Section 8 - Revealing the Secret (End)

"Then why did the murderer kill Li Keming again, he doesn't seem to have anything to do with that secret." He said suspiciously.

Peng Ligang shook his head, sighed softly and said: "The murderer killed Li Keming as a last resort, because the murderer didn't want people outside the village to get involved in this matter, let alone the police to come to the village to investigate, if the police started to investigate, the secret would be discovered." The murderer may have persuaded Li Keming, but Li Keming is a very stubborn person, and he will never listen to the murderer's words, so the murderer killed Li Keming in a helpless situation. And in order to prevent others from calling the police, the murderer destroyed the only wooden bridge in the village leading to the outside world. “

"Then why did the murderer cut off Li Keming's head, since Li Keming is dead, why do you want to do more?" He asked.

Peng Ligang sneered twice, and said disapprerovingly: "That's just to cover up one thing, the murderer found that an item on his body was missing when he went home to get the cutting tools, so he deliberately cut off Li Keming's head." The murderer thinks that this method is very clever, but in fact, as long as you think about it carefully, you will find that this loophole is not worth mentioning at all. “

"Oh? I don't seem to understand what it is. He subconsciously touched his fingers as he said and asked with a smile.

Peng Ligang rubbed his eyes, stretched out his hand and clenched his fist against him, and said: "It is the ring that the murderer brought on his finger, the murderer accidentally dropped the ring when he killed Li Keming, and Li Keming was not immediately dead at that time, after seeing the ring on the ground, with his last trace of strength, he took the ring on the ground in his mouth." The killer only found out about it afterwards, so he had to cut off his head. “

He didn't say anything, just rubbed his hand on the top of his pants a few times.

Peng Ligang continued: "The murderer's murder weapon that cut off Li Keming was a wood-chopping knife that would not attract attention, and the untidy incision on the corpse's neck also proved this. The murder weapon is still in the murderer's house, and it is placed with another murder weapon. ”

"How could there be another murder weapon, these people were all killed by the same person?" He said as if he didn't understand.

"Exactly, and after that, another innocent person was brutally murdered by the murderer. Deng Qili was killed by the murderer because she found the murder weapon. Peng Ligang tried to walk towards him, he was very close to Xiaoqi on the bed, if Xiaoqi was used as a hostage, it would be difficult to do.

"When Deng Qili died, there was no one at all, didn't Xiao Qi say that after he just heard the screams, he immediately found his mother hanging in the house under the windowsill, so how did the murderer escape?" He continued.

The murderer didn't leave at all, he was in the house all the time, and when Xiao Qi heard the scream, Deng Qili didn't die at all. Hanging from the rope was not a human at all, but a human figure made of straw. Presumably, the murderer also heard Xiao Qi calling her mother at that time, and the murderer threatened Deng Qili that if he dared to speak out, Xiao Qi would also be killed. Deng Qili is a person who loves her son very much, and naturally she will not let Xiaoqi be hurt, so the murderer took this opportunity to strangle Deng Qili to death, and then hurriedly packed up the murder scene and fled. Peng Ligang had already touched the head of the bed.

"But what you say seems to be a bit contradictory. Xiao Qi heard the whisper first, and then saw the corpse before going to ask for help, so shouldn't Deng Qili have died at that time, and how could she still be alive? He also sensed Peng Ligang's intentions, and took two steps back towards the head of the bed.

"It's very simple, this is the murderer's attempt to let everyone enter a misunderstanding, making people think that after Xiaoqi saw the corpse, Deng Qili was already dead. In fact, Deng Qili screamed at the time, but because she couldn't pull the power switch, and then saw the scarecrow hanging on the rope, she was startled and screamed. The murderer was hiding in the rice jar at the time, so Deng Qili didn't realize that there were others hiding in her house. Peng Ligang didn't dare to go any further, obviously he also knew that he wanted to beg Xiaoqi, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and took a puff.

"It seems reasonable for you to say this, what about Fang Lin's husband, he is an outsider in the village, just to come back to visit relatives, why did the murderer even kill him together?" He suddenly sat down at the head of the bed and gently touched Xiao Qi's face lying on the bed a few times.

Peng Ligang panicked, and while making a plan to rescue Xiaoqi, he said to him: "The reason is very simple, because Zhibao is the one who negotiated cooperation with the murderer, and Zhibao will come to this remote mountain village, not to return to his hometown to visit relatives." That's because he discovered that there was something in this small mountain village, and this kind of thing could make him a lot of money quickly. Originally, he thought that he was the only one who knew, but when he came to the village, he noticed that there was another person who also knew the secret, and he knew the exact location of the secret. ”

He still didn't answer, Peng Ligang had to continue, saying: "Zhibao may be threatening the murderer, if he doesn't tell him the specific location of the secret, he will tell the people in the village, or even tell the people outside the village, so that the murderer's painstaking plan will be completely frustrated." Out of desperation, the murderer had to pretend to promise Zhibao, and agreed to meet in the back in the early hours of last night to dig up the thing together. ”

"Didn't Shiho die by someone who was killed by someone who used a sharp weapon and a crooked thing to get into the heart at once?"

