Crime Profiler 2

Chapter 5
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In City C in December, heavy snow fell and the north wind howled.

Bathed in the flying snowflakes and dancing, and stepping on the snow on the side of the road to make a creaking sound, it is a beautiful dream that many children who grew up in the south have longed for since childhood.But at this moment, Mu Xue didn't feel any joy.

Six hours ago, the Criminal Investigation Bureau received a request for assistance from the police in City C, a small northern town. A horrific murder took place in the famous "ghost building" in C City.According to preliminary estimates, the number of victims is as many as a dozen, and the time span of committing the crime may be as long as more than eight years.

In eight years, more than a dozen people were killed in the same place, but the police in City C didn't notice it. This incident angered the chief of criminal investigation, and he assigned Team Z to stop all work and rush to City C.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Team Z arrived in City C. At 0:[-], after simply listening to the report from the police in City C, Team Z realized that the brutality of the case was not as light as it was in the report they submitted to the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

After killing the murderer at the crime scene on the top floor of the "ghost building", he brutally dismembered the victim and hung a large number of body parts in the air.At the same time, the murderer installed humidifiers and heating devices on the site, making the site as warm and humid as summer even in winter. In such an environment, a large number of flies and insects breed, and white maggots almost cover the entire floor of the building. .

What is puzzling is that the C City police claimed that in the past few years, they have never received such a large-scale report of missing persons, and no one has ever reported that any abnormalities were found in the "ghost building".

The case was discovered because of the demolition and reconstruction plan of City C.The demolition team's blasters found the corpse when they entered the "ghost building" to investigate the blast site. The cruel scene made the two blasters collapse on the spot, and they helped each other to climb out.

"I just have one question. On what basis do you judge that the murder started eight years ago?" Zheng Yan asked with a frown.

"Because, it was eight years ago that the 'ghost building' was first reported to be haunted." The leader of the police task force in C City, the captain of the criminal police detachment in his 40s, replied.

"Do you suspect that the haunting is actually a trick of the murderer?" Tang Hegong asked.

"Yes." Captain Chen nodded.

Zheng Yan and Mu Xue looked at each other, and nodded imperceptibly.

"Has the scene been cleaned up?" Mu Xue asked.

"No, I didn't even go to the scene. I just took a look and made a report. This case is not something we can solve." Captain Chen said.

This sentence was a bit of a sign of weakness, but everyone in the Z team did not show contempt or disdain, but felt an indescribable pressure.

One can imagine the difficulty of this case for a proud criminal police detachment chief to say such words.

"Okay, let's go to the scene now." Zheng Yan got up and said.

"Now?" Detachment Captain Chen's face twisted, and he raised his voice involuntarily.

"Is there any problem?" Zheng Yan looked at Team Leader Chen in puzzlement.

"No, no. However, it is night now, the lighting on the site is not good, and it is an unfinished unfinished building. I am afraid..." Captain Chen smiled shyly and said, "You are all important people. If you come out If there is an accident, it will not end well."

"We are the police, and it is our duty to investigate the scene." Tang Hegong smiled and said, "Besides, if I'm not wrong, the murderer should commit the crime at night. What the murderer can do, we as policemen What can't be done?"

Tang Hegong's merciless words stunned Captain Chen for a moment, and his face darkened: "Team Leader Tang, you know that's not what I meant."

"You should prepare as soon as possible." Du Li said, "Because the murderer committed the crime at night, it is easier to find some details that are usually overlooked when you go to investigate the scene."

"I understand when you say that." Captain Chen smiled at Du Li, turned around and walked out.

The "ghost building" is an eight-story unfinished building, about 100 meters away from the main road, and there are no other buildings within 100 meters around it, let alone lighting equipment such as street lights.

The building originally belonged to an electrical appliance group, which had developed a brand-new refrigeration technology that became famous all over the world.However, just overnight, due to some reasons that are only rumored among the people, the electrical appliance group declared bankruptcy, and the new office building that had just been completed was also forced to suspend work.

This stop is eight years.

"What are you thinking?" Zheng Yan asked.

"The shabby room is empty, and the wat was full of beds..." Du Li sighed.

"Stop." Zheng Yan quickly interrupted Du Li, "What about you?" He looked at Qin Ling.

"I smell a rotten smell." Qin Ling said with a strange face, "I think the victims may be more than those mentioned by the police in City C."

Zheng Yan's complexion also changed. Qin Ling could still smell the rancid smell emanating from the "ghost building" with a distance of [-] meters in the severe winter. I believe her judgment was not wrong.

"What about you? Brother Zheng!" Qin Ling asked.

"I was thinking, this place is indeed a good location for a 'ghost building', maybe it will be a good idea to make money." Zheng Yan said thoughtfully.

"Come on, put this on, and take back your whimsy." Tang Hegong followed with a few pairs of rain boots and a gas mask, "They suggested that we better wear this."

"And this." Mu Xue held a few headlamps and masks in her arms, "There is no lighting equipment at the scene, so we can only rely on this."

"Aren't they going?" Du Li asked while arranging the equipment.

"It's not necessary. There are too many people, but it is easy to damage the scene." Zheng Yan said.

