"Phone call? What phone call?" Bai Qi frowned slightly, as if he thought the reason Zhang Peng gave was a bit ridiculous, and asked in a bad tone.
Zhang Peng didn't care now. He asked me for another cigarette and said, "It was just a phone call. I was playing mahjong when a strange call came in. I thought it was a call from a certain recipient, so I answered it. But who knew that the call was from a demon."
That day, Zhang Peng received a phone call. Before Zhang Peng could speak, a strange man's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"You are Zhang Peng, right? I want to talk to you."
"What are you talking about? I'm busy now. If you have something to say, just tell me. If not, I'll hang up." Zhang Peng said impatiently while playing cards.
The person on the other end of the phone was not angry, but laughed strangely, and said slowly to Zhang Peng: "You will definitely be interested in what I say, because I want to talk to you about a serial murder case ten years ago."
Zhang Peng had kept this secret deep in his heart, and had not even told his wife. Now that it was suddenly brought up by a stranger, Zhang Peng felt that the truth might have been revealed, so he had no intention of continuing to play mahjong. He gave his seat to his friend, quietly walked to a quiet corner outside the door, and said, "Are you a policeman?"
"Haha, if I were a policeman, would I call you? I'm afraid you're already in jail now. Don't worry, I've only investigated your case, and I haven't told the police. The reason I found you is because I want you to play a game with me."
"What do you mean? You'd better explain yourself clearly, otherwise you know the consequences." Zhang Peng's tone was unusually cold at this moment, which was completely different from his usual character. After all, the past that was buried in his heart was brought up, and his former murderous intent was also brought out.
"Consequences? Sorry, this kind of thing will never happen to me. I don't have time to waste time talking to you. I just want to ask you if you agree or not."
"What if I don't agree?"
The voice sneered, "Haha, I'm sorry, I know you don't think your life is very important, but I also know that in your heart, your wife and the baby in her belly should be very important."
"I warn you, if you dare to touch my family, no matter who you are, I will kill you! Since you know my past, you should understand my methods." Zhang Peng clenched his fists in hatred at this time. He was really worried about what would become of him if something happened to his wife and unborn child.
"I've said it before, your threats won't work on me. I'll put the game content in a courier wrapped in red paper, and you'll know when you get back to the store. Remember, if you choose to call the police and turn yourself in, I'll immediately make your wife disappear from this world. If you choose to continue playing with me... Hahaha!"
The man hung up the phone in the middle of his conversation. He called back angrily, but was surprised to find that the number was no longer in service!
After calling back several times but the number was always unavailable, Zhang Peng was completely confused and rushed back to the store. He looked through all the express deliveries that were to be sent out that day, but did not find the one wrapped in red paper.
The boss lady asked Zhang Peng what was wrong. At this time, I came back from delivering the goods and brought today's problematic package into the store. Zhang Peng saw the express wrapped in red paper at a glance. It was a shoe box-sized package!
Zhang Peng asked me what happened to this thing. I said we don't have the address on it at all and it might be written wrong. I asked Zhang Peng to contact the sending company to return the package.
Just as Zhang Peng picked up the package, he suddenly saw a man in a windbreaker, hat and sunglasses passing by the store door. When Zhang Peng's eyes swept over him, the man in the windbreaker took out a gun from his arms, pointed at Zhang Peng a few times and left. When Zhang Peng rushed out to find the man, the man had disappeared in the crowd.
Zhang Peng found an excuse to take the express to a remote place. After opening it, he found some things inside that looked very familiar to Zhang Peng. Upon closer inspection, he found a rusty hammer head, a rusty dagger, and an unopened letter.
Zhang Peng must recognize these two things. The hammer head of the hammer was the one Zhang Peng used to kill the mine owner, and the dagger was also the weapon Zhang Peng used when he was committing the heart-digger!
Zhang Peng hurriedly opened the letter and saw a biological fingerprint identification certificate and a DNA comparison certificate in it. His name was written in large letters on the identification result. Only then did Zhang Peng realize that the man who wanted to play games with him must be extraordinary!
The hammer had been buried deep in the mine by the explosion that year, and Zhang Peng had thrown the dagger into Gaomiao's artificial lake long ago. Now these two things could actually be found by that man. Who is that man
With doubts, Zhang Peng carefully looked at the letter in the envelope. The general content was that Zhang Peng was required to continue the legend of digging out the inner demon ten years ago, and act as high-profile as possible without exposing himself, and it would be best if he could make a big splash in the city. As long as Zhang Peng could commit seven crimes in a row without being caught, then Zhang Peng would have completed the game, and Zhang Peng and his family would continue to live safely.
The content of the letter was very simple, but Zhang Peng read it carefully for half an hour. During this half hour, Zhang Peng's body was shaking the whole time. Although he didn't know why the man wanted Zhang Peng to continue to do the heart-digger, Zhang Peng knew in his heart that according to the man's ability, if he did not agree this time, his wife and unborn child would not be able to escape from his clutches even with police protection.
After thinking it over, Zhang Peng was silent for a whole day, and finally made up his mind to do as the man said.
First, Zhang Peng began to plan his murder targets. He no longer wanted to hurt those who had nothing to do with him, so he could only look for some people he hated. After thinking about it, the people who offended him the most were of course those who made things difficult for him when he was delivering express. So he set his targets on these people, selected seven from among many people, and began to make a crazy plan.
