Chapter 1 Volume 1: Text Messages from the Missing
In Mobei Old City, since ancient times, five households have been one neighbor, and five neighbors have been one mile. Since the arrival of the Five Fuwa, which represents the ocean, forest, fire, earth and sky, Mobei City has transformed into a modern metropolis overnight. Then.
As the urban population continues to increase, more and more reinforced concrete buildings have given birth to prosperity and hope for the city, and at the same time, they have also given birth to stories that are unknown under the bright appearance.
Horseshoe Hutong was built in the previous dynasty and has gone through hundreds of years of changes. It has finally retained its original appearance among the many high-rise buildings. However, at the end of such an ancient street, there is the highest university in Mobei City:
Mobei University of Political Science and Law.
On campus, the Office of the Graduate School of Criminal Investigation.
Murong Shui woke up from his sleep with a jolt, looked around, and wandered for a while before remembering that he fell asleep on the table again last night, so he wiped the corners of his mouth, only to find that drool had been printed on his chin.
, muttered in a low voice: "Xu Tiannan, you damn guy, you don't care about the student papers you brought. You have to ask me, your assistant, to read them for you... Why don't you just hand over your salary to me!"
Before her wandering was over, a brief knock on the door finally brought her back to reality. It was probably a student who came here, so Murong Shui got up and walked through the snack bags on the floor, opened the door, and said with a professional smile.
: "Hello classmate, what's the matter... um?"
Murong Shui shook his head, trying to wake himself up a little, and then looked at the other person, and found that the person who came was not a student of his college, but a woman in her thirties, with red eyes full of tears.
He looked like he had just cried, and asked in confusion: "Who are you looking for?"
The woman outside the door asked cautiously: "Are you...criminal experts?"
Murong Shui almost choked with one breath, and explained with laughter and tears: "Sister, make no mistake! We are here at the Graduate School of Criminal Investigation of the University of Political Science and Law. You can call us 'criminology experts,' but we are definitely not 'criminal experts.'
, although there is only one word difference, but the things they do are completely different!"
The woman realized that she had said something wrong and apologized hastily. Murong Shui didn't care and asked, "Are you a parent of a student?"
The woman shook her head and said, "I'm not a parent. I saw news reports about you in the newspaper, so I came here...to ask for your help."
"Help? Did you see us in the newspaper?" Murong Shui was a carefree person. He didn't ask any questions at this time. He just raised his hand to invite the other person into the office. But who knew that the messy room was full of leftovers from last night?
There were so many pieces of garbage and paper that there was not even a palm-sized place to step on. So he stood up on his tiptoes and kicked out a complete piece of ground, pulled out a folding stool like magic and placed it in front of the woman, and then asked: "Tell me,
What's the matter?"
The woman sat down and looked haggard, her face full of uncontrollable worries and asked: "I'm sorry, girl, I just said the wrong thing, but since you are 'criminology experts', aren't you very powerful?"
This disguised form of praise immediately hit Murong Shui's little heart that "will stop beating if you don't show off". At this time, she also forgot to ask the other party's real reason for coming, and said proudly: "Hi! Sister, what are you doing?
You are right. Criminal investigation is a very rigorous discipline. Simply put, it is to conduct comprehensive analysis and research on criminals, and to explore the purpose and patterns of crimes based on all traces left at the crime scene, so as to lock in the suspects.
People, the purpose of detecting cases and preventing crimes, this subject is not only powerful, it is simply amazing! Let me ask you, three months ago, do you know about the April 15 serial theft case? It was published in the newspapers, and we assisted the police.
Cracked.”
The woman shook her head.
Murong Shui added: "Do you know about the 'Chat Room Murder Case' that caused a sensation last year? The murderer was looking for targets in the online chat room, and we originally caught the murderer based on the hidden patterns among the victims."
The woman shook her head again.
"This..." Murong Shui thought for a while and then said: "You should know about Sherlock Holmes, right? He is the genius detective who uses the 'deductive method' to deduce criminal behavior. The principle is similar to the method we use now.
, by analyzing the behavioral activities of the criminal suspect and at the same time deducing the established development direction of the case based on the other party’s psychological, physiological and appearance characteristics.”
The woman in front of her became more and more confused as she listened. Murong Shui felt a deep sense of frustration, so he made up his mind to show off his skills in front of the other party and said: "Sister, let's do this. Don't talk, I can deduce that you are here today."
This is the purpose.”
After finishing speaking, Murong Shui looked at the other party carefully and saw that the other party was holding a transparent file bag. In the file bag, there was a pawn ticket issued by a pawn shop, a call record, and a photo bag. At the same time, he also noticed that the other party's simple
His clothes had already turned white after countless washings. The only jewelry on his body was the gold ring on his right middle finger, and his hair exuded the smell of low-quality second-hand smoke.
