Chapter 57
Jiang Aichen replied: "Is it Xu Jinshu?"
Lin Anyu: "It's him. I've been looking for him for three years, but there's no information about him. When we met again, I didn't expect that he not only became a sleep aid, but also started a live broadcast online."
Lin Anyu seemed to feel a little regretful: "If I had paid more attention to the live broadcast industry, I wouldn't have let him take advantage of the opportunity for so many years."
"In these three years, he was in jail for two years and only did live streaming for one year." Jiang Aichen comforted her subtly.
Lin Anyu: "I know that when he turned himself in three years ago, the General Administration issued a document. At that time, I felt that his crime could not be solved with just a two-year prison sentence. So even though I knew that the person who turned himself in was also called Xu Shu, I did not connect the two people together."
"Are you investigating him because of Captain Ye?" Jiang Aichen asked.
"Ye Pulan?" Lin Anyu blurted out.
Jiang Aichen's expression showed no other emotions, he just nodded.
"No," Lin Anyu said without hiding anything, "A month ago, I didn't even know who Ye Pulan was."
Jiang Aichen asked again: "Why are you pretending to know nothing?"
"I know that I was injured on duty before. If I let others know that I came to Beihai to investigate a case, then the people in the bureau would definitely take care of me and let me leave the front line," Lin Anyu said truthfully, "but I don't want to. No matter whether he is Xu Shu or Xu Jinshu now, I want to catch him with my own hands."
Lin Anyu's sudden seriousness made Jiang Aichen a little uncomfortable.
He didn't respond all the way until they reached the crime scene.
At this time, the crime scene was full of working police officers.
Lin Anyu got out of the car before Jiang Aichen, and on the way he reminded him: "Don't tell anyone about my memories."
Jiang Aichen: “Yeah.”
Lin Anyu waited until Jiang Aichen finished answering, then lifted the safety railing and walked in.
Inside the safety fence, Gu Beizhi was discussing the details with the person who reported the case, Pei Jingji was roughly examining the cause of death one by one on the ground, Shen Shuhao was drawing portraits of the dead lying on the ground, and Gu Xingnan was responsible for carrying the bodies out of the pit one by one with the others.
Lin Anyu walked over alone and put on her gloves casually.
The bodies were severely swollen and their appearance could not be seen clearly. Judging from the corpse spots, several of the deceased had been dead for half a month. The skin surface is smooth and there is no sign of abuse before birth.
There were no bruises on the neck, so he probably didn't die of suffocation.
But had she seen this strange swelling somewhere before?
Thinking of this, Lin Anyu quickly parted the dead man's hair to reveal the skin behind the ear, and sure enough, he found a not-so-obvious pinhole in a tiny position.
Could it be death by injection?
But what kind of medicine can cause a person's whole body to swell and even die?
What is its principle?
Damage the function of body organs, or...
Before Lin Anyu could figure out the answer, Pei Jingji seemed to notice her pause and asked, "Lin Anyu, what did you find?"
Lin Anyu quickly covered up the strand of hair.
Lin Anyu shook her head and did not express her thoughts. She asked, "Pei Jingji, what was the cause of death?"
Jing Ji thought for a while and said, "All three bodies were swollen, but I suspect the real cause of death was multiple organ necrosis."
It's basically the same as what she was thinking.
Before Lin Anyu could say anything, Pei Jingji suddenly said, "Recently, there seem to be a lot of people dying from edema."
Lin Anyu seemed to be aware of something, and she quickly asked, "Who else?"
Pei Jingji: "A few days ago, a bomber sent a warning to us in order to provoke us police officers. The person who sent the warning was in a similar situation to the three victims here."
Lin Anyu calmed down for a few minutes and asked, "Has the deceased's blood been tested?"
Pei Jingji: "I checked it. I detected some strange drugs in his blood, but they are not fatal."
Lin Anyu: "How strange is it?"
Pei Jingji: "I've never seen this ingredient before, but it's rare."
Lin Anyu stood up, took off his gloves, and ordered, "After collecting samples at the scene, bring these deceased people back to the police station as soon as possible for joint investigation."
Almost instinctively, the moment Lin Anyu finished speaking, everyone around him responded in unison: "Yes."
Finally, Lin Anyu and Pei Jingji said, "Prepare the autopsy procedure, I will do it with you."
Her voice was calm but with an unconcealable sense of alienation, very much like Song Lue, yet vaguely unlike Song Lue.
Pei Jingji was stunned for a moment, then said, "Yeah."
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By the time people around had collected all kinds of information, it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon.
Gu Beizhi sat in the first row of the conference room, tapping the table with his fingers as if he was thinking about something.
Not long after, Jiang Aichen came over. He saw Gu Beizhi in the first row and greeted him, "Captain Gu."
