Chapter 17: The Bloody Staircase

Many people have the habit of counting stairs, if there is no light in the stairwell, when you go down in the dark, you are worried that you will step on the air, so you silently count the steps in your heart, if you find that there is one staircase missing, you may feel that you are counting wrong.

Every campus has its own ghost story.

A classmate who likes to count stairs suddenly disappeared one night, and teachers and students searched all over the dormitory building, but there was no trace. Since his disappearance, in the dead of night, classmates will hear footsteps in the hallway, and someone will see a dark figure walking back and forth in the hallway. Later, when the dormitory building was demolished, it was found that there was a white ossified corpse inside the lowest steps. If a person counts the stairs and finds that the stairs are missing one step, he will replace that staircase.

The special case team investigated that the construction party that built the building cut corners, and the old building where the case occurred was missing one staircase.

Six police officers from the Public Security Bureau expressed their admiration for Bao Shu's carefulness, and those who had lived in that building all their lives did not know that the stairs were missing one step, and the people on the fourth and fifth floors only felt that the houses they lived in were shorter.

Zhang Hongqi walked on the street with his hands behind his back, wearing the old Mao suit of the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, and the topics he talked about with other elderly people were old.

The whole building is empty, and the restaurant couple on the fourth floor has moved out, leaving only the old man Zhang Hongqi's family.

The old man came back from a walk and looked at a north-facing window on the old building, and there was a pot of spider plants on the windowsill.

The old is gone, and where is the new?

There are no hotels or guesthouses in this empty city, and what was once bright and bright is now full of rubble. The instructor arranged for the special case team to be placed in the family home of the Public Security Bureau, and the instructor said: Most of the houses here are vacant, so let's live casually, and we will be neighbors. The special case team found a small courtyard planted with pomegranate trees, simply cleaned up the room, and six policemen moved in some old furniture, which were left behind when others moved, and there was also a dresser with the word "Xi" on it.

The instructor said: Girl, the conditions are simple, they are all rags, don't dislike it, we can only make do with it.

Su Mei said: This is not hard, we have camped in the wilderness, paint the dragon and do me a favor, put the dresser in my room, I live in this room.

Professor Liang sat on a broken sofa in the living room drinking tea, while Bao Chu was debugging an old television set, and the local cable television station was withdrawn, and many families used homemade outdoor antennas to watch programs. Outside the window, a TV antenna is tied to a poplar tree, and several cans are hung from the antenna. Bao Shu adjusted the angle of the antenna, he patted the TV, and the picture changed from snowflakes to news broadcasts.

After lifting the dresser, he lay on the bed, he looked at the ceiling and said: Xiaomei, do you feel at home?

Su Mei wiped the mirror, turned around and asked with a smile: Is this a confession to me?

"My feeling of home is that the family eats together, and the news broadcast is on the TV.

Su Mei looked around the room and said with a smile: Then our house is too broken.

Bao Shu walked in and placed a pot of flowers on Su Mei's dresser to decorate the room for her.

The dragon said: Xiaobao, where did you steal it?

Bao Chop said: No, this is something that others don't want, and it's about to die, Sister Xiaomei, don't forget to water the flowers.

This pot of flowers is dying at the foot of the wall of the family courtyard. Some are gone, and some things are restored and saved in their place as they were yesterday. The soil in the pot was cracked, the leaves were almost gone, and there was a remnant of a flower on the branch, so small, so miserable on the branch. In the flower pot was a card that read: Happy Birthday!

Everyone forgot Su Mei's birthday, everyone was busy with the gut case, Su Mei naturally didn't have the heart to mention it, only the careful Bao Chu remembered that he may have run all over the city and didn't find a cake shop, nor did he buy a decent birthday gift.

In the evening, the instructor killed sheep and cooked wine, and set up a banquet to entertain the special case team.

There is a local delicacy called "Qingquan mutton", after slaughtering the sheep, the mutton is soaked in spices and spring water for a whole night, and then the whole sheep is put into the pot to stew, with more than 30 kinds of seasonings, more than 10 kinds of medicinal materials, the meat is fragrant and rich, not greasy.

