Chapter 132 The Burned Man
After this incident, everyone eventually went back to their own homes and spent the remaining two days at home catching up on sleep. What Gu Nankai didn't expect was that on the afternoon of the third day of their vacation, Gu Nankai received a call from Cao Cang.
Gu Nankai felt nervous when he received a call from Cao Cang during the break. He quickly answered the phone. When he heard what Cao Cang said, he was shocked.
"Teacher Wu, something happened, come with me quickly."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Nankai hurriedly knocked on Wu Qingluan's door. At this time, Wu Qingluan was enjoying the music and relaxing. Seeing Gu Nankai's appearance, she was also stunned and quickly jumped up from the chair: "What happened?"
Gu Nankai looked serious. This was the first time Wu Qingluan had seen this in all the time they had known each other.
"Hurry up and contact Gao Yuan and the others." Gu Nankai did not answer Wu Qingluan but spoke quickly. He thought for a moment and said, "Tell them to go to the old newsstand next to the third residential area on Longhai Avenue. We will gather there."
Gu Nankai quickly added: "I will contact Gao Yuan and Li Meng, you contact Shang Lu, tell her to go back to the serious crime unit and bring her stuff here."
When Wu Qingluan heard the word "guy-style", he frowned: "Did someone murder you?"
Gu Nankai's face was heavy. He had already called Gao Yuan and took advantage of the time when Wu Qingluan didn't answer the phone to reply, "Yes, murder case. Chen Hui is dead."
"What!" Wu Qingluan quickly searched the name, and the next moment she looked at Gu Nankai in shock: "The Chen Hui who kidnapped Cao Mo?"
At this time, Gao Yuan's call was connected. Gu Nankai nodded at Wu Qingluan. Wu Qingluan didn't have time to think about it. She quickly dialed Shang Lu's number and the two of them went out quickly.
"How could this happen?" After getting in the car, which was speeding away, Wu Qingluan asked in shock.
Gu Nankai drove, looking ahead with sharp eyes, and answered Wu Qingluan's question on the other side: "According to reason, Chen Hui was released yesterday. Cao Mo was worried about his condition, so he kept urging Cao Cang to go and check it out. Cao Cang couldn't resist Cao Mo's urging, so he went this afternoon. He followed the address Cao Mo gave him to Chen Hui's house and found that Chen Hui's door was ajar. He went in and found that Chen Hui was dead. The specific situation is not known yet. Let's talk about it when we get to the scene ."
"Suicide? Or accidental death?" Wu Qingluan asked again. This was the key question, but judging from Gu Nankai's behavior, the situation was not what Wu Qingluan subconsciously thought of.
"It's suspected to be homicide." Gu Nankai said.
This made Wu Qingluan even more surprised: "Who would kill him?"
The car sped along very quickly. After a long while, Gu Nankai said, "This matter is a bit strange."
It's very weird. Extremely weird.
Although Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan set off first, they were already much late due to the journey. When they arrived at the scene, they saw Gao Yuan and Li Meng had already arrived. As soon as they got off, a taxi quickly stopped next to their car. Shang Lu got off with a box, looking very struggling.
"What's going on?" It seemed that everyone had arrived at the scene at the same time. Cao Cang was the first person to see the scene. The rest had not yet seen the crime scene. Following Shang Lu's breathless question, Cao Cang frowned and looked a little ugly.
"The scene..." He hesitated for a moment, but Gu Nankai had already discovered from his expression that things were not simple.
"Teacher Wu, you'd better not go in." For Wu Qingluan's sake, Cao Cang spoke first.
Wu Qingluan frowned: "What's the situation? I don't want special care."
Cao Cang sighed: "The scene is not what you imagined. There is something not suitable for you to go in."
At this time, Gu Nankai had already signaled Li Meng and Shang Lu to go in and take a look. Because Chen Hui's house was on the first floor of an old residential area, the two of them walked in two steps. Soon, Shang Lu's voice came from the door: "Teacher Wu, you really shouldn't come in."
Wu Qingluan was not going to act tough. She had a kind of awe for the dead, but she was also afraid of the scene from the bottom of her heart. As long as she didn't face the corpse directly, she could still know the situation from the photos. She seemed to be able to accept the photos.
"Then, you go to the crime scene, and I'll investigate the situation around." Wu Qingluan didn't want to waste everyone's time, so she quickly arranged a task for herself. This was exactly what Gu Nankai wanted her to do.
After nodding and giving Wu Qingluan some instructions, Gu Nankai and others entered the crime scene.
"Ahem...what's that smell..." Li Meng said as soon as he entered. The sudden smell stimulated everyone's sense of smell. This strange smell made them pinch their noses at the same time.
As soon as they entered, everyone realized that Cao Cang's expression just now was not enough to describe the situation at the scene.
"This is..." Seeing this kind of corpse for the first time was quite a shock to Gao Yuan. He stared at the corpse in a daze, and then glanced at everyone present: "Was he burned to death?"
In the living room of Chen Hui's house, a charred corpse was lying there in a curled-up state. The corpse had been burnt, and the victim's body was not curled up in the traditional sense, but curled up almost into a ball. It can be vaguely seen that the murderer's hands were over his head, and he seemed to want to protect himself with his arms, but everything he endured made him burn to death here.
What made everyone feel even more bizarre was that apart from the small area around the charred, curled-up body, there were no other signs of fire anywhere else on the scene.
"Now it seems that the person was indeed burned to death." Shang Lu said, squatting down to open his box and prepare for work.
Gao Yuan finally recovered from the shock of the corpse and looked around with a frown: "Don't you think this crime scene is a bit weird?"
It was weird, really weird. Because it was on the first floor and the orientation of the house was not good, there was insufficient light in Chen Hui's house. Basically, there was no light at all. In addition, the corpse was curled up in a weird posture in the dim living room, which gave Gao Yuan a visual and psychological impact.
"Who wants to kill Chen Hui?" Cao Cang stood in place, staring at the corpse on the ground. He couldn't help but think of the despair Chen Hui felt when he held Cao Mo hostage. It also reminded him of the times when he occasionally saw Chen Hui in the hospital, he would smile at him.
Gu Nankai was also staring at the corpse. Whenever he encountered a new case, his brows would always be furrowed, as if he was thinking all the time.
At this moment, his eyes slowly moved away from the body. Although it was daytime, the light in Chen Hui's house was really dim. Because the door was open, they could probably see the body at the scene clearly, but in order to investigate and collect evidence, Gu Nankai turned his eyes, then walked to a certain place and pressed it.
The room suddenly became bright. It turned out that Gu Nankai had turned on the light.
When the lights illuminated the entire room, everyone realized that Chen Hui 's home was so small, small and messy. Things were placed everywhere at random, and it was even impossible to tell what was mixed with what. It seemed that Chen Hui didn't care about hygiene at all. The house was not a traditional one-bedroom and two-living room house. It should have been separated by Chen Hui and his family themselves.
Gu Nankai remembered that Chen Hui seemed to have a younger sister. The house was probably separated so that both the brother and sister could have a room to live in. There were not many home appliances in the room except for a rather tattered sofa. There was a simple cabinet opposite the sofa, and the TV on the cabinet was a relatively old-fashioned color TV.
After turning on the lights, Gu Nankai stood in the middle of the house and looked around. In the end, he came to only one conclusion: it was dirty, messy and poor.
He seemed to understand where the stimulating smell came from when they entered.
