Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 72 Zhou Tong Detective Series IV: The Skinner (6)
"The first thing you have to do is help me find the murderer."

Zhou Tong and Zhuo Ga were taken aback for a moment, isn't this "A thief shouting, "Stop the thief""?

"Which murderer are you talking about?" Zhou Tong asked mockingly.

"Three murders, three human skins, which murderer do you think it is?" the other party asked back.

"So, you have nothing to do with those three murders?"

"It really doesn't matter."

"Then there are two more murder cases, where are Gal Dongzan and Liang Xiaowu?" Although Zhou Tong couldn't question each other face to face, his eyes and tone had the momentum to make people have to answer.

"Liang Xiaowu's death, you already have the answer in your heart. But there is one thing you probably don't know. It was Liang Xiaowu who killed Gar Dongzan." Machinery in general.

Zhou Tong and Zhuo Ga were shocked. Although the two of them were still unable to confirm the authenticity of what he said, if it was true, then Liang Xiaowu's death obviously had another story behind it.

"What evidence do you have?" Zhuoga, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help asking.

"What I have to say has already been said. If you want evidence, it should be your police's responsibility."

When Zhuoga heard this, he became angry for a while, now he is not interrogating prisoners in the interrogation room, but he is in the situation of being a mermaid.

"You just said that finding the murderer is the first thing, so shouldn't there be a second and third thing?" Zhou Tong stopped mentioning Liang Xiaowu.

"Finish the first thing first, as for the latter, I will contact you again."

Zhou Tong really laughed this time.

"Why do you think we will be obedient 'good babies'?"

"Because you have no choice."

"Hmph, won't you let us go out if you don't agree?" Zhuoga snorted coldly.

"I invite you to come, just to show you something."

"We've finished watching now." Zhuoga involuntarily became impatient in this closed space.

"There's something else worth looking at, in the box closest to you."

There happened to be a wooden box under Zhou Tong's feet. The box was open. It had obviously been opened by someone, and there were some scriptures in it.He bent down and opened the scriptures on it, and there was a video player hidden underneath.

Zhuoga was also taken aback when he saw this, it seemed that the other party was well prepared.

Zhou Tong picked up the player, pressed the power button, and a clear picture appeared on the screen.

In a pure white room, a terrified mother sat on a silver bench with a child tightly in her arms, and beside her sat a woman in her 40s, her eyes were also full of love. Terrified look.

"Ajia!"

"Mom!"

Seeing the picture in the video, Zhou Tong and Zhuo Ga shouted almost at the same time.The people in the video are Zhuoga's wife and children, and Zhou Tong's mother, Song Xin.

"Bastard, let my wife and child go!" The angry Zhuoga burst into flames, but he couldn't find anyone to vent his anger on.

"Despicable!" Zhou Tong, who had always been calm, couldn't help but clenched his fists and cursed.

"They are eating and living well now. As long as you cooperate, I guarantee that they will return safely."

The veins on Zhuoga's forehead burst out, and he was at a loss for a while because he was worried about his wife and son.

At this time, Zhou Tong understood that they were completely in a very passive situation, and they didn't even have any chance to resist and choose.He patted Zhuoga on the shoulder, and whispered in his ear: "We will definitely find a way to save them, now is not the time to lose our minds."

Only then did Zhuoga take a deep breath, slowly calming himself down.

"You can go." After saying this, the strange sound never appeared again.

"Where are you going?" Zhuoga shouted loudly.

"You don't need to ask, the exit is here." Zhou Tong glanced across the secret room and said in a flat tone.He didn't find the slightest bit of joy to export. In his heart, he had never felt so depressed and powerless as today.

Section 6 Unfinished Oil Painting
Xiao Yulan, 22 years old, a graduate of the Southwest Academy of Fine Arts, came to Lhasa to create sketches, but a sudden disaster befell her.She was also the first victim in the case.

