Two hours ago.

In the office of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Jiangcheng Police General Bureau.

Cui Yi'an was extinguishing the cigarette butt and exhaling a breath.

The case he was in charge of was at an impasse, leaving the old detective at a loss.

"Lao Cui, do you really think there is something wrong with this case?"

On the side, the colleague came back with the file and put it on Cui Yi'an's desk.

This is the file of the serious fire that broke out in Jingbai District of Jiangcheng City a few days ago, which includes the information of all residents, copies of various qualifications of the building, safety review reports, etc., and of course, the accident investigation report at the scene.

Judging from the preliminary report from the firefighting colleagues, the cause of the fire was a short circuit in the electrical circuit on the first floor.

Most of this old and dilapidated lines have been transformed, and there will be no problems under normal circumstances, but there are always some people who like to connect the lines randomly, this time the external line is overloaded, and the electric spark ignites the debris accumulated on the first floor, causing a fire.

Originally, such a case could not be committed by the criminal investigation detachment, it was just a fire.

But out of the rules, Cui Yi'an still led the team to follow the investigation, and this investigation found that something was wrong.

Although the corpses moved out of the building were burned to an unhuman appearance, Cui Yi'an was conservative and asked the forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy, and it was found that several of the corpses were in the wrong condition.

Normally, most people who die from fire will first suffocate due to thick smoke, so the internal organs will be checked for corresponding traces, such as sputum mixed with smoke and secretions in the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, respiratory burns, congestion of the lungs, and redness of internal organs due to the combination of blood and carbon monoxide.

However, there were two corpses, but there were no signs of heavy smoke in the lungs, and there were few traces of carbon monoxide in the blood drawn from the heart, and after examination, it was concluded that they were dead before the fire, and that there were also injuries on their bodies, and it was clear that they had a physical altercation with others before they died.

There was also a corpse with similar scars on its body, but its lungs and heart were also examined with signs of death from fire, which means that he had been burned to death after a serious physical altercation or beating.

Seeing these inspection reports, the experienced criminal policeman Cui Yi'an immediately realized that this fire was not so simple.

"So didn't Wang Ke kill Liu Wan and Song Zhongwei, and then set fire to destroy the corpses, but accidentally caused himself to be buried in the fire?"

A colleague on the side said assumedly.

"Where did you hear that?"

Cui Yi'an frowned.

"That's what the internet says."

The colleague teased, he was naturally joking, and when he saw that Cui Yi'an was indifferent, he added another sentence.

"But Song Zhongwei's father is also very strange, normally speaking, his son may have been killed, and he should ask for a thorough investigation of this case, but he didn't care, and was buried in a hurry."

The two people who died before the fire, one of them was Song Zhongwei, the son of the owner of the house, and the other was the tenant Liu Wan.

The injured deceased was Wang Ke, whose body was found at the entrance of the second-floor building, and he almost escaped from the fire.

Cui Yi'an ignored his colleagues, just kept looking at those files and thinking, and wrote words on the whiteboard on the side from time to time to assist his deduction, in fact, there are still some key evidence that has not yet been obtained, but Cui Yi'an has no bottom in his heart.

After a while, his phone rang suddenly.

Looking at the number, it was the master who had brought him before, and now he is the leader above.

"Xiao Cui, are you in charge of the Jiangcheng fire case?"

The other party gets straight to the point.

"Yes, Master."

Cui Yi'an felt strange and didn't know why the master suddenly asked about this.

"I've heard people say that many people are paying attention to this case now, and it has been on the hot search, so you must investigate it well."

"Well, I'm going to let the truth come out."

Cui Yi'an chatted with Master for a few more words, and then hung up the phone.

"Hot search?"

He thought it was strange, this case was a few days ago, and it was discussed by a lot of people at the time, so why is it hot again today?

The old criminal policeman immediately turned on the computer, opened the tree hole network not very skillfully, clicked on the hot search, and found that it was a novel.

""The Old House is Happy"?"

Cui Yi'an looked at it twice and quickly understood that this was a story based on this fire case.

Originally, he used this kind of story as a gimmick to attract people's attention from the media, but I don't know why, it may be that he has been thinking about the case every day in recent times, and Cui Yi'an has been substituted into the story in an instant.

He remained motionless and read the story as if he had become the protagonist himself.

It wasn't until ten minutes later, after reading it, that Cui Yi'an let out a long sigh.

The corners of his eyes are still a little moist.

However, compared to the emotional infection in the story, Cui Yi'an noticed more things.

"If you follow the line of this story, it seems that everything is ......"

He found it hard to believe that many of the details in the story matched the results of the police investigation, which had not yet been made public, including that the dead were concentrated on the third and fourth floors, that even the residents on the first floor could not escape, and that even Wang Ke died at the entrance to the second floor.

If it weren't for the author's crooked hits, then either he was a police insider, or he was ......

"He's on the spot?"

Cui Yi'an felt that he was simply crazy, and he would believe a fiction on the Internet, which still has elements of feudal superstition.

But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the content of the novel was quite reasonable, and it perfectly put together the last pieces of the puzzle that he had been missing.

"It's unscientific."

Cui Yi'an muttered to himself, and he had the idea of asking the author for details, and once it appeared, it was difficult to contain.

Soon, he found a colleague from the cyber security detachment, commonly known as the cyber police, and the colleague went to the contact person of Shudong Network to retrieve the registrant information of this "scientific exploration bot".

After all, the Internet is not a place outside the law, and it is really responsible to talk nonsense on the Internet.

After getting the number, Cui Yi'an immediately called with the office phone.

Unexpectedly, the other party hung up the phone directly after hearing his words!

Problematic!

Cui Yi'an felt that this person named Qiao Duan was very suspicious.

He looked at the message left by Qiao Du in the system, looked at the photo, and suddenly felt a little familiar.

"Isn't that some kind of paparazzi?"

A colleague on the side recognized it.

The surveillance camera near the fire last night and this morning captured a person sneakily haunting the scene of the accident, in fact, there are many such people during this time, most of them are reporters or self-media, of course, Qiao Duan was also filmed, and Cui Yi'an also watched the video earlier today.

"He also went to the scene of the accident......"

Cui Yi sank with peace of mind.

Some criminals are particularly fond of going back to the place where they committed their crimes to provoke the police.

And this one novel......

The more Cui Yi'an thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

He stood up.

"I'll take someone out."

He must find this man named Qiao Du today!