Madness of the Heart

In modern criminal investigation, tangible evidence is far more important than confession.When Niu Tianlan was negatively responding to the police interrogation, the technical team had already grasped the key physical evidence including the murder weapon——

In Niu Tianlan's home, not only the locked room had a lot of bloodstains, but also the kitchen.It's just that the blood in the kitchen is not as obvious as in the living room, and the floor has been cleaned with the disinfectant of the funeral home, and even the gaps in the floor have no blood reaction.

This disinfectant was also used at the scene of Meng Shan's murder.

Niu Tianlan once used disinfectant in the kitchen, and judging from the remaining condition, the use time would not exceed four months, and Wen Xi disappeared in September, which happened to be within this time.

Could it be that she was killed by Niu Tianlan here?

Holding this inference, Xiao Man searched every corner of the kitchen, and finally found blood in a little finger-wide groove under the sink facing the ground.

After comparison, it was confirmed that it belonged to Wen Xi.

Major crimes unit, interrogation room.

After going through rounds of interrogation, Niu Tianlan's original arrogance no longer exists.Mingshu pulled away the chair opposite, sat down but did not speak immediately, but stared at Niu Tianlan's face coldly.

Ten minutes later, Niu Tianlan said weakly: "What do you want to ask me again?"

"Let's chat today." Mingshu said, "Don't you like to talk about cases? Okay, let's not talk about cases, talk about you and your sister Niu Lanlan."

Niu Tianlan's back suddenly straightened, and his neck visibly stiffened.

"I've seen your grades when you were studying. From childhood to adulthood, your grades are better than your sister's, not only a little better, but a lot better." Mingshu spoke in a relaxed tone, as if he was really chatting, "When you were 18 years old, You take the college entrance examination. In fact, based on your scores at the time, you can apply for better schools, such as several universities in Los Angeles, the capital of Han Province, but you finally chose Xicheng University of Technology."

Niu Tianlan slightly pursed the corners of his lips—this seemed to be his habitual action when he felt unhappy.

"Is it because your sister's grades can only apply for Xicheng University for Nationalities?" Mingshu said, "You want to stay in the same city with her and take care of each other?"

"No, no..." Niu Tianlan shook his head, his eyes angry.

Mingshu said, "Didn't you want to take care of each other?"

"Her grades are not limited to Xicheng University of Nationalities." Niu Tianlan clenched her hands on the table as if she had been poked into a sore spot in her heart. Big, big pressure, insisting on filling Xicheng with a big nation.”

"So you can only give up Luo City and choose Xi City?"

"Since childhood... she has been like this!"

Mingshu asked: "How is it?"

"Being self-centered and selfish, the whole world revolves around her!" Niu Tianlan's voice gradually trembled, "I must take care of her, give her all the good things, and I will do everything she wishes for her. Do it!"

Fang Yuanhang was watching the surveillance outside, raised an eyebrow, "Hiss, this is different from what I imagined."

Seeing that Niu Tianlan had already entered the mood, Mingshu didn't interrupt.

"In our family, she is the princess, and I am like a burden picked up by my parents." Niu Tianlan smiled wryly, "We are obviously twins, but because she is a daughter and I am a son, I have to let her and pamper her." Her. My parents said that if a daughter wants to be rich, a son should suffer. Our family is not rich, so they gave her all the good things, so I can only pick up what she left."

Mingshu said: "Some families favor boys over girls, but your family favors girls over boys?"

Niu Tianlan's shoulders shook twice, as if smiling, but there was no smile on the corners of her lips, "I don't know when, I got used to taking care of her, maybe after my parents died. Xicheng In the two directions of Han Province with Luocheng, she applied for Xicheng University of Nationalities. If I go to the university in Luocheng, I will not be able to take care of her. I can only apply for the best university in Xicheng, which is Xicheng Polytechnic big."

Ming Shu paused for a few seconds, "Then you met Zhao Wen after you joined the student union in freshman year."

