Chapter 56 Humbert Humbert

In the dimly lit room, the place where the luminol reagent was sprayed glowed faintly. The floor, the roof, and the door fèng... were all connected together, everywhere, almost like a layer of dizzying wallpaper.

Whether the old bloodstains were cleaned up in the fèng gap of the sofa that was removed, it was especially shocking on the spotless light-colored floor.

The walls are covered with sound insulation materials, and there is a photo wall hanging in the middle of the living room. The beautiful pastoral and natural scenery are displayed in a staggered manner, full of elegant literary atmosphere - if not, it is also coated with "fluorescent film".

There is a picture of "shepherd" hanging in the bedroom. The large frame about one meter high is very heavy. A technician on the scene stared at it for a while and felt that something was wrong. He took it off and checked it. A sneak camera is installed, and the lens is peeping out from the eyes of the shepherdess, which makes the innocent smile on the girl's face in the painting somewhat mysterious.

In the locked storage closet next to the bedroom are all kinds of knives and ropes that need forensic identification...

None of the above, however, is as creepy as the magnified photo on the south-facing window.

"Vice Tao, look, his windows are of the old-fashioned type. They are divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers. In the middle, a layer of opaque curtains that are commonly used in hotels is drawn, and the photos are pasted on the outside of the inner layer of glass," the inspection site said. The technician from the company said to Tao Ran, "So, even if the solar wind breaks out outside, it can be blocked by this layer of UV-proof curtains, and no light will penetrate the photo paper... Tsk, but his photo is really knowledgeable. what!"

The photos are magnified to a subtle and accurate scale. In a really dark environment, people standing in this room are really indistinguishable between morning and night, day and night. At first glance, you may think that this is the night scene outside the glass window— —The street is thin and narrow, the old buildings stand sparsely in rows, the distant street lights are still a hundred meters away, the flower beds grow freely and sparsely, the delicate flowers and the rough coexist, and a small piece withered for some reason, from the condescending point of view , could just see a faint light in the middle of the dead branches, and the light source from somewhere came to the basement that was looming in the flower bed. On the small window exposed in the corner of the basement, there was a girl's blurred face.

This was an important piece of evidence. Two technicians at the scene stepped forward carefully and removed the photo with the glass.

Tao Ran opened the blackout curtain and pushed open the outer window. At this moment, his pupils shrank slightly, and the white sweat that was running around under the big sun disappeared like water—

Tao Ran suddenly saw that the pile of tower rulers and stones outside the window to represent Wu Guangchuan's house was exactly the same as the corresponding position in the photo after the window was closed.

"Deputy Tao! Deputy Tao!" A police intern who was left to interrogate the property ran up in three and two steps, and started shouting in the corridor, "The property has admitted it! It is said that this house is indeed a group rental, but The tenants don't seem to be resident, maybe they are white-collar workers who work nearby, come to take a nap or something, and the property people say that they don't open fire very much, and the water and electricity are not used fast, so there should be no safety hazard, so... FUCK!"

"Be careful, this is the scene!"

"Don't rush in, and stay away!"

The young man was dumbfounded when he saw this "spectacular" room at the door, and was smashed and scolded by his colleagues.

"There is no security risk," Tao Ran stared out the window without blinking, "Can the owner try to get in touch?"

"The owner of the house and the owner is abroad. I just made a phone call, but it's an empty number. I have to think of other ways." The intern remembered here, "Oh, yes, Deputy Tao, the parking space of 201 is Occupied, there is an SUV!"

The jiāo management department quickly called up the owner of the car - neither the owner of Room 201, nor anyone related to the case, the registered owner is an old man who can't even get a job, except for the hukou He was still in Yancheng, and had moved out of town for many years. When he received a call from the police, the old man was puzzled at first, until he heard the police asking about the license plate, and he was a little panicked.

After further questioning, realized that although the license plate belonged to him, the car was not.

After the old man retired, he went to live with his children in other places. The license plate here is not needed, so he took advantage of the fact that the license plate number is not easy to shake in the past few years, and rented it out privately. Just show up, and the tenants even reimburse him for tolls.

"Is this... do I have to pay a fine? Or deduct my driver's license?" The owner of the license plate kept explaining, "Comrade police, I really don't have much money. It's only more than 2,000 a year. If you don't believe me, I'll show you the contract..."

"You illegally rented your personal license plate and signed a contract?" Tao Ran was speechless. "Who is the person who signed the contract with you?"

"Oh...it's a woman, her name is Su...what is Su? Oh yes, Su Xiaolan!"

Tao Ran hung up the phone and turned around abruptly: "From the day Qu Tong disappeared until now, check the driving track of this car!"

