Sending off the two imps, Qiao Sheng put on gloves and shoe covers and walked into the scene of the crime.

It was an old house in very poor condition, cold, damp, messy and dirty. At first glance, there was hardly any decent furniture in the room, except for a folding table against the wall, and a few eye-catching plastic stools next to it. There were a lot of miscellaneous items piled up on the folding table, including half-drunk bottles of mineral water, leftover brioche bread, buckets of instant noodles that were too late to clean up, and low-quality toilet paper rolls......

Among these messy items, the most striking are two stainless steel rice bowls covered with scratches and pits, which look quite old and vicissitudes. There was a lot of change in the rice bowl, coins and banknotes, which seemed to be props for begging.

Perhaps because of the disrepair, most of the wall skin in the room has fallen off, and there are many blue-black mold spots growing in the corners of the wall, which makes people feel chills when they look at it. Of course, what makes people feel more chilling than these things is the two corpses placed side by side on the floor of the living room. If the informant had not moved the bodies, the two victims had been deliberately placed in this place by the killer.

Two victims, a man and a woman. According to the preliminary judgment, the age of both should be around forty years old. Both bodies had no visible external injuries on their bodies, but both had a deep strangulation mark on their necks, most likely due to mechanical asphyxiation caused by strangulation of their necks by something like string or wire.

The problem is in the victim's face. The female victim had her eyes gouged out by the killer, and there was a layer of dried blood around her eye sockets, which looked like her eyes were bleeding. The male victim was brutally cut out by the murderer, at this moment, the corpse's mouth was half-open, and the inside of the mouth was blurred with flesh and blood, and the appearance was indeed terrifying, no wonder the little girl who found the corpse was scared like that.

Qiao Sheng took a cursory look at the situation in the living room, and then walked towards one of the bedrooms inside. This bedroom is just as shabby and dilapidated, but with a bed and wardrobe, it looks like a personal place.

The bed was covered with dirty floral sheets, three pillows lay side by side at the head of the bed, and the quilt was piled up messily at the end of the bed. Two five or six-year-old children, the boy curled up in the corner, his body trembling a little, and he didn't seem to have recovered from the shock. The girl was a little calmer than the boy, and Dr. Chen was sitting on the edge of the bed braiding her hair, chatting with her from time to time to relieve her psychological stress. Among the policemen who came to the scene today, only Forensic Doctor Chen is married and a mother, and no one has more experience in taking care of children than her.

Seeing this scene, Qiao Sheng's heart was very uncomfortable. Especially when he guessed the truth of the matter, he felt that God was too unfair to these two children.

Qi Ruonan sighed leisurely and explained to Qiao Sheng on the side: "I checked all the doors and windows in this house and determined that the murderer came in through the window of the other bedroom. It's the ground floor, there is no protection outside the windows, and it's spring, the weather is warm, and the windows are open. At the time of the crime, the male victim was supposed to be sleeping in the next bedroom when the killer came in through the window, subdued him in bed while he was asleep, and strangled him with something like a rope.

Then, the killer came to the current room, where the female victim was sleeping with her two children. The women slept on the side by the door, the girls in the middle, and the boys on the window side. The girl said...... Qi Ruonan pointed to the child on the bed, "She heard the sound of someone opening the door, and suddenly woke up." She felt someone gently walk into their bedroom. After that, the woman sleeping next to her struggled on the bed for a moment, and the bed shook violently, but it only lasted for a short time before it ended. Xiaojie, that boy, also woke up halfway. He must have seen something, and he screamed for a while, until the woman next to him was dragged out of bed and the door to the room was closed again, and he gradually regained his quiet.

After strangling the two victims separately, the killer dragged their bodies to the living room, placed them side by side, gouged out the eyes of the female victims, and cut out the tongues of the male victims. We did not find these two organs at the scene of the crime, presumably by the murderer. ”

Qiao Sheng nodded thoughtfully, looked at the girl's young and weak back and asked, "When you mentioned that child just now, you used the word 'feeling' several times, could it be that the child's eyes ......?"

"Well, that's right." Qi Ruonan knew what Qiao Sheng wanted to ask, and continued to explain, "The girl is blind, her eyeballs were removed a long time ago, and now there are only two holes left. At the time of the crime, she didn't see anything, and could only tell us something by hearing and feeling. ”

"What about Xiaojie?" Qiao Sheng pouted at the corner of the bed, "Did he see anything?" ”

Qi Ruonan shook her head helplessly, "His eyes are good, he should have seen something, but ......" She paused, with an extremely sad expression on her face. "Xiaojie is mute and can't speak, so he can only squeak and scream when the crime occurs. And the reason why he couldn't speak was also acquired, the child had his tongue cut out. ”

"So......" Qiao Sheng frowned in disgust, "The two victims who live here are indeed using disabled children to beg for money. After the murderer kills them, he replicates the same maiming method on them, which is a typical example of treating others in the same way as others. ”

"The murderer would do such a thing, who is he?" Qi Ruonan asked in confusion.

