I searched the whole living room, but I couldn't find where the scarecrow was, and after a shower, the scarecrow was gone. I looked at the locked door, and then at the closed window, no one had ever entered, so the scarecrow was definitely still in the room.

I searched carefully again, and finally glanced at Meng Ting and her mother's room, leaving only these two rooms unsearched. Mother and Meng Ting should have fallen asleep, I didn't want to bother, but this scarecrow is too weird, it is likely that my mother and Meng Ting put away the scarecrow while I was taking a bath.

I hesitated, but walked to the door of my mother's room, and was about to knock on the door when I heard a whimpering sobs in my mother's room, and it was my mother crying. I tensed up and knocked hard a few times, the crying stopped, and I shouted inside, "Mom, are you okay?" ”

My mother said it was okay and told me to go to bed quickly, but there was still crying in her voice, and I couldn't be relieved, so I knocked on the door a few more times and asked my mother to open the door. After a while, the door opened, and in the dim light, I could see my mother's face full of tears, my mother was old, and the wrinkles on her face had increased a lot, and I looked distressed.

She was holding a picture of her father in her hand, and I immediately understood why my mother was crying, this was missing my father, so I took my mother's hand and sat on the edge of the bed. The father in the photo is very young, and I miss my father very much, and my last impression of him is on the platform of the train station, and that goodbye did not expect to be the last side.

My father was a carpenter, and his skills were very good, and he was famous in this area back then, and he treated people very well, so everyone affectionately called him master. At first, I couldn't understand why my mother didn't let me see my father for the last time, and cremated his body so quickly in the winter, but then I heard from the neighbors that my father was crazy, maybe he had some bad disease, and it would be contagious, and my mother told me the same thing.

After his father's death, his mother did not remarry. I took the frame with my father's picture, looked at it a few times, and put it on the table. My mother stopped crying and told me to hurry to sleep. This room, which was the room of my mother and father when I was a child, was very simple, with nothing but a bed and a table.

The house still uses old-fashioned light bulbs, which are already blackened, and there are a few cobwebs in the corners of the roof. I looked closely, but I didn't find a scarecrow, and I asked my mother if she had gone out in the shower, and she shook her head and denied it. My mother was not in good health, so I just let her go to bed early and go out.

Leaving my mother's room, I knocked on the door of Meng Ting's room again, but my mother didn't take it, that is, Meng Ting took it. Meng Ting seemed to be asleep, and I knocked for two minutes before Meng Ting opened the door. Meng Ting is wearing her thin pajamas, she is a few years younger than me, and she is Du Lei's girlfriend, I treat her as a sister, she doesn't mind, so I don't mind.

I asked Meng Ting if she had taken the scarecrow, Meng Ting heard these three words, she was completely sleepy, I told her that the scarecrow was gone again, her face turned blue with fright, and she pulled me into the house. I searched carefully, but I still couldn't find the scarecrow. After I sat down, I frowned and pondered, I couldn't figure it out, I couldn't figure it out at all, what happened today was so weird.

Meng Ting shuddered and asked me if there was a ghost.

I immediately denied it, I said, many things can't be explained for the time being, it doesn't mean that there is no mystery, it's like a lock, there is always a key to match it, but we haven't found the key yet. I have also encountered a few unsolved cases, and the cases were rumored to be miraculous, and in the end, I found the murderer, even if I was killed, I would not believe that there are ghosts in this world.

I asked Meng Ting not to scare herself and go to bed quickly, Meng Ting hesitated for a moment and sent me out of the room, I sat in the living room, thought about it for a long time, and didn't think of how the scarecrow was gone. In the crack of the door of Meng Ting's room, there was a yellowing light, and she didn't dare to turn off the light and sleep all night.

I rechecked the doors and windows, they were indeed locked, and I made sure they were safe before I went back to my room. My head hurts, so I don't think about it anymore.

I slept deeply for a night, and the next day, I got up early in the morning, my mother had prepared breakfast, and Meng Ting was sitting at the table eating. Meng Ting hadn't put on makeup yet, her dark circles were a little heavy, and she hadn't slept well. After breakfast, I rushed to the police station, where Lao Zhang was wearing a police uniform and washing his car at the entrance of the police station.

The car was the same one I drove last night, and the blood stains on the windshield had also been washed clean. I'm a little remorseful, there were too many things that happened yesterday, which made me a little confused, I should have asked Lao Zhang not to wash the car, and the blood stains on it can still be used for a case or something.

Lao Zhang saw that I had arrived, put down the water pipe in his hand, and took Meng Ting and me into the police station.

