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Chapter 5 Murder Curse

This is the only way to make them mine. Their bodies are dead, but their spirits are already in me!
— Edmund Chip
No.19 Headless Female Corpse
After working all night, Gu Feifei didn't look tired. When meeting up with Han Yin in the parking lot of the branch office, she wore a pair of beige slacks, a blue denim shirt, and a white trench coat. .

After getting in the car, Han Yin wanted to make some jokes about her small and fresh outfit, but on second thought, don't ask for trouble.Gu Feifei has always been moody, maybe some words offend her, and make herself embarrassed.No, not long after the car drove out, Gu Feifei actually made fun of him first.

"Mr. Han, are you planning to elope with the outfits you and Team Ye wore last night?"

"Hehe, elope? I really want to! It's a pity that it's for handling the case..." Han Yin laughed twice, and gave a general introduction to the investigation of Xu Sanpi last night.

"Nothing else happened?" Gu Feifei's pink lips parted slightly, revealing her white teeth.

Gu Feifei has always shown people with a cold feeling. Although she smiled so suddenly, although there was a bit of irony, it was enough to make Han Yin feel like the sun was shining.

"Nothing happened! What else do you think will happen?" Han Yin smiled badly, deliberately teasing Gu Feifei.

Gu Feifei gave Han Yin a sideways look, and put on a straight face again, but her tone was still joking, and said angrily, "Don't talk about pulling it down."

"It's really nothing." Han Yin explained, worried that she would not let her go, so he quickly changed the topic to the case, "After taking the DNA sample, how long will it take to see the result at the earliest?"

"With the current equipment, it will take at least two days." Gu Feifei asked, "Do you think there was really someone else who was killed?"

"It's hard to say." Han Yin said helplessly, "It's really hard for me to straighten out my intuition, the harassing phone calls, and the bloody letters left in the dormitory. If it turns out that the victim was indeed Yin Aijun , then who is pretending to be a ghost? Could it be Yu Meifen? If it wasn't her, who else would it be?"

Gu Feifei hesitated for a moment and said, "Have you ever thought about a possibility?"

"What? Let's hear it." Han Yin turned his head and looked at Gu Feifei.

"Maybe it's because..." Gu Feifei paused, raised her hand to straighten her hair, avoided Han Yin's gaze, and turned her face out of the window, "Forget it, I'll talk to you after I think it over."

Gu Feifei retracted halfway through her words, making Han Yin very puzzled, but since she doesn't want to say it now, he can't force it.

City Q is located in the middle of Province S, more than three hours' drive from City J.It takes more than 40 minutes to drive to the city to reach Gaoshen Village, Qianyan Town, where Yin Aijun's family is located in the northern suburbs of the city.

The journey went smoothly. It was just noon when Han Yin drove the car into the village.

The village is not big, very quiet, maybe it is lunch time, there are sporadic pedestrians on the road.There is a river in the middle of the village, the river water is green, and there are geese and ducks playing leisurely.Most of the villagers' houses are built on both sides of the river bank, with blue tiles and gray bricks, densely distributed and messy.

Connecting the two banks of the small river is a wooden bridge, which only allows the next car to pass.Not far from the bridge, I met a villager, and after his guidance, I soon found Yin Aijun's home.

Yin Aijun's house is not far from the river bank. The gate of the courtyard is open. The courtyard is very clean and well-kept. There is a big jujube tree in the middle, with luxuriant branches and leaves, which has grown for quite some years.

Seeing someone looking around outside the courtyard, a one-year-old man came out of the room.

The old man is not tall, with white hair and gentle eyes, he looks like a kind old man.Han Yin guessed that this should be Yin Aijun's father——Yin Dexing.

Sure enough, it was Yin Dexing.After introducing their identities to each other and saying a few words of courtesy, the old man led Han Yin and Gu Feifei into the house.

The house is a carrying room, with a kitchen and dining room in the middle, and two wing rooms carrying things.It looked like they had just had dinner, and an old lady and a woman in her 30s were clearing the table.

The old man said that the older one was his wife, and the younger one was his second daughter, who was one year younger than Yin Aijun and had already married in the city, so she came back today to visit the old man.

After sitting down and chatting a few gossips, Han Yin vaguely proposed to extract the DNA samples of the two elders, but did not give a clear reason.He really didn't know how to explain it to the old man.More than ten years have passed, and although the pain of losing her daughter cannot be completely healed, it must be fading little by little.Han Yin didn't want to bring any groundless hope to the family because of this trip, for fear of disturbing the old man's already peaceful life.Fortunately, the old man didn't ask too many questions, and cooperated to complete the sample collection.Then, the aunt went to boil water to make tea, and the uncle and the youngest daughter talked with Han Yin and Gu Feifei.

The topic naturally revolved around Yin Aijun.

The old man seldom speaks, he basically asks a question, stares at the corner of the table, and always has a gentle smile on his face.The little girl next to her couldn't stop crying when she talked about her sister.She implored Han Yin and Gu Feifei to return her sister's innocence. For so many years, some media and Internet rumors have described her sister as a slutty girl who likes rock and roll and has many boyfriends at the same time, which makes the younger sister very angry.My sister is actually a very quiet, kind, and sensible girl. My sister will not believe her when she dies, and she will hang out with local hooligans.When she was in school, she was one grade lower than her elder sister. The two sisters always went to and from school together. The elder sister never struck up a conversation with strangers, and she often told her to be careful...

What Han Yin is more concerned about is whether there are any unusual things surrounding this family since Yin Aijun was killed, especially recently.

The uncle thought for a while and said, "Not recently. Three or four years ago, a man who claimed to be a reporter came to our house. He brought a lot of presents, all of which were expensive, and left some money, which I confiscated. He also I didn't ask anything, just chatted casually, looked around the house, asked for a few photos of Aijun, and left."

"What does he look like?" Han Yin hoped that the uncle could describe the appearance of the so-called reporter.

The uncle shook his head: "It's been too long, I can't remember clearly, I just remember that I seem to be in my 40s."

"Is there anything else?" Han Yin asked.

The uncle hesitated for a while, and seemed a little hesitant, just as the aunt made tea and brought it up.The old couple looked at each other, the aunt nodded secretly, the uncle hesitated for a while, and then sighed: "There is one more thing, which is quite mysterious, and you may not believe it when you tell it. Back then, your police left some samples and put them away. Aijun was cremated, and I took the urn back and set up a tomb for the child at the Houshan cemetery. One evening after dinner, my wife and I had nothing to do, so we wandered to the cemetery to talk to the child. It was black, but there was still some light. From a long distance, we saw a person standing in front of the child's grave. Her back was facing us. She was very similar to Aijun in terms of figure, height, hairstyle, and clothes. While running, I called Aijun’s name. My wife accidentally slipped and fell behind me. I turned around to help her, and then turned around and the person disappeared. I thought I was dazzled, but my wife said that she saw it very real. I The two of you didn't fall asleep all night when you came back, and you couldn't figure it out..."

"When did that happen?" Han Yin asked.

The uncle said: "I remember it very clearly, it was August the year before last."

"What about after that?" Han Yin asked again.

"No, I saw that once." The uncle replied.

"Two police officers, tell me, is it possible that my sister is still alive?" My sister interjected.

How could Han Yin tell her that this is what they wanted to prove on this trip, so he faltered and said, "You can't make wild guesses about this kind of thing. You have to trust our police, and we will notify you as soon as there is news."

After saying this, Han Yin and Gu Feifei stood up and said goodbye.

Thinking of the two police officers traveling thousands of miles to leave without even finishing their glass of water for the sake of their children, the Yin family felt very sorry, so they tried their best to persuade the two of them to have dinner before leaving.Han Yin and Gu Feifei thanked others for their kindness, but insisted on declining. They were polite to each other, when the harsh sirens suddenly sounded in the village, and a team of policemen ran past Yin's courtyard.Yin Dexing's face tightened, and he said to his wife, "It's not that something happened to Mr. Zhao's child, too?"

"It's hard to tell. Judging by the situation, the child must have been found nearby." Yin Aijun's mother said with a look of horror. After she finished speaking, she probably realized that she had said too much, so she turned her head to her second daughter and said, "Second, It's okay, you pack up and go back to the city, don't come back all the time recently, your dad and I are fine, so you don't need to worry about it."

"Yes, I see." Yin Aijun's younger sister said with a look of horror.

Seeing the tense look of the family, and the secretiveness of their words, Han Yin and Gu Feifei couldn't help but become curious. Han Yin asked, "What's the matter, sir? Has something happened to your village?"

"Something happened, and it's a big deal!" Yin Dexing nodded vigorously and said.

Before Yin Dexing finished speaking, his wife raised his hand and poked him, and said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Why am I talking nonsense? People are also policemen. What are you afraid of?" Yin Dexing glared at his wife, said angrily, and then explained to Han Yin and Gu Feifei in a calm tone, "Don't blame the old lady, it's the police in the town. And the village doesn’t allow it to spread to the outside world.”

Hearing Yin Dexing's tone, Han Yin realized that there must be a big mess in the village, so he sat back on the chair involuntarily, and Gu Feifei beside him also sat down.

Yin Dexing went on to say: "From last month, the second girl of Lao Li's family disappeared for some reason after she got off work from the town. The next morning someone found a sack beside our wooden bridge. When I opened it, it turned out to be a dead body. I can’t tell you the specifics. I heard that the body was cut up in a mess, and later identified through clothes. It belonged to the second girl of the old Li family. A week after this incident, the eldest girl of the old Zhang family disappeared again. He also disappeared after commuting from the town. The next day at noon, he was also packed in a big sack and thrown at the gate of the village committee. It is said that he was also cut into many pieces and his head disappeared. Yesterday, teacher Zhao from the village primary school The girl disappeared after get off work, and it is estimated that the body has just been found."

"This incident is very serious. People from the city have come here. The village specially asked the villagers not to let it go out, saying that the order issued by the town is afraid of affecting the image of our town." Yin Dexing's wife couldn't help but interjected.

"These officials are afraid that something will affect their black hats." Yin Dexing said angrily, "The more you cover it, the more lies are spread in this village. Let me tell you, there are all kinds of rumors now. Some said that the two girls had a bad style, and they acted as honey for the leader, and when the leader played with them enough, they asked someone to silence them; some said that the two of them both worked in the town, and they had little power, so they must be financially unclean. , I guess they were retaliated against; what's more, the rumors were all about my family's Aijun. The two girls were born in the same year as Aijun. There was a flood in the village when they were born, and the shore The Dragon King Temple was destroyed, so now some people are making excuses, saying that the year was not good, first Aijun was killed, and now these two girls, maybe people born in that year will not end well..."

"Isn't this nonsense?" Gu Feifei couldn't help interjecting.

"Yeah, whoever said no, it's too much!" Yin Dexing echoed.

It seems that Yin Dexing's understanding of the situation is still very limited, and the specific situation may not have nothing to do with Yin Aijun.The three girls who were born in the same year were mutilated one after another. Although the time span is very long, there may be some connection between them.Han Yin felt that it was necessary to meet with the local police to learn more about the case and see if he could find a breakthrough.

Section No.20 Clouds and Waves
After leaving Yin's small courtyard, a cordon had been set up on the river bank not far away, and two police officers in water jackets were dragging a large sack from the middle of the river to the bank.A group of police officers on the bank immediately went up to take the sack and put it on the ground. A middle-aged policeman, who looked at his rank and presumed to be the director of the local police station, untied the rope tied to the mouth of the sack and opened a crack.The two leaders who looked like leaders stepped forward to look at each other, nodded to each other, and motioned to the director to fasten the sack again and move it to the police car.

Some police officers stayed to protect the scene and waited for technical survey, while the rest of the police officers carried sacks and evacuated, and the surrounding crowd pointed and made a lot of noise.Suddenly, an old lady in the crowd who seemed to be almost sixty years old screamed "嗤" and passed out on the ground.The stout young man beside him quickly lowered his body to help the old lady up. He choked up and called for his mother, his eyes stared at the sack in the policeman's hand, and he seemed a little at a loss.The director of the police station couldn't bear it, so he walked over to the couple and comforted him: "Xiao Liang, take your mother home first, it may not be your sister, I will let you know if there is any news."

"You must notify us as soon as possible!" the aunt said, sobbing after recovering.

The director of the police station patted the aunt on the arm with a distressed face: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, I know it well."

The director of the police station persuaded Mr. Zhao and his wife to leave, but when they turned around, they were stopped by Han Yin and Gu Feifei.Hearing that the two were from J City Public Security Bureau, the director was very happy, saying that they just wanted to send people to J City to exchange cases!

The director introduced himself as Wu, dragged Han Yin and Gu Feifei to catch up with the people in front, and introduced them to the two leaders who looked like just now.One of them is Yu Bo, the deputy director of the Q City Public Security Bureau, and the other is Fang Dawei, the captain of the city's criminal police team.

The victim in the first case was Li Lan, who worked in the forestry bureau of the town government, and the second victim was Zhang Dan, who worked in the town electricity management office. Both of them were married to young people in the village and lived with their parents-in-law.In addition, the missing teacher Zhao's daughter is the principal of the town kindergarten and lives in the center of the town with her husband.The three performed well at work, had no abnormal relationship between men and women, and had not had any grudges with others recently.After learning about the situation of these three people, the task force found that they were born in the same year as Yin Aijun, and they were classmates in elementary school. The suspected murderer of Yin Aijun committed crimes again, so the task force here is considering whether there is any connection between them?
This is exactly what Han Yin wants to figure out at the moment.He immediately reported the situation to Ye Xi, and Ye Xi consulted the leaders of the bureau, agreeing that Han Yin would stay in Gaoshen Village for the time being, and if it was confirmed that the two cases were related, City J would immediately send additional manpower to jointly handle the case with City Q .Ye Xi also said to reassure Han Yin that City J will conduct investigations according to the previous deployment, and will communicate with him as soon as there is news.In this way, Han Yin stayed in Gaoshen Village, while Gu Feifei drove back alone, taking the time to do DNA testing.

In the evening, the autopsy results were announced.Except for the DNA evidence, which still needs time, the rest of the evidence shows that the female body in the sack fished out of the river is the daughter of Teacher Zhao, Liu Xiaoe.Judging from the strangle marks on the neck of the corpse and the damage to the internal organs, she was strangled to death as in the previous two cases.The heads of the three victims were all cut off from the upper part of their throats, and their naked bodies were cut into two halves, showing signs of violent sexual assault.Judging from vaginal tearing, bleeding, and damage to other parts of the body, it was a rape corpse after death.Liu Xiaoe's thighs were missing, and the belongings of the three people had not been touched, and the head has not been found so far.Due to the corresponding protective measures taken by the murderer, except for the fact that the dismemberment tool was a machete, no evidence was found on the deceased that could link the murderer.It is worth noting that the murderer carved a symbol on the chests of the three deceased. The symbols were very simple: Li Lan carved a horizontal bar "—" on the chest, Zhang Dan carved a vertical bar "|", and Liu Xiaoe carved the same There is a horizontal bar "-", but it is shorter than Li Lan's, about half the length.

Statistics show that Gaoshen Village is about two kilometers away from the town center. The deceased, Li Lan and Zhang Dan, rode electric bikes to and from work on weekdays. On the day of their disappearance, their cars were parked in the parking lot of their unit for some reason, while Liu Xiaoe’s family lived in the town. , five or six minutes walk to the unit.The three disappeared after work on weekdays. At that time, the streets were crowded with people and vehicles. No one witnessed the forced abduction incident. There were no signs of rope binding on the three people, and no scratches from fierce resistance.Based on these characteristics, Han Yin judged that the crime was committed by an acquaintance.

The murderer abducted the victim in the town, but abandoned the headless corpse in the village. The behavior of throwing the corpse implied a strong venting of anger, especially in the choice of the second place for throwing the corpse. The "village committee" is the symbol of power in the village. The murderer threw the body of the deceased Zhang Dan at the gate of the village committee, obviously expressing his strong dissatisfaction with the whole village.From this, Han Yin deduced that the murderer came from Gaoshen Village or had lived in the village. Because of his poor personal situation, he angered the deceased or even the whole village.In his world, he thinks that his ups and downs are due to being treated unfairly by the dead or the village. Of course, this may not be the truth, it is just what he thinks.

In addition, the act of rape clearly reflects a strong desire to "possess", while cutting off the head is a beheading action, which has the meaning of judgment.Combining the behavior of rape and the information of the deceased, the trial is not aimed at the moral shortcomings of the deceased, but more at their behavior towards the murderer.Similarly, collecting heads may also be an act of possession.These all show that there must be some intersection between the murderer and the deceased in their lives.

The symbol left by the murderer on the chest of the deceased may be conveying some kind of information, and perhaps the way he told it reflects a ritualized marking behavior, which means that the murderer will definitely continue to commit crimes.As for whether the "1" corpse dismemberment case or the "18" corpse dismemberment case is related to this series of rural murders, it is still impossible to judge based on the information currently available.The next thing to do is to dig deeper into the intersections between the three victims and Yin Aijun in their lives. Han Yin believes that there must be a kind of intersection that will lead to the murderer.

That night, Han Yin stayed in the police dormitory of Qianyan Town Police Station.The next morning, he held a meeting with the task force. After the meeting, he and director Wu planned to visit the village.But there was an episode in the middle, which delayed them for some time.

Director Wu's car drove not far from the police station when the cell phone in his pocket rang.After answering the call, he turned the car around in a hurry and drove quickly to a commercial street in the center of the town.

There is a wedding photo studio in the middle of this commercial street, which is relatively large in scale compared with the surrounding shops.In the large floor-to-ceiling windows facing the street, there were two plastic models, showing the bride's wedding dress and the groom's dress respectively.Now the glass is smashed and only the "groom" remains, while the "bride" has her wedding dress stripped to the ground and the plastic mannequin stolen.

