I, the outlaw, was caught again

Chapter 207: The Four Great Prostitutes! [Two-in-one monthly ticket request! ]

Have you ever seen a dead fish?
It's the kind that, dozens of small fish are piled together in a bucket, with the mucus on their bodies sticking the fish together, with their empty fish eyes looking up at the sky. The whole iron bucket containing the fish exudes a fishy smell, and when you look down, you can see countless empty fish eyes.

On top of the iron bucket, there were a bunch of buzzing flies, licking the fish eyes.

Li Sheng had never fished before, and he had never seen it before. At most, he had seen small shrimps sold in buckets in the seafood market.

But now he saw it.
Live by the mountain, live by the mountain; live by the sea, live by the sea. Zhuwen City is close to the sea, so there are fishermen and cargo ships.

Where there are fishermen, there will be trading markets, and where there are trading markets, there will be many sewers nearby.

On April 4th, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was gloomy and thunder rolled in the haze.

The raindrops as big as beans kept falling, as if we were under a waterfall.

Dozens of figures stood in the shadows, wearing raincoats, letting the raindrops hit their bodies in silence. They all lowered their heads and stared at the well in front of them.

What's in the manhole?
There are fish.

A pile of dead fish.
"Boom!"

The sky suddenly exploded, and a pale light appeared, illuminating the manhole clearly.

Countless corpses!

In other words, it's the corpse of a mermaid!

The lower bodies of these people were sewn together, with expressions of fear or pain on their faces. Their lower bodies were put together and wrapped in fish skin, with scales reflecting the light.

The lower half of its body was that of a fish, with its scales covered in a layer of fishy mucus. Its eyes were as empty as those of a fish. It lay on the ground, staring blankly at the thunder in the sky in the rain.

Countless mermaids and dead fish were thrown into this sewer.

Countless mermaids were piled up together, with their tails overlapping each other, like the barrels of dead fish in the seafood market.

There is mud and all kinds of smelly water around
"How much in total?"

Xu Sheng took a deep breath. He stood in the rain under the gloomy sky and asked Wu Sai loudly.

"The manhole isn't deep, there are at most ten people in it. Including the two victims before, there are twelve in total!"

Wu Sai wiped the water off her face and shouted loudly.

"The manhole has been artificially modified. The bottom of the well, which originally had no partitions, was covered with barbed wire. With the barbed wire blocking it, not even a dead fish can be flushed away!"

"But the wire fence on one side was washed out to the side, and it looked like a 'double-flavor pot'. The bodies of the two victims 'swam' out from the hole, all the way to another overflowing manhole, and then floated out!"

"The manhole cover at the exit is gone!"

A policeman spoke loudly, his voice drowning out the thunder in their ears, allowing the others to hear more clearly.

Sewer manholes are different from sewers. Sewer manholes are more common and can be found on the road. They are generally in the shape of a semi-cross, with the left and right sides connected, and are used to receive the flow of sewage.

This thing is very small, usually only about one meter in diameter, and it is difficult for a normal adult to fit it in.

But then again, adults can’t do that, but kids can!

There have been more than one cases in Dongguo where children have fallen into manholes and were subsequently washed away, with the fire department and police searching for them for days in vain!
There are also cases where bodies were thrown into sewers, which eventually caused blockages and were later discovered.

The manhole in Zhuwen City is relatively large, and the victim was a small female, so she was able to be washed out in this weather.

Otherwise, unless someone opened the locked, larger manhole, no one would notice the pile of "mermaid corpses" under their feet, let alone imagine that these corpses were staring at them through the narrow slits with dull, empty, and lifeless eyes.

"Where is the manhole cover for the exit!?"

"It could have been picked up, or it could have been washed away. The rain is so heavy, anything is possible!"

Manhole covers are quite valuable. In 04, some young hooligans or elderly men and women liked to move the manhole covers in the middle of the night and then sell them, without caring at all about the fact that people behind them could not see the big hole.

There are more than one case where manhole covers were taken away, causing people to fall into the manhole and die or become disabled!

Xu Sheng looked at the "fish soup" overflowing from inside, frowned, and then took a few steps forward.

He climbed down the steel stairs that led to the manhole.

The smell in the sewer is even more pungent, and it makes one's brain go blank if one gets close to it. Fortunately, Xu Sheng has already gotten used to it.

Xu Sheng opened the [Eye of the Falcon] and looked carefully.

The mermaid on the surface of the sewer had died long ago, and it was impossible to tell the time of death as it was soaked in water, but Xu Sheng could roughly determine that the time of death was about the same as the previous two victims.

Most of them were women, with both long and short hair. Some drowned, and some died in agony.

The ages are all within a fixed range, between twenty and thirty years old.

After a while.

Xu Sheng climbed out of the manhole with a gloomy face, stood on it, and silently watched the scene of salvaging corpses in the rain below.

"What did you find?"

Li Sheng frowned and asked.

Xu Sheng was silent for a while, and finally spoke solemnly:
"There are more than two murderers!"

