I, the outlaw, was caught again

Chapter 248: Raising a little ghost! [Three-in-one monthly ticket request! ]

Zhao Hu's skin was peeled off and he died shortly afterwards. The murderer also... suspected that he had made it into an object.

The same is true for pregnant women.

Even the undeveloped baby in the belly was not spared!

"What does he want with these skins!?"

Li Sheng was puzzled. Zhao Hu and the second victim did not know each other at all. There was no dispute between them, and the woman came to the farmland on a whim.

In other words, the other party most likely does not kill based on the so-called relationship or emotional disgust.

Then why did he kill people?
If you think it's fun, then it's fine. After all, many mentally ill patients start killing people just because they think it's fun.

But the murderer does not kill randomly, but selects people conditionally. Since there is selection, there must be a purpose. Only when there is a purpose will the "conditions" appear, thus screening out those who do not meet the conditions.

The remaining ones that meet the conditions are your goals.
"What are the qualifications for these three people?"

Xu Sheng squatted on the ground. Wearing gloves, he touched the lifeless embryo and murmured.

The appearance of a nearly five-month-old baby has almost developed and taken shape.

But now it has become a piece of meat, thrown casually on the ground, covered with mud.

Not surprisingly, the other party's target was this child.

What are the conditions for the child?
First of all, we must rule out the possibility of provoking the other party. After all, the child is not born yet and is still in the belly, so it cannot be provoked at all.

What other conditions are met?
"Young enough?"

Xu Shen frowned, "This is the only characteristic of a five-month-old child. Did the murderer target her because of her young age?"

"why?"

Li Sheng was stunned.

"The skin of a younger person has a miraculous effect on the other person?"

"do not know."

Xu Sheng shook his head, stood up and looked around.

Suddenly, he saw a staggering figure.

That was a family member, the deceased's husband. His face was pale and he was slumped sitting outside the cordon, being stopped by the police, with a dull look in his eyes.

He was a hard-working man. He got up at 5:30 to go to the construction site. Who knew that his pregnant wife would get into trouble as soon as he left?
"How is the investigation of the family members' social networks going?"

Xu Sheng asked, "Based on the files and the interviews, I haven't found any problems so far."

There is no problem. The murderer killed the other person not out of emotional conflict or material interests. It seemed that he killed him purely for the young embryo and for the child's skin.

This way, we can eliminate the suspicion of people around us, but the problem is that if they are not acquaintances, then...
"What is the murderer doing here!?"

Xu Sheng frowned and looked around.

This is farmland.

The farmlands are connected to each other, there are few people around, and there is only a forest around.

"If the murderer did not intentionally wait for the victim here in advance, then it means that he came here for a purpose."

"What purpose?"

Xu Shen frowned.

You wouldn't go somewhere for no reason. Even if you're just sitting around doing nothing and feeling bored, that's a reason.

The same is true for the murderer.

Why did he run to this farmland where no one could see?

"Check in that direction!"

Xu Sheng thought for a moment and found a way.

There was a lot of footsteps on the farmland, but the dirt road was left with bloody footprints.

The footprints were heading south. Xu Sheng thought for a moment and then headed north.

"Keep an eye on the victims' families and don't let them take any radical actions."

Li Sheng gave a brief instruction and then quickly followed.

There is a forest in the north. In May, the forest is lush and green, and there are many animals living in it.

After walking for a long time, Xu Sheng suddenly stopped.

The tip of his nose twitched slightly.

A smell of rust was inhaled into the nasal cavity!
"What's going on?" Li Sheng was surprised.

"It smells like blood." Xu Sheng said.

Smell of blood?
Li Sheng paused slightly, then quickly looked around.

If there is blood, maybe the murderer has committed another crime!
It would be interesting if the blood was from a previous victim.
Why would they come here with the skin peeled off?!
"The smell of blood came from this direction."

Xu Sheng didn't hesitate and went to a place.

