Sunday, October 11th. Before dawn, Chen Qiang drove a truck to the Huangsha Seafood Market.

He is a freight driver, and in the past few years, he has been driving trucks around Guangzhou City to help people pull goods. It is a regular job to pack and transport the caught seafood to Huangsha at 5 a.m. every day at the fishing grounds.

He arrived before five o'clock today. The neighbors here are familiar with him and call him a strong fish seller. There are only a few wholesale seafood shops on the street, and they have opened their roller shutters and are ready to do business.

He parked the car, opened the door of the truck, took the cart out, put the packed seafood on the cart, and walked down the alley.

It is the cold storage of Yonghao seafood. This seafood is deliberately made large and sold to several nearby towns. Therefore, it is necessary to pull the caught fish in time to freeze them and then transfer them to various places.

Usually at this point, Zhang Jianhong will wait for him here and help him move the fish into the cold storage. Zhang Jianhong is the son of the previous owner, the son inherited his father's business, and after graduating from middle school, he helped his father manage the store, and he has been doing it for 15 years.

Chen Qiang waited until 5:15, but Zhang Jianhong still did not come. He made several phone calls, all of which were turned off. Chen Qiang was impatient, thinking that Zhang Jianhong had slept dead on the upper floor of the store next door, so he went over to knock on the door.

There was a lot of movement from the slap door. After a while, he faintly heard an exclamation, coming from the cold storage. He ran over and knocked on the cold storage door, listened to the situation, and heard a loud noise from the cold storage, followed by a cry for help, and someone knocked on the door inside.

He tried to open the freezer door, but it was locked and he couldn't open it without a key.

He chose to call the police.

When the fire brigade arrived, forcibly broke the door lock, and opened the warehouse door, what appeared in front of them was Zhang Jianhong, the manager of Yonghao Seafood, Liu Zhongwei, the security guard on duty last night, and the body of a middle-aged man who was completely disfigured and burned his fingerprints.

Xia Liang continued:

"When we found the fish shop owner and the security guard in the hospital, both of them were a little delirious. Strangely, when they came to their senses and the police asked about the body in the cold storage, the two men unanimously pointed out that the other was the murderer. ”

Zhu Ansheng frowned and asked:

"Did they explain how they ended up in cold storage?"

"Yes. According to Zhang Jianhong's account, he opened the door at 10:30 a.m. to inspect the food in the cold storage, and then closed the door to go upstairs to sleep. Someone put a sack over his head from behind and covered his mouth with something. Soon he fainted. ”

"The security guard was in a similar situation - however, he had seen the attacker, supposedly an old beggar, whose face was not clear and could not be painted......"

Zhu Ansheng's eyes moved slightly, knocked his pipe, and cocked Erlang's legs:

"Since he couldn't see his face clearly, how did he determine the age of the attacker?"

Xia Liang said:

"We noticed it too. But Liu Baoan was very sure that it was an old beggar, and judging from the way he walked and the way he spoke, it could not be faked. When he was on night duty in the security booth, he saw an old beggar coming to call for help, saying that he heard someone locked in a nearby cold storage. When he followed the old beggar to the cold storage and knocked on the door, he was attacked in the same way. ”

Zhu Ansheng thought about it, laughed, and na:

"Interesting."

He played with the pipe in his hand, collected his thoughts a little, and said:

"Since both of them were sure that they were attacked unconscious and brought into cold storage, when they saw the body, they did not suspect the murderer who attacked them, but bit each other......"

Xia Liang nodded:

"This is the most bizarre part of the whole case, there is clearly a suspect in the confession of the two who had bad intentions and attacked them, but after the on-site investigation, it is possible that the only person who committed the murder to the victim is the two people in the cold storage...... Because, at that time, the cold storage had formed a situation of double secret rooms. ”

Zhu Ansheng narrowed his eyes. Xia Liang continued:

The two of them woke up once. According to them, the third person in the cold storage at that time, the deceased, had not yet been attacked, and the deceased, like the two people, had moved in after being attacked and passed out. ”

"The electric switch in the cold storage is turned off and there are no lights. The three of them patted the door in the darkness for a long time, but they couldn't find a way out, and they were afraid that the person who locked them in the cold storage would open the door in the middle of the night and hurt them, so they moved through the shelves in the cold storage and blocked the door......"

