After listening to Li Huina's explanation, everyone knew the specific reason why Shin and Gao were hostile to Shao, and they only listened to it as entertainment gossip, but Kim Yunhao was shocked after hearing it.

Before, when he looked at the puppet repeatedly, he had a familiar feeling.

But he was sure that he had never seen the puppet before, and he couldn't figure out where this familiarity came from.

It wasn't until he heard the name that he suddenly remembered the source of that familiarity—everyone had a puppet in their hands.

When he sent Xu Xian and Sika back that day, he happened to see puppets with the same exquisite workmanship.

Although the two puppets have different styles, judging from the workmanship style, it is very likely that they were made by the same person.

"Shin Donghae, you immediately investigate the source of the puppet left at the scene of Gao Hyun-jeong's death." Kim Yun-ho immediately commanded.

"Okay." Shen Donghai took out a pen and immediately recorded the task.

This clue was just a flash of inspiration in Kim Yunhao's mind, and after explaining, he pulled his thoughts back to the regular case-handling mode, summarized and explained the task:

"The missing people were found, but we found two cold, festering corpses. Therefore, the case has not been concluded, and the investigation must continue.

Now, according to the results of the forensic examination and the scene investigation, there is no sign of homicide, but it is unreasonable to infer that they died of natural causes. Therefore, the following work will focus on investigating the exact cause of death of Shen and Gao.

Because the family members of the deceased did not agree to the autopsy, the forensic doctors of the Institute of National Sciences could not give the exact time of death of the two deceased. There is only one rough inference:

Shin Jing-ah's time of death was between last Tuesday and last Wednesday; Ko Hyun-jung's time of death was between last Wednesday and Thursday.

Now, let's follow this timeline to investigate.

Yin Guohong, you are responsible for investigating the surveillance around the two murder scenes, and grasping and understanding the entry and exit times of Shen and Gao.

Shin Donghae investigates the source of the puppet, and Song Eunji and Lee Hye-na are on standby and the meeting is dismissed. ”

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Three hours after the summary meeting, Yin Guohong called and reported: "Prosecutor Jin, my investigation and monitoring have found that:

At 9 p.m. last Tuesday, Shen and Gao returned to their apartment near Linyi High School. At 10 a.m. the next day, Gao Xianzhen left in a hurry with the puppet found in the case. But there is no picture of Shen Jingya leaving.

The surveillance records of Cha Hyun Woo's apartment in Gangnam/Au show that:

Ko Hyun-jung entered the apartment building at 11 a.m. with the puppet. Left once with the puppet at 2pm and returned to the apartment again at 3pm without the puppet. After that, there was no picture of Gao Xianzhen coming in and out. ”

received a report, which confirmed the approximate time of death of Shen and Gao.

But what made Kim Yoon-ho suspicious was that the weird puppet was mentioned again. He had a hunch that this puppet might be the key to finding out the cause of Shin and Gao's death.

While thinking about it, Kim Yunhao didn't hear Yoon Guohong's words about asking for leave to get off work again, and he dealt with it vaguely. He fell into the memory.

He thinks back to everything that happened before and finds out what the puppet has to do with it.

After a few minutes, he remembered a sentence that had been ignored before, a sentence that Cha Hyun-woo had said - at the scene of Gao Hyun-jeong's murder, Cha Hyun-woo had tripped over a puppet, and said that he hated this puppet very much.

Because he didn't pay much attention to this puppet before, Yin Guohong did not delve into the reason why Che Xuanyu dislikes puppets when recording his confession.

Now, Kim Yoon-ho is interested in it. He wanted to know why.

When asked Cha Hyun Woo for the third time, Kim Yun Ho did not act as a shopkeeper, but personally interrogated him carefully.

According to Cha Xuanyu's confession again, the reason why he hates puppets is because he is jealous of competing with puppets.

It turned out that last Tuesday night, he wanted to make love with Shen and Gao, but Shen and Gao ignored Che Xuanyu, and instead ran back to the apartment near Linyi High School with the puppet he bought back from the United States.

