Uneasy

Chapter 22 "Night Burial" Held on Time as Scheduled (1)
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One of the threads:

You crappy Internet writer, stop spreading these sensational and false rumors.If you want to sell books, that's not how you sell them!If you want to hype, it's not what you did!Don't make fun of the IQ of our readers.

Post two:

Brother Chen, has everything you wrote in the story really come true?It's amazing.Brother Chen, your writing is great!Hurry up and write the next section, I can't wait to see what torture the Inquisitor will use next!Brother Chen, I will always support you!

Thread three:

Frankly speaking, this article is still good as a novel.However, Mr. Chen, if you must use real events as a cover, it would be too much!I can accept that there are constant deaths in the novel, and the more deaths, the more exciting.But I don't want to hear about any murders in real life.

The fourth thread:

Mr. Chen, I am the editor of the publishing house, and I am very interested in your novel.Please add my MSN: ××××@hotmail.com.

The fifth thread:

Writer Chen, if, as you said, your novels have a mysterious power and everything you write will become reality, then hurry up and write about the police arresting the adjudicator.In this way, the serial murderer in reality will definitely be caught by the police immediately!Haha, I'm so bored, I would actually believe your nonsense.However, aren't we just playing in the lotus nonsense?Isn't this the place to legally tell nonsense?Hahaha!

Sixth post:

Breaking news!Breaking news!I prove that the events in writer Chen's novels really happened in real life.Writer Chen and I live in the same city. In the building where I live, there was a murder case tonight. It was discovered not long ago. A man living on the seventeenth floor was thrown down the elevator shaft. A wire rope hanging from the bottom of the well was cut into two from the waist!This is cut in half!And I heard that the man is really the director of the supplement department of the newspaper.Now the police are still going door-to-door in the building asking if they saw any suspicious-looking strangers appearing this afternoon.

Seventh post:

The tiger's body shook, and he left in three points.

Eighth thread:

I also live in the same city as Writer Chen.I live in a town near the Yuanbaoshanzhuang Cemetery in the suburbs. I heard that this afternoon in the woods on the mountain behind the Yuanbaoshanzhuang Cemetery, a female corpse was found buried alive, and the face of the female corpse was peeled off alive by the murderer.This is the "peeling" punishment, right?It's terrible, Writer Chen, there is an incredible magical power in your novels, you'd better stop writing, otherwise there will be more horrible murders that will continue to happen.

Post nine:

Live broadcast of deaths?This is the first time I have encountered such a situation!Interesting, interesting!I follow this post.Landlord please continue!The more horrific the subsequent plot, the better, and the more bizarre the better.I like you, sir.

Post ten:

Well, let me also share my opinion.Well, I think the author is someone who has close ties to the police, maybe even a policeman himself.Because I learned about these three murder cases in advance, I wrote this novel based on the details of the cases.Although the author said in the post that he wrote the article first, the murder happened later.But I believe that his article was definitely written after the murder.

Eleventh post:

Upstairs, let me refute you.The first two murders, "Grooming" and "Flaying," may be explained by your guesswork.But the last murder case, that is, "cutting in half", absolutely cannot be explained in this way.The poster's post was posted at around ten o'clock in the evening, but the murder case of "cutting in half" was only discovered not long ago!This fully demonstrates that the landlord's article came first, and the murder happened later.The contents of the landlord's article have indeed become a real murder case!However, I also have other thoughts, that is - the landlord is the murderer!Humph, only the murderer knows so many details!

Post twelve:
Landlord, your IP has been locked, surrender yourself as soon as possible, and seek leniency from the police.

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The above content is excerpted from the Lianpeng nonsense section of the Tianya community, Chen Ziyan's post "Final Verdict—True and cruel cases that have happened, are happening, and will happen soon."

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After Chen Ziyan used his mobile phone to post that paragraph in Lianpeng's nonsense post, he quit the post.He knows that the number of hits and replies has reached a very high number, but limited to the Internet on mobile phones, he can't read every reply carefully, but he also knows that his novel has triggered clicks and replies in the forum as he expected. A frenzy of discussion.