With the express delivery company as an information gathering point, Zhang Peng immediately found some middle-aged people of similar age to himself from the express delivery lists of the residents on the floors that were about to become his targets. After some inquiries, he selected some people who loved to play mahjong, and made friends with these people while delivering couriers. Every time he committed a crime, Zhang Peng would play mahjong at a friend's house in the target's unit building, and sneak out quietly while going to the toilet, disguised as a courier to enter the house, kill the target and dig out his heart, then clean the blood off his body and come back to continue playing mahjong. In this way, no one would suspect Zhang Peng, and even if they did, Zhang Peng's friends would stand up to testify for him.
The letter stated that Zhang Peng must put his fingerprint identification certificate in the express delivery, so that the express delivery would become a way for the police to find the victim. It would also increase the difficulty for Zhang Peng to kill. Once the express delivery was opened, he would fall completely into the law and there would be no escape.
Zhang Peng did not choose to put the empty package into the truck himself. Instead, he also entrusted the matter to Xiao Wang, who had recently lost a mobile phone courier and had to pay more than 6,000 yuan in compensation, through an anonymous phone call. He told Xiao Wang that he only needed to put the courier in the truck every day. He would receive a reward of 1,000 yuan for each time he did so.
After the first murder, Xiao Wang realized that the empty package was clearly a death warrant, but he could not resist the temptation of money and repeatedly took the risk of putting the empty packages into the truck, which eventually led to his tragic death.
In the first case, in order to quickly attract the attention of the police, Zhang Peng threw the bodies of Yang Xiaoxia and her husband from the upstairs to the downstairs after killing them. The second case was very coincidental. Originally, Zhang Qiling and his wife were not on Zhang Peng's kill list. However, man proposes, God disposes. Zhang Peng, who had just received the letter and was ready to take action that day, passed by Jinhe Community and accidentally knocked down Zhang Qiling. Before Zhang Peng could step forward to help Zhang Qiling up, Zhang Qiling's husband rushed over from a distance and wrestled fiercely with Zhang Peng. Finally, passers-by pulled them apart, and Zhang Qiling's husband left with Zhang Qiling, cursing.
How could Zhang Peng, who was already furious, bear such humiliation? In a rage, he decided to add Zhang Qiling and his wife to his assassination list! He quietly followed Zhang Qiling and learned the specific location of her home, and killed Zhang Qiling and his wife that night. But Zhang Peng didn't know that the Zhang Qiling he killed this time was the daughter of a man who died in his hands ten years ago. So strictly speaking, in the first case, the deceased was actually Zhang Qiling and his wife. And it was because of Zhang Peng's unintentional killing that I discovered this pattern of killing for a long time.
When the empty package appeared on the third day, Zhang Peng felt that the matter might be exposed this time, and he had been hiding in the dark and observing quietly. When he saw the empty package being taken away by Officer Yang and me, he had already lost all hope and was ready to run away with his wife. But who knew that at this time he received another call from the man in the windbreaker, who told him directly that he could just go to the police car and take the express away.
Although Zhang Peng didn't know what the man in the windbreaker meant, he found that Officer Yang's police car, which had already started, stayed in place for ten minutes and didn't leave. Zhang Peng carefully hid in the dark and looked at the situation inside the car. He was shocked to find that the three people in the car, including me, were all in a coma.
Although he didn't know what happened, Zhang Peng guessed that it must have been done by the man in the windbreaker, so he immediately called Xiao Wang to steal the express delivery from the car.
Afterwards, Zhang Peng realized that if the empty package appeared again, the contents inside would be exposed. So on the fourth day, Zhang Peng gave Xiao Wang a fake empty package and a real address, and asked Xiao Wang to put them in the truck. Xiao Wang had no idea that the entire area had been completely surrounded, so he agreed at the time. However, Xiao Wang became Zhang Peng's scapegoat and died with regrets.
After Zhang Peng explained to this point, everything became completely clear. Bai Qi and Officer Yang looked at each other, seemingly very shocked by what Zhang Peng said. I also kept sighing in my heart, that man in the windbreaker was really scary!
First of all, he actually found Zhang Peng based on clues ten years after the case of the Heart Demon was over, and solved the unsolved case ten years ago in advance. He seemed to be able to predict everything that happened afterwards. He knew that the empty package would be in danger when it was delivered on the third day, and he actually tampered with Officer Yang's car in advance to save Zhang Peng from danger. Who is this man in the windbreaker? What is his purpose in doing this
I was thinking about it in my mind when Bai Qi suddenly asked, "Can you describe the man in the windbreaker in detail? Let's try to draw a portrait of this person."
Zhang Peng nodded gently, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he opened his eyes and said, "Oh, I remember something like this, which should help you find him. I don't ask for a reduced sentence, but I just ask you not to embarrass my wife and unborn child. They don't know anything."
Bai Qi smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, our police have their own sense of propriety in this regard. We will never wrongly accuse a good person, and we will never let a bad person go."
After getting Bai Qi's answer, Zhang Peng finally felt relieved. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a loud explosion at the door of the police station, and the ground began to shake slightly!