Chapter 18: The Puppet Show (1)

"In 1976? The year Chairman Mao and Grandpa Zhou died? Xia Yao, who graduated from the police academy, didn't forget the birthdays and death times of these big shots, she tilted her head and asked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Yes, what year did you remember the weird case I told you about?" Inspector Lin kept rummaging in the basement and said without looking back. The books of the past, which had not been touched for many years, were covered with dust, and they all flew in the basement with Inspector Lin's movements.

Xia Yao pondered for a while when she heard this, and then she shook her head helplessly and replied, "I don't know, I really forgot about the case that happened that year." ”

Inspector Lin pulled out a leather wallet that was thicker than "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from under the layers of yellow paper, which at first glance knew to be the kind of special cowhide leather armor made in China in the late seventies, and tightly clamped the belt connecting the two leather surfaces with an iron clip in the center of the front and rear leather surfaces.

But now, with the passage of time, the belt connected in the middle has dried up and broken, and I am afraid that it has been eaten by wet insects in the basement. Inspector Lin gently blew the dust off the leather surface, and then said cautiously, "Do you remember that terrifying puppet case?" ”

As soon as she heard the words "puppet case", Xia Yao couldn't help but shiver excitedly, because this was the most feared police story when he was a child, she originally thought that this was just one of the many stories that her father coaxed her, but when she graduated from the police academy and entered the job, she realized that this story was not just a bedtime story, but a case that did happen! It can be called China's "Jack the Ripper"!

Inspector Lin called his daughter over, and then opened the cowhide file little by little, and a special smell of moldy pages came to his nose, and then what caught the eyes of the two was the yellowed photos and a bunch of small black characters next to the photos......

In 1976, the year of Bingchen, the year of the dragon according to the fortune telling, it should really be "the five elements of the sand in the earth, the sky flying dragon!" This means that the fate of those born in this year will be in their own hands! However, in such an auspicious year, too many things have been released, the country's leaders have died one after another, and the "******" have been caught, ending the ********** of mutilating Chinese intellectuals for many years, but behind these historical tides there is a terrifying story.

In such an era when television was just emerging, people's entertainment was mostly to watch puppet shows, and thousands of families, whether children or adults, would go to the big square outside their homes after dinner to watch puppet shows, and smiling faces filled everyone's faces.

But the good times didn't last long, and the puppeteer, a profession that many teenagers dreamed of, once became a nightmare for thousands of families.

Since the middle and early 1976, there have been a large number of strange deaths of puppeteers across the country, at the beginning of the incident, the police thought that this was just a common serial murder case, but with the continuous surge in the number of deaths and the wide range of murderers gradually attracted the attention of the state, a number of reputable police detectives were called together in order to solve this case.

These puppeteers died in a variety of ways, from being hit hard to suffocating ......, but the only connection between them was that each puppeteer's corpse would be accompanied by a puppet with a strange expression.

The case lasted nationwide for so long that the initially excited and confident detectives began to suspect that it was not a human doing, but witchcraft, a trick! But Inspector Lin, who has a foreign education, knows that these are feudal superstitions, and it is definitely human beings who can do this, but it is very likely that it is not one person, but an organization that is working together to commit crimes!

But the strange thing is that every puppeteer found no traces of fierce fighting at the scene of death, which means that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime, but are so many puppeteers in the country all acquaintances committing crimes?

Fortunately, after a year, the case gradually dissipated, and no puppeteer died again, and everything returned to peace. In the end, it was just that the murderer of this "puppet case" that can be called a massacre was not caught.

After reading this heavy dossier with Inspector Lin, Xia Yao patted her slightly raised chest with palpitations and whispered, "Dad, why do you say that these two cases are very similar?" Xia Yao's voice was very low, for fear that there would be something around.