Hearing this name, Niu Tianlan's expression almost froze.

"You have long understood that you like men." Mingshu said: "Before the college entrance examination, you could only suppress yourself, but when you went to college, you met someone who made you fall in love at first sight, and you decided to face yourself calmly."

Niu Tianlan's face gradually turned pale, and he shook his head slightly, "I, I..."

"But Zhao Wen rejected you. After meeting your sister Niu Lanlan, we developed a relationship with her." Mingshu said, "You..."

"What are you talking about?" Niu Tianlan interrupted excitedly, "That's not the case at all!"

Mingshu followed suit: "No? What's the truth?"

"Brother Wen, he didn't reject me!" Niu Tianlan clasped his fingers tightly on the interrogation table, his knuckles were so white that they were about to protrude, "He is my boyfriend! We have been together! It was Niu Lanlan who snatched him from me. gone!"

Fang Yuanhang said softly: "I... rely on..."

Mingshu's tone remained unchanged, "You mean, Zhao Wen likes both men and women. He originally chose you, but later abandoned you because of Niu Lanlan? Niu Lanlan is the third party in your relationship. ?”

"She forced me! She forced me!" Niu Tianlan hugged her head in pain, tears streaming from her eyes, "She clearly knows that Brother Wen loves me, but she still wants to take Brother Wen away from me..."

19 years old--

"You have spoiled me since I was a child, wouldn't it be nice to spoil me again?" Niu Lanlan was wearing the dress she just bought, with a charming expression, "You are both men, what future can two men have together?"

"Impossible! I can do anything else according to you, but this is not possible!" Niu Tianlan has never said harsh words to Niu Lanlan. This is the first time, "Lanlan, you and Brother Wen have only met twice. Not familiar at all. Don't be silly, I like brother Wen, he likes me, we all like men!"

"Are you sure?" Niu Lanlan said with a smile, "You are the only one who likes men, right? Because you are Xiao 0, brother Wen is different from you."

Niu Tianlan asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"

"Do you want me to explain? Well then, Tianlan, don't be sad when you hear that. I heard that only a little 0—like you—likes men wholeheartedly, but Brother Wen is 1, he is not I can only like men." Niu Lanlan flipped her skirt, raised her chin and looked at Niu Tianlan, "We have already..."

Niu Lanlan leaned over Niu Tianlan's ear and said the latter words.

Niu Tian seemed to be struck by a thunderbolt, "You are lying! Impossible!"

Niu Lanlan said: "It's impossible, you can ask Brother Wen yourself and you will know?"

"Sorry, Tianlan." Zhao Wen smiled awkwardly, "You are fine, but you are a man after all. Even if we are together now, what should we do after we graduate and enter the society in the future? The society will not accept us, And my family won't accept you either."

Tears fell from Niu Tianlan's eyes, he kept shaking his head, "Brother Wen, but you said you liked me!"

"I also like you now." Zhao Wen comforted: "But Tianlan, you are not a woman, please understand my difficulties. You are very similar to Lan Lan, and I am with your sister, aren't we considered family? A romantic relationship can't last long, but if I stay with your sister all the time, we can be a family for a long time."

The interrogation room was filled with sobs, and Mingshu said, "So you gave up Zhao Wen to Niu Lanlan? But you never let go of Zhao Wen?"

Niu Tianlan nodded solemnly.

After half a minute, Mingshu said, "You haven't finished."

Niu Tianlan burst into tears, "What?"

"Zhao Wen said too much to you, and it is precisely because of these words that you can't let go." Mingshu's eyes were sharp, "He once commented on your appearance, especially your lips."

Niu Tianlan's eyes were wide open, filled with anger.

Mingshu lowered his voice, "Answer me."

