"First of all, the victim was not really killed in the park, and secondly, he was there for a day at most. In the office, Ye Shichao took off the identification 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 half-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 better build the nest, 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.