Inspector Lin's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said: "Because when we were looking for the suspect in this case, there was a person who had sufficient evidence to prove that he did the case, but he didn't admit it alive or dead, even if he finally arrived at the court, he refused to bow his head, and what is even more strange is that after this person was shot, the puppeteer's death did not stop." Don't you feel that the Duan Benshan caught this time is very similar to the person who was shot at the beginning? Duan Benshan was subjected to inhuman abuse in prison, so much so that his mental state is already in a trance. If he really killed someone, he would have admitted it a long time ago, and there was no need to be so stubborn, but when I went to interrogate him today, he still gritted his teeth and said that he did not kill anyone, saying that he was wronged. ”

Xia Yao put forward a hypothesis when she heard this, she said: "Dad, is it possible that he just wants to fight to the death, that is, he wants to say that he was wronged, and then waive the death penalty, do you see that our country is not practicing doubtful cases now." ”

Detective Lin immediately shook his head when he heard this, and then said: "Impossible, the unresolved case refers to those cases that are still suspicious in the evidence, but Duan Benshan's case is conclusive, and the first-instance verdict is definitely a death sentence, and it is impossible to overturn the case, so it is completely meaningless for him to insist on it." ”

Xia Yao had no choice but to continue to be silent after listening to his father's impeccable answer, he looked at the heart of the hard thinking about the case, his mother had passed away for many years, and his father was only accompanied by himself, she hugged her arms and waists to protect Inspector Lin's waist.

Inspector Lin touched Xia Yao's head dotingly, and then said, "Forget it, go to sleep, it's not too early, don't you have to get up early tomorrow morning." ”

When Xia Yao heard this, she kissed her father as if she had been pardoned and said, "Haha, great, then I'll go to sleep, and I'll meet with that psychiatrist tomorrow morning." ”

"What!" Detective Lin was shocked when he heard this, he felt that the case had a dawn, and this breakthrough point was what Xia Yao just said!

"Huh? I said I'm going to see a psychiatrist tomorrow morning, didn't you tell me to go, saying that I had encountered a lot of big cases when I first entered the police station, and I was afraid that I would be under too much psychological pressure? Xia Yao replied.

"That's right! It's a psychiatrist! Inspector Lin blossomed like a child who had received a beloved toy, and a crazy hypothesis gradually came out in his mind!

"Yaoyao, do you think there is anyone in this world who can manipulate other people's minds, like manipulating marionettes?" Inspector Lin said to his daughter.

When Xia Yao heard this, she immediately shook her head and said, "How is it possible, you should be a fantasy novel, I see that you are nervous and confused these days, you should also go to bed quickly!" ”

Inspector Lin smiled and shook his head when he heard this, and then he didn't say anything more, but went back to the house to fiddle with some things.

The next morning, Inspector Lin got up early, and after getting up, he went into the kitchen and didn't come out, he was busy with breakfast for his daughter.

When Xia Yao woke up, the table was already full, and it was like a breakfast, even if it was a candlelight dinner, she would feel that there were too many meals.

Xia Yao counted carefully, and she found that there were seven dishes! Xia Yao looked at her father suspiciously, and asked tentatively, "Dad, what's wrong with you today, why do you take care of me so much?" ”

Inspector Lin said angrily: "You are eating leftovers seven days a week, I don't take care of you, who will take care of you!" ”

When Xia Yao heard this, she stuck out her little tongue and sat down to eat.

Inspector Lin raised his hand and slapped Xia Yao's hand, who stepped forward to pick up vegetables, and said sternly: "Go wash your hands!" ”

"Got it, hehe." Xia Yao made a grimace at Inspector Lin, and then jumped to the bathroom, there were a few bottles and cans on the bathroom sink, Xia Yao didn't pay attention to it at random glances, and after washing hastily, he went straight to the sumptuous food on the table.

After a storm, Inspector Lin drove Xia Yao away, the reason was not to let the psychiatrist wait in a hurry.

Xia Yao arrived at the hospital and took the elevator to the psychologist on the seventh floor, when she sat down, a pleasant phone rang, Xia Yao smiled embarrassedly at the psychiatrist and then connected the phone: "Hey! Dad! What a thing! I'm at the hospital! ”

"You think of a number between five and twelve! Don't tell me, let me guess! Said on the other end of the phone.

"Dad! I'll mess with you when I get home! I'll hang up first! Xia Yao heard that her father actually called herself for such a question.

"Little bunny! Your dad asked you! Say it! As soon as she heard that the girl was going to hang up the phone, Detective Lin was anxious.

"Okay, dad, you say, I've thought about it!" Xia Yao casually picked a number between five and twelve, and then said.

"Isn't it 7!" Detective Lin asked.

"Dad! How do you know? Xia Yao was really scared this time, but she didn't expect her father to really guess it.

However, Inspector Lin on the other end of the phone just laughed, and then hung up the phone, it seems that he went to the police station!