The reason why Director Wu came to handle this rather big case in person was because the owner of the photo studio was the sister-in-law of a leader above.The ruffian said, "My sister-in-law is half-sister-in-law of my brother-in-law." Although the words were rough, they described the close relationship between brother-in-law and sister-in-law very aptly, and Director Wu dared not neglect.He pretended to take notes in person, inspected the scene, and vowed to solve the case as soon as possible.In his opinion, this case might be just a little ruffian who is bored and playing pranks, and if he finds some time to find a few "regular customers in the office" to beat him, he will almost be able to solve the case.

It was almost noon when they entered the village, and the two went straight to Teacher Zhao's house.

Mr. Zhao's house has the same layout as Yin Aijun's house, with the kitchen and dining room in the middle, and two wing rooms.At this time, Mr. Zhao was lying on a big bed in the east wing with red and swollen eyes and a pale face.Her eyes didn't move, she stared blankly at the ceiling, and she didn't respond when Director Wu and Han Yin entered the room.

His son Liu Liang was making dumplings on a small table next to the bed. He invited the two to sit down apologetically, and said in a low voice, "Since my sister disappeared until now, my mother hasn't had any water or rice. I heard the news last night. After crying all night, I thought about making some of her favorite dumplings and letting her eat some, otherwise I was afraid that her body would not be able to carry it."

"Yes, yes, yes." The director nodded repeatedly, and comforted Teacher Zhao, "Mr. Zhao, please don't do this. You have to eat when you should eat. Don't damage your body."

Hearing the director's words, Teacher Zhao reacted a little, nodded slightly, and then began to cry and sob again.Seeing this scene, Han Yin and the director could only accompany her and wait for her to calm down.

It took a while for Teacher Zhao to stop crying, and Han Yin said softly, "I'm really sorry to disturb you at this time, we hope to catch the murderer who killed your daughter as soon as possible, so I want you to cooperate with us to answer some questions, is that okay? "

"En." With the support of the director, Mr. Zhao barely supported himself and leaned against the head of the bed, and said in a hoarse voice, "You can ask."

"Has your daughter ever had any grudges with anyone in the village?" Han Yin asked.

"No, never." Teacher Zhao shook her head without thinking, "Xiao'e is very popular in the village. She is good at studying since she was a child. She is also very sensible. Everyone in the village likes her. Later, she went to a prestigious university. After graduation, she is willing to return to work in our small town. The town thinks highly of her and asks her to be the principal of the kindergarten, and the children in the village regard her as a role model."

"How is the relationship between her and your son-in-law?" Han Yin asked.

"It's pretty good. The two never quarrel, and the husband and wife get along very well." Teacher Zhao said.

"On the day that Liu Xiao'e disappeared, we had already investigated her husband, and he had no time to commit the crime." Director Wu interjected in the middle.

Han Yinchong nodded to Director Wu, and continued to ask Mr. Zhao: "How is the relationship between your daughter, Li Lan and Zhang Dan?"

"The relationship is very good. They grew up together, and they were both in the class I taught in elementary school. At that time, they played with me almost every day. And Aijun, this child is my favorite. She is honest, stable and motivated. Alas, what a pity, she is also a poor child!"

The three victims and Yin Aijun were of the same age, they were in the same class in elementary school, and they were good friends with each other. Now there is another intersection. Their common class teacher in elementary school was Teacher Zhao.Are these the reasons why the murderer chose them?

Han Yin pondered for a while, and asked Mr. Zhao: "In your impression, have these people done anything outrageous to anyone?"

"How could it be? The children are very good, and my Xiao'e will never hurt others!" Mentioning her daughter, Teacher Zhao burst into tears again.

Seeing that Teacher Zhao couldn't stop sobbing, Han Yin didn't want to ask any more questions, but the questions that should be asked were almost covered, so he got up and said goodbye to Director Wu.

After leaving Mr. Zhao's house, it was time for dinner, and they would continue to visit the village in the afternoon, so the two of them found a small restaurant in the village to have something to eat casually.As a result, as soon as the food was served, before he had eaten a few mouthfuls, the cell phone in Director Wu's pocket rang again.After answering the phone, he was shocked, took out 100 yuan and threw it on the table, dragged Han Yin out of the restaurant, opened the door and yelled: "Teacher Zhao's house has an accident again!"

The two hurried to Mr. Zhao's house and broke into the house, only to see Mr. Zhao passed out with saliva remaining on the corner of his mouth, while Liu Liang was squatting on the ground vomiting continuously with tears all over his face.

The director pulled Liu Liang up hard, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

Liu Liang's body was limp, paralyzed on the director's arm, pointing at the dumplings on the table tremblingly, stammering, "Dumplings...you can eat...human nails...my mother thinks Those are my sister's nails... Could the meat in the dumpling belong to my sister?"

No.20 One-section Human Meat Dumplings
After Han Yin and Director Wu left just now, Liu Liang scrambled to order dumplings.The dumplings were ready to be served. Mr. Zhao didn't want to eat them at first, but seeing his son's filial piety, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he decided to eat a few.In the end, he ate only two, but he found a fingernail. The maternal instinct felt that it was her daughter's fingernail. She fainted in panic. Liu Liang hurriedly called Director Wu.

This is probably how it happened. Director Wu asked Han Yin to stay to comfort the terrified Liu Liang, and drove Mr. Zhao to the village health center for diagnosis and treatment.

After the director left, Han Yin narrowed his eyes and stared at Liu Liang who was sitting beside the bed in shock. After a while, he asked, "Where did the meat for making dumplings come from?"

"I went shopping in the morning and found a convenient bag of meat hanging on the courtyard door. I thought it was a gift from a kind person in the village, so I brought the meat back and cut some to make dumplings." Liu Liang said with a mournful face.

"What about the rest?" Han Yin asked.

Liu Liang pointed to the outside room: "It's in the refrigerator."

Han Yin stared at Liu Liang and thought for a while, then asked, "What do you do?"

"I own a truck and do some small business," Liu Liang said.

"What business?" Han Yin asked.

"Wholesale some small food at the wholesale market in the city, and sell it to small shops in various villages." Liu Liang then added, "I also do some ice cream and beverage wholesale business in summer."

"How's the business?" Han Yin's voice became more amiable.

"Not bad." Liu Liang forced a smile.

"How old are you this year and do you have a girlfriend?" Han Yin asked.

"I'm two years younger than my sister. I'm 33 years old and I don't have a girlfriend yet." Before Han Yin continued to ask, Liu Liang took the initiative to explain, "I want to start a business first and then start a family, and then consider girlfriends when the business grows bigger." thing."

Han Yin pursed his lips and nodded. Director Wu walked into the room at this time, and Liu Liang asked eagerly, "How is my mother?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine, I just got frightened, just take an IV." The director comforted Liu Liang, and then said, "By the way, where did the meat for making dumplings come from?"

The director also raised the issue of meat, and Han Yin explained it for Liu Liang.The director asked Liu Liang to take the remaining meat out of the refrigerator and take it away together with the convenience bag. Then he and Han Yin rushed to the Forensic Medicine Department of the Municipal Bureau to have the meat tested.

The forensic doctor observed with a magnifying glass for a while and said: Judging from the fibers and muscle tissue of the meat, it can be preliminarily concluded that it is human flesh, which is consistent with the lack of skin and flesh on the thigh of the third victim. Further confirmation requires DNA testing.

The forensic doctor's judgment basically confirmed that the meat used to make the dumplings came from Mr. Zhao's daughter Liu Xiaoe.Han Yin and Director Wu couldn't help sighing: The murderer is really cruel!What kind of deep hatred would make him so unconscionable and so cruel to a mother?However, it can be seen from this that the target of the murderer is not only the three murdered girls, but also Mr. Zhao. Could he be a classmate of the three deceased, that is, a student taught by Mr. Zhao?Han Yin suggested to the director: on the one hand, send some people to pay attention to the protection of Mr. Zhao, and on the other hand, check the male classmates who were in the same class as the three girls and are still living in Gaoshen Village.In addition, Han Yin also has some doubts about Mr. Zhao's son Liu Liang, always feeling that his explanation of "meat" is too far-fetched.

Han Yin asked this question to Director Wu, but he didn't want Director Wu to wave his hands again and again, saying that the murderer could never be Liu Liang.He explained: "I know the situation in Gaoshen Village better. When I first arrived at the institute, it was my section, and I managed it for almost five years. Mr. Zhao was the first college student to pass the exam in Gaoshen Village. , after graduation, he gave up the opportunity to be a teacher in a big city, and resolutely returned to his hometown to teach. At that time, Gaoshen Village was very poor, and the primary school in the village was also very simple. Except for Teacher Zhao, there were only a few teachers with low cultural quality. As a private teacher, the teaching tasks of the entire school actually fell on her shoulders. Later, she married a private teacher and gave birth to Liu Xiao'e and Liu Liang. Around the mid-80s, the two divorced due to emotional discord Procedures. Since then, Mr. Zhao raised a pair of children by himself, and has been teaching in Gaoshen Village Primary School until he retired.” Director Wu paused, and said, “The rural people are simple and know how to be grateful. Teacher Zhao is very respectful. On weekdays, anyone who grows fresh vegetables or fresh fruits in the field, or kills a pig or a cow or sheep, will want to give something to Teacher Zhao. As soon as the things were put at the door, they left quietly. Therefore, there is no fuss about Xiao Liang's explanation of the meat, and there is no problem with its credibility."

"It seems that Liu Xiaoe has followed the same path as her mother, and this family deserves respect." Han Yin sighed.

The director's words dispelled Han Yin's suspicion of Liu Liang, so the next step is to focus on investigating the male students who were taught by Mr. Zhao back then, who were in the same class as the victim and who are still in the village.

According to the roster records of Gaoshen Village Primary School, there were 30 students in that class, 14 girls and 16 boys.The task force found that there are 11 boys still living in the village.The task force summoned these 11 people to the town police station at the same time, and interrogated them one by one about their whereabouts at the time of the three incidents.The interrogation lasted all night, and it was almost 6 o'clock in the morning when the last transcript was sorted out.But they can't rest yet. After a while, they will go to the village again to confirm the confessions of 11 suspects.

After being bored in the police station all night, Han Yin and Director Wu came out to get some air, only to find that the whole street was full of water vapor, and there were puddles of water in the low places. It seemed that there had been a lot of rain last night.

When they came out to stretch their waists, move their muscles and bones, and take a breath of fresh air, both Han Yin and Director Wu felt very comfortable, and their stomachs began to bulge.Director Wu proposed to eat a bowl of fresh meat wontons. Before Han Yin could respond, the cell phone in Director Wu’s pocket rang again. After looking at the caller ID, it was Liu Liang who called again. Director Wu’s heart surged. An ominous feeling.

Sure enough, when the phone was connected, Liu Liang shouted hysterically: "Director Wu, come quickly, there is a human head in my yard!"

No.20 Two-section head looking up
On a country morning after the rain, the air is exceptionally fresh.Teacher Zhao pushed open the two windows of the living room, staring at his small courtyard in a daze.Over the past few days, she was immersed in the sad news of her daughter's death, which made her look haggard, and her already thin body became even thinner.

A heavy rain washed the small courtyard clean, and the fresh air mixed with the fragrance of the soil diffused around, and Teacher Zhao's drowsy head became much clearer without realizing it.

Water drops are still dripping from the tile eaves of the side room in the courtyard, and the flowers, plants and trees are also wet. A few unblooming peonies not far from the window fell to the ground with their flower bones soaked in shallow water. in shallow puddles.This is Teacher Zhao's favorite flower.She couldn't help but come out of the house, and lifted up the flower branch pitifully, and then she saw something protruding from the ground, covered with muddy water.She gently wiped off the muddy water, and then let out a heart-piercing scream, her eyes went dark, and she passed out on the ground.

The screams pierced the tranquility of the village. Neighbors in the east and west courtyards heard the sound, worried that something might happen to Mr. Zhao's house. One broke through the gate of the courtyard and the other jumped over the wall. Mr. Zhao's son Liu Liang, who lives in the west wing, also came from The bed bounces.They witnessed such a scene together - Teacher Zhao fell to the ground, beside her was a woman's head with loose black hair and angry eyes, half sunk in the soil!

The sound of sirens once again rang through the village, which seemed to be cursed by the devil.

When Han Yin and Director Wu arrived, some villagers had already gathered at the gate of the small courtyard. They all had frightened eyes, but couldn't help but look around the courtyard curiously.

Push away the crowd and walk into the courtyard.Liu Liang and Teacher Zhao were gone, and the two neighbors who stayed at the scene said that Teacher Zhao was so frightened that she passed out, and Liu Liang sent her to the village health center.Police officers from the forensic and technical departments arrived later and began to clean up the scene, but the cleanup didn't matter, and several heads were found under the peony flowers.

There are a total of four heads from women, three of which belong to Li Lan, Zhang Dan and Liu Xiaoe respectively, and the other is "plastic".They were buried side by side in the soil in a half-up position. The eyes on the head were propped open by toothpicks, and they rushed towards the east wing, which is Teacher Zhao's room, with wide eyes.

If there is no accident, the plastic head should belong to the "bride" lost in the photo studio, and the murderer used it to make up. Maybe it is a real head that he will never get.According to Han Yin's analysis, this plastic head may represent Yin Aijun.From this point of view, the serial murders in the countryside really have something to do with Yin Aijun.And the murderer made a fuss about Teacher Zhao again and again, and even buried her head under the window of her living room in a posture of looking up. Presumably something must have happened to Teacher Zhao and several victims.I don't know if Teacher Zhao didn't think about it for a while, or did she deliberately hide it?Han Yin felt that it was really necessary to have an in-depth talk with Teacher Zhao. Although she was currently in poor physical and mental condition, for the sake of herself and potential victims, she couldn't care less.

During the on-site investigation, Liu Liang came back in a van.Director Wu asked him about Mr. Zhao's physical condition. He said that he had come to life and was receiving an IV in the hospital.Han Yin asked him again, did anyone come here in the past two nights, and did they hear any unusual noises in the middle of the night?Liu Liang thought about it for a while, and said there was nothing unusual.

When the on-site investigation was coming to an end, there was a sudden commotion at the gate of the small courtyard. A middle-aged man in a white coat, while tearing up with the police outside the cordon, jumped up and down and shouted: "Xiao Liang, Xiao Liang! , something happened to your mother, she was killed in the hospital!"

The village health center is composed of a row of one-story houses painted with white walls. The setting is very simple and not formal enough.There is only one doctor on duty at night, who is not only in charge of consultation, but also in charge of injections and infusions.But it's not too hard. Most of the time there are no patients at night, and occasionally there are those who need infusion. After the doctor puts on the drip, why should I continue to do it.

Early in the morning at dawn, Liu Liang sent his mother to the health center.Mr. Zhao, who was infused with the liquid, soon came to his senses. Liu Liang heaved a sigh of relief, and asked the sleepy doctor to take care of him, saying that he would go home to check on the situation and he would be back soon.The doctor readily agreed, but as soon as Liu Liang left, he went back to the duty room to sleep.When he felt that Mr. Zhao was almost finished with the infusion and it was time to pull out the needle, the infusion room was already filled with blood.

Han Yin, director Wu, Liu Liang and a group of police officers were transferred to the village health center as quickly as possible.

In the infusion room, clothes were scattered all over the floor. Teacher Zhao was lying naked on the hospital bed. His head was cut off from the throat, and a deep vertical bar "|" was engraved on his chest, which was longer than the one engraved on Zhang Dan's chest. It had doubled in size, and the body and surroundings of the hospital bed were covered with blood stains.

The forensic doctor further examined the body. Teacher Zhao died of excessive blood loss from the carotid artery cut by a machete. The time of death was between half an hour and an hour from now.His vagina was sutured with silk thread, and there was a looper hanging from the end of the thread. Apparently, both the thread and the needle came from the hospital. It was a bit of a sudden inspiration, and the head was taken away from the scene by the murderer...

It can be said that Mr. Zhao's murder was not only expected by Han Yin, but also unexpected by him.Yesterday, he already had a premonition that Mr. Zhao might be the murderer's next target, and told Director Wu to send some people to protect him, but before the police station had time to take action, the murderer had already started!The interval between the first three cases was about a week, and now the third case was only two days after Mr. Zhao was killed. The murderer committed the crime so quickly, which was indeed beyond Han Yin's expectations.He believes that the murderer enjoys tormenting and destroying Mr. Zhao's psychology very much, so he should not be eager to let his prey escape prematurely, unless he has achieved the effect he imagined in advance, or smells some kind of danger.

So far, the murderer has left a long horizontal bar, a short vertical bar, a short horizontal bar, and a long vertical bar on the four deceased.According to Han Yin's analysis, the few symbols left by the murderer should be able to form a certain text or some kind of graphics.A long vertical bar and a long horizontal bar can form a "ten" character. If a short horizontal bar is added on top, it is a "dry" character, and a short horizontal bar is added below to form a "shi", and a short vertical bar can be added. No matter where the bar is added, it is difficult to form a word.If you change the angle, the long horizontal bar, the long vertical bar and the short horizontal bar can form a character "上", and adding a short vertical bar is like a "stop". If Yin Aijun represents a "long horizontal bar", then It is very likely to form a "Zheng" character. If it is a "Zheng" character, what can it represent?There is another question, is the murderer's stroke delivered completely?In short, what kind of words and graphics can be formed really confuses the task force.It seems that if you want to find a breakthrough in the case, you have to work hard on the victim.

Right now, Han Yin is convinced that Mr. Zhao and the girls must be involved in a certain incident, and this incident will not be positive, otherwise, how could they be so madly retaliated by the murderer?However, after in-depth interviews with the victim's family and some villagers, there is no information to support Han Yin's judgment.In addition, the 11 suspects interrogated last night all had sufficient evidence that they were not at the scene when the crime happened.In this way, the case has entered a dead end, what should I do?If no effective information can be obtained from known victims, can we try to find breakthroughs from potential victims?But the premise must be to find her first, and she must be found before the murderer commits another crime.

