After getting off the car, everyone stopped to look, the moonlight was hazy, the half of the body on the iron tile hall was fluttering left and right under the blowing of the mountain wind, the body had no head, no feet, it almost floated to the plaque of the iron tile hall. The screams of the Gloom were faintly visible, and when they were loud, they resounded almost throughout the valley, but they were so small that I had to hold my breath to hear them.

The screams were not disorganized, but rather like someone was chanting a scripture that we didn't understand. In the white moonlight, the sound pierced everyone's eardrums, and even I felt my scalp tingle. It's not that I'm afraid, it's the atmosphere, and at the moment, I just want to know who is there to play tricks.

I was about to rush over, but Xu Yi held me tightly. I looked at Xu Yi's face, the darkness outlining every outline of her face, her lips trembling, telling me that she had a headache. I had an inexplicable panic, and I had a strange illusion that Xu Yi in the moonlight, I was actually a little strange.

I turned my face, not only Xu Yi, but also Shen Nuo, and Yang Fan, who I just met, I felt that everyone had become someone I didn't know. I shook my head vigorously to get the strange thought out of my head. All these feelings only happened in that moment.

It's only been a few seconds since we got off the bus. With Yang Fan out of the police, there are more than 20 criminal police, the car is parked more than 50 meters away from the iron tile hall, there is a raised dirt slope in front of us, the view is blocked, we can only see the upper part of the iron tile hall.

Yang Fan waved at everyone, more than 20 criminal policemen immediately divided into two teams, everyone took out their guns, and when Yang Fan gave an order, everyone would bypass the small dirt slope in front of us, and the soldiers rushed into the iron tile hall in two ways. It was at this time that the scream suddenly became even more poignant.

I finally made out that it was a man's voice, and according to the recognition of the voice, it should have been a thick voice, perhaps deliberately to raise the volume, so that it would pull its throat and let out such a shrill roar. The feeling of danger rose from the soles of my feet, and I remembered that I was so irrational just now that I wanted to rush straight up, thanks to Xu Yi holding me back.

Since I arrived in G City, I have found that I am becoming more and more uncalm, and the case of the woman in red has made me a mess.

"I'd like to see who's pretending to be a ghost here!" Yang Fan gave the order, and the two teams of men and horses approached the Iron Tile Hall unhurriedly and slowly according to the original plan. Yang Fan took the lead in rushing up, Yang Fan was very thoughtful, he left two criminal policemen to protect us, and after they ran away, we slowly walked towards the Iron Tile Palace.

The half of the body in front of the Iron Tile Hall continued to flutter from side to side, and I was always worried that someone had their head cut off and the lower half of their body, and then hung outside the Iron Tile Hall. When we came to the gate of the Iron Tile Hall, I finally saw the true face of the half of the body.

It was just a robe, and what supported it was a slender bamboo pole, and the night was too dark and the distance was far away, so we didn't notice the bamboo pole, but mistook this robe for half of a person's body.

It was pitch black in the Iron Tile Palace, and the terrible screams were gone, replaced by Yang Fan's voice, as if he was giving some order.

Without Yang Fan's order, the two criminal policemen who protected us didn't dare to take us in without permission, and finally, Yang Fan ran out in a hurry.

"It's Qiu Xinghua!" Yang Fan said to me, "He ran out of the back door again, and this guy dared to come back!" ”

Yang Fan has already made more criminal police officers dispatched, he is very excited, and he is ready to catch Qiu Xinghua this time. After the terrible screams disappeared, Xu Yi also breathed a sigh of relief, and Xu Yi held my hand: "That voice just now, I have a headache when I hear it." ”

"That's Qiu Xinghua pretending to be a ghost!" Yang Fan cursed viciously, and I realized that Yang Fan had two more things in his hand: an old tape recorder and a broken amplifier. Yang Fan turned on the tape recorder, took out a cassette tape inside, shook it, and put it back into the tape recorder.

As soon as Yang Fan turned on the tape recorder, the voice appeared again. Everyone understood, the sound came from these two things, Yang Fan didn't turn on the megaphone, and the sound was much quieter than just now. On the tape recorder, there was a man at the top of his voice, muttering something we didn't understand.

"This should be Qiu Xinghua's voice, he recorded his own voice, and then took it out to be scary!" Yang Fan turned off the tape recorder and said to us.

"Is it just scary?" I asked Yang Fan rhetorically, and Yang Fan was stopped by me.

The sound recorded on the tape was very similar to the mantra that the Taoist family usually recites when they do the Dharma, and I had a rough guess in my heart, so I asked Yang Fan to let us in. Qiu Xinghua had already fled through the back door, Yang Fan estimated the time, and the other criminal police in the police station should have all been dispatched.

