Following that strange noise, we heard footsteps later, which reminded me of the footsteps we heard on the first day we and Jiang Jun came to the village. The second time, we guessed that Sun Xiang had left the house, and I didn't understand why Sun Xiang had to leave the house in the middle of the night, but when I saw two corpses with different degrees of decomposition and the autopsy report, I understood.

It was hot, and the corpses were decomposing quickly. Of the two corpses, one was already somewhat decomposed and stinking, while the other was just about to stink, and if it was true, as I had speculated, that both of them were imprisoned in the dark compartment, then Sun Xiang could be explained by going out twice in the middle of the night.

With the death of two people one after another, Sun Xiang had to transfer the corpse, and the time to transfer the corpse was naturally in the middle of the night, and the location was a mass grave that no one dared to go to. I reasoned and guessed, and the moment I found the body, my suspicion was confirmed, and I was even more sure when I got the autopsy report.

From the disappearance of Sun Xiang's wife and daughter, from several sounds, from the secret compartment of the room, to the corpses in the mass grave, and then back to the source to verify, the hidden things gradually surfaced. Without the support of the police, our actions have become extremely difficult, according to logic, if we want to find out the truth and avoid exaggerated guessing, we can only reason about each clue by launching, and then counter-reason each clue from the reasoning results.

The village where no one spoke was quiet again, and the resounding insects in the woods continued to reach our ears, and moths were everywhere on the platform due to the beam of the flashlight. There was no wind tonight, we were all drenched in sweat, Sun Xiang was wearing a robe, his sleeves rolled up, and the wounds on his arms were still shocking.

"You're really different from other stupid cops." Sun Xiang laughed, as if he was telling a very casual joke. Sun Xiang's words aroused the dissatisfaction of the other criminal police, and Ma Tao asked everyone to quiet down and motioned for me to continue. Sun Xiang asked me with great interest how I knew that my eyeballs were in the wine jar.

"Guess." I laughed.

"Guess?" Sun Xiang asked rhetorically.

I nodded, and Sun Xiang's face was full of disdain: "Aren't you afraid of smashing the jar, there is nothing in it, I want to know, if so, what will your expression be?" ”

"There are no ifs." I no longer answered Sun Xiang, but looked at him, Sun Xiang gave me a different feeling, he looked at me as if he had known me a long time ago. There were so many herbs in the jar that it filled almost the entire jar, and the liquor only made up a small part.

I have observed this jar more than once, but the light in the room is so dim that I can't see clearly, and the only time I observe the jar during the day, I have also glanced at it a few times. The jar was full of herbs, and I saw something white and swollen through the cracks, and I didn't expect it to be an eyeball, but only some kind of herb.

The most dangerous place is the safest place, and it is not a strange thing that there are herbs in the village, so neither I nor the criminal police who handled the case have carefully checked it, and the appraisers just poured the wine inside and went back for testing, and after the test results were normal, we didn't care about the wine jar at all.

"Don't you think your explanation is far-fetched, Li Ke, where did you get the courage?" Sun Xiang sneered, and when Li Ke called out the two words, my head hurt slightly, and Sun Xiang seemed to really know me.

"But I guessed right." I pointed to the residue of herbs on the ground: "You gouge out the eyes of your wife and daughter, and there are other purposes." What I didn't speculate on was your motive, why did you attack your wife and daughters without killing them? ”

Sun Xiang gouged out the eyes of his wife and daughter, probably so that they could not see what they shouldn't see, but they have been imprisoned in such a dark place, what will they see, even if they really gouge out their eyes, why should he keep his wife and daughter's eyeballs and drink wine.

So Sun Xiang's purpose of digging out his eyes is not so simple, and I don't understand why Sun Xiang didn't kill his wife and daughter directly, otherwise there wouldn't be so many things now.

"Reluctantly." Sun Xiang replied indifferently.