20 years old--

Unable to believe that her first love ended in such a hasty way, Niu Tianlan neither accepted Zhao Wen's apology nor wanted to meet Niu Lanlan again.He realized that he had fallen into a quagmire, but no matter how hard he struggled, no one helped him.He can no longer concentrate on his studies, and the only thing he can do every day is to follow Zhao Wen.

And Zhao Wen and Niu Lanlan have become a public couple.

"I don't want to expose you because you are my only family member." Niu Lanlan finally tore off the pure disguise, "If you continue to harass us like this, I will tell your student union, your classmates, and your teacher! "

Niu Tianlan was not afraid of Niu Lanlan's threat, but Zhao Wen's words made him throw up his helmet and armor.

"You asked me why I chose Lan Lan instead of you." When Zhao Wen said this, his tone was even gentle, "Because Lan Lan is a woman, and women have beauty that you can never have. Tianlan, you don't Did you notice? Although you and Lan Lan are twins, she is much prettier than you. Her M-shaped lips are plump and soft, and your... oh, Tianlan, you should go and look in the mirror."

Niu Tianlan wanted to stand up from the interrogation chair, but his body was stuck. Wiping his tears, he said to himself: "They destroyed me..."

Mingshu changed his listening attitude just now, "You killed those innocent women because you envied their M-shaped lips similar to Niu Lanlan."

Niu Tianlan abruptly withdrew from the memory, a gloomy expression quickly spread on his face.

Fang Yuanhang pressed hard on his forehead, and murmured: "The victim may never imagine that he would be targeted by a murderer for some ridiculous reason."

"Yes, so what!" Niu Tianlan grinned like an enraged wolf, "Women are the most disgusting thing in this world!"

The recorder was a woman, and her expression became very ugly upon hearing this.

"They have a human appearance, and their hearts are no different from livestock!" Niu Tianlan almost lost control, and kept patting the table with her hands, "Do you know how cheap Tang Qian is? She is a woman herself, but she looks down on women more than anyone else! At the bar, I was wearing women's clothes and she dismissed me, then I let her hear my voice, and when she learned I was a man, she immediately became a begging dog! Stick to me, beg me , I called her cheap, guess how she answered? She said that women should be cheap in front of men!"

"Watch your words," said the recorder.

Mingshu whispered to the recorder: "I'm sorry to let you hear this. You take a break and let Fang Yuanhang or Xu Chun come in."

"Am I wrong?" Niu Tianlan sneered, "Meng Shan is not a good person either. Her father left, and I asked her to buy her father a paper firework. She was unwilling and lost control on the spot. That's how women are. , Emotional breakdown at every turn, ugly to death."

"And Wen Xi, hahaha, she's dead too!" Niu Tianlan said, "That's also a bitch. Like Tang Qian, she thinks men are superior. Isn't this the best? I kill them, eat them, It's their honor!"

Mingshu is not surprised that Wen Xi has been killed. The blood in the kitchen is the evidence, "You asked Tang Qian to go to Fengsheng Town face to face, and suggested that she quit her job. On October 10th, you killed Zhou Changyou on the wasteland behind Zhou Changyou's house." Tang Qian, you chose Fengsheng Town because you have been there before and are familiar with it. What about Wen Xi? Where did you hide her?"

Niu Tianlan was stunned for a moment, and laughed out of his throat, "I burned her. You will never find her again."

"How is this possible?" Fang Yuanhang had already sat down in the interrogation room, "Where is it burned? A funeral home?"

"It's easy." Niu Tianlan raised her right hand and made a slashing motion, "I chopped her into pieces and took one piece with me to work every day. Throw it into the stove, and it will come out as a pile of ashes. Those family members are so stupid, who can tell whose ashes are whose ashes?"

Mingshu said, "Is this how you disposed of Wen Xi's body?"

Niu Tianlan suddenly muttered, "I can take advantage of the management loopholes of the funeral home, and maybe others will. Maybe... Maybe I'm not the only one who killed people? Those incinerators are actually not forbidden places at all."