"Deputy Team Tao, this car is not equipped with GPS and driving recorder, and can only watch the road network monitoring - the day before Qu Tong's family received the recording, the car passed through the city on the Nanchang Expressway, and then turned into the Yangang Expressway. , Two hours later, I got off the expressway and got on the national highway, and after another half an hour, I drove off the national highway, turned outside the monitoring range, and returned the same way the next day, without entering the gas station."

That is to say, the car did not go too far after leaving the national road.

"When he left the national road, what was there nearby?"

"Some natural villages... thalassotherapy, farmhouses, painting villages."

Marina?

Tao Ran leaned closer to the photo wall in the living room, and one of the photos happened to be a snapshot of the waves scouring the sea reef under the sunset.

"Locate where all the photos on this wall were taken, let's go!"

Tao Ran and the others left the city, while Luo Wenzhou and Fei Du entered the city.

The setting sun began to sink again, and the heat was still steaming so hard that people could not keep their eyes open. The Yancheng City Bureau finally calmed down a little. When Luo Wenzhou came back, the information registration work had basically been completed, and the family members were sent home to wait for news. Far from home, or simply unwilling, still wandering in the city bureau, the duty officer and the criminal investigation team had to arrange for them to go to the cafeteria to eat first.

Luo Wenzhou unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, took two bags of instant coffee from Lang Qiao's desk, poured it into the water bottle, and shook it vigorously a few times. Jiang Rong didn't melt, and it soaked up a curious color and an even more curious taste. Then he drank a small half bottle under Fei Du's shocked eyes: "What are you looking at, I didn't drink urine."

Fei Du felt his retina and stomach hurt, as if his eyes had taken a gulp of cold sesame oil. He quickly looked away and stared intently at the photos they had unearthed from the urn.

"Over the past 20 years, hundreds of missing girls, although the criteria for joining them as 'members' may be harsh, but isn't the number of five suspects a bit small?" Fei Du flicked the photo in his hand, " And these all look quite new, they should only be from the past few years..."

When he said this, there was suddenly no sound.

Luo Wenzhou glanced at him suspiciously. Fei Du carefully pinched one of the photos through a spectacles cloth—it was a man with his head raised, looking rather gentle, in his forties, with a handsome appearance. It's still Zhou Zheng.

Everyone who was recorded in the photo had several photos from different angles, which should have been taken secretly, and then left the more recognizable ones. The other photos of the man were either wretched and intoxicated, or terribly distorted. Only this one was a little less, so it could be seen that it was a person.

"This person seems a little familiar." Fei Du rubbed his chin, "Familiar, but I can't remember it. It must not have been a business acquaintance. When I receive a business card, I will deliberately pay attention to the other person's facial features, and record it in the correspondence afterwards. The back of the business card saves time and can't remember the embarrassment; it's definitely not the people who have played together, there are only a few people who usually play together, even if I bring people, I won't bring this kind of ... lackluster old man. I'm right The sensitivity of the human face is very general, and people who have met once for more than a month usually don’t remember it, it should be within the past 30 days.”

Luo Wenzhou was drinking instant coffee as if he were urinating, and listened very freshly to Fei Du dismantling his memories—he understood himself like an otaku about computer configurations, accurate and objective, although he didn't necessarily remember everything. , but all patterns of behavior are traceable.

He seems to be tearing open his brain from time to time, breaking apart and crumpling every thought in it and studying it carefully.

At this moment, Fei Du had already quickly recalled the whole month's itinerary - a middle-aged man, a mid-range Swiss watch on his wrist, with a certain economic strength, it is reasonable to say that he would not appear in the rambunctious rich second generation. A place where young people gather...

At this time, Lang Qiao came in with a dead dog face: "Boss, you are back, I don't want to settle the victim's family anymore! I..."

Luo Wenzhou raised a finger to her.

"Qin master," Fei Du said suddenly, "in the Xiling Depot Club, there is a picture of him on the wall. He happened to be absent on the day of Qu Tong's accident, so the boss invited a wild band to cheer up... Yes, even if he encounters a robber by chance. For such a rare event in a century, the first reaction of people who are not familiar with the terrain is to retreat first and avoid the incident, instead of 'taking the initiative'."

"No wonder the surveillance cameras at all the intersections that day failed to capture him. Since it is a 'membership' system, there must be a mutual introduction relationship between these people. The other four can follow the clues, but the mastermind refuses to recruit them. Come out?” Luo Wenzhou turned to Lang Qiao, “You don’t like to go to settle the family members, is it okay to arrest people?”

When Lang Qiao heard the word "catch someone", he slapped a tube of blood on the spot, swept away his malaise, took the photo and ran away without saying a word.

Luo Wenzhou picked up the file and kicked a colleague who was dozing off in the office: "Wake up, go, and try Xu Wenchao with me again."

