(Foreword)

Distorted compensation, deathbed wishes. What Xiaoyu wants to tell you today is a story about "repayment".

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October 19, 2021 at 08:30

I tried to look out through the dark glass window, but there was only a gray layer of fog, like a hand that blocked everything, so that I could see nothing.

I turned my head back to the strange-looking and frightening-looking doll that was close to me—she had long braids, protruding eyes, strange blood-seeping crimson lips, and was dressed in a pink dress, with a thick rope around her neck, hanging in a glass case, and a shoe falling to the ground.

A chill rushed down my spine, making me shiver and shiver. To be honest, I don't have the slightest interest in this kind of thing, on the contrary, I am very sick to my stomach. If I were alone, I wouldn't want anything to do with it, but unfortunately I'm not alone.

The morning birds were still chirping in the sky, and the sun had just come out, but I was dragged here by Xiao Yao and stood in front of this terrifying puppet.

What the? Why, you ask? Why did she drag me over? The reason is simple, because her sensitive nose smells the case.

Yes, she smelled the case, which was a serial murder disguised as a suicide case. According to Xiao Yao's description, the first victim in this case was an elderly woman, probably between 65 and 70 years old, single, childless, ill, and in debt, meeting all the conditions of suicide, and her death did not reminisce about the possibility of homicide. She was found on a rainy night by a young couple who accidentally took the wrong path in a remote woods that no one cares about all year round. When she was found, she had probably been dead for two or three months, her body was so decomposed that it was long unrecognizable, with a rope firmly tied around her neck and hanging from a branch, and one of her shoes had fallen to the ground. At that time, the police closed the case completely as a suicide, but two weeks later, another middle-aged woman died in the same way in a different woods.

If the first time was an accident and the second time was a coincidence, what about the third and fourth times? So many coincidences must not be coincidences, but the truth that has been cleverly covered up.

The police naturally understood this truth, so they began to investigate the common denominator of these four suicides in recent days. But what disappointed them was that these four victims were not related or similar at all in terms of social background, family background, and living habits, and the unbelievable murder scene could not find anyone else's footprints except their own footprints. And judging from the way the knot was tied and the stool that fell aside, it was indeed the rope they put on themselves, the stool that they kicked down.

The case was in a backwater until yesterday – when the fifth suicide occurred.

This suicide case, no, it should be said that it was his homicide is obviously different from the previous four. The deceased in this suicide case had struggled violently before her death, and the evidence was that the nails of her left and right hands were all broken, and not only that, but there was also an English letter "A" on the inner thigh that had been scratched out by her fingernails. It is precisely with this English letter "A" that the police finally justifiably defined these five cases from suicide to homicide.

However, the letter "A" still left the police at a loss.

Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Yao and Jiang Zhilang met by chance in a dessert shop, and Jiang Zhilang deliberately talked to her about this serial murder case. This made Xiao Yao interested, and she immediately called Sun Shouzi and asked Sun Shouzi to compare the photos of the crime scene and various pictures distributed on the Internet, and found a picture very similar to it on the "Blue Don't Cry Doll Shop". That's why I'm standing here today.

Xiao has to look left and right, eager to dig the doll out of the glass cabinet and pick it up. I looked around, whispering around me with a mocking look.

"Little ...... Small to ...... How do you ...... will be laughed at by others. I said with my head down and blushing.

But Xiao Yao didn't think so, continued to be obsessed with his investigation, and took out a magnifying glass from his pants pocket, and looked at the puppet's head carefully against the glass case.

"Little sister, do you like this doll?" Just as Xiao was about to squat down and want to stick the magnifying glass to the bottom of the glass case, a middle-aged woman dressed plainly and with a warm smile walked over.

"No...... No...... We're just going to take a look. I lowered my head and peeked at the middle-aged woman, who had a sign on her chest with the woman's name "Zhang Xiaoyan" and "store manager" written on it.

"Shop...... Store manager? Are you the store manager? My eyes suddenly widened and I looked at the woman named Zhang Xiaoyan in front of me.

Zhang Xiaoyan laughed, "Yes, little sister, I opened this store, and I am also the manager here." ”

"And this doll...... Did you do it too? I couldn't help but ask.

