"Team Chen?" Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng heard the salutation that emerged from the mouth of the Longhai Sea, and they were dumbfounded and looked back at the old gentleman in his fifties who had just met yesterday.

And Yue Lin, who was accompanying Chen Wendong, made a grimace at them.

"Team Chen?" Lu Fei, the young policeman beside Long Hai, was also surprised, with a posture of wanting to ask but not daring to ask.

Chen Wendong said calmly, as if the surprise of the people around him had nothing to do with him: "Xiaohai, it seems that you have trained your subordinates well, even if you want to know the answer to the questions that shouldn't be asked." ”

"Team Chen," Long Hai slowly stood up, straightened his waist, gave a police salute, and then asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Chen Wendong sighed lightly and said, "Don't call me that anymore, I was no longer your captain six years ago." ”

"Yes." Long Hai bowed his head slightly, and changed his title, "Master, Master, why did you two elders appear here?" ”

"Have you forgotten? Six years ago today......" Chen Wendong said in a deep voice.

"yes, I remember." Long Hai said with a regretful face.

"Also, the middle-aged couple you just mentioned to reconcile the two young people is us."

"I see." Long Hai's gaze at Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng was much gentler.

"Okay, this is not the place to talk, I booked a private room in the restaurant on the top floor, and you guys will eat with us, right?" We talked about specific things while eating. Chen Wendong proposed.

Long Hai nodded in agreement without hesitation.

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng, as well as the young policeman Lu Fei, followed them up the elevator with full doubts.

The whole box is circular, half of which is a glass curtain wall, and when you open the door to enter, you can clearly see the scenery of the lake outside. Now is the time of sunset, and the orange-red sunlight illuminates the entire private room, giving people a warm and gorgeous feeling.

If it was yesterday, Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng would definitely be shocked by the light and shadow in front of them, but today, they were more concerned about the relationship between the old gentleman named Chen Wendong and the police officer named Long Hai.

The six people sat down in turn, and Chen Wendong motioned for the waiter in the box to serve the food, obviously he had already expected the arrival of Long Hai and another little policeman, and ordered the menu in advance. He knew that the police could not drink alcohol while working, so he asked the waiter to serve a drink.

After the waiter went out, Chen Wendong changed his face to peace, and said to Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng, who were confused: "Xiao Wu, Xiao Feng, and this little comrade named Lu Fei, I know that you must be very curious about my identity in your hearts, right?" I'm going to explain it to you here. My name is Chen Wendong, I was a former people's policeman, and I am the former captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the H City Public Security Bureau. Six years ago, for some reason, I quit my job as a police officer and became an ordinary person again, and my original position was replaced by Long Hai. ”

"But you will always be my master." Long Hai said with a respectful face, "Ever since I joined the police force, you have been my guide. Without your teachings, I wouldn't be where I am today! ”

After clarifying the relationship between the two, the doubts in the hearts of the three young people were easily solved.

"Hello senior!" Lu Fei got up very cleverly and gave a police salute, "The dragon team can be regarded as half of my master, then you are my master." ”

Chen Wendong smiled slightly, raised his hand to signal him to sit down, and then said: "But private friends are private friends, and you can't abolish public affairs because of private affairs." Regarding these two children, last night, um、Is the time of death of the body of the couple found this morning confirmed? ”

Long Hai did not deliberately conceal it: "The autopsy results showed that the time of death was between half past eight and ten o'clock last night. ”

"Oh. The two of them had dinner with us last night at the night stall, and the owner of the stall was familiar with me, and then the boss joined us with his wife and his brother. By the way, the deceased couple also dined with us at that food stall last night, sitting at the table next to us. At about 8:20 a.m., the two deceased insisted on going to the scene of the crime despite the dissuasion of the owner of the night stall, while we continued to stay in the night stall and drink, and it was almost 10 o'clock when we returned to the hotel. Chen Wendong recounted last night's events in an orderly manner, unconsciously carrying the tone and words used to be a police officer.

"Is the owner of that night stall called Wang Jude?"

"Yes."

At this moment, the waiter knocked on the door and entered, served cold dishes, and poured drinks into the cups in front of everyone.

After the waiter exited the box again, Long Hai continued: "Actually, we have already asked Wang Jude to understand the situation on the night of the crime, which is exactly the same as what you just said. Come, teacher, I respect you. ”

Wu Yun was a little unhappy and said, "Since you know our whereabouts that night, why do you still doubt us? ”

"We didn't suspect you." Long Hai shrugged his shoulders, "I'm just looking for you to confirm something, I've never said that I will treat you as the object of suspicion." ”

"You ......" Wu Yun was speechless for a while. It is true that the other party has never said anything like this, but the tone and expression of their inquiry did give Wu Yun the illusion that he was being targeted by the police.

"Little brother, I'm sorry, I toast you as an atonement." Long Hai said with a smile after saluting his wife Yue Lin.

Wu Yun raised his glass helplessly and accepted it.

