Chapter 46 3. Guidance from the Wang team

Back at the station, Team Wang was discussing the case with Lao Cheng.Seeing Xiao He's pale and weak appearance, they asked me what happened.I secretly told them that the captain was fine, but Lao Cheng almost laughed out loud. "Hush, actually this guy is not a complete idiot, he is the one who recognized the brand on the woman's leg." "Okay, then he is a little more useful than expected. It is equivalent to the difference between Sanmao and Baldy." "How is your side?" I asked Team Wang. "Lao Ding and Xiao Pan analyzed the footprints and the traces of picking the lock. In places like hotels, there are many people coming and going, so that the fingerprints in the room are messy. The footprints are the same, and the analysis requires carefulness and patience. Xiao Pan is a newcomer. Although IQ is not low, but there is still some lack of experience, and I need Lao Ding's guidance."

"Why don't you let Lao Mu accompany her? Isn't it tiring to work with men and women?" "Avoid suspicion. Besides, Lao Mu said that he would be distracted when he was with Xiao Pan." Lao Cheng winked his eyes. "I'm asking you to analyze the case, not for you to chat!" The captain gave each of us a chestnut on the head. "Captain Wang." Someone opened the door and came in. It was Xiao Pan. "The fingerprints of a person were found on the wine bottle on the table. The same fingerprints also appeared on the bed sheets, doorknobs and clothes of the deceased, but there were no fingerprints of the deceased on the wine bottle..."

"Have you found out what kind of wine it is?" The captain interrupted her suddenly. "Ah?" Xiao Pan was taken aback. "Find out what kind of wine it is." The captain said, "If you can find out what kind of wine it is, it will be very helpful for us to solve the case, please. My foreign language is not very good, and it depends on you, a college student, to identify the label on the wine bottle." gone." Xiao Pan seemed a little puzzled, not knowing why the captain was so interested in this wine, but she nodded anyway. She came back a few minutes later and handed a piece of paper to the captain: "I have translated the content on the label. This wine seems to be produced in the Champagne province of France. There is the serial number of the wine selling company at the bottom of the bottle."

"Thanks, Lao Cheng, do you know what to do?" Lao Cheng nodded, took the paper and went out. "Xiao Liu, I still have something to check, so I won't chat with you for now, but I would like to give you a suggestion. For information about religious affairs, it is best to go to the provincial library. It has a history of hundreds of years, and there are countless rare books .” "Thanks, Captain." The captain left in a hurry, not knowing what he was going to investigate. Xiao He came back from the bathroom and asked me, "What did you guys talk about just now?"

"It's nothing, the captain gave us some clues, let's go to the provincial library." "You'd better wait for me." "What's wrong?" "I still want to throw up..." He ran back to the bathroom again. Oh, what a headache. I was waiting in the office. Xiao Pan came out with a cup and greeted me. I asked her, "Is there any antiemetic medicine?" "What's wrong?" "The comrade surnamed He kept vomiting after seeing the corpse." Xiao Pan shook his head: "There is no way to do this kind of thing. You have to strengthen yourself. When I was in school, I felt sick whenever I encountered a corpse being dissected. Later, in order to sharpen my will, I stayed in the herbarium for three days. The walls were lined with corpses soaked in formalin... I haven't vomited since then."

"I will introduce this method to that comrade, but it may be difficult for him to accept it." Just as he was talking, Xiao He came out, wiping his mouth and muttering: "There is nothing to vomit this time, only retching..." "I suggest you drink some hot water to protect your stomach." Xiao Pan kindly reminded. "Thanks, I'm thirsty." Xiao He saw the cup in Xiao Pan's hand, grabbed it, and gulped it down. "The taste is a bit weird, but it's still delicious." He returned the cup to Xiao Pan. Xiao Pan's face was very strange, and he wanted to say something to him, but he held back.

Xiao He went into the house to get the car keys, Xiao Pan pulled me aside and said softly: "There is something, please don't tell him, I'm afraid he will vomit again." "What's up?" "What he drank just now contained the body fluids of the deceased..." Leaving the police compound, we drove to the Provincial Library.After showing our credentials to the staff, we were able to enter the collection department of the museum. There are so many books, it's impossible to get started.The kind staff is willing to be our guide in the library, he is equivalent to a living book index.I showed him the photo taken by Lao Mu, on which was the brand of the Cerberus.

