Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Nightmare

Silently... She felt more and more cold.Many years later, Guo Xiaofen still has lingering fears when she mentions the four-story gray building built in the 1950s at the innermost end of Guoren Lane Hutong on Chunshu Street.The gray building looks blue under the night... as if it has been soaked in water for too long, and the peeling off walls are like vitiligo. Whether it is a city, a building, or a person, it takes a lot of time to change. So morbid! Every window was tightly shut, with the occasional feeble light, and uniformly morbid, reminiscent of the leaden tongue of a dying dog.Also, the balcony, those withered vines, the cracked flower pots, the rusty clothes hooks... My God, are there any living people living in this building?When passing through the alley just now, the smell of fried fish wafting from a window was a bit choking, but now she actually misses the smell of fried fish, because after all, it can also prove that there is life in motion... Door No. 4 , 4 floors, room 402.She looked at the dark door of the building, as if looking at a toothless mouth.After hesitating for a long time, he still stepped into the building door.Feeling, there is a clear difference from the outside world... cold?kind of.Walking step by step to the 4th floor, none of the lights in this damn corridor were on, and I was climbing up tentatively relying entirely on the feeling under my feet.She hasn't arrived for a long time, she is a little anxious, and even begins to wonder if this building has 8 or 10 floors or even higher?Well, finally at the top.There are two doors, one on the left and one on the right. She turned on the small flashlight she carried with her, squinted her eyes to take a picture, and finally found the word "401" on the left door, which was almost invisible—then the opposite door should belong to Chen Dan. Home - room 402.Knocking on the door, I immediately smelled a choking earthy smell. Could it be that the slight touch of my finger stirred up the smoke—how long has this door been opened?Knock again.Bang bang bang, bang bang bang... the sound was very hollow, and in this corridor where you can't see your fingers, there is no echo at all. Everything seems to be suddenly choked out by an invisible hand.Why is this old building like a coffin... Knock three more times, and if no one comes to open the door, go downstairs! The fingers that stopped in mid-air kept trembling, and in the dark, she couldn't figure out whether she was standing in the coffin or Outside the coffin.But, anyway, she's knocking on the damned coffin for the last time!

Then, just—knock! Bang bang! Well, there is no one, I have to run away! There is a "squeak"—the hairs all over her body stand on end! My God! The door pattern of 402 There is no movement, so where is the sound coming from?She turned her head back! She was so frightened that she slammed her back against the door of Room 402! There was a stronger smell of dust.In the darkness, two big and round eyeballs protruded, without blinking, as if they had been gouged out and hung in front of the door of 401. "Who are you looking for?" The voice was breathless, like a pair of hand bones slowly protruding from the mud... With a shake of the hand, the flashlight fell to the ground, and the bones rolled down the stairs, and finally there was a "pop" With a sound, I knew that I had been smashed to pieces! It's over! "Who are you looking for?" The eyeballs moved a little closer to her—now, I saw a shriveled mouth, which opened and closed, with a tooth on the top and bottom. s things.She didn't know whether it was the darkness getting lighter or her eyes getting used to it, but she finally saw clearly the old face in front of her eyes—it couldn't be considered a human face at all, it could only be described as a discarded face wrapped in wrinkled skin. several organs.The old man was as gray and blue as the building she lived in, and the age spots on his face were like faded walls. "I'm looking for someone who lives in 402. His surname is Jia, and he has a stepdaughter named Chen Dan. Do you know where he went?" She asked boldly.Her shrunken lips barely moved, and somehow she made a sound: "We don't have prostitutes here." Encountered with genuine black humor, Guo Xiaofen said helplessly: "It's not a prostitute. I'm asking, do you know the men in this house Where has the master gone?" "He hasn't lived here for a long time... This house is for rent, do you rent it?" The big eyeballs moved slightly. "No, I'm just looking for someone surnamed Jia." A smell of rotting mop cloth wafted out from the opened door of 401, making Guo Xiaofen feel like vomiting, and besides, the old lady's facial features appeared and disappeared in the darkness. , There is really an indescribable horror... Why doesn't she turn on the light in the room?Guo Xiaofen turned sideways, ready to go downstairs, but something the old lady muttered made her freeze in place. "No one will rent this haunted shabby house."

