Book of Sins 3: The Smelly Husband

Chapter 3

I offer you the memory of a yellow rose I saw one evening many years before you were born.

——Borges

There have been many unbelievable perverted murders in the corridor.

In a residential building in Pukou, Lanjing, there was a homicide with tape wrapped around her head. At around 3:40 in the morning, a woman who was returning home late at night was robbed in the corridor on the third floor, and then suffocated to death by the murderer with tape wrapped around her head.Many residents living on the floor where the incident occurred heard abnormal noises at that time. A family on the second floor heard the sound of tape being torn at 3 o'clock in the morning.

A junior high school girl in Dongcheng saw a horrifying scene in the corridor when she was leaving school.At that time, the sky was gloomy, and the corridor was very dark. There was a dark figure at the corner. When she approached, the girl saw a person leaning against the wall and standing still.The man stood in the dark corridor, holding a bloody human head in his hand.A self-employed man cut off the head of a rent collector, drank pesticide and surrendered himself.The soul-stirring scene that the girl encountered by chance was the scene when the murderer drank pesticide in the corridor before he surrendered.

A horrific tragedy happened in Yumen City.A working girl was brutally murdered by a perverted demon in the corridor in the early morning. When she was about to go outside to relieve her pain, someone suddenly strangled her neck with something in the corridor.The migrant girl hurriedly begged for mercy and said: Uncle, I am a human being, not a ghost.But the criminal did not stop, but committed a brutal crime against her.A few minutes later, a woman ran out and saw the migrant girl lying on the ground and touched the greasy intestines on the ground. She rushed to the police and called an emergency number.The migrant girl was diagnosed with abdominal cuts and ruptured intestines.

The horror of the corridor murder is that the deceased was killed very close to his home!
No.11 Empty City Old Building
Bai Jingyu: When you go this time, all of you are equipped with weapons, and you will submit a gun management report when you come back.

Su Mei: Boss, I have never fired a gun, what if I lose it?Just let Hualong, a barbarian, carry a gun.

Hualong: Don't let Xiaomei carry a gun. This thing is not for fun. She will hurt herself, and maybe she will hurt me by mistake.

Professor Liang: It's been a long time since I fired a gun. I won a place in a sniper competition before.

Bao Zhan: Is the place we are going dangerous?
Bai Jingyu: The local police force is seriously insufficient. It is hard to imagine that there are only six police officers in a county-level city.

Hualong said: Can we not go?
Bai Jingyu said: This is why I sent the special case team, they need help.

The murder took place in an old building, which is located in the center of the city, but the surrounding area is in ruins.

There is a city where crows build their nests at traffic lights, cobwebs are spread among the gears of factories, fungus grows on classroom desks, and poisonous mushrooms grow out of faucets.What would it feel like when you walk through the weeds in the commercial street, push aside the seedlings hanging from the wires, and walk into the abandoned post office?How many memories and sighs can an empty city hold!Many streets, unknown dusk, here are the first and last memories of 10,000+ people.

This city is called Yumen. It is a remote county-level city located in the Qilian Mountains. It was born because of oil. At its peak, the city's population reached 13.More than half a century has passed, oil resources have been exhausted, the city government and oil field bases have moved out one after another, residents have abandoned the city and moved out, the city is full of abandoned buildings and aging facilities, and the city is almost empty.

The special case team first took a plane to the provincial capital, and then took a bus to a neighboring city. The police from the neighboring city dispatched an off-road vehicle and sent a driver to escort it.The driver was a tall and rough man, and when he talked about Yumen, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He said that he is from Yumen, grew up in this city, and later moved out.

Now, in his home where he has lived for more than ten years, the dust on the ground can trap footprints, the park is full of weeds, and the abandoned bus station is full of rats. The most memorable thing for every Yumen person is the big clock in front of the park. Time stays forever at 3:25.The driver said that every time he went home, he felt very sad. When he went back to visit the grave on New Year's Eve, he saw only two people on the street.

The driver said: You can't imagine what it's like.

Professor Liang said: We turned the desert into our own city, and we turned our own city into a desert.

The driver said a sad word: The old one is dismantled, where is the new one?

The mountain road went downhill, the car bumped up and down, and the people in the car were silent.

The white poplars on the side of the road grow tall and slender, as if a gust of wind can break them, the trunks are covered with white ash, and the wrapped straw ropes are wet. Maybe every tree has a parting person hugging and crying.

The off-road vehicle drove into the old city of Yumen, and the only traffic light box on Jiefang Road had been out of use for a long time due to the sharp decrease in the flow of people.

In a city, there is only one traffic light.

Six policemen from Yumen City Public Security Bureau lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team, and they all saluted the special case team.After the four members of the special investigation team got off the car, they noticed that the building of the Public Security Bureau was dilapidated. It was still an old building of the 20th century, with wires criss-crossing.

Su Mei said: Wow, the Public Security Bureau also let the sheep herd?

An instructor from the Yumen Public Security Bureau said: This is not a sheep herded by outsiders. It is a sideline business. Sheep raising is our sideline business. We kill one at night and invite you to eat pot helmets and hand-caught mutton.

The instructor briefly introduced the case and local conditions.

At present, Yumen City is an empty city, most of the units are vacant, and only six policemen are left behind by the public security organs.Some residents live in low-rent housing in the Beiping and Santai resettlement areas. Most of them are the elderly, the disabled, low-income households and laid-off workers who cannot afford to move out. premium.Another part of the residents live in the old urban area, and they also belong to the extremely poor people. They are daunted by the housing prices in neighboring cities and do not know what to do.There are only more than 2 people left in the city, and it is decreasing every day.It won't be long before Yumen City will become an uninhabited dead city and disappear from the earth.

The victim's name was Chen Luomo, 19 years old, working in the old city of Yumen, her parents were far away, and she lived with her grandparents.The crime took place in an old building, and most of the residents in the building had moved out, leaving only two households.Chen Luomo lived on the fifth floor with his grandparents, and there was a restaurant on the fourth floor. Other than that, the whole building was empty.Because the public toilet was downstairs, Chen Luomo got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, and was attacked on the corridor platform between the fourth and fifth floors.

At that time, Chen Luomo thought that others mistook her for a ghost, so she said "Uncle, I am a human, not a ghost".

This demon knocked Chen Luomole into a coma, and his method of committing the crime was outrageous.

At that time, the proprietress of the restaurant who lived on the fourth floor heard the movement and went out to check. The murderer escaped.The proprietress thought it was a rope on the ground, so she touched it with her hand, and it felt greasy. After her husband came out with a flashlight, she was horrified to find that it was a piece of intestine!
There were no lights in the corridor, and in the darkness, Chen Luomo couldn't see the murderer's face clearly. In addition, she was overly frightened and seriously injured. When the police made an interrogation record, she couldn't even tell the murderer's physical characteristics, only vaguely remembering the murderer's face. Is a middle-aged man.