And that's exactly what he wanted to achieve.If there is not a single valuable follow-up post, it will disappoint him instead.

Chen Ziyan also used his mobile phone to check the short messages in the forum. In addition to readers asking whether the murder case was true, there were also text messages from editors of several publishing houses.Without exception, the editors promised him that as long as he could complete this work, the publishing house would definitely sign a contract with him to publish it, and the conditions were left up to Chen Ziyan.

This was a treatment Chen Ziyan had never had before, and it really excited him.

Because the police asked him and Mo Feng to rush to the inspection building of the police station as soon as possible to attend Feng Shu's "night burial" ceremony, so Chen Ziyan didn't even reply to these text messages sent by the editor of the publishing house, so he logged out of the mobile phone. .Together with Mo Feng, he went down the corridor to the seventeenth floor, and took another police car outside the building to the police station.

Although in the forum just now, Chen Ziyan said that he didn't know whether he should continue to write the story, but that was just his show.Such a good story, coupled with so many murders that happened in time, already has enough fancy and bloody gimmicks, it doesn't make sense if the post is not popular!
As long as he can complete this work, it will definitely cause a huge sensation.

In a sense, he should be grateful to the murderer for this series of murders.It was the murderer who created so many murders that gave him the best opportunity to create.He didn't know why the murderer would take advantage of the plot in the novel to carry out the murder. Could it be that God had sent this murderer here because he had been silent for a long time?

When Chen Ziyan and Mo Feng were sitting in the police car and rushing to the police station, Chen Ziyan's cell phone rang suddenly, it was his girlfriend Tang Yifei calling.

As soon as the phone was connected, Tang Yifei said excitedly on the phone: "Just now I read your new post on Lianpeng Guihua, it's really well written! In less than two hours, the number of hits has already reached [-]. This is a situation that has never appeared in Lianpeng nonsense, and the situation is gratifying! Now that Feng Shu is dead, there is no need to hand over such a good novel to his publishing house. You let me be your manuscript broker Come on, I will help you sell it for a good price!"

A satisfied smile appeared on Chen Ziyan's face, and he replied repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay! No problem, everything is up to you!"

In all fairness, what Tang Yifei said was very reasonable.Chen Ziyan has always been addicted to writing, but he has lost a string on the economic aspect. Until now, he has not understood how royalties are calculated, how personal income tax is paid, and he does not know how to make a piece of work Maximize profits.

And Tang Yifei has been purchasing in Feifan Building Materials Company for so long, and has already had a perceptual experience of some things in the business field.

Now that we have such a good time, we should only let ourselves choose publishers, not let publishers choose ourselves.It's not a bad idea to let Tang Yifei act as a manuscript broker.

With a manuscript broker, not only can you track the publisher’s cover design, content proofreading, publicity planning, and payment collection all the way, but you can also free up more time for yourself to polish the article, so that the quality of the novel can reach a more perfect level .

Besides, Chen Ziyan didn't want his girlfriend to stay in that building materials company forever.Although the salary is not bad, the obsessive boss and the psychopathic fat lady boss are too difficult to get along with.Chen Ziyan didn't want his girlfriend to suffer any more grievances in the company.

Zhou Yuanyi's mood was not so good, he was extremely depressed.He really wanted to go with Xiao Gao to investigate the scene of Sanpi's death. How could such an important murder scene be missed without his and Xiao Gao's investigation?But now it was getting closer and closer to midnight, and the leaders of the police station also rushed to the inspection building, strictly forbidding the two of them to go out, and asking them to be Feng Shu's coffin bearers.The leaders of the police station reiterated that this matter should be completed as a political task, and absolutely no mistakes should be allowed.

Even if such a serious murder happened, the leader just said lightly: "Don't worry, the earth will not stop turning without you, and other colleagues in the police station can also investigate the scene well, and they will not be worse than you."

Even though that was the case, there were indeed many elite soldiers in the police station, but Zhou Yuanyi was still very depressed, so depressed that he felt a little unable to breathe.

It was a feeling of fists hitting the cotton, which only made him feel empty, as if his whole body had been sucked out by an invisible force, and he couldn't lift any strength.

