April 12, 2018, 7:00 a.m., Dia City Police Station.

Li Xiaonan's hurried figure only left a dark green shadow in the real-time monitoring.

In the hallway outside the office area.

"What the hell is going on?" Li Xiaonan held a lit cigarette in his right hand, and stared nervously at the salted fish detective who was also holding a cigarette in his hand.

"After that day, we immediately found the tenant's personal information through the lease contract provided by the owner of the property, Liu Lihe." Salty Fish dusted off his cigarette ash and continued: "After all, according to normal logic, the person who signs the contract in the hands of the householder is the second landlord who is most likely to sublet the house to the three detectives. ”

"So we locked the name of the tenant on the lease contract."

"But through a simple investigation of identity information, it was found that as early as 2014, this Sun Mo was already on the list of missing persons."

Later, we handed over Sun Mo's photo to Liu Lihe, the head of the household, for confirmation, but he flatly denied it, saying that the person who signed the lease contract with him was not this person. The reason given by Liu Lihe is that the person who signed the contract with him has an obvious long scar on his face, so he has a deep memory. ”

"Long scars on your face?" Li Xiaonan interrupted Salted Fish's narration: "I remember..."

"That's right, the victim of the fifth case, the wandering painter Zhao Zhe, has an obvious long scar on his face." Salted fish followed Li Xiaonan's words and said: "I also remembered Zhao Zhe's information at that time, so with the mentality of giving it a try, I handed over Zhao Zhe's face photo to Liu Lihe for confirmation." ”

"Then I got the affirmative answer to this 'surprise'."

Li Xiaonan threw the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray made of some kind of instant porridge tin at his feet, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth.

"Victim: Zhao Zhe, a wandering painter by profession, often works in the area around the city center, making a living by selling paintings and sketching portraits, living in an unstable place, usually using cardboard boxes and wooden planks to set up tents at will, and making the world his home. In this case, the suspect's modus operandi was the same as in the previous cases, and the police station determined the identity of the deceased through interviews with the public and the investigation of the missing persons after the incident, and finally used the dander hair left by Zhao Zhe's personal belongings to conduct DNA comparison with the bones. ”

After a while, Li Xiao asked Xiang Xianyu: "What about Sun Mo's identity, there is no mention in the file that Zhao Zhe has this friend." ”

"Ordinary people, male, 23 years old, also unemployed, source of income rely on online games, before and after the disappearance of the bank account receipts and expenditures are not abnormal, the informant is the owner of a breakfast restaurant, according to the disappearance report of the confession, Sun Mo often frequented that store, deposited a few couriers the day before, asked the boss to go out for a trip, come back later to pick up, but there was no news for several days. Since there was no contact information, the owner of the breakfast shop asked the police for help, and after some investigation, it was determined that he was missing, and there was no news. Xianyu replied: "Sun Mo does not have any criminal record, and he does not even have a social circle for reference, according to the investigation, he and Zhao Zhe have no overlap in their trajectories at all." And those stored couriers were also opened afterwards, and inside was a set of ordinary mouse and keyboard, matching his expenditure bill, and after that, there was no trace of activity in Sun Mo's account until today. ”

"Is it possible..."Li Xiaonan analyzed: "Zhao Zhe murdered Sun Mo, left the skin tissue on his personal belongings, and then used Sun Mo's identity to rent a house, and hid the body..."

"If you judge according to this logic, Zhao Zhe can only be the only murderer in the serial case, and regardless of the motive, judging from the information currently available, there is no reasonable and suitable place for him to dispose of the body." "If it was in a rental house, the smell of steaming the corpse, the excessive amount of water consumed during bloodletting, and the sound of dismemberment would have been detected and recorded in the police department's case information, but none of the 2014 records mentioned it," Salted Fish retorted. ”

"So at present, I personally think that Zhao Zhe cannot be the murderer."

Looking at Li Xiaonan's slightly suspicious eyes, Xianyu said softly: "Of course I admire you detectives for your keen observation, bold logical assumptions and accurate sense of smell, but don't forget, we detectives are not fools. ”

"Okay..."Li Xiaonan spread his hands and looked at the salted fish who was a little dissatisfied: "I don't mean anything else, because this part of the information has not been provided to us detectives who participated in the competition..."

Li Xiaonan's voice stopped abruptly.

Since this meeting was not a police state, Salted Fish was not wearing the black detective hat at this time, in Li Xiaonan's eyes, in Salted Fish's messy short brown and yellow hair, there was a strand of dull hair that was slowly standing up with his thoughts...

"Is this a transformation effect that has entered a certain state?" Li Xiao thought to himself, didn't dare to stop his eyes too much on the stupid hair that was rising, he pretended to clear his throat, and continued: "What about the trajectories of these two people, is there any overlap?" ”

According to the disappearance file, Sun Mo lived on the southern edge of the city center, near the university town where the police university is located. Zhao Zhe's trajectory is fixed on the eastern edge of the city center, where there are some broken walls or dilapidated buildings left behind by old buildings, where some homeless people choose to spend the night, and wandering painters like Zhao Zhe will graffiti on them. Salted Fish replied with a frown and a calm voice, and as the words came out of his mouth, the dumb hairs on the top of his head, which were already completely erect, swayed rhythmically.