"You said this house is haunted?" Guo Xiaofen's voice trembled. "Well, I often heard a woman crying in the middle of the night. If the news spread, no one would rent this house anymore." There was another "squeak", the door of 401 was closed, and the old lady's facial features sank into the darkness .Guo Xiaofen turned around stiffly, facing the door of Room 402, a strange feeling suddenly emerged in her heart, that is, a ghost wandering in this room is stretching out a long, long... The extended arms, like a python, twisted her into the arms of death bit by bit.And she, unexpectedly unable to resist the temptation of this ghost, was bewitched, eager to get involved... Her snow-white palm was already attached to the door panel of 402, and a strange voice kept echoing in her ears—"Push it away!" , push it open...the door is not locked...push it, push it..." With a slight force from the palm of your hand, the door is really unlocked...soundlessly opened...is it temptation?I can't resist can I?Then, let me go in! Guo Xiaofen, who was in a trance, was just about to take the first step, and a gust of cold wind blew out from the dark room! This gust of wind stung Guo Xiaofen, Like waking up from a dream, she screamed, turned around and rushed downstairs quickly.Out of the building gate, there was still boundless darkness: lead-colored darkness, gray darkness, blood-colored darkness, black darkness... She ran wildly, in a panic, bumping into indescribable objects time and time again.When she was about to run out of the alley, she clearly felt a hand on her shoulder suddenly. She instinctively took out a miniature electric baton for self-defense from her pocket, and stabbed it behind her in a daze. Strange screams, and a series of cursing, but she couldn't take care of them all, only run! Run! Run! She woke up.Opening her eyes, through her long eyelashes, she saw the gloomy sky outside the window, the sky was very low, flashing countless noises like a broken TV screen, just like her mind at the moment, noisy and chaotic.Sore all over and don't want to get out of bed.She was really frightened last night. When taking a taxi home, the driver asked several times before she gave the correct address trembling.After entering the room, she covered her head with a towel, and for the first time, she hugged her beloved cat Beibei—a perverted cat who always liked to peek at her bathing and slept in the same bed as herself—in the same bed as her. In his arms, it seemed that he wanted to absorb a little heat of life from this fluffy little animal.

Now she's awake, feeling like a heroine dying after the climax of a horror movie.Beibei was already standing on the window sill, constantly stretching her back into the shape of a bridge.My neck is as stiff as frozen, how many souls did the ghost in that room ingest from me last night?Could it be that I am turning into stone little by little?She slowly turned her neck, and the simple furnishings in the room came into view little by little, the desk, the TV, the chair, the plastic cloth wardrobe with a strange smell, the second-hand refrigerator... This dilapidated house whose walls are almost falling off every day It will cost me 2,000 yuan in rent every month, which is all the hard-earned money I earned from writing manuscripts day and night! That guy has been chasing me since the first year of college, and when he catches me, he is determined to live with him All his life, he went to Shanghai alone to pan for gold.Left me alone in this smoky city, without a shoulder to lean on when I was suffering, tired, and frightened.Thinking about it, she began to cry.Crying and crying, she felt a warmth in her chest, and it turned out that Beibei got into her arms, screaming.She smiled through tears, blushing and tugging at Beibei's beard: "Little cat, can't you learn a little bit?" The cell phone next to the pillow rang, and just after answering it, the editor-in-chief's stern voice came from inside: " Xiao Guo, come to the newspaper office right away." Walking up the silver-gray iron ladder to the third floor, you can see huge rectangular rooms, with gray glass curtain walls and floor-to-ceiling windows facing the corridor and the outside. The walls are all black, and triangular iron lamps hang from the ceiling at different heights, emitting a somewhat eerie dark yellow light. All the decorations are more like a huge art studio than a newspaper office. The decoration plan of "Legal Times" was drawn up by the editor-in-chief Li Hengru himself. This thin, reticent man with a miserable face was wrinkled from overwork due to overwork in his early forties.It is said that he once encountered a very tragic accident, his retina was severely damaged, and he could not see any colors clearly. As a result, the decoration of the entire newspaper office was mainly gray and black.Guo Xiaofen walked into the editor-in-chief's office, and there were five people in it: Li Hengru, editor-in-chief Zhao Hua, directors of the city bureau's news department Li Mi, Lin Fengchong, and reporter Zhang Wei who belonged to the same interview team as herself.Perhaps it was because the sky outside the window was too gloomy, and the walls inside were too dark, everyone's complexion looked ugly like a dead person.