The woman paused, and for a moment her expression stiffened a little, and her expression darkened: "No, this is what my daughter did." ”

"Your ...... Daughter? I just wanted to ask questions, but Zhang Xiaoyan was called by another clerk, leaving only a smile.

Xiao Yao stood up suddenly, holding his chin with one hand, rubbing his fingers with one hand, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Eh~~ Daughter, it turned out that her daughter did it." ”

"You?! Always...... Listen? ”

"Nonsense, how could I have missed such important information?" Xiao Yao's eyes kept staring at the woman named Zhang Xiaoyan, and at the same time, Sun Slender and Xu Fat ran over.

"Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao, there is a painter over there, and the painting is super good!" Xu Fatzi said excitedly.

But Sun Slender took out a mobile phone from his pocket and presented a photo in front of Xiao Yao, "You see this is the photo you sent me last time, and if you look at the painting drawn by this artist, is it a little similar?" ”

Xiao Yao took the mobile phone from Sun Shouzi's hand and compared it carefully, and it was really very similar.

"Where is this painter? Take me there! Xiao Yao's tone was almost an order, Sun Slender nodded, and walked briskly in front of Xiao Yao with Xu Fatzi, pushing open the door of the doll shop, but there was no one at the door.

"How did he go so fast? ...... is still here in front" Sun Slender touched the back of his head, looking frustrated.

October 19, 2021 at 16:45

Jiang Zhilang didn't know if he was poured some ecstasy decoction by Xiao Yao, or did he really have nothing to do about it? He actually put a thick stack of photos of the murder scene in front of us.

Xiao Yao carefully observed the photos one by one, looking back and forth with a magnifying glass, until the scene of the fifth case, her expression suddenly became solemn.

"What? What exactly? What's missing? ......" Xiao Yao kept repeating this sentence back and forth.

At the same time, Sun Slender took out his mobile phone from his pocket and played a game casually.

"Sun Thinzi, you actually changed to an Apple phone?! I didn't even notice it before! Come, let me see, let me see......" Xu Fatzi snatched the iPhone from Sun Thinzi's hand and played with it in his hand.

"Give it back, give it back!" Sun Slender was obviously in a hurry, and he directly pounced on Xu Fatzi's body and fought with him.

"I won't give it to you, I won't give it to you, isn't it just an Apple phone? Maybe your mom bought it for you just to keep an eye on your every move! ”

"Wait a minute, what did you say?!" Xiao Yao suddenly slapped the table and looked at Xu Fatzi with both eyes.

Xu Fatzi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, glanced at Xiao Yao, and repeated: "If I don't give it to you, I won't give it to you......"

"No, not that!"

"Isn't it just an iPhone?" Xu Fatzi repeated again.

"It's not! One more sentence! ”

"Maybe your mom bought it for you just to spy on your every move!" Xu Fatzi repeated again.

"That's right! That's it, that's it! Xiao Yao excitedly picked up the photo of the fifth murder scene and put it in front of us, "I always felt that there was something missing here, it turned out to be a mobile phone!" ”

"Cell phone?!" We spoke almost in unison.

"That's right! It's a mobile phone! Xiao Yao pointed to the handbag that the deceased had left aside and placed a magnifying glass on the bag. You see, the deceased was obviously a mobile phone controller, and there was a mobile phone film and a mobile phone pendant in the bag. But where did the key phones go? Uncle Jiang Zhilang, did you find any of the deceased's belongings? ”

Jiang Zhilang shook his head.

Xiao Yao continued, "That means that the deceased's key mobile phone is missing, and there is actually an English letter 'A' on her inner thigh that has been scratched by her fingernails. But why did she desperately carve an 'A' with her fingernails on a temporary occasion? There is only one explanation I want to explain, she wants to tell us that the phone is with the murderer, and it is an iPhone! ”

"But even if she's desperately trying to tell us that she has an iPhone with the killer, what's the use?" Fat Xu asked puzzled.

Sun Slender suddenly realized, "I understand, I understand!" The iPhone has a location function, and we can find its location just by surfing the Internet! But suddenly he lowered his head in disappointment, "But we don't know her Apple ID account and password, how to locate it?" ”

"I think she's already told us about that."

