Daqing Criminal Division

Because the investigation will continue the next day, these two people still have some sense of propriety this night.

This is the first time the two have done something so calmly since they met each other.

In the middle of the night, I didn't actually do anything else, but the two of them rode the official horse for a while and then left together.

Because the winner has not been decided for the time being, we can only make an appointment next time.

However, after such an encounter, there was a hint of 'compassionate' between these two opponents who always seemed to be at odds.

On the second day, the two of them and Pan Er went to Kang Juren, where the second case happened, and Chen Mingtang, who was involved in the third case, early in the morning.

At present, the main idea of ​​the government is to find people first, to ensure the safety of the hostages, and to find out what the strange black dot on the third small portrait refers to.

Previously, the government had carefully searched the home of the person involved in this second case.

Nothing was found at that time, but since Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao came this time, it was necessary to check the scene from another angle.

Since Kang Juren disappeared, the two terrified wives changed all the door locks inside and outside the house for fear that someone would break into the house again.

Because now, everyone knows that bad people have entered their house.

In order not to be targeted again, the servants of the Kang family followed the government's advice and sprinkled white incense ash on the beams and thresholds of the house. Anyone who came in could tell by looking at the footprints.

Apply a little rapeseed oil on the door. Once someone touches the lock outside the family, it will leave a smell on the body. In addition, the Kangju family also emptied the room where the plum vases were placed, and even the windows were closed. It was completely locked from the inside.

At this moment, there was nothing left of the place where the plum vase was once placed, except for the bare wall directly opposite.

The house was empty, as if no one had ever lived in it.

The Kang family was forced to do so.

After all, just thinking about the days of being watched and peeped by people day and night makes it extremely scary

When he came with the government in the morning, Duan Xiao walked around the Kangju family's house in order to check the structure of the house.

According to the family statement provided by Pan Er, both Kang Juren himself and Mrs. Erfang mentioned a sentence before the incident.

That is, they all heard someone walking in the plum vase room in the middle of the night, but the sound disappeared after they got up and turned on the lights.

The so-called movement of someone walking around in the middle of the night sounds really creepy.

As a literati, Kang Juren often chooses to spend the night in the room of the plum vase when he gets tired of reading.

Perhaps at that time, the murderer had already set his sights on him, and drew the small portrait of him observing him, but according to the original position of this vase, the place where the murderer usually hides is actually in this room .

So where is the murderer's own perspective?

——Regarding this issue, the government has never made a specific conclusion.

At that time, I checked the inside and outside of the house, and it seemed that there was no furniture that could hide a large living person.

But when Duan Xiao walked around twice, he found a strange place.

It was a narrow flue facing the table in this room.

The so-called flue is dug to prevent the smoke from passing through the house. Generally, the outside is connected to the bricks and stones built under the outer wall. The middle is hollow, and there is only a gap left on the outside. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like someone is hiding.

But after Duan Xiao walked around twice, he borrowed a meter from Pan's second hand to measure the distance, and leaned over to the outside to take a look inside the gap, but he noticed that there was a person about half a person's height in the gap. drip pot vents.

At the moment, the vent is empty.

But if you substitute the lower angle of view and look out from this narrow gap, it happens to be facing the plum vase in front of the wall.

"This gap is likely to be the place where the murderer hid when he broke into other people's homes for the second time."

With a conclusion in mind, he wiped his hands, and Duan Xiao, who had been looking around the outer wall for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"What, this is the place? How did such a young adult crawl in? He couldn't get out even if he climbed in. Moreover, how could a person hide in it without eating or drinking for a few days?"

Pan Er, who was squatting here with him, who didn't look like a vent that could hide alone, looked shocked.

"Just climb in through the vents on the outer wall. After lying down like this, lie down and curl up your legs, hugging your knees, you can just lie still in this place and stay for a long time."

"..."

