Three days later, Xin Pet came to Yousheng again, because she was kicked out last time, and her psychology had a shadow, so before she came, she also made a special call to ask Ye Shichao if it was convenient.

The word "convenient" is accented, with obvious anger, but the other party didn't seem to hear it, just said lightly: "Almost." ”

Almost? What do you mean almost?

Hanging up the phone, Xin Pet scratched his heart and liver for a while, and suddenly a spirit woke up.

She looked for Ye Shichao to clear her teacher's grievances, as long as the result was favorable to her, when did she start to care about his attitude towards her?

What about sanity?

She was so frightened that she hid in her office and built herself up for a long time before she drove to the sound of insects.

As soon as she walked in, there was a sound of insects, and the little woman who had greeted her before hurriedly greeted her, and her voice was as loud as ever: "Lawyer Xin, Dr. Ye is in the bionic warehouse, you come with me." ”

This time, Xin Pet deliberately looked at her badge, which read: Senior Engineer Han Meimei.

Following Han Meimei's guidance, Xin Pet bypassed the experimental building and came to the single-story warehouse behind the experimental building, which was large and square. Han Meimei opened the warehouse door, and there was a staff member in a white coat sitting inside, giving each of them a set of protective clothing and asking them to change into it, and then opened the second door. As soon as the door opened, the stench on her face made Xin Pet almost vomit, she hurriedly pinched her nose, and calmed down to stop the surging stomach acid.

Han Meimei turned around and handed her two nasal plugs, and she plugged her nose to be able to stay.

Without the interference of the smell, she returned to her senses, and began to look at the warehouse in front of her, the warehouse looked taller and bigger from the inside than from the outside, and there were many trees inside, with flowers under the trees, grass on the ground, and soft soil, looking at the environment, it was very similar to the crime scene.

Walking further in, she saw Ye Shichao, who was wearing a protective suit, observing and checking the data in the tablet handed by the researcher, while checking the red stump in front of her.

When he got closer, Xin Pet saw that the reason why the stump was red was because it was densely covered with fire ants, and the stump was the source of the smell.

Xin Pet thought of the dead pig that Han Meimei cleaned before, and looked at the surrounding environment that was very similar to the crime scene, and Ye Shichao asked her three days later, which happened to be the time that the forensic doctor deduced that the body stayed at the scene. All kinds of coincidences are combined, and there is only one possibility.

"Dr. Yip. Have you recreated the scene of the crime?" Xin Pet asked Ye Shichao, full of incredible, can this kind of thing really be done?

Ye Shichao turned around and saw that it was Xin Pet, so he handed her the tablet in his hand: "This is the record form of temperature, humidity, light and other records of this new crime scene, I transferred the real-time monitoring data of temperature and humidity in those days from the Municipal Meteorological Bureau to ensure that it can be reproduced as much as possible." ”

"Isn't it sealed here? How can there be light? And wind?" she looked at the detailed record sheet, and only felt amazed, it was too detailed, twenty-four hours a day, every two hours.

Ye Shichao pointed to the top of his head, and then pointed around, "Artificial light source, the heat is as much as possible to restore the temperature at that time." Artificial natural wind, wind direction is also restored as much as possible. ”

Xin Pet was so impressed by this degree of restoration that he couldn't help asking, "Won't even the tree be replanted?"

"The lab was originally mobile, borrowing the existing trees on the land, but it was slightly adjusted to the distribution of trees on site to ensure that it did not affect the air flow. Ye Shichao said.

"It's amazing, admire it. She said to look at the stump that was crawling with fire ants, and the academic charm made her completely forget about her fears. "Are there any results from the experiment?" she asked.

"You'll see the results right away. Ye Shichao said, and said to his researcher, "You can open the stump." ”

Ye Shizhao let Xin pet out, looked at the researchers through a layer of glass door, used a modified vacuum cleaner to suck the fire ants on the stump, and then opened the stump, took out the pigs inside, and used a giant chainsaw to cut the pigs that had been eaten beyond recognition in half, and the contents made Xin pet stunned.

A fire ant nest built in the belly of a pig, although the flesh is blurred, but it is beginning to take shape, with the queen's dwelling, the hatching place for eggs, and the food storage area, these areas are based in the abdominal cavity, and the roads lead to the outside through the direction of the pig's skull.

The researcher took pictures next to him, Ye Shichao squatted down, put on the identification glass, took out the white eggs with tweezers, carefully put them into the white sample box handed over by Han Meimei, and then grabbed the queen ant, and then carefully cleaned up the soil that was carried in by the worker ants to cast the nest......

Xin Pet's mouth has always been in an "O" shape, standing outside the door, watching Ye Shichao and the researchers work, Until it was dark, the glass door opened, and Ye Shichao walked out. After working for so long, he did not see a trace of fatigue on his face, but became more and more energetic.

"Is there a result?" Xin asked hurriedly.

Ye Shichao exhaled, frowned at some thought, and said, "You come to my office." ”

7.

