Card Room

Chapter 537, The Identity of the Dead

The first witness was a student from the Conservatory of Music. She was carrying a schoolbag and riding a bicycle, and was about to go to the library. When she passed by the school lake, she found a body floating in the lake. As the nearby gymnasium is holding a singer contest, the music in the stadium is deafening, the screams of the audience are one after another, and the screams of the girls did not attract everyone's attention.

Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao just walked out of the stadium, only then discovered the anomaly in the lake.

When Xiao Lou said "call the police", the scared-faced girl hurriedly took out her cell phone, trembling her fingers and dialed 110, her voice stammered, "You, hello, this, this is Liu, Liu Guang from Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music. The lake, the dead body was found in the lake..."

There were only three of them by the lake at this time.

Xiao Lou winked at Liu Qiao, and Liu Qiao immediately jumped into the lake while the girl was not paying attention.

At night, the light was dim, and no one noticed Liu Qiao's use of cards to change the tail of the fish. She dived into the depths of the lake and quickly swam below the floating body. Liu Qiao opened Ye Mingzhu to observe the surrounding environment carefully. After a while, she swam back to the lake and reported the result to Xiaolou in a low voice, "No stones, vegetation, etc. were found under the corpse, and there was no blood stains in the lake. You have to judge the cause of death, Professor Xiao. Do I need to drag the body up?"

Xiao Lou shook his head. "Don't destroy the scene first, wait for Hanjiang to come over. The protection of the crime scene is very important. The police may come to a different conclusion. I will do an autopsy, but I will not do it privately now."

Liu Qiao frowned. "But, since this team Yu is not the one we know, can it be reliable?"

Xiao Lou rubbed his temples lightly, and said with uncertainty, "If he was Yu Hanjiang in the past, he would be reliable. Hanjiang is a very good detective and can solve even the most difficult cases. But what I worry about is that we The world they are in is the space created by the gatekeepers based on our memories. Whether Yu Hanjiang or Ye Qi, they are now equivalent to nc and may not cooperate with us."

If Yu Hanjiang from the past were directly brought into this world, it would be very simple to solve the case. But the gatekeeper could not be so kind. What Liu Qiao is even more worried about is that Yu Hanjiang and Ye Qi may be hunters, let alone helping them solve the case, maybe they still want their lives?

A night breeze blew, and the girl who reported to the police shivered for a while, and her face was so ugly that she was about to cry. She lifted up the bicycle that fell down next to her, and said tremblingly, "The police have sent someone over. Waiting here?"

"Of course. You are the first witness. The police will definitely ask you a lot of questions." Xiao Lou stepped forward and said Wen Yan, "Don't be nervous, as long as you have nothing to do with the deceased, the police will not ask them routinely. Embarrass you."

"Hmm..." The girl bit her head and wrapped her coat tightly.

After a while, two police cars appeared in Xiaolou's field of vision. To avoid attracting too many students’ attention, the police car did not turn on its horn when it entered the campus. The car quickly stopped on the side of the road, the door opened from the inside, and the man in casual clothes got out of the car.

——It is actually Yu Hanjiang.

He frowned slightly and his expression was stern. He walked in front of the three people by the lake. At the same time, he waved his hands at the colleague behind him. The two detectives immediately pulled a cordon around him.

Yu Hanjiang picked up a flashlight and illuminated the lake. Sure enough, he found a corpse in the middle of the lake. He turned to look at the girl by the lake, with sharp eyes "Who called the police?"

The girl stepped forward timidly, "Police, police officer, yes, it's me."

Yu Hanjiang took out a notebook and a pen from his pocket, and said coldly, "Name, age, occupation."

The girl said, "I, my name is Xu Mingyue, I am 19 years old and I am a sophomore in the Conservatory of Music."

Yu Hanjiang quickly recorded while asking, "When was the body found?"

"Just now, about nine o'clock."

"Why did you pass here?"

"It's almost the final exam. I wanted to go to the library to read a book tonight. When I passed by here, my bicycle suddenly punctured. I stopped to check and saw something floating in the middle of the lake. I walked over and took a closer look. A human face scared me to death..." The girl has calmed down now, her expression is fairly clear.

"These two are also witnesses?" He turned his head and came to Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao standing behind the tree. The moment he met Xiao Lou's eyes, he was taken aback. "Professor Xiao, why are you here?"

"Cold..." Xiao Lou coughed and quickly changed his name. "Team Yu, my students and I came to the Conservatory of Music to watch the singer contest. When we came out of the gym just now, we heard a scream from the lake. We walked over and found the lake. There is a corpse in it. I suggested this student Xu to call the police."

"So that's the case." Yu Hanjiang nodded clearly, and by the way he waved to the young detective behind him, and said, "You and Xiao Wu first get the corpse up, and go to the lake to see if there is anything unusual."

"Yes, Team Yu." The two young detectives quickly took off their coats and went into the water. Another car drove in and parked beside the police car. The capable female forensic doctor in white coat put on gloves and came to Yu Hanjiang to ask. "Team Yu, where's the corpse?"

"It's salvaging." Yu Hanjiang looked around, "I will look at the scene first."

"Yeah." The forensic doctor sorted the toolbox next to him. Yu Hanjiang took the flashlight and turned around. Xiao Lou's eyes followed him, trying to find some clues through him.

Soon, Yu Hanjiang squatted under a nearby tree. He frowned and turned over the soil on the ground and found a few nails. He put the nails in a sterile bag and carefully observed the surrounding trees.

