The DNA data of the blood on the wrench matches the DNA data on a cigarette butt in the farmhouse. Then it is even more certain that the murderer is a guest staying at the farmhouse on the night of the crime.

Together with Lao Lu, I first visited pharmacies, outpatient clinics and health centers in Liangshui Township, Ganchang Township and Baiyang Township. The results were disappointing.

But in the town of *, we have made new discoveries.

This is a pharmacy on the street, *The town is not big, so there is only one pharmacy.

Walking into the pharmacy, a strong smell of Chinese medicine came to my nose. From the drugs displayed in the pharmacy, it can be inferred that the owner of this pharmacy has a certain amount of research on Chinese medicine. Because in the pharmacy, there are not only finished packaged medicines, but also wooden lattices and drawers for displaying Chinese medicines. And the strong smell of Chinese medicine is emanating from the wooden lattice.

The owner of the pharmacy was a man in his fifties. He wears a pair of old glasses, except that they are not worn on the bridge of his nose, but on the wings of his nose. Although he was bald, he had a large beard. I don't think it's like he's trying to be different, because it's obvious from the bald head that the doctor has lost his head, and the top of his head is very bright, indicating that the pores have shrunk and no hair has grown for many years. And some black spots can be seen around the head, indicating that black hair will slowly grow around it. And as a doctor who understands Chinese medicine, of course, wearing a beard is to make people feel that his medical skills are excellent, isn't there an old saying in China? There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm.

The boss saw Lao Lu in police uniforms and several criminal police officers walking into his pharmacy, and hurriedly walked out from behind the counter and asked, "Comrade policeman, is there something wrong?" ”

Lao Lu asked directly: "Has a person who has been injured on the left side of his body come to you recently to buy medicine or bandage?" ”

The boss took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose and said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, there is really such an injured person, I am very impressed." ”

I glanced at Lao Lu, and I could see an excited expression on Lao Lu's face, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is that person's injury?" Is the injury serious? ”

The boss said: "The man was injured on the left side of his head, and he was very badly injured, and his face was covered with blood when he came. ”

I said, "When did this injured person come to the pharmacy?" ”

The boss thought about it, walked to the wall, walked back to the counter, picked up the old glasses on the counter and put them on the bridge of his nose, walked to the wall again, looked at the calendar on the wall, and said: "I came here on the morning of July 26, when I had just opened the door, so I was very impressed." ”

After hearing this, I nodded and said to Lao Lu: "It was on the day of the crime, and this injured person is very suspicious. ”

After listening to what I said, the boss interjected and asked, "You guys are investigating the murder case in Long Beach Town some time ago, right?" ”

Lao Lu looked at the boss and nodded slightly.

The boss hurriedly said: "Could it be that the person with the head injury is the murderer?" ”

We didn't answer the boss's question because now we're all in the suspicious stage, and the pharmacy owner asked the police a question, apparently he was gossiping.

I said, "Comrade, we are also investigating this matter, and you can tell me about the situation of the patient who was received at that time." For example, what is the person's appearance, clothing, and accent? Is there anyone else with him? ”

The owner of the pharmacy said, "Good, good. Everyone has a responsibility to catch the criminals, and I try to remember as much as I can and explain what I have seen more clearly. ”

I smiled and nodded in gratitude.

The pharmacy owner took his reading glasses off the bridge of his nose again, held them in his hand and said, "That morning, it should not have been eight o'clock, and I had just lifted the roller shutter door, when I saw two men walking towards my shop with one man in his hands. At a glance, I saw that the man who was being held was covered in blood, and I thought that this guy must have had his head broken. The man who was being helped looked a little delirious, and after being helped into the store, he sat down on a chair next to him. I asked them, "How did this man get hurt?" One of the slightly chubby men said he had broken his head after falling on a motorcycle. I thought this guy was lying, I've been practicing medicine for more than 30 years, and I don't know what injuries you can get from falling off a motorcycle? The man with the broken head did not have the slightest abrasions on his body, and his clothes were not stained, so he certainly did not fall off the motorcycle. But I didn't say anything, because these three people are not good-looking, and they are obviously not locals. I guess it was a wound from a fight with someone else. So I checked it and found that the wound was very deep, I felt like the skull was broken, and from the wound, there was a tendency to infect. So I cleaned the wounds of the patients, bandaged them briefly, and suggested that they go to the big hospital in the city to take a picture, saying that the injury was quite serious, and if they did not treat it quickly, they were afraid that something would happen. The patient's two companions just mumbled twice, as if they weren't very concerned, and helped the drowsy patient away again. By the way, they helped the patient into a white van and drove away. It's a pity I didn't write down the license plate, otherwise I could have given you more information. ”

I asked, "Describe the clothes, looks, and accents of these three men." ”

