Huffman glared at him, "Yes, you have a lot of knowledge, but not everyone who comes out of this school is a spy." ”

Richard thought for a moment and changed the subject, "Mr. Superintendent, what is the attitude of our Criminal Investigation Bureau towards this case?" ”

Huffman leaned back in his chair, rubbed his cigar, and said: "You know, this case is quite difficult, in addition to our full investigation, in just three days, the Criminal Investigation Bureau issued a reward notice, and increased the reward amount three times, and now it is as high as 30,000 yuan." ”

Huffman casually placed two newspapers in front of him, "This is the newspaper and the newspaper The Citizen the day before yesterday, and the latest bounty announcement was published on them. ”

Richard glanced at the newspaper, "A high bounty will certainly help solve the case." But blindly offering a reward doesn't seem to be the way to go. Mr. Superintendent, what do you do with the corpses? ”

Hefman was stunned, "The corpse has been buried a long time ago, and it stinks after only three days, and the funeral homes in Posedonia City have no refrigeration equipment, so they have to be buried, just in the West Country Tomb Mountain." However, we took photographs of the entire process of the post-mortem for examination. He gave him a stack of photos.

Richard frowned, staring at the stack of photos in his hand, his face dazed.

Huffman got up and patted Lee on the shoulder encouragingly, "My Great Western Knight, keep your eyes open, bravely step away from your feet, and solve this case for me as soon as possible, I will fully support you." ”

Richard and Horsta reluctantly walked out of the Superintendent's Office.

A case analysis meeting is being held in the large conference room of the Police Force.

Present were Director Huffman, Richard, Horsta, Inspector Sun, Inspector Hu and others.

Huffman made an opening remark: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Section Chief Richard, I think you all know each other. Well, okay, since yesterday, Section Chief Li, that is, Inspector Li, has officially taken over the Bai Chrysanthemum case and is responsible for all the work of solving the case, with Heshida as his assistant. In the future, you must unite sincerely and cooperate more. ”

Richard said humbly: "The contemptible people have just arrived, and I hope you will give me more advice." Inspector Sun and Inspector Hu smiled and nodded at him.

Huffman continued: "Today we are holding a case analysis meeting, and everyone can talk openly and honestly about the white chrysanthemum case, and there is no need to be restrained. ”

Seeing that everyone was silent, Richard said, "Then I'll throw bricks and lead the jade first." For the case of Bai Chrysanthemum, I think the first thing to do is to determine the personality of the case, whether it is suicide or homicide. If the conclusion is suicide, we don't have to waste so many manpower, material and financial resources, and if it is homicide, we first need to determine the direction of detection. ”

Inspector Sun said: "I still have that opinion, suicide can be ruled out first. Why? Because it is impossible for a person to kill himself and then strip himself naked, and a person who wants to commit suicide will not take off his clothes before committing suicide. Therefore, the clothes were stripped naked by the murderer. ”

Inspector Hu said: "Yes, I think so too. This case must be a homicide, either a love murder or a vendetta, or a rape and murder, and the stripping of clothes is the biggest suspicion. ”

Huffman said: "I don't think so, if he killed, then how did the water in the lungs of the white chrysanthemum enter the human body?" "From the comparison of the water in the deceased's lungs with the water quality in the Meffen River, and through the identification of plankton and minerals, it was confirmed that the water in the deceased's lungs was the water of the Meffen River." You're all experts, can anyone explain how this 'stagnant water' gets into the lungs? ”

Inspector Sun obviously disagreed with the superintendent's opinion, "For water to enter the lungs, the deceased must inhale it himself, and according to my speculation, there is also this possibility, that is, Bai Chrysanthemum was knocked unconscious, thrown into the river, and finally drowned." ”

Inspector Hu said: "I think this murderer is either a top master or a big idiot. Because in the face of a glamorous corpse, it makes people think of love killing or vendetta for the first time, which is obviously a ***, and wants to lead the case solver astray. ”

"Inspector Hu is right, we can't be misled," Huffman said. Lao Sun said that Bai Chrysanthemum was knocked unconscious and thrown into the river to drown, so how to explain that she was stripped naked? Also, how to explain the abrasions on the wrists and back of the deceased? How to explain the black blood on the face of the deceased? ”

The crowd fell silent for a moment.

After a while, Horsta said: "According to common sense, it is impossible for the lungs of the deceased to enter a large amount of stagnant water if he drowns, and only those who struggle in the river will inhale a large amount of water." ”

Huffman turned his head and asked, "Inspector Li, you haven't spoken, can you talk about your opinion?" ”

Richard said: "I think this case is confusing, full of doubts, and there are too many contradictions. I don't have any inclinations about the case myself, so let's listen to everyone's opinions. ”

Huffman repeated: "I think suicide is more likely, and the deceased had a lot of fluid in his lungs to support this thesis." But to ask why the deceased was not clothed? This dress...... Maybe it was picked up by the guy who found the corpse? ”

Everyone laughed.

