Chapter 2 The First Case
When He Chou stepped into Wang Ze's independent villa, the police officer from his home planet suddenly felt the urge to waste his precious annual leave here.
What class does Lao Wang belong to?
In the center of the capital of the administrative star, where land is at a premium, there is a super-expensive area that would like to dig three thousand meters of land to build a three-dimensional apartment. There is actually a circle of two-meter-high cyan courtyard walls, enclosing a small retro building with the highest two floors.
If it weren't for the words 'Head of Household Wang Ze' written on the house number, He Qiu would not have dared to barge in rashly.
A middle-aged maid took He Chou to see the scenery inside and outside the villa, and led He Chou to the teahouse next to the courtyard.
The wooden door of the tea room opened, and Wang Ze, who had put on a stand-up collar sweater, was sitting behind the antique low table, smiling at his old friend.
Behind Wang Ze was a screen painted with a branch of winter plum, and melodious ancient string music came from the speaker in the corner.
He Qiu took off his leather shoes, and a faint heat came out of his socks.
Just as the maid was about to lean down to help He Chou put away the leather shoes, He Chou ducked down quickly, grabbed the leather shoes and placed them in the corner of the shoe rack outside the door.
"I can do it by myself, I can do it by myself, thank you."
"Yes sir."
The maid smiled politely and couldn't help but look at He Chou a few times.
The police officer was not tall, and gave people the illusion of being too strong. His short sleeves tightly wrapped the tight muscles of his upper body, and his big, ordinary-looking face had a pair of sharp eyes like a falcon.
"Then I won't bother you anymore."
The maid said these words softly, bowed her head, and left calmly with unhurried steps.
When she walked away, He Qiu breathed a long sigh of relief, sat down with a smile, and joked:
"Okay, Lao Wang! Such a huge family fortune has been hidden before!
"Last time I invited you to our home planet, you kept arguing with us for so long just for a small amount of travel expenses. Are you really an unscrupulous capitalist and a stubborn old landowner who refuses to pry even a dime?"
Xiehouyu - the excellent cultural inheritance of mankind.
"A bit of inheritance left by our fathers is not something we can talk about proudly," Wang Ze picked up the tea cup and took a sip. "We will talk about old times later. Let's talk about the case first. It will make you travel all the way."
"Secret Room Murder."
He Qiu understood Wang Ze's character, so he sat cross-legged across the low table with some effort, deliberately showing off, raised a finger as thick as a carrot, and said in a Weng voice:
"With a little bit of a supernatural element."
"Supernatural is just people's perfunctory response to the unknown truth," Wang Ze urged, "Let's talk, the electronic equipment in this room is just these lights and a humidifier."
"But you still have to sign a confidentiality agreement."
He Qiu took out a folded piece of paper from his jacket pocket and pushed it in front of Wang Ze.
Wang Ze carefully reviewed the above terms and signed his name happily.
"Case."
"This is a murder case that spans virtual and real life."
"Virtual reality?"
Wang Ze leaned back slightly, and his face seemed to become brighter as the light from outside the door shone.
He Qiu put away his smile, took off his watch and laid it out in front of Wang Ze. Several blue rays of light shone from the upper left corner of the dial, interweaving into a clear projection screen.
He clicked quickly with his fingers, and several pictures appeared in front of Wang Ze.
The strange thing is that the first picture shows the deceased sitting on a chair, and the atmosphere of the scene is obviously that of a real bedroom;
The environment recorded in the second and third photos has become a street with obvious illusory elements - a virtual environment mixed with various human cultural elements.
He Qiu said: "The news hasn't been made public yet, it involves a lot, and almost all the hot searches have been suppressed. But the spread of the incident is very scary, and maybe it will explode at some point, and there is a lot of pressure from above. , asking us to solve the case as soon as possible.”
Wang Ze wondered: "Then why did you come here?"
"I'm suspended."
He Chou picked up the teacup and took a sip, with a hint of disapproval flashing across his face:
"The big company involved in the case, the Weixing Group, was structuring our case investigators. I couldn't help but scold them a few times, and my boss asked me to go on vacation."
"It's your character."
Wang Ze smiled and quickly searched the 'glass plate' in his hand.
Weixing Group, the largest virtual community provider on the human planet, monopolizes nearly 80% of the virtual community market and contributes considerable tax revenue and jobs every year.
After a while.
Wang Zedao: "Within the scope of what you can say now, try to explain the details of the case in as much detail as possible."
"We received a call from the deceased's wife."
He Qiu quickly swiped his fingers on the vertical projection screen in front of him and called up a first-person video of a police officer.
The police officer who shot this video moved quickly, entered the scene, and captured every detail of the scene.
He Qiu's deep voice started to sound one after another:
"The deceased was Wen Quan, male, 47 years old, unemployed, living with his wife Lin Xiaoxia.
"On the day of the incident, Wen Quan and his wife Lin Xiaoxia agreed to meet at a coffee shop in the virtual community [Lingming Street] to discuss divorce. I know this is a bit strange, why don't a couple living together have an offline discussion, but now there are Without nutrition supply equipment, many people continue to stay in the virtual community without going offline - this is the case for Lin Xiaoxia
"At the time of the incident, Wen Quan had a brief conversation with Lin Xiaoxia. These were recorded, but they were all left in the case handling team and I did not bring them out.
"When they came to an agreement and were ready to end the conversation, this guy showed up."
He Qiu clicked on a video in the center of the projection screen.
Wang Ze watched attentively, his eyes moving constantly, as if capturing fleeting information.
This is a real-time video of a virtual neighborhood. (End of chapter)