Potential victims should meet the following conditions, or be one of several conditions: the same age as the first three victims, the same class in elementary school, close relationship with each other, close relationship with Teacher Zhao, and frequent visits to Teacher Zhao's home.Han Yin hopes that Liu Liang, the son of Mr. Zhao and Liu Xiao'e's younger brother, can think of such a name.

No.20 The Curse of the Gods in Three Sections
The next day, Teacher Zhao's house.

In just a few days, my sister and mother were murdered one after another, which is unbearable for anyone, not to mention that no one can predict whether it will be Liu Liang's turn next.Overnight, Liu Liang seemed to have aged a lot, curled up on his mother's bed with a sallow complexion, unkempt hair, and an unshaven beard.Dry tears can still be seen vaguely in the corner of his eyes, and his body shakes slightly when he speaks, I don't know if he is too deeply sad or shaken.

Also in the same situation as Liu Liang, and empathetic, is his brother-in-law He Jun. He also looks tired and sad, but he looks calmer than Liu Liang.He sat by the bed and comforted Liu Liang from time to time, but judging from the body language of the two, Han Yin felt that the relationship between the brother-in-law and the brother-in-law was not very close.

Regarding Han Yin's so-called potential victim, Liu Liang said: It's been too long, and he can't remember clearly.In his impression, many students taught by Mr. Zhao often came to play at home. He didn't pay much attention to who often played with his sister, Li Lan and Zhang Dan, and those girls didn't always play together. come together.

Han Yin had no choice but to find another way, and asked Mr. Zhao if he had the habit of keeping a diary. He thought that maybe he could get a glimpse of Mr. Zhao's unknown experience from the diary, but Liu Liang shook his head again and said no. Do you have a photo album at home?"

"Yes." It was his brother-in-law He Jun who answered for Liu Liang. After he finished speaking, he took out a few photo albums from the cabinet under the writing desk beside the bed and handed them to Han Yin and Director Wu.Then he pointed to the two large photo frames hanging on the wall above the bed and said, "There are also many photos of students and mother-in-law there."

"Yes, there are some here, I don't know if it will be useful to you." Liu Liang moved his body, turned his head to look at the photo frame on the wall, and turned back to echo.

Suddenly, Liu Liang suddenly turned around again, stared at one of the big photo frames with wide eyes, pointed to a photo inside and said "Hey" and said: "Director Wu, this photo shows my sister, Li Lan and Zhang Dan , yes, and Yin Aijun..."

"What?" Han Yin and Director Wu hurriedly put down the photo album in their hands, bounced off the chair and walked to the bed, approaching the photo frame.

The photo frame hanging above Mr. Zhao's bed is hard to see in the city nowadays. It is an old-fashioned large photo frame, and multiple photos can be placed in it at the same time.In the two big photo frames, there are almost all photos of Teacher Zhao and her students. It seems that the greatest wealth of Teacher Zhao's life is her students.

The photo that Liu Liang mentioned was a group photo of five girls, including the three victims in the case and Yin Aijun.It looked like they were only in their teens at the time, and the five children were standing in front of a big tree, posing cutely.

"Is this photo related to our case? There is no teacher Zhao here?" Seeing Han Yin staring at the photo and not talking, Director Wu couldn't help asking tentatively.

"Oh, maybe it was taken by my mother-in-law." He Jun followed Director Wu's words and said, "My mother-in-law's only hobby is photography."

"Yes, my mother was very fond of photography when she was young. She often took her students out for outings and took pictures of them." Liu Liang agreed with her brother-in-law's guess.

"The photo was taken by Teacher Zhao. Four of the five children have been killed. This is by no means a coincidence." Han Yin said in a deep voice, paused, pointed to a girl in the photo and asked Liu Liang, "Now only her She's still alive, what's her name?"

Liu Liang thought hard, frowned and said, "It seems to be called Huang, Huang Ling, yes, it's called Huang Ling, and her family lives next door to Yin Aijun's."

"Can you tell where the photo was taken?" Han Yin asked again.

"I know this." Director Wu rushed to say, "The photo should be taken under the thousand-year-old juniper tree in Yongxiang Temple in Beishan, right?"

"Yes." Liu Liang nodded.

"Can we borrow the photo?" Han Yin asked.

"Of course." Liu Liangliang nodded and motioned to her brother-in-law.He Jun raised his hand to take off the photo frame, opened the back seal, and took out the photo to Han Yin.

Han Yin took the photo, took a closer look at it, then raised his hand to express his thanks, and then said goodbye to Director Wu.

After leaving Teacher Zhao's small courtyard, Director Wu couldn't wait to ask: "Why did the murderer kill the five girls in the photo? What kind of trouble will they have with him?"

"I'm also confused now, but let's ignore him. The most important thing now is to protect Huang Ling immediately. She should be the murderer's next target!" Han Yin said.

"Then hurry up and go to her house to see." Director Wu said.

Gaoshen Village itself is not big, and the villagers live in a relatively concentrated place. It took less than 10 minutes for Han Yin and Director Wu to arrive at Huang Ling's house from Mr. Zhao's house.

Huang Ling's parents are both at home. They admit that Huang Ling is the eldest daughter of their family, but they are not clear about her current situation and contact information. They only say that she left home to work and has not contacted her family for many years. Let's make a gesture of seeing off guests.

Obviously, Huang Ling's parents don't want to mention this daughter more, and they don't welcome the arrival of Han Yin and Director Wu. It seems that there are deep conflicts between the parents and the daughter, but now they don't care about guessing what happened between them. The reason for the contradiction is that it is important to find Huang Ling immediately.

Director Wu patiently explained the stakes to the old couple. Unexpectedly, they said in unison: "It's best to die! Just pretend that this daughter has never been born!"

Where do parents curse their daughters like this?What kind of deep hatred can parents and children have, so much that they don't even care about their daughter's life!No matter how Han Yin and Director Wu did their work, the old couple insisted that they did not know their daughter's whereabouts.Helpless, Han Yin and Director Wu had no choice but to leave in despair.

After leaving Huang Ling's house, the two went directly to Yin Aijun's house next door.The main reason is to let Yin Dexing take a look at the group photo of the five girls, maybe he can think of something after seeing the photo, and ask about Huang Ling's situation by the way.

Yin Dexing warmly greeted the two to sit down and made two cups of hot tea for them.He took a look at the photo handed over by Han Yin, said that he also had one at home, and asked what Han Yin meant by showing him the photo.Han Yin pointed out that his daughter was included in the photo, and four people had been killed.When Han Yin reminded him, Yin Dexing was suddenly stunned.

"What's the matter? Did you remember anything?" Seeing Yin Dexing's shocked look, Han Yin asked hastily.

Yin Dexing ignored Han Yin's question, looked at the photo, took a deep breath, and said to himself: "Could it be, is the curse really effective?!"

"What curse?" Director Wu urged, "What kind of curse is it, tell me quickly!"

"They disturbed the 'tree god' and were punished by the tree god!" Yin Dexing said with a sigh, pointing to the big tree behind the children in the photo.

"You mean, these children were killed because they disrespected the thousand-year-old juniper tree?" Director Wu asked with wide-eyed eyes.

Yin Dexing nodded: "It's all retribution!"

"Uncle, please tell us carefully, what's going on?" Han Yin was also a little anxious, he had a premonition that the case would usher in a major breakthrough.

"It's a long time to talk about it." Yin Dexing took a sip of water from his teacup and said calmly, "Director Wu should know that there is a Yongxiang Temple on our northern mountain. The older generation said that it was the early Northern Song Dynasty It was built, and the juniper tree was planted at that time, and it has a history of thousands of years. It is said that this thousand-year-old juniper tree is quite spiritual. People in the village respect it as a tree god for generations, and they will burn incense and worship it every year and festival. , good luck."

"When I was a policeman in charge of the area, I also heard people in the village talk about it." The director continued, "It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, a group of Japanese devils captured the women in the village and raped them under that tree. The devils all died suddenly the next day, and the strange thing is that they didn't have any wounds on their bodies; I also heard that during the Cultural Revolution, some rebels insisted on sawing down the tree by so-called abolishing the four olds and feudal superstitions. After sawing for a short while, the tree actually oozes red sap like blood, and the rebels dare not saw it anymore, and the few people who took the lead in sawing the tree all got a strange disease and died soon after..."

To be honest, Han Yin is not interested in this kind of "legend of ancient trees". It seems that there are similar horror stories in rumors or novels in many places, so he interrupted Director Wu and urged Yin Dexing to say: "Uncle, let's talk about it." Something about the child in the photo."

Yin Dexing seemed to be a little bit unsatisfied. He followed Director Wu's words and continued: "The rebels didn't dare to continue sawing trees, but they smashed Yongxiang Temple. They drove away all the monks in it and took away the worshipers. All the god statues were knocked down and smashed, and several houses in the monastery were also demolished. Later, in the early 80s, a crazy monk came from nowhere and took it as his shelter. He was crazy all day long, but Yongxiang Temple has been repaired to some extent. He claims to be the guardian of the tree god, and beats some children who often climb on the tree to dig out bird eggs, but he has a very good attitude towards the villagers who worship the tree. Gradually, the village Some of the people around him confusedly took him as the abbot of Yongxiang Temple." Seeing Han Yin frowning and looking a little impatient, Yin Dexing quickly got back to business, "Okay, okay, let's talk about the children. The children are all about the same age They were all 12 years old when the photo was taken. That day Teacher Zhao took them to the mountain for an outing, and stopped by to play in Yongxiang Temple. The children were young and ignorant, and on a whim, they used sharp stones and the pencil sharpener they carried with them. They engraved words on the thousand-year-old juniper tree as a souvenir, and asked Teacher Zhao to take pictures of them. Teacher Zhao is a literate person who has lived in a big city and does not believe in feudal superstition. In the end, the crazy monk saw them, and he chased the children, insulting and beating them violently. Mr. Zhao went up to argue, and they fought with him. Later, when Aijun came back, he said that the crazy monk could not beat Zhao Teacher, curse them that they will definitely suffer retribution, saying that they hurt the tree god and destroyed the peace of the Buddhist holy land, and they will die in the future! It’s strange, I don’t know if it’s because they were frightened, or the tree god is really spiritual. The children had stomachaches and high fevers that night. With the guidance of the older generation in the village, the parents of those children and I went to the temple to offer incense to the tree god and burn some paper money, and the children were fine. Yes. I thought that even if I escaped that catastrophe, who knows that I will still suffer retribution now. If I had known this, I should have done a ritual ceremony at the beginning to ask the tree god’s forgiveness for the children. Maybe my Aijun and those children There will be no misfortune.”

Seeing that Yin Dexing couldn't stop blaming himself, Han Yin comforted him: "Don't be sad, maybe it's just a coincidence, the murder of those girls may not be related to the mad monk's curse. Besides, judging from the current situation, even if it is related, your daughter Yin Aijun was only involved to make up the numbers, and her case should have nothing to do with the case in the village."

"No, it's not a coincidence." Yin Dexing shook his head repeatedly. "A month ago, that crazy monk appeared in the village. Maybe he came back suddenly to take revenge on the village, those children and Teacher Zhao."

"'Back suddenly', how do you say?" Han Yin asked puzzled.

"It's like this," Director Wu explained for Yin Dexing, "About the end of 1999, the thousand-year-old juniper tree was listed as a key provincial-level cultural relic protection object by the National Cultural Relics Protection Organization, and Yongxiang Temple was built in the village. Please Bring some monks to act as a facade and develop it into a tourist attraction, and the nameless crazy monks will naturally be driven away."

"Yes, Director Wu is right, the crazy monk was indeed driven away by the village at that time." Yin Dexing nodded.

"If this is the case, the crazy monk does have a motive for revenge, and it is in line with his previous profile of the murderer, and the timing of his appearance is also very consistent, then the next one may be Huang Ling's turn." Han Yin thought in his heart. Thinking secretly, he suddenly thought of Huang Ling, and he hurriedly asked Yin Dexing: "Uncle, what happened to this girl Huang Ling? Her family doesn't seem to care about her life or death."

When Huang Ling was mentioned, Yin Dexing also seemed to avoid it. Han Yin quickly explained the relationship between him and the case, and Yin Dexing nodded in embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "Huang Ling is a scum of the old Huang family. It's not related to your case. I don't know how to gossip behind people's backs. This Huang Ling likes to hang out with some ruffians in the village since she was a child, and dresses herself up like a fairy. She hooked up with others, stole other men, and did all kinds of immoral things, which pissed her mother to death. Now this mother is her father's continuation." Yin Dexing followed up with an explanation, and continued, "Her father gave her After marrying a stepmother, the child became even more presumptuous. She quarreled with her stepmother all day long, and then went to the city to fool around. There was no news for many years. According to many people in the village, this child works as a singing hall in our city Miss, accompanying people to sing and sleep with others is to embarrass the ancestors of the old Huang family. The old Huang family thinks they don't have this child, and they are especially jealous of others mentioning her in front of them."

After listening to Yin Dexing's words, Han Yin and Director Wu realized why Huang Ling's parents had such an attitude.But no matter what kind of person Huang Ling is, the police have the responsibility to protect her. The key now is how to find her in the urban area.If the police can't find her, can the killer be found?
Han Yin discussed with Director Wu: Director Wu rushed back to the town immediately, reported the situation to the special case team, issued an investigation report to each sub-bureau police station, searched for the suspect crazy monk, and looked for Huang Ling in entertainment venues .And Han Yin went to Yongxiang Temple in Beishan to find out if the crazy monk had appeared there.

After the division of labor was completed, Director Wu drove away quickly, and Yin Dexing rode his own motorcycle to drive Han Yin to Yongxiang Temple.

Yongxiang Temple is similar to a small courtyard, consisting of a gatehouse, a main hall and two side halls. The entire temple occupies a small area, but the juniper tree in the middle of the courtyard is extremely majestic.It is about as high as a ten-story building, and it takes five or six adults to surround it. There are countless strips of red cloth used to pray for blessings tied to the surrounding railings.The small courtyard is filled with incense, and Buddhist symbols are painted on the wall, creating a strong temple atmosphere.

The monk in the temple said: A monk did visit the temple a month ago, but he disappeared after only staying for two days, and the rest of the situation is not clear.

Later, Yin Dexing rode a motorcycle and sent Han Yin back to the town police station.

Director Wu went with the special case team to carry out the search mission, but he was not in the office. Han Yin called him and told him about the situation at Yongxiang Temple. The director also said that the search for the suspect and Huang Ling has not yet found any clues. .Han Yin also said that now it can basically be judged that the case in J city has nothing to do with the murder case in the village, and the reason why Yin Aijun was involved was because the crazy monk wanted to fully explain his curse.In this case, there is no need for Han Yin to stay any longer. He is going to pack up and return to City J immediately.Director Wu disagreed, and asked Han Yin to stay one more night to help them solve the case from the beginning, and there were still scratches on the victim's body that had not been deciphered, so he also asked Han Yin to help think about it.Director Wu repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, but Han Yin's kindness could not be rejected, so he had to agree.

Han Yin sat in Director Wu's office, fascinated by the group photo of the five children.In his mind, he pieced together the scratches on the three children and Mr. Zhao.If it is a "positive", does it mean "upright"?But now there are five children plus one Teacher Zhao, obviously one more stroke. It seems that this explanation does not make sense.

Han Yin's eyes fell on the hand of a child in the photo, and the child pointed to the juniper tree to be complacent.Following the direction of his fingers, Han Yin saw that there seemed to be a pattern on the juniper tree, which might have been carved by the child.The pattern is difficult to see clearly on the photo with the naked eye. Han Yin asked the staff in the institute to use a scanner to scan the photo into the computer and enlarge it through software technology.He saw that the child carved on the tree was the same as the Buddhist symbol pattern he saw on the temple wall. Perhaps that symbol was painted on the temple wall at that time, and the child carved it on the tree on a whim.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Han Yin's mind: If Yin Aijun is the first stroke, Huang Ling is the last stroke, if Yin Aijun represents a short vertical bar (-), Huang Ling represents a short horizontal bar (- ), then with Li Lan’s long horizontal bar (—), Zhang Dan’s short vertical bar (-), Liu Xiao’e’s short horizontal bar (-), and Mr. Zhao’s long vertical bar (|), it just forms Is it an auspicious symbol of Buddhism?It turned out that the murderer wanted to form a "Swastika (ten thousand)" character!

Sure enough, the deaths of Teacher Zhao and the three girls were indeed related to photos, tree gods, religion, and curses. From this perspective, the crazy monk is likely to be the murderer, but there are also contradictions:
The mad monk killed the three girls and Teacher Zhao because they hurt the tree god and destroyed the peace of the temple, so he wanted to punish them.But why did he rape the corpse?As a person who is obsessed with Buddhism, how could he do such an adulterous thing?In Buddhism, if you commit adultery, you will go to hell.If a mad monk kills people because he entrusts himself with a sacred mission, then rape the corpse, cut off the flesh of someone else's daughter and give it to the mother, and collect the head and bury it under someone's window, it is an evil act, and the two are contrary.In other words, there is a certain contradiction between the behavior of the crazy monk and the motive of the murder.Of course, maybe he is a lunatic, and there is no logic to follow in doing things.

When the evidence gradually pointed to the crazy monk, Han Yin suddenly hesitated...

No.20 Four Sections in the Name of Love
While waiting for director Wu to come back, Han Yin called Ye Xi, explained the situation here, and said that regardless of the outcome of the case here, he would leave early tomorrow morning and return to City J.It just so happened that Ye Xi wanted to talk to him about the DNA test results and Ma Wentao's information.

