Uneasy

Chapter 19 A certain face hidden under the bronze mask (1)
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At around eight o'clock in the evening, Sanpi received a call from Chen Ziyan and learned of Xiaowen's death.

As soon as he hung up the phone, he locked himself in the bathroom and cried hard.

The object of his crush died just like that, and he died so tragically that even his face was peeled off by the murderer.He had a feeling of weightlessness, Feng Shu died, Xiaowen died, who will be next?Could it be me?Or Chen Ziyan?

Who is the murderer?Who will Xiaowen be against?Who would have such a great hatred to do such a poisonous hand to a girl who is as beautiful as a flower?

If the murderer chooses himself as the victim next time, can he escape this disaster?

The more Sanpi thought about it, the more frightened he felt, and the louder he sobbed.His entire body was bent into a bow shape, and Xiaowen's bloody face that had been stripped of its skin and only flesh and blood remained in his mind.

He couldn't stop vomiting, time and time again, his entire stomach seemed to be emptied.Because he suffocated all the strength in his body when he vomited, his face was distorted and deformed.In the bathroom mirror, a haggard face appeared, and traces of black blood ooze from the abscess on the face.Looking in the mirror, even Sanpi couldn't recognize this slovenly and ugly man as himself.

After 10 minutes, Sanpi finally stopped sobbing.He straightened up, reluctantly washed his face, wiped off the black blood on his face, walked out of the bathroom, and threw himself on the soft sofa in the living room.

After pondering for a moment, he took out his cell phone and called Chen Ziyan.But Chen Ziyan's call was transferred to the secretary desk.Sanpi had no choice but to send him a text message, asking: "Now Xiaowen is dead, and the organizer of Feng Shu's funeral is gone. At midnight today, are you still going to the police station to send Feng Shu off for the last time?"

From the moment he picked up the phone, Sanpi thought in his heart that if Chen Ziyan canceled the funeral arrangement, he would definitely break up with Chen Ziyan—he had to help Xiaowen finish the unfinished business, and Beautifully done.

Fortunately, he soon received a call back from Chen Ziyan, and he got a satisfactory answer on the phone.

Chen Ziyan said that he would definitely attend the funeral. After all, Feng Shu was kind to him and published the first book for him. He was his bole.

Sanpi guessed that in addition to notifying him and Chen Ziyan to attend Feng Shu's funeral, Xiaowen might also notify her roommate Mo Feng.When Sanpi heard for the first time that Xiaowen shared a rent with a man named Mo Feng, he had also been jealous, but after Xiaowen secretly told him with a charming smile that Mo Feng was not interested in women, Sanpi didn't Let go of a hanging heart.

When playing mahjong at Real Madrid Star Teahouse that day, Mo Feng also gave Sanpi a business card.

Sanpi took out his business card, found Mo Feng's phone number, and dialed it immediately.

However, after he dialed Mo Feng's phone number, the prompt sound from the receiver kept repeating a sentence: "Sorry, the person you dialed has turned off the phone, please try again later."

Sanpi had no choice but to hang up the phone depressed, and then sent a text message to Mo Feng.The text message read: "If you don't go to Feng Shu's funeral today, you will die a terrible death. A knife will cut from your waist and split you in half alive!"

To be honest, even Sanpi himself didn't know why he wrote such a text message.

Probably, this is the so-called coincidence.

After sending the text message, he threw the phone on the sofa.He thought that as long as Mo Feng turned on his phone, he would be able to see the text message he sent.

It's still a few hours before midnight.There are too many facts that happened today, Sanpi felt that his mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure out any clues.He rubbed his temples vigorously, but found that his head hurt even more.

Maybe, I should take a break.Thinking of this, an unstoppable drowsiness flooded his heart like a tide.

Before closing his eyes, Sanpi did not forget to brace his body to pick up the phone, set the alarm to wake him up at 11:30.

But he didn't realize that his phone had only one battery left.

Then, when he fell asleep, the battery of the phone was completely dead, but he didn't know it.

When Sanpi made the call, Mo Feng was sitting in the living room of the house shared with Xiaowen.

After Mo Feng repaired the skeleton in the police station, he went straight back home.I randomly ordered two dishes, and before I finished eating, two unexpected guests ushered in.

