Chapter 19 Stomach in the Air

The mother and son lived in a building at the back, and the old building where the crime occurred could be seen from the window of their house, and when the child's sister went to the toilet in the middle of the night, she always habitually looked out of the window, and several times saw a person walking in the corridor, because the distance was far away, the sky was dark, and she couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, and only vaguely saw a figure.

The special case team questioned the child's sister, and the child's sister said that she had seen it three times, and each time she felt creepy, and one of them, the person seemed to be wearing no shoes and walked into the dark corridor.

Bao Shu left a phone number and told the child's sister that if she saw anything unusual in the hallway, she would call immediately.

The child's sister said, "I have a telescope, Uncle Policeman, I'll keep watch for you."

The child jumped up and grabbed the binoculars and said excitedly: Sister, I want to see it too.

Murderous demons are actually ordinary people, they pass by us, they eat at the same table with us.

The gut-digging murderer is hiding in this empty city, and the place where he lives is very close to the old building where the crime occurred. Because of the limited police force, it is impossible to search for the killer on a large scale. The special case team and the local police focused on the location of the crime, focusing on the surrounding households, especially the neighbors who were playing cards downstairs at the time of the crime, and all collected fingerprints and palm prints, and compared them with the bloody handprints in the corridor where the crime occurred one by one.

According to the analysis of the special case team, the motive for the crimes of these two perverted cases can be characterized as revenge killing, and the ultimate goal is to kill the old man Zhang Hongqi. A person's hatred often harms the innocent, so Chen Luomo and her grandmother were killed one after another.

The old man Zhang Hongqi did not hear the murderer coming downstairs, because the man was barefoot and did not wear shoes.

The murderer's criminal methods are escalating step by step, he walked into the corridor, stood barefoot in the corridor, and held a scale in his hand, he was able to wait quietly for several hours, first ambushed the working girl Chen Luomo in the corridor, and then killed her grandmother.

The murderer was extremely cruel and frenzied, and in both cases the victims' intestines were pulled out.

The second case was particularly horrific, with the killer crouching behind the old woman, holding her body and knocking on the door. If the old man Zhang Hongqi opened the door rashly, he would probably have been killed.

Zhang Hongqi's wife was killed, the bad news spread, and some immediate family members came to mourn, all of them grief-stricken. For safety reasons, a relative wanted to take the old man Zhang Hongqi to live in the new city, but the old man refused to move, saying that he was used to living here and did not like to send people under the fence. He stubbornly said: No matter who he is, he wants to harm me, I am waiting for him.

The old man sharpened the kitchen knife and prepared a rebar rod to put at the head of the bed.

The special case team decided to open a breakthrough in the relatives of the old man Zhang Hongqi, and asked in detail who the old man Zhang Hongqi had had a conflict with, and whether he had any enemies who still lived in Yumen City.

The Red Guards of that year are now middle-aged and elderly, but this huge group seems to have disappeared, and no one mentioned the events of that year. They chose to forget.

However, history cannot be forgotten.

The old man Zhang Hongqi chose to remain silent and avoided talking about the events of the year, and the special case team asked him several times, hoping that he would provide clues, but the old man Zhang Hongqi actually lied and denied it in every way, and he denied that he had ever been a Red Guard.

Sometimes, we can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Bao Shu said: If it was the victim back then, and now he is coming to take revenge, then the murderer is almost an old man.

Su Mei said: How can an old man kill one person and seriously injure another, not to mention that Chen Luomo, the girl who devoured the victim, reflected that the murderer was a middle-aged man.

Hualong said: The girl was frightened at that time, and the light in the corridor was dark, so she may have misjudged the age of the murderer.

Professor Liang said: Don't underestimate us old people, me

If I can stand up, you don't have to be my opponent.

Bao Chu said: Uncle Liang, how dare I do it with you.

Hua Long said: I know an old man who patrols every night, rain or shine for 20 years, he alone caught dozens of thieves stealing bicycles, and the leaders of the Public Security Bureau go to visit him every New Year's Day.

