Chapter 9: The Case
Muscle soreness and biological clock woke Feng Mu up on time.
When you open your eyes every day, the first thing that comes into your retina is the system interface.
[Game inheritance progress 1%. ][Rewards have been sent! ][Players please keep up the good work, work hard to improve the progress, unlock and inherit more rewards…] Feng Mu closed the interface and pouted: "The system should keep up the good work and deliver the rewards as soon as possible. Sent and signed for are two different things. Do you understand?"
Feng Mu felt that he checked the interface as soon as he opened his eyes every day, just like in his previous life when he had to wait for the logistics to be delivered after shopping online. He felt so anxious and anxious.
Only iron intake can reduce this urgency.
After a quick wash in the bathroom, Feng Mu realized that he hadn't used the toilet for two days.
"Because I only eat iron and no food, I don't need to excrete. It makes sense. Although I still have the human skin, my inner body is leaving the flesh and blood."
Feng Mu looked at his face in the mirror. It looked less pale than usual and his skin had become a little paler.
He pulled open his collar and looked at his chest in the mirror. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he felt that the muscles on his chest seemed to be concave one centimeter inward, vaguely outlining the edges of the bones.
Feng Mu pressed his hand against his skin, and the chill coming from his bones became more obvious, as if there was a cold piece of iron hidden in his flesh.
"Bones turning into iron? Hmm, flesh and skin won't grow on them in the end."
Feng Mu swallowed and couldn't help but recall an anime character he had seen in his previous life. That guy could pull bones out of his body and dance. He was so awesome.
What was his final fate, bone cancer or blood disease?
After swallowing a few iron beads, Feng Mu put the question behind him, put on his schoolbag and went out.
Instead of going to the hardware store today, he went straight to school. When passing by a broken bridge hole, Feng Mu stopped his bicycle and threw the lunch box over.
There was a shed under the broken bridge, where a few beggars lived. Their faces were so black that their gender could not be identified, and their eyes were empty and numb.
It was not until a wild dog dug up the food box that the beggars seemed to be suddenly activated. They let out low roars at the same time and pounced on the wild dog with their hands and feet.
At that moment, Feng Mu almost couldn't tell who was a human and who was a dog in the chaos.
He rode away on his bicycle.
Early in the morning, a police car was parked in front of the school gate. Two police chiefs followed the guard into the campus. Passing students and teachers looked at them with curiosity.
Feng Mu pushed the cart and deliberately slowed down his pace. He vaguely heard words like "missing" and "investigation" in his ears.
Feng Mu narrowed his eyes and inadvertently memorized the appearance of the two constables with his peripheral vision.
Campus life is repetitive and monotonous. The sudden appearance of two police chiefs is like throwing two cat droppings into a bland soup. It is hard not to attract attention.
Feng Mu sat quietly in the back row of the classroom. He didn't need to go anywhere or ask anything. Bits and pieces of information would flow into his ears.
"Let me tell you, those two detectives came here..."
"Oh, the police station received two reports, namely..."
"I asked around in Class 4 of Senior 2, and it's like this..."
“…”
Every class was transformed into an intelligence base station, and the students collectively turned into intelligence agents. The most terrifying thing was that they had no sense of confidentiality at all.
They never tire of sharing intelligence and exchanging information, and finally, they spread the latest news to every corner of the school.
And this is exactly the reason why Feng Mu still stayed in school after dealing with the corpse. He was waiting for this moment.
"Everyone is my eyes and ears, thank you."
Feng Mu's eyes were slightly moist. He felt the friendship and help from his classmates. His mind worked quickly and he sorted out the preliminary information: the female deceased was Wang Wei, from Class 4, Grade 2. She was pretty, introverted, had average grades, came from a poor family, her father died early, her mother was a white-collar worker, and it seemed that something had happened at home recently and she was very short of money.
The male deceased, Zheng Hang, was from Class 7, Grade 2. He had average looks and average grades, but he was generous and had several followers in school. He had changed three or four girlfriends in high school. It was said that his family had some connections.
Zheng Hang pursued Wang Wei in his first year of high school, but Wang Wei did not agree.
Wang Wei's mother reported the case the night before yesterday, and Zheng Hang's father reported the case yesterday.
…During lunch break, the frenzy of intelligence gathering reached its peak because a dead body was found in an abandoned warehouse.
When the body covered with white cloth was carried out, the whole campus was in an uproar.
The more the teacher emphasized not to watch, the more students gathered outside the cordon; the more the teacher emphasized not to talk, the more gossip and chatting appeared everywhere on campus.
