nightingale

Jiang Li would not believe such nonsense and twisted his ear, "Are you so kind?"

"It hurts, it hurts!" Nan Jiaxu rubbed his ears and complained loudly, "I'm older than you, how could you do this to me!"

Jiang Li sneered, "If you don't explain clearly, I won't give you a penny."

"That's right..." Nan Jiaxu struggled for a moment, then spread his hands and confessed everything. "I met a seventeen-year-old kid there. His name is Qiu Yang. He's good-looking and well-behaved."

When Qiu Yang was mentioned, his eyes lit up, and he even took out his phone to look for his photo, "Look."

Jiang Li took a look at her. Her hair was smooth, her eyes were bright, and she had a dimple when she smiled. "And then?"

"But he can't hear." Nan Jiaxu's tone suddenly took a turn for the worse. "I've asked at another hospital, and they say he can get a cochlear implant."

"You want him to hear?"

"Yeah!" Nan Jiaxu nodded vigorously.

Jiang Li frowned, and made up his mind, "Turn away."

Nan Jiaxu saw that the money had arrived, hugged the phone and kissed it twice, "Thank you, and I wish you good luck in high school! I'm leaving now!"

After he finished spinning, he realized something was wrong. "Wait, a cochlear implant doesn't cost a million, does it?"

When he came back to his senses, there was no trace of Nan Jiaxu. Jiang Li was furious. He punched the stone table with his fist. "You bastard!"

A large crowd gathered downstairs of the beautifully decorated high-end residential complex, and a cordon had been set up at the entrance. Chen An returned to the city after sending Jiang Li home yesterday, and arrived at four in the morning. He received a call about a murder early this morning.

As Chen An walked into the hallway, a strong stench hit him. Cheng Xiaoxiang offered him a mask, but he refused. Smelling a corpse in the summer was indeed torturous, but wearing a mask made it easy to miss the olfactory information of the crime scene.

Seeing that he wasn't wearing one, Cheng Xiaoxiang also resisted the urge to not wear one, saying, "The deceased's name was Wu Danyun, a popular online writer. This morning, when the landlord came to check the water and electricity, he kept knocking on the door but no one answered. He used his key to open the door and found that she was already dead inside."

Chen An put on shoe covers and gloves and slowly walked into the crime scene. People from the Trace Inspection Department were already taking photos and collecting evidence.

The stench inside was even more pungent. There were bloodstains splattered on the white sofa in the living room, but the white floor was spotless. There was a separate bathroom on the right. Looking inside, I was caught off guard by the sight of the body of a woman in a bathtub, the blood staining the entire tub red.

Forensic pathologist Qin Huaisheng took off his gloves, stood up and said, "Captain Chen."

"What's going on?"

Chen An looked around the bathtub. It was a transparent glass bathtub. Wu Danyun's eyes were wide open, his mouth was half open, and his severed arm was hanging lifelessly outside the bathtub. A pair of intact hands were swollen and floating on the water. Apart from the hands, he couldn't see anything missing.

Qin Huaisheng said, "She died about two days ago. We can't tell how she died yet. We have to take her back for an autopsy to find out. But the cut on her wrist is very irregular. It wasn't caused by a single blow, and the weapon probably wasn't very sharp." He sighed and said, "The murderer was cruel. Judging from the cell tissue in the wound, he must have chopped her hand off before she died. We have to wait for the report for more details."

Chen An nodded: "Okay."

Soon the body was taken back to the police station. Chen An stood in the small house and looked out. He found that the view here was very good. There was a river on the other side and no houses, which avoided the possibility of being witnessed. There was still unfinished tea on the coffee table. When he smelled it closely, it sounded like black tea. He signaled Cheng Xiaoxiang to pack up the tea and cup and take them away.

Two trace examiners entered and began shining lights around the room, investigating whether there was a luminol effect. They discovered a blue reaction all over the floor near the bloodstain on the sofa, a large patch under the tea table, and then a trail of traces all the way to the bathtub. So, the victim's wrists had been slashed on the sofa, then dragged more than ten meters and placed in the bathtub.

This is the only section in the entire room where blood reaction occurs, so it can be preliminarily determined that this room is the crime scene.

Chen An stayed inside for half an hour. When he came out, he heard some elderly people sitting under the flower bed talking. His sharp ears caught the name of the deceased. He walked over and asked one of the elderly women, "Didn't the Wu Danyun you just mentioned live here alone?"

The old lady originally just wanted to gossip, but who knew that she would attract the police? She hesitated and lost the arrogance she had just spoken. "I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, comrade police officer."

Chen An's expression turned serious. "If you know something but don't report it, you're not cooperating with the police. Are you sure you want to keep it secret?"

