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"Team Xu, this is your breakfast. And the coffee you let buy. ”

Lao Wang from the district police station walked into the office with a large bag of fritters. His apprentice, Xiao Wang, held a box of newly bought coffee on the desk.

On a circular desk that can seat twenty people at the same time, a young man lies. Hearing Lao Wang's call, a carp jumped off the desk.

"You haven't slept all night, have you?" Lao Wang looked at the young man in front of him with concern, who was not a few years older than his apprentice. The eye circles are dark and bloodshot, which is the sequelae of staying up late.

"Lay down at five o'clock, what time is it now?" This young man, known as "Team Xu", rubbed his face, then pinched a fritter and chewed it.

"It's only half past seven? Do you want to lie down a little longer? Lao Wang glared at Xiao Wang, who was about to open the curtains.

"Hey, pull away." Team Xu nodded at Xiao Wang.

The curtains were opened, and the sunlight filled the entire office in an instant. Only then did Lao Wang and Xiao Wang see clearly that the whiteboard in the office was covered with all kinds of scribbled notes and photos. On the desk, a tablecloth is covered with printed CCTV (closed-circuit monitor) screenshots.

"It seems that the Xu team of this city bureau is really the same as the legend." Lao Wang secretly marveled in his heart.

Xu Yufan, 26 years old. He has been a police officer for five years, but he is the youngest deputy director in the national public security system. Since his first year in office, he has cracked a major case every year, and he has quickly won the appreciation of his leaders. Under the advocacy of the younger leadership group, at the age of 26, he became the deputy captain of the third detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Municipal Bureau and a first-class police inspector.

For the district bureau, the existence of Team Xu should be regarded as a great god. He and the director of the district bureau are all at the same level, and if they come over, they will all have friendly exchanges with inspection work. Like now, being seconded to the district bureau to do the work of an ordinary criminal police officer can be regarded as an unprecedented time.

However, the curiosity of young people cannot be limited by the name of a vice-captain. When the director of the district bureau dialed the phone of Team Xu for only five minutes, Xu Yufan agreed to this strange case.

At eight o'clock, 10 criminal policemen sat down in the conference room, all of whom were the backbone of the district bureau.

Everyone had a folder in their hand with the latest information and developments on the case. Flipping through the folder, the first page is the terrifying sight of "a" female corpse lying in a pool of blood. The reason why it is barely called "one" is because the female corpse has been dismembered, with nearly 18 pieces of large and small, scattered in the alley two meters wide.

On the surface, this is just an ordinary horrific murder. However, in the eyes of experienced criminal police, it is a very peculiar case. Because from the initial police of the police station to the criminal police of the district bureau, they went back and forth to investigate and clean up the scene three times, but they did not find any valuable clues.

Surveillance footage, shoe prints, fingerprints, eyewitness ...... These "hard clues" (referring to material clues that can be used to track down) that the criminal police rely on to solve the case turned out to be zero.

In China's criminal history, a case with zero "hard clues" at the scene can become a mystery. So far, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been seven cases that can become mysteries, namely the 1988-2002GS silver serial murder case, 1994, the BJ Tsinghua University girl poisoning case, 1995, the case of the disappearance of doctoral students at Dalian University of Technology, 1996, the case of the dismemberment of the body of a female student at Nanjing University, 1996, the case of the disappearance of the car of the new ** Shanzi two-person car, 2002, the case of the disappearance of a business traveler in Nanjing at the Wuhan University Hotel, and the mysterious death case of the boy in red at CQ in 2009.

However, most of these seven mystery cases were committed before 2000. At that time, the methods of criminal investigation were relatively weak, and camera monitors were not yet widely available in the city. And now, especially in a large place like the capital, dense cameras and closed-circuit surveillance have formed a skynet that can be escaped and used everywhere. As depicted in some science fiction movies, there is no privacy in public places, or even in some private places. In China's low-level atmosphere of criminal means, there are very few cases where there are no hard clues.

"Brother Luo, could you please go through the content of the last meeting again?" Xu Yufan nodded at a tall man on the other side of the table, and then put down the empty coffee can in his hand. It was his third can of coffee in the morning.

"At 6:01 a.m., a college student passing by for a morning jog noticed blood stains in the alley and called the police. At 6:15, the police officers from the nearby police station were in place to investigate the scene, but found nothing but the deceased. At 10 o'clock in the morning, Lao Wang and I also went to assist in the investigation, and after discovering the special nature of the scene, we notified the district bureau, brought a whole set of teams, and carried out the most comprehensive survey and treatment. Still, nothing was found. ”

The curtains were closed again, and the screens in the office switched to the pictures in the projector.

Bloody scenes, fragmented corpses.

"The preliminary autopsy report came out, and the girl was 19 years old. There were no signs of sexual assault before death. Judging from the attire, it should also be a student of the National People's University. There were no fingerprints, shoe prints, two cameras from a nearby store, and a camera at a convenience store on the first floor of the hotel apartment, none of which contained any suspicious information. In addition to the student who was found, we are currently looking for witnesses, but there is no news yet. There were no other objects at the scene other than the corpse, mobile phones, wallets, satchels, none. The girl wore a short skirt and had no pockets. There were no other items such as jewelry on the corpse. The girl's face was destroyed, and the sketch restoration was in progress. There are no other special features such as tattooed birthmarks on the body. The young "Brother Luo", who was only one year older than Xu Yufan, took a sip of water and continued to report.