"Besides, they didn't want to go." Mu Xue said, "When I told them not to follow, everyone breathed a sigh of relief."

"It seems that upstairs is not as simple as they said." Tang Hegong said.

"Shut up, Donald!" The rest of Team Z shouted in unison.

Five minutes later, five people dressed like special policemen passed through the wasteland 5 meters in front of the "ghost building", crossed the police cordon, and entered the "ghost building" where the wind was raging.Despite the isolation of gas masks and three-layer masks, the stench still inevitably rushed into everyone's nose.

"I want to throw up." Tang Hegong said.

"Boss, if you vomit, you have to eat it yourself." Zheng Yan said as if he didn't respond to the stench at all.

"You two, shut up, I'll really throw up if I say it again." Du Li shouted angrily, and couldn't help retching a few times.

"You said, every time the murderer comes, is he like us?" Mu Xue asked.

"Not necessarily, he may have a better way." Qin Ling closed her eyes slightly, and sniffed her nose vigorously, as if the stench brought her enjoyment instead of stimulation, "I smell the smell of coriander."

"Coriander?" Tang He Gong was stunned for a moment, "Did we meet your colleague?"

In the actual work of forensic medicine, in order to get rid of the smell of contaminated corpses, rubbing hands with coriander is a common method.Qin Ling originally preferred to use perfume, but the strange smell it gave off after mixing with the smell of corpses made her change to carrying coriander with her.Tang Hegong knew about this, and when he heard Qin Ling say that it smelled like coriander, he couldn't help but think about forensics.

"I didn't say that." Qin Ling said with a straight face, "It's not that only forensic doctors know this method."

"Nothing can be determined yet." Zheng Yan adjusted his headlights, "We are not here to find any clues, but to find out where there will be clues we need."

"Go this way." He walked towards the stairs not far away that didn't even have time to install the protective fence. "I'll go first. Lingzi and Dr. Du will follow. Mu Xue will follow behind Lingzi. Boss, you're the last one."

Zheng Yan stepped up the stairs, but he didn't walk on the side next to the wall. This behavior made Du Li a little puzzled.

"Zheng Yan, will this be too dangerous? What if I miss something..." She didn't continue.

"Follow me and I'll be fine." Zheng Yan took a deep breath, and moved his steps slowly and vigorously, "Reiko said that she smelled coriander, and that thing would not last long in the air, which means that not long ago The murderer may have been here. Come and do something meaningful, Xiaoxue, guess why I left like this? Enough hints have been given."

"This, it's very simple." Mu Xue said without thinking, "It was deduced before that the murderer probably came here at night, and he couldn't use tools with strong lighting, which would be easily exposed, so the lighting conditions and our It’s almost the same now, and I can barely see the road. Then the question comes, which side will he choose to go?”

"Of course it's the side next to the wall. It's too easy to be in danger like we are now." Tang Hegong said out of breath as he staggered a little.

"Yes." Mu Xue nodded, "So we can't go that way."

"Why?" Du Li asked subconsciously, and then closed her mouth.

Since the murderer walked to that side, he would naturally leave clues. If they go upstairs from that side at this time, it is likely to contaminate the traces left by the murderer.

Looking at this scene, Tang Hegong, who was walking at the end, couldn't help shaking his head.

At the height of the eight-story building, Zheng Yan walked for about 5 minutes. When he finally walked into the spacious hall, his spirit that should have been relaxed was even more tense, and his whole body tensed up.

Qin Ling, who was walking behind him, suddenly uttered a cry of surprise, hurriedly jumped to the side, and then jumped back. After going back and forth several times, she finally stopped moving her arm hugging Zheng Yan, but her whole body was trembling. .

The sudden change made Mu Xue stunned for a moment, she turned sideways and rushed to Zheng Yan's side, beside her, Du Li also rushed up.

However, at the next moment, the two women tore off the gas mask and face mask without any regard for their image, leaning against the wall to vomit.

It wasn't until this moment that Tang Hegong came up leisurely, glanced at Zheng Yan, and squeezed out two words between his teeth: "Pervert!"

Then, he rushed to the side and made the same move as Mu Xue and Du Li.

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"Eat something, and sleep well after eating, you will be busy tomorrow."

Saying this, Tang Hegong's chopsticks gestured around on the table but didn't pick up a single bite of food.As for Mu Xue, Du Li, and Qin Ling, they didn't even touch their chopsticks.

They couldn't eat any more, and when they thought of the situation at the scene, these women only turned pale and retched non-stop.

The top floor of the "ghost building" does not look abnormal from the outside, but the inside has been completely remodeled.Several wooden boards blocked the windows, forming a relatively closed space at the scene of the crime. Two high-power humidifiers and two heaters were placed in the four corners of the room. After they were turned on, the room was as warm as spring.

Dozens of iron hooks hang down from the roof, and a piece of meat hangs from each iron hook.The ground was covered with dense white maggots.

As early as when the city C police arrived at the scene, they cut off the power supply and stopped the humidifier and heater from working. Otherwise, the smell at the scene would be much stronger than when Team Z arrived.Those wriggling maggots lost their activity in the severe cold, but this did not affect the feeling of stepping on them.