"According to the homeless man's confession, Zhao Zhe is a strange person, he never lives in a dangerous building temporarily, but will randomly choose a broken wall to block the night breeze in winter and summer, build a temporary residence, if the weather is bad, he will go to the outskirts further east, and what he is going to do, and where he goes to the eastern suburbs, no one knows." After reading the content on the phone screen, Li Xiaonan turned his head, tried to take his eyes off the shaking dumb hair, and continued: "So from the clues we have so far, except for the day when Sun Mo put down the courier and disappeared, these two people have no substantive intersection, not to mention that the two have never met, and they may not even have met. ”

"Judging from Sun Mo's last purchase, it was in the evening of the day of his disappearance, when he bought a bottle of drink at a convenience store near the university town in the southern suburbs." Salted fish shook his hair and muttered: "At the same time, there is a key doubt about Zhao Zhe, even if he picks up Sun Mo's identity certificate and uses it to rent a house, but as a wandering painter with artistic feelings, he can't afford the high rent." ”

Li Xiaonan frowned, and faintly felt that a huge chessboard was presented in front of him, and he stood in the center of the chessboard as a white chess, with scattered black pieces around the white chess, and behind the black chess pieces was an ethereal fog.

It seems that no matter how white moves, it will be blocked by black, and after cracking black, it will fall into that fog again.

"It's too similar." Li Xiaonan blurted out: "This layout technique." ”

"She?" Salted Fish responded.

Li Xiaonan nodded: "Reasoning based on the existing clues, then there must be a third person as a hub between the two who should be unrelated, give Sun Mo's identity certificate to Zhao Zhe, and then pay him a sum of money, and guide Zhao Zhe to use the identity of the missing person to rent the house in Liu Lihe's hands through some kind of inducement." After killing Zhao Zhe later, as the second landlord, he successfully sublet the house to the three detectives involved in the investigation. ”

"The detectives were careful enough in all their actions, even in their notes, but in fact they exposed themselves to the people behind them in the early stages of their operations."

Salted Fish thoughtfully: "Even so, we still need to add a chain of evidence to prove your reasoning." ”

"Sun Mo's corpse..."Li Xiaonan muttered, "I remember that before and after the fifth case, it rained lightly for about ten days in Dia City. ”

"If you want this move to make sense... Then we need to find the place where Zhao Zhe spent the night on a rainy day - somewhere in the eastern suburbs, where he is likely to enter the game. ”

Heard.

Salted fish seemed to remember something, and walked quickly back to the office.

A few minutes later, he reappeared in front of Li Xiaonan with a stack of old and new maps, pointed to the newer map in his hand and said: "Today's eastern suburbs are a developed real estate, and the scope is so large that it basically covers the entire eastern suburbs. ”

Later, Salty Fish pulled out an old map and said: "This is a map from four years ago, and this real estate should not have been developed at that time, so in the record, the eastern suburbs are the same as the northern suburbs, a wasteland." ”

Li Xiaonan instantly understood what Salted Fish meant - Zhao Zhe should have learned the news that the eastern suburbs were being developed, and in the case of bad weather, he would naturally run to the real estate under development for temporary shelter, which was obviously safer and more comfortable than the dangerous building.

"If all the previous reasoning is correct... That Sun Mo's corpse..."Li Xiaonan whispered a little frustratedly, "Isn't it poured into the foundation of this real estate?" ”

“...”

After Li Xiaonan briefly inquired about the unlucky owner of the house, Liu Lihe, he said hello to Xianyu and left the Dia City Police Station.

Obviously, four years later, it is impossible to find the corpses in the concrete pillars or foundations by the bizarre reasoning of a rookie detective who has blasted all the huge buildings in the eastern suburbs.

It also rained in Dia City today, and Li Xiaonan walked on the road a little dazedly, and the drizzle isolated him from the world like a thin curtain.

Judging from the results of the investigation and the progress, if there is a progress bar in the case, then the clues he has found so far must be called "key information", and it must be worth at least 10% of the progress.

But time and time again, after making progress, they repeatedly fall into a directionless fog.

It's like the black and white pieces on a chessboard that he imagines in his mind.

Feeling a little irritable and powerless, Li Xiaonan reached out and stopped a taxi: "'Answer' bar." ”

“...”

April 12, 2018, 12:00 p.m., "Answer" bar.

Li Xiaonan dragged his somewhat embarrassed body to lie on the sofa seat of the bar, he closed his eyes and thought about the clues he had recently investigated, trying to connect them into a complete logical chain in his mind.

"Da..."

Li Xiaonan habitually lit a cigarette, stared at the ceiling blankly, and inhaled vigorously.

"Woo~"

The strange sound rejuvenated Li Xiaonan's somewhat wandering consciousness, and what appeared in front of him was something similar to the flat nozzle of a vacuum cleaner, which was making a "whine" sound to inhale the smoke exhaled from his mouth and nose.

Hiding behind the flat mouthpiece is the white candle sunflower wearing a fisherman's hat, who is smiling obscenely with a "hideous" face: "You."

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