The weeds here were not very dense, and there was a small path trampled by humans, so the two of them walked quite fast.

After a long time, the scene in front of me suddenly became clear and a stone building appeared.

"Land God Temple!?"

Li Sheng paused and blurted out subconsciously.

That’s right, it’s the land temple.

What does it look like?

It was a very Chinese-style stone building, with its back to the road. Xu Sheng went around to the front and found that there was only a very small door.

The door is about knee-high, but there is a lot of space inside, and you can throw in banknotes or coins.

There is also an incense burner outside, which is filled with incense ash and countless wooden sticks.

This is normal, as there are many land temples in the countryside.

But, what is abnormal is.
"Where is the tablet?"

Mr. Xu suddenly spoke.

"What tablet?"

Li Sheng said subconsciously.

"The tablet of the land temple!"

Xu Sheng spoke again. He looked at the open entrance of the land temple and asked with a frown.

"Where is the land tablet?"

The land temple is very small, and even children may not be able to get in. Looking through the open door, it is extremely dark inside, just like a tomb.

Normally, it would be blocked by the tablets, but now Xu Sheng can see without any hindrance.
Xu Sheng paused, then he used [Hyena Nose] again and sniffed lightly with the tip of his nose.

The next second, a breath came from the grass.

Xu Sheng followed the smell and finally found a little stone man.

"What is this?" Li Sheng moved closer and looked at what the other person was holding, and was stunned.

“This is the land.”

Xu Sheng said silently. At this moment, his expression was extremely serious. He straightened his body and looked around.

"land?"

Li Sheng was surprised. The little man in front of him was very sloppy. Although he had a smile on his face, he looked as if he was casually made by a child and did not look like land at all.

"A land without shrines (kan)!"

Xu Sheng paused and spoke.

What is a shrine?
A miniature house can be understood as a small castle of a Barbie doll, except that it is for the gods like the land to live in.

“It’s still stained with blood”

Xu Sheng paused, looked at the bloodstains on the stone statue, and murmured.

"The murderer threw the land away and then took away the shrine that housed the land?"

Li Sheng was stunned, "What is he thinking!?"

What is the use of the shrine?

It's useless. No matter how much you say, it's just a thing to place stone statues. It's not very useful.

But the other party came personally and took him away!
And, judging by the bloodstains.
The murderer's purpose of taking away the shrine is definitely related to the purpose of murder, and it may even be one of the parts of the plan!

“And sorghum stalks.”

Xu Sheng poked his head towards the entrance of the land temple and found that some of the sorghum placed inside had disappeared.

There are offerings to the land temple.

Some cakes, biscuits, and sorghum stalks symbolize a good harvest.

Some people also offer corn.

The village here grows sorghum, but the sorghum that was tied up and stuffed into the land temple has now been untied and scattered all over the ground.

“This case.”

Xu Sheng paused, then his heart sank, and he frowned and said:
"It looks like some superstition is involved."

Superstition involved?
Could this thing be involved in a murder case?
Yes, not only can it, but many major crimes were caused by superstition!
For example, in the mermaid case, the person who believed himself to be a god killed his eldest sister.

Or it could be 'hitting a living stake'.

What is this thing?
Lu Ban's book mentioned a method of building bridges that involved sacrificing living people.

When building bridge piers, people are coaxed over and then pushed down, and cement is poured. This is called driving piles.

Some residential buildings, those built in the 1970s, may contain a dead body.

If you feel that the room stinks for no apparent reason, as if there is a stench of corpse, and you can't find the cause after searching everywhere, then you should be careful.

Perhaps, when you sleep at night, leaning against the wall or facing the wall.
The corpse inside the wall is also facing you.

In general, there are countless murders caused by superstition!
If this case involves this thing
"Is the murderer crazy?!"

Li Sheng's face was filled with astonishment.

“Things are still undefined.”

Xu Sheng shook his head and said, "First find someone to look after the land temple."