The door of the local hospital was blocked with bricks, and there were no doctors left.Chen Luomo was sent to the emergency room of the health center by the boss and his wife, and was sent to the oil field hospital with better medical conditions the next day.

After the case happened, a newspaper reported Chen Luomo's misfortune in time, which aroused the attention of the society, and many enthusiastic people donated money and materials.Several experts and professors from the provincial capital hospital conducted consultations, and the operation to connect Chen Luomo's broken 10-centimeter small intestine was very successful.At present, the girl's life is not in danger, but further observation and treatment are still needed.

Professor Liang asked: Your case report did not write, how did the murderer commit the crime?
The instructor said: The girl's condition is not stable, she just finished the operation, let's take it easy.

Bao Zhan asked: Where is the restaurant owner and his wife living on the fourth floor?
The instructor said: When they came out, the murderer had already run away, they didn't see it, and they couldn't provide many clues.

Professor Liang said: Someone must be sent to the oilfield hospital to give psychological counseling to the victim first, and then make a detailed record.

The instructor said: The problem is that she doesn't want to recall this incident now. Judging from the wound, there are traces of a sharp object piercing.

The instructor accompanied the special case team back to the scene of the crime. The area where the crime occurred usually does not have many crimes and the law and order is good.After the incident, six police officers focused on searching for those who attacked women or robbed at night, and checked nearly 500 people in the surrounding people. So far, no suspects have been identified.The motive for the crime is unknown, and the victim, Chen Luomo, was not raped or robbed.During the interview, some people reported that they saw a person in green labor insurance clothing enter the building on the night of the incident.

Bao Zhan asked: What time?
The instructor said: Evening.

Hualong said: The crime happened at midnight, could that person have been waiting in the corridor?

The location of the crime was an old five-story residential building. There were sundries piled up in the corridors, which were dark and damp. The windows faced north, so sunlight never came in.There is no light at night, so you can only feel your way up and down the stairs. If you pass a stranger, you will definitely panic.Walking in the gloomy corridor, if there is a person following behind, there will be an inexplicable fear in my heart.

There was still a pool of blood at the place where Chen Luomo was attacked, one can imagine the horror scene at that time.

From dusk to late night, a person stood alone in the corridor and kept standing.The celosia at the base of the wall is in full bloom, and the empty pickle jars in the corridor seem to have an ancient metaphor.He kept his thoughts secret, he didn't want to rob or rape, he only held a steelyard in his hand, the hook of the scale was hanging down, and a full moon hung outside the window.He stood motionless in the corridor.

The special case team questioned the residents on the fourth floor again, and there was no change in what the restaurant owner and his wife said. They didn't see what the murderer looked like, but only vaguely heard the murderer's footsteps coming downstairs.

Professor Liang asked: Are the footsteps in a hurry?

Restaurant owner: I really didn't pay attention at the time, it's important to save people.

The proprietress: I remembered, the sound of footsteps was normal, and the man walked unhurriedly.

Su Mei said: This person's psychological quality is strong enough.

Boss: If you want to ask any questions, please ask quickly. I really can’t live here any longer. We will move tomorrow.

Chen Luomo lived with his grandparents on the fifth floor. His family was poor, the tables and chairs were outdated, some old newspapers and calendars were pasted on the peeling walls, and the old photos in the frames had turned yellow.Chen Luomo's grandfather was a retired oil worker named Zhang Hongqi.Grandma is a little deaf, so she waved her hands whenever the police asked her, and then pointed to her ears, meaning she couldn't hear.The old man Zhang Hongqi couldn't believe this case. When the special case team questioned him, he insisted that this case only happened in capitalist countries, and it was impossible for China to have such a thing.

Grandpa and grandmother showed indifference to Chen Luomo's murder, just like talking about outsiders. The old man Zhang Hongqi babbled about his granddaughter: I didn't let her work, but she came instead, something must have happened.What a crime, and what it deserves.She thinks it's dirty, so she doesn't want to go inside, but goes out in the middle of the night...

The four members of the special case team looked at each other in blank dismay, the instructor said a few casual words of comfort, and everyone got up to leave.

When going downstairs, Hualong carried Professor Liang on his back, Bao Zhan walked in the front, and the others followed. When he went down to the fourth floor, Bao Zhan stopped suddenly.

Su Mei said: Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?
Bao Zhan said: Wait a minute, I think there is something wrong with this staircase.

Bao Zhan turned around and went upstairs. He slowed down and climbed up the stairs step by step. He had a strange expression on his face. He pointed to the stairs while walking. He turned back twice. When he came back, he said to everyone: Yes, I counted the stairs. The location of the incident is the fourth floor, and there is one flight of stairs missing from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.

No.12 Bleeding Staircase
Many people have the habit of counting the stairs. If there is no light in the stairwell, when walking down in the dark, they are worried that they will step on the ground, so they count the steps silently in their hearts. If they find that there is one step missing, they may feel I counted wrong.

The special case team found that the construction party who built the building cut corners and materials, and the old building where the case happened was missing a staircase.

Six police officers from the Public Security Bureau expressed their admiration for Bao Zhan's carefulness. People who lived in that building all their lives did not know that the stairs were missing one step. People on the fourth and fifth floors just felt that the house they lived in was shorter.

The old man Zhang Hongqi walked on the street with his hands behind his back, wearing an old Chinese tunic suit from the 20s and 70s. The topics he talked with other elderly people were all old.

The entire building was empty, and the restaurant couple on the fourth floor had moved out, leaving only Zhang Hongqi and his family.

The old man came back from a walk, staring at a north-facing window in the old building in a daze, and there was a pot of spider plants on the window sill.

The old is gone, where is the new?
There are no hotels or guesthouses in this empty city, and the places where the feasting and feasting were once, are now full of rubble.The instructor arranged the special case team in the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau. The instructor said: Most of the houses here are vacant, so live in whatever you want, and we will be neighbors.The special case team found a small courtyard planted with pomegranate trees, and simply tidied up the room. Six policemen moved in some old furniture, which were left behind when others moved, and there was one with the word "Hi" on it. dresser.

The instructor said: "Girl, the conditions are poor, and they are all shabby. Don't dislike them. We can only make do with this."

Su Mei said: This is not too difficult, we have camped in the wild, Hualong do me a favor, put the dressing table in my room, I live in this room.

