This year's winter seems to be colder than usual, and southern cities like Wanzhou have frequent snowflakes. Of course, snow only occasionally falls in the city, but in the mountains around the city, it is always snowing heavily.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this also marks the end of the Chinese New Year. But on the first day of the year, a bizarre and brutal murder occurred in Peak Town.

The crime occurred on a secluded country road on the edge of the town of Peak, where a man was brutally murdered.

When I received the call and rushed to the scene of the incident, it was already 9:17 a.m.

There was a light rain last night, and the country road was very slippery. And because the sky is gloomy and the cold wind is still howling, when you come to this countryside, you can feel the cold constantly coming.

I wrapped the collar around my neck so that the collar of the turtleneck sweater was close to my neck, so that the cold wind would not penetrate my body so easily, which might be more effective in keeping me warm.

But after I saw the crime scene, I seemed to forget about the cold in the rest of the detective process.

Just beside the country road, a somewhat thin man lay sideways on a muddy surface. He was covered in blood and sludge, especially his head and face, and it was almost impossible to distinguish what he looked like.

I said I couldn't tell the difference, and there was a reason. Because the murderer used extremely cruel means to repeatedly hit the deceased in the head and face with a blunt object, causing the victim to suffer a severe blow to the brain and die. Such a brutal method of murder is extremely rare in the cases I have solved. The cruelty of the murderer and the distortion of his mentality have reached an irreparable level.

Based on the deceased's death, my first instinct was that it was a vendetta murder.

The deceased was wearing a brown down jacket, blue cotton trousers, and a pair of leather shoes with fluff on his feet. From the deceased's body, I found his mobile phone, and his watch was also intact on his right wrist. From these circumstances, I can prove that the murderer's purpose is not to seek money, but to put people to death.

By examining the deceased's body spots and the degree of stiffness of the body, I surmised that the deceased's time of death should have been between 11 and 12 p.m. yesterday evening.

Next to the deceased, an electric motorcycle fell to the side, with a clear footprint on the right side of the motorcycle. It's the uphill part of the road, and an old rechargeable motorcycle like this is obviously going to be very slow on this mountain road, and the speed is about 20 kilometers per hour. So I determined that the footprints on the motorcycle were kicked hard while the motorcycle was driving at a slow speed. And the person who kicked the motorcycle was obviously one of the murderers.

Why should I say it's one of the murderers? Since I found shoe prints on and on the side of the road, and there were four of them, I am preliminarily certain that there were at least four people who attacked the deceased.

And these shoe prints have a common feature, which is that they are all sneaker prints. So I judged that most of the people who attacked the dead should have been young people. Coupled with the extreme brutality and ruthlessness of the murder of the deceased, I am even more certain that this should be the cruelty of a group of competitive young men.

About three meters away from the deceased, a pair of brown cotton gloves were neatly placed, covered in blood and showing signs of blunt blows. I returned to the body and examined the back of the deceased's hand and found that there were bruises from the blow on the back of the deceased's right hand. Combined with the marks of blows on the gloves, I was sure that the gloves were deceased.

But it's strange why these gloves are so neatly arranged on the ground? At the crime scene, I don't think it's strange if the physical evidence is haphazardly arranged. But at such a murder scene, the deceased's gloves were placed on the ground in a regular manner, which caught my attention.

I pondered for a while, then went to the body again, checked the pockets of the deceased, and in the inner pockets of the down jacket I found traces of blood.

Now I understand why the gloves are neatly placed on the floor. That's because the deceased, after being attacked, took off his gloves and put them on the ground, and then reached out to get money out of the inner pocket of his jacket, and his instinct for survival was to buy back his life with the money he carried. But the cruel gangsters did not eat this, and after taking the money, they still killed the dead.

However, from the deceased's actions, I can understand that the deceased should not know the murderer. His first feeling was that he had encountered gangsters robbing money, so he had to pay for it. Then since the deceased did not know these murderers, it means that there is no hatred between them. But the possibility of buying a homicide cannot be ruled out.

At the scene of the crime, I found a large number of footprints, and according to these footprints, we went all the way to the nearby mountains and forests. At a col, I found two bloody iron rods, which were the steel bars on the construction site. I preliminarily determined that these two iron rods were murder weapons. Of course, the final confirmation also requires the comparison of DNA in the blood.

The police then investigated the identity of the deceased. The deceased's name is Huang Zhenqing, 39 years old, married, and has a son who is in junior high school.

He was a worker at an electronics factory who had just gotten off work on the day he was killed, less than a 10-minute drive from his home. He is an honest man, and he has never had a conflict with anyone in the factory or in society, so why was he killed for no reason? Could it be that he still has some hidden connections that we haven't investigated?