The police's investigation of Xiao Yulan was relatively simple, because she came to Tibet not long ago, did not have many friends, and had no social contacts.She rents a private house on the northern section of Barku Road, and she goes out to paint during the day and returns here to rest at night.Her body was found near a river near Dangba Road, nearly ten kilometers away from her home.At present, the only thing the police can confirm is that the place where the body was found was not the first scene of the crime, but the place where the murderer abandoned the body.

When the murderer abandoned the corpse, he left many clues, such as the black plastic bag containing the corpse, fingerprints, hair, trinkets, cigarette butts... But all these things were obviously left by the murderer on purpose. If you continue to investigate, you will eventually find that you were deceived by the murderer.The situation of the other two victims is basically the same. Except for the different places where the corpses were abandoned, all the clues found near the location of the corpses were intentionally done by the murderer to mislead the police.

Yan Yongjie, Chen Siguo and Chang Ning decided to abandon the investigation of these clues left by the murderer, and restart the investigation from the direction of the victim.The first place they came to was Xiao Yulan's dormitory.

The dormitory is on the third floor of a private house, facing the street.

The room is small with simple furnishings. The chandelier, bed, wardrobe, bookcase, a few small wooden chairs and an easel almost occupy all the places.

Before Yan Yongjie and the others came this time, Chen Siguo and Chang Ning had already searched once, but they did not find any valuable clues.But right now, they decided to come here again to have a look together.

There are still Xiao Yulan's clothes in the closet, her favorite books are placed in the bookcase, and there is an unfinished oil painting of hers on the easel.

"Because the case has not been solved yet, this room has been sealed up by the police, and all items and things remain as they were when the deceased left." Chen Siguo introduced to Yan Yongjie.

Yan Yongjie nodded, walked to the window, opened the window in the room, a gust of wind came in, and then the eyes lit up, snow mountains and white clouds unfolded in front of them like a picture.The originally dark room became brighter.She seemed to be able to see and feel that beautiful girl holding a paintbrush, swaying gently in the wind like a blue lotus flower.

"The girl's life is very simple. We searched it several times, but we couldn't find anything that would help solve the case." Chang Ning said as he opened a drawer. Inside were some girls' daily necessities. The positions were basically the same as the last time. look the same.

Although Chen Siguo didn't have much hope for this search, he still carefully checked the items in the room one by one, hoping to make new discoveries.

Yan Yongjie turned around from the window, walked around the room, and was suddenly attracted by the unfinished painting on the easel.

The background of the painting is a temple. In front of the temple, there are several Tibetans who are worshiping. The Tibetans look devout and their expressions are lifelike.Unfortunately, only half of the temple is painted, and there is still a large blank space on the right side of the whole painting.

"This painting is very special." Yan Yongjie said holding the drawing board.

Chen Siguo and Chang Ning also came over upon hearing the sound.

"What's so special?" The two asked almost in unison.They also paid attention to this painting, but they didn't see anything special.

"Look here." Yan Yongjie pointed to the blank space on the right side of the painting near the temple wall, "There are some shallow traces, which seem to be traced lines."

Chen Siguo and Chang Ning squatted down, leaned closer to the drawing board, and took a closer look. At the place Yan Yongjie pointed out, there were indeed some slight traces, as if the lines were drawn with a hard pen, but they were not colored.

"It seems that there are several people in the painting." Yan Yongjie speculated.

"The lines are a little fuzzy, maybe we can find someone from the forensic department to fill it up." Chen Siguo's face was a little rosy, and he and Chang Ning came here once, but they didn't find anything.Yan Yongjie's carefulness and sensitivity made him sigh for nothing.

"It's not too late, let's go right away." Chang Ning looked at the canvas with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

In the forensic department, Xiao Yulan's paintings were scanned into the computer, and a technician used special software to make supplementary drawings based on the slight lines in the unfinished part of the painting.

After about an hour or so, the whole painting slowly emerged on the computer screen, but the picture added by the computer looked a bit stiff.