Su Mei said: It is also possible that the descendants of the victims are seeking revenge.

Human hatred can last for many years. From crimes to wars.

The murderer Sun Wei was caught stealing melons when he was a child, and when he grew up, he killed several people who beat him back then; College student Zou was expelled from the school for fighting, and ten years later, he retaliated and stabbed the school leader to death with a fruit knife; Many years after a pair of extramarital lovers broke up, the woman was always obsessed with it and did not hesitate to buy murder.

The Special Task Force decided to investigate from the periphery.

The Yumen City Department Store has ceased business, and there are some elderly people gathered in the open space in front of the door every day, they sit on the Mazar to bask in the sun, and one of the elderly people holds a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and reads a passage in the book in a frustrated manner: "On the temple, the rotten wood is the official, and between the palace and the majesty, the birds and beasts eat Lu; The wolf-hearted dogs, the people who are in power, the servants and the kneeling, have been in power......"

Su Mei walked over and said: We are from the Public Security Bureau, I want to inquire, have you heard of the "Cong Zhong Xiao" combat team?

An old man smiled on his honest face and asked rhetorically: Underworld?

Su Mei said: This is not an underworld organization.

Bao Chop said: It's the Red Guards.

Drawing the dragon said: You, who has been a Red Guard?

Su Mei said: We just want to understand the situation, don't misunderstand.

The old people laughed, and no one admitted that they were not very interested in the subject, and one by one they picked up the mazars and left one after another, and at last only the old man who was studying was left. Professor Liang rocked his wheelchair and chatted, first chatting a few words about the Three Kingdoms, and then encouraging him to talk about the events of the 10-year Holocaust.

Professor Liang said: At that time, I was abroad, so you can tell us about your experience and let the young people know about it.

The old man who was studying recalled the past and sighed with emotion, he said: In 1957, I was branded as a rightist and sent to work on the farm. I built the wall with mud, and from 1957 to 1978, I built the wall for 21 years. Where is the wall I built, build up and tear down, build up and tear down, and the cycle is endless, and they just make me work non-stop, trying to exhaust me.

Su Mei asked: So perverted?

The old man who was studying said: You young people can't imagine how perverted it was at that time. Just because you step on a newspaper, you will be criticized and beaten; Just because you farted while reciting a poem, you committed a heinous sin; Just because hanging a painting in the bedroom is counter-revolutionary, and your dad and mom are going to slap each other; If you have a big butt, you will be slandered as a landlord and will be criticized.

Su Mei said: Are these true?

The old man who was studying said: Many people know these things, but they just don't want to talk about them. There is a small black room in the courtyard of the auditorium of Yumen City, where the performance props are placed, and it is the place where the Red Guards criticized and beat people back then, and the blood coagulated on the wall has grown hair in summer. You policemen, have you ever seen the blood of long hair?

Most of the buildings in Yumen City maintain the style of the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, which is very old, and there are still a large number of old bungalows from decades ago.

The auditorium had become an abandoned sawmill, and the old house was empty, as if it had been waiting for someone to arrive. The floor was littered with damp sawdust, the traces of old slogans on the walls were blurred, and the hairy blood was long gone.

The special case team and the local police expanded the scope of investigation, focusing on the city's elderly population, the murderer is likely to be an elderly man, who was persecuted by the old man Zhang Hongqi during the "Cultural Revolution", and the hatred left over from history is like a bomb buried deep in the past, although it has been decades, it can still erupt. The palmprint comparison work was carried out at the same time, but the results were disappointing, and after comparison, the palmprint and the corridor collected by the police

None of the bloody handprints found in the city matched.

The case is at an impasse, there is no light in sight, and all the police can do is wait.

