The scene of the murder is located in a boutique community in the eastern suburbs of R City. The community is built near the lake, with complete greenery, beautiful environment and pleasant air, with multi-storey residences, townhouses and independent villas, which is the best choice for local tyrants to settle down.

Yu Chilong, the former owner of the real estate development company in R City, once had a place on the rich list of R City, lives in this villa area. The location of the murder occurred in Villa 17, and the first person to find the body was Shen Li, an hourly worker who came to clean the house.

According to the informant, Shen Li, she arrived at Yu Chilong's house at around 12:30 p.m. Because she has been working in Yu Chilong's house for two years, the owner trusts her very much and gives her all the access card of the community and the spare key to the villa. Every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, if there is no special explanation, she will open the door with the key herself, enter the villa and start work, without the consent of Yu Chilong.

At noon today, she rode an electric car to the villa as usual to clean up. However, the moment she opened the door, she was almost half killed by the smell of the house. Although as a bachelor in his sixties, Yu Chilong was not very good at personal hygiene, the smell in this house was also outrageous, as if something had rotted.

Shen Li's first thought was the Labrador retriever raised by Yu Chilong's family, which occasionally pooped behind the sofa in the hall, but the smell didn't seem to look like it.

She walked around the hall on the first floor with her nose covered, not finding anything out of the ordinary, nor seeing the mischievous Labrador. As she passed the staircase, she felt like it was coming down from the second floor, so she walked quickly upstairs.

There are four rooms on the second floor, including bathrooms and toilets. She opened the doors one by one to check on them, and the smell became stronger and stronger, and she felt like the lunch she had just eaten was churning in her stomach, and she might vomit at any moment.

Finally, she found the source of the smell in the innermost study. At that moment, she really threw up, almost collapsed. What did she see? A dead man? No, to be precise, it was a corpse that had been dead for many days, beginning to decompose, and covered in maggots......

When Qiao Sheng arrived at the scene of the crime, Yu Chilong's body was lying on the floor of the study untouched, looking terrifying, and the whole room was filled with a suffocating smell. Qiao Sheng got used to it for a while, felt the temperature in the room, and said to Forensic Doctor Chen, who was examining the corpse, "The temperature of the central air conditioner is turned on so high, no wonder the corpse decays so quickly. ”

"yes." Dr. Chen replied while picking up a maggot the size of a grain of rice with tweezers and placing it in front of his eyes, "The temperature in the room is about the same as in summer, and the victim must have been dead for more than three days." ”

"Shen Li said that she had seen Yu Chilong when she came to the villa to clean up last Saturday afternoon, so the murderer's time of crime should be between Saturday night and Sunday morning."

"A more precise timing would have to be determined by further autopsies. The deceased had obvious restraint injuries on his wrists and ankles, indicating that the deceased had been controlled by the murderer during his lifetime. The deceased had multiple coercive wounds on his body, indicating that the murderer had tortured him harshly. There were signs of someone turning it over in the room, and the safe under the bookcase was open, without any valuables inside. This case should be a typical burglary homicide. The murderer first entered the villa in some way, controlled the deceased, forced the deceased to tell where the valuables were, and killed the deceased when he got the belongings he wanted. ”

"What do you mean, the murderer and the deceased don't know each other?"

"It's not easy to say......

"Oh? What's going on? ”

Forensic Doctor Chen frowned, pointed to the wound on the victim's chest and continued to explain: "The murderer's modus operandi was very cruel, and he stabbed the deceased thirteen times in total. For a robber who kills for money, these excessive acts of harm are not needed, but they are more common in revenge killings and psychopathic killings. In addition, if the murderer knows the victim, then his practice can also be understood as an act of reinforcement in case the victim is not killed, and the murderer can be identified in the future. ”

"That means the nature of the case ......"

The two of them were discussing when a fierce dog barking suddenly sounded in the hall on the first floor. Qiao Sheng immediately walked out of the study, went downstairs to the hall, and saw Qi Ruonan, a female trace inspector from the Criminal Technology Department of the Municipal Bureau, actually leading a Labrador dog more than half a meter long out of the basement.

"What's going on?" Qiao Sheng looked at the little guy who was excited and screaming, and asked in wonder.

Qi Ruonan squatted down, took off his survey gloves, and stroked the dog's back distressedly, trying to calm it down, while explaining to Qiao Sheng: "I heard from the reporter just now that the deceased had a Labrador at home, and I was worried that the dog was also killed by the murderer, so I looked for the dog's body in the villa, and found that the dog was actually chained to the warehouse in the basement. ”

"The murderer put it in?"

