To Xun Jianguo's frustration, he searched through the thirteen people living in the antique files established by Zhou Wei, an antique dealer in the Jiangjun City area, and did not find a single suspect who matched the characteristics they had analyzed and judged in advance. At the same time, he learned from Ling Zhan, who went out to investigate, that the twenty-one people he was responsible for were also about to complete the investigation, and they also gained nothing. This can't help but make Xun Jianguo wonder if there was a deviation in the initial judgment.

After thinking about it, Xun Jianguo, who has rich practical experience, still decided to start all over again, especially several of them with relatively strange personalities and behaviors, such as Lu Qingyuan.

So, Xun Jianguo once again came to the police station in the jurisdiction where Lu Qingyuan's household registration was located. called Xiao Zhang, the policeman who originally told him about Lu Qingyuan's strange personality characteristics, and planned to go to Lu Qingyuan's residence to contact him head-on in the name of checking his household registration.

It's just that when he came to the unit where Lu Qingyuan lived, Xun Jianguo stood on the last step, waiting for the policeman Xiao Zhang to come forward and knock on the door. But no matter how Xiao Zhang knocked it, there was no reaction at all.

"It's not going out, is it?"

The two of them came from the repair shop opened by Lu Qingyuan just now, and because they didn't see Lu Qingyuan's figure there, they came to knock on the door. Therefore, he couldn't knock on the door, and the policeman Xiao Zhang couldn't help muttering softly.

Just as the two were about to ask the neighbor about it, the door of the next room suddenly opened, and a middle-aged woman over forty years old poked out of it and asked, "Are you looking for Lao Lu?"

"Yes, the house will be inspected. ”

"Lao Lu should be at home, after he came back last night, he never heard the sound of the door opening again. ”

"Can you hear it in your house?"

"Absolutely. The houses in this neighborhood are not soundproofed at all. Even the sound of the faucet next door can be heard clearly. ”

"Alright then, let's knock again. ”

When the policeman Xiao Zhang stepped forward and knocked on the door again, Xun Jianguo also took a step forward and stood in front of Lu Qingyuan's door. Suddenly, he seemed to faintly smell a faint smell of blood. I mistakenly thought it was from the house of a middle-aged woman who had just opened the door, so I didn't care. It's just that when the middle-aged woman retreated to the upper body that leaned out and closed the door, the bloody qi still existed, and Xun Jianguo immediately asked Xiao Zhang, "Did you smell anything?"

Police officer Xiao Zhang smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't honestly kick the quilt when I slept last night, maybe I had a cold, and my nose is still a little blocked, and I didn't smell anything." ”

Xun Jianguo stepped forward and bent down to sniff twice at the crack in Lu Qingyuan's door, and immediately ordered the policeman Xiao Zhang: "Call the lock company immediately." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I smell blood inside. ”

Xiao Zhang didn't say a word when he heard this, and according to the information on the small advertisement posted next to the door, he dialed the phone number of a lock-picking company.

Soon, the people from the lock company arrived in less than ten minutes, and after seeing the police officer ID cards of the policemen Xiao Zhang and Xun Jianguo, they opened the door lock with their hands and feet, and as Xun Jianguo stretched out his hand to push the door open, a pungent bloody breath came to his face.

"Not good. You stay here and no one is allowed to enter the house. ”

Signaling Xiao Zhang to stay at the door to maintain order, he raised his feet and walked in, because he didn't expect to encounter an emergency, so Xun Jianguo, who didn't have shoe covers, had to stick to the wall of the room and walk towards the bedroom where the smell of blood was spreading.

