Heavy blood stains dripped from the windowsill, smooth and deep like jewels. The bright red liquid bubbled from the edge to the room. Next to the cold corpse was a coal-gray fountain pen with blood blisters on the nib.

The answer seems obvious, this unsightly fountain pen is the "murder weapon". The scattered files and pages were scrawled with ghostly characters that were so incomprehensible that they were not even legible.

The deceased may have been attacked while writing with a pen. Looking around the annex, the rest of the room was spotless except for the blood scabs that had been splashed, and there was not even a trace of a fight.

The cross-stitch hanging on the wall was also stained with blood, but on a magnificent picture of the grass growing warbler flying, even if it was stained with blood, it looked good, and it was a work of art.

The deceased was a woman with a half-loose belt around her waist, a withered and terrifying face, her hair was half-untied, and a deep hole in her neck was not stained. The depth of the hole is more than ten millimeters, which is visual.

Lu Buming stood up and wiped the blood off his fingers.

Zhao Lao Wu next to him was the first person to discover, he was the janitor of this annex, and he mostly entertained guests in the annex on weekdays. But the annex does not belong to him.

Zhao Lao Wu told Lu Buming that this was a murderous mansion, and it was not the first time that a dead person had died. But this time there was no warning, neither "ghosts crying wolf in the middle of the night", nor the tables, chairs, and paintings that were moved without permission.

Not to mention whether these two points are reasonable or not. Just from Zhao Lao Wu's twisted and shriveled, crumpled face like camphor bark, and his mud-toned mouth, he said this sentence seriously-this alone made Lu Buming want to laugh out loud.

But I can't laugh after all.

When Lu Buming found the corpse, the clock struck exactly twelve times, the panic spread with the blood, and the surprise of midnight became a fright. At first, the crowd screamed for the police, but the commotion did not last long, and the call for the police was silenced.

Yes, this point is very confusing to Lu Buming, the deceased has appeared, but everyone who stepped into the annex, including the two women, no one chose to call the police, or planned to escape from this ghost place. But as if they had accepted their fate, they stood where they were.

But Lu Buming probably has the bottom in his heart. Tick, tick. There were several sounds, and the sound of sticking in the wet air shook the whole dark space to the heart.

It's a murderous house. Although Zhao Lao Wu was an outsider, from his empty eyes, Lu Buming could clearly see that he was not joking, let alone lying.

It all started twelve hours ago.

Lu Buming is not a policeman, and he has no intention of becoming a policeman. From the time he can remember, the target is, of course, the detective. But he can't be a detective after all, since he can't do it in the open, he has to do it in secret. In Iris Lane, he is the most famous detective.

Lincheng City is a prefecture-level city, and its popularity is not high. But for the surrounding counties, it is a small central business and travel center. The development of the eastern part of the city was ten years later than that of the western part of the city, and not only was the streets chaotic, but the interior of the neighborhood was even more chaotic.

And in this chaotic slum, one of the most chaotic alleys is called "Iris Alley".

Iris Lane was originally a pedestrian commercial street, but since the fall of the eastern part of the city, it has become a "crime alley" where unemployed vagrants and deflated people are entrenched, and locals respect this place, but Lu Buming likes this place.

The more chaotic the place, the greater the need for justice. This is the truth summed up by Lu Buming, on weekdays, he takes the trouble to take over the commission and take money to do things, which is considered to be a prosperous situation in this area, and he also sees this principle.

At noon near the winter solstice, a few more things were settled from Snake Liu, and from the time he came out to now, at least half of the people in Lin Cheng knew Lu Buming. But it's a pity that half of the people are hidden in the dark, not seeing the light of day, living like a parasite.

Snake Liu often revealed some information to Lu Buming, usually for a tip. Lu Buming didn't have any opinions, intelligence was the most important thing besides life, and he was happy to exchange money for it. But today Snake Six is different, and gave Lu Buming a "free" piece of information.

"Free" is probably not a good thing. Lu Buming is well aware of this truth, but there is one thing that interests him very much, the suburbs in the southeast of the city are villa areas, and there is a very foreign-style medium-sized annex where guests are invited to banquet at night.

This matter had nothing to do with him Lu Buming's original eight poles, but Snake Six only needed Lu Buming two cups of liquor, and revealed one additional thing to him: the owner of the annex made a special trip to set up a banquet for several "old customers" in the west of the city, and also invited them to the banquet, and also prepared a gift.

The west of the city is a wealthy area, which is very common. But Snake Six had one more thing in his hand, which made Lu Buming glare. This is a lacquered banquet ticket, with a few large characters in gold lacquer on the cover, the character pattern is convex, and there is a texture and a card.

A little deflated snake six who wanders on a wandering street, a poor person who has never even seen his parents since he was born, will have such a baby in his hand? Of course, Lu Buming couldn't believe it, but Snake Six had his reasons.

It turned out that Lu Buming arrested the liar three days ago. The old crook came from the west of the city, but he was dressed in rags and looked like a hooligan from the east of the city. He doesn't have a few hairs, but he has one set of methods after another, and even the police in the city dare to come nonsense, and most of the young policemen who have just taken office have never seen the world, so they make this liar confused with a set of rhetoric.