"Why? Do you know why? Kim Yoon-ho asked.

Cha Xuanyu nodded and recalled, "Well, it's because of a horror movie.

They both love to watch horror movies, and when I went to the United States on a business trip, I downloaded a good horror movie for them and bought a puppet that appeared in the film to set the mood.

When I picked them up last Tuesday night, I wanted to surprise them, but they didn't surprise me by not taking me with them. It is said that there are men there, there is no atmosphere of terror, and they have to watch for themselves.

So, I was abandoned by them that night.

Prosecutor, I've confessed everything I should have confessed, and I really have nothing to do with their deaths. ”

Kim Yun-ho ignored Cha Hyun-woo's defense, and immediately asked, "Where is that horror movie?" ”

"It's on a USB flash drive, and every time I help them download a horror movie, it's stored in a USB flash drive."

"Do you remember the name of that movie?"

"I think about it, it should be called Ghost Lonely, it is a movie released in the United States last year, the film reviews are very good, very scary, but you can't watch it in South Korea."

Ghostly? A horror movie? That puppet is something that appeared in the movie?

A mystery is solved, and more mysteries follow.

Kim Yoon-ho returned to the office with questions.

As soon as he entered the house, Shen Donghai stood up and reported: "Boss, the source of the puppet has been found, and the empty carton at the scene of Shen Jingya's death is the packaging of the puppet, and the puppet was consigned from the United States." ”

"Well, I know about this, are there any other clues?"

"Yes! When I was investigating the courier information, I accidentally found out that Ko Hyun-jung had mailed something to Girls' Generation last Wednesday afternoon. According to the information log, this mailed package was large, and its size coincided with the size of the puppet. ”

"Whew!"

It seems that all the conclusions of the investigation are related to this puppet, and everything points to this puppet.

After listening to Kim Yunho relay the results of Yoon Guohong's investigation and Cha Hyun-woo's confession, Shin Donghae scratched his head and whispered, "Boss, it feels so mysterious." You can't deduce that the puppet is the cause of death of Shen and Gao, right? ”

Kim Yunho shook his head, didn't answer, and instead ordered: "You go find an American horror movie, called Dead Silence, which was released last year." ”

"Oh." Shin Dong-hae responded, a little puzzled why Kim Yoon-ho wanted to watch this horror movie.

Although he also knew that Shen and Gao had seen the film before they died, he thought that the film had nothing to do with the case. You can't say that Shen and Gao were scared to death by a horror movie, right?

That's!

If Kim Yun-ho really closes the case like this, he will definitely be laughed off by outsiders.

Half an hour later, Shin Donghae used the prosecutor's authority to find and download the horror film.

Kim Yoon-ho didn't watch the film immediately, he glanced at the time and found that it was only 7 o'clock in the evening, and it was still bright outside, and there was no horror atmosphere. So he commanded:

"Secretary Li Huina, order takeout, let's have dinner, buy some snacks by the way, and come back, and we'll all watch a horror movie together in a while."

The reason why Kim Yun-ho proposed to watch Lee Hye-na and Song Eun-ji together was to take the two of them as an experiment to see how terrifying this film is and whether it can scare people to death.

Poor Lee Hye-na didn't know Kim Yoon-ho's evil thoughts at this time, but she was a little excited when she heard that they watched horror movies together at night.

After working for a day and a night, she was already tired, and she just wanted to take this opportunity to relieve and relax.

So, after dinner, Kim Yunhao took Shin Donghae, Lee Hin-na, and Song Eun-ji to watch the film in the computer room of the monitoring room.

The monitoring room is chosen because there are no windows here, which is not disturbed by the sunset sun, which can better create a viewing atmosphere.

"Ding"

The computer was turned on, and Kim Yun-ho and the four of them sat around the screen, watching quietly and carefully.

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I stepped on the nail and had to go to the hospital for injections, and the second one was released in advance.