In the afternoon of the next day, Lu Tian was sitting on a leather swivel chair reading a business report. The female secretary knocked on the door and walked in. "Mr. Lu, a man named Meng Xiangyu wants to see you and says he has something important to report to you."
Lu Tian thought about it and was not impressed by the name, but he said that he should meet him if he had something important to report. "Let him come in." He told the female secretary.
A thin man walked in with light steps. He was about thirty-five or six years old, with lively eyes. "Hello, Mr. Lu!" He smiled and bowed.
Lu Tian pointed to the chair opposite the executive desk and said, "Please sit down." He then asked, "What do you have to say?"
Meng Xiangyu smiled again and said, "I have just mastered the art of divination, and I have calculated that Mr. Lu may have a bloody disaster in the near future."
After all, there was something wrong in his heart, and Lu Tian was a little frightened. He calmed himself and asked in a calm tone: "Why do you know this? Do you have any basis for it?"
Meng Xiangyu smiled strangely, "Let me give you a reminder. This bloody disaster may have originated from the sea."
After hearing this, Lu Tian's feeling of horror intensified. He pretended to look at Meng Xiangyu calmly and said, "Please make it clearer."
Meng Xiangyu blinked in a pretense of mystery and said, "To be more specific, this bloody disaster came from the ship."
The feeling of horror in Lu Tian's heart became even stronger, "Can you be more specific?"
Meng Xiangyu picked up the Chinese cigarette case on the executive desk, took out one and put it in his mouth, then took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it, and then said: "Can you be more specific...it came from a young woman." Meng Xiangyu stared at it intently. Lu Tian.
Now Lu Tian's inner panic increased to nine points. Did this weird thin man really find something? No, I looked around carefully and there was no one there. He suddenly laughed, "Are you pretending to be a fool with me?!"
"If Mr. Lu doesn't believe it, I can provide evidence." Meng Xiangyu said, taking out his iPhone and playing a video. The image was dim, blurry, and constantly shaking, but a man and a woman could barely be seen leaning on the railing of the passenger ship deck and talking. Lu Tian could tell from the figure and voice that it was indeed him and Qu Lili.
The man in the video suddenly picked up the woman by the waist and threw her into the sea. At this moment, a bolt of lightning flashed across the night sky, clearly reflecting the faces and figures of Lu Tian and Qu Lili.
After watching this video, Lu Tian's face turned pale, and he asked Meng Xiangyu: "Where were you hiding at that time?"
"I was hidden at the bottom of the stairs going down to the cabin, so even though you looked around, you didn't see me."
"Who are you? Why are you spying on us?"
"My name is Meng Xiangyu, and I am a robber. When I boarded the ship, I felt that you were very rich, so I targeted you and wanted to wait for the opportunity to strike. I saw that you were still staying on the deck when it was dark and the wind and waves were rising, so you quietly After scanning the surroundings, I felt that something might be going on, so I took out my phone and secretly recorded the video. It really made me guess..."
"What do you want from me now?" Lu Tiantie asked with a livid face.
"I want to help Mr. Lu and help you eliminate the bloody disaster." Meng Xiangyu smiled slyly.
"What do you want?"
"Since Mr. Lu asked this, I won't be polite. If Mr. Lu offers one million, I can help Mr. Lu eliminate the disaster."
Lu Tian thought for a while and said, "This is not a small amount. You have to give me a few days to raise it."
"Then thank you, Mr. Lu. I'll wait for Mr. Lu's reply." Meng Xiangyu stood up. He looked at Lu Tian and said, "Mr. Lu, don't have any other ideas. I have a backup of this video."
Lu Tian smiled and said, "Don't worry."
After sending Meng Xiangyu away, Lu Tian lit a Chinese cigarette and smoked while thinking that to cover up a secret, he had to create more secrets. This Meng Xiangyu must be eliminated, otherwise there will be endless troubles. Hum, if you want to help me eliminate the bloody disaster, I'm afraid you won't be able to avoid the bloody disaster yourself.
