Originally, I was still immersed in the crime scene, when suddenly Bai Qi told me this news. For an instant, I felt my head go blank and I couldn't accept the bad news that Bai Qi told me.
Although Tang Qingfeng and I can't be said to have much of a friendship, I always feel very comfortable when we talk together. Tang Qingfeng always gives me a feeling of family, and he has even become one of his trump cards to protect me. Moreover, he has a very good relationship with my father, so I have already regarded him as one of my own. But who would have known that before I saw him again, and before I asked him what kind of case he had encountered, I heard the news of his death first.
The room was very quiet. Officer Yang and Lin Yingxue around me could naturally hear Bai Qi's voice on the phone clearly. Officer Yang did not know Tang Qingfeng, but Lin Yingxue did. She was standing in front of me, and when she heard the news, she also fell into a solemn atmosphere.
Bai Qi and I were silent for more than ten seconds on the phone before I took a deep breath and said calmly, "What's going on?"
"It's hard to explain what happened. I'm in Dengfeng City now. I'll tell you in person when you come over."
Although I couldn't see Bai Qi's expression, I could feel at this moment that Bai Qi was really angry! Although Tang Qingfeng had always looked down on Bai Qi, Bai Qi always regarded him as a brother. Now that Tang Qingfeng had died in the line of duty, Bai Qi's anger was finally aroused.
"Anyway, settle your issues as soon as possible and then come to Dengfeng City to join me. This time, I will catch the real murderer who killed Tang Qingfeng as soon as possible at any cost. I will kill him with my own hands!"
After Bai Qi finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for me to continue speaking. Facing the furious Bai Qi, I could only sigh slightly and put the phone back into my pocket.
Officer Yang waited until I finished the call before asking, "Who is this Tang Qingfeng? Is he also from your special case team?"
I shook my head and said, "No, he's my uncle."
Officer Yang finally understood what was going on and sighed, "If you're in a hurry, just go over there first. I'll find a way to handle the situation here."
"It doesn't matter. Let's do it one by one. I won't leave until I help you solve the case here. What Taoist Lin said is right. Let nature take its course. It will be troublesome if all the things are piled up together. It will be no problem if I am not there."
Although I said this, my heart had already flown to Dengfeng City. I even had a vague impulse in my heart. If the murderer who killed Tang Qingfeng was caught by me, I would probably design to kill him to avenge Tang Qingfeng.
With such emotions, I couldn't concentrate on examining the crime scene. Finally, I sighed, explained the reason to Officer Yang, and planned to go out and find a quiet place to smoke a cigarette, breathe fresh air and calm down.
Lin Yingxue accompanied me out of the room, and we sat at the stairs of the corridor. I smoked one cigarette after another, and Lin Yingxue didn't say a word. After I finished smoking two cigarettes in a row, I turned to Lin Yingxue and asked, "Do you think I should talk to my dad about this?"
Lin Yingxue nodded and said, "Let's talk about it. After all, Tang Qingfeng and Senior Ji Yong used to have such a good relationship. I think it's necessary to let him know about this matter."
In fact, I thought so too, so I took out my phone number, dialed my father's new number, and told him about Tang Qingfeng.
On the other end of the phone, after my father learned the news, he also responded with silence. Then my father just left a sentence: "I know." and hung up the phone.
I know my dad. Although he seemed to be indifferent when he said this, his tone betrayed him. I think this time, among the people who were angered by the murderer who killed Tang Qingfeng, my dad was also one of them. As for how my dad will deal with it, I don't know.
"The dead cannot be resurrected, so don't be too sad."
Lin Yingxue is really not suitable for comforting people, but she can say this to me, which really shows that she is thinking about me. I smiled slightly, put out the cigarette in my hand, and then stood up and said, "I know this truth, but I don't want to think about anything now. I will do my best to deal with the things in front of me, and then go to help Uncle Tang get revenge in person!"
We returned to the room, and I forced myself not to think about Tang Qingfeng and once again focused my attention on the crime scene.
Because of Tang Qingfeng's incident, I no longer had much resistance to the charred body in front of me. I squatted beside it and looked at it carefully. Suddenly, I found a problem and turned to ask Officer Yang: "Officer Yang, was the body of the female anchor also like this?"
Officer Yang nodded and said, "Yes, it's even worse than this time. Any questions?"
"If a person is burned like this, can we find out if there are any external injuries on his body?"