"Already told us?" Sun Slender Man glanced at Xu Fat Man, and Xu Fat Man also glanced at Sun Thin Man, and the two of them looked dazed.

Xiao Yao stretched out his index and middle fingers and placed them in front of them, explaining: "'The sun is in the middle of the day, and the moon is in the sky', and the index and middle fingers allude to this sentence. ”

"What does that mean?" Fat Xu asked, tilting his head.

The meaning of this statement is that the sun will set west at noon, and the moon will begin to wane at its fullest point. When things develop to a certain extent, they will be transformed in the opposite direction. Jiang Zhilang replied with a smile with his hands crossed.

"But I still don't understand." Fat Xu still couldn't figure it out.

Xiao Yao pointed to the pendant of the victim's handbag in the photo and further explained: "A woman like her, who has a bit of intelligence and knows how to leave a secret before death, will not give us the kind of information that we can't find at all." Looking at all her belongings and considering that she is a mobile phone controller, I have come to the following hypothesis: if you look at the line of English letters and numbers on this pendant in reverse, it is the Apple ID account number and password of her iPhone. ”

"Really?! No way?! Xu Fatzi couldn't believe it.

Sun Slender immediately took out the laptop from his backpack, opened the browser, and directly entered the English letters on the pendant and the numbers in the line below. Sure enough, the map showed the location of the GPS location, which we were all too familiar with as the location of the "Blue Don't Cry Doll Shop" that we had just visited.

"Sun Slender Man, hold your notebook and observe whether that point has moved at any time!" Xiao Yao stood up directly and shouted at us, "Quick, let's go!" ”

Jiang Zhilang quickly rushed to the door, drove the police car parked opposite, Xiao Yao gestured at him, and shouted at him: "The police car is too conspicuous, the suspect will definitely flee as soon as he hears the siren!" We hit the past! ”

Jiang Zhilang nodded, immediately stepped out of the police car, and waved his hand to call a taxi. The taxi could only seat a maximum of four people, and as a police officer, he shook his head helplessly, and reluctantly squeezed into the same taxi as our little boys.

October 19, 2021 at 17:22

After a while, we were back again at the "Blue Don't Cry Doll Shop". As soon as our car stopped across the street from the doll shop, the suspect's location began to move.

From the doll shop, we saw a man with a low brim, wrapped himself tightly and indistinguishable from a man, quickly got into a taxi, and drove quickly.

"That's him! That's him! Sun Shouzi pointed in the direction of the taxi and shouted.

"Driver, get away! I'm a cop, keep up with that car in front! Jiang Zhilang showed his police ID and ordered the driver to follow the taxi in front.

The driver sped forward, shoehorned his horsepower, crossed the trail, and finally stopped in front of the taxi at the fourth junction.

Jiang Zhilang quickly jumped out of the car, knocked the glass of the car, and showed his police ID, "Come down, I suspect that you are a serial murderer ......" Before Jiang Zhilang's words were finished, the person inside raised his head and showed his blonde eyes, "Hat?hat's your mean?"

Jiang Zhilang paused for three seconds, and then continued: "Don't think that if you are a foreigner, I won't dare to arrest you!" ”

"First time, Uncle Jiang, it's not him! Not him! Sun Slender ran over, out of breath, and said to Jiang Zhilang, "Uncle Jiang...... Uncle Jiang...... That, the location of that phone...... At the time of the third intersection...... Stopped. ”

"What?! Stopped?! Jiang Zhilang looked surprised, looked at the foreigner in front of him awkwardly, and said with a smile: "elcome to China!" Then he led us out of there quickly.

October 19, 2021 17:35

Back at the third intersection, we found the deceased's iPhone under the trash can on the side of the road. However, the fingerprints of the murderer on it have long been erased, and everything seems to be back to square one.

"Damn! It was supposed to be the car, but we kept following it, and we were in a state of speeding like it, and we didn't have time or possibility to throw away our phones. Sun Slender said unwillingly.

"It can't be that foreigner, I just found someone to verify, the foreigner in the car only came to China today, and it is the first time to come to China, it is impossible to commit a crime." Jiang Zhilang lit a cigarette and exhaled a long smoke ring.

