Life is always impermanent, and former lovers may become your life partner, or they may become strangers, and more likely they will become enemies.

In the summer of 2015, due to the influence of the subtropical high pressure, the heat wave continued to roll, and the entire Wanzhou City was like a steamer.

The best way to escape the heat during the hot summer months is to swim.

However, on this weekend, when the swimming city was almost overcrowded, a man did something terrifying.

He boarded the 10-meter platform and jumped off the platform in front of everyone with a standard diving move. However, what he jumped into was not the deep pool under the jumping platform, but the concrete floor under the jumping platform.

Blood, stained red.

As you can imagine, the swimmers present were terrified and screamed.

After receiving a call from Lao Lu, I rushed to the swimming city, and it was already 6:15 in the evening. But because we're in the southwest, the sun is still shining brightly in the west. The incandescent sunlight makes it hard to see that the sun is approaching at this time.

The position of the jump is in an open area, so the sunlight is projected on the body. The police did not set up a cordon around the jumping platform, because the death incident brought the entire swimming city out of business, and the people who had previously swam there also left.

The forensic doctor in the white shirt seemed to have completed the autopsy at this time and was negotiating with Lao Lu.

Lao Lu wore a police hat and a light blue summer uniform, listened carefully to the forensic doctor's report, and nodded from time to time.

By the time I approached, the medical examiner's debriefing had finished and he had left the scene with his toolbox.

Looking at the situation at the scene, I preliminarily judged that the deceased was pushed down from the 10-meter jumping platform and fell to his death.

So I walked up to Lao Lu and asked, "The deceased was pushed down and fell to his death?" ”

Lao Lu's answer surprised me.

"No, he jumped down and fell to his death, there were many eyewitnesses at the scene, and the preliminary judgment was suicide."

I frowned, didn't ask more, and said, "I'll go see the scene." ”

Lao Lu hummed, agreed, and didn't reveal more information to me. Because Lao Lu understands my case-handling style, I will find some clues on the scene and negotiate with the problems found by Lao Lu, so as to improve the detection rate of the case to a greater extent.

I know that this is not a simple suicide case. Because ordinary suicide cases will not fall on Lao Lu, the head of the criminal investigation team, let alone the forensic doctor of the forensic identification center to conduct an autopsy. With these two points alone, I knew that this suicide case was not simple.

First of all, I looked at the deceased.

The deceased was a male, about 25 years old, dark-skinned, and wearing a pair of dark blue swimming trunks with white stripes on both sides. There is a skull-shaped stud on the left ear. The hair is flat, but dyed blonde.

One of the most important characteristics of the deceased is that the muscles are very strong and well-proportioned. Coupled with his dark skin, I speculate that he must be a long-time gym player and a keen outdoor swimmer. And this kind of dark skin of his, apparently, is not formed in inland areas, but should be formed after living in coastal cities for a long time and being exposed to the scorching sun for a long time.

He may have been a man with a career in the sea. Such as fishermen, diving instructors, and so on.

The fatal wound to the deceased was in the head, the skull injury was extremely severe, and it was clear that he landed on the head first. However, this kind of head landing on the ground first is not formed by body deviation in the natural fall, but the deceased deliberately jumped down from head to foot, and the head touched the ground first.

This is evidenced by the fracture of his finger joints. He jumped off the 10-meter platform with a leap into the water. Of course, this was also confirmed in subsequent eyewitness testimonies.

I slowly climbed up to the platform, and at first I didn't feel anything, but when I got up to the 10-meter platform, I felt a little dizzy when I looked down. This is not because I am afraid of heights, normal people will experience dizziness without training in working at height.

I checked the 10-meter platform and found that there were very few footprints on the platform, and it seemed that there were not many people who actually came up to dive. Indeed, jumping the 10-meter platform is already an extreme sport for the average person.

Of course, there is a set of footprints on the jumping platform, which leads to the back of the jumping platform, and this set of footprints is because of the watermark footprints left after stepping on the small pool on the jumping platform.