After a moment of thinking, Murong Shui analyzed: "Sister, is your boyfriend having an affair?"
The woman looked at Murong Shui in disbelief. She was about to say something when the other party explained: "Stop! You don't have to be surprised by my reasoning. This is the basic observation ability that a criminal investigation expert should have. I found out that you just
I cried, and I can infer from the ring on your right middle finger that you have a boyfriend. At the same time, there is a pawn ticket issued by a pawn shop in the transparent folder you are carrying. This shows that your financial situation is relatively difficult, and your boyfriend
I don’t want to spend money on you. However, in addition to pawn tickets, there is also a call record sheet and a photo bag in the folder, which is enough to show that you now have evidence of your boyfriend’s cheating.”
After Murong Shui finished speaking, she looked at the other party proudly. This reasoning that she thought was perfect also made her feel extremely satisfied. She continued to add: "Then the problem is, since you have someone who doesn't love you.
, your boyfriend who doesn’t want to spend money on you and has already cheated on you, why do you still wear a ring? The only reasonable explanation is also the real purpose of you coming to me this time! That is that you don’t want to break up with your boyfriend,
You want us to help you get rid of the mistress through legal channels, am I right? It's a pity that for this kind of thing, you'd better go to a lawyer or go to the court directly to sue. After all, the case is too small... Hehehehe
?Sister, where are you going?"
Faced with Murong Shui's ridiculous reasoning, the face of the woman in front of her became increasingly ugly. She actually stood up and walked out of the office, saying to herself in annoyance: "Forget it, I'd better go!"
"Hey, hey! Why did you leave?"
Murong Shui, who didn't feel any praise from the other party, felt as if he was deflated at this moment, so he stepped forward to stop the other party and said: "Sister, you don't have to be embarrassed in front of me. After all, I am also a professional graduate tutor."
...Assistant, if that doesn’t work, I’ll give you some psychological counseling? In fact, it’s not a big deal for your boyfriend to cheat on you. Three-legged toads are hard to find in this world, but two-legged men are everywhere.
!”
After Murong Shui said this, the woman's mood suddenly collapsed and she squatted on the ground and cried loudly. It was already class time. Many students and teachers passing by in the corridor were watching this scene, which made Murong Shui confused.
I was so embarrassed that I scratched my head and wondered what I had said wrong.
"Murong Shuigen! What the hell are you doing again!"
Arriving before anyone arrived, the real owner of this office, Xu Tiannan, the real postgraduate tutor of criminal investigation, walked over from the crowd.
Xu Tiannan had just arrived at the office building. He had a bad feeling when he heard the noisy crowd, because he knew that his assistant was causing trouble. A series of areas such as bragging and messing up had already exceeded the level of carbon-based organisms. Therefore,
There was no need to think about this matter this morning. Nine times out of ten, it had something to do with her.
Sure enough, when Xu Tiannan saw the woman squatting on the ground crying, he immediately realized that Murong Shui must be the cause of the trouble. Seeing that the woman was still trying to hide, he rushed forward, grabbed her ears and scolded her: "Murong Shuigen.
, what the hell are you doing again!"
More than twenty years ago, Mobei City was still a rural area. One day, under a clear sky, a cry echoed through the village, followed by the birth of a fat, white baby.
This little baby is a girl, and has a very nice compound surname "Murong". According to local customs, girls need to be named by their parents together. Therefore, when the mother saw this watery child, she immediately gave her name "Water".
". It stands to reason that Murong's compound surname with the word "水" in the middle will become a stunning and beautiful name no matter what. However, the father who farms the land hopes that his daughter will not forget her roots in the future, so she named the last character of her name "
"Root" means not to forget your "roots" no matter where you go in the future, so this lovely girl was eventually named "Murong Shuigen".
At this time, Murong Shui, whose ears were grabbed, was so painful that his screams were out of tune, and he said loudly: "Ah ah ah... Boss, I was wrong, ow... let go!"
Xu Tiannan waved his hand to signal the crowd watching to disperse first, then walked to the woman's side, knelt down and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, my assistant does things out of tune and makes you laugh."
The woman ignored Xu Tiannan, just wiped away her tears and wanted to leave, muttering to herself: "I'm so stupid, I shouldn't expect you to help me..."
Seeing that the woman was about to leave, Xu Tiannan suddenly said: "Do you want us to help you find someone?"
The depressed woman stopped when she heard this, and for the first time there was a look in her eyes, "You...how did you know?"
Xu Tiannan smiled and replied: "Not only do I know that you want us to help you find someone, but I also know that you work two jobs during the day and night, one is the network administrator of the Internet cafe, the other is the Teppanyaki clerk, and
Just before you came to our place, you went to a pawn shop to pawn the necklace around your neck. As for the reason why you would rather pawn the necklace than the gold ring on your hand, it was because the ring was not given by your boyfriend.
