3. Undercurrent
The section from the main entrance to the corridor doesn't seem particularly unusual, but once you turn into the living room, it's different, and it can be described as a mess. The coffee table, chairs, vases, and other things in the living room were almost all knocked over on the floor, the TV had been shattered, and a knife was stuck in the center of the screen, and it felt like there had been a fierce fight here.
I looked around and continued to walk inside, when another officer I didn't know came over and nodded at me, handed me gloves and shoe covers, and said, "Come here, put this on, Thunder is in the back room." ”
It seems that Qiao Wei and I have become familiar faces in the police force unconsciously, and they no longer regard us as outsiders at all.
Qiao Wei and I put on these props to protect the scene, and then walked through the messy living room into the back room.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the inner room, I saw blood all over the ground, and Lei Qishan was also standing in the room, with a big pimple twisted out of his brow.
"Team Thunder, are you in trouble?" I greeted him and carefully walked into the house around the blood on the ground.
Lei Qishan raised his head in surprise, "You...... Why are you two here? I don't remember asking anyone to invite you over. ”
"You didn't, but the owner of this house did." I said.
"Oh, Gu Feng, he seems to believe in that aspect of things." Lei Qishan muttered to himself, but it seemed that he didn't mean to explain to us what was going on in the house.
Our cooperation with Lei Qishan has not been a day or two, he knows very well what Qiao Wei and I are good at, but he doesn't want to take the initiative to speak now, and he doesn't seem to be willing to let Qiao Wei and me participate in this case. Is it because he doesn't think there are any ghosts? But the police outside the door felt that Lei Qishan would definitely call me and Qiao Wei.
I didn't want to analyze Lei Qishan's mind from his strange behavior, so I asked directly: "Team Lei, what happened?" Can't you tell both of you? ”
After hearing this, Lei Qishan closed his eyes and pinched his eyebrows hard, his action lasted for a long time, but there was no follow-up.
"It can't be related to Tang Hui, right?" I asked tentatively.
Lei Qishan's body shook obviously, which also made my heart chuckle.
"Something happened to Tang Hui?!" Qiao Wei shouted at Lei Qishan, and at the same time rushed over excitedly and grabbed Lei Qishan's arm.
Lei Qishan sighed heavily, and then said, "What I can tell you is the most objective judgment I made through the situation at the scene, Tang Hui has killed someone and is on the run. ”
"What? Tang Hui kills? And still on the run? You're kidding?! I said.
Before Lei Qishan opened his mouth, I thought that the blood on the ground was Tang Hui's, and I was somewhat relieved to hear the news that Tang Hui was not dead, but what Team Lei said next was a situation that I couldn't accept even more. Tang Hui is the kind of person who will throw his father into prison without blinking even if his own father breaks the law, I can't believe that he can actually kill people and still be on the run.
Lei Qishan looked at me with a serious face, he didn't need to make any answers, his expression already showed that he couldn't be joking.
"What the hell is going on? I don't think Tang Hui will kill people for no reason, let alone escape! Qiao Wei said from the side, and his hand kept grabbing Lei Qishan's arm.
"I don't believe he would do such a thing, but the evidence is against him so far." Lei Qishan still said with a grim expression: "Last night, the people from the on-site investigation team wanted to come back here to take some fingerprints and fiber samples, and Tang Hui accompanied them, but at one o'clock in the morning, the guns rang out in the villa, and when we received the alarm, the two on-site investigators were already dead, all of them were shot in the head at close range, Tang Hui's gun was thrown at the scene, it was full of his fingerprints, and there were four bullets missing, two of which pierced the heads of the two investigators." ”
After listening to what Lei Qishan said, the first thought that came to my mind was that Tang Hui was cursed! The people who were cursed before all committed suicide, and Tang Hui's current situation is likely to be not good.
Qiao Wei obviously thought of me as well, and he said to Lei Qishan one step ahead of me: "This matter is definitely strange. The owner of the villa bought a painting at eleven o'clock, and I suspect that there is a curse on the painting, and it may have been caused by the suicide of Gu Feng's family for no reason. ”
"Painting kills?" Lei Qishan wondered.
"Team Lei, don't forget that there was an axe that caused more than a dozen people in the fire to lose their heads last month, so it shouldn't be strange that a painting will kill people, right?" I reminded Lei Qishan.
"I know, I know that there will be some things that common sense can't explain at all, so I asked you two to be advisors, but you two should also know that cursing or something can't get Tang Hui off the hook, and now all the evidence shows that Tang Hui killed people and escaped. According to the normal procedure, I should also be removed from this case this afternoon, all police officers related to Tang Hui cannot participate in the investigation of this case, and the substation will send other people, so I ......"
Lei Qishan's speech was very fast, and he was choked in the middle of speaking, it could be seen that he was also very anxious, he had been staying at the scene, obviously trying to use the only time to find clues that could prove Tang Hui's innocence, some evidence that could make sense in front of the law and ordinary people.
"Just now you said that Tang Hui's pistol was missing four bullets, but only two bullets hit people, what about the other two?" I wondered if this would be the key point to prove Tang Hui's innocence, so I immediately asked Lei Qishan.
Lei Qishan shook his head and said: "I have already thought about this, the ballistic analysis has been made, Tang Hui should have fired two shots to force the two investigators into a dead corner first, and then shot and killed." ”
"Ballistic analysis ......" I wanted to ask Lei Qishan if there would be times when this kind of analysis would be wrong, but I swallowed it back only at the beginning. There is no point in arguing with Lei Qishan about the receipt of these majors, if he can find a breakthrough in these things, it is estimated that Lei Qishan has already found it.
So Zuihou I chose not to disturb his thinking, but to return to the main purpose of our visit this time - to find paintings.
At this time, I also noticed that Qiao Wei's eyes were staring at one wall of the room, and I followed his gaze and found that there was an oil painting with a gold frame hanging on that wall.
I went to Qiao Wei and whispered, "What is this painting?" There's a curse on it? ”
"I don't know if there's a curse, but this painting should be the one Gu Feng bought." Qiao Wei replied as he made a gesture with glasses.
I hurriedly took out the vision glasses hanging in my jacket pocket and put them on, and when I looked at the painting through the lenses, there was a pattern of black mist on the surface of the canvas, which was slightly different from the ghostly aura I had seen before, it was unusually active, like a large group of dense black bugs wriggling and crawling on the painting.
"It's disgusting, what's that?" I asked Qiao Weidao.
"As I've said before, painting is something that sometimes contains the soul of the painter and the emotions of the time. I think the person who painted this picture must have been very manic at the time, or that manic mood had seeped into his soul. Qiao Wei answered my question like an art connoisseur, but it didn't seem to make much sense at such times.
Qiao Wei suddenly turned his head to Lei Qishan and said, "Captain Lei, can I take this painting away?" ”
"This is the cursed painting?" Lei Qishan and I asked the same question.
Qiao Wei shook his head and said, "It's not certain yet, but taking it away will definitely be good for everyone." ”
"Okay, then you can take it, remember to register."
"Gu Feng is outside, I can ask him to sign directly to make a confirmation, right?" Qiao Wei asked.
"That's for the best." Lei Qi Shan Road.
Qiao Wei hurriedly nodded to Lei Qishan and thanked him, and no longer disturbed him to think, and went directly to the wall to take off the painting.
The registration and confirmation process took less than a minute to complete, and Gu Feng also confirmed that the painting Qiao Wei got back was the one he bought from the auction a month and a half ago, and the name of the painting was "Dark Surge".