At 5:30 in the afternoon, I was sitting alone in the corridor on the sixth floor smoking. The entire sixth floor seemed extremely empty at this time. Something had happened to Grandma Feng, and the remaining two Shamattes, Green Hair and Big Liu, were driven out by me to surf the Internet. At this time, the sixth floor was like a haunted castle, and even the sound of my smoking seemed particularly harsh.
The most infuriating thing is that Green Hair and Da Liu extorted some internet fees from me because I asked them to go out and surf the Internet. But it doesn’t matter because there is no need for them to be present for what I am going to do next.
'Crunch'
Just when I was bored, there was a sound of a door opening on the sixth floor. I immediately turned my eyes to the direction where the sound came from, and saw Wang Tao, who had put on his dirty work clothes, and walked out of the room.
After I walked out of the room, Wang Tao saw me sitting on the ground. He was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Why are you sitting in the corridor?"
I didn't answer Wang Tao's words. I stared at his hand. After I saw Wang Tao close the door, he pulled the door handle with his hand, as if to make sure the door was closed tightly. I finally breathed a sigh of relief, slowly stood up, put out the cigarette in my hand and said, "Of course I'm waiting for you."
"Wait for me? Wait for me for what?"
I stared into Wang Tao's eyes and said word by word, "Of course I'm waiting to tell you a piece of news. That is, Grandma Feng passed away at noon."
Hearing what I said, Wang Tao's eyes clearly flashed with an inexplicable emotion, and then he pretended not to care, and said softly, "Is there anything else? If not, I still have to go to work."
"I think you don't need to go to work either, because you go out every night, not to work, and you don't even leave this building, am I right?"
Wang Tao, who was originally preparing to leave, suddenly stopped where he was and slowly turned his gaze to me. I could clearly feel an unconcealable murderous intent from the way he looked at me!
"What do you mean by that?"
I didn't care about Wang Tao's threatening look, I took out another cigarette and lit it, saying, "It's nothing, but I already know that you are the real murderer this time. Three Shamattes and one Granny Feng, four people have died in your hands, and I also know that you have no intention of stopping. I'm afraid you went out tonight to prepare to kill the remaining two Shamattes, right?"
This time, Wang Tao was completely unwilling to leave. I could tell from his expression that he was inexplicably angry at this moment, and seemed ready to pounce on me and hit me. His stature and his momentum instantly made me a little timid. After all, if I fought with him here, I would definitely be the one to die.
But I didn't show any fear, and said bravely, "Why? Are you so afraid that I will say it out loud? Are you indirectly admitting that you killed someone?"
Sure enough, after hearing what I said, Wang Tao immediately stopped rushing towards me and sneered, "Afraid? I didn't do anything, why should I be afraid? But you, why are you wrongly accusing me? Do you believe me or not, I will sue you for defamation?"
"If you really dare to sue me, then I will gladly accept it, but let's see who will be the one to be punished next time!"
I looked into Wang Tao's eyes, and I was no less imposing than him. I continued, "Let me tell you slowly why I know you are the murderer."
In fact, up to now, everything is just my guess. I don’t have any solid evidence to prove that Wang Tao is the murderer. The reason why I talked to Wang Tao in this way is because I was betting that Wang Tao’s psychological quality was not as good as I thought!
There are four victims in total in this case. I received a notice from Officer Yang and came here to investigate the case when the second victim, Xiaofang, had already been killed. So I am not very clear about the crime scene of the first two victims, and a lot of evidence also disappeared. So the only entry point I can use is the third victim, Xiao Liu.
As I said before, Wang Tao killed Xiaofang by using a magnet to stick to the elevator door on the fourth floor, forcing Xiaofang to walk up the stairs, putting her in a dangerous position. Although I still don't know why Wang Tao suddenly changed the murder location, I speculated that the magnet fragments left on Xiao Liu's neck did not come from the magnet on the elevator door, but from the bunch of keys in Uncle Liu's hand!
Thinking back carefully, the situation on that day was like this. Xiao Liu was alone at home and suddenly heard someone saying some cautious words at his door. Then he began to cry quietly. When we heard the voice and walked out of the room, the person suddenly disappeared.
So the question is, how did this person disappear? Ding Yang and I rushed out very quickly, and Xiao Liu also said that the sound disappeared just a few seconds before we knocked on the door. How could a person disappear from a long corridor in just a few seconds? In my opinion, this person could only have hidden in Wang Tao's room in a desperate situation!
