The "hypothesis" put forward by Tan Zhongxia was really a bit explicit, Xiao Hai listened, his eyes sank, and he turned his face to look at me.

I smiled slightly, and said to myself in my heart that it was no big deal, that my principle was that the soldiers would come to block the water and cover the earth, and there was a way to deal with fools, and similarly, there were ways to deal with smart people.

Needless to say, Tan Zhongxia must be a smart person.

Now I regret that I didn't inquire more about his details and origins, but I only knew that he was transferred from Shanghai, and I didn't know anything else. He is well-versed in criminal psychology and can read from any unconscious micro-expression or micro-movement, so it is certainly not wise to lie in front of him.

Only by telling the truth as a lie, and then telling the truth as the truth, and hyping the truth and falsehood into a pot, is the best way to deal with him at the moment, whether it is true or false, true or false, you can analyze it yourself.

I took a few sips of tea slowly, and then looked at Tan Zhongxia with a smile for a few seconds, and answered his question: "If I want to kill someone, um." I'm definitely going to pick what I hate and who I think damn it. I'll do it without leaving a trace. And I'll find a way to convince myself that I haven't done those things. ”

I think this answer should come from the heart, I never thought that I would take the initiative to kill anyone one day in the future, but Tan Zhongxia gave me a chance to think about it seriously. I think it must be like that, it's nice to do it neatly and then forget about it quickly.

Tan Zhongxia looked at me fixedly.

I smiled a little smugly, then grabbed a red marker from the table, turned around and circled the clues left by the murderers in the photos on the wall, footprints, murder weapons, coats, buckets with the name and address of the factory, and so on.

I told him that it was definitely not my style to leave so many messes and deliberately disrupt the police in handling the case. And I'm a simple and straightforward person, I don't do anything grandstanding, take something from the murder scene or leave something behind to make an identity, forget it. There is also a sense of art and ritual or something, hehe, killing people is killing, doing so many tricks, time-consuming and laborious, it's really sick. I don't even have obsessive-compulsive disorder, how can I have that kind of neuropathy.

He was still looking at me fixedly.

I pouted to indicate that I was done.

Then I heard Bai Yafeng being confused there, and muttered: "I still can't understand why the murderer is so complicated, it's obvious that it's all premeditated murder, but isn't it that the less people know about premeditated murder, the safer it is for you?" Find a place where no one is and stab the other party to death with a knife, except that God knows that only the murderer himself knows, why do you have to have several people join forces? Aren't you afraid of any drunken and leaky mouth? Or one day they fall out, and no one of you can have a good life? ”

Although his question saved Tan Zhongxia and me from the embarrassing situation in front of us, it pushed the case back to the place where we argued at the beginning.

Tan Zhongxia still believes that there is a criminal group of three or more dangerous people with antisocial personalities, who think of themselves as gods, and randomly select people they believe to be guilty but have not been punished by human law to judge, convict, and carry out the death penalty. Such a criminal group will never stop until the mastermind is caught.

He said he had asked the people below to split up to see if there were any suspicious groups moving around recently.

And I just can't agree with his judgment, and still insist that it is a vendetta.

Yes, the three deceased may indeed not know each other, and there is no intersection with each other, but it cannot be ruled out that their respective enemies met because of a special channel, formed an avenger alliance, and exchanged killings, I killed your enemy for you, you killed his enemy for him, and he killed my enemy for me. Everyone, you help me and I help you, everyone has blood on their hands, everyone is carrying a lawsuit on their backs, restraining each other, solid as gold, and no one is afraid of anyone leaking out.

Okay, it's stalemate again.

And Bai Yafeng was completely confused, and when we stopped, he laughed dryly, waved his hand and said, "You continue, I'll drink tea first." ”

Tan Zhongxia walked to the wall, poked the photos of the scene of the "fire case" with his finger, and said: "There are many ways to make a person's death extremely painful or even worse than death. Cutting flesh, crushing bones, or doing nothing to starve the other person to death is also a form of torture. But why, why did you choose to burn to death? The location of this murder is indeed a bit remote, but it is not so far off the beaten track. You burn such a big fire, and there is a living person in the fire, who will struggle, will move, and if you pass by a good person along the way, won't it be extraneous? Doesn't the murderer even have a sense of risk?! ”

I'm speechless.

