Mysterious city

"Huh, luckily there are two rooms. I don't want to share a bed with a man."

Zhao Xin let out a long sigh of relief, without caring about the feelings of others present.

Jiang Zhe rolled his eyes. He didn't want to sleep in the same room with this troublemaker!

"Then I'll sleep outside, and Jiang Zhe and Li Jun can sleep inside."

Before Jiang Zhe and Li Jun could speak, Zhao Xin occupied a room by himself.

"Zhao Xin, we are a team, you should at least ask Jiang Zhe and Li Jun for their opinions."

Zhang Nan couldn't stand it anymore. Zhao Xin's emotional intelligence was almost zero.

Why doesn't he care about other people's feelings at all?

"It doesn't matter. If he wants to sleep alone in the outer room, he can sleep in the outer room. Li Jun and I can sleep in the same room."

"There's something dirty in this village. I don't want to wake up alone in the middle of the night and find something on the bedside."

Jiang Zhe smiled sinisterly at Zhao Xin and made a joke.

Zhao Xin's expression changed when he heard this, but he proposed to sleep alone in a room himself, so he couldn't slap himself in the face, so he gritted his teeth and retorted: "Humph, I'm not afraid of dirty things!"

Yang Ran, who was standing at the end of the team, was frightened by Jiang Zhe's joke and stammered: "Nan, Sister Nan, is there really anything weird in this village?"

It can be seen that this little girl is very timid. Perhaps she is more afraid of ghosts than vicious criminals.

"Silly boy, it's okay, relax."

"Okay, everyone has almost settled down. This room is relatively large. Let's discuss the case here."

Zhang Nan glanced at Yang Ran, smiled and comforted.

Then she went to the corridor and looked around. After confirming that no one was there, she closed the door.

What a cautious woman.

"Well, let's go through the files first and let me briefly describe the case to you."

Zhang Nan took out several thick portfolios and distributed them to Jiang Zhe and others one by one.

"The so-called 'strange things' the village chief said were actually several cases of people falling into the water and dying."

"It stands to reason that falling into the water is just an ordinary accident, but in Licun, four cases occurred in just one month, and seven people died. From this point of view, it is a bit fishy."

Zhang Nan said in a serious tone, if drowning is relatively common, this frequency is not very common.

"What's wrong with the high frequency? In my opinion, this is an ordinary case."

"The only thing to blame is the bad luck of the people in Li Village. They have been plagued by bad luck recently and there are just a few more accidents."

Zhao Xin curled his lips and said, but soon, Li Jun expressed a different opinion.

"No, I grew up in the countryside. Everyone is very good at water. Seven people drowned in just one month. No matter how you look at it, there is something wrong."

"Besides, Li Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the water is very clear. It should be normal for them to play in the water. How could everyone be careless and have an accident together in such a short period of time?"

Li Jun said angrily that his experience of growing up in the countryside made him immediately discover the clues.

"No matter how good you are at playing with water, you will always make mistakes. How can you be so sure that their luck will not be so bad?"

After being rejected by Li Jun, Zhao Xin felt a little embarrassed and fired back.

"I think what Brother Li said makes sense."

"And you see, the deceased in these photos has wounds on his wrists and ankles, as if he had been scratched."

Yang Ran took the photo and looked at it carefully, and soon realized the key point.

"Why did I not see it?"

Zhao Xin held the photo and put it in front of his eyes, looking like he was about to get in.

However, everyone ignored this guy's meaningless speech. Zhang Nan nodded towards Yang Ran and motioned for her to continue speaking.

"I think this is likely to be man-made. Because if water plants entangled the limbs of the victims and they were unable to float and drowned, there should not be scratches of this shape."

"And I have looked through previous cases and information, and I can find from many cases that appear to be death by drowning, but are actually murders, that there is a type of person who specializes in such 'work'."

Zhang Nan's eyes lit up, and a hint of approval flashed in his eyes.

"You mean, the water ghost caused their death?"

Zhang Nan seemed to be guiding Yang Ran, but Yang Ran was frightened by the word "water ghost", and a look of fear appeared on his face.

When Jiang Zhe heard this, his heart moved. Did Zhang Nan really believe that such a thing existed in the world?

But soon Zhang Nan shook his head, smiled and explained: "Sorry to scare you, the 'water ghost' in my mouth is not a ghost, but a kind of water ghost that often moves underwater and is well versed in water properties. Short for human being.”

"In the past, many people have committed crimes in this way. They relied on their excellent water properties to drag the victims to deep water, pretending that they accidentally fell into the water and drowned, in order to obtain the victims' belongings. "

"And there is a kind of people who are engaged in the work of 'recovering corpses'. They will even kill people first, and then wait for the family members of the victims to come to them and ask them to recover the bodies of the victims, and then they will make profits from it."

Zhang Nan's words caused everyone to be silent for a while. If this phenomenon is true, these people are too cruel.

"Well, what Sister Nan said is pretty much what I thought, but Sister Nan is still very good. She speaks in such a systematic way and is really knowledgeable."

Yang Ran scratched his head, but Zhang Nan seemed a little disappointed when she didn't raise any objections.

"No, it's just that I have experienced more cases and seen more evil people."

In fact, Zhang Nan really hopes that someone can refute his point of view, because daring to put forward a different opinion from his superiors is a kind of courage in itself.

And she also knew that this case was not that simple at all.

Because if you think about it carefully, you will find that the murderer is not the "water ghost" she calls him at all.

"Does anyone have any other thoughts?"

Zhang Nan glanced at Zhao Xin and Jiang Zhe. Zhao Xin shook his head, and Jiang Zhe thought for a moment before speaking.

"In my opinion, it's not that simple."

"Because the people in Li Village grew up by the river and have been playing with water since they were young. Even if the water quality is not as good as the 'water ghost' that Captain Zhang just mentioned, it will not be far different."

"How is it possible that so many people were victimized and the murderer didn't show any clues?"

"Moreover, if there is really a corpse-recovering team or people with excellent water skills nearby, and they are not villagers of Li Village."

Jiang Zhe raised his head and looked at Zhang Nan and continued: "In that case, after the first case happened, everyone will definitely be more vigilant and suspicious of them. How can they continue to let it go?"