Chapter 33 Chapter Twenty-Seven

The old woman sat under the tree, holding a yellow bamboo cane with both hands, her hair was all white in the wind, and the wrinkles on her face were like dried orange peels.She doesn't have a name, and the household registration book says Zhang Tian's. Many elderly people in China don't have names. The village director said: Mrs. Zhang Tian, ​​tell me about your history, have you eaten people before? The old woman said: What nonsense. The village director said: Think about it, there was a famine in 1960, and you ate people. The old lady said: 60 years... I have forgotten it, I can't remember it, my family... eight generations of poor farmers, dare to do something to me.

The old man's thinking is still stuck in the past era. She babbled to the village director and the special case team to express that her family is well-off. For thirty years from 1949 to 1979, the Chinese took pride in being poor.The old woman stood up slowly with the support of her crutches. She staggered, and when she took a step, her body shook and she might fall down at any time.Everyone looked at the old man's back. It was obvious that she had difficulty walking, so she couldn't be the murderer of the serial disappearances. Back at the Jiba County Public Security Bureau, Professor Liang held a case analysis meeting.

The first case of disappearance was a few years ago, and it was very difficult for the police to investigate, so they could only focus on the recent missing persons as the main direction of investigation.This case has many things in common. The nine missing teenagers are all young men. The time of disappearance is concentrated in the morning or noon, and the place of disappearance is near the dirt road in Zhanghe Village.The police agree with the family members' speculation that the series of disappearances may be committed by the same person or the same gang. Professor Liang said: None of these children showed signs of running away from home or being kidnapped, and they may have already encountered an accident.

Su Mei said: If it is a series of murders, what is the motive? Bao Zhan said: We must rise to the level of a homicide case and not treat it as an ordinary disappearance case. Officer Mao said: Could killing people be cutting off organs to sell? Hualong said: You are stupid, I really don't know how you became the chief of the bureau.It is impossible to sell organs. Organ transplantation requires type matching, prior medical examination, organ removal, preservation, and transportation. Every link is very complicated and professional, and it is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Bao Zhan said: If it is bloodthirsty and revenge on the society, it should not choose the target.

Su Mei said: The missing persons are all young men, I think it is very likely that they have sexual motives, homosexual motives. Professor Liang said: The motive is unknown, I think of the famous missing frog boy case in Korea! Three unsolved unsolved cases in South Korea: "Frog Boy Disappearance Case", "Lee Hyung Ho Abduction and Murder Case", "Hwaseong Serial Murder Case".The three cases caused the entire Korean society to panic. The award-winning movie "Memories of Murder" is based on the Hwaseong serial murder case. The disappearance of the frog boy is very weird and unimaginable, and it has also been adapted into a movie——.

On March 26, 1991, five elementary school students in South Korea went together to catch a lizard (mistakenly reported as a frog by the media) during the holiday, and then mysteriously disappeared.The family searched all over South Korea, and even alarmed the South Korean president at the time. About 320,000 people including the police, including the army, searched together, but the search made no progress.Until September 25, 2002, exactly 11 years and 6 months from the incident, the body was found in Wolong Mountain. The five corpses have been turned into bones, and they are pressed together in the state of stacking arhats, and there is a big stone on the top layer.

The five teenage boys, who showed obvious signs of suicide, had their clothes tied in a unique pattern that experts say has never been done before.The police have not disclosed the specific method of tying them. You can imagine tying them in a circle, or being bundled into a pile by the murderer. The cause of death announced by the South Korean police earlier was "low temperature death". After identification by the forensic team, the skulls of the three deceased showed marks of blunt trauma, and some bullet casings were scattered at the scene.What is strange is that the corpse has no hair, and a large number of teeth are missing. It is well known that tissues such as muscle and fat will decay, but teeth, hair and bones are difficult to be oxidized and can be preserved for many years.

The murderer has never been caught... Professor Liang arranged for the work, and Police Officer Mao was in charge of investigating the last contacts of the nine missing teenagers, listing the list and checking them one by one. The location of the crime was a dirt road. Apart from the villagers of Zhanghe Village, the people haunting it were employees of the nearby cold storage. Zhanghe Village and the cold storage were the focus of the investigation. The murderer was probably hiding in these two places.Bao Zhan, Hua Long, and Su Mei concentrated their efforts on a detailed investigation with the cooperation of the local government.Have direct contact with every employee of the cold storage, including relevant personnel such as transport drivers who have business contacts.For the villagers of Zhanghe Village, the census should be used to visit the villages door to door, and record every person who has a criminal record and has been cracked down by the police.

According to the analysis of the special case team, the murderer lives alone near the dirt road where the case occurred and has the conditions for committing a crime. He is likely to be a person released after serving his sentence. Chinese criminal investigation is characterized by crowd tactics, which, although clumsy, are often invincible.Bai Jingyu sent an inspection team to Jiba County. Police officer Mao did not dare to neglect, and mobilized a large number of police forces to go all out. Su Mei and Bao Zhan installed monitoring equipment, two cameras, one fixed on the outer wall of the cold storage public toilet, and the other placed at the entrance of Zhanghe Village, and arranged for the police on duty to monitor the dirt road where the crime occurred 24 hours a day.