Fang Yuanhang suddenly felt a chill rise from his tailbone.

Niu Tianlan is an extremely perverted murderer, it's hard not to arouse people's imagination when he said the words just now.

"Xiyue" funeral home has standardized management and has a complete set of employee rules.Where management can be standardized, it is inevitable that there will be loopholes, and loopholes that can be exploited by one person can be exploited by another.

Is Niu Tianlan really the only murderer hiding in the "Xiyue" funeral home?

For those disappearance cases that have not been solved, have the victims been turned into ashes in the funeral parlor?

"Thank you for reminding me." Ming Shu said, "Leave the funeral parlor aside, or you. The first crime you committed was in September this year, and the victim was Wen Xi?"

Niu Tianlan nodded.

Mingshu stared into his eyes and remained motionless for half a minute.

Niu Tianlan shrugged, "You don't have to look at me like that anymore, I killed three people in total, Wen Xi, at my house, Tang Qian, at Fengsheng Town, Meng Shan, at her house. Nothing else. Three people are also sentenced to death, and more are also sentenced to death, I will not embarrass you, police officer."

Mingshu said, "What about Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen?"

Niu Tianlan tensed again, "They committed suicide."

"Why did they kill themselves?"

"I do not know."

Mingshu said: "Then you should know, why didn't you bury Niu Lanlan's ashes? Niu Tianlan, let me boldly speculate, if something is wrong, you can interrupt me at any time, the set that your parents left you In the house, only one room is equipped with iron fences, and those iron fences were only installed in the last 2 years. Compared with the living room and the other living room, it is gloomy and weird, and your blood is everywhere on the wall and on the bed. You don’t To bury Niu Lanlan is to put her in such a room, to punish her and take revenge on her, so that she will not be able to rest in peace even after she dies."

Niu Tianlan laughed and said, "Aren't you a policeman? Policemen are also superstitious?"

"Of course I'm not superstitious." Mingshu nodded his chest, "What I said is what you think in your heart."

Niu Tianlan frowned tightly and did not speak.

Mingshu asked again: "Where did you find out about this kind of magic?"

Niu Tianlan still didn't answer.

"The deaths of Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen are related to the sorcery you came into contact with?"

"They committed suicide." Niu Tianlan insisted, "The police have already investigated it clearly, and it has nothing to do with me."

It was already 5 o'clock in the morning when Mingshu came out of the interrogation room.

Niu Tianlan admitted to killing Meng Shan and the other three, and the physical evidence is sufficient. At present, there is no clue to prove that there is No.4 victim. The investigation of this series of cases has come to an end.

But the deaths of Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen were definitely not simple.

At that time, the police station was in charge of investigating the case. The police force was insufficient and the ability was lacking, so the death of the two people was easily treated as suicide.It has been two years since the incident, the remains were cremated, and the traces at the scene no longer exist, and the case happened in other provinces, it will be very difficult to investigate further.

Ming Shu leaned against the wall of the corridor to rest for a while, and saw the door diagonally opposite opened.

Xiao Yuan came out from inside.

Ming Shu frowned quietly, "Xiao Ju, you're here too."

"Well, I watched the interrogation surveillance for a while." Xiao Yuan approached, "Thank you."

Mingshu shook his head, "This hard work is nothing. It's a blessing to be able to save people."

Xiao Yu'an knew who he was talking about, the media person who came home alone late at night, Wen Ling.

"By the way, how is she now?" Mingshu said, "At that time she was too scared to stand up."

"After going to the hospital for the examination and cooperating with the investigation, I rested for two days." Xiao Yu'an said, "Now I'm back at work."

Mingshu was surprised, "She... still leaves work in the early morning? Isn't she afraid?"

"Scared, but didn't escape, because that was her job. She was doing her job. But now she is not going back alone, and her colleagues take turns to send her off until the day after the new year." Xiao Yu'an felt a little emotional , "Niu Tianlan's understanding of women is too narrow and extreme. Some of them are blindly 'love men', but more are people like Wen Ling, who are ordinary but strong."