"The most important thing right now is to determine whether the murderer is Zhao Hu's father!"

Zhao Hu's father's name is Zhao Jin, and he has the same surname as his mother Zhao Li.

Fourteen years ago, the other person fell into the water when Zhao Hu was just one month old. Since the police and villagers failed to salvage the body, they believed that the person was dead and cancelled his account.

Right now, after more than a decade, the person who took Zhao Hu out to dinner under surveillance again is most likely Zhao Jin!

"Let's go first."

After saying this, Xu Sheng turned and left.

Li Sheng nodded, but when he was about to turn around, his foot slipped and his center of gravity suddenly lost balance.

The next second, he slid backwards suddenly.

"Grass!"

Li Sheng subconsciously reached out and grabbed a branch that had just grown at the root of a tree nearby, almost falling off the cliff.

"Squeak~"

The branch made a sound, Li Sheng's pupils shrank, and it was about to break. The next moment, a hand appeared.

"Come up!"

Xu Sheng was quick to grab the other person, then pulled hard and pulled him up from the cliff!
Li Sheng, who survived the disaster, had his heart beating wildly, gasped heavily, and hurried away from here.

There is a small pond in front of the land temple. There is a cliff at the edge of the pond, and the land temple is on the cliff.

When Li Sheng turned around, his foot slipped and he almost fell off the cliff.

"Damn it, what bad luck!"

His face darkened.

"Be careful next time. Let's investigate the case first."

Xu Sheng shook his head, holding a stone statue of the land in his gloved hand.

The two first returned to the farmland.

At the second murder scene, police are still investigating for clues.

Li Sheng found Han Yang and asked them to go to the land temple, or at least protect the temple.

"By the way, be careful not to slip. Don't get close to the cliff. It's slippery and you can easily fall." Li Sheng reminded before leaving.

"Okay, I'll remember it." Han Yang and others nodded, and then hurried towards the land temple.

Afterwards, Xu Sheng and Li Sheng drove towards the Criminal Investigation Brigade.

There are two crime scenes and one land temple, but the three scenes can not provide much direct information.

For now, it is better to verify the previous guess directly.

For example, whether Zhao Hu's father, Zhao Jin, was the person under surveillance.

"Where is Zhao Li?"

In the Criminal Investigation Brigade, Li Sheng looked at the policeman next to him and asked.

"Boss, the person is still in the detention room."

A police officer spoke up.

"Take her to the interrogation room."

Li Sheng nodded, said a few words, and went to the interrogation room with Xu Sheng.

After a long time, a voice appeared in their ears.

"Squeak~"

The iron gate opened and a fat woman walked in. When she saw Xu Sheng and Li Sheng sitting on the chairs, she immediately raised her voice.

"Are you guys the ones who are being paid?!"

"You son of a bitch, you didn't catch the one who beat my son first, but you caught my son instead!"

"I'm going to sue you. I'm going to sue you in the imperial capital!"

Zhao Li's fat face was distorted and her voice was very high-pitched and sharp.

He still doesn't know that the reason he is still in the police station is not because of the so-called campus incident.
The police have not yet informed her of Zhao Hu's death.

"Da da da"

Xu Sheng was not in a hurry. He stretched out his hand and knocked on the table. He waited until the other party's voice was exhausted before he spoke.

"Ms. Zhao, right? I'm not here to see you today because of school matters."

After saying that, he opened his laptop and a video played on it.

The video was a blurry picture of the noodle shop owner, with Zhao Hu's figure flashing by.

"Do you know him?"

Xu Sheng clicked pause, pointed at the extremely blurry mosaic and the figure on it and asked.

Zhao Li was stunned for a moment, then her eyes showed vigilance.

"You want to arrest my son?"

"I'm telling you, don't even think about it, my son."

Mr. Xu ignored her voice, just nodded, and then clicked play again.

It's good enough that you can recognize that this is Zhao Hu's back.

