The punishment of hiding a needle in honey?

I couldn't help but glance at Zou Xianshan's swollen corpse again, and suddenly understood the literal meaning of these words.

The body was coated with honey, and then suffered from thousands of Hu Feng's poisonous needles, which is indeed very consistent with the four words "hidden needles in honey".

But why use such a troublesome method of killing?

"It's a ritual killing, right?" Lao Dao said, "The criminal must want to express some deep meaning, otherwise it would be impossible to use such a troublesome method." ”

I very much agree with Lao Dao's judgment.

"Ritual killing" is actually a general reference, not the original meaning of the word special (i.e., sacrificial rituals related to religion, etc.), but refers to "the use of special killing methods to carry out certain expressions", and ritual killings are rarely isolated cases, and most of them are serial killings.

That is, the murderer is likely to commit the crime again.

I looked again at the note in my hand that read "The Punishment of Hiding a Needle in Honey", which was covered by a plastic evidence bag and glowed with a greasy sheen under the surrounding lamps.

I asked, "Who reported the crime?" ”

The site is located under a wasteland, and it is actually some distance from the entrance of the inspection well, and it takes a lot of effort just to remove the manhole cover that weighs 100KG - who would come here for no reason?

"It was an anonymous call to the police. The informant used a voice changer, could not hear his gender or age at all, only explained the location and nature of the crime, and hung up the phone. By the way, the colleague who answered the phone said that the other party's tone was very calm. Xiao Zhou said.

Hearing the words "voice changer", Lao Dao and I immediately glanced at each other.

Because the person who kidnapped Zou Xianshan also used a voice changer.

I immediately told Cheng Cheng about this, and he wrinkled his brows: "So, this murderer has actually been in our sight all along, right?" ”

If we look back at the whole incident, we can find that there have been several clues throughout.

First, I have found a mysterious blue smoke in Xiaoli, Li Jianguo, and Li Yan, what kind of substance is it, and why does it have the ability to "resurrect the dead" (to a certain extent)?

Second, what role did Xiaoli's boyfriend Zhang Hui play in the whole incident? Is he the one who kidnapped Zou Xianshan? Does he have anything to do with the mysterious blue smoke?

From Xiaoli's appearance, Li Jianguo's corpse changed, to Zhang Hui entering my sight, and then, Zou Xianshan's kidnapping case occurred, Li Yan, who was supposed to be a corpse, was "resurrected" in front of my eyes, and then, Li Yan devoured Li Jianguo's corpse, and followed some kind of "instructions" (I guessed at first that it was the "Yin Blood" that turned into blood jade), and attacked me in my grocery store, and during this period, I met a certain corpse blasphemous with a perverted hobby in the illusion, and now, Zou Xianshan's corpse is in front of my eyes, a ceremonial way of execution......

This series of small events is like a musical note written on a staff, and only by finding a musician who can understand the score and know how to play it, a suitable instrument, can it really be transformed into a movement that floats in the air—no matter how frightening, terrifying, or sad and pitiful the tone of the rhythm may be.

That's what I have to do, and only by explaining the doubts that have been lingering in my mind for a long time will the truth be cleared out of the clouds, like the sun shining down.

Cheng Cheng said that "the murderer has always been in our sight", in fact, this is the truth.

Because the facts have always been in front of us, whether it is Xiaoli, Li Jianguo or Li Yan, they all have the same characteristics, and Zou Xianshan's death is more like a wordless statement of the murderer to us - he has already opened the "accessories of truth" in front of our eyes one by one, we just lack a method of analysis, like a closed door, you can see and touch, but there is just one less key.

As long as you have the key, behind the door is the truth.

I thought about it for a while, and then asked, "Team Cheng, have you found Zou Xianshan's background?" ”

"Nothing special. Zou Xianshan's family background is ordinary salaryman, he studied wine management in college, after graduation, he worked in several hotels in Jinguan City, three years ago, he served as a business manager at the Bright Star Hotel, and has been until now. He has no criminal record, and everything is clean. ”

"Where's his wife?"

His wife's family is much better, a family of musicians, and she herself is a music teacher at Jinguancheng Conservatory of Music, a professional pianist of grade 7. Speaking of which, the murderer was so ruthless that he directly wasted all her fingers - we found her severed finger in Li Yan's stomach, but it had turned into meat sauce, and there was no way to do the operation of amputated limbs. ”

Cheng Cheng said, with a certain "unbelievable" look flashing on his face.

Indeed, a medically absolute "corpse", even after an autopsy, can be "resurrected", devouring another corpse, crashing through the concrete wall of the police station like a truck, and then running more than a dozen kilometers away, breaking into my grocery store and attacking me...... In addition to the four words "unbelievable", I probably can't find a better word to describe Cheng Cheng's mood, right?

But I think that Zou Xianshan's identity background must not be so clean!

"The murderer must have his reasons for using ritual murder methods - this Zou Xianshan must have enough motives to make him kill the killer, and Zou Xianshan's background is so clean that it is obviously abnormal. Old knife, do you remember, on the rooftop of the Yaoxing Hotel at that time, the person who kidnapped Zou Xianshan was torturing Zou Xianshan? ”

Lao Dao replied without hesitation: "It seems that I have been asking Zou Xianshan if he remembered something, but Zou Xianshan has never been able to remember." ”

"A thing that can make the murderer do something that destroys the fingers of his pianist wife and brutally kills him, Zou Xianshan himself can't think of it! Old knife, if someone kidnaps your family and asks you, can you guess the reason? ”

The old knife smiled: "The murderer wore a mask at the time, but if the matter is so serious, even if you try it one by one, you must not be able to try it a few times - how many bad things a person has done, will he have no B number in his heart?" I'm afraid I can't sleep at night, how can I not remember? But my situation is a little more peculiar, I used to be a police officer, and it is possible to be retaliated against, not necessarily because I did something immoral. ”

"But this Zou Xianshan can't remember."

"Only people who have done a lot of bad things will not be able to remember how many immoral things they have done to give birth to a son."

"It's not rough, that's the truth." I turned to Cheng Cheng and said, "Team Cheng, send someone to check the Yaoxing Hotel." Maybe I'm arbitrary, but if my guess and Lao Dao's guess is true, hehe, a business manager is so evil, this hotel is not simple. ”

In fact, I don't need to say it, Cheng Cheng himself will suspect this, as for how to investigate, he has his own means, any nest of sin cannot be a seamless egg that flies don't bite, and it has to be a way to disintegrate.

The most obvious breakthrough point in front of me is Liu Yan.

The fact that she died in the Star Shine Hotel should be known to everyone, why can she still swagger "resurrect", aren't the other people in the hotel afraid to see her?

And Zou Xianshan was actually tempted by it, and it was even more incredible to open a room with her!

Yes, it immediately occurred to me that Liu Yan could have been brought into the hotel by someone in many ways, such as in a suitcase.

But Zou Xianshan's behavior is still very strange, he meets a corpse, and on the rooftop, he also seems to be a little suspicious of deliberately opposing his own murderer.

But no matter what, Liu Yan has a deep relationship with Xingyao Hotel and Zou Xianshan, and it is absolutely no problem to use this as a breakthrough.