"When was this picture taken? It feels like it's older than me. I asked.

"It's been a long time." Humpty Dumpty nodded, "This is a photo from thirty years ago, and I came here this time because of this." Thirty years ago, there was a major murder in which the killer killed thirty-three people in four and a half months. And it's all beheaded. The only clue is this axe," Humpty Dumpty replied.

"You mean doubt...... The serial killer of thirty years ago is back? I asked.

Humpty Dumpty nodded, then turned his gaze to the bearded driver's face. It was clear that Humpty Dumpty had recognized this as man-made, not a ghost.

The driver immediately shook his head and said, "Absolutely impossible!" I couldn't be mistaken! That's not a living person at all! ”

Humpty Dumpty didn't say anything more, he glanced sideways at me, as if he wanted to give me the right to speak.

I nodded at him, then smiled at the driver and said, "Again, I believe there are ghosts, but I first have to rule out the possibility that someone is pretending to be a ghost." ”

The driver smiled politely at me. Then he said, "There are 22 people in the car, including me and the ticket inspector, and this can't be wrong." After a short time after getting on the highway, I smelled a smell of burnt rubber, although I didn't see an open flame, but I knew something must have happened, so I parked the car on the side of the road, and as soon as I opened the hood, the flames burst out, and I began to beckon the people in the car to get off. ”

"So you're sure it wasn't one of the passengers who killed the person?"

"Sure! I was dragging the people in the car down, and you probably didn't know that the car was going to catch fire. In those few minutes, the whole car burned down, and if anyone took their luggage or pushed or something, no one could get out of it, and they all had to die inside. So as soon as I saw the fire, I immediately dragged people under the car. Count them one by one, when 18 people are dragged down. The rear of the car was already on fire, and the fire could not be extinguished at all, and then ...... And then that thing popped up. ”

"What do you mean by popping up out of nowhere?" I asked.

"That's it...... It's just a fire, like a volcanic eruption. A big fireball erupted, and the thing was standing in the car. It felt like a person, completely encased in fire, with a large jet-black axe in its hand. It looked at me, and then I saw the skull on its face, and I was so scared that I couldn't move, and then it ......."

The driver stopped talking, and his eyes avoided me, as if there were some things he didn't want to say.

"Actually, you had a chance to save those three people, but you were too frightened to help, right?" I asked.

"Hey!" The driver sighed heavily, and then said with a bitter face: "I did think about saving people in my head, but ...... You haven't seen it with your own eyes, it's ...... Hey, I was at the door and watched it come towards me, I could have let the three of them go down first, and it turned out ......"

"As a result, you got out of the car first, and the three of them were dragged back by that fire skeleton and hacked to death, right?"

"Hmm." The driver answered in a very low voice.

I patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "You don't have to blame yourself, after all, there are 18 people who survived because of you." Let's talk about that car, no one came out after you got out of the car, right? ”

My comfort helped, and the driver calmed down a little, and then said, "After I came out, I came to the side of the road with other passengers, and it was only a minute, and the car had burned into a big fireball, and no one ran out of it, and I heard the glass break, and then three heads were thrown out of the car, and the others were gone." It was very bright on the highway at the time, the fire was very bright, and if someone jumped out of the car we would definitely see it, but it wasn't! ”

"I believe your words, thank you." I nodded to the driver, and then motioned to Humpty Dumpty for me to finish.

Humpty Dumpty didn't ask much else, and after thanking the bearded man, he led me out of the room.

As I walked out, I thought that since I had met him, I would simply ask him to take me to see the burned car. As a result, before I could speak, Humpty Dumpty took the initiative to ask me if there was any plan for the next step, and it seemed that he was ready to invite me to participate in the investigation.

I hurriedly said that there was no arrangement, and if I had to say it, my arrangement would be to carefully examine the beheaded burning skeleton.

Humpty Dumpty nodded, and said that he was going to go back to the police station and study the murder file from thirty years ago, and asked me if I would be interested in going with him.

While he was making this invitation, his eyes kept looking at me, as if he still felt that I had done the mass coma last time, and that his invitation was just another test of me. But that's fine, firstly, I can let him get to know me as a person and clear my suspicions, and secondly, I can also get first-hand information from the police, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

So I nodded and agreed without hesitation, but I also put forward an additional condition, I hope Jin Dong can go with me, because things are always related to fire, so having someone from the fire brigade thinks it will be more helpful.