"Well," Gu Beizhi, "do you have any clues?"
"The identity of the deceased is being verified. Due to severe swelling, it is basically impossible to distinguish the appearance before death. Shen Shuhao is drawing a portrait in the monitoring room. The result is estimated to be out in half an hour." Jiang Aichen said truthfully, "Also, we have interviewed a circle of people, and there are no direct eyewitnesses. Even the nearby surveillance did not capture how these deceased were transported to the crime scene."
Gu Beizhi: "Is it possible that the surveillance camera has been replaced?"
Jiang Aichen was silent for a while, then said, "Chen Shuhao said no."
Gu Beizhi was a bit stumped. He analyzed, "My criminal psychology profile is that the murderer is a man, about 30-45 years old, in his prime. He has strong self-confidence and a strong sense of anti-detection, but his life is very frustrated. He longs for the whole world to submit to him, but his fate is like that of an ant. His growth environment should not be very healthy, so that he over-trusts his own ideas. As for the living environment... it's hard to say. As for work, he is most likely a freelancer or a vagrant."
Halfway through the conversation, Gu Xingnan, who was sitting next to Gu Beizhi, suddenly asked, "Where's the boss?"
After his reminder, the people around him remembered that they had not seen Lin Anyu for a long time.
Jiang Aichen replied: "She is serving as Pei Jingji's assistant."
Gu Beizhi couldn't believe it. He asked, "She is Lao Pei's assistant?"
Jiang Aichen: “Yeah.”
Gu Beizhi was silent for a while, then said, "Let's go to the forensic room."
After Jiang Aichen responded, he signaled Jiang Nan beside him to connect the computer screen to the forensic room.
At this time, Pei Jingji and Lin Anyu were near the dissecting table, while Meng Qirang was adjusting the equipment.
The moment the signal was connected, Meng Qirang was the first to shout, "Captain Jiang."
"Well," Jiang Aichen nodded, "What did you find over there?"
Pei Jingji took off his gloves and walked forward, saying, "The three dead bodies found today died about a month ago. The cause of death was multiple organ failure. There were drug residues in the blood of the three bodies. At this stage, we cannot determine what the drug is. We need to transfer it to the headquarters for further testing."
"Okay," Gu Beizhi said seriously, "I'll go talk to the headquarters."
Pei Jingji didn't buy his story at all. He said, "Old Gu, what are you talking about? I am a textbook-level figure in the field of forensic medicine. My words are more effective than yours, OK?"
Gu Beizhi was not annoyed at all: "Okay."
Jiang Aichen noticed that there were two bodies on the dissection table in the forensic room, and on one of them, Lin Anyu was measuring something.
And obviously, there was a slight frost on the body, as if it had just been dragged out from an extremely cold place.
Jiang Aichen recognized him at a glance. He was the deceased who had been arranged to be at the entrance of the police station for the crime warning.
He asked, "Is he connected to this case?"
Pei Jingji looked back at Lin Anyu and replied, "She said there was a connection."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Anyu put away her gloves, walked to the video camera, and said, "The two deceased had obvious cerebral effusion and their brain structures were damaged to varying degrees. The weight of the brain was 0.35g lighter than a normal brain. If I'm not mistaken, the drugs left in their bodies should be related to suppressing a certain structure of the brain."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone was shocked.
Lin Anyu continued to speak as if no one was around: "I dissected and analyzed the brains of the four dead people. I found that the extent of the injuries on the four dead people was different. It can be said that the murderer's method became more and more sophisticated. So I speculate that these four dead people were all experimental subjects of the murderer. What he really wanted was to use this drug on another person..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Anyu suddenly thought of something.
Her expression changed.
Meng Qirang noticed her change, and she asked tentatively: "Anyu, what's wrong?"
Lin Anyu shook his head and quickly replied, "It's okay."
Then, Lin Anyu asked again: "Jiang Aichen, has the bomber been interrogated?"
"not yet."
Lin Nayu: "Okay, take me to see him later."
Jiang Aichen responded sullenly.
As if on purpose, Gu Beizhi asked: "Captain Song, where should we investigate next?"
Lin Anyu seemed not to be fooled: "Don't test me, I'm not Song Luo. Besides, you should know better than me how to investigate."
Meng Qirang couldn't quite believe it.
The person in front of me is Lin Anyu.
How come she has become unrecognizable to herself?
Meng Qirang: "Anyu...you..."
Lin Anyu knew what she wanted to ask, so she replied, "Qi Rang, I'll explain it to you when I get back."
Although Meng Qirang didn't know what kind of answer she would give her, she still responded: "Yeah."
Lin Anyu didn't say anything like the others. She and Jiang Aichen left the video almost at the same time.
