After the technical department conducted an appraisal of the video material, it was found that the time of the video had been tampered with, and the actual time of shooting was May 21, 2016.

Looking at the results of the identification, I said to Lao Lu: "The video was filmed last year, so it means that this video material is not He Xiuxin's last words, but someone used this video material to cover up the real cause of He Xiuxin's death." ”

Lao Lu said: "In this way, there is also a problem with the ambiguous suicide note? ”

I said, "Yes." The so-called suicide note is actually not a suicide note at all, but a poem written by He Xiuxin. All of this is actually used by He Yunjing to cover people's ears. He Xiuxin's suicide, in the current view, is completely unwarranted, and the real cause of her death is likely to be homicide. And the person who murdered her is likely to be her sister He Yunjing. ”

Lao Lu patted the table and said, "What is likely, I think it is her." ”

I said: "Now I can only speculate, because there is no definite evidence that He Yunjing killed He Xiuxin, and under what circumstances was that video, that suicide note, filmed and written? And why did He Xiuxin die? What motive did He Yunjing have to kill his sister? ”

Lao Lu said loudly: "After arresting He Yunjing, you can ask her slowly, and I will bring someone to arrest her now." Oh, look at this woman, what other reason can she use to quibble? ”

Lao Lu is known for his vigorous and resolute behavior, and he took me and a few criminal policemen on duty and drove to He Yunjing's residential area.

When we just came to the gate of the community, we found that the smoke was billowing in the community, and there were many people watching the excitement outside the community. Outside the complex, there is also a fire truck and an ambulance parked outside on standby.

"Not good!" I chuckled in my heart, and I had a bad feeling.

The gate of the community was already closed, but when I saw our two police cars flashing their lights, we quickly opened the automatic door.

Two police cars were parked haphazardly on the side of the road in the community. When I got out of the car, I watched as three fire trucks in front of me were spraying water jets against the burning houses.

The burning house was on the fifth floor of the floor, which was where He Yunjing's home was located.

At this time, the open flames were no longer visible because the fire engine was spraying water, but the smoke was still billowing out of the windows and balconies. It can be seen that the fire burned before was vigorous.

Lao Lu stood by the police car, panting, frowning at the smoke-emitting house, silent.

I thought to myself, if the case of the female corpse burned with the face was related to Qu Mo, then when I had just concluded that this case was not a suicide, there was a fire in the suspect's home, could it be a coincidence? I think, obviously not, this must be Qu Mo is doing it again.

It seems that He Yunjing is already more than lucky.

We waited in the complex for almost two hours before the fire was finally extinguished by the fire brigade. The central point of this fire is obvious, which is He Yunjing's home. And the residents next door and upstairs were also affected by the fire.

Lao Lu leaned on the police car with some moisture, lit a cigarette, and said to me: "The fire is finally extinguished, what news do you think we will wait for?" ”

I said bluntly, "A charred corpse." ”

Lao Lu sighed and said, "Do you also think that the woman of the Divine Dao will be buried in this fire?" ”

I nodded and said, "This fire proves that the case of burning the face of the female corpse is even more difficult." ”

Lao Lu said: "Yes. If the biggest suspect He Yunjing is burned to death, then there must be someone behind the scenes, and his purpose in burning He Yunjing is to kill people and kill people. ”

I said, "I agree with you. For the ruthless murderer, it is safest to do so. And I think that this fire is not only to burn He Yunjing, but also to burn the evidence. I have a hypothesis that He Yunjing's home should be hiding some ulterior secret, but the real culprit behind the scenes didn't know where the secret was hidden, so he simply burned the house on fire, and it was a hundred. ”

Lao Lu took a puff of his cigarette and said, "This possibility cannot be ruled out. According to what you say, this case of burning the face of the female corpse is getting more and more complicated. ”

I wiped the beard on my lips and said, "If this case is really related to Qu Mo, then it is reasonable to be complicated." ”

The firefighters found a charred corpse at the first scene of the fire, but this corpse surprised Lao Lu and me, because it was a male corpse.

The man's body was carried out of the fire by a sturdy firefighter and placed in a black body bag resting on the ground.

He bent over and was about to seal the body bag, when Lao Lu and I stepped forward, and Lao Lu said, "Brother, wait, we want to take a look at the corpse." The firefighter stood up, looked at Lao Lu and nodded.