"According to the lines left by the painter, and then using computer simulation analysis, probably only so much can be added." The technician explained to Yan Yongjie, Chen Siguo and Chang Ning behind him.

In the painting, the outline of the entire temple has been fully revealed, and on the right side of the temple is a forest. In the forest, there are five tourists with different expressions. Some are taking pictures, some are watching worshipers, and some are admiring the surrounding scenery.

"There are two people... they look familiar." Chen Siguo looked at the new portraits in the oil painting and said thoughtfully.

Yan Yongjie and Chang Ning were also watching from the sidelines, a little confused by Chen Siguo's words, because the portraits in the painting are very small, and their faces are just vague outlines, it's hard to tell who they look like.

"Chang Ning, please help me retrieve the photos of the other two deceased."

"Okay." Chang Ning immediately called up the case information on the computer, and listed the photos of the other two deceased who were collected by the police one by one.

"Look at these two photos." After searching, Chen Siguo clicked and enlarged two photos, which were the photos of the other two victims, Fang Huihui and Yang Yang.

"The necklace that Fang Huihui is wearing in the photo is exactly the same as the necklace of this girl in the painting." Chen Siguo enlarged Fang Huihui's photo to full screen, and pointed to the painting on the side.

Indeed, as he said, there is a girl holding an umbrella in the woods in the painting, with a necklace hanging around her neck, and the wavy pendant on the necklace is clearly visible.In the photo, Fang Huihui is also wearing such a necklace.

"Except for the necklace, the girl's clothing in the painting is also the same as that of Fang Huihui in the photo. The only thing that is difficult to determine is the color." Chen Siguo continued to infer, and suddenly many images appeared in his mind, like a flood that burst a bank , he seemed to have vaguely felt that he had grasped the clue to solve the case, "There is also this photo of Yang Yang, she is wearing a rhombus bracelet on her wrist."

He zoomed in on another photo of Yang Yang, and sure enough there was a diamond-shaped bracelet on Yang Yang's left wrist.

"In the painting, the girl who took the photo also has such a bracelet on her left hand." Before Chen Siguo could continue talking this time, Chang Ning also discovered this amazing coincidence.

"If your speculation is true, that is to say, the three victims appeared near this temple at the same time..." Yan Yongjie not only felt that they had found an important clue at this time, but more importantly, she found that the person in front of her called Police officer Chen Siguo has extraordinary memory and insight.

"Yes, what we have to do now is to find out where the temple in the painting is?" Chen Siguo finally showed a long-lost smile.

But Yan Yongjie and Chang Ning frowned. There are at least hundreds of temples, large and small, near Lhasa. One can imagine how difficult it is to find this temple with only an incomplete oil painting.

At the end of the secret room, Zhou Tong and Zhuo Ga removed a stone brick from the ground. Under the stone brick was a pool of clear water.

"Brother Zhuoga, can you swim?" Zhou Tong was also a little apprehensive looking at the bottomless pool.

Zhuoga nodded, his expression still dignified. He thought of his wife and children, and the anxiety and pain in his heart were indescribable.

Zhou Tong's mood is not much better now. His mother has been taken away. Now he not only has to investigate the murder case, find out who is behind the scenes, but also find a way to rescue them.

"Liang Xiaowu probably went out from here, but..." Zhou Tong sighed.

"Let's go!" Zhuoga was impatient, and now he was only thinking about how to rescue his wife, so he jumped into the water without saying a word.

Fearing that something might happen to him impulsively, Zhou Tong took a deep breath and jumped down too.

The icy cold water makes people stiff all over.

The waterway was very narrow, barely wide enough to hold a person, and Zhuoga and Zhou Tong dived down one after the other.There was no light under the water, and it was pitch black. Fortunately, the waterway went straight down without any bumps.

After diving for about [-] seconds, Zhou Tong and Zhuoga got out of the narrow waterway and came to a wide water area. Looking up, you can see light penetrating into the water.

