Uneasy

Chapter 30 Interactive Murder (1)
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It was already three o'clock in the morning when the car from the cemetery took Chen Ziyan home.As soon as he entered the door, he saw Tang Yifei was sitting on the sofa in her nightgown and holding a white cat in her arms, watching TV calmly, with a large bag of unpacked potato chips beside her.

On the TV, a replay video of a singing talent competition is being broadcast.A female singer who looked exactly like a certain Hong Kong star was singing an ugly song hypocritically, but Tang Yifei was watching intently, relishing it, and kept stuffing potato chips into her mouth.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Chen Ziyan asked absently.

Tang Yifei continued to watch TV intently, but did not answer Chen Ziyan's question.

Probably because she was too addicted to this boring and sensational talent show, she didn't even hear her own question clearly.Chen Ziyan thought of this, and he was also thinking about his post in the Tianya Community Lianpeng nonsense, so he just said: "Go to bed early, you have to go to work tomorrow." Then he quietly went into the study, closed the Came to the door and turned on the computer.

He hadn't read that post carefully for hours since he left the house to go to the police station and then to the cemetery.

But he didn't notice that when he closed the door of the study, Tang Yifei's cheeks were covered with tears.

—Why is she crying?
Chen Ziyan never expected that his post would be so popular now, with six-figure hits and nearly a thousand replies.Even in the middle of the night, still floating at the top of the forum.

This is a post that has only been posted for a few hours, but it can achieve such results, which is simply unprecedented in the Lianpeng nonsense forum, which also makes Chen Ziyan inexplicably excited.

There were constant debates in the post. At first, some people doubted the authenticity of Chen Ziyan's statement that a similar case happened in real life, but immediately some netizens in the same city confirmed that such a thing did happen.Some people analyzed that the killer in real life would choose the same modus operandi as in Chen Ziyan's novel, so he must be a reader of Chen Ziyan, and may even appear in this post and participate in the debate among netizens.

So in this forum known for its human-flesh searches, many readers began to guess who the killer appeared in the post, and people kept clarifying and raising new doubts.

Some people even thought that Chen Ziyan might be the real murderer.The argument is that many perverted killers have a hobby of showing off, such as sending a piece of paper with poetry to the newspaper or police station after the murder, or sneaking back to the scene of the crime many times to stand behind the isolation cordon to watch the police's incompetence performance.And Chen Ziyan wrote the serial murder case as a novel, isn't it also a show of showing off?

Enthusiastic netizens forwarded the post to other online forums. In order to see the first-hand updates, readers of other forums came to Tianya Community Lianpeng to talk nonsense, and registered to reply in the post.

A murder case in the present tense is not encountered every day.If you can personally participate in this online event, it is even more rare.

All the readers are using the most enthusiastic and crazy ways to add bricks and tiles to this post and build tall buildings.Even at three o'clock in the morning, the discussion in Lianpeng Shihua is still full of enthusiasm, and it seems that this enthusiasm will continue.

After Chen Ziyan smiled slightly, he closed the post, opened the document, and was about to start writing the latest chapter of the novel.He didn't want to indulge in the pleasure of reading replies to posts anymore, it was just a waste of time.What he wanted to achieve has now been achieved.Now he just wants to write out the chapter "Crushing" as soon as possible, and then post it on the Internet.

But it took more than half an hour just to browse the webpage roughly like this.It seems that if you want to write the chapter of "Crushing Torture" well today, you have to stay up all night.

He has already decided to abandon the original idea of ​​using a steamroller to crush the murder bridge, and is going to directly use the coffin's mechanical interlayer trick.If such an unimaginable trick is not used, it will be a pity for the skeleton that jumped out of the coffin to attack Zhou Yuanyi and the forensic doctor.

Chen Ziyan planned to post it on the Internet immediately after finishing writing, and he also wanted to add in the post that a cruel "crushing" really took place in the Yuanbaoshanzhuang Cemetery last night, and the details were the same as those described in his story. The content is exactly the same.

He thought that after this update, it would definitely cause a bigger sensation.At that time, the atmosphere of terror pervading the forum will surely continue to spread to every corner of the Internet like weeds.