The man thought for a while, and came to the highest row of bookshelves in the collection department, and pulled out an English book from it. It was a copy of Satanism and Doomsday Theory, black cover.I took the book suspiciously.The staff told me: "There are only four copies of this book in the world, one in the Vatican, one in the British Museum, one in a certain archive of the CIA, and this one." "These are the only four books in the world?" "Well, and coincidentally, this is the only one that can be seen by the outside world. The storage places of the other three books are not accessible to ordinary people at all. I bet you will never see it in your life. This is far away Now, you can read the content of the third chapter."

I opened the book and found the third chapter, which reads "...the origin of this sect is unverifiable, but it still develops to this day, and has produced many branches. One of the strongest branches believes that the great god Satan is in the They are only temporarily defeated in the confrontation with God, and will return one day. This branch of believers takes the names of evil gods under Satan as their Christian names. Such as Lord of the Flies, Charmer, Zombie, and Cerberus." There is an illustration attached to the book. The hellhound in the picture is surprisingly similar to the brand mark on the leg of the female corpse!

I went on to read "... believers of this sect hold a huge sacrificial ceremony every year. In this ceremony, living people and livestock are needed..." "It's terrible!" Xiao He exclaimed in shock. The staff gave him a blank look, and seemed to think it was a bit of a fuss for him to shout. This is the end of the part that can be consulted, and the latter part has been torn out.I show the staff the torn part. "It's terrible!" The staff member exclaimed, his cry was louder than Xiao He's. He reached out and took the book, tears were about to flow out.He gently stroked the torn part of the book, like stroking the injured skin of his son: "It's a pity. This book is a treasure."

