Chapter 49: The Secret Path
This bloody and terrifying scene in the middle of the night was very visually impactful, I only felt that my legs were weak, and I sat directly on the ground, and Lin Yingxue was also pale at this time, and her voice became a little trembling, and she stepped forward and touched Liu Zhenren's pulse, and only after making sure that Liu Zhenren was completely dead did she say: "Ji... Ji Wen, what the hell is going on? ”
I have to admit that the two terrifying corpses made me lose my ability to think a little, and I tried to get up and calm down, not to see Liu Zhenren, who died tragically, and turned to Lin Yingxue and said: "Call Officer Yang first, ask him to find the village chief to come over, and try to suppress this matter before dawn, and wait for Uncle Bai to come over before he makes plans!" ”
It's hard for me to imagine what it would be like for the villagers to see that Liu Zhenren, who they regarded as the savior of the gods, was also dead, but at that time, the scene must not be beyond our control.
Lin Yingxue understood the seriousness of the matter, and immediately turned around to call Officer Yang, and after a few minutes of psychological buffer, I also got used to the two corpses in front of me a little, and stepped forward to take a closer look to see if I could find any clues.
I don't know why, in Liu Zhenren's room, only two candles are lit in front of the offering table, at this time most of the candles have burned most, behind the offering table is the body of Li Jianmin who was put there by Liu Zhenren, and two meters in front of the offering table is also closer to the window, which is where Liu Zhenren was hanged.
Hanging Liu Zhenren is a common thick hemp rope in the countryside, one end hangs on Liu Zhenren's neck, the rope goes around the beam, and the other end is held in the hands of Zhang Guozhong's corpse.
Liu Zhenren had already changed into a plain clothes at this time, it seems that my guess is right, he is indeed ready to escape, and the plain clothes on his body look very wrinkled and untidy, it is obvious that he must have struggled fiercely before his death.
It seems that Liu Zhenren should not have been dead for a long time, his purple-black face has not faded so far, it looks particularly creepy, his eyes widened as if to tell me that he is not dead, and I sure enough, in his throat, I found a mark on the back of my neck!
Seeing such a mark, I actually have a relaxed feeling in my heart, after all, if there is such a mark, it means that so far, the murderer has always been the same person, not the 'Zhang Guozhong's corpse murder' that I saw in front of me.
Looking at Zhang Guozhong sitting in the rocking chair again, if I hadn't seen a bloody hole in his throat that had dried up, I really thought that he was sitting here as a living person. Zhang Guozhong had a strange smile on his face, although I knew that the smile was definitely deliberately arranged by the murderer, but he was still a little stunned when he saw it, I guess anyone who saw a dead man looking at him with a smile on his face would feel very uncomfortable.
I already know the general situation, as for the cause of death of the deceased and the clues that cannot be identified by the naked eye at the scene, let's wait until dawn and morning to bring the forensic doctor over, since I come to Liu Zhenren's house again, I have to take a good look at what secrets are hidden in this house.
I first went to the bedroom and kitchen to take a general look, and made sure that there was no one hiding in the house, so now everything is clear, in this room, there must be a passage or secret passage that no one else knows, otherwise, it is impossible for the murderer to escape from under our noses.
Thinking of this, I immediately rushed into the kitchen and bedroom, removed all the things that could cover the walls and floors, and searched for them little by little, and while I was looking, Officer Yang and the village chief also rushed over in a panic.
After Officer Yang entered the house, he saw Liu Zhenren who was hanging in the air, and it was obvious that he also felt a trace of fear and asked Lin Yingxue what had happened, while the village chief was already frightened by the scene in front of him, and instantly fell to the ground with tears in his eyes, crying while struggling to crawl outside: "It must be the thousand-year-old female ghost who came to take revenge, it must be so!" We're all going to die, and there's no escape! ”
I was very keen to hear the word 'revenge' from the village chief's mouth, and was about to step forward to ask, but the village chief stood up suddenly, turned around and ran away, the speed was definitely enough to catch up with some athletes, even Lin Yingxue couldn't catch up, and from a distance I could hear the village chief shouting 'everyone run for your life' or something like that, which must have been heard by the whole village.
Originally, we wanted to suppress this matter, but who knew that the village chief suddenly reacted like this, and it seemed that he couldn't hide it, and it was estimated that we would encounter a lot of trouble before it came out in vain.
