Chapter 9 Chapter 8: The Mansion Cannibalizes

I have the motive and the time for the murder, and I am almost able to send Xiao Jianfeng to the cell.But at this moment, Ah Yang called me, saying that another murder occurred in the Daily News Building, and the murderer was suspected to be a cement banshee. Zhen Zhen and I rushed to the thirteenth floor of the Daily Building, and Ah Yang told me the general situation: "The deceased Huang Jing, 30 years old, worked as a proofreader in the newspaper office. When the incident happened, he and the editor-in-chief were working overtime, and the editor-in-chief Lin Shangwen witnessed his murder. process."

Huang Jing's body was lying next to his desk. There were three chairs next to the body, two of which stood side by side, and the other was lying on the ground. A lot of cement slurry was scattered on the chair, the deceased, and the surrounding ground.There was an air conditioner vent directly above the chair, and the grille had been removed and dropped beside the chair.The top of the desk is a little messy, one of the drawers is not fully closed, and the key is still inserted in the keyhole.The computer on the desktop is still powered on, but has gone into a screen saver state. The neck of the corpse was covered with a red electric wire about the thickness of a chopstick and stained with cement. It was deeply sunken into the skin, and the skin in contact with the electric wire was dark purple.The deceased's eyes were protruding, his tongue was sticking out, his face was blue and purple, and he looked like he was dying, which was very scary.There is no need for an autopsy in fleeting years. The signs at the scene alone can tell that the deceased was strangled to death by electric wires, but there are no obvious signs of struggle at the scene.It is impossible for a strangled person not to struggle unless he is hung up, but there are no hooks on the ceiling that can hang people up.If you want to hang someone to death, I'm afraid you can only use the vents, and with the cement everywhere, the biggest suspect is of course the cement banshee.

Editor-in-Chief Lin was the only witness, so I asked him about the details at that time.His hand holding the cigarette trembled violently, and he told me about the incident with lingering fear—— Because of An An's matter, I didn't come back to work almost all day today, and Xiao Ning had an accident, and the page he was in charge of was vacant. work overtime. Around twenty o'clock, I finished editing a spare manuscript, so I walked out of the office and prepared to ask Xiao Huang to do the final proofreading.As soon as I came out, I saw him stack up three chairs and was about to climb up, so I asked him what he was doing?He said that there was always a strange sound coming from the air-conditioning duct, and he wanted to climb up to have a look.

There have been a lot of strange things recently, and An An has gotten into trouble with officials. I also want to find out what's going on, so I didn't stop him, just told him to be careful. After he climbed onto the chair, he carefully removed the grille of the air outlet and placed it by his feet, and then he wanted to poke his head into the air-conditioning duct.However, at this moment, a pair of hands covered in cement slurry, holding a wire tied into a coil, suddenly protruded from the air outlet and wrapped him around his neck. I was stunned by this sudden change, not to mention him, and quickly tried to get out of the way.But his neck was already tied up by wires. Not only did he not escape, but he also kicked the chair down and was dangled by his neck.

It took me a while to realize that he was going to be hanged, and I rushed over to try to hug his feet and lift him up.But his feet kept kicking, and I was kicked by him several times before I could hug his feet.It took all my strength to lift him up a little bit, but the hands coming out of the air vent immediately pulled the wire up again, so I couldn't save him at all, so I ran downstairs to ask the security guard for help.However, when I found him, he was already lying on the ground... Editor Lin's body was covered with grout, and there were several shoe prints on his chest. These details were consistent with his description.However, looking at the slightly messy desk, I couldn't help feeling puzzled.The deceased once told me that he paid great attention to cleanliness, how could he make his desk like this?

At this time, the fleeting time came, and after I relayed to him the information I learned from Editor-in-Chief Lin, he began to conduct a preliminary examination of the corpse.After a while, he walked up to Editor-in-Chief Lin and asked, "When was the deceased killed?" "About eight o'clock!" Editor Lin replied. Then Fleeting Nian asked the two security guards on duty when Editor-in-Chief Lin arrived at the security room.Huang Yu yawned and replied: "It's probably after eight o'clock!" Fleeting Year was a little unhappy, and asked again: "I want to know the exact time."

