Volume 1: Pianist

Don't bully honest people.

——Preface

On November 6, a Sunday, R city ushered in the first round of cold wave. The temperature in the city dropped sharply, and the sky that had been cloudy for a long time finally started to snow.

Tao Lin was sitting in a cafe called [Angel] on the corner of the street. He chose a seat with a socket under the table, placed a laptop in front of him, tapped the edge of the table with his slender fingertips, and looked like he was thinking seriously.

appearance.

Next week he will have to defend his professional title. If all goes well, Tao Lin will be promoted from lecturer to associate professor of R City Criminal Investigation College when he is thirty years old.

The booth he was sitting in was by the window. When he turned around, he saw the snowy scene outside. People chatting and laughing under umbrellas passed by the window from time to time. This cafe was located in the old city, relatively close to Tao Lin's home.

Looking up inadvertently, Tao Lin saw a man with neck-length hair, wearing a leather jacket and jeans, who was full of bad looks. He shook off the snowflakes on his scarf at the door, turned around and pushed open the glass door of the cafe.

The wind chime hanging on the door of the shop jingled as it was pushed. Tao Lin stopped looking at him, but just by hearing the footsteps, he knew that the man was approaching him quickly.

That was Tao Lin's old friend Yu Zijiang. In the early years, the two were the best partners in the police force. It could be said that they had a fateful friendship.

Today Yu Zijiang is here to help Tao Lin listen to the pre-answer defense.

"Ouch, it's such a snowy day!" Yu Zijiang sighed loudly as he arrived before anyone else could. He pulled out the chair on the booth and sat down casually.

"Thank you for your hard work. I just helped the bureau to clean up a gang of gangsters. I couldn't take a vacation at home, so I pulled him out to work." Tao Lin looked up at him and said.

Now that Tao Lin has taken a back seat, Yu Zijiang is still serving as his criminal investigation captain.

"I dare not mention the hard work..." Yu Zijiang immediately waved his hand, then moved his chair forward.

"As far as I'm concerned, your resume is impressive enough. If I were you, I'd learn how to laugh first." He put his hands behind his head and joked.

Tao Lin has always been a popular figure in the R City Police Department. In the past ten years, he has participated in solving hundreds of cases, many of which are difficult and serious cases. Even if he has taken off his police uniform, when the police encounter trouble, they will still

He is often asked to help in the bureau. However, Tao Lin has a cold personality and always has a straight face. Any smile is like a luxury.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's start..." Tao Lin hadn't finished speaking yet.

"Bang -" suddenly there was a muffled sound.

Tao Lin suddenly turned his head and his mind went blank.

The mist-filled glass window was covered with mottled blood, like a splash-ink drawing board depicting plum blossoms in the snow. The fresh and warm blood could not stick to the smooth frosted glass, and the blood splashed on it quickly flowed down and became

It turned into a disgusting red waterfall.

He lowered his eyebrows and through the blurry gap between the red blood and white frost, he saw some lumpy objects with skin color lying on the snow outside.

The silence in the coffee shop lasted less than a second.

The screams of horror instantly penetrated the eardrums, and the disgusting smell of blood poured in through the crack in the door, covering up the aroma of coffee. Customers in the store hurriedly rushed to the back of the store, away from the terrifying bloody glass window.

The panicked customers overturned tables and chairs and shattered coffee cups on the floor.

"Killing and quartering!"

"He's dead, help me!"

…

The voices of men, women, old and young were so loud that people almost fainted.

Yu Zijiang and Tao Lin stared at each other for two seconds. When they came to their senses, they saw the crowd at the door coming like a wave.

"Scene! Protect the scene!" Without saying a word, Yu Zijiang pulled out his carry-on work ID card from his pocket, ran out of the cafe door.

The crowded crowd surged in panic. Yu Zijiang and Tao Lin walked in the opposite direction, and their bodies were repeatedly bumped and squeezed.

Yu Zijiang struggled to push aside the crowds of people and was pushed to the vicinity of the corpse.

"Don't panic, everyone, don't get close to the body. I'm from the R City Police Department. Please believe me!" Yu Zijiang shouted at the top of his voice, almost breaking his voice.

He held his ID high and stretched out his hands to indicate his identity to all directions.

Hearing someone shouting loudly and talking in the crowd, Yu Zijiang was not dressed like a serious policeman, but when he saw the shiny police badge on his ID, he finally stopped crowding forward mindlessly.

Tao Lin followed closely behind, shouting to get rid of the crowded crowd, and finally staggered to stand next to Yu Zijiang.

The thick smell of blood made him hold his breath, and then he looked down at the corpses scattered on the ground: heads, several pieces of bodies, and broken limbs and fingers, scattered on the pure white snow, with red blood here and there.

It is particularly dazzling against the plain background.

The body was divided into six pieces in total.

Old flowerpots were smashed into the snow, and dry soil and crushed porcelain were mixed into the thick blood.

Looking further up - Tao Lin's eyesight was good, and he could see the edge of the seven-story roof facing the corpse. The flower pots that should have been placed parallel to each other had become convex and concave, and there was still a small distance left.

Come.

"It was a homicide. The deceased was pushed down." Tao Lin quickly turned to Yu Zijiang and said.

Without saying a word, Yu Zijiang took out his mobile phone from his pocket, made a call, then gasped to adjust his breathing, staring at the top of the seven-story building.

After a few beeps on the other end of the phone, a woman's voice came out.

"Hello, R City Police Department."

"I am Yu Zijiang from the First Criminal Investigation Detachment of R City Police Station, police number r181106. An emergency murder occurred at Angel Cafe at No. 306 Dongyang Street, Baixiang District. The victim was cut into six pieces. It is located in a densely populated residential area. Please call the police immediately.

Support!" Yu Zijiang took a deep breath and roared.

"Okay, the rest of the team will arrange manpower for you immediately."

At this moment, Yu Zijiang suddenly saw a dark shadow flashing past the edge of the top floor.

Someone!

The man moved so quickly that he only left a glimpse, and Yu Zijiang was unable to capture any other characteristic information.

Less than five minutes after the body fell, someone appeared on the roof of the building where the crime occurred. There must be something wrong with this person's identity.

"This building has only one entrance and exit, we must not let him escape!" Yu Zijiang took a breath.

"Look at the body! I'll go up there!" he said to Tao Lin.

Then he pushed aside the crowd of onlookers and rushed towards the building.

The old-style building did not have an elevator, so Yu Zijiang grabbed the railing of the stairs with one hand and used his strength to run up the stairs in three steps at a time.

He was holding a big breath, his steps were stupefied and he didn't dare to stop. He had to move quickly to stop this black figure!

Finally, Yu Zijiang finally climbed to the top of the building. Without thinking, he leaned forward and opened the wooden door on the top of the building.

"Bang——" There was a loud noise and sawdust flew.

There are simple vegetable sheds and wooden frames on the roof of this old-fashioned residential building. However, on this cold and windy winter day, all the life that should have been here has been drowned, leaving only a lifeless desolation.
Chapter completed!