen behind, Xiao Zuo and Zhang Jiewei were already four or five steps ahead of me.

After shaking my head, I rushed up, but at this time, I never felt that inexplicable thing that accompanied me like an air current.

"I advise you not to look at his body." Police officer Jiang said to us standing next to a body covered with a white cloth.

"It's okay." I don't think the few of us are so cowardly that we dare not even look at the dead body.

Seeing that we had signaled, Police Officer Jiang lifted the white cloth covering the corpse with a sigh, and a burnt corpse loomed in front of us.

As soon as he saw the corpse, Xiao Zuo retreated to the side and became nauseated like a pregnant woman in the stage of nausea. There was also an unknown object in my stomach that began to churn.

The reason why it is said that he was burnt to pieces rather than scorched was because from the appearance of the corpse, he was not completely black and unrecognizable like the general burnt people, but was covered all over his body. Apart from inside-out wounds and popped pustules, there was very little actual charring on the outside.

If I had to find a suitable word to describe the situation of these wounds, I would call it "blooming" in a more literary way.Seeing Ouyang Min's body, I couldn't help but imagine that his body was covered with many small bombs, and those bombs exploded one after another, exploding from his body.Inside each wound is the real darkness.

"How did he become like this?" Those shocking wounds also surprised me. It's not that I haven't seen charred corpses, but the charred corpses of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao before are completely different from the situation of Ouyang Min's now.If the burning of corpses was an act of cruelty to corpses before, what Ouyang Min has suffered now is undoubtedly a hundred times that of whipping corpses, or even more... If a person is "exploded" to death alive, I don't know what it is How many times more terrifying than death.

"According to the hotel staff, they immediately found out the location of the accident after the fire alarm. When they found Ouyang Min, they saw that he was already on fire. Everyone rushed to fight the fire. But what surprised everyone was that There are not many places on Ouyang Min's body that are really burning, but it is difficult to extinguish, and Ouyang Min is as if he is unconscious, allowing himself to be burned without moving."

Although Officer Jiang's description was not particularly vivid, it gave me very crucial information, which can completely verify my previous guess, that is, Ouyang Min was already a corpse when he came out of the room.

"Then what about the cause of death? Has it been identified?" If there is nothing wrong, the answer is the same as I expected.

"The results haven't been identified yet, but what we can confirm now is that the inside of the deceased's body, including the inside of the brain, has been completely burnt. The situation is much more serious than what appears on the surface." Police officer Jiang also had a look on his face when he talked about this. fear.

"That's because the fire started from inside Ouyang Min's body." I glanced at the corpse and expressed my opinion.

"You mean..." Zhang Jiewei looked at me and said, I gave him an affirmative look, and he didn't say another word, obviously he knew it in his heart.

From yesterday to now, I feel that Zhang Jiewei and I basically have the same thoughts, or we don’t need to say anything, we can know what the other party wants to express with just one look.For this kind of tacit understanding without any source, I find it a bit interesting. Maybe because of this tacit understanding, we can still become good friends.

"But there is one thing that is very strange." Police officer Jiang seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes became a little weird. It was not weird, but there was a hint of fear hidden in it.

"Which place?" I didn't intend to let go of any details. If the Jiang police officer can provide us with some correct and useful information, it will save us from doing a lot of useless work.

"Brain." Police officer Jiang thought for a while, probably trying to form a suitable language, and then continued to say to us, "It was originally said that even if the inside of the body is completely burnt, there should be wreckage. But listen The forensic doctor said that there was nothing inside his brain other than the blackness of the inner wall of the brain. It was empty, as if the things inside had never existed, without any trace."

"Oh, it would be strange if it wasn't like this." I replied lightly.

"Huh?" Police officer Jiang didn't understand what I meant at all. Of course, I didn't need to explain anything to him, and I couldn't explain anything to him.

"It's okay, have you extracted all the physical evidence in the hotel room where Ouyang Min lives?" Although asking this is a bit of a diversion, but the main purpose is to try to gather all the clues and doubts together.

"Of course there is, but because we think it's a suicide case, we just took away Ouyang Min's personal belongings." Police officer Jiang gradually lowered his voice as he spoke, as if he had no confidence, or ...with a guilty conscience.

"Okay." I don't know whether to cry or laugh at the carelessness of this police officer Jiang, "I want to see those things."

Now what else can I look at but those things?The fire in the hotel building destroyed everything, and those were the only things I could use to find clues.Still the same sentence, I always think that behind this incident must not be simple. From the beginning to now, we have been in a passive state, and the murderer only left us the clues and evidence he wanted us to get.

Ouyang Min didn't leave many things behind. He learned from his wife that he was on a business trip, but there were no business-related documents in his briefcase except for a few documents from real estate companies.The rest are just trivial things, like keys, wallets, handkerchiefs and so on.

handkerchief?There is a lavender handkerchief in a middle-aged man's briefcase, which makes me a little puzzled.Who still uses handkerchiefs these days, even if they want to use them, it would be more suitable for a businessman like Ouyang Min to use a checkered handkerchief.

Could it be his wife gave it to him?

Thinking of this, I involuntarily picked up the handkerchief and sniffed it in front of my nose.The faint scent of jasmine from the handkerchief is sweet but not greasy. Just closing your eyes and feeling it is enough to make people imagine.Suddenly, I opened my eyes, took a closer look at the lavender handkerchief, and sniffed its scent again.Yes, the smell is indeed very similar to jasmine, but now I firmly believe that it is another floral fragrance!

"No..." Zhang Jiewei's voice sounded at the same time as the voice in my head, but then I realized that we were talking about two different aspects, but they are closely connected...