One of the trees was engraved with the small characters "Zhang Hengyu and Ning Xue will always be together", but the handwriting was a little fuzzy. Yu Hanjiang took photos for evidence, then went to the lake and lowered his head to look for clues.

Xiao Lou cooperated with Yu Hanjiang several times in the secret room, and naturally knew that he was looking for footprints.

If it was a homicide, whether the deceased was pushed into the lake or moved into the lake after being killed, the footprints of the murderer should be left by the lake. Yu Hanjiang himself is a master of traceology, of course he would think of this.

Xiao Lou followed his gaze and found a string of footprints by the lake. The person who left the footprints should be wearing flat shoes. The footprints are small and more like women.

At this time, the corpse in the lake was also salvaged, and the two police officers who went into the water reported the results of the investigation—the same as Liu Qiao’s preliminary investigation by diving. No blood stains, no weeds, stones, etc. were found in the lake. The tool to sink the body into the lake.

The female forensic doctor began a preliminary autopsy. Xiao Lou was only an outsider at this time and had no right to intervene in the police force to solve the case. But standing nearby, he could roughly see the features of the body, including changes in skin, muscles, and plaques.

The female forensic doctor whispered, "The deceased woman was about 20 years old. No fatal injuries were found on the body, and there were no traces of struggling or fighting. It can be said that the death was peaceful. Judging from the performance of the oral cavity and nasal cavity, the preliminary judgment is The suffocation caused by drowning must be taken home for detailed autopsy."

The young police officer next to him glanced at the footprints on the ground and actively analyzed, "Team Yu, these footprints are the same size as the deceased's feet, and the pattern of the footprints is the same as the pattern on the soles of her sneakers. Only the deceased was found by the lake. Does the footprint of a person prove that this girl committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake?"

Yu Hanjiang said lightly, "Don't jump to conclusions lightly."

The young policeman flushed, scratched his head, and coughed, "I'm just guessing..."

Yu Hanjiang turned to look at him, "Call the security guard on duty tonight and the school leader in charge of the student office. Let's first determine the identity of this student. Before the cause of death is revealed, we will investigate the female social relationship in detail."

He fixed his eyes on the tree in front, staring thoughtfully at the two names.

At this moment, the girl who called the police suddenly had a ghostly expression, her eyes widened in horror, "Xiao, Xiaoxue?!"

Yu Hanjiang suddenly turned around, "Do you know her?"

Xu Mingyue stiffly pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "The face is so swollen that I can’t see who it is, but her clothes and shoes are exactly the same as the clothes of my roommate Ning Xue. This was the day before yesterday when we were celebrating her birthday. I bought them with her!"

Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao looked at each other-this is a good one, Xu Mingyue who found the deceased happened to know the deceased. It's just that Xu Mingyue's appearance by the lake is really a "coincidence"?

Yu Hanjiang walked up to Xu Mingyue and asked faintly, "Are you sure this suit belongs to your roommate?"

Xu Mingyue nodded vigorously, "Yes, I picked this dress for her."

Yu Hanjiang lifted his chin, "You call Ning Xue right away."

Xu Mingyue turned out the address book and dialed the phone number of her roommate. She was always in the state of "no one answered the phone" in her ear. Her face became paler, and she stared at the corpse on the ground in shock, "Isn't it true, really Xiaoxue?" "

Yu Hanjiang "Do you know where Ning Xue went tonight?"

Xu Mingyue said, "It seems that I went on a date with her boyfriend. Tonight is December 31st, and tomorrow is the New Year. She said in the dormitory that she would like to spend the New Year with her boyfriend and watch the fireworks in the square..."

Yu Hanjiang glanced over the tree's name, "Is her boyfriend Zhang Hengyu?"

Xu Mingyue nodded, "Yes, her boyfriend is very handsome, he seems to be the senior of the medical college next door, the forensic department."

Yu Hanjiang recorded all the information, and walked to the front of Xiao Lou, and asked in a low voice, "I'm going to trouble Professor Xiao again. Did you know that there is a student named Zhang Hengyu in the Department of Forensic Medicine?"

Xiao Lou's expression was calm, "I know, he is the squad leader of the junior year of our forensic medicine department. This afternoon, he had come to the classroom for my professional class, and he was sitting next to classmate Liu Qiao."

Liu Qiao was stunned. When recalling the afternoon class, there was indeed a boy sitting next to him. She remembered that the man was handsome and handsome, with long and white fingers. He listened very carefully throughout the class. When Xiao Lou talked about the key knowledge points, he Take notes in the notebook.

He writes well, and he is neatly printed. The name on the book is indeed Zhang Hengyu.

Liu Qiao nodded in agreement. "Professor Xiao was right. Zhang Hengyu was sitting next to me during class in the afternoon. He was very serious in class, and his expression did not look abnormal."

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly, his eyes swept across the line of characters carved on the tree again.

Zhang Hengyu and Ning Xue are always together.

Among them, the word "forever" was painted red by ink for some reason.

Xiao Lou obviously noticed this too. He frowned slightly and looked at Yu Hanjiang, "Could it be... the relationship between the two had a dispute, which led to the murder of love?"

Yu Hanjiang said, "It's not that simple."

He glanced over the three people at the scene, and said lightly, "Trouble you three, please come back to the police and make a transcript with me."

Xiao Lou was keenly aware of what clues Yu Hanjiang had discovered, but Yu Hanjiang refused to tell him a word-no wonder, after all, Yu Hanjiang is now the captain of the Criminal Police Brigade, and Xiao Lou is just a scene of the crime scene. Passersby.

The police, of course, cannot disclose secret information to passersby.

How to pry open Yu Hanjiang's mouth? What does he think is wrong?