When night falls, the stars are shining, and there is an iron pot under the poplar tree in the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau, in which a whole sheep is stewed, the broth is boiling, and the firewood is burning brightly below. A police lady cut off four legs of mutton, put them in a wooden basin, and brought them to the table, where each person was given a knife to cut the mutton, and then dipped it in salt and pepper and hot sauce.

The local police beckoned the special case team to sit down, and the instructor was hospitable, and brought a jar of good wine, which had been stored in the soil for many years.

The policeman's sister-in-law brought red dates, boiled corn and edamame, and everyone drank wine, ate hand-grabbed mutton, and talked about the case while eating and drinking.

Hualong clinked glasses with the instructor and said with a smile: It would be nice if every case analysis meeting was held like this.

Professor Leung was full of praise for the hand-caught mutton: "This is the best mutton I have ever tasted.

The instructor said: We have a mutton restaurant here, which is a roadside stall and a wooden shed. Many people come here, as well as foreigners, just to eat mutton. The cauldron, which has not been turned off for ten years, has been stewing mutton, and the old soup in the pot is fragrant, and the rats can be summoned at night, and the wood falls into the pot, and it is fragrant when chewed. Pity...... Moved away.

Professor Liang said: Our case reminds me of a dish.

The policeman's sister-in-law asked curiously: Vegetables, what dishes?

Professor Liang said: Raw goose intestines, there is such a dish in Chengdu hot pot restaurant. I once witnessed the scene of "raw picking" in a hot pot restaurant in Zhonghe Town, Shuangliu County, where the shop guy repeatedly preached that the goose intestines were authentic raw picking, and then two live geese came from the backyard, and before the filth on the goose was washed, the guy put his hand into the goose's butt and pulled out the goose intestines, and the goose intestines were thrown to the ground mixed with blood and feces. After a while, a plate of bloodshot "raw goose intestines" was served on the table.

Su Mei said: Fuck, it's so cruel, if everyone refuses to eat it, there won't be such a cruel dish.

Su Mei glanced at Bao Qi, Bao Qi's face was a little red, I don't know if it was for another reason to drink or drink, his eyes dodged, embarrassed to look at Su Mei.

It is said that there are two most painful parts of the human body, one is the eye and the other is the asshole.

The instructor agreed: People who have cut hemorrhoids are all heroes!

Professor Leung said: "The shop guys who are unfamiliar with technology will use a knife or scissors to cut around the goose's buttocks before cutting the intestines, and then reach in. Skilled guys are all straight gut.

The instructor said: We sent someone to the oilfield hospital and made a new record, and the victim Chen Luomo recalled that the murderer used a certain tool at that time, and she was not sure whether it was a weighing hook or not. At that time, she was strangled by the murderer with a rope, and when she was rescued, she was dying, her lower body fell out of her intestines, and her neck was still covered with blood and feces......

A police officer said: Although a few days have passed since the incident, the victim's emotions are still unstable, her face is swollen, her two frightened eyes are full of black and red bloodshots, and the strangulation marks on her neck are still clearly visible.

Professor Liang said: There is no sign of robbery or rape in this gut-digging case, and the purpose of the murderer is to create a horrific case.

Bao Chu said: Is this a random and accidental case, or is it premeditated and planned by the murderer?

The instructor said: I think it's like an accidental case, we have investigated, the working girl has no grievances and no hatred, who would harm her so much? It's just that our police force is limited, and it takes time to find suspects.

Professor Liang said: Whether it was accidental or premeditated, the murderer has lost his heart and is on the verge of collapse. I think there's going to be another one, and he's not going to stop until we catch this damn guy.

Professor Liang suggested that the local police mobilize the masses to make up for the lack of police force, and set up a joint defense team as soon as possible to recruit them

Volunteer patrol officers, heighten vigilance, enhance safety awareness, and prevent problems before they occur. Everyone was full of wine and food, and they were ready to leave the table.

