I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 154

The wind in February is as gentle as water, the warm sun pours down the spring scenery all over the city, the willows are soft and the peach blossoms are scorching, spring is here.Stepping on the sun, Lu Xizhi quickly walked into Wang Yuanzhi's exclusive 'office' in Dongchang

Recently, another female body was found by the Qinghu Lake. Wang Yuanzhi came here uninvited and began to sort out the files from five years ago in Dongchang.

"Far away, were the six previous cases all autopsied by you?"

Um?Why ignore people.

Lu Xizhi reached out and shook Wang Yuanzhi's out-of-focus eyes.

Only then did Wang Yuanzhi come back to his senses, and he was taken aback for a moment: "Xizhi, you are here."

"What's wrong with you? It's rare for you to be in a daze."

"It's nothing, maybe I was too tired from reading the files last night."

"Catcher Zhao said that there have been similar cases of women being skinned since five years ago. Do you think the woman's body found yesterday was done by the same murderer as the previous ones?"

"From the point of view of the modus operandi, they are indeed very similar. They have a lot in common. The dead are all young women. They all have an obvious fatal wound on the body, and they are all in the main artery, so they were drained of blood quickly. The difference is that The disadvantage is that some of them were naked, some were covered with clothes after being cut, and everyone was cut in different parts, from feet to hands, from chest to throat, all these happened.”

So... a murderer who doesn't follow the rules?

Lu Xizhi asked him, "What were you thinking just now?"

The man frowned, "Do you still remember the dead body found in Qinghu a few months ago?"

"You mean the giant view?"

Wang Yuanzhi nodded.

"What? Is there any problem? Someone came to identify the body?"

"I suspect that the right sole of the female corpse was missing, not only because it was swollen by water, or because it was tied to a heavy object, but because it was cut off by a sharp weapon."

Lu Xizhi couldn't believe it...

"Also, despite the appearance of a giant, it can still be discerned that the facial skin of the female corpse has been cut off."

"You...you mean, that female corpse is also...?"

Wang Yuanzhi nodded, then shook his head again: "I'm not sure yet, but..." He looked at the file, "Master used to say it's about the sixth sense. Now my sixth sense tells me that she probably has the same Died by the same murderer."

"But you also said that only the skin of the face was cut off from that sunken corpse, not the body?" Lu Xizhi reminded him.

"So she was sunk!"

Ok? !

"Perhaps the murderer has some kind of perverted mind, he likes flawless human skin, and the woman's body may have some flaws that he can't tolerate, so he only cut off her face, and sank the rest into the lake. "

"..."

Wang Yuanzhi's speculation reminded her of Edward Theodore Gain, one of the ten notorious perverted murderers in her previous life.He knew almost nothing about the outside world because of his mother's abnormal desire to control since he was a child. After his mother died, he first kept his mother's body at home, and then went to other people's graves to satisfy his desire for women. , just watching them or touching them, but soon, they began to intensify, skinning the corpses, and sewing the peeled human skin into dolls for their own appreciation or obscenity.

"If this is really the case, it would be too perverted." Lu Xizhi couldn't help but gag.

"Well, it's abnormal." Wang Yuanzhi sorted out the files on the desktop, "I went to see Zhao Xuanwu today, what can I gain?"

"It's almost the same as what you said, but before we left, he told me coyly that he hadn't had any bad cases in the past two years as a policeman. He never thought that the skinning case happened again. He begged me tactfully , Said that I have solved so many cases, and I am smart and smart, so I must help him, otherwise the position of arrester will definitely be sitting soon. The whole family relies on this errand for a living. It puts a lot of pressure on me .”

"I heard that Dali Temple sent two people to assist in the investigation."

"It is said to be assistance, but it is actually surveillance. They have long wanted to close the only remaining yamen. How could such a rare opportunity be missed?"

"I have worked with Zhao Butou and Qi Bukuai for more than ten years. They do the most trivial and tiring tasks with the least amount of monthly silver, but the superiors don't even let this little money go."

Lu Xizhi sneered, isn't that right, that old fox Cao Jinyue is hateful.

"Qi Detective, they have already gone to search for the source of the corpse. From a distance, you can show me the autopsy records of this case, as well as the previous ones. I will take them back and figure out where to start."