"Crazy." Xiao He muttered. "Oh, the clues are cut off. We are investigating the most important thing." "Perhaps the murderer tore off the pages of the book and didn't want us to follow the clues." Before he finished speaking, a light flashed in my mind.I walked quickly to the staff member and asked, "Have you recorded all the borrowing of this book?" "Of course it's recorded." "Show me that record." The staff said with apology: "I'm sorry, according to the regulations, you can't show that to outsiders." "Even the police can't?" "Sorry, this needs to be approved by the leader." "The person who tore off the pages must be among the borrowers. If you want to know who destroyed your treasure, you'd better cooperate with my investigation." The staff thought for a while and said, "Okay!" He went out for a while, and after a few minutes, he brought back a record book, and Xiaohe and I went over to read it.The staff began to flip.When he turned to the back part, he exclaimed again: "Why even this..." I leaned over and saw that the last page of the record book had been torn off. "Who did this?!" The administrator panicked. "The records about the borrowing situation have been torn up. The clues have been broken again." Xiao He said dejectedly. I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be discouraged." "Is there a pencil?" I asked the staff member. "Yes. What do you want a pencil for?" "Don't ask so much, go get it, I'll do a trick. By the way, another blank sheet of paper." When the staff left, I said to Xiaohe: "Now I can be sure of two things: first, someone borrowed this book, and this person has an unusual status-it is difficult for outsiders to borrow this book; second, that person and 'Cerberus' has something to do with it; and third, the person who borrowed the book didn't want others to know that they had borrowed the book." "The record has been torn up, I'm afraid it can't be traced." "It was torn, but there are still clues." "Any clues?" The staff found us a pen and paper, and he was eager to know who tore the book. I laid the paper flat on the page below the one that was torn out.Then, scratch over it with a pencil. The staff exclaimed: "The rubbing method! Thanks to you wanting to get it!" There were vague traces on the paper. Xiao He rushed to read: "January 14th, Secretary-General of the City Religious Association, Li Ji; February 7th..." I reminded him: "Just read the last line." "May 8th, Li Hansen, honorary professor of the City Medical College!" Xiao He jokingly asked the staff member: "Maybe this is the one who tore up the pages of the book, do you still want to settle accounts with him?" The staff members were ashamed: "Forget it, this is our curator's savior. He saved the curator from a sudden illness, so the curator told us that as long as Professor Li came here to check information, he would give the green light. When other people come to the Collection Department to read books, they must be monitored by staff to avoid damaging or stealing books, but there is no need for Professor Li to come here..." "No wonder!" I put the paper away, "Next, let's visit this Professor Li." On the way, Xiao He asked me: "Could the professor be a murderer? The professors in my impression are all personable and kind to others." "Have you seen "From Hell" starring Johnny Depp? The murderer who killed several people in a row and took away the internal organs was a professor of the Royal College of Medicine. People with high education do not necessarily mean that they will not commit crimes. That Hannibal, erudite and knowledgeable, is a humble gentleman, but he killed people and cooked them as food, and distributed them to relatives and friends who didn't know." Xiao He seemed to tremble a bit, but he argued: "But it's a literary work, it's a fiction!" "However, those two literary works were adapted from real events, and those two people had prototypes in their lives as their basis. In the cases I have handled, there are also scholars who committed crimes. For example, there is a psychological counselor in a certain university. I opened a private clinic. It looks impeccable in appearance and is very attractive to women, but this guy used hypnotism to lure a man to commit the crime of murder and dismemberment. However, since this man was not the mastermind of the case, he took the initiative to Turned himself in and performed well in prison, the police force intends to ask him to serve as a secret consultant, so that he can also exchange the opportunity to visit his wife and children." Xiao He stopped talking. The car stopped at the entrance of the medical school. We explained our purpose to the school, and someone took us to the medical school to find Professor Li. Professor Li was busy in the operating room. When he heard that someone was looking for him, he came out. He was wearing a white coat, tall and tall, with piercing eyes behind black-rimmed glasses, giving people a meticulous feeling.Since we were wearing gloves, it was not convenient for us to shake hands. Let me introduce myself first: "My surname is Liu, his surname is He, from the Criminal Police Brigade. I have a few questions I would like to ask you." There was a strange look in Professor Li's eyes."I have another operation to do, please wait a moment," he said. Of course we couldn't force it, so he went in again. "What do you think?" I asked Xiaohe. "A very neat scholar." Xiao He said, "It's about the same as the teachers in our university." After waiting for nearly an hour, the professor still hasn't come out.A person who looked like a student opened the door and came out. I stepped forward and asked, "How long will it take for the operation to be completed?" "About two hours." "So—where does the professor live?" "Faculty and staff residential area, from the side entrance to the east. His house has an independent small courtyard, house number 27." I said to Xiao He: "It's still early, how about we go around the professor's house?" We rushed to the professor's residence. Strangely enough, the door of the professor's house was open.I was hesitating whether to go in, but Xiaohe had already strode into the room.I secretly cursed this kid for his bad deeds, and quickly followed. The windows of the room were wide open, and we saw a neat desk with a wooden picture frame on top of it.Inside was a picture of a woman, about 15 years old, with fair skin, earrings, and purple nail polish on her nails. Xiao He praised, "I don't know who this woman is, but she is so beautiful." Let him go crazy on his own, I started to check the situation in the room. As a result, under the banister of the stairs, I found several black spots that looked like dried blood. I called Xiaohe over: "Come and see, are these black spots blood!" "It looks very similar, should we contact the forensic doctor?" "Wait, let's go to other places to check!" We went up the stairs to the second floor. The floor was covered with ancient walnut wood, which made a loud sound when stepped on, showing good texture. A door was ajar, and we pushed it open, startled by what we saw. A huge six-pointed star imprint was painted on the floor, and thousands of ants were swarming over the imprint, so that the entire imprint appeared black.Brigades of ants crawled here along the crack of the door, surged on the hexagram, and munched happily in an orderly manner. When I saw the star pattern again, I had this image in my mind: a man pushing a woman to the floor, with a knife... After a long time, I said, "I don't think this is using human blood..." Xiao He covered his mouth, I thought he was going to vomit again. "Don't be stupid! Call back to the bureau and get someone to come and help!" I yelled. Lao Mu and others came by car, and the surrounding area of ​​the house was monitored, and outsiders were not allowed to enter. After testing, Lao Mu told me: Those black spots reacted to the acid solution used for testing, so there is no doubt that they are human blood.He will take the sample back and test the blood type. "Why are there so many ants on the stairs?" he asked. "You'll know when you go up." I took him to the bedroom. "God!" He was shocked by the scene of ants all over the ground. "Check what material the hexagram is made of. I guess it's probably human blood." Old Mu closed the curtains and took out the X-ray equipment. He drove away some of the ants on the floor and irradiated the whole room with the equipment. The whole room showed different colors under the rays, especially the imprint of the six-pointed star, which had a faint purple color. Old Mu sighed: "It's definitely human blood! God, you can't draw such a big pattern unless you use 1000cc of blood." I was surprised: "1000CC was pumped? Can that person still survive?" He said, "Hopefully. But the man would have to be incredibly strong." "Go ahead and check, hoping to get more clues. Let's wait for the owner of this house to come out and ask him what happened in this house." I greeted Xiaohe, and that guy followed slowly. Now I was going to meet Li Hansen for the second time. I grabbed the handcuffs in my pocket as I walked.