Professor Liang sat on the broken sofa in the living room and drank tea. Bao Zhan was debugging an old TV. The local cable TV was withdrawn, and many people used homemade outdoor antennas to watch the programs.Outside the window, a TV antenna is tied to a poplar tree, and several soda cans are hung on the antenna.Bao Zhan adjusted the angle of the antenna, he patted the TV, and the screen changed from snowflakes to news broadcast.

Hualong finished lifting the dressing table, lay on the bed, looked at the ceiling and said, "Xiaomei, do you feel at home?"
Su Mei wiped the mirror, turned around and asked with a smile: Are you confessing to me?
Hualong said: My feeling of home is that the family eats together, and the news broadcast is broadcast on TV.

Su Mei looked around the room and said with a smile: Then our house is too dilapidated.

Bao Zhan came in and put a pot of flowers on Su Mei's dressing table to decorate her room.

Hualong said: Xiaobao, where did you steal it from?
Bao Zhan said: No, this is something that others don't want. It's about to die, sister Xiaomei, don't forget to water the flowers.

The potted flower was dying at the foot of the wall of the family courtyard.Some people are gone, and some things remain intact where they were yesterday.The soil in the flowerpot was dry and cracked, the leaves were almost gone, and there was a remnant flower on the branch, so small and so miserable, it bloomed on the branch.There is a card in the flower pot, and the card reads: Happy Birthday!
Everyone forgot Su Mei's birthday, everyone was busy with the case, Su Mei naturally didn't bother to mention it, only Bao Zhan, who was careful, still remembered that he may have traveled all over the city but didn't find a cake shop, and didn't buy it. to a decent birthday present.

In the evening, the instructor killed sheep and cooked wine, and hosted a banquet for the special case team.

There is a local delicacy called "Qingquan Mutton". After slaughtering the sheep, the mutton is soaked in spices and clear spring water overnight, and then the whole sheep is stewed in a pot with more than 30 kinds of seasonings and more than 10 kinds of medicinal materials. The fragrance is rich and not greasy.

As night fell and the stars were shining brightly, there was an iron pot under the poplar tree in the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau, and a whole lamb was stewed in the pot. The broth was boiling, and the firewood underneath was burning.There was a long wooden table next to the pot. A police wife cut off four lamb legs, put them in a wooden basin, and brought them to the table. Each person was given a small knife to cut the lamb, and then dipped in salt and pepper and Eat with hot sauce.

The local police greeted the special case team to sit down. The instructor was hospitable and brought a jar of good wine. This jar of wine had been cellared in the soil for many years.

The police wife brought red dates, cooked corn and edamame, and everyone drank and ate mutton with their hands, talking about the case while eating and drinking.

Hualong clinked glasses with the instructor and said with a smile: It would be great if every case analysis meeting was held like this.

Professor Liang was full of praise for the handcaught mutton: This is the best mutton I have ever eaten.

The instructor said: We have a mutton restaurant here, which is just a roadside stall and a wooden shed.Many people come here admiringly, as well as foreigners, just to eat mutton.The big pot hadn't been turned off for ten years, and the mutton was always stewed. The old soup in the pot was fragrant, and it could attract mice at night. The wood fell into the pot, and it was delicious to chew.It's a pity... moved away.

The instructor continued: We sent people to the Oilfield Hospital and took the record again. The victim, Chen Luomo, recalled that the murderer used some kind of tool. As for whether it was a scale hook, she was not sure.At that time, she was strangled by the murderer with a rope, and she was dying when she was rescued.

A policeman said: Although a few days have passed since the incident, the victim is still emotionally unstable, her face is swollen, her two terrified eyes are filled with black and red bloodshot eyes, and the strangle marks on her neck are still clearly visible. She twitched and trembled all over.

Professor Liang said: There was no sign of robbery or rape in this case, and the murderer's purpose was to create a terrifying case.

Bao Zhan said: Is this a random case, or was it premeditated by the murderer?
The instructor said: I think it looks like an accidental case. We have investigated it. The migrant girl has no grievances with others. Who would harm her like this?It's just that our police force is limited, and it takes time to investigate suspects.

Professor Liang said: Whether it was accidental or premeditated, the murderer was already insane and on the verge of collapse.I think there must be another one, and he won't stop until we get the goddamn guy.

Professor Liang suggested that the local police mobilize the masses to make up for the lack of police force, form a joint defense team as soon as possible, recruit voluntary patrol personnel, increase vigilance, enhance safety awareness, and prevent problems before they happen.Everyone was full and ready to leave the table.

Su Mei said: I am full today, Xiaobao, you can go for a walk with me under the moon.

Professor Liang said: You two, don't go far, pay attention to safety.

Hualong bowed his head and drank, and the instructor accompanied him. The two drank a lot of wine and talked a lot.

After a while, Su Mei ran back alone in a panic. When she and Bao Zhan walked to the old building where the old man Zhang Hongqi lived, there was blood in the dark and silent corridor. Mei came back to call someone.All the police gathered urgently. The building where Zhang Hongqi lived was not too far from the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau. Everyone ran to go, worried that Zhang Hongqi and his wife would be killed.

In the corridor, there was a washbasin filled with blood, which had been overturned, and the blood flowed to the first floor along the cracks in the stairs.

Bao Zhan knocked on the door, and Zhang Hongqi and his wife knew nothing about the blood in the corridor.

The old man Zhang Hongqi said that he seemed to hear a noise coming from outside the door. He thought it was a wild cat, so he didn't look at it.

After on-site investigation, someone deliberately put a basin of blood on the door frame of the elderly Zhang Hongqi. A wooden board was inserted in the door frame. The board was so thin that it could not bear the pressure and broke.In some places, the blood has coagulated into blood clots, and it can be judged with the naked eye that it is sheep blood-many people have eaten sheep blood tofu.

Could this pot of sheep blood be put in by the murderer?
In this corridor, a girl was brutally murdered, and the girl's grandparents seem to be facing some kind of danger now.

Professor Liang said: "This is not a prank, but a threat.

Bao Zhan said: No matter who put it, the purpose is - as soon as the door is opened, the blood will be poured on the head.

Su Mei said: That's right, this pot of blood fell out ahead of time, and that person's trick failed.

The instructor said: Investigate, whoever has killed a sheep recently, you can almost find this person, this washbasin...

The instructor felt that the washbasin looked familiar, so he took a closer look with the flashlight and realized that the washbasin belonged to him!

The Public Security Bureau entertained the special case team and killed a sheep. They had just eaten mutton.The instructor said that the sheep was slaughtered with the help of a local fat cook. After the slaughter, the sheep's viscera and blood were given to him as a reward.Everyone immediately found the fat cook, who was already asleep. He said sleepily that he put the sheep's blood on the concrete table in front of the door, and planned to move it back into the house when the smell of blood dissipated and it condensed into sheep's blood tofu. The result was gone.

