◎Chapter 39 The Tin Cabinet

The mayor of the town also hurried over, and everyone waited for Professor Liang to reveal the mystery.

Professor Liang played tricks and asked everyone: "In some cases, we must not only reason who is most likely to be the murderer, but also do the opposite, who is the least suspected murderer?" ”

Bao Shu nodded and said, "The least suspicious ones are the three missing girls. ”

The mayor said, "The three girls are dead, and there is blood on the three red dresses that were salvaged from the river." ”

Professor Liang said: "At present, it can only be determined that Huanyu was killed and died, and the other two girls are not alive or dead, and the blood on the skirt does not necessarily mean death." ”

Hualong said: "Could it be that Mo Fei and Zhao Xianxian are still alive, and the two are murderers, or one of them is a murderer?" ”

The mayor said: "How is this possible, they are all victims, how can the victims be murderers?" ”

Professor Liang said: "In this case, there are actually four Zhao Xianxian! ”

Professor Leung spoke in astonishment, and he elaborated his reasoning and analysis. Zhao Xianxian disappeared three years ago and his whereabouts are unknown, so there are only two possibilities, he is dead or alive. If she dies, Zhao Xianxian who appeared in Wuyang Town three years later will definitely not be her, she is pretended by someone else, and there are two possibilities for someone who is pretending to be Zhao Xianxian: a man or a woman.

The play of men dressing up as women makes people believe that a man dressed as a woman can fool everyone's eyes.

The four Zhao Xianxian are: Zhao Xianxian who disappeared three years ago, Zhao Xianxian who disappeared again three years later in Wuyang Town, a woman pretending to be Zhao Xianxian, and a man pretending to be Zhao Xianxian.

Professor Liang re-formulated the direction of the investigation, and the town mayor continued to search for the murder scene in the town, and the other members of the special case team made cracking Zhao Xianxian's identity the focus of the investigation.

Su Mei contacted the public security bureau where Zhao Xianxian's household registration is located, and the general rules of civil law stipulate that if a person has been missing for more than two years, relatives can apply for a declaration of disappearance or death, however, Su Mei found that Zhao Xianxian's household registration has not been cancelled. There are all kinds of signs that Zhao Xianxian is still alive. According to the school, a year ago, Zhao Xianxian even appeared in high school, and a teacher who knew her saw her return to her alma mater and sat alone on the swing in the school playground for a long time.

This teacher is the head teacher of Zhao Xianxian High School, he told the special case team on the phone, Zhao Xianxian was excellent in high school, versatile, and ranked among the best in the college entrance examination. The strange thing is that two years after the disappearance, the head teacher actually saw Zhao Xianxian again on the school playground, and the head teacher stepped forward to talk to her, but Zhao Xianxian sat on the swing alone, kept silent with dementia, ignored the head teacher at all, and later left.

Professor Liang asked on the phone, "What kind of clothes is this Zhao Xianxian wearing?" ”

The head teacher replied: "I wore a red dress that day, and I remember very well that Zhao Xianxian likes to wear red skirts." ”

Professor Liang said: "How do you know that this person in a red dress is Zhao Xianxian, are you sure, maybe it is two people who look alike?" ”

The head teacher said: "The clothes are the same, the hairstyle is the same, even the tear moles in the corners of the eyes are the same, although I haven't seen her for two years, it must be her." ”

Professor Liang turned back to Bao and said, "This mysterious person is very good

It's terrible to be able to pretend to be Zhao Xianxian since a year ago. ”

Bao Qi asked: "Did Zhao Xianxian fall in love at school, and are there many boys who like her?" ”

The head teacher replied: "Many, she received the most love letters and greeting cards, I remember one Christmas, the love letters and greeting cards on her desk were piled up, but high school faced the college entrance examination, Zhao Xianxian focused on her studies, and I didn't hear who she had ever fallen in love with." ”

Bao Qi asked: "Among the boys who like Zhao Xianxian, are there any particularly perverted people?" ”

After reminiscing, the head teacher remembered a person, this person's name was Ma Liu, who was Zhao Xianxian's tablemate, and the teachers and students in the school knew that Ma Liu had always had a crush on Zhao Xianxian. One year, at Christmas, other boys sent greeting cards, but Ma Liu's gift to Zhao Xianxian was a cardboard box, and after opening it, there were more than a dozen mice in the box, Zhao Xianxian screamed in fright, she was usually most afraid of mice. Another time, Ma Liu gave Zhao Xianxian a bottle, and Ma Liu said that the bottle contained his tears. Zhao Xianxian felt disgusted, and smashed the bottle by mistake, and the angry Ma Liu used the bottle fragment to cut Zhao Xianxian's palm, and then cut his own palm, he forcibly put Zhao Xianxian's palm and his palm together, and the blood of the two people also flowed together. Later, because of this incident, the school expelled Ma Liu. The head teacher only came to teach in Zhao Xianxian's class when he was in his third year of high school, so the head teacher had not seen Ma Liu, and these things were rumors he had heard.

