He Shenming set up a special task force and began to investigate the case.

The deceased, Chen Xinyu, 36 years old, was the acting director of the Chen Group. He was also the eldest son of Chairman Chen Zhiguo.

On his 60th birthday on the island, Mr. Chen's original intention was to completely withdraw from the board of directors and announce his successor. Everyone guessed that Chen Xinyu would be the next chairman of the Chen Group.

But unexpectedly, on the day of Mr. Chen's 60th birthday, Chen Xinyu was directly taken to the basement and burned to death.

The crime scene is located five meters below the southwest of the island, in a basement built in a cave.

It was once used as a place for the Chen family to take refuge and air defense. The basement is about 60 square meters. It is square, and the walls on all four sides are smoothed with rocks, and the ground is paved with a layer of cement. There were a lot of miscellaneous items piled up against the wall of the basement, as well as a plastic barrel filled with an unknown liquid.

Upon inspection, the plastic barrel was found to contain formalin.

Most of the items in the basement were destroyed during the fire, and even the steel table on which the notebooks were placed was left with only its legs and partially collapsed.

Most of the notebooks on it were melted, leaving only the metal part of the wireless network card and a complete USB flash drive.

However, the technical department has not yet cracked the password of the USB flash drive.

On the left side of the basement room, 80 centimeters away from the main door, there was a melted and deformed plastic product. It was initially determined to be a plastic barrel. The liquid extracted from it was confirmed to be some residual material after gasoline was burned.

The body of the deceased was located in the center of the basement, with its head facing the door, and the body was covered with a lot of burned clothing remnants. Some unmelted glue-like attachments were found on the wrists and ankles of the deceased, which should be the tape used to bind the deceased's hands and feet.

Autopsy: The total length of the body is 1.7 meters, and the whole body has been burned over a large area, and the shape is unclear, most of it is in the shape of charcoal.

The remaining clothes on the right side of the body are still there. The only clothes left on the body are a cotton home clothes, and the lower body is a matching home clothes. There are no shoes on the feet, only a pair of cotton socks.

There are red spots and blisters on the surface of the body, and some of the skin has been carbonized. The skin is cracked, and the surface is very shallow without bleeding spots.

The body's limbs were slightly curled up, and there were particles of inhaled cigarette ash in the lungs, and there were also signs of burns everywhere. The respiratory mucosa was congested and swollen, the tissues were necrotic, and ulcers had formed.

In addition, Lin Yalin also found carbon monoxide in the blood of the large blood vessels at the heart root of the body during the autopsy.

The skin on the toes of the body had fallen off, which should have been caused by being dragged. There were obvious tissue contusions on the hands and wrists, which should have been caused by struggling.

However, there were no traumatic intracranial fractures, hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage fractures.

No abnormalities were found in the toxicology test, and Lin Yalin concluded that Chen Xingyu should have died from incineration.

The basement was burned and then washed by a high-pressure water gun, and its original shape has been destroyed. The on-site investigation did not obtain any valuable trace fingerprints.

Xu Yao now puts all his hopes on the USB flash drive brought back from the basement, but to his disappointment, the technical department hired experts to unlock the password set on the USB flash drive, but still cannot unlock it.

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trace team has new clues. They found a set of footprints in the closet in Chen Xingyu's bedroom. According to the location of the footprints, it can be inferred that the murderer is hiding among the clothes in the closet.

Because Chen Xinyu's closet is usually hung with long winter windbreakers and woolen coats. A person is hiding inside, and it is indeed impossible to detect without careful observation.

After inspection, the footprints are very consistent with the length of Chen Xinjiao's feet. From this, it can be inferred that Chen Xinjiao, who was hiding in the dark of the closet, should have quietly sneaked into Chen Xinyu's room that night and hid in the closet to carry out her revenge. After Chen Xinyu fell asleep, she knocked him out, lowered him from the third floor with a rope, and dragged him to a cave on the cliff in the southwest direction.

Xu Yao guessed that Chen Xinjiao would only stop killing if she killed all the members of the Chen family or was arrested by the police.

There are not many clues in the basement where Chen Xinyu was burned to death, so the only way to find the characteristics of the murderer is from that live video.

When Chen Xinyu was asking for help, he just kept begging for mercy. He did not describe the appearance of the murderer, but only said that two people wanted to kill him.

What can be confirmed now is that this case was not committed alone, but there was an accomplice.

Since there were two people who entered the basement, if one of them was Chen Xinjiao, who would the other person be?

Xu Yao was sorting out the materials in the basement again, and he suddenly became curious about the purpose of this basement.

This basement is located on a cliff, and the space inside is very large. The strangest thing is that there are dozens of plastic barrels stacked against the wall in the basement, filled with formalin liquid that glows green.

The purpose of formalin liquid is disinfection, sterilization, and anti-corrosion. It has the ability to kill formaldehyde-exceeding bacteria and anti-corrosion. It can be used to immerse biological specimens to maintain the appearance of the corpse, making it look lifelike.

But this is the island resort run by Mr. Chen. Why does he need so much formalin liquid?

Xu Yao couldn't help but start to check Chen Zhiguo's files along this line.

Mr. Chen did serve in the army when he was young. Later, he was transferred to a government agency and worked for another eight years.

Then, he resolutely resigned from the government agency and started his own business. From buying shops and renting them out to buying land and building shops and renting them out, and finally buying land and building buildings.

After years of hard work, he gradually became a famous developer.

It turns out that Mr. Chen is not without stains in his business for so many years. He once had conflicts with surrounding residents because of demolition issues. At that time, the demolition workers under Mr. Chen carried out violent demolitions and even beat villagers to death. But the incident was quickly suppressed, and the families of those who were beaten to death all agreed to settle the matter privately.

Xu Yao kept checking carefully and suddenly found a very strange problem. There was a period of time when Mr. Chen's file was blank. There was a period of eight years between his resignation from the government and his start of business, and this period of time in his file was blank.

I don't know if there was an error when writing the file or for other reasons. During these eight years, it is impossible to tell from the file what kind of industry Mr. Chen was engaged in?

Looking at Chen Zhiguo in the file, Xu Yao sighed in his heart. He finally understood why Mr. Chen could remain calm and suppress the incident after his granddaughter was raped by his own son.

In the final analysis, Mr. Chen has become a slave to money and status, even at the expense of his own family

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