Volume IV

Haunted calls

Those who forget themselves are enough to build a city. - Brodsky

There are always people who leave us, and there are always things that have not been said.

Pick up your phone and look at the missed calls, maybe one of the unfamiliar numbers was from someone who died calling you.

Chapter 16: Floating Corpses in the Lake

A woman in Hangzhou accompanies her mother with lung cancer in the hospital. One night, my mother got out of bed and walked out of the hospital room and squatted down in the corner of the hallway. The woman shouted, "Mom, where are you going?" Mom turned her head to look, but she couldn't speak. At this time, the woman's phone rang, and it turned out to be a dream. Mom is still lying in bed, already dead. The call was made by my mother, but the mobile phone was not with my mother, and I asked my family afterwards, but no one called.

The woman thought that when her mother was dying, she might have something to say.

A high school student in Hefei did not return home on weekends and lived alone in a dormitory. Before going to bed, he placed his slider phone on a stack of books next to his pillow. When he woke up in the morning, he saw that the phone had slid away, and he didn't care, he wanted to check the time, but found that the phone was stuck in the interface of editing text messages, and there was a sentence on it that was not sent: Are you asleep, I want to talk to you. He thought about it for a long time, and he didn't remember editing the text message himself.

So who wants to talk to him?

There is an artificial lake in the university town of Yingfeng City, surrounded by six universities, and on weekends, the artificial lake is particularly lively, and many college students play here.

Weeping willows are still on the shore, warning signs are erected "no swimming", and the blue waves in the lake are rippling and lotus flowers are in full bloom.

A few students stood on the edge of the lake and floated, and the stones jumped on the water, flying lightly and far. They raced against each other and cut down the lotus flowers in the lake with stones, and after a while, a behemoth floated out of the dense lotus leaves, and everyone was stunned.

There is a floating corpse, on the water side.

It was the corpse of a girl in a green dress, already Fǔ Bài, with a bulging belly, originally hidden in the middle of the dense lotus leaves, but now slowly floating out. The lotus leaf holds an umbrella for the corpse, like a funeral procession.

Dusk came, a sun rain had just fallen, and the lotus leaves were full of crystal raindrops. The female corpse in the lake rose and fell with the waves, touching the lotus leaves, and the raindrops poured into the water. A lotus flower is between the legs of the floating corpse, the pink lotus flower is curling, the dark green lotus leaf pavilion is swaying, the corpse stays in the elegant and quiet lake for a while, and then the lotus flower is pressed into the water, and the small red fish in the water and the huge corpse are playing.

A sharp-billed bird flew and landed on the bulging belly of the female corpse, pecking continuously.

At this time, more people had gathered on the shore, and everyone saw that the belly of the female corpse was pecked by the sharp-billed bird, and it exploded like a balloon, and a piece of intestines flew into the air, and the bird fluttered and flew away.

After the corpse exploded, it slowly sank into the lake.

The floating corpses in the lake frightened everyone, and several girls on the shore covered their mouths and cried, and some vomited.

The public security bureau in the jurisdiction of the university town received a report and salvaged the woman's body from the lake, and after visiting and mobilizing the masses to identify it, it quickly figured out the identity of the deceased. The girl in the green dress was a senior at a nearby normal university named Piaolian, and her mobile phone was recovered from the lake.

Piaolian sent a text message to her father

However, his father is a farmer and can only make and receive phone calls, not text messages.

The ignored text message reads as follows:

Dad, I don't want to live anymore, I plan to take poison first and then jump into the lake, emotional entanglements make me exhausted, I'm sorry, it's too selfish to do this, my daughter is not filial, I will repay you in the next life, I will be your daughter in the next life, I will take the poison first, and then jump into the artificial lake outside the east gate of the school, please transport my body back to my hometown.

The text message was sent three days ago, and on the face of it, it was a suicide case.

However, the medical examiner confirmed that Drifting Lotus had been dead for at least a week, meaning that she was dead when she sent the text message. At that time, her body was soaking in the water of the lake, rotting in the fragrant lotus flowers.

Bai Jingyu distributed the case file to the special case team, and this case of floating corpses in the lake was very strange.

Su Mei said: It's so scary.

Professor Leung said: It is impossible for a dead person to send a text message.

Bao Chu said: The murderer killed Piaolian, threw her body into the lake, and used her mobile phone to imitate her tone and send a text message to her father.

The murderer finally threw his mobile phone into the lake and faked it as a suicide.

Bai Jingyu said: On the day that Piaolian's body was recovered from the lake, another girl went missing, and the local police checked the case file and found that a senior girl had mysteriously disappeared a few months ago and her whereabouts were unknown.

Professor Liang said: Of the three girls, one died, and the other two girls were not seen alive or dead.

Bai Jingyu said: Now is the time for our special case team to show its skills, let's go!