More than two people?

That means more! Three people! Even four or five people!
That is.
"A gang crime!?"

Wu Sai blurted out suddenly, and was completely shocked after he finished speaking.

He looked at the chilling scene in the manhole in disbelief, and thought about the suspected gang murderer.

"There were too many victims, and the time of death was almost the same, plus almost all the wounds were inflicted by hand."

"This workload is not something that can be completed by two people." Xu Sheng spoke, and his words silenced everyone.

Twelve victims.
Twelve victims who were made into mermaids!
This is no longer something that can be simply explained as insane.

If it were just one or two people, perhaps it could be explained by the fact that they were mentally ill.

But when it comes to a gang, it's impossible for five or six psychopaths to get together and their brain waves just happen to match, right?
In addition, the torture of the victim was not something that a normal person would do, and Wu Sai and Li Sheng suddenly had an idea in their minds.
"Harmony?"

“Is this the thing?”

Wu Sai looked at the scenes around him and frowned.

He is surrounded by a fishing village, on the edge of a fishing village, close to the coastline. Generally, fishermen do not come here, resulting in the surrounding area being very deserted.

People in coastal areas tend to have more beliefs in gods and ghosts, and have derived many different kinds of gods.

Among them there are righteous gods, and naturally there are also unrighteous ones.

Why are there so many along the coast?

Because there are more natural disasters in coastal areas and people rely more on the weather for their livelihood than people in the inland areas, the frequency of facing natural disasters is much higher than in the inland areas. For example, when going out to sea to fish, there is a high possibility of encountering rainstorms.

In the face of this kind of natural force, it is easy for people to develop faith.

Of course, there are many non-believers, but the strongest believers are basically in coastal areas.

For example, there is an island that lives a pretty good life. There are several earthquakes a month and several typhoons a year, but there are as many as eight million people who believe in this god. It is the kind of island where anyone can become a god.

"Faith in mermaids?"

Wu Sai frowned, wondering what the mermaids had to believe in.

"It's very likely." Xu Sheng nodded, his eyes serious.

"Can this thing be believed in?!"

Li Sheng was stunned. He really couldn't understand why he could trust a mermaid.
"No, faith itself has little to do with the object of faith. Faith is a person's own desire, and the object of faith is just something that embodies faith."

“Someone believes in a stone not because it is a stone, but because he has faith and the stone is there, so he places his faith in the stone.”

“It’s a logical relationship.”

Xu Sheng opened his mouth slowly, his eyes fixed on the "mermaids".

“And people themselves have a tendency to follow the crowd.”

"For example, if I say that the stone under my feet is special and has divine properties, then people will come to worship it. Over time, a temple will appear, and then a sect will form."

for example.

There was a famous incident of belief in mermaids in Xiaorizi.

The protagonist of the incident is a mummy that looks like a "doll". It is made by splicing two animals together and looks very similar to a mermaid.

Someone picked up this thing and said it was a mermaid. Although it looked fake, it still attracted a lot of people's devout prayers. This made the person who picked up this thing rich, and these people believed in it for hundreds of years.

There were also people in the ancient East who believed in mermaids.

No one has ever seen a mermaid, and no one has ever been saved by one, but many people in coastal areas still trust them.

There is also an example where Asan found a stone, smeared some blood on it, and then placed a basin in front of the stone, and people would come to worship on their own initiative.

This is the explanation of the three points of faith, the object of faith, and conformity.

And the murderer.
"I'm sure there are only a few temples around the fishing village, and there is definitely no religion that believes in mermaids!"

Wu Sai spoke with a serious expression.

"It is highly likely that the murderer was not led to faith by the human habit of following the crowd." "So they were the first group of believers?"

Li Sheng frowned and asked.

"Most likely it is."

Xu Sheng took a deep breath and wiped the rain off his face.

"Remember what I said before, why the murderer is obsessed with mermaids?"

Li Sheng paused, then recalled carefully, and then he seemed to understand.

"That's right, an obsession requires a 'big event' to give it meaning, and then the thing will become his obsession!"

"In other words, the murderer gang experienced something major that was related to mermaids, and then they developed an obsession similar to 'mermaids', and then they created this case!?"

His face looked a little odd.

"Can a person's obsession be so deep?"

"Also, mermaids are illusory in themselves, so what could possibly be related to mermaids?!"

Human emotions are different from those of other animals. Humans can die for something or an obsession.

Even if the thing itself has no value!
As for the mermaid herself
"Yes, I was also thinking about it. The murderer's obsession is actually related to mermaids."

Xu Sheng nodded, his brows furrowed.

"If it was just one person, it would be fine, but from what we can see, the murderer is a gang, and the obsession of the gang is actually related to mermaids!"

Unbelievable, very unbelievable.

However, there is no clue of the murderer now. Xu Sheng paused slightly and pulled the breakthrough back to the victim.

"I mean the superficial information about the identity of the first victim. Do you have any clues?"