The perverted boy Ma Lu surfaced, and some of his bizarre behaviors were similar to this case. The special case team decided to divide the troops into two routes, Bao Chu and Su Mei went to Zhao Xianxian's household registration to investigate Ma Liu, and Professor Liang and Hualong still stayed in Wuyang Town to find the murder scene.

The police force in the town is limited, and the team members and the joint defense team are divided into sections, each of them demarcates an area, and conducts door-to-door investigations.

The area in charge of the painting dragon happened to include the veterinarian's house and the blind old man's house, and the police searched the yards of these two families several times, but found nothing unusual. The blind old man was still sitting in the yard, the cat was still playing in the grass, and the moon was still hanging in the sky.

When the blind old man saw the painting dragon, he suddenly cried, and tears flowed from his dry eye sockets.

The painting dragon was very surprised, and the blind old man said a puzzling sentence to the painting dragon:

"I am blind, but my heart is bright, I can't see, but I can hear, I can hear clearly."

Puzzled, he asked, "What did you hear?" ”

The blind old man said, "My grandson was killed, I know." ”

The dragon said, "Ah, who killed him, and where?" ”

The blind old man said, "I heard him shouting grandpa......"

The blind old man only said that he heard his grandson's cries for help before he died, but he did not know who killed his grandson or where. The old man couldn't show any evidence, he said that one of the strings of the erhu was broken last night, and he realized that his grandson had been killed.

Although these words could not convince Hualong, they had already aroused his alarm.

As he began to rethink the whole case, many images flashed through his mind like a movie, two of which were very suspicious, he thought that Zhao Xianxian had undergone hymen repair surgery, and the girl was likely to have been raped. He thought of Zhao Xianxian's paintings, which included sketches of some small town buildings, including the home of a blind old man and the courtyard of a veterinarian's house.

Hualong thought for a while, and suddenly thought - when Zhao Xianxian painted these paintings, where should she be?

Sketching is like taking a photograph, if a person can take a picture of the gate of the building, that person must be facing the gate.

Zhao Xianxian's painting is from a bird's-eye view, and the position where she paints is supposed to be on a high ground opposite the blind old man and the veterinarian's house. On the opposite side of the building was an attic, a dilapidated wooden building, with the wooden windows of the attic closed, and a canopy boat moored on the steps below.

He walked across the stone bridge and knocked on the door, and a young man in his twenties opened the door, and he identified himself as a police officer and said that he wanted to check the fire facilities, and the young man was very enthusiastic and invited him in. The courtyard is deep, through two doors, and some fishing nets are placed on the stairs, which seems to be a fisherman's house. There was no light in the attic, and the young man said to go get a flashlight. Hualong walked into the attic, and in the dark, he vaguely saw a few tin cabinets in the attic, and a fishy smell came to his nose, and the attic was still filled with the smell of vinegar.

Although the painting dragon is not as sensitive as Bao Qi's nose, his sense of smell gradually separates another smell from the smell, which appears and disappears from time to time, one after another. It was a familiar smell to him: the rotting smell of dead bodies to devour

There had been deaths in this attic, and the stench of rotting corpses lingered.

He turned around, and the young man was standing in front of the door with a pale face, and instead of a flashlight, he threw a fishing net in his hand at the dragon, and the net opened and covered the dragon.

The young man first hit the dragon with a penny a few times, but did not knock the dragon unconscious. The young man was a little flustered, poured a large bottle of liquid on the dragon, quickly left the room, and closed the door. This liquid is ether, which is highly volatile and can make a person unconscious within a minute in a closed and confined environment. He cursed and continued to struggle to get rid of the net, but after a while, he felt his consciousness gradually blur and soon passed out......

When he woke up, he found himself lying in a tin cabinet, his hands tied with wire, his feet tied with wire, and a towel stuffed in his mouth, wrapped around several loops of duct tape, to prevent him from spitting out the towel in his mouth and shouting for help. The painting dragon struggled a few times, and the wire on his wrist was very firmly tied, sinking into the flesh, and the wire was twisted into a twisted shape, and it was impossible to break free.

The surroundings of the dragon are densely packed with rats, and when a person is surrounded by rats, how frightened should he be?

Drawing Dragon realizes that his fate is about to be the same as that of Huanyu - being eaten by rats until only a skeleton remains.

It is a rectangular tin cabinet lying horizontally under the attic window. This iron cabinet is used to raise fish fry, two meters long, more than one meter high and wide, sturdy and sealed, with only a few coin-sized ventilation holes on the lid and a copper lock.

This tin cabinet is like a coffin, and this is probably the tomb of the dragon!

Tulong sat up, the rat next to him tumbling up and down, the space in the cabinet was small, his head was on top of the lid of the cabinet, and the attic window could be seen through the ventilation hole.

There are two options for drawing dragons:

1. Sit back and wait for others to come to the rescue, but when others find him, it is likely that only his bones will be found.

2. Save yourself, escape from this tin cabinet before the rats eat him, but what should you do to escape?