The public security sub-chief of the university town is surnamed Lu, who is five big and three thick, with a broad face and big ears, and used to be the captain of the armed police, who likes to fight, and is nicknamed Lu Tizhi. After the arrival of the special case team, this rugged man respectfully saluted the painting dragon and said: Hello instructor.

The painting dragon was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to recognize it, it turned out that this person had learned martial arts with the painting dragon in the past.

The dragon looked at him and said, "It's you, Lu Tiha, why have you become like this, look at your belly, I really don't recognize you."

Lu Ti said: Instructor, since I became the director, my belly has been big, I used to have abdominal muscles on my stomach, but now it has become pork belly, we haven't seen each other for many years, let's take a walk, I have to invite you to have a few drinks.

Bao Shu said: Director Lu, let's wait until after work to have a bar.

Hualong said: What is the director, shouting Xiaolu, this is my apprentice, I have learned kung fu from me.

Su Mei said: Hey, painting dragons, people are older than you, and let us call Xiaolu, what are you angry about.

Hualong said: Xiao Lu is older than me, taller than me, and when he practiced martial arts, he was beaten and cried several times by me.

Su Mei said: The big man who picks his feet also has a Lori heart.

Lu Tizhi was an easy-going person, set up a banquet to entertain the special case team, and the banquet was staggered and the conversation was very happy. Talking about the case, Ruthi complained that three girls in the university town were missing and dead, and that the whereabouts of the other two girls in the floating lotus lake were unknown. The social impact is extremely bad, and the pressure on the police is very high. Rumors spread that the bodies of the other two girls were also found in the lake, and the parents believed it, and they rushed all the way to the school, and the school said that it would actively cooperate with the police investigation

。 Parents united to the front of the city government to pull up a banner with bloody letters, writing "return my daughter", they tearfully complained to the city government leaders about the police's inaction and the school's faults, the city government leaders said that the deadline is one month to solve the case!

Lu Ti said: Let me solve the case in a month, and I will take my own life, your special case team is my great benefactor.

Professor Leung said: "We can't guarantee that the case will be solved on time, so we can only do our best.

Lu Ti said: All the cadres and police officers in the bureau have been mobilized, and they have been busy for a few days, and they have no clue about the case.

The whereabouts of the three girls, in addition to the deceased Piaolian, are unknown, one named Aixi and the other named Little Rose, all of whom are students at several nearby universities.

Piaolian and Aixi are in their senior year, and Little Rose is a freshman, they don't know each other and are not in the same school.

Aixi has been missing for more than four months, and her family had previously reported the case, but it did not attract the attention of the police.

On the day Piaolian's body was found, her classmates reported to the police that a girl named Little Rose was missing.

Rubi investigated the relationships of the three girls extensively, and obtained mobile phone communication records from the telecommunications department, but found no suspicious clues. Aixi and Little Rose are missing, and Piaolian is poisoned with narcotic drugs and thrown into the lake, and the nature of the three cases is difficult to conclude.

"So far, we don't know if these three cases were committed by the same killer or the same group of murderers.

The dragon said: Xiao Lu, you are really stupid.

Bao Chu said: Aixi has been missing for more than four months, why didn't you investigate at that time, and now you have missed the best opportunity.

Ruthi said: Adults who go missing are usually running away from home.

Su Mei said: Judging from the photos, the three girls are very beautiful, they can be regarded as beauties, will Aixi and Little Rose be abducted and sold to the kiln, or will they be imprisoned as sex slaves.

Professor Liang said: First of all, we can rule out the motive for the kidnapping, let's go to the lake first.

The artificial lake is located in the center of the university town, surrounded by six universities, usually come here to play are college students, even the graffiti on the lakeside pavilion also seems to have cultural heritage, a pillar is written a poem: just because of the past mistakenly appreciate the snow, the night is sad until dawn.

Su Mei said: This may have been written by a girl.

Bao Shu said: Sister Xiaomei, how do you know, I can't tell that this font was written by a girl.

Su Mei said: Die, my sister is also guessing.

The grass next to the pavilion is a date spot for college couples, who kiss as if no one is around.

Lu Ti pushed Professor Liang and parked his wheelchair on the shore, and Professor Liang looked at the lotus flowers in the lake. Drawing Dragon went to a newsstand to buy cigarettes, the newsstand actually sold condoms, and a college student almost collided with Drawing Dragon because he only cared about low-haired text messages.

The college student pressed his mobile phone and said, "Baby, wait for me, I'll buy a few small raincoats first, three is enough."

Su Mei said to Bao Shu: He is chatting about WeChat.

This made the special case team have an idea, and after questioning their classmates, the three girls all used WeChat. Lu Tizhi copied the mobile phone cards of the three girls through the telecommunications department, and although the WeChat chat history was lost, a closer look can reveal one thing in common: almost all of the three girls' WeChat friends met by "checking people nearby".