As for why there is a small pool on the jumping platform, it is actually easy to explain. Because this is an open-air jump, it is kept under the scorching sun in the summer. Therefore, the operator has placed a small pool on each jumping platform for tourists to avoid the cement jumping platform from being too hot after stepping on water.

Judging from the size of the watermark footprint, it is basically consistent with the height of the deceased, indicating that this is the footprint left by the deceased.

And around this set of footprints, there are no other footprints, and obviously no one will come up and push the deceased to the concrete floor under the jumping platform.

I stood in the position where the deceased jumped down before him, and found that the deceased's landing place was far away from the jumping platform, so the deceased jumped when he jumped, otherwise the landing point would not be so far.

Both of the above points are good proof that the deceased jumped off the diving platform on his own.

However, there is another thing that puzzles me at the scene, that is, at the back of the jumping platform, that is, where the deceased jumped off the jumping platform, why is there no guardrail?

There are rounded aluminum alloy guardrails on both sides of the jumping platform, but the tail is not. And there was no trace of a guardrail ever installed at the tail.

I thought about it for a while and quickly came to a conclusion. This is supposed to be the developer of the swimming city in order to save costs, so there is no guardrail behind the jumping platform.

Of course, this does not prove that they cut corners, because this jumping platform is still relatively wide, and if it is a tourist who comes up to dive, it is impossible to go to the back of the diving platform. What I'm talking about are the two positions that separate the small pool from the jump.

Ordinary people get on the jumping platform and step into the small pool, they must move in the direction of the deep pool, and it is impossible to move to the rear for no reason. Unless it is to seek death like the dead.

Coming down from the jumping platform, I walked to Lao Lu's side with doubts and asked, "I know this is not a simple suicide incident, tell me, what is wrong with the deceased?" ”

Lao Lu looked at me with a strange look, of course, this kind of look usually only appears when Lao Lu encounters an unexplained case. I know this very well.

Lao Lu said: "You come with me, and I will take you to see the person who reported the crime." ”

Indeed, this kind of suicide is generally notified to 120, and if someone calls 110 to report the crime, then there must be something strange in it.

Lao Lu took me to the manager's office in Swimming City.

The furnishings in the office are relatively simple, with the old seafarers' lifebuoys and a few drawings of the swimming city hanging on the wall to take photos with the staff.

Two detectives sat on the couch and were talking to a man in his 40s. One of the policemen spread out a notebook in his hand and a black pen in his right hand, apparently recording a statement for the man in front of him.

After Lao Lu and I entered the office, two criminal policemen stood up and greeted Lao Lu and me. Lao Lu asked them to leave first, saying that they would leave it to me to deal with here.

After the two criminal policemen left, Lao Lu closed the door and said to the manager: "Manager Xue, this is Ouyang Ouyang, the criminal investigation consultant of the criminal investigation team, you will tell him the situation of the deceased in detail." ”

I looked at Lao Lu, the strange light in his eyes had always existed, and I understood that there must be something unbelievable in this case.

Look at the manager Xue in front of him, he is sitting on an independent sofa, and there are three mineral water bottles in front of him, two of which are empty and the other bottle is half drunk.

I can be sure that these three bottles of water were all drunk by this Manager Xue, because the place placed cannot be left by the previous two criminal policemen.

Of course, this is quite normal. Because this manager Xue is very fat, he weighs more than 100 kilograms visually. Although the office was still very cool because of the air conditioning, there were still large beads of sweat oozing from Manager Xue's forehead and the tip of his nose.

He was dressed in a white shirt, black summer trousers, and a pair of black leather shoes. This dress is typical of white-collar workers. I think that as the manager of the swimming city, this kind of dress should be prescribed by the unit. But it is conceivable that such a dress will still feel a little out of place when it appears in the swimming city.

Manager Xue stood up, his huge body made it a little difficult for him to get up, but he still tried to stabilize his body and shook my hand.

His hands are soft, and that's because obesity has accumulated a lot of fat. He didn't have any strength, maybe because he was too fat, and he didn't bother to shake hands hard.