"Normally, unless there is water, the servants will not deliberately come to dismantle the flue, so as long as this person wants to stay here, no matter how long, no one will find out."

"In addition, this gap is facing the plum vase in the house, so the murderer used this method to keep staring at Kang Ju's house, and crawled out to walk around at night."

"There were similar cases in Shuntian before. Some people with abnormal mentality would deliberately hide in some toilets and climb in from the other end of the cesspool to peep. Therefore, there have been cases where peeping under the toilets caused the death of people due to methane gas. It is not uncommon for people who usually like to peep, they have all kinds of ways to enter other people's homes, as long as they can achieve their purpose of peeping."

When Duan Xiao was tidying up the meters spread out on the side while talking about such anecdotes, these weird people made Pan Er quite disgusted.

"Ouch, but this is, this is too nasty... These gang of psychopaths..."

It is also here that new progress has just been made. Waiting to switch the perspective to the other side, that is, the home of Chen Mingtang and his wife who lost their youngest son.

This time, Fucharzi, who chose a person to check the scene, also made some new discoveries.

Because so far, the only unsolved mystery is the third small portrait, so Chen Mingtang's home may be the answer to all these.

Wait until Fuchaerji arrived at Chen's house with the other two small yamen servants.

After searching inside and outside, as usual, they did not find any trace of the murderer breaking in to follow Chen's family.

But when Fuchaerji walked outside the courtyard of Chen's family alone, he noticed that the family's house had a different internal structure than usual in Pingyang County.

This is a bright patio house.

The upper part is a square gray space, and the lower part is built tightly one by one. It is said that it was built on mud slabs during the seminary.

The so-called gray space means that the eaves of the house protrude far inward, so that part of the ground is in the shadow of the semi-open air. At this time, the square zenith above becomes an enlarged version of the ventilation and lighting opening.

The location where the patio projection falls is in the courtyard in front of the gate of the Chen family. If there is anything weird about it, there is nothing wrong with it.

It's just this scene. For some reason, Fucha Erji, who returned to the yamen after this, has been thinking about it.

He always felt that the location of the patio house was a bit subtle, or familiar, but after a while, he couldn't immediately find out what it had to do with the case.

Afterwards, when they talked about the case again with Duan Xiao and Pan Erhui, the three of them also roughly wrote down the location of the first gap and the gray patio.

In the next two days, the case was still under close investigation to collect clues.

Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao are investigating the case together from their own perspectives, and the government has invested a lot of manpower just to ensure the safety of the two hostages.

"The riches and honors of the whole life are on the case, the romantic king and grandson are romantic--"

sixteenth.

On the streets of Pingyang County, amidst the crowds, the doctor of tea at the bottom of the restaurant waved a cattail fan and told people the story of this poem, wine and tea.

Across a narrow street not far away, Pan Erzheng, who was out on duty today, was squatting not far from Chen Mingtang's house in a bunt.

He looked like a hooligan today after he had taken off his uniform, with a straw stick in his hand and mouth. On the east and west sides of him, there were four or five government servants in disguise, who were also looking down and pretending to look around. .

Some of them are holding haystacks of candied haws in their hands, and some are dressed as street craftsmen, but all of them look at the torches, and they look like ordinary people, like Lianjiazi.

These are all members of their Pingyang County Yamen.

Doing the math, it's almost the second day of staying in front of the victim's family.

On that day, they checked out the third small portrait in the printing factory and reported it to the higher authorities.

Afterwards, just as the second policeman Pan expected, once he learned that the case had changed again, Lord Liu, the magistrate of Pingyang County, lashed out at him again in public.

Apart from his old mother, Pan Erping was most afraid of his boss, Master Liu.

After doing this, I instantly felt that this case was really a mess.

But now, these two consecutive disappearances have happened.

The hostage has not been found for the time being, and no one can figure out what the weird black spot in the third case is.

As a result, at this moment, a man surnamed Fucha came up with such a solution for him.