Only after they walked away did the others begin to murmur.
"She just said she is not Song Luo."
"She's not Song Lue. Could she be our little mascot? Why is she different from before?"
"Is this the first time you've encountered such a large-scale murder case? Are you scared?"
"How is that possible?"
Gu Xingnan and Gu Beizhi in the front row looked at each other.
"How do you take care of the team?" Gu Xingnan asked.
Gu Beizhi answered honestly: "I don't know, let's solve the case first, she should be able to give us the answer."
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Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen came to the monitoring room, where a thin man was sitting behind the one-way glass.
Jiang Aichen: "He is Li Zhe."
Lin Anyu felt that at this point, there was no need for her to pretend anymore. She said to Jiang Aichen beside her, "Wait for me here."
Jiang Aichen: “Yeah.”
Lin Anyu pushed open the door next to him and walked in.
When the suspect saw it was her, he was obviously startled, but then quickly regained his composure.
Lin Anyu sat opposite him, tapping the table with the tip of his pen.
After a while, she said, "Are you Li Zhe?"
The thin man nodded nonchalantly: "Yeah."
Lin Anyu: "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Song Luo."
When Li Zhe heard the word "Song Luo", he obviously reacted.
He slowly raised his head and stared at Lin Anyu. His strange smile showed his willfulness: "I know."
Lin Anyu carefully observed his expression. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? Do you know me?"
Li Zhe did not directly answer Lin Anyu's question. He said, "Captain Song, you know what? When we first met, you asked the same question."
Lin Anyu's face was calm: "Really?"
Li Zhe continued: "Yes, we met twice, and you asked this question twice. Don't you think you are weird?"
Lin Anyu was not panicked at all: "It's okay, my memory is not good, it's normal to ask the same question twice."
"Indeed," Li Zhe continued, "but why do I feel that you are not the Captain Song that I remember?"
"Oh?" Lin Anyu leaned forward, "Then who do you think I am?"
Li Zhe stared at her seriously: "How do I know who you are?"
"Could it be that you are Captain Song's twin sister?"
"Okay," Lin Anyu opened the notebook and said, "It doesn't matter who I am. Let's discuss the potion."
Li Zhe: "What medicine?"
Lin Anyu placed the information in front of him: "We found drugs that can cause memory distortion in that deceased. Similarly, today we found three victims with the same cause of death in other places."
Li Zhe said nonchalantly: "And then?"
Lin Anyu: "So we have reason to suspect that you are making a drug that affects people's memory."
Li Zhe: "Why would I study that kind of drug?"
Lin Anyu: "You are preparing this for one person."
Li Zhe: “To whom?”
Lin Anyu was silent for a moment and said, "Give it to me."
Immediately, Jiang Aichen behind the one-way glass was startled for a second.
Li Zhe, who was sitting in front of Lin Anyu, was also shocked. He then returned to his usual nonchalant attitude and asked, "Why would I prepare that kind of drug for you?"
"Of course it is to kill Song Lue." Lin Anyu stared at him seriously with a confident smile on his face.
With that word, Jiang Aichen and Li Zhe both fell silent.
Lin Anyu said: "I will now analyze for you the basis for what I said. In fact, you knew from the beginning that this drug existed just to be used on me, so you were surprised when you first saw me."
"Because, you know, after injecting this drug, Song Luo will disappear from my body. As an ordinary person who doesn't remember anything, I won't associate all of this with you, let alone come to find you."
"That's the first point," Lin Anyu looked him in the eye seriously and said, "Secondly, what exposed your ultimate goal was the conversation you just had with me."
Li Zhe was a little surprised: "What did I say?"
"You said, I said the same thing when we first met." Lin Anyu said.
"Is there anything wrong with this sentence?"
Lin Anyu said: "In the past few minutes, you have been rubbing your hands. This is a common action for liars, because you don't know whether the person who came to see you this time is me, Lin Anyu, or Song Luo. So you are afraid, you are afraid. If I were Song Luo, what would you do?"
"And when I said that, right? And that I have a bad memory, you were obviously relieved because you knew that your potion worked, and - I am not Song Lue at all."
"What are you talking about?" Li Zhe said.
Lin Anyu ignored him and continued his thoughts: "Get to know Xu Jinshu."
Li Zhe quickly replied: "I don't know him."
Lin Anyu: "I've studied criminal psychology. The more subtle your attempt to cover it up is, the more in my eyes it's the same as just telling me the answer directly."
After that, Lin Anyu continued to ask: "How many people are there in your small group?"
Li Zhe: “Why should I tell you?”
"But I can tell you what I know," Lin Anyu said, "Among your people, besides Xu Jinshu, there should be another core figure."