"First of all, the victim wasn't killed there, the grove was at best a place where the body was dumped. Secondly, he stayed there for a day at most. In the office, Ye Shichao took off the firm mirror that he pushed to the top of his head, sat in the office, seemed to finally feel tired, leaned on the back of the chair and lay down for half a minute without moving, then sat up straight, took a sip of water, and continued: "The corpse was transformed into an ant nest by the murderer, and in order for the fire ants to build a nest better, he even cut off the victim's skull, and opened the victim's abdomen, and put the ant queen who had just mated into it. ”

Human ant nests?

This is simply too appalling, Xin Pet didn't find his voice for a long time, "This...... How did you find out?"

"The fire ants did not flee in all directions, but continued to move in swarms, which means that the queen ant is nearby, and I did not find a nest in that wood, so I deduced that the nest and the queen ant may have been taken along with the victim. To test this inference, I needed the scene of the crime, all the photographs of the autopsy, and the fire ants that had been removed. Ye Shichao said as he took out the photo of the folder and placed it on the table, showing the distribution of fire ants on the victim's body and a close-up of the victim's abdomen as it opened. Xin Pet only glanced at it, and then closed his eyes, it was too terrifying.

Ye Shichao continued: "I carefully classified the fire ants separated from the victims and found a complete fire ant social system, which further proved my guess. The number of fire ant colonies I used for my experiments was very similar to the number of fire ants found in the victims, and after the experiments, I found that if it was three days, the fire ants would have nested in much more soil into the abdomen of the deceased. ”

As he spoke, he put the photo of the pig being cut open next to the photo taken by the forensic doctor, and sure enough, the amount of soil in the pig's belly was more.

"The forensic doctor's inference about the time of death of the deceased may be correct, but the deceased was dumped there for absolutely only one day, otherwise the amount of soil is incorrect. In other words, after the victim's death, the body was not thrown immediately, and for the first two days, the murderer was making his ...... Opus. ”

A gust of wind blew in through the unclosed window, the mild wind in autumn was not cold, but Xin Pet shivered and hugged his arm tightly.

Her brain was racing with Ye Shichao's words, "It's only been one day to throw the corpse, so the eyewitness testimony that the teacher had been to the place where the corpse was dumped three days ago is automatically invalid." The teacher can clear his name. Just ......"

She looked at Ye Shichao, and her heart "thumped": "I have practiced criminal psychology for three years, although I have not seen this kind of case, it can also be inferred that the murderer is a person with a strong desire to show, and such perverted crimes are gradual, before making a human anthill, he must have experimented on small animals...... This is the first time he has used people to make a work, so he is not very satisfied, and the place where it is displayed is also very remote, if there is a chance, next time ...... If the next work is more perfect...... He should choose a place that is easier to find. ”

Ye Shichao didn't expect Xin Pet to also have attainments in criminal psychology, raised his eyebrows, and after a moment of surprise, he regained his composure, nodded, and agreed with her: "Although I don't understand criminal psychology, I can feel that the prisoner is obsessed with insects, even to the point where he can't distinguish the boundary between humans and insects, and thinks that insects are the masters of the world." ”

"Yes. He worships insects as gods and close friends, so it is impossible to have friends and should live alone. And there is a dwelling away from the crowd for him to breed fire ants and other insects. The focus of the investigation should be on the scorpion farms, insect factories and so on in the nearby suburbs. Xin Pet said that he was about to call Singh, walked out while calling, walked a few steps and turned back, and thanked Ye Shichao sincerely and seriously: "Thank you, Dr. Ye, without your help, the teacher's suspicion was not washed away so quickly." ”

Ye Shichao waved his hand at her, and for the first time he showed a smile, his smile was extremely shallow and not easy to detect, and he said, "Thank you for bringing me such a special case." I thought I could write a paper on that. Of course, after writing it, I will first show it to the police to make sure that nothing should be leaked is not leaked, after all, ......" he pointed to the appointment letter on the table, "I am now an expert consultant specially appointed by the municipal public security." ”

Xin Pet looked at the appointment letter of the red notice, nodded, and said again: "In short, thank you very much." Then he hurried away.

Ye Shichao looked at her back and shook his head, "What a fiery woman." After complaining, his eyes fell back to the table, picked up the letter of appointment and looked at it twice, and put it in the drawer with interest, and when he was about to close the drawer, his eyes touched the small specimen box, and his movements paused.

He took out the specimen box and put it on the table, there was a beautiful and weird butterfly in it, the size of a palm, half of the wings were beautiful faces, half of the wings were skeletons, known as the ghost beauty butterfly.

After so many years, the butterfly is still as lifelike as when I first saw it, full of strange and strange beauty......

It was the only thing left behind by the case that had become clearer in his nightmares, and it had taken away far more than a familiar and fresh life......

He remembered a long, long time ago, his eyes began to glaze, his throat was blocked and he couldn't breathe, he covered his eyes and inhaled heavily, the memory did not let him go, and his hands began to tremble......

How can we dispel the darkness in our hearts, and how can we recover what we have lost?

Fifteen years later, he still hasn't found the answer.