Based on the location of the crime, I determined that the suspect walked to this place on foot, so the only way to get from the town to this place was to follow the country road.

This is a country road, so there are no monitoring probes along the way, but there are monitoring probes at the fork in the road that enters this country road.

So the police extracted the surveillance video of the fork in the road, hoping to find the murderer from the video.

Sure enough, in the surveillance video of the fork in the road, we found the figure of the murderer.

Judging from the video, it was indeed four young men. They looked relaxed, happy, and laughing and playing. But judging from their pace, they must have drunk a lot of alcohol. But because it was night, with the faint light of the street lamps and the fact that they were all facing away from the surveillance probe, there was no way to see their facial features.

However, based on their walking and drinking, Lao Lu and I led the investigators to investigate the dining establishments in Fengfeng Town, but found nothing.

Lao Lu looked a little depressed, so I said to Lao Lu: "The murderer may have drunk alcohol in the city, and then took a car to Fengfeng Town, and finally committed the murder. Do you remember the behavior of several young people in the surveillance video, two of which clearly had stick-like stuff hidden in their sleeves? Although I couldn't see what was hidden in the surveillance, I could deduce that what they were hiding in their sleeves was the steel bar of the murderer. ”

Lao Lu lit a cigarette and said, "In this way, these people are premeditated. ”

I nodded, and fell into deep thought. Because now I have no way to figure out the motives of these young people for killing Huang Zhenqing, what kind of relationship and hatred will these young people who seem to be in their early 20s have anything to do with Huang Zhenqing?

I couldn't figure it out.

Of course, the key issue now is to find these 4 people.

So the police used the screenshots on the surveillance video to start a large-scale investigation of the residents of Fengfeng Town.

The results of the investigation were not long in coming, and a young 19-year-old man came into our sights.

The young man's name was Yi Hua, a native of Liushui Village, Gaofeng Township, who had been sent to a juvenile detention center for robbery when he was 16 years old.

The reason why he came into the police's sight was because his body shape, hairstyle, and walking gait closely resembled one of the young men in the surveillance footage.

After Yi Hua was brought to the criminal investigation team, I looked at the young man's frowning eyes, and my first feeling was that there should be something wrong with this person's brain.

In the interrogation room, Lao Lu asked Yi Hua, "What are you doing from 11 to 12 o'clock in the evening on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?" ”

Yi Hua showed a simple smile and said, "I ate supper and went to bed." ”

Lao Lu frowned and looked at this young man, then turned his head sideways and whispered to me: "No matter how I look at this person, he is a little unreliable, he looks like he is mentally retarded, could we have caught the wrong person?" ”

I also have this suspicion, but this person's posture is too similar to the suspect in the surveillance video.

So I said to Lao Lu: "Otherwise, let this person take a look at the surveillance video to see if he can recognize the suspect in the video." ”

So he took Yi Hua to the technical department and let him watch the surveillance video of the fork in the road on the night of the crime.

"Yikes! This is me, this is Liu Douzi, this is Huzi, this is melon skin. ”

Yi Hua actually said the identities of the four people on the video in one breath, although these names are obviously nicknames.

Lao Lu patted me on the shoulder and whispered, "Do you think this Yi Hua's words are reliable?" ”

I said, "Not reliable." Because the four people in the surveillance are obviously the major suspects in this case, if there is Yi Hua among these four people, then he will definitely try his best to hide it. Instead of saying who they are. ”

Lao Lu said: "Then what is the situation now? ”

I said, "Take Yi Hua out of the technical department, and bring it in fifteen minutes later to watch the monitoring again, and you will understand." ”

Fifteen minutes later, Yi Hua re-watched the surveillance video, and I looked at his innocent face and asked, "Who are these people?" ”

Yi Hua looked at me and said seriously: "There is me on this picture, there are Brother Mouse, Brother Qiangzi and Dawa!" ”

When Lao Lu heard this, he scolded loudly: "Yi Hua, you don't pretend to be in the police station, otherwise I will detain you for ten days and half a month." ”

Lao Lu scolded him like this, and actually made Yi Hua cry, I shook my head and said, "He is not a murderer." ”

Later, we learned that this Yi Hua had a serious illness when he was 18 years old, and after recovering from the illness, his brain was a little bad. And through careful analysis of the content of the video, it was found that the young man who was similar to Yi Hua did not have as thick hair as Yi Hua, and Yi Hua's family also proved that Yi Hua could not drink alcohol at all, and he would be unconscious after two glasses of beer.

The suspect who was finally found turned out to be just a big oolong.