"It should be between 20:16 and 20:18." He Xi pressed the phone while plugging it in, then handed the phone to Liu Nian, and said, "I called the police at 20:22, from the security room It took about five minutes to come up, and I called the police as soon as I saw something happened, so Mr. Lin should have arrived at the security room at this time." "Then editor-in-chief Lin left the murder scene at about 20:10..." After breaking his fingers for a while, Liu Nian smiled and said to me: "I just couldn't figure out why the deceased's pants were obviously pulled down. The signs are finally clear now."

"Pull down?" I glanced at Editor-in-Chief Lin, and found that his face turned pale all of a sudden.I immediately checked the deceased's trousers and found that the top of the trousers was tightly stuck to the pelvis, and the body of the trousers also showed signs of being pulled down.Editor-in-Chief Lin said that when the deceased was hanged, he hugged the deceased's feet and lifted them up. That would certainly not have caused such marks.It is not uncommon for a person to use the wrong method to save someone in a hurry, but the strange thing is that he lied afterwards. "I measured the liver temperature of the deceased just now. According to the liver temperature, the time of death of the deceased was determined to be between 19:00 and 19:30, but Mr. Lin arrived at the security room more than half an hour later. When you are old, you should pay more attention to exercise. That's all right, Mr. Lin!" Liu Nian smiled at the pale-faced Editor-in-Chief Lin, then packed up his tools and prepared to transport the corpse away.

There are 46 minutes between 19:30 and 20:16, and it takes less than 5 minutes to take the elevator to the first floor. What is Editor-in-Chief Lin doing in the remaining 40 minutes?The answer probably lies on the desk.I hurried over to my desk and looked at the keyholes in each drawer, and sure enough, there were quite a few scratches around all the keyholes, apparently freshly scratched.With the cautious character of the deceased, he certainly did not leave these scratches, and he would not even leave the key in the keyhole.Then there will only be two kinds of people who make scratches, one is a drunk person, and the other is a panicked person.

Now the situation is obvious. Editor-in-chief Lin lied. He still did not leave after the death of the deceased, and he went to the security room to ask for help after searching the desk of the deceased.But what is he looking for?I don't know about this, but I'm not in a hurry to know. What I want to know most now is the situation in the air-conditioning duct. I quickly folded up the chair, climbed up and probed into the air vent.Strange, there is no indentation as I imagined, but a small amount of cement slurry.There are no hooks on the ceiling, and the only way to hang people up is to use the air outlet, and place an iron rod horizontally in the air outlet, so that people can be hung up.But in this way, because the weight of the whole person is concentrated on the iron rod, it will definitely leave indentations in the pipe.If I could find the indentation, I could send Editor-in-chief Lin directly to the detention center to await sentencing, but now I have not found the indentation.Is it true that the murderer is the concrete banshee as he said?

