Chapter 27
"How weird is it?" Gu Tanxi asked curiously.
"The couple passed away one after the other, both when no one was home. No one noticed when they died. If someone had discovered them earlier, they might have been saved."
Fang Lingjian: "How did he die?"
"Nowadays, this kind of sudden death is called sudden death. In the past, the villagers said that they were taken away by the Black and White Impermanence." The police officer said with a smile.
The police officer got into Fang Lingjian's car and gave them directions from the passenger seat.
Gu Tanxi sat in the back seat.
The Shangji Village they came to now is a new village close to the main road.
In the past, Shangji Village was located in a valley, far away from the main road. There were no roads built at that time, so people had to walk out of the village on a small road that was winding and very long.
There is now a gravel road from the new village to the old village. Although it is bumpy and difficult to walk on, it is still relatively straight.
It only takes fifteen minutes to drive there.
The police officer said: "Before this road was built, it took two hours to walk out."
"So it takes everyone more than four hours to commute to work every day?" Gu Tanxi had never experienced such a hard life.
Unimaginable.
"Yes, in the past, people in the village would get up at four or five o'clock when the roosters crowed. Some would work on the farm, while others would go out to the town to do business. They would come back after dark, so most of the children at home were raised by their elderly parents. In Yu Dongbing's family, the older generation is gone, and Yu Guangzu had no serious job. His ex-wife had some skills and could sell dumplings and wontons in town, making some money to support the family, but God was not kind to her and she died young."
Gu Tanxi: "How old was she when she died?"
Police officer: "He's probably around 30 or 23 years old, very young."
As expected, no one lives in the old village anymore.
As soon as they got off the car, they saw a house in ruins.
In the past, most of the houses in the village were the most common red-roofed ones, and they were hollow and very flimsy. No one had lived there over the years, and snakes, insects, rats and ants were rampant, and the houses were damaged by bites. Heavy rains and strong winds swept through, and many houses collapsed.
It was now quite dark and the light was dim.
Looking at the dilapidated village under the cover of night, a feeling of desolation arises spontaneously.
Gu Tanxi asked: "Where is their home?"
"Follow me, the road here is not easy to walk on, please be careful." The police officer led the way with a flashlight.
Gu Tanxi and Fang Lingjian walked behind. Along the way, they saw many insects, mice, stray cats and dogs.
Cats and dogs run away when they see people.
Wandering around this place, you rarely see people.
The yard of Yu Guangzu's house is surrounded by yellow mud.
The house was made of red brick and the door was gone.
The windows were also rotten.
The wall on this side of the kitchen has collapsed.
"Was this done by someone?" Gu Tanxi asked.
"No, many of them collapsed later. These shoddy constructions weren't very reliable to begin with. Oh, there was a group of people who came here for a while, looting scrap metal from every house and selling it. They might have damaged it," the officer said. "You guys go in and take a look. I won't go in. I'll wait for you outside. This house is unlucky. You'll have to step over a fire pot when you get back."
Fang Lingjian smiled, "Okay, let's boil some pomelo leaves for a bath."
The police officer smiled and said, "You know your stuff."
Gu Tanxi walked into the house first.
The old house has a strong smell, and there is a stench of dead rats.
Gu Tanxi covered his nose and looked around.
"Nothing left."
There wasn't even a table left.
Only one empty house was left.
The police officer outside said, "What else could it be? Those furniture are made of wood, and they were all chopped up and burned. It's been so many years, almost twelve years this year."
Gu Tanxi looked around and was fed up with the stench, so she walked out.
I tripped over something when I came out.
"Be careful." Fang Lingjian reached out and grabbed her clothes from behind and pulled her back.
"Thank you, what is it...a network cable?" Gu Tanxi looked down.
Fang Lingjian: "A telephone line, right? There was no internet here before, right? Brother."
Fang Lingjian asked the person outside the door.
The police officer said, "Yes, there was no internet in this village before. We only got it after we moved to the new village. Those cables are either for TV or telephone."
"There is no furniture left, and there is no clue at all." Gu Tanxi was at a loss now.
Fang Lingjian asked the police officer, "Do you have the death reports for Yu Guangzu, his ex-wife, and his current wife?"
"Yes, there are archived records. How...is there anything wrong with their deaths? They died suddenly at home. There was no fighting, it wasn't homicide. I went to see it that year." The police officer said affirmatively.
"It would be great if we could find some furniture from that time," said Gu Tanxi.
The police officer tilted his head: "Why, you can do magic?"
Gu Tanxi pretended to be mysterious and said, "Yes, I am the Pen Fairy."
"Oh." The police officer actually believed it and put his hands together and waved to her: "Please bless me to be rich."