After comparing the results of the DNA test, the victim of the "1" body dismemberment case and Yin Dexing were confirmed to be father-daughter, that is to say, the victim was indeed Yin Aijun.However, the DNA test on the blood on the glass of the Gudu University dormitory can rule out Yin Aijun’s remains, but the test results are the same as the saliva left on the mineral water bottle that Ye Xi picked up at KFC on Huabei Road, and it came from the same woman.

In addition, according to a bookstore owner who opened a bookstore on the same street as Ma Wentao at the time: After Wentao’s bookstore was demolished, Ma Wentao disposed of the accumulated books cheaply, saying that he wanted to return to his hometown to write with peace of mind, and he never heard from him again. information.

Han Yin still attaches great importance to Ma Wentao's line.Judging from some of his background information and the clues provided by Xu Sanpi, this person is very likely to be the murderer of the "1" corpse dismemberment case.Therefore, Han Yin decided to temporarily change the plan. He told Ye Xi that he would not return to City J tomorrow, and that he would go directly to Ma Wentao's hometown to investigate, and asked Ye Xi to send the address of Ma Wentao's hometown recorded in the previous file to his mobile phone. superior.

In the evening, Huang Ling's body appeared beside the wooden bridge.

She leaned against the wooden pier at the end of the bridge, staring into the distance with her eyes fixed. There was a horizontal choke mark around her neck and throat. The clothes on her upper body were stripped off, revealing her plump breasts. Print expected - a short horizontal bar.In addition, the murderer did not further abuse Huang Ling's body.Her head had not been severed, and the skirt was still on her hips.A preliminary forensic examination at the scene found no signs of adultery.Huang Ling has long hair, and there are sticky things sticking to a few strands of hair, which seems to be a kind of syrup. After careful examination by the forensic doctor, it was found to be cola.

"Hey! We dispatched so many people and failed to get ahead of the murderer. It's so fucking suffocating." Knowing who the murderer will attack next, but still unable to protect the victim is a big setback for any policeman .Director Wu looked frustrated, sighed, and couldn't help swearing: "There are so many policemen in the urban area and town, and the situation is so tense. The murderer still commits crimes against the wind, and he is too fucking arrogant! It seems that his desire to kill It's unstoppable."

"No!" Han Yin stared at Huang Ling, shook his head slightly and said, "On the contrary, the murderer is degenerating, whether it is his desire or the way of killing. Judging from the evidence so far, Huang Ling is the murderer. The last goal in the entire murder plan, that is to say, this is his finishing touch. The murderer has been very successful in his previous crimes, his sense of satisfaction and accomplishment is gradually increasing, and his desire to kill will become stronger , so when faced with the ending work, he must very much hope to present it more perfect, what he did on Huang Ling will only be more, instead of just killing her like now, leaving a scar on her chest It's just 'strokes'. This makes me feel that the murderer has lost interest in killing people, as if killing Huang Ling was just to make up the number of people on the 'photo', to complete the 'Swastika' combination..."

"Then what do you mean?" Director Wu couldn't help interrupting Han Yin.

Han Yin didn't go on talking, stared at Huang Ling's body thoughtfully for a moment, then turned to director Wu and said softly, "Let's talk about it when we go back to the institute." After speaking, he left everyone behind and left first.

The current superficial evidence basically points to the crazy monk, so the task force issued arrest warrants to various units.But Han Yin chose to avoid it for the time being. He needed to find a quiet place to go over the case from beginning to end.

At this time, Han Yin stayed alone in the police dormitory, and the details of the case flashed through his mind like a movie.

The crazy monk appeared in Gaoshen Village about a month ago. Not long after, the murders began to happen, one week apart from each other. Li Lan, Zhang Dan, and Liu Xiao'e were killed one after another, and their heads were beheaded and their corpses raped.On the night or the next day when Liu Xiaoe’s body appeared, the flesh on her thigh was sent back to her home. The heads of her and the other two victims, as well as the plastic head representing Yin Aijun, should have been quietly buried under Teacher Zhao’s window at that time.Then the head was washed out of the soil by the heavy rain. Teacher Zhao was frightened and sent to the hospital, where he died miserably.Then the photos appeared, and Han Yin and Director Wu discovered the intersection that might have caused the death of the deceased. Following this intersection, they led to the curse of the juniper tree god in Yongxiang Temple and the mad monk. Zooming in on the photo deciphered the scratches left by the murderer, and then deduced the murderer's final target, Huang Ling, but soon Huang Ling was perfunctorily killed and thrown on the bridge at will.

Thinking over the whole process of the case, Han Yin found that the murderer actually worked the most on Mr. Zhao.Not only did she use her daughter's flesh to torture her who was already in grief, but she also buried the heads of her favorite students under her window in a posture of looking up. Yes: Don't you like them to circle around you?Then let them guard you forever!Also, Mr. Zhao was hacked to death, which is much crueler than the murderer killing several other people. Moreover, the murderer’s method of treating Mr. Zhao’s private parts is even more shocking. Stitching the genitals to death may mean more A strong desire to possess!

Could it be that Mr. Zhao is the real root of the murderer?The so-called curse killing is just a cover?
Han Yin started to intervene in the case when Liu Xiaoe's body appeared. It was only three or four days ago. In the past few days, he and Director Wu have been chasing the murderer's footsteps, exhausted, and rarely have a chance to calm down and carefully examine the murderer's behavior. evidence.At this time, he suddenly discovered that they seemed to have been led by the nose by the murderer, and they were stepping into a well-designed trap step by step.

At this moment, Han Yin suddenly thought of a very simple truth.

Assuming there are two people, A and B, if A repeatedly teases B, then only by seeing B's embarrassment after being teased, can A feel the excitement and sense of accomplishment of controlling the situation to the maximum.

The murderer sent Liu Xiaoe's leg flesh back to Teacher Zhao and buried her student's head under her window. Don't you know that they have been looking up at her from under her window.This kind of secret control and teasing must make the murderer feel very exciting. Then, who would have the opportunity to experience this personally?
The crazy monk obviously didn't have the opportunity to get in touch with Teacher Zhao like this, nor did he have the ability to deceive the four girls without a trace, and he didn't have the tools to throw the corpse.The only person who can have direct contact with Teacher Zhao, who has a close relationship with the four girls, who has the ability to make them let go of their guard, and who owns a body-disposal tool that conceals people's eyes, is Liu Xiao'e's own brother and Teacher Zhao's own son—— Liu Liang!
When Han Yin focused his attention on Liu Liang, he suddenly discovered that in the last case, he had already left a loophole.Liu Liang said that he was also in the beverage business, so could the Coke on Huang Ling's hair be stained from his van?Han Yin felt that there was no longer any delay, and the matter should not be delayed. He immediately called Director Wu and asked him to contact the special case team. He immediately dispatched a group of people to Liu Liang's house and sealed up his van for investigation. Evidence that directly established a connection with the deceased Huang Ling was able to be found.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Han Yin and Director Wu came to Liu Liang's house quietly with a group of people.Liu Liang may have fallen asleep, the courtyard was dark.The van was parked at the gate of the courtyard, and the door of the van was unlocked. Han Yin motioned for the technicians to go up and investigate.

Shortly after, the technician got out of the car and said that he found several hairs, which should belong to women judging from their length.From this point of view, Han Yin's analysis is correct, and Liu Liang is likely to be the murderer of a series of murders.

Director Wu ordered the technicians to go back quickly to compare the hair with Huang Ling's hair for DNA comparison, while he and Han Yin decided to enter the house to test Liu Liang.

The courtyard door was not locked, and it opened with a slight push. When they walked to the main room, director Wu wanted to knock on the door, but as soon as his hand touched the door, the door opened, as if Liu Liang deliberately left the door for them. like.

Walking into the house, Liu Liang's snoring came from the east wing, and the two entered the east wing with a flashlight.

"Get up, Liu Liang, we have something to ask you."

Director Wu took the flashlight and yelled in the direction of the bed, but suddenly his body trembled, and the flashlight almost fell to the ground.And Han Yin beside him shrank instinctively, and took a few steps back...

Before entering this room, Han Yin and Director Wu had already basically determined that Liu Liang was the murderer, but they still lacked some psychological preparation for the scene before them—Liu Liang was lying soundly asleep on his mother's bed, with his arms in his arms. It was the mother's head that was covered.

"Get up! Get up! Get up the fuck! Are you still a human? You bastard!" Director Wu regained his composure and roared excitedly, his voice changing his tune.

Seeing that Liu Liang was indifferent and still sound asleep, the director rushed to the bed and grabbed Liu Liang's hair, forcefully dragging him from the bed to the floor.When Han Yin went up, he twisted his arms behind his back and handcuffed him.

Liu Liang opened his eyes slowly at this time, as if he had expected it, he saw that Han Yin and director Wu were not flustered, but yawned, and muttered: "You are here!" Then Looking at the mother's head that rolled to the ground, she showed a strange smile...

Liu Liang was taken directly to the criminal police team of the Q City Public Security Bureau.

Since it has been confirmed that the serial murders in Gaoshen Village have nothing to do with the case in J City, Han Yin was naturally excluded from the interrogation.The interrogation of Liu Liang was carried out by Yu Bo and Fang Dawei, the chief and deputy leaders of the special case team. Han Yin, Director Wu and others could only sit in the observation room next door and watch the interrogation through the one-way transparent glass.

It should be said that the interrogation went very smoothly. Liu Liang explained the details of his crime quite frankly, but when he continued to ask about his motive for committing the crime, he suddenly fell silent.Yu Bo and Fang Dawei, who were in charge of the interrogation, were puzzled. Since he confessed to his crime, why did he refuse to explain his motive for committing the crime?If the murderer's motive for committing the crime is not clear, it would be a great pity for the whole case.

Then the two used their usual interrogation strategy, sometimes patiently persuading, sometimes sternly yelling: "You have killed so many innocent girls, you have to explain to their parents, right?"... "Tell me, what happened?" The hatred against your sister and mother made you so ruthless?"... "I'm sure you'll be shot, if you still have any humanity, let your mother and those girls die more clearly!"..." Don't think that if you don't explain, we don't know. What can a person like you who is devoid of humanity and conscience have in his head? Other than hatred or hatred, isn't it..."

It can be said that the two leaders tried their best, tried their best, and tried their best, but Liu Liang remained unmoved, just watched them with gentle eyes, and didn't say a word.In desperation, the two had no choice but to put Liu Liang aside first, and came out of the interrogation room to discuss countermeasures.

"Can I try it?" Han Yin moved to the two of them and volunteered.

It should be said that Han Yin contributed a lot to the successful resolution of the case, and the two leaders of the task force knew this well.There is no need to discuss Han Yin's ability, they recognize it very much in their hearts.Under the current circumstances, it is not a bad idea to let Han Yin try.The two leaders looked at each other, Yu Bo gave Fang Dawei a slight nod, and Fang Dawei led Han Yin into the interrogation room.

After sitting down, Han Yin first nodded to Liu Liangliang to say hello, and Liu Liang actually nodded twice in response.

Han Yin stared into Liu Liang's eyes, and Liu Liang didn't evade, choosing to meet his gaze.After a while, Han Yin smiled and said lightly: "It's because of love, right?"

A gleam of light flashed in Liu Liang's eyes, he pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "You caught me?"

"Yeah." Han Yin nodded and continued, "I know you don't hate them, you just want to have them. If you don't say it, everyone will misunderstand you. Would you like to share it with me?"

Liu Liang looked at Han Yin silently. After a while, he blinked, nodded slightly and said, "Where do you want me to start?"

"Let's start from the beginning." Han Yin said immediately.

"Okay." Liu Liang breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his eyes and stared at the corner of the table, and said softly, "Actually, what you see is not all about my mother. Maybe she has exhausted all her kindness and patience when facing those students. Be patient, but when she comes home, she looks like an angry tiger. Of course, my sister is an exception. Her excellent academic performance is in stark contrast to my poor student, so when my mother is in a bad mood, she will only express her anger The anger and resentment were spread on me and my father. Finally one day, my father couldn't stand my mother's strength, so he chose to divorce her and went to another place! But I was still young, and I had to stay at that home. But I didn't expect it, because I Inheriting my father's appearance, actually aroused my mother's deeper hatred and resentment. She didn't even want to see me, so she drove me, who was only nine years old at the time, to live with my grandma. I felt as if I was abandoned and very lonely Not long after, my grandma died of illness, and I returned to my home. But my mother didn’t want me to live in the main house, saying that there were only two rooms in the house, and she and my sister shared one room. It is inconvenient to live together, so I was asked to live in a side room in the yard. It was originally used for storing sundries, next to the toilet, very humid, with only one small window, no electric lights, and only candles at night. So, in' In the dark', I felt more abandoned and lonely, and at the same time had a deep inferiority complex, and I became unable to communicate with people, especially girls. There are many students of my mother who haunts the house every day, it may be the mother Their attitude towards me affected them. No one of them would talk to me, let alone play with me. I was just a piece of air in that house, and no one paid attention to me, and no one cared about me. In fact, They don't know how much I want to communicate with them, how much I want to get their attention, how much I want to get the same care and love my mother has for them! But all I get is my mother's endless roars and angry roars..."

Liu Liang sucked his nose a few times, and the corners of his eyes seemed a little moist. "I don't know when, I started fantasizing about killing my mother. Time and time again, I sneaked into her room at night, fantasizing about killing her with a hammer and slicing her throat with a machete so that she couldn't rush. I yelled. I fantasized about sealing her pussy. If she didn't like me so much, why did I have to be born? But fantasies are just fantasies, and I didn't have the courage to make it a reality, so I vented my anger at home my dog ​​and my neighbor's cat. I dismembered them, and I suddenly felt that I didn't have nothing, at least those cats and dogs would never abandon me again. So I began to look forward to owning more, I hoped To take back what is rightfully mine, I am waiting for that day to come."

"Coincidentally, more than a month ago, the crazy monk took my car back to the city. He asked me whose child I was from. When I reported my mother's name and identity, he recalled cursing the mother and child back then. He told me what happened as a joke, and I suddenly had the inspiration to use the crazy monk as my scapegoat. So I killed him, and then started to plan a perfect killing plan... And when I really The moment I killed my mother, I felt that my life was perfect, and I didn't even bother to kill Huang Ling, but I couldn't help but implement the plan completely, so it didn't feel good to kill her. In fact, she I glued the Coke on my head on purpose. I can’t explain why I did that. Maybe I’ve already done what I should do in my life. As for whether I’m in the village, prison, or even hell, I don’t know. never mind……"

If the interrogator sitting opposite Liu Liang was someone else at this time, he might say the sentence that everyone often hears in film and television dramas: "If I knew today, why bother!" The psycho killer cares the least of all.Almost all the perverted killers never thought about the word "repentance" after being put to death, and all the confession process was just another performance for them, because once they embarked on the road of killing, they would never look back until perish.

Perhaps, Liu Liang is an exception. His eloquent narration is both sympathetic and sad. In fact, Han Yin sitting opposite him has already seen through him-he has never felt sorry for what he has done. I regret it!

No.20 The Mystery of the Five-Section Manuscript
Ma Wentao's native place is Z City, a city in the northern part of Province S.Exhausted from interrogating Liu Liang all night, Han Yin took the special car prepared for him by Q City early in the morning and rushed to Z City, and found Ma Wentao's house according to the address recorded in the dossier that year.

Knocking on the door, after confirming that the old lady who opened the door was Ma Wentao's mother, Han Yinliang revealed her identity and expressed that she wanted to talk to Ma Wentao to learn something.

The aunt looked surprised, silently looked at Han Yin for a while, let Han Yin into the room, and led him to a room in the south.She raised her head towards the wall on the right side of the room as a gesture, and Han Yin saw that there was a black and white photo hanging in the middle of the wall, with a black elegiac couplet on the frame.

This time it was Han Yin's turn to be surprised: "Is this your son's room? Ma Wentao...he passed away?"

The old lady covered her mouth, nodded, and tears immediately fell.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, I've made you sad, and I ask you to express your condolences." Han Yin asked after comforting the ma'am, "Why did your son pass away at such a young age?"

"Suicide by jumping off the building!" The aunt struggled to spit out four words. Maybe it was because no one had talked to her for a long time. When he was forced to close the bookstore business, his father was suffering from a stroke. He was a filial child, so he gave up his plan to find another place to open a store and came back to help me take care of his father. In September 2003, his father passed away. During that time, he was very depressed and locked himself in the room all day. I thought he was overly sad, and he should get better after a while. What happened later, hurt the child again..."

"What happened?" Han Yin couldn't help interjecting.

The aunt sighed and said: "He took care of his father and wrote a book for a few years. After reading it to a friend who is a book publisher, the friend said that it was very well written, and said that he must help him publish the novel. His friend is also from your J city, and he has a very good relationship with Xiaotao. When his wife is sick, he often comes to visit. Xiaotao trusts him very much, and he promises to promise, Xiaotao has always been full of hope Waiting for news from him, and even gave up the invitation of a publishing house for this reason. But in the end, that friend let Xiaotao down, saying that he did not apply for a book number, and put the publishing plan on hold. Xiaotao for this reason He was very angry and broke up with him categorically. After that, he was even more depressed, insomnia all night, and he looked lost during the day, didn't like to eat, didn't like to talk, and seemed to be uninterested in anything... …On the morning of the accident, without warning or leaving any last words, he jumped off the stairs..."

The aunt sobbed again, and Han Yin fell into a brief thought.

Judging from the symptoms, Ma Wentao's suicide should be caused by severe depression. There is not much strangeness, but the cause may not be as simple as what the aunt said, and there may be a deeper cause.For example, the fear, guilty conscience, and guilt left in my heart by the rape and murder of Yin Aijun many years ago...

"Ma'am, I wonder if you can think of what happened in 1996. Was there anything unusual about your son around the Spring Festival of that year?" Han Yin asked.

"1996? Why do you ask about that year? What exactly do you want to know from Xiaotao?" The aunt stopped sobbing and asked suspiciously.

"Uh, there is a small case that may involve your son, so I want to do some investigation." Han Yin concealed it vaguely.