Before, Zhen Zhen had heard that editor-in-chief Lin was submissive to the deceased, and now the desk of the deceased obviously showed signs of being searched.Based on this speculation, the deceased may have mastered some ulterior secrets of Editor-in-Chief Lin.In this way, editor-in-chief Lin was suspected of murder, and his confession became unreliable. It was almost a waste of time to ask him directly, but if he could know his secret, it would be a different matter.However, 40 minutes is enough time for him to turn the desk inside out, and of course there will be no evidence left. Looking at the computer on the desk that was in the screen saver state, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and quickly started to operate.After canceling the screensaver status, the recycle bin I checked first, unfortunately, has been emptied. The deceased was a neat person, so it is not surprising that the recycle bin is often emptied. This does not explain anything...I suddenly thought of another thing, He hurriedly asked the security guard if the computer was in screensaver state when they arrived? Huang Yu said he didn't pay attention, and he didn't know whether he was here to be a security guard or to hang out. Basically, he didn't know what to ask him.Fortunately, He Xi said after thinking for a while that when he arrived, the computer did not enter the screen saver mode, because he was born in a rural area and had little chance to touch the computer before, so he paid special attention.He also said that the computer only entered the screen saver state after he called the police, and the sudden change of the screen image made him feel very novel. I checked the screensaver settings immediately upon hearing this, and found that the screensaver had been set to start for 20 minutes, so someone else had operated the computer after the deceased died. Needless to say, this person must be Editor-in-Chief Lin. Looks like it's time to put Viagra to work again.Since Editor-in-Chief Lin would operate the computer after the deceased died, there should be his secrets in the computer, maybe a picture or a document.Although I am not sure whether Viagra can get me the operation records of the computer, but it should not be difficult for him to restore the files that were just deleted. After receiving my call, Viagra waited for more than half an hour to arrive, and kept mumbling that such a small matter would make him, a great hacker, work overtime. I asked Zhenzhen to give it to me vigorously He "massages" a few times before he obediently works.He plugged a flash drive into the computer and it didn't take him long to restore a mountain of deleted files, several of which were deleted after the deceased's death.I asked him to open these documents, and found that the contents were all the accounts of the newspaper. After careful inspection, I found that many funds were missing.I think I know Editor-in-Chief Lin's secret - running out of public funds! I pointed to the screen and asked Editor-in-Chief Lin seriously: "You were threatened by the deceased because you ran out of funds for the newspaper, so you killed him and then blamed the so-called cement banshee. Am I right? Editor-in-Chief Lin !" "No, no, I didn't kill him, he was really killed by the cement banshee." He hastily argued. "Then can you explain why the deceased's pants were pulled down instead of being pushed up as you said?" I said in a stern tone. "I, I, I..." He was at a loss for words for a moment, unable to think of a reason to refute. Although the existing evidence cannot directly prove that he is the murderer, it can at least prove that he is inseparable from the death of the deceased.And he also has one charge of deprivation of public funds, so I asked Ah Yang to detain him. The Lin family is still unlucky, three people were imprisoned in one day, and I don't know if there is something wrong with the ancestral mountain grave.Editor-in-Chief Lin's crime of shortfalling public funds has almost been confirmed. As for his responsibility for Huang Jing's death, the investigation needs to continue.But judging from the current situation, even if he is not the mastermind, he is also an accomplice.The idea that the mastermind is a mysterious cement banshee cannot be confused, so there is a high chance that he will be charged with murder. Both An An and Xiao Jianfeng are suspected of murdering Ning Yuyi, judging from the existing evidence, the latter is more suspected.It's a pity that I still haven't figured out how he escaped from the darkroom after the incident, otherwise An'an would be released. Even though there are still many suspicious aspects in this case, the dust has basically been settled. As long as we continue to extract confessions from the suspects, the truth will come out.However, the facts don't seem to be as simple as I imagined, and what happened afterwards was far beyond my expectation. Early the next morning, I went to the boss's office to report the results of the investigation to him: "The existence of the so-called cement banshee has not yet been confirmed. Although there are still many doubts, there is evidence that the two murders were man-made. "Then I described the existing evidence to the boss in detail and analyzed them one by one. "The people surnamed Xiao and Lin are indeed suspicious, but how they got into the air-conditioning duct is a question. If it is the same person, it can be justified, but it is not convincing that two people can get into the duct." The boss flipped through the report and said. "I can't figure this out, or the case would have been closed long ago." I said helplessly. "Could there be a third party?" The boss suddenly frowned, "Maybe the one surnamed Lin wasn't lying, because it's not easy to hang the dead if he's the only one. The wires around the dead man's neck, so how can he pull the dead man's pants?" Boss this question is indeed worth pondering.However, this problem has caused the case to fall into an unexplainable endless loop-assuming that the cement banshee exists, some problems will be solved, but there is still no substantial evidence to prove her real existence.Assuming she does not exist, many key issues cannot be explained. The case was deadlocked around the existence of the cement banshee. The evidence at the scene did not provide direct proof, and the suspect's confession was difficult to distinguish. This is where I worry. Just when the case was at an impasse, troubles broke out again in the Daily Building.A Yang called me: "This time it's really evil, the Daily News Building is eating people!" A Yang's call made me feel baffled, what is "building cannibalism"?He couldn't make it clear on the phone, so he just told me to go over and investigate in person, but he told me that the person who was killed this time was a member of the Lin family - Ji Xuerong! This Lin family is really full of disasters. First, Yiyi encountered strange things repeatedly, and then the three of them were detained within a day. Now even the remaining Mrs. Lin was "eaten", and it was eaten by a haunted building.Could it be that this family has some deep hatred with the Daily News Building?