Flower City, Lvjing Garden.

In February, even in southern cities, it is still cold.The wind blows on the face like a knife.Standard winter accessories such as hats, scarves, and gloves can be seen everywhere on the road.

Chang Fei tightened the scarf around his neck, and quickly slipped his hand into his pocket.As for the other hand, which was carrying a small suitcase, the knuckles were already a little red.

"Mistake, too much mistake," he thought, "I should have taken the gloves with me."

He had just returned from a business trip in a city further south, where the temperature was ten degrees higher than today's Huacheng. He thought about ten degrees and didn't wear gloves, but he didn't expect Huacheng to suddenly drop in temperature when he came back.

When the north wind blew, he shivered again.

The pace under his feet quickened unconsciously, and he walked towards Building 22 of Lvjing Garden in a familiar way.

Lvjing Garden is a mid-range community. In the city of Huacheng, it is quite satisfactory. Most of them are rented by young men and women who are working.The greening in the community is particularly well done. All the way past, there are green flower beds.There are year-round evergreen shrubs in the flower beds, mixed with roses that can bloom in winter.Every few meters, there are big trees with branches and leaves.Some trees are still green in winter, and some have lost their dead leaves in autumn.

Chang Fei's eyes slipped through a row of trees wrapped in "white clothes", and finally looked up.On the side of the road, the street lamps looked like dormant soldiers. Although they were not lit, they still stood upright.

Thinking of the power outage notification text message received on the mobile phone today, Chang Fei muttered: "It's been a whole day, haven't you called yet?"

It was already past seven o'clock in the evening, and as usual, the street lights had already been on.

"It's not like there won't be calls all night, right?" Chang Fei muttered again, "Wait, is there a flashlight at home? Are there candles?"

At this time, he had come to a fork in the road, he went to the left to go to the 22 buildings he was going to, and there was a convenience store to the right.

"Forget it, let's ask roommates on WeChat." With great difficulty, he took his hand out of his pocket, took out his phone, clicked on WeChat, and sent a voice message to the group of him and his roommates.

The group name is very simple, it is their room number - 602.

Chang Fei: Brothers, do you have a flashlight at home?Are there any candles?Need me to bring something from the convenience store?

After a while of cold wind blowing on the spot, someone in the group replied.

Gao Bin: Have you called yet?When I was in the clinic, a patient had injured his leg. He probably needed a few stitches and would be late going home.

Chang Fei: No!I just came back from a business trip!The street lights in the neighborhood are dim...

Gao Bin: Boozhi hasn't come back yet? @ Song Buzhi

Chang Fei: Forget it, let me call Brother Ji.

Song Buzhi is his landlord.He lived in the master bedroom of this room by himself, and rented the other two bedrooms to him and Gao Bin respectively.

Chang Fei found out Song Buzhi's number and called it.

After 1 minute, the dialer hangs up automatically.

Chang Fei: No one answered!

Gao Bin: Then you should go to the convenience store and buy a flashlight, just in case.

Chang Fei: I think so too... It's unreliable for Brother Ji to call ten times and get no one to answer eight out of ten times... There is probably no flashlight at home...

Chang Fei put away the phone, stuffed his hands back into his pockets, turned to the right, and walked quickly to the convenience store.

Ten minutes later, Chang Fei returned home.

"Brother Ji is really not at home..." Chang Fei opened the door, the living room was dim and dark, only a part of the window with the curtains open had some light.

"Brother Ji—Brother Ji?" Chang Fei raised his voice and called a few times, but no one answered.

"Brother Ji is haunted by ghosts every day, I don't know what he is doing." Chang Fei muttered, put down the small suitcase, opened the bag in the convenience store, and took out a flashlight from it—he bought a total of three, one for each person—and opened it , put it on the dining table.The living room suddenly became brighter.

There is no electricity, so naturally the air conditioner cannot be turned on.Although the room was slightly better than the outside, it was still cold.

Chang Fei shook his body, turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, and walked to his bedroom with the light all the way.

A few minutes later, Chang Fei came out in thick coral fleece pajamas.

He returned home as soon as he got off the plane. He hadn't had dinner yet, and his stomach was already upset.

By the light of the flashlight, he looked into the rice cooker in the kitchen—it was empty.

"It seems that Brother Bin is eating takeaway tonight." He murmured, seeing the takeaway bag in the kitchen trash can, "Then I can only do my own food and clothing."

Very non-cooking ability.The only "one" is that he can only cook instant noodles.

Instant noodles are a regular item for the three of them, and there are plenty of them in the small cabinet in the kitchen.Chang Fei took out two packs, tore them apart with a "hissing", put both packs into the pot, filled a proper amount of water, and poured them into the pot.

He didn't start cooking immediately, but walked to the refrigerator.

"Of course you can't just eat instant noodles, cook them yourself, tomatoes, vegetables, eggs, sausages... put whatever you want."

I really want to put some sausage and eggs.The eggs were on the counter next to the refrigerator, and he took one first.The sausage was in the refrigerator, so he opened the refrigerator door next.

"what……"

His eyes widened suddenly, his mouth opened unconsciously, and he let go of his left hand——

With a "bang", the egg made a free fall, fell to the ground, and fell to pieces.

