It turns out that this Chief Liu is the chief of the Wenchang Police Station. I was very puzzled and whispered to Officer Yang: "Didn't Chief Liu say that he would not take care of this matter? Why did he send a shaman now? Is he monitoring you?"
Officer Yang shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know either. Let me call and ask first. Lao Liu is not that kind of person. He must have his reasons for doing this."
Although Officer Yang said this, his eyes became a little confused. He turned around and went out to make a phone call. Our conversation was heard by the Taoist priest on the other side. The Taoist priest immediately explained: "I am not a shaman. I graduated from a regular Taoist priest program and I have a certificate!"
"Taoist major? Even universities offer this major now?"
I had never heard of this young Taoist's remarks. I asked with my eyes wide open. The young Taoist said proudly, "Of course I didn't graduate from a regular university. I just practiced Taoism with a Maoshan senior before. I am an orthodox Taoist disciple. This time I came here because many friends asked me to perform a ritual for this female anchor so that her soul can be reincarnated as soon as possible."
After hearing the young Taoist's explanation, Lin Yingxue and I looked at him with contempt at the same time, thinking that this guy was a joke. What kind of orthodox Taoist? There are probably some such people in the world nowadays, but not many. Of course, it couldn't be the young Taoist in front of us.
Officer Yang hadn't called back yet, and we didn't dare to disturb the scene, so I asked out of boredom, "How do you make a living? You don't exorcise ghosts for people, do you?"
The young Taoist priest chuckled and said, "Of course not. In this day and age, who would easily believe these things? Even if they do, they would trust some so-called masters who have been famous for a long time or have their own Taoist temples. Who would look for a young boy like me? My job is actually a broadcaster, so I am traveling with the deceased this time."
Before, I heard this young Taoist priest say that he was invited by a few friends to help with a ritual, and I felt that there was something fishy about it. Now I heard that he is also a host, and I can’t help but magnify his suspicion infinitely in my mind.
"Oh? Then tell me, what do you mainly broadcast live? Does anyone watch it?"
The young Taoist priest said proudly: "Of course I live broadcast the rituals, and I can also live broadcast the ghost hunting. However, I have never seen a ghost since I became an apprentice, so I have never live broadcasted it."
I seem to have heard of live broadcasting of rituals before, but it is a rare thing that no one watches and you can't make money. But I recalled the time I met him on the plane before, and he looked richer than me! So I immediately asked, "Are there many people watching your live broadcast?"
"A lot. I have about 100,000 followers, so I'm considered a relatively well-known anchor. The deceased was in the same industry as me. I met her at a company meeting before. The other day, I heard that she died during a live broadcast, so some of her fans and my fans raised money for me to help with a funeral, so naturally I had to come over."
"You want money for performing rituals?" I never thought that this young Taoist priest would have so many fans. It seems that it is normal for him to make a lot of money. What do people like nowadays? So many people watch live broadcasts of rituals? What's wrong with this world
The young Taoist priest said with some displeasure: "It's all for a meal, why don't you charge? Besides, I don't charge much, just the round-trip fare and the cost of food and lodging, this is already a friendly price."
As the young Taoist priest was speaking, Officer Yang, who had gone out to make a phone call, came back. Judging from his helpless expression as he kept shaking his head, this young Taoist priest was indeed introduced by Chief Liu.
Officer Yang walked up to me and said, "This Taoist priest surnamed Lin did come here with the consent of Chief Liu. It is said that many fans of this female anchor are paying attention to this matter, and this Taoist priest surnamed Lin was also nominated by those fans. Chief Liu was forced to agree to let him come here to make trouble."
After hearing what Officer Yang said, Taoist Lin heaved a sigh of relief, smiled proudly at Officer Yang, and then continued to perform a ritual in the room with the bell and talisman.
We ignored this Taoist Lin, but I secretly told Officer Yang about my suspicions and asked him to keep an eye on this person. After finding the person who reported the case, I planned to interrogate the two of them together.
We left the room where Taoist Lin was performing the ritual and arrived at our destination, the deceased's bedroom.
Perhaps due to the police blockade, the deceased's bedroom was still a mess. The walls of the entire bedroom were all burned black, and there were ashes of many things on the ground, as well as some undried water marks, which seemed to be the water marks left by the firefighters when they came to put out the fire.