"You usually communicate directly with that core figure?" Lin Anyu observed his expression, "So... that person is Chu Yanbo?"
Although Li Zhe didn't say anything, Lin Anyu seemed to read the answer he wanted from his gradually panicking mood.
"Okay," Lin Anyu said ambiguously, "I understand."
Just as Lin Anyu was about to leave, Li Zhe lost his calm expression and asked seriously, "Who are you?"
Lin Anyu seemed very satisfied with his expression. She stopped and looked back at him and said, "Who am I? Didn't you find out just now?"
Li Zhe blurted out: "You are not..."
Lin Anyu: "I am nothing. Didn't I lose my memory? But who told you that after a person loses his memory, he will not remember anything?"
Li Zhe said, "What do you remember?"
Lin Anyu: "I remember everything about Xu Shu and Xu Jinshu. I remember it clearly and vividly."
Li Zhe: "From the very beginning..."
Lin Anyu: "Yes! Right at the beginning!"
Lin Anyu said: "I recognized him from the first time we met. I can even say that I deliberately put my photo on the Internet."
Li Zhe knew that Lin Anyu had already known all his cards. He said, "You told me so much, aren't you afraid that I will tell him all this information?"
Lin Anyu said confidently: "What am I afraid of? You are in prison now. As long as he comes to find you, or you pass on your secret code to him through some means, I will arrest them immediately."
"The law is long and unstoppable. None of you can escape."
Li Zhe stared at her fiercely: "I knew it, I knew it. When Brother Chu said he wanted to get rid of you, Xu Jinshu shouldn't have been soft-hearted."
Lin Anyu said provocatively: "Should I thank him then?"
Li Zhe's emotions were a little out of control. He pounded on the table vigorously: "Lin Anyu, I won't let you hurt them, I won't! Xu Jinshu has been in jail for two years because of you, what else do you want!"
"Is he in jail for me? He committed the crime himself, so he should be punished by law," Lin Anyu said. "Besides, considering his crime, two years is probably far from enough."
Li Zhe: "Why is it not enough?"
Lin Anyu said word by word: "Three years ago, he called the police falsely, attracted the police, and then set fire to the warehouse, which caused the explosion of explosive chemicals and killed the entire Lin team in Zecheng. He brutally murdered drug enforcement police officer Ye Pulan and used living people for experiments, causing many victims to swell up and die."
"Can all these things be settled by spending two years in jail?"
"What evidence do you have about the warehouse three years ago?" Li Zhe said.
Lin Anyu asked back: "Do you think I would dare to tell you this directly if I didn't have any evidence?"
Li Zhe: “We are not…”
"What are you not?" Lin Anyu said what he didn't say later, "Didn't you hack into the police system and erase all the evidence?"
Li Zhe did not answer directly, as if he was afraid that if he said anything else, Lin Anyu would catch him.
Lin Anyu: "Have you ever thought about why I came to Beihai?"
As if he had guessed something.
Li Zhe said: "It's the same criminal police team from before."
Lin Anyu: "Yes, among the criminal police team that died three years ago, there was a criminal police officer named Lin Anyu. When I rescued her from the fire, she risked her life to give me the clues from the fire scene."
"After my investigation, I found out that the real culprit of the arson case was Xu Jinshu."
Lin Anyu said confidently: "And according to Xu Jinshu's conceited personality, he should like to fill his house with his spoils of war."
"As for the evidence," Lin Anyu paused for a second and said, "He should have more."
Li Zhe said nothing.
Lin Anyu said generously: "If you have any other questions, I will answer them for you."
Li Zhe gave up resistance and said, "No more."
Lin Anyu didn't say anything, she walked out alone.
Who knew that as soon as she went out, she ran into Jiang Aichen who had also just gone out.
He asked without any context, "So you knew from the beginning that you were Song Luo?"
"No," Lin Anyu said truthfully, "In fact, at the beginning, I thought I was the one between Song Luo and Lin Anyu."
"I thought I saved someone, but Song Luo saved me."
"Have you ever been curious about your true identity?" Jiang Aichen continued to ask.
"No," Lin Anyu said, "Does it matter who I am? The meaning of my existence is to capture Xu Jinshu. As for whether I was Lin Anyu or Song Luo, it doesn't matter."
Lin Anyu said: "The three dead have been exposed. I suspect Xu Jinshu will take the next step. Go and gather the others to the Central Business Building."
The right corner of Lin Anyu's lips raised confidently: "The final battle is about to begin."
Jiang Aichen asked worriedly, "What about you?"
Lin Anyu said: "I'll be waiting for you at the entrance of the building. Don't worry, I'll be watching you. Xu Jinshu can't get away."
Jiang Aichen believed it: "Okay."
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