Someone stole a basin of sheep's blood and placed it on the door frame of Zhang Hongqi's home.

Both the special case team and the local police faintly felt that this person, who acted recklessly, was probably the murderer.

The police told Zhang Hongqi to be vigilant, not to go out at night, and not to open the door to strangers.

The old man Zhang Hongqi said angrily: Whoever dares to come, I will sharpen the knife and wait.

The next day, the special case team investigated the theft of sheep blood in detail, and what the fat cook said was true.The fat cook's surname is Sun. He used to be a cook in the logistics canteen of the oil field. He is kind and has a simple family relationship.His father was in an oil field nursing home and had been ill for many years, and his children and wife lived in neighboring cities.He lives alone in Yumen City, and spends most of the year living in the field with the drilling team, cooking for the workers.

The next night, when Zhang Hongqi and his wife were eating, they had a family conflict because of trivial matters. Zhang Hongqi overturned the pot, and his wife went to the non-staple food store to buy dried noodles, but he did not come back for a long time.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door. The old man Zhang Hongqi opened the inner door and saw his wife standing outside the iron-barred anti-theft door.

The corridor was pitch black, and the indoor light shone on the face of the old woman through the screen window of the iron-barred anti-theft door. She actually had one eye open and the other closed. The open eye was dull, and the eyes were extremely weird , looks horrible!
No.13 zombie hair
The old man Zhang Hongqi was about to open the iron-barred anti-theft door when he suddenly saw his wife's hair standing on end.

The wife became a stranger, almost unrecognizable.The old woman standing outside the door not only opened one eye and closed the other, but the short silver-white hair on her head stood on end. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's head slowly tilted to the right, and the veins in her neck bulged. The open eye closed, and at the same time, the other eye was slowly bleeding.

The old man Zhang Hongqi was startled and shouted, he thought his wife was dead, but how could a dead person knock on the door?

He felt strange and terrified, remembering the police's warning, he didn't open the door immediately, but turned around and went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife, then opened the kitchen window and shouted to the non-staple food store downstairs: Come on, come on.Several neighbors were playing cards in front of the non-staple food store. Hearing the shouts, they all looked up upstairs.

Holding a kitchen knife, the old man opened the door murderously, and the scene in front of him stunned him.

The old woman's body was stiff, her posture was tilted, and she was leaning straight to the right, with her head leaning against the wall, and one foot was actually able to hang in the air, like a plastic mannequin leaning against the wall.Her eyes were closed, and blood from one of them slowly slid down her cheek.

Another shocking case happened!
When the special case team arrived, some neighbors had already gathered downstairs. The old man Zhang Hongqi was holding his wife's body and weeping bitterly at the door. The instructor comforted him and persuaded him to go back to the house to make notes.The old man Zhang Hongqi was very sad, and he patted the table and said, "Call an ambulance quickly, take him to the hospital, and rescue him quickly."

The instructor said: People are dead...

Professor Liang and the instructor questioned the old man Zhang Hongqi, and the police briefed the people downstairs about the situation.The stubborn old man kept calling for an ambulance. He hadn't recovered from the news of his wife's death and couldn't accept this fact.

Bao Zhan, Hua Long, and Su Mei investigated the scene. The Public Security Bureau did not have a forensic doctor, so they temporarily found a female hemorrhoid doctor to conduct a preliminary examination of the corpse.The female doctor came in a hurry, and when he got to the fourth floor, Hualong shouted: Don't come up, don't destroy the scene.

Su Mei said: Eldest sister, you stepped on the intestines of the deceased.

The female doctor took two steps back in fright, and stepped on something hard. She retreated to the corner of the corridor and stood there not daring to move.

The local police borrowed the lighting equipment of the drilling team, and the corridor where the incident occurred was brightly lit like daytime.

The female doctor saw clearly that the hard thing she stepped on just now turned out to be a section of intestine.Although a little disrespectful to the deceased, the female doctor couldn't help saying: Oh, it's disgusting.

Doctors generally have a strong psychological quality, but this female doctor cried out in horror. She pointed to her feet and said: Here, look here.

There was a round eyeball at the female doctor's feet, which was almost stepped on by her.

The corridor was horrible, filled with the disgusting smell of feces and blood. The platform between the fourth and fifth floors was confirmed to be the scene where Zhang Hongqi's wife was killed. This is also the place where Chen Luomo was attacked. She and her grandmother The same location in the corridor was brutally attacked.

The female doctor looked at the corpse and found that the old woman had a ruptured rectum and a wound on her abdomen. As analyzed by the local police, it might be caused by a scale hook.

There were traces of intestines dragging in the corridor. Obviously, the murderer did not stop after committing the crime, but dragged the deceased a few steps downstairs. The deceased struggled to climb upstairs and died in pain due to excessive bleeding and respiratory failure up.

Several clear bloody handprints were found on the handrails of the stairs on the fourth, third, and second floors, which should have been left by the murderer.

Su Mei took pictures, and Bao Zhan collected the bloody fingerprints. This physical evidence is very important. Hualong and another policeman got a saw and sawed off a section of the stair railing with bloody fingerprints, intending to take it back for further investigation analyze.

The physical evidence at the murder scene is an important way to point out the direction of investigation.

There are different types of bloodstains distributed in the corridors: splatters, bounces, transfers, etc.

The blood splatter form was an important part of the reconstruction of the scene.When blood hits the surface of an object, different forms will be produced due to the difference in surface structure and adsorption.Bao Zhan marked the order of some bloodstains, speculated on the history of the crime from the shape of the blood splatter, combined with the female doctor's autopsy analysis, and soon came to a preliminary conclusion, which surprised everyone!
The time of the old woman's death was around 7:11 pm, and she knocked on the door at [-]:[-].

Corpses are unlikely to knock.

Bao Zhan immediately reported to Professor Liang, but Professor Liang waved his hand and said: No need to talk, I already guessed it.

Bao Zhan said: The case is actually a reasoning question about the corpse knocking on the door.

Reasoning question: An elderly couple lived on the fifth floor. The old woman went out to buy dried noodles and returned home after a few hours.She knocked on the door, and when the old man opened the door, he saw the old woman standing in the corridor outside the door through the anti-theft iron gate. She opened one eye and closed the other, and her short silver-white hair stood up.The old man felt weird and became vigilant. He went to the kitchen to pick up a kitchen knife and called out the window for help. After opening the door, he found that the old woman was dead, and the time of death was four hours ago.

Professor Liang said: The murderer supported the corpse, made it stand upright, hid behind the corpse, and knocked on the door.

Bao Zhan said: This is the scariest way of deceiving people to open the door I have ever seen.

