Uneasy

Chapter 4 Incredible coincidence? ! (3)
Zhou Yuanyi said to Xiao Gao again: "It seems that the murderer made such a perverted move after the murder. Otherwise, how could no one hear the cry for help and the screams?"

Xiao Gao said with a smile: "There are many ways to make the deceased silent. For example, injecting a sedative to the deceased, or taking a scalpel to lightly cut the deceased's throat to damage the vocal cords of the deceased. Since the murderer came out I'm more inclined to the latter than the metamorphosis. It's a pity that all the human tissues of the deceased's body have been stripped from the skeleton, so it's impossible to confirm this."

What Xiao Gao said made Zhou Yuanyi feel very incredible.

Suddenly, a word appeared in Zhou Yuanyi's mind - Ling Chi.

Zhou Yuanyi remembered that he had seen related introductions in a book.Ling Chi, also known as Cun Zun and Zun Xing, originally referred to the slowly descending hills.But later it was used as the name of the ancient criminal law, and it refers to the execution of the death penalty, where the flesh of the person is cut off with a knife, so that the victim dies slowly and painfully.

Legend has it that during Ling Chi's execution, the executioner would cut more than a thousand knives before letting the victim die.It is said that Liu Jin, the most evil eunuch in the dynasty, died after being cut 350 seven knives for three days, and he drank a little porridge after being cut on the first day, and continued to be tortured the next day.

One can imagine how slow and painful Ling Chi was.In order to prevent the prisoner from suffering so much, some family members often try to bribe the executioner, asking him to be ruthless earlier and end the prisoner's life as soon as possible.

However, Ling Chi is not unique to China.There are Lingchi in Europe and the Middle East, and the first time this cruel punishment appeared in foreign countries was even earlier than in China.

In the Mediterranean region, Ling Chi appeared as early as BC.It is said that Ling Chi's method is likely to have been developed from ancient Egyptian vivisection.Ling Chi in the Middle East starts from the eyes.The Romans' lingchi is divided into two types, women start from the breasts, and men start from the genitals.In the [-]th century, Britain even stipulated in the law at the time that when Ling Chi was executed, the heart and other internal organs must be taken out before the prisoner was dead, and then thrown into the water to be cooked and displayed to the public.

In today's brutal murder, isn't the murderer's modus operandi similar to Ling Chi's?

Also, what is that electric kettle in the house used for?When the body was found, the water in the electric kettle was boiling. Could it be that the murderer was boiling water and drinking tea while killing people?

Just as Zhou Yuanyi was wandering, one of his colleagues came over, handed him a bloody mobile phone, and said, "This was found under the deceased's bed."

This is a brand-name business mobile phone, which is expensive, and the market price should be more than 3000.Such mobile phones were not taken away by the murderer, which also proved that the murderer's motive was not to rob property.

The business phone appears to be turned off.

After Zhou Yuanyi turned on the phone, several unread text messages jumped out immediately.

"We are at Real Madrid Star Tea House, where are you?"

"Three missing one, everyone is waiting for you!"

"Are you coming or not?"

"I don't care about you, let's find someone to join the game. If you can come after you turn on the phone, come."

……

There were more than a dozen of them, and they were all sent by a man named Chen Ziyan.

It appears that the deceased had a party tonight, but he missed the appointment.

Zhou Yuanyi has also heard of the Real Madrid Star Tea House, which is a very famous fan tea house.

So Zhou Yuanyi thought for a while, and then typed a few words on the phone keyboard: "Are you still at Real Madrid Star Tea House?"

In less than a minute, Zhou Yuanyi received a reply: "Private Room No. 1 in the tea house. We are all here, but you are late, and you have to pay the bill today."

"Okay!" Zhou Yuanyi only replied one word, then jumped into the police car with his bag, and drove towards the fan teahouse in the urban area at high speed.

4
In the private room of the tea house, when he heard the news of Feng Shu's death, Chen Ziyan's body trembled and he almost fainted at the mahjong table.And Xiaowen and Sanpi behind him screamed in shock, their expressions extremely distorted.Xiaowen even bent down and sobbed, two lines of tears slipped out of her eyes in an instant.Mo Feng probably didn't know Feng Shu, so he just showed a surprised expression, and then he stroked Xiaowen's back affectionately, and comforted him softly.

Although everyone used to say that Xiao Wen was Feng Shu's underground lover, it seems that it is not true now.Judging from Mo Feng's actions, he should be the one Xiaowen's heart belongs to.However, Chen Ziyan felt a little dissatisfied - when he called his boyfriend to play mahjong, the cards must be played back and forth. No wonder he and Sanpi kept losing money tonight.

However, now is not the time to consider these issues.

Because, Feng Shu is dead!
Nothing is more important than this right now!
Zhou Yuanyi paused, carefully observed the expressions of the three people in the private room of the tea house, and said to Chen Ziyan: "We found Feng Shu's body in the rental house, and there was also an electric kettle and a handle... ..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yuanyi noticed that Chen Ziyan's lips moved suddenly, and his face instantly turned pale.

"Mr. Chen, what's wrong with you? Do you want to say something?" Zhou Yuanyi asked tentatively.

Chen Ziyan asked back tremblingly: "Did you find a brush made of steel needles in the house?"

"Ah?!" Zhou Yuanyi said in surprise, "How do you know?"

Chen Ziyan's body trembled violently, and his face turned pale from the shock.He muttered to himself: "Is this really the case?" He suddenly raised his head and asked Zhou Yuanyi loudly, "Did you find Feng Shu's body at all in the house? Instead, you found—"

"Yes!" Zhou Yuanyi's tone became serious all of a sudden, and he said word by word, "What we found in the house was a white skeleton, with traces of blurred flesh still sticking to the bone."

