Madness of the Heart

After saying "Kill", Zhou Yu entered a strange state of madness, laughing and crying for a while, and finally jumped onto the dining table and plunged into the boiling soup pot.

All of a sudden, Zhou Yu was a lunatic, but he was still quite sensitive to pain. He was so hot that he howled continuously. The sound was like a dog that was about to die, and the dogs in the nearby farmhouse responded one after another.

Zhou Changyou quickly tore Zhou Yu off and beat him on the head, "I'll drive you crazy! I'll drive you crazy!"

Zhou Yu was crying hysterically, and Mingshu finally asked him a question: "Is that person a brother or a sister?"

"Brother!" Zhou Yu said, "Tall! Brother!"

Mingshu took a light breath.

The sex of the murderer is a major doubt.Judging from the characteristics of the Meng Shan case, the murderer is more likely to be a man, but the possibility of a strong woman committing the crime cannot be ruled out, and the lip cutting and suspected lip-eating behavior suggest that the murderer is a woman.

In Tang Qian's case, Tang Qian booked a couple's room and bought a by set, so she should be waiting for a man.

Taken together, it can almost be concluded that the murderer is a man.

As for the suspected behavior of eating lips, there may be other explanations.

But after all, no one has seen the murderer, and Mingshu cannot be 100% sure of the murderer's gender.

Although Zhou Yu had a problem with his IQ, his behavior of clenching his fists and hitting his head proved that he was a witness when the murder happened—most likely the only witness.

He saw that the murderer was a man.

It's a pity that he didn't see clearly, or couldn't remember clearly the appearance and clothing characteristics of the murderer.

"Hearing him howling, I got goosebumps!" Fang Yuanhang handed his forearm to Mingshu, "It's pitiful and pervasive."

Mingshu slapped his apprentice's dirty hands away, "Zhou Yu couldn't describe the appearance of the murderer, so we had to investigate by ourselves. In late October, Fengsheng Town was still in the peak tourist season, and there were many tourists, so the murderer was in hiding. Among them, the investigation task is quite difficult, the murderer may have stayed in Zhou Changyou's farmhouse, before and after Tang Qian's death, everyone on the farmhouse order has to verify."

"If I were a murderer, I wouldn't live in any farmhouse." Fang Yuanhang said: "As long as I stay, I will definitely leave a record. Isn't this exposing myself?"

"That's true, but we can't stop checking because of this." Mingshu unconsciously took out the small iron box containing rose candy, switched from left hand to right hand while speaking, opened it and ate a candy, "The murderer might hit a counter-logic. "

Fang Yuanhang stared at the small tin box, and suddenly said, "Master, where did you buy the rose sugar?"

Mingshu's mind was full of cases, and he said without thinking, "Ju Xiao gave it."

Fang Yuanhang: "..."

Mingshu: "..."

"Master, I'm busy." Fang Yuanhang turned around politely but awkwardly, "I'll check everyone out for you!"

Let you send me wedding candy after eating the rose candy!

Mingshu looked down at the small iron box, put it back into the pocket of the police trousers two seconds later, returned to the police car, and opened the instant video from Xu Chun.

Dongye City, Shunyi Street.

"I didn't call the police because I didn't even know Tang Qian was missing!"

The owner of the "Taohuajiao" studio is a man in his thirties, wearing a modified suit, with thin arms and legs, and his ankles are exposed in the cold weather, "She resigned with me in late October. I'll find a work diary for you...here, you see, the last time she came to work was October 10th."

Xu Chun asked: "What is the reason for Tang Qian's resignation? The end of the year is the peak period of business in your industry. Did you try to keep her?"

The boss waved his hand: "No need, I won't rush if you want to stay with me, and I won't stay if you don't want to."

Xu Chun saw that the boss hadn't finished speaking, and asked, "Do you seem to have anything else to say?"