Su Mei said: I have eaten so much today, Xiaobao, you accompany me for a walk under the moon.

Professor Liang said: Don't go far, pay attention to safety.

The painting dragon lowered his head and drank sullen wine, the instructor accompanied him, and the two of them drank a lot of wine and talked a lot.

After a while, Su Mei ran back alone in a panic, when she and Bao Qi walked to the old building where Zhang Hongqi's old man lived, blood flowed out of the dark and silent corridor, Bao Mei was at the scene, and Su Mei came back to call someone. All the police urgently assembled, the building where Zhang Hongqi lived was not too far from the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau, and everyone ran forward, worried about whether Zhang Hongqi and his family would be killed.

There was a basin in the hallway that had been filled with blood, which had been overturned, and the blood flowed down the staircase to the first floor.

Bao Chu knocked on the door, and Zhang Hongqi and the old couple didn't know anything about the blood in the corridor.

The old man Zhang Hongqi said that he seemed to hear a noise outside the door, and he thought it was a sound made by a wild cat, so he didn't look at it.

After on-site investigation, someone deliberately put a basin of blood above the door frame of Zhang Hongqi's old man's house, and there was a wooden board inserted in the door frame, the wooden board was very thin, and it could not withstand the pressure and broke, and the basin of blood placed on the wooden board fell down. In some places, the blood has coagulated into blood clots, and it can be judged with the naked eye that it is sheep blood - many people have eaten sheep blood tofu.

Could this pot of sheep blood be put on by the murderer of the gut-digging case?

In this corridor, a girl has been tragically disemboweled, and the girl's grandparents now seem to be in some kind of danger.

Professor Leung said: This is not a prank, but a threat.

Bao Chu said: No matter who put it, the purpose is - as soon as the door is opened, this basin of blood will be poured on the head.

Su Mei said: That's right, this basin of blood fell in advance, and the man's trick did not succeed.

The instructor said: Investigate, who has killed sheep recently, and you can almost find this person, this basin......

The instructor felt that the basin was a little familiar, and he looked at it carefully with a flashlight, and recognized that the basin was his own!

The Public Security Bureau entertained the special case team and killed a sheep, who had just eaten mutton. The instructor said that the sheep were slaughtered with the help of a fat local cook, and after killing, the entrails and blood of the sheep were given to him as a reward. Everyone immediately found the fat cook, who was already asleep, and he said sleepily that he had put the sheep's blood on the cement table in front of the door, and planned to move back into the house when the smell of blood had dissipated and condensed into goat's blood tofu, but it was gone.

A man stole a pot of sheep blood and placed it above the door frame of Zhang Hongqi's old man's house.

Both the special case team and the local police vaguely felt that this person was bold and reckless, and he was probably a gut-digging murderer.

The police instructed the old man Zhang Hongqi to be vigilant, not to go out at night, and not to open the door to strangers.

The old man Zhang Hongqi said angrily: Whoever dares to come, I will sharpen the knife and wait.

The next day, the special case team investigated the theft of sheep blood in detail, and what the fat cook said was true. The fat cook's surname is Sun, who was originally a cook in the oilfield logistics canteen, and he is kind and has a simple family relationship. His father is in a nursing home in the oil field, he has been ill for many years, and his children and wife are in the neighboring city. He lives alone in Yumen City and spends most of the year living in the field with the drilling team, cooking for the workers.

The next night, Zhang Hongqi and his wife had a family conflict over trivial matters during dinner, Zhang Hongqi overturned the pot, and his wife went to the grocery store to buy noodles, but he didn't come back for a long time.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door, and the old man Zhang Hongqi opened the inner door and saw his wife standing outside the iron fence security door.

The corridor was pitch black, and the light in the room shone on the face of the old woman through the screen window of the iron grille security door, she actually opened one eye, closed one eye, the open eye had no brilliance, the eyes were extremely weird, and it looked terrifying!