The aunt nodded, recalled it carefully for a while, and said: "Xiaotao was a bit strange during the Spring Festival that year, and I was particularly impressed. He came back earlier than the previous Spring Festival. When he first came back, he was in a very bad state, as if he was frightened by something. , I always love to be alone in a daze, and I have nightmares almost every day, and people are also supernatural, and they don’t return to normal until after the New Year.”

Auntie’s memories proved that Ma Wentao did have abnormal behavior after the "January 1" corpse dismemberment case. From this point of view, the clues provided by Xu Sanpi have certain credibility. The problem is that he throws out this clue The timing is questionable.Did he know that Ma Wentao had passed away?If the clues were provided to the police after he knew it, then his motives are worth studying.

"Auntie, after your son's accident, did any of his former friends come?" Han Yin asked after thinking for a moment.

The aunt wiped her eyes and said, "Only the publisher came here, he still has a conscience..."

"Do you understand his situation?"

"I only know his name is Sun Jian."

"Sun Jian?" Han Yin frowned, and then asked, "Is it a short, bald man with a mustache?"

"Yes." The aunt said with certainty.

Sun Jian and Xu Sanpi were friends, and they had a relationship with Ma Wentao back then. It was impossible for him not to tell Xu Sanpi the news of Ma Wentao's death. In other words, Xu Sanpi gave clues knowing that Ma Wentao had passed away.The case file shows that Yin Aijun once patronized Ma Wentao's bookstore, but the so-called relationship between the two is Xu Sanpi's one-sided statement. No proof.It seems that the investigation will eventually go back to Xu Sanpi.

In the end, with his aunt's consent, he looked through some of Ma Wentao's belongings, and found nothing suspicious, so he asked for a photo of Ma Wentao to say goodbye to his aunt.

Walking to the door, Han Yin suddenly thought about Ma Wentao's manuscript.If Ma Wentao was the murderer who murdered Yin Aijun, or was a party involved in the investigation of the case, would he inadvertently incorporate some details of the corpse case into his novel creation?Even if he is not the murderer, is he a person who knows the inside story?
Thinking of this, Han Yin stopped, turned around and asked the aunt: "What is the subject of your son's novel?"

"I'm really not sure about this." The aunt said, turned and went back to the house, and came out after a while, holding a few pages of paper in her hand and handing them to Han Yin, "After Xiaotao passed away, I haven't found his manuscript. I found these pages when I was packing up the relics, and there seems to be some novel content on it."

Han Yin took a few pages and glanced at them briefly, which should be the outline of the novel.But why did the manuscript of the novel disappear? "Ma'am, is there an electronic version of his manuscript in your son's computer?"

"Xiaotao never uses a computer, and there is no computer at home. He has always insisted on writing novels by hand."

Say goodbye to the aunt again, and hurry back.On the way, Han Yin went to Yin Aijun's house again.

Han Yin asked for Ma Wentao's photo in order to let Yin Aijun's father, Yin Dexing, identify whether he was the so-called reporter who had visited.

In terms of time, the time when the "reporter" came to the door coincided with the outbreak of Ma Wentao's depression. If Ma Wentao was the murderer of Yin Aijun, it might be because he couldn't stand the torture of guilt and tried to use expensive gifts and money as compensation. Get rid of psychological shackles.Unfortunately, according to Yin Dexing's identification, Ma Wentao is not the reporter.Later, Han Yin asked Ye Xi to send Xu Sanpi's photo to his mobile phone for Yin Dexing to identify, but the result was still not the same.

Back in J City, Han Yin went straight to the task force.

The off-duty time has passed, and Ye Xi is the only one left in the office who is studying the case at his desk.Seeing Han Yin, she was very pleasantly surprised and gave him a hug, making Han Yin's face flushed.

Letting go of Han Yin, Ye Xi took him a glass of water, and Han Yin just used the water to cover up his embarrassment, and then reported the specific details of the trip to Z City.

Coming out of the special case team, Han Yin turned around and went to the accumulated case team.

Sure enough, Fu Changlin was still working overtime.After a few pleasantries, Han Yin recently told him about the progress of Yin Aijun's investigation, which he had promised earlier.

Fu Changlin was very grateful for Han Yin's trustworthiness, and politely said a few words of thanks, and then gave some of his own views on the information provided by Han Yin.

The two exchanged for a while, and Han Yinyan got back to the story and came up with an idea: he wanted to try to find out whether there was any investigation record of Sun Jian and Mou Fan in the files of the "1" corpse dismemberment case.

To this day, no one is more familiar with the information about the "1" body dismemberment case than Fu Changlin.He has already mastered almost all the records in the files. With his help to find them, Han Yin will definitely save a lot of energy and time.However, in his memory, he seemed to have an impression of Mou Fan, but not Sun Jian.It turned out that only the dossier for investigating Mou Fan was found.

The record of Mou Fan in the dossier is very simple: he is not from the city, he lived rented near Qingniao Road, ran a bookstall for a living, and wrote novels in his spare time.During the routine investigation by the police, he stated that he did not know Yin Aijun, and could not remember whether she had ever patronized his bookstall.On the day of Yin Aijun's disappearance, as usual, he returned to the rented house to write after closing the stall.Checked his residence, found no abnormalities, and finally ruled out his suspicion.

"It stands to reason that Sun Jian and Mou Fan's circumstances were roughly the same back then, but why didn't they undergo investigation?" After reading Mou Fan's record, Han Yin asked Fu Changlin a question.

Fu Changlin smiled and said nothing, pondered for a while, picked up the cigarette on the desk, lit it up, and after a few puffs he said: "You answer me a question first. When you read the '1' corpse case After the case was recorded, what was your first reaction from your professional perspective?" Fu Changlin added, "Don't worry about my face, just tell what you felt at the time."

At first, Han Yin was a little puzzled by this question, but after Fu Changlin added later, he understood the meaning of these words.And with such additions, he probably knew his own answer.Han Yin raised the corners of his mouth and sent a meaningful smile instead of his answer.

Fu Changlin was a sensible person, and immediately nodded and said, "You think it's easy to solve the case, right? Although the murderer's method of committing the crime is cruel and concealed, if the direction is correct and careful investigation is done, it shouldn't be difficult to find the murderer, right?"

When he said this, Fu Changlin was already a little bit aggrieved. Of course, he was not directed at Han Yin. It must be that some media and citizens have criticized the police's ability to handle cases over the years, which has pushed his patience to the limit. Seeing Han Yin's question just now, he wanted to vent his resentment.

"Back then, Yin Aijun's body was discovered nine days after his disappearance. The murderer had plenty of time to deal with the crime scene, and the technology back then was not advanced enough. If the murderer was careful and handled it properly, it would be difficult to find any clues at the scene afterward. On the other hand It was only four days after the corpse appeared that it was confirmed as a student of Gudu University, and that week coincided with the final exam of Gudu University, and immediately after the exam was the winter vacation. Students and teachers of Gudu University came from all over the country, so that a large-scale internal investigation was already a Things will start after the end of the winter vacation. For a murderer with a good psychological quality, this intermittent time is enough to calm his mind and practice his rhetoric."

"On-campus investigations are like this, and off-campus investigations are even more difficult. You know, our city J is the capital city of the province, and it has continued to this day. The ancient capital university is surrounded by the most prosperous cultural industries and cultural atmosphere in this city and even in the entire province S. Area. Including newspaper offices, cultural companies, publishing houses, Xinhua Bookstore, private bookstores, and book stalls, all kinds of people engaged in book business and related industries gather here. This is a very large group, and there are more people than this group A larger group of people, that is, those who are engaged in writing, love writing, dream of publishing books, and become writers. They rent a few kilometers away from the ancient capital university for exchange and study and to find opportunities to publish works. They come from the province In all directions, most of them are not from the city, and they are very mobile. Because they need a quiet creative space, most of them rented alone, and the rental regulations were not perfect at that time. No need to register any information, and you can rent if you have money. The most troublesome Yes, it was almost the end of the new year at that time, and almost everyone returned to their hometown for the New Year, and it was half a month or even a month later when they came back. And a large number of them either could not persist and gave up their ideals, and stayed in their hometown to find another way of life; or left The city went to the capital to look for broader opportunities; some moved to remote areas because they could not afford the rent here. Many times, what we are facing is just an empty house or new renters, while the original residents No one who has ever been able to explain clearly..."

Sure enough, facing Han Yin, Fu Changlin couldn't hold back, and vomited the unhappiness that had accumulated in his heart for many years.

Fu Changlin spoke truthfully, every sentence revealed helplessness, and Han Yin really felt the hardships of handling the case back then.The timing, location, and luck don't seem to be on the police's side. There should be many people like Sun Jian who meet the suspect criteria but have not been investigated. The possibility of the murderer escaping because of this is very high.

Han Yin expressed his understanding of handling the case back then, comforted Fu Changlin a few words, and saw that it was getting late, so he left first.Walking out of the door, looking back, I saw Fu Changlin surrounded by a layer of light blue smoke, his ravine face was full of sentimentality, as if he was still stuck in the entanglement of the past and couldn't let go, Han Yin couldn't help feeling sour of.

Lying on the bed in the dead of night, Han Yin tossed and turned.

After running around for days, my body was extremely tired, but I tried hard, but I still couldn't fall asleep.As soon as he closed his eyes, faces flashed through Han Yin's mind like a movie: Feng Wenhao, Yu Meifen, Xu Sanpi, Sun Jian, Mou Fan... Are they murderers?Who killed Wang Li?Who harmed Yin Aijun again?And that pair of angry eyes and the phone from hell, does it belong to someone among them?Who is the woman who appeared on Yin Aijun's grave?Who is pretending to be a reporter to visit Yin's house?
Countless question marks stuck in the brain, and the nerves were uncontrollably excited.Just like a serial killer, the body can't always overcome the control of the mind-if you can't sleep, then don't sleep, and simply read the case materials for a while.

Han Yin propped himself up, leaned against the head of the bed, reached out and took out a few pages of paper from the backpack on the bedside table, which was given to him by Ma Wentao's mother before parting.

There are five pages in total, the handwriting is scribbled, the sentences are intermittent and lack coherence, and there are a few Korean seals that can only make out the general meaning.After reading it carefully, I found that this is not the so-called outline of the novel, but Ma Wentao's inspiration notes.Han Yin has heard about the writing habits of some writers. Some writers like to say the sparks that suddenly flashed in their minds and record them with a small tape recorder; the latter.

Han Yin read those pages word by word and sentence by sentence, and suddenly felt that certain sentences seemed familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere.

"Where have you seen it? Where have you seen it?" Han Yin said silently in his heart, his eyes subconsciously cruising around the room.When his gaze inadvertently fell on a book on the bedside table beside him, he suddenly realized.

——By the way, those sentences appeared in the book "The Gift"!

Han Yin hurriedly picked up the book, flipped through it carefully, and compared it with several pages, and sure enough some sentences were exactly the same.Could it be that "The Gift" was not written by Xu Sanpi, but by Ma Wentao?
But how did the manuscript fall into Xu Sanpi's hands?What is the connection between Ma Wentao, Sun Jian, and Xu Sanpi in this book?Full of doubts, Han Yin searched for clues in the front and back of the book, and finally found a paragraph on the back cover of the novel: "The planning of this book—Sun Jian Book Studio".

This text is enough for Han Yin to temporarily straighten out some doubts.The context of the matter should be like this: First, Sun Jian agreed to help Ma Wentao publish the novel, but failed due to various reasons, and he did not return Ma Wentao's manuscript.Later, Ma Wentao committed suicide by jumping off a building. Sun Jian gave the manuscript to Xu Sanpi and published it under his name.The matter was as simple as that, but another question came up again: Why didn't Sun Jian publish it under his own name?Why do you want to give this favor to Xu Sanpi?

The next day.

In Han Yin's "profile", the murderer of the "1" corpse case is a person who lacks creativity and has a mediocre career, so for Mou Fan, a best-selling author whose career is currently flourishing, he is naturally not in this case. Sun Jian, whose book publishing business is booming, also does not fit the profile of a criminal.The key point that needs to be investigated in depth is Xu Sanpi, but before the showdown with him, Han Yin decided to fight Sun Jian first.After the “January 4” corpse dismemberment case, this person may suddenly leave the original rented place. His behavior is very suspicious, and he has close contacts with Xu Sanpi and has interests. Han Yin wants to try to dig out from him. Come out with more inside stories about Xu Sanpi.

Sun Jian Book Studio, now renamed as Sun Jian Cultural Publishing Company, the company has grown so large that it has rented an entire floor in the Times Building.

Under the guidance of the front desk lady, Han Yin found the president's office.After reporting through the secretary, he stayed outside for a while before seeing Sun Jian.

The office is spacious and grand, with extremely luxurious decoration, making it difficult to get in touch with the short, mediocre Sun Jian who is about to be overwhelmed by the huge desk and boss chair.However, the so-called people should not be judged by appearances. When the current publishing industry is in a downturn, this person can still make the company to such a large scale, there must be something extraordinary.This is a difficult role, Han Yin reminded himself in his heart to be extremely cautious.

After being seated, Han Yin praised the decoration of the office politely, and took advantage of the opportunity to praise Sun Jian's ability to run the company.The praise made Sun Jian smile, but his words were still modest, and he even said that he was just lucky.

After a few gossips, the topic slowly shifted to the case. Han Yin first started from the "1" corpse case.

"Mr. Sun, have you heard of the corpse mutilation case at the Ancient Capital University?" Han Yin asked.

"Of course I've heard of it." Sun Jian said with a nonchalant expression, "When that case happened, I was practicing on the street two streets away from Gudu University, and there were often students from Gudu University. Gu Gu, maybe the little girl who was murdered bought books from me!"

Sun Jian took the initiative to mention that Yin Aijun might patronize his bookstall. In fact, he intended to show that he and Yin Aijun did not know each other. The subtext was to express dissatisfaction with the police for linking him with the corpse case.How could Han Yin not be able to hear the peculiar flavor in his words, thinking that this guy really has a very deep city, and he didn't say it clearly if he wanted to, but it was just to show how clear his conscience was.Han Yin beat him up intentionally, put some pressure on him, and wanted to see if he was really innocent, or just pretending.

Han Yin smiled, with a sincere expression on his face, and explained: "Mr. Sun, it's like this. From the perspective of our police handling the case, all the men who lived alone near the ancient capital university needed to be interrogated and investigated, including you and Xu San. Pi, Mou Fan and others are all within the scope of our investigation. But the strange thing is that we have interrogation records for them both in our case file, but there is no record of yours. Our analysis shows that you should be involved in the case After the incident, you left the original rented place, so it seems that your behavior is a little abnormal, which will inevitably increase your suspicion, so I came this time to ask you to explain clearly, so as not to disturb you frequently in the future."

Sun Jian had to figure out what he said, and it was better to explain the matter clearly, otherwise he would be taken to the police station for interrogation or the police would come to the company every few days to stir up trouble, which would definitely have a negative impact on the company's operations.

Weighing the pros and cons, Sun Jian restrained his displeasure, and said eagerly: "Well, I can explain this. I did leave after the incident, but it was not because of that case. There were many objective reasons. Back then we were in To put it bluntly, the stalls on the street sell second-hand books and pirated books, and most of the customers are students from Gudu University and several universities around Gudu University. Once the students are on winter vacation, the business will inevitably be much deserted. The Spring Festival is not far away, so I just closed my stall and went back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind. As for my not coming back after the new year, it was actually planned earlier. I have been hanging around Gudu University since 1992, and it has been almost four years. I got a good opportunity to publish my work, so at the end of 1995 I decided to go to Beijing after the Chinese New Year. Beijing is the capital and the cultural exchange center of the country, and I think there should be more opportunities there." Sun Jian smiled helplessly when he said this , "But I overlooked a problem. There are many opportunities and more people who seek to realize their dreams. In the end, I still didn't get the opportunity to publish, but I made some money by accident. Later, I came back here by chance and did Start a publishing business."

"Oh, that's right!" Han Yin nodded, falling into short thoughts.

Sun Jian's reason can be said to be reasonable, without any flaws, and there is no sign of rehearsal, it should be the truth.That being the case, we can let go of the case of the corpse dismemberment at the Ancient Capital University for now, and then focus on Xu Sanpi.Of course, Xu Sanpi's question cannot be circumvented by Ma Wentao's book.

"You and Ma Wentao are good friends, right?" Han Yin asked.

"We have a good relationship, what's the matter?" Han Yin suddenly mentioned Ma Wentao, Sun Jian was taken aback for a moment, then a trace of doubt flashed across his face, and he nodded hesitantly.

"I heard from his mother that you once promised to help him publish a novel, but in the end because of the issue of the book number, it didn't work out. Is that right?"

"Yes, there is indeed such a thing." Sun Jian hesitated and said, "Forget it, let me tell you the truth. In fact, the book number issue is just an excuse for me. The real reason is that the subject matter of the novel is not mainstream enough, and my company was not in the financial position at that time. Something went wrong, because the delay was too long, and Wen Tao had made a promise, so I couldn't tell him the truth."

"Do you remember the content of that novel?"

"I forgot it a long time ago. Back then, I just glanced at it roughly, and I only remembered that the writing was excellent."

"Forgot? Let me remind you." Han Yin snorted, took out a book from his bag, and threw it on Sun Jian's desk, "Is this "Gift" familiar to you? The book you wrote?"

"This... this..." Sun Jian hesitated, a row of fine beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead, and he looked flustered.

Han Yin sneered and continued: "You don't need to say anything, your performance has already answered me. But I don't understand why this book was finally published with Xu Sanpi's name on it?"

