I started out as a criminal, and the police relied on me to solve countless cases.

Chapter 258 Meat Porridge
The atmosphere in the restaurant was very strange.

Especially the table of Liu Mingyuan’s classmates. Watching others playing themselves in front of the camera was bizarre enough in itself, but the key was that these people’s language and expressions were almost exactly the same as his own.

Faced with this situation, it is impossible not to be frightened.

Even if everyone at this table is a capable person, they can't remain calm.

There was already whispering going on at the table.

"Wu Lin, are you kidding us?"

"Exactly. What's going on with this crew? Not only do they have the same number of actors as us, but even their gender, attire, and lines are almost the same."

"Mom, look at the man who plays Liu Mingyuan and the actor who plays you, Wu Lin. Aren't they exactly the same?"

"Wu Lin, we agreed to cover it up for you. If you dare to lie to us, you will die."

"Keep your voice down, are you afraid that others won't hear you?"

Wu's face darkened and he growled in a low voice. Everyone at the table immediately fell silent.

Although they are not worried about being held accountable, after all, they were not the ones who committed the crime. At most, they can be regarded as knowing the crime but not reporting it and shielding the criminal.

But we all have to save face, and if we are held accountable for this matter, we will definitely lose face.

Not far away, the filming was still going on.

Wu was no longer in the mood to watch the show. He originally thought that this was just a sting operation by the police. They really couldn't find Liu Mingyuan and had no other choice, so they brought a film crew over, gathered all the people related to Liu Mingyuan, and then tried to trick them into getting useful clues.

But I didn't expect that this crappy crew actually restored the scene of their dinner party exactly, from the venue to the characters.

Wu now has every reason to suspect that one of the other twelve old classmates present at the meeting leaked the information to the police.

Cooperate with the police to muddy the waters.

He didn't know who this person was, but this person knew that Liu Mingyuan was taken away by him, so even they would not be able to find the body.

It is also a huge threat to himself.

He silently glanced at everyone at the table, doubting and eliminating each one in his mind.

Little did they know that other people at the table had the same idea.

The reason was very simple. That strange crew was obviously hired by the police as agents, and their target was the people at their table.

Among the twelve people present, except Liu Mingyuan who is now dead, someone must have leaked the information.

Everyone is suspicious, even Wu Lin has motives.

After all, no one knew where he took Liu Mingyuan after getting him drunk, or whether he was dead or alive. Wu Lin only said that he wanted to teach Liu Mingyuan a lesson, but now the whole Jiangcheng is in an uproar because of Liu Mingyuan's wife. If Wu Lin beat Liu Mingyuan up and locked him up somewhere, he should also let him go.

However, no man or woman present would think this speculation is so simple.

They are all people who have been working hard for decades and have seen all kinds of situations.

Judging from Wu Lin's current performance, if he had just given his childhood friend a beating, he would have been released long ago. There would be no need to keep him locked up.

If there is no sign of the person alive now, then there is a high probability that the person has died.

If so, it's serious.

The reason why they are still trying to cover up for Wu Lin is because everyone knows in their hearts that
By letting Wu Lin take the person away at the table, I had already tacitly approved of Wu Lin's actions.

It's a good idea to let Wu Lin, a peasant, kill another peasant who has climbed up from the bottom.

No one wants a nobody who was once unknown in people's memory to suddenly become famous and stand above everyone else.

Everyone here is a successful person. Why can you, Liu Mingyuan, pretend to be so powerful?

Wu Lin doesn’t even want charity from your childhood friend, but we do???

Let him do it, no matter whether he is really drunk or not.

They didn't care how to get the restaurant owner to make a false confession for him or how to get the restaurant video.

Everyone spoke in unison.

Liu Mingyuan left on his own after getting drunk, and no one else knew his whereabouts.

And this moment.

While the twelve people at the table were still suspicious of each other,
The table where the filming was taking place had reached the climax of the scene.

The actor who played Wu suddenly stood up and poured the wine from the bottle into his own mouth.

Then she cried and shouted: I don’t want your charity, Liu Mingyuan!
Back then, you didn't score as high as I did, and you didn't have as much brains as I did, so you foolishly built a small boat for transportation. Why do you think you are an entrepreneur and a rich man now, while I am just a clown who cooks for you and makes fun of you! ?

Why do you have to lose hundreds of thousands to me in one night?
Do I need your little money?

Even if I, Wu Lin, am not as successful as you, I still have enough of your filthy money! !

