"This small western-style building is actually no longer owned by the Qiao family. What can be found now is that thirty-six years ago, Qiao Zhenbang's father sold this property, and after that, the property rights of the house have changed hands several times, and finally the name on the property book is this——"

He Jun said, took out his mobile phone, and showed Cheng Cheng a photo of the real estate certificate, and Lao Dao and I also came up to look at it, and as a result, the three of us said "huh" together.

I saw that the name written on the column of the property owner turned out to be-

Jolo!

Seeing that we were not reacting right, He Jun wondered: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

I shook my hand before Cheng Cheng and said, "It's nothing, I just think this name is familiar - have you found the property owner?" ”

He Jun shook his head: "No." It is said that someone has been seen dealing with the property, but it is not known if it is not the owner himself. After that, the current victim moved in, and she claimed to be renting. The victim's name is Yu Yashi, 25 years old, and her profession is a female online anchor. ”

He Jun switched the photos in his mobile phone, and a beautiful and enchanting woman appeared on the mobile phone display.

This Yu Yashi is a beauty embryo herself, in the photo, she twists her waist and swings her hips, her posture is sultry, plus a delicate melon seed face, with a clever smile and flaming red lips, she is really a stunner who provokes fire.

"Spicy enough! It's a pity. Li Yi on the side sighed, this guy is only looking at beautiful women.

But I saw clearly that He Jun's mobile phone screen also showed "no signal", so I pretended to ask casually: "Officer He, your mobile phone has no signal?" ”

"Yes, the nearby signal tower has been out of order, it's been a few days, I heard that the county has sent someone to repair it, but the weather has been ...... recently I don't know when it will be fixed. ”

Hearing He Jun's answer, I also looked up at the hazy weather above my head, and let out a noncommittal "oh".

"Section Chief Cheng, here and here!" As we were talking, Cai Zhiheng walked out of the small western-style building, greeted him directly, and held Cheng Cheng's hand, still showing that eight-sided smile on his face, and justifying his mouth, "I'm really sorry, Section Chief Cheng!" We are 100% committed to your work of arresting the murder suspects, but it just so happens that there is something evil in the town, so the two things collide together...... I was going to finish the town case first, and then I'll do my best to help you - no more talk! I've taught you to see jokes, I'm really ashamed, I'm really ashamed. ”

In this way, where can Cheng Cheng still ask for guilt, he naturally laughs: "Director Cai is too polite!" The case in our hands was originally intended to trouble your bureau, and if you say that again, it will be too much of an outlier. Now I have a general understanding of the situation from Xiao He............ Otherwise, Director Cai, you don't think it will work-we will assist your bureau to solve the murder case in front of us, and by the way, we will also carry out the investigation of Qiao Zhenyu's case. ”

"Section Chief Cheng, with your words, I can rest assured! To be honest, the situation in our police station, you have also seen it, as far as we are two police officers, one old and one young, we usually solve a case of fighting, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, but we really have a murder case, and there are not enough people......"

Regarding Cheng Cheng's suggestion, Cai Zhiheng agreed, and he led us to the crime scene again and again, and he kept complaining.

People who are a little shallow in the city government, such as Li Yi, have already nodded their heads again and again, indicating that they fully understand the hardships of this Director Cai.

I listened to it on the side, but it was a little strange: since the people in the town are the same as us, the mobile phone has lost the signal and cannot be used, how did this Cai Zhiheng understand our intention so clearly? It's as if he, Cai Zhiheng, has always been by our side, so that he knows it so clearly!

Although it is not difficult to guess our general intention when we appear here, our specific attitude cannot be known by guessing and extrapolating completely!

And his Cai Zhiheng's remarks are simply perfect.

In addition, Cai Zhiheng's change of attitude is also a bit abrupt: he looks like he can't ask for it now, but he was not like this at the beginning, he planned to hide it from us!

He sent He Jun, obviously to direct our attention to other places first, if it weren't for Cheng Cheng's insistence on checking out Qiao Zhenbang's old house, He Jun wouldn't have mentioned the murder that happened here at all, and who did He Jun instruct, do you still need to guess?

I can't help but put a question mark in my heart about this temporary director of the Blackwater Town Police Bureau.

The sky was already dark, and as soon as I walked into the small bungalow, the light suddenly became even darker, and I could hardly see the pattern inside.

Cai Zhiheng took two lanterns from the door, lit them, and handed them to Cheng Cheng, who turned around and handed them to me who was at the back of the line.

