Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 4: In order not to let her be too lonely
The girl's profile also appeared in front of everyone.

She was very young, probably in her early twenties, and her face was already swollen.

In her arms she held a half-grown black cat, whose fur had lost its luster.

The cat's head drooped on the girl's arm, its eyes heavy, obviously already dead.

Although the light was dim, Luo Rui could see the marks on the girl's neck at a glance.

The marks were deep and the surrounding skin was purple.

Chen Hao had seen such scenes many times. His expression remained unchanged. His eyes narrowed slightly. He used the tip of a pen to straighten the girl's head, and the girl's face was completely visible to everyone.

At this moment, Luo Rui took a breath and felt a pain in his chest.

He tried hard to recall the murder case at the Tianlong Hotel in his past life, but there was no clue in his memory.

Time, what matters is time.

He came back in 2006. If he hadn't flapped his wings like a butterfly, would the girl's body have been discovered later?

If it's later, it won't be too late.

After all, it is summer now, and the corpses will rot quickly, and the stench will be smelled within a day.

The smell is not very strong now, so we can infer that the girl was killed no more than a day ago. Considering that the air conditioner was on in the cubicle, the time could be extended by at most half a day.

Luo Rui has been interested in criminal investigation since he was a child, and he is particularly obsessed with detective novels.

During this period, Keigo Higashino was not yet famous, and those perverted and tricky murders were not yet popular.

The novels he often read were social mysteries by Seicho Matsumoto and conspiracy novels by the likes of Soji Shimada.

Because they had to wait for the criminal investigation personnel from the technical department, no one dared to touch the scene.

Chen Hao looked around the room carefully and frowned slightly. The room had been destroyed and there probably wouldn't be much evidence left.

He shouted to Gu Dayong who was standing outside the door, "Chief Gu, quickly have your men collect evidence. Everyone in this hotel, whether it's the girls, managers, security guards, or logistics staff, must be carefully interrogated!

Also, notify the technical department and call Captain Cai, she should still be in the office right now."

Gu Dayong nodded quickly and told the police officer next to him to do it.

Chen Hao walked out of the door, pulled up the girl squatting in the corner, and asked her to stand at the door to identify.

"Do you recognize him?"

The girl was so frightened that her face turned pale and she didn't dare to look.

Chen Hao pinched the back of her head and turned her face towards the room: "Look at her! Look carefully!"

Luo Rui held his breath and felt his heart beating very fast...

"Captain Chen is famous for his bad temper." Gu Dayong whispered to the female police officer beside him: "He has a nickname, called the Green Ghost. Think about it, he can catch the most vicious criminals, so what else can he be but a ghost?"

The policewoman nodded, thinking that the nickname was true.

A person's name, the shadow of a tree.

The girl replied tremblingly: "Yes... Yes, she is Kitty!"

"Real name! What's your real name?"

"I...I don't know. Our names were chosen by Mommy!"

Chen Hao let the girl go. Before he could tell her, Gu Dayong had already asked someone to call the lobby manager. "Her real name should be Gu Wenwen."

Hearing this, Chen Hao and Gu Dayong looked at Luo Rui together, their eyes full of confusion.

Gu Dayong opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything. He just wanted to curse in his heart, is this kid still a high school student?
Not only do you know every illegal place in the streets and alleys of Linjiang City, but you also know the real name of the victim. Do you still dare to say that you are innocent? Are you wronged?

Chen Hao approached Luo Rui and asked with a serious face: "How do you know?"

"She often comes to the small restaurant my family runs to eat. One time I heard her on the phone. She was eating with her head down and it was inconvenient for her to answer the call, so she turned on speakerphone. The person on the other end of the line called her Gu Wenwen.

Her favorite dish is pork trotter rice. She always asks for five extra boiled eggs and asks me to pack them in a plastic bag for her to feed the stray cats in the alley.

"What else do you know?"

Luo Rui took a deep breath. Although it happened in his previous life, he still remembered it clearly: "She always came at noon, and she was always alone. She liked to wear white skirts, didn't like to wear makeup, and loved to laugh. When she laughed, her eyes were like beautiful crescent moons..."

Chen Hao had been handling cases for many years, so how could he not hear the loss in Luo Rui's heart?

Now that we know the name of the victim, we have a direction for investigating the case.

Only after the technical department has collected evidence can a large-scale investigation be launched.

"She should have been killed by someone she knew." Luo Rui suddenly said.

Gu Dayong pulled him aside and said, "Young man, don't talk nonsense. This is a murder case, not a math problem."

Chen Hao disagreed: "This kind of case is usually a robbery. Many girls have a lot of cash on them. Some guys are tempted by the money, so they kill people."

"I don't agree with you!" Luo Rui retorted, not afraid of this green ghost at all.

A plainclothes officer next to him laughed. Luo Rui noticed that this man was only a few years older than himself and had been following behind Chen Hao. He thought he must be a rookie who had just joined the police force.

"You are so arrogant. My master has a 95% crime-solving rate. He can almost determine the direction of investigation just by looking at the scene. You are a high school student, and you are probably not even 18 years old, right?"

This is an irony that Luo Rui is young and has little experience.

Indeed, isn't it ridiculous that a high school student is arguing with the deputy captain of the criminal police team about the characterization of a homicide?
Luo Rui didn't care. He sighed and pointed at the girl in the closet.

"Look at the way she sits."

"What's wrong with your sitting posture?" Gu Dayong asked curiously.

Chen Hao sneered. When it comes to criminal investigation experience, no one in the bureau dares to compete with him. Even Captain Cai has to listen to his opinions with an open mind. He didn't expect to be refuted by a high school student today.

He originally wanted to chase Luo Rui away. After all, the murder scene was not something that outsiders could interfere with. But at this moment, Luo Rui instead aroused his competitive spirit.

"You can tell me about it."

"Okay then!" Luo Rui calmed himself down and raised two fingers. "There are two key points. I infer that it was done by an acquaintance, not a robbery."

"First?" Gu Dayong said from the side.

"Look at the way the girl was sitting. After she was killed, the murderer hid her in the closet. He didn't just throw her there randomly, but placed her body very nicely and neatly. From this, we can see that the murderer didn't want her to feel too uncomfortable, even though she was already dead."

"What about number two?"

"As for the kitten in the girl's arms, you can imagine that she must have struggled before she died, judging from the way she was killed. How could she hold a cat? So, we can conclude that the murderer deliberately put the cat in her arms. Why did the murderer do this?"

At this point, Gu Dayong was already extremely surprised. He hurriedly asked, "Why?"

"To prevent her from being too lonely."

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