The entrance to the labyrinth is like a venomous snake with its mouth open, ready to welcome its fresh and delicious prey. The crooked and branching roads, the tall and wide walls, tell every survivor who is looking for a way out of this hungry belly that hope has been cut off from the beginning.

The door of Room 1302 on the 13th floor of Building C of Jinjing Garden was open, and a stench filled the house. Bi Guofeng was not the first person to arrive at the scene, the moment he walked into the house, he was surprised to find a man lying on the floor of the living room.

Is he a murderer or a victim?

Bi Guofeng was surprised and hurriedly squatted down to check the man's condition, and he smelled a strong smell of alcohol. Fortunately, the man's chest was still rising and falling rhythmically, and it was clear that there were still life features.

Bi Guofeng dialed 120, reported the location of the crime, and then stepped across the man's body and walked to the bedroom. In the bedroom, a woman was lying on her back on the bed, her crotch full of excrement, some of which had fallen to the floor. In the role of heating, the scene has been stinking. Bi Guofeng covered his mouth and walked to the side of the bed, gently touched the woman's neck, and found that the person was dead.

Bi Guofeng rushed to the scene without plastic gloves, so he had to try not to touch it with his hands and observe from a distance. He made rounds for a week and found no signs of the bedroom being turned over, but it was not possible to determine whether the victim's belongings had been lost. The closet doors and drawers were closed, and the dresser was neatly arranged with a wide range of cosmetics showing no signs of being touched. A chair that matched the dresser was slanted to the side of the bed, with a small box on it. He looked closer, and it was a box of condoms, but the plastic film on the outer packaging was still there, apparently unused.

It seems that something is missing, Bi Guofeng told himself. That's right, it's clothes!

The female corpse on the bed was naked, her bodice rolled up to her breasts, the buckle behind her was open, and the shoulder straps slipped to the side. The panties were still clinging to the flesh, but the excrement in the crotch of the pants made them bulging and obscene. Bi Guofeng leaned over to the floor and looked under the bed, but the lost clothes were not here.

Why is that? The victim was disheveled, and if she had been killed in the bedroom, the clothes would have been left here, so why couldn't she find them? Bi Guofeng exited the bedroom and walked into the bathroom, looking inside through the transparent glass of the washing machine, which was empty. Then he looked at the balcony again, and the drying rack was just as empty.

The whole house is only left with the kitchen and the living room, which are two places where clothes are unlikely to appear, and they have not been looked for yet, but Bi Guofeng is still meticulously checking. It wasn't until he searched all the places that he couldn't touch with his hands that he finally confirmed that the clothes the victim was wearing before his death were no longer at the scene.

Bi Guofeng then exited 1302 and knocked on the door of room 1301 next door. But he waited in front of the door for a long time, but no one answered. Bi Guofeng found the door of the safe passage and opened it, and a stale smell came to his face. In the faint light, a lot of dust can be seen kicking up with the wind. He shook his head, no one had walked here for at least a long time.

Who is the informant? Why was the door open at the scene, but the informant was not seen? Bi Guofeng couldn't figure out this question. He walked around the hallway and saw that the surveillance cameras near the ceiling had been damaged, the wires were exposed to the air, and the protective glass of the front camera had cracked into several pieces. This is the same scene that Bi Guofeng saw from the corridor when he came in downstairs, someone deliberately destroyed the surveillance. Judging by the traces, it should have been destroyed in recent days. In other words, the murderer is likely to have planned this murder for a long time, otherwise it would be impossible to be so familiar with the location of the surveillance camera.

After Bi Guofeng waited for a while in 1302, Chang Zhi arrived at the scene with several police officers. Chang Zhi is a newcomer in the bureau who has just completed the internship period, and after passing the assessment, he was assigned to Bi Guofeng's group and he was responsible for leading it. Although this big boy who always likes to shrink his neck looks childish, he even has some academic style. But judging from his graduation results, his professional ability is undoubtedly one of the top talents sent to the bureau in recent years. Bi Guofeng has also learned this point in the actual combat in the past few months.

After Chang Zhi arrived at the scene, his first reaction was the same as Bi Guofeng, looking around for the informant. But after entering and exiting 1302, he didn't want to see the person he was looking for, so he had to ask Bi Guofeng on the side: "Team leader, where is the reporter?" ”

"I didn't see it, when I arrived, there were only these two people at the scene." As he spoke, Bi Guofeng pointed to the drunk man on the ground.