"I don't think the matter is that serious at all...and you guys are a little too involved." Zhang Wei said with his head raised. "Zhang Wei!" Zhao Hua frowned and said, "Talk to the comrades of the Municipal Bureau." "We don't interfere with the freedom of the press." Li Mi said angrily to Zhang Wei, holding up a copy of "Legal Times" published today, "But it's inappropriate for your manuscript to be written like that. I have also worked in legal journalism for many years. When writing a case, I must pay special attention to the scale, minimize the description of the details of the crime, and reduce the disclosure of the details of the investigation. Otherwise, I will write like you Pursuing novelty and excitement will trigger the psychological effect of group imitation, causing other criminals to imitate crimes according to the content described in your article, and make the detection work lose the right direction!" Zhang Wei crossed his legs and said nonchalantly: "The manuscript is written out. In Japan, freedom of the press is absolutely guaranteed..." It's Japan again! It's Japan again! This shallow guy's eyes grow to the top of his head because he has been abroad a few times , in the newspaper office, he often spat out a few nondescript Japanese words, and dyed his hair and beard light yellow, which looked like two canopies of straw——whatever he looked like, he looked like an impotence patient.Guo Xiaofen glared at him in disgust, took the "Legal Times" in Li Mi's hand and opened it, the headline on the second page was "The Truth About Female College Students' Breast-cut Breastfeeding" written by Zhang Wei. The details of encountering breast reduction are described in detail. "How can the manuscript be written like this?!" Guo Xiaofen said in amazement, "Isn't this teaching people how to commit crimes? It's a good thing..." Originally, what she wanted to say was "It's a good thing the matchbox wasn't written in, otherwise, if someone imitated it, they would be able to detect it." Work will fall into a state of purpose confusion", but she did not finish.Firstly, she remembered that the matchbox matter was strictly kept secret by the police, and Zhang Wei didn’t know about it, so she stabbed him instead; secondly, she noticed that Li Hengru’s eyes staring at her were getting colder and colder... "Sit! After Li Mi and others left, Li Hengru left Guo Xiaofen alone in the office, closed the door, and pointed to the sofa.Guo Xiaofen knew that nothing was going to happen, she kept her head down and pretended to be pitiful after she sat down, the office was silent for a long time, she secretly rolled up her eyelids, and found that Li Hengru was staring at her intently, his eyes still hadn't thawed. "I asked you to come because I wanted to make use of your relationship with the city bureau to make a big deal smaller." Li Hengru said coldly, "You can't turn your elbows out, do you understand?"

"However, it's really inappropriate for Zhang Wei to write like that. It will really induce imitation crimes." Guo Xiaofen pouted her lips habitually as she spoke.Guo Xiaofen's appearance is inherently beautiful, and her habit of pouting her lips is a super charming action that has attracted the attention of countless opposite sexes. "Oh!" Li Hengru sighed and shook his head.In the news circle, he is known as a "cold boss". When his subordinates saw his legs trembling, Guo Xiaofen was probably the only one who dared to talk back to him.Li Hengru's sigh was like an amnesty to Guo Xiaofen's ears, and she was most likely to go downhill: "Mr. Li, shall I go out to work first?" Li Hengru waved his hand and invited the little aunt out of the office. .Just as Guo Xiaofen returned to her seat and sat down, Zhang Wei's yellow face stretched out, grinning, raised his big teeth that had been scorched yellow by tobacco: "Sister Guo, how about I treat you to dinner? "dinner?Do you want to show off your victory, or have you always coveted your beauty and took the opportunity to play tricks?Guo Xiaofen squinted at him, why can't this idiot put his palm on his mouth and breathe out, smelling the stench of smoke in his mouth.A text message just came, Guo Xiaofen saw it was a weather report.She rolled her eyes, smiled sweetly and pointed to the mobile phone and said to Zhang Wei: "There is a case. A friend of the branch office reported to me. I have to rush there immediately. Is this good? Let's go at seven o'clock in the evening." Well, are you eating at the Xishu Douhua Village next to the Xishan Amusement Park? Let me be clear first, it’s your treat.” Zhang Wei’s big mouth almost reached his ears, as happy as if he had won the Mark Six lottery.Guo Xiaofen is lively and cute. She is the most active in group activities, but because she has a boyfriend, she rarely dates with the opposite sex alone.Zhang Wei suddenly felt that his charm was invincible in love, and it seemed that this charming little beauty would sooner or later become a branch in the back garden of his home.The only regret is that the date is a bit far away. The newspaper office is located in the east of the city. From here to the Xishan Amusement Park in the west of the city, it is equivalent to crossing the entire city. "No problem, of course it's my treat! The location designated by the little princess, I have to go to the ends of the earth too..."

