Chapter 21 6. New Corpse

"Found another body?" Wang Dui was sitting in the car in a daze. At this time, the police car was heading west along Tianwei Road. Tianwei Road is the southernmost road. From now on, you can go out of the city directly. The buildings on both sides of the road are getting shorter and shorter, and the road surface has changed from asphalt road to It became a cement road, and then it became a dirt road. The car stopped when it entered a village.This place is called "Shijiazhuang", but it has nothing to do with the capital of Hebei Province. The population here is only a few thousand people.

The local village cadre came up to greet him: "You are here. The corpse is in the hut in front of it. Someone has been sent to watch the scene, and no one has touched it. We won't let the villagers get close." "Thank you." Team Wang expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart. This is a rare and rational person. Most people will cause damage to the scene due to chaos, which will slow down the progress of the case. Therefore, protecting the scene should be the top priority. A village cadre introduced: "The children who came here to play found the body. Now those children are terrified. I asked them to wait in the village commune. If you have any questions, you can ask them."

The scene was located at the former site of the village primary school, and there was a smell of burning things from a long distance away. Old Mu who came with us sniffed his nose, he still had some difficulty accepting the scene of "boiling corpses". The door of one of the rooms in the school building was wide open, and a large cauldron was propped in the center of the room. Fragmented corpses were placed in the cauldron, and the dirty water inside had already turned into a paste.The firewood under the pot has scorched marks. "Coincidentally, the murderer probably didn't select the firewood carefully when he held the firewood. It rained a while ago, and some of the firewood was damp. Some of the firewood brought by the murderer was damp. Therefore, the fire was extinguished halfway through, and the corpse in the pot It’s not too difficult to identify.”

"The murderer didn't count on this." The captain checked the situation in the room. The children should have discovered the scene inside the house at the door, and did not dare to enter the house. The most obvious thing in the house is the murderer's footprints. "Is this person a man or a woman?" I asked Team Wang, who was measuring the footprints. The footprints were a bit strange this time, and I dare not draw conclusions easily. "Judging from the stride length and the size of the feet, it should be a man... But judging from the walking posture, it looks a bit like a woman." Team Wang was also a little puzzled.

Lao Cheng and I looked at each other for a moment, and at the same time we asked, "Sissy?" "Oh... that's not scientific enough. We might call it a 'male with feminine behaviour', or a 'gender-neutral person'. But it could also be a tall, strong woman." "I figured it out, this person is about 1.72 meters tall, such a woman is rare." I said. "It's rare for a woman to be so cruel!" Team Wang said. "I still think it's a man." Lao Cheng said. A letter was found next to the body, and the envelope read "To the police of this city".Team Wang opened the envelope, and there was a piece of letter paper inside, which read:

The handwriting is neat, revealing a bookish atmosphere. Lao Cheng said: "This poem is domineering...but it seems very familiar." I said, "Is this "Chrysanthemum" by Huang Chao of the Tang Dynasty?" "The purpose of writing this poem is probably to provoke!" Dui Wang carefully put away the letter. Challenge the city's police!This guy is too arrogant! Lao Cheng said: "I guess, at the beginning, this guy wanted to finish everything quietly, so he chose to complete the process of killing and dismembering corpses in the wilderness, but he didn't expect the eighth victim to escape. What he did He was exposed. But after so many days, we failed to catch him and fueled his arrogance, so he used such an arrogant method to provoke us again!"

Wang Dui was unmoved: "He can provoke him casually. To be provoked by him is to really fall into his trap." Just as we walked out of the room, there was a loud car noise outside the dilapidated school courtyard, and then the police officer who was in charge of protecting the scene outside shouted: "Don't go in!" Someone shouted: "We are journalists and have the right to know the news!" Two men with cameras tried to rush in, but were stopped by the police. "Why did it come so fast!" Team Wang didn't expect it. "Did the villagers leak the secret?" He asked the village cadre.