For readers, the scariest novels are not gory ghost stories or fictional murders, but real events.Only real events that happened in real life, and real murders that are happening and about to happen, can cause the greatest panic among readers.

But in fact, Chen Ziyan was still a little worried about what to write next after writing "Crush".In his conception, what follows will be a blank.Maybe after writing today's paragraph, he should stop the article for a while to see what kind of murders will happen in real life.

Chen Ziyan had a hunch that the murderer must have some kind of tacit understanding with him, maybe he was an acquaintance who knew each other.In the beginning, it was Chen Ziyan's novels that led the murderer to commit crimes.But now, it's time for the murderer to reciprocate. It's time for him to use his own methods to lead Chen Ziyan to continue writing this novel.

In a sense, he wanted the murders to continue.Perhaps, his new novel will achieve an unprecedented creative mode.

Here, he tentatively calls this creative mode "interactive murder crime novel".

Chen Ziyan is convinced that this way of writing will definitely be recorded in the annals of history in the future!

Thinking of this, his brain suddenly woke up. He almost saw the infinite scenery after the novel was published. He will reap huge royalties. Those old works that were kept in the deep boudoir before will also be published. Now this kind of half-red but not black The situation will bid him farewell forever.

However, now we have to finish writing the chapter "Crushing torture".Because he was going to stay up all night, he opened the door of the study, wanting to tell Tang Yifei not to wait for him to sleep.But when he opened the door, he found that Tang Yifei was not in the living room, the TV was turned off, the bedroom door was closed, and there was only a large bag of half-eaten potato chips on the sofa behind the coffee table.

Chen Ziyan guessed that his girlfriend is probably already asleep, so it's better not to disturb her and continue writing with peace of mind.He returned to the computer, ready to write the latest chapter.But before he could type the first word on the screen, suddenly there was a "beep" sound from his mobile phone, and a text message flew in.Looking at the screen, this text message is from Tang Yifei.

After writing "Rounding", why not write "Five Horses Divide Corpses"?
The sending time was just now, ten minutes past four in the morning.

what!Dividing the corpse by five horses is the cruelest and most brutal punishment in ancient torture.That's great, just write "Five Horses Divide Corpses"!Chen Ziyan was ecstatic, and his closed mind suddenly became enlightened. Why didn't he think of writing this before?

He wanted to go to the bedroom to thank his girlfriend for the reminder, but after thinking about it, he was still worried that he would disturb his girlfriend's dream, so he went back to the study, sat in front of the computer and started typing...

Dividing the corpse by five horses, what an ultimate torture!

In history, "five horses divided corpses" was also known as "car split".As the name suggests, the prisoner's head and limbs are tied to the rear of five carts, and then horses are put on the carriage, and they are pulled in different directions, so that the prisoner's body can be torn into five pieces alive. .

This is a very short process. After the victim is torn into five pieces, naturally there will be no pain.But when the prisoner is tied to the back of the car, waiting for the process of being split by the car, that is the most painful.When the whip hits the horse's back, watching the rope suddenly tighten, what kind of horrible feeling it will be, just thinking about it will make one's hair stand on end and chills down the back.

Chen Ziyan tapped the keyboard with his ten fingers like flying, and there was a clear and crisp typing sound in the study.It was Tang Yifei's simple text message that suddenly inspired his mind.He decided not to rush to write "Crushing" for the time being, anyway, that paragraph has already been prepared, and he is not in a hurry for a while.Let's write "Five Horses Divide the Corpse" first, this time he must devise a thrilling execution trick for the adjudicator!
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For Zhou Yuanyi, Wu Wei of Bond Business Investigation Agency is no stranger to him.

A few years ago, when Zhou Yuanyi first joined the police station, Wu Wei was the deputy captain of the criminal police brigade at that time, and he was Zhou Yuanyi's boss, known for his uprightness.Later, because of a case related to a famous hospital, Wu Wei had a disagreement with the leadership of the police station.In a rage, he tore off the police badge and resigned angrily.

After that incident ended, the leaders of the police station also regretted Wu Wei's resignation.According to the thinking of the leader at the time, it was not to cover up the criminals, but to play hard to catch and dig out the hidden truth of corruption, but because they suspected that there were moles in the police station, they concealed it from Wu Wei.The leader has also invited Wu Wei to return to the police station many times, but Wu Wei declined the invitation of the leader with the idea of ​​not turning back, and started a private company called "Bond Business Investigation Agency" with self-raised funds. detective agency.