At night, the surveillance images were horrifying. There were no street lights on the dirt road. In the darkness, any disturbances could make people feel terrified, especially the small forest. In fact, as long as you pay attention, even in the city, there are similar eerie roads. When you walk at night, you always feel that there is a dark shadow following you. If you walk fast, he will follow you fast. If you run, he will also run. When you stop, you will turn around and see no one, only the silence around you The night surrounds you. Su Mei and Bao Zhan pretended to be staff members of the Family Planning Commission, and with the cooperation of the local government and the village director, they went door to door in an attempt to find the suspect.On this day, the two worked late, and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening after eating at the village director's house. It happened that the car broke down, and the two decided to walk back to the County Public Security Bureau.

Zhanghe Village is not very far from the county seat. When passing through that dirt road, a creepy and strange thing happened. At that time, the moon was hidden in the clouds. It was a dark night, and the surrounding area was very quiet. The grass on the side of the road gave people a cool and strange feeling.Nine teenagers disappeared on this road, and they may have been killed. Maybe their ghosts are still lingering here... Su Mei couldn't help being a little scared when she thought of this. The two walked side by side, Su Mei looked around and said, "Xiao Bao, do you have a gun?" Bao Zhan said: No, Brother Hualong often carries a gun. Now we are family planning cadres, why do we carry guns. Su Mei said: I am a little cold. Bao Zhan said: No, here is like spring all the year round. Su Mei said: You hate it. Bao Zhan said: Ah... Xiaomei, are you afraid? Su Mei said: No, I want you to hold my hand. Bao Zhan hesitated for a moment, and said: This road is monitored, and people will see it. Su Mei said: "It doesn't matter, it's so dark that others can't see it, so you have to listen to me." Bao Zhan took Su Mei's hand, and when he walked near the grove, he faintly heard a sound coming from the grove. Bao Zhan said: Hush! Su Mei said: You bastard, don't scare me. Bao Zhan said: It seems...someone spoke. The two stood still, and the grove looked eerie. This area was full of eucalyptus trees, the trunks of which were not thick, and the crowns of the trees were shaped like towers. There were some low shrubs called "airplane grass" by the locals in the glade.In the darkness, I vaguely saw a person standing behind a tree and peeking at the dirt road. Two red dots were floating in the air, which seemed to be the eyes of some ghost. Su Mei was a little nervous, she held Bao Zhan's hand tightly, and Bao Zhan shouted: "Who's there?" In the silence, the clouds broke and the moon rose, and suddenly there was a hair-raising scream. Two ghosts ran out of the woods. Fettered, can only jog in small steps.Both Bao Zhan and Su Mei were stupefied by the scene in front of them. The two ghosts became like zombies, jumping over the ditch by the forest.Bao Zhan and Su Mei stood in the middle of the road hand in hand, the two ghosts turned their heads and ran when they saw them. Bao Zhan had sharp eyesight and recognized the two men as the sons of the village director, who he had met at the village director's house. They returned to Zhanghe Village by the same route, and the two sons of the village director told about the horror of encountering ghosts in the woods. The two brothers met with their classmates in the county town and returned home very late. Because there were many cases of disappearances on that road, they walked together.When passing through the grove, my elder brother had diarrhea. He said to his younger brother, "Hey, my stomach is uncomfortable. The spicy hot pot I ate at night is smelly. Did you bring paper?" The younger brother said: I have no paper, I have cigarettes, and I can use the cigarette box to wipe my butt. Just now I seem to see an old woman in the woods. My brother said: "What time is it? I'm still joking. I can't hold it anymore. I'm almost in my crotch." The brothers went to the woods for convenience, and for courage, they lit cigarettes.The two red dots that Bao Zhan and Su Mei saw were the cigarette butts in their hands.The two brothers squatted in the woods, and the elder brother picked up a few leaves on the ground, preparing to use them as toilet paper.At this time, the moon appeared and disappeared in the clouds. The younger brother looked at the shadow of the older brother, and suddenly saw a human head appearing on the older brother's shoulder.The younger brother was terrified, and quietly pointed to the shadow of the extra human head on the ground. The moonlight disappeared and it was dark, but the elder brother saw nothing. At this time, a cool wind swept the dust from the back, and the local temperature was like spring. My brother wondered why there was a cool wind. Looking back, the two brothers couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. Behind them, near a tree, there was a man standing upright, wearing clothes similar to ancient costumes, with the sleeves hanging down.What made the scalp tingling was that the man's feet were floating on the ground, his head was drooping, and his face could not be seen. What followed was an unbelievable scene where the man's body slowly floated towards them.