Chapter 14 Death Suspment

Wang Dong, Tao Jiahao and Ouyang Min died one after another, and the three of them still have a faint connection. Assuming that there is a behind-the-scenes murderer manipulating all this, then the death of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao is undoubtedly from him, which can be seen from their successive deaths and the same way of death.

And Ouyang Min, I still believe that he really died like this, or that I am actually full of hope for him. However, when I saw the death information of Ouyang Min in the file of the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau, I had to believe the fact in front of me.

"In view of the fact that the deceased is from Anyin City and an important person in the case you are investigating, we will apply to your superiors to transfer this case to you as soon as possible." The speaker is Jiang Criminal Police, who is in charge of Ouyang Min's case, of the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau.

"Well, no problem." Although I nodded, I was very unhappy. In their opinion, this is not a major criminal case, but I am so eager to entrust this case to us, and there seems to be a feeling of receiving a hot potato.

"In fact, we also conducted an on-site analysis of this case. The deceased's room is in Room 2006, just next to the elevator. Living in a 20-storey place, the elevator runs normally, but he chose to take the stairs, and then burned in the stairs. We think this is likely to be a suicide case. Officer Jiang analyzed it to us.

Ouyang Min absolutely can't commit suicide! If he committed suicide, who was the one who pretended to be him to talk to me and ran away with his mobile phone after his death? As soon as the word "suicide" came out of Officer Jiang's mouth, I made an absolute denial of it in my heart.

"Suicide, is it too cruel to choose to burn yourself?" A small setback also feels that something is wrong.

"If the psychology is extremely distorted, is it normal to choose this way?" Officer Jiang continued to defend himself.

"Since he is going to commit suicide, why didn't he choose to commit suicide in the room, but in the stairway?" Xiao Fui continued to ask, as if he would not give up without asking Officer Jiang to deny his inference.

"Room 2006 is a non-smoking room." Officer Jiang's words directly blocked Xiao Fou's next words, which made Xiao Fou speechless and had to look at me and Zhang Jiewei for help.

It's not right. If you choose the stairwell just because 2006 is a smoke-free room, it doesn't make sense. After all, there are also fire prevention measures in the stairwell, which will also trigger a fire alarm. According to what we know now, the fire alarm did not go off when the fire broke out in the hotel building tonight, and it is very likely that it was deliberately damaged by someone.

But what is the purpose of breaking the fire alarm? Burn more people? I don't think the murderer's idea is so simple. If the fire alarm is broken, it will not be easily detected when a fire occurs, and the fire can burn even more. If the fire is less and bigger, then...

There will be less and less important evidence! It was even completely burned in the fire!

Then the idea is at least clear. First of all, the murderer managed to make Ouyang Min go to the stairwell to ignite spontaneously, and then a fire destroyed all the evidence before we arrived. But... Why didn't the investigators of the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau set the fire before they went to the hotel, but waited until the investigators in Liutaihe City left? Does he know that we will go again and that we will definitely find something in it?

"The videos before and after Ouyang Min's death have been transferred here, right?" There is always a feeling that this is the only clue that that person is willing to leave me.

"Yes." Officer Jiang nodded.

"I want to have a look."

"No problem. Sooner or later, this information will be transferred to you. You see, this is Room 2006." As Officer Jiang spoke, he took up the video for us.

Zhang Jiewei and Xiao Chu also came up. The three of us stared at the computer screen. In a trance, I seemed to go back to the scene when I watched Wang Dong's weird video last time. I felt a gloomy wind blowing overhead, which was cool.

From the shooting angle of the camera, Room 2006 happened to be in the left area of the whole picture. Before long, the door of Room 2006 was opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit appeared in the picture. The installation height of the camera is very ingenious, just enough to see the appearance of a middle-aged man. Although I have never really communicated with Ouyang Min face to face, his appearance has left an extremely deep impression on me. Of course, it is all due to that mysterious email.

After Ouyang Min came out of the room, he walked straight in the direction of the camera. His footsteps were not very stable, and even a little stiff and mechanical, which made a sense of déjà guity surge out of my heart.

"Here is the next one in the corridor. Yesterday, there seemed to be something wrong with the camera on the other side of the corridor, and there was no picture of Ouyang Min's death." Officer Jiang glanced at the screen and continued to add to us.

"Can you please play it again?" I stared at the screen and asked.

