The resurgence of the case took place three days ago.

The day before, the city's meteorological department issued an orange warning, notifying that a heavy rain was coming, reminding everyone not to travel as much as possible, close windows, and avoid rain and disasters. That night, the downpour came as scheduled, and it rained earth-shattering, lightning and thunder, as if a hole had been opened in the sky, and the water in the heavenly river was flooding down.

The rain came and went quickly.

The next morning, the rain stopped. A middle-aged woman who was climbing and exercising took her dog to climb Tianping Mountain on the outskirts of the city.

The mountain road was slippery, and several times the woman almost fell, but the dog was so excited by the fresh air and morning dew that he walked like a fly. Just as he was approaching the top of the mountain, the muscular milk-white Labrador suddenly stopped and barked at a small mound under a tree.

The owner of the dog took a curious closer look, and found a woman's face on the other side of the mound with her face facing up, her eyes closed, and her face pale.

The dog owner was so frightened that he sat on the ground, soiled his whole body, and quickly hit 110 after reacting.

It was confirmed that the deceased was Gu Xinyue.

Fang Lei opened the forensic on-site investigation report, which recorded that according to the degree of decomposition of the body and combined with the temperature of midsummer, the deceased had been dead for at least ten days. In other words, when he disappeared half a month ago, Gu Xinyue may have been killed.

In addition, the scene of the crime was not the scene of the first murder, she was killed and buried here.

There are no cameras on the mountain, and the surrounding roads and public places are only monitored for a week, and the body has already been intelligently covered when it is found.

After the rainstorm the day before, all traces had already been washed away, and no clues could be found.

Exactly when and how all these bodies were transported is a huge mystery.

Then there's the autopsy report.

Due to the high level of decomposition of the body, the physical wounds could no longer be identified, and the only thing that can be determined is that the deceased was hit with a blunt object on the back of the head, and the skull was shattered, and it is initially suspected that she was attacked from behind, and the blow caused blood loss and shock to death.

Her suitcase and clothing were not found at the scene.

After the case was discovered, the leaders of the city bureau attached great importance to it and immediately set up a special team to start an investigation.

Fang Lei also participated in the first task force meeting, but it happened that there was a high-altitude dog falling case, so he was sent out of the task force. Yesterday afternoon, however, there was a new development in the case.

I don't know who posted the photo of the deceased on the Internet, saying that he was the protagonist of the Tianping Mountain murder case that was widely circulated.

Because Gu Xinyue is very beautiful, with all kinds of unreliable rumors, the matter quickly fermented on the Internet, Weibo was forwarded more than 10,000 times, and marketing accounts wrote articles and analyzed, making it quickly become a hot event recently.

The police didn't really care about this, and they didn't have much effort to find out that the person who sent the photo was a colleague of the deceased before his death, and after educating her, it was over.

But the photo went viral. Soon, a phone call came to the police station, and the other party claimed to have seen the photo and remembered seeing the girl.

The source said that he owned a hot pot restaurant, and one night a few months ago, the deceased had eaten hot pot with a man in his restaurant, and the reason why he remembered it so clearly was because the two had a quarrel at that time, and the man was so angry that he picked up the hot pot and was about to splash it in the girl's face.

The shopkeeper stopped it in time and asked the girl if she wanted to call the police, and the girl said no.

After repeated confirmations, they left at the same time and never returned.

The police took down a description of the man's appearance and suddenly discovered that the man had been on the investigation list.

In the early investigations, they investigated almost all of the deceased's colleagues, friends and classmates. One of them, Liu Hui, was a classmate of the deceased and a native of Henan Province who worked as a delivery worker at a local fresh food supermarket.

When questioned by the police, he claimed that he had only met Gu Xinyue once at a class reunion, and he had little contact since then and was not familiar with each other. And there is really no evidence that there is a connection between them.

When the police found Liu Hui's workplace again, the person in charge said that he had resigned for a week.

Combined with this series of evidence, the task force listed Liu Hui as the first suspect in this case, and the just-concluded task force meeting was to arrange the arrest of Liu Hui.

Seeing this, Fang Lei raised his head, took off his reading glasses, and softened his eyes.

He felt tired and thirsty, so he remembered that the tea he had made was already cold without taking a sip, so he picked up the teacup and drank it loudly.

Halfway through the drink, he suddenly realized something, quickly put down the teacup, picked up the case file again, and rummaged through.

Soon, he saw what he was looking for.

There are two points in this case file that he feels very familiar: first, dogs. More than once he saw the word dog in the dossier.

The first time was when the deceased had a small brown teddy in his house, and due to the departure of the owner, he was starved to death in the bathroom.

The second time was when the woman who had morning exercise had a milky white Labrador, and it was when she found the corpse and barked at it that it attracted the attention of its owner.

He immediately remembered that the case he investigated and killed a dog by falling from a height was also related to dogs.

Maybe it's just a coincidence?

He tried to compare the descriptions of dogs in the two cases, but unfortunately did not find any similarities.

The second thing that surprised him was the cause of the victim's death.

She was knocked out of the head from behind and died of blood loss and shock.

Coincidentally, this is exactly the same as the death of the dog that was abused to death.

Although some kind of criminal police instinct told him that he should not easily link two completely different types of cases that had nothing to do with each other, the similarities in them forced him to have some doubts, and as a member of the task force, it was necessary to raise these doubts.

He got up and walked to where Jiang Jian's desk was and found that the other party was not there.

He asked a colleague on the side, and the colleague said that he seemed to have seen Team Jiang go to the director's office. He nodded in acknowledgment, then walked towards the director's office.