"This... this..." Sun Jian lowered his head, was at a loss for a while, looked up again, and found that Han Yin was staring at him, so he avoided his gaze, hesitated again and again, and finally said with a slumped head, "Okay, Now that you already know, let me tell you about it. In fact, I really didn’t intend to ask for Hei Wentao’s book. He committed suicide before I could return the manuscript, and the manuscript has been kept with me. Once Xu Sanpi came to chat with me when he had nothing to do, found the manuscript, read a few pages casually, and said it was well written, so I told about Wen Tao. He heard that he would take the manuscript back to have a look, after a long time After a while, he also gave me an electronic version, saying that he rewrote the novel, hinted that he would sign his name, and asked if it could be published. This is a mutually beneficial matter, and of course I will not refuse." Sun Jian paused, then continued Explain, "To put it bluntly, Sanpi and I are just using each other. He didn't write a pen at all during the years abroad. After he came back, he was basically useless in writing. He only occasionally posted some tofu cubes in the newspaper. He can't manage long articles. But he urgently needs the aura of a writer, so that he can compete with his uncle and take charge of his business after his uncle retires. At that time, due to the expansion of the company, I was in urgent need of a large sum of money. I knew him Uncle has a venture capital company and asked him to introduce me. Later, the company read my proposal and agreed to inject capital, and Sanpi gradually found the feeling through the rewriting of Ma Wentao’s book, and there will be more in the future. wrote his own novel.”

"How much do you know about Xu Sanpi's relationship with the murdered girl from Gudu University?" Han Yin asked.

"I don't know. In fact, my relationship with Sanpi was average back then, but Wen Tao's relationship with him was pretty good."

"What about Ma Wentao's relationship with that girl?"

"I'm not very clear about this. I haven't heard Wen Tao talk about it." After hesitating for a while, Sun Jian said earnestly and tentatively, "I know that I am very sorry for Wen Tao, but I really have no choice. I really won't have that kind of private transaction with Sanpi. So I hope you can keep this matter a secret. If it gets out, Sanpi's reputation will be ruined, and my life will not be easy. His uncle's family The venture capital company still has shares in my company.”

"I think you should tell Ma Wentao's mother what you said." Han Yin snorted.After speaking, he got up and left his seat, making a gesture of saying goodbye.

Sun Jian immediately jumped up from the executive chair, walked around the table, and rushed to Han Yin. He said in a low voice, "His mother's place. In fact, I have already made compensation in private. One year I lent it to Wen Tao's grave." Chances are, I gave her 2 yuan, which is actually enough for Wen Tao's manuscript fee."

For a book, not a bestseller, 2 yuan is a lot of money, and Sun Jian is considered benevolent.Han Yinben didn't intend to make any troubles, but felt that this matter was very unfair to Ma Wentao and the readers. Since the ending is not bad now, there is no need to be serious, so he nodded as a tacit consent.

To be honest, although he hesitated during the conversation with Sun Jian, overall he was quite candid, and his credibility should be no problem.This proves once again: Xu Sanpi did throw this line to the police on the premise of knowing Ma Wentao's death, and the purpose was to make the police die without evidence.In this way, on the one hand, it can divert the attention of the police, and on the other hand, if you are lucky, the police may identify Ma Wentao as a suspect, thus eliminating him forever.It seems that Xu Sanpi's exaggeration is only on the surface, and the city is extremely deep in his bones.

Han Yin called and reported the situation to Ye Xi, and proposed to confront Xu Sanpi face to face.Ye Xi thought about it, and suggested that he should be handcuffed to the bureau instead of putting any pressure on him, for fear that it would be difficult to hear the truth from him.

Gulou Sub-bureau, interrogation room.

Xu Sanpi shook his handcuffed hands, and said to Ye Xi who was sitting opposite with a playful smile, "Beauty, what are you doing? If you don't let me soak, we won't soak, why are you making it so scary?" I am so saddened that you did this, it seems necessary to have my lawyer present."

Ye Xi grinned and sneered: "Okay, we will give you the right to fully exercise legal protection, but I suggest that you talk to us first."

"What are you talking about?"

"Let's talk about you, a great writer and a great lover!" Ye Xi smiled teasingly, "Do you want to hear my impression of you?" Before Xu Sanpi could say anything, Ye Xi continued, "Actually, you I don't care if you look a bit shabby, the key is that your ability to make up stories is too strong, which will make me feel insecure."

"Make up a story? Beauty, you have wronged me to death." Xu Sanpi looked innocent, with a glib tone on his mouth, "I treat you like 'a piece of heart is in the jade pot', every sentence is true Out of my heart!"

This time it was Han Yin's turn to say with a smile: "I also think Team Ye's evaluation of you is not objective enough. I think you are not only good at making up stories, but also very talented in acting."

"Okay, stop acting!" Ye Xi said seriously, "Let's talk about Ma Wentao."

"I've said everything I need to say about Ma Wentao, and I haven't contacted him for many years, and I really don't know where he is now." Xu Sanpi showed great grievances on his face, "Besides, I'll tell you that he I just wanted to help you police, why did I end up with nothing?"

"You really don't know where he is?" Han Yin stared at Xu Sanpi's rascal's face, and paused every word, "Aren't you afraid that he will come out of the ground to settle accounts with you?"

While talking, Han Yin took out the book "Gift" from his bag, and slapped it on the table with a "snap".

Xu Sanpi picked up the book from the table, his hands trembled slightly, but then he calmed down and said inexplicably: "This is my book, what's wrong?"

"No! This is not your book, this is Ma Wentao's book!" Ye Xi said with a cold face.

Being hit by Ye Xi, Xu Sanpi panicked, his hand slipped, and the book fell to the ground.He leaned over to pick it up, and sat up straight after waiting for a while, probably using the short gap to find a countermeasure, afraid that he didn't think of a good solution, so he messed up: "Slander, pure slander! Why do you handcuff me? , I want to sue you for illegal detention, and I want to see a lawyer!"

Seeing Xu Sanpi jumping and accusing, Ye Xi also slapped the table, and responded excitedly: "Why! Let me tell you why! You can be arrested just because you deliberately wasted police force and obstructed official duties!"

"We have conclusive evidence to prove that you already knew the news of Ma Wentao's death, and your book was rewritten based on his manuscript." Han Yin followed Ye Xi's words.

Xu Sanpi was stunned suddenly, stood there for a while, then sat back on the chair limply, opened his mouth, and said viciously: "Sun Jian, I'm not done with you!"

"You should thank Sun Jian for accumulating virtue for you. If he hadn't compensated Ma Wentao's mother in private and begged me not to expose your plagiarism, do you think we would have given you the opportunity to sit here and perform?" Han Yin sternly He said, "Motive? We want to know your motive for dumping Ma Wentao! I advise you to be honest. If not, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my promise to Sun Jian."

"You'd better give us a convincing reason, otherwise you are the biggest suspect in killing Yin Aijun, and we will watch you 24 hours a day. I don't think your uncle will let a murder suspect be his heir. ?” Ye Xi continued Han Yin’s words.

Han Yin and Ye Xi stared at Xu Sanpi, Xu Sanpi's neck was stuck, his eyes rolled around quickly, and he must be experiencing a fierce ideological struggle in his brain.

"Okay! You guys are ruthless!" After a stalemate for a while, Xu Sanpi seemed to have figured it out, and said unwillingly, "My uncle is going to retire soon, and this period of time is very critical for me. In order not to damage my image with him, I threw Ma Wentao to you in order to divert your attention. In fact, I tried my best to avoid any involvement with Ma Wentao before, so in my publication In the resume of the book, the experience of that period in the ancient capital university was deliberately hidden, and you pushed me into a hurry, so I pushed him out, but I did suspect that he had something to do with Yin Aijun's murder." Xu San Pi picked up the book on the table and shook it, "I did rewrite this book. The reason I rewrote it was because I was worried that some plots in the original manuscript would get me into trouble. The heroine in the original manuscript is called Yin Aijun. I thought it was just a trick with the homonym, but in fact, anyone who knows the girl well knows that she likes to tell others that her name is Yin Aijun instead of Yin Aijun. Yin Aijun's appearance and personality are very similar, especially in the book, there are a lot of psychological descriptions of the hero coveting the beauty of the heroine, which makes it easy to think that the author must have been very obsessed with a certain woman before he can express it in literary creation. I began to think that Ma Wentao was suspicious, so I carefully recalled some details of the year. I actually once saw Yin Aijun go to his bookstore to buy books. And not long after that case came out, one day my bicycle broke down and I wanted to borrow his. , but he said that his was also broken. The problem is that I saw him ride it a few days ago. At that time, I thought it might be because he was too narrow-minded and didn’t want to borrow it. Now that I think about it, maybe he just used the bicycle to throw away the girl’s body Yes, are you afraid that I will see something wrong while riding a bicycle?"

Xu Sanpi paused, and said in an extremely sincere tone: "To be honest, I sincerely hope that you can follow the line of Ma Wentao to investigate the case clearly, so that you will never bother me again."

"Where's the original manuscript of the book?" Han Yin asked, "According to Sun Jian, what you returned to him was only an electronic version."

"I burned it!" Xu Sanpi said, "Leaving the original manuscript is always considered a disaster. I was worried that it would become evidence of plagiarism in the future, so I rewrote it on the computer and burned it."

Burned!Xu Sanpi's previous explanation is reasonable, and it can also explain why he hides the experience of Gudu University in his resume, and why he didn't explain Ma Wentao's suspicion to the task force back then.But he suspected that Ma Wentao's basis was the manuscript, and now he said that the manuscript was burned, wouldn't it be another case of no evidence?
Han Yin and Ye Xi looked at each other for a while, Ye Xi turned his head and stared at Xu Sanpi for a while, then beckoned to the guards to take him out for release procedures.

Ye Xi is really helpless in doing so, after all, it has been confirmed that Xu Sanpi has nothing to do with the "1" corpse dismemberment case, and with the current evidence of the "4" corpse dismemberment case, at most Xu Sanpi can be locked up for 1 hours , is useless to solve the case.

Han Yin and Ye Xi are very clear, the current headache is: how true or false what Xu Sanpi said?If it is true, then Ma Wentao is really suspected; if it is false, then the murderer must be Xu Sanpi.There is another question that Han Yin has been thinking about. Even if the murderer is identified, how should evidence be obtained after 16 years?Relying on face-to-face confrontation alone is definitely not enough, we must find strong evidence or witnesses-it seems that we can only put our hopes on Yu Meifen.

According to Ye Xi, she has arranged for people to search for Yu Meifen in various guest houses and hotels, but there is no news yet.Han Yin suggested that in view of Yu Meifen's economic conditions, the focus of the inspection should be on some guest houses that rent out beds.Ye Xi agreed and made arrangements immediately.

No.20 Six Suspected Girlfriends
At midnight, Han Yin was still sleepless.

Han Yin can confirm Yu Meifen's key role in the "1" body dismemberment case, and she must know who the last man Yin Aijun had contact with before his disappearance.But whether she has anything to do with the current "18" body dismemberment case, Han Yin is still very vague.

Who is the woman who pretends to be a ghost?Why did she linger on Huabei Road, where the remains of the broken body were first discovered?Why do they often appear in Yin Aijun's dormitory?And why call yourself for help?Is she really Yu Meifen?No, Han Yin suddenly realized that his previous thinking was too narrow.Apart from the murderer's mystification, apart from Yu Meifen, isn't there a third candidate?
Of course there will be!What about motivation?Is it to make the police pay attention to the "1" corpse case again through this irrational means of playing tricks?Or did she suffer from some kind of mental illness because of her deep obsession with the "18" corpse case?Most importantly, is she an insider?But one thing is certain, the woman put so much thought into it, presumably she must have something to do with the "1" corpse dismemberment case.

Early the next morning, Han Yin rushed to the task force to find Fu Changlin.The reason is very simple. No one knows more about the "1" corpse case than him. Han Yin hopes that he can give a list of some women who performed abnormally in the investigation of the case.

Fu Changlin is now running between the special case team and the backlog team, which can be described as extremely hard work, but he hasn't changed his habit of arriving early at all.On weekdays, he was always the first person to report to the task force, but there were some exceptions today. When he walked into the office, Han Yin had been waiting inside for a long time.

"Why is it so early today? Is there a new clue?" A criminal police officer would probably have some intuition, and it was very accurate. Fu Changlin was surprised at first, and then said with a smile.

"Yes, I have something to ask you for advice..." Han Yin told Fu Changlin about his intention to come, emphasizing that it is hard to say how much this line will help solve the case.

Fu Changlin now trusted Han Yin very much, so he did not think about Han Yin's request.He put down his bag and sat on the chair, recalled it carefully for a while, and said, "Speaking of women with weird behaviors, there really is one. Actually, I didn't buy the book written by Xu Sanpi I gave you. Someone sent it to the backlog team. I felt that the sender’s behavior was a bit strange. I suspected that this person might know the inside story, so I searched along the sender’s information written on the express. It turned out that the information was false, and later monitored through the post hall After recording the video, I finally found the mailer, and it took me some trouble to find her. Her name is Su Jin, and she is Yin Aijun’s high school classmate. The two had a very good relationship in high school. She said that she had been paying attention to Yin Aijun's case and bought the book "Gift" by chance, and found that there was an allusion to the case, so she sent a copy to the police station, hoping to help solve the case. Then we investigated her and found nothing suspicious. But the matter is not over yet. At the end of 2008, an article comprehensively analyzing the '1' body dismemberment case appeared on a local Internet forum. Although the article It was just a personal conjecture, which had nothing to do with the case, but it still caused a lot of influence at the time. We found the person who posted the post through the IP address, and it was Su Jin again. When asked about the motive, she said that she hoped to attract everyone's attention, so that Give the case a chance to re-investigate."

Fu Changlin was indeed a "living dictionary", and the candidate he gave was exactly the type of suspect Han Yin was looking for. He asked eagerly, "Is Su Jin in this city?"

"Yes. She married soon after graduating from university. Her husband is a classmate of hers. He is a local. His family background is very good. He supports her in opening a beauty salon." Fu Changlin took out a notebook with a worn-out cover from his bag. , opened it, searched for a while, and after a while, he rushed the notebook to Han Yin, pointed to one of the pages and said, "Here, this is the address of her beauty salon, and her contact number."

Han Yin casually found a piece of white paper and a pen from the desk beside him, looked at Fu Changlin's notebook and wrote down Su Jin's information, and then raised the paper in his hand: "Thank you, Team Fu, I'll meet later This Su Jin."

Fu Changlin said politely: "I'll take you there before the morning meeting is over."

"No, it's a big deal on your side, I'll just take a taxi." Han Yin said.

The beauty salon opened by Su Jin is named after her, "Su Jin Beauty Salon".Located in the bustling area of ​​J City, next to a main road of the city, it has three floors and is not small in scale.

Han Yin pushed open the large glass door of the beauty salon, and immediately a female receptionist in a pink uniform came forward with a smile, "Hello, sir, are you here for a beauty treatment?" Ask cleverly, "Then you are here to pick up your girlfriend, right? Tell me her name, and I'll find her for you."

"No." Han Yin explained with a smile, took out a police officer's card from his trouser pocket and handed it to the female receptionist, "I'm from the Municipal Criminal Police Team, and I want to know something about your boss."

The female receptionist took the police officer's card with both hands, took a closer look, returned it to Han Yin, pointed to the sofa by the glass door, and said decently: "Officer Han, please sit down for a while, I'll go and see if the boss is there. "

"Okay, sorry to trouble you." Han Yin nodded and smiled, watching the female receptionist go up the white wooden spiral staircase to the second floor.

As soon as his butt touched the sofa, and before he had time to look around carefully, Han Yin heard the sound of high heels coming from the stairs on the second floor.The female receptionist was the first to reveal her body, followed by a woman in a white shirt, gray slacks, and fashionable white-collar attire.She is slender and has a good appearance, but there seems to be a little tiredness between her brows.

"This is Police Officer Han, and this is our boss." Coming down the stairs, the female receptionist led the boss to Han Yin who stood up from the sofa. After introducing each other, the female receptionist stepped aside politely.

"Hi, I'm Su Jin. May I ask who you're looking for..." Su Jin politely extended her hand to Han Yin with a professional smile on her face.

Han Yin gently shook her hand, which was very soft. "I want to talk to you about Yin Aijun."

"Great." Su Jin's smile became much more sincere, "Did you start investigating her case again?" Seeing Han Yin smiling noncommittally, Su Jin hurriedly pointed to the stairs and said, "Go, go to my office Let's talk." After speaking, he turned his head and whispered to the waitress waiting behind him, "Make two cups of tea."

Following Su Jin up the stairs, Han Yin came to a clean and fragrant room.Not long after sitting down, tea was brought up, and Su Jin enthusiastically urged Han Yin to drink a few sips of tea to moisten his throat before getting down to business.

With Su Jin being so kind, it's not easy for Han Yin to raise questions about her suspicions as soon as he comes up, so he can only use Yin Aijun as a foreshadowing.He picked up the teacup, took a few sips, thought for a while and said, "You and Yin Aijun are good friends, right?"

"Yes, we had the best relationship in high school." Su Jin lowered her eyes, played with the handle of the teacup, and said in a slightly low voice, "After Aijun's accident, I felt uncomfortable for a long time, and I couldn't believe it. We slept together a few days ago On the same bed, she was gone in a blink of an eye, and it was an eternal parting."

"Before she disappeared, did you see her?" Han Yin asked.

"Yeah!" Su Jin said sentimentally, "January 1th is my birthday, and that day happened to be Sunday. I invited her to go out with a few friends for a gathering, and she stayed at my place in the evening. , we chatted all night and talked a lot about high school..."

"Have you mentioned the topic of boyfriend and girlfriend?" Han Yin asked again.

"I asked her, and she said that she had a boyfriend not long after she came to school," Su Jin paused and said, "But she said that she met a male writer, but it was just an acquaintance, not even a friend."

"So when you saw that the book "Gift" contained an allusion to the plot of the corpse dismemberment case, you sent it to the police station, hoping that our police could find out the author, right?" Han Yin followed her words and asked road.