He is obviously from the Northeast, and his local accent has not changed, but he has to bite the tip of his tongue and speak Cantonese accent. It feels like a layer of curry sauce on a butter popsicle, which is nondescript and disgusting.Guo Xiaofen still smiled brightly: "Then it's decided, if I'm late at 7 o'clock in the evening, Xishu Douhua Village, you can wait for me a little longer, and if I don't answer my phone, it's inconvenient to answer, and if I turn it off, it's out of battery. In a word—see you or leave!" After she finished speaking, she put her bag on her shoulder and walked downstairs, Zhang Wei's triumphant and somewhat ostentatious laughter came from behind her.Go downstairs and take a taxi home.In the car, she felt her head getting heavier and heavier, probably because she didn't sleep well last night and came to the newspaper office in a hurry this morning.After entering the house, she turned off her mobile phone and fell asleep on the bed. The kitten Beibei jumped onto the bed again and crawled into her arms, but she slapped her and snorted down. "Meow..." Beibei cried aggrievedly, not knowing that the market had changed. "Naughty cat!" she cursed softly.A minute later, her thin snoring sounded in the room.Dream, very strange.It's gray, I don't know if it's the sky or the ground, it's foggy and thick.She climbed up the steps step by step, but it felt as if she was walking down. As she got higher and higher, she got deeper and deeper. The gray fog was a bit choking, and she couldn't lift her feet, it was too heavy, but she still had to go , being dragged by an inexplicable driving force, she couldn't stop until she saw the door.The fog has cleared, leaving only black, stable and permanent black.The door was also black, only darker, and a strange voice came from the door, as if calling her.But when she listened carefully, her hair stood on end again, it was clearly crying.She wanted to escape, but couldn't escape. She was surprised to find that she had a pair of back eyes, and saw a face floating behind her, gray and bluish, covered with age spots, with a sunken mouth and two eyeballs like Pale as a dead fish, it was separated from the eye sockets and floated alone, only a few sticky blood threads were involved in the eye sockets. It was these two eyeballs that stared at her like a curse, causing her feet to move again. Can't move half a minute... The door opened.She didn't push it, and the door opened, and it opened by itself.She was pushed into the door by a force, and passed through the rooms one by one. The scenes she saw were similar, all without windows, black and empty.However, the crying became louder and louder, as miserable as snow that had just melted, seeping into the bones, making her tremble, and making her want to cry too.

