58. It's a night stalker again
After Dai Furong received the promise of exclusive reporting, she made a strict comparison between the original "oil painting case" of Liang Baoshi and the "oil painting case" of today's reproduction.
The first difference is that at today's scene, all the colors are acrylic paint, and these things were brought by the murderer and taken away after the crime; Four years ago, there was no paint on site, and all the colors were made from paint that was already piled up in the on-site warehouse.
The second difference is that the color on the deceased's body today is brushed with a paint brush, with clear brush marks, very careful, while four years ago, most of the colors on the deceased's body in Liangbao City were splashed up, and a small part was thrown up with a brush, only the chest, lower abdomen and thighs have traces of brushing; Thirdly, there are no footprints left on the site today, and there were a few footprints in the paint that was splashed on the ground at the site four years ago.
I listened slowly, nodding my head slowly, but my mind was racing to consider the reasons for the differences.
They didn't splash paint on the corpse, but they were not afraid of trouble brushing it, I think the main reason was to avoid the paint from spilling on the ground and leaving footprints, perhaps for fear that the footprints would expose their number, or for fear that the children's footprints would immediately attract the attention of the police, and directly regard the 14-year-old daughter of the deceased in the original "oil painting case" as the first suspect.
The mastermind made changes to this detail, including cleaning the scene later, in order to carefully protect the girl and erase all traces of her visit to the scene.
But what I can't figure out is, why did they switch to acrylic paint instead of paint? Whether it is from the perspective of respecting the original or from the convenience of action, it should be more convenient to paint, right?
But they just used paint.
It must have to be this way, but it's hard to guess why.
Liu Yimin asked me if I had any thoughts, I shook my head slowly, not in a hurry to express it, but went over to ask him if he had said anything else on behalf of Furong. He repeated what Dai Furong said one by one, all of which were for today's murder, and nothing else.
I don't know if she deliberately hid it, or if she really didn't know more.
I asked Liu Yimin if he had any contact with the police station in Liangbao City.
He said: "After contacting, it will take about three days for the file of the old case four years ago to come. ”
I asked him again, "Did you give me anything else when you contacted them?" ”
He didn't understand what I meant, and his eyes were a little glazed.
I sighed in my heart, I really don't know what to say, to the point where they haven't thought of the root of the problem.
The old lazy man who was sitting next to him and bowed his head to study the materials floated over faintly: "I have called, there should be news tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”
Liu Yimin was even more stunned, turned his head to look at him, and then turned back to look at me, still not understanding what we were talking about.
Let me make a long story short to explain the situation: "Since today's murder case has a corresponding old case in Liangbao City, then several other cases, such as the 'head smashing case', the 'fire case', the 'Seven Knife Case', and the 'Disembowelment Case', should also have corresponding old cases, and they should all be in Liangbao City." These in Qianzhou are just replicas of the revenge nature of those old cases. The murderer specially tricked Yu Min from Liangbao City to kill him on purpose, and they hoped that the police could follow this line and pull out the original case over there for investigation. ”
Liu Yimin listened, his expression that had been holding on collapsed instantly, and he moved his gaze to the old lazy, although he didn't say anything in his mouth, but he could see that he was very unhappy, such a big thing, the old lazy had already thought of it and arranged to check it down, but he didn't reveal a word to them, it was really excessive.
I was afraid that the atmosphere would be embarrassing, so I quickly asked him if Dai Furong had anything to say, and after three and two pulls, he didn't pay attention to the laziness again.
It just so happened that Hu Hailian and several other policemen also came, and everyone sat together to discuss the case, and the most important point was to focus on the number of murderers, how many people were involved in the crime, two, three, four, or five or six.
After a round of discussion, opinions cannot be unified at all, because of the five cases, although the pomp is not big, but the difficulty is still a bit, from finding the target person, choosing the venue, abducting the victim, imprisoning, transporting to the selected location, torture, killing, carrying things, cleaning the scene, I am afraid that it really takes four or five people to do it, but it is not necessarily, if the execution ability is high, two or three people can also do it.
So it's a real headache, and it feels like the other party is a monster, and you don't know how many heads it has and how many hands it has.
The discussion did not disperse until the middle of the night, leaving a few on duty, and the rest went home to rest.
When I drove the car out of the back parking lot, I saw the old lazy man walking across the road in front, standing tall, strutting, with two hands in his trouser pockets, looking at it not far away, it was actually very stylish.
When I came back to my senses, I noticed that Xiaohai was peeking at me, so I smiled and asked her what she was looking at. She shook her head, half-salty and said nothing.