The boss was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, "I know you want to know about Tang Qian's social circle from me, but I really don't know. In our business, we have to deal with those who are not popular in your eyes. We have business It doesn't matter if the family is a lady, or they sell it, so everyone has some secrets, if you don't want others to know your secrets, then don't inquire about other people's secrets. Police officer, do you understand what I mean?"

"You mean, although you are colleagues, you don't know each other." Xu Chun paused, "But you are not Tang Qian's colleague, but her boss. You should know more than others."

The boss's already relaxed expression tensed up again.

"Tang Qian was killed, just the day after she resigned and left." Xu Chun said seriously, "The details you know can help us solve this murder case."

The boss twisted his slender waist uneasily, "Tang, Tang Qian is not a very good character, she has offended many people, and the employees in our store, including myself, don't get along very well with her..."

Xu Chun said, "Is that why you accepted her resignation?"

"Speaking of this, I don't hide anything." The boss took out a lady's cigarette and lit it, "Tang Qian is from the countryside. Ah, I don't discriminate against rural people. I myself came from the countryside. But I don't have any of her weirdness."

Xu Chun asked: "What's wrong? Tell me in detail."

"She... how to say..." The boss seemed to be unable to find the right words, and it took him a long time to say: "She adores men."

"What?" Xu Chun thought he heard it wrong, "Mu Nan?"

"Oh, let me explain it to you like this." The boss shook the cigarette ash, "Some rural areas favor men over women, to what extent are men superior to women, that is, men are regarded as superior people, and women are regarded as inferior people, do you understand this? "

Xu Chun nodded.

As a criminal police officer, especially a field criminal police officer, the more you go to remote mountain villages, the more clearly you will understand the situation of patriarchy.

"Aren't there a lot of people engaging in feminist movements on social media now? I am also a supporter, but Tang Qian is not. She is a woman, and she curses these activities!" The boss showed a surprised expression, "As a woman, she looks down on Women—including herself. She was really influenced by her living environment, and it was deeply rooted in her belief that women are men's appendages, women are inferior to men, and when others want to help her, she thinks others are meddling. Anyway Anything that comes to her is a double standard between men and women. What a man says, even if it is bullshit, it is an imperial decree, and what a woman says, even if it makes sense, is also bullshit. As long as it is a man, she worships it. Don't look at her dressing herself up She looks so foreign, but she actually lives in her heart with a...slave!"

"Slave." Mingshu put the phone on the shelf.

Before hearing the description from the boss of "Taohuajiao", he did not expect Tang Qian to have the so-called "amorous" traits.

Tang Qian obeyed men's words, so it was really easy for the murderer to manipulate Tang Qian.

Tang Qian resigned and went to Fengsheng Town for vacation, which was probably the murderer's order.

But how did the murderer give orders to Tang Qian?

Tang Qian's communication records are currently being checked one by one.Unlike Meng Shan, Tang Qian had countless contacts on her mobile phone, and her online chat records were quite explicit.

"Tang Qian often said that women are useless, and women should be vassals of men. Women make up and dress up to make men look comfortable." The boss shook her head, "I find her thoughts unacceptable when I hear them. Our shop Girls bother her and don't like to work with her. She also looks down on her homosexuality. What she often talks about is--my brother said. Her brother is indeed promising, a college student, but she won't put her My brother is a god, right? We have a lot of bars here. When she has no work, she goes to the bar to find men. As long as a man takes care of her, she is very proud, as if she has some kind of glory. Everyone nearby knows who she is People and women can't understand her, and men may hold the attitude of playing with her. Several customers who often come to my place have complained to me many times, saying that they don't want to see her, and don't want to hear her talk about those "women" You should serve men' and other nonsense. But she has worked here for several years, I can't dismiss her casually, she resigned on her own initiative that day, and I approved it smoothly."

After chatting, Tang Qian's image became clearer in Xu Chun's mind, and he asked, "Do you know which bars Tang Qian often goes to?"

