In a house adjacent to Joseph Street, Xiao Rin kept ringing the doorbell of Room 402, but no one responded. He took a step back and looked up in the direction of the fourth floor, the windows were closed, and this was the point of work, and the building was rarely in and out.

"Mr. Xiao, we come to visit every day, but it always turns out that Edmund never comes forward even when he enters the building and knocks on the door." Rochester explained on the side that he was unable to transition from the perception of a suspect to a person with a special identity and become his superior, and he felt that he still needed to adapt to this transformation

"Every day?" Not sure if it was talking to himself or really asking, Rochester nodded. Xiao Rin rang the doorbell of room 401, and it didn't take long for an old voice to ring. "Hello! We are police agents, please open the door. ”

A head poked out of the window at the other end of the fourth floor and looked at them, and then the door opened with a bang. Xiao Rin let Rochester go up from the elevator, and he was rerouted to take the stairs, like most of the stairs is fifteen steps and one floor, compared to the domestic one, the handrails here are not very clean, but there are traces of cleaning, each floor has a trash can directly down the total garbage warehouse on the ground floor, it is good that there is no smell, it is estimated that the cleaning staff is three to five days to clean once, and the accumulated ash can not make the fingers black.

It's an older building, and it doesn't look like this Edmund is a very rich man. As soon as I stepped out of the fourth floor, I heard Rochester's voice, which seemed to be arguing with someone. Xiao Rin walked out, only to see Rochester talking loudly with an old man with silver hair, maybe the old man's ears were a little back, so he needed to speak loudly.

"Mr. Shaw, this is the neighbor who lives next to Sheriff Edmund." Rochester had to enter the fourth floor much earlier than Xiao Rin, so he was the first person to meet his neighbor, and the old man looked at Xiao Rin over Rochester, he was an Oriental, and he felt very surprised. "This is our chief, you can report the situation to him."

"Hello, I'm Xiao Rin." Xiao Rin is polite and generous. Use a volume that is not a loud shout. But the voice that was enough for the old man to listen to introduced himself, and this kind of understanding suddenly made the old man have a good impression, and he turned to the left to approach Xiao Rin. "Sir, is your right ear deaf?"

The old man nodded. "I don't have 2 hearing in my right ear. The one on the left can be heard more clearly. ”

"Okay! Old gentleman. Excuse me, Mr. Edmund, who lives next door to you. Have you seen one recently? ”

"Do you mean my sir? Four days ago, I heard a loud movement next door, and it was so noisy that I couldn't sleep. When I tried to go out to find him, the sound stopped, and I couldn't hear anything again. ”

"Haven't you seen Mr. Edmund since?"

"What?" The old man asked loudly!

"May I ask you, old man, do you usually go shopping? What time is it? ”

"In the morning, I go back to the park in front of me to exercise, I will take a nap at noon, go to the supermarket at three or four o'clock in the evening, and then stay at home to watch TV!"

Xiao Rin nodded, and he then asked another question. "Sir, may I come into your room and take a look?"

"May I ask what happened to Mr. Director next door?"

"It's just a routine investigation." The old man hesitated, but still let Xiao Rin and Rochester into the bedroom.

The sound of the TV was loud, it was ten o'clock in the morning, the windows were open, and the room was still bright. One-story two-family room type, Edmund's room should be a little smaller than here, listen to the old gentleman introduce his house is a two-bedroom, next door is a single family, now more loved by the middle class, simple and easy to clean up, the rent is not expensive, independent bathroom and kitchen, a small living room and a bedroom, but also with a small balcony, quite affordable house, just because the commercial area is far away, so the house price is very cheap.

Xiao Rin knocked a few times on the wall behind the TV, the solid wall, if you watch TV at the same volume at night, plus most of the elderly will start napping at eight or nine o'clock, what movement will happen next door may not be able to hear the truth, external factors will lead to the absorption of a lot of misinformation.

