Chapter 101: Inextricably Linked (2)
The entrance and passage are hardened with concrete. Four or five meters into the passage, there is an iron gate. The cramped space was completely sealed by this iron door. But when Li Zhudao and Lu Kai came in, the iron gate was not locked. This shows that the people who came out of here at that time should have been in a hurry.
Push open the iron door, and there is a different world, and there are two rooms behind it.
The first room was about twenty square meters, with a wooden sofa against the wall opposite the iron door, but in the middle of the room was a very strange-looking chair, and in front of the chair was a table. The front of the chair is opposite the sofa.
It is a wide, simple, heavy wooden chair with straps on the armrests, backrest, uptop, and legs. The legs are held securely to the ground. The strap at the foot of the chair near the floor has a layer of sponge on the inside and a wire on the outside.
On the table is a leather hood that is also a sponge on the inside and a wire attached to the outside.
Wires for the hood and legs lead to another room inside. In that room there was an electrical control system, and two wires were connected to it.
Upon inspection, it was confirmed that this was an electric chair.
Contrary to popular belief, the electric chair is not powered and no electricity flows through any part of the chair. Therefore, any strong, non-conductive chair can be used as an electric chair to administer an electric shock or carry out a death sentence.
When you sit in an electric chair, you become part of a closed circuit. The human body is only used to connect two electrodes so that the current can pass through, that is, from the head through the hood, from the wire at the ankle to output, and finally send the current back to the power supply.
When an electric shock is applied, the sponge of the hood and the belt of the chair leg is soaked in water to ensure that the current is evenly fed in and out of the body. At the same time, remove leg hair from the ankles.
But it's not the voltage that torments, or kills.
Voltage is like a pump that draws electricity, electricity is like water in a water pipe, the wire is the water pipe, the larger the pump, the more water passes through the pipe. When an electric shock is inflicted on a person, it is actually the amperage that is fatal, that is, the intensity of the electric current through the human body, and only one ampere can kill a person.
So how exactly are electric chairs used to torture people and how to cause death?
Basically all the batteries in the human body are depolarized, which means that the human body is commanded to work.
If one neuron in the brain is responsible for inhaling and another neuron is responsible for exhaling, stimulating both neurons at the same time, it will cause confusion in the "instructions" of inhalation and exhalation, and the body will not be able to inhale and exhale.
The heartbeat functions the same as other systems in the body, and activating these neurons in the brain at the same time will confuse the various "instructions" and completely overload the entire system. Just like the CPU of a computer suddenly gives all the instructions, it will naturally cause the system to be overloaded and cause chaos, and then there will be a crash or downtime.
This is also the reason why many movies and people who have been subjected to electric shocks have scenes such as saliva, snot, tears, foaming at the mouth, and incontinence.
In short, the way the electric chair tortures or kills people is to completely overload the human body and cause chaos, causing a short circuit in the brain and finally the heart to stop beating.
In some countries, two electric shocks are applied when the statutory electrocution (execution of the death penalty) is imposed.
The first high-voltage electricity stops the brain and nervous system, which lead to the brain, heart, arms, internal organs, mouth, which usually causes permanent brain death, but it may not be enough to stop the heartbeat, and in some people the heart continues to beat, the muscles still contract, and the face twists.
The medical examiner at the scene waited until the inmate's heart stopped beating before pronouncing him dead. Therefore, a second round of electric shocks with lower voltage and less current is applied. This can cause the heart to fibrillate, causing the muscles to lose rhythm, causing a heart attack, which can cause some people to die immediately, or for a little longer, but the end result is only one: until the heart stops beating and dies completely.
The design of the electric chair was intended to be "good", and the designers considered this punishment method to be more "merciful" and the execution method to be more "humane". Its designer and inventor was the famous Edison.
Inside, the room with an electric chair is a larger underground space. There is a wall between them, and there is a doorway, but there is no door.
The most striking thing in this room is the horizontal
A huge long table placed in the center of the room, the top was uneven, there were many thin slits cut by knives and axes, and the blood stains in the cracks had turned black, it looked like a slaughtering table for killing pigs and selling meat, but it was wider, longer, and thicker than the slaughtering table.
There are seven or eight curved iron hooks hanging from the table. In the vegetable market, the stalls selling pigs, beef and mutton often hang the leg and foot meat of such large livestock, and the iron hook here is exactly the same as the iron hook used to hang the leg and foot meat in the vegetable market.
There are several large drawers under the tabletop, one of which holds a variety of knives. There is a wide and sturdy machete, which looks exactly like the "pig killing knife" used by "Ling Ling Qi"; There is a bloodletting knife with a sharp tip and a streamlined blade; There is a peeling knife with the head raised and used to separate the skin and flesh; There are heavy boning knives; There are boning knives with short blades and sharp edges, which are used to separate bones from meat; There are thinner, wider cleavers.
