The two-day vacation ended quickly, and Ouyang Qian and I quickly returned to our jobs, continuing to endure the devastation brought to us by this hot summer.

As much as I don't like to be in an air-conditioned room all the time, the sweltering air outside can always keep my mind on the back burner.

Within a few days, there was another case.

This time, the distance was not as far as expected, just in our nearby community, we received a report that a dead body was found in a home.

When we felt the scene, the stench of corpses was already stinking.

Since it's a scorching hot day, the corpses will decay much faster than before. Now they could see the corpse lying on the ground, surrounded by flies.

It doesn't take long for the flies to lay eggs on the corpses, and when the eggs hatch, the white and fat maggots emerge from the corpses and ruffle through the corpses in search of something to eat.

"What's going on?"

I asked the people from the forensic department and the physical evidence department to go in first, and the old rule was that they would investigate the scene first, and I would ask the informant about the matter outside.

"Report to the officer, when I was going upstairs today, I smelled my neighbor, this is this house, who lives downstairs from me, and there is a very smelly smell. I almost threw up when I went upstairs. Then I came here to look, and found that the door was not closed, and the man was lying there, dead for days! ”

"Do you know what your neighbor's name is?"

The old man who reported the crime shook his head and said, "I don't know. I'm too old now to remember the names of people in my family, let alone my neighbors who live near me. ”

"Do you see any suspicious people again?"

"Nope."

Forget it, I don't think there should be any valuable clues from him, so I simply asked my comrades to take him back to make a record, and then let him go back.

After chatting, I entered the scene, and the smell inside made me feel breathless, and now there are no windows in this room, which is extremely stuffy, and the smell of corpses can't be dispersed at all, so it makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"How?" I walked in and asked.

The medical examiner stood up and said to me bluntly: "The cause of death is obvious, the sharp object went directly into the vital parts of the deceased, and he was killed on the spot, or he died soon after being stabbed. Based on the extent of the body's decomposition, it looks like it should have been dead for two days. The specific time can only be seen after going back to do an appraisal. ”

"Have you found the murder weapon again?"

"Not yet. The people from the Physical Evidence Division are still looking for it, but I think from the situation at the scene, the murder weapon should have been taken away by the murderer. ”

Listening to the forensic doctor's words, I inspected the scene, he was right, the scene was very neat and clean, it seems that the murderer immediately started to clean the scene after killing someone, and we didn't even see a lot of blood stains that should have flowed out of the corpse, but there were near the injured part of the corpse, and the rest should have been cleaned up.

"There was nothing found on the deceased that would prove his identity. However, according to the approximate body shape, the male, aged between 30 and 35 years old, is in the prime of life, and is strong, and it seems that he should have soaked in the gym. Perhaps even once a military man. The medical examiner said.

I crouched down and looked at the deceased. His hair was shaved short, and his clothes were simple vests. I put on my gloves and took off his vest, and I noticed that there were a lot of scars on it, and the muscle lines on his body were obvious, but it looked like he was getting fat recently, but it seemed to be suppressed.

I looked at his arm again, and the biceps were strong, and the forearm muscles were strong, but obviously not as strong. The fingers are rough, and the calluses in the middle part of the fingers of the right hand are more pronounced except for the index finger and thumb.

I stood up, pulled off my gloves, and said:

"It's supposed to be a soldier. It can be seen from his muscles that he had undergone high-intensity training, but the signs of fortune indicated that he was discharged from the army and had not trained for a while. Causes muscles to rebound. But he didn't want to make his body fat, so he went to the gym to work out and stay in shape. ”

"The calluses on my fingers and the scars on my body should have been left when I was in the army. Whether it is a horizontal bar practice or a shooting practice with a gun, the cocoon on the hand will form that thickness. The scars are self-evident, they are caused by the usual training. Even, maybe it's a real combat ......"

I looked at the devastated bullet holes and scars on his body, and suddenly there was a sense of silence.

The medical examiner had the body carried out and sat down on the ground.

"Do you have any clues?" I asked.

"Report to Team Shao, we searched all over the house, but we didn't find anything similar to the murder weapon. Fingerprints and traces in the house were carefully disposed of. At the same time, we found that although the living room was very tidy, the situation in the bedroom was completely different. ”

"How is it different?" I turned my head in confusion and followed into the bedroom.

"Team Shao, look."

Indeed, the scene in the bedroom is incompatible with the scene in the living room.

Inside the bedroom, it was as if a thief had burglarized, and all the cabinets that could be opened, whether it was a wardrobe, a bedside table, or a small tin box that was originally placed under the bed, were deliberately turned out, and everything inside was poured out.

The whole bedroom is a mess, so to speak. It does not in the slightest match the style of the front living room.

This makes me a little confused, why did the murderer make such a mess of this bedroom when he took great pains to clean up the evidence that might have been left outside?

Could it be that the person who enters the bedroom is not the same person who is in the living room?

I shook my head and dismissed the idea.

"Did you find anything in here?" I asked.

"Nothing was found. In addition to the initial suspicion that it was a forgery of the crime scene, the intentional homicide was forged as a burglary homicide ......"

"Fake it as a burglary and murder?" As soon as I heard the name, I deliberately raised my voice.

The officer thought that he had said something wrong, which made me angry, and immediately lowered his voice several degrees, saying, "Team Shao, I'm just guessing......"

I walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "That makes sense. You reminded me, but of course the killer was probably not looking for money, but something. This thing is very important to him. ”

The officer looked at me and nodded his head in understanding.