When Ma Tao heard Sun Xiang's answer, he immediately became angry: "If you are willing to kill people, you are willing to gouge out their eyes and imprison them?" ”

"Human nature is complicated at times." Sun Xiang suddenly lowered his head. Sun Xiang's philosopher-like answer made Ma Tao stunned again, Ma Tao wanted to say something more, but I stopped him. Sure enough, Sun Xiang quickly raised his head, and the expression on his face was almost crazy, not fear, but excitement.

"Li Ke, you're so smart, can't you guess why I'm imprisoning them?" Sun Xiang suddenly staggered two steps towards me, his eyes not looking at me, but at Xu Yi beside me. Sun Xiang is a highly dangerous person, Ma Tao and many criminal policemen took out their guns and pointed at Sun Xiang, but instead of retreating, Sun Xiang walked towards me even harder.

Ma Tao cursed in his mouth, stepped forward, and gave Sun Xiang a hard kick, and Sun Xiang was immediately pressed to the ground by other criminal policemen. I didn't panic, I took Xu Yi behind me, and carefully thought about what Sun Xiang said to me just now. When Sun Xiang mentioned his wife and daughter before, he cried heartbreakingly, and that relationship really didn't seem to be fake.

Sun Xiang may have been reluctant not to kill his wife and daughter, he blinded their eyes, their throats were hoarse, and then imprisoned, if it were not for the impulse of the quarrel, Sun Xiang's actions were probably to hide something.

"Your wife and daughter know something they shouldn't know?" I asked tentatively.

Sun Xiang laughed maniacally on the ground: "Then guess again, what am I going to hide?" "Sure enough, as I thought, from the very beginning, Sun Xiang quarreled with his wife and daughter, probably because they knew Sun Xiang's secret.

I thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with it, Sun Xiang's laughter stopped abruptly, his whole body trembled, and the bloodshot in his eyes became more and more. Several criminal policemen were frightened by Sun Xiang's appearance, and just when Ma Tao was about to give the order to handcuff Sun Xiang, Sun Xiang spoke again, and this time, he calmly told the process of his crime.

Sun Xiang didn't tell me what his wife and daughter knew, only from the fact that he brought her to the village. Sun Xiang has been planning for a long time, this village is the poorest village in Zhu City, and there are few outsiders, he used the excuse of taking his wife and daughter out to play, and when he stayed here, Sun Xiang knocked his wife and daughter unconscious and hid, and created a disappearance case that the villagers thought was very strange.

He stayed in the village to hide his eyes, he didn't have a light bulb in his house, and he also wanted to hide the truth in the dark.

I have already guessed all this, and the pen in the hand of the criminal police is writing quickly, recording Sun Xiang's guilty confession.

Sun Xiang talked for a long time, but he still didn't say what we didn't understand.

Ma Tao walked in front of Sun Xiang, who was still pressed to the ground and was not put up. Ma Tao stared at Sun Xiang condescendingly: "If you want to get a light sentence, just say it truthfully." Two questions, what are the shady secrets that your wife and daughter know, and why do you want to make their eyes soak in wine? ”

Picking out his eyes is already a very bad behavior, and Sun Xiang put his eyeballs in the medicinal wine and drank it, which has reached the limit of aggravating circumstances.

Sun Xiang didn't give Ma Tao a straight look, stared at me and asked, why did he say that Qian Er was killed by him.

Many villagers couldn't react at all when they heard what Sun Xiang said, and some had already begun to yell at the stage, saying that he had deceived everyone. Sun Xiang made those people shut up with a cold look, Sun Xiang's eyes were red, and he looked very weird.

"I helped you calculate your fate, helped you exorcise ghosts, and said I lied to you?" The corners of Sun Xiang's mouth rose, and several frightened villagers stepped back. Sun Xiang smiled, looked at me again, and waited for me to answer. In the eyes of everyone, Sun Xiang has no time to commit crimes.

The time is getting later and later, perhaps to illuminate the rituals, many villagers have not turned off the lights in their homes, and the village is much brighter than usual, but it gives people a much more gloomy feeling.