Zhao is a woman who loves cats. Niu Niu is a China pastoral cat that she has kept for nearly five years. She treats Niu Niu better than anyone else.
Every day after work, she couldn't wait to run home for fear of delaying another minute.
On this day, she came home from work as usual. In the past, as long as she took out the key, Niu Niu would quickly run to the door, wagging her tail and waiting for her master to open the door. But this day, after she opened the door, she didn't see Niu Niu.
It was a little unusual, but she didn't think much. She closed the door and whispered Niuniu's name.
But after calling many times, Niu Niu still didn't come over. She guessed that she was sleeping in a corner.
She searched slowly and finally saw Niu Niu lying on the balcony.
She tiptoed over and pretended to shout loudly: "Niu Niu, get up quickly, I brought you something delicious." He shook the plastic bag on his hand.
But Niu Niu still lay there motionless, as steady as Mount Tai.
Zhao smiled, thinking that Niu Niu was deliberately teasing her, so she squatted down and touched its round head intimately.
Her hand just touched Niu Niu's body, and a cold chill instantly spread through her palm.
My heart suddenly thumped, and a bad feeling surged up.
She shook Niu Niu's body uneasily again, and the result was a stiff, soft and boneless body.
Although she already had that guess in her mind, she instinctively resisted and refused to believe it.
Her trembling hands reached out to Niu Niu's nose, and no hot air sprayed on her hands.
Niu Niu is dead, really dead.
(2)
She collapsed to the ground, her eyes glazed over for a long time, just like a person who was scared to death.
After a long time, she burst into tears, tearing her heart out, making everyone who listened feel like crying. I don't know how long she cried until her voice was hoarse and her eyes were swollen, and she finally stopped.
She couldn't figure out how Niu Niu died for no reason. It doesn't make sense.
She tried to calm herself down, carefully examined Niu Niu's stiff and cold body, and found that there was no trauma or foaming at the mouth, just like sleeping quietly, except for breathing and body temperature.
She couldn't think of the cause of Niuniu's sudden death, but she was unwilling.
For her, Niu Niu is not only a pet, but also a very important family member.
She can't let Niu Niu die in such a shady way. She decided to find out the cause of her death.
After her grief, she began a journey to find Niu Niu's killer.
(3)
For an instant, Zhao seemed to lie prone on Holmes' upper body, and she looked at the scene of Niu Niu's death in great detail.
First of all, the balcony window is open, but this is the 28th floor. It is impossible for anyone to climb up and attack Niu Niu, and there are no traces on the ground, walls and pipes outside the window. Of course, I don't rule out deletion afterwards.
However, unless you are a special soldier, it is impossible for ordinary people to climb the 28th floor with their bare hands, and even if they can climb it, it is too conspicuous, so the possibility that the murderer came in through the window is ruled out.
Similarly, there is no indication that the door lock has been pried. If there is, she found it when she first opened the door.
Therefore, the possibility of strangers sneaking into the crime can be completely ruled out.
Zhao took out his notebook and wrote down two possible causes of death on the paper.
1. Suicide
Step 2 kill people
But suicide can be ruled out immediately.
Because no matter how much she treats Niu Niu as a person, she is still an animal. Animals have no consciousness, no thoughts, no emotions, and will not commit suicide because of anything.
This is logical and scientific, and there is no need to question it at all.
Since suicide is ruled out, there is only one possibility left-homicide.
(4)
Homicide can be divided into intentional homicide and accidental death.
Zhao first assumed in her mind that this was a deliberate murder, and the murderer must be a person who contradicted her.
Why not consider people who have had problems with Niu Niu first? Don't think about this problem. Niu Niu, as a pet, can't have conflicts with people.
One exception, of course, is people who hate cats very much.
But there are so many cats in the world, why choose her cat?
So if the cat was killed because she hated it, then the killer must be someone she knew.
After the idea came out, a familiar figure immediately jumped into her mind.
Her best friend Yue Yue is allergic to cat hair, so every time she and Yue Yue go shopping, she never takes Niu Niu.
But it suddenly occurred to her that last month, she came back from abroad every month to bring her gifts. They agreed to meet at the coffee shop. At that time, she had just taken Niu Niu out of vaccination, and had no time to send her home, so she took Niu Niu directly to see Yue Yue.
However, Niu Niu has never touched Yue Yue, even a few meters away, and Yue Yue is only allergic to cat hair, and doesn't really hate cats.
On that day, she also took many photos of Niu Niu and basked in her circle of friends.
So it can basically be ruled out.
The second suspect is her colleague Xiao Lv. Why do you doubt Xiao Green? Because, just a week ago, they had a big fight because they had different ideas about a case. The whole company knew, and finally the director stepped in.
But it seems unlikely that she will commit murder. After all, like Zhao, she is a cat lover and has joined the Animal Protection Association.
Besides, every time Zhao takes Niu Niu to the company, she will take special care of Niu Niu, and Niu Niu also likes to play with her.
So it can also be ruled out.
Zhao searched around in her mind. There seems to be an argument with her, or these two people don't like cats.
(5)
Suddenly her phone rang, and it was her boyfriend Wei Wu.
Seeing her boyfriend's phone call, the sadness of losing Niu Niu suddenly came up again. At this time, she was looking for a boyfriend to spoil and seek some comfort.
Just as she was about to pick up the phone, a word suddenly floated in her ear.