Gu Tanxi laughed and said, "I was just kidding."
The police officer also laughed.
The three of them looked around, found nothing, and left.
Fang Lingjian and Gu Tanxi went to the police station to get some information, and then stayed in a hotel in a nearby town.
Each person had a room, which was right next door. The small place now also had takeout. Gu Tanxi ordered takeout and brought it to Fang Lingjian's room. The two of them looked at the information together and ate together.
Gu Tanxi also took a photo and posted it on his Moments.
The text reads: "Workers are working overtime."
The picture shows a table of takeout.
Su Nan immediately replied: I also want to join this kind of class.
Fang Lingjian asked, "Do you need objects or furniture to ask about the situation?"
Gu Tanxi: "Yes, but there is nothing in the room. My special ability is completely useless."
Fang Lingjian: "I didn't expect the village to be so dilapidated. Do you have any other suspects?"
"Not at the moment. Actually, I don't have any evidence against Yu Dongbing. These are just my guesses, and they may not be correct. Besides, doesn't Yu Dongbing's information indicate that he has no special abilities?"
"Yes, but now I don't believe the report so much." Fang Lingjian shrugged.
"By the way, Captain Fang, what will happen to Liu Linjie?"
"It will take ten years."
"What about Zhou Yue?"
"She will be sentenced to life imprisonment at best and death penalty at worst."
"Oh..." Gu Tanxi responded and said nothing else.
There were quite a few paper documents brought from the police station, and the two began to read them after they finished eating.
The cause of Yu Guangzu's death was written as sudden death, suspected to be cerebral infarction.
"Why is it doubtful and unsure?" Gu Tanxi asked.
"This area has only been developed in the last five years. Eleven years ago, there was only one clinic in the village. Back then, as long as the victim wasn't murdered, the case was handled rather casually. After all, the person was dead, so why did it matter what disease caused their death?" Fang Lingjian explained. "So, the attitude back then was rather perfunctory and casual."
Gu Tanxi looked at the cause of death of Yu Dongbing's stepmother again, and it was suspected to be sudden death from cerebral infarction.
"They both died of the same cause. Did the whole family suffer from a stroke? Zheng Yunqi was only 28 years old. The probability of sudden death from a stroke is too small, right?"
"Do you suspect that these two people were killed by someone using supernatural powers? Just like the deaths of He Ninghao and the other three?" Fang Lingjian made a bold guess.
"I don't know. The current evidence can't support this idea..." Gu Tanxi shook his head. "It would be great if we had some of their old belongings."
Fang Lingjian didn't say anything. Her needs were really too difficult to meet. Eleven years had passed. Where could she find old things?
The only gain from this business trip was eating local delicacies. Although the place is small, the food is quite delicious.
Fresh, not pre-made.
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Gu Tanxi, who had gained nothing, followed Fang Lingjian back to the An City Supernatural Bureau.
As soon as he came back, Fang Lingjian was called away by his teammates.
Gu Tanxi went to the police station across the street by himself.
Everyone in the police station seemed to be busy and overwhelmed.
She asked several times before someone paid attention to her.
However, when the other party saw that she was here for the five-year-old locked-room murder case, he couldn't help but tease her, "Beautiful girl, have you been ostracized by your captain? Isn't it a lie to ask you to investigate this unsolved case?"
"I don't think so. I think I can find the murderer."
The man smiled contemptuously.
Just as he was about to speak, he was choked by someone who suddenly appeared.
Jiang Youqi came over with the documents and threw them on the table, saying, "You only got 50 cents as a year-end bonus, didn't you? You're so sarcastic. Someone who just changed their careers is more aware than you, a police academy graduate. Don't you want to do this anymore? Are you going to stop investigating the case that you couldn't solve in five years? Are you going to ignore those three weird kids? What's your employee number? I'm going to file a complaint against you."
"Hey, hey, Captain Jiang, Captain Jiang, isn't it okay that I was wrong? I was wrong, I was really wrong, please don't mess with me, I'll treat you to milk tea and an egg tart, okay?" The police officer saw Jiang Youqi picking up the phone to make a complaint and immediately gave in.
"Milk tea is unhealthy. I want to have the soup from the place on the corner. Let's have the cordyceps flower chicken soup." Jiang Youqi decided to stop while he was ahead and ordered the meal.
"Okay, okay, I'll give you two. I'm scared of you." The police officer curled his lips.
Jiang Youqi snorted and laughed: "Don't tease the female members of our bureau casually in the future. I was pissed off by you. Why don't you come with me to the front line?"
"No, no, no, I don't have any special abilities. I'm going to die. Captain Jiang, take care. I'll order takeout and send it to your office right away."