"Wait, that is, when they woke up halfway through, the third person wasn't dead yet?" Zhu Ansheng suddenly asked.

Xia Liang nodded: "Yes...... They also put a plastic box between the shelves and the door to put the fish. As soon as someone opens the door and comes in and pushes the shelves, the hollow plastic boxes fall on the ground and make a loud noise that is enough to wake them up. The owner of the fish shop knew that someone would come to the cold storage at about five o'clock, so he proposed that everyone conserve their strength first to avoid freezing to death...... When the two of them woke up, they found that the third man was dead......"

"In this case, the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get in, that is, the absolute secret room...... The suspects can only be locked on the two of them. ”

Zhu Ansheng thought about it and asked:

"Did the plastic boxes fall off when the fire brigade unlocked them?"

"No—to be exact, the box would have fallen long ago. The sound of the truck driver banging on the roller shutter woke the two men from their sleep, and they moved the shelves themselves. Then they started banging on the door and calling for help. ”

Zhu Ansheng took another puff of cigarette and said to himself: "The sound in the cold storage that Chen Qiang heard is the plastic box that fell when they moved the shelf......"

Xia Liang looked at Zhu Ansheng.

"Brother-in-law, what do you think about this case?"

"It's hard to say for sure right now, but if nothing else, I think you're in for a hard time." Zhu Ansheng took a few puffs of cigarettes, picked up a trace of tobacco and put it into his pipe.

"Why do you say that?"

Zhu Ansheng did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically:

"Xia Liang, how likely do you think those two suspects committed a crime?"

Xia Liang pondered for a while and said:

"The current situation is that both of them bite each other to death is the murderer, and they are innocent...... Most of the officers in the force also thought that one of the two must have lied...... But from another point of view, I think there are still a lot of suspicious points. ”

"For example?"

"For example, the old beggar, who attacked three people in a row and moved them into cold storage, must have some reason for his actions, and I don't believe he had anything to do with this murder at all...... Besides, no matter how you look at it, this case looks like a deliberate murder that has been prepared for a long time, and if this is the case, the murderer's situation among the two is unreasonable, because it is tantamount to putting himself in the position of the prime suspect......"

Zhu Ansheng nodded, did not comment on Xia Liang's thoughts, but smiled: "There is another very interesting detail in this case. ”

"What is it?"

Zhu Ansheng put down his pipe, stood up, and walked into the room. While saying:

"You mentioned that the power switch in the cold storage was turned off, and it was pitch black inside. And the deceased was disfigured, and fingerprints were destroyed. Other words...... From beginning to end, the two people in the cold storage did not know the identity of the deceased. ”

Xia Liang's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at him:

"In other words, the key clue that the murderer wants to conceal should be the identity of the deceased, and if the deceased can be found out, there should be a big breakthrough in this case......"

Zhu Ansheng's voice came from the room:

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't."

Xia Liang was stunned and said confusedly: "Brother-in-law, what do you mean by this......

There was a rustling sound from the other end of the room, like getting dressed. After a while, Zhu Ansheng put on suit pants and a white shirt, buttoned it up, and walked out of the room, saying:

"If this is a premeditated case, judging from the details of the secret room, the executor is quite thoughtful, in other words, he should not leave such obvious flaws - with modern technology, even without face and fingerprints, it is not impossible to recognize a person's identity."

After saying this, he had already returned to the sofa, put on his socks and leather shoes, took down a crumpled blazer from the hanger, and turned his head to look at Xia Liang. Xia Liang realized that there was some indescribable color circulating in his increasingly cloudy eyes, which belonged to the eyes of "Criminal Detective Galileo".

"I have a hunch that when you find out the identity of the deceased, the game arranged by the mastermind behind the scenes has just begun......"

"Take me to see it, Xia Liang."

He draped his suit over his shoulders and walked out the door.

Xia Liang clenched his fists excitedly and stood up.