Ji Ziyue looked at the funeral parlor across the road and said to Shen Zezhi: "Team leader, this is the last one." Could it be this one? ”

Shen Zezhi said: "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Ji Ziyue nodded and followed Shen Zezhi inside.

This funeral parlor is located in the Huaiyang District of Binhai City, and it is also the only district in the four Binhai Districts that does not have a coastline. This funeral home is the farthest from the sea out of all the funeral homes.

Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue walked in, and the funeral home was deserted. There was no one at the front desk either. Shen Zezhi had no choice but to go inside, they saw an office on the second floor, and Noriko went up and knocked on the door.

The door opened from the inside, and a middle-aged woman looked at the two of them and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Kiko Yue said: "We want to book." ”

"Scheduled?" The woman looked at them impatiently and said, "We don't accept reservations. ”

Ji Ziyue was surprised: "Don't accept it? All other homes accept it. ”

The woman said: "We don't accept it here, but we don't need to make a reservation here, we can arrange it for you when we do the funeral." ”

Noriko said, "Oh, I see. ”

The woman asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Ji Ziyue shook his head: "It's okay." ”

The woman retracted and closed the office door.

Ji Ziyue looked back at Shen Zezhi who was standing behind him: "This ......"

Shen Zezhi motioned for him not to speak, turned around and went downstairs.

After leaving the funeral home, Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue sat in the car, and Ji Ziyue said while fastening his seat belt: "This funeral home doesn't seem to be private. ”

Shen Zezhi nodded: "Yes, this is not." ”

Noriko looked at him more and more: "Will it be this one?" ”

Shen Zezhi said while starting the car: "Go back and check." ”

They were about to leave when they suddenly saw a car driving out of the courtyard of the funeral home. Ji Ziyue and Shen Zezhi glanced at each other and followed.

As soon as the car left the funeral home, it drove directly to the east, and Shen Zezhi kept a distance from the front. Ji Ziyue took out his tablet and brought up a map of Huaiyang District.

"It's a residential area that goes straight down the road."

Shen Zezhi said: "Notify Guan Xin and ask her to call up the traffic monitoring on this section of the road." ”

Ji Ziyue immediately informed Guan Xin, and five minutes later, the surveillance video on the road was transferred to the tablet in Ji Ziyue's hand.

Shen Zezhi turned out from the intersection in front of him and drove to another road parallel to this road.

Kikoyue looked at the surveillance and said, "It's like going to a residential area." ”

Shen Zezhi thought for a while and said, "Let Guan Xin check the situation of the employees of this funeral home, and all the official and temporary ones must be checked." ”

Noriko immediately contacted Guan Xin.

The funeral parlor's car drove forward for twenty minutes and stopped not far in front of a residential community. But the people in the car did not get out of the car. Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue drove directly to a restaurant in front of the community, got out of the car and pretended to eat in the restaurant.

When they went to the restaurant, Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue found a private room where they could see the community, and the two of them ordered two dishes casually. After the orderer went out, Noriko went to the window to look. This community is very small, and it looks like it was a lot old many years ago. It is still the architectural style of the old sea, with yellow walls and red roofs. There were many people standing in front of a residential building in front of the restaurant, and there was also a 120 ambulance and a police car parked downstairs.

When the food was served, Kikoyue asked, "What's going on in this community, why are there so many people?" ”

The little girl who served the food glanced out of the window and said, "I heard that someone committed suicide in that building, and the neighbor found out and called the police." ”

"Suicide?" Kiko was more puzzled.

Xiaomei said: "I heard that this is the case, but I really don't know." ”

After the little sister finished speaking, she went out, Ji Ziyue glanced at Shen Ze, and Shen Zezhi nodded at him. The more Kiko went out to see the cars of the two funeral homes, the cars were gone.

Noriko replied, "Let's go." Shall we go down and see? ”

Shen Zezhi shook his head, and he said, "Eat first, and go to the police station in this area after eating." ”

After eating, Kiko looked again and found that the people under the building had dispersed, and the ambulance and police car were gone.

Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue went downstairs and drove directly to the district police station.

After Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue explained their identities. The head of the police station immediately handed over all the information to them. Shen Zezhi and the others are just secretly investigating, so the police station still has to continue to investigate.

The person who caused the accident is Tao Le, male, 28 years old. Employees of the Huaiyang District Funeral Home. The hospital has just reported back the news that the rescue was ineffective and died. The cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

The person who called the police was his neighbor, and it is said that when the neighbor came back at noon, he smelled a strong smell of gas when he walked to their floor, and finally found out that it was from Tao Le's house. After the neighbor knocked on the door, there was no movement inside. So she immediately called the police. When the police arrived, they found a half-pot of water on the gas stove in the kitchen of Tao Le's house, and Tao Le was sleeping on the sofa in the living room. He was unconscious when the police went.