Just then, she saw the weeping woman.A woman was sitting in a corner of a room. Judging from her mouth shape, her voice should have been purring, but what came out of her mouth was a shrill sound like a cat meowing.The room is also completely dark, the woman is a gray mass, you can't see the clothes, you can't see the face... Guo Xiaofen dreamed that she approached her little by little, but she ignored her at all, and still just cried... "You... What's wrong with you?" Guo Xiaofen asked tremblingly, and unconsciously helped the woman's shoulder.All the situations in the dream are blurred, only the following scene is so clear that it seems to be happening right in front of your eyes—the woman is too fragile, too fragile to withstand Guo Xiaofen's support, only the clear and slightly tearing With a cracking "click", the woman's neck broke, and a large amount of blood spurted out from between the white bones and ligaments, splashing all over Guo Xiaofen's body.The drooping human head and mouth were still moving and crying. Guo Xiaofen was frightened like crazy and ran out of the room, but the door had disappeared, and there were walls as cold as iron on all sides. She pushed the wall desperately, completely It's useless... The crying behind her is getting louder and more miserable.The ceiling was pressed down like a gate, while the blood water rolling under her feet was rising higher and higher... Finally, she was firmly stuck between the ceiling and the floor, face up, and the blood water had already overflowed her the ears.At this moment, she saw a bright sharp knife! The person holding the knife merged with the darkness, soundless, invisible, unable to distinguish between men and women, he or she just gracefully extended the sharp knife to the own chest.She shouted desperately, shouting hoarsely, but it didn't work... The tip of the knife finally touched the skin! The painful feeling was so clear that it didn't seem like a dream at all! Suddenly, she woke up, panting heavily, The dream was so real! "Meow..." She took a closer look and saw that Beibei was standing on her chest, scratching the towel blanket with her paws.It turned out that this guy oppressed his heart, which caused the nightmares again and again.She was so angry that she grabbed it by the neck, pressed it on the bed and beat it.When being beaten, Beibei hummed indifferently; after the beating, it rolled off the bed and disappeared.Outside the window, the sky was as black as a pan.I didn't expect that I had slept for so long. The neon lights on the top of the office building in the distance projected a string of light in, making the room flicker with some bewildering silver.Guo Xiaofen turned on the phone, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.A series of text messages from Zhang Wei popped up on the screen like a mouse in a "Whack-a-mole" game. At first, they asked how long it would take to arrive, then they kept reminding that all the dishes they ordered were cold, and finally asked "Are you playing with me?" Woolen cloth"?On the small screen of the mobile phone, Guo Xiaofen clearly saw a distorted yellow face - couldn't help laughing out loud.

However, the last text message was not from Zhang Wei. "If it's convenient, please go to the Ruins Park of the Old Capital immediately. Breast circumcision occurred." The letter was sent half an hour ago, and the sender was Lin Fengchong.Guo Xiaofen slung the bag containing the 10.4-inch Sony laptop over her shoulder and rushed out of the house. After half a minute, she rushed back, poured Weijia cat food into the small food bowl, and sat cross-legged angrily. Beibei on the bed said: "Dare to be lecherous next time, I will starve you to death!" Half an hour later, through the dim taxi window, Guo Xiaofen saw the ancient capital ruins park in the night, although the endless stream of cars will move The driveway is decorated with tassels, but the long earthen city that constitutes the main body of the park is still dark, vast, and as silent as death, like a giant python lying in the grotesque city ready to swallow everything at any time.Seeing the police lights on the rows of police cars flickering like they had taken ecstasy from afar, surrounded by ant-like onlookers, Guo Xiaofen got out of the car, and when he approached the yellow isolation line, he heard an angry voice: " Have you received the most basic training in the police academy?!" Upon seeing it, it turned out that Liu Simiao was reprimanding the three policemen with his eyebrows raised and almond eyes wide open.Guo Xiaofen unconcernedly picked up the isolation line and walked inside. Liu Simiao saw it and snapped, "Stop! This is a crime scene, how can you come in casually?!" Lin Fengchong hurried over: "Simiao, I called her here, and she helped us a lot this morning, I wanted her to report this case exclusively, and no other media has notified me." Liu Simiao was not polite: "Those three patrolmen have already messed up the scene. It's a mess, and I don't want to let some unintelligible laymen come in to add to the chaos!" "Crack!" The clear slapping sound startled everyone.Taking a closer look, it turned out that it was Guo Xiaofen who patted her arm, and muttered: "This annoying big mosquito, I didn't offend you, why did you bite me?" Except for Liu Simiao, the policemen present Everyone laughed, especially the three patrolmen, who were very happy.After they received the report, because they were eager to check whether the victim could be saved—in the police academy, this is the first thing that the "Criminal Investigation" requires the police officers who arrive at the crime scene to consider first—they didn't take it into account. When they went to the protection site, they got a slap from Liu Simiao, and they couldn't figure out what she was doing, and they didn't dare to defend themselves, so they were so angry that Guo Xiaofen pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, and helped them vent their anger.

