Bizarre
Under the gray and cloudy sky, the long-haired man in the red suit looked like a drop of blood staining the world.
Bright and thick.
A silent cry against the haze that covers the world.
Gray sunglasses half-hid his gorgeous features, the collar of his black shirt was unbuttoned, revealing his collarbone.
His long black hair made the bright red earring on his right ear vaguely visible.
The man raised the cordon and walked into the crime scene with a smile, a cigarette between his fingers.
He is Xiao Chi, the captain of the Red Team. He is responsible for solving the mystery of the Red District and has several teams named with the word "Red".
The Red Team is the team with the highest points in the subject and is the trump card of the subject.
Most of the hooligans and homeless people who were watching had subtle expressions and moved away from the crime scene reluctantly.
The man glanced indifferently at a homeless man who remained there and pressed the cigarette butt on his shoulder.
Press off.
"Ah..." the homeless man screamed in pain.
"roll."
The homeless man met the gloomy eyes behind the sunglasses and ran away in a panic.
Although Lao Li was a little afraid of him, he still handled the matter impartially. "Captain Xiao, it is best if no unrelated personnel come into the crime scene."
Xiao Chi didn't look at Lao Li, but instead focused his gaze on Lu Miao, smiling. "Captain Lu is related to the murder case?"
Lu Miao was as cold as ice. "I have a mission to accomplish. I am not like Captain Xiao who has nothing better to do than to come and greet my guest."
Outside the cordon, two members of the Red Team were sweating profusely and glaring at Lu Miao unhappily.
She didn't take the small soldiers and crab generals seriously at all, and directly scolded Xiao Chi: "Please ask irrelevant people to leave the crime scene."
Xiao Chi didn't get angry but laughed instead, reaching out to touch Lu Miao's fluorescent green earrings.
Lu Miao slapped his hand away.
"Heh..." He smiled and looked at his finger with a faint red mark. "Captain Lu only has one mission now, right? Let me think about it, it seems to be related to the group chat?"
There was a sharpness in her eyes. "You guys are so free, aren't you selected by the field of ghost stories? What a pity."
"Captain Lu, do you get extra rewards just by talking tough?"
"So Captain Xiao relied on his face to crack the code?"
Old Li, who was standing by, was sweating coldly because of the tit-for-tat atmosphere. To be honest, he was afraid that Captain Lu would be beaten by Xiao Chi in the next second.
Only Lu Miao could see the pair of eyes behind the sunglasses, which were full of excitement.
abnormal!
Old Li coughed and interrupted the two of them: "Captain Lu, do you want to check the body?"
Xiao Chi lowered his face and eyes, pursing his smiling lips.
Lu Miao threw a glare at Xiao Chi. "If Captain Xiao doesn't have anything important to do, please don't interfere with our investigation."
He adjusted his sunglasses. "The Red Block is the area we are responsible for. If Captain Lu needs any help, you can contact me at any time."
Lu Miao walked towards the corpse without looking back.
Xiao Chi turned around and left nonchalantly.
The clues carried by the body were just as the forensic doctor said: there was no face, no external injuries, and no blood. Further tests were needed to confirm the identity of the deceased.
"How did the body appear in the trash can? Did the surveillance camera capture the person who dumped the body?" she asked Lao Li.
Soon, the police officer who was handling the case came back with a troubled look on his face. "Captain Li, it's possible that the store that photographed the trash can refused to provide surveillance video."
"What?!" Old Li was furious. "The police want to investigate the case, even if they are ***, we have to cooperate!"
"Uh..." The police officer glanced at Lu Miao in distress. "The store owners said that they need Xiao's consent before they can show us the surveillance video."
Lao Li's anger instantly subsided and he smiled bitterly. "Captain Lu, this..."
She dialed Xiao Chi's cell phone number coldly.
The other party's tone was extremely excited. "Hey, Captain Lu, do you need our help so soon?"
"Would you be happy to help?"
"certainly."
"What are the conditions?" She went straight to the point, not believing that an old fox would be willing to help for free.
"Haha, I just like your straightforwardness."
"Hurry up and tell me."
"Let me think...why not give us 50% of your Green Team's points?"
"Is your Red Team so weak that you have to absorb points from other teams in order to survive?" Lu Miao looked around at the surveillance cameras and spotted a car parked diagonally opposite.
She immediately gestured to Lao Li to find the owner of the car.
Old Li's eyes lit up, and he contacted his colleagues in the Ministry of Transport to look up the license plate number and find the owner of the car.
Xiao Chi on the other end of the phone chuckled. "I was just kidding. How could I bear to see the Green Team eliminated? That would be no fun. How about this? Next time I invite you Green Team to cooperate in the Red Block's Ghost Story Field?"
She sneered secretly.
He just wanted to find out how she could get extra rewards.
"I need to think about it."
"No problem, if the murder case you're handling isn't urgent."
At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a thick gold chain contacted the police officer next to the car and prepared to open the door.
Lu Miao pretended to be unhappy: "You are forcing me."
"I like to force, don't you know?"
"abnormal."
The car owner over there dismantled the driving recorder.
"Oh, your cursing voice is so nice."
Lu Miao's tone quickly turned cold: "I don't agree. Goodbye."
beep--
There was no chance for the person on the other end of the line to say anything more.
The female police officer at the scene carried a laptop computer and she placed the memory card of the dash cam into the card reader.
“Got it!”
