It was about 12:10 when we arrived at the scene, which was the high school next to the Normal University. At this time, most of the students in the school had left, leaving only the students who lived in the dormitory. So the huge campus seemed very quiet. The only thing that was out of tune with the quietness was the flashing lights of the police car below the girls' dormitory in the distance.
We rushed to the girls' dormitory. The dormitory manager was so scared that she couldn't speak. When we arrived at the scene, which was the fourth floor of the girls' dormitory, we saw a large group of female students in pajamas standing in the distance and seemed to be watching. When we squeezed into the crowd, we saw the familiar Lao Zhao in the distance and a lot of blood on the ground.
The lighting in the corridor of the girls' dormitory was not very bright. Under the dim light, the blood in the corridor looked even more hideous. Moreover, the blood looked like it was smeared on the ground with a mop. It looked like the works written by some large-character calligraphers, indescribably weird and terrifying.
When I saw this scene, I couldn't help but gasp. I tried to keep myself calm and walked step by step to the front where Lao Zhao and some police officers were.
When Lao Zhao saw us coming, he immediately said with a sad face, "You really got it right. I didn't expect this case to be so cruel."
While Lao Zhao was talking, I looked at where we were. We were at the end of the other side of the corridor. This should be a public toilet. It seemed that the murder happened here. However, when I looked into the bathroom, I found a headless corpse in pajamas and covered in blood lying on the floor. Judging from the color of the pajamas, the deceased should be a woman. There was a police officer squatting beside the corpse examining it. This police officer should be the local forensic doctor.
When I saw the corpse, my first reaction was to be shocked, but Ding Yang acted as if he had seen food. He immediately took out gloves and a mask from his pocket, which he had put in there at some point. After putting them on, he squatted beside the corpse and began to examine it.
In fact, I was in a corner of the toilet and saw a few people squatting there, but I didn’t go over to look because I knew that what was placed there should be something that belonged to my childhood shadow.
Human head mop!
I have said before that the ghost stories recorded in the book we got were all ghost stories I read when I was a student. Although I enjoyed reading them at the time, I was actually a little scared of these stories deep down in my heart. The story of the mop with a human head was even more of a memory game for me.
This story is about a girl who got up to use the toilet in the middle of the night. She found that the light in the toilet was broken. However, she still went to the toilet. When she came out, she saw someone mopping the floor in the bathroom. She was very puzzled. Why was the cleaning worker so dedicated in the middle of the night? But she didn't care and went back to sleep.
When she woke up the next day, she learned a horrifying piece of news. Yesterday in the middle of the night, a student died on the floor of their dormitory building, and his head was cut off!
After hearing the news, the girl was so scared that she collapsed on the spot and dropped out of school the next day, because she knew that the mop used by the cleaning worker mopping the floor she saw last night was the same mop as the girl whose head had been cut off!
This story is also recorded in the book I read tonight. Now that such a similar case has happened here, I have to completely connect this matter to that book. I am afraid that the murderer's method of committing the crime this time will be completely based on the ghost story in the book!
I immediately asked Lao Zhao about the results of his investigation, and Lao Zhao sighed and said, "I have asked someone to verify that the deceased is a girl from this dormitory building. She did not go to the evening self-study class tonight, and did not return to the dormitory to sleep. The people in the same dormitory called this girl but no one answered. They thought she had gone home and did not pay attention to it. But just forty minutes ago, a girl from another dormitory got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and saw a female classmate mopping the floor in the bathroom. The light in the bathroom was off at the time, so she did not pay attention to it. But after she finished using the bathroom, she found that the light in the bathroom was turned on. When she came out of the bathroom, she saw the blood in front of her and the mop with a human head. She was so scared that she immediately called the police."
As he spoke, Lao Zhao suddenly felt guilty and asked, "Why is this murder case so similar to the story recorded in that book?"
It seems that Lao Zhao has also read the previous book. When we came in, the female students who were watching were also talking about this matter, proving that the book has indeed spread throughout the school.
"Where is the female student who found the body?"
Old Zhao said helplessly: "He was so scared that he was taken away by the hospital. Do you have any questions?"
