In the early morning, downstairs of a tube building on Huandao Road in Xiacheng District, Meihai City, Lu Wan came outside the cordon with a gloomy face.
"Army!" Zeng Hao came forward.
Lu Wan was in a daze. It was the same scene yesterday morning, but it was at the beach yesterday.
"You run quite fast." Lu Wan said as he crossed the cordon, which was a compliment to Zeng Hao for his active work.
Zeng Hao shrugged, "My home is at the junction of Shangcheng District and Xiacheng District. It's close, so I came earlier, but Lu, guess who is the first person to arrive?"
"Bai Mo!" Lu Wan walked up the stairs and said with her back to Zeng Hao, "Don't play these boring guessing games with me. I'm in a bad mood right now."
Lu Wan knew that Chen Xiaoxiao was renting a house in Xiacheng District. Logically speaking, Chen Xiaoxiao should be the first to arrive, but Zeng Hao's tone told Lu Wan that the first person to come was definitely not Chen Xiaoxiao, so it could only be Bai Mo.
This is an old-fashioned tube building with one staircase and two rooms.
When she arrived on the fourth floor, she took the shoe covers and gloves from her colleagues. After putting them on, Lu Wan walked in.
The structure of two bedrooms and one living room was not finely decorated, with ordinary cement floors and white painted walls. The living room was very small and there were a few worn-out pieces of furniture.
Seeing Bai Mo standing motionless at the bathroom door, Lu Wan came behind him and looked inside.
The space in the bathroom was very small. A naked long-haired woman was kneeling on the ground with her head stuck in the toilet. Some of her long hair was scattered around the toilet. Blood stained the water in the toilet and the entire bathroom floor red.
"The neighbor downstairs reported the case, saying that when he went to the toilet in the morning, he found water leaking upstairs, and it was bloody water." Zeng Hao said at the side, "The waterproofing effect of this kind of old house is very poor, and there is often a lot of water in the bathroom. water leakage."
Lu Wan came to the door of another bedroom. The door was open, the space was large, and there was a balcony. It was obviously the master bedroom.
Looking around, the room was in a mess, and signs of rummaging were obvious.
Lu Wan did not go in directly. She came to the door of another room and opened the door. This room was very small, with only a small bed and a desk.
There were some sundries on the small bed and there was a layer of dust on the desk, which showed that the deceased lived alone.
Home invasion, sexual assault and homicide?
Lu Wan shook her head slowly and gave up the idea immediately. Although a preliminary autopsy had not been done yet, anyone could tell that the deceased had been abused during his lifetime.
In ordinary robbery, sexual assault and murder cases, the sexual assault is mostly a temporary act by the gangster, and such cruel abuse will not occur. Lu Wan's intuition told her that the murderer's first target was the deceased himself, and the search for property was probably a casual act. Or try to hide it.
"Where's the reporter?" Lu Wan turned back and looked at Zeng Hao.
"Waiting at home!" Zeng Hao pointed to his feet.
Lu Wan did not respond. When she looked at Zeng Hao, she found that Bai Mo was still standing at the door of the bathroom, turning his head from time to time, as if looking for an angle.
Arriving behind Bai Mo again, Lu Wan patted his shoulder, frowned and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"She must have been violated, right?" Bai Mo asked softly.
"It looks similar, but it needs forensics to confirm." Lu Wan explained, putting aside the fact that Bai Mo is Bai Mo's son, he is a newcomer to the police force, and Lu Wan also needs to play the role of a teacher.
"But why did the murderer push her head into the toilet? Didn't he feel disgusted?" Bai Mo asked in confusion.
Lu Wan bit her lip. She felt that her hopes for Bai Mo were too high. Bai Mo was a master of portraits, but he had no experience in solving crimes. His analysis of the crime scene was probably not as good as some police officers from the police station.
"The criteria for some perverted murderers to select their targets is not necessarily their appearance, but may also be a certain physical characteristic or clothing of the target." Lu Wan said, "They only have that criterion in mind when committing crimes and do not care about other details."
Bai Mo nodded as if he had been taught something, but still did not take his eyes away from the corpse.
Seeing that Bai Mo only had corpses in his eyes, Lu Wan's eyes flashed with displeasure, and his already irritable heart became even more uneasy.
This was the fifth day since she returned to Meihai City. Unexpectedly, murders occurred one after another, as if the criminals were deliberately targeting her.
"Go and meet the person who reported the crime."
Later, Lu Wan and Zeng Hao came to the third floor.
The reporter’s name was Hu Xianglei, who was in his twenties. He rented a house with a college classmate. The college classmate was on a business trip these days and was not in Meihai City.
When he saw Hu Xianglei, his expression was not good, and the policeman who took notes for him handed the notes to Lu Wan.
"Do you know the girl upstairs?" Lu Wan glanced at the transcript briefly and had to say that the police officers' comprehensive capabilities needed to be improved, and many questions were not asked.
"I've met her several times," Hu Xianglei said. "Her name is Tang Xueqiong. We have the same landlord and are in the same WeChat group."
"Didn't you hear any strange noises last night?" Lu Wan asked again.
The waterproofing effect of the bathroom is very poor. Judging from the water leakage, the time of death of the deceased must have been last night.
"I was drinking outside with some friends last night. I was drunk. It was about twelve o'clock when I came back. I fell asleep directly after I came back and didn't hear anything." Hu Xianglei answered.
Lu Wan looked up at the ceiling, "How is the sound insulation of this house?"
"Very bad." Hu Xianglei hesitated and forced a smile, "Sometimes Tang Xueqiong's boyfriend comes to see her, and we can still hear the sound downstairs at night."
At this time, there were chaotic footsteps upstairs, and many people entered the room of the deceased. It seemed that the forensic doctor had arrived.
It can be seen that the sound insulation effect of the house is indeed very poor, which makes Lu Wan a little confused.
The deceased must have been abused during his lifetime. Just taking a few steps upstairs would make such a big noise. Didn't the murderer consider that he would be discovered by the people downstairs when he committed the crime?
If Hu Xianglei had not drank last night, the murderer would probably have alerted the people downstairs.
Lu Wan's initial assumption was that the murder was premeditated, but now it seems a bit contradictory. If the murderer only wanted to kill Tang Xueqiong, then her residence was definitely not a suitable crime scene.
After asking a few questions, Lu Wan and Zeng Hao came to the corridor.
After returning to the fourth floor, a policeman told Lu Wan that no one lived on the fifth floor and the resident opposite the deceased was not at home last night.
"It seems that the murderer should have investigated the situation of the deceased's neighbors in advance and determined that the neighbors were not at home last night before killing the deceased." Zeng Hao gave his opinion based on the clues he currently has.
Lu Wan shook her head firmly, "This is a relatively remote place in Xiacheng District. If the murderer wanted to kill Tang Xueqiong, he could have chosen the remote path outside the building. There is no surveillance and there are few pedestrians. It is too abnormal to choose to commit the crime at home. , the murderer can at best be sure that the neighbors were not at home at the time, but can he be sure when they will come back?"