In the middle drawer were a few small hammers, a leather whip, and a small steel axe; There is also a clear plastic box containing thin, sharp-ended iron skewers that look like toothpicks; and a leather whip and a small steel axe; There are also jars and jars of salt and chili powder.
There was only one thing in the last drawer: a chainsaw.
Underneath the "butcher's table" is a sewer covered with hollowed-out miniature cement slabs. In the hollows of the cement slabs and in the crevices that connect with each other, there are obvious human hairs.
In the lower right corner of the "slaughter table" is an electric pot for stewed soup, now opened, containing a skull and two metacarpal bones. This seems to represent that the "murderer" put the head and palms of the "victim" into the pot to stew.
This quickly reminded Li Zhudao of "white soil copywriting", in which Li Haidong stewed her head and palms into a pot of soup in order to destroy Wang Fang's face and fingerprints.
What does it mean that these two techniques are the same? Was it the same person, or was it just a coincidence?
The hair, skull, and metacarpal bones made Li Zhudao and Lu Kai, who entered here, basically confirm that this should be a corpse scene.
Who was the person who was dismembered? Is it Wen Zhong, or someone else? If it is Wen Zhong, then who will the murderer be, will it be Li Haijun? If the victim is not Wen Zhong, then the murderer is most likely Wen Zhong.
This ghost place has perfect water and electricity facilities, good ventilation, people have no discomfort of breathlessness in it, all kinds of "torture instruments" are complete, and the equipment used to torture, kill, and dissect corpses is neat, and it is specially set up at a glance. This place belongs to Wen Zhong, who is Wen Zhong?
In addition, there are two wooden frames on the left and right sides against the wall. There are all sorts of oddities on the wooden shelves. There are maces, soldering cones, coal stoves, buckets and towels, chain handcuffs, thick ropes, wires, sticks, and so on.
In this underground space, it is now full of criminal police from Qinghe City, who are taking pictures, collecting fingerprints, collecting biological information, and sealing items at the scene.
"This Wen Zhong, is he a special agent of the military command?" Lu Kai stood in front of the wooden frame and muttered, then looked at a roller covered with iron nails on the wooden frame, and muttered again in confusion: "I can understand the bucket and towel, which is to put a towel on a person's face, and then pour water on the towel, which makes people feel suffocated. But what is this iron roller for?"
Li Zhudao was also inexplicable. Although he is well-informed, when he sees these messy "torture tools", he also has the feeling that "Grandma Liu has entered the Grand View Garden".
Xiao Wu's eyes rolled: "This is 'Wearing linen and wearing filial piety, I saw it when I was traveling in the Dregs Cave." The narrator said that it was to use this round thing covered with iron nails to roll on the human body, pierce the body, and then attach a salt water cloth, and then uncover it when the cloth is dry."
Seeing that Li Zhudao and Lu Kai both gasped, Xiao Wu continued: "This Wen Zhong probably really got a lot of inspiration from the military commanders back then, and many of the 'equipment' in his basement are somewhat similar to the 'scum cave'. The one I just said, 'wearing linen and wearing filial piety, the electric chair outside......
Then he pointed to the middle drawer under the "butcher's table": "And the thin iron skewers and paprika there, all of which are the creepy east in the scum hole."
West."
Lu Kai took a few steps forward and looked at the neatly arranged iron skewers in the transparent plastic box in the drawer, still quite puzzled: "Chili powder is used to make chili water and sprinkle it on people's wounds. This iron toothpick is used to prick people?"
Xiao Wu suddenly felt that the tips of his ten fingers were a little itchy, and he kept shaking his two palms in front of Lu Kai's eyes, and when he finished spreading out his ten fingers, his hand was turned away from Lu Kai, so that he could see his nails: "There is a punishment, called 'bamboo sticks poke nails......
Lu Kai couldn't help but shake his finger as well.
The discovery of Wen Zhong's basement caused no surprise and caused the Qinghe police to be shocked and attach great importance to it.
On the surface, Wen Zhong, who seems to be just an ordinary businessman, what is he doing, and what is he doing? And why did it "disappear" out of thin air for no reason? Is there any connection between Li Haijun, who is a business partner with him, and his "disappearance"?
These two people, one disappeared, the other died in a car accident, and Qu Lulu, who seemed to have a "relationship" with both of them, suddenly became the focus of the police's attention. Regardless of whether the matter of your Qu Lulu's cheating and Wenzhong is true, first check your Qu Lulu's past bottom line.
Therefore, the Qinghe police have taken a multi-pronged approach. On the one hand, various technical analyses were carried out on the biological information collected in the basement, including fingerprint recognition and DNA detection and comparison, and at the same time, the details of Wen Zhong, Li Haijun and Qu Lulu were dug deeply. On the other hand, Qu Lulu was immediately arraigned.
Further in-depth cooperation between the Qinghe police and Li Zhudao and his entourage has become inevitable.