Forensic Doctor Chen touched the girl's cheek distressedly and replied, "Maybe he is a person with a strong sense of justice and a hero complex." What he did felt like he was doing for the people, but as a police officer, we had to catch this person, otherwise there would be more victims. ”

"That's right." Qiao Sheng clenched his fists and said, "No matter what his purpose is, we can't let this dangerous guy go unpunished." From the analysis of the existing situation, this person must have had a full understanding of the target before committing the crime. He is planned, and he is very confident in his skills. This man may be very difficult to play against, but we must not lose to him. ”

After the transcript was made in the criminal police team, it was already half past 12 o'clock in the evening. Because the two children had to go to school at 7 o'clock in the morning for morning self-study, Zhao Xiaolin really couldn't bear to delay their precious sleep time.

He and another colleague planned to send the two children home to rest, but as soon as Mu Zi heard that he was going to send her home, he immediately showed a panicked expression, and begged him pitifully: "Brother policeman, can I stay here until dawn before leaving?" I don't want to go home......"

"This ......" Zhao Xiaolin and his colleague looked at each other, knowing that the child's mother was not around, and there was usually only one person living at home. The horrific murder happened across the street from her home, and it was understandable that she didn't dare to go back.

"Please, I won't get you in trouble." Mu Zi continued to plead.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Xiaolin sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll find you a place to rest in a while." After speaking, he looked at Xia Jinyu again and urged: "You hurry up and go home, Director Xia is very worried, he is still waiting for you, and he hasn't slept." ”

"If she doesn't go back, I won't go back." Xia Jinyu simply put down the schoolbag on her shoulder, and glanced at Mu Zi worriedly, "She was frightened and needed someone to accompany her." I can't go. ”

"However, I have already said hello to your family and said that I will send you back soon." Zhao Xiaolin looked a little embarrassed, but Xia Jinyu smiled at him and comforted him: "It's okay, Brother Xiaolin, I will explain it to my family myself." ”

Later, the two were placed in a small office. There are just two sofas in the room so they can make do with a good night's sleep.

After tossing all night, Mu Zi's stomach was already a little hungry. She wanted to eat, but she was too embarrassed to offer it on such an occasion. However, Xia Jinyu saw her embarrassment, and under the pretext that she wanted to eat supper, she asked Zhao Xiaolin to get them some snacks casually.

The two sat facing each other on the couch, eating cookies and drinking Coke while chatting about what was happening at school. Xia Jinyu thought that these topics could relax Mu Zi's mood. But as he talked, he realized that he had made a very stupid mistake.

Because Muzi's family situation is relatively special, she does not get along with her classmates in school very well, and campus life is not only beautiful for her, but full of all kinds of unhappy memories. He secretly scolded himself in his heart for being a pig's head, and then shifted the topic to the learning aspect that Mu Zi is best at, thinking that there would be no problem talking about this.

Chatting about mathematics, physics and chemistry and mock test results, Xia Jinyu gradually felt sleepy. Of course, his original intention of staying was to help Muzi relieve his fear. But he was so sleepy that after about half an hour he fell asleep on the couch tiredly.

Mu Zi sat on the sofa opposite, quietly looking at Xia Jinyu's clean and handsome face, and his mood was extremely complicated. She was grateful from the bottom of her heart for everything this boy had done for her, and even felt a little heartbroken. However, she had to remind herself in her heart that their lives were too far apart, that this was someone else's Prince Charming, and that she had nothing to do with her.

After experiencing such a terrible thing, Mu Zi had no sleepiness at all. She pulled a physics exercise out of her bag and tried to distract herself with it.

She had just done two multiple-choice questions when she heard hurried footsteps in the hallway. After a few seconds, the voice stopped outside the door, and then the office door opened, and a man walked in from the outside.

It was a very young man, about 1.8 meters tall, wearing casual clothes, combing a simple and neat hairstyle, although he looked a little thin at first glance, his body was well trained, and the muscles of his whole body were very strong. The man's eyes are not big, but they are sharp, giving people a very shrewd feeling. He first stood at the door and observed the situation in the room, and then walked towards the sofa where Xia Jinyu was lying.

"May I ask ...... you," Muzi asked, putting down the workbook and staring at the man warily. The man also glanced at her, his gaze a little cold.

"You are Muzi?" He asked.

"Well, it's me." Mu Zi nodded slightly, noticing that the man was carrying two blankets in his hands.

"Wear it on your body, don't catch a cold." The man threw a blanket over, and then put another blanket on Xia Jinyu's body. The latter moved, and opened his eyes in a daze. The two looked at each other for a moment, Xia Jinyu suddenly sat up and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?" ”