3. Preliminary investigation of the case
Without waiting for me to ask, Shu Xin asked Qiao Wei excitedly: "Is there really a skinner here?" Weishenme should use the word 'guest'? Seems a little too American, right? Did the locals come up with it? ”
Shu Xin's series of questions stunned Qiao Wei, and Zhu Yue, who was sitting on the side, also looked at Shu Xin in surprise.
Shu Xin hurriedly waved his hand at Zhu Yue and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so excited when your friend went missing." ”
Zhu Yue also immediately shook his head and said: "No, no, no, it's not because of this, what you just said makes sense, skinner, this statement is indeed a bit 'foreign'." ”
"Have you heard the legend of this skinner?" I chimed in and asked.
Qiao Wei nodded and said that he and Zhu Yue went to Lagu Village yesterday where the legend of the skinners was spread, and the people in the village said a lot of legends about the skinners, some legends said that the skinners were wild people in the mountains, and there were also legends that the skinners were some kind of reclusive cannibals, and there were also statements similar to mountain ghosts, etc., there were more than ten versions, and there was no unified statement at all.
In addition, the people in the village can't tell when the legend of this skinner began to spread, whether it was before the liberation, or it could be the Republic of China, or it could be from the more ancient times when both men and women had long hair.
In addition to the legends, there are also many villagers who claim to have seen skinners, and what they have seen is also different. Some people saw huge hairy people like red gorillas, some saw wild men with unkempt heads around animal skins, and others saw monsters with red skin, no hair, and no eyes.
After introducing these situations, Zhu Yue also showed me the footprints of the skinner she had taken, and her feet were compared with them. The footprints were indeed the structure of a human foot, but they were more than twice the size of Zhu Yue's feet. If the skinner's body structure is the same as that of a human, then the thing that left the footprint must be at least three meters tall.
This also reminds me of the legendary savages that haunt Shennongjia.
"Could it be that the skinners are the wild people living in Shennongjia?" Shu Xin asked a step ahead of me.
"I'm afraid it's unlikely." Qiao Wei shook his head and said: "Shennongjia is a scenic spot, full of tourists, if there are savages, it is estimated that it has been discovered a long time ago." ”
"What about the footprints?" Shu Xin asked.
"Maybe it's artificial, like crop circles are actually man-made pranks." I explained.
"And what is the purpose of this prank? Is it just to perpetuate the legend of the village? I don't think this legend will bring any benefit to the village, right? It doesn't seem to be harmful to the tourism industry, it's not like some kind of water monster or something, if you don't make a good scene, you will be caught, just like ......"
Shu Xin's words stopped in the middle of speaking, but we could all understand what she wanted to say.
I didn't rush to answer her questions, but turned the conversation back to the hotel building, after all, there were a lot of ghosts in the rooms on the fourth floor, and this may be the root of the disappearance of the two girls.
I voiced my suspicions about ghost hunting, but Qiao Wei immediately gave me a negative answer. He said that he focused on inspecting the No. 3 hotel building, although the resentment here is heavy, it is a ghost den, but the ghost here does not hurt people, at most it is a ruined vitality, living in the old is easy to get sick, will never cause people to disappear for no reason.
After listening to this, I asked Zhu Yue if the police had given any special explanations.
Zhu Yue replied: "The police think...... It was believed to be abduction, and according to them, judging from the fact that there were no ransom calls, the chances of them still being alive were very small, so they were now looking for the bodies more than the reason for their disappearance. ”
I could see that Zhu Yue was in a very low mood when she said these words. I've also lost friends and know what it's like. I comforted her and told her not to think too much now, as long as Xia Bing and Xia Xue's bodies were not found for a day, they would have the possibility of living, and the most important thing was not to give up hope.
Zhu Yue nodded and smiled at me, then pulled herself back together and began to discuss where to start next.
Actually, I don't believe that there are any skinners, let alone that they would go to the resort and kidnap a pair of sisters without knowing it, and from my personal point of view, I am more inclined to the police's judgment on abduction. So I still asked Zhu Yue what happened in the week before the two sisters disappeared, such as whether she had encountered some suspicious people.
Zhu Yue said that after they came, they first went to Shennongjia Scenic Area for three days, and then went to the village where the legend of the skin-peeler was circulated. However, after returning to the resort, they did meet two people, because there are open-air hot springs and swimming pools in the resort, and the two sisters were wearing bikinis, and they provoked two men to talk to when they were in the pool, and the two men kept pestering until Zhu Yue stinked the two of them before driving the two men away.
At about 11 o'clock in the evening after swimming, Zhu Yue and the two sisters went back to their rooms. When Zhu Yue went to look for the two sisters again the next day, no matter how she called the door, no one answered inside, and Zuihou asked the waiter to open the door only to find that there was no one in the room. The two sisters' mobile phones, wallets, and salutes are all in the room, but they are gone.
Zhu Yue hasn't seen the two sisters since.
After the police arrived, Zhu Yue also locked the first suspicion on the two men who accosted him, and the police then found the two people for questioning. Those two people came to the resort with the company for a training trip, and they have never been out of the villa, and the people from their company who came to train can prove this, so the possibility that they committed the crime is ruled out.
After listening to Zhu Yue's explanation, I thought about it carefully, and then asked: "When you entered their room in the morning, what was their bed like, I mean the quilt was folded, or was it very messy?" ”
"It's not stacked, but it's not very messy, it feels like it was when the waiter hadn't come to tidy up after waking up in the morning, probably." Zhu Yue said.
"So judging from the situation at the scene, they shouldn't have been directly arrested while they were sleeping? No signs of struggle, fighting? There weren't any footprints left in the room, did they? I asked.
Zhu Yue nodded and said, "I asked the police, and they said that they didn't find any clues in the room and there was no fight." In addition, there is a suspicious place, the surveillance at the front entrance and the back door did not capture the two of them leaving Building 3, and no one was seen entering or leaving the building in the second half of the night. The police suspected that the abductor had jumped out of the window so they avoided the camera, but it was raining that night, and the police did not find any traces of the jump window in any of the windows, nor did they find footprints outside the building. ”
"So the abductor is a repeat offender? They were careful to remove all the traces? Shu Xin guessed.
"It's possible! However, there is another situation, for example, they did not leave the hotel at all, and only their clothes went out from here, and it was much easier to take the clothes out than to take the two of them out. I said.
"What about them? The police have turned the hotel upside down! Zhu Yue questioned.
I didn't answer her question because the four words "human meat buns" came to my mind.