At the moment, opposite Mo Feng, there are two policemen sitting. They came to investigate the situation of Xiao Wen's circle of friends before Mo Feng's death.In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Mo Feng turned off his cell phone while talking with the police.

Mo Feng learned of Xiaowen's death from the police.At the same time, he also knew that Xiaowen would show up at the inspection building of the police station at two o'clock this afternoon to assist him in repairing the skeleton of his ex-rumored boyfriend.

Of course, Mo Feng had nothing to do with Xiaowen's death.Xiaowen was murdered after leaving the rental house, and Mo Feng was working hard to restore the skeleton in the police station at that time, and he had sufficient alibi.Moreover, Xiaowen and Mo Feng had always had a good relationship, so the policeman just chatted briefly and then got up to leave.

After the police left, Mo Feng couldn't help feeling scared.

He was not afraid of Xiaowen's tragic death, but secretly thought that if Xiaowen hadn't died, she would definitely see him in the inspection building of the police station and know his true identity.What an embarrassing scene that would be!Mo Feng finally managed to pretend in his new circle of friends for so long, and almost succeeded in making everyone think that he was a newcomer in the photography industry.

Once his work as a corpse make-up artist in the funeral parlor is exposed, I am afraid that those friends who used to be around him will leave him-no one wants to deal with a corpse who stinks of corpses and blood all day long. people make friends.He will be kicked out of the circle and never have a chance to appear in front of his friends again.

Fortunately, the murderer helped him, and everything turned into a false alarm.

After Mo Feng rinsed the dishes and took a hot bath, he sat down on the sofa in the living room in a relaxed mood, and lazily turned on the TV.Now that Xiaowen is dead, she can take the opportunity not to go to the funeral ceremony that she asked to accompany her.

Who would go to someone else's funeral?It's not an acquaintance.

Although he and Xiaowen got along well, after all, they were just the relationship between the tenant and the second landlord, and he hadn't reached the point of crying over Xiaowen's death.Xiaowen's death, the only trouble he caused was that he had to contact the landlord directly in the future.In order to spread the expenses evenly, he had to find another roommate.

However, if the co-renter is a handsome man, that's not bad, and Xiaowen's death is well deserved.Thinking of this, Mo Feng couldn't help but giggled.

After watching TV for a few minutes, Mo Feng suddenly remembered something. The cell phone that was turned off just now has not been turned on again.

The moment he turned on his phone, a short message entered his inbox.

"If you don't go to Feng Shu's funeral today, you will die a terrible death. A knife will cut from your waist and split you in half alive!"

The number of the sender was very unfamiliar, and when he called back, the other party had already turned off his phone—although Sanpi asked for his phone number, he didn't write down Sanpi's phone number.The reason why Sanpi's mobile phone shut down was because it happened to be out of battery at this time.

Things in the world happen to be so coincidental.An accidental coincidence will often change the development trend of the whole incident.

In the inspection building of the police station, after Chen Ziyan introduced the details and historical origin of the skinning to Zhou Yuanyi, he would stay there at midnight to funeral Feng Shu.But he has been thinking about the progress of the novel and wants to continue writing.Originally Zhou Yuanyi wanted to let him use Xiao Gao's computer in the laboratory building, but he politely declined.After all, the first half and outline of the article, as well as the information collected from the Internet and ancient books, are still in his own computer, and besides, he is not used to using other people's keyboards.

After returning home from the police station, the first thing Chen Ziyan did was to turn on the computer and type hard on the keyboard. He had to write the manuscript of the new chapter quickly.Although there is not much time before the funeral, but because he has a well-thought-out plan, he writes extremely fast.This time is enough for him to finish writing the next chapter of that thriller.

On the LCD screen of the computer, an article he just typed appeared:

The adjudicator has been looking for the victim this time for a long time.

He is a gentle, middle-aged man who lives in a small villa in the country.On weekdays, he is willing to do good deeds, building bridges and paving roads for neighboring villages, and donating a primary school.On the surface, he was the chairman of a private hospital, but the adjudicator knew that this middle-aged man made his fortune by selling counterfeit medicines, earning his first pot of gold.Later, this man glued a goatee on his chin, put plaster on his forehead, made his cheeks wrinkled, and opened a private black clinic, pretending to be an old military doctor to treat venereal diseases.