I haven't seen a horse lantern for a long time, and when I looked at it, I found that it was an old-style kerosene horse lamp - a black cast iron cylinder frame, the lower end is a fully enclosed oil dish, which is tightly covered with a screw cover to ensure that the oil does not drip out, a wick made of cotton and linen and fine iron wire, which leads from the oil dish to the glass cover in the middle, and the upper end is two iron covers, layered with gaps, which can adjust the size of the air entering and exiting, and above the iron cover, there is a ring-shaped handle, which is being carried in my hand.

The shape of the horse lantern is simple, it is very textured in the hand, and it is actually quite bright, but there is a faint smell of black smoke and kerosene burning, wafting out from between the iron covers.

I exclaimed: "Director Cai, these two kerosene lanterns of yours must be regarded as antiques, right?" I have seen that it has been a long time, and the workmanship is not an ordinary assembly line product. ”

Cai Zhiheng brought it lightly: "In remote towns, there are often water and power outages, so most of the water we drink is still our own well water, horse lanterns, and this is also a must-have for every family...... Detective Ji is from a big city, and it is understandable that he doesn't know some small inconveniences in a remote town like ours. ”

From the outside, the small bungalow looks good, but when I go inside, I find that the inside is very dilapidated.

From the entrance of the main door, the wallpaper on the wall is very broken, and in some places even the wall skin has begun to peel off in large pieces, although the living room is covered with a thick carpet, it is also very old, with occasional holes, revealing the light brown floor, and the whole house is filled with a strong damp and rancid smell.

I noticed a large portrait on the front wall of the living room.

It appears to be a man, dressed in a military dress similar to that often worn by warlord commanders during the Republic of China, with a white-sheathed command knife in both hands, sitting firmly on a raised stone.

I asked, "Who's on this?" ”

"It is said to be a certain ancestor of the Qiao family, it seems to be Qiao Zhenbang's grandfather......" He Jun replied, right next to me.

Cai Zhiheng saw me frowning and thought I was not very satisfied, so he added: "This painting has been hanging on this wall since I was a child, but I have never heard anyone say the exact name and identity of the person on it. Even if the Qiao family sold the house later, and even changed hands several times, no one replaced the painting...... I don't know why, maybe this painting is a famous artist's handwriting, I'm a layman, and I don't know calligraphy and painting - did Detective Ji see something? ”

At this time, my attention was completely attracted by the painting in front of me, and I just gave a perfunctory "um" to Cai Zhiheng's question.

When the old knife saw that I was looking carefully, he also came to take a look.

But when he saw it, he immediately "gurgled" in his throat, and hurriedly pointed out a corner of the picture to me: "Aji, look over there!" ”

I was originally strange because I looked at the man in this portrait, his face was blue, and his expression was solemn and stiff to the point of not being close to human color...... I even began to wonder if the artist at that time was painting from a corpse.

Otherwise, why is the person in the painting depicted so ...... Not like a living person?

But the old knife found another strangeness, and I looked in the direction he was pointing, and vaguely saw that in the background of the portrait, something seemed to be burning.

I couldn't see clearly, so I simply walked to the European-style sofa in front of the portrait, first asked Cai Zhiheng's permission, and then stood on the sofa, raised the lantern, and illuminated the painting.

The whole picture was finally clearly presented in front of me, and when I saw the content of the picture clearly, I almost stood unsteadily and slipped off the sofa!

First of all, the eyes of the man in military uniform in the portrait are in a state of dilated pupils, and from this alone, it can be concluded that the man in this portrait is depicted on the painting while he is dead!

But the dead man had his eyes open!

What's even more strange is that he obviously has the characteristics of death on his face, which can be seen from his movements and even the posture of his body, but he is not so stiff, and he does not look like a dead person......

But it is this extremely abrupt sense of contradiction that makes the man in the portrait seem even more eerie and terrifying.

Then, there is the background of the portrait pointed out by the old knife.

I can finally see it now, it was a village at night, and some people seemed to be dancing around a campfire......

But those who danced had no heads, only a body!

And it's not a campfire around the headless people - it's a big locust tree that's blazing!

The moment the whole picture came into my eyes, my mind "buzzed", as if I had been hit by a heavy object, my eyes were attracted to the picture, and everything around me seemed to become distorted at the edge of my perspective and withdraw from me......

I stared at the portrait and froze for a moment.