First of all, I saw a bloody footprint in the bedroom door, and it was a bloody footprint left by bare feet, and then I saw Lu Qingyuan lying on the bed with blood stains everywhere on the blue checkered sheets under him, Xun Jianguo suddenly shouted out of the door: "Xiao Zhang, quickly notify your director and let him bring someone to block the scene." ”

Immediately, he tried not to destroy the traces of the scene, and cautiously walked up to test Lu Qingyuan's carotid artery, and found that there was no pulse for a long time. The skin within reach of his hand was also cold, and judging from the blood stains that had coagulated from the wounds on his head and chest, the other party should have been dead for a long time. So he used his mobile phone to notify the technical department of the city bureau, and then said to Ling Zhan.

While waiting, Xun Jianguo first leaned against the wall and exited the bedroom, and went to the kitchen to find two plastic bags to put on his shoes. Without trying to find other clues, Xun Jianguo returned to the bedroom door and slowly squatted next to the bloody footprint of his bare feet.

Regarding the abrupt, barefoot, bloody footprints on his left foot, Xun Jianguo looked at it for a long time but was still puzzled.

It is clear that this was left behind by the suspect when he left after committing the crime.

But why did he choose to commit the crime barefoot, and only with one bare left foot?

Since his bare left foot was stained with the blood of the victim Lu Qingyuan, why did he leave only one footprint. Could it be that the suspect put on his shoes again with the blood on his feet, and why didn't he wear them in the first place?

This is not reasonable in any way. The bloody footprints in front of him can be regarded as the most bizarre scene traces that Xun Jianguo has encountered in the police for so many years.

Ten minutes later, the director of the police station in the jurisdiction led the police, Gui Lirong, the chief of the technical section of the municipal bureau, and his subordinates, as well as the forensic doctor, rushed to the scene. And Xun Jianguo still squatted next to the barefoot bloody footprint and did not move.

This squat was nearly an hour later, until Gui Lirong led his subordinates to inspect the entire scene, and the forensic doctor also conducted a preliminary examination of Lu Qingyuan's body.

casually asked Gui Lirong, "How is it?"

"The doors and windows of the room are intact, and it is preliminarily judged that the suspect should have entered the room through the door. ”

Although the middle-aged woman just said that the room was poorly soundproofed and could clearly hear the sound of the door opening and closing next door, it was under normal circumstances. If it was in the middle of the night, the suspect did it on purpose, and it was not difficult to do it without alarming others.

Xun Jianguo nodded and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"It's clear that the site has been carefully cleaned up. Although several fingerprints were taken on small kitchen appliances, there is no guarantee that they were left by the suspect. Several hairs were found on the victim's bed and bedroom floor, and their ownership could not be determined until they were brought back to the bureau for identification. In addition, the victim's wallet, mobile phone, and 2,000 yuan in cash in the bedside table drawer were all there. There were signs that the details had been turned over throughout the room, but it was difficult to determine if any other valuables had been lost because the victim had no close relatives. ”

Immediately, Xun Jianguo turned his head and asked the forensic doctor: "What's the situation?"

"It is preliminarily inferred that the victim died from blunt force wounds to the head and sharp force wounds to the chest. Based on the stiffness of the victim's body, the blood clotting at the wound, and the color of the corpse spots on the back and back of both legs, it is speculated that he should have died six to eight hours ago. If you want to know the exact time of death, you need to go back to the bureau for an autopsy. ”

Subconsciously raised his hand and glanced at his watch, Xun Jianguo said: "It is now less than nine o'clock in six minutes, which means that the victim died between one and three o'clock in the morning." It's no wonder that the next-door neighbor just now said that he didn't hear the sound of the door opening. ”

Yes, under normal circumstances, between 1 and 4 a.m. is the time when a person sleeps heaviestly, and it is impossible to wake up a neighbor with a gentle noise, even if the house is poorly insulated.

In the end, Xun Jianguo ordered the director of the police station in the jurisdiction: "Arrange manpower to block the scene, and at the same time retrieve all the surveillance video in the community and within one kilometer of the surrounding area, and send it to the technical department of the municipal bureau as soon as possible." ”

did not follow Gui Lirong and the forensic doctor back to the city bureau, but stayed alone to continue to study the barefoot bloody footprint.