Chapter 4 The Basement
Yan Lingyun was a little surprised: "Why?" β
"Now the electricity bill in City X is time-of-use, and this kind of smart meter will record the electricity consumption in different charging periods for easy calculation."
Chen Mu picked up the data record and lightly clicked, "Today is the factory shutdown day, so the point record is only the one that cut the deceased." β
Yan Lingyun took the data, and sure enough, he saw that the peak and trough periods were followed by 0, and there was a number after the normal period.
"Weekdays are from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and after 7 p.m. it's rush hour."
A cold glint flashed in Chen Mu's eyes, "She's lying." β
"That's really the case, Team Leader Chen is so amazing!" Liu Binglei immediately cast an appreciative look at Chen Mu.
Looking at the man's calm face, Yan Lingyun couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, but Team Leader Chen is still so meticulous."
Chen Mu glanced at her lightly and chuckled, with a trace of complicated emotions in his eyes.
"It would be nice if you could be more detailed."
His voice was very soft, and Yan Lingyun didn't hear it clearly for a while.
"What?"
Chen Mu just shook his head: "Let Jia Luo bring people back." β
Zhang Xia, who returned to the interrogation room, was obviously much calmer.
"Comrade policeman, I did it, I have now realized my mistake, you can sentence me quickly!"
Chen Mu took out a pen, and his eyes were nailed to her like an eagle falcon.
"Let's talk about Xu Yongfu's whereabouts."
As soon as the three words "Xu Yongfu" came out, the woman, who was originally gentle and quiet, stiffened, and her expression became a lot nervous: "You asked him what he was doing, and he didn't know that I killed someone." β
Chen Mu turned the tip of his pen, and added a carelessness to his voice: "We also asked him, but he didn't mention that you went out in the middle of the night, are you not in harmony?" β
As if she had touched some switch, Zhang Xia stood up suddenly.
"My husband is cute about me! I killed him, don't trouble him! β
Chen Mu threw a look at Lin Jialuo and motioned for him to control Zhang Xia.
"We won't trouble anyone, but Zhang Xia, according to our investigation, you don't have the conditions to kill."
Zhang Xia seemed to be unable to hear anything, twisting her body frantically, and even Lin Jialuo heard the click of her wrist joints.
"Don't touch him! I did it! I did it! β
Lin Jialuo was afraid that she would hurt herself if she continued like this, so she could only control the person and press it on the table.
The sleeves rolled up with her frantic movements, revealing the mottled bruises on her arms.
Yan Lingyun leaned over and looked at Chen Mu.
"It's the same as the two girls."
Chen Mu nodded slightly, looking at this poor woman's gaze a little complicated.
"Take it down."
Yan Lingyun injected Zhang Xia with a tranquilizer to quiet down this woman who obviously had mental problems.
"Jialuo, you take someone to Xu Yongfu's house to search."
Lin Jialuo was about to respond, but Liu Binglei on the side suddenly raised her hand: "Report to Team Leader Chen, I want to go too!" β
Chen Mu naturally would not object to the study of young police officers: "Go ahead." β
In the car, Liu Binglei was uncharacteristically silent.
Lin Jialuo, who was driving, glanced at the woman looking out the window and said softly, "Thinking about Zhang Xia?" β
Liu Binglei shook her body and replied softly: "Hmm." β
Lin Jialuo's eyes darkened.
What Team Leader Chen and Forensic Doctor Yan didn't know was that he and Liu Binglei not only knew each other, but were even childhood sweethearts.
When Liu Binglei was young, her mother was killed by her father's domestic violence and became an orphan in a sense.
The relatives were reluctant to take her as a drag oil bottle, but Mother Lin, who was still a neighbor, couldn't see it and took the initiative to take over the helpless little girl.
This domestic violence incident probably reminded her of some bad memories again.
Lin Jialuo said casually: "As a policeman, you will come into contact with all kinds of people, we just need to do our part well, and mature police officers don't need to empathize with them every time." β
Liu Binglei secretly wiped the corners of her eyes and wrinkled her nose at him: "What about me, I have heard what Team Xing said, the first time you went out on a mission and saw a corpse, everyone in the police force knew that you ate stinky tofu and snail noodles at noon!" β
Lin Jialuo's face froze: "The corpse is all waxed, you smell it and you vomit!" β
The two happy rivals were noisy, and the atmosphere eased a lot.
searched Xu Yongfu's house inside and out, but failed to find anything abnormal.
Liu Binglei shrugged: "Ordinary people wouldn't kill people at home, right?" β
Lin Jialuo looked around, and could only nod helplessly: "Let's go back and report to Team Leader Chen first." β
The two of them were about to leave when there was a muffled noise.
Boom!
Liu Binglei was stunned, glanced at Lin Jialuo, took out her gun and walked in the direction of the sound.
The sound seemed to hear the footsteps of the two men, and the tapping was more frequent.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
"It seems to be...... Ground floor? β
Liu Binglei pointed to a carpet, "Is this here?" β
Lin Jialuo lifted the carpet and found that there was a piece of floor leather under the carpet, which could not be distinguished if he did not look carefully.
Cutting the floor leather, a secret door appeared.
Lin Jialuo carefully removed everything on it and gently opened the secret door.
"Ahh
A woman with a disheveled hair came out of the basement and rushed to Liu Binglei in a panic.
Liu Binglei was taken aback, but it was not good to shoot directly, so she could only stretch out her elbow to resist.
However, before the woman could touch her, Lin Jialuo had already grabbed the woman's arm and threw her on the soft floor.
"Waterβgive me water!"
"Okay, okay, calm down."
Liu Binglei hurriedly brought the water cup.
After drinking the water, the woman calmed down a lot, and fell on Lin Jialuo's body and cried loudly.
"Down, there's someone down there!"
Lin Jialuo's face sank, and he handed the woman to Liu Binglei: "Binglei, you appease her, I'll go down and take a look." β
As soon as I stepped into the basement, a bloody breath came to my face.
Lin Jialuo frowned and carefully walked down the steps step by step.
The basement is not small, and there are many torture instruments like whips at the entrance, which are stained with black-brown blood.
There were also a lot of blood stains splattered on the wall, and a long strip-shaped thing hung on the wall, swaying slightly with Lin Jialuo's movements.
What is it?
Lin Jialuo turned on the police flashlight, and the light instantly illuminated the front.
But the things hanging on the wall make him feel that sometimes it's better not to see so clearly.
Even though the thing had long since rotted and shriveled, it was still a corpse that could be judged by the outline.
I don't know how long she has been hanging here, her body has long been rotten, and in some places there are even white bones exposed.
Half of the scalp with black hair was loosely attached to the slightly drooping skull, as if it would fall off at any moment.
Fortunately, I didn't let Binglei come down.
Lin Jialuo thought numbly.