Shi Ran observed the man who should be the father of the deceased. He pulled away the white cloth covering the face of the deceased and suddenly cried harder.
Just now, the only thing exposed of the deceased was his hands that were soaked white by the rain. Could he recognize that this was his son just by looking at one hand?
"Where is the reporter?" Shi Ran asked the police officer who brought the deceased's father over.
"It's them, a few junior high school students. They said they were planning to come here to play, but they saw the bodies as soon as they came in."
Shi Ran looked in the direction of his finger, and saw several children who looked like junior high school students. Their bodies were soaked by the rain, and their hair was wet and stuck to their heads. They were taking notes with two police officers.
"Let's confirm again, how did you find the deceased?"
"He discovered it first. We had agreed to come here to play together. He arrived first and wanted to scare us, so he was going to hide in the room inside, and then he found the body."
The child who answered the question was relatively calm. The two children next to him were very frightened. The child he said was the first to find the body turned pale.
Judging from the degree of water soaking and stiffness of the body, the deceased had been dead for at least twelve hours.
According to what these children said, they discovered the corpse more than half an hour ago. Combined with the huge difference in body shape between them and the deceased, their suspicions can be preliminarily ruled out.
Of course, for the sake of caution, after the specific time of death of the body is confirmed, the police will send people to investigate their alibi to completely eliminate their suspicion.
On the other side, the deceased's father was still quite excited, and Ling Qian comforted him.
"Son! Why are you dead? Who did it?"
"Condolences."
The police officer here was still writing notes for the reporter. He gestured to the game console in the little boy's hand with his eyes and asked, "That's the game console in your hand, right?"
"Yes, I begged Yin Xiang for several days before he agreed to lend it to me."
Shi Ran looked at the game console in the child's hand and asked, "Can you show it to me?"
The child looked up at Shi Ran and handed her the game console.
Shi Ran took it and was fiddling with how to turn it on. She pressed a button, a burst of video game music sounded, and the game console turned on.
This is a level-breaking game console that is very similar to the Super Mario she played as a child. Thinking of her childhood greed for this Super Mario, she suddenly understood the obsession of these children with this game console.
The reporter left after finishing the transcript. Shi Ran looked at the transcript in his hand.
They found the body more than half an hour ago. After discovering the body, the three of them immediately ran out of the abandoned factory. They were so frightened that they didn't even have time to hold an umbrella, so they were all wet.
They called the police from a canteen near the abandoned factory. The initial call was to the police station here. After it was confirmed that it was a murder, it was transferred to their criminal investigation team.
The police officer who took the transcript asked about the most suspicious point, that is, why they came out to play in such a remote place on a rainy day.
Yu Hao, one of the people who reported the case, replied that they often come here to play. The reason why they still come here to play when it rains today is because a female classmate named Yin Xiang finally agreed to play games that he had been begging for several days. I lent him the machine to play with. They were afraid of being scolded when they played the game console at home, and it was not easy to play at the female classmate's house, so they made an appointment here.
It sounded reasonable, but Shi Ran always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't say exactly what was wrong.
The police officer in charge of taking notes saw Shi Ran's frown and asked cautiously. He had just joined the team and was still a newcomer.
"Officer Shi, did I miss something?"
"Oh Nope."
Shi Ran shook his head and read the testimonies of several informants again. They all fit together. In such a short period of time, there were several junior high school students, so the possibility of collusion in confessions was very small.
Shi Ran returned the transcript to the police officer, pointed to Yin Xiang who lent the game console mentioned above, and said, "You should visit her home now and ask if the situation is true."
"yes."
Shi Ran said to the other two police officers: "You go and write the records of the canteen salesperson."
"yes."
The young police officer opened his umbrella and rushed into the rain.
Shi Ran turned back and once again looked at the distance between the room where the body was found and the entrance. Except for the room with the body, which had a big hole in the ceiling and was leaking rain, the rest of the abandoned factory was relatively dry.
There are no adults, so they won't be chased away, and the venue is quite large. It is indeed a place where children like to come.
When Shi Ran returned to the room again, the personnel of the Trace Inspection Department were still conducting investigations.
Her eyes were fixed on a brick. She walked closer, squatted down, and turned over the brick. Sure enough, she found a little blood on one of the edges.
If my guess is correct, this should be the murder weapon.
They put the bricks into plastic bags and prepared to conduct further tests when they returned.
The deceased's father had stabilized emotionally and was ready for questioning.
Shi Ran looked at a piece of white tissue on the ground. It was a pack of paper that Ling Qian gave to the father of the deceased. It had been used up. His tears were still falling. It seemed that he was really sad.
Shi Ran touched several pockets on his body, found a half-pack of tissues left and handed them to him.
"Condolences."
When she said this sentence, she felt it was unusually smooth. In her original memory, she had been used to saying this sentence to the family members of the deceased during her years as a criminal police officer.
It might be a bit emotional at first, but later it becomes formulaic.
Seeing too much makes you numb.
There are too many sufferings in the world, and no one can sympathize with them all.
"Thanks."
The father of the deceased took the tissue and randomly wiped his eyes that were swollen from crying, as well as the snot left by his red nose. He wiped it in no order, and he seemed to be an informal person.
But Shi Ran saw some dodge in his eyes. He seemed to be afraid of them policemen.
The forensic doctor was chatting with Liu Yixin, leader of the Sixth Group of the Criminal Investigation Brigade.
"The time of death should have been between four and seven o'clock yesterday afternoon. The cause of death was multiple hits on the head with heavy objects. The bloody bricks found at the scene were consistent with the shape of the murder weapon."
"Yesterday was Friday. At this time, it happened to be when students were out of school..."
Liu Yixin was stroking his chin and wondering to himself when a police officer hurried in with rain all over his body.
"Team Liu, the reporters are here."
Well, tomorrow's headline will be another murder case, and the citizens of J City should panic again.
There was no result from the weird thing last time. It won't be another weird murder this time.
After investigating the scene, Liu Yixin went out to deal with reporters.
The deceased's father calmed down, and Shi Ran turned on the recorder and began to record the deceased's father.