Relying on the venereal disease clinic, this guy got rich, so he started to clean up his career.He contracted the urology department and dermatology department of a regular hospital, and invited real experts to attend the consultation.But his goal of pursuing money has not changed in the slightest. Although the doctor is an invited expert, he is in charge of the laboratory department himself.Whenever someone comes for a test, even if he is not sick, he will make all the indicators show positive when the report is issued.

If you noticed the social news in the newspaper some time ago, you will definitely remember a horrific murder case.A woman poured a pot of melted lard on her husband while he was asleep.Her husband was scalded to death on the spot by boiling lard, and the woman was then sentenced to death.

Reports on the social news have always been vague about the reason why the woman committed the murder.But the adjudicator knew that it was because a few days before the tragedy, the woman found a medical examination report in her husband's trouser pocket, which confirmed that the husband had a venereal disease.And that report was sent from the hospital of the middle-aged man lying in front of the judge.

In fact, the autopsy proved that the woman's husband had no venereal disease at all.This tragedy was caused by this middle-aged man.

But when it was traced to the middle-aged man's hospital, he shirked it on the grounds that the test reagents were contaminated.In the end, he just handed over a fine, but was not punished by law.

Although the law cannot sanction him, the adjudicator can sanction him.

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At this time, blood was flowing everywhere on the ground, and the air was filled with a sweet smell.The middle-aged man's upper body was still writhing beside the boulder with the machete embedded in it, and blood gushed out from his waist.Because the main organs of the human body are in the upper body, even if he is cut off from the waist, he will not die for a while. His consciousness will be very clear, and the process of death will be very slow and long.

While sneering, the adjudicator in black took out a piece of paper and a pen, placed them in front of the upper half of the body that was about to turn into a corpse, and said, "I have to say, this method of death is very With the spirit of humanistic care. The time left for you now is just enough for you to write a suicide note."

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The unknown skeleton and Xiaowen's death all have something in common. The way they died is a replica of the plot in Chen Ziyan's thriller novel in real life.And Chen Ziyan sent Feng Shu the outline and sample chapters of the new novel the night before the European Champions Cup final, so Zhou Yuanyi speculated that Feng Shu formulated his murder plan according to the narration in the outline.

At this moment, in Zhou Yuanyi's computer, there is also a summary of Chen Ziyan's novel.

In the novel, Chen Ziyan portrays a serial killer who claims to be the "final arbiter".All the murder targets of this killer are those bad guys who have escaped the punishment of the law through various means.In order to show his righteousness and majesty, every time he punishes the prey, the judge will choose a specific ancient torture to commit the crime, such as "combing" or "skinning".

According to the progress in the outline, after the adjudicator has finished the punishment of "washing up" and "skinning", the next step is to implement the punishment of "cutting in half".

Waist chopping, as the name suggests, means that the executioner cuts the prisoner in half from the waist with a heavy axe.

"Cutting in half" has a long history, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.As early as in "Warring States Policy?"Qin Policy" recorded a sentence that Fan Ju said: "The chest of the minister today is not enough to be a man, or not enough to be an axe." The meaning of this sentence is that his thin chest is not worth putting on the cutting board. The slender waist could not stand the blow of the axe.The method of execution it mentioned was "cutting in half".

When Shang Yang reformed, he also clearly stipulated that the common people should be held together. If one family committed a crime and the neighbors did not report it, they would be cut in half.It is difficult to count how many people were cut to death at that time.It is said that when Shang Yang executed the prisoners by the Wei River, the blood of the deceased dyed the Wei River red.

During the "cutting in half" execution, the prisoner must take off his clothes so that his waist is exposed, and he lies on a guillotine bed or a cutting board made of wood or iron, which is exactly the posture of "I am a fish" between the knives.This posture alone is enough to scare ordinary people out of their wits.

The executioner must be familiar with where the gaps in the lumbar vertebrae of the human body are, and the ax must fall in the gaps in the vertebrae to achieve the effect of "different limbs".