So I didn't talk any further, and drove home with one foot on the accelerator and another on the accelerator. I like to drive on the road in the middle of the night, there are no cars, no people, it's empty, it feels like it's flying, and I can focus my mind on a kind of cutting-edge position, half mindful driving, half thinking about other things.
In my mind, I simulated the whole process of today's "oil painting case", how they broke into the factory, how they carried the victim inside, stripped her clothes, gouged out her eyes, cut her tongue, hung it, put a basketball on it, and then painted the victim's body, slowly brushing it one by one...... In any case, two things are certain: first, the daughter of the deceased in the old case four years ago must be at the scene today; Second, I am afraid that there are more than three or four people involved in today's case, and among them there must be a young woman with a great aura and a very calm and calm person, who has accompanied the little girl from beginning to end.
Then it dawned on me that it didn't matter how many people were involved in these revenge serial murders.
Only the mastermind is important.
I was concentrating and thinking in a disorganized way, when Xiao Hai suddenly spoke, startling me so much that I didn't hear what she was saying for a while, and looked sideways at her, looking at her with inquiring eyes, while she sat with her arms crossed, her eyes closed.
I asked her what was wrong.
In an almost commanding tone, she said, "Keep your speed and keep an eye on the back." ”
I looked in the rearview mirror as I heard the voice, and there was a black sedan, not too close and not too far away, driving as if it were nothing, not sure if it was following us.
But Xiaohai said: "When we came out of the public security bureau, we were followed by the car, and when you look at the old lazy crossing the road, it stopped at the corner of the road behind us." ”
I absolutely believe Xiaohai's judgment, she said that we were followed by the car behind us from the moment we left the public security bureau, so it must be.
I think her judgment, and my unconditional trust in her abilities, is one of the reasons why I follow her everywhere I go these days, and one of the reasons why we can live in harmony and have an unfathomable tacit understanding. We are all jungle beasts, or we have all been trained to deal with life in a way that goes beyond the conventions of society.
I kept a steady pace and continued to drive forward, asking Xiaohai if he had any plans. She turned her face sideways and glared at me with big dark eyes and asked, "Can you listen to me?" ”
I nodded firmly, "Listen." ”
She wrung her eyebrows a little uncertain at first, but seeing that my expression was not joking at all, she immediately became energetic, straightened her body, looked ahead, and ordered: "Don't drive home, turn a corner anywhere, drive to a deserted place with street lights." ”
So, when I reached an intersection, I turned right and drove to Sakura Road. The area is residential and there are no nightly entertainment venues, so the street lights are bright but empty.
Xiao Hai observed for about half a minute, made sure that this section of the road was suitable, turned his face and asked me, "Can you make a 180-degree turn?" It's the kind of Jackie Chan played in the movie, hit the steering wheel and hit the car directly behind, okay? ”
I smiled wryly, "No, I don't have that ability." ”
After speaking, he glanced at the rearview mirror, made sure that the car behind him was still following, and measured the distance and speed, thinking that one hundred and eighty degrees is impossible, and it should be easy to come to ninety degrees, but I don't know if the other party's reaction ability is fast enough, in case it is not enough, bang up, and the two of us will have to crash out of the brain if we don't die.
Just thinking about calculating, Xiao Hai suddenly gave an order, speaking at a fast speed and in an unquestionable tone: "Speed up!" One more point! Brake to death! Play a trick and give me the car sideways!! ”
Xiao Hai's order was exactly the same as what I had in mind, so I didn't say a word and did it, and in an instant, the sound of brakes, the grinding of tires and asphalt, the sound of slamming the steering wheel, and the screams of a woman walking on the road were all mixed together, almost deafening my ears.
Later, I thought about the madness of this night a few times, and I hated to slap myself, and I couldn't figure out how it could be so just a blind command from a person who didn't know how to drive at all, what to speed up, what to brake to death, what to play tricks to turn the car sideways, or something, it was simply the rhythm of madness.
Fortunately, the person in the car who was following us behind was also very fast, and when he saw that he was about to stop and crash, he stepped on the brakes and slammed the steering wheel to the right, avoiding us, and hit the side of the road with a loud bang, hitting the shoulder of the road and hitting a tree.
The force was very ruthless, and if the people in the car were not wearing seat belts, they would probably become brain-dead.
I haven't stabilized much here, the whole person is still in a nervous string, the car door on Xiaohai's side suddenly opened, I hurriedly turned my face to look, only to see the broken short knife in her hand flashed coldly, and even the person with the knife disappeared.