Of course I had questions to ask her, because in Lao Zhao's description just now, the person mopping the floor seen in the bathroom by the female student who discovered the body was also a female student. I must verify this clearly, otherwise, I might miss a lot of clues by accident.
I told Lao Zhao about this, and he immediately laughed and said, "We know this, of course. When the girl left, I asked her several times and confirmed that she saw a woman dressed as a schoolgirl. Although the light was dim and she couldn't see her face clearly, she was very sure of this based on her figure and hairstyle."
After saying this, Lao Zhao asked his men to send all the female students who were watching to go back and rest, and then continued, "I asked the dormitory manager, and she said that she locked the door of the dormitory building after 10:30. If the person mopping the floor is the murderer, then the murderer must still be in the dormitory building. I have asked people to completely seal off the entire dormitory building. Once our forensic doctor finds clues such as fingerprints on the body, we can check one by one, and then we will definitely be able to catch the murderer in the urn."
I sighed and said, "I'm afraid that's not the case. The murderer was able to design such a murder case and dared to show up in person to cooperate with the performance, which proves that the murderer has extremely strong self-confidence and anti-reconnaissance capabilities. When I came here before, I looked at this dormitory building. Although the windows on the first floor are equipped with guardrails, there are no guardrails on the second floor and above. In addition, the height of the second floor is not very high. It is completely easy to climb down from the second floor window and escape."
Old Zhao originally had a confident expression on his face, but after hearing what I said, his expression suddenly became a little unnatural, and he said, "It's not that mysterious, right?"
"You'll know later if there is any. Ding Yang, have you finished the examination?"
While I was talking, Ding Yang had already stood up from the ground and took off his mask, proving that he already had a preliminary understanding of the corpse. The other forensic doctor was still squatting beside the corpse, looking at it over and over again.
"The deceased died about three hours ago. Judging from the wound on the neck and the blood, the head should have been cut off an hour ago, and the scene of the beheading should be in the bathroom cubicle where the body was found. As for the cause of death, it was suffocation, that is, strangled to death. If there are any clues on the body, we must take the body to a professional forensic identification center for examination."
Ding Yang said this calmly, while another forensic doctor next to the body was stunned. I guess this forensic doctor could not have imagined that Ding Yang was so capable that he could find out all the characteristics of the body in such a short time.
I had a rough idea of the victim in my mind, and then asked Ding Yang, "According to your analysis, is the murderer very strong? Is it possible that it was a woman?"
Ding Yang nodded and said, "All these characteristics indicate that the murderer should be a woman. Judging from the strangulation marks on the victim's neck, the murderer was not particularly strong. There is also a shoe print on the victim's back. It is estimated that the murderer stepped on her back to gain strength when strangling her. And judging from the size of the shoe print, it can only be concluded that it is a girl."
Seeing Ding Yang's clear and logical analysis, I secretly felt lucky that he came with me this time. It seems that if anything happens in the future, I will have to bring Ding Yang with me, which can save me a lot of trouble.
Although the case this time was very abrupt and a bit weird, I could tell from the clues that it was man-made, unlike the case in Kaimen Village where there was no clue at all. This also relieved me of a lot of burden. Seeing that there was nothing else for me to do here, I said to Lao Zhao, "Okay, you can handle this. Although we can't be sure whether the murderer has escaped, you should still investigate and record everyone in this dormitory building. Maybe it will be useful in the future. We will go back first. Tell me if you have any findings or clues when we come tomorrow."
I turned around and was about to leave, but Lao Zhao stopped me and said, "Don't leave so quickly. There are two people I think you still need to meet."
"Who is it?" I turned to ask Lao Zhao puzzledly.
Lao Zhao took out a small notebook from his pocket and pointed at it, saying, "Before you came, we also conducted a simple investigation on the deceased. Before, a classmate who claimed to be the deceased's boyfriend came here to make trouble, but was taken away by my people. I think I can learn something about the deceased from this person. There is another person who I didn't even expect, that is the son of the security guard at the Normal University who read the book in the toilet."
"We have investigated carefully and found that the deceased and the security guard's son were classmates, which is a very coincidental coincidence."