Chapter 4: Strange Surveillance
At around ten o'clock in the morning of the 27th, Lin Yuansi was sitting alone at the computer desk watching the video.
This video is none other than the deceased's room in 1906. In the living room of 1906, there is a miniature pinhole camera, hidden in a bouquet of flowers on the dining table, facing the living room, the sofa, and the balcony window.
Lin Yuansi recalled the scene in the room, and the flowers were still very fresh, indicating that they had not been replaced for a long time. The camera is wireless, and the data is connected to the computer in the study, because the computer only stores a two-day video record, so Lin Yuansi guesses that the deceased had been to 1906 two days ago, changed the flowers, and updated the image content.
As a rule, the 19th floor is a high-rise floor, and there is no need to install an anti-theft guardrail. But in 1906, every room was equipped with a tight protective fence. However, only the windows of the living room balcony are not equipped with protective railings. That's where the camera is pointed.
Was the fence deliberately removed?
Lin Yuansi touched his chin, his face was solemn, and he looked like he was lost in thought.
"What's the catch?"
The voice suddenly sounded from behind him, and he was slapped on the shoulder.
Lin Yuansi turned his head and saw that it was his partner Shi Lei.
"I'll go, Stone, if you scare me so much, I'm not far from dying young." Lin Yuansi said while pretending to pat his chest exaggeratedly.
"Just right, let's see how your structure is different from that of a normal person."
"Pull it down, I don't know you yet, it's all the opposite, you wish I had lived a few more years, right?" Lin Yuansi looked like he was smiling, but then he seemed to remember something. "No, you're scolding me, aren't you?"
Shi Lei's face was expressionless, he didn't want to pay attention to Lin Yuansi's questioning, and casually threw a small stack of documents to him.
"Is this an autopsy report? Yes, yes. I'll have dinner at night! Lin Yuansi took the document, his eyes lit up, as if there was some treasure in it.
Lin Yuansi looked at the report carefully, while Shi Lei crossed his arms and leaned back slightly, quietly waiting for the other party to read it.
"So, he died of suffocation, and it has nothing to do with the pills he ate?" Lin Yuansi said, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. "I had an asthma attack, and I was thinking about taking medicine, but I suddenly realized that the pills were poisonous, so I wanted to pull them out by myself, but I didn't expect that I would suffocate to death like this. It's really... Is this an accident that choked to death? ”
Lin Yuansi still didn't give up, and added another sentence. "It can't be considered an accidental death, right?"
"There is no doubt that the residual drug components in the stomach of the deceased are the same as the undigested drug components in the esophagus, which are ordinary drugs used to treat asthma, aminophylline tablets." Shi Lei added.
"I took the medicine well, why did I suddenly feel that there was something wrong with the medicine? Perhaps things are not as simple as they seem, and it is necessary to find out who is instilling this wrong idea in the deceased and leading him astray into the path of death. I think it's like a premeditated murder that has been carefully disguised as an accident. Lin Yuansi was silent for a while and said what he thought. Clever murder is to take advantage of the weakness of human nature, suspicious. ”
Shi Lei didn't answer Lin Yuansi's words, but continued to talk about his discovery, he knew that what he had just done was Lin Yuansi's own talk.
"As for the time of death, it is assumed that the deceased had eaten between three hours and three and a half hours before his death, based on the undigested food residues in his stomach. The food should be Western, with steaks, pasta, and desserts. ”
"yes, it looks like it's worth paying a visit to that restaurant." Lin Yuansi was almost certain that a person as lavishly dressed as Zhang Shengyi would not be sloppy when it came to lunch. High-end Western restaurants, on the other hand, usually adopt a membership system, which makes it much easier to investigate.
"One more thing worth noting."
"What?" Lin Yuansi asked with interest.
"The second button on the deceased's shirt has fallen off, and the other buttons are loose to varying degrees. Minor broken threads were found on the floor of his room, 1906, which were found to be consistent with the material on which the buttons were attached. However, no trace of the buttons was found at the scene. ”
"The second button is off?" Lin Yuansi said as he touched his chin with his hand, which was his usual action when he was thinking. "If you just feel that the shirt is tight and needs to be relaxed, and if you pull the collar, it will only be the second button that is loose, but all the buttons are loose... In other words, the deceased made an action that required him to take off his shirt, and it may have been a very urgent action, and the force was fierce, so the second button of the shirt fell off. ”
"Stone, do you think it will be..."Lin Yuansi suddenly laughed evilly.
Shi Lei just glanced at him and did not agree with this statement.
"It's a rock, it's hard, I really want to know what's going on in your head."
Not wanting to continue to listen to Lin Yuansi's count, Shi Lei looked at the computer on the table and asked. "Did you find anything from the video?"
Hearing the other party's words, Lin Yuansi glanced at the computer and shrugged his shoulders. "For the first 48 hours, the picture has not changed, as if it has been frozen. It was only a few hours before the crime that the harvest was made. You see..."
Lin Yuansi said, clicked the mouse, and the video began to play.
It's almost a static picture, only the passage of time can be seen on the display, but the picture hasn't changed at all.