Chen Ziyan sat down on the ground dejectedly, breathing heavily, but he always felt that there was a puff of air in his chest, and he couldn't go up or down, like a ball of cotton stuck in his throat, which almost made him unable to breathe .

Zhou Yuanyi pressed on step by step: "Mr. Chen, why are you so familiar with everything at the scene? Have you ever been to the scene?"

Chen Ziyan suddenly shouted: "No! I've never been there! I don't even know that Feng Shu rented such a room in the outskirts of the city. How could I have been there?"

"Then why do you know so well what's going on there?"

"Because... because everything that happened there is exactly the same as the plot in an article I wrote yesterday!"

After Chen Ziyan said this, he immediately let out a long breath, as if he had let go of a heavy burden in his heart.Afterwards, he slumped on the ground limply, unable to speak a word.

In the thriller novel Chen Ziyan wrote last night, a person who decided to eradicate rubbish for the society and claimed to be the final arbiter captured criminals whom he believed to be at large, lynched them alone, imposed the cruelest punishment, and sent the criminals with his own hands. Went to the west.The story also revolves around this adjudicator, the incompetent policeman, the ruthless adjudicator, the punished who deserved the crime, and the bystanders who have nothing to do with themselves, appearing one after another...

Chen Ziyan added a lot of elements of religious knowledge and mysterious culture to the story, and quoted from many sources, even including Western European legends and Southeast Asian secret arts into the novel.All in all, this story will incorporate all kinds of attractive elements.

And at the beginning of the article, he exhaustively rendered a bloody killing in a secret room with a large amount of pen and ink.The adjudicator dressed in black tied the so-called criminal firmly to the bed, damaged the criminal's vocal cords with a scalpel, and then carried out slow and long torture.He used a very cruel torture - this is the ancient torture he saw in ancient books and materials.

This kind of torture was born out of Ling Chi, but it was even more cruel than Ling Chi.

The adjudicator first boiled a large pot of hot water and poured it alive on the criminal's naked body.Because the vocal cords had been damaged, the criminal could not shout, but could only make a muffled whimper.Under the washing of the boiling water, a layer of blisters appeared on the criminal's body.The adjudicator picked up a hard brush made of steel needles, and ruthlessly brushed against the criminal's body, scraping off the most superficial layer of flesh on his body.Whenever the criminal passed out, he poured a basin of cold water on it, tried his best to keep the criminal awake, and witnessed his own death process with his own eyes.After the criminal woke up, the adjudicator continued his actions, and began to cut the exposed layer of flesh, again and again, layer after layer.

The final result is - the criminal who is tied up on the bed and cannot move can only watch himself being cut into a pile of bones by the steel brush, but there is nothing he can do.Naturally, there is no need to talk about the pain in the process, you only need to use your toes to guess, and you can guess what kind of horrible scene it will be.

And this kind of ancient torture is called "grooming".Is it not like using a comb to brush flesh off a living person's body with a steel brush?

Legend has it that the "grooming" torture was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.According to the "Shengjun Chuzhengji" written by Shen Wen of the Ming Dynasty: "The country was rebuilt at the beginning of the country, and Ling Chi was executed, and there was 'scrubbing'. The iron bed was placed naked, the soup was boiled, and the skin and flesh were scrubbed with an iron broom."

This passage means that when performing the punishment of "combing and washing", the executioner will strip the prisoner naked, put him naked on the iron bed, and pour boiling water on his body several times, just like killing a pig first. It was like scalding with boiling water before removing the hair, and then brushed off the flesh and flesh of his body with an iron brush until all the flesh and flesh were brushed away, revealing the white bones.The tortured people usually die before the end.

"Old Tang Book?It is also recorded in "The Biography of Yan Yan Fan" that Wu Sansi once sent Zhou Lizhen to arrest Yan Yanfan, dragged him on the bamboo poles, and the flesh was ground to the ground, exposing the bones, and then killed him with a stick.

During the "washing up" process, it is difficult to determine when the deceased died at what point the punishment was carried out.It is possible that the victim died of blood loss as soon as the outer skin was brushed off.If the murderer has multiple minds and begins to "groom" from the limbs, leaving the torso and internal organs behind, the prisoner may still survive after the limbs have turned into a skeleton, waiting helplessly for the murderer to take the next step.

There is no doubt that the prisoner will experience a horrific ordeal before he dies.

When Chen Ziyan heard Zhou Yuanyi say that he found the electric kettle in the house, he immediately remembered his article.And knowing that the brush and Bai Sensen's skeleton were found in the room, he suddenly felt like his head exploded.

It's "Fresh", it must be "Fresh"!The legendary ancient torture really appeared in the real world!

He couldn't believe that the plot of the story he wrote last night was used on Feng Shu so quickly.

Could it be a coincidence?What an incredible coincidence!
Thinking of the pile of white skeletons on the bed, the blood all over the place, and the flesh and blood of the victims being cut off one by one and discarded around the skeletons, Chen Ziyan began to feel a surge in his throat, and there seemed to be countless indescribable things in his stomach. Things want to gushe out.It was as if someone had punched his stomach hard, and all his internal organs had changed positions under the blow.

Chen Ziyan managed to hold back the desire to vomit, and turned around, only to see that Sanpi, Xiaowen, and Mo Feng had all bent down and vomited profusely.Seeing them like this, coupled with the smell of filth all over the floor, Chen Ziyan couldn't help it, and couldn't help but also opened his mouth.Just before he vomited, he saw Zhou Yuanyi, the young policeman, and couldn't help rushing out of the private room covering his mouth.

Chen Ziyan knew that at the end of the corridor outside the private room was the public toilet of the restaurant.

(End of this chapter)