"You find a way to squat in front of Chen Mingtang's house these two days. In these two days, that hell king might show up near Chen Mingtang's house."

"Reappear?"

"Yes, those who have stalking will repeatedly go to the scene they have been to. This kind of person likes to hide in the dark and observe others. The child of the Chen family was taken away by him. What he wants to see most in his heart now , is nothing more than the reaction of the victim’s family.”

"So take a closer look and don't miss any passer-by. He may appear again in the next two days."

What this guy said sounds unheard of, but it is also a solution.

Of course, with the perverted mentality of the hell king and his meticulous and weird style, he might not be recognized so easily by the government on the street.

But from the perspective of criminal psychology, most people who have the habit of observing and monitoring others do have the habit of returning to the original place repeatedly to check the results of their crimes.

Because he fanatically enjoys the fun of watching other people's every move from the shadows.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the mental state of this type of prisoner changes from stable to manic in stages.

At the beginning, he may just monitor other people's daily life in a state of not hurting others, in order to satisfy his inner desire for voyeurism.

Just like what happened at the prefect's wife's house—this was the initial smooth period.

But after entering the second stage, simply observing others can no longer satisfy the psychological needs, and will gradually enter the trial stage.

This is why Kang Ju's family was monitored for the second time, and the Kang family also mentioned that they realized that someone was walking around in the house.

After this step by step, to Chen Mingtang's family, the only son was taken away by this person, which is in line with the psychological and criminal trajectory of this stalker.

Because the prisoner named 'Hell King' will commit this case, he has the intention of openly challenging the authority of the government and trying to arouse public outrage.

He did this to attract everyone's attention.

The second is that he needs more people to use this to pay attention to himself.

Because he realized that by doing this, more people will pay attention to him, not only those who will see the small portraits he painted in the mansion newspaper, but also more people, including people from the government, will pay attention to him. They are all stimulating him to do more actions crazily.

If not catch him in time.

With the next step of the hell king, it is really possible for him to directly kill the hostages and attract more people's attention, so this case has become a little disturbing and anxious every second.

But this day, Pan Er and the others who blocked the Chen family got nothing as usual.

Because apart from the three small portrait incidents reported by the mansion, they themselves looked a little frightened. In this way, everyone on the street looks like a murderer, and no one looks like a murderer. Naturally, it is difficult to catch an accurate suspect.

It was also when the yamen arresters on the other side of the street were busy, but there was a different kind of progress on the other side of the government.

Because the yamen sent people to search the printing factory that day, and re-examined the evidence, Duan Xiao also went to the forensic department in Pingyang County before returning.

This is a place set up in the gatehouse in the east of the yamen. There are some basic monitoring tools for filing criminal names and cases, and there are two elderly inspectors doing some daily work in it.

The nature of the post of examiner is slightly different from that of foreman, because one is mainly responsible for the investigation of the criminal environment, and the other is dedicated to autopsy, so each performs its duties, but they also have different responsibilities.

In front of me, these two inspectors with cloth scarves on their faces are dressed in gray jackets and short jackets. They are all middle-aged men with beards. They don't go to the scene, and they get little salary. The detectives brought back some physical evidence that needed to be examined by the Yamen.

There are at most three methods of physical evidence examination.

[-]. Use vinegar and yeast to test the acidity and alkalinity contained in the test object. [-]. Apply sesame oil to check whether there is talcum powder or smell on the test object. [-]. Test the suspended objects in clean water. This infers where the object originally came from.

On the way, I waited outside the door to get the authentication results of the bag of soil and grass seeds collected on the river dam all morning from the inspector.

Part of it is about the different soils stuck to the footprints on the dam.

Because there are extremely deep swamps and river ponds under the dam.

Therefore, the soil mixed in other places can be easily collected in the nearby haystacks and reeds after agglomeration.

