In the spring of 2013, the ice and snow melted.

The sirens of police cars resounded throughout the county, and more than a dozen police cars and hundreds of police officers almost surrounded a pool of lake water in the county's central park.

The person who called the police was a park sanitation man in his early fifties, Cai, who was trembling and recounting the discovery of the crime scene to the police. Due to the transition of tension and fear, Uncle Cai's whole body was still trembling, and his speech was incoherent, and the criminal policeman Xiao Gao could only appease the uncle's emotions first.

Xing Yuan, a newcomer to the serious crime team, a young man who had just graduated from the police academy, was dressed in a neat police uniform, and followed behind the captain Wang Liansheng in civilian clothes to investigate the scene together.

The young policeman Xing Yuan's heart was excited and resentful at this time. What is exciting is that this is the first major case that Xing Yuan has come into contact with since he officially took up his post, and even the people from the provincial department have been dispatched, so he can learn some experience in solving cases from many seniors; In despair, forensic doctors salvaged and sorted out more than a dozen human bones from the lake in Central Park...... Each human bone is in complete form, and the forensic doctor clearly judges: all the corpses are unnaturally decomposed, and it can be judged from the knife marks on the bones that the flesh on the bones has been scraped clean by a knife!

"Who is so vicious, even the devil?" Xing Yuan, a young policeman, muttered to himself.

"As it stands, it will be difficult to identify the deceased for a while, and there are no records of missing persons in the local office." Xing Yuan's captain Wang Liansheng lit a cigarette and said to Xing Yuan, "Look at the bones, although there are only bare skeletons left, it is not difficult to judge that they should be skinny before death." Wang Liansheng handed Xing Yuan a cigarette, Xing Yuan waved his hand to refuse, and his eyes always stopped on the bones by the lake.

"Team Wang, what do you mean?" Xing Yuan realized.

"Tell me what you think." Wang Liansheng extinguished the cigarette butt on the ground with his foot, and lit another cigarette.

"The identities of these dozen or so deceased are likely to be beggars from the local county seat......" Xing Yuan paused, looked at Wang Liansheng's unquestioning expression, and continued: "In some corners of this Central Park, you can clearly see traces of beggars' lives, but these traces seem to show that no one has lived in these corners for a while. ”

Wang Liansheng turned his head to look at Xing Yuan: "Go on." ”

Xing Yuan's brows twisted into a knot, and he continued: "Not only this park, but also the county garbage station, as well as the abandoned and dilapidated houses near the suburbs, and the areas where beggars should be relatively concentrated, they can't be seen. However, if the dead were really all beggars, then who would have such a strong hatred for the beggars? ”

Wang Liansheng extinguished the remaining half of the cigarette, and was just about to speak, when the criminal policeman Xiao Gao hurriedly walked over, "Team Wang, according to the memories of witnesses and the investigation of the scene, there are discoveries. ”

Xing Yuan immediately took out a notepad and recorded the details, and Wang Liansheng motioned for Xiao Gao to continue.

"Team Wang, the salvage work has ended, and it has been confirmed that there are a total of 26 victims, all of whom are in a state of death with white bones, and there is no skin and flesh left. According to the investigation at the scene, the murderer dug a big pit when the lake froze before, and after each crime and cut the flesh of the victim, he transported the bones to the pit and buried them with ice and snow. The exact time of death of each victim still needs to be confirmed by the forensic doctor dragging the body back, but it can be roughly judged that the victim who has been dead for the longest time has been dead for at least three months, and the most recent victim should have been killed last night. ”

"Damn, we've only found out about the crime for so long." Xing Yuan's eyes were full of anger, and his clenched fists actually broke the pen in his hand, so he had to take out another spare one.

"How did the witnesses find out about the crime scene?" Wang Liansheng continued to ask.