Officer Yang thought for a moment and said, "It should be impossible to find out. I saw that the doctor who performed the autopsy on the body before had no way to check the external injuries on the body. He could only rely on some instruments to check the internal environment of the body. Why do you suddenly ask this?"
"If that's the case, then could the murderer have killed the deceased by some means, rather than frightening the deceased to death? In this case, it can basically perfectly explain why the murderer set fire to destroy the body."
Although I only saw the live broadcast of the female anchor before she died, according to the situation at the time, after she was frightened to death, the mobile phone screen could only see her head, and we could not see other parts. If the murderer took the opportunity to stab the female anchor in the heart and then set fire to her, could it create the illusion that the female anchor was frightened to death? With video evidence, and the fact that doctors nowadays cannot determine whether the deceased was really frightened to death, and can only judge based on the secretion of adrenaline, can this case be defined as a supernatural event
I told Officer Yang about my analysis, and he kept nodding and saying that what I said made sense. It was a pity that we lacked a real forensic doctor. Otherwise, this matter could be easily determined, and even whether the deceased was really scared to death could be detected. Originally, I wanted to ask Ding Yang to come over, but now Ding Yang is helping in Dengfeng City, so I'd better not disturb him.
"But the strangest thing now is how did the deceased show the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion? We can clearly see in the video that the deceased started to burn from the face, and there was no medium or fire source on the deceased from beginning to end. How did the murderer do it?"
I was thinking hard over here, and Taoist Lin in the room over there seemed to have finished his ritual. He walked in while stretching lazily. He just happened to hear my question, yawned and said, "Why don't I tell you a fortune and calculate the birth date of this deceased person? Then I'll know everything, right?"
Officer Yang was already very upset at this time. When he heard what Taoist Lin said, he immediately wanted to get angry, but I stopped him. I smiled and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
Officer Yang looked at me in confusion. I winked at him and he didn't say anything else. Taoist Lin took out a small compass from his pocket and placed it on the corpse, shaking it continuously, as if he didn't know how to use the compass at all. He was nothing like the masters in TV dramas.
Taoist Lin hesitated for a long time, then put away the compass and said, "The deceased was born under the earth element. Although fire produces earth, it is impossible for a person born under the earth element to have such a strong fire element to help him. Therefore, it is impossible for this person to spontaneously combust. He can only have done so with the help of external forces."
After hearing what Taoist Lin said, Officer Yang rolled his eyes and stared at Taoist Lin with gritted teeth. It looked like he was about to beat him up. I also felt that what Taoist Lin said was a bit nonsense and was completely incomparable with the principles he explained to me this morning.
The reason why I asked him to help me with fortune-telling was actually to see if this Taoist Lin had any unique insights and reasoning. Now it seems that I overestimated him.
Taoist Lin then stood up, stretched his body, and said, "Everything has a cause and an effect. These two cases have a lot in common, and this commonality is the 'effect' created by the murderer. Although we don't know what the 'cause' is, we can list some things based on this relationship."
"First, the deceased were all anchors. If the murderer targeted these anchors, then why? Did the murderer only kill anchors, or did these two anchors offend the murderer in some way? This question must be clarified."
"Secondly, all the victims were burned beyond recognition. It was extremely tragic. On the surface, the murderer should have wanted to destroy some evidence, but if you think about it carefully, there may be another explanation for this situation, and that is a sense of ritual!"
As he spoke, a gleam of wisdom suddenly flashed in Taoist Lin's eyes and he continued, "This sense of ritual comes from the anger in the murderer's heart. His purpose of killing is still unknown, but after he kills, he must let the deceased suffer the pain of having his body burned. I think this point should be the key point to break through."
Taoist Lin's words completely woke me up! Yes, why didn't I think of this? If the murderer really killed and burned the body because of revenge, then this matter has a traceable cause!
I couldn't help but re-examine the Taoist priest Lin in front of me. Even Officer Yang, who had been disdainful before, looked at Taoist priest Lin with surprise. However, Taoist priest Lin reached out and touched his head, grinning and said, "These are just my random guesses. Don't take them seriously."
I looked at Taoist Lin thoughtfully, and then asked Officer Yang, "Has there been any major fire or other accidents in Zhongwei City recently?"
"Yes! Two months ago, not long after you left, a fire broke out in a two-story building in a residential area in Zhongwei City. The owner and his family, who were resting at home at the time, were killed. All of them died in the fire."