Chapter 66: Testimony of the Dead (5)
Anna turned to leave the office, followed by the men of the executive department carrying the corpses, and the queen came in a dashing manner, her long leather boots clattering on the solid wooden floor, like a German aristocratic female officer. To be honest, the post-mortem is not something anyone can do, Ariana was not a forensic doctor, and she didn't deal with corpses, her major was biology, specializing in virus and genetics research, but there was really no second relevant talent in the security zone, Luo Chengleihe may know a little bit about pathology and detectives, but their foundation is at most used to track hunters, and it is too far from the queen.
The last member of the executive department left the office, and Belle closed the door.
"Is there any news from the surveillance side?"
"I've contacted Telencephal." Rech shook his head, "She didn't see anything, and like last time, the killer avoided all surveillance. ”
Belle sat down on the couch, "John Jones is dead, what does that mean?" ”
"It means that we have found an important person, and we may solve part of the mystery as a result, but there are parts of the mystery that we may never know."
The people in the office fell silent, they thought that finding John Jones or Zhao Gao would reveal the truth of the case, but it turned out that everyone thought too simply, John Jones's body appeared, but his strange death led the case into another strange puzzle.
Ariana may have some clues from John Jones's corpse, but dead people are dead people after all, and they can't speak, and there are as many clues on that corpse as there are mysteries, and the deeper you dig, the more mysterious you can feel about the case.
Who hung John Jones' body on the roof of the main building? Is it Zhao Gao? Why did he do it? And how did he do it?
"Why did the murderer hang the body out of the window?" Belle looked up at the floor-to-ceiling window of her office, the curtains had been drawn, "We didn't find the body at all during the day today, so he only hung it tonight, right?" ”
"More importantly, how did the killer bring the body up? John Jones is an adult who is more than 1.8 meters tall and weighs more than 200 pounds, and the murderer wants to take him to the roof of the main building, how to avoid the eyes and ears of other people? Reich frowned, "It's such a big person, and you can't fit it in your jacket pocket." ”
Indeed, it is impossible to bring an adult up to the top floor without anyone noticing, the main building is the most heavily guarded and populated building in the academy, and the corridors from the basement to the top floor are full of people, and no one can carry a corpse on their backs to hide from the eyes of so many people, as for climbing up from the outer wall of the main building...... That's even more unrealistic, not to mention that there are no dead spots around the main building, there are snipers on duty on nearby floors, each of which is equipped with thermal night vision devices as standard, and no one can fool their eyes.
"Hell...... Headache headache. Belle pressed her forehead on the couch, looked up at the ceiling, and let out a long sigh, "What kind of is this?" ”
Rehe got up, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and reached out to pull the curtain open.
The playground below was brightly lit, the entire executive department was called, and the colonel was the first to notify the gang when he found the body, and they quickly cordoned off the schoolyard, and the patrol team was searching house to house, and each of them had the right to shoot at any unknown creature.
A black shadow suddenly fell overhead and stopped abruptly outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
Reich was startled, took a step back, and subconsciously reached out to draw his gun, but before he could touch the handle of the pistol, his movements stopped.
"Zero distance? What are you doing? Do you want to scare me to death? ”
Luo Cheng grabbed a thick hemp rope tightly with his left hand, hung it out of the window and swayed it, turning his head to look at the people in the office.
The young man knocked lightly on the glass outside the window, and motioned for the people in the room to let him in.
"What the hell are you doing?" Rehe opened the floor-to-ceiling window, and Luo Cheng jumped into the office, landed firmly on the floor, and then untied the rope wrapped around his wrist.
"I was just on the top floor, simulating the murderer's behavior." Luo Cheng nodded at the old man sitting behind the desk, "Colonel." ”
The old man nodded.
"There are very few traces left on the roof, and no valuable clues can be found." Luo Cheng sat down on the sofa next to Belle, "I'm trying to find out why the murderer hung the body on the roof of the main building, I thought there would be something special here, so I just tried it......"
"The result?"
"The results are nothing special." Luo Cheng shook his head, "The main building is no different from other buildings, so now I think this behavior of the murderer may just be out of a sense of ritual and symbolism." ”
"What do you mean?" Belle asked.
"Hanging a corpse on a high place, in the same way that in ancient times the heads of condemned prisoners were cut off and hung on the towers of the city, it was undoubtedly a very ceremonial and symbolic act, and it was a form of terrorism as a warning...... Terrorists also shoot videos of hostage-killing and disseminate them in order to draw public attention and promote fear. Luo Cheng replied, "The murderer hung John Jones's body on the roof of the main building, if we don't find it tonight, then the whole academy will see it early tomorrow morning, which will cause great panic." ”
Rehe was stunned, "What do you mean...... The murderer is warning us? ”
"There's a Chinese idiom called 'killing a chicken and setting an example for monkeys,' which literally means that slaughtering a chicken in front of the monkeys can stop the whole herd." Luo Cheng nodded, "The murderer may have this intention by hanging the body in such a conspicuous place as the main building, he is warning us...... John Jones' death was what happened to us. ”
Rehe took a deep breath and shook his head slowly.
"It's not a warning."
Luo Cheng was stunned.
"This is not a warning...... This is a provocation, he is laughing at us. "He's laughing at our incompetence, he's hanging our men from the rooftops, and we're helpless!" ”
Reich slapped the coffee table and almost knocked over the porcelain cup.
The colonel's phone rang suddenly, and the old man pressed the hands-free button.
The man's gruff voice came from the megaphone: "Executive Department Patrol Team Report!" Patrol Team Report! We've found the target! The target has been found! ”
Everyone in the office was stunned.
"The target is fleeing southeast! He wounded both of us......" The Executive Department panted, "We can't catch up!" A girl catches up with a knife, and the target is about to flee the safe zone! ”
"Don't let him go!" The old man interrupted, "Listen, allow shooting!" Guns are allowed! ”
Contact was cut off, and there was a dead silence in the office.
Belle and Luo Cheng got up and left without saying a word, and the two snipers both brought their weapons with them, and they grabbed the box and rushed out of the door.
"Don't let me catch that bastard, or I'll hang him on the roof of the main building!" Rech followed suit, "Whoever he is." ”