So this place has become a new type of urban village, or you could call it a development wasteland. There are not only residential buildings here, but also dilapidated rural houses. The hospital was already out of business before it even opened, having been acquired by a large hospital and turned into an isolation hospital for infectious diseases.
Normal people wouldn't go there, and the school became abandoned, with no students left.
The school has now been converted into an apartment building for the elderly, the kind that's cheap but of poor quality. You can even smell some kind of odor from the outside of the building.
In short, it smells bad. No one with money or success would live here; they would have moved away long ago.
The people living here are mostly elderly people, left-behind children, and poor migrant workers. In the city, renting a room costs several thousand yuan a month, while here you can have a small, independent room for just a few hundred yuan.
It took about ten minutes to drive there. Jiang Yu got out of the car and turned around to say, "Don't wander around here. I'll come down after I've finished my investigation."
Li Zhi sat in the car, bored out of her mind. She had eaten all the small samples of fries that Haidilao had given her to try along the way, and now she was a little thirsty.
She planned to get off the bus to buy a bottle of water. Luckily, she had five hundred yuan in her bag. It's true that people with money in their pockets don't panic!
Li Zhi got out of the car and wandered around the residential area called Spring Blossoms, but he couldn't find a convenience store. How strange!
An older woman walked towards him, staring intently at Li Zhiyi without blinking. Li Zhiyi found it inexplicable and left the residential area, where he saw a hospital across the street.
The hospital looked desolate, almost deserted, but from the outside, she could see lights on in the wards. The hospital wasn't a good place, so she didn't plan to go.
Just then, she heard someone call out behind her: "Miss, Miss, you dropped your things."
"What is that?"
Li Zhiyi turned around and saw a man with a fleshy face and a lewd grin. He didn't look like a good person at all. Li Zhiyi knew that this man was trying to deceive him.
"Miss, did you drop this gold necklace? I just found it over there," the man said, waving the glittering gold necklace in his hand enticingly.
“It’s not mine.” Li Zhiyi turned and left.
"Hey, hey, don't go, miss! This is a gold necklace, it really wasn't you who dropped it!" the man said, moving closer to Li Zhiyi.
It was only then that Li Zhiyi realized that the necklace on the man's hand was filled with resentment. Clearly, the woman who owned the gold necklace was dead, and had been murdered, and the resentment was concentrated on the necklace.
Where did you find this necklace?
"It's over there, do you want to come with me to take a look?" The man's eyes darted around. He had just killed someone today and was planning to flee to another place for a while, but he didn't expect to see this beautiful woman before he left.
He immediately felt a strong urge to kill, since killing one woman was the same as killing two, and killing one more could divert the police's attention.
"Alright, lead the way." Li Zhiyi could now tell from the man's face that he was a murderer, and a murderer who had just killed someone. He must have killed the owner of this necklace. Li Zhiyi wanted to see what he was up to.
On the other side, Jiang Yu had already reached the sixth floor. This building was the first one developed, and there was no elevator. The sixth floor was the top floor.
In the hallway, a middle-aged man was smoking. When he saw Jiang Yu arrive, he hurriedly stood up and asked, "Who are you looking for? Are you looking for a room?" After asking, the middle-aged man realized he was wrong. Although he couldn't see the brand of the clothes the man was wearing, his overall demeanor was definitely not that of a poor person! How could he possibly be looking for a room here?
"I'm the landlord here. Are you looking for someone?"
Jiang Yu took out his police ID and asked, "We received a call reporting a woman dead here. Did you make the call?"
"Yes, yes, I'm the one who called the police. I came here today to ask Zhang Dandan when she would pay me for the appliances. I have several rooms in my house, but I bought the appliances separately for the renters. I charge them 100 yuan a month, but Zhang Dandan hasn't paid my appliance bill for two months. When I arrived today, I saw a frightening scene, so I immediately called the police."
"Um, what time did you arrive? Did you come alone?"
"Yes, my wife went to work. She works at a nursing home."
After asking some basic questions, Jiang Yu could only wait for the professional autopsy team to arrive. After all, no one could tell the time of her death by looking at her naked eyes, or whether this was the primary crime scene. These were all very important pieces of information.
Do you have Zhang Dandan's identification information? Have you contacted her family?
"Oh dear, how could I forget? I have a photocopy of her ID card, and she left her family's phone number at home. But I was too busy calling the police, so her family probably doesn't know yet that their child has been murdered!" It was clear that the middle-aged man was still somewhat regretful about the girl's sudden death.
Changing the subject, the middle-aged man said, "I'm just unlucky. This perfectly good young girl was murdered. How am I supposed to rent out this house now? Sigh!"
Where do you live? Is it far from here?
"It's not far, just across the street. Should I go home now and get a copy of her ID card?"
"No need, my colleague will be here soon. I'll have someone go with you, and you'll need to cooperate with the investigation."
This was the first time the middle-aged man had encountered something like this. Although he felt it was unlucky, it was a house he had bought, so he could only wait for the police to arrive. The policeman wasn't telling him to leave, and he didn't dare to leave, fearing that he might be wrongly accused of murder.
Jiang Yu went inside and took a look. The girl's death was horrific. There was blood all around her chin, and her face was swollen. She had obviously been beaten. Judging from her appearance, she was not very old, probably in her twenties.
Since he didn't bring any professional tools and was afraid of disturbing the scene, he waited with the man in the hallway for his colleague to arrive.
Just then, his phone rang. Officer Li on the other end asked, "Captain, have you arrived? Have you confirmed the scene?"
"Hmm, have you arrived yet? I'm here right now."
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
"Officer, how much longer until your colleagues arrive? I... I need to pee, but I'm too scared to go back inside. Where can I go to the restroom?"
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