Chang Zhi asked suspiciously, "Is this person dead?" ”

"Not dead, but the details are not clear, I have already called an ambulance."

Chang Zhi nodded, and then handed Bi Guofeng a pair of plastic gloves: "What's going on inside?" ”

"I guess the deceased should be the owner of the house, and I haven't counted the property yet, but looking at the cleanliness of the scene, it doesn't look like a burglary." Bi Guofeng put on plastic gloves and said as he walked into the house.

Chang Zhi took note of what Bi Guofeng said, and then began to carefully inspect the wardrobe in the bedroom with Bi Guofeng. As a result, as Bi Guofeng speculated, there were no signs of being turned over in the closet, and several locked drawers inside were also firmly locked.

"Is the property coming?" Bi Guofeng asked.

"It's already called, and it's probably still on the way."

Bi Guofeng nodded: "The victim is preliminarily estimated to have been strangled to death, and there are obvious bruises on his neck, but there are no traces of a fight in the living room and entrance, and the murderer should have committed the murder in the bedroom." ”

"Are there any traces of the site being cleaned up?"

"I don't know, and I can't conclude until the physical evidence team compares the fingerprints. Why hasn't the property come yet, and when did you get in touch? Bi Guofeng became impatient.

"I contacted the police and I thought he would arrive before us." Chang Zhi shrunk his neck, "By the way, team leader, why did you come so quickly?" ”

"Ahem...... I just happened to have something to do nearby. "Bi Guofeng.

Just as the two were talking, a series of footsteps sounded outside the door, and Bi Guofeng poked his head out to see that several doctors in white coats were running in with stretchers.

Bi Guofeng pointed to the man on the ground: "Just this person, Chang Zhi, you go with them, remember to put the handcuffs on him." Chang Zhi agreed, and then followed the medical staff out of 1302.

30 minutes later, Bi Guofeng finally looked forward to the property personnel of Jinjing Garden, at this time the collection of physical evidence has been basically completed, and the body can be transported away from the scene after the identity of the victim has been confirmed.

The person who came was a middle-aged man with a fat face, his face was oily, his hair seemed to have not been washed for a long time, and he looked extremely sloppy on his scalp. When shaking hands with Bi Guofeng, the other hand unabashedly scratched the crotch of his pants, which gave the overall impression that it could be said to be very bad.

"Hello officer, I'm Wu from the Property Department."

"Mr. Wu, whose name is registered by the owner of this room, can you find out as soon as possible?" Bi Guofeng asked.

"Oh, this one is easy to find, I have an electronic file in my phone, you wait a minute." As he spoke, Wu took out his mobile phone, quickly touched the screen with his fingers, and it didn't take long to find the information of the owner of the 1302 house.

"Zhou Xi?" Bi Guofeng leaned over to look at Wu's mobile phone, and saw a woman who looked the same as the corpse in the bedroom appeared in the corner of the screen, and the word "Zhou Xi" was written on one side of the photo.

Wu Cheng asked, "The owner of the house is this Miss Zhou, what's wrong with her?" ”

"She was killed." Bi Guofeng said, "The body is inside. ”

"Corpse...... Corpse. Wu Cheng gasped.

Bi Guofeng said: "Is there anyone living in 1301 next door to this floor?" I just knocked on the door and found no one answering. ”

Wu Cheng fiddled with his phone for a while and replied: "1301 has been empty for a year, and the last tenant lived in it, but then fell and died, and the house has been empty until now." ”

"Renting? Is Miss Zhou from 1302 also rented? ”

"Yes, most of the houses in this community are rented, and the prices are not up or down, which is very popular with some middle class."

Bi Guofeng nodded: "What is the victim's emergency contact number?" I'm going to call her family and ask them to identify the body. ”

"Okay, no problem, but may I ask...... How did Miss Chou die? Wu asked in a low voice.

Bi Guofeng frowned, very disgusted by this question: "It's good that you still don't know this." ”

Wu Cheng smiled: "I saw a man being carried away just now, is it ...... them?"

Bi Guofeng didn't answer Wu Zheng's words, he turned to his colleague in the bedroom and said, "It's time to clear the scene, the identity of the victim has been confirmed." ”

Wu Cheng craned his neck and wanted to sneak a look, but Bi Guofeng immediately blocked him and snatched his phone.