A few days later, late at night, a boy went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, rubbing his eyes and seeing the curtains of a house on the opposite floor moving. The child woke up the sister, and the sister was also surprised. Who touches the curtains in the middle of the night? I thought it was caused by the wind, but the windows of that house were closed, and the glass was intact, so someone could only touch the curtain inside, as if someone had slapped the curtain with their hand, and after a while, they slapped it again, and so on.

That window is the bedroom of the old man Zhang Hongqi.

My sister immediately reported the abnormal situation by phone, and the special case team and six local policemen quickly arrived, and when they went upstairs, they saw an extremely bloody and perverted scene.

The door was open, the ceiling fan in the bedroom was turning, and an old man fell in a pool of blood, and there was a whole pair of people's intestines hanging on the ceiling fan, and the intestines were wrapped around the bearings, and blood droplets were sprinkled all over the room, and the walls, floors, and wooden chairs were covered with blood, dotted with stars. The ceiling fan is slowly rotating, with a section of intestines hanging on the fan blades, and a human stomach hanging at the bottom, and the hanging intestines and stomachs are circling in the air, flicking around, and constantly twitching the curtains.

The fan slowly stopped spinning, and the stomach drooped down, and some mucus flowed out, which was not yet fully digested porridge, and there were still some corn kernels in it.

Su Mei felt nauseous and couldn't help but want to vomit, she also drank polenta at dinner.

The old man Zhang Hongqi was killed, his lower body was hooked open by an iron hook, and the murderer took out his intestines, and then wrapped them around the electric fan, because of the fan's drive, he dragged out the stomach pouch from his body.

The scene was miserable, Bao Chu noticed that the screen window of the iron fence security door was ignited, and some styrofoam was stuffed, which should be done by the murderer, deliberately set fire, thick smoke entered the room, Zhang Hongqi opened the door to check, put out the fire, and the murderer also waited for the opportunity to enter the room and kill him.

There were obvious signs of a fight at the scene of the murder, and the murder weapon was left at the scene, which was an iron hook hanging pork, which could be seen on a pork stall in a village market.

The rebar rod used by the old man Zhang Hongqi for self-defense fell to the ground, and there were blood stains on the kitchen knife, indicating that the murderer was injured in the struggle.

Professor Liang picked up the kitchen knife and looked at it, and said: Everyone go after it immediately, the murderer is injured, and he will definitely not be able to run far!

Professor Liang and the instructor stayed at the scene, and the rest of the people quickly launched a search with flashlights, and Hualong found some blood stains in the corridor, it seems that the murderer's injuries were not light, and Bao Chop also found a few drops of blood at the root of the wall downstairs, and several policemen thought that the front was the murderer's escape route, and ran with a flashlight to chase it.

Bao Chu dipped his fingers in the blood, sniffed it, looked up, and shouted: Come back, don't chase over there.

Several policemen hurriedly ran back, puzzled, and whispered: This is not blood, it is water.

In the dark night, the blood stains and the water are indeed a little difficult to distinguish, and a policeman muttered: Strange, it hasn't rained for the past few days, where does the water come from?

Bao Chu motioned for everyone to be silent, and he pointed upwards, where there was a flower pot on the windowsill on the fourth floor. When the old man Zhang Hongqi usually comes back from a walk, he will take a look at a window upstairs, and there is a pot of spider plants on the windowsill. It was clear that the water at the base of the wall downstairs was dripping from the flower pots.

Except for the old man Zhang Hongqi, the residents of this old building have all moved away. When the residents moved, they handed over the keys and kept them by the neighborhood committee. After the incident, the local police searched every room in the building and found nothing suspicious. Now, however, it is strange that someone is watering the flowers in a room that should be empty. There is only one possibility, after the crime, the murderer moved in again, lurking in the house of the family who moved out on the fourth floor.

The murderer is hiding in this building!

All the policemen immediately rushed to the fourth floor, and Hualong, Bao Chop, and Su Mei all took out their guns, and everyone stood in front of the door, ready to rush in.

The door didn't close, and a gust of wind blew, and the door slowly opened.