The young man seemed to have just recovered from his fright, and kept yelling at us in a pleading tone, as if he had regarded us as his saviors. However, we, who were regarded as saviors, all fell into a state of confusion after hearing what the young man said.
At this time, I was standing at the back and saw that Lin Yingxue and Bai Longfei seemed to be petrified, standing there motionless in the same posture as before. The young man seemed to think we were scared. His expectant eyes suddenly dimmed and he didn't know whether he should continue talking.
If nothing had happened before, I might not have thought about it in that direction, but in connection with the imitation of the "heart-ripping case" that happened before, and now hearing from this young man that there was a corpse in the village, I believe that not only me, but Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue in front of me will also think of another case.
That was the case pointed out by the first express delivery from Qiongqi that I received, the 'corpse fraud case' in Heishan Village, Zhongwei City!
I thought that Qiongqi had only secretly handled one case this time because I left in a hurry. Who knew that he would arrange another case in such a short time? What will happen next? Will the cases that I have received from Qiongqi's express delivery before appear one by one
I came back to my senses and immediately walked up to the young man and asked, "What exactly is going on? Tell me quickly!"
Seeing that I finally paid attention to him, the young man hurriedly and somewhat incoherently described the whole thing to me.
This morning at about five o'clock, the villagers were all awakened by the 'heart-ripping case' that happened an hour ago. Although there were not many people on the roads in the village, they began to discuss the incident at home, and spread the story in a supernatural way, basically to the extent of the end of the world.
Of course, not all the villagers in Zhaojia Village are timid. There are always a few brave ones who gather together to discuss what to do about this matter. The young man in front of him is one of those brave villagers.
Since the village chief was too timid to come over, they had to discuss countermeasures with a few people. Finally, they decided to carry the body of the deceased to the land temple first, use the spiritual power of the land god to temporarily suppress the evil spirit in the body. Then they would find a way to contact the Yin and Yang masters in several nearby villages and find a capable Yin and Yang master to completely settle this haunted incident.
Then they went to the home of the deceased, and despite the objection of the deceased's wife, they forcibly carried the body away and bravely placed the body in the land temple. Then everyone immediately fled the land temple and mobilized their own connections to look for the Yin-Yang master.
After hearing this, I realized that it was these few people who came up with the idea of carrying the body to the land temple and asking the Yin-Yang master for help! If it were in the past, I would definitely curse on the spot, after all, by doing this, they completely destroyed the clues that would have been on the body.
Afterwards, they tried hard to find the Yin-Yang Master and no longer cared about this place. But who knew that while the young man was still looking for the Yin-Yang Master, he heard another piece of news, that is, the deceased Zhao Fugui, who had his heart dug out before, suddenly resurrected and killed his own brother Zhao Ronghua!
After hearing the news, the young man was completely frightened. He learned from his companions around him that Zhao Ronghua's death this time was even more horrifying. He had no courage to go to the scene to watch. He didn't know why he suddenly wanted to come to the land temple to confirm whether Zhao Fugui's body was still there, which led to the scene that happened just now.
"It goes without saying that this must be a fake corpse case imitating the one in Black Mountain Village. Let's go over and take a look."
After listening to the young man's narration, Bai Longfei asked the young man to lead us and took us to the second crime scene.
While walking on the road, I have been thinking about the two cases. Now I don’t know the specific situation at the scene, so I can’t accurately merge the two cases and confirm that they were committed by the same murderer. But the only thing I can be sure of now is that in Zhaojia Village, in addition to us outsiders, there should be at least one other outsider, and he arrived here before we arrived today!
Although we don’t know whether this outsider is the real murderer in this case, there must be someone secretly directing these two cases, otherwise how could such a coincidence happen
As for the murderer, I am even more unsure now. I can only preliminarily set out a few possibilities. Either the murderer is the same person, that is, the outsider who came to Zhaojia Village and hid this time, or the murderers of the two cases are two different people with different motives for killing, but this motive was ignited by that outsider, so they chose to take action on this special day today.
Anyway, no matter what, we must catch this outsider as soon as possible. I hope he doesn't take advantage of the chaos in the village to escape.
