My mom took one look at the picture and told us that she probably knew why the hand had been blown up like this, and, more horribly, she told us that it had been fried alive, not dead.

The three of us who heard the news were stunned by this appalling remark in the car.

Fang Yuan parked the car aside and hurriedly asked my mother what was going on.

After my mother handed this photo back to Fang Yuan with a solemn face, she looked at me thoughtfully, saying that she also said it from a friend who had been a criminal police officer in this city twenty years ago.

She remembered that the case seemed to be called the oil pot case, in a month's time, the police found some corpses with severed hands in the city, some were floating in the river, some were buried in the surrounding mountains, and some, even the face was almost eaten by wild dogs and only bones remained, after the police investigation, those dead did not have any connection with each other, the only thing in common was that the palms of both hands were cut off, when the police in order to find the palms of the deceased, it was really wasted.

In the early morning of the second month of the police investigation, a sanitation worker was cleaning the sewer, and was shocked to find more than a dozen pairs of human hands that were fryed, my mother remembered, the sanitation worker was finally scared out of mental illness, and may still be treated in a psychiatric hospital, and at that time, my mother's friend originally wanted my mother to come to the city to assist him in accepting the sanitation worker's confession.

But at that time, my mother couldn't leave the patient in her hand for a while, so she missed it.

"I remember that the police investigated for more than a month, and finally found a hanged body in a rented house, and wrote a confession letter under the body, saying that those people were killed by him, because he had lung cancer and thought that his time was short, so it was like pulling them to bury them. My mom said slowly.

I subconsciously touched my nose, burial? This is not logical at all, I don't rule out that there is really this kind of psychology that he wants to pull others to die as a cushion when he dies, but why did he fry the hands of these people? If he wants them to be buried with him, he just takes a * to those crowded places to detonate it, so there are more people who accompany him to the funeral, and why kill them one by one?

Also, why did he pile his palms in the sewer while the bodies were littered everywhere?

Fang Yuan gave me an indescribable look, and then with a turn, he was directly sent downstairs to the Archives Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

I nodded, pulled Li Yan and got out of the car directly, and the heavy red plastic bag in his hand was also casually thrown into the trash can on the side.

A case from 20 years ago and a case 20 years later, the two cases have two similarities, the fried palm, and the sewer.

I think Fang Yuan also thought that the similarity between these two cases was so weird, so he asked Li Yan and me to go to the archives of the Public Security Bureau to look for cases from 20 years ago, right?

It's just that without the approval of our superiors, it would be difficult for us to look through the cases from 20 years ago, so I just looked through the duty schedule of their archives when I was in the car, and found that the policewoman on duty tonight happened to be the policewoman who chatted with Li Yan every day about QQ, which is why I took Li Yan to the archives.

The archives are next to the city's public security bureau, fifty steps away, I don't want to waste time to go to the public security bureau to apply for verification of cases twenty years ago, so I directly took Li Yan to the second floor of the archives, and sure enough, at the front desk of the archives, there was a girl with a ponytail who was bored playing with her mobile phone.

I gave Li Yan a look, and the goods immediately gave me a blank look, and immediately reluctantly stepped forward to talk, chatting about topics that I didn't have, I couldn't wait, I stepped forward directly, and said to the policewoman with a smile: "Little sister, hello, I am Fang Yi, Li Yan's colleague." ”

This policewoman's name is Ou Tianxin, because she often comes to our criminal investigation team to get documents, so I have met her a few times, to be honest, I thought this girl was ...... In addition to being a little larger, the others are really good, and they are also generous and easy to talk, but I don't know why Li Yan always ignores her, and I won't reply to people when I see a QQ, sometimes I'm also kind, and I see Li Yan going to the toilet.

chatted with his sweetheart in his name, and created several dating opportunities for them, who knew that every time Li Yan came back, he either threatened to beat me, or said that he would skin me and feed it to the dog, of course, he never achieved it once.

"It's you, we've met, don't be so polite, what's the matter, is there something wrong with coming to me today?" Sweetheart saw me coming along, and immediately bent her crescent-like eyes and said to me with a smile.