The crunching and crackling of the corpses being crushed made everyone's scalp tingle.

At this time, Team Z realized how prescient it was for the police in City C to prepare rain boots for them.

"See what else you can find?" Zheng Yan took out the photos Qin Ling took at the scene, took a few mouthfuls of rice, forced himself to swallow it, and said, "By the way, I won't eat rice tomorrow, see It's disgusting."

The photos are a panorama of the scene, and several are close-ups of the meat.

Although the sudden change made Qin Ling panic at the beginning, as a forensic doctor, she quickly calmed down and quickly entered the working state.Regardless of the angle or clarity of these photos, they are impeccable in forensic work.

Even after finishing these, she almost collapsed to the ground.

"The murderer is about 1 meters tall." Mu Xue glanced at the photo, couldn't help retching a few times, and said, "After the piece of meat hangs down, it is at about 7 meters. Because there is a plastic sheet on the ground, I have There are reasons to suspect that these plastic sheets were used by the murderer to collect certain things, so the height of the piece of meat should be slightly higher than the height of the murderer, so as to make it easier for him to move."

"The corpse has been specially treated." Qin Ling said, "The skin tissue on the corpse has been peeled off."

"What's the point of the murderer doing this?" Tang Hegong asked.

"Accelerate the breeding of maggots." Qin Ling said expressionlessly, "laying eggs directly in muscle tissue will greatly shorten the growth time of maggots. Combined with Xiaoxue's deduction, the murderer has collected something, and the humidifier and Heater, I think..." She turned around, retched a few times, and didn't continue.

"The murderer transformed the entire crime scene into a training base, and what he cultivated was fly maggots." Zheng Yan said without changing his expression.

"That thing, what is there to cultivate?" Du Li said with a cold expression.

"Fly maggots are a good thing." Zheng Yan seemed to be stimulated to the point of excitement, and said enthusiastically, "It is an excellent biological feed, easy to cultivate, low cost, and short cycle. Two kilograms of manure can produce five hundred grams Fly maggots. One cubic meter of fly cages can produce about 150 grams a day. With ten fly cages with upper, middle and lower layers, 20-25 kg of fresh maggots can be obtained every day. From the perspective of the scale of the site, the daily production capacity of this cultivation base is at least About 50 kilograms. And the production cost of 1 kilogram of fresh maggots is only 0.14 yuan. Calculated as 4 kilograms of fresh maggots equivalent to 1 kilogram of fish meal, only 30% of the price of fish meal. According to the experiment of Beijing Feed Research Institute, in the breeding area of ​​18 square meters The average daily output of fly maggots is 9.75 kg. The institute used self-propagating and self-supporting fly maggot feed to feed chickens for experiments, adding 10% fly maggots to the feed, and adding 10% fish meal to the feed of the control group. As a result, the egg production rate of the former was higher than that of the latter 20.3%, and the feed remuneration increased by 15.8%. Feeding piglets with 100 grams of fly maggots will increase the weight by 7% compared to feeding the same amount of Peruvian fishmeal, and the cost can be reduced by 13.2%.

"But!" Zheng Yan's expression changed, and he said very seriously, "The use of meat to cultivate fly maggots has only one purpose - to eat."

"Eat?" Hearing this word, Tang Hegong showed a very interested expression.Du Li, Qin Ling and Mu Xue couldn't help retching again.

"That's right." Zheng Yan nodded, "There is a dish in southern my country called brussel sprouts, which is to hang the meat with the required seasonings and wait for maggots to grow. When the maggots grow fat, they fall into the pockets hanging under the meat. Call this meat sprouts. There are many ways to do it. Fried maggots are called "fried meat sprouts", and live maggots in cold salad are called "Spring Tide Surging". Especially "Spring Tide Surging" is creative, and your chopsticks have not touched it yet. When eating maggots, the surging maggots have already fled to the outside of the plate. In the early years, a plate of this dish could sell for 50 yuan."

"There is another German restaurant that is even more powerful." Zheng Yan said excitedly, "This restaurant has launched a 'maggot feast', maggot ice cream, maggot salad, maggot cocktail..."

"I said, you know this kind of unpopular knowledge very well." Du Li interrupted him coldly.

"Thanks to those few years, I have enough time to read." Zheng Yan smiled, "But these have nothing to do with this case, I don't think the murderer would cultivate edible maggots in that kind of place, the cost is too great point."

"Let's talk about it tomorrow. After cleaning up the scene tomorrow, there should be more discoveries." Tang Hegong thought for a while and said, "Now, go back to sleep."

I don’t know when, rumors of this unfinished building being “haunted” began to circulate among horror story lovers.It is said that at first, its story was published in a well-known horror magazine. In the story, someone saw candles floating in this empty building in the middle of the night, and someone claimed to hear painful groans from inside. And the miserable howling, and some people claim to have heard the cry of resentment coming from inside.

Those with good intentions created horror novels based on this, which caused quite a stir on the Internet.Since then, the "ghost building" has become a "resort" pursued by adventurers all over the country.

(End of this chapter)