Professor Liang said: The murderer's target may be old Zhang Hongqi.

Bao Zhan said: If this is the case, the murderer is too cruel, killing innocent people indiscriminately.

Chen Luomo survived by luck and was still being rescued in the hospital. Grandma was brutally killed in the corridor. The murderer not only cut her intestines, but also gouged out one of her eyes.There were no sharp weapon wounds on the eye sockets and eyelids of the deceased, and it was preliminarily judged that the murderer had pulled out the old woman's eyeballs abruptly.

There have been many homicide cases in China where eyeballs were gouged out. There is a superstitious saying that when a person dies, the pupils will record the murderer's appearance, so the murderer will goug out the dead person's eyeballs.

The old woman couldn't stand her eyes when she died. For some reason, the murderer only gouged out one of her eyes.

This is also the reason why she turned a blind eye. At that time, Zhang Hongqi didn't know that what she saw was a corpse. The corpse was standing outside the door. When Zhang Hongqi opened the door, the corpse was open. One eye also slowly closed.

Is this for one last look?

For a person who is already dead, will he really die in peace only when he sees his wife who has been with him day and night?
There are several possibilities for the dead man's hair to stand up. One situation is that he was exposed to static electricity. There is a kind of static ball in the Science Museum, and the hair will float up when touched.Sometimes in the wild, a person's hair will stand on end for no reason. If you encounter this phenomenon, you should leave as soon as possible. This is caused by the static electricity in the clouds in the sky and the induction on the ground. The position where you stand is likely to be struck by lightning.

Another situation where the hair stands on end is when the person is dead.

Don't think that when a person dies, the body will not move.Eight hours after a man's death, his genitals will be erected for the last time in his life.Dead people will also grow nails and hair. After death, some tissue cells are not all dead, and they still perform normal physiological functions, and hair and nails will grow.Rigidity, which happens to everyone, occurs between one and four hours after death, when the muscles begin to stiffen and make the corpse's hair stand on end.

Don’t think it’s a fake corpse when you see a corpse sticking out its tongue. In summer, after about a week of death, the putrid gas in the abdomen will squeeze out the tongue.

Don't be surprised to see a dead body's hair suddenly stand on end, this is the phenomenon of dead bodies when they are stiff.Just as when a person is cold, the skin shrinks and the hairs stand on end.The so-called grooming refers to the hair standing on end. Not only zombies will groom, but birds will also groom when they are frightened. Cat owners sometimes see the cat’s hair standing on end. This is a premonition of some kind of danger. A superstition is that cats see something supernatural.

At around 7 o'clock in the evening, the murderer killed the old woman in the corridor, and at 11 o'clock, the murderer appeared at the murder scene again.

According to the analysis of the special case team, the murderer either returned to the murder scene, or stayed with the corpse in the corridor all the time.The murderer gouged out one of the old woman's eyes and dragged the corpse. The intestines stretched from the fourth floor to the fifth floor. The murderer supported the corpse and made it stand in front of his house, then knocked on the door, hid behind the corpse, and helped carry it The pants of the deceased.The deceased suffered from rigor, his body was stiff, so he could stand up easily, but his hair stood on end, which aroused the vigilance of Zhang Hongqi.He didn't open the door immediately, but went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife and called downstairs for help.When he opened the door, the murderer had already fled, and the old woman's body was leaning stiffly against the wall, with her trousers half down.

What is the murderer's purpose?Enter the home of the old man Zhang Hongqi, and then kill the old man Zhang Hongqi, or snatch something valuable?
The special case team couldn't figure it out, how can an old man have such deep hatred with others if he doesn't have any property?What's more, according to the preliminary investigation, although this old man has a stubborn temper, he is friendly and has a good reputation among the neighbors.

The police questioned the people around the scene in detail. At that time, several neighbors in the non-staple food store downstairs were playing cards. They heard the old man Zhang Hongqi calling for help and crying, and called the police immediately.Because there was a murder in that building and sheep blood was poured on it, several neighbors didn't dare to go upstairs to check.In fact, they were more worried about meeting the murderer, and the crying was enough to remind people that another tragedy had happened in the corridor.

The sound of sirens attracted some nearby neighbors to come and watch.Hualong noticed that there was a fat cook who helped the instructor kill sheep. The fat cook asked the instructor what happened, but the instructor didn't answer. Hualong asked where the fat cook was from 7 to 11 in the evening.

The fat cook said: I am at home.

Hualong said: Who can prove it?

The fat cook said: I am at home alone, my wife and children are not here, what are you asking, what happened?
The fat cook turned to ask the people next to him, and the surrounding people talked a lot.

From the incident to the police, the time is very short, the murderer may be hidden in the crowd of onlookers, Su Mei quietly took photos of the onlookers.Bao Zhan conducted separate inquiries to several neighbors who were playing cards at the non-staple food store downstairs at that time, focusing on investigating who had the time to commit the crime.The results of the inquiry showed that two of the card players had left alone, and the timing was suspicious.One was the owner of a non-staple food store who closed the stall at 11 o'clock. He loaded the groceries in front of the door onto a tricycle and moved them back to the storage room alone; the other was a small worker who had diarrhea that night and went to the toilet several times while playing cards.

The non-staple food store is on the south side of the old building where the crime occurred, and the exit of the corridor faces north. The murderer left in a short time.

Professor Liang asked: Did you hear footsteps coming down the stairs?If so, what shoes do you think the man was wearing?

The old man Zhang Hongqi shook his head and said: I didn't hear anyone coming downstairs.

This is simply unbelievable. The corridor is dark and there is no light. How could the murderer go downstairs silently?
It was already late at night, and the crowd dispersed one after another. A mother held the child's hand and threatened the child in a low voice not to talk nonsense.The mother and son lived in a building behind, and Su Mei overheard the child raise his face and whisper to his mother: Why did my sister see someone coming down that staircase in the middle of the night?
No.14 empty stomach
The mother and son live in a building in the back. From the window of their house, they can see the old building where the crime happened. When the child's sister goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, she always looks out of the window habitually. I saw a person walking in the corridor. Because of the distance and the dark sky, I couldn't see the person's face clearly, only a vague figure.

The special case team asked the child's elder sister, who said that she had seen it three times in total, and each time she felt creepy. One of them, the man seemed to have no shoes on and walked into the dark corridor.

Bao Zhan left a phone number and told the child's sister to call immediately if she saw anything unusual in the corridor again.

The child's sister said: I have a telescope, uncle policeman, I will keep watch for you.

The child jumped up to grab the telescope and said excitedly: "Sister, I want to watch it too."

Killing demons are actually ordinary people. They pass us by, and they eat at our table.