He also poked the photo of the "disembowelment case" with his finger and said: "This case is even more incredible. It was you who analyzed it yourself from the environmental evidence, saying that the murderer was a cowardly person who panicked after committing the crime and couldn't even run away, right? Well, since he is such a person, he wants revenge, why does he have to take such an inappropriate way as disemboweling? Why didn't he change to a method that was just as painful for the other party, but relatively gentle for himself? Can you explain to me why. ”

Again, I was speechless.

During the discussion and analysis, I was repeatedly speechless, but Tan Zhongxia continued to say without words: "My reasoning can explain the problem just now. Those dangerous elements with antisocial personality have organized a cult and are doing these murderous things in the name of God under the banner of doing the right thing for heaven. They may have borrowed some elements from Christianity, imitated the Bible or the like, and came up with some kind of Ten Commandments or Commandments to admonish the believers, but those who break the rules will be sent to hell and what kind of punishment will be there, for example, the three ways of death that we are now dealing with may be their three means of punishment. ”

I shook my head, shook my head again, shook my head harder: "No, it's not like that, I can't say anything about you, but I can't agree with you." ”

He furrowed his eyebrows and asked me why I was so stubborn.

I shook my head and sighed, I really couldn't explain why I was so stubborn, but I still tried to explain: "You don't understand, at the scene of the "disembowelment", I can really clearly feel the anger, hatred, sadness and cowardice of the murderer, these are the emotions that only people with deep hatred and hatred have, and the dangerous antisocial personality who acts for heaven will not have such mixed feelings. ”

I said, following his example, I poked my finger at the photo on the wall, heavier and harder: "I can feel those emotions through the photo, but unfortunately I can't explain it to you clearly." Don't think I'm weird, I just have the ability! ”

This time it was his turn to be speechless, but he didn't seem to find what I said unreasonable.

I thought he was going to taunt me by making a fuss about my "feeling" problem, and I was ready to fight back. As a result, no, he seemed to accept this statement, and I had nowhere to use my strength, so I had to stabilize my emotions and work the case.

I told him, "It's not that I haven't thought about what you're reasoning, but I still trust my own intuition and judgment. Based on the cases I have seen, read and heard of, the crimes of antisocial gangs or cults are basically marked on the scene, such as the totem symbol of their sect, or some kind of token, and so on, right? Otherwise, no matter how many scum you kill, no matter how perfect the case is, if you can't connect them together, you won't be able to serve as a wake-up call to the world, isn't it hard work for them in vain? ”

Bai Yafeng, who was sitting at the table in a daze, suddenly raised his head when he heard this, stood up, stared at me with wide eyes, was so excited, nodded his fingers and said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes!" There is a serial murder case in Jiangcheng, that's it, at each scene, the murderer used the victim's blood to draw a terrifying eye on the wall, and there was an X in the eye, so it was called the 'Human Skin X Case', and it seems that the case has not been closed until now. ”

My head banged, and I immediately came up with the case that happened more than half a year ago in the express hotel in the middle of Baihe Road, which was taken over by the Provincial Public Security Department and was not resolved on our side, the murderer was killed with a knife, his eyes were gouged out, his private parts and uterus were destroyed, and there was a bloody painted eye with a cross on the wall of the bedside.

Human skin X case?

Jiangcheng?

I remember that Deputy Captain Yan and Liu Yimin told me that the murderer in that case was a wandering habitual offender who was in the middle of the compilation, and the Provincial Public Security Department and the criminal police team of another city had been watching it for a long time, so of course they took over the past, but they didn't tell me that the so-called "other city" was Jiangcheng.

Anytime Jiang Cheng is mentioned, I feel reflexively uncomfortable.

It was a nightmare. Many years ago, I lived there for a few months, and I watched the tragic death of a good family, and it was terrible.

The ominous feeling that I had vaguely felt at the murder scene in the middle of Lily Road now came back to my heart, and I felt more and more that the case might really have something to do with me.

And just now, when Bai Yafeng mentioned the words "Human Skin X Case", I also clearly saw the green tendons on Tan Zhongxia's head jumping twice, and suddenly, his fists clenched unconsciously.

Bai Yafeng's words seemed to have inadvertently touched the minefield of the two of us.

I turned my face to stare at Bai Yafeng, and asked him to tell me more details about the "Human Skin X Case" he just said.

It's a pity that he doesn't know very well.