The old inspector in Pingyang County told Duan Ou that the soil in this place is rare, and there is copper rust on it, but from this angle, we can search for where the copper rust will be stained in Pingyang County.

This really helped the case.

"Then about that black dot on the paper, can anything be tested?"

"I really don't have a clue at the moment. This is just an ink idea that is usually left on the paper. We don't know what it means. It smells like pine smoke ink that can be seen everywhere. This pine smoke ink is what we usually use the most. Seeing the ink, I really can't grasp the clue."

"As for this piece of paper, it's not very common. It's not the paper itself, but we used to cut paper from this side, but this person's method of cutting paper is a little different. The first drafts of the three small portraits are all different in length. pieces of paper."

"If he leaves clues on the same piece of paper every time, he doesn't have to cut the three pieces of paper into different sizes."

The old inspector with rich experience in Pingyang for many years also gave his own reasons.

Duan Xiao, who was standing among the inspectors, also paid attention to the paper itself with three small portraits painted on it.

Seeing that the three pieces of paper are indeed of different lengths, namely three inches, four inches, and one meter, it really makes people think deeply.

This, won't be—

Duan Xiao didn't make it clear what happened next.

On this day, the Pingyang County Yamen still did not hand over any new progress on the follow-up case.

But about what exactly is the black dot in the third miniature.

Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao will personally reveal the answer to this question.

seventeenth.

Early in the morning, the government sent someone to knock on the door of Chen Mingtang and his wife's house again.

This time, they didn't come to search, but to actively solve the mystery, because perhaps, the where of the double rings that had been missing for four days could already be solved.

Hearing this, the couple didn't understand at first, but when the officials followed the instructions of the two who brought them over, they followed the black spot on the third small portrait and came to the middle one of the Chen family's house. Everyone else was stunned.

"The square patio corresponds to the white square frame in the small portrait."

"As for what the black dot in the middle refers to, you can dig it down and find out for yourself."

"The 'answer' that the hell king wants is under this patio."

When Fucharzi said this, he already knew that the answer had already appeared, but it was a matter of human life. In fact, he didn't want to say it, but the third puzzle set by the murderer had to be solved.

So when the officers and soldiers pried open the stone slabs in the courtyard bit by bit, the scene inside made people feel chills all over.

"Shuanghuan! My double ring!"

When Chen Mingtang and his wife saw the dead body of the child, which was placed under the patio and filled with stone slabs to hold down the water, it had rotted and smelled for many days, and was covered in maggots and flies. They fell to the ground and screamed and cried again. stand up.

It turned out that Shuanghuan, who was said to be taken away in a sedan chair, was not missing.

But already dead.

Moreover, for nearly five days, the murderer placed the body that was said to have been taken away by the sedan chair in the middle of Chen Mingtang's courtyard.

The little black dot in the third small portrait refers to nothing else.

It was referring to the body of the youngest son Shuanghuan who was thrown in the square courtyard of the Chen family.

The murderer set up the so-called riddle, just to let others guess the answer.

What he wanted to tell this family that day was not that I took your son away.

— but your son did not go.

Just like that, I have been left in your own home, forever.

Duan Xiao, who was standing by the side, immediately stepped forward to identify the corpse spots on the child. He saw that the surface of the face was blue, and the maggots in the nasal cavity and mouth had hatched in the water for four or five days. It should be the same. It's gone.

This time, the serial case consisting of small portraits of the mansion, stalking, peeping and other elements became appalling again.

The worst thing was that once they verified their initial guess, since one of the hostages was dead, it meant that the 'Hell King' had already started trying to attract others' attention by killing hostages frantically.

It was also at this time that Pan Er, who had been guarding outside Kang's mansion with other police officers since just now, suddenly rushed inside and called out loudly.

"Hey, this, what is this thing!"

"Fucha! Duan Xiao! Come out quickly! There was a letter at the door just now, and, moreover, it was the black spot last time, and this time there are two black spots! Come down quickly!"

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