"Oh, Uncle Cai, this old man is a sanitation worker in charge of the county Central Park, according to eyewitnesses, the county sanitation bureau held a meeting yesterday to evaluate the best model worker of the year, Uncle Cai is one of the candidate model workers, in order to fight for bonuses and reputation, Uncle Cai plans to come to the sanitation area earlier than usual to work, and then go to others to volunteer to help after finishing the work, leaving a better impression on the superior leaders. It was precisely because he arrived at the park two hours earlier than usual that Uncle Cai happened to witness the process of the murderer throwing the victim's bones into the lake, and Uncle Cai didn't know that it was the victim's bones at first, and shouted "Don't fucking throw garbage into the water". The murderer glanced at Uncle Cai in the direction of the voice, turned around and ran away. Uncle Cai walked to the lake and wanted to pick up the garbage he had just mistaken for, but he picked up the victim's skull on the ice floe, and Uncle Cai, who was frightened, called the police in a panic. ”

"You just said that the murderer glanced at Uncle Cai, so did Uncle Cai see the murderer's appearance clearly?" Xing Yuan asked eagerly.

"It's a pity, no, Uncle Cai is already fifty years away, his eyes have already been spent, and the time to witness the scene of the crime is before dawn in the early morning, even if it is you and me, I am afraid it will be difficult to see the physical characteristics of the murderer, but ......" Xiao lowered his head and tightened his eyebrows thoughtfully.

"You only need to retell the informant's statement, and you don't need to be psychologically burdened." Wang Liansheng said as he took out another cigarette.

"Okay, Uncle Cai said, the murderer is not a person!" Xiao Gao's voice trembled a little. A gloomy wind blew from an unknown direction, hovering between the three policemen, and the wind seemed to be mixed with the cries of the victims, which was creepy even during the day.

Hearing Xiao Gao's retelling, Xing Yuan's recorded hand suddenly stopped, and the lighter that Wang Liansheng lit his cigarette also hovered in mid-air, and the two of them looked at Xiao Gao at the same time, and their eyes told him to continue.

Uncle Cai said that although he couldn't see the murderer's appearance clearly, but from the thin black shadow of the murderer, Uncle Cai really saw a pair of eyes shining yellow, fierce and evil, it was not like a pair of eyes, just a glimpse, it already made people feel suffocated. At first, Uncle Cai thought it was his own illusion, and he didn't care about it after fixing his mind, but just when he was stating the sighting process, Uncle Cai repeatedly emphasized that those eyes were the eyes of death, and he was staring at him at this moment. Xiao Gao's voice has become more and more empty from the tremor just now, and his gaze has become dull.

"Do you really believe it? In the middle of the night, he picked up a skull, and anyone would be scared to lose his soul, Uncle Cai was too frightened, confusing imagination and reality, we, as people's police, should be staunch atheists. Xing Yuan said loudly to Xiao Gao.

Wang Liansheng was silent.

Suddenly, there was a shout from the direction of the scene by the lake: "Control him, the informant is crazy!" ”

The three of them looked towards the lake, only to see four or five policemen barely pressing Uncle Cai to the ground, Uncle Cai roared like a beast: "I saw him, he came, he came, he was here, I saw the devil, he was also looking at me, I was going to die, I was going to die, he would definitely gnaw me to the bone, ahhhh......hhhhh

"Xiaoyuan, there are a few scattered households and businesses near the park, you should stay here and investigate and see if you can find some clues from them. Kotaka and I went back to the police station first and then analyzed the accounts of the witnesses. Wang Liansheng issued an action order to Xing Yuan.

"Yes, Team Wang." Xing Yuan straightened up and responded.

Wang Liansheng, who turned around and was about to leave, suddenly turned his head to Xing Yuan: "Xiaoyuan, don't act without permission if you have any clues, don't investigate anything you can't understand, go back to the police station immediately and report to me, remember, safety first." After speaking, Wang Liansheng left the scene with Xiao Gao.

The police team evacuated after evacuating the crowd outside the park, and only Xing Yuan himself was left in the huge county Central Park. Xing Yuan walked to the lake and stared blankly at the few pieces of ice floe scattered on the lake......

Suddenly, everything in front of Xing Yuan's eyes turned blood-red, and the ice floes, the ice floes were full of corpses!

That's right, bloodstained bones, standing on the ice floe!

Xing Yuan rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then stared at the lake with wide eyes, everything returned to normal.

Xing Yuan smiled helplessly, turned around and left the lake, and at this time dozens of voices seemed to be howling in pain in his ears.

"Huh? So many people died? Li Decai, the owner of the commissary, almost fell to the ground with his jaw, "This is too unlucky, how will this business be done in the future?" ”

"You really didn't see or hear anything unusual on even one night this winter?" Xing Yuan asked bluntly.