"Really want to take this case?" Wang Yuanzhi handed her a stack of thick scrolls.

Oh, really heavy.

"Well! I have a natural desire to conquer unsolved cases, and I have already made Catcher Zhao correct his mentality first. There are no ghosts in this world. The most terrifying thing is gossip. He is the leader of the team. His words and deeds It will affect the entire team. More importantly, the matter of the 'skinned man' reminded me of what I experienced in Hong County this time, and it turned out that no one was responsible."

Back at the desk where she often stayed, she began to flip through some files with broken edges, which shows that Yuanzhi often took them out to read.

In the first case, a deep cut was made on the neck of the deceased by the moat, the blood was drained, and the whole body was cut from head to toe.In the second case, the deceased’s right thigh was cut and bled, and the whole body was skinned; in the third case, the left thigh was cut and bled, and the whole body was skinned; In five cases, both ankles of the deceased were cut and bloodletted, and the whole body was skinned; in the sixth case, both wrists of the deceased were cut and bloodletted, and the whole body was skinned; And die, skinned all over...

The murderer's method of killing is almost exactly the same, but why the bloodletting parts are different, and what is the murderer going to do?
The dossier only described the scene and the case at that time, without any more effective evidence or clues, Lu Xizhi looked at it for a while, and became upset.

Trying to calm herself down, she found that all her calmness in the past had disappeared, and she couldn't find anything through the files. She stood up, and just as she was walking in the corridor, her head suddenly seemed to be shocked by an electric current.

She quickly ran back to the table and flipped through the files again. In an instant, she seemed to understand the murderer's purpose, the neck, the root of the right thigh, the root of the left thigh, the abdomen, both ankles, both wrists, the heart... These are almost all It is the main position of the human aorta or great blood vessels, and there is no repetition...

He is experimenting!Where can the test drain all the blood as quickly as possible!

This inference caught her eye.

"Jiji Lu, someone is looking for you." Beixue's brisk voice came.

Who is looking for her?
Zhao Xuanwu strode in and said, "Jiji Lu, Wang Yuzuo said that he gave you all the records of the previous skinning cases, can we take a copy too?" The two assistants of Dali Temple asked. "

These are all case records that can be made public, and it doesn't hurt to give them.

Lu Xizhi nodded, "Yes, I just took a general look at it, including the identification of the corpse and the interview records of the witnesses at the scene. They are all intact. I will have someone take them for rubbing."

Catcher Zhao hesitated for a while, and asked, "Jiji Lu, how sure are you that you can solve this case?"

Lu Xizhi smiled slightly, "There is no case that I cannot solve."

As he was speaking, the heroic Factory Governor Yuan Dachang, dressed in red, just came back from his work.

"Didn't you say you would leave it to me? How come you can do it yourself again." He looked at Zhao Xuanwu who was visiting with displeasure, and turned to Lu Xizhi and said.

Zhao Xuanwu felt that he was a little redundant at the moment, so he said his farewell, and went to get the rubbings after paying his respects.

"What's the matter? Why did you suddenly say something that you didn't know, and you deliberately said it to Zhao Butou?" Lu Xizhi asked strangely.

With his eyes, he signaled the others to back out, pulled her over, and pressed her on his thigh.

"I went to Dali Temple just now, Cao Jinyue was not there, but a senior temple minister told me about this, that is, the original Qin Shaoqing told him before resigning that if such a case happens again, don't investigate it. go down."

Lu Xizhi frowned, "Why?" It seems that Qin Shaoqing's resignation is not that simple, maybe he has an important clue.

She secretly wrote down that she planned to visit Qin Shaoqing tomorrow.

"What tricks are you playing again? If I say no, I won't." Yuan Yanxi scratched her nose.

"That can't be done. You also know my temper, so you have to go. Unless you give me a reason not to investigate."

Yuan Yanxi supported her forehead, she knew this would be the result.

"The prime minister and Qin Shaoqing used to have a good personal relationship. One month after he resigned, he visited him because he was very concerned about the reason for his sudden resignation. Who knows, when he arrived at his house, he was already gone to the building. Si Cheng guessed that some major event must have happened, which caused the old friend to be severely injured, so he left without saying goodbye.