"Sir, why are you and your wife so sure that there was a commotion in Mr. Edmund's room four days ago?" Xiao Rin asked casually. "Forgive me for my weakness, not to question your words, but to confirm the actual circumstances at the time. Depending on your condition, you have hearing problems and you have a habit of watching TV at night, so how do you distinguish what is going on outside in such a noisy environment? ”

"It happened to be that day when we came back from our daughter's house, and we went to bed early when we were a little tired! It was as if something heavy was being thrown at us, making a loud noise, so I was woken up! ”

"Okay, thank you, old sir, for interrupting your rest." Xiao Rin felt that he had nothing to ask about, in fact, judging from the time given by Messers, Edmund had disappeared earlier, and there had been no sound since a big commotion four days ago, which did not mean that something happened to Edmund after that, and according to the old gentleman's daily life, it was impossible to hear the real thing.

Xiao Rin stroked along the edge of the security door with his fingers, Rochester couldn't understand what this young man was doing, he could study a door for a long time, but his superiors had already arranged him to this person, and he couldn't say anything.

"Officer Rochester, are you familiar with Edmund? What are his daily habits and relationships? Xiao Rin squatted down and groped for the keyhole, took out a silver needle from his pocket and stretched it out to the inside of the keyhole.

"Edmund used to be my sheriff, but I don't want to comment on him, sir."

"Hmm!" Xiao Rin smiled lightly, this Rochester has always maintained a rigorous posture, he has been a police officer for more than ten years, and he has just taken the position of sheriff, thanks to Edmund's three consecutive jumps, not a person who can flatter horses. "That's it!" The sound of the gear gagged in the ears close to the door was heard, and the setting of the lock hole of this simple anti-theft door was much the same.

"What?"

"I mean, we can go in."

After the last lap of the keyhole, the door was opened a crack, which was similar to what I expected, although the smell was not very strong, but because of the long-term closed environment, the smell of cleaned blood was aggravated by itself. "Officer Rochester, please notify your people to cordon off the scene, I think we found Sheriff Edmund."

Rochester let out a puzzled sound again, they hadn't entered this room yet, and the young man was so sure that Edmund was inside? And still as the deceased.

"Let's go in first, I know you don't believe me, but judging from the smell of blood in the air, the deceased has been dead for at least four days, and as for why there is no smell of rotting corpses, it is likely that they have been refrigerated or otherwise concealed the traces of the corpses."

Xiao Rin's words were quickly confirmed by Rochester, because when they entered the small living room, a large area of blood was spilled on the wall, but the ground was unusually clean, and the traces of the aftermath were everywhere, his nose was not as sensitive as Xiao Rin, and it was only when he arrived in the living room that he smelled blood, so he was impressed by this young man. When Messers explained the task, he especially talked about Xiao Rin's identity, and the rank of the major general may be surprising in the identity of each country's military district, but the difference is not very big, so to some extent, this person's identity level far exceeds their director.

Rochester's first reaction was to run to the kitchen, there was no corpse, and there was no smell of rotting corpses, he subconsciously remembered Xiao Rin's words, the place where the house can be used for refrigeration is the refrigerator, so he found a paper towel instead of gloves and put it on the doorknob of the refrigerator, at this moment Xiao Rin suddenly liked this somewhat wooden policeman, he was ordinary and would not attract any attention if he was thrown on the road, but he was a thoughtful man.

"Rochester, there's not going to be anything you want to see in there." The reason why Xiao Rin said this is because it is not easy to stuff a seven-foot-tall man from the living room into the refrigerator with only three doors, it must be dismembered before it can be stuffed in piece by piece, and a large-capacity container is also needed to store it, but obviously Edmund's refrigerator does not meet the above conditions, and the main thing is that there are no other signs of large-scale spurting blood columns at the scene of the murder, so he judged that the body was not dismembered, but there is one point, whether the deceased is Edmund needs further research, It can only be said that there are people killed here, and the identity is not certain.

Rochester opened the refrigerator without giving up, and there was no bloody picture he expected, he suddenly felt that he had masochistic tendencies, and after letting out a wail that I don't know if it was disappointment or something else, Xiao Rin walked into the kitchen.

There was food in the refrigerator, very planned storage with the characteristics of food, as well as vegetables and bread, Xiao Rin picked up the milk on the door and there was no sign of opening it, the date on it was five days ago.

"Edmund went to the store when he came back from the police station, bought food and went home, and the steak, the vegetables began to soften with withered yellow leaves, the blood of the beef became dark, the outer packaging of the beer showed no signs of tearing, and the production date was the beginning of this month." Xiao Rin recounted the situation in the refrigerator into the recorder. (To be continued.) )