The boy stopped his bicycle and walked over to the grass. In the middle of the grass, there was a man lying in a denim jacket and jeans, and he looked like he was no longer breathing. The boy was so surprised that he immediately stepped on his bicycle and ran away without looking back.

An hour later, the criminal police of the serious case group of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment rushed over.

The corpse was a man of thirty-six or seven years of age, with a thin body, a straight nose, and a dark complexion. His face was tilted to the side in pain, and there were obvious choke marks on his neck, which appeared to have been strangled to death. The deceased's clothes were not messy, and there were no signs of the flowers and plants around the body being trampled on. There are various indications that this man was not violently resisted before he died, and he may have been suffocated to death by a sudden chokehold.

The police then asked the people who lived in the neighborhood who were standing at a distance to identify the deceased, and after those who came to identify him, they all said that they had not seen the man in the vicinity.

The body was transported to the police hospital for autopsy. But Tian Chunda, the leader of the group, was still standing there, looking around.

"Oh, yes. Hao Dong, did it rain over there this morning? Tian Chunda looked around at the ground and suddenly asked.

"No!" Hao Dong replied.

"My family lives in the north of the city, and when the day was about to dawn, I heard the sound of rain in my dream, and when I got up, I saw that the ground was really wet. Is it raining over there ...... you're there? ”

"My house is in the west of the city, and it doesn't rain in that area, and it doesn't seem to rain in this area."

"So it's a little shower." Tian Chunda said while tapping the tip of his shoe on the ground.

In the afternoon of the same day, the results of the autopsy came out.

The victims, aged 37 or 8, died of suffocation by choking in the neck. As a result of the internal organs, no drugs were found in the stomach, but there was pulverized coal in the lungs, and the murderer committed the crime between 10 o'clock in the middle of the night and 1 o'clock the next day on the 12th.

"Pulverized coal?" After listening to the report, Tian Chunda couldn't help blurting out, and said: "Is this man living in a coal-related environment?" ”

"The ......," the autopsy doctor explained, "also had a lot of coal dust stuck to the mucous membranes of the nostrils. It is possible that he lives or works in a coal-related environment. ”

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The identity of the victim was known in the evening of the same day.

As a result of the news of the case reported on the Internet, the wife of the deceased rushed to the city criminal police detachment upon hearing the news. The police immediately asked her to identify the body.

"That's right, it's my husband." She replied in the affirmative with tears in her eyes.

"What's your husband's name?" Tian Chunda asked.

"His name is Meng Xiangyu."

"When did he go out last night?"

"My husband and I both do odd jobs. Yesterday evening, around 6 p.m., I came home to see that my husband was not at home. At first I thought he was out shopping, but I waited for more than an hour and didn't see him come back. I inquired with the neighbors, and the sister-in-law Zhang next door said that she saw him answering a phone call in the yard at about four o'clock and hurriedly went out. ”

"Answered the phone? Hear what your husband said on the phone? Tian Chunda asked.

"I also asked Sister-in-law Zhang about this, and Sister-in-law Zhang said that she didn't pay attention to it."

The phone call caught the attention of the police.

"Think about it, who would call your husband at that time?"

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't think of any clues."

"Do you have any relatives near the eastern suburbs where the body was found?"

"Not at all. I was also surprised, how could Meng Xiangyu go to that place? ”

"Your husband always brings a bag or backpack with him when he goes out, right? We didn't find it at the scene, and you won't have it at home, right? ”

"He went out with a handbag. A plain black handbag. ”

"There's money in it, right?"

"I don't know how much money I can load, it's usually only two or three hundred yuan at most."

"Is there anyone who has a grudge against your husband and wants to seek revenge?"

"No, I'm sure of that."

At this time, Hao Dong interjected and asked:

"Do you usually burn coal?"

"We don't burn coal, we use gas at home."

"Is there a place near you that sells or stores coal?"

"Not either."

After asking about the general situation, the police asked the woman to go back.

The Serious Crimes Unit focused its investigation on the mystery of the phone call that removed the victim from his home. Meng Xiangyu went out after receiving a phone call, and was killed after going out. It seemed that it was his acquaintance who killed him, so Meng Xiangyu went after answering the phone, and he was defenseless.

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The criminal police found that the person who called Meng Xiangyu on the afternoon before he was killed was Lu Tian, chairman of Xingfa Real Estate Company. went to the company to interrogate him.

On the way there, Tian Chunda said to his subordinates: "This Lu Tian is the suspect who killed Qu Lili, and now he has become the suspect who killed Meng Xiangyu, he has a big problem." ”

Meng Xiaochun said: "Maybe the two cases are related." Lu Tian killed Qu Lili, and Meng Xiangyu found clues and threatened him, so Lu Tian killed Meng Xiangyu again. ”

Tian Chunda nodded, "There is also this possibility." ”

Seeing that Tian Chunda and the others were here again, Lu Tian said with a smile: "Several police officers have patronized the company again, do you have any new information to ask?" ”

Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes." Did you call Meng Xiangyu at around four o'clock in the afternoon on the 12th? ”

"Yes, he will fix the locks, there is a problem with the lock of my safe door, ask him to come and fix the locks, he agreed, but he didn't come. I called him again, but he turned off the phone. ”

"Where and what did you do after four o'clock in the afternoon on the 12th?"

Lu Tian lit a Chinese cigarette, took a puff and said: "I worked in the company from four to five o'clock, and after work, I invited a few friends to drink and drank until the second half of the night. ”

"Oh? Is it drinking? Tell me the name of your drinking friend. ”

"It's all here." Lu Tian wrote down the name of his drinking friend and handed the note to Tian Chunda, which read: Ji Chuan, Chen Xiong.

Lu Tian added: "Ji Chuan also invited three male neighbors to drink together. ”

After leaving Xingfa Company, Tian Chunda said to his subordinates: "We must investigate Lu Tian's drinking friends to see if what Lu Tian said is the truth." ”

Back to the criminal police detachment, Tian Chunda asked Xiang Haiyang again: "Haiyang, how is the investigation in the eastern suburbs?" ”

Xiang Haiyang replied: "It is currently being investigated in full force. No one who witnessed Meng Xiangyu and the murderer coming to this area has been found near the scene of the body. ”

Tian Chunda said to his subordinates again: "You say, where was Meng Xiangyu killed? ”

"Didn't the body be found in the woods of the eastern suburbs?" Yu Ping, a young criminal policeman, said.

Hao Dong continued: "Because there is no bloodstain, it is difficult to determine where the crime scene is." ”