With this sentence, you are completely sure that you are the murderer. I only said that the murder weapon was a boxy and curved weapon, but I never said that Shiho was killed by stealing it in his heart. The only person who knows the true cause of Shiho's death is the murderer except me, so you are the murderer. Sister Hong, you lost. Peng Ligang threw half of the cigarette butt in front of him and said in a solemn voice.

"What evidence do you have to say that I am the murderer, if you have to say that I am the murderer, then please show some actual evidence." Sister Hong slapped the bed and stood up.

"You want evidence, don't you, it'll be delivered soon, don't worry." Peng Ligang said as he glanced at Xiao Qi, who had been awakened by fright.

Sister Hong's emotions had become excited at this time, her left hand was holding the rope, and her right hand had already grabbed Xiaoqi. Just when Peng Ligang had nothing to do, Li Shiyu and Su Ya pushed open the door and walked in, and then the village chief and Li Keming also walked in. Village Chief Li held the long nail rake in his hand, and Li Keming held the firewood knife with ants in his hand.

Peng Ligang took the nail rake from the hand of Village Chief Li and struck it the ground, and one of the long nails flew out of the nail rake and fell to the ground. Peng Ligang threw away the nail rake and persuaded: "Sister Hong, give up, you have failed." Your original plan was probably to kill Village Chief Li again, and after a while after your friends outside the village have dug up all the things in the back mountain, you can create an accident and kill yourself, and then you can leave this village forever and live a happy life outside. “

Xiao Qi on the bed obviously didn't understand this, looked at Sister Hong with watery eyes, and suddenly said, "Aunt Hong, I want to drink water." “

The air froze for three seconds, and everyone stopped breathing. Sister Hong suddenly threw away the rope in her hand, leaned over and patted Xiaoqi's hair, and said with a smile: "Aunt Hong will pour tea for Xiaoqi, and Xiaoqi will lie on the bed and sleep first, okay?" “

Xiao Qi nodded and lay down peacefully.

At Village Chief Li's house, everyone was gathered in the lobby, and Sister Hong told the whole thing and confessed to her crimes. Sister Hong was tied with ropes by the villagers and sat quietly on the chair. Suddenly looked at Peng Ligang and asked, "How did you find out that the murderer was mine?" ”

"Contraceptive pills were found in your house to start. Your husband has passed away and you obviously don't need to take this drug unless you're in collusion with someone else. The birth rate of children in the village is not high, so I think the chance of people here getting pregnant is not high, but you still have to take medicine, and there are only two situations. One is that you have colluded with the people in the village, and the other is that you have colluded with people outside the village, the former possibility is obviously not valid, there are only four or five men in the village who remain in the village, and the others are some old people over 60 years old, so there is only the latter possibility. Peng Ligang explained.

The rainy days of the past few days have finally passed, and at noon the sun slowly comes out of the clouds, and the mountain village shrouded in clouds and mist has no need to curl up under the shadow of terror after the rain, although the sun can dispel those clouds and mist, but it cannot erase the scars on people's souls. The legendary murder case in the tourist village ended in failure, and that legend may not be passed on again.

Peng Ligang and his wife walked out of the village under the escort of the villagers, and Peng Ligang suggested that the village chief go to the police and let the police deal with the matter. The village just nodded, but said nothing. After leaving the village, Peng Ligang was still a little uneasy, so he went to the local police station to report the case.

Peng Ligang didn't know what happened afterwards, so they took a bus to Huanghua Airport in Changsha that day and returned to their home in Beijing overnight. Half a month later, Peng Ligang suddenly saw the news about Pingjiang County on TV, which reported that a certain village in Pingjiang was buried by a landslide, and no one in the village was spared. Halfway through the excavation, several bodies were exhumed, which were forensically verified to have died before the accident. And who the murderer really is, there is no way to find out.

Li Shiyu's recent form has not been good, and she has been taking leave to rest at home, and for the development of tourist villages, her company finally decided to re-select the land in other places. Peng Ligang recently applied to the bank for a shift change, from a full-time shift to a half-day system, so that he could accompany Li Shiyu more at home.

Recently, Li Shiyu obviously can't think of going on a business trip or traveling, and the events in Tianmu Village have had a great impact on her, and she is in a state of mind all day long. Peng Ligang took her to see several psychiatrists, and the doctor suggested that Peng Ligang take her out for a walk, or invite some friends to dance in the bar, after doing a lot of exercise, people will feel much more relaxed physically and mentally, and their suppressed emotions will be released.

----------------Finish. Next episode, the psychopathic killer.