The murderer is hiding in this empty city, and he lives very close to the old building where the crime happened.Due to the limited police force, it is impossible to search for the murderer in a large area.The special case team and the local police centered on the location of the incident and focused on investigating the surrounding residents, especially the neighbors who were playing cards downstairs at the time of the incident. comparing.

According to the analysis of the special case team, the criminal motive of the two perverted cases can be characterized as revenge killing, and the ultimate goal is to kill the old man Zhang Hongqi.A person's hatred often affects the innocent, so Chen Luomo and her grandmother were killed one after another.

The old man Zhang Hongqi did not hear the sound of the murderer coming downstairs because the man was barefoot and did not wear shoes.

The murderer's criminal methods are being upgraded step by step. He walked into the corridor, stood barefoot in the corridor, and held a steelyard in his hand. He was able to wait quietly for several hours. First, he ambushed the working girl Chen Luomo in the corridor. , and killed her grandmother.

The murderer was extremely cruel and insane.

The second case was particularly horrific. The murderer squatted behind the old woman, supported her body, and knocked on the door.If the old man Zhang Hongqi opened the door hastily, he might have been killed.

Zhang Hongqi's wife was killed, and the bad news spread, and some immediate family members came to express their condolences, all of them deeply grieved.For safety reasons, a relative wanted to take the old man Zhang Hongqi to live in the new city, but the old man refused to move, saying that he was used to living here and didn't like living under the fence.He said stubbornly: No matter who he is, he wants to harm me, and I will wait for him.

The old man polished the kitchen knife and prepared a threaded steel rod to put on the bedside.

The special case team decided to open a breakthrough in the relatives of the old man Zhang Hongqi, and asked in detail who the old man Zhang Hongqi had conflicts with, and whether any enemies still live in Yumen City. An uncle and brother of the old man Zhang Hongqi provided a clue: the old man Zhang Hongqi When he was young, he was a Red Guard. The Red Guard combat team he was in had a poetic name called "Laughing in the Congzhong".

The Red Guards back then are now middle-aged and elderly, but this huge group seems to have disappeared, and no one mentioned what happened back then.They chose to forget.

However, history cannot be forgotten.

The old man Zhang Hongqi chose to remain silent and avoided talking about the events of the year. The special case team asked him several times, hoping that he could provide clues. The old man Zhang Hongqi actually lied and denied it in every possible way.

Sometimes, we cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Bao Zhan said: If it was the victim back then, and now he comes to revenge, then the murderer is almost an old man.

Su Mei said: An old man, how could he kill one person and seriously injure the other? What's more, the victim Chen Luomo reported that the murderer was a middle-aged man.

Hualong said: The girl was frightened at the time, and the light in the corridor was dark, which may have misjudged the murderer's age.

Professor Liang said: Don't underestimate us elderly people. If I can stand up, Xiaobao, you may not be my opponent.

Bao Zhan said: Uncle Liang, how dare I fight with you.

Hualong said: I know an old man who patrols on a voluntary basis every night. For the past 20 years, rain or shine, he has caught dozens of bicycle thieves by himself.

Su Mei said: It is also possible that the descendants of the victim are seeking revenge.

Human hatred can last for many years.From crime to war.

The murderer Sun Wei was caught stealing melons when he was young, and when he grew up, he killed several people who beat him; a college student named Zou was expelled from the school for fighting. Ten years later, he took revenge and stabbed the school leader to death with a fruit knife; After a pair of extramarital lovers broke up for many years, the woman has always been brooding, and she does not hesitate to pay for murder.

The special case team decided to investigate from the outside.

The department store in Yumen City has been closed for business. There are some elderly people gathered in the open space in front of the door every day. They sit on the mazar and bask in the sun. One of the elderly people is holding a copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and reading a passage in the book in rhythmic rhythm. Words: "Above the temple, the rotten wood is the official, and among the majesty of the palace, the beasts eat the salary; the wolf-hearted and dog-like people are in power, and the servile people are in charge..."

Su Mei walked over and said: We are from the Public Security Bureau, I would like to inquire, have you heard of the "Laughing in the Cong" combat team?
An old man showed a smile on his simple and honest face, and asked: Underworld?
Su Mei said: This is not a triad organization.

Bao Zhan said, "It's the Red Guards."

Hualong said: "Who among you has ever been a Red Guard?"
Su Mei said: We just want to understand the situation, please don't get me wrong.

The old people laughed, no one admitted, they were not very interested in this topic, and one by one picked up the mazar and left one after another, until only the old man who was studying was left.Professor Liang went over in his wheelchair for a chat. He chatted a little about the Three Kingdoms first, and then encouraged him to talk about the ten-year catastrophe period.

Professor Liang said: At that time, I was abroad, please tell us about your experience, and let young people know about it.

The old man who was studying recalled the past and sighed with emotion. He said: In 1957, I was labeled as a rightist and sent to work on the farm.I used mud to build walls. From 1957 to 1978, I built walls for 21 years.Where is the wall I built, build it up and knock it down, build it up and knock it down, repeating itself, the cycle is endless, they just make me work non-stop, trying to exhaust me to death.

Su Mei asked: Are you so perverted?

The old man who was studying said: You young people can't imagine how abnormal it was at that time.Just because you stepped on a newspaper, you will be criticized and beaten; just because you farted while reading a poem, you have committed a heinous crime; just because you hang a painting in your bedroom, you are a counter-revolutionary, your father and you Mom will slap each other; if you have a big butt, you will be slandered as a landlord and criticized.

Su Mei said: Are these true?
The old man who studied said: Many people know these things, but they just don't want to talk about them.There is a small dark room in the courtyard of the auditorium in Yumen City, where performance props are placed. It is the place where the Red Guards criticized and beat people. The blood that has solidified on the wall has grown hair in summer.You police, have you ever seen hairy blood?
Most of the buildings in Yumen City maintain the style of the 20s and 70s, which are very old. There are still a large number of old one-story houses decades ago. The special case team found the auditorium mentioned by the old man.

The former auditorium has become an abandoned sawmill, and the old house is empty, as if it has been waiting for someone to come.There was some damp sawdust scattered on the ground, the traces of old slogans on the wall were indistinct, and the long-haired blood had long since disappeared.

The special case team and the local police expanded the scope of the investigation, focusing on the elderly population in the city. The murderer was probably an elderly man who was persecuted by the old man Zhang Hongqi during the "Cultural Revolution". After decades, it can still explode.The palmprint comparison work was carried out at the same time, but the results were disappointing. After comparison, none of the palmprints collected by the police matched the bloody fingerprints found in the corridor.

The case has reached a stalemate, and there is no ray of light in sight. All the police can do is wait.

