"The man surnamed Xu in Haishi ruled in court today that he was driving while drinking alcohol and taking drugs, which led to a car accident, and the woman who was traveling with him died suddenly in the car accident due to drug overdose, and after finding the woman dead, he abandoned the woman's body in the alley of a residential area in the first district. The sound of a news report came over the TV.

Chen Yiyan finished wiping his hair and walked to his desk. Yu Yuqian, who finally doesn't have to go out, is dealing with the email she received for nearly a week. He looked at Yu Yuqian, who was concentrating on reading the email, and the original contract signed on the contract to do five days off and two days off became a seven-day shift a week.

After the release of the relevant information, there are indeed a lot fewer commissions about derailment and lost and found. Reading the email, finding out the problem, refusing, and attaching suggestions, Yu Yuqian has become accustomed to this set of operations, and she can complete it well without Chen Yiyan's guidance. There were also some strange emails in the mailbox, such as the one she showed Chen Yiyan to see.

Hello detective from Chengtian Office, I like to read some detective suspense novels on weekdays, but recently my mind has the urge to kill. I don't know if you have such thoughts. I wanted to devise the perfect murder myself, and the urge was getting stronger. In fact, the firm has not only received this email, but also one or two similar emails received by Chen Yiyan in the early days of the firm's establishment. He also remembers how he handled this type of email the first time he received it. A few years ago, after checking the address of the email, he went to visit the other party, with the idea of enlightening the other party, but was ridiculed by the other party. "I'm just joking with you, I see that you saw the news of the firm, so I thought I would leave an email to read. I didn't expect it to come. The other party's mocking words seemed to be in his ears.

"Don't bother with it, it's all from those little kids who are idle and have nothing to do."

The next email is even more magical. Detective Chen, do you believe I can see dead people? If you don't believe me, you must come to me. The address was attached. Chen Yiyan didn't speak, and swirled his fingers around his temples. Maybe it's Chen Yiyan's recent case that has made him famous, or maybe the hot climate has made these people irritated to write these inexplicable emails, and the favorite commission has never appeared.

After two days of idleness, Chen Yiyan received a phone call.

"Hello? Is it Detective Chen from District 8 Chengtian Office? "The accent of the other party is like that of a local.

"Yes, may I ask who you are?"

"Oh, I'm Huang Yanfei, the captain of the criminal police squadron of the Linhai Town Police Station."

"Captain Huang? Do you have a case against me over there? ”

"Yes, Lao Xing from Airport Town recommended me to find you."

"Okay, what's your case over there?"

"Homicide."

The territorial sea town is located in the southeast corner of the city, in the middle of the airport and the port of the eighth district, and this time Chen Yiyan and Yu Yuqian went to the investigation site in Dongdi Village, the easternmost part of the territorial sea town. The name Dongdi Village comes from its proximity to the seawall to the east. Due to the development of local construction, most of the villagers have moved to live in the town, and there are now only eight families left in Dongdi Village.

When I got out of the car, there was a slight salty smell in the oncoming sea breeze. The wide field of vision and the blue sky and white clouds made the two forget that they were here to investigate the murder.

The entrance to the village was across the bridge, and Chen Yiyan, who was walking on the bridge, suddenly had a feeling that it was as if this big river had isolated the village from the town behind him. Several police officers were already waiting at the other end of the bridge.

"Hello, I'm Chen Yiyan. This is my assistant, Miss Yu. After the two sides greeted each other, they entered the village under Huang Yanfei's introduction.

"The body that our squadron found while patrolling last night was found in a pond not far from the village."

"What is your preliminary judgment now?"

"The body was stuck in the mud of the pond and has now been dug up. The deceased had scars on his head and obvious strangulation marks on his neck. ”

"Do you know the identity of the deceased?"

"The deceased was a local, living in a small house on the beach in the east of the village, Chinese New Year's Eve, no wife and no children, his parents died a few years ago, and he was fishing by the sea for a living."

"Did the people in the village hear anything last night?"

"We all eight families asked, and they said they had a party last night and didn't hear anything."

The corpse was indeed not far from the village, and the two arrived at the scene while chatting. Three police officers were standing next to the bodies and waiting for them.

The lower half of the deceased's body was covered with mud, which had turned into a gray solid mud due to the hot weather in late July, and the rubber pants on the lower body were in keeping with his status as a fisherman. Chen Yiyan leaned down to carefully observe the corpse, while Yu Yuqian took pictures and recorded on the side.

"Are you sure he's in the fishing business?"

"yes, that's what everyone in the village says."

