Chapter 19 Chapter Three Putting the Cart before the Horse

In order to investigate the murder that happened in Linan College and whether the murder weapon used by the murderer was related to the case two years ago, Zhenzhen and I went to the city museum to find the nagging "woman" Ni Xueer.From Xueer's mouth, I learned that the ancient sword stolen from the museum was originally made of a huge ancient sword, and there were three in total, but the other two disappeared after Tang Ming. However, according to unofficial history records, this ancient strange sword weighed a hundred catties, and after being cast into three Tang swords, there should be some metal remaining.And Liu Nian said that the murder weapon in this murder case should be a dagger, because I doubt whether Li Chunfeng used the remaining metal to forge other weapons in private when he forged the sword, such as forging a dagger for himself.

I told Cher about this hypothesis and asked her if it was a possibility.She held up the pair of short-sighted glasses with lenses so thick that they could be used as bulletproof glass on the bridge of her nose, and thought about it seriously. After a long time, she suddenly realized: "I don't know, there is no record in the history books." Longevity God!At this moment, I really have the urge to strangle this nerd to death. After leaving the Municipal Museum, I have been thinking about the case two years ago.Two years ago, Xueer told me that Gu Jian was consecrated with the lives of eighty-one criminals on death row, so Gu Jian was full of resentment.At that time, I suspected that the murderer who used the ancient sword to kill people was very likely to be dominated by the wraith in the sword.Even today, I don't deny this idea, and even think that the murder at Linan College is probably caused by the wraith in the ancient sword.However, judging from the wounds of the deceased, the murder weapon was not one of the three ancient swords, but a dagger with a special shape.Could it be that this case has nothing to do with the one two years ago?

Just when I felt lost because my hope of finding Xiaoxiang was shattered, Fleeting Nian called me: "Amu, I have read the autopsy reports of the other four deceased, you can come to the medical examiner's office if you have time. "Anyway, I'm upset that I don't have a clue, so I might as well go over and see what he finds. After arriving at the forensic office, I told Liu Nian about the information I got from Xueer, and he then showed me the autopsy reports of the five deceased and their background information.The backgrounds of the five deceased are very similar, they are all playboys who lack everything but money.And their autopsy reports are roughly the same. Except for the first deceased, Wu Hao, who was special and had multiple wounds on his body, the conditions of the other deceased were the same, with only one wound.

"The case this time is indeed very similar to the case two years ago..." Liu Nian frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and continued: "It seems that the blood in the deceased's body was completely wiped out in an instant when he was injured by the murder weapon. 'Burn' off." "How did it get burned? The body doesn't seem to have been burned." Zhen Zhen asked this question for the second time. Liu Nian showed a far-fetched smile: "Maybe, let Amu explain to you, it will be easier for you to understand." He threw the question at me, so I had to simply tell Zhen Zhen what we found before——

In the Gujian serial murder case two years ago, Xiaoxiang and I were also troubled by this problem at the beginning, because the blood in the deceased's body disappeared completely, but there was not even a drop of blood at the murder scene.After asking Xueer about the origin of the ancient sword, we once suspected that this ancient sword had an incredible blood-sucking ability.However, with Xiaoxiang's insistence, we finally knew what was going on. When the ancient sword was unearthed, in order to study its composition, the archaeological team ground a small amount of metal powder on the surface of the sword body for research purposes.Most of the best swords and swords in the Tang Dynasty were made of Indian woozi steel with hundreds of steelmaking processes.However, the results of the research show that although the ancient sword was cast with a hundred steelmaking processes, its main component is actually copper!However, in addition to copper, there are traces of tin, nickel, magnesium, aluminum, zinc, silicon... and other metals. Among these many ingredients, the archaeological team also discovered an unknown metal.

We think that the reason why the ancient sword can "suck blood" may be related to this unknown metal. Fortunately, although the ancient sword was stolen at the time, the metal powder from the sword was still there, so we took some metal powder to give Yue Tong does an experiment. We wanted to test whether these metal powders had the ability to "suck blood", so we dropped a few drops of chicken blood on it.We were disappointed as the chicken blood didn't react at all to the powder.After this test, I thought the problem should be with the ancient sword, not this unknown strange metal, so I decided to give up the test and focus the investigation on tracking down the whereabouts of the ancient sword.But Xiaoxiang didn't think so. He continued to experiment with these metal powders with Yuetong. He tried chicken blood, duck blood, pig blood, sheep blood, dog blood, and finally even human blood.

I originally told them not to waste time, because although the blood of different animals is not exactly the same, the main components are almost the same, and the test results are the same.But when Xiaoxiang cut his finger and dripped blood on the powder, I realized that my thinking was wrong. When Xiaoxiang dripped his own blood into the glass container containing a very small amount of metal powder, I thought this time it would be the same as the previous tests, and there would be no change.But when the blood dripped into the container and came into contact with the powder, something incredible was discovered.The moment the two touched, the blood seemed to be burning. Although it was not as exaggerated as a flame, it evaporated instantly like falling on a red-hot iron block, and it disappeared completely in the blink of an eye.I looked at the utensils under a microscope, but I couldn't find any blood, only a small amount of cell tissue that had lost moisture on the surface of the metal powder.

Afterwards, Xiaoxiang conducted another experiment, taking about 20 milliliters of blood and pouring it into a glass container filled with metal powder.I couldn't see clearly before because there was too little blood, but this time I could clearly see what was going on. After the blood was poured into the container, it immediately boiled continuously like boiling, and the blood was obviously reduced, and it bottomed out in only three or two seconds.You must know that the powder in the container is so small that I worry that I will blow it all away in a sneeze. Compared with 20ml of blood, it is really pitifully small.And when I wanted to observe the vessel under the microscope again, I found that the original cold glass vessel was actually a little warm, so besides "burning", I really can't think of other adjectives...