In the most charred area on the ground, there was a human outline drawn with white chalk. It should be the state of the deceased when she died. I went forward to take a look. The death posture of the deceased was exactly the same as the posture we saw when she fell to the ground in the live video before her death. In other words, no one touched the deceased after the fire started.
Since the body of the deceased was not here, I stopped staring at the charred ground and turned my gaze to the entire room, because of that strange video, there were some things I had to figure out.
This bedroom is very large. Although it has been burned beyond recognition, it can be seen from some clues that this female anchor must have lived a very good life before. Plus, she is beautiful, so she must be a rich and beautiful woman.
Thinking of this, I turned to Officer Yang and asked, "Where is the deceased's property? Is there any sign of theft?"
Officer Yang shook his head and said, "No, when we came to search, we also found 30,000 yuan in cash in the drawer of the deceased's living room. The murderer's purpose in killing this time was not for money."
Since it was not for money, then it must be for other reasons, perhaps love, or perhaps revenge. In short, someone who can do such a thing will definitely not kill indiscriminately.
At present, it seems that the murderer is more likely to be a revenge murderer. After all, if the deceased was really scared to death, there is no need for the murderer to set fire to the deceased's body after confirming that the deceased was dead. Even if he is not sure whether the deceased is dead, he can use other methods. Why did he choose to use fire? Does this fire have other meanings? Or did the murderer want to burn some evidence
Thinking of this, I once again looked at the charred patch on the ground. It was so dark that I couldn't make out anything. So I concluded that the murderer must have done this in order to destroy the female anchor's phone.
Officer Yang seemed to have looked the room over thoroughly for many times and had no intention of searching the room again. He walked around boredly and asked me if I had found anything. I simply told him what I had just thought. His eyes lit up and he kept saying that this was most likely the case.
If the target that the murderer wanted to destroy was really the deceased's mobile phone, then the murderer was most likely someone familiar to the deceased, perhaps a relative or a friend, and there was also some information in the deceased's mobile phone that was unfavorable to the murderer.
I asked Officer Yang if he could find someone to restore the memory of the deceased's cell phone to see what was inside, but Officer Yang was helpless and said that the phone had basically been burned into a pool of liquid and there was no way to do that.
Officer Yang said as he slowly walked to the window, opened it, stuck his head out and looked in. "Ji Wen, let's not talk about what horrible things the deceased saw before he died, let's talk about how the murderer frightened the deceased and how he set the fire and left. It's so high up, if the murderer wants to climb up, it would be quite dangerous."
As for how the deceased spontaneously combusted, this is very similar to the scene in a previous movie about Di Renjie. In the movie, the murderer used a bug that can make the human body spontaneously combust to kill people, but in reality, such a thing does not exist at all. So I think the murderer must have turned his back to the camera and smeared something like white phosphorus on the body of the deceased, and then set it on fire. But what I can't figure out is how the flame started to burn from the face? And the video does not show that the murderer smeared anything on the face of the deceased.
As for how the murderer left after the murder and arson, and how he created a secret room to kill people, I had actually thought about it when I came here. I turned around and asked Officer Yang, "Officer Yang, when you came, was the door of the deceased's house locked from the inside, or was it directly closed?"
"Of course it's locked up. Who would lock the door when they have nothing to do at home?" Officer Yang looked at me in some confusion.
I knew Officer Yang would give me this answer, so I nodded and said, "In that case, this case is not a closed-room murder case. The murderer did not need to climb from the first floor to the sixth floor. In fact, he could just stay on the roof. The roof is above the sixth floor. He could use a rope or something to hang himself down, then come in through the window, kill the person and burn the body, then lock the window and leave calmly through the front door. This is not a closed-room murder at all. We will go to the roof later to see if there are any signs of being tied up with ropes, so that we can verify this, right?"
"As for why the deceased was frightened to death, I still can't figure out what she saw before she died?"
This problem seemed very difficult to me. After all, it was the first time I had dealt with this kind of case. When I was pondering over this matter, suddenly, it seemed as if someone pinched my brain hard with his hand. A severe pain that I had never experienced before instantly spread from my brain to my whole body. This pain even exceeded the pain when I was shot in the arm by Qiongqi. I didn't even make any sound. My eyes went black and I knew nothing.