Early in the morning, there was nothing going on in the police force, and many people were eating breakfast. Hearing Lao Zhang's shouting, everyone stood up, but when they saw me, their faces were stunned, and I heard the whispering voices of a few people, they were doubting how the famous Professor Li could be so young.

At that time, the information network was not very developed, and many well-known Internet forums had only just been established, and most of the police system had heard of me, but they did not know my specific situation, which was normal.

Lao Zhang asked me to wait, he went to the captain of the police force, and after saying that, he ran into an office, everyone else looked at me and didn't sit down, I was a little embarrassed, laughed and told them to sit down. At this time, Lao Zhang and another man in his forties came out.

The man smiled and stretched out his hand to me: "Professor Li, look up for a long time!" ”

I also shook his hand politely, and then we went into his office, and the man said that his name was Zhao Da, and everyone called him Captain Zhao. I directly explained my intentions, saying that I wanted to see the photos of the scene where the 330 bus was found, and after the police were dispatched, they found a suspicious scene, and they would definitely leave photos.

But Zhao Da was very embarrassed to tell me that those photos were also taken away by the police force in City B.

Meng Ting pulled my sleeve and asked me what to do, I was also a little angry, the police force in City B is really a bit deceitful, I took out my mobile phone and dialed the phone number of Xu Tong, the captain of the police team in City B, this number, I haven't contacted for several years, to be precise, I have cut off contact with the police system in City B.

"Yo, Professor Li, the last time you called me, was it three years ago?" The phone was quickly connected, and Xu Tong shouted with a smile on the phone.

I forcibly endured the discomfort in my heart, "Captain Xu, there is something to trouble you......"

Before I finished speaking, Xu Tong took the first step to speak: "Professor Li, if you are chatting with an old friend, I will definitely accompany you, but if you want to ask about 330, I have no way to answer you." ”

Xu Tong had already guessed the purpose of my call to him, an old-fashioned phone, very loud, so everyone could hear some of Xu Tong's voice.

"Tell me why." I asked coldly.

"An order from above. Professor Li, all these years have passed, you ......"

I didn't wait for Xu Tong to finish speaking, and hung up the phone. is still the same reason as a few years ago, in such a big case, there are still two victims who have not been found, and they will not investigate!

The atmosphere was a little depressing, and Zhao Da told me apologetically that he was also under a lot of pressure, so he definitely couldn't help, but he told me about the scene of the day, and these old Zhang had already told me in detail, and there was not much difference.

I talked about the incident of last night, there was probably a murder there, and after Zhao Da heard this, he immediately sent a few cars and ordered them to go to the forest to see if there was any murder. I'm not in a good mood, and I don't want to follow. finally found the whereabouts of the 330 bus, but the clues had to be transferred by the B City Police Team.

At this time, a female policeman ran in anxiously and said that she had received a report that there had been a murder at 88-6 Victory Street. Immediately, Zhao Da took the police team to the police, and Lao Zhang asked me to go with me, maybe I could help something, but I didn't refuse. Soon, we arrived at the scene of the crime on Victory Street, and many people had gathered outside the house.

The police cordoned off the cordon, put on shoe covers, and then we went into the house together, wearing shoe covers so as not to leave unnecessary footprints at the crime scene. The door was a wooden one, not opened, but a large square hole had been sawn open. We crossed the passage, and as soon as we entered the house, I smelled a pungent smell of blood, and sure enough, I had only been a few steps inside the house when I saw the victim of the case. Meng Ting had never seen such a bloody scene, so she turned around in fright and vomited.

The deceased had indeed died a terrible death, her head had been cut off, the wound on her neck was not smooth, it was obvious that someone had sawn it off with a toothed object, and the torn flesh could be seen at the wound, as well as various tracheas and bones. One can imagine the scene at the time of the crime, where the murderer held down the head of the deceased and used a saw, cutting the neck of the deceased little by little, until the whole head was sawed off. Of course, this is only my initial suspicion, and she was most likely beheaded after her death.

Lao Zhang led a few people to search the room, but in the end they couldn't find the deceased's head. I kept staring at the headless corpse, inexplicably sad. The deceased was dressed in red, and after what happened last night, I was sensitive to this color.

Zhao Da walked around the house, saw that I had been staring at the corpse, and asked if I was not disgusting, I shook my head and replied that it was just a broken head. In my eyes, this case is not disgusting, I have seen a case that is a hundred times more disgusting. I just thought it was strange, and I also looked at this small room of less than 50 square meters, and there was no blood at all except for the deceased.

At this time, Lao Zhang suddenly shouted in panic: "The woman in red, it's the woman in red!" ”