In addition to using heavy axes, ancient executioners also used special waist-cutting platforms to carry out the punishment of "half beheading".The structure of the guillotine is similar to that of the guillotine, but it is a little bigger.It is said that one of Bao Zheng's three guillotines was used for cutting in half.

Because most of the organs of the human body are concentrated in the upper body, the prisoner will not die immediately after being cut in half.

Legend has it that Chengzu killed Fang Xiaoru by beheading him at the waist.Fang Xiaoru did not die on the spot after being chopped down with a single knife, but crawled on the ground with his elbows on the ground, and wrote the word "掌" continuously on the ground with his hands stained with blood. He wrote a total of twelve and a half times before he died.

In real life, it is very difficult to find an ax that is heavy enough to cut in half, and it is not convenient to carry it with you.So in Chen Ziyan's idea, he asked the serial killer, the arbiter, to make a broken waist platform at home, embedded a long knife with a wide blade in a big rock, and nailed a pulley to the ceiling.Tie one end of a strong hemp rope to the stone, and the other end to pass through the pulley and fix it to the ground.The blade on the boulder is facing downwards.

After the adjudicator hijacked the prey home, he let the prey lie on the ground and fixed it directly under the dangling knife edge.Then he cut off the other end of the thick hemp rope, and the machete and stone would fall at the same time.With the help of the gravity of the stone, the long knife can smoothly cut the prey in half from the waist.

The wide-bladed long knife is not a very suitable murder weapon, because it is not easy to carry, and it is a little flashy, and it is easy to break during fighting, so even street gangsters will not equip this weapon.

In cities, there is usually only one place to buy a long-bladed longknife, and that is craft stores in tourist areas.This thing is only suitable for hanging on the wall of the living room as an ornament. Even in craft stores, it is rare to sell such a long knife.

And buying a broad-bladed long knife at a craft store will definitely impress the clerk.Judging from Feng Shu's method of forging the "faceless corpse", he does not want others to know that he is still alive, let alone leave any clues that will lead the police investigation to him.

Therefore, Zhou Yuanyi is sure that Feng Shu will not use the same method of killing as in the outline of the novel. If he wants to successfully create the punishment of "half beheading", he will definitely use other methods.

But what method will Feng Shu use?

While Zhou Yuanyi was in deep thought, his cell phone rang suddenly. Looking at the number, it turned out that it was Mo Feng calling.

Why did Mo Feng call to find himself?What happened to him again?Zhou Yuanyi answered the phone suspiciously.

As soon as the call was connected, Mo Feng yelled in a panicked voice, "I received a threatening text message just now! The text message said that if I don't attend the funeral ceremony tonight, I will be cut in half!"

"Cut in half?" Zhou Yuanyi's pupils suddenly constricted.At this juncture, the threat of being cut in half actually appeared!This was the first time that an advance warning had appeared in this incident, and Zhou Yuanyi felt very excited, perhaps this was the turning point for solving the case.

After listening to Mo Feng's narration, Zhou Yuanyi got the mobile phone number that sent the threatening text message from Mo Feng.

Zhou Yuanyi also tried to dial that number, but unfortunately the other party turned off the phone.

If at this time, Zhou Yuanyi opened the case notebook and checked the phone numbers of all relevant contacts in this case, he would find that this text message was sent by Sanpi.

Unfortunately, when Zhou Yuanyi heard about this incident, his first reaction was that the text message must have been sent by the murderer Feng Shu.Feng Shu is a thoughtful person, and he will never leave any clues. He will only buy a Shenzhouxing SIM card that does not require ID registration on a crowded street, and then stuff it into his mobile phone for use.Moreover, Zhou Yuanyi guessed that Feng Shu bought this SIM card for the sole purpose of sending this threatening text message to Mo Feng. After sending it, he would pull out the SIM card and throw it somewhere, maybe in a public toilet. In the toilet, or thrown into the grass deep in the garden in the middle of the street.

In short, this number will never be used again.

Everyone makes mistakes, and Zhou Yuanyi is no exception.This time, he errs on the side of empiricism and dogmatism.

So he didn't continue to track down the phone number, but said to Mo Feng on the phone: "You stay at home now, don't go out. Lock the door, and I'll send someone to your place right away."

"Send someone to protect me?"

(End of this chapter)