If you want to find a person based on a name, this is almost impossible, and there are tens of millions of people with the same name and surname in the country? Fortunately, Xue Lin was a defendant in the infringement case that year, and there are traces to follow if he wants to investigate him.

It's just that in the past twenty years, it's really hard to find. Fortunately, we have an all-powerful household registration system of the Public Security Bureau, and in the end, we still locked Xue Lin's home address.

We found the place where Xue Lin lived according to the address provided by the household registration system, which was the third floor of a residential building, but when I just walked downstairs, I realized that something was wrong, because there were two police cars parked downstairs.

"Could something be wrong?" The scene in front of him made Li Meng a little worried.

I swallowed nervously, and silently prayed in my heart that the police car downstairs had nothing to do with Xue Lin: "Let's go upstairs and have a look." ”

Walking to the third floor, the door of a resident was wide open, and the house number on the room was the same as our destination. There were a lot of police officers inside and outside the house, and there was a face I knew very well - Lu Ke.

"Team Qin, you're here. Our sub-bureau has received a notification from the Serious Crime Team to assist in the investigation, and I was about to contact you, this case seems to be somewhat related to the case you are investigating. Lu Ke recognized me, said hello to me, and led me into the house.

"Is it Xue Lin? What happened to Xue Lin? Before Lu Ke could take me into the house, I couldn't wait to ask.

Lu Ke was stunned for a moment, looked at me and said slowly, "Xue Lin is dead." ”

At this moment, I suddenly had a deep sense of powerlessness, who the hell is this murderer, he is so powerful, and he is one step faster than us every time. At present, Xue Lin is the key to this case, but now he is also dead.

"How did Xue Lin die?" I asked weakly.

"The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy, and the situation is not clear at the moment, it should be sudden death." Lu Ke thought for a while before he spoke.

"Sudden death?! Don't tell me it's a sudden myocardial infarction again?! I looked at him with wide eyes, somewhat familiar with the cause of death.

"It's not clear if it's a sudden myocardial infarction, I'll take you to see the deceased first," Lu Ke thought for a moment and led me into the room.

The first time I met Lu Ke was on the grass by the river in Dongli Park, when he was still a probationary criminal police officer who had been turned a regular for a month, and he was ordered to protect the scene of the crime. What really makes me remember him is his vision and affirmation of the criminal police profession, as well as his unforgettable talent. Later, when we solved the murder case of the Zhu family's murder house, Lu Ke also participated in the whole process of solving the case with the serious crime team.

Now Lu Ke is already a formal criminal policeman, because of his extraordinary talent and meticulous work attitude, as well as the experience of solving cases with the serious crime team, he has become an indispensable part of the criminal police team of the Public Security Bureau of the Development Zone.

Follow Lu Ke into the house, and after entering the door, there is a living room, and on the sofa opposite me, there is a man, he is Xue Lin.

"We received a report from Xue Lin's wife this afternoon, she went out to buy ingredients in the afternoon, and returned home about half an hour later, and when she arrived home, she found that Xue Lin was dead. We saw her shopping receipt, and my colleague had gone to the supermarket to retrieve the surveillance video to verify it. Lu Ke stood beside me and said seriously.

"Did you find any clues about the murderer at the scene?" I asked him.

Lu Ke shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "I didn't find it, there are no signs of damage to the doors and windows in the house, there are no injuries on the deceased's body, and the items in the room are as usual, and they do look like they died in an accident." ”

Accidental death? When Shi Yan died, he was also judged to have died accidentally, is there really such a coincidence?

I walked to the sofa, and Xue Lin sat on the sofa and leaned on the back of the sofa, looking ahead. Looking back at Xue Lin's gaze, on the opposite wall from the sofa was an LCD TV, the TV was turned on, but the screen was pitch black.

It seems that Xue Lin was watching TV before he died, and it was a search on demand program, I picked up the remote control next to Xue Lin and pressed it on the TV, and the dark TV screen showed Xue Lin's on-demand program - "Midnight Murder Bell".

"Midnight Fierce Bell......" Li Meng was stunned for a moment after seeing this name, and looked at me with a nervous expression.

Previously, when we analyzed the case of Li Xiaojie who committed suicide by jumping off a building after receiving a call, Li Meng mentioned this movie.

Turning around and looking at Xue Lin's situation, he leaned back against the sofa, his whole body was tense, his fists were clenched, his brows were tightly locked, and his facial expression was very hideous, this appearance was exactly the same as Shi Yan's death.

The medical examiner had just conducted a preliminary autopsy, and no trauma was found on the deceased's body, nor restraint and resistance injuries, and judging from the corpse appearance, there were no signs of poisoning, which should have died of some sudden illness. Judging from the temperature and mortis, the time of death was within two hours.

Sudden illness, all this is too similar to Shi Yan's death, Shi Yan was scared to death by his nightmare, could it be that this Xue Lin was scared to death by watching horror movies at home? !

Someone who is almost fifty years old can be scared to death by a horror movie?

Could it be that it has something to do with that mysterious shadow?

In the corner of the living room, there was a young woman crying incessantly, and Lu Ke told me that he was Xue Lin's wife, named Wen Tong, and she called the police.

Wen Tong was the first person to arrive at the scene and discover Xue Lin's death, so her testimony is so important that it can even overturn the preliminary findings of the police investigation into the scene.

I didn't care about her bereavement, and I didn't have time to comfort her, so I came to her and asked directly, "Before you left, what was Xue Lin's condition?" ”

"Before I left, he was sitting on the couch watching TV, nothing happened, we were talking." Wen Tong wiped her tears, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

"Was he watching the midnight bell when you left?" I asked again.

Wen Tong choked up a few times, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and replied to me: "I don't know what movie he watched, I only know that he watched a horror movie." He is like this, he is very bold, he especially loves to watch horror movies, and he has scared me into nightmares at night when I accompany him to watch them, but he says that he is not scary at all, and he is sleepy to watch. ”

"Do you recall carefully, has Xue Lin had any abnormalities recently?" I asked.

Wen Tong wiped her tears, her emotions slowly calmed down, she knew that only by recalling all the details and telling me all of them could she know the true cause of her husband's death.

She recalled for a moment, and slowly spoke to us about Xue Lin's recent situation-

He has a lot of courage, that is, he doesn't feel anything after watching all the horror movies at home and abroad, and sometimes he even has insomnia and has to watch horror movies to fall asleep. But I was timid, and when he watched horror movies, I drove him to sleep on the couch and let him sleep watching horror movies in the living room by himself.

But in the past month or so, he has often had nightmares, and sometimes he will be awakened by nightmares, and he will shout what retribution is coming!

Nightmare? Retribution?!