(September 22) countdown to the 99th day

"Thanks to the heavy rain, my low-rent house has been upgraded to a sea view house."

"Friends from afar, please stay and let me accompany you to see the sea."

"Don't ask me where I'm from, my hometown is on the other side of the sea."

"On this side of the sea, on the other side of the sea, there is a group of office workers, they hang their heads and are depressed, drenched like chickens in soup."

……

A heavy rainstorm turned City C into an ocean, and office workers who were struggling to travel were having fun and complaining in the circle of friends.

Zhang Kai, a sanitation worker from the property management company of Yuebanwan Apartment, started the day's work while swiping WeChat. On this day, he was supposed to be on vacation, but he was called back to the company by the team leader early in the morning, and was asked to cancel the vacation and clean up the branches in the community that were blown down by the strong wind.

Near noon, he cleared the atrium of the community, where a tree branch was lying on the windowsill of the balcony on the sixth floor of Building 11. He went around to the door on the sixth floor and knocked, but there was no one, so he turned back, found a ladder to climb up to the balcony, and pulled the branches down after dividing them by two. I was about to go down the stairs, and I was stunned, on the balcony, a puddle of dark red stuff spread out from the crack in the door of the balcony of the residents on the 6th floor, in an irregular semicircle, exuding a fishy smell.

"Blood!"

He let out an exclamation and slid down the building.

The murder disappeared and disappeared, and when Officer Xiao Feng of the Qingshan Police Station in Chengbei New District, City C led the criminal investigators to the Yuebanwan Apartment, the 11 buildings were full of onlookers.

"Hopefully, they haven't been on the scene yet."

Xiao Feng was not surprised, took the lead through the crowd, and came to the door of Room 604, Unit 2, Building 11. The door was ajar, and Zhang Kai, a sanitation worker, was squatting on the side and shivering, not daring to take another look at the room. As the first discoverer of the case, he was asked to stay and be questioned by the police.

Walking into the room, there were two male corpses, one fat and one thin, lying in front of him in the living room.

The thinner man was lying on his back on the floor, his head close to the door between the living room and the balcony, his eyes were wide open, there were multiple knife wounds on his chest and neck, a fruit knife was inserted in his heart, and a large amount of blood was flowing down his neck and chest. The blood stain on the neck stretched along the floor to the crack in the doorway and then to the balcony a little lower horizontally. As Zhang Kai can see, an irregular semicircle is formed on the balcony.

The fat corpse was about 1 meter away from the thin corpse, with his buttocks on the ground, leaning on his back at the end of the sofa, his eyes open, his face shocked, as if he was dying and did not believe that he would be poisoned. The fatal wound came from a knife wound in the neck, the cut was deep and long, the skin tissue was turned outward, and blood dripped from the neck to the sofa and then from the sofa to the floor, where it had coagulated.

This is a small one-bedroom apartment, with no life. Xiao Feng glanced at the living room, checked the bedroom, kitchen and bathroom in turn, and found no signs of fighting, so it was easy to identify the living room as the first and only place where the crime occurred, and the living room area was listed as a key inspection area.

He retreated to the window of the living room, carefully examined every detail of the windowsill, and then looked up the two frames of the window, but found nothing. Just as he was about to pull the curtain open, a subtlety at the top of the curtain caught his attention. He climbed up to the windowsill and looked closer, and noticed that there was a stitch that had fallen off at the top of the curtain where it was connected to the crossbar. Looking closer, the fabric of the curtain exposed at the fracture was as fresh as new, and he concluded that the fracture was recent.

He was silent for a moment, then jumped off the windowsill and pulled the curtain open. The crowd of onlookers under the window had not yet dispersed, and there was a lot of discussion, with a little excitement in fear. He swept his gaze past the crowd to the atrium area of the community, and when he came to the pool, he paused for a few seconds, shook his head and nodded.

He looked at the apartment buildings to the left and right of the window, shook his head quickly, and finally fixed his gaze on the upstairs facing the window, his eyes narrowed into a slit, sweeping from the top to the bottom of the building like a scanner; After thinking about it, he swept up from the bottom of the building again, paused at a certain floor, and then continued to sweep to the top.

"How's it going?" He finally withdrew his gaze, turned around and glanced at the blood stain and trace experts who were busy arriving later, and turned to focus on Cheng Zhiyuan and Liu Qing, the two fellow police officers.

"Just finished." Liu Qing raised the record book.

"Team Xiao, it's a bit unreasonable." Police officer Cheng Zhiyuan followed.

"Oh?"

"There are too many contradictions. Judging from the cold dishes, liquor bottles, and chopsticks placed on the coffee table, there were only two people in the room, and the deceased was drinking before...... The wine is not finished yet. It was supposed to be a sudden attack. The question is, no matter who killed whom, why did the murderer also die? ”

"Could it be that after an impulsive killing, the killer regrets it and then commits suicide?"

Liu Qing took over and asked.

But whoever killed himself in the end could not have such a look of surprise on their faces...... Shouldn't a person who is determined to die be very calm in his heart? Cheng Zhiyuan said.

"Three questions." Xiao Feng habitually grabbed a handful of somewhat messy hair, and compared three fingers, "Pay attention to the knife!" The knife is brand new. The kitchen has not been on fire for a long time, the dishes are all cold, the dishes and chopsticks are disposable, no fruit was found in the room, and there were no leftover fruit peels in the trash can. What does it mean? It shows that the fruit knife should not have appeared, and the killing was premeditated, not impulsive. Second, curtains. The fresh cracks on the curtains were caused by excessive force in a hurry, and I guess the curtains were pulled up after the murder, and if the two of them were impulsively killed, how could they bother to pull the curtains? The third suspicion is bloodstains. A deep and long cut was suddenly made in the neck, cutting an artery, and the blood should have been spurted, but there were no traces of blood spurting at the scene. ”

"So you suspect ......"

"Yes, so far, it cannot be ruled out that there is a third person at the scene of the crime." Xiao Feng said, "We will focus on visiting the residents of the 15 apartments opposite, especially those above the sixth floor. If there are witnesses, based on the location of the room where the crime occurred, the occupants of the opposite 6 floors or more are most likely. ”