"How the hell did the murderer disappear right under our noses? How did they follow the murderer in an unsuspecting situation, and finally made them commit suicide......" Xu Fatzi rubbed his hair.

"Wait a minute, what did you say?" Xiao Yao's eyes widened suddenly.

"I said, how the hell did the murderer disappear right under our noses?" Fat Xu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and repeated it.

"No, no, next sentence!" Xiao Yao frowned.

Xu Fatzi glanced at me and repeated it again: "How did you let them follow the murderer without defense, and finally make them commit suicide?" ”

"Yes, that's it!" Xiao Yao laughed excitedly and glanced at everyone in the room, "I'm so stupid, why didn't I think of it sooner?" Why would those victims voluntarily follow the killer? There is only one answer, and that is that the murderer's job is to be a taxi driver! ”

"What?! He's the taxi driver? yes, why didn't we think of that? We only suspected the passengers, but not the driver! But that's not right, even if the suspect is the taxi driver, but how did he throw away his phone right under our noses? ”

He put the phone in front of us, and turned it upside down, with some glass glue wrapped around it and a magnet tied to it.

Xiao Yao explained, "When the murderer found out from the reflector of the taxi that he was being followed all the way, his first reaction should have been to think of the deceased's mobile phone in his hand. So he tied the magnet to his phone and wrapped it around the glass glue a few times. When our eyes were all attracted by the moment Jiang Zhilang opened the car door, he quickly threw out his mobile phone and sucked it into a car that happened to be passing by on the other side. When the car is running, the mobile phone is sucked on it, but when the car stops at the intersection, the vibration of the body causes the mobile phone to fall, and the entangled glass glue reduces the resistance of the mobile phone when it slides, and it naturally slides to the side of the road and accidentally falls under the trash can. It may have only been a minute or two, but it provided him with proof that he could not be the murderer. ”

Xiao Yao's speculation, no, it was reasoning, it was wonderful, and we all stayed there listening to it. If it was true, as she said, the driver was undoubtedly the first suspect.

Following Xiao Yao's reasoning, Jiang Zhilang refocused his gaze on the driver. According to Jiang Zhilang's investigation, the driver's original name was Hong Baoxin, and he was the ex-husband of Zhang Xiaoyan, the manager of the "Blue Don't Cry Doll Shop", and the two of them had a ten-year-old daughter eleven years ago. However, because Hong Baoxin only cares about work all the year round, he completely neglects the mother and daughter, resulting in her daughter being withdrawn and often bullied on campus. Finally, on a misty night, the daughter committed suicide in the woods, and the death was the same as her favorite doll.

Now Hong Baoxin is nearly sixty years old, but the body is not as good as a year after half a hundred, he often thinks of his daughter, whenever he thinks of his daughter, he will go to the "Blue Don't Cry Doll Shop" alone, set up a wooden stool, and paint at the door.

Jiang Zhilang withstood great pressure and finally applied for a search warrant. Although the murderer destroyed almost all the clues, he painted the scene of the crime into a series of oil paintings and enshrined them in front of his daughter's altar.

Jiang Zhilang asked him that his daughter's death had nothing to do with those innocent dead, so why did he involve other people? He told Jiang Zhilang that this was a kind of compensation, for ignoring his daughter in front of him, making her feel withdrawn, and finally committing suicide and dying. He sent one companion after another to his daughter, so that she could be accompanied by countless people in the new world.

Jiang Zhilang asked him again how he made those girls commit suicide by themselves? His answer was simple, faster than he or the girl who died. He pointed at the girls with a snatch, and asked the girls to take their own small benches and go into the grove and stand under a tree not far away. Then he used a timer slingshot to hold the gun a meter away from him, and told the girl that as long as they put the rope around their necks and pushed down the stool for three minutes, the bullet would automatically shoot through his chest, otherwise he would kill the girl with a robbery.

Between hope and despair, almost everyone chooses the extremely slim hope. In this way, those girls were all caught in his way, but they never thought that once the thick rope that broke their lives was put around their necks, they would not be able to take it off.

When we learned the cause and effect of all this from Jiang Zhilang's mouth, we all chose to remain silent for some reason. The late father's love imposes all the pain on others, what compensation can it be regarded as? But it's just a superposition of pain, an abyss of sin.

(End of chapter)