"This thing was found on him." Snake Six bit his ear and told Lu Buming.

Needless to ask, when the old liar was twisted and sent to the Public Security Bureau, Snake Liu's thief eyes stared at the old guy, he must have a plan. According to Lu Buming's understanding, Snake Liugan used to be involved in the business of pickpockets, but later he was unruly and kept a finger and was kicked out.

But the five fingers of this thing are intact, and I don't know if this rumor is true or not.

But no matter how Lu Buming asked, Snake Six refused to reveal a word. Looking at the invitation again, Lu Buming shook his head and put it away.

It seems that the old liar has aroused Snake Six's occupational disease, this invitation is of little use to Snake Six, and it is better to throw it on the ground, and the gangsters in the east of the city will also use it as waste paper, and it is worth the price of deceiving himself of two glasses of dirty wine mixed with water.

He dared to act in front of the police, and others refused to accept these deflated three in the east of the city, but this snake six, Lu Buming was willing to give him a thumbs up.

"Do you know what a gift?" Lu Buming planned to go there, he had long heard that the annex in the southeast was a tourist center, but he really didn't have the spare money to go.

The snake's six heads shook like a rattle.

"All I know is that this old liar was later sentenced. This attempted deception was actually sentenced, tsk tsk, it seems that he has a lot of background. ”

Lu Buming smiled bitterly, he didn't expect that he would say this casually, and he would send another one to enjoy the blessings.

When I arrived at the place, I realized that this banquet was a dinner party, and I didn't let in until midnight. While muttering about the rotten life of the rich, Lu Buming found a big stone for him to sleep, rested outside the courtyard, and looked at the appearance of the annex.

In terms of appearance, it is indeed handsome, and the annex with a pure wooden structure is very rare in these years, and the scale and size are even more luxurious. It is a medium-sized annex with a three-storey duplex attached to a garage and basement.

The annex is located in the southeast corner of Lincheng, which is a remote mansion. But this mansion is not for living, inside and outside the annex from top to bottom are the entertainment room, the general shop and the chess room, the dining room and the underground dance hall.

If you include the underground dance hall, there are about fifteen empty rooms and a large two-story living room in the entire annex. Approaching winter is the best time for the annex business, and renting out this large and small three floors can be regarded as a lot of extra income. Lu Buming inquired around the surroundings, and a day's business was worth a month's extra money.

Inquiring about the surrounding information is a habit that Lu Buming has always had. He had planned to ask a few more, but each villa, with its courtyard and surrounding entertainment facilities, was about half a kilometer away, and he would have been hungry if he walked around a few more times.

In the end, Lu Buming gave up and honestly waited from dusk to midnight.

At midnight, the temperature was too low, the temperature was cold, like cement poured into Lu Buming's throat, and it was frozen from the inside out. Even if he wears a thick coat, it doesn't fit well, and the cold wind can still pour in.

Shrinking his head and hooking his waist, Lu Buming observed while cursing the private sports cars that came one after another. When the eleventh bell rang, the first one came. The first car was a half-new Porsche, and although he didn't know much about luxury cars, Lu Buming still had an itch to watch.

However, when the fourteenth luxury car rode out of the thick and heavy fog in the night, the headlights in front of the car were shining, and the dust drove all the way to Lu Buming's face, he became suspicious.

Although the first thirteen cars are all bright big-brand luxury cars, the cars are very foreign, and even the license plate numbers are all along the number, but the body is a lot of dust, especially the clothes after those car owners entered the courtyard of the house, which even made Lu Buming think that he had traveled to the Republic of China.

The last car was brand new with a random number of license plates. The woman who got out of the car made Lu Buming look a little familiar, but the long hair curled like a turbine made him a little disgusted, so he simply didn't look at it.

As soon as they entered the front yard of this annex, the old man guarding the door greeted them with a smile, and his half-rickety waist was almost straightened, and his face was disgusting.

Lu Buming thought that he should also enjoy the treatment of enjoying the level of a rich man, put the invitation in his pocket, slid down the half-slope, and walked to the gate of the courtyard after a while, and the old man was still there.

When he got closer, Lu Buming was dumbfounded.

It turned out that the old man guarding the door was none other than Zhao Lao Wu. He recognized Zhao Lao Wu, but Zhao Lao Wu didn't necessarily recognize Lu Buming. This Zhao Lao Wu is a famous bachelor in Dongcheng, he has been a bachelor for so many years, and he is still his old doorman in elementary school all the year round.

Since the dilapidated primary school was restructured and rebuilt, Zhao Lao Wu couldn't get along in Dongcheng, and I heard that he had been living for a while and became the "watchdog" of the rich people in Xicheng. Lu Buming didn't expect to meet him here.

Zhao Lao Wu really didn't recognize Lu Buming, but he still came over with disdain, and when he saw Lu Buming's "poor appearance", with a long and wide windbreaker that didn't match, his face instantly pulled to the bottom.

"Let's go, there's no food for you here." Zhao Lao Wu looked disgusted, and sent away the Lu Buming in front of him who was like a flower child. "There are hands and feet, what kind of food do you want, get out."