Looking at Xiong Wancheng's face again, just like in the photo, the muscles on Xiong Wancheng's face are distorted, his eyes are round, and his pupils are facing me. Due to the optic nerve and the angle of sight, when a person stares at a portrait that is not moving, there is an illusion that the eyes on the portrait will follow wherever you go.

At this moment, Xiong Wancheng's two eyes give people this feeling. I observed each corpse for a while, and I found that Xiong Wancheng's wound on his abdomen was the most cautious, and the expression on his face was also the most exaggerated and weird. The smile on the corner of Xiong Wancheng's mouth can no longer be simply described as satisfied.

"Professor Li, this is the biggest doubt in this case, we racked our brains, and we couldn't figure out why every corpse had such a satisfied smile on its face when it died." As he spoke, Yang Fan glanced at Xiong Wancheng's corpse again. The morgue was quiet, and the intense light reflected the skin color of each corpse, and in the white light, the hollowed-out abdomen of these corpses could be seen clearly.

The disgusting and weird picture did not frighten Yang Fan, and from his face, I could see the determination to solve the case. During this time, I was deeply affected by the G City Police Force, and I almost regarded Yang Fan in front of me as an indecisive and timid person like Zhao Da. But it's okay, with such a decisive captain, it will be much easier to handle the case.

I have not read the detailed file of the case, nor have I analyzed all the evidence, so I dare not make a rash assertion, although I already have a very bold guess in my mind. Got out of the morgue with Yang Fan, there were too many people in the police officer's office, and he took us to his own office.

Although the office is small, it is very quiet, and Yang Fan told us with a smile that when he usually handles cases, he likes to shut himself up here and think. Yang Fan asked us to sit down for a while, and he went to get us the file materials and backup materials of all the evidence. Yang Fan is not in a hurry at all, and he has a very leadership style.

Xu Yi sat on the side in a daze, her reaction today was too abnormal, I put my arm around her shoulders and asked her what was wrong.

Xu Yi thought for a long time: "I don't know, I always feel very stuffy in my heart, maybe those corpses remind me of some bad things." Xu Yi said, as if he remembered something again, and his face became very ugly. Xu Yi probably remembered the years when she disappeared, and the corpses she saw vaguely, just like in my dream, there were also internal organs flowing out of her stomach. I patted Xu Yi's hand and told her not to think about it.

At this time, Yang Fan came in with a large pile of materials in his hand. He put the materials on the table and ran to close the door again. The lights in the office are not very bright, the doors and windows are closed, and the air is not very smooth, but there is a very fragrant smell in the room.

The smell came from the aromatherapy lamp on the table.

"Professor Li, this is the confession of an eyewitness, and this is what we have sorted out based on various evidence." Yang Fan put the two materials in front of me. I flipped through the materials and read them carefully. After a few minutes, I finally understood what the case had happened.

The eyewitness in this case is called Zheng Dayong, and he is also the one who called the police. Zheng Dayong was a Taoist priest in the Iron Tile Palace, and on the day of the crime, he was sleeping soundly when he was vaguely woken up by a certain sound. He got up and went to the main hall to check, and found Qiu Xinghua holding an axe in his hand, and the other ten people were standing around Qiu Xinghua.

The atmosphere was tense, and Zheng Dayong was worried about what was going on, so he immediately ran out to call the police. He then hid outside and didn't dare to show up until the police arrived. But when Yang Fan led the people into the main hall, the ten people were already lying on the ground, and their abdomen was hollowed out.

And Qiu Xinghua was holding the candlestick in the Taoist temple in his hand and lit the straw in the corner of the wall. As soon as the criminal police arrived, Qiu Xinghua threw down the axe and ran out of the back door of the Iron Tile Palace. The police closed the mountain to pursue him, but the mountain was too big, and there were many trees and weeds, so the police could not find Qiu Xinghua. Subsequently, the police immediately increased their police force and conducted a carpet search of Dashan, but Qiu Xinghua was still not found.

Judging from the current situation, Qiu Xinghua is likely to have left S County.

"Qiu Xinghua's family, where is it now?" I asked. According to the dossier, Qiu Xinghua was 47 years old, his family was very poor, and he lived with his wife, although he had a boy and a daughter, but the children were not around. Qiu Xinghua has the skills of repairing diesel engines and lettering, and he relies on these two skills to solve the problem of food and clothing.

"After the incident, all his children rushed back, and the whole family lived in their own house, and I sent someone to protect them." Yang Fan replied to me.

Yang Fan told me that many people had raised suspicions that Qiu Xinghua was mentally ill, which is why he caused such a terrible tragedy, but he asked Qiu Xinghua's family, and they all denied that Qiu Xinghua had a history of mental illness.