"Wait...... I didn't want to take a sneak peek. Wu Cheng protested again and again.

Bi Guofeng ignored Wu Cheng, and just sent Zhou Xi's information to his mobile phone through the Internet. Then, he exited 1302 and pressed the elevator button, and pointed inside, asking Wu to go downstairs with him.

Wu thought to himself: This policeman is such a big shelf, isn't it just a dead person? It's not that I haven't seen it, so why is there any need to be so mysterious. Although he was annoyed, he still walked into the elevator and went downstairs with him first. Wu Cheng invisibly felt that the criminal policeman in front of him had an invisible deterrent power, even if his behavior was very barbaric and rude, but it would still make people unconsciously want to do what he wanted.

After arriving on the ground floor, Bi Guofeng returned the mobile phone to Wu Cheng, during which he had secretly written down Wu's mobile phone number with his mobile phone. Although it may not come in handy in the future, he still thinks it is safer to get it in advance, just in case.

The police officers upstairs came down with body bags not long after Bi Guofeng went downstairs. After Bi Guofeng greeted everyone, he then walked towards the security room. The killer has the ability to destroy the surveillance camera, but he may not be able to destroy the footage, and if he is lucky, he should be able to see the suspicious deeds left by the murderer when he came to Jinjing Garden to observe before the killing.

With this in mind, Bi Guofeng found a security guard. But to his surprise, the security guard told him that there was no surveillance video from the 13th floor. Bi Guofeng hurriedly asked: "How can there be no video?" It can't be that it happened to be deleted in the past few days, right? ”

The security guard spread his hands and said, "Originally, there was, but I don't know who broke this surveillance camera." ”

"I know if you broke it, but what about the video from before?"

"The surveillance camera in our community is still an old model, and the storage unit for storing the video is in the camera, not stored in my computer through the line. The prisoner was a veteran and had the camera removed along with the storage unit after breaking it. The security guard explained.

Bi Guofeng was so angry that he kicked on the door of the security room: "That means that the monitoring at the entrance of the community is gone, right?" ”

"Yes...... That's right. The security guard subconsciously held the baton on his waist and looked at Bi Guofeng in surprise, if he didn't know that he was a policeman, he would have thought that he was going to beat someone.

Just when Bi Guofeng sighed, his mobile phone suddenly rang, and he took out his mobile phone to see that it was a call from Director Hao Liye.

"Hey, Ah Feng."

"Director, what's the matter?"

"I heard that the murderer was caught on the spot?"

"I haven't skimmed the eight characters yet, and the person has just been sent to the hospital." Bi Guofeng said impatiently.

"Hospital? What's going on. Hao Liye mistakenly thought that Bi Guofeng was rude to the suspect, and quickly added, "You hit someone again?" ”

"What kind of beating ......" Bi Guofeng was stunned, and then immediately understood what Hao Liye meant, and scolded angrily, "That person fainted at the scene, so I asked people to send him to the hospital, it's my business!" ”

Hao Liye listened to Bi Guofeng's rude explanation and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that you didn't beat anyone, it's almost Christmas in the past two days, and the above requirements for public security are all kept a close eye on, don't stab Lou Zi at this time." The case should be handled as efficiently as possible, and I heard that the provincial leaders will come down to inspect it recently, so don't embarrass me. ”

"Okay, okay, I got it." After a few perfunctory words, Bi Guofeng quickly hung up the phone. In his heart, he scoffed at Hao Liye's high-sounding words, if the case could be easily solved by moving his lips, what would the bureau do with raising them?

Bi Guofeng walked out of Jinjing Garden to the door of the original Lover's Cafe and sat down in his Santana. Then, he rushed to the hospital non-stop. Ten minutes later, Bi Guofeng met Chang Zhi and the suspect in the hospital. By this time, the suspect had regained his senses and was sitting on the edge of the bed drinking hot water. Bi Guofeng stepped forward and called Chang Zhi aside: "What's the situation?" ”

"It's just too drunk, and there's nothing wrong with the body."

"Can you answer now?"

"Yes, the basic information is almost asked. His name is Chang Zhi, he is 26 years old and is the boyfriend of the deceased. ”

"Boyfriend?" Bi Guofeng looked at Chang Zhi suspiciously, "In other words, is it killing for love?" ”

Chang Zhi shook his head: "No, the situation is much more complicated than you think. Even you can't imagine what this person just told me. ”

"Don't sell it, say it quickly." Bi Guofeng urged dissatisfiedly.