"Yes."

The video is played again. This time I observed more carefully, and I don't want to let go of any detail. You know, sometimes the subtlest part is the key to the success or failure of things.

"Wait! Go back!" Just as I was still observing Ouyang Min's every move in the video, Zhang Jiewei's voice suddenly sounded in my ear.

I looked up at him, and I'm sure he also made some unusual discoveries.

"Go back a little more." Zhang Jiewei immediately said.

"That's it! Zoom in."

When the image was enlarged at this moment requested by Zhang Jiewei, Xiao Zang and I once again focused on the enlarged face in front of us. This face is indeed Ouyang Min's face, but it always gives me a very strange feeling. I can't say what's wrong, but there must be a place that blocks my thinking.

I closed my eyes and emptied the messy thoughts in my head. I opened my eyes again, but found a detail that had been ignored before: Ouyang Min's eyelids on the screen were closed!

When I found this situation, I immediately turned around and looked at Zhang Jiewei. From his affirmative eyes, I already knew that this was his discovery. Moreover, I also thought of the same place as Zhang Jiewei, which must not be as simple as a coincidence.

I quickly transferred the video back to the scene when Ouyang Min came out of the room, and took screenshots of all his faces when he was walking and arranged them in order.

That's right!

In every image is Ouyang Min's face, but no matter what moment, whether he is standing still or walking forward, his eyes are closed!

"Brother, what are you doing?" Xiao Frustration didn't understand and kept asking me.

"If it had been before, I would have thought it was a sleepwalking phenomenon." I took a deep breath, as if to say it to Zhang Jiewei and Xiao Fu, and as if to say it to myself.

"But now..." I slowed down, " Haven't you noticed yet?"

Hearing what I said, Xiao Chu also began to observe carefully, and then suddenly patted his thigh: "It turns out that he is the same as Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao!"

"Ha ha, you finally understand." The corners of my mouth were slightly **. I don't know if it was a smile or a twitch in their eyes.

As I said just now, if this situation happened to Ouyang Min before, I would definitely forget the direction of sleepwalking. But now, after the strange incident of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao, no, it should be said that there are two corpses, I have every reason to believe that Ouyang Min was already a corpse when he walked out of the room!

It's just a pity that there is no evidence for "burning" now.

"I want to take a look at Ouyang Min's body." I raised my head and said to Officer Jiang.

"Okay, I'll contact the person on duty over there for you." Officer Jiang did not express any dissatisfaction and excuse for my request.

I took a look at my watch. It's only 6:00 a.m. now. Although I haven't slept all night, the current situation can't allow me to delay for a moment. Obviously, this is a serial case. If the case cannot be solved as soon as possible, the deceased may not only be Wang Dong and the other three.

By the way, even if it was early in the morning, the morgue of the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau was gloomy. The three of us followed Officer Jiang and walked in the corridor. I turned my head and looked at my empty left side with suspicious eyes. I always felt that there was an inexplicable disordered airflow surging on my left side. It felt like... It was walking with me...

"Brother Lei?" Xiaozou's voice sounded in my ear. I turned my head to look at him, but I found that I didn't know when I had fallen behind. Xiaozou and Zhang Jiewei were already four or five steps in front of me.

I shook my head and rushed up, but at this time, I no longer felt the inexplicable thing that accompanied me like an airflow.

"I advise you not to look at his body." Officer Jiang stood next to a body covered with white cloth and said to us.

"It doesn't matter." I don't think we are so timid that we don't even dare to look at the body.

Seeing that we have signaled, Officer Jiang sighed and lifted the white cloth covered with the body, and a burned body suddenly appeared in front of us.

As soon as I saw the body, Xiaochu had retreated to one side and felt nauseous like a pregnant woman in the happy stage. There were also unknown objects in my stomach that began to churt.

The reason why he is said that he was burned rather than scorched is that from the appearance of the body, he is not as dark and unrecognizable as ordinary burned people, but his whole body is covered with wounds and bursting pustules from the inside out, and there are very few places that are really charred on the outside.

If I were to find a suitable word to describe these wounds, I would call it "bloom" more artistically. Seeing Ouyang Min's body, I couldn't help but imagine that his body seemed to be full of many small bombs. Those bombs exploded one by one and exploded from the inside of his body. The inside of every wound is really dark.