The village cadre shook his head like a shopkeeper: "Impossible. The people in our village are honest and know that you are going to handle the case. I specifically told them not to spread the matter. There will be no rumors here." "Well, I'm afraid that if you say that, they will spread it as news." Team Wang didn't like the reporters and wanted to avoid them, so he turned around and went back to the house. A reporter shouted: "Isn't this Captain Wang of the criminal police team! Captain Wang, I heard that there is an unnamed female corpse here, and the murderer left a letter of challenge at the scene, is that so?"

Wang Dui was startled, he rushed to the man and asked loudly, "Who told you?" The man replied: "An anonymous member of the public, he called in from a public phone, and we don't know who it is." "It's the murderer!" Wang Dui exclaimed in surprise, "All of this was pre-designed by the murderer!" The news that "the murderer only kills pregnant women and cooks the corpses to challenge the police" spread like wildfire. Major newspapers listed this as headlines one after another, and the city's TV station even reported it extensively.

That afternoon the bureau chief called us in. "The matter has developed to such an extent, how can I deal with it!" The director was very upset, "The news leaked so quickly, did someone inside leak the secret for the newspaper's reward?" Several newspapers in this city have publicly offered reward orders, as long as someone provides high-quality news, they can receive a generous reward, and the newspapers also promise not to reveal the identity of the informant. Wang Dui said: "I checked this. It's not that someone inside us leaked the news, but the murderer. After leaving the scene, the murderer immediately contacted major newspapers and TV stations. We were surrounded by reporters before we left the village. gone."

The director's expression softened: "It's not as good as an internal leak. Now the streets and alleys are discussing this case, and now nine victims have returned to heaven. I heard that the ninth victim is also a pregnant woman?" Wang Dui replied: "Yes, Lao Ding and the others have already released the test results. The deceased has been pregnant for three months." "Why did the murderer only pick pregnant women? Have you found out why?" Team Wang said: "Not yet. The case is complicated and there are few clues. It has been several days since the first scene was discovered, and we have not gotten any valuable clues. The only thing that can be determined is that the murderer is of medium height. , a high level of culture, cruel and cruel." "Ah." The director sighed, and said to himself, "At that time, everyone was very simple, and eating and drinking were the first priority, and then we saved money to build a house and find someone to marry and have children. Apart from solving these problems, Nothing else, listening to the radio and watching a movie at most is good entertainment. There are few large-scale crimes throughout the year, and the most is petty theft. Now that people's living standards have improved and there are more entertainment items, vicious crimes are becoming more and more serious. There are many, perverted killers, serial murders, and even demons who take pleasure in killing people. Sometimes I really don’t understand why this is..." Team Wang said: "Director, the abundance of life is one aspect, but behind the abundance of life is the emptiness of the spiritual world. Behind the rapid development of the city, there is also the phenomenon of inequality between the rich and the poor. When the income gap is too large, the envy and injustice When the accumulation reaches a certain level, it will also lead to the occurrence of cases. There is nothing wrong with being rich, but it has not yet reached the ideal level of common prosperity. If we can really achieve the "world harmony" mentioned by the ancient sages, perhaps there will be fewer cases. We won't be as tired as we are now." The director said: "Let me correct a mistake for you: Cases cannot completely disappear. The philosophers have left behind the saying of the 'seven original sins'. As long as the 'seven original sins' are not eliminated, the phenomenon of crime cannot disappear." Team Wang retorted: "The 'seven deadly sins' are all related to desire. To eliminate the seven deadly sins is to eliminate desire. What is the difference between humans and machines without desire?" The phone on the desk rang, and the director went to answer the phone: "Hehe, Xiao Wang, we will discuss philosophical issues later when we have time, so let's handle the case first." Team Wang nodded and led me out of the office. "How I wish there was no crime in the world." He suddenly sighed. I tugged at his sleeve: "Captain, although we can't completely eliminate crime, we can always fight crime. As long as with our efforts, the cases are solved one by one and the prisoners are brought back one by one, other people will always be able to fight crime." Don’t touch the bottom line of the law because of fear, as long as the crime rate continues to decline, our society will be infinitely close to the ideal society.” He patted me on the shoulder: "This can only be a wish far away from reality. Let's go, the forensic doctors are still waiting for us."