The boss took Xu Chun outside the door and pointed to three places, "There, there, and there. I really don't know anything else. Please don't say that I provided any clues. This place is messy, I don't want to Get yourself in trouble."

Tang Qian's family came to Dongye City just as the serious crime team was taking action.

As the boss of "Taohuajiao" said, this is indeed a family where men are superior to women. Tang Qian's mother and sister, like Tang Qian, have no status in the family.

The family made a fuss at the Criminal Investigation Bureau, demanding that the police give an explanation immediately and compensate their family for their losses.

"Did I hear you right?" Zhou Yuan said in surprise, "Their daughter was killed, and they only regard it as a 'loss'? Do you want us to compensate? We are the police, how can we compensate?"

Xu Chun said: "I'm such a mess, I thought this was their village's police station."

Zhou Yuan was very puzzled, "The police station can't do this either. Do they know that their daughter was killed?"

"I know, but I don't care. In their family, only the man is precious, and the woman is like the pig and dog in the family. Death is just a 'loss' that can be made up with money. You have been in the bureau In general, I can’t get in touch with these people, so I watch too much.” Xu Chun sighed, “The cognition of ‘men are noble, women are humble’ has already taken root in Tang Qian’s heart, and it is her family that has marked her. The brand of "envy men" and "hatred women"."

"Is there a connection between 'Namnian' and 'Hate Girl'? Could it be related to Tang Qian's murder?" Zhou Yuan said: "The murderer hates people like Tang Qian and thinks she is a cancer that must be eradicated? But How should Meng Shan's death be explained? Meng Shan is introverted, she rarely gets in touch with men, and she doesn't have a clear tendency to be fond of men."

"Killed because of the tendency to be 'amorous'?" Xiao Yu'an came down from the stairs, just in time to hear Xu Chun and Zhou Yuan's discussion.

"Xiao Bureau." Zhou Yuan was a little embarrassed, "I'm just talking casually."

Xiao Yuan said: "It's a very novel idea, remember to mention it to Team Ming during the meeting."

·

The Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Beicheng Branch quickly found out that the person whose online name is "Catheria spinulosa" is Cai Xinyue, a 31-year-old female who is the designer of the "Fengbo" secret room club in Nancheng District.

Knowing that Huang Yan was killed at home, Cai Xinyue's reaction was intriguing.

She didn't react immediately at first, and then smiled and said "how is it possible", while Xiang Tao kept staring into her eyes seriously.

When she finally realized that the young criminal policeman in front of her was not joking, Cai Xinyue's cheeks turned pale, and the panic in her eyes was evident, "Sister Yan, is Sister Yan really dead?"

Xiang Tao said, "Really?"

On the morning of weekdays, there were not many guests in the "Storm" secret room club. There was only one table of guests sitting in the public area, and two cleaning ladies were cleaning the demon statues placed by the windows.

Cai Xinyue's lips moved, and she looked around in fear, "Let's talk in another place."

Xiang Tao followed Cai Xinyue to an empty room.

There are various props piled up in the room, the most notable ones are the two huge wolf heads.Probably because it hasn't been used for a long time, the right eye of a wolf head has fallen out, and the empty hole is facing Xiang Tao directly, which makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

But soon, Xiang Tao discovered that the uncomfortable feeling was not only from the wolf head, but also from the atmosphere in the whole room.

Before it was used as a storage room, it was supposed to be a hospital scene. The walls were painted blood red, and there were many slap prints on it. In these slap prints, the faces of babies and the rickety figures of adults could be vaguely seen.

There are two operating tables in the center of the room. Like the walls, the operating tables are also covered in blood.

There are dilapidated cabinets by the wall, and the bottles and jars inside are soaked in formalin for human and animal organs.

Of course, these are just professional sets.

Xiang Tao has played many secret rooms, and he knows that this kind of scene was once all the rage, but now it has been replaced by more terrifying and supernatural scenes, so after losing popularity, it was transformed into a temporary warehouse.