"The only clue now is to break through from our supposed human college students. The school has been notified by us and is checking for signs of missing girls. It will take time, but it should be fruitful this afternoon. ”

Now, it seems, is the only hope that isn't too elusive. If the identity of the girl can be found through the school, it can be investigated from her social relations and personal contradictions, so as to establish a series of "soft clues". Investigation and visits, this used to be the traditional means of China's criminal police, but in recent years with the rapid development of science and technology, it has been gradually diluted by these post-80s and post-90s police.

Brother Luo turned around and put down the laser whip in his hand, "This is the content of the last meeting that ended at 9 o'clock last night. ”

Xu Yufan stood up suddenly, then called up a file in front of his notebook and clicked it on, projecting it onto the screen.

"This is the latest autopsy report I received at 2 p.m. yesterday."

On the curtain, a familiar table is displayed in front of you.

"Look here." Picking up the whip, Xu Yufan circled the curtain with a laser, "The murder tool is unknown." I called the monitoring center and they told me that the incision was uneven, that the murder weapon was able to eliminate any sharp blades, and that they did not know how it was caused. ”

The screen switched, and everyone saw the high-definition photos of the 18 pieces of minced meat again, and after constantly zooming in on the picture, they could indeed see the jagged edges.

"Whew." Even the young female detective, who claimed to be a woman, covered her mouth at this moment, struggling to hold back the nausea coming from her stomach.

"This is my inference, it may be a two-hundred-pound eye-catching tiger, or it may be a vampire."

Well?

For a while, everyone at the desk looked at each other, and some doubted that their ears had heard it wrong, what the young leader just said was, Tiger? Bloodsucker?

However, Lao Wang, who had heard a little about Team Xu's deeds, did not say anything, he knew that Team Xu's style was fantastical and wild. However, it was this young man's extraordinary imagination and intuition that allowed him to solve those big cases and ride the rocket to the top.

Xu Yufan seemed to be very satisfied with his conclusion, and he deliberately looked around and took everyone's expressions into his eyes.

"A police detective whose logic is better than imagination is a good police detective, but a police detective whose imagination overrides logic is not excellent, but a great police detective." Miyazawa, a world-famous criminal police master and a senior Japanese police detective, once said so. (Hail to the Knife Great!) ）

And imagination is one of the qualities that Xu Yufan is most proud of. When he was still in junior high school, he said in front of the whole class that "the future of mankind lies in space and the infinite imagination of science fiction writers". However, looking at Xu Yufan's outstanding results and his handsome appearance that is also not inferior to a star, the teacher and classmates did not make a judgment, but just looked at him in surprise. And their expressions at that time were exactly the same as those of everyone just now.

If I had more spare time, I would definitely write science fiction on a part-time basis. This is also a point of melancholy in Xu Yufan's heart. When his position reached the rank of deputy director, socializing and reporting became the main theme of life. Not to mention writing novels, even taking the time to participate in such a case made Xu Yufan owe the leader a favor.

"Nothing_is_impossible, isn't it?" Xu Yufan smiled lightly, and then clicked on a PPT (PowerPoint slide) that he had made temporarily.

"First of all, it can be inferred from such a wound that it does not belong to any sharp weapon, it can only be the brute force of a beast." With a wave of his finger, the curtain switches to a scene of jaguar hunting. "Look at this, isn't it very similar to the scene?"

One left and one right, it is true that the wounds are all jagged as if they have been torn open.

This is the first hypothetical assertion. As for the second one," Xu Yufan cut back to the autopsy report, "the report said that the time of death was extremely short. And from the analysis of the blood stains at the scene and the degree of scattering of the corpse, it seems that in an instant, so fast that it may not take more than a second, the girl was dismembered. ”

Although people don't want to believe it, the autopsy report and the inquest report at the scene don't lie. The icy data confirmed Team Xu's simulation.

"To be able to cause such a tragic situation in a second, I'm afraid it's the kind of vampire in the movie, right?" Xu Yufan took a long breath, "Of course, the vampires here are just referring to them, aliens, predators, werewolves, any super existence that can emit this kind of brute force that appears in science fiction works can be replaced at will." ”

"All three cameras keep a complete record. Two nearby shops, and a convenience store on the first floor of the hotel apartment, recorded no one else passing by from after 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. The autopsy report speculated that the time of the girl's death was 5:20 a.m., which coincided with the time observed by the convenience store camera and the time when the girl passed at 5:18. Then at 5:58 and 6 a.m., the figure of the student who reported the crime was photographed at a nearby store. ”

Xu Yufan draws a triangle on the whiteboard.

"The shooting angle formed by these three cameras forms a closed triangle. In other words, when the girl had a misfortune," Xu Yufan paused for half a second before continuing, "In this area, there is only one girl. ”

"There are also footprints surveyed at the site, the alley is a dead end, and inside is a recessed part of the apartment building. In the alley, there were no footprints of anyone other than the girl and the student who reported the crime. Fingerprints too, no. There were no other objects at the scene other than the girl's fragments and shredded clothing. ”

The picture flashed, and then changed to an engineering and architectural drawing.

"This is a structural plan of the apartment building and the road in front of the door. It can be seen that in the closed triangle of the camera, there is not a single manhole cover that can pass through the sewer mouth of a person. Therefore, the case of breakthrough from the ground can be ruled out. ”

Everyone was shocked. In this way, even if they confirmed the identity of the girl, they would not be able to find information about the murderer. Because according to such a rigorous analysis, I am afraid that the murderer could not be anyone.

This is not a murder in a closed room in the novel, but it is a mystery case that also has no murderer.

"Well, my first assumption was just a joke. Where did that tiger stuff come from? It's always going to be recorded by the camera. It's the second one," Xu Yufan grinned, "I've seen movies, and some vampires can fly." ”

Lao Wang's brows furrowed tightly. Could this be the eighth mystery in the history of crime in New China?