I crouched down and could smell a scorching smell, and the body was badly burned. Judging from the incineration, the charred corpse was not burned by the fire in the fire, but the corpse itself was a fire point. It can be seen that the corpse has been placed with combustible materials. But with such a severe incineration, it's hard for me to tell what combustibles he ever had on him based on the smell and the naked eye.

The dead were charcoal-blackened and curled up in a ball. I tried to find something like a belt buckle, a necklace, or a watch from my neck, waist, wrists, etc., but I couldn't find anything.

Not to mention the discovery of the relics of the deceased on the corpse, there is not even a residue of chemical fibers on the cremation corpse, which shows this. The deceased was stripped naked and then burned.

In this case, it is difficult for me to proceed with the autopsy, and it seems that I can only rely on the high-tech means of the forensic center to determine the true cause of death of the deceased.

Lao Lu also squatted down, stared at this unrecognizable charred corpse, and said to me: "What is the situation, how can it be a male corpse?" ”

I said, "It seems that the real murderer will not give us peace of mind, but leaving a male corpse leaves us with new clues." ”

Lao Lu nodded and said, "Yes, I will find out the true identity of this male corpse as soon as possible." ”

I slowly stood up and asked the firefighter, "Comrade, where did you find this body at the scene of the fire?" ”

The firefighter said: "In the bathtub in the bathroom. ”

I nodded, wondering if there were no remnants of other substances found on the corpse, because there would certainly not be too much combustible material around the tub, and there would be no other debris mixed with the corpse to burn. This is more indicative of the fact that the corpse was ignited by a large amount of combustible substance. And this corpse will not be the cause of this fire, the cause of the house fire must have been caused by the murderer setting fire again elsewhere in the house.

I said to Lao Lu and the firefighters, "I'll go to the scene of the fire to see." ”

The firefighter hurriedly said: "It's very dangerous for you to go over there now, because the fire is likely to cause the possibility of the house collapsing, and it is recommended to go in after eliminating the hidden danger." ”

I smiled and said, "After the hidden danger is eliminated, the evidence of the crime is also eliminated." ”

Lao Lu asked puzzledly: "With such a big fire, even if there is evidence of a crime, it will be destroyed in one fell swoop, right?" ”

I said, "There are things that can't be burned by a fire, so how can you get a tiger if you don't go into the tiger's den?" Aren't there other firefighters in the room trying to eliminate hidden dangers? If they get in, I can't get in? ”

Lao Lu nodded slightly and said, "I'll go with you." ”

The firefighter had no choice but to zip up the body bag and go with us to the scene of the fire.

He Yunjing's home is located in Room 502 of Building C of the community, and of course, it has now been burned beyond recognition. We went up through a safe passageway, and the water was pitch black all the way, and the air smelled of damp burnt past, which made people nauseous when they smelled it.

But fortunately, Lao Lu and I are also experienced criminal investigators, and this smell is nothing compared to the indescribable smell of rotting corpses.

The fire was indeed very large, because the sturdy security door of room 502 was burned and distorted, and it rested crookedly on the ground. Of course, the door did not fall off on its own because of the fire, but the firefighters dismantled the door and threw it on the ground.

Inside, I began to recall the scene of this room before, and it felt beautiful and magnificent. And now there is a fire, and there is nothing left but black coke.

Now there are places that have been turned, which were turned by firefighters when they entered the fire scene and searched for the dead.

There are three fire starts, one in the master bedroom, one in the side bedroom and the living room. And judging from the situation of flame burning, it is caused by ignition with flammable materials. This is a typical arson case.

I went to the bathroom, and because the bathroom was surrounded by tiles, the burning was not serious, but the walls were all blackened, and even the toothbrush on the sink was not burned, so it was obvious that the fire did not spread here.

However, the entire bathtub was blackened, and the storage compartment next to the bathtub was also burned off by the fire, and the walls around it and on the top were extremely badly smoked, just as the firefighters said before, it was here that the male corpse outside was severely burned.

When I saw these ignitions, I initially suspected that the flammable products were red phosphorus. Because the face of the corpse of the woman who burned her face was burned with red phosphorus. But after checking, I found that it was not red phosphorus, but diesel fuel.

I asked the firefighters, "What do you think caused the fire?" ”

The firefighter said without thinking: "This is a typical arson case, the arsonist uses diesel fuel, this kind of arson has happened a few times before, but those arsonists were caught and sentenced to heavy punishment, so it is unlikely that this arson was carried out by criminals in the past." ”

I nodded, agreeing with the firefighter's statement. So is the purpose of this arson case to destroy the evidence in the house? This will have to be investigated before a conclusion can be reached.