Although according to the current law, private detective agencies are still illegal.But it was precisely because the police chief felt that he owed Wu Wei a favor, so he turned a blind eye to this detective agency.

Zhou Yuanyi often asked Wu Wei for advice when the case encountered difficulties.Not long ago, they worked together to solve a serial murder case related to a certain narcotic drug. (For the above plot, please refer to my book "Can't Breathe".)
So when Zhou Yuanyi heard the name Wu Wei from Wang Shengyang, he couldn't help being stunned.After finishing the conversation with Wang Shengyang, he asked Xiao Gao to go home to rest as soon as he went out, and then immediately called Wu Wei.

Obviously, Wu Wei was trying to catch up on sleep. When he answered the phone, he asked several times in a daze before he realized that the person calling was Zhou Yuanyi.

Although it was early morning, when Wu Wei heard that the detective work he had just completed was related to a serial murder case, he immediately regained his spirits and promised to come out and meet Zhou Yuanyi immediately.

In a 24-hour Yonghe soybean milk shop, Zhou Yuanyi saw Wu Wei and asked jokingly, "It took me so long to answer the phone today. Could it be that you are still using that broken phone?" When the two teamed up to solve the case last time, Wu Wei's mobile phone was so rotten that it was almost scrapped, and the current buzzed continuously as soon as he answered the phone.

It seems that Wu Wei's business has not been very good recently, and he hasn't changed his phone until now.

Indeed, although Wu Wei is a person who craves excitement, he always hopes that he can receive a big case, but in order to make a living, the most cases he usually takes are investigating extramarital affairs.

Wu Wei said sleepily that he received Zhao Yaxue's commission to monitor Wang Shengyang two weeks ago.He really only followed Wang Shengyang after get off work. He also knew that there was a fatal loophole in this, but he didn't care - he liked the way of earning money in a steady stream.If evidence of Wang Shengyang's derailment is found immediately, his gains will be minimal.Because Zhao Yaxue paid according to the number of working days and intensity, and the travel expenses were fully reimbursed.

Yesterday afternoon, after Wu Wei saw Wang Shengyang coming out of the company building, he started following him.Wang Shengyang went to the pedestrian street in the urban area, and then took a taxi to the camping park in Yuanbao Mountain in the suburbs.Wu Wei has been following Wang Shengyang all the time. He originally thought that Wang Shengyang would have a tryst with his lover in the camping park, so he mustered up his energy and prepared to monitor.

When Wang Shengyang asked him to borrow money, Wu Wei really felt embarrassed.But since he is a private detective, he must have a thick skin.So after he took 100 yuan to Wang Shengyang, he began to monitor Wang Shengyang even more recklessly.However, at night, Wang Shengyang lay on the lawn and watched the shooting stars, then got into the tent and fell asleep.But Wu Wei had to stay on the lawn, staring at Wang Shengyang's one-person tent without closing his eyes all night.Of course, he doesn't always look at the tent, and occasionally needs to go to the toilet, but the time to go to the toilet will never exceed 3 minutes.And it takes at least 10 minutes to walk from Wang Shengyang's tent to the gate of the park - there is an endless lawn without any shelter.

So Wu Wei is sure that Wang Shengyang never left the camping park from late night before yesterday to last night.

In other words, Wang Shengyang absolutely stayed in Yuanbao Mountain the night the "washing up" punishment took place, and he could not be the murderer.And although the "skinning" torture yesterday afternoon took place only a few miles away from the camping park, Wang Shengyang should have stayed in the park and did not go out, otherwise Wu Wei would definitely have seen him.

As for the punishment of "beheading at the waist", Wu Wei was not sure.

The "half cut" happened around nine o'clock last night, and Wu Wei suddenly received a call from Zhao Yaxue at about seven o'clock last night.Zhao Yaxue said on the phone that she canceled the commission so that Wu Wei would no longer have to follow her husband.Zhao Yaxue also asked Wu Wei to fax the reimbursement form to her the next day, and then the final payment would be deposited into his account immediately.