……

"Detective Gee! Detective Khi! ”

"Aggie!"

It took me a while before I heard my name being called and my body was shaken.

"Huh?" I finally looked away from the portrait, and the whole person seemed to wake up from a dream, "What's wrong?" ”

The person who shook my body was Lao Dao, and he said with concern: "Aji, just now you looked at that painting, and suddenly froze, the whole person was motionless, how could you make it seem like you didn't hear - what happened to you just now?" ”

Hearing Lao Dao ask, I suddenly reacted: yes, why did I look stunned just now?

As soon as I turned around and looked at the painting again, I was frightened again—

The man in the portrait, with a ruddy complexion, red lips and white teeth, was smiling at me.

In the background of the portrait, it is clear that there is a group of well-bodied, singing and dancing villagers, who are surrounded by a high bonfire, not a big locust tree!

I looked at it fixedly for a few seconds, took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the horror in my heart, and asked Cai Zhiheng: "Director Cai, you said that this painting has been hanging here for a long time...... Are there any legends about this painting? ”

Cai Zhiheng replied to me very dryly: "No, at least I haven't heard of it." Detective Gee, what the hell are you seeing? ”

I glanced at He Jun next to me, and she also had a "indeed so" expression.

I jumped off the couch and said, "It's fine. This painting is indeed a master's work, and I just admired it for a while. Let's go see the scene first, Team Cheng? ”

Cheng Chenghu glanced at me suspiciously, but he didn't ask too much, so he asked Cai Zhiheng to lead the way to the crime scene.

But the old knife refused to let me go, and asked me quietly: "What do you see?" ”

"Did you see a group of headless people dancing around a large locust tree on fire?" I asked in a low voice.

"Is that really the case? At first I thought it was this, but then I looked at it and it seemed like I was mistaken - did you really see the headless man and the locust tree? ”

"I'll tell you about this later, now I'll go to see the scene first." I didn't plan to talk too much here, but after thinking about it, I still reminded Lao Dao, "Pay more attention, especially the one surnamed Cai - our strong flashlight is still on you, right?" ”

The old knife touched his waist and nodded: "Don't worry, the person is in the lamp." ”

We walked down a hallway, and the walls on both sides were covered with pale wallpaper with large European patterns, but probably because the house was too dark and damp, from the ceiling down, the wallpaper was all covered with large dark water stains.

When I saw this, a question arose in my heart: Is this kind of house really inhabited?

If someone lives here, how can it still be like this? It's like a house that has been uninhabited for a long time, not like a house for rent at all, but more like a haunted house.

"The victim, do you know what she's going to live on?" Cheng Cheng asked in front of him.

Cai Zhiheng said: "It seems to be the kind of adult program that is late at night......"

He Jun snorted in the back and answered: "It's just coquettish!" Wearing erotic underwear and singing and dancing, he also specializes in the content of **sadomasochism, and specializes in seducing those hungry men who are hungry in their hearts to brush all kinds of gifts for reward-it's not a secret, there's nothing bad to tell, in the whole Blackwater Town, who else doesn't know? Except for children, there should be no one in the town who hasn't watched her live broadcast, right? ”

This is the first time He Jun and Cai Zhiheng have disagreed with their words and deeds.

Cai Zhiheng was a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile: "I'm thin-skinned, but I'm smiling." It's roughly what Xiao He said - oh, it's this room, everyone is a little mentally prepared, it's not very good-looking......"

Cai Zhiheng didn't say anything, we also smelled a strong smell of corpses, which penetrated through the crack in the door and filled the air.

Cai Zhiheng, He Jun, and Cheng Cheng all took out gloves and masks to put on, and He Jun took out three more sets and handed them to Li Yi, me, and Lao Dao.

Everyone put it on, and Cai Zhiheng pushed open the door.

A mask couldn't resist it, and the strong smell of corpses immediately came to the face.

I immediately heard Li Yi's unassuming "vomit", but fortunately he didn't vomit on the spot.

The stench was indeed too strong, and my stomach churned: "Stinky fish, you are at the door, don't come in." ”

Li Yiru was granted amnesty and hurriedly agreed.

The scene in the room was really eye-opening - I don't just mean the scene of the death, but also the configuration of the room.

On a whole wall in the room, there are hanging and displaying sex toys, most of which are used by S-M, such as leather whips, massagers, chains, ropes, leather clothes, etc., there are twenty or thirty kinds of massage appliances of all sizes.