After reading the information, Kikoyue said, "It's not suicide? ”

The police officer said: "No, it looks like it should be boiling water in the kitchen, and he fell asleep in the living room." As a result, the water boiled and overflowed, extinguishing the fire, causing a gas leak. He himself was unconsciously gas-poisoned and unconscious. ”

Kikotsu nodded and said, "We're going to go to the scene to have a look." ”

The little policeman took out a bunch of keys and said, "This is the key to his house." ”

Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue took the key and went out. In the car, Kikoyue looked at the on-site photos taken in the information and said, "It looks like it was indeed an accident." ”

Shen Zezhi: "For the time being, I can't be sure if it has anything to do with our case." Let's go check it out first. By the way, has Guan Xincha's information been transmitted? ”

Ji Ziyue picked up the handheld computer and looked: "It's coming." ”

Shen Zezhi said while driving: "Look at the information of the deceased." ”

Ji Ziyue found Tao Le's information and said: "Tao Le is a local and an only child. He came to work at the funeral home six years ago, and he has made no achievements and no mistakes over the years. Overall, he is a very ordinary person. ”

Shen Zezhi said: "The timing of his death is too strange. ”

Noriko Yue said: "If he has something to do with our case, and the test subject died as soon as he arrived in our hands, wouldn't this attract our attention even more?" ”

The car drove into the community, and Shen Zezhi and Ji Ziyue went upstairs. Tao Le's family lives on the third floor, and Kiko Yue takes the key to open the door. There was no smell of gas in the room anymore, and there was some chaos in the living room.

The decoration of the house is somewhat old. The furnishings are also very simple, with a TV cabinet on one side against the wall and a TV on top. Facing the TV is a coffee table and a sofa. There is a shoe cabinet against the door.

Shen Zezhi went to cook

Looking at the room, there is the teapot on the cupboard, and there are some blackened places under the teapot, which looks like it should be a trace of water overflowing and being burned.

Ji Ziyue followed in and looked at it: "There are really too few people who still use this kind of kettle to boil water." ”

Shen Zezhi nodded, now he usually uses that kind of electric kettle, or uses a water purifier.

Shen Zezhi turned his head to look outside, and then looked back at the cabinet. He said, "The water will sound when it boils, right, he slept so soundly?" ”

Noriko filled the kettle with water and began to boil, the fire was very large, and this kettle was very small. A pot of water boils in about ten minutes.

When the water boils, it only makes a "poof" sound, and there is no such sharp whistle.

Ji Ziyue said: "There is something wrong with this pot. ”

Shen Zezhi closed his breath and said: "A pot of water boils for ten minutes, if the pot will whistle, even if he falls asleep, he will definitely hear it." He dared to rest in the living room at will. ”

Ji Ziyue said: "But the kettle didn't whistle, and he wasn't woken up." The water overflowed and extinguished the fire, and the gas leaked out and poisoned him. ”

Shen Zezhi nodded: "Take the pot back." ”

Noriko found a plastic bag and prepared to take it back. They had just come out of Tao Le's house when they saw their neighbor open the door and come out. There was a young woman living across the door from his house. Looks in his twenties.

The woman looked at them stunned, but said nothing and prepared to go downstairs. Ji Ziyue stopped her and said, "Hello, we are the police in charge of this case." ”

The woman stopped and looked at them and said, "I have said everything I know. ”

Ji Ziyue said: "Don't be nervous, we just understand the situation." ”

The woman nodded, "Okay." ”

Shen Zezhi said: "Can I go to your house?" ”

The woman nodded, turned and opened the door to invite them in.

After arriving at the woman's house, Ji Ziyue took out a pen and paper and began to make notes for her, and Shen Zezhi asked her, "Can I visit your house?" ”

The woman nodded.

Ji Ziyue asked, "How is your relationship with Tao Le?" ”

The woman said, "It's okay, we'll say hello when we meet." ”

Ji Ziyue asked, "Have you ever seen someone come to his house to look for him recently?" ”

The woman shook her head: "It doesn't seem to be, I haven't seen it." ”

At this time, Shen Zezhi's voice came from the bedroom, and the woman and Ji Ziyue both went over to look. Shen Zezhi stood in front of the window, he stretched out his upper body to look outside, then retracted and turned around to ask the woman: "You don't have anti-theft windows at home?" ”

The woman said: "I rented this house, and the landlord didn't pretend it." However, the security work in this community is not bad. Besides, it is not easy for thieves to come up on the third floor. ”

Shen Zezhi said: "I don't think Tao Lejia is pretending. ”

The woman said: "Well, he didn't pretend to be at home, maybe he thought it was a man, so it didn't matter." ”

Shen Zezhi asked a few more questions and left with Ji Ziyue.

When he returned to the office, Kiko asked curiously, "Team leader, what do you see?" ”

Shen Zezhi: "I have observed that there are no more than ten anti-theft windows on the third floor of the entire community. Neither Tao Le nor his neighbor's house installed it. And according to the layout of the house, Tao Le's bedroom and the neighbor's bedroom share a wall. The distance between the window of his neighbor's bedroom and the window of Taule's bedroom was no more than three meters. And there is an eaves one meter below the windowsill, which is about seven or eight centimeters wide. ”

Ji Ziyue said: "So it is possible that this person entered Tao Le's house through his neighbor's bedroom and tampered with his kettle and killed him." But what was his motive for harming Tao Le? ”

Shen Zezhi said: "This is what we want to investigate next." I don't think it's an accident that Tao Le is dying now. ”

Ji Ziyue said: "Why didn't the person who killed Tao Le go straight to Tao Le's house, why did he go from his neighbor's house to Tao Le's house?" ”

Shen Zezhi said: "This person should have some excuse or know Tao Le's neighbors." And he is very familiar with Tao Le's life. ”

Ji Ziyue said: "It shouldn't be difficult to find someone who knows Tao Le and his neighbor at the same time." ”