Wu Qiang was still busy in the building where Sanpi lived. He asked his colleagues to send Mo Feng and Chen Ziyan to the police station, while he came to the property management company on the ground floor of the building and pulled out the surveillance video of the day.

He was almost certain that the most suspicious person was the worker who came to repair the elevator.Only he can fix the elevator car on the top floor, and then pull a thin and tough steel wire horizontally in the elevator shaft on the third floor.After the maintenance worker has finished what he needs to do, he claims to go back to get the tool, and of course it is gone forever.

In fact, the maintenance worker did not come back, which also confirmed Wu Qiang's conjecture from the side - the maintenance worker was the murderer who killed Sanpi, and also the murderer of the three serial murders related to ancient torture.

At the same time, Wu Qiang also called the elevator company to verify, and confirmed that the company did not send anyone to the building to repair the elevator that day.This also accurately proved that the identity of the maintenance worker was suspicious, and he was extremely suspected of committing the crime.

The fake maintenance man arrived at the building at seven in the evening and stayed in the building for two hours.In other words, Sanpi was killed during the time period from seven o'clock to nine o'clock.

In the surveillance video, Wu Qiang saw the worker who came to repair the elevator, wearing a wide-brimmed baseball cap, the shadow of the brim covered most of his face, and he kept his head down, trying to avoid the camera. monitor.Looking at his attire, he was almost exactly the same as the driver who appeared at the back of Yuanbao Villa at the same time as Xiaowen, as described by Aji, the owner of the tobacco and alcohol recycling shop.

They should be alone.

At about eight o'clock, the maintenance worker once left the building, and after only a few minutes, he returned to the building with a pack of cigarettes.Probably he went out to buy cigarettes, which was also confirmed from a small cigarette stand outside the building.It's a pity that the owner of the cigarette stand is an old lady with a rough face, and the business is very good, so I only remember the buyer as a young man in work clothes and a baseball cap, but I can't remember what the buyer looks like.

The elevator maintenance worker seemed to be very aware of the locations of the surveillance cameras in the building, so he kept deliberately avoiding the shooting range of the cameras, and none of the cameras could capture his frontal image.But it doesn’t matter, several property management personnel have seen him in the lobby on the first floor. Even though he has been wearing a baseball cap, the property management personnel can help the police draw a simulated head portrait of this person through verbal description. .

As the saying goes, one hundred secrets and one sparse.Fortunately, the maintenance worker did not wear sunglasses to cover his face at the time, which could make the description of the property manager more accurate.

This was probably the murderer's only flaw. After all, if he came to the building at night to repair the elevator and wore a pair of sunglasses, he would appear more sneaky, which would arouse suspicion and attract more attention.

Also, the murderer is so familiar with the location of the cameras in the building, he must have stepped on them before.After obtaining the simulated head portrait, and comparing it with the previous camera surveillance records, it may be possible to completely confirm the murderer's appearance.However, this is a time-consuming process, and several hours of surveillance video must be watched in fast-forward from beginning to end.

It is a pity that only a few cameras are installed in the lobby on the ground floor of the building, but not on other floors. Therefore, today's surveillance video did not capture the scene of Sanpi being killed, let alone the murderer pulling thin steel wires horizontally on the third floor. shot.

It has to be said that this is a great regret.But this can’t be blamed on the property management party. After all, this is an old-fashioned building, and the property management fee is not high. Although there are certain safety hazards, the residents are not willing to increase the property management fee, so the property management party has more than enough heart. Insufficient strength.

On the tea table in the living room of Sanpi's house, Wu Qiang picked up Sanpi's mobile phone that had been turned off because of no power, and found the charger.After turning on the phone again, he opened the call log and found nothing suspicious.Then he called out Sanpi's short message again, and in the outbox, he found a weird text message.

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

The recipient turned out to be Mo Feng.

Cut in half?Sanpi actually sent a text message about cutting in half, and it was still sent to Mo Feng?Wu Qiang just felt that the monk Zhang Er was puzzled and couldn't figure out what was going on.Could it be that Sanpi is the cruel serial killer?So who killed him now?
He immediately reported the situation to Zhou Yuanyi.