"What's the relationship between you and Huang Yan?" Xiang Tao pulled his attention back from the scene, and suddenly realized that Cai Xinyue brought herself to this room, maybe it was not as simple as "taking a step to talk".

Anyone who enters here will forget for a moment what he was thinking about at that time.

Maybe Cai Xinyue wanted to interfere with him.

But why did Cai Xinyue do this?

"We...we are just ordinary friends." Cai Xinyue looked away, "As you can see, my job is to design the script of the secret room. I need a lot of folklore and supernatural materials, and I have to go to secret rooms all over the country to learn scriptures. Sometimes I still have to look for clues on the Internet. Sister Yan, I met Huang Yan on the Internet. She is very knowledgeable and is really an expert in this area. She has written about horror before. I know that she and I are both after Dongye City, I often ask her for advice, she, she helps me a lot. Sometimes I have a preliminary idea of ​​a secret room script, and she will help me add a lot of attractive elements."

Xiang Tao observed Cai Xinyue's expression, although normal people's emotions would fluctuate greatly when they just learned that someone they knew was killed, but Cai Xinyue was dodging and afraid, not sad.

"Ordinary friends?" Xiang Tao said, "But you seem to know why Huang Yan died?"

A stream of cold sweat immediately rolled down Cai Xinyue's forehead.

Xiang Tao said: "Ms. Cai, the look in your eyes makes me suspicious. You already knew that something might happen to Huang Yan."

Cai Xinyue froze when she heard the words, and took a few steps back, her high-heeled shoes stepped on the severed prop behind her, making a soft sound.

"Ah!" Cai Xinyue yelled, holding onto the wall with her right hand.

"I didn't know that something might happen to her, yes, yes..." Cai Xinyue's eyes were red, and she stammered, "I've been in this business for a long time, and I'm becoming more and more afraid of ghosts and gods, and I believe in karma."

Xiang Tao brought a chair and wiped off the dust, "Sit down and talk, what's going on?"

Cai Xinyue sat for a while, and finally said: "Sister Yan, she has raised a pair of ghost children."

Xiang Tao immediately remembered those 24 "monster cards".

The most primitive "ghost card" in Qiuxu village is made from the corpse oil of the old man and the heart blood of the baby!

"Have you seen these things?" Xiang Tao called up the photo of "Ghost Card".

When Cai Xinyue saw it, she covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from screaming.

Xiang Tao said: "As expected, you have seen it. Where did Huang Yan get these 'job cards'?"

"Where did you find these things?" Cai Xinyue said in horror, "A corpse? A corpse! Is it next to Sister Yan's corpse?"

Xiang Tao shook his head, "Why do you think they will appear next to the corpse?"

"Because they are irritated! If Sister Yan dies, I will die too!" Cai Xinyue cried, "We shouldn't touch these things!"

Xiang Tao understood, "You also have a 'job card'?"

Cai Xinyue nodded tremblingly, "It happened a year ago..."

A year ago, Cai Xinyue encountered a bottleneck at work and confided to Huang Yan.Huang Yan comforted her first, and then suggested to "transfer luck" together.

At first, Cai Xinyue didn't know that Huang Yan's "transfer" was inviting a "ghost card", so she followed Huang Yan to a place called "Silin Town" in the north in a daze.Because of the backwardness there, many families will abandon their babies on the mountain or suffocate them to death as soon as they give birth to a baby girl.

Some "joker" makers -- known in the trade as "smiths" -- searched around town for discarded, living baby girls, took their hearts, and made "jokers." ", and some "craftsmen" even went to the homes of townspeople to "acquire" baby girls.

Cai Xinyue was shocked when she found out. In her perception, after Qiuxu Village, which specializes in "ghost cards", was strictly controlled, there would be no "ghost cards" among the people. Villages and towns took root.