The eastern suburbs of Nanguang City always feel a bit rural because it is an urban-rural fringe. However, in recent years, Nanguang City has continued to develop and expand, and many farmlands in this area have gradually been turned into residential land, and new residential buildings have been built.
This morning, around 6:30 in the morning on October 13th, a boy was riding a bicycle through a forest in this area. He glanced casually into the woods and suddenly saw the withered leaves and grass. I found something that looked like jeans.
The boy stopped his bicycle and walked to the grass. In the middle of the grass, there was a man lying in a denim jacket and jeans. He looked like he was no longer breathing. The young man was so surprised that he immediately got on his bicycle and ran away without looking back.
An hour later, the criminal police from the Serious Case Group of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment rushed over.
The corpse was that of a thirty-six or seven-year-old man with a thin body, a straight nose, and a dark complexion. His face was tilted to the side in pain, and there were obvious pinch marks on his neck. It seemed that he had been strangled to death. The clothes of the deceased were not messy, and the flowers and plants around the body showed no signs of being trampled. There are various indications that this man did not put up a strong resistance before his death. He may have been suddenly strangled by his neck and suffocated to death.
The police immediately asked people living nearby who were watching from a distance to identify the deceased. After the people came to identify the deceased, they all said they had never seen this man in the area.
The body was transported to the public security hospital for autopsy. But Team Leader Tian Chunda was still standing there, looking around.
"Oh, by the way. Hao Dong, did it rain at your house this morning?" Tian Chunda looked around at the ground and asked suddenly.
"No!" Hao Dong replied.
"My family lives in the north of the city. When it was almost dawn, I seemed to hear the sound of rain in my dream. When I got up, I saw that the ground was really wet. Is it raining over there too...?"
"My home is in the west of the city. It doesn't rain in that area, and it doesn't seem to rain in this area either."
"So it's just a light shower." Tian Chunda said while tapping the ground with the toe of his shoe.
That afternoon, the results of the autopsy came out.
The victim was 37 or 8 years old. The cause of death was suffocation due to strangulation of the neck. An autopsy of the internal organs showed that no drugs were found in the stomach, but there was coal dust stuck in the lungs. The murderer committed the crime between 10 a.m. on the 12th and 1 a.m. the next day.
"Powdered coal?" Tian Chunda couldn't help but blurt out after hearing the report, and then asked: "Is this man living in a coal-related environment?"
"This..." the anatomy doctor explained: "There is also a lot of coal powder stuck to the mucous membrane of the nostrils. It is possible that his living or working environment is related to coal."
The identity of the victim was learned that evening.
As news of this case was reported on the Internet, the deceased's wife rushed to the city's criminal police detachment after hearing the news. The police immediately asked her to identify the body.
"Yes, he is my husband." She answered firmly with tears in her eyes.
"What's your husband's name?" Tian Chunda asked.
"His name is Meng Xiangyu."
"When did he go out last night?"
"My husband and I both work part-time jobs. Yesterday evening at about six o'clock, I came home and saw that my husband was not at home. At first I thought he had gone out to buy things, but after waiting for more than an hour, he still didn't come back. . Then I asked the neighbors, and Mrs. Zhang next door said she saw him answering a phone call in the yard around four o'clock and then hurried out. "
"You answered the phone? Did you hear what your husband said on the phone?" Tian Chunda asked.
"I also asked Sister-in-law Zhang about this, and Sister-in-law Zhang said she didn't pay attention."
The phone call attracted the attention of the police.
"Think about it, who would call your husband at that time?"
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't think of any clues."
"Do you have any relatives near the eastern suburbs where the body was found?"
"Not at all. I was also surprised. How could Meng Xiangyu go to that place?"
"Your husband must be carrying a bag or backpack when he goes out, right? We didn't find it at the scene, and you won't find it at home, right?"
"He went out with a handbag. A black regular handbag."
"Is there money in it?"
"It won't cost much, usually only two or three hundred yuan at most."
"Is there anyone who is dissatisfied with your husband and looking for revenge?"
"No, I'm sure of that."
At this time, Hao Dong interrupted and asked:
"Does your family usually burn coal?"