So where do you start? I reasoned that since arson, the evidence must have been destroyed by the fire. There are a lot of such things, I assume that they are paper materials or USB flash drives, etc.

So starting with the person who collects the evidence, if there is this kind of thing that grabs the handle of the other party in his hand, then how to hide it?

Safe? I searched the whole room and found no safe.

A hidden closet? The fire exposed all the walls, and with the help of firefighters at the scene, no hidden closets were found.

So where else can you store it?

In the master bedroom, I found a large wardrobe, and although the wardrobe was completely burned, the clothes inside were all unrecognizable. However, it can be seen that this wardrobe was inlaid into the wall when the house was renovated.

I frowned and looked at this wardrobe carefully, and I always felt that something was wrong.

I walked out of the master bedroom and came to the living room, looked at the space of the living room, and felt that this living room was very spacious.

Then I walked to the side bedroom, which was a room adjacent to the master bedroom and the living room, and one of the walls of the side bedroom was the back of the wall where the master bedroom was inlaid with a wardrobe.

I walked back to the master bedroom, measured the length of the master bedroom with my naked eye, and returned to the living room again.

I finally found out the problem, the total length of the master bedroom and the side bedroom is almost three meters shorter than the living room, is there a two-meter-thick wall between the master bedroom and the side bedroom?

This is obviously illogical, and it is more likely that there is a hidden secret room between the master bedroom and the side bedroom.

Lao Lu and several firefighters kept watching me nervously running in and out, and when he saw me there and suddenly laughed, he finally couldn't help but speak: "Ouyang, what are you doing?" ”

As if I had discovered a new world, I excitedly said, "Hurry up, do you have an axe?" ”

One of the firefighters said, "I have it here." ”

I looked at the red axe and said, "Come on, come on, split this wardrobe in the bedroom." ”

The firefighter took an axe and followed me into the blackened master bedroom, which had been burned by the fire.

I pointed to the wardrobe and said, "Split the board at the back." ”

The firefighter asked puzzledly, "There is a wall in the back, how can it be split?" ”

I snatched the fireman's axe from his hand and slashed at the closet without saying a word.

Lao Lu and the firefighters were stunned. I slashed a few times, and I could clearly feel that the back of the wardrobe was indeed a wall. But I didn't give up, because the Chamber of Secrets can also build a wall.

But there must be a door in this secret room, is the door of the secret room also made of stone?

I slashed a few times, stood up straight and looked at the people around me, Lao Lu frowned and said nothing, because he knew that everything I did was done for a reason, he would not block or urge, let alone ask me during my action and interrupt my train of thought. This is a tacit understanding that we have reached over the years. Of course, the firefighters looked at me in confusion, apparently thinking I was going crazy.

I rounded my arm and slashed it a few more times.

"Poof!" A metal crash is heard into the eardrums.

"Found it!" I said excitedly.

Lao Lu said: "Found the door of the secret room? ”

I smiled and said, "The one who knows me is none other than Lu Jinfeng." ”

Lao Lu hurriedly said to the firefighters: "Hurry up, help, there is a secret room behind this wardrobe." ”

The firefighters suddenly realized and hurriedly found tools to help.

The crowd gathered firewood and the flame was high. The wardrobe was quickly cleared, revealing a blackened iron door about 70 centimeters wide and 150 centimeters high.

I knocked the iron door a few times with my axe, and found that the iron door was very thick. Moreover, the lock on the iron door is a bank vault lock, and it is a three-layer chain lock. This kind of lock really can't be opened without a key. Even the best unlocking experts have no way to take this lock. Because after the first layer of locks is opened, when the second layer of locks is opened, the first layer of locks will be closed, the third layer of locks will be opened, and the second layer of locks will be locked again. So repeatedly, there is no end at all.

I looked at Lao Lu and said sincerely and honestly: "Now I think it's useless to violate the principle, I can't open this door." ”

One firefighter said: "This door is not easy to open, so we will break through the wall, this wall is obviously not the load-bearing wall of the building, and it is obviously much easier to tear down this stone wall than to tear down the iron gate." ”

I shook it and said, "Look at this iron door, it's recessed in the wall, it's not parallel to the wall. This is very likely to show that parallel to it is still an iron wall. This chamber is a large iron safe with steel walls on all six sides. The best way to open it is to flame cutting. ”

Lao Lu agreed with me, and the fire brigade quickly began to prepare the equipment.