"What's so strange, you don't know the weather in the Northeast, it's cold at night, there is no one on the street at eight or nine o'clock, and I close the door at almost eight o'clock every day." Li Decai explained.

"Well, you've been running so many teenagers here?" Xing Yuan continued to ask.

"It's been three years, and I remember this clearly, my son is in the third grade of junior high school this year, and our family moved into the county just because our son went to school." Li Decai looked at his son who was doing his homework, a trace of pride appeared on his face, and then a trace of anxiety appeared.

Nothing can be hidden from Xing Yuan's eyes.

"What's wrong? Seeing that your son's face is so pale, this junior high school is about to face the high school entrance examination, and the nutrition has to keep up. Xing Yuan asked tentatively.

"Why can't I keep up with nutrition, how much can I earn in this small store in a month, basically give this child to eat, every day, it turns out that Lao Wutou's bun shop has two big meat buns at breakfast, and at noon his mother will make a meal and send it to school......"

Hearing the words "big meat bun", Li Decai's son, who was seriously doing his homework, slowly raised his head and looked at Xing Yuan and Li Decai in front of the cash register.

Xing Yuan felt the cold gaze from the side, and turned his head slightly to look at Li Decai's son.

"What?!" Xing Yuan's heart screamed.

The son of Li Decai, the owner of the commissary, has a face like ashes, especially those eyes, aren't they the eyes of Uncle Cai, an eyewitness to the sinking of the corpse at the bottom of the lake, who described to the criminal policeman Xiao Gao in the morning, glowing with yellow light and chilling like death?

Yes, it's the devil's eye! But Xing Yuan can't be sure anyway, a junior high school student in front of him will be the murderer of such a murder case, no, the murderer is not this child, but these eyes?

"Big meat bun, delicious." The child spoke, and his voice was extremely low, as if it had come from hell. The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing an eerie, evil smile.

"Eight yuan, I said Xiao Geng, you haven't come to play cards with me for a while."

When Xing Yuan's mind was flying at high speed, Li Decai took the order, and a young man named Xiao Geng came into the store to buy a fruit knife, but did not respond to Li Decai's greeting, put down ten yuan, took something and turned around and left.

Suddenly, a strong hand was placed on Xiao Geng's shoulder.

"I didn't take your change." Xing Yuan stopped Xiao Geng and handed him two pieces of change from behind his back.

Xiao Geng slowly turned his head, his body basically didn't move, only his neck turned around with his head, "Thank you, don't look for it." ”

"Huh?!" Xing Yuan's heart was shocked again!

What shocked Xing Yuan was not the close 180° rotation of Xiao Geng's head in front of him, after all, there were indeed people in history who looked at the wolf and looked at the wolf, such as Sima Yi, the powerful minister of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, so this is not unscientific.

What shocked Xing Yuan was that Xiao Geng's pale face like a dead man and his eyes were exactly the same as Li Decai's son who was bowing his head to do his homework next to him, glowing with yellow light, which made people shudder.

"Okay, I'll thank you for Lao Li." Xing Yuan let go of the hand on Xiao Geng's shoulder and let him go.

"Where did this kid get rich, he usually cares about two cents for buying things, but this time he doesn't want two yuan." Li Decai took the change back into the cash box and muttered.

"Do you know this person well?" Xing Yuan asked.

"Sort of, we sell insurance in the county, I forgot which company I was in, and I don't remember my name, I know that my surname is Geng, and I am not very old, so everyone is called Xiao Geng. I usually have nothing to do with Zhang Luo everyone to play two cards, Xiao Geng comes from time to time to join in the fun and develop customers by the way, but I haven't seen his figure in the last few bureaus, ha~" Li Decai replied, and there was a sigh of air before the words were finished, and it seemed that the investigation of Xing Yuan was a little tired.

Xing Yuan also realized that there was nothing to investigate here in Li Decai, so he said thank you and left the commissary. When Xing Yuan took more than a dozen steps, he suddenly felt a chill in his back. Xing Yuan turned around and looked at the commissary, Li Decai's son was standing at the door, staring at Xing Yuan with a strange smile on his face, Li Decai was still standing behind the counter, tapping on the calculator with his head down.

Xiao Geng, who had just left the shop, was nowhere to be seen at this time.

Maybe he should investigate this little Geng, Xing Yuan's intuition told him.