She called out, and Lu Miao and the police officers in charge of the case gathered around the laptop.
The surveillance video was rewound frame by frame.
At around 2:30 in the morning, the video footage began to distort.
Rewind half a second from the distorted image and the image returns to normal.
The hooligans who reported the case only discovered the body after opening the lid of the trash can, and the lid of the trash can was always covered in the surveillance video, so they found nothing except the distorted image.
The body seemed to appear out of nowhere in the trash can.
However, Lu Miao has found the clue he wanted.
At this moment, her cell phone rang with a message alert.
In addition to the 100+ new messages that bombarded the "Night Owl House" group, there was also a document sent to her by He Ping'an.
Not long after, Lao Li received a call from the Ministry of Public Security.
"Old Li, the Lido Hotel needs you to come over."
"What happened at the Lido Hotel?"
The deer seedling next to him glanced over.
"There is a strange disappearance case here. After my subordinates investigated the scene, they believe it should be turned into a criminal case."
Old Li, who was worried, hung up the phone.
"Lao Li, I'll go to the Lido Hotel with you."
Old Li was surprised.
Then a police car and a black motorcycle drove away.
A black car parked on the roadside lowered half of its window, and a circle of white smoke floated out of the window.
The hazy smoke made Xiao Chi's face look dangerous and charming.
"Captain Lu, I'll wait patiently for you to come."
The sky was getting darker and darker, turning grayish and yellowish, and the sunlight was blocked by thick dark clouds.
"…The current air pollution index AQI is 174. Haze is expected in the next 6 hours. Yellow haze warning is expected in the next 12 hours. Citizens are requested to make travel arrangements and take protective measures."
The radio at the front desk of the Lido Hotel was playing real-time weather forecasts, and a middle-aged couple was crying on the sofa in the lobby.
The thin girl at the front desk led Lu Miao and the police to the room where the crime occurred.
This is a room with a double bed.
The worried-looking policeman was waiting.
The police were familiar with the uniforms of the Ghost Story Investigation Department and assumed that Lu Miao was also an investigator and led them inside.
Seeing the open bathroom, Lu Miao's heart skipped a beat.
There was no victim in the bathroom, only two mobile phones lying on the floor.
"Old Li, this missing person case is very strange." The police officer looked worried. "The mother of one of the missing persons called and reported the case because she couldn't contact the missing person. When we arrived, no one answered the door, so we had to use the hotel's spare magnetic card to open the door."
"Is the bathroom door closed?"
"It's locked." The police officer's words were shocking. "When we came in, we found that the bathroom door was locked. After we broke the door open, we found that there was no one in the bathroom, only two mobile phones on the ground. We checked the surveillance cameras in the corridor and found that the occupants were two young women, whose relationship was unknown, and they had not left the room."
"What time will they check in?" Lu Miao asked.
"Ten twenty last night."
“What time do family members call the missing person?”
"Around six forty in the morning."
"Did the family say why she stayed in the hotel?"
"He said he was going to meet a friend."
"The family is hiding something. If you interrogate them more seriously, you will definitely be able to get some incredible information." Lu Miao put on gloves and walked into the bathroom to check the missing person's cell phone.
The policeman and Lao Li looked at each other.
The two phones do not emit a reddish halo.
"Lao Li, find a technician to unlock their phones and check whether they have the Penguin software installed on them."
Hearing this, Lao Li's eyes flickered. "Okay, I'll get someone here right away."
Lu Miao was left in the bathroom, and no signs of struggle were found.
The two women hid in the bathroom and disappeared, not died.
She recalled the system message that was released in the group to kick members out.
She understood.
They broke the rules.
The group rules do not explicitly prohibit two group members from hiding in the same bathroom, nor do they explicitly allow it.
Is their disappearance the price of breaking the rules, or is there another purpose?
Lu Miao turned his back to the bathroom door, took out his cell phone, and carefully read the eleven group rules.
No, there is an implied prohibition.
Wait.
She rechecked the system message about kicking members out of the group and found some strange key information.
I started the "Listen to Music Together" group at midnight throughout the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and was never kicked out of the group.
She immediately searched the Internet for the song "Paper Money Girl".
"Captain Lu." Lao Li also came into the bathroom.
Lu Miao put away his phone.
He looked like he was worried. "You are involved in the investigation. Do these two cases have anything to do with the field of ghost stories?"
"Yes." She said bluntly, watching Lao Li's expression change. "If I'm not mistaken, the two victims disappeared in the early morning, and it was related to a penguin colony."
Sure enough, Lao Li avoided Lu Miao's gaze again.
"Old Li, do you or your colleagues know about this field of strange stories?"
Old Li wiped the sweat from his forehead. "If I had, I wouldn't be so clueless in handling the case."
"Oh, you are not the one who is involved in this field of ghost stories."
He immediately stopped wiping his sweat.
"Ouch..." The defeated Old Li cried. "Captain Lu, don't force me. Since you know about this field of ghost stories, you must also know how dangerous and weird it is. We must protect personal information."
Lu Miao was relieved and patted his shoulder. "Don't worry, the participants can be allies or enemies. I won't make it difficult for you. I will find him in person when I need you."
ah?
Old Li's face turned pale and his hands were shaking.
No way, how does she know who in the bureau is involved???
"You--" He couldn't believe it.
Lu Miao smiled mysteriously. "The police and the government have always been partners, and will continue to be partners in the future, right?"
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