The steel plate was so heavy that two flame cutters were working at the same time and cutting for more than an hour.

At the moment when the final slit intersected, everyone held their breath, wondering what kind of treasure would be found in this vault-like secret room?

With a "poof", the heavy metal plate was pushed inward to the ground, and the impact sound was clearly the sound of two iron plates colliding.

The firefighters used a blowing device to blow a gust of wind into the dark hole before entering the chamber. Lao Lu and I followed closely behind and also entered this secret room.

The firefighters turned on the flashlight and I turned on the LED light on my phone.

Under the illumination of several lights, it was determined that the chamber was indeed made of steel on all six sides. It is strange that such a heavy steel vault was built on the fifth floor of a residential building.

The floor can bear such a huge weight, it can be seen that on the ground of this floor, it must be a reinforced reinforced concrete beam, maybe a heavy steel plate.

But how did this massive renovation project come about?

There is only one possibility that comes to mind. That is, a special construction was carried out on this floor when the house was built. This is because special beams have to be built in advance to attach them to the load-bearing walls. It is quite dangerous for the housing to carry out a renovation of this scale after the house has been formed.

This should be the clue to the construction company responsible for the construction of this building.

Back in the chamber, there was no treasure in it, but a strange bed.

The bed was an operating table, and around it were iron shelves, on which were broken utensils, apparently broken by the fire that caused the chamber to be extremely hot.

Seeing this scene, I hurriedly said: "Everyone go out quickly, this should be a secret medical laboratory, I don't know what medical research has been done here, in short, evacuate first, quickly!" ”

We hurried out of the chamber because I was worried that there would be any biochemical experiments on infectious diseases in the chamber. But then I thought about it, even if there was any virus in this secret room, it should have been killed in the fire?

This thought made me suddenly realize. I finally understood the true purpose of this fire, which was to kill some unknown virus.

There are a total of four fire points at the scene, the master bedroom, the side bedroom and the living room, which happen to be around the secret room, and the arsonist set the fire to this secret room. That's why there was no fire in the kitchen and the other bedroom, which were not adjacent to the secret room.

And the male corpse was severely burned, perhaps because the male corpse was infected by some unknown virus.

This idea feels a bit like Resident Evil, but it's the most plausible explanation I can think of at the moment.

I can think of this hypothesis for another important reason, and that is to resist the angel Lucifer, the fallen angel who can bring sickness and suffering.

The strange Ronald McDonald coupon I was given before, with Lucifer drawn on it, was it just to remind me that this case was related to illness?

I didn't say it on the spot. Because this kind of thing is publicized, it is even more terrible than the real virus, and maybe it will cause a big riot among the people.

Because in today's TV movies, there are too many plots that deeply portray human life after Resident Evil. Today's human beings watch these shows with a curious mentality, and at the same time, they are afraid of the terrible results. So I can't imagine what the world would be like if there was a real Resident Evil in humans?

Before I met Qu Mo, I was sure I felt like I was daydreaming, in the Arabian Nights. But now, I have to take that into account.

I felt my heart beat faster because I really felt the fear.

"Ouyang, what's the matter with you sweating profusely on such a cold day?" Lao Lu's words interrupted my train of thought.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "The secret room just now was scorched by the previous fire, so it was too hot after entering, and I was covered in sweat. ”

Lao Lu glanced at me, lit a cigarette and said, "Oh, it's quite hot inside." ”

In fact, I understand that my sweat is a cold sweat. It is a cold sweat that is frightened by an unpredictable and terrible crisis.

I am a human being, and I have seven emotions and six desires, and I can also be happy, angry, and sad, so I am not ashamed to be afraid. Only by understanding fear can we have a sense of awe, and by overcoming fear, we can reach the realm of the brave.

In the face of Qu Mo, I had to be a brave man.

On the way back to the criminal investigation team, I didn't say anything all the way. If it was after the investigation of the case was usually over, I would definitely babble my thoughts, but today I don't want to speak, I am thinking, and I always think of some terrible pictures.

Lao Lu should have noticed my abnormality, and asked while driving, "Ouyang, what's wrong with you?" When he came out of the fire, he did not give up. ”

I glanced at Lao Lu, didn't speak, stared out of the windshield again, and shook my head slightly.

"I haven't really encountered this situation in you, have you encountered something particularly tricky? Say it and I'll listen. Lao Lu said in a deep voice.

I nodded and said, "Let's go to the forensic appraisal first." ”

Lao Lu snorted and didn't ask any more.