Humpty Dumpty thought what I said made sense, so he didn't raise any objections.

After arriving at the Public Security Bureau, Humpty Dumpty took me and Jin Dong to a small conference room, where several boxes of materials had already been stored, and I read all the materials carefully while drinking hot tea.

The murder started in an ordinary family, which was a tragic case of six people.

The deceased were an elderly couple, a middle-aged couple, an adult male, and a child. All six of the deceased were beheaded, and there were multiple stab wounds on their bodies, and the cause of death determined by the forensic medical examination was excessive blood loss, so it can be determined that the killer cut off the head of the body after the killing.

The killer was obviously venting his anger, so the police judged it to be a vendetta murder.

The murder weapon used by the murderer was a kitchen knife from the deceased's house, and the murder began in the kitchen, and the middle-aged couple were the first to be killed. This indicates that the murderer probably knew the victim and that the victim invited the murderer into the home.

Initially, the investigation focused on the two adult male brothers in the deceased's family.

The police believe that the murderer is very likely to know the two brothers, perhaps colleagues, or former neighbors and classmates. And when the police investigated according to this clue, another murder case occurred, this time it was a family of three who were killed, and the murderer also killed the victim first, and then beheaded him, but this time the murder weapon was not a kitchen knife, but an axe.

The family of three who were killed this time had no contact with the six people who were killed before, which made the police investigation confused for a while.

But soon the police discovered the connection between the two families — their children were in the same class at the same school.

This discovery also led the police to shift the focus of their investigation to the school, to the teachers at the school, and to the classmates and parents of the two children who were killed.

On the one hand, the police confirmed whether the school teacher had conflicts with the parents of the victim, and at the same time, they also had to investigate some conflicts that may exist among the students in the class, such as whether the victim had bullied which student at school, or which student was bullied.

The investigation soon progressed.

There was no suspicion on the part of the teachers, but the police found a breakthrough among the students.

There was a very special student in the class, his name was Wen Kan, and he was a child with cerebral palsy. Fortunately, Wen Kan's intelligence was not affected too much, and his grades were always in the middle and upper middle of the class, but his legs could barely bend, it was very difficult to walk, he could only rely on crutches, and he often had incontinence, and because of this, he was often ridiculed and bullied by his students, and the two children who bullied him most often were killed.

The police then identified Wen Kan's parents as suspects.

In addition, since the first murder, Wen Kan has not been to the school, and no one has greeted the school. The school once arranged for someone to go to Wen Kan's house, but there was no one in his family, which obviously shows that Wen Kan's family has absconded in fear of crime.

After understanding, Wen Kan is a single parent, and he lives with his father.

Wen Kan's father's name is Article, and he works at the History Museum, and in order to treat his child, the article is still doing other part-time jobs. Recently, the article did not go to work at the museum, and the specific time of stopping work coincided with the time of the first murder.

The police quickly found the article's home, but no matter how the police knocked on the door, there was no answer, and there was a faint smell of odor coming from the door. The police questioned the neighbors, and according to the neighbors' answers, they had not seen the father and son Wen Kan for many days.

The police immediately decided to break down the door and enter the house, and the moment they slammed the door open, a pungent stench came out of their faces - two headless corpses were waiting for the police in the house.

Both of the deceased were men, one of whom was an adult male and was in very good health, and the other was a child with obvious disability in both legs and atrophy of the leg muscles due to lack of exercise. Although the police were not able to find the deceased's head, the condition of the body in Guò could almost confirm the identity of the deceased.

Later, according to the forensic examination, the time of death of the two deceased was nine days ago, which means that the father and son had died before the first case of the murder of the whole family of six.

Strictly speaking, this is the beginning of serial homicides.

The newly found suspect turned into the original victim in an instant, and this turn also led the police investigation to a dead end. Stay just wide.

Eleven people were killed in a row, and all of them were beheaded, but except for the father and son of the article and Wen Kan, the heads of the others were found.

Where did the heads of the father and son go? And who killed them?

The police officer in charge of investigating the case quickly suggested another possibility: Wen and Wen Kan may not be dead, but just a pair of substitutes.

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