A few days later, a boy went to the toilet in the middle of the night. He rubbed his eyes and saw that the curtains of a family on the opposite floor were moving.The child woke up the elder sister, and the elder sister also felt strange.Who touches the curtains in the middle of the night?I thought it was caused by the wind, but the windows of that house were closed and the glass was intact, so it could only be that someone touched the curtains inside, as if someone had patted the curtains with their hands, and after a while, patted them again, repeating this this action.

That window is the bedroom of old man Zhang Hongqi.

My sister immediately reported the abnormal situation by phone, and the special case team and six local policemen rushed over. After they went upstairs, they saw an extremely bloody and abnormal scene.

The door was open, the ceiling fan in the bedroom was turning, and a naked old man was lying in a pool of blood. The blood dripped all over the room, and there were blood spots all over the walls, floor, and wooden couch.

Su Mei felt sick and couldn't help but want to vomit.

The old man Zhang Hongqi was killed.

The scene was horrible. Bao Zhan noticed that the screen window of the iron-barred anti-theft door was ignited, and some foam plastic was stuffed. This should be done by the murderer. The murderer also took the opportunity to enter the room and kill him.

There were obvious signs of struggle at the murder scene, and the murder weapon was left at the scene. It was an iron hook for hanging pork, which can be seen at the pork stalls in the country market.

The threaded steel rod that Zhang Hongqi used for self-defense fell to the ground, and the kitchen knife was stained with blood, which indicated that the murderer was injured in the fight.

Professor Liang picked up the kitchen knife, looked at it, and said, "Everyone go after him immediately, the murderer is injured, he must not be far away!"
Professor Liang and the instructor stayed at the scene, and the rest of the people searched quickly with flashlights. Hualong found some blood in the corridor. It seems that the murderer was seriously injured. Bao Zhan also found a few drops of blood at the bottom of the wall downstairs. Several policemen Thinking that the way ahead was the murderer's escape route, he ran after him with a flashlight.

Bao Zhan dipped his fingers in the blood, smelled it, looked up, and shouted loudly: Come back, don't chase there.

Several policemen rushed back, puzzled, Bao Zhan whispered, "It's not blood, it's water."

In the dark night, it was difficult to distinguish the blood and water. A policeman muttered: Strange, it hasn't rained these days, where did the water come from?
Bao Zhan signaled everyone to keep quiet, and he pointed to the top, where there was a flowerpot on the window sill on the fourth floor.When the old man Zhang Hongqi came back from a walk, he would look at a window upstairs, and there was a pot of spider plants on the window sill.Obviously, the water at the bottom of the wall downstairs was dripping from the flower pots.

Except for the old man Zhang Hongqi, all the residents in this old building have moved out.Residents handed over the keys when they moved, and the neighborhood committee kept them uniformly.After the incident, the local police had searched every room in the building and found nothing suspicious.But now, in a room that should be empty, someone is watering the flowers, which is very strange.There is only one possibility. After the incident, the murderer moved in again, lurking in the house of the family who moved out on the fourth floor.

The murderer is hiding in this building!

All the police rushed to the fourth floor immediately, Hualong, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei all drew their guns, and everyone stood in front of the door, ready to rush in.

The door was not closed, and a gust of wind blew through, and the door opened slowly.

No.15 Dusty Door
Behind the door is an empty living room, no one is there.

The spirit of the special case team is highly concentrated, and they know that the murderer is hiding inside.Bao Zhan pointed to the room with the flower pots, Hualong nodded, and rushed up first, and the others shouted and rushed in afterward. The scene was very chaotic, and the flashlight was shaking.Hualong kicked the door open, and everyone rushed into the room with the flowerpots.

There is a piece of plastic sheeting in the room. In the corner, there is half a potsticker left on an old tea mug. A broken canvas bag is hung on a nail on the wall, with a coil of rope exposed inside. Here is a simple Temporary residence.

"Don't come here," said a trembling voice.

Hualong stretched out his arm to stop the crowd, and the flashlight shined on it. Everyone saw an old man sitting on the windowsill with his back to the people behind him. His body was leaning forward, and he might jump off at any time.

Everyone shouted and tried to calm the old man down, but he moved the flowerpot aside, jumped, and jumped from the window on the fourth floor...

The police later found out that the name of the person who committed suicide by jumping off the building was Sun Shengli, and he was the fat cook's father.The old man had been sick for many years and was lingering in a nursing home.He quietly returned to Yumen City without telling anyone, and with amazing determination and criminal skills, he fulfilled his last wish: revenge and murder.

This old man, who couldn't even break a pot of flowers before his death, actually committed three shocking murders!
The hand that waters the flowers is also the hand that kills.

Everyone is like this, the left hand belongs to the devil, and the right hand belongs to the angel.

The old man jumped down from the fourth floor. During the short time in the air, some old things climbed up along the dry well wall. He seemed to have returned to the remote alley where he grew up.In a remote alley, the lentils at the foot of the wall are blooming, and the elms are covered with black burls. In the fog of memories, his childhood friends passed by him. They have not grown up yet, and he sees himself.

In 1967, when Sun Shengli was in high school, he never had a single fight, never cursed a word, and the crime he committed was only because he wore a suit, and what was even more unforgivable was that he liked to read Pushkin's poems!

In that perverted age, wearing a suit and reading Pushkin's poems alone was a great crime.

The charges include: "capitalist roaders", "suspects of Soviet revisionism", "enemy agents", "gangsters", and "rightists"!
The school's revolutionary committee interrogated Sun Shengli, and one of his classmates, Zhang Hongqi, was in charge of the trial.

Zhang Hongqi: Where did the suit come from?

Sun Shengli: This is not a suit, but a Chinese tunic suit. The clothes were placed by the coal stove, and a piece was burned, so it was changed to this.

Zhang Hongqi: Still dare to argue, if you don't fight any reactionary things, they won't fall, so beat me hard.

Soon, Sun Shengli's face was swollen, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

Zhang Hongqi: I have a Chinese tunic suit at home, so it’s no wonder you’re not a rich peasant. What is your composition?
Sun Shengli: I confess that I am a child of the "five black categories".

The "five black categories" are landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists.

Zhang Hongqi: Hand over the list of enemy agents.

Sun Shengli: I am not a spy.

Zhang Hongqi: Isn't it a secret agent who still wears a suit and reads Pushkin's poems?

Sun Shengli: The collection of poems belongs to my father, and the clothes also belong to my father.

Zhang Hongqi: The whole family is a counter-revolutionary. Lock him up. We will raid his house to see if there is a transmitter.