But later, we always had someone guarding the door of Wang Tao's house, and asked Uncle Liu to bring the key to Wang Tao's house, but we didn't find anyone in Wang Tao's house. At first we thought that the man actually sneaked away from the stairs, or that the man was Uncle Liu who happened to appear at the scene. But not long ago, I heard Green Hair say that when Big Liu went to the toilet, we couldn't find him, and then I realized that the murderer Wang Tao used a trick to make us mistakenly believe that there was no one at his house.
I had looked at the layout of each room before and found that the two adjacent rooms and living rooms were separated by only a wall with poor sound insulation, and the windows of the living rooms were also adjacent, so I took a special look at the windows of the living room of the Shamatte family and found that their windows were only the size of a palm away from the windows of Wang Tao's family, and there was a small platform under the window where one person could stand, so it was a very easy thing to climb through the window from Wang Tao's living room to the Shamatte family's living room.
If Wang Tao was hiding at home at that time, and heard us asking Uncle Liu to open the door, and then took advantage of the fact that no one was at home and quietly climbed through the window to get into Shamatte's house, then everything can be explained. Wang Tao, who was hiding in Xiao Liu's house, only needed to hide quietly in the bathroom and wait for all of us to go back and continue to rest. He could then quietly appear and strangle Xiao Liu's throat when he was not prepared, threatening him not to make a sound, and then hide his voice and take Xiao Liu to the stairs on the fourth floor, and finally kill Xiao Liu.
This is the only explanation I can think of for Xiao Liu's silent death. And the reason why I observed Wang Tao's action of opening the door was because when I figured out how Xiao Liu died, I also figured out why there were small pieces of magnets and ashes of paper money on Xiao Liu's neck.
I have seen Wang Tao closing the door before. He is not only a mysophobe, but also has a strong obsessive-compulsive disorder. Every time he passes by the door of his house, whether he is opening or closing the door, he will first reach out and pull the door handle to make sure whether the door is locked.
I just said that the magnetic fragments left on Xiao Liu's neck came from Grandpa Liu's bunch of keys. That's because when we asked Grandpa Liu to open the door, there must have been some tiny magnets on the bunch of keys that were brought to the door handle. When Wang Tao threatened Xiao Liu to leave the house and walk towards the stairs, he would definitely pass by his own door. With obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would definitely pull the door handle with his hand. In this way, those small magnetic fragments that could not be seen clearly at night would stick to his hands and appear on Xiao Liu's neck.
As for the ashes of paper money, Granny Feng said that Wang Tao had a very good relationship with her, so I think it must have been Wang Tao who accidentally got them on his body when he was at Granny Feng's house.
"In summary, if we only look at the process of Xiao Liu's death, the only one who could have done this is you. Besides, you also said before that you are the only one who has the key to your house, right?"
I stared at Wang Tao and spoke out my analysis word by word. I could clearly see that sweat was slowly seeping out of Wang Tao's forehead, and his eyes began to become erratic. After delivering the express for such a long time, I could naturally tell that this was a sign of his guilty conscience.
Wang Tao stuttered, "All of this is just your inference. Do you have any evidence? Besides, why would I kill those young people? Just because they were too noisy? You know, when they were noisy, I was not at home, so it didn't affect me at all."
"I never said your motive for killing people was because they were too noisy. A few hours ago, I had someone investigate your background and that of the five Shamatte youths. I found something very interesting. You all came from the same village! Since you came from the same village, lived in adjacent rooms, and didn't know each other, I think the probability is a little small, right?"
I continued slowly, "And I also found out another thing. Three years ago, your son was playing with his friends and accidentally fell down and got poked in the left eye by a stone, causing him to become completely blind. That was three years ago, you and your wife divorced, and your son followed your wife and left you. However, the left eyes of the three Shamatte victims were all gouged out. Is there any connection between them?"
At this time, Wang Tao's hands had begun to tremble, and he bit his lips and lowered his head. Obviously, all my guesses were correct so far!
"Granny Feng once told me that revenge will never end, and she pointed at my left eye before she died. I didn't understand what she meant at the time, until I learned about your background, and then I realized that this was the clue Granny Feng left for me! I have already asked Da Liu and the others. Three years ago, when they were still in the village, they did take a child to the mountains to play, and deliberately let the child fall and blinded his left eye. I think this is your motive for killing, to avenge your child!"