Chapter 50: Inhuman
"There are three major elements in handling a case, motive, time and method, and there is also a chain called the chain of evidence. Every clue and evidence we find at the scene of the murder must be related to each other and perfectly fit these three elements, so that our negligence will not lead to unjust, false and wrongful convictions. ”
Rong Fei admired Gu Fengxiao very much, so when he heard him ask, he patiently and meticulously taught his experience.
"The case file provided by the Kyoto Prefecture seems to be conclusive, but careful analysis is full of errors and omissions, so I didn't dare to make a decision during the day, and I checked the scene with my own eyes.
The old couple has a good family, but they are only compared with the surrounding neighbors, in fact, they can only be regarded as ordinary people. Imagine how many gold and silver money, pearl and jade jewelry can an ordinary person have? The most valuable thing is actually that one house.
The two old men had no children or daughters, and the only relative in Kyoto was this nephew. During the on-site investigation, I smelled a strong smell of medicine in the house, and the autopsy results also said that the old woman had been replaced with severe tuberculosis, and even if she was not killed, she would not live long.
The old man is in shape, which should be caused by taking care of his old wife for many years of hard work and worry. If the old woman dies of illness, it must be a big blow to the old man, and in poor health, I am afraid that her life will not be long.
The murderer's backyard found 5 taels of treasure money, 1 tael and 5 coins of loose silver, 134 copper coins, and a gold bill.
Both old men died of illness, so his nephew, as the only relative, could naturally inherit the entire inheritance. With such a risk-free and maximized return, why would the old man's nephew take the risk of killing his head to snatch such a small amount of property? This is the first suspicion, and the motive for committing the crime is not sufficient. ”
Rong Fei's words were clear and transparent, not only Gu Fengxiao listened carefully, but even Xu Shilang, who was arrested, pricked up his ears.
"The second doubt. I found a relatively clear shoe print on a pool of blood at the scene. When the murderer committed the murder, the blood flowed to the ground, and even if the murderer stepped on it, the shoe prints would only leave traces on the ground there, so how could the traces of the shoe prints be left on the blood stains?
Then I thought that there had been a heavy rain the day before. The two elderly men were killed the night before, but because of the heavy rain and humid air, the blood was not completely coagulated until the next morning, when someone stepped on the bloodstains, they would leave their shoe prints on the semi-coagulated bloodstains, and at the same time, the soles of their shoes would also be stained with some blood. In this way, the statement of the old man's nephew coincides.
Since the old man's nephew said that the two old men had been killed when he got there, there must have been shoe prints left by the real murderer at the scene. After careful comparison of all the shoe prints at the crime scene, I found that although all the shoe prints looked the same length, short, fat and thin, there were still some slight differences in the soles due to the different degrees of wear.
Some of the shoe prints on the right foot appear to be missing a small piece. I checked the doors, windows, and fences and found no signs of intrusion climbing. So I went around to the backyard to try my luck, and found half a mud-stained shoe print on the wooden fence, along with a small piece of the sole of the shoe that had been hung off by the wooden stubble.
It is obvious that the murderer rummaged through the backyard fence in the middle of the night and murdered the two elderly people. The murder weapon was the old man's own firewood knife, and if the murderer had planned it in advance, he would definitely have prepared a more convenient and sharper murder weapon in advance, so I speculated that the murderer should have been improvized.
The front of the courtyard is a flat bluestone road, and the path behind it is muddy, and it is even more difficult to walk at night. Since the murderer was a temporary murderer, he definitely did not deliberately take the path, but for some reason he had to walk from this path often, even if the night was dark and muddy.
Cut off a corner? In a hurry?
What could be so urgent?
It's useless to guess, just follow the path to find out the truth. When I saw Changle Casino, I already had a rough guess in my heart.
If the murderer is a gambler, everything can be explained.
You also saw the rest of the matter, after some bluffing, the gambling house manager took the initiative to help us find out the real culprit. Xu Shilang, is what Ben Zhu said right? ”
Rong Fei glared at Xu Shilang and asked coldly.
Xu Shilang's face was pale, a layer of bean-sized cold sweat oozed from his head, and his body kept swinging, thinking of the punishment he was about to face, the fear in his heart was incomprehensible, where could he still answer.
"You kid is also a chicken thief, and he deliberately left some property at the scene of the murder, in order to confuse the public, to frame the blame, it seems that he is an experienced habitual offender, and when you go back, let the officials of Kyoto Prefecture give you another good punishment, maybe you can dig up more cases."
Poof!
Xu Shilang knelt on the ground when he heard this, and kowtowed to Rong Fei non-stop.
"Poor master... Poor master... It's not like that, it's not like that. I, Xu Shilang, swear to heaven that I have done such a perverse thing in my life, and there are really no other bad deeds. At that time, I was really scared, and it was dark in the house, and those belongings were accidentally dropped, so I really didn't deliberately leave them behind. ”
"Hmph, I haven't done it before, I won't know until I've been sentenced."