Sun Shengli's home was ransacked and everything was smashed. After his father was beaten, he committed suicide by jumping into a well.The father couldn't bear this kind of humiliation. The boy in the neighbor's house who called him uncle obediently yesterday was waving the belt viciously at him today.The mother was shaved with a yin and yang head. There were originally two braids on the mother, but only the left one was left. The right half of the head was bald and had no hair.

At that time, there was a well in the courtyard of Sun Shengli's house. His father died, and he and his mother did not dare to bury the body, so they had to let his father's body soak in the well.Since then, every bowl of water they drink has the smell of their father's rot.

At that time, winter was always very cold, and the pickled vegetables, tofu and half of the old pumpkin in the yard were all frozen.Sun Shengli breathed out and went to fetch water. He was standing by the well in a daze with a bucket in his hand. Every time he fetched water, he didn't dare to look into the well.This time, he saw his father. The water in the well had frozen, and his father's face was frozen on the water.

A man is in a winter well, in the freezing cold, with his face upturned, only the tip of his nose protruding from the ice.

He will never forget this scene until his death, and he will always remember his father's face.

The students in Yumen City were divided into two factions.

Zhang Hongqi's combat team is called "Cong Zhong Xiao", and he is one of the small leaders. Sun Shengli joined the opposing Red Guard organization "Ghost Seeing Sorrow".

Sun Shengli's purpose is very simple, he wants to avenge his father.

Sun Shengli belongs to the "five black classes" and his family background is not good. In order to gain the trust of the "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" combat team, Sun Shengli salvaged his father's body from the well and dragged it to the street. Putting on kerosene, claiming to have distanced himself from his father, he subsequently burned his father's body.

The gang fight among the Red Guards in Yumen City escalated into armed fighting. The number of people fighting on both sides reached a thousand people. arms.

In the end, after a big battle, Sun Shengli's "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" combat team was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. A member of the Red Guards of the "Ghosts of Sorrow" combat team.

The Red Guards captured the Red Guards, and Zhang Hongqi captured Sun Shengli.

There was an old elm tree in the courtyard of the auditorium. Zhang Hongqi first tied up Sun Shengli, then hung a large scale under the tree, and hooked it into Sun Shengli's backyard with a scale hook. The weight was tied to the testicles, so that only his toes touched the ground.At noon, Zhang Hongqi sat leisurely in the shade of a tree, and asked Sun Shengli to open his eyes wide and look at the fireball-like sun in the sky, and not to blink, otherwise he would be punched and kicked.From noon to evening, Sun Shengli kept this posture. During this period, he was beaten countless times, and each time he was beaten, the pain deepened. The scale hook had sunk deeply into the flesh, and the blood from the backyard formed puddles under his feet.Until night, when someone came out to go to the bathroom, he saw a figure under the tree, and Sun Shengli was still standing there straight...

The dark clouds of yesterday are also the dark clouds of today.

Dark history also ends in darkness.

Humans have a great tolerance for pain and suffering.Sun Shengli survived, perhaps, the strong belief that supported his survival was revenge. At the end of the "Cultural Revolution", Sun Shengli had already married his wife and had a child.For decades, he has had a fierce look in his eyes and a gloomy face. Every year, frost accumulates in his body; every year, wind and snow accumulate in his heart.

Decades have passed, and Sun Shengli has become an old man, sitting alone on a bench in a nursing home.

For that catastrophe, many people chose to forget it, but Sun Shengli couldn't forget it.

Maybe, he felt that there was some unfulfilled wish before he died, maybe, he spent his whole life planning and implementing this revenge plan.

The police did not find out how Sun Shengli found Zhang Hongqi's address after many years, and we have no way of knowing what the two old people said during the final fight.

Standing in the dark corridor, Sun Shengli held an iron hook in his hand. He waited for several hours in the dark and attacked Zhang Hongqi's granddaughter.Chen Luomo was lucky enough to survive, the evil in Sun Shengli's heart could not be eliminated, and the criminal methods were further escalated.

In the first few days, no one knew where Sun Shengli lived. This empty city was full of unoccupied houses.The old man thought about going back to his son's house. Perhaps in order to avoid causing trouble to his son, he changed his mind temporarily. Instead of going into his son's house, he stole a pot of sheep's blood in front of the door. The blood was put on the iron security door of Zhang Hongqi's house.

The purpose of Sun Shengli's doing this is to tell Zhang Hongqi: Blood debts are paid in blood!
While the police were busy in the corridor, Sun Shengli hid in an empty room on the fourth floor.He had just killed Zhang Hongqi's wife, and he was standing behind the old woman's body while trying to knock on the door to kill Zhang Hongqi.The local police had searched every room in the building and found nothing suspicious, so they did not search a second time.

Sun Shengli used the empty room on the fourth floor as a temporary residence, which is very close to the scene of the crime, which shows how strong his desire to kill is.He lay motionless on the plastic sheet, listening to the footsteps in the corridor. He ate pot stickers and watered the flowers on the windowsill with a tea mug. The cries from Zhang Hongqi's relatives were heard by Sun Shengli pleasant music.

The murderer was in a daze most of the time, looking at the potted flower on the windowsill.

In the corridor, there was a conversation between two relatives of Zhang Hongqi. One said that Zhang Hongqi was too stubborn to move away, and the other said that the Public Security Bureau should send someone to provide protection.The voices of the two relatives became farther and farther away, and the sound of footsteps going downstairs disappeared.

At midnight, Sun Shengli stood up and picked up the iron hook...

The evil a person has done is like a dandelion seed, although it is far from sight, sooner or later it will take root elsewhere.

Did Zhang Hongqi get what he deserved?
Who is the real culprit?

Sun Shengli killed Zhang Hongqi in an extremely cruel way, and was seriously injured himself. He chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building.

While in the air, the old man closed his eyes and opened his arms, feeling as if he was flying, without the slightest fear of dying, but with a sense of relief in his heart.

There were tears on his face.

When a person is sad, tears may not be shed immediately, but often later.

After decades of tears finally came out of my eyes, the wind howled in my ears.

He felt that he flew over this old residential area, over the poplar trees in the open space, over this empty city that is gradually deserted, over that dark history...

All the flowers are gone, leaving only an empty city.

The instructor asked the fat cook to claim the corpse. The fat cook couldn't believe it. He said: My father didn't even dare to kill a chicken before.

Men, women and children on the street were also discussing the case. A young man said, "It's scary, it's abnormal, it's horrible."

The old man who was studying in front of the department store was also standing in the crowd. He said: Son, do you think this murder case is abnormal and terrifying?
The boy replied: Yes, an old man killed another old man.

The old man who studied said: The real horror is actually those things in the hearts of these two old people, the past, the present...

The young man was thoughtful, but then he gave up thinking. He greeted his companions and said: It's time to go to school, what does it have to do with us.

(End of this chapter)