The pharmacy owner said, "Oh, yes, yes, you just asked me, and I forgot about it." There were three of them, the most injured patient, estimated to be about 1.75 meters, wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt, and the pants were a little unclear. However, the injured person is quite strong, looking at the muscles in his arm, he should be doing physical work, like ordinary people, he would have fainted from such an injury, and he can still support and walk a few steps. The other was short and fat, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black pants. The last man was short and thin, dressed in a short-sleeved plaid shirt and blue shorts, and was still very young, in his early twenties at most. Their accents were slightly different, but they were all dialects, and I couldn't tell where they came from. ”

I nodded, shook hands with the pharmacy owner and said, "You have provided a lot of valuable information, thank you for your cooperation." ”

The owner of the pharmacy smiled and said, "The police and the people cooperate, the police and the people cooperate, I wish you to solve the case as soon as possible." ”

Leaving the pharmacy, I said to Lao Lu: "Now we can confirm that the suspect has a vehicle, and it is a white van. Then the direction of the investigation is very clear now, as long as the time of the crime is obtained, the Long Beach Town to * Town is monitored along the way, and the white Chang'an car is found, then the progress of the case will have a qualitative leap. ”

Lao Lu dialed the phone of the criminal investigation team and asked for immediate access to the surveillance video to investigate the white Chang'an car.

After Lao Lu finished talking on the phone, I continued: "The murderers committed the crime in Changtan Town, Wanzhou, and then sought medical treatment in * Town, they did not go along National Highway 318 into Hubei, but went in the direction of Yunyang in the opposite direction, it seems that these people should not be from other provinces, but from Chongqing." The direction they are traveling in is Yunyang, and they can contact the Yunyang police to cooperate in solving the case. ”

Lao Lu agreed to my proposal.

Back to the criminal investigation team, the criminal investigators of the technical department had already retrieved the time of the crime, and the surveillance footage along the way from Long Beach to * Town.

It was around 4 a.m., and there weren't many vehicles on National Highway 318 or the general village roads. So the white van was quickly locked up by the police.

After the license plate was confirmed, the police retrieved the identity information of the owner.

The owner's name is Li Fayuan, male, 37 years old this year, from Jiangkou Town, Yunyang County, Chongqing City.

This is very consistent with the suspect's escape route, and it seems that this group of people is indeed going to flee to Yunyang County.

Lao Lu contacted the Yunyang police and was about to drive to Yunyang to arrest someone, when he suddenly received a police message, saying that a male corpse had been found in the Ding family building in * town.

When I learned about this, I chuckled in my heart. Hurriedly said to Lao Lu: "This male corpse appeared in the Ding family building in * town, maybe it is the suspect with a head injury." ”

Lao Lu frowned and said, "It's very likely." ”

So he first contacted the Yunyang police and paid close attention to Li Fayuan's movements, and he first went to Ding's house to deal with the suspicious male corpse.

Ding's house is located in Group 5, Fenghuang Community, * Town, Wanzhou District, with a stone and wood structure, sitting north to south, built by Ding Xu, a local squire in the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 60 square meters. The floor plan is square, with a height of 11.88 meters and a length of 7 meters on each side. It was originally the third floor and one bottom, but now the roof and floor wooden components have been destroyed. The plaque is engraved with regular script "has a long history". The building is of great value for the study of civil defensive architecture in the eastern part of Chongqing in the Qing Dynasty.

The location of the male corpse was in the woods more than 500 meters away from Ding's house, and the person who found the male corpse was a local farmer.

When I saw the man's body, I was sure that he was the injured person who had gone to the pharmacy in *town for medical treatment, because the color of his clothes, the bandaging of the wounds, and the thick arms were all consistent with what the owner of the pharmacy had described.

I looked at the wound of the deceased, which was located on the left side of the head, above the left temple. The wound is suppurated and infected, and the injury is clearly blunt and has resulted in a ruptured skull. I can speculate that this wound was left by Feng Yingtian, the chef of the farmhouse, who hit the murderer with a wrench in self-defense. It can be seen that Feng Yingtian was a fatal blow at that time, if it was an ordinary person, he would have fallen unconscious on the spot under such a heavy blow, but he didn't expect this strong murderer to be able to fight back violently when he was so seriously injured. It can be imagined how tragic the life-and-death battle between the two was at that time.

But why did this murderer die in this place?

Examination of the deceased's body revealed no further injuries, and it appears that his death was caused by an infection of the wound on his head.

And the murderer's body appeared here, apparently dumped here by his companions. After they robbed and killed, they must have been thieves, so they did not dare to go to a big hospital for treatment, which caused a delay in the injuries of the injured. In addition, the weather was hot and the wound infected quickly, so it didn't take long for the injured person to die because of his injuries.

I can only sigh, killing pays for life, this murderer's retribution comes too quickly.