So in the mood of wanting to help him, Si Cheng spent a lot of money to ask people from the Jianghu to find Qin Shaoqing.But after more than a year, there was still no news, so I gradually gave up the idea of ​​looking for it.Unexpectedly, a year ago, he suddenly returned to the old house alone. It turned out that the house had not been sold and had been vacant.

He hurried to meet him, but...

That Qin Shaoqing didn't seem to recognize him anymore, he was insane, he spoke inconsequentially, so confused that people couldn't understand him, and he was also sloppy, as if he was decades old. "

Lu Xizhi burst out laughing: "So, do you think that former Shaoqing became like this because of the 'serial skinning case'? Are you afraid that I will also become crazy or stupid?"

Yuan Yanxi flicked her beautiful forehead, "Naughty."

"Jingming, maybe you think I'm messing around, but investigating cases is my interest. Before, I would say it's my duty and vocation, but it's all the same. I like solving cases, just like I like You too."

The man was stunned, unable to laugh or cry: "Lu Xizhi, is this your first confession? I'm really flattered."

Lu Xizhi thought about it and laughed too.

Indeed, quite special.

"After the incident in Hong County, I will not let you act alone again. If you want to handle this case, you can, but I will go with you."

"But you are busy with official business, so don't worry about it anymore, let Beixue, Xingyun... No, if you don't trust them, leave Donghai to me."

"I don't worry about anyone! Well, that's it, tomorrow morning, I will go to the Qin family's old house."

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Xizhi asked Chunxiang to change into the dark green men's clothes that Jinyu had made for her. After breakfast, the family hurried out of the house without waiting for her dinner tonight. The luxurious carriage was already waiting outside the door.

In the car, Yuan Yanxi made another introduction. The original Shaoqing was called Qin Huaishi, and he was almost 50 years old this year. He heard from Si Cheng that there were old and young in the family, but after returning to the old house, he was the only one. , the situation of other relatives is temporarily unknown.

The carriage walked for nearly four or ten minutes, and came to a remote country road. The road was too narrow for the carriage to enter, so the two had to get down and walk.

"The air here is really good. There are green trees in summer and golden mountains covered with snow in winter. The Qin family really knows how to find a place." Lu Xizhi sighed.

The beautiful trees are verdant, and the flowers and reed leaves are very beautiful, but there are many vines clinging to the trunk of the towering banyan tree, which somehow makes people feel a little cautious.

With that said, Qin Huaishi's home arrived.

This old house looks like it has been baptized by the years, the walls have been carved with deep 'wrinkles', and the roof looks crumbling, as if a heavy rain can destroy it in one go.

Donghai knocked on the dilapidated wooden door, which was ajar, but no one answered.

"What smell? Have you smelled it?" Lu Xizhi's small nose sniffed this and that, trying to identify the source of the smell.

"It's incense." Donghai replied.

Lu Xizhi and Yuan Yanxi glanced at each other, pushed the door open and went in.

The yard was very dark. The darkness was not caused by the weather, but that the places with white walls were already extremely damp and densely covered with moss, which gave us a visual experience.

The smell of incense is getting stronger and stronger. ,

Looking around, sure enough, there are incense altars placed in every corner of the yard, and a few sticks of incense are inserted in each incense altar, and the smoke is floating in the air. There is a thick layer of incense ash at the bottom of the altar. It means that someone is burning incense continuously.

And several large pillars were pasted with yellow talismans.

Lu Xizhi suddenly felt chills all over his body, and unconsciously moved to Yuan Yanxi's side.

"Afraid?"

"Who, who is afraid, I just think...it's weird. Who do you think puts so many talismans and burns so many incense?"

"Let's go in and ask." Yuan Yanxi took Lu Xizhi's hand and nodded towards Donghai.

Dong Hai bowed his hands and asked inside, "Excuse me, is this Qin Huaishi's home?"

Unexpectedly, no one answered.

Yuan Yanxi asked Nanyang and Xifeng to stay outside to guard, while the rest entered the house one by one.

A musty smell hits the face, yes, it is the smell of rot and mold,

"This smell...how long has no one been in this room?" Lu Xizhi cried while holding his nose.

Yuan Yanxi ordered: "Light the fire."

With the lighting of the torch, the room became a little warmer. Lu Xizhi coughed twice, then looked around.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, you are so shocked that you are in a cold sweat!
"This, this is..."

(End of this chapter)