"What is important or me. What makes you think that I am worse than a cat in your heart? If you really love me, send Niu Niu away, or we will break up. "
This sentence was said to her by Wei Wu when she quarreled with Wei Wu.
That quarrel was caused by Niu Niu. One day a year ago, after work, Zhao happily took Niu Niu to a pet shop to make a beautiful new look, then took photos in a circle of friends and wrote that it was her favorite.
But it was her boyfriend Wei Wu's birthday, but she completely forgot it.
That's why we had such a fierce fight and almost broke up, but we made up soon.
Now that Niu Niu is dead, Zhao recalls that since that quarrel, Wei Wu has not liked Niu Niu as much as before.
Every time he takes Niu Niu out on a date, he looks unhappy. Although he didn't say that he wouldn't let her take Niu Niu with him, his attitude was obviously resisting Niu Niu.
The more she thought about it, the more suspicious she felt about Wei Wu.
He has motive and conditions, because he also has the key to Zhao's room.
Although she thinks so, she really doesn't want to be Wei Wu, because if it is really Wei Wu, she will have to break up with him.
But she just lost Niu Niu, and she can't bear the pain of losing Wei Wu again.
(6)
The phone rang for a long time before she answered it.
Even though the result may be unbearable, we still have to find out the truth.
She decided to test Wei Wu first.
"Why did you take so long to answer the phone? Are you playing crazy with Niu Niu again and didn't hear the phone ring? " Wu Hui asked directly as soon as he came up.
Although Wei Wu was blaming Niu Niu, he could immediately conclude that he didn't know that Niu Niu was dead.
Zhao Chloe recognized the meaning here, of course, and she was very happy.
But on second thought, could it be that he deliberately concealed her eyes and ears and misled her investigation?
At the thought of this, a heart that she had just put down hung up again.
She conveniently said, "Well, yes. Niu Niu is so cute, I like it. As soon as I got off work, it kept pestering me and insisted that I play with her. Now I'm tired of playing and eating. It is estimated that I will be full soon and I will make trouble again. "
Zhao talked endlessly about all kinds of interesting things about Niu Niu, deliberately showing a happy and coquetry tone, but his heart actually hurt like a knife.
Wei Wu is obviously impatient. He interrupted: "Stop talking about Niu Niu, I have something serious to tell you. I'm going to Beijing on business tomorrow and I won't be back for about two weeks. "
Business trip? Why did you suddenly say you were going on a business trip? Is it because you want to abscond?
Zhao Chloe muttered in her mind, she really didn't understand why Wu Wei was going on a business trip tomorrow, and I just told her now. According to the past, she must have been told a few days in advance.
This is abnormal, and Zhao has to doubt it.
Of course, because she was immersed in her own imagination and speculation, she didn't hear the explanation behind Wei Wu at all.
However, if it was really Wei Wu, how did he kill Niu Niu?
Zhao pondered over the problem in his mind.
(7)
After thinking for a while, she asked directly, "What will happen to you if Niuniu suddenly dies one day?"
This question is really sudden and straightforward.
There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, followed by doubt and worry.
"Chloe, what's wrong with you, suddenly ask this? Niu Niu is your darling and you are my darling. If it dies, you must be very sad. In that case, of course I will be very sad. "
Zhao asked incredulously, "Really? Are you really sad that Niu Niu is dead? "
Wei Wu replied affirmatively: "Of course, although I am angry occasionally because you pay too much attention to Niu Niu and ignore me, I still like Niu Niu very much, and Niu Niu likes me very much, as you know."
Zhao thought about it in his mind and felt that what he said was reasonable, but it could not be completely ruled out.
Wei Wu worried voice continued to come. "Is there anything wrong with Niu Niu?"
Zhao Keer still needs to prove something, so he can't tell him the fact that Niu Niu is dead for the time being, so he denies it: "Niu Niu is fine, so I'll just ask."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao took Niu Niu's body and immediately went to the pet hospital by car.
Because Niu Niu has no trauma, she can only die of poisoning.
Therefore, to solve the problem, we must know how Niu Niu died, and only by knowing the cause of death can we further infer the murderer.
She reluctantly let the veterinarian dissect Niu Niu with tears in her eyes. After the autopsy, the appraisal results will not come out until tomorrow.
So she went to the pet crematorium to cremate Niu Niu's body, and then bought an exquisite box to put its ashes in and take it home.
(8)
The next day, she went to get the appraisal results.
The veterinarian told her that Niu Niu died of respiratory failure caused by ammonia poisoning. The veterinarian also told her that the main sources of ammonia gas were wooden boards and interior decoration materials, and asked her if she had decorated the house recently or bought any wooden furniture.
Zhao Yiyi denied it.
Zhao asked the veterinarian if she could artificially feed Niu Niu with ammonia gas, but this was rejected because it was unrealistic and impossible.
After careful consideration, I finally determined that Niu Niu died of ammonia poisoning, but I don't know where the ammonia came from. So naturally, we can't find the killer.
Zhao returned home depressed.
As soon as I opened the door, my mother Zhao came out of the bathroom.
Covering her nose and holding a sock in her hand, she shouted, "You haven't washed these socks for days. They stink. You are still socks. This is a poisonous bomb. "
As the saying goes, one word awakens the dreamer, and another word makes Zhao suddenly realize.
It turns out that Niu Niu's killer turned out to be a smelly sock.
And she is the culprit behind it.