Do you think that if you pretend to treat me to a meal, wash my feet, play cards or mahjong, and give me some benefits, I will obediently be your little toy?
Then he would sigh: Oh, how I wish I could go back to the past? Hypocrisy! If I went back to the past, the first thing I would do would be to smash the boat you bought first!!!

Wu desperately poured wine into his mouth, his face turned red, and soon he began to curse.

"You bastard, you look down on me, don't you?! We are childhood friends, right? We are brothers, right? I'm going to draft a love story for you!"

Wu put down the bottle, leaned on the chair, and staggered while still pointing at the man next to him.

"Wu Lin! Is this what you really think?"

The actor who played Liu Mingyuan really got into the role.

Faced with the insults from his childhood friend, he became very emotional and also picked up the wine bottle and desperately poured it into his mouth.

"I'm not saying that I treat you to delicious food and drinks every time. I just think it's not easy to be brothers. You actually think I'm insulting you?"

This Liu Mingyuan obviously couldn't drink much. After just a few sips, his face turned red and he couldn't stand anymore. He collapsed on the chair, pointing at Wu across from him.

"I treat you as a brother, and you treat me like this??"

After Liu Mingyuan finished speaking, he fell on his back and fell into a coma.

The strange thing was that the rest of the people present did not make any move.

Let these two "childhood friends" curse each other, and then one falls to the ground and the other gets drunk and crazy.

Wu was really drunk. He pointed at Liu Mingyuan on the ground and continued to curse: "Are you pretending to be dead? If I don't punish you today and kill you, I will take your surname."

"Now that you're a boss and have a lot of money, you look down on us poor brothers. None of the classmates at the table are as rich as you, Liu Fuhao. Even if they were all put together, they wouldn't be as rich as you. I'm going to take their anger for them today. You're just a big shot."

As he spoke, Wu stood up, pulled Liu Mingyuan up, then glanced at everyone and carried the unconscious Liu Mingyuan out the door.

Seeing this scene, the classmate sitting at the table with the real classmate in the distance could no longer sit still.

They are now absolutely certain that one of the twelve of them is a mole.

He told the police everything that happened in the restaurant;

Otherwise it would be impossible to act so similarly.

Everyone felt uneasy.

Although they did not subjectively want Liu Mingyuan's life.

However, faced with the drunk Wu, they chose to stand by and watch, and later helped conceal the truth.

This is already a serious violation of the law.

At the moment, the only way to reduce the punishment is to provide more clues.

"What do you mean?" Wu saw the strange meaning behind the silent expressions of the others.

"You want to expose me?"

His voice was soft, but those people heard it.

Seeing that no one was talking, Wu Lin's expression finally changed. He frowned and whispered, "You guessed right. Liu Mingyuan is gone!"

"But don't worry, no one can find him."

Wu's words were full of confidence, but everyone's expressions did not relax.

The "female squad leader" said coldly.

"How can you guarantee that no one can find him?"

At the same time, a scream that broke through the sky was heard from Shiyin Town, Tianquan County, more than 100 kilometers away from Jiangcheng.

It turned out that when Mr. Li from the village was passing by a pond that usually no one paid attention to, he found a large iron pipe floating slightly deeper in the pond.

Although the blue iron bucket looks tattered, Lao Li knows that it is made of iron. Not to mention what is inside, even if it is just a large iron bucket, it can be sold for a lot of money.

He immediately rushed forward to check it out, walked to the iron pipe, patted the barrel with his hands, making a series of muffled sounds, and then pushed it, but it didn't move. Old Li was overjoyed. Could there be good stuff in it?
If it's a whole barrel of gasoline or something, it would cost a lot of money.

Old Li rubbed his hands and thought it was unrealistic to drag it home directly because the bucket was too heavy.

I had to take out the pliers I carried with me from my bag and open the lid of the barrel.

With a click, the lid opened.

An inexplicable strange smell rushed out from the gap in the barrel.

Old Li endured the pungent smell and leaned forward to take a closer look.

I was surprised to find a lot of black liquid in the iron pipe.

The strange smell of the liquid became stronger, and the most terrifying thing was that there seemed to be a person curled up in the liquid.

Why do you say it’s as if?

Because Lao Li didn't dare to be sure whether this human-like thing was actually a human. He only saw that it had a dark green and black color, and smelled like the smell of roasted fat and bones.

It is full of head-numbing richness and the burnt smell after the Maillard reaction.

Moreover, this thing has no limbs, and its head is only half, with the contents of its brain exposed, like a torso that has been roasted by fire.
The whole bucket of stuff looked like the raw meat porridge that was not finished the night before.

