The moment I picked up the phone and heard Li Yan's calm voice, I knew that my rest day might end this month.

Actually, I'm also very curious, is this the peak of crime? I don't even have a day off to give us a chance to breathe? Other people's criminal policemen are beautiful and happy, but I? I haven't turned positive, I'm as tired as a dog.

When Li Yan sent the address to my mobile phone, I really wanted to die, but what can I do, the calls are coming, can I still not go?

I put away my phone, shook it in front of my mother, and said with a wry smile: "Come on, I may not be able to come back recently, I love to stay for a few days, just remember to clean my house." ”

As I spoke, I grabbed my phone and jacket, turned around and walked out the door.

Li Yanfa's address is next to a residential building in the north of the city, and I thought it was a residential building at first, but when I arrived, I found that it was a residential building, and this was a church.

I glanced at my watch, it was 9:13 p.m., the inside and outside of the church were full of people, and the police had set up a blue cordon, but the cordon was useless, and it was of no use except to organize the residents who gathered around to see the excitement to enter.

Outside the church is the Huancheng River, this Huancheng River connects to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so the lake is very wide, and there are often passing steamers honking, which is particularly significant at night, under the light of those ships, I even saw a few teens and twenties of boys, holding mobile phones, shooting inside the window next to the church.

I walked over the cordon, and in the ear of the guard, I told him about the boys I had seen near the church, and the latter nodded and said that it would be dealt with immediately, and then I followed the criminal police who were collecting evidence into the church.

As I stood at the entrance of the church, I saw at first glance a huge cross that had been placed on the inside of the church, and on this cross, in addition to blood, I saw nails as thick as my fingers on the four planks on the top, bottom, left and right.

At this time, Lin Xi was squatting under the cross with his back to me, and between his hands, he was fiddling with a male corpse that was not clothed, and Li Yan was also standing beside Lin Xi at this time, talking to a man in a priest's uniform.

I originally thought that this was another vicious murder case, but when I walked up to Lin Xi, the face of the corpse slowly appeared in front of me, I was stunned, this corpse ...... I actually know it.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly lowered my head and asked Lin Xi what the situation was.

When Li Yan saw me coming, he immediately stopped talking to the pastor, turned to me and said: "An hour ago, the construction team arrived at the site, and as soon as they opened the door, they saw that the deceased had been nailed to the cross, and the cross was still full of blood. ”

I frowned slightly, and immediately asked, "The construction team, is this place to be renovated?"

At this time, the pastor, who seemed to be about forty or fifty years old, also interjected and said: "Yes, not only to renovate, everything here needs to be renovated, because this church is very old, the outer walls have peeled off a little, and the inner walls have begun to slowly seep water, so since last week, our church has not accepted believers." ”

"What was the last week?" I continued.

The latter thought about it and said it should be February 3.

"Today is February 12th, which means that this church has been closed for nine days, and why did the construction team arrive today?" I asked, pursing my lips.

According to the pastor, it has been raining a lot recently, the weather is cold, and because of the rain, the water in the Huancheng River next to it has risen sharply, so for the sake of construction safety, the construction party still decided to build the project without rain.

"What about Fang Yuan?" I looked at Li Yan and asked slowly.

The latter smiled and said that Fang Yuan was still under observation in the hospital, and he had already called Fang Yuan before calling me, and he asked me if I didn't want to become a regular? Fang Yuan said, this case is solved, and I can become a full member.

When I heard this, I felt like 10,000 drafts in my heart, I was just a reserve member, and he really used me as a livestock? He, the captain, was not in charge of the overall situation, and as far as Li Yan and I investigated the case, if we could crack it, it would be a ghost.

I don't have much confidence in the combination of me and Li Yan, I have a few pounds and a few taels I understand, it's okay to let me participate, but when it comes to really letting me preside over the overall situation, I really can't.

"Don't quarrel, two big men together, where do you get so many words?" At this time, Lin Xi suddenly raised his head, and while speaking, he asked me to reach out and pull the neck of the deceased, I glanced at Li Yan, who actually smiled awkwardly at me, and then made a gesture of please.

In desperation, in the end, I squatted down and helped Lin Xi carry the neck of the deceased, but the moment my hand touched the neck of the deceased, the palm of my hand seemed to be inserted by dozens of needles, I subconsciously let go of my hand, and the head of the deceased, just like that, was thrown to the ground by me from mid-air.

With a "bang......", the whole church fell silent as the deceased's head fell, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at me in a daze, including Lin Xi and Li Yan's.

At that moment, I blushed, smiled awkwardly, and then whispered, "That...... It's slippery ......."

After saying this, the dozen pairs of eyes finally turned around.

At first, I thought my tingling was a hallucination, but when I lowered my head again and carefully fiddled with the back of the deceased's neck, I was stunned.

As long as Lin Xi pressed on the throat of the deceased, more than ten or twenty wire marks wrapped in the epidermis would protrude in the subcutaneous surface of the deceased's neck.

The marks were protruding, and sometimes I fiddled with them with my hands, and something resembling a needle would poke out of the surface of the deceased's skin.

I looked at Lin Xi in confusion, and the latter looked at me with a look of disdain, just like the eyes of an expert looking at a layman.