There were people guarding the outside of the Iron Tile Palace, and it was safe inside, so Yang Fan did not refuse. Compared with the Tiemu Temple in G City, the conditions are much better, at least there are electric lights. When we walked in, the criminal police who stayed in the iron tile hall had already turned on the lights, and most of the police force went to hunt down Qiu Xinghua, and there were very few criminal police officers left inside.

"Tape recorders and loudspeakers were found here." Yang Fan walked in and pointed to the incense burning platform and said to me. I glanced at it and walked straight to the wall engraved with the words "Qiu Xinghua", the time was too hurried, and when Yang Fan came in, he didn't pay attention to this wall at all.

He gasped when he saw something in the corner.

In the corner of the wall, some unburned straw was piled up again, and on the straw, there were all wet internal organs, including the torn large intestine, and the liver that had been cut in half, and the internal organs of the human body were all gathered into a pile. The internal organs have been taken out for a long time, and the blood stains on them have been basically removed, but it is precisely because of this that the fleshy liver is sticky and soft, and it looks even more disgusting.

The criminal policeman, whose psychological quality is not very good, directly covered his mouth and endured it without spit it out.

When looking at the information on Qiu Xinghua's case, the file mentioned the internal organs of the corpses that had been removed. At the scene of the crime, except for a part of the remaining part of the corpse, all the internal organs were taken away by Qiu Xinghua. When Yang Fan led people to search the mountains, he found some, but he didn't find them all.

Yang Fan always thought that Qiu Xinghua was just killing people and scattering corpses, and I didn't have much clue, so I didn't refute him before. But now it seems that things are not so simple at all. Many perverted murderers, after killing, in order to destroy evidence or satisfy perverted psychology, they will discard the organs of the corpse everywhere, but Qiu Xinghua's purpose is not like this at all.

Shen Nuo and Xu Yi have already turned their faces, I know how bold Shen Nuo is, she is not afraid of the so-called ghosts and gods, nor is she afraid of murderers, but she is afraid of some dead things, so when she saw the dead cat downstairs in her house, she was scared like that. And Xu Yi, maybe he hasn't been exposed to these things for too long, so he also has these reactions.

Holding back my nausea, I moved a little closer to the entrails and took a closer look. It's very light, but I still smell formalin, it seems that Qiu Xinghua soaked these things in the formalin potion in order to prevent the corruption of internal organs. These internal organs and those found by Yang Fan on the mountain combined, and they had not yet reached the number of ten people.

"Professor Li, this ......" Yang Fan frowned, staring at those disgusting internal organs.

The search continued, the walkie-talkie in Yang Fan's hand kept ringing, the situation didn't seem to be very optimistic, from Qiu Xinghua's escape to the present, Yang Fan's men still failed to find Qiu Xinghua's traces.

"I think Qiu Xinghua came back to complete the ritual that he didn't complete." I pointed to the name on the wall, the three words "Qiu Xinghua" are deeper than before, and it is obvious that Qiu Xinghua has just carved a few more strokes along the original strokes. What I saw when I came in made me more sure of my assumptions.

The names on the walls, the mixed blood stains of the ten people on it, and the unintelligible scripture incantations on the tape recorder, all faintly indicated that Qiu Xinghua was probably performing some kind of ritual. Qiu Xinghua firmly believed that rituals could allow him to achieve a certain goal, and this kind of ritual required human blood, human internal organs, a robe to hang, and fire.

On that day, Qiu Xinghua set fire, not to burn the evidence at all, but to complete the ceremony. When the police arrived, Qiu Xinghua's ceremony was interrupted, so he had to flee and reappear here tonight, also to continue to complete his so-called ceremony. The straw that was re-piled in the corner of the wall also showed that he wanted to re-set the fire.

"You mean, religion kills?" Yang Fan listened to my analysis and asked rhetorically.

I shook my head: "Not sure, it's like." If that's the case, and his ritual is interrupted again, he's likely to do it again, anyway, catch him first. ”

The people from the identification department came belatedly, and after they extracted all the traces of the scene, Qiu Xinghua was still not found by the police. Shen Nuo and Xu Yi were afraid of destroying the scene, so they sat on the chairs on the side. I'm also thinking about it, trying to sort out a clearer idea.

If Qiu Xinghua was really performing some kind of ritual, the inference that the ten people were killed voluntarily can also be explained. They were bewitched by Qiu Xinghua, thinking that after being killed, they could also achieve some kind of "immortality and resurrection" and other goals. But Xiong Wancheng also died in this case, which is a very big suspicion.

I always thought about the connection between the case of the woman in red and the case of Qiu Xinghua, but no matter how hard I racked my brains, I couldn't connect the two. I don't want to believe that the death of the suspect in the Woman in Red case at the hands of Qiu Xinghua is just a coincidence.