Chapter 24: The Story Behind the Rose
Meng Anduo slapped the table, "Okay, it's decided, from today onwards, you will be official interns." ”
"Huh! Bridge bean sacks! ”
Tao Ning stood up, "Do you pay your salary?" ”
Qi Zhiyang smiled and narrowed, "Of course ......"
Tao Ning's eyes were shining, as if there were little stars.
Qi Zhiyang's face fell, "No." ”
Tao Ning: "......"
Meng Anduo patted Tao Ning on the shoulder, "We are an official underground organization, the kind of voluntary organization, and there is no salary. ”
Tao Ning has a question mark on her face, doesn't she want to have a good meal?
Qi Zhiyang knocked on the table, "Don't worry, our working hours are very flexible, this is just an amateur, and it will not prevent you from having a normal job." ”
Meng Anduo didn't know which corner to find out the two books, and handed them to Gu Yinnian and Tao Ning, "The new employee introductory knowledge manual, you can learn about it, it is forbidden to spread it." ”
Tao Ning and Gu Yinnian each took over a book, and the blue book cover was made like a martial arts cheat, with a few big characters written on it - "Thirty Lectures on the Basic Fundamentals of Metaphysics".
Tao Ning frowned slightly, why did he suddenly remember the eighteenth lecture of high mathematics?
Qi Zhiyang squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "The knowledge points are very comprehensive, more than enough for daily use, and it is also equipped with the audio of the explanation of the master in the industry, scan the code in the upper right corner to listen, the retail price in the industry is three hundred and eight, and it is an out-of-print book, a value-for-money edition." ”
Tao Ning raised his eyebrows, and there is another after-class exercise, which is a copy of the eighteenth lecture of high mathematics.
After understanding these basic knowledge, Meng Andor turned on the screen in the conference room, "Let's learn about the case we have at hand now." ”
On the screen are fifteen photos of missing girls and photos of the flower shop opposite Haidilao.
"These are the teenage girls who have been missing for months, all of them were abducted from their homes in the middle of the night after their eighteenth birthdays, and there is no sign of forcible entry into the home. The police searched for several weeks without a clue, and the male customer who bought a pot of roses in the flower shop last night found human fingernails in the soil, and called the police in a panic, and the police sealed the flower shop, and dug up fifteen dried corpses in the backyard, which were confirmed to be the fifteen missing girls. Unfortunately, when the police arrived, the owner of the flower shop was gone. ”
Meng Anduo recounted the case, and by the way, released the photos of the dried corpses.
Tao Ning looked at the dried corpse that looked like a mummy, and remembered the flower shop owner he met when he bought flowers that day, and he got goosebumps.
"I'm sorry, I'm scared of you, I'm the owner of this shop, I just processed the flowers in the back, and I didn't hear the wind chimes ring at the door."
Harm, remembering the flower shop owner's words, Tao Ning was even more uncomfortable, and the flower shop owner's glance and smile became more and more profound in her mind.
Qi Zhiyang looked at the photos on the screen and said word by word, "According to the police's speculation, these girls did not die at the same time, they were killed regularly, and the last one was drained of blood last week." The autopsy report determined that they had slit a large artery in their necks and bled all over their bodies. ”
Gu Yinnian unconsciously tugged at the corners of his clothes, except for suspense films, he had never seen such a real murder scene, obviously, the murderer was very neat in his murder, and it was very likely that there were some very human things mixed in, and besides, this murderer didn't know which corner of the city was hidden.
President Gu is just an ordinary person who works hard and needs to inherit hundreds of millions of family assets, and kidnapping and murder are too far away from him.
Tao Ning is not used to it, and she usually watches murder thrillers like criminal minds, but at this moment she calmly touched her chin, a serial murderer, a bit of a powerful Yazi.
"There was no trace of the scene where these girls were abducted, no fingerprints, DNA, eyewitnesses, etc., and the police checked the scene one by one and found nothing suspicious, as if each victim walked out of the room or disappeared out of thin air, and they suspected that it was not just people who were responsible."
Meng Anduo explained the whole thing, and released another photo, which showed a pile of ordinary stones being arranged in strange shapes.
"We have found the Spirit Gathering Array not far from each victim's room, the function is to maintain the Yin Spirit, which is generally used to manipulate the spirit, and the rune paper has been used, which proves that these victims were taken away by the murderer by extraordinary means."
Tao Ning looked at the Gathering Spirit Array in the photo, "The murderer should have premeditated murder, stepping on the spot in advance, so that he can be so familiar with the home address of each victim." ”
Meng Anduo nodded, "That's right. ”
Gu Yinnian didn't know much about these things, at most he had heard of Elizabeth Mary in medieval Europe bathing in the blood of a maiden to keep her youth forever, of course, it was extremely ridiculous, "Is there any special reason for choosing an eighteen-year-old girl to cultivate roses?" What is it like...... Forever young? ”
Qi Zhiyang shook his head, "No, irrigate the roses with blood, trap the girl's soul in the roses, and the roses that grow in this way will never wither, this is not like a sacrifice, but like a ......"
"Gifts!"
Tao Ning reacted quickly and picked up Qi Zhiyang's unfinished words.
Qi Zhiyang glanced at Tao Ning appreciatively, and his reaction ability was not bad.
Gu Yinnian pursed his lips, "Are there any other unannounced victims?" ”
Meng Anduo glanced at Gu Yinnian in surprise, "Yes." ”
"These are all missing people in the last five years, the police have not been able to find these girls, and we suspect that they were killed by the same killer as the victim this time, because they have many similarities." ”
Nearly five years?
Tao Ning frowned, frustrated!
"Is the murderer confirmed?"
"There is no doubt that Shan Qianhui, the owner of the flower shop, has a behind-the-scenes promoter."
Although Meng Anduo did not say it clearly, everyone tacitly knew that there must be something extraordinary about this behind-the-scenes promoter.
Tao Ning interjected, "So, what are we going to do?" ”
Qi Zhiyang said, "Cultivating roses with human blood, as a special gift for some kind of ritual, is an ancient method, and this method often has a certain connection with soul nourishment. The female body belongs to the yin, and it is easier to nourish the soul in the place where the soul gathers. According to the police investigation, there was a car accident on the Southern District Elevated Highway five years ago, and the driver who caused the accident escaped, killing two and injuring one, and the deceased was Shan Qianhui's husband and driver. We guess that Shan Qianhui is most likely feeding her husband's soul. ”
Meng Anduo then spoke, "There will definitely be a lot of souls gathering in the place where souls are raised, and the most suitable place for souls is the school. ”
Tao Ning blinked, "School? ”
Gu Yinnian gave a timely explanation, "Most of the schools were built on the cemetery. ”