Guo Xiaofen's eyes were sharp, and she found that Lei Rong was also there, so she came forward to say hello, with a sweet mouth, her elder sister and elder sister kept barking, Lei Rong knew that she was thinking, so she smiled and said nothing.Liu Simiao looked at Guo Xiaofen coldly, then stepped forward and said to Lei Rong: "You do the autopsy, I'll investigate the scene, and we each do our own work." After speaking, he walked straight into the dense forest.Guo Xiaofen pouted at her back, then lowered her voice and asked Lei Rong. "Isn't Xiangming here?" Lei Rong shook her head.Because there were many strange things before and after Chen Dan's encounter with breast-cutting, the first department of the Criminal Investigation Corps, which took over the case, kept the strings tight, and had already communicated with the various sub-bureaus. Report as soon as possible.The police found the victim at 9:20 p.m., and in less than ten minutes, Du Jianping learned of the case and arranged for Lin Fengchong and Liu Simiao to appear on the scene immediately.Lin Fengchong couldn't find Si Miao for a while, so he called and found out that Xiangming's teacher, John Douglas, the world's top criminal behavior analysis expert, will come to China to give lectures in a few days. Arrange Xiangming, Lei Rong, and Si Miao to prepare materials together in the bureau.Lei Rong asked Xiangming to go to the scene to see it together, but the public security system, like other industries, has an unwritten rule that they can't "fight" each other.Since this case was accepted at one place, no matter how interested Lin Xiangming, the leader of the Behavioral Science Group, could do was to watch the battle from a distance, or play side-by-side games like going to Chinese University.When parting, Lei Rong specifically said to him, "I'll talk to you about the situation at the scene," but Si Miao pretended not to hear it.The scene was located in a clearing surrounded by woods in a mountain depression. Four 2kW police halogen lights illuminated the scene in a pale white, so that the shadows of the trees were very clear, as if they were twisting their waists and pulling their arms, surrounded by In this place where the god of death has just visited, there is a strange dance.The victim was lying on the ground, almost naked, with his clothes scattered nearby. The gray skirt hanging on the branch was blown by the night wind and fluttered like a piece of skin.The fatal wound on the snow-white abdomen was coagulated with red and black blood clots, like a grinning mouth.Judging from the large mottled bloodstains on the ground and the abnormal twisting of the limbs, it was obvious that the deceased had struggled in great pain before dying.

"Her eyes haven't been closed yet." Guo Xiaofen hid behind Lei Rong and said while watching, "And...she doesn't seem pretty." Indeed, the deceased's appearance was not outstanding, and she should be around sixteen or seventeen years old. , her eyes were round and big, as if they were about to burst out of their sockets, her face was full of horror, looking at her expression, she did not expect that the god of death would come to her so suddenly.Lei Rong put on plastic gloves, knelt down silently beside the deceased, and gently removed the deceased's hand that was half covering the wound, and checked the appearance of the wound: "The gap is large, the knife is deep, and the aorta of the abdominal cavity has been severed, and the bleeding is excessive. Leading to death. There are many cut marks on the hands and arms of the deceased, I think it should be defensive wounds... eh? The depth of the wounds varies greatly, like fighting wounds." "Defensive wounds" is the abbreviation of forensic doctors for defensive wounds, common In cases where the victim was killed, the victim used his hands and forearms to resist the murder weapon during fierce resistance. Since the criminal wanted to put the victim to death, under normal circumstances, the wounds should be relatively deep, and most of them were cut wounds. ;Wounds with great differences in depth are often "fighting wounds", which refer to wounds caused by snatching weapons during a fight, most of which are cuts-the length of the wound is often greater than its depth.Guo Xiaofen also knew this knowledge, so she became curious: "How could such a weak girl have a fighting wound?" Lei Rong didn't answer, she stared at the dead man's eyes, observing the cloudiness of the cornea—6 hours after the death Corneal clouding occurs.Now the dead man's cornea is still very clear. Although the light of life has faded, there are still some faint things flickering, like will-o'-the-wisps. Although she clearly knows that this is the result of the halogen lamp, Lei Rong is still accustomed to thinking that this is The innocent soul strangled him tightly.It is said that the first person to look into the eyes of the murdered person—this role is generally performed by criminal investigators, especially forensic doctors in various