The two went out one after the other. Fei Du stood up and stretched very restrainedly. The smell of cigarette smoke and sesame oil lingered around him. He felt that this place was very unsuitable to stay for a long time, and was about to leave when Luo Wenzhou saw But go and return.

"I have a few words to tell you," Luo Wenzhou said, "but you have to do business first, don't leave first, you can wait in my office first."

After that, he hurried away again.

Fei Du was stunned for a while, and after taking half of his steps, he hesitated for a moment, and finally shrank back.

After all, Xu Wenchao was not as heartless as Su Luozhan, and apparently hadn't slept the night before.

His eye sockets were sunken, and he was mentally prepared that the police would come to interrogate him in turn - it's nothing, he had a clear alibi at the time of the two kidnapping cases.

It was precisely because of this that Su Luozhan dared to recruit him.

The Yancheng City Bureau is not a small police station in a remote county, and every word and deed are watched, and they absolutely dare not use any means of torture and confession against a minor girl under the age of fourteen.

For him, there is no actual evidence, and they have to release people when the time for criminal detention comes.

But who knew that after waiting for a whole day and a night, no one cared about him.

The police of the city bureau seem to have forgotten that there is such a person as him.

Xu Wenchao's face was calm and calm, but over the long period of time, he gradually lost his initial certainty, and he felt a little ups and downs in his heart - did they completely believe it after hearing his alibi? Give up investigating him?

It's better though... but if he's cleared of suspicion, why haven't they released him yet?

Just as Xu Wenchao was beating drums in his heart, Luo Wenzhou led someone in.

"The smell of smoke is a little heavier." Luo Wenzhou pulled out his chair and sat down opposite him, "I'm sorry, I've been busy all night to grab your fox's tail."

Xu Wenchao was shocked when he heard the words, he adjusted his sitting position slightly, and looked at Luo Wenzhou with a motionless gaze: "I really have nothing to say about this matter."

Luo Wenzhou smiled at him, and said in a very casual manner, "What's your relationship with Su Luozhan?"

"I'm her mother's fiancé." Xu Wenchao replied patiently, "Officer, I have already answered this question."

"I know that you are Su Xiaolan's fiancé," Luo Wenzhou raised his eyebrows, and suddenly looked at him with some meaningful eyes, "I just want to know, if you plan to marry Su Xiaolan, are you still with that remnant flower and Liu Yu? Or did you fall in love with her little daughter?"

Xu Wenchao was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he couldn't hide his anger and said, "This police officer, are you responsible for what you say!"

Luo Wenzhou's expression did not change: "Su Xiaolan

orphan

Widow mother, no education, no background, no serious job, source of life is a mystery, and there are many unpleasant rumors, Mr. Xu, you have a successful career, you have a complete RV, and you are good-looking. You should be an ideal target. I've always wondered, if what you said was true, why would she not want to marry you? "

"Marriage and love cannot be measured by material conditions," Xu Wenchao sneered, suppressing his anger and maintaining his demeanor, "Besides, this is a private matter between us, I think—"

Luo Wenzhou interrupted him: "She refuses to marry you. Is it because she treats money like shit, or you don't want to marry her either?"

Xu Wenchao said coldly: "What does this have to do with the case? You can interrogate me about everything about the case, even if I am innocent, but you can't insult me..."

Luo Wenzhou interrupted him again: "Insults you posted on the window of the bedroom facing south in Room 201, Unit 3, Building No. 8, Xiangyang Community... 爱qíng?"

Xu Wenchao's body froze suddenly, and the blood on his face faded like water.

The interrogation room was silent for a while.

The detective who followed him to take notes had been busy all night. He had just been drowsy in the duty room. He had not had time to keep up with the latest progress of his colleagues. Half a yawn was stuck in his throat, and he looked at Luo Wenzhou and Xu Wenchao dumbfounded.

Xu Wenchao's ears roared, and the irritability in his heart that was aroused by the other party's words was like a fuse. A thunderstorm fell from the sky, followed by a blazing fire, and he struggled to squeeze it out of his throat. Denied a sentence: "What are you talking about...?"

"Xiangyang Community, Building No. 8, your childhood photos are still posted on the windows," Luo Wenzhou said, "bloodstains on the scene mean that the DNA can still be traced back. You are in the SUV in the parking lot of the house. The hair on my face, and the photos taken by the peeping eyes behind the frame, Su Xiaolan just gave it to me with her own hands."

He smiled and reached out and knocked on the table: "Mr. Xu, can we talk now?"

The author has something to say:

Two days ago, I forgot to remark the "Lumino reaction". It was to check whether there was blood on the scene. Xiao Penyu, who has seen Conan, should be familiar with it.