4. Serial killer
Tang Hui was not wearing civilian clothes this time, but a neat police uniform. The mere fact that he was here was a surprise to me, and the neatness of his demeanor clearly indicated that something was serious.
"Why are you here?" I asked immediately.
"I want to ask, why did you get here?" The same question was immediately asked back by Tang Hui.
"I'm here because of the decapitated fire man, the beheading burning man on the burning bus."
"I'll go, you've heard about it so soon?" Tang Hui was surprised.
I pointed to Ma Jun, and then introduced Tang Hui and Ma Jun to each other, and then I briefly told Tang Hui how I came over.
After hearing this, Tang Hui also nodded with a serious expression and said: "This matter is indeed quite strange, before we received the notice to come here, Team Lei wanted to find Qiao Wei to study this case together, but that kid had already gone to the UK." ”
Tang Hui's words made me very unhappy to hear. Lei Qishan thought about contacting Qiao Wei but didn't call me, it is obvious that I, the consultant of the criminal police team, are completely stained with Qiao Wei's light, and I have to take care of the strange case of the decapitated fire man with his words, and this time there is no Qiao Wei, I am completely the one who is the leader.
I didn't say anything about my little plan in front of Tang Hui, I just changed the topic and asked him to come over, and he was dressed so formally.
Tang Hui replied that the case of the decapitation of the passenger car had been characterized as a major murder case, and in order to solve the case, the elites of the criminal police team in the province basically gathered here as soon as possible, and he had just participated in the mobilization and analysis meeting of the case, and now he was responsible for the work of eyewitness inquiry.
"You are already the elite of the criminal police in the province?" I didn't hold back my strong curiosity, for a small criminal police officer who had just been transferred from another county to the city for less than a year, the title of "provincial elite" seemed a little too early.
Tang Hui smiled at me with a smug face and said, "I have been involved in many cases this year, and I have already received three internal commendations from the police force. ”
"Which three times? It can't all be the cases related to me, right? ”
"Haha! It's those cases, well, my elite title has half yours. ”
I don't care if the title of elite is half of mine, since Tang Hui is in charge of talking to witnesses, then I can use his relationship to go into the ward and talk to the driver. I whispered my meaning to Tang Hui, Tang Hui immediately nodded in agreement, and then took me and Ma Jun into the ward together.
There is only one single bed in the ward, which is considered a special care unit. On the hospital bed lay a rugged man with a beard like Zhang Fei, although he looked vicious, this man was a hero who saved fifteen lives on the long-distance bus. His injuries were not serious, except that his left arm and left leg were bandaged, and there were no injuries to his face or body.
At the bedside sat a woman, who seemed to be the wife of the bearded driver. As soon as we walked into the room, the woman stood up and nodded at Tang Hui.
Tang Hui also saluted the woman, and then asked how the driver was.
The bearded driver grinned at Tang Hui, moved his bandaged arm again, and said, "It's nothing at all, you guys are making a little too much of a fuss." ”
The woman next to her hurriedly came over to stop the bearded driver's "crazy" actions and honestly pressed his arm on the bed.
"It's best to be fine, but you still have to pay attention to rest." Tang Hui said as he came to the bedside, and then asked the bearded driver what the burning man he saw on the bus looked like.
Tang Hui's question was exactly what I wanted to ask, so I also leaned in to listen carefully to the bearded driver's answer.
The bearded man's expression immediately became complicated, he looked at Tang Hui and then at me and Ma Jun, and then pouted: "I've said it several times, but no one believes me." ”
"I think that's why I was sent, and I believe it." Tang Hui said.
"Then do you believe that there are ghosts on this shijie?"
"Believe it, believe it! I believe it! Without waiting for Tang Hui to answer, I rushed to answer.
The bearded driver was stunned for a moment, then pointed at me and asked Tang Hui: "...... is he?"
"Oh, he's a special adviser to the Interpol team, and he's specialized in dealing with weird things like the one you encountered today, so you can say whatever you want, and you don't need to worry about anything." Tang Hui said.
"Finally someone who understands!" The bearded driver complained dissatisfied, then looked at me with wide eyes and said: "I told the police and the fire brigade that I saw a skeletal face, and they all said that I was dazzled, but I knew in my heart that it was definitely not a person standing in the fire, and that guy had no flesh on his face at all, just a skull." ”
"Skulls?" I was surprised.
"Well, it's just a skull. By the way, there are some movies I don't know if you've watched or not, it's the man who has evolved his face, what's his name...... What Qi ......"
"Nicolas Cage?"
"Yes, yes! That's him. In that movie, he was riding a motorcycle, and then he was so angry that his whole body was on fire, and his head turned into a skull. ”
"I know that movie, it's called Ghost Rider! What you see is a skull head burning on fire, too? I asked.
"Almost." The bearded driver said: "But the one I saw was definitely not wearing a leather jacket, he was covered in fire, the kind that was completely lit by the fire, I was frightened and didn't see it too clearly, anyway, the most impressive thing was the skeletal face, and the axe he was holding." It's not just an axe, it's a ...... How can I say it......"
The bearded driver rolled his eyes, as if searching his mind for the best words to describe the axe.
When I heard Ma Jun talk about the fire man, I remember that he said that the fire man used a double-edged axe, so I tried to ask the bearded man if the axe was a double-moon battle axe.
The bearded man thought about it again, then nodded yes again and again.
At this time, Tang Hui also took out a photo from his pocket, handed it to the bearded man, and asked, "Let's see if it's this." ”
This time the bearded man didn't answer so happily, he took the photo and frowned and studied it for a long time, zuihou shook his head and said: "It's quite similar, but it always feels like something is wrong, I remember that the one he took was a little black, I can't tell what the material is, it feels like iron, and the one in your photo should be bright, right?" ”
After the bearded man finished speaking, he handed the photo back to Tang Hui.
I grabbed a step over and took the picture and looked at it. The photo is an old-fashioned black-and-white photograph with only an axe on it, and judging by the shape, it is the kind of two-moon tomahawk I am talking about.
I took the photo and asked Tang Hui, "When was this taken?" It feels like it's been years. ”
"It's been a long time. This is a photo from thirty years ago, and I came here because of this. Thirty years ago, there was a massive serial murder in which the killer hacked to death 38 people in four and a half months, all beheaded. Zuihou murderer only left this axe," Tang Hui replied.
"Serial killer? He's dead? I asked.
Tang Hui shook his head and said, "It is said that he was surrounded by the police in a warehouse, and he took three people as hostages at that time. Later, he set fire to the entire warehouse, and when the police entered, the hostages inside were beheaded, and the murderer was gone, leaving only the axe. ”
"So you mean the killer is still alive?"
"I can't say this well, but according to my thoughts, the possibility of evil spirits is obviously higher!" Tang Hui replied.