god of reasoning

Chapter 2 "Magic Flame" ([-])
"Dismembering the body..." I kept murmuring this familiar yet unfamiliar word.I am familiar because I have read this word countless times in mystery novels, and I am unfamiliar because it is the first time I have encountered an event related to this word in the real world.

About ten minutes later, the police car arrived at CASE's door with a buzzing sound that was completely different from that of the fire truck.

The firefighter who came out of the ruins at some point—I think he was the captain, was talking about something excitedly with the policeman who just got off the car, and occasionally pointed his fingers at me.

They talked for about 3 or 4 minutes, and then they walked towards me together.

"Excuse me, were you the first to discover the fire?" The policeman walking in front, to be precise, a policewoman asked me coldly. I felt her face was very familiar, and she seemed to recognize me at this time, " You... are you called Chicken Ding?"

Thinking about it, the policewoman in front of me is called Xia Shi. We met at a gathering of reasoning enthusiasts. At that time, I thought she was just a female college student. I didn’t expect her to be a female criminal policeman. I was really surprised. .

"It's...it's me. My...my name is Feng Liang, and Ji...jiding is...my pseudonym." I stammered. This is a problem I have had since I was a child. I stutter when I speak.

"I heard that you were the one who found the fire and called 119?" The other party didn't change his tone because he met me, and still asked in the cold tone unique to the police.

I nodded, not daring to speak.

"I heard that you are friends with the owner of this house?" She continued to ask.

"Yes..." In order to prevent stuttering, I try to use short sentences.

"Well, I just need you to confirm the identity of the deceased, so come with me." She finished speaking in an almost commanding tone, then turned and walked into the ruins of CASE's house.I followed behind her obediently, like an obedient dog, how could I feel this way, I don't know, maybe the other party's momentum overwhelmed me.

Only an hour has passed, but the scene in CASE's home has deteriorated beyond words. There are dark ruins and broken tiles everywhere. The magnificent villa in the past is now only a dilapidated frame. .

I followed Xia Shi to the CASE room on the second floor while avoiding the wreckage under my feet.I have been to this room many times before, and now it is beyond recognition.

I looked towards the place where I saw CASE outside the window an hour ago. The glass of the floor-to-ceiling window had been broken into countless pieces under the impact of the high-pressure water gun when the fire brigade was fighting the fire. The furnishings in the house were basically reduced to ashes. The owner—CASE has also become a lump of coke at this moment, no, to be precise, it should be several lumps of coke—head, torso, limbs, his charred corpse was broken into six pieces.

Because I heard the firefighter mentioned that CASE was dismembered, so I didn't feel disgusted or excited to see this scene at the moment.Looking at the friend whose head is in a different place, I don't feel any sadness in my heart. Could it be that I have written too many murder novels, so that my emotions have become indifferent?

Xia Shi paced back and forth around the scorched remains of the case that had been broken into six pieces.I think it was the first time she encountered such a difficult case.

"Chicken, come here and see if this is a case." She beckoned me to come over.

Hearing the queen's order, I hurriedly moved closer, the charred corpse in front of me could vaguely see the outline of the body before birth, that face was indeed CASE, yes, "It's him!"

The next day.

It is a bright morning.

Looking at the wisps of sunshine pouring into the room from the window, I feel a breath of spring.The birds outside the window were chirping and singing unknown songs.

"Ding ding..." The phone rang suddenly, startling me who was intoxicated in the beautiful morning.I usually communicate with my friends through QQ or mobile phones. In my impression, this house electricity seems to have not rang for a long time.

"Hello..." As soon as I picked up the phone, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice came, "Are you up yet?"

"En..." The voice was very familiar, but I couldn't remember who it was at the moment, so I had to vaguely agree.

"I thought all of you writers were night owls who slept in the middle of the night, hehehehe..." I finally recognized that it was Xiashi's voice. Today's tone is completely different from yesterday's tone at the case murder scene, so I I just couldn't remember it for a while.

"Today... today is... an exception... I woke up... a little early..." Even though I didn't see myself, a sense of tension still came from the bottom of my feet to the top of my head, and I couldn't help stammering again.Strange, how did she know my phone number? I thought about it for a few seconds, and then I remembered that it was the phone number that she wrote to me yesterday.

"That's good. Are you okay today?" After receiving my stammering affirmative reply, she said, "Well, see you at the 'Otaku Coffee Shop' on S Avenue at 10 o'clock. I need you if I need something." Then hung up the phone with a bang.

I stared blankly at the phone that issued a 'beep' sound, confused.

(End of this chapter)