Mingshu took a deep breath, and frowned, "The case 2 years ago..."

"Treat them separately." Xiao Yu'an led Mingshu downstairs, "The case two years ago does seem to be problematic now, but it is absolutely forbidden to combine cases that are not directly related in the case investigation."

Mingshu nodded, "I know."

Before dawn, it is the coldest time of the day.The special police corps did not know what task they were on, and police cars drove out of the city bureau roaring.

Police can't protect everyone in the dark, but they've been doing their best.

There was an all-night noodle shop opposite the City Bureau. The owner was a retired traffic policeman, surnamed Liu. His teammates said they couldn't bear the noodles he cooked, so he took over the shop and opened it for several years.

Many policemen who have been busy all night will come to eat a bowl of noodles.

"Brother Wang, two beef noodles." Ming Shu said, "Add two fried eggs."

Brother Liu was taciturn and didn't answer, but put two servings of hot soybean milk on the table.

It's free, every cop who comes late at night has it.

Soon, the hot noodles were cooked, Mingshu ate half of it, and finally suppressed the emptiness of the long interrogation, "Brother, did you watch half of the interrogation surveillance, or did you finish watching it all?"

Xiao Yu'an said, "I've finished reading it. Want to ask my opinion?"

Mingshu sucked on the noodles, "Mmm."

"These three cases committed by Niu Tianlan are not suspicious." Xiao Yu'an put down his chopsticks, "However, I think there are many loopholes in what he described between him, Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen. He just took advantage of 'the dead can't justify' .”

Mingshu said: "Do you think Niu Tianlan made up a story to vilify Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen?"

"Niu Tianlan's mental state is very similar to delusional disorder." Xiao Yu'an said: "People with persecution delusional disorder will think that they are in a huge malicious situation, and everyone around them wants to hurt themselves. In order to stand out They will impose their own imagination on others, and believe that the other party really has such malicious thoughts. A small number of victims of delusional people will rush to eliminate the dangers they think before they are "hurt". Niu Tianlan himself said that he and Zhao Wen were in a same-sex relationship, and that Niu Lanlan took his love away, but in fact, no matter whether it was his classmates or Zhao Wen's classmates, no one knew that they had ever been together."

"All this is Niu Tianlan's fantasy?" Ming Shu paused, "It is indeed possible."

"Hurry up." Xiao Yu'an said, "You don't care about Niu Lanlan's case for now, I'll talk to the police in Han province first. Niu Lanlan and Zhao Wen did commit suicide, but the motive is not credible to me, and Niu Tianlan may be related to cult behavior. Involving cults must be treated with caution."

Mingshu finished the rest of the noodles in a few mouthfuls, "Then can I take a rest?"

Xiao Yu'an smiled softly, "Go back and have a good sleep."

After all, they are lovers who have been together for many years, Mingshu can hear a hint of hidden meaning from this very ordinary sentence.

"I can only have a good sleep?" Mingshu bit the "sleep" very hard, "After charging the battery, come back to work for you right away?"

Xiao Yu'an said, "There's no need to be so anxious."

"What's the matter?" Mingshu remembered immediately after speaking, "The case of Huang Yan?"

"Come on, Team Ming, your eyelids are trembling. We'll discuss other cases after you've adjusted." Xiao Yu'an handed the napkin to Ming Shu, "Wipe your mouth."

When we came out of the noodle shop, it was already daylight.The surrounding breakfast shops burst into smoke, waking up before the whole city.

"I want to buy some buns to go back." Ming Shu said, "Brother, wait for me."

A quarter of an hour later, everyone in the crime team got freshly baked steamed buns.

And in Silin Town, which is far away from Dongye City, at the same moment, a blizzard rolled in the air, making a sound like a crying baby.