Gu Fengxiao raised his foot and kicked Xu Shilang down and scolded.
At this time, Rong Fei had a whim in his mind, and he used Xu Shilang, who was curled up on the ground and crying bitterly, and after using it only once last night, he didn't dare to use the second magic power - the Cave Insight.
When Rong Fei used this magic power last night, he used it without a clear goal, so that all the sounds around him came into his ears, and all the scenery mixed together came into view, and he almost didn't send himself away.
If you target a specific target, will you be able to see or hear anything different?
This thought flashed in his mind, Rong Fei was a little itchy, and when Gu Fengxiao scolded Xu Shilang, and when the attention of both of them was not on him, he activated his magical powers.
"I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."
"This brute, I really want to cut him with a knife."
The moment the supernatural power was activated, two voices sounded in my head.
One is Xu Shilang's voice, and the other is Gu Fengxiao.
But the two of them were obviously one scolding and the other was begging, which didn't match what Rong Fei heard in his mind.
Rong Fei immediately figured it out, this is probably the voice of the two of them at this time, this is Shunfeng's ears, it is clearly his heart.
At this time, Gu Fengxiao and Xu Shilang also showed a different state in Rong Fei's eyes.
Gu Fengxiao's whole person was wrapped in a faint layer of green qi, and the qi on the top of his head turned grayish.
Xu Shilang was entangled in a purple-black aura all over his body, and there was a purple-black insect like a centipede lying on his heavenly spirit cover.
There was only a moment when he saw the strange picture and heard the voices of others, Rong Fei felt dizzy and almost fell, knowing that this was caused by the lack of proficiency in the use of supernatural powers and the excessive consumption of his body, he immediately stopped supernatural powers.
At the moment when the supernatural power was about to stop, Rong Fei reached out and grabbed the top of Xu Shilang's head, and the centipede-like insect lying on Xu Shilang's heavenly spirit cover was taken by Rong Fei in the air.
Rong Fei didn't know what was wrong with him, he was very afraid of centipedes, spiders, caterpillars and snakes. Seeing that the centipede was about to fall into his hand, he was so frightened that he shook his hand to avoid it, but the centipede seemed to be pulled by something, and finally fell into Rong Fei's palm.
Rong Fei shuddered, but when he opened his palm, he saw that there was nothing and nothing.
Immediately afterward, I felt something enter my body.
Rong Fei thought of something, and hurriedly sank his consciousness into the spiritual space, and sure enough, he saw the centipede-like insect floating to the mouth of the pig.
The pig reluctantly opened his eyes a gap, first glanced at Rong Fei's consciousness, and then opened his mouth slightly, and the centipede floated into the pig's mouth on its own, and after chewing a few times, Rong Fei actually saw the unfinished meaning from the gap in the pig's slightly open eyes.
After eating the centipede, the pig closed its eyes and continued to sleep.
Hey, this guy not only absorbs the qi of the criminal name, but also eats the alien worms that cause people to become evil.
figured out the correct usage of the wall insight, and unexpectedly discovered another way of growing the pig, which made Rong Fei very excited, and suddenly became more motivated.
The first case has been solved, and the second case is in the east of the city, and after the two escorted Xu Shilang back to Kyoto Prefecture by the way, they went straight to the east of the city without stopping in the moonlight.
At this time, although Kyoto is known as never sleeping, it also refers to the prosperous area with green buildings, restaurants, gambling houses, and other entertainment venues.
The eastern part of the city is mostly populated by houses, so the entire city is shrouded in night. The moonlight shone on the scattered roof tiles, and from a distance it looked like silver fish scales.
Coming to the east of the city, Rong Fei jumped on the roof of a house and looked around, then selected two small buildings that could overlook a large area and were not easy to find, and he and Gu Fengxiao lurked in two places respectively.
A month ago, Kyoto Prefecture received a report from two wealthy gentry in the eastern part of the city, saying that their maids had been abused and killed by flower pickers. Chen Xiusong sent a handsome catcher to investigate the homes of these two wealthy gentry and learned that the insulted Kenben was not a maid, but a concubine, and a young lady who had not yet left the cabinet.
The two wealthy gentry lied that the maid was violated because of their own face, and during the investigation, they learned a shocking news. In the eastern part of the city, there are not only these two families who have been insulted by flower thieves, and there are nine people in these two wealthy gentry alone, but those families are worried about affecting their reputation, so they conceal it and do not report it.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Chen Xiusong sent nearly half of the Kyoto Prefecture's Kuaiku officials to ambush in the east of the city. As a result, every few days, female relatives were abused and killed, but the officials who caught the fast did not even see the shadow of the flower thief.
There are more and more backlogs in Kyoto, and the public arrest and fast officials can't continue to spend here, so after squatting for more than ten days and finding nothing, Chen Xiusong can only symbolically leave two officials to patrol the east of the city every night, and the rest of the staff are withdrawn to work on other cases.
After reading the case file, Rong Fei was keenly aware that this case was not simple.
I'm afraid that the flower thief is not human!