Jiang Youqi glanced at Gu Tanxi and asked, "Is it done?"
Gu Tanxi’s matter had not been dealt with at all, but now that it was like this, she didn’t want to ask anymore.
"It's okay."
"Take it." Jiang Youqi shook his head and walked out.
Gu Tanxi followed him away.
The police officer curled his lips and said, "Captain Jiang, you're such a chatterbox. You deserve to not have a girlfriend..."
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"Thank you." Gu Tanxi thanked Jiang Youqi after coming out.
Jiang Youqi: "Don't be afraid of them when you are young. If you are unhappy, just call and report them for their bad attitude."
"Do you do this often?"
"No, they didn't dare to treat me badly. It was obvious that they were bullying you because you are a lesbian," said Jiang Youqi.
Seeing no movement behind him, he turned around and saw that Gu Tanxi was still two meters away from him.
I was walking too fast.
He stopped.
When Gu Tanxi saw him turning around, he jogged over.
"Thank you anyway."
"Come to my office for some soup later." Jiang Youqi said and left again.
"Drink it, it's for you."
"No time to drink, I'm going out."
Jiang Youqi was really going out. He didn't even go upstairs. He turned to the parking lot and drove away.
When passing by Gu Tanxi, he even lowered the car window and said, "Don't forget, the soup is okay."
"Yeah." Gu Tanxi smiled and waved to him.
When Jiang Youqi's car window was raised, his little Q man suddenly came out of the window, holding the rising glass with one hand, and crossed his short legs together, posing a handsome pose and blowing a kiss to her: Bye~
Gu Tanxi waved his hand.
Why is his little Q so coquettish?
The little Q-man suddenly stretched out a leg, revealing a piece of yellow socks.
This color is very eye-catching, it is a bright banana yellow.
Sure enough, he is now the coolest guy on the street.
Gu Tanxi returned to the bureau with a smile.
Fifteen minutes later, the delivery guy brought two bowls of soup.
Gu Tanxi pretended to help pick up the goods, and then she drank it.
After drinking, she took a picture of the takeaway bag and showed it to Jiang Youqi.
“The soup is really good.”
"Sister Gu, Sister Gu." Xie Bei's voice came, and Gu Tanxi hurriedly threw the takeaway bag into the trash can.
It's embarrassing to be caught eating at work.
Xie Bei ran in and looked around. Only Gu Tanxi was in the second team office.
Very good!
"Sister Gu, I don't have enough manpower, so please come with me." Xie Bei said.
"The team will use Yin and Yang to team up with you again later." Gu Tanxi said.
"Never mind, Sister Gu, what did you eat? You didn't even wipe your mouth." Xie Bei squinted his eyes. He didn't even call him when there was something delicious.
Gu Tanxi quickly wiped it with the back of his hand and said, "Don't tell anyone."
"Then come with me. You are very good at solving cases." Xie Bei said with a smile.
"Okay, I want ice cream."
“Buy, buy, buy.”
Gu Tanxi followed the cheerful Xie Bei and set off.
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Yue'an Hotel.
There were several police cars and an ambulance parked downstairs.
Set up a cordon.
Gu Tanxi and Xie Bei entered the scene smoothly with their work badges.
Xie Bei said, "The deceased is a 28-year-old female intern at Yuheng Group. She had just completed her three-month internship and was about to be hired. There were supernatural fluctuations at the scene. The case has just been transferred to our bureau. The boss won't be back until the afternoon, so let's take a look first."
Gu Tanxi nodded and followed Xie Bei into the crime scene.
Room 3301.
The forensic doctor was collecting evidence. Only after he finished did Gu Tanxi and Xie Bei put on shoe covers and walked in.
Xie Bei: "Medical Doctor Bai, how is it?"
Bai Rong said, "The deceased had no external injuries and no signs of poisoning. It could have been a sudden illness or something else. Have you found out what the supernatural fluctuations at the scene were?"
Bai Rong looked to the other side.
There were two large black boxes on the dining table, which contained detection equipment.
The person operating the instrument said, "We're comparing the ability database. It might take another forty minutes."
"Then I'll take the body back first. Tell me when you have the result." Bai Rong nodded to Gu Tanxi neatly and left with her team.
Gu Tanxi felt that this forensic doctor was cool.
She watched the person lying on the ground being carried onto a stretcher.
The deceased appeared to be asleep.
Xie Bei said, "You're not scared, are you?"
Gu Tanxi shook his head.
Xie Bei raised his chin, and Gu Tanxi followed his gaze.
On the sofa in the corner of the room sat a man in a bathrobe.
The man's eyes were red.
His body was still shaking slightly.
"He is the man who checked into the hotel with the deceased."
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