The DNA of the male corpse was extracted, and sure enough, it matched the DNA of the blood on the wrench. So according to this, the three people who committed a burglary and murder are confirmed.

Soon, with the cooperation of the Yunyang police, the two suspects were arrested one after another. They confessed to their crimes.

There were three murderers, led by the owner of the white van, Li Fayuan. Accomplices Zhou Zhongfu and Cheng Changshu are both from Yunyang. The murderer who died was none other than Zhou Zhongfu.

The three of them were originally working on a construction site in downtown Chongqing, but the three of them felt that the weather was hot and the money they earned from working was small, so they decided to come out and do something big.

Among the three people, Li Fayuan is the most intelligent, he loves to watch Hong Kong and Taiwan's detective TV series, and he is not very interested in the police and detectives in the TV series, but is very interested in those fierce and cunning criminals. So he told the two of them whether they should take risks and do some business of robbing houses.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhongfu and Cheng Chang were informed of this proposal after the operation, and the three of them hit it off. So they quit their jobs at the construction site together, led by Li Fayuan, and drove the van that he used to run in the countryside and came to Wanzhou.

At first, the three of them were preparing to rob the savings bank in the township. But after running to several towns, I found that there were surveillance videos and security guards in the savings office, and even if the security guards were subdued, they could not enter the cash vault, and they could not destroy the security doors and bulletproof glass of the savings bank.

The three of them ran for several days and felt discouraged, so they gave up the idea of robbing the bank and prepared to go home to make arrangements again.

The three of them passed by the 'Fu Lai' farmhouse and decided to return to Yunyang after dinner.

Just when the three of them were having dinner, Li Fayuan was on the way to the toilet halfway through, and accidentally saw Xiao Songming, the owner of the farmhouse, paying the salary to the chef Feng Yingtian, so he got rich and told the two accomplices about it.

The three of them combined, thinking that the boss was paying the salary, then there would definitely be more cash on the body, and the chef only received the salary, and it was estimated that there were thousands of cash. In addition, Li Fayuan found that there was no monitoring equipment in the farmhouse, and it was far away from the town, so he felt that there was no store in front of the village and no store in the back, which was an excellent place to commit the crime.

Li Fayuan investigated around again and found that there were only two owners and a chef in the farmhouse, and there were no other guests.

He immediately came up with a plan. I decided to stay at this farmhouse and wait until late at night.

The owner of the farmhouse was very happy to know that there were guests who wanted to stay at the hotel, so he arranged for them to be in the middle of the room on the second floor.

Li Fayuan returned to the van and picked up a sports bag. The bag contained machetes, flashlights, ropes and other tools for committing crimes.

After that, the three of them played cards in the house to kill time and discussed how to do it.

Li Fayuan felt that the chef with a fat head and big ears must be difficult to subdue, but the strong Zhou Zhongfu said that as long as he was given a knife, he could easily subdue the chef alone.

So the three agreed that Zhou Zhongfu would be responsible for killing the chef, and Li Fayuan and Cheng Changshu would be responsible for killing the boss. After that, Li Fayuan was responsible for investigating the situation.

Li Fayuan is a person who can speak well, and his face is honest, so he quickly talked to the boss and the chef. In the process of talking, he cleverly learned about the specific rooms of the two. And found that the door of the room was not strong, the old wooden door, which could be kicked open with your feet.

According to the on-site situation of the farmhouse, Li Fayuan made a clear division of labor.

At 3:10 a.m., the three of them acted at the same time. Li Fayuan and Cheng Changshu dealt with the farmhouse owner very smoothly, but Zhou Zhongfu underestimated the strength of the chef because he was big, so he fell into a bitter battle. Although the chef was eventually subdued, Zhou Zhongfu was also mortally wounded.

The trio eventually stole 23,000 yuan in cash, a small amount of gold and silver jewelry, and two mobile phones from the farmhouse.

Taking advantage of the darkness, the three quickly fled and drove all the way to the town of *. At this time, Zhou Zhongfu was seriously injured, and he couldn't stand the stuffiness and bumps in the car, so he vomited in the car. Seeing that Zhou Zhongfu was seriously injured, the two couldn't bear to let him suffer, so they waited for dawn in * town and looked for a pharmacy to bandage his wounds. Of course, the three of them had just killed someone, and they didn't have the guts to go to the hospital or the health center.

After dawn, although Zhou Zhongfu's wound was treated simply, the injury did not ease. When they drove to the vicinity of Ding's house, Cheng Changshu found that Zhou Zhongfu began to have convulsions all over his body and foam at the mouth.

The two were at a loss, watching Zhou Zhongfu struggle for more than ten minutes, and finally whimpered.

The two were shocked and frightened, and finally decided to drive the car into the nearby woods and dump Zhou Zhongfu's body in the wilderness.