Xu Sheng looked at Wu Sai and spoke.

"Yes, the victim was of good looks and good figure, and was about 23 years old."

"Where's the second one?"

"Average appearance, average build, and age twenty-four."

Mr. Xu nodded, and then he pointed down.

"I just looked in the manhole and found a problem."

Li Sheng paused, squatted down and looked over, but the heavy raindrops obscured his vision, so he could only turn around and look at Xu Sheng.

"what is the problem?"

"The victims were all women."

Xu Sheng suddenly spoke up and said something that everyone could see at a glance, but also left several people scratching their heads.

"At the same time, the ages of the victims are similar, ranging from 20 to 30 years old. Even if they are over 30, they are definitely not 40 years old."

"And the time of death is the same." Xu Sheng silently repeated the previous information.

Wu Sai wanted to ask back, but before she could say anything, Li Sheng suddenly thought of something.

"You mean, there is a place where all the victims were gathered together at once, and then the murderous gang killed them!"

"And this place gathers a lot of women, and their ages are not much different?"

The time of murder means that the victim was not killed long ago, unless the victim was imprisoned from the beginning, just like buying a person from a human trafficker.

But the victim's body did not look like he had encountered human traffickers.

That is the close distance when they were killed!
"That's right. If the murderer is in Zhuwen City and has two targets, one in Zhuwen City and the other in the imperial capital, and he doesn't imprison them, but kills them directly after catching them, then the difference in the time of death between the two will be huge."

"But if both targets are in Zhuwen City, the time difference won't be much."

Xu Sheng looked at the corpses which were in similar stages of decay.

"If you put yourself in this case, you will realize that the victim..."

"That's twelve women, all in similar proximity before they died."

"If they are just close, it's nothing. For example, in a textile factory, all the workers here are women."

"But this place where the victim was was clearly a place that screened people."

As he spoke, Xu Sheng walked over to the mermaid that had just been salvaged.

The lower body is covered with fish skin just like a real fish body, and it looks like a dead fish floating on the water that was fished out of the water.

Xu Sheng pointed at the other person's face.

"There are twelve people, none of them have ugly features, and none of them are fat."

"I observed the victim's hands, skin, and facial care."

"Before they died, most of these people had fair skin. Even if they weren't fair, it wouldn't be the skin condition of the fishermen in the fishing village."

Xu Sheng stood up again and looked at the surrounding environment.

“This is a fishing village!”

“It’s a place where people make a living by fishing!”

"Captain Wu, you have lived here for a long time, you should know the skin condition of girls from normal families."

Fishing Village Fishing Village, literally means fishermen’s village.

Rural areas are farming villages.

They are all villages, there is no difference except the means of making a living!
In the countryside in 04, among the old men and women living in the village, who didn’t have calluses on their hands?

Who will take good care of their skin?

As long as you have to eat, you have to work in the fields. Poor people can't afford to feed a mouth that eats and drinks for free!
In this situation, although there are people with beautiful looks, most of them have bad skin conditions, and even if there are good ones, there won’t be many of them.

But especially the coast, where the ultraviolet rays in the six continents are the most vicious, there is such a place
Twelve more people gathered!

"Outsiders?"

"Zhu Wen City didn't check her household registration, and considering her skin condition, if she's from another place, there's no problem."

Li Sheng had never lived in a fishing village, so he subconsciously made his judgment based on his experience from previous cases.

After he finished speaking, he paused, then frowned and shook his head.

"No, the time doesn't match. Although there are tourists here, the probability of twelve people disappearing together for half a month without their families calling the police is too small!"

"These people should be gathered in a certain area of ​​​​Wenzhou City."

“Near the fishing village.”

Li Sheng fell into deep thought.

Xu Sheng didn't say anything, he looked at Wu Sai.

"Captain Wu, do you still remember your judgment on the identity of the first victim when the case happened?"

Wu Sai's face looked extremely ugly. Li Sheng didn't know about the fishing village, but he knew it!
"The first victim has no official household registration file, and the other party is suspected to be 'Bai Shui Lang'."

Baishuilang refers to the residents who live on the sea and will rarely enter the land in their lifetime.

"On the sea?"

Li Sheng was stunned. If it was at sea, then it would be a disaster. This thing couldn't be checked at all.
but.
“Wouldn’t it be even more likely that the victims would gather at sea?!”

Li Sheng frowned, looking a little confused.

Wu Sai's lips moved slightly, and finally, he sighed.

Xu Sheng saw this and stopped guiding Wu Sai until she understood. He looked at Li Sheng and said slowly:

"Captain Li, have you heard of the four famous specialties?"

"Specialties? What specialties?"

Li Sheng was stunned. His thoughts were a little disconnected. He didn't know how Xu Sheng went from discussing the case to the local specialties.

"The four specialties are..."

Looking at him, Xu Sheng said word by word:

"Zhou Yang thin horse."

"With my eldest wife."

"Shantai-kun."

"The boat girl from the lake."

(End of this chapter)