The water skills of the two were limited, and they had reached the limit of holding their breath at this time, and immediately rushed upwards like flying arrows.

With a "wow", Zhou Tong and Zhuo Ga finally jumped out of the water.The two gasped for breath, especially Zhou Tong, who was not used to the hypoxic environment here, and holding his breath while diving like this, almost fainted.

"Go ashore!" Zhuoga hurriedly urged Zhou Tong to swim to the shore without waiting for Zhou Tong to recover.

At this time, Zhou Tong was almost exhausted even the strength to tread water, he could only rely on the buoyancy of his body, and slowly drift towards the shore by virtue of the water.But Zhuoga was very anxious, and he couldn't help but drag Zhou Tong to swim to the shore quickly.

"It's a good thing there's no one here." Zhuoga felt relieved when he reached the shore.

But Zhou Tong choked several times because of his tugging.

"Namtso Lake is a sacred lake for Tibetans. If people see us in the water like this, it may cause big trouble." Zhuoga climbed ashore, explained to Zhou Tong, and pulled him out of the water.

Zhou Tong didn't have the strength to complain at this time. Apart from being tired, his whole body felt like he was about to be frozen into a popsicle, and his limbs were almost numb.

"Let's find a place to avoid the wind and dry the clothes." Zhou Tong shivered.

Although Zhuoga was physically strong, he couldn't resist at this moment. He looked around and saw smoke from cooking houses not far away, and said, "There are Tibetans living nearby, let's go there for help."

Zhou Tong quickly agreed.

The two of them no longer held back, and rushed all the way to the place where the smoke rose.Fortunately, it is not far away. After walking along the path for about 5 minutes, I saw a stone Tibetan building.

In front of Zanglou, a Tibetan girl was feeding cattle, and she saw two wet people running towards her from a distance.

"What's wrong with you?" the Tibetan girl asked in Tibetan with a look of surprise.

"We accidentally fell into the water." Zhuoga said casually.

"Go into the house quickly, I'll help you get clothes and change." The Tibetan girl said and glanced at Zhou Tong beside Zhuoga. She had never seen such a handsome Han boy before, and her face couldn't help turning rosy.

"Abba, there are guests!" The Tibetan girl opened the door and brought Zhuoga and Zhou Tong into the room, shouting loudly.

A Tibetan man in his fifties came downstairs when he heard the sound.

Before Zhuoga could speak, the Tibetan girl said, "Abba, they fell into the water, so hurry up and find two clothes for them to change into."

Standing aside, Zhou Tong couldn't understand what they were saying, but smiled stiffly, with snot running down her nose.

Zhuoga had a natural expression on his face. They Tibetans are warm and hospitable, and they will help people who are in trouble.

Sure enough, the Tibetan man eagerly took out his clothes and handed them to Zhuoga, "It's such a cold day, why did you fall into the lake, go to the back room and change your clothes."

Zhuoga took the clothes, said thank you, and hurriedly took Zhou Tong to change clothes.

The two came out after changing clothes, and the little Tibetan girl handed them buttered tea.

The room was already warm, so after changing into dry clothes and drinking a cup of warm butter tea, the two of them finally recovered.

After chatting for a while, they realized that the Tibetan man was called Kangba, and the Tibetan girl was his daughter, Jin Duo'er, and the father and daughter lived here dependent on each other.

"Uncle, do you have a phone here?" Zhou Tong wanted to get in touch with Yan Yongjie, lest they worry.

Zhuoga wanted to translate for him, but Jin Duoer went to school and knew Chinese, so she quickly said, "I have a mobile phone here, use it to make calls."

Zhou Tong didn't hesitate to take the phone, went to the inner room, and dialed the phone.

"Hi, Yong Jie."

"...you stupid pig, where have you been all these days?" Yan Yongjie felt a lot more relieved when she received Zhou Tong's call, but she was not polite at all.

(End of this chapter)