In the refrigerator, pieces of meat were neatly arranged, from high to low, as if forming two arms, but the palms were missing.

Blood flowed from the cut surfaces of each body part—for some reason, the blood did not stay when the refrigerator door was closed, but as the refrigerator door was opened, the condensed blood flowed along the refrigerator partition and all the way to the refrigerator On the door……

After the initial shock, Chang Fei suddenly stared at the front of the outer row of meat, and his eyes gradually turned red.

It was on a man's wrist, and there was a mole there.

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Just after the discipline run at night and was about to go home, I received a call from my colleague Xie Qitian——

"Squad Ji, there is a murder case in Lvjing Garden."

Discipline responded, and immediately turned around and ran towards Lvjing Garden.

He is not far from Lvjing Garden now, and it took only 10 minutes to run there.

Discipline glanced at the watch on his left wrist, it was 43:[-].

At eight or nine o'clock, the nightlife has just begun. The streets are full of cars and people, and it is very lively.

Discipline is quick in skill and quick in action, scurrying left and right in the crowd without being affected by the crowd at all.In less than 10 minutes, he ran to the gate of Lvjing Garden.

One minute later, he came to building 1.After a while, he came to the scene - Room 22.

The gate has been cordoned off.

Discipline took out two shoe covers from his trouser pocket, put them on respectively, then raised the cordon and walked in quickly.

Inside the house, the trace inspectors who arrived first had already started their investigation work.

Discipline stood at the entrance, glanced left and right - there was a dining table in front of it, and a flashlight was on the table.Beyond that, there are three rooms.On the left is the living room, and outside the living room is the balcony.On the right is the kitchen and bathroom.At this time, the door of the refrigerator in the kitchen was wide open, and there were two people standing beside it.

Xie Qitian was holding a flashlight and was talking to his colleagues next to him. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Discipline at the door, overjoyed, and hurried over: "Department Discipline, you're here."

Discipline gave a faint "hmm" and asked, "Power outage?"

It was still bright outside when we came all the way just now, but as soon as we entered this community, it instantly became dark.

"Isn't it?" Xie Qitian said, "I asked, the planned power outage started at [-] o'clock this morning, and the line is overhauled."

"Stop for so long?" Discipline's right eyebrow slanted upwards, "What happened?"

Xie Qitian smiled wryly: "During the peak period of electricity consumption, the transformer in the community suddenly failed, the power supply was insufficient, and it tripped."

Discipline stepped up and walked to the kitchen: "It's winter, peak electricity consumption, tsk, everyone is so afraid of the cold?"

"Do you think that everyone resists the cold with righteousness like you?" Xie Qitian shone the flashlight forward, keeping up with the discipline, "Ordinary humans are still very afraid of the cold."

Discipline was noncommittal, came to the refrigerator, and stopped.

There was another young criminal policeman in the kitchen. He called out "Disciplinary Team" respectfully, and then nervously described the current situation with the disciplined "tell me first" eyes: "There are a total of twenty in the refrigerator. ... 28 body parts. The body parts in the left freezer can form two legs, and the body parts in the right freezer can form two arms. The hands, feet, head and body are not here. The reporter is a renter here. The customer, named Chang Fei, is a trainee lawyer at Yiming Law Firm, over there—”

"Yiming?" Discipline raised his eyebrows and looked towards the living room.

Over there, the trace inspector turned on the searchlight to inspect the traces at the scene, and the discipline clearly saw that an extremely young man was sitting on the sofa in the living room.He lowered his head, his hands hanging limply between his legs, unable to see his expression clearly.

"Chang Fei just came back from a business trip today, and it was almost eight o'clock when he came back here." Xie Qitian took the conversation and continued, "He went into the room and changed into his pajamas, and was about to cook instant noodles. There are body parts in there."

On the other side of the gas stove, in the opened pot, the instant noodles had been softened by the cold water and swelled several times.

"Ji team, look here—" Xie Qitian pointed the light of the flashlight at a corpse in the freezer, "There is a mole here."

"A mole." Discipline squinted his eyes and said, "The person who reported the crime happened to know the deceased, right?"

"Wow, you are so amazing!" The young criminal policeman immediately admired, "I heard about the great achievements of the Ji team before joining the team. You are really amazing!"

Xie Qitian coughed lightly, and said in his heart, boy, your flattery is not at the right time...

Sure enough, Discipline raised his eyes and glanced at the criminal policeman, and said sternly, "You talk so blah when you're scouting the scene? That's what the school teacher taught you?"

"Ah?" The criminal policeman was stunned for a moment, "No..."

But Discipline ignored him, and said to Xie Qitian: "Tell Bai Zhuo to come here quickly."

Bai Zhuo is the forensic doctor in their bureau.

"Brother Xiaobai has been notified." Xie Qitian said.

Discipline nodded, turned and walked to the living room.

On the sofa in the living room, Chang Fei sat motionless, as if turning into a statue.

Discipline walked to his side, looked at him condescendingly, and found that he was actually wearing a little yellow man's pajamas, he couldn't help but wince.

Then, he sat down on the sofa and said, "Chang Fei, the reporter?"

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