The next second, the frame rate jumps.

A larger but still blurry figure appeared in front of him.

"Do you know him?"

he?
Zhao Li was stunned and looked subconsciously. Her eyes as big as green beans narrowed and a hint of hesitation appeared on her face.

“Looks familiar.”

look familiar?

Xu Sheng narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhao Li, and said:
"Let me make it clear first. When we were trying to arrest Zhao Hu, we discovered that he had disappeared. We initially speculated that he might have been abducted by human traffickers."

Zhao Hu was abducted by human traffickers! ?

When Zhao Li heard this, her heart tightened and she quickly looked up at Xu Sheng.

Without waiting for her to ask, Xu Sheng immediately said:
"However, based on some clues, it is possible that this person is not a human trafficker."

"We initially suspected that the other party was related to Zhao Jin who disappeared fourteen years ago."

Zhao Jin?

Who is Zhao Jin?

Zhao Li was stunned for a long time before she remembered that her husband had this name more than ten years ago. Immediately, her face was full of disbelief.

"Zhao Jin!?"

"He's not dead!?"

Zhao Li's face showed confusion at first, then a look of joy, and her eyes revealed anticipation as she stared at Xu Sheng.

In the 1990s, it was not easy for a woman to raise a child.

If there is no adult male in the family, there is a high probability that the family will be eaten up by relatives or neighbors!

It is precisely because of this that single mothers in the countryside tend to be obese, have hot tempers, and are able to act like shrews and argue with others on the street.

Although having a bad personality will make people dislike you, being cowardly will definitely make you get bullied, and your quality of life will be greatly reduced.

Zhao Li is similar. Although her personality was not good in her early years, it was definitely not bad.

It was not until Zhao Jin's death that she gradually became aggressive after seeing those who wanted to wipe out the whole family.

Zhao Hu also learned bad habits and became a gangster.

“A bit like that, a bit like that!”

Looking at the pictures on the notebook, Zhao Li's face showed joy and she was very excited.

“A bit like him!”

The long-forgotten memories in my mind resurfaced in my mind at this moment, and the figure that should have disappeared was retracted at this moment.

"it is good."

Xu Sheng nodded, but did not immediately tell the other party about Zhao Hu's death.

He glanced at the policeman next to him, who immediately went out and brought back a painting.

This is something the portrait artist drew.

A portrait artist is a person who can look at the murderer's movements at the crime scene based on words alone, or even a footprint.
You can draw a character that looks like the murderer himself!
This picture was painted by a portrait artist.

The other party asked the noodle shop owner to describe the situation while he looked at the blurry mosaic painting on the computer screen and finally drew a portrait of a person.

"is it him?"

Xu Sheng leaned over slightly, handed over the portrait, and then stared straight into the other person's eyes.

Zhao Li paused, she stared at the screen for a long time, and after a long while, her rather fat body began to tremble a little.

"It's him!"

"It's him, it's Zhao Jin. He looks a lot like Hu Zi, and he has a very obvious mole on his face!"

Zhao Li became a little excited, and her green bean-sized eyes turned red.

"Where is he!?"

"Why didn't this bastard come home if he wasn't dead? He just came back after fourteen years!"

"Where did he go? Why didn't he drown?"

She looked at Li Sheng and Xu Sheng, and some dirty words came out of her mouth. Although she cursed harshly, her eyes were always on Xu Sheng.

Xu Sheng glanced at the other person and saw that his hands were clenched into fists, vaguely trying to make elbows to stand up.

Tsk, what to say?
At the moment, after the portrait artist, the noodle shop, the similarity of Zhao Hu's appearance, and Zhao Li's identification, it can be slightly confirmed that the other party's identity is Zhao Jin who "drown" fourteen years ago.