"How did he become like this?" Those shocking wounds also surprised me. It's not that I haven't seen the charred corpses, but the charred corpses of Wang Dong and Tao Jiahao before are completely different from the current situation of Ouyang Min. If the burning of the body before was a kind of corpse abuse, then what Ouyang Min has suffered is undoubtedly a hundred times more than the whipping corpse, or even more... If a person dies alive and is "blasted" like this, I don't know how many times more horrible than death.

According to the hotel staff, after the fire alarm, they immediately found out the location of the accident. When they found Ouyang Min, they saw that he had burned up, and everyone rushed to put out the fire. However, to everyone's surprise, there are not many places in Ouyang Min's body that are really burned, but it is difficult to put out, and Ouyang Min seems to be unconscious and let himself be burned by the fire.

Although Officer Jiang's description is not particularly vivid, it gives me a very key information, which can completely verify my previous guess, that is, Ouyang Min was already a corpse when he came out of the room.

"What about the cause of death? Has it been identified?" If there is no mistake, the answer is the same as I expected.

"The results have not been identified for the time being, but it is now certain that the inside of the deceased's body, including the brain, has been completely scorched, which is much more serious than those on the surface." Officer Jiang also looked scared when he said this.

"That's because the fire was burned from the inside of Ouyang Min's body." I glanced at the body and said what I thought.

"You mean..." Zhang Jiewei looked at me and said, I replied with a positive look, and he didn't say a word more. Obviously, he knew it in his heart.

From yesterday to now, I feel that Zhang Jiewei and I are basically the same, or we don't need to say anything. With just one look, we can know what the other party wants to express. I think it's a little interesting for this unfounded tacit understanding. Maybe because of this tacit understanding, we can still become good friends.

"But there is one strange place." Officer Jiang seemed to think of something, and his eyes were a little strange. It was not strange, but there was a trace of fear.

"Where?" I didn't intend to let go of any details in the first place. If Officer Jiang can provide us with some correct and useful information, it will make us do a lot less useless work.

"Brain." Officer Jiang thought for a moment, and guess he was organizing the appropriate language, and then continued to say to us, "Originally, it was said that even if the inside of the body was completely burned, there should be debris. However, the forensic doctor said that there was nothing inside his brain except the dark inner wall of the brain. It's empty, just like what's inside has never existed, and there is no trace.

"Oh, it would be strange if it weren't like that." I replied faintly.

"Ha?" Officer Jiang didn't understand what I meant at all. Of course, I didn't have to explain anything to him, and I couldn't explain anything to him.

"It's okay. Have the physical evidence been extracted in the hotel room where Ouyang Min lives?" Although this question is a bit of a diversion, the main purpose is to try to gather all the clues and doubts together.

"Of course, but because we think this is a suicide case, we just took away Ouyang Min's personal belongings." As Officer Jiang spoke, his voice gradually faded down, as if he had no confidence, or... felt guilty.

"Okay." For Officer Jiang's carelessness, I don't know whether to cry or laugh. "I want to see those things."

What else can I see besides those things now? The fire in the hotel building destroyed everything, and those were the only things I could use to find clues. Again, I have always thought that the back of this matter is definitely not simple. From the beginning to now, we have been in a passive state. The murderer only left us the clues and evidence he wanted us to get.

Ouyang Min didn't have much left. He learned from his wife that he was on a business trip, but there were no other business-related documents in his briefcase except a few two pieces of real estate company information. Others are trivial things, such as keys, wallets, handkerchiefs and so on.

Handkerchief? A middle-aged man put a lavender handkerchief in his briefcase, which made me a little confused. Who else uses a handkerchief these days? Even if you want to use it, it is more suitable for businessmen like Ouyang Min to use plaid handkerchiefs.

Did his wife give it to him?

Thinking about this, my hand involuntarily picked up the handkerchief and sniffed it in front of my nose. A faint fragrance of Mo/Lihua comes from the handkerchief, which is sweet but not greasy. Just closing your eyes and feeling it is enough to make people think. Suddenly, I opened my eyes, took a closer look at the lavender handkerchief, and smelled it again. Yes, the taste is indeed very similar to Mo/Li Huaxiang, but now I firmly believe that this is another kind of floral fragrance!

"No..." Zhang Jiewei's voice sounded at the same time as the voice in my mind, but then I knew that we were talking about two different aspects, but they were closely connected...