Huang Yan said that she came here to raise her "daughters". These baby girls were abandoned in the mountains. Even if the "craftsman" didn't do it, they would not survive. If it is preserved, she supports them, and they will protect her and make her business better and better.

Cai Xinyue witnessed "Master Craftsman" making "ghost cards" with her own eyes. Huang Yan's 24 "ghost cards" were made from the heart blood of a pair of twin baby girls. "Master Craftsman" told her to put 12 of them. In the bedroom, the other 12 are placed in other rooms of the house, which must be dedicated to worship.

Cai Xinyue seemed to be possessed by a demon, and asked the "master craftsman" to make a "ghost card" for herself.

After having the "ghost card", Cai Xinyue obviously felt that her work had improved.Although she was still a little scared, she gradually felt at ease when she thought that these baby girls were going to die anyway, and by doing this, she was praying for them.

Xiang Tao was startled, "How could you do such a thing?"

Cai Xinyue kept shaking her head, "But I didn't kill people! Help me! I don't want to die!"

Criminal Investigation Bureau, Crime Squad.

The identities of those who had close contact with Tang Qian a month before Tang Qian's death have all been confirmed. Among them are bartenders in bars, white-collar workers who come to Shunyi Street to have fun, and "male models" who perform at night shows. These people all admitted that they had a relationship with Tang Qian, but they refused to admit that they had anything to do with Tang Qian's death.After further investigation, they all had alibi from October 10th to 26th.

"Alibi cannot completely clear their suspicions." Fang Yuanhang said: "Tang Qian was only captured by the camera of the farmhouse on the 26th for the last time, and the mobile phone was used for the last time on the 26th. This does not mean that she was from the 26th to the 27th." Mr. Xing did not give a specific time of death."

Xing Mu raised his hand innocently, "It's been more than a month since Tang Qian was murdered, and it's impossible to accurately determine the time of death."

"If the murderer had already arrived in Fengsheng Town on the 26th, why did Tang Qian disappear?" Ming Shu said, "She wouldn't have been hiding somewhere by herself, hiding for more than three days, waiting for the murderer to kill her, right?"

Fang Yuanhang thought for a moment, "That's true."

"Whether these people may be the murderer or not, you can also refer to the time when Meng Shan was killed." Mingshu added: "Don't forget, the two cases have been merged, and the person who killed Tang Qian is the person who killed Meng Shan. The time of death can be accurate not only to the day, but also to the hour."

"Since the murderer is a serial killer who targets the lips of beautiful women, he should not be exposed easily." Yi Fei said, "He and Tang Qian should have other contact channels. Tang Qian resigned and booked a farmhouse. Before ascending the town, these words were instigated by the murderer. The murderer had already connected with Tang Qian when she was still working in "Taohuajiao". When the murderer killed Meng Shan, he did it directly in the city without hiding the body. When the murderer killed Tang Qian, why did he lure Tang Qian to Fengsheng Town?"

"The murderer killed Tang Qian before killing Meng Shan. There is a pattern in serial murders, and the murderer will become bolder as he continues to commit crimes. For the first time—assuming Tang Qian is the No.1 victim—the murderer is worried about committing crimes in the city He exposed himself, so he led Tang Qian to the village and buried her body." Mingshu said, "But I chose Fengsheng Town... Could it be that the murderer is familiar with Fengsheng Town? Fengsheng Town is the same as Textile Road and Guangdan Road. safe zone?"

Fang Yuanhang asked: "Could the murderer be someone whose native place is Fengsheng Town? Let me explain. He was born in Fengsheng Town and is very familiar with Fengsheng Town. He currently lives in the city and his main activity area is the first The area around Textile Road and Guangdan Road in the urban area, and the second is Shunyi Street in Nancheng District.”

When everyone was nervously sorting out the clues, the technical team finally identified the half-rotted hair in Tang Qian's mouth.

It was indeed not a dog's hair, but a poke of a duck's feather.