The old lady had never dealt with the police in her life, and her heart was immediately trembling with fear. "I dare not, I dare not. It's just..."

The aunt recounted the story from the beginning, "I happened to see her the day she moved in. Not only did she look small, but she also had a lot of stuff, and several people were helping her move. I heard she was some online writer, some sort of writer, and that she was staying here for a while. I had no idea."

"I live on the fourth floor. One day when I came downstairs, I heard her swearing loudly and fiercely." The old lady said for a moment before going off on a tangent. "No one will want her in the future."

Chen An said, "Do you know who she is scolding?"

"I know, it's Xiaoyun," the aunt said. "Xiaoyun seems to be her assistant and lives with her, but I don't think she's an assistant at all. She treats Xiaoyun like a maid and scolds her if she's not satisfied. Several times when I ran into Xiaoyun when I went downstairs to take out the trash, I told her to change jobs. I don't know if it's because the salary is too high that she hasn't left."

Chen An asked, "How long have they been here?"

The aunt thought for a moment and said, "Not long, maybe half a month."

Chen An asked, "Besides Xiaoyun, has anyone else come to see Wu Danyun?"

The aunt said, "Yes, they seem to be from their company. They often come to see her together. I don't know who they are or who they are."

Chen An stood up and said, "Thank you."

Back in the car, he called the team's landline. Cheng Xiaoxiang answered, "Cheng Xiaoxiang, you and Lu Yuyao will conduct a preliminary investigation into Wu Danyun's interpersonal relationships, focusing on someone named Xiaoyun. Bai Shuo, check for any online information about Wu Danyun. The Municipal Bureau will hold a meeting at 8 p.m."

"receive."

After the task was assigned, Chen An drove himself to the surveillance site of Fuyao Community to check the surveillance. Generally, community security guards can retrieve the surveillance footage from all around, but since Fuyao Community adopted Hengyun Technology's cameras, they can only retrieve the surveillance footage from the branch.

Chen An drove to the Hengyun Technology branch. The front desk receptionist took him to the monitoring area, a large studio with dozens of employees sitting at the control seats. Each person was in charge of hundreds of monitors, which was a huge workload.

Chen An was puzzled. "Why go to all this trouble? Even the community security office can't find any surveillance footage?"

The lady at the front desk whispered, "I don't know what it means..." But before she could finish, the branch manager came over, "Manager Wang."

Wang Fuchun glanced at her and gave Chen An a standard smile. "Hello, Officer Chen."

He offered a cigarette, but Chen An didn't take it. Wang Fuchun put it away and said, "Surveillance cameras are much safer in the hands of Hengyun Technology than in the security office. Officer Chen may not know that in recent years, there have been residents outside the community pretending to be residents to access surveillance cameras, revealing the privacy of residents. There are also many residents who deliberately access surveillance cameras from security because of minor neighborhood conflicts. People nowadays are becoming more and more radical and always find convenient ways to vent their dissatisfaction. So we have centralized all the surveillance cameras, and people regularly go to the community to repair the cameras to ensure normal operation."

Chen An nodded, and Wang Fuchun accompanied him to look for it. "Officer Chen, which surveillance camera do you want to check?"

"Fuyao Community, Building 3, 3rd Floor, 201."

Wang Fuchun took him to an employee and said, "Show the surveillance footage to Officer Chen."

A few minutes later, the surveillance footage from the front and back of the Fuyao residential complex was brought up. Chen An said, "From the early morning of June 7th to 10:00 a.m. on June 9th."

The employee pressed the play button. The angles of the three buildings were a bit tricky. There was only one camera at the front door, and the rest were in the corridor.

Chen An stood beside him, staring at the changing images on the screen, "32x speed."

The employee pressed the speed button, and Chen An watched without blinking. Wu Danyun was not tall. On the 7th and 8th, there was only one girl with her. The girl was dressed simply and kept her head down in front of her. None of the cameras could capture her full face.

For more than ten minutes, their actions were very normal, including in the corridor.

Chen An frowned, "It starts at midnight on June 6th."

At the same speed, the surveillance camera at the main gate saw a black Bentley parked at the gate at nine in the morning. A few minutes later, Wu Danyun got into the car in a white dress. This time, the girl's face was captured. She looked pale and raised her head for only a second, then quickly lowered it. Within a few seconds, Wu Danyun's scolding came from the car. She lowered her head even lower and hurriedly moved the cardboard box into the trunk.

They left, and it was not until six o'clock in the evening that Wu Danyun came in with her.

The surveillance camera then captured an important scene. At six in the morning, she came out of her residence, carrying a suitcase, and got on a taxi at the entrance of the community.

Chen An’s first reaction was that she wanted to run away.