"Schedule a time for me, I want to meet them." I put forward my request to Yang Fan: "Qiu Xinghua can avoid the pursuit of so many criminal police, it is obvious that he has a certain anti-investigation ability, the probability of this kind of person having mental illness is not very high, as for whether it is intermittent mental illness, it needs to wait for him to be caught, and then evaluate." ”

Yang Fan nodded, and he said that he hoped that Qiu Xinghua was not mentally ill, because in this way he could be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law. Yang Fan's emotions were a little excited, he cursed Qiu Xinghua in his mouth, and made up his mind to bring Qiu Xinghua to justice, and he also said that Qiu Xinghua, a murderous demon, should be sentenced regardless of whether he is mentally ill or not.

The aromatherapy lamp also exuded a vague fragrance, and I was not used to analyzing in such an environment, so I immediately stood up. I can't understand why Yang Fan can think under such drowsy lights and aromas. Yang Fan saw me stand up and asked me if I had any results.

I couldn't cry or laugh: "Captain Yang, I'm not so godly. My words made Yang Fan a little disappointed, and he smiled awkwardly, but my next sentence made him feel shocked.

"I have a bold guess, though." I used the word guess because the idea is really bold and I'm not very sure. Yang Fan is very smart, he understands what I mean, let me guess. Xu Yi also stood up, her face was much better than just now.

All the deceased, with a strange smile of satisfaction on their distorted faces, appeared two expressions on one face, which seemed contradictory, but it was not inexplicable. Most deaths will bring great pain to people, not to mention being dissected and the internal organs are hollowed out and died, so the distorted expression is the manifestation of the pain of the deceased before death.

And this smile is a condensed expression at the moment of death. Laughter represents satisfaction, excitement, or happiness, so the deceased thinks that a certain goal has been achieved at the moment of death.

"The ten dead were killed of their own free will." I told Yang Fan my conjecture.

Not only Yang Fan, but even Xu Yi looked at me with some shock. The evidence that supports my conjecture is not only the expression of the deceased, but also the testimony of eyewitness Zheng Dayong. He saw ten Taoist priests surrounding Qiu Xinghua, who was holding an axe in his hand, and then hid.

According to the degree of darkness of the night, when Qiu Xinghua was killing, the screams of the victim would definitely be heard by Zheng Dayong, but in the record of Zheng Dayong's interrogation, Zheng Dayong did not hear it. There are only two possible reasons, one is that when the victim died, someone covered his mouth, which is obviously unlikely, Qiu Xinghua alone, how to block the mouths of ten people.

Another possibility is that the victim deliberately lowered his voice, and only if the deceased was voluntarily cut down, would he deliberately silence his voice. Moreover, if these ten people were not voluntary, Qiu Xinghua would not have been able to kill all ten people in such a short period of time, and also hollow out the internal organs.

When I went to the Iron Tile Hall to observe, I deliberately noticed that except for some blood stains, the crime scene was relatively neat, and there were no obvious traces of a fight. This makes me even more daring to speculate that ten people were killed by Qiu Xinghua voluntarily.

Yang Fan was dumbfounded when he heard this, he couldn't think of how to refute me, but he dared to believe that someone would voluntarily let someone else kill, and put on a satisfied smile.

"Captain Yang, these are just my guesses, specifically, let's wait until I see Qiu Xinghua's family tomorrow." I paused: "How's the operation to arrest Qiu Xinghua?" ”

Speaking of this, Yang Fan sighed, he said that Qiu Xinghua was too cunning, he used various methods, but he couldn't find Qiu Xinghua. However, Yang Fan was not discouraged at all, but strengthened his determination to catch Qiu Xinghua.

Yang Fan arranged a hotel for me and Xu Yi, just next to the room of Shen Nuo and another criminal police officer in G City, the hotel was very close to the police station, and Yang Fan had a lot of things, so I didn't let him send us. When I left the office, I saw Shen Nuo outside, as if waiting for me.

Shen Nuo looked at Xu Yi and smiled at me a little unnaturally. Just as I was about to ask Shen Nuo something about the situation of G City and Xiong Wancheng's body, Yang Fan suddenly ran out of the office, he roared, and led a team to the police.

In a hurry, Yang Fan told me that something had happened in the Iron Tile Palace. I didn't have time to think about it, I took Xu Yi and Yang Fan to set off together, and Shen Nuo, as the policeman who handed over the case, naturally followed. After the evidence was extracted, the Iron Tile Hall was cordoned off, but there was no criminal police guarding it.

Near the Iron Tile Palace, there are still some residential houses. Yang Fan received a report, saying that it was a resident living near the Iron Tile Palace, and suddenly heard a miserable cry, which came from the Iron Tile Palace. The car drove on the road at night, and in the moonlight, we could faintly see the outline of the mountain on which the Iron Tile Hall was located.

When we entered the confines of the Iron Tile Hall, we heard bursts of poignant and eerie laughter...... In front of the gate of the Iron Tile Palace, there seemed to be a figure with only the upper body, and the figure was still slowly fluttering......