Tianquan County police arrived quickly.

First of all, after testing, the water in the barrel was found to be a strong acid, that is, high-concentration sulfuric acid.

The body soaked in sulfuric acid was a male corpse. They then dragged the iron barrel to the river and immediately opened the barrel for an autopsy.

After a quick forensic examination, the body was found to be highly corroded by sulfuric acid and incomplete. The skull tissue had completely disintegrated, and the spine had curled up like a lamb rib due to the high temperature burns. The surrounding flesh had all turned into a half-cooked, half-liquid, half-solid mud.
"Report the situation to the Municipal Bureau immediately!"

The criminal police captain of Tianquan County Police Station did not hesitate at all. A vicious case of this magnitude was no longer something that the small Tianquan County could handle.

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At the shooting site, Director Li and Lao Cao were watching the shooting not far away with great interest.

Although they are old and have rich experience, this is the first time they have watched the crew filming at such a close distance.

What's more, this is Jiang Hanwen, a real big shot! A true top-tier prophet.

Director Li's eyes would occasionally look towards the table of Liu Mingyuan's classmates.

He always felt that there were serious problems with these dozen people, but he had no evidence at all.

Moreover, as smart as he is, he would never believe that more than a dozen classmates at a reunion could hate the same classmate to the point of wanting to kill him.

Even if there are such people, there are only one or two people at most. After all, it is difficult to unify the ideas of more than a dozen people.

Director Li and Lao Cao are indeed experienced criminal investigation experts.

I've already noticed that the atmosphere at that table is a little off. Everyone has a gloomy look on their face as they look at the filming crew.

This is the pressure cooker being put to its last gasp.

It seemed that Jiang Hanwen's script really hit their sore spot, making them feel truly scared, otherwise they would not be in their current state.

Among these twelve people, those who did not directly participate in the crime will eventually defect and seek reduced punishment under the gradually increasing pressure.

Lao Cao never stopped drinking, sipping one sip after another, becoming more and more excited the more he drank.

He turned to look at the character "Wu", who was licking the wine from the corner of his mouth with a ferocious look on his face.

To deal with this kind of stone in the toilet, you need a great memory recovery technique.

"Didi didi~~~~"

A rapid phone call interrupted Lao Cao's fantasy time.

He frowned and rushed out of the restaurant.

"Hello, are you from the Tianquan County Police Department? What's going on?"

"What!!! A male corpse was found, burned into a meat porridge by concentrated sulfuric acid? Where was it found?"

"In the grass of a pond??? This morning???"

"Is there anything that can prove the identity of the deceased? Has a DNA comparison been done on the deceased?"

Lao Cao asked several questions in a row, then realized that he was too impatient.

The Tianquan County police reported the discovery of the body to their superiors as soon as it was discovered. They were able to obtain so much information in such a short time, which showed that they were working at full capacity. It would be impossible to expect them to investigate the identity of the deceased in such a short time.

After confirming several key situations, Lao Cao sorted out his thoughts, returned to the restaurant again, and told Director Li about the situation.

He is very low-key when he goes out, but very high-profile when he comes back. His leather shoes make the sound of clattering shoes, and he looks very cool when he walks.

The crowd watching the filming couldn't help but look back.

This also included Liu Mingyuan's classmates. They all saw the city's criminal police captain leave the house covered in dust and come back triumphantly.

And he even glanced at them deliberately.

Regardless of whether they were the murderer or not, these twelve people realized that they did not have much time left.

"Old Li, there is a new clue. A body was found in an iron barrel in Tianquan County. It was scalded through by concentrated sulfuric acid. The death was extremely horrific. According to my intuition, this case has reached a critical moment."

Lao Cao just finished speaking.

The two immediately realized that the case had been solved.

The rule of throwing the body far away and burying it close is extremely difficult to break because it is human nature and also a practical problem that murderers will encounter when dealing with corpses.

Although Hong Kong has a large population, it is no coincidence that two similar cases would occur in such a short period of time.

What's more, based on the remaining body tissue, the Tianquan County police have at least determined that the deceased was between 40 and 50 years old.

Lao Cao scratched his head and asked a strange question.

"Old Li, you are educated, tell me, isn't sulfuric acid highly corrosive? Is it okay to put it in an iron bucket???"

Lao Cao was halfway through his speech when he saw Director Li's slightly contemptuous look. Feeling bored, he turned his head and continued watching the filming.

At this moment.

A slightly hoarse shout rang out in the restaurant: "I want to report the murderer!!"

(End of this chapter)