"Look, that's what it looked like before." Lin Yuansi said, moving the playbar backwards. "That's where things change."
The time shown on the video is 15:30 on the 25th, that is, this is a record at the time of the crime.
In the video, with a crisp "click" sound, Zhang Shengyi entered the camera. She was followed by a well-built lady with a pair of large-framed sunglasses and waist-length blonde hair casually curled. With fair skin and a tall body, you can see its delicate curves even in sportswear.
The two sat on the sofa some distance apart, looking like two business partners.
The conversation went on for a while, and the blonde woman answered a phone call halfway through, and when she hung up, she seemed a little worried, and kept looking around and around.
But after a while, her eyes froze, replaced by a confident expression.
"Mr. Zhang, if you do this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to cooperate." The blonde woman spoke, her voice sounding fearless.
"Why?" Maybe he knew what the other party was referring to, Zhang Shengyi smiled, looking a little weak-hearted.
The blonde woman didn't say anything more, just glanced at the camera's position and smiled meaningfully.
"Oh, you see, I almost forgot, that's what it meant. I don't usually come here.,Ann was originally used to prevent thieves.,I didn't expect to forget about it for a while.,I'm really embarrassed.。 Zhang Shengyi said, stood up, and walked in the direction of the camera.
In the video, Zhang Shengyi's unsuccessful treacherous face was photographed clearly, although he said sorry, but his face was extremely disappointed and regretful.
Immediately afterward, the video was turned off, and only a black patch remained on the computer screen.
"What a guy with a different heart, it's disgusting to look at." Lin Yuansi did not hide his disgust at all. "But this video is still very valuable, and it can be regarded as knowing that Zhang Shengyi had contact with this blonde woman before his death, and it seems that he has to check her carefully."
"How do you check?" Shi Lei opened his mouth, and the first sentence poured cold water on Lin Yuansi.
"How to check... Wearing black-framed sunglasses, tall, bumpy and convex, he looks like a model, plus blonde hair, it is possible to find it if you check them one by one. Lin Yuansi touched his chin and said while thinking. However, if she is not a model, it may be a bamboo basket that will be empty. Moreover, following Zhang Shengyi into the room, there should be no need to register as a visitor. Come to think of it this way... It's really a needle in a haystack. ”
"Even if you find it, how can you be sure that it is the person on the video." Shi Lei added another sentence.
"I'll go, it's true that you say that, even if you do a facial scan for investigation, wearing such big sunglasses, I can't wait to cover more than half of my face, and I guess I can't find any results." Lin Yuansi said, inevitably a little lost. But the next second, it was as if to cheer himself up, and he cheered up. "It's okay, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, not to mention it's not a difficult thing, it's a big deal to spend a little more time and energy, at least get this useful clue."
"Hmm." Shi Lei just responded lightly.
"Stone, just now I briefly analyzed Zhang Shengyi's psychology of installing the camera, listen to it and see if there is anything that doesn't make sense." Lin Yuansi said with a smile, looking like a treasure.
Shi Lei didn't say anything, just nodded silently.
"There are three reasons why a person would want to install a camera. First, it's for safety. Second, it's for surveillance. Thirdly, it is to satisfy some of your own quirks. Okay, let's analyze it one by one. The first point is that for safety, there are no more than two kinds, personal safety and property security. If it is for the safety of property, there is no need to install a camera, just install a protective fence on the balcony of the living room. If it is for personal safety, I think it is not so simple, there is no protective fence installed, giving people a feeling of inviting you into the urn. The second point is for surveillance. Perhaps Zhang Shengyi noticed that someone had secretly come here when he was not at home, so he wondered who had visited here. Most likely, it was his wife, who claimed she hadn't been there for a long time, but who knows if it was true or not. The third point is to satisfy some of your own quirks. ”
Lin Yuansi paused, looked at Shi Lei, and smiled evilly. "To be honest, I think this third point is more in line with the psychology of the deceased."
Looking at Shi Lei's disgust, Lin Yuansi was anxious, sat up straight, and hurriedly spoke: "Stone, don't believe it, you listen to me give you an analysis." In the video just now, the blonde woman only hinted slightly, and Zhang Shengyi turned off the camera, although it looked like a pity, but it did not send any danger signals. In other words, the blonde woman in front of him was not a threat to him, so he could turn it off so simply. At the same time, and this person is probably not the person Zhang Shengyi really wants to photograph, that is, he is not the person he expected to monitor. If Jang really wanted to photograph the blonde woman, I think he would have tried to turn the camera on again anyway. ”
"And, coupled with Zhang Shengyi's lover and the fact that the button fell as you just said, the third scenario is the most likely. From this point of view, Zhang Shengyi often takes his lover to 1906, and then shoots the content and reminisces it afterwards. But I think this kind of shooting should be unaware of the other party. ”
While speaking, Lin Yuansi seemed to remember something again. "But in this way, the matter of the balcony fence, am I thinking too much?"
Seeing that his partner was lost in thought, Shi Lei stood aside very considerately, not wanting to disturb Lin Yuan Temple.