Case Twenty-Six: Game 3
And somewhere in the mountains.
The long cordon coiled out a small area, where a simple forest hut was located, and from time to time police officers came in and out, and from time to time policemen ran into the distance and vomited.
"I've been dead for more than two weeks." The medical examiner, with an exaggerated gas mask on his face, said vaguely.
There were five corpses in the hut, badly decomposed, full of flies and insects, pus everywhere, the corpse stenched, and on the ground was a large patch of wriggling maggots.
Shen Sen covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, frowned and said, "If it weren't for the fact that a traveler happened to go to this inaccessible place and found these five corpses, I'm afraid that no one would find out that there were dead people here for a long time." ”
Jiang Tian carefully avoided the corpse water and maggots on the ground, stepped on the passage bridge to the corpse, and began to look around the hut.
The hut was small, about a dozen square meters, with a round table in the center, and a highly decomposed corpse tied with ropes to each of the five chairs.
The first corpse, slumped in a chair, slightly tilted to the left, missing an eyeball, with a steel bar running through its head. A crossbow was placed on the table directly opposite the corpse, and it was tentatively deduced that the steel bar was fired from the crossbow opposite the corpse.
The second corpse, seated, had a large axe slicing open two-thirds of its head. There is a lever spring structure on the table, the axe is tied to a steel pipe, and it is suspected that the lever structure has been triggered, and the giant axe has split the victim's head straight through the action of a strong spring.
The third body, with the upper body left on the chair and the lower body on the ground. The chair has a slide rail device, placed at an angle, on which a chainsaw is mounted. After the chainsaw was energized, it slid along the slide rail due to its own weight, cutting open the body of the deceased.
The fourth corpse had a vacuum bag over its head, an electric suction machine connected to the suction port of the vacuum compression bag, and the plug was connected to a remote control board, which was controlled by remote control. After the electricity was turned on, the air in the vacuum bag was pumped out, and the deceased suffocated to death.
The fifth corpse had many steel nails on its face, and there was also a steel nail gun on its body, which had no steel nails in it, and it should have been all hit in the victim's face.
Five victims, five ways to die, tragic deaths, brutal methods.
"There is a sense of ritual in this scene." Jiang Tian said softly.
"Xiaotian, do you remember a horror movie we watched before?" Shensen walked over and looked at the five corpses with his chin propped up.
"You mean, Saw Horror?"
"Yes, this scene gives me the feeling of watching Saw." Shen Sen frowned, "Five dead, died from five kinds of carefully arranged mechanisms......"
"Iwanttoplayagame, liveordie, makeyourchoice......" Jiang Tian muttered to himself like a dream.
"I want to play a game, live or die, make your choice." Shen Sen picked up the steel nail gun and shook his head, "No, this steel nail gun doesn't have any mechanism, how was it fired?" It was thrown on the deceased, was it the murderer? ”
"Brother Shen, look." Jiang Tian pulled Rashenson and looked at the top of the two of them.
"What's the matter?"
Shen Sen followed Jiang Tian's gaze and found that there was a mirror at the ceiling, reflecting everything below.
"Mirrors? Strange, how can the mirror be mounted on the ceiling? Wait a minute, no, the picture is dark, this is no ordinary mirror! ”
"One-way mirror." Jiang Tian stared at the mirror and said.
……
Cottages, attics.
"The killer is watching this." Shen Sen crouched down and looked at the messy footprints on the glass mirror, "He just stood here, watching what was happening below. ”
"Motivation, what is motivation?"
At this time, Xu Ang below beckoned to Shen Sen and Jiang Tian, "Team Shen, Xiaotian, can you see me?" Can you hear me? ”
Xu Ang's voice came from a corner of the attic, and Shen Sen walked in to take a look, and found that it was a small speaker.
"There's a radio downstairs that transmits sound through a loudspeaker." Shen Sen took a deep breath and said in a loud voice, "Xu Ang, can you hear me?" ”
"I can hear it, but the voice has changed."
"It seems that there is also a microphone in the attic, and through the voice changing device, the voice here is played to the people below, and it seems that the murderer is standing on top of the heads of five people, controlling this murderous feast!"
Jiang Tian looked at Shen Sen, "Brother Shen, we have to find out the identities of the five deceased, check their social relationships, and see what the intersection is, I don't think the murderer will catch five unrelated people here and kill them for no reason, motives, motives are very important." ”
Shen Sen smiled and patted Jiang Tian on the shoulder, "Xiaotian, we will all do these things, you are about to start school, don't focus on the homicide, you know, take it easy, your nerves have been too tense recently." ”
Jiang Tian looked at Shen Sen suspiciously, stunned for more than ten seconds, then smiled with relief and nodded, "Yes, school is about to start, I am a student, yes, I am a student." ”
Then, Jiang Tian didn't say anything anymore, went down to the attic, calmly stepped on the passage bridge to avoid the maggots, and left the scene.
