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"The third floor is full of offices?"

"Yes, real estate headquarters office."

"What real estate company?"

"Jinlong."

"So you're saying, you followed Chen Huan to her territory?"

"Chen Huan?" "Who's Chen Huan?"

"It's the CEO of the Golden Dragon Real Estate Company."

"Yeah, we heard from him that he's the boss there. If there's anything we can do, we'll go and find him directly and embarrass ourselves." Little Gao said.

"Also, that boss looks like Li You Chun." Little Fatso said.

"Shit, we have to get to the dump." Ding Wei said.

"What is going on?" Little Gao said.

"There's no time to explain. We have to hurry to the dump."

The few of them drove the police car to the dumpster. However, other than a fifty year old wandering middle-aged man rummaging for garbage, there was no one else in the dumpster.

Ding Wei looked around at the landform of the dumpster and the location of the canteen. The canteen was located to the east of the dumpster, and since the rubbish was relatively high, he could see that there was a dead end to the dumpster to the west. If anyone approached the dumpster quietly, they would not be able to see it. In just a minute or two, he would be able to sneak under the garbage heap in a blind spot. Thus, whenever someone changed into Li Youchun's clothes, the two policemen would focus their attention on the fake Li Youchun.

"Was the wanderer there?" Ding Wei asked Little Fatso and Little High Road.

"Yes, but at that time, the Wanderer was not in the dumpster, he was wandering around nearby. Oh right, he even went to the grocery store to check things out."

"Let's ask the wanderer, what might he see?" Ding Wei said to Little Fatty and Little Gao.

The wandering middle-aged man had a face full of mud. He was using a stick to dig through the contents inside. Next to him was a bag filled with bottles, plastic bottles, etc. He was still searching for his things, as if he were the only one left in the world, even as they walked up to him.

"Uncle, may I ask, did you see anyone else at the dumpster?"

The Wanderer did not look up, but squatted down to continue his work.

Little Fatso was so angry that he rushed over to pull him, but he was stopped by Ding Wei.

Ding Wei handed him his bottle of mineral water. The bottle of water had yet to be drunk. Then Ding Wei took out ten yuan from his pocket and put it in his hand.

"Gramps, we are looking for someone. Can I trouble you to answer our questions?"

Only then did the Wanderer stand up and nod. Ding Wei repeated his first question.

The Wanderer looked up, shook his head, and said, "There was a man here an hour ago, but he's gone." The wanderer pointed in the direction in which the two policemen were following Li Youchun, who had left the garbage dump.

"Has anyone else been here?"

The Wanderer shook his head.

"You should be wrong. What's wrong with Li Youchun staying in this place all the time? If someone wants to meet with Li Youchun, the meeting place will never be in this place. The target's exposed, and the smell is so unpleasant." Little Gao said with a bit of grievance.

The few of them discussed a few words, looked around the trash heap for a while, but could not find any problems, so they could only leave.

It was not long before the results of human DNA pairing in the body of the insect in the case of the Double Corpse Canyon confirmed that the insect contained DNA fragments of Li-You-chun. Shen Yuan reported the result to the Lai City Public Security Bureau.

"Do you want Lai City's Public Security to arrest Li Youchun?" Little Gao said.

"No need. Lee Yechun reckoned that there was a high chance that he had been killed. Let's wait until we know more about him." Ding Wei said.

On September 21, at 7: 05, a landlord called the local police station from a suburb of Changsha, not far from Hunan Education College, and found the body of a man in his rented apartment.

Ding Wei immediately informed Shen Yuan, and together with several members of the provincial public security criminal police team rushed to the scene.

The body was lying on its back on a balcony, exposed to the sun and the air. The soft tissues of the face, neck, and right ear of the corpse had been devoured by flies; the skin was grey-green with grease, and the abdomen was swollen. A large number of maggots grew on the body.

The landlord said that the door had been locked when he entered, and that he had asked the locksmith to unlock it. It was therefore difficult for the police to determine if there were any fingerprints on the door.

The deceased was 28 years old, a height of 162 cm and a weight of 61.9 kg. With the help of Yang Xue, Liu Zhiwei, the provincial police medical examiner, dissected the body. Although human deaths can be strange, the history of forensic science recognizes four types of death: accidental death, natural death, murder, and suicide. Forensic scientists first had to analyse the body to determine how it had died. The skin of the victim's chest, abdomen, and legs was still faintly visible, but there was mummification and insect infestation in the body due to prolonged exposure and weathering. According to the analysis of the physical evidence around the body and the pathology of the examination, the pathologists quickly ruled out the possibility of suicide, accidental death and natural death. After a detailed comparison and analysis, Liu Zhiwei could not find any obvious injury on the body, so the possibility of shooting or slaying with a knife was eliminated. According to the strangulation marks on the neck and the reaction of blood to the strangulation marks, the final cause of death was thought to be asphyxia. Shen Yuan expressed his agreement with this conclusion.

The police investigated the scene. In the vicinity of the rented house, there were three similar rented houses on the left and right sides. The deceased's rented house was located in the center of the plane connecting the other three houses. The landlord of the rented house is a farmer who lives on vegetables nearby. The rented house is usually used to rent to students who study undergraduate studies at Hunan Education College. Most of these residents are renting homes to study and prepare to apply for graduate studies in the coming year. They usually came back from school and stayed in their rooms to study. Some students even prepared cooking utensils and other appliances for daily necessities. After going to the market to buy enough food for a week, most of them shut themselves up in their rooms and silently read. Occasionally, students or friends of the academy would come over to chat or gather together. In addition, tenants usually do not socialize with locals, let alone strangers. Since the house was surrounded by vegetable fields, there were not many people walking around and there were very few residents. It was not difficult for the police to investigate. The police quickly found out that there was no body on the balcony before the landlord reported the crime. If the body had been there all along, because of the stench, it would have been there when they passed the house.

The rented room was a two-story low building. The corpse had appeared on the balcony on the second floor, so that it was not possible to throw it from the outside. The landlord said with a grimace that his lodger had been in arrears for two months and had not been back for a long time. He had not been able to find an opportunity to ask the lodger to check out. He had wanted to see if the lodger was back that day, and had intended to send him away after receiving the money, but something like this had happened.

The results of the on-site investigation showed that the floor was imprinted with a pair of 44-yard sneakers, stained with mud from the outside, all the way to the victim's body. Upon closer inspection, it was found that several pairs of shoes were placed in the room, each with a size of 42 yards, while the size of the shoes on the feet of the deceased was 41 yards. Apparently, the 44-yard shoes weren't for the victim, nor were they for the rent man.

The landlord declared that the 44-yard sneakers were not left to his tenants. Ding Wei speculated that this was the murderer or an outsider. There were small pieces of white porcelain teacups on the floor in the living room. At the foot of the coffee table, not far away, they found broken teacups. There was only one other person's fingerprint on it. There was no other person's fingerprint, which did not match the victim's. The prints were from the rent man. It was possible that when the stranger came into the room, he had accidentally hung a teacup on his trouser leg as he passed the coffee table, causing the teacup to tumble to the ground and shatter. There were no traces of the items in the room being rummaged through, and no suspicious fingerprints were found. The preliminary autopsy report showed that the victim had no visible injuries except for a strangulation wound on her neck. The collar near the neck of the corpse had been cut off with scissors, and no one could figure out the purpose of the cut for the time being. There were several paths leading to other rental houses around the rental house, and a weedy path leading to the north cemetery. The police were at a loss over the results of the investigation. The surrounding tenants were all huddled together, and no one knew what was going on in the room with the deceased.