"Did you find anything in the microscope?" Zhen Zhen asked as soon as I finished speaking. I helplessly pushed my hands away and replied: "It's still the same, only a small amount of cell tissue that has lost water is found, but it's more than last time." The blood 'burns' so that there are almost no traces, do you think if the whole sword is used, what effect will it have?" Zhen Zhen responded immediately: "Will the whole person's blood be burned?" I nodded: "Well, just like the five deceased in this case now." "That's why you insist that these two cases are related?" She asked again, and I nodded again.

"Although the circumstances of the deceased in the two cases are very similar, after reading the autopsy reports of the previous four deceased, I can answer you with certainty that the murder weapon in the two cases is absolutely different. If the facts are like Xue Er's So, although there are three ancient swords, but if the shapes of the three are similar, then the similarities between the two cases may be just a coincidence, and they are actually not related." Liu Nian's affirmative tone gave me a heavy blow again.He opened the autopsy report of Wu Hao, the first deceased in this case, and explained to me in detail pointing to the photos in the report: "You can see that the deceased has many wounds on his body. Except for the wound on the stomach, the other wounds are obviously After the blood was 'burned' off, it was cut randomly. From these uneven wounds, it can be seen that the murder weapon is definitely a dagger with a jagged tip, not a Tang sword."

Fleeting Nian handed the report to me, and asked me to carefully look at the photos in the report, and asked after a while: "What did you think of?" I frowned and thought for a while, although I had already thought of what Fleeting Nian wanted to say, but I was not in a hurry to answer, and handed the report to Zhenzhen and asked: "Among the five deceased, except for the first deceased, are the other four dead?" It's just one wound, what do you think is going on?" I thought she would have to think for a while, but she took a look and said: "Everyone is dead and cut so many times, the murderer should have a deep hatred for the deceased!" Fleeting Nian smiled and said nothing, and I helplessly explained to her: "If the murderer killed the deceased because he had a deep hatred with the deceased, then since he had already taken revenge, why would he kill the other four deceased? If the other four deceased I also have a grudge against him, why didn't he give them a few more knives?" Facing my two questions, although Zhen Zhen couldn't come up with a reason to refute, she seemed a little dissatisfied, and asked me angrily: "Then do you know why the murderer only cut so many knives on the first victim?" ?” "Because it's his first time!" I looked at her maliciously, and then said, "Aren't you nervous for the first time?" "Wh, what are you nervous about?" She blushed and avoided my gaze. I laughed with Fleeting Nian, and she laughed after she didn't know it for a while, "I'm asking you, if you were a murderer, wouldn't you feel nervous about killing someone for the first time?" Her blush suddenly turned from red to black. I think if it wasn't for Fleeting Years, she would definitely kick me from embarrassment.Although she didn't kick me, I can still feel the gunpowder in her tone: "I might be nervous if I kill others, but I definitely won't kill you!" She said and stared at me fiercely, I was really afraid She would jump up and strangle me. I was frightened by her stare, and immediately continued to explain to distract her attention: "The reason why she slashed so many knives on the first victim was not only because she was nervous about killing the first time, but also because she didn't know what to do. Knowing that the murder weapon in her hand can kill a person at once, she was afraid that one knife would not kill the other person, so she slashed at the dead person. After that, she knew that one knife could kill the other person, so there was no need to waste effort That is to say, it is her first time committing a crime, so it cannot be related to the case two years ago." I felt somewhat helpless when I came to this conclusion. "Well." Fleeting Nian nodded, "Although the murder weapon used by the murderer has the same characteristics as the ancient sword stolen from the museum, this seems to be just a coincidence, and there is no real connection between the two. I think the murderer probably obtained a sword by accident Take a strange dagger and use it as a murder weapon." "Then how did he get this dagger? Did he steal it from another museum, or dug it out of the ground? Could it really have nothing to do with the case two years ago..." Just as I was talking to Fleeting When I was troubled by these problems, Zhenzhen suddenly yelled out, pulling us out of contemplation and bringing us to reality. I asked her which tendon she was suffering from, and why she yelled so loudly. She gave me a blank look and asked back: "Your brains are cramping! Why do you keep circling around the issue of the murder weapon? The first thing we need to do is to find the murderer, and then the murder weapon! Find the murder weapon after we find the murderer." , wouldn’t it be easier? But you put the cart before the horse, just keep looking for information related to the murder weapon.” A word that awakened the dreamer, because Liu Nian and I were eager to find Xiaoxiang's whereabouts, we both got into the horns of this case, and we lingered on the issue of the murder weapon from the beginning, but ignored that finding the murderer is our job focus. When Zhen Zhen said this, Liu Nian and I couldn't help showing awkward smiles, and then began to discuss the clues of this case again.The five deceased were all students of Linan College, and they were all killed on campus, so the murderer was most likely also a student or faculty member of the college.Moreover, the dead were all playboys. The motive of the murderer may be related to the mentality of hatred for the rich, or, like the college student surnamed Ma earlier, he killed because of poverty and discrimination.Among the students of Linan College, the gap between the rich and the poor is so large, the possibility is not low. In any case, it's a good idea to take another trip to Linan College, where we are bound to find some clues.However, I never expected that before I found the clue, I would meet two people there, two women who had a close relationship with Xiaoxiang.