He came to Xu Ang's police car, indifferently took a garbage bag from the car, and walked to the bushes next to him.
My mind is filled with missing eye sockets, dried and blackened brains, rotting and foul-smelling intestines, swollen and green corpses, buzzing insects and flies, and wriggling fat maggots......
Yes, I'm a student, why do I want to get in touch with this?
Inexplicably nauseous.
Finally, Jiang Tian couldn't help it anymore and vomited frantically......
If it hadn't happened, that would be great.
It would be nice to go back to a year ago.
How nice it would be to turn a blind eye and be confused!
How nice it would be to have a game and a dream!
So...... If you don't use it yourself, you don't need it...... Got him......
It was dark in front of him, and Jiang Tian fainted......
……
"Lord Jiang, Lord Jiang, are you okay?"
Jiang Tian woke up leisurely and saw a bewitching plump woman close at hand, with an anxious look on her face.
"I ...... What's wrong with me? Girl, you're ......."
Wait a minute, no, it seems to be ...... here
Jiang Tian saw the dark red minotaur figure on the wall, and realized that he was back in that dream of the Tang Dynasty.
"Lord Jiang, you ......" The bewitching woman seemed to realize that something was wrong.
Jiang Tian saw the doubt in her eyes, and hurriedly said, "Little young girl, it's okay, I'm just a little tired." ”
In the "Son of Heaven Game" unit of "Tang Case Strange Story", Xiaoqing, an important witness of Qinglou, should be her, right?
"Master Jiang is fine." Xiaoqing breathed a long sigh of relief, "Then Xiaoqing won't disturb Lord Jiang's rest, Xiaoqing will retire first." ”
"Wait a minute!" Jiang Tian hurriedly stopped her.
After sorting out his thoughts, Jiang Tian opened his mouth and asked, "This room, that is, the scene of Zhang Hu's death a month ago, you were the first to find the deceased, right?" ”
"Ah...... Yes, my lord, haven't you asked all of these questions before? Xiaoqing asked suspiciously.
Something was hidden.
Yes, it is written in the novel that during the interrogation, when talking about Zhang Hu's loss of property, the protagonist found Xiaoqing's strange appearance, searched for the deceased's things from her, and then found another key piece of physical evidence in this case!
"When Zhang Hu's family sorted through his belongings, they found that something was missing." Jiang Tianyun said lightly, picked up the teacup and drank tea, and secretly watched Xiaoqing's reaction.
Xiaoqing's brows furrowed slightly, her breathing accelerated, and her right hand was unnaturally raised and then lowered, looking very weird.
"What's wrong? Nervous? ”
Jiang Tian glanced at one of his subordinates, and the subordinates understood, grabbed Xiaoqing's hand, tore open his sleeves, and saw a milky white jade bracelet on his wrist.
"Little young girl, where did this jade bracelet come from?"
"Ah, this is, this is ......" Xiaoqing looked anxious, "This is my family heirloom......"
"Hetian jade seed material bracelet, the market price is five thousand taels, you are a woman in a green building, if you have such property, why do you need to sell yourself here!"
Jiang Tian recalled the lines of the protagonist in "Tang Case Strange Talk", and pretended to say sharply.
Zhang Hu was a jade merchant, and after his death, three precious jade objects were missing from the package he carried with him.
I thought it was a murderer robbing money, but I didn't expect it to be accompanied. He who sleeps guards himself and steals.
Xiaoqing confessed to stealing property from Zhang Hu's package after discovering that Zhang Hu had been killed, but surprisingly, there was a fourth thing in Xiaoqing's stolen goods.
It was picked up by Xiaoqing at the foot of the bed.
A piece of gold-embroidered cloth.
……
Tai Chi Temple.
The emperor sat on the dragon chair, His Royal Highness stood Jiang Tian, and Zhou Hao was beside him.
"Jiang Qing, although I love you very much, but above this hall, I can't tolerate you being so presumptuous, what do you want to do when you don't kneel when you see me?"
Those who have seen the ending, an open life, but this dream is too boring.
The last case in "The Strange Tales of the Tang Case", "The Game of the Son of Heaven", the protagonist finds out that the emperor is the one behind the scenes, and finally makes a private agreement with the emperor, announcing that the protagonist is dead. In fact, the protagonist's heart died, and the emperor let him go to the rivers and lakes to get away.
But after seeing the ending, how can you be willing to be at the mercy of fate?
It's really unwilling, unwilling, even if it's in a dream, why are you still there!
Jiang Tian stared at the emperor's face, the face he was very familiar with.
In reality, you are a murderer, even in your dreams, you don't want to be a good person!
You are, my dear, my family! Why do you want me to arrest you, force me to kill you!
"Your Majesty." Jiang Tian's face was gloomy, "Wei Chen found a piece of gold embroidered cloth at the scene of Zhang Hu's crime, which was confirmed to have been torn from Zhou Hao's clothes, and he has recruited them all!" ”
Jiang Tian looked at Zhou Hao's corpse with a cold gaze.