"Yes. But you police didn't seem to have done anything about the author, but you checked me." Su Jin's tone was slightly annoyed, "So I published another post on the Internet analyzing the case, I know My point of view is very naive, but my purpose is to hope that everyone will pay attention to Ai Jun's case, so as to prompt you to re-investigate."

"No, you misunderstood us. In fact, we have been investigating the author of that book, but we haven't found any evidence." Han Yin explained for Fu Changlin, and then asked, "Are you sure Yin Aijun and you mentioned it?" Is that writer the author of the book "The Gift"?"

"No, no!" Su Jin shook her head again and again to explain, "I just bought that book by accident, and Ai Jun never mentioned the name of the author she knew."

"Oh, that's it..." Han Yin pondered for a while, and began to introduce the topic.He took out his mobile phone, checked the incoming call records, mentioned two dates, and asked Su Jin if he could remember where he was and what he was doing.

"What's the matter these two days? Aren't you going to talk about Aijun's case? Why do you ask me questions? What questions do I have?" Su Jin was very surprised, and threw a series of question marks inexplicably.

It is impossible for Han Yin to disclose the situation of the case, so he smiled apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you the details of the case. I know it's a bit abrupt to ask you such a question out of the blue. Please don't mind and cooperate with us. Work."

"Of course I mind, but I have nothing to hide." Su Jin's face darkened, and she explained unhappily, "I think I should be at my mother-in-law's house for the two days you mentioned. Last month, my mother-in-law was found out Stomach cancer, my husband and I moved to my mother-in-law’s house to take care of the elderly. Since then, my actions have only three points: work unit-my mother-in-law’s house-hospital, and I never go out at night, let alone go out so late. My wife My father-in-law and babysitter can all prove my words."

Su Jin said so, presumably there will be no problems with witnesses, and the tired look on Su Jin's brows may be due to the tiredness of her mother-in-law's illness, so let's not talk about this topic for now.Han Yin once again expressed great apology, but still did not let go of asking about her activities on New Year's Eve and the New Year's Day holiday.

This time, because several months had passed, Su Jin needed to recall a little bit. Fortunately, the activities during the New Year's Day were deeply in her memory, so it didn't take long for her to give the answer. "On the night of New Year's Eve, my husband and the company's employees first had dinner at New Territories Kou Food City. After dinner, we went to the 'Manhattan Bar' to welcome the countdown together, and then changed to a bar called 'Night Color' to continue the stall. The rest Three days, 1st day off, 2nd and 3rd we go to work normally.”

After Su Jin finished speaking, she raised her head and stared at Han Yin with a hint of hostility in her eyes: "I don't understand, how could I be involved in the case you want to investigate? Your police always need evidence in handling cases." Right? I just want to know, how did you find me for no reason?"

"This..." Facing Su Jin's series of pressing questions, Han Yin couldn't help but said with some reservations, "During the New Year's Day, there was a case of mutilation in this city, and the case was somewhat similar to the case of Yin Aijun. Why, you haven't heard Have you ever had this case?"

"No." Su Jin looked blank, "I really haven't heard of it, maybe during this period of time my thoughts have been on my mother-in-law, and I have less contact with the outside world." Su Jin's attitude softened, "It was back then Has your murderer come out to commit crimes again?"

"I can't tell you this, how should I put it..." Han Yin stopped talking, and said after a while, "I can't tell you how we defined the suspects, but I can tell you one thing, basically we met with you back then. The people Yin Aijun has come into contact with are all within the scope of our investigation, so please don't mind my abruptness."

"I can understand that." Su Jin had lost a lot of wariness towards Han Yin at this time, a smile appeared on her face, and she even asked a little coquettishly, "I explained the whereabouts on New Year's Eve, so can it be ruled out?" My suspicion?"

"Of course, but you still need to ask your staff to prove it for you." Han Yin said with a smile.

"That's no problem, you can ask whatever you want, they had a crazy time at the Manhattan bar that night." Su Jin looked eager to prove her innocence, "Shall I ask some of you now?"

"No, no, wait, did you just say 'Manhattan Bar'?" Seeing Su Jin nodding vigorously for confirmation, Han Yin tugged at her hair, scolding herself inwardly, almost missing an important clue - "Manhattan Bar" , isn't it the place where Wang Li, the victim of the "1" Corpse Dismemberment Case, last appeared!
Wang Li and Su Jin were in a bar that night, how could it be such a coincidence?Han Yin looked suspicious and said, "At what time did you leave 'Manhattan Bar' and transfer to another one?"

"Not long after the New Year's countdown, my husband said that there is not enough high, so I have to change to another bar..." Su Jin frowned and recalled briefly, "It should be around 1 o'clock in the morning."

"1 o'clock in the morning!" It happened to be the time when Wang Li left the bar. Han Yin couldn't help but raised his voice and asked, "Are you sure it's around 1 o'clock?"

"What's the matter? Is this timing important?" Su Jin was a little unsure about Han Yin's bluff, and struggled to remember for a while, before slowly nodding and saying, "It should be that time, I remember that I seemed to have seen it Have a look at the watch, how about I ask the company employees or my husband?" Su Jin took out her mobile phone, wanted to dial, but then stopped, and sighed, "Oh, it's useless, they were all drunk at the time, maybe more Not sure. Hey..." Su Jin's eyes lit up, "By the way, I remember that when we left 'Manhattan', we met a member of a beauty salon at the door. Since you attach so much importance to the timing, how about I give her Give me a call and ask?"

Su Jin was talking, fiddled with the mobile phone in her hand to look through the communication records, searched for a while, maybe she couldn't find it, and muttered: "I don't seem to have her phone number." After reading, she picked up the phone number on the desk. The landline, dialed a simple number, and told the receiver, "Marketing Department, this is Su Jin, help me look up a member's phone number, her name is Wang... yes, Wang Li..."

What?Wang Li!Could it really be such a coincidence? "Manhattan Bar" "1 o'clock in the morning", could it be that the Wang Li that Su Jin said was the victim of the "1" corpse case?Han Yin quickly took out his mobile phone, called out the photo of Wang Li stored in the mobile phone, and held it up to Su Jin, "Wang Li you are talking about, is it her?"

Su Jin stared at the phone and said doubtfully, "It's her, what's wrong?"

With Su Jin's confirmation, Han Yin pointed to the microphone in Su Jin's hand and said solemnly: "Then put the phone down, Wang Li is the victim of our case."

"Ah!" Su Jin opened her mouth, her eyes widened, she was too surprised to speak.

"Except for the murderer, you are probably the last person to see Wang Li." Han Yin said, "Please describe the circumstances of your meeting that night in detail, and try not to omit anything."

Su Jin obviously hasn't recovered from the shock, she still holds the microphone of the landline in her hand, looking dumbfounded.Han Yin had no choice but to repeat what she had just said before bringing her back to the conversation.

Su Jin hung up the phone, smiled shyly and said, "I'm sorry, I lost my composure, but I really didn't expect that two corpse mutilation cases in this city could be related to me. Oh, the situation that night was like this ..." Su Jin coughed twice, calmed down and said, "When we came out of 'Manhattan', I saw Wang Li standing on the street taking a taxi, so I went over to say hello and asked her why she walked so fast. Morning. She said she was not feeling well and wanted to go home to rest, but she never got a taxi. I said it’s a pity that we have to continue playing, otherwise we can give her off. She smiled and said a few words of thanks. After that, we broke up .It's that simple."

"What's more, think about it again, after you parted, is she still at the door of the bar?" Han Yin asked.

Su Jin thought for a while and said: "Uh, yes, that night, except for me who can't drink and is more sober, the rest of us drank too much, and my husband was very drunk. Before entering the 'night', he Squatting on the side of the street and throwing up for a while. I took care of him and patted his back. When I wiped his mouth with a tissue, I inadvertently glanced into the distance. At that time, Wang Li had almost reached the street. I saw a car parked next to her, and she seemed to glance into the car, then opened the door and sat in. After that, I helped my husband into the bar."

"What brand is that car? What color? What's the license plate number?" Han Yin asked hurriedly.

Su Jin squinted her eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "I didn't see it clearly. The distance is too far, and the light is not good. I only saw it vaguely as if it was a car."

At first hearing that Su Jin witnessed Wang Li getting into a car on the night of Wang Li's disappearance, Han Yin was very excited, but it was a pity that Su Jin couldn't provide more detailed information about the car, and he felt disappointed again.However, as far as the results of this visit are concerned, it should be pretty good. I came here because of Su Jin's suspicion, but I didn't expect to have an unexpected harvest——to be able to confirm the place and method of Wang Li's last disappearance.If Su Jin's words are true, then Wang Li took the initiative to get into the car at the time, which means that she and the murderer are likely to be acquainted or even acquainted, and it also means that in Han Yin's profile report, the relationship between the murderer and the victim The description of the relationship is wrong.In his judgment, although the target of the murderer's revenge or punishment has a fixed image, judging from the location and timing of the murderer's capture of Wang Li, it is obvious that there is no premeditation, showing a certain degree of randomness and luck, that is to say , the two did not know each other.

At this time, Han Yin felt extremely contradictory, both happy and sad.The sad thing is: the facts are so different from his profile report, he doesn't know how to face his colleagues in the task force, let alone Ye Xi; the happy thing is: if the murderer and Wang Li exist in life If they intersect, the range of suspects will be much narrower than it is now, and the hope of successfully catching the murderer will be much greater.

Of course, what Su Jin said was just her one-sided statement, and she still needs to prove it.After leaving the beauty salon, Han Yin found her husband, visited her father-in-law and babysitter, and finally ruled out all her suspicions.

Coming out of the community where Su Jin's mother-in-law lived, Han Yin wandered aimlessly along the road for a while—distraught.Although criminal profiling is a subject rather than a science, it cannot be perfect and it is impossible to avoid any mistakes, but this kind of directional error is fatal.He couldn't forgive himself for making such a big mistake in the report, and he was even more ashamed to face Ye Xi.Apart from his affection for her, that incomparably firm trust was enough for him to bear.

How to face it?how to explain?How to make up for...

Tangled.It can only be tangled.The result is foreordained.Whether as a lecturer in a public security academy, as a professional scholar, or as a policeman, you must strictly abide by "objective facts". This is a social responsibility and a minimum professional ethics.Entanglement is just a kind of self-psychological counseling, scolding yourself a few words, pity yourself, and make yourself feel a little better. In the end, you still have to stick to the bottom line and not use mistakes to make up for mistakes.

Well, let's get back to the case!If there is an intersection between the murderer and the victim, it is necessary to re-examine Wang Li's social relationship.What should be done at this time is to thoroughly review the investigation file of the "1" corpse case, and at the same time report the new clues that suddenly appeared to Ye Xi truthfully.

Han Yin took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, and dialed Ye Xi's number with an extremely tragic expression...

At 8 o'clock in the evening, New Territories Kou Square, Bar Street, in front of the "Night Color" bar.

After receiving a call from Han Yin, Ye Xi was calmer than expected. She had nothing to say, but asked Han Yin to go back to the task force first.

After meeting, Han Yin's embarrassment needless to say, provoked Ye Xi to comfort him.However, Ye Xi's words were not just to make Han Yin feel better, but they did have some truth.

Ye Xi put forward a point of view: Is it possible that the murderer both knew Wang Li and had contact with Yin Aijun at the same time?
yes!The possibility exists!If this is the case, although the direction of the previous investigation was somewhat biased, it will not affect the result!Ye Xi's words, like a shot in the arm, immediately brightened Han Yin's eyes and lifted his spirits.

Immediately, the two brought up the investigation records of the "1" corpse case, starting with Wang Li's social relations, and first screened people who may have overlapped with Wang Li and the "4" corpse case. The result was disappointing. .Then, the two thoroughly studied the records of every suspect who had been investigated, and found nothing suspicious.The dossier shows that there is sufficient evidence for each suspect's alibi.However, this does not mean that there is no murderer among them. Maybe the information and evidence given by some people before is false.Therefore, Han Yin and Ye Xi determined a few candidates based on age, private car and other information. Since it was getting late, they could only wait for tomorrow to investigate in detail.

Packed up the file, looked at the watch, it was almost 8 o'clock, Han Yin suggested to do a simulation near the night bar.He wanted to confirm: under the light at night, whether it is really impossible to distinguish the color and logo of the stationary car at the end of the street from the front of the bar.However, this is not distrust of Su Jin. Han Yin considered that Su Jin was likely to focus on taking care of her drunken husband that night, thus ignoring the color or logo of the car. That is to say, the color and brand logo of the car may be different It was within her sight, but ignored by the brain's cognition.If the result of the on-site simulation is so, then Han Yin can use "cognitive talk" again to dig out that part of the memory.

At this time, Han Yin and Ye Xi were standing on the side of the street opposite the gate of the Nightlight Bar, looking north...

Bar Street is located in the south of New Territory Kou Square. The whole street is 500 meters long. The location of Night Bar is about 200 meters away from the street.If this distance is during the day, the line of sight should be fairly clear, but at night, the light will be dim, and there will be some discounts. In addition, although there are street lights to illuminate, the sycamore trees planted on the street are so lush that the streets The sides appear heavily shadowed.

In front of the gate of "Night Scenery", stop and look into the distance.If it is a bright color, such as yellow, or the color of Wang Li's cashmere coat - red, it can be seen more clearly, and it is difficult to distinguish the slightly darker color, let alone the car logo.From this point of view, what Su Jin said was true.

Han Yin and Ye Xi walked along the street all the way to the turntable near the street square.Unfortunately, the "traffic monitoring" is set at the previous intersection.If the murderer turned right from the previous crossing, he would escape the surveillance cameras.As for the next traffic surveillance, there is a side street between Bar Street and Bar Street. If the murderer turns into this street and then walks out through the alleyway, it is very likely that he will escape all camera surveillance.

Two people were standing on the street discussing the issue of traffic cameras, when suddenly a car slid up to them and stopped, and the right window opened.The driver tried his best to lean towards the right window, and shouted at the two, "Where are you going?"

Han Yin and Ye Xi looked at each other, unable to react for a moment.The driver immediately added another sentence: "Come on, I do business fairly, and I promise not to kill you!"

Now the two of them understood - dare to love this is a "black rental"!Just as Ye Xi was about to wave the driver away, Han Yin grabbed her arm, with a suddenly realized expression on his face, suppressing his excited tone, and whispered in Ye Xi's ear: "I see, my report is all right, the project The group's previous investigation of Wang Li's social relations was fine, and Wang Li should have been in a black taxi that night."

"Or the murderer lured Wang Li into the car under the guise of a black taxi!" Ye Xi answered Han Yin's words immediately.

The two looked at each other and nodded, exchanged glances again, and then both opened the car door, Ye Xi sat in the co-pilot, and Han Yin sat in the back seat.The driver thought he had got a deal, so he put the gear on and asked the two where they were going.Ye Xi pointed to the side of the street with a straight face, asking the driver to stop the car first.

Ye Xi had a serious face, and his tone was unquestionable. The driver seemed to have noticed something. After parking the car on the side of the street, he said with a mournful face: "You two are not 'fishing', are you? I really can’t afford to be punished for relying on me to drive an illegal car for a living!”

Seeing the pitiful look of the driver, Ye Xi didn't want to scare him anymore, and took out his police officer's card to identify himself.The driver immediately breathed a sigh of relief, his heart relaxed, and he muttered glibly: "I'll just say, the officials have so many activities at night, how could they come out to 'fish'?"

"What do you mean? Is the traffic inspection as expensive as you think?" Ye Xi said with a smile, "Okay, stop talking nonsense and ask you something."

"Say it, go ahead and tell me what I know." The driver looked eager to please.

"Have you been driving a black car for a few years?" Ye Xi asked, "How is the business?"

"Two years." The driver replied honestly, "The business is not bad. You also know that this street is the busiest nightlife area here. There are so many people taking taxis that there are not enough taxis. And there are people working night shifts around. , and young ladies, they prefer to take black cars like ours, a few people share a car, and it’s only a few dollars per person, if it’s a taxi, everyone has to pay for it.”

"Approximately how many black rentals are there on this street?"

"That may not be true. Our black cars are not managed in a unified way. They all do their own things. It's really hard to say."

"Where do you usually wait for customers?"

"The first half of the night is basically on the side of the street or at the fork. I don't dare to wait in front of bars and KTVs for fear of being reported by taxi drivers. In the second half of the night, it is mainly near the exit passage of some hotel employees. Many night shift waiters carpool back to the hotel. Home."

"New Year's Eve, are you around here?"

"Yes. But it basically never stopped. The business was very hot that night. The later the night, the harder it was to get a taxi. Basically, as soon as the customers in front got off the bus, the ones behind picked up the bus. They left as much as they wanted. That's it, a few people were left behind. Call the guests."

"Is there a driver who is more faceless waiting for passengers around here that night?"

"I didn't pay much attention to it, I just took care of Lahuo."

Ye Xi thought for a while, and there should be nothing to ask, so she turned her head and looked at Han Yin who had been sitting silently in the back seat.Han Yin shook his head slightly, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him.Ye Xi turned around and took out a business card and handed it to the driver, saying: "If one day you see a driver with an unfamiliar face waiting for customers on this street, please call the police station."

"sure."

The driver took the business card, with a flattering smile on his face, and watched the two of them get out of the car. Fearing that there would be another accident, he quickly turned on the ignition, put the car in gear, and drove away in a hurry.

Ye Xi glanced at the direction the car was leaving, turned to Han Yin with a smile and said, "You don't think the murderer should be the driver of the black car, but pretending to be the driver to make Wang Li relax, right?"

