Star City Art Museum is located on Huaiyang Street in the old city. It has a history of 40 years since its establishment. It has been renovated during this period, and the building has generally remained unchanged.
From the current perspective, the architectural style of the museum is a bit too old, but when the museum was first built, the designer won a well-known domestic design award for this building.
The designer's design concept for the art museum is: straight lines belong to humans, and curves belong to God.
This makes the art museum located in the center of Huaiyang Street look like a round and round meat bun, and the angular corners extending from the highest point fit perfectly with the "pleats" on the meat bun.
The original "design" has now become the first among the "Top Ten Ugly Buildings" selected by Star City people.
When Gu Yuan was young, his second uncle and second aunt took him to visit the art museum. They originally wanted to guide Gu Yuan in the direction of art. Later, After finding out that the child really didn't have this cell, he had no choice but to forget about it.
At the entrance of the art museum, a cordon has been set up. Two government cars parked at the entrance with their lights on. The onlookers crowded around like moths who had seen the light, and stretched their necks to look inside. With.
Although they couldn't see anything, it didn't stop them from frowning and tutting their facial features, as if they were surveillance cameras in an art museum, and you could just ask them anything.
After revealing his identity, the journey was smooth. Gu Yuan increasingly felt that the ID of the Demon Suppression Department was useful, and he didn't know if he could get a discount for watching movies and visiting the park.
When you walk into the art museum, you may be pursuing an artistic atmosphere. The light sources here are distributed regionally, causing some places to be very bright and other places to appear a bit dim.
No, when he first entered, Wei Xuanyi was startled by the sculptures on the side, especially in this environment.
Kong Baihe, who was following behind, carefully looked at the surrounding environment.
Ahead, several uniformed police officers were guarding the scene. This was an old neighborhood, and Gu Jianshan was from Jiangbei District, so the police officers he saw all had unfamiliar faces.
Seeing Gu Yuan and others, one of the middle-aged head catchers walked over first.
Two more young detectives followed closely behind, one on the left and one on the right.
To them, Gu Yuan and the other three were all new faces. As police officers in the old city, they had dealt with Zhou Zhen, Ge Fei and the others before. This was their first time meeting Gu Yuan and the others. However, before coming, Zhou Zhen had already contacted them by phone in advance.
"Hello, I am Bao Mingchuan, the head catcher of the yamen in the old town of Xingcheng."
"It's good to capture the leader." Gu Yuan shook hands with the other party, and then introduced Wei Xuanyi and Kong Baihe.
The leader looked at the three young people in front of him with a careful look, feeling a little headache.
To be honest, he was not satisfied with Zhou Zhen's arrangement.
The three people in front of him were really too young. Moreover, Zhou Zhen told him on the phone that these three people had just joined the Demon Suppression Division, and this was the first case they had to handle.
Bao Mingchuan and Zhou Zhen are still very familiar with them, and he admires these people very much. He even has a natural sense of awe for the people of the Demon Suppression Division.
And now, it is a good thing that there is new blood in the Demon Suppression Department. He will definitely not look at people through colored glasses. Every year, there are also some in his team. Many new people?
What really makes Bao Mingchuan dissatisfied is Zhou Zhen's way of handling it. Just like a new agent, he must be led by an old agent. What about the Demon Suppression Division? After all, Zhou Zhen and Ge Fei have to take charge of it for a while, right?
However, this was all arranged by the Demon Suppression Department. He couldn't say much. All he could do was actively cooperate.
As long as they are sure that the case was caused by unnatural forces, they can retreat after the handover is completed, or come over to cooperate with the case when the other party needs it.
As for the final result, it was not his concern whether these three young men would create any trouble. But as a senior detective, he would feel worried from the perspective of the victim.
After a few brief conversations, Bao Mingchuan got to the point as quickly as possible.
"The deceased's name is Gao Dashan. He is fifty-four years old. He is not a local. His native place is Jiang Province. His identity is the night shift manager of the art museum. This is the scene of the first murder."
"Wait... night shift manager?" Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment and frowned, "When did the person die?"
"According to forensic identification, the time of death was between two and four in the morning." Bao Mingchuan was not surprised that Gu Yuan would ask such a question. In fact, when he first arrived, he had the same doubts in his heart.
Gu Yuan looked at the time, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
"We received the report at 12 noon." Bao Mingchuan said, "Today is Saturday, and the art museum is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Someone should have been on duty at 7 o'clock in the morning, but the person who was supposed to be on duty last night I said hello to Gao Dashan and asked him to stay for half a day, and he would come back after dinner."
Bao Mingchuan paused and added: "According to our understanding, this kind of off-duty situation often happens because the administrator who was supposed to be on duty often went to the hospital to take care of patients. Therefore, it was already noon when the body was found. "
Gu Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood.
Bao Mingchuan's explanation is not a redundant statement, because if analyzed from a normal case, if the replacement is an accident, then the person who was replaced may have serious suspicions.
Although the yamen has believed that this is an unnatural force, any factors that can affect the judgment cannot be ignored. Often the truth is hidden in the gaps, and you need to squint to see it.
This is what my second uncle often said.
As for why Bao Mingchuan thought this was an unnatural force...
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Gao Dashan's body gave the answer.
In order to wait for the people from the Demon Suppression Department to come over, Gao Dashan's body was not moved for fear of destroying the clues. When Gu Yuan and others saw the body, they couldn't help but take a breath.
Gao Dashan is not very tall, but he is still over 1.7 meters tall. His weight should be between 140 and 150 kilograms.
But at this time, he was about two meters high from the ground, and was nailed to a load-bearing column in the museum by three wooden awls.
The wooden cone penetrated Gao Dashan's chest and shoulders, and drilled into the cement pillar to fix it. The blood dyed his clothes red, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
Such a picture is indeed very visually conflicting. Anyone who sees this scene will have the same thought in their mind: This is definitely not something humans can do!
First of all, driving a wooden cone into a concrete pillar seems to be an impossible task.
What's more, he still had to lift Gao Dashan's body to such a height and still use such a killing method.
Even Gu Yuan, who was used to seeing horror, felt shuddering at this moment.
At this time, Bao Mingchuan brought good news to Gu Yuan.
"There are many precious works of art in the art museum, so there are a large number of cameras installed with clear images."
"Is there such a good thing?" Gu Yuan asked in astonishment.
Bao Mingchuan smiled bitterly: "You will know if you go and take a look..."