Wu Wei was also happy to be free, he didn't want to deal with this boring case for a long time.After he hung up the phone, he walked arrogantly outside Wang Shengyang's tent, unzipped the zipper, and said to Wang Shengyang who was sleeping inside: "Brother, don't worry, I won't follow you anymore, what do you want to do in the future?" Just do whatever you want. You are pitiful. You don’t have more than 50 yuan per day. I won’t report the 100 yuan to your wife. I will count it as other expenses and make a reimbursement form for her to settle. "

After speaking, Wu Wei strutted out of the park, hailed a taxi and left.

In other words, Wu Wei could only be sure that Wang Shengyang was in the park before [-]:[-] pm, and he couldn't be sure about what happened after that.

However, the property management personnel of the building where Sanpi lived once confirmed that the person who claimed to be the maintenance worker of the elevator company came to the building at seven o'clock in the evening.And even if Wang Shengyang could fly, it was impossible for him to appear in two places at the same time.

The suspicion of Wang Shengyang can basically be ruled out.

After listening to Wu Wei's introduction, Zhou Yuanyi said to him sympathetically: "Unfortunately, it seems that you will never get back the commission from Zhao Yaxue, and you can only ask Wang Shengyang for the 100 yuan." gone."

This frustrating news did not make Wu Wei lament, instead he said excitedly: "Yuan Yi, let's work together to solve the case again! I must find the murderer who killed Zhao Yaxue, and asking him for this amount is not small commissions and travel expenses.”

Zhou Yuanyi smiled.He knew Wu Wei's abilities. He was not only good at tracking, but also a first-class master at analyzing cases.Although Zhou Yuanyi is already the deputy captain of the Criminal Police Brigade, he has always regarded Wu Wei as his role model.He also wanted to learn from Wu Wei's handling of the case and study hard.

"What should we do now?" Wu Wei asked.

Zhou Yuanyi replied: "Although we already know that Wang Shengyang is not the murderer, according to the process of solving the case, we still need to check whether he ate a buffet after returning to the city today, and then stayed with Tang Yifei all the time. gone."

While talking, Zhou Yuanyi took out his mobile phone.He first called the cafeteria that Wang Shengyang described. Unfortunately, the restaurant's business was so good tonight that no one remembered whether there was such a guest as Wang Shengyang.Then Zhou Yuanyi called Tang Yifei again.It wasn't until the phone was connected that he suddenly remembered that this matter involved Tang Yifei's privacy, is it convenient for her to say it?And it's already four o'clock in the morning, will Tang Yifei still answer the phone?If she is sleeping, then the only way to find her is tomorrow morning.

Fortunately, Tang Yifei not only did not fall asleep, but also answered the phone immediately.

In the receiver, Zhou Yuanyi heard Tang Yifei's lazy voice coming from the other end of the phone, accompanied by the voice of the TV program.In a vague way, Zhou Yuanyi heard that the program Tang Yifei was watching was a singing competition that was being broadcast on a certain satellite TV station.Judging from the current time, it should be a replay of the night's game.

After listening to Zhou Yuanyi's words, Tang Yifei immediately turned off the TV, lowered her voice, and said, "Fortunately, Ziyan is indulging in writing in the study now, otherwise your phone call will definitely make me die ugly! Officer Zhou, you handle the case It's too inhuman. However, I can still tell you that Wang Shengyang is not lying. He has been with me since nine o'clock last night. Feng Shu's funeral didn't start until twelve o'clock, so I guess Ziyan is at two o'clock in the morning I will come back later. Wang Shengyang left my place at two o'clock in the morning, I can testify."

After hanging up the phone with the hands-free button on, Zhou Yuanyi shrugged his shoulders towards Wu Wei and said, "Look, Wang Shengyang is innocent. His little lover has already confirmed this."

Wu Wei replied disapprovingly: "You can't be too arbitrary... What if Tang Yifei is lying?"

On the other side of the phone, Tang Yifei also hung up the phone. She pressed the phone button and sent a text message to Chen Ziyan—she knew that Chen Ziyan hated being disturbed the most when he was writing.

The text message read: "After writing 'crushing punishment', why don't you write 'five horses divide the corpse'?"

After posting, she checked the time, and it was ten past four in the morning.

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