It was left to you by a very important person, am I right?"
Hearing these words, the woman suddenly froze and asked: "You...how do you know so many things about me? Do you know me?"
Xu Tiannan smiled and shook his head, "Of course I don't know him. You just told me these things yourself."
The woman asked doubtfully: "Did I tell you?"
Xu Tiannan nodded, "You didn't tell me directly in words, because people's words may be deceiving, but your objects, expressions, body movements and behavioral habits cannot. These things have their own language. Once
Once you understand these languages, you can get your personal information. Through this information, you can understand what kind of person you are, which is also the most direct way for me to understand you."
Seeing the dumbfounded look of the woman in front of him, Murong Shui took the opportunity to step forward and pointed at Xu Tiannan and explained: "This is my boss, criminal investigation expert Xu Tiannan. My name is Murong Shui, and I am his assistant, um... senior assistant! Now
You finally understand what I do, right?"
"Shut up!" Xu Tiannan signaled Murong Shui to be silent, and then explained: "When I first saw you just now, I found a thick dark callus under your right palm, which is called a callus in medicine.
You are a typical 'mouse hand', which means your work is related to computers. At the same time, you still have a strong smell of tobacco, but I also found that your teeth and the first joints of the index fingers of both hands are not like those of smokers.
Smoke spots mean that you don’t have the habit of smoking. So I guess your working environment is a place where you often use a mouse and inhale second-hand smoke for a long time, most likely an Internet cafe. As for your other job, I found your small
There are many traces of oil burns on the inner side of the arm, but there are no burns on the wrist bones and fingertips of the palms. This means that your job requires you to frequently operate over boiling hot oil in a gloved position, so it fits this characteristic.
His job is a teppanyaki kitchen, how can a person who works two jobs and doesn’t even have time to have a boyfriend want to have a boyfriend?”
Xu Tiannan paused, then pointed to a fine black mark on the other person's neck and said: "You have worn a gold-plated necklace around your neck for a long time, but now this necklace has become a pawn ticket, right?"
"This... how do you know this?" The woman in front of her suddenly felt that she had no privacy at all in front of the other person, and unconsciously clasped her hands tightly in front of her chest, making an unconscious conditioned reaction when she was nervous.
Xu Tiannan said: "The gold content of the gold-plated necklace is very low, so the material that falls off will oxidize with the sweat on the surface of your skin, leaving a circle of oxidized black marks on your neck, but this mark is very obvious.
It means that you just took off the necklace not long ago. You suddenly took off the necklace, and there is a pawn ticket in the file bag in your hand. Where do you think the necklace will be at this moment?"
"Aha! So that's it!"
Murong Shui, who had been listening attentively to the side, jumped up excitedly and interrupted: "Boss! I understand! The gold-plated necklace itself cannot be pawned for a good price, so even if she pawned the last piece on her body, it would not be so
A valuable necklace should also include a ring. No wonder you think that the ring was left to her by an important person, right?"
Xu Tiannan knocked Murong Shui on the head and patiently explained again: "You have to get rid of this supervisor's assumption and consider it based on actual behavior as much as possible. Now take a look at the ring in her hand."
Murong Shui carefully looked at the ring in the other woman's hand and found that the gold ring was wrapped with a thin yellow line that was not easy to detect. He suddenly realized: "The size of this ring... is not suitable!"
"That's right." Xu Tiannan nodded and said: "Whether it is bought by yourself or given by your boyfriend, no one will choose a ring that does not fit the finger circumference, so the only possibility is that this ring belongs to another important person.
It was left for herself, because the size was a bit too big, so she wrapped a few turns of thin thread on it, and then put it on the middle finger, which is the thickest of the ten fingers."
After all the analysis, Xu Tiannan finally said to the woman in front of him: "You work in the morning and evening shifts and your financial situation is in dire straits. There are only two reasons why you would rather pawn your valuable jewelry and come to us. One: Your request is illegal. You can't."
Dare to go to the police station to file a case, for example, due to participating in underground gambling and incurring gambling debts. 2: Your request is legal, but the police station did not file a case for your request. Combined with the call records and photos in your file, it is likely that
The probability is that you are looking for someone. But no matter what the situation is, I know that you are desperate now, otherwise you would not have found us."
At this time, the woman completely believed the person in front of her. She took out the photo bag from the file bag, took out a photo of a young girl and said: "My name is Li Xianglan. Just three days ago, my sister disappeared.
Well, that day happened to be her birthday...but the police station didn't open a case. I...I don't know who to call, please help me!"
Missing persons have always been a big deal, sometimes rising from a security case to a criminal case. Usually the police will file a case if they are missing for more than 24 hours, but what the woman named Li Xianglan said later made the case unbelievable.