The confessions of Li Fayuan and Cheng Changshu struck me as both absurd and cruel. Of course, they must be severely punished by the law in the end.

Closing this 'hotel killer' file, I pondered for a long time that the idea of committing a crime always grows in those who want to get rich overnight in the hope of getting rich overnight.

"Why are you stunned?" Lao Lu's words suddenly interrupted me.

Only then did I realize that Lao Lu was standing beside me, and I caught a glimpse of the files on the desks that had been cleaned up.

"Nothing, just remembering the previous case?" I said as I stood up and placed the file box in my hand into the information cabinet.

Lao Lu looked at the file box I put in and said, "In this case, two death sentences were executed immediately, and one was knocked to death by the victim. These three people really don't have more to gain than they lose. ”

I locked the data cabinet, took off the key and handed it to Lao Lu and said, "It's best that all crimes can have such a cabinet, which can be locked inside, and don't come out to cause trouble to the world." ”

Lao Lu took the key and said meaningfully: "Pandora's magic box will always be opened." ”

When I left the criminal investigation team, it was already evening, and I took the No. 1 bus alone to Gaosuntang.

I don't know why I'm here, maybe it's because of that strange ad board, and I wonder if there will be that strange combination of numbers on that ad board.

Walking to the advertising board, those digital combinations have long disappeared, because the advertising board has been reorganized, perhaps because it is about to be the New Year, this public advertising board for the public has also been repainted, and the previous messy, layered advertising pages have also disappeared.

I felt lost in the bare public billboard, and although it was tidy, I felt lifeless. However, this is only temporary, and it will not be long before all kinds of small advertisements will be densely pasted on it, renting, recruiting, reselling second-hand cars, etc., everything.

Of course, I also wish I could see those strange and mysterious combinations of numbers.

"Friend, McDonald's has a discount, 6% off with the coupon." A strange voice reached my ears and interrupted my thoughts.

I turned my head to see Ronald McDonald standing beside me.

This Ronald McDonald really scared me. He was at least two meters tall, and the red exploding head made him even taller.

The white face, red nose and big red lips are very different from the Ronald McDonald I saw before, and I always feel that he has evil energy in his bones.

But this Ronald McDonald kept smiling, though it seemed to me to be very stiff and weird.

His big hands reached out to me, holding a colorful coupon in his hand. People like this who hand out coupons and flyers on the street, I usually take them. Because most of these people are young people who have just worked or started a business, or old people who have no support, taking a single page in their hands is an affirmation of their work.

But this huge Uncle McDonald didn't give me that feeling, he gave me the feeling of 'you have to catch it'.

Because he is too tall, it gives an invisible pressure and majesty, although his appearance is comical.

I took the colorful coupon and nodded.

Ronald McDonald still said in a voice that didn't match his height: "Have a nice meal!" After saying that, he walked to the center of the crowd and continued to distribute his leaflets.

To be honest, I hardly ever went to McDonald's alone, except for accompanying Little Sugar. With this coupon, I folded it casually and put it in my jacket pocket, because I thought that Tang Zhenguo might be able to use this coupon.

I casually found a noodle restaurant and ate two bowls of fried noodles and three fried eggs before I felt satisfied.

When I got home, Tang Zhenguo still didn't come back, it seems that he did his best to take care of Chi Xue's family, which also shows how much he cares about Chi Xue.

Children are long, heroes are short-breathed.

I don't think I will be like Tang Zhenguo in this life. Just thinking of this, I vaguely recalled in my mind that graceful posture in the light. I have never been able to understand why there is such a woman's figure in my memory. Who is she?

Lying on the bed, thinking about some previous cases, he slowly shifted his thoughts to the woman. So I slapped myself twice, felt a hot pain, and regretted that I shot too hard.

However, these two slaps I gave myself made my thoughts on the right track, and the pain was worth it.

In a daze, I fell asleep. But the strange figure of the woman once again drilled into my dream. When I woke up, I realized that it was already dawn.

I heard a tinkling sound in the living room. put on his clothes and walked to the living room, only to find that Tang Zhenguo was putting food in the insulated lunch box, it seems that Tang Zhenguo personally cooked early in the morning and prepared a day's food for Chi Xue. What a standard good man.

I took out the coupon that Ronald McDonald gave me yesterday from my pocket, handed it to Tang Zhenguo and said, "This is for you, and the coupon is 60% off." ”

Tang Zhenguo closed the lid of the lunch box, took a sip of the rice dipped in the spoon, and took the coupon.

"Ouyang, what is this?" Tang Zhenguo suddenly looked at the coupon and said in surprise.

I walked to his side, looked at the coupon in Tang Zhenguo's hand, and felt that my eyes were about to pop out.

On the back of the coupon, there is a strange pattern drawn, I know what this pattern is, it is the fallen angel of resistance, Lucifer.