"He said he was the one who called the police."

"Informant?" Bi Guofeng stared at Chang Zhi incredulously, "Has the alarm center verified it?" ”

Chang Zhi nodded: "It's verified, the call recorded over there is indeed a man's voice with a bad mouth, and it does sound like he was drunk." And he showed me his mobile phone call logs, which also coincided with the time of the call. ”

"Let me ask." Saying that, Bi Guofeng walked in front of Zhang Xian, "Your name is Zhang Xian?" ”

"Yes, I am."

"Tell me, what are you doing in the victim's house?" Bi Guofeng crossed his hands in front of his chest and stared at Zhang Xian sternly. Chang Zhi took out his notebook from his arms and pressed the button on the end of the ballpoint pen.

Zhang Xian twisted his body uncomfortably: "I just miss her, so go to her, is there any problem?" I'm her boyfriend. Hey, don't try me like a prisoner, she was dead when I got to her house, I didn't kill anyone, it has nothing to do with me. ”

"You said that Zhou Xi was not killed by you, so who could it be?"

"You ask me...... I don't know. Zhang Xian muttered dissatisfiedly in a low voice.

"But you said that when you arrived at the victim's house, she was already dead, so in that case, how did you enter the room, and could a dead man still open the door?" Bi Guofeng asked sternly.

"I ...... When I arrived, the door was open, and I went in like that. ”

"You ......" Bi Guofeng couldn't help but go up and punch Zhang Xian in the stomach, "You don't pretend to be!" ”

Chang Zhi didn't expect Bi Guofeng to make such a move, so he hurriedly went up and grabbed him. But Zhang Xian had already tilted his body and vomited a puddle of filth on the ground.

Bi Guofeng stood aside and nodded as if affirming what he said: "It's open...... Well, just when you're telling the truth. Shall I ask you another question now, how did you call the police when you drank such virtue? ”

"It's just a police report with a mobile phone, and I can't hold on until the report is over, so I'll ......" Before the words were finished, Zhang Xian vomited again, and suddenly the surroundings became smelly.

"Just lying down on the floor and falling asleep?" Bi Guofeng sneered, thinking that this person didn't have a word of truth in his mouth. So, I simply didn't continue to ask. He always asked him to come to him, and then whispered in his ear, "Take some samples of vomit for testing." ”

Chang Zhi didn't know why when he heard it, he frowned and asked, "Why?" ”

"If you want to do it, you will do it, and ask why." Bi Guofeng said, "After his physical condition stabilizes, I will take him back to the bureau." Chang Zhi's face was a little ugly when he heard this, collecting physical evidence was not his job after all, not to mention collecting vomit. But since Bi Guofeng opened his mouth to let him do it, he had no reason to refuse.

At this time, Bi Guofeng came to a secluded corner with his mobile phone. Now, he must inform Zhou Xi's family that Zhou Xi's death has been announced. However, Bi Guofeng has been a police officer for so many years, and he has hardly touched the ordinary work of notifying the death news. Because he didn't want to hear the wails of the victim's family, that kind of scene would always inadvertently pull out a certain childhood memory that he was very resistant to.

Bi Guofeng couldn't help but think of his mother when he held the mobile phone in his hand. The mood he felt when he received that call many years ago still seems to be haunting his mind. This is like the bad news of a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which can make everyone who is bleeding blood suddenly feel extremely cold all over their bodies. If you think about it from another perspective, how can you phrase it to make the victim's family feel better?

Bi Guofeng entered an 11-digit number into his mobile phone, and the call to Zhou Xi's family was quickly connected, he cleared his throat and asked solemnly: "Hello, are you Zhou Xi's family?" ”

"Yes, I'm her dad. Who are you? It was a man with a deep voice who answered the phone.

"Unfortunately, I tell you that your daughter was found dead at home just now, please ...... as soon as possible" Bi Guofeng could not finish his words when he heard a series of noises coming from the other side of the phone.

"You fart, curse my child, people like you should die quickly!" With a burst of swearing, the phone hung up.

Bi Guofeng listened to the mechanical "beep" sound in his ears and sighed: tragedies in this world are happening all the time, but not everyone has the ability to accept these facts. He called back the phone, but this time Zhou Xi's family connection did not answer. After that, the phone simply couldn't get through anymore.