countries in the world—will often be entangled in the soul of the wronged person. If it cannot be undone for a day, the entangled person will take the place of the deceased to bear the hell-like grievances of Avici.Therefore, at the entrance of the teaching building of the Criminal Science Department of a prestigious university in the United States, the following sentence is engraved on the bronze plaque half-covered by ivy: "You are destined to be a person who is possessed by a wronged soul—until you can bring the murderer to death." Bring to justice!" Lei Rong picked up the deceased's arm and gently bent it. Rigidity had already appeared, but the degree was not serious. Combined with the state of the cornea, the time of death can be preliminarily inferred to be between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., about two hours from now.Below that is... breasts.She consciously allowed herself to be highly concentrated.The right breast was cut off.Bowl-sized wounds, black blood, pink tissue, bluish-white flakes of meat... silky, sticky, like a bitten-off rice dumpling stuffed with red bean paste.The incision was made from the cleavage, and cut out from the side of the body. The margins of the wound were neat and there were few flaps. The murder weapon should be an ordinary dagger.The three criminal police who received the report had already inspected the scene, but they did not find the amputated breasts, so they were almost certainly taken away by the murderer.There are many similarities between this case and what happened to Chen Dan. The only difference is that the criminals spared Chen Dan's life, but killed this younger life.Who is the murderer?Why did he treat his victims so cruelly?What was he going to do with that breast? ……Wait a moment.Lei Rong carefully observed the wounds left after the breasts were cut, and it was not obvious that the wounds were open—if they were injured during her lifetime, the skin, muscles and other tissues would not be indifferent to external stimuli after encountering such a cruel cut. A common stress response is to flinch as hard as you can, so that the wound should be opened up on the basis of the trauma—"That is to say, the breast cutting happened after her death," she said to herself Soliloquy.Guo Xiaofen said: "Of course, if the breasts were cut before death, then the deceased's hands would not be covering the fatal wound on the abdomen, but one should be separated to cover the breasts..." "What's more, she was cut off after death. Rape." Liu Simiao, who had been surveying the scene nearby, came over and took a photo of the deceased's abdomen with an ultraviolet lamp in his hand, and a large area of ​​fluorescence appeared immediately, "Sperm spot. Ejaculation outside the body. The vagina of the dead has no contraction function, so There is no physical pleasure in sexual intercourse. In order to satisfy the visual pleasure and desire to conquer, the murderer often shoots semen on the dead body. In criminal psychology, this is called "as if having sexual intercourse before death" - killing first and then rape is usually accompanied by ejaculation outside the body. Lei Rong gently inserted three fingers into the vagina of the deceased, passed very smoothly, nodded and said: "That's right, it's murder first and then rape. After a woman dies, the vaginal muscles have no strength to tighten. Once a foreign body invades , it will loosen and no longer shrink.” "Even if she was killed first and then raped, what does that have to do with proving that her breasts were cut after death?" Guo Xiaofen asked Liu Simiao unconvinced. "I said you are 'methanol' (fake pure)?" Liu Simiao said impatiently, "How can there be a man who cuts a woman's breasts and then has sex?!" Guo Xiaofen said angrily, deflated : "We are doing the autopsy here, what are you doing walking around?" Liu Simiao sneered, pointing at Lei Rong: "She is doing the autopsy, you are just a spectator." After a pause, he continued: "Those three police officers trampled the scene like a racetrack, but I still got the footprints of the criminals. In addition, the murder weapon has been found, and it was thrown on the hillside. A large jackknife, from Clear fingerprints have been extracted from the handle of the knife." "The murderer dared to leave semen and fingerprints, which proves that he has no previous criminal record, and we are not afraid of comparing fingerprints with the DNA database." Lei Rong mused. "However," Liu Simiao said to himself, "what I am most interested in is not what I have found, but what I haven't found. I searched the site repeatedly, but I didn't find what I wanted most. The criminal police expanded the search area, but still couldn't find it. It's strange, that thing should have been left in the place where we can find it most easily..." "What is it?" Lei Rong's heart tightened. "Matchbox." Liu Simiao looked at the dark woods and sighed, "I didn't realize that the murderer would definitely stay at the scene—the matchbox..."