Not long after we dealt with the previous case, another murder occurred. This high-intensity crime made me feel a little powerless. I turned around and asked the young man next to me if there was anyone else who had come here from yesterday to today besides our group.
The young man shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, but it should be none. After all, our Zhaojia Village is so small. If someone really came, everyone in the village would definitely know about it. Why are you asking this? Do you think that an outsider killed the villagers in our village?"
I naturally wouldn't say anything extra to this young man, and Bai Longfei asked, "By the way, what's your name? I think you're quite smart, so you can follow us to investigate the case during this time."
The young man smiled and said, "My name is Zhao Tiezhu. If you need any help, just ask."
When we heard his name, we were all stunned. Bai Longfei stared at Zhao Tiezhu in front of him in confusion and asked, "What's your name?"
"Zhao Tiezhu, is there any problem?"
Bai Longfei turned his head, looked at me and said, "I don't think we need to continue investigating. The murderer must be this Zhao Tiezhu."
Zhao Tiezhu immediately became anxious after hearing this and said, "No, my name is Zhao Tiezhu. Why are you saying I'm the murderer? Are you really the police?"
"Nonsense, if your name is Zhao Tiezhu, you are not the murderer? If Qiongqi completely imitated the previous case this time, then even the murderer's name and identity may be the same as the previous case. This Zhao Tiezhu must be the murderer!"
Bai Longfei's analysis was not without reason, but I didn't think it was the case. I stopped Bai Longfei and said, "Don't panic. This is Zhaojia Village. The name Zhao Tiezhu shouldn't be a profound name. It's normal to have the same name. Besides, I don't think Qiongqi would arrange such a person. If the murderer's name is exactly the same as the murderer in the previous case, this case would be too easy to solve."
Although Zhao Tiezhu didn't know what had happened, when he saw that we didn't continue to talk about catching him, he thought we were joking and continued to lead us towards the home of the second victim, Zhao Ronghua. Soon we arrived at the gate of Zhao Ronghua's yard, but this time it was not as deserted as before. Instead, a group of people were standing at the gate of the yard and talking, even the cowardly village chief was among them.
When the village chief saw us coming, he rushed out of the crowd and was about to tell us that another murder had occurred. I stopped him from continuing and went straight to Zhao Ronghua's home, wanting to see the body with my own eyes first.
When we rushed into Zhao Ronghua's bedroom, we saw that the room was still covered with bloodstains. The sheets on his earthen kang were completely stained blood red. At first glance, we saw two bloody people huddled in the corner of the kang. There was a very hideous blood hole on the chest of these two people! One of them had a hideous face and posed as if he had pierced the chest of another person with one hand. It looked like a scene of a zombie in a ghost movie!
Seeing the two corpses on the kang, I couldn't help but recall the scene of the Heishan Village corpse-fraud case. Although the victims killed by the murderer at that time were strangled to death, which was different from the cause of death of the victims this time, the nature was basically the same, and the way the victims died was combined with the previous "heart-ripping case", so needless to say, the two victims were killed by the same person!
I saw too many bloody scenes in the morning, which made me feel a little sick. I walked out of the room, stood in the yard, lit a cigarette, and then asked Bai Longfei to try to contact the local police station and ask them to come and help.
Lin Yingxue stood beside me and asked, "Now it seems that Qiongqi has indeed completely copied the two cases. If he really copied them very comprehensively, then I think these two cases are actually very easy to solve. After all, we have solved similar cases before. As long as we solve the cases according to the way of thinking at that time, we can find the murderer quickly."
I took a deep puff of smoke and said, "It's not that simple. Although this case is very similar to the previous one in form, it has actually changed drastically in essence. Didn't you notice that the key evidence we found when we solved the case before could no longer be found on the two deceased? Qiongqi will not make the same mistake twice. I think I understand what his purpose is this time."
"What is it? He wants to capture you in Zhaojia Village?"
I shook my head and said, "He wants to use the previous case to test me again, to see if I can solve a similar case again without using the evidence and clues from the previous case! This is his usual style, treating committing and solving crimes as a game for his own entertainment!"