The students were crowded outside the cordon, standing on tiptoe and stretching their heads, each of them wishing they could dig their eyes into the wall.
Feng Mu stood among them with his schoolbag on his back.
Because the body was found, the case escalated from a missing person to a homicide, so two more captains of police and a forensic doctor came to reinforce.
Feng Mu narrowed his eyes. "Only four police chiefs were dispatched to deal with the murder case. It seems that the police station is really stuck with the big case and can't spare any manpower."
He silently memorized the appearances of these constables in his heart.
Deputy Captain Li Shang, wearing a blue police uniform with a dirty collar and a scar on his cheek, looked extremely tired and it was obvious that he had been working non-stop for several days.
"Two people are missing, but only one body was found at the scene?" Li Shang asked with a frown.
"Yes, there was only one. Judging from the bloodstains at the scene, he was probably hit to death with a blunt object and then dragged to the dark room behind the wooden frame." Captain Chang Erbing replied.
The wooden frame had been moved away. Li Shang walked into the dark room, his pupils suddenly shrinking.
Weird dark brown lines corroded the ground, circle after circle, like a black snake coiled and embedded in the ground, indescribably evil and bloody.
"Evil sacrifice!" Li Shang said grimly.
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Chang Erbing nodded, his eyes filled with disgust and fear: "The deceased Wang Wei was lured here, killed outside, and then dragged here as a sacrifice."
Chang Erbing pointed to the outline of the corpse drawn in white in the center of the altar.
Li Shang was stunned for a moment, then asked suspiciously, "Who do you suspect the murderer is?"
Chang Erbing replied: "Both missing cases involved students from No. 47 Middle School, Wang Wei and Zheng Hang. The time of their disappearance was roughly the same, and the last place they appeared was also the school. It is highly likely not a coincidence."
As Chang Erbing spoke, he took out a bag containing cell phones and handed it to Li Shang: "Only Wang Wei's cell phone was found at the scene. The last call was two nights ago, and the contact person happened to be Zheng Hang."
Li Shang checked his phone and said, "Keep talking."
Chang Erbing: "So I have reason to suspect that it was Zheng Hang who tricked Wang Wei into coming here to kill her and completed the evil sacrifice."
Li Shang thought for a moment and said without comment: "The two missing persons are connected to each other. They disappeared at the same time and place. Since one of them was murdered, the possibility that the other one is hiding after committing the crime is indeed very high."
After a pause, Li Shang continued to ask: "Is there anything left by Zheng Hang at the scene?"
"No."
"Are there any traces of a third party?"
"No, we only found two people's shoe prints."
Li Shang returned the evidence bag to Chang Erbing and suddenly asked, "If the perpetrator was Zheng Hang, why didn't he pick up Wang Wei's phone?"
Chang Erbing said calmly, "The phone was found in the gap under the wooden frame. It must have accidentally fallen while the body was being dragged. The murderer is a high school student. He did not clean up the scene properly, leaving some mistakes. This also fits the characteristics of a student crime."
Li Shang narrowed his eyes, suddenly changed the subject, and asked, "What are the status and family backgrounds of the two students?"
Chang Erbing smiled and said, "The two high school students have not registered for the college entrance examination yet, so they are blank citizens. Wang Wei's family only has a mother, who is also a blank citizen. Zheng Hang's father seems to have some gang background."
Li Shang sneered and said calmly, "Since the father is involved in a gang, it's not surprising that his son would engage in evil sacrifices. In this case, report it to the bureau and issue a wanted notice as soon as possible."
Chang Erbing hesitated. It was true that he seriously suspected Zheng Hang, but wasn't it too straightforward to directly identify him as the murderer?
Li Shang yawned, patted Chang Erbing on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Solve this case as soon as possible so that we can go back to the team to help."
Chang Erbing's eyes lit up, and he thought of the major case that the police station was supervising, and his breathing suddenly became faster.
Chang Erbing knew what to do, and the two chatted casually for a few more words, and then they heard a woman crying outside.
"It should be the victim's family members who have arrived." Chang Erbing sighed. He had clearly warned the school not to contact the students' relatives first.
"Go and deal with it." Li Shang waved his hand, took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, put it in his mouth, lit it and blew out smoke rings.
The tobacco was burning, and the gray mist exhaled from his nose covered his entire face, making it light and dark. His tired and turbid eyes stared at the pattern of the evil sacrifice, in a daze.
Cigarette ash fell and contaminated the crime scene? Haha——
What a fuss! (End of this chapter)
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