After we sat down, we cut straight to the point, and I asked Manager Xue, "The deceased is your employee here, right?" ”

Manager Xue said, "Yes. ”

Manager Xue was not surprised, because he must have told Lao Lu about this situation before, and he thought that Lao Lu had also told me about this situation.

Actually, I don't know about this, I'm just speculating. Because on the wall of the office, the group photo of the employee was wearing swimsuits and swim trunks, and the swim trunks worn by the man were exactly the same blue and white-rimmed swim trunks as the swim trunks worn by the deceased. Coupled with the deceased's physical characteristics, it is clear that he had something to do with water sports.

So I asked, "What is the name of the deceased?" How old is it? Are you a local? What is a career in Swim City? ”

Manager Xue said: "His name is Yao Yingtian, 24 years old, from Hainan, who works as a security guard and swimming coach in the swimming city. ”

I said, "Do you know why he committed suicide?" ”

Manager Xue said with some horror: "I know, it's because he broke up with his girlfriend and committed suicide when he couldn't figure it out." ”

I frowned, because Manager Xue's expression was very strange, I was just understanding the situation very normally now, but why did he have a frightened expression on his face?

So I further asked, "Is there anything else hidden in this?" ”

Manager Xue looked at Lao Lu, and then said, "Comrade police officer, do you really want me to say it again?" ”

Lao Lu said in a calm and affirmative tone: "Yes, say it again." ”

Manager Xue's Adam's apple squirmed up and down, he stretched out his chubby hand and picked up the half bottle of mineral water, took a few sips of it, and then took the mineral water bottle in his hand and continued: "Yao Yingtian's girlfriend is very strange, because her appearance is very similar to the female tourist who drowned in the deep pool of the swimming city four years ago. I kept telling Xiao Yao that this woman was unlucky, but Xiao Yao didn't listen, and it ended up like this. ”

I expressed my disdain for the remarks of the fat man in front of me, but this disdain was only manifested in my heart, and I did not point out the absurdity of such statements on the surface.

From Manager Xue's words, it is clear that Manager Xue believes that there is some power beyond reality that has brought Yao Yingtian into the abyss of death. Obviously, I am extremely disapproving of this statement and idea, because this is just a strange conjecture that Manager Xue had after seeing Yao Yingtian's girlfriend.

But here comes a case of drowning four years ago.

So I said: "There are many people who look alike in this world, Manager Xue, you can't rely on supernatural events just because you look like the deceased before." ”

As I spoke, I thought to myself that this might be a simple case of a deceased who had an emotional breakdown and eventually committed suicide due to emotional problems.

However, Manager Xue hurriedly said: "Officer, listen to me, I'm not talking nonsense, because after we drowned that girl in the swimming city four years ago, I received an email, and the email only said four words, 'blood debt and blood payment'." After that, I investigated the person who sent the email, but I didn't expect it to be from the drowned girl. After he finished speaking, he took a big sip of some water, looking very frightened.

I said, "It's likely that someone else used the deceased's email address to send it to you, so you don't need to panic." ”

Manager Xue looked at me, didn't speak, took a big sip of some water, and then said: "Anyway, I believe that Xiao Yao was killed by someone, no, no, no, by a ghost, not as simple as suicide." ”

Manager Xue was a little emotional now, and said something that was not at all sideways. Of course, I stick to my principles and beliefs, and in this world, there can't be any ghost killing games. It's all people pretending to be ghosts.

And now this case is definitely a suicide case, but behind this suicide case, will there be any suicide hints to the deceased, this is the direction I need to investigate.

Since Lao Lu attaches so much importance to this suicide case, then I can't take it lightly.

Of course, the first thing should be to find Yao Yingtian's girlfriend and see if Yao Yingtian's suicide was caused by her breakup with her girlfriend.

Just when the police were looking for Yao Yingtian's girlfriend, an unexpected thing happened, that is, Yao Yingtian's girlfriend Li Lifei was kidnapped. Now the kidnappers are holding Li Lifei hostage in a girls' dormitory at a technical school.