Officer Yang and Lin Yingxue began to examine the body, and I didn't have time to participate, I continued to look for the secret passage that must exist, and finally, when I inadvertently walked to the offering table, I suddenly found that the blue brick floor under my feet seemed to be hollow!
I knocked lightly again, to make sure that there is absolutely no hole in it, then I moved the above offering table, and found that on the blue brick floor below, there was a handle, and I was about to pull the handle away, but Officer Yang stopped me, reached out and took out the gun and aimed it at the tunnel, and Lin Yingxue stepped forward to pull it away.
The handle is connected to a stone slab of about one square meter, after the slate is opened, it is pitch black inside, and it is impossible to see what the situation is, Officer Yang took out a flashlight and shone it inside, this dark passage is not very deep, just enough to accommodate Officer Yang to stand up straight, and then Officer Yang jumped down and took the lead to walk inside.
Lin Yingxue and I followed, although there were two people accompanying me, but walking in this unknown secret passage, I was still a little worried that something would happen, if the murderer did not leave at all, he hid in the secret passage, then it was too simple for him to be unfavorable to us.
I took a closer look at the surroundings by the light source of the flashlight, and found that above Officer Yang's head, there was a bluestone slab of the same size as the entrance, which must also be the exit of this dark passage.
Officer Yang also found this, stretched out his hand to push the bluestone slab above his head away, and then turned over, Lin Yingxue and I also followed, and after I walked out of the dark passage, I found that the location we were at this time was the small room similar to a warehouse that I found hidden behind Liu Zhenren's house before, and it was all filled with some miscellaneous firewood.
Now everything is obvious, the murderer must have sneaked into Liu Zhenren's house quietly from this small warehouse, killed Liu Zhenren unknowingly, disguised himself as Zhang Guozhong to deceive the corpse and kill people, and finally calmly left from this secret passage! At the same time, it also explains why Liu Zhenren appeared in the village in the middle of the night!
"No wonder he can kill people under our surveillance, it turns out that this Liu Zhenren's family still has such a secret way, if he had said it earlier, maybe he wouldn't have died so miserably."
Lin Yingxue looked at this small warehouse and sighed, and Officer Yang also found a burden in a corner of the warehouse, and when he opened the baggage, he saw that it was full of money.
"This Liu Zhenren really planned to escape, and even put the money here in advance, and when it was dawn, he would catch his daughter-in-law and interrogate him first, they must have a lot of things that they didn't tell us." Officer Yang seems to have given up the struggle, and completely pinned all his hopes on Bai Qi when dawn came.
"Wait, run away?"
I immediately rushed out of the small warehouse and looked forward along the only road directly in front of Liu Zhenren's house, at this time a large number of villagers gathered in this direction, and it can be seen that the advertising effect shouted by the village chief is still very useful, and most of the people have already prepared to come and see the excitement.
And I looked along the road in front of the small warehouse, but no one came on this road, and I was very familiar with this road!
"I see, I see, everything makes sense, but how did he do that? How, exactly? ”
After thinking through everything, I suddenly felt that my brain was very easy to use at this time, but at the same time, this feeling of blood acceleration made me very uncomfortable, and I couldn't help but squat on the ground.
"Ji Wen, what's wrong with you? Did you think of something? "Maybe Officer Yang saw that I was worried at this time, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked. And Lin Yingxue also took out a tissue and handed it to me, asking me to wipe the sweat on my forehead.
I took the tissue and didn't speak, because now I basically understood what it was all about, but I was missing the most crucial step, and if I figured it out, then all the mystery would be solved.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Lin Yingxue was a little incomprehensible, and Officer Yang smiled: "Don't bother him, let him think, he must have thought of the answer, maybe he can really solve the case before Chief Bai arrives, hehe." ”
As he spoke, Officer Yang's stomach suddenly screamed a few times, and Officer Yang looked embarrassed and said, "Alas, it's only five o'clock, and my stomach is hungry, and the amount of food I eat here has also increased." ”
Lin Yingxue on the side said with a smile: "We all stayed up all night without eating, and if we don't eat, we will naturally feel hungry." ”
Lin Yingxue's unintentional words made me feel like I saw a ray of light in the darkness, and I found the clue to the answer! Immediately took out the phone and dialed Bai Longfei's mobile phone, asked Bai Longfei to give Bai Qi the mobile phone, and then asked Bai Qi to help me check a matter, ten minutes later, when Bai Qi called me back and told me the content of the investigation, I immediately felt relieved, everything was exactly the same as my speculation!
And so it was! It turns out that from the beginning, we were wrong! ”