But the problem is
How to tell Zhao Li about this?
Oh, does that mean you shouldn’t be happy anymore? Although your man is not dead, he might as well be dead. The other party comes and hangs up and kills the child you have raised for fifteen years?
Or is it that your son is dead and your man killed him?
"Officer? Where is Zhao Jin!?"

There was anticipation in Zhao Li's eyes. He looked at the policeman in front of him and asked anxiously.

Mr. Xu was silent.

He looked at Zhao Li who was expecting something in front of him, opened his mouth, and finally sighed.

"Captain Li, you go ahead and speak."

After saying this, Xu Sheng immediately left the interrogation room.

This woman was wrong, but not to this extent.

There are not many examples of single-parent families being able to develop a normal character, especially in rural areas where the whole family may be destitute. It is good enough for the children to be able to go to school.

Li Sheng looked at Xu Sheng who was leaving, paused, and then sighed.

He looked at Zhao Li, who was looking expectant and calling herself a police officer instead of a cop.

After a long silence, he slowly said:
"Ms. Zhao, after the police investigation, we..."

"Zhao Hu's body was found."

"It is initially suspected that the person who killed Zhao Hu is Zhao Jin."

In an instant, Zhao Li's expression froze and she stood there in a daze.

Xu Sheng was not thinking about Zhao Li. Although he was walking fast, he could still hear the noise coming from the interrogation room even though he was dozens of meters away.

It made his mind very confused. After thinking about it, he simply stopped thinking about Zhao Li.

If this kind of thing happened to anyone, it would directly defeat the other person.

If you face the other person's emotions directly, you will be affected to some extent.

At this juncture, emotional impact can have a huge impact on the progress of the investigation.

Mr. Xu first went to the forensic department and observed the body for a while. After finding nothing, he had no choice but to go find Li Hao.

After trying several shapes, Li Hao found that none of them matched the blurry shapes in the picture. Now he was scratching his head anxiously and fell into deep thought.

The case came to a standstill for a time.

"Tsk, the land temple involves superstition."

In the office, Xu Sheng sat on a chair, closed his eyes, sighed and thought.

Superstition can change a person's spirit and is on a par with religious beliefs or evil things, and are all subject to severe crackdowns by the police.

The only difference is that the latter two are purely rewritten ideas, while superstition is an unverified fantasy.

If superstition and fantasy can be observed by science.
That so-called superstition can also be part of science!

But now we can neither completely deny nor confirm it. However, religion is very harmful, so the police simply swept it up, and only Buddha and God can be spread a little.

And if it involves superstition.
“The skin is peeled off, the skin is dried, and then something is made out of the stalks.”

"Killing your own son? Because of blood relationship? What kind of method is this?"

"There were two victims at the second crime scene. One was a pregnant woman and the other was a five-month-old baby in her belly. The murderer's target was the unborn baby."

"What is his purpose?"

"If it is superstition, what does it involve?"

Xu Sheng fell into deep thought, his mind was full of thoughts, various ideas emerged and were extinguished.

There are many kinds of superstition.

For example, people in coastal areas believe in righteous gods. This is also superstition, but it is indeed a good thing. There are many lively festivals every year for everyone to have fun.

It involves the opposite side.
That is the evil god!
"Embryo of nearly five months"

Xu Sheng murmured, and the bloody piece of meat at the crime scene appeared in his mind.

"The first crime scene, the second set of bowls and chopsticks prepared for someone unknown."

Suddenly, Xu Sheng was stunned. The first crime scene appeared in his mind, with the neatly arranged dishes and chopsticks.

No one has used the dishes!

"."

Suddenly, Xu Sheng's pupils shrank suddenly, he opened his eyes and stood up.

"What's going on?" Li Sheng, who was still sorting out clues on the side, was startled.

"This grandson"

Xu Sheng's face was a little gloomy, and a superstitious thought flashed through his mind.

"Raising a little ghost!"

Raising a little ghost?
In an instant, Li Sheng's face showed surprise.

Raising a little ghost!
(End of this chapter)