Huffman waved his hand, "Okay, that's all for today's meeting, let's go down and study it well." And they all stood up.

There is also a heavy morning mist on the Mefn River.

The boat boss led Richard and Horsta to the river, and watched a fishing boat approaching the shore from afar, and the boat boss said, "Here, here, that's Ruifu, the body he found." ”

The boat boss shouted, "Ruifu, Ruifu, come here, you tell these two detectives about the discovery of the body that day." ”

Richard said to Riffe, who was standing on the boat with a timid face: "Don't be afraid, Rife, we don't mean anything else, let alone blame you, you can just tell the truth." ”

Ruifu jumped ashore, scratched the back of his head, and said: "That day we were going to catch the morning market, so we got up early, the boat came to this place, the sky was not very bright, I saw a white flower thing floating on the river, so I stabbed it with a bamboo pole, and when the boat rowed closer, it turned out to be a female corpse, which scared me a lot, and later, I fished it up, but I didn't expect it to be a beautiful corpse." ”

Richard asked, "Riffe, if you think about it, is the corpse really naked?" Or is there something that has been overlooked? ”

Ruifu thought for a moment and said, "Actually, it's not naked, she still has a straw rope around her feet and neck." ”

"What, straw rope?" Richard and Horsta looked at each other.

"It's a straw rope, about this long," Riff affirmed, "and then, when the detective came to carry the body, I saw a police officer untie the rope and throw it away. ”

"Huh? Thrown away? Where did you throw it away? ”

"I didn't pay much attention to it."

Richard whispered a discussion with Horsta, and the two of them split up in the grass by the river.

After a while, Horsta exclaimed, "Here." Richard ran when he heard the sound, and Horsta held the half-broken straw rope in his hand.

Rich came over to take a look and exclaimed excitedly, "Ah, yes, this is the head of the rope!" ”

Richard carefully looked at the end of the rope, unbuttoned his clothes, and took them off, but Horsta didn't know why, "Inspector, what are you going to do?" ”

"The other half of the rope must be underwater, I'll go down and take a look." After speaking, Inspector Li plunged into the water with a fierce son.

After a while, the water splashed, and Richard emerged from the water, holding half of the rope in his hand, "Look, Horsta, it's tied to a piece of cement, and it is estimated that the rope is rotten and broken by the corpse." ”

Horsta pulled Richard ashore, and Inspector Li wiped the river water on his body, "Let's go, let's go back." ”

The two soon returned to the Seventh Serious Crime Division. Horsta observed the breaks at both ends of the rope.

Richard analyzed: "Today's harvest is not small, these two ropes illustrate several problems: first, the possibility of suicide is ruled out, and the white chrysanthemum must have been killed." After the murderer killed the white chrysanthemum, he used some kind of transportation to transport it to the river, and then took a small boat to the middle of the river, tied the straw rope to his feet and necks before throwing the body, tied one end to the cement stone, and then threw the body into the river. The murderer's purpose in tying the weight was to make the body sink in the middle of the river and not float, but he didn't expect the rope to break and the body floated up. Second, the Meifen River is not the first scene of the crime, but the second scene; Third, the murderer is a veteran, and he stripped the body before throwing it, in case the body is found, it can also confuse the public and interfere with the criminal investigation bureau's thinking of solving the case. ”

He Shida admired: "Inspector Li, you are too clever. So, what do we do next? ”

Richard looked up, "I suddenly had a bad feeling that someone was secretly playing hide and hide with us. ”

At half past ten in the evening, Inspector Li returned to his old house.

Inspector Li took off his criminal investigation uniform, poured a cup of tea, took out the newspaper, sat down under the lamp, and read it seriously.

After reading one newspaper, I picked up another one and looked at it carefully, comparing the articles in the two newspapers from time to time.

He looked at it for a long time, and then sleepiness hit, and he got up and moved his limbs, and looked up at the clock, which was already half past three in the morning.

Richard felt that the whole case was shrouded in a fog, and the more he researched, the more difficult it became. In the midst of a thousand confusions, he finally figured out three directions to detect, but what puzzled him was that he didn't know which way to go.

On his left hand was a case analysis report, and on his right hand was a few newspapers, and he lit a cigarette and buried his head in studying it carefully.

He picked up the "News" issue on the 18th of last month, and a report with a red frame came into view:

"Miss Bai Chrysanthemum left her apartment early on Sunday morning, October 15, and claimed to the gatekeeper that she was going to see her father on Neon Road. Since then, no one has seen her again. She was gone, she was not heard from. Now, although we have no evidence that she was alive after nine o'clock on Sunday morning, we can confirm that she was alive until nine o'clock that morning.