"Yes." Han Yin nodded and said, "As I described in my previous report, the murderer has a normal job with a fixed schedule, and he is so mature and perfect in committing the crime for the first time, which shows that he should have a fairly high level of education and engage in A certain type of professional and technical occupation, but not necessarily related to the use of knives. He is unknown in the unit and his position is not high, but it does not mean that the work he is doing is not high-level." Han Yin's self-confidence returned, and he said eloquently, "The murderer sought venting that night after suffering a major blow, and he chose to find the victim in the busiest area of ​​the city at that time, the busiest time, the most crowded road section, and the most exposed area. The target obviously lacked meticulous premeditation. But he was very lucky, and happened to meet Wang Li, who was very similar to his initial stimulus source, wearing a red cashmere coat and with long curly hair, and successfully committed the crime. It can be said that the murderer This murder, like many serial killers' first crimes, was impulsive and accidental. If he continues to commit crimes, no, he will continue to commit crimes, and this accident will become habitual. That is to say, the second He will still be in this area when committing crimes this time, and he will still pretend to be a black car driver. Because there will still be a lot of women appearing on this street at night or even after midnight, he believes that there must be a type he likes."

"If the murderer pretends to be a black car driver, it means that his car will not be very high-end, right?" Ye Xi asked.

"Yes, a high-end car disguised as a black car will make people suspicious. I personally think it should be a domestic car or an economical Japanese or Korean car." Han Yin paused and said, "Maybe the murderer is not as rigorous as we imagined. .Tomorrow, contact the traffic police, retrieve all the surveillance videos around the square that night, compare them, and see if you can find any suspicious vehicles."

Seeing that Han Yin was able to talk confidently again, Ye Xi was relieved, and thumped Han Yin's shoulder heavily, and the two looked at each other and smiled - at this moment, silence speaks louder than words.

No.20 Seven Dissociative Personalities
At midnight, another harassing call came.

"Huchi...huchi..." There was a long breath coming from the microphone.

"Help me, help me..." The girl's voice was cold and gloomy.

"Okay, yes, what can I help you with?" Han Yin tried to calm his mind, trying to make his tone as free as possible without any hostility.

"I……"

On the other end of the phone, the girl was hesitating.Han Yin held her breath, afraid that the girl would feel the pressure and hang up the phone again and run away, "Please tell me, as long as I can do it, I will try my best to help you."

"Someone is going to kill me!" the girl said in a cold voice.

"Who wants to kill you? Why do you want to kill you?" Han Yin's heart beat wildly.

"Because I know her secret, I saw her kill someone, she wanted to silence... Ah..." Following the girl's scream, it seemed that someone had interrupted the call, and the call was cut off suddenly, and there was a "beep beep" from the microphone. " busy tone.

Han Yin had no choice but to put down the phone, feeling very regretful that the girl would give her a name just by a little bit, and that name might play a key role in interpreting the harassing calls that came from time to time in the middle of the night.However, from the conversation with the girl just now, at least two pieces of information can be grasped: [-]. The girl witnessed a murder case; [-]. Someone wanted to kill the girl to silence her.So who the hell is the girl calling for help?Who is the person who wants to kill her?Who did the person who wanted to kill her kill?What is the relationship between these three?

Judging from the information obtained so far, the girl who made the call appeared in the dormitory where Yin Aijun lived before his death, and near the scene where the body was dumped on Huabei Road.In a previous call with Han Yin, she showed a certain degree of confusion when faced with Han Yin's question about her identity and where she was at that time.Also, if she witnessed a murder, why didn't she report the case to the police in an open and aboveboard manner, but instead played tricks and asked Han Yin for help in the middle of the night?Also, if someone wanted to kill her, why didn't they do it after such a long time?
This series of questions obviously cannot be explained logically, so there may be a possibility that these questions can be relatively clarified.

——Everything, including the pair of "hidden eyes watching Han Yin in a certain corner", "harassing phone calls at midnight", "the ghosts in the dormitory", "the blood on the glass window", and even the broken "1" The corpse cases may all have been done by one person because she suffered from "dissociative personality".

Dissociative personality, also known as multiple personality, is a personality disorder caused by psychological factors, mostly caused by emotional trauma, especially childhood trauma.A simple explanation, that is, because the "self" (the personality before the split personality occurs) cannot bear some kind of trauma, one or more personalities are split to share for the original personality, which is a kind of subconscious self-guiding.The split personality and the original personality are independent and autonomous from each other, and exist as a complete self.The original personality may know that there are other personalities, but when other personalities dominate the body, that is, become the "subject personality", what he does is usually unknown to the original personality, which will form a memory gap for a period of time.

This direction of investigation was not thought of by Han Yin, but came from Gu Feifei's suggestion.

Gu Feifei is a doctor of forensic science and psychology, and has been exposed to such cases when she was studying abroad. On the night when the "scarred characters in the dormitory" appeared, she approached Ye Xi to learn more about the ins and outs of the whole incident. Since some behavioral characteristics are difficult to explain from the perspective of normality and crime, she began to think in this direction, and suggested that Han Indy tries to identify suspects with this quality.

In this case, both Yu Meifen and Shen Xiulan have such potential, but Yu Meifen was already 35 years old when she was involved in the case and was traumatized. To Yu Meifen.

Morning routine.

As usual, the investigation progress of each group was reported, but the results were not satisfactory.

After the meeting ended, Ye Xi left the backbones of each group to discuss the key tasks for the next step.But before she said a few words, her mobile phone on the table vibrated. She glanced at the caller ID, motioned for everyone to take a break, and walked out of the meeting room with the phone.

Not long after, Han Yin's phone in his pocket also vibrated, it was a text message.After reading it, he excused himself to go to the bathroom and left the conference room.At a staircase not far from the meeting room, Ye Xi was waiting for him.

Seeing Ye Xi acting so cautiously, Han Yin also became vigilant, walked to the stairs, and asked softly, "What's the matter? What happened?"

Ye Xi rushed to both sides of the corridor, and said in a low voice: "There is news about the investigation of the 'police car'. According to the people I sent out, they found clues in a small repair shop in the suburbs. The car repairer there said that there was a car a while ago. The police car went to change the tires and asked for the old tires, but he didn't pay attention to the driver's appearance, and only vaguely remembered that the last two numbers on the license plate were '46'."

"The license plate of the police car, 46, why do I seem to have seen it somewhere?" Han Yin rubbed his forehead and muttered.

Ye Xi obviously already knew the answer, and reminded in a low voice: "Accumulated case team!"

"That's right!" Han Yin was surprised, and realized that he had raised the volume unconsciously, and hurriedly lowered his voice, "Yes, it's the car of the backlog team. Is it Fu Changlin? Or the three of them together? What are they going to do?" ? Could it be that the three of them committed the crime?"

Ye Xi shook her head melancholy: "Who knows? Anyway, it must be something shameful, otherwise I wouldn't have changed the tire secretly."

"Yes. Then what are you going to do next?" Han Yin asked.

Ye Xi hesitated for a while and said, "I just thought about it at the stairs, and I'm going to have a showdown with them, what do you think?"

"Okay, I think it's okay." Han Yin nodded heavily, "It's time for them to show their cards."

The two returned to the conference room and sat down next to each other.

Ye Xi announced with a stern face that except for Fu Changlin, Du Jun, and Yao Gang, the rest of the people can adjourn the meeting, then pointed to the opposite side of her, and asked the three of them to sit down.

Ye Xi flipped through the folder, found a photo and put it in front of the three people who had just sat down, and said, "This is the night when Mr. Han Yin first came to our place, when he and Xiaobei were investigating the scene of dumping corpses in Huwang Mountain." , a set of car tire tracks found."

Fu Changlin glanced at the photo and said nonchalantly, "I know, what's wrong?"

Ye Xi stared into his eyes and said, "According to reliable sources, the car the tire belongs to comes from your backlog team." "What?" Fu Changlin looked surprised, "Why is it our team's car? What are you doing there?" "I'm going to ask you that." Ye Xi said coldly.

"I..." Fu Changlin said patiently, "Xiaoye, is your news reliable? Could it be a mistake? I really have never been to Huwang Mountain."

"No, not Team Fu. You were the one who drove there that night, right?" Han Yin suddenly pointed to Du Jun who was sitting on Fu Changlin's left.

Du Jun's embarrassment was very obvious. The moment Ye Xi took out the photo and pushed it in front of the three of them, both Fu Changlin and Yao Gang showed a considerable degree of surprise, while Du Jun was full of fear.

"What? It's you? What are you doing there with the car in the group?" Fu Changlin was furious, got up and slapped Du Jun on the back of the head.

"I..." Du Jun lowered his head and couldn't continue.

"What did you do there?" Ye Xi asked sharply.

"I'll go...I'm fine, I'm going to observe the scene." Du Jun was lucky.

"Why are you guilty of observing the scene? Why did you change the tire secretly? And there is evidence that you didn't go alone. There were at least four people with you. Who are those people?" Ye Xi paused, " You go to relive the thrill of committing crimes, don’t you?”

"No, killing has nothing to do with us, I just brought a few netizens from other places to visit." Du Jun blurted out.

"Who are you fooling? Would you lose your job for a few netizens?" Fu Changlin kicked up again.

When something like this happened in his team, Fu Changlin's old face was completely humiliated.Having worked in the bureau all his life, he is regarded as respected by everyone, and he is about to retire soon, yet such a big mistake has happened.Especially in front of Ye Xi, he couldn't keep his face even more, so he couldn't help but lose control of his emotions. If Yao Gang beside him hadn't been dragging him, Du Jun probably would have been lying down by now.

"I, I charged them thousands of dollars..." Du Jun glanced at Fu Changlin fearfully, "They said it would be more exciting to go in a police car, so I secretly drove the car in the group."

Du Jun's answer shocked several people present!As a people's policeman, it is really embarrassing to do such an act that seriously violates professional ethics.This not only severely damaged the image of the people's police, but also seriously desecrated the victims.But in addition to being shocked, it also makes people a little dumbfounded. How did he come up with such a deal?

"You still dare to talk nonsense, tell me the truth!" Fu Changlin obviously couldn't accept such an answer for a while, he panted heavily, pointed at Du Jun and yelled loudly.

"Really, really!" Du Jun stood up and hurriedly defended, "If you don't believe me, you can check my chat history."

"Sit down honestly." Ye Xi pointed to the chair opposite, and said angrily, "Tell me specifically, what's going on!"

Du Jun sat back on the chair, lowered his head to sort out his thoughts, and said with a mournful face: "The case of Yin Aijun has always been a topic of widespread concern on some Internet forums. Many netizens posted on the forums, expressing their opinions on the case Analyzing and judging. At first I just looked at it casually, but later I felt that the opinions of netizens were very naive, so I couldn’t help but reveal my identity and participate in it, and I was sought after by many netizens.”

"Later, as the group leader, I established a QQ group dedicated to discussing Yin Aijun's body dismemberment case, which attracted many enthusiastic netizens who were obsessed with criminal investigation and reasoning. They often chased me in the group and asked me to show them Photos of the scene, or reveal some more details of the case, or let me describe the situation at the scene of the crime..."

"Actually, my original intention for setting up this group is very simple. I just like the sense of vanity that everyone admires and respects. Later, I lost a lot of money in stocks. I wanted to find a way to make some money, so I started to smash corpse case resources. And the idea of ​​those netizens. Of course, I can think of this because I was inspired by a British novel. In that novel, the British developed the murder route of 'Jack the Ripper' into a tourist attraction, and The business is very good, and there are a lot of tourists. So I thought, can I also take some detective fans to visit the scene of the dismemberment case, so as to charge some fees? I tried to mention it in the group a few times, but those people Very active in…”

"How many times have you done it?" Fu Changlin couldn't help interjecting.

"Two or three times."

"How many times?"

"Three times, four people each time."

"Do you know those people?" Han Yin also interjected.

Du Jun nodded: "I was also afraid of accidents, so I only chose people from other provinces, and I used the advantage of my police status to do some investigations on them, and even pretended to sign a non-disclosure agreement with them."

"You are really a bastard to the extreme. It is a shame to work with you as a policeman." Fu Changlin calmed down a little, shaking his head and saying with a heartbroken heart.

Du Jun knelt down on the ground with a "plop", grabbed Fu Changlin's lapel, and said in a crying voice: "Old team leader, I beg you, you can punish me as you like, please don't let me leave the police force? I like it." Be a cop!"

Ye Xi, who was sitting across from him without saying a word, slammed the table down, snorted coldly and said, "Are you worthy? Are you worthy of being a policeman? Can you afford to wear this police badge on the brim of your hat? Wait, take off." Take off your police uniform and remove you from the police force, that is just the most basic punishment!"

Du Jun received a total of three groups of "sightseeers", which means that there are 12 more suspects, all of whom are from other provinces, which is very worrying for Ye Xi.However, Han Yin told Ye Xi not to worry, the murderer must have been very familiar with the streets of this city so smoothly and without leaving any traces, obviously he was either a local, or he had lived there for many years.

As for the QQ group built by Du Jun, it is still necessary to investigate carefully.At the suggestion of Han Yin, the task force sealed up the computers Du Jun used at work and at home, and arranged for technicians to immediately extract group member information and all chat records, and find out from them that the IP addresses belonged to this city. Maybe the murderer was hiding in the city. in.

A few hours later, after the efforts of the technicians, the results came out.Among the nearly 100 QQ groups established by Du Jun, only 15 have IP addresses belonging to this city, and only one has an intersection with Yin Aijun's body dismemberment case.The user registered with this IP address is Shen Xiulan, a sanitation worker who witnessed the remains of the corpse twice in 16 years.

Han Yin and Ye Xi were greatly excited, and a group of people rushed to Shen Xiulan's residence.They did find "some answers" there, but the truth is embarrassing.

Remember when Han Yin visited Shen Xiulan's house earlier?At that time, Ding Damin described his wife's behavior after being frightened in this way: "She couldn't sleep well all night long, and when she finally fell asleep, she would be awakened by nightmares. She was often worried, flustered, and became very timid. I also ate very little, and my temper became a lot stronger, and sometimes it seemed like a different person when I lost my temper."

This is a typical symptom of "post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" caused by sudden terrorist incidents, but it did not come from Shen Xiulan. The symptoms Ding Damin described at the time actually occurred when he was admitted to Gudu University in 2008 , He and Shen Xiulan's only daughter Ding Xin, who is currently studying in the fourth grade of the Chinese Department.

In fact, it was not until this moment that the police discovered that the first person who saw the remains of the corpse and realized that it came from a human body was Ding Xin, a little girl who was only 8 years old at the time.It is conceivable that this is a terrible life experience for a child, and it directly caused her to suffer from "PTSD".The symptoms of PTSD in children are not as obvious as adults at the beginning, and are often easily overlooked by parents.Due to the lack of timely and effective psychological counseling, when this symptom persists into adulthood, it will lead to anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder, dissociative personality and other mental illnesses.

As Gu Feifei speculated, Ding Xin is suffering from dissociative personality - multiple personality.After hypnotizing Ding Xin, Gu Feifei found that besides her original personality, she had three other personalities: "Yin Aijun", "Murderer" and "Informer".Ding Xin's nature is aware of their existence, but he doesn't know much about what they do.

On January 1996, 1, when her mother Shen Xiulan came home with a dark travel bag, her 18-year-old daughter Ding Xin was playing with her beloved little yellow dog in the living room.The mother told her that there were slices of meat in the bag, which were for Xiao Huang.Ding Xin couldn't wait, so he opened the zipper of the travel bag by himself, saw a bag of bloody pieces of minced meat, reached in to feel it, and found a human finger.

Since then, the minced meat and the finger in the travel bag appeared in Ding Xin's dreams every day, and gradually became her nightmare. The minced meat is called Yin Aijun.Therefore, when the image of her being unable to bear the minced meat and fingers recurred in her mind, she needed a "living Yin Aijun" to turn the fact that she found the minced meat and fingers into an illusion.The split occurred when she was about 17 years old. Whenever "Ding Xin" was converted into "Yin Aijun", she would imitate Yin Aijun's dress and dress according to the outside world, and appear in places where Yin Aijun had appeared before his death.And after she was also admitted to the Chinese Department of Gudu University in 2008, the so-called ghosts would naturally appear in Yin Aijun's dormitory.In addition, according to her parents, around August 2010, Ding Xin was missing for two days. When she came back, they found a long-distance bus ticket from City Q to City J in her pocket, but Ding Xin didn’t know where she had been. , I don't know what I have done.

About five years ago, Ding Xin's closest partner, the little yellow dog who had been with her for many years, was accidentally hit and killed by a neighbor riding a motorcycle.At that time, she witnessed the tragedy with her own eyes, and her unprecedented anger and resentment gave her the desire to kill her neighbors.Due to the previous split experience, it was relatively easy for her personality to split into a "murderer" this time to deal with her criminal impulse.In the personality of the "murderer", she thinks that the neighbor has been killed by her, and the whole process of killing is copied from the only memory of the murder case in "this character" - she kills the neighbor and dismembers him He put the body fragments into a dark travel bag and threw them in front of the "big trash can" on Huabei Road.Therefore, when "Ding Xin" is converted into "murderer", she will appear at the scene of dumping the body on Huabei Road.

With the two criminal policemen Han Yin and Kang Xiaobei visiting and leaving a business card, the personality of the "murderer" felt unprecedented panic.She felt she was being targeted by the police and would soon be brought to justice for killing her neighbor.She wants to go to the police station to surrender, but she lacks the courage. The panic of murder and inner struggle make the "murderer" extremely painful, so a "whistleblower" is split in her personality again to relieve anxiety.The informer and the murderer knew each other, and the informer must always be on guard against being silenced by the murderer, so the midnight call for help began when Han Yin visited Shen Xiulan's house.

At present, Ding Xin has a total of four personalities. When some external stimulus makes her feel anxious, she will switch among the four personalities according to her psychological needs.This is a very painful life experience. It is a chronic mental illness that needs Ding Xin's great courage and the support and love of his family to heal. It is conceivable how difficult the future will be for this family.

At this time, Han Yin is both sad and resentful, he will settle the account on the murderer!

(End of this chapter)