"Hmm......" Qi Ruonan showed a confused expression and replied slowly, "It stands to reason that dog owners shouldn't leash their beloved pets in that kind of place, right?" But if it was the murderer who did it, it seems to be a bit ......"

"Is there something wrong?"

"I also found dog food and drinking water in the basement. Could it be that the murderer kept the dog there and specially prepared these things for it? ”

"What's impossible about that." Xiang Feng, who was checking fingerprints in the hall, interjected half-jokingly, "Maybe the murderer is a dog lover like our Xiaonan?" Reluctant to let this poor little creature starve to death? ”

Qi Ruonan glanced at him and said angrily: "Please, people who like dogs are very sympathetic, okay?" That beast doesn't even spare human life, and will sympathize with an animal? ”

Qiao Sheng frowned thoughtfully, "No, the situation that Xiang Feng said does exist. Some people do value animal life more than people. The murderer killed Yu Chilong, but for some reason, he didn't want to hurt the dog, but he was afraid that the dog would run around and bark and attract the attention of others, so he locked it in a basement with good sound insulation and prepared plenty of food and water for it. By the time the police found the body, the dog would have been rescued. ”

"But ......" Qi Ruonan was still a little unconvinced, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't know how to refute them.

After a while, the Labrador that had been locked up for several days gradually stopped barking under Qi Ruonan's comfort. As if smelling the smell of death permeating the villa, and sensing that his owner had been killed by the bad guys, the Labrador turned from the initial manic rage to fear. Its body trembled slightly, and sometimes it let out a whimpering cry, like a lost child, anxiously searching for its parents.

Xiang Feng looked at it, and suddenly thought of something, "Eh, you say, will the murderer know the owner of this house?" Have a certain affection for this dog, so you can't bear to hurt this dog? ”

"At the moment, it seems that this scenario cannot be ruled out." Qiao Sheng explained to them a little about the revenge murder and perverted murder that Forensic Doctor Chen had inferred, and several people returned to the discussion of the nature of the case......

When Qiao Sheng walked out of the villa, a group of people had gathered outside the police cordon to watch the excitement. Most of these people are residents living in the community, and there are also security guards and property management staff who watch the excitement.

It is conceivable that a murder occurred in a wealthy community with such a high level of security, which will undoubtedly cause great panic in the community. On the other hand, the identity of the deceased this time is very special, it is the father of Chi Liang, a serial corpse killer who committed six murders a few years ago, and this alone has to make people think about it.

Was the murderer's choice of such a particular victim an unintentional coincidence or deliberate? Could it be that he did this to attract attention? What is his relationship with the deceased? How did he get into the community, how did he get into the villa? Is he trying to kill for money, revenge for murder, or both? Why didn't he kill the victim's dog and prepare food and water for the dog? Is the murderer a normal person or a psychopath?

Qiao Sheng had too many questions in his heart. He had a bad premonition that this time the case seemed to be very troublesome, and the murderer this time had invisibly put a lot of pressure on him. I can't figure out that person......

He didn't dare to think any further. In any case, until the nature of the case is clarified, this matter must be kept secret from the outside world for the time being, otherwise it will cause a very bad social impact.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd of onlookers. Qiao Sheng found that many people were looking down at their mobile phones, discussing something with the people around them from time to time, and some people were pointing at the villa while talking, with very strange expressions on their faces.

"What's wrong?" He asked, puzzled. At this time, a policeman handling the case handed his mobile phone to Qiao Sheng, pointed to a social news that had just popped up and said: "Captain, I don't know which unscrupulous reporter has posted this incident on the Internet, it's difficult to handle now......"

"Huh? So fast? Qiao Sheng took the phone in surprise, and immediately saw a piercing title: Retribution! The father of Chi Liang, the corpse killer demon captain, was brutally killed in Lanting Villa! The news was accompanied by several photos of the periphery of the villa, taking pictures of police cars, police cordons, and onlookers.

On the afternoon of January 13, 2016, the police of R City found a highly corrupted male corpse in Villa 17 of Lanting Community. At present, the identity of the deceased has been confirmed. The victim was the former owner of a real estate development company, Wei Chilong, a wealthy tycoon in R City. This person is also the father of Chi Liang, the corpse killer who committed a heinous crime a few years ago and brutally murdered six women......

"Damn! Which son of a girl did this? After only looking at a few lines, Qiao Sheng couldn't help but scold angrily. He swept over every crowd outside the cordon with his cold and sharp eyes, and instantly felt the pressure double.