"The time of death of the deceased was between 3:15 and 3:20 this afternoon, the deceased had been subjected to inhuman abuse before his death, and it was suspected that his face was roasted with fire, which caused the entire skin on the left cheek to appear necrotic, and the fingernails were turned up, and the tongue of the deceased was also found by your colleagues behind the cross. ”

I looked up at Lin Xi and asked, "What about the cause of death?"

Lin Xi pursed her lips, and the pair of hands with plastic gloves moved to the throat of the deceased, and then, with both hands, she opened the deceased's mouth at once, at this time, Lin Xi took a flashlight from the side and shone it directly at the throat of the deceased, and at the moment when the light beam hit the throat of the deceased, the cause of his death was no longer a secret after all.

The deceased's mouth is full of bloody viscous, Lin Xi said that this is the coagulation of the oral mucosa after contact with blood, and in in-depth inspection, one after another silver embroidery needles, suddenly like * in the needle group, neatly inserted into the deceased's tonsils.

Seeing this scene, I immediately felt that my throat was not very comfortable.

"The deceased's physical injuries are not a big deal, looking at the blood flow, the murderer should have cut the deceased's major artery not long after, the deceased has already smoked, otherwise, the lower end of this whole cross, should be all blood, you see, the deceased's eyes are purple, the face is swollen, the upper and lower eyelid membranes of the two eyes are close to the curved hole, and the inner and outer corners of the eyes are as small as the tip of a needle, as large as a millet grain, The number of red or reddish-brown spotted hemorrhages varied, this symptom should be suffocation, but the deceased had a hideous face, burst eyes, and strong hands, and believed that he had gone through a very long death journey before he died. Lin Xi said expressionlessly, and the hands reached into the deceased's mouth, pulled out a needle from it, and put it in front of him to look at it carefully.

"Whoever lies must swallow a thousand needles......" I muttered to myself, crouching in front of the dead.

"What did you say?" Lin Xi looked up at me and whispered.

I shook my head and said it was nothing, and then slowly stood up, but still looked at the dead below us from time to time.

"Lao Fang, the deceased does not have any documents on his body that can prove his identity, according to the construction party, when they came here, the deceased had no clothes on him, in this case, I still need to go back to do face scanning, and then check the household registration information one by one......

I had a cold face, shook my head and said: "His name is Xiao Feng, a native of Dongshi, twenty-three years old, his parents died in a traffic accident when he was eighteen years old, he has no other relatives now, I don't know what the purpose of his coming to this city is, but just a few days ago, he sent me a message, I happened to be investigating Zuo Lingfeng's case at that time, so I didn't pay attention to him, but now I want to come...... He might really have something important to come to me......"

In addition to this incident, there is an even more terrifying speculation, in my heart, the phone call, the person on the phone called my name, but on the phone, his voice was not so clear, as if someone was choking the neck and screaming, which reminded me of Xiao Feng's way of death, a liar, to swallow a thousand needles......

That...... That is, that phone call a few hours ago......

Thinking of this, I hurriedly took out my mobile phone, then found Xiao Feng and the number that I had called a few hours ago, and handed it directly to Li Yan, asking him to help me check these two mobile phone numbers.

The latter nodded and made an OK gesture to me, and then I walked with Li Yan to the door of the church and met the first discoverer of the case, that is, the contractor who entered the church with the construction team at that time, Gu Yanghong.

Gu Yanghong is a native of this city, it seems that he is about the same age as me, but he has dark skin, and it seems that he is a person who works in the construction site all year round.

According to Gu Yanghong, he was entering the church with five workers at that time, and after unlocking the lock, he saw the naked bloody man on the cross at a glance.

He said that when he saw the deceased, the remaining five workers, some of them were frightened and sat on the ground, and some were frightened and turned around and ran, he was bolder, probably because he drank wine when he came, and he walked directly under the dead man, but when he raised his head, he saw that the dead man had been staring at him, and there was no tongue in the bloody mouth, and he was so frightened, Gu Yanghong turned around and ran out.

I looked at Gu Yanghong, looked up and down, and then said with a smile: "Manager Gu, I may not understand the rules of your bank, do you all start work at night and sleep in the morning?" It's 9:55 now, an hour and a half ago, that is, at 8:25, you came to the site with the construction team and found the body, it's so late, don't tell me, you still come to the construction, then you are really diligent enough." ”

Gu Yanghong smiled awkwardly and said to me: "No, there are still ten days before the New Year, don't we also want to complete the task before the New Year and have a good New Year." ”

I smiled, nodded and said, "What you said is really reasonable, so let's do it, Su Mian, you take them back to the team to make a record." ”

After I turned back to Su Mian and finished speaking, Gu Yanghong pulled me aside, pretended to be friendly and handed me a cigarette, and said with a smile: "I said Uncle policeman, this has nothing to do with us, do you think, if people are really killed by us, where can we still call the police? I have already told you what I saw as it is, you see, our project has not been moved yet, seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, can we be accommodating......"

I glanced at Gu Yanghong, took his cigarette back into his pocket, and said softly: " First of all, I'm the same age as you, call me uncle, don't bother me, secondly, I didn't say that you killed someone, go back to the team to record a confession, this is the process, and also, there is a murder in this church now, until the day the case is closed, no one can enter the church, let alone start construction, oh yes, we may let you come back at any time to assist in the investigation while the case is on, please inform those workers under your command that the machine will be turned on 24 hours a day, and do not leave the city during this period. ”