Then, Long Hai also toasted Wei Xiaofeng Yaoyao. "And your girlfriend. You have a good eye. ”

Wei Xiaofeng's face turned red all of a sudden, but fortunately, it was not easy to be noticed under the sunset outside the window. She was going to explain to Long Hai that she and Wu Yun were not boyfriend and girlfriend, but considering that after explaining, she would have to face questions such as "why do you live in the same room if you are not boyfriend and girlfriend", so she gave up.

After that, the conversation entered a pause stage, because the dishes ordered by Chen Wendong were presented to the table one by one. Chen Wendong motioned for everyone to start enjoying the food first, and the topic of the case was put aside for the time being.

After the waiter reminded her that all the dishes had been served, Chen Wendong explained to her: "I'm sorry, we still have some important things to discuss, please avoid it, and we will call you again if necessary." ”

The waiter smiled sweetly, bowed and nodded, and then exited the box.

"Xiaohai." Chen Wendong continued the topic of the case, "As far as I know, this incident should be exactly the same as last Friday's accident, right? ”

"Yes, except that the time when the body was found. Last Friday's accident was that the companions who had been here with the two deceased on the night of the incident noticed that they had not returned to the hotel late at night, so they searched along the lakeside with the hotel's security guards and found the bodies in the waters near Pingyue Bay. And this time the body was found in the same place the next morning, that is, this morning, by the cleaning staff of the scenic spot. Other than that, both incidents are identical. ”

"Let me think about it." Chen Wendong bent his thumb and tapped his forehead with his knuckles. Yue Lin explained to Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng on the side that this was his usual way of thinking.

"The cause of death was suffocation by drowning, and there were no external injuries all over the body. It would be nice for such an accident to be solved by the management police of the division, so why bother the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau? ”

Facing Chen Wendong's question, Long Hai adjusted his breathing and said, "Because it's too strange." ”

Wu Yun asked, "Does Officer Long mean that these two incidents are not accidents?" ”

"That's not what I meant." Long Hai said noncommittally, "All the clues and evidence found show that these two incidents were accidents, but there are many unreasonable places. ”

"Then let's talk about it, maybe I can see something for you to use as a reference, if you don't dislike it." Chen Wendong said.

Long Hai's face was a little more energetic. "Great, how can you dislike it? I was going to ask the teacher to give us some tips on your previous experience in handling cases. ”

Lu Fei gestured to Long Hai with some embarrassment, and Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng, who had nothing to do with the police, were present.

Chen Wendong spoke for them: "Xiao Wu is a reporter from the magazine company, and he has traveled to many places and has seen a lot of things, so maybe he will have different opinions. ”

Long Hai didn't care, and began to describe the doubts one by one: "Let's talk about the cause of death first." In both cases, the cause of death of the four bodies was preliminarily determined to be drowning, but forensic examinations revealed that the four deceased had very little mushroom-like foam in their mouths, noses and respiratory tracts, and very little drowning fluid in their lungs and stomachs, which is why all four bodies were able to float to the surface shortly after death. These features show that the four deceased did not appear to have drowned, but more likely to have sunk into the water after death. However, the four corpses had fatal injuries all over their bodies, not to mention minor abrasions, and the organs and outer walls of blood vessels in the body were basically intact, which could rule out organ damage, excessive blood loss, mechanical suffocation and other causes of death; No toxic substances were detected in the blood of the deceased, which could rule out poisoning; There were no electric current spots on the skin of the deceased's body, and there were no traces of electric current passing through the muscles, so electrocution was ruled out; There was no failure of the organs in the deceased's body, and no lethal virus was found, ruling out sudden disease and death - it is mentioned here that the two male deceased had a slight myocardial infarction in their hearts, which can be judged that they were slightly frightened before death, but it was not enough to cause death; There were no traces of frostbite on the corpses, ruling out freezing to death. That is, until now, we have not been able to determine what the real cause of death of the four deceased was. ”

Chen Wendong listened carefully to Long Hai's analysis of the cause of death of the corpse, pondered for a while, and put forward his own opinion: "The number of mushroom foam and the amount of drowning fluid are not the only criteria for determining whether it is drowning death, because people will also have heartbeat and respiratory reflex arrest after drowning. ”

Long Hai denied: "Of course, we have also thought about this possibility, but the situation of pale drowning is not common, and it is impossible for all four dead to have this situation." And an autopsy of the hearts of the four corpses revealed that none of them had gone into sudden cardiac arrest. So teacher, unfortunately, your idea is wrong. ”

Chen Wendong had to secretly admit that he had never encountered such a murder case with unknown cause in his police career in the years before he resigned, and it was difficult for him to give a reasonable explanation for the time being. The investigation and analysis of Long Hai et al. ruled out almost all possible causes of death, so it seems that drowning is the most plausible of these unreasonable causes of death.

The atmosphere in the box froze all at once, and everyone was pondering.

Wei Xiaofeng, who had not spoken after sitting down, hesitated for a while, and finally clenched his fists and mustered up the courage to open his mouth to break the frozen atmosphere: "That, will it ...... Was it that their souls had disappeared from their bodies before they fell overboard? ”