"Hmm." Chen Yiyan looked at the neck of the deceased, and then looked up and looked nearby. "The strangulation marks are very thin, not like a rope or a hand. And there are several blood spots below the Adam's apple, and on both sides. He pointed to the wire fence next to the pond. It should be these barbed wires that left this strangulation mark. ”

After listening to Chen Yiyan's words, the three police officers began to observe the barbed wire. "Team Yellow, come on." One of the police officers closest to Chen Yiyan shouted.

Except for Chen Yiyan and Yu Yuqian, all the other investigators present surrounded them. In front of the officer who spoke, there was a dark red blood stain on a piece of barbed wire.

"So, maybe he smeared himself and hit this barbed wire while walking?" Huang Yanfei asked.

"And where did the scar come from?"

"Could it be that after he hit the barbed wire, his center of gravity was unstable, and then he fell into the pond and hit his head on a rock or something?"

"Not really." Chen Yiyan continued: "There are no traces of mud on the clothes on the chest of the deceased, think about it, if your center of gravity is unstable, what will be your posture when you fall into this pond?" ”

"Head down." Yu Yuqian answered for the yellow team.

"Yes, with your head down, you can hit something, but why is there mud only on your back, but not on your chest? That only shows that the deceased entered a state of silt, not with his head down, nor rolling over by the pond, but with his back on the ground. So since it is on the ground, how can there be a scar on the head? A series of words, Huang Yanfei and the surrounding police officers were stunned.

"Okay, it's worthy of being the detective recommended by Lao Xing. Excuse me... What do you think is going on? ”

"I don't know." Chen Yiyan shook his head. "In a moment, you take the body to the medical examiner's department and let them check the cause of death."

"Do you think it was him who hit his head first, then hit the wire with an unstable center of gravity, and then slipped on the side of the road and sat down in this pond." Yu Yuqian asked Chen Yiyan in a low voice.

"Look. The deceased should have been found at that location. Chen Yiyan pointed to the silt two meters away from the narrow concrete road. And the distance from this path to the mud has no other traces except for the footprints left by two rows of policemen, so it should not be that I went in by myself. ”

Yu Yuqian looked at the gray mud on the feet of the two police officers at the barbed wire, and she continued to ask, "Didn't you go in by yourself?" ”

"Well, I think someone threw it in." The conversation between the two in front of them was whispered, but this sentence was heard by Huang Yanfei, who walked in. "Thrown in?"

"That's what I thought."

"So this could be a murder?"

"Didn't you take it as a murder?" Yu Yuqian asked.

"Just now Advisor Chen said the cause of the strangulation marks on his neck, and we think he may have stumbled and drowned in the pond."

"The scar on the deceased's head has not yet been scarred, indicating that it was just left, and it is very likely that it is related to the cause of his death, as for the possibility of falling into the pond and drowning, his mouth and nose are dry, and there are no traces of water."

"Let's go, let's go to his residence and remember to send it to the forensic department later." In ten or twenty minutes, Chen Yiyan had already collected the information he could collect.

The deceased's residence is located halfway between the village of Dongdi and the seawall, surrounded by tidal flats overgrown with coastal plants. This room is more of a concrete thatched hut than a private house. When the wooden door opened, it made a "squeak" sound, and there was only room for four people in the room, some women's fragrant posters were pasted on the walls, many lottery ticket stubs were placed on the table next to the door, and an old-fashioned TV set was placed on the side, Chen Yiyan estimated that this TV set might still be a black and white TV. The bed was covered with a mat, and the cup on the mat was a quilt with several holes in it, and yellowed cotton wool poked out of the holes.

"The deceased didn't have anyone to contact?" Chen Yiyan reconfirmed.

"No, according to our investigation, no." Huang Yanfei replied.

"Neither are the relatives?"

"In terms of relatives, in fact, the eight families in Dongdi Village can be regarded as relatives of the deceased."

Yu Yuqian was filming on the side, and she patted Chen Yiyan's shoulder: "Look." Pointing to the underside of the bed. Chen Yiyan bent down and took out what Yu Yuqian was pointing at. It was an iron rod, the top of which was bent into a hook. Huang Yanfei saw this scene and ordered another police officer in the house to search for anything else under the bed. Soon, the policeman took out all the things that were under the bed. There was a dusty fishing net, a netting bag that was also dusted, and some iron tools. These are some of the tools commonly used in fishing.

The house was not large, the search was soon over, several people returned to the location of the body, the body transport truck had arrived, and several police officers were working together to transport the body to the car.

Looking at the corpse that was loaded onto the corpse truck, Chen Yiyan touched his chin.