"Yes, our three groups have been following up on a case recently, and we found that this case has some similarities with a certain case that happened 20 years ago, but you can also see that it is already early in the morning, and it is too late for us to go to the Public Security Bureau for approval, so I want to say, can you be accommodating, let me see the file, I will come when I go." I smiled and said to the girl.

After hearing my words, Ou Tianxin showed a trace of embarrassment, and said that according to the rules, no one can enter the archives without the approval of the above.

In fact, to put it bluntly, no matter how difficult I ambulated her, she still said this sentence, but she refused more tactfully.

"Hey, sweetheart, don't you have a good memory? Then we won't go in, you go in and help me find it, and tell us the suspicious places after reading it, won't it be embarrassing?"

Li Yan looked at Ou Tianxin's embarrassed appearance, and seemed to know that if we didn't want to come up with a way today, we really wouldn't be able to get in, so he immediately smiled at Ou Tianxin and said.

"Yes, why didn't I think of it, Brother Li Yan is still smart, what year are you going to investigate the case? Ou Tianxin listened, and immediately echoed.

I glanced at Li Yan, and then said, "In 1989, the 716 case. ”

When the latter heard this, she immediately nodded and told us to wait at the door, and then she would come out.

With that, she turned around and walked into the archives.

What's funny is that with her height of 156 and weight of 198 kilograms, she was stunned for more than three minutes before she stuck herself in the archives.

Li Yan and I didn't laugh, but the latter was choked by this burst of laughter.

"You kid, the progress is very fast, you even know that people have a good memory?" After the door of the archive room was closed, I pushed Li Yan and said meaningfully.

The latter gave me a blank look, and said that this Ou sweetheart, he began to chase him since he was in high school, and he also applied for the civil service examination for him, and then came to work in this archive, when they met again, this girl was stunned to tell her the scene from the first time she saw Li Yan to the last time she saw Li Yan, if this is still a bad memory, then Li Yan may have to hit the wall.

"Fat people are all potential stocks, after she loses weight, maybe it will make you refreshed?" Think about it, except for this kind of little girl, who can look down on you as an otaku?" I looked at Li Yan and smiled.

Being teased by me like this, this guy was not happy, so he put his hand on my shoulder, and said with a wicked smile: "What about you? What is the matter with Lin Xi, the god of death who doesn't laugh? I heard that you accompanied her for an all-night autopsy last time? This treatment, in our criminal investigation brigade, you are really the first shot, but Lin Xi is not bad, except for the forensic profession of infiltrating people, the others are also quite good. ”

I gave him a blank look, and then put his arm down, saying that if you want, you can take it, and no one will rob you.

"Gacha", the door of the archive room was slowly opened, only to see the sweetheart squeezed out of the door of the archive room with great difficulty, Li Yan immediately sarcastically said: "I said sweetheart, you should also lose weight, right? Even if you don't lose weight, you should propose to your superiors to let them expand this door, look at you, how hard it is to go through this door?"

I pulled Li Yan's cuffs and motioned for him to accumulate some virtue on his lips, after all, the sweetheart was also helping us.

"It's okay, just kidding, sweetheart isn't angry, right?" Li Yan showed a dimple and said to sweetheart with a smile.

The latter really didn't take it seriously, walked up to us slowly, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Li Yan is right, it's really time for me to lose weight, oh yes, I've read all the information you want." ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately asked Li Yan to swallow the words he was about to say, and immediately asked, "How is it?"

Sweetheart said that as soon as the case came out, the higher-level leaders, including the provincial leaders, attached great importance to it, so every detail of this case was accurate and very clear in the file.

According to the records, there were five victims that year, and the victims were all men, but according to the results of the police investigation, there was no intersection between the five victims, so the focus of the police investigation at that time was random killings.

Hearing this, Li Yan interrupted: "Random killing? There have been several such cases in China, but none of the cases on the grounds of immediate murder can be solved immediately, more of them are the murderer who has absconded for several years, because he can't hold on to the inner torment and struggle, and there is a shadow in his heart and surrenders, but, your mother said that back then, the police caught the murderer, although the murderer died, it can be regarded as a closed state, but if this is the case, this case, as the first case in China to be cracked by random killing, will definitely be used by the police as a model, why haven't we heard it？”