Volume 1: All in the Name of Love (Typing with Fingers)

  Chapter 1: Corpse at Home

  The weather in the north in April, still hasn't shaken off the biting chill, especially at dawn when the sky is still dark. The city, however, has already begun to stir back to life.

  In the neighborhood, by the roadside, there are old people exercising in the morning, young people rushing to the bus station, vendors busy lighting fires for breakfast, and a child from an unknown household wakes up early and cries loudly, waking up the neighbors of a unit.

  "Ah……” The woman's heart-wrenching, ear-piercing scream, muffled by the floorboards and tightly closed doors and windows, was barely audible outside. Yet that kind of fear that made one's whole body run cold still caused many people to lift their heads.

  The location where the voice came from is Building 3 of Jingchun Garden Community.

  People who were out for a morning exercise gathered in twos and threes, wondering what had happened. Ten or so minutes later, the sound of "woo-woo" police sirens rose, and two police cars rushed over.

  As soon as Lü Cong got off the car, he saw a young man in a people's police uniform hastily coming up to him, shaking his hand firmly and saying: "You must be Captain Lü? Nice to meet you, I'm Wei Bo, a people's policeman from the Dongwei Road Police Station. The crime scene is room 302 of this unit, we've already set up a cordon and evacuated the onlookers, the scene is well-preserved..."

  "Alright, let's go take a look!" Lü Cong interrupted Wei Bo's incessant chatter with a hint of helplessness. Ever since the team had promoted an officer from the household registration police, they would always encounter eager-to-please officers wherever they went to investigate.

  Lü Cong looked around as he went up the stairs, this was a relatively old community, the corridors were plastered with small advertisements like cowhide plasters, and some miscellaneous items were piled up at every corner of the stairs, filled with thick dust.

  He walked all the way to the third floor without finding anything unusual. He showed his ID to the police officer at the door and entered room 302 first.

  "Captain Lü, the 302 room is a standard two-bedroom, two-hall, one-kitchen and one-bathroom unit with a south-north orientation. After entering, the kitchen and dining room are to the north, the living room is to the south, the bathroom is directly opposite the entrance, the secondary bedroom is to the north, and the master bedroom is to the south." Wei Bo leaned in again to brief the situation, "The informant is a girl named Zhang Xin, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room. She's the victim's younger sister. After getting up, she found her sister had been killed and called 110 to report it."

  Lü Cong looked over in the direction of Wei Bo's words and saw a girl sitting on the living room sofa with a terrified expression, her round face pale, wearing cartoon character pajamas, tightly hugging a pillow, her body shaking uncontrollably. He turned his head to signal to the only female detective on the team, Li Ke Xin immediately walked over to Zhang Xuan's side and gently asked: "Little sister, was it you who reported the case?"

  Zhang Xin's face turned pale, she swallowed hard, as if to suppress the fear in her heart, and trembled with a voice saying: "It was me, my sister, my sister...". Her arm shook as she raised it, pointing to a half-closed door on the right side of the living room. Before she could finish speaking, she seemed to have used up all her strength, and her body slid down the sofa and fell to the ground, bursting into loud sobs.

  Forensic expert Wang Feng'an also rushed to the scene and entered the master bedroom to begin a preliminary autopsy.

  "Chen Chen, you go take pictures first, and mark the location of the body and surrounding physical evidence. Liu He goes to ask the neighbors and community security guards about the situation, Ke Xin accompanies this little girl, and waits for her emotions to stabilize before bringing her to the bureau to make a record." Lü Cōng assigned tasks while putting on shoe covers, then put on his mask and gloves and entered the master bedroom.

  The room was in disarray, with the young woman's body lying on the bed with her head to the east and feet to the west. She was wearing only a white lace camisole, which had been stained bright red by blood. The victim's face had several splatters of blood on it, making her complexion look pale, with her eyes wide open in terror, as if she had discovered something unbelievable at the moment of death. Her chest and abdomen were a mess of blood and flesh, with fresh blood soaking through the sheets and pooling on the floor beside her dangling arm. A fruit knife was visible, submerged in the small pool of blood. The drawers and cabinet doors were half-open, with scattered objects and clothes strewn all over the floor.

  Lü Cōng carefully stepped over the clutter on the floor, furrowing his brow. The wardrobe was placed to the left of the entrance, but the clothes that had been rummaged through were scattered all over the bed, under the window, and everywhere else. The sheets were splattered with bloodstains, while the floor was surprisingly clean, with only a small pool of blood that had accumulated after death, and no other signs of splashing blood. This proved that the killer was not acting on impulse, but had planned ahead before striking. Moreover, the victim's chest and abdomen had been stabbed multiple times, with flesh and blood mixed together, further indicating the killer's intense hatred for the victim.

  He was thinking when he heard Wang Fa say: "After a preliminary examination, the deceased is a female of about 25 years old. It can be determined that the bedroom is the first crime scene, and the body has not been moved or sexually assaulted. Based on the liver temperature and rigor mortis, the time of death should be between 5:00 and 6:00 this morning, within two hours from now. The wounds on the deceased are all caused by sharp objects, but due to the multiple knife wounds, we need to go back for an autopsy to get an accurate situation. You mark the position well, I will transport the body back to the bureau as soon as possible for dissection."

  When he heard that the time of death was between 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning, Lü Cong became even more convinced of his own judgment. This was not a burglary murder, but a premeditated murder disguised as a crime scene. Although he thought so in his heart, his feet still walked unconsciously to the window, pulled it lightly, and found that the window was not locked. He then leaned out half of his body, thinking of checking if there were any climbing marks on the outside windowsill.

  "This isn't a burglary gone wrong!" A cold and clear female voice came from behind.

  Lü Cong turned around in surprise, only to see a long-haired woman wearing a black windbreaker standing at the door, talking to herself while scanning the entire room with her eyes, then walking over to the female corpse and bending down to examine it closely.

  Is this another police officer trying to show off? Lü Cong furrowed his brow, just about to speak, when Liu Ziyu poked her head in at the door and said: "Captain Lü, this is our new deputy captain Xu Nuo, Vice Captain Yu told me to bring her..." She had only gotten halfway through her sentence when she suddenly saw the blood-soaked room, and her face instantly turned deathly pale. "Ugh..." she let out a sound, and vomited on the spot.

  Xu Nu furrowed his brow, took out a pack of wet wipes from his pocket and handed it to Liu Ziyu, nodded slightly at Lü Cong, and began to examine the items on the scene.

  Lü Cong had heard of Xu Nu, and Deputy Director Yu Taizhe, who was in charge of criminal investigation work, said a few days ago that he would come to a new deputy captain. He praised her without reservation, and his admiration for her was evident. However, according to Liu He, the most gossip-prone person in the team, the new deputy captain is the daughter of Deputy Yu's old friend, and she is also a wealthy young lady with a family fortune of millions. She had just graduated from graduate school this year and was placed in the position of deputy captain by Deputy Yu, despite opposition from many people.

  Lü Cong couldn't help but carefully size up Xu Nuo, seeing her tall and slender figure, wearing a black windbreaker on top and beige pants below, with long hair tied back behind her head, a mask covering her mouth and nose, only revealing her sharp eyes.

  Made some changes to the front ~ those who have seen it can ignore it ~ lol

  I also made a scene diagram of the case ~ ~ I have a god ~ cough ~ everyone just take a look at the position.