After hearing this text message, Zhou Yuanyi asked for Sanpi's phone number, and couldn't help laughing.He knew that Sanpi was not a serial killer. The reason why he sent this text message was to force Mo Feng to also attend Feng Shu's "night burial" ceremony to see his friend off.Zhou Yuanyi just blamed himself a little. After receiving Mo Feng's call to the police, he didn't check the phone numbers of the relevant contacts, otherwise he didn't have to worry too much.

However, since this text message was sent by Sanpi, will Feng Shu appear at the "Night Burial" scene tonight?

Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help becoming a little uneasy.

If Feng Shu didn't come, all the preparations he made today would be in vain.

In another group of detectives sent by the police station, there is also a police officer who is good at making simulated puzzles, and his skills are not inferior to Xiao Gao.According to the description of the property management personnel, he quickly drew a portrait on his laptop.After the property management staff confirmed that it was correct, he printed out the simulated image and handed it to Wu Qiang.

Wu Qiang just glanced at it, then let out a long sigh, and said to himself, there is no need to look through the previous surveillance video of the property management department.Because he knew the person in the portrait—he was Feng Shu.

He immediately dialed Zhou Yuanyi's phone number and informed his superior of this conclusion.

After hearing the news, Zhou Yuanyi did not show any surprise, he had expected that Feng Shu was not dead.He calmly said to Wu Qiang: "Now go to Tang Yifei to check. When she was attacked by a man wearing a bronze mask that day, didn't she remove the bronze mask of the attacker? Ask her if she can be sure what she saw. People are Wang Shengyang."

This is indeed a place that confuses Zhou Yuanyi. He can basically confirm that the person who killed Sanpi was Feng Shu, and Feng Shu is likely to be wearing a bronze mask.

But before that, Tang Yifei said that the face she saw under the bronze mask was Wang Shengyang's.There is a self-contradictory place here, which is completely illogical.How did Wang Shengyang get involved with Feng Shu?In the security door on the second floor of the building where Tang Yifei's company is located, the light is very dim. Could it be that Tang Yifei misread it?

Everyone is curious, even though Wu Qiang is currently investigating Sanpi's death scene, and Zhou Yuanyi asked him to ask Tang Yifei, but his heart has already flown back to the gloomy inspection building of the police station.He really wanted to see the funeral ceremony in the police station. From Zhou Yuanyi's few words, he had already smelled the smell of something big going to happen.

So in order to save time, Wu Qiang decided not to go to Tang Yifei's house, but just asked her about it by phone.

After calling Tang Yifei, Wu Qiang first greeted him politely, and after introducing himself, he asked, "Miss Tang, where are you now?"

Tang Yifei replied: "Of course it's at home." The voice of a TV program came from the phone, a girl was singing, this should be the scene of an audition contest being held by a satellite TV station.Wu Qiang remembers that the talent show of this satellite TV station in the past few years was quite successful, which caused a frenzy of ratings and also caused some negative news.So this year, the superior department strictly prohibited the broadcast of this talent show in prime time, and the broadcast time was changed to late at night, but there are still many fans of the talent show waiting in front of the TV all night, waiting for the broadcast of this show.

After Tang Yifei lowered the volume of the TV, Wu Qiang asked straight to the point: "Miss Tang, outside the elevator in the parking lot on the second floor of your company building this morning, after you were attacked by a masked man, you used anti-wolf agent to knock that guy down. Then I took off the mask and saw his face. But the light inside the security door was very dark at that time, and your back happened to block the surveillance camera... Are you sure that the attacker you saw was really Wang Shengyang?"

The other end of the phone hesitated for a moment, the voice of the TV program was very clear, Tang Yifei asked in a low voice, "You mean, the surveillance cameras didn't capture the attacker's face?"

Wu Qiang also seemed to recall that on the day Tang Yifei was attacked, it was her boyfriend Chen Ziyan and Wang Shengyang's wife Zhao Yaxue who went to check the monitor together, so he immediately gave an affirmative answer.

(End of this chapter)