Hearing Lao Zhang's exclamation, the faces of the group of policemen gathered around the house changed, and everyone avoided the headless female corpse from a distance, their eyes were erratic, and they didn't dare not look at it.

"What the are you all doing? I can't handle the case yet! Zhao Da didn't know when he lit a cigarette, he yelled at everyone, but I noticed his expression, the weather was not hot, but his forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and the two fingers holding the cigarette were trembling slightly.

The medical examiner and forensic staff also arrived, and their on-site forensics procedures were very professional, and I kept staring at the corpse and always felt that something was not right. The sensitive nerves made me see the corpse's intact red clothes when Lao Zhang said the words "woman in red".

At this time, two male policemen came over to report the situation to Zhao Da, they were the policemen in this neighborhood, because they received a report from their neighbors, saying that they had heard a woman's cry at night for a whole week, and no one opened the door when they knocked on the door, so they called the police. When they came, they managed to remove the lock on the outside of the door, but unexpectedly, the inside of the door was also locked with iron chains, and they sawed a big hole in the wooden door.

I turned my head, and there was indeed a very thick iron chain on the handle inside the wooden door, which trembled several times, and locked it with a large rusty lock, and the key was thrown on the ground, and the person in the forensic department was wearing medical gloves and carefully putting the key into the bag. The forensic doctor was squatting on the ground, observing the headless female corpse and taking pictures of the female corpse.

I walked around the house, except for the door that was locked from the inside, and the same was true for the windows. The room was small, with only two windows, and the latches of the windows were tightly fastened, and I immediately analyzed that this was a typical murder in a closed room. But this scene was different from the scenes of the locked room murders I had encountered before, I carefully observed the bed and the tea set on the table, neatly arranged, with a layer of dust on it, and it didn't look like it was inhabited at all.

Zhao Da had already finished smoking a cigarette, but he immediately lit a second cigarette, and Lao Zhang stood standing dumbfounded against the wall, and I noticed that his feet were shaking. I walked over to him, stretched out my hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and he came back to his senses and immediately took my hand and said don't check, I can't find anything.

I asked him what the woman in red he was talking about just now, Lao Zhang hesitated again and again, and finally said in a trembling voice that this was not the first case of the woman in red, and said that this case was not done by a person at all, but a ghost. Zhao Da shouted to stop Lao Zhang, Zhao Da was angry, asked him not to bewitch the public, and said that as a criminal policeman, he was so timid and afraid.

But when Zhao Da said this, he was obviously not confident enough, I asked Zhao Da what was going on, Zhao Da looked at me, suddenly his eyes lit up, pulled me out of the door, I walked out with him, Zhao Da handed me a cigarette. I took the cigarette, Zhao Da lit it for me, and from Zhao Da's expression, I knew that he was going to ask me.

Sure enough, after Zhao Da saw me exhaling a smoke ring deeply, he took my hand and asked me to help him, he had only been in office for a long time, and he didn't want to be demoted because of this matter. Zhao Da finally told me about the woman in red, a few years ago, there had been several cases of the woman in red in G City, at that time, he was not the captain of this police force, he witnessed several cases of the woman in red.

The case of the woman in red has not been solved until now, and in several cases, the deceased died in a room with locked doors and windows, and the deceased were all young women, some naked, some well-dressed, and the common thing is that the clothes worn by the deceased or stripped off were all red. Every part of their body has been cut off, from their feet to their hands, from their chests to their throats. The most terrifying thing is the reaction of the deceased's neighbors, at a certain time, they can always hear the woman's eerie cry.

I took a deep puff of my cigarette and asked how many cases had happened, Zhao Da said that this was the fifth case, a few years ago, G City was in an uproar, during that time, the people in the city were frightened, especially women, they threw away the red clothes at home, and in the garbage dump of the whole city, the red clothes piled up into a mountain, and it took several days to burn them out. Everyone is saying that this case was not done by people, but by unjust ghosts.

Because the impact of the case in G City is particularly bad, the superiors gave a death order that the murderer must be found as soon as possible. However, after checking for a while, the original captain of the police force suddenly resigned, saying that he could not find anything and that sooner or later he would have to be punished, and it was better to resign as soon as possible.

Zhao Da was transferred because of this and promoted to the captain of the police force, and in the past few years that he has been the captain, there have been no more bad cases, but I didn't expect that the case of the woman in red happened again. Zhao Da begged me, saying that I was an expert in this area, and asked me to help him, otherwise he would definitely not be able to sit in the position of captain of the police force for a short time.

I threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it hard, and I asked him, "Do you believe in ghosts?" ”

Zhao Da was stunned for a moment, and after hesitating for a long time, he opened his mouth and said that he didn't believe it originally, and he didn't want to believe it, but everyone said that there were ghosts, the case was so weird, and it didn't matter if the deceased died in the secret room. Everyone heard the terrible cry, it wasn't a ghost, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

I asked him to put his mind right, there are no ghosts in this world, the most terrible thing is gossip, he is the leader of a team, and his words and deeds will affect the entire police force. I decided to take on this case, I had an innate desire to conquer the unsolved case, and more importantly, the Lady in Red incident reminded me of what happened in the suicide forest.

The severed head of the scarecrow, the man in red in the mist, all this seems to be a harbinger of this case, and there, in turn, happens to be the place where the 330 bus in City B reappears. My gut tells me that it's all connected, and I trust my instincts because there's never a mistake.

I walked around the neighborhood and didn't find a camera installed. Although it is a downtown area, it is not an upscale residential area. At that time, cameras were still a rarity, and except for some units, only some high-end residential areas could install one or two.

"Captain Zhao, the information on the previous cases of the woman in red is still there, right?" When I came back, I asked, and what I was afraid of was that the police force in City B had transferred all these things.

Zhao Da nodded hurriedly and said that they were all in the police department's archives, including the identification report, photos of the scene, and the interrogation records of witnesses, all of which were intact. I nodded, said I took the case, and after that, I went into the house. Zhao Da stopped me, he hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Professor Li, how sure are you that you can solve this case?" ”

I smiled slightly, "There's no case I can't solve." ”

With these words in mind, I changed into shoe covers and re-entered the crime scene. Meng Ting was sitting slumped by the door, there was a pile of vomit next to her, I squatted down and helped her up, and whispered in her ear, if you can't stand it, go back to the car to rest first, but Meng Ting refused to go out, and said that she never wanted to be alone anymore.

When Lao Zhang saw me coming in, he ran to my side in a panic and asked me if the captain had asked me to take on this case, I nodded and said that I was going to solve this case. Lao Zhang desperately persuaded me not to take it, and if I investigated, I would only get into trouble, Lao Zhang said that the captain of the police force had told him that if such a case happened again, don't investigate it.

I listened to Lao Zhang's words, it seems that the resignation of the original captain of the police force is not so simple, maybe he still has important clues. I made a secret note that when I was going back, I would immediately visit the former captain of the police force. Lao Zhang was still chattering and persuading me not to take on this case, and Zhao Da walked in.

My intervention made Zhao Da confident, and he scolded Lao Zhang even more sharply, saying that if he dared to say anything nonsense, he would be punished immediately. Lao Zhang cried and looked at me, and finally walked to the side with a sigh, he didn't help the on-site investigation, just stood aside in a daze.

"Captain Zhao, Lao Zhang wasn't like this before." I asked Zhao Da.

Zhao Da's face looked a lot better, "Since I took over this police force, he has been like this, he is indeed different from the heroic appearance of a few years ago." ”

I put aside Lao Zhang's matter for the time being, and continued to search for the crime scene, the people in the identification department were busy collecting evidence, but their search did not seem to be very large, except for the blood stains on the deceased's body, there was no blood at the scene, and no suspicious crime tools were found at the scene. I am a little troubled, if the neck of the deceased is cut, the blood will inevitably be spurted, and it is impossible not to leave a trace of blood, even if it is cleaned, it will leave clues.

Victory Street is also a downtown area, if you kill the deceased and then transfer it here, it is difficult not to be discovered, let alone create a murder room. The on-site investigation lasted several hours, during which the police officers who followed the case questioned the person who called the person who made the report and a few neighbors, and I listened carefully.

There is not much difference in their rhetoric. They said that the house had been uninhabited for a long time, and they did not know who the owner was, but about a week ago, they heard the woman's terrible cry in the middle of the night, and at first they thought that the owner had come back and was crying because of something.

However, after a week, about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, they all heard the cry, the more they listened, the more frightening it became, the cultural level of the neighborhood was not high, it was inevitable that they would be superstitious, they became more and more afraid, and finally after discussing it, they decided to call the police.

The police officer who questioned me made a record of the on-site interrogation word for word, and I took it all to heart. There are only two valuable things, one is that the house has been uninhabited for a long time, which coincides with the neat but dusty utensils in the house, and the other key point, the cry at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

At this time, the forensics and investigation at the scene came to an end, and several forensic doctors brought a stretcher and carefully lifted the body. As soon as I saw a bracelet on the deceased's wrist......