After hanging up the phone with Officer Yang, I was about to get up and go to the home of the deceased Xiaomei. Zhang Qishan had very sensitive ears and seemed to have heard the conversation between me and Officer Yang just now. She insisted on going with me.
In desperation, I had to retell the story in a very exaggerated way, connecting what happened last night with the corpse that might be seen today. Zhang Qishan seemed to have guessed that Wang Dong's corpse found today might be related to the "Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs", and she became depressed and decided to stay and take care of Diandian.
When I told Zhang Qishan about the crime scene again, it was like letting me recall the details of last night and think about what was making me feel uncomfortable in my heart. But things are often like this. The more I want to think about something, the less I can remember it. I even wonder if I really have some signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Although Officer Yang's call was brief, it revealed a lot of information.
First of all, Wang Dong’s body was found under the bed of the deceased Xiaomei, which we did not notice yesterday. In other words, it is now certain that the murderer had killed Wang Dong and placed the body under the bed in Xiaomei’s home before I went to the deceased Xiaomei’s home yesterday.
Based on this, I can know that the murderer has the key to Xiaomei's house, and the murderer knows everything about Xiaomei's house, even where people can hide under the bed. It can be seen that the murderer definitely has a special relationship with Xiaomei.
So I think that instead of starting with the surgeon as a clue, it would be better to start with the acquaintances around Xiaomei. After all, I believe that no matter how carefully a person hides his or her inner thoughts, there will be times when they reveal flaws. It all depends on whether my observation is careful enough.
Another thing is that if the murderer brought the body into Xiaomei's home, the surveillance camera would definitely capture this scene, but Officer Yang did not mention this, which means that there is still no valuable clue in the surveillance. This is strange. How did the murderer bring the body into Xiaomei's home? Did the murderer first trick Wang Dong into Xiaomei's home and then kill Wang Dong in her home
After thinking about it, I still had no clue, so I gave the key to the house to Zhang Qishan and asked her to take Diandian out for a walk later, and then we came to XX community.
Coming to this hellhole again, my mentality is no longer as fragile as before. Perhaps this just proves what Master Xing said back then: "You'll get used to it after vomiting for a while."
Perhaps because the room had been ventilated for a day, the stench in the room had improved a lot. As soon as I walked to the door, I saw Officer Yang standing at the bedroom door, seemingly waiting for something.
"Now that you're here, let's go out and talk."
Officer Yang saw me and immediately came over. He walked out of the room with me and went downstairs to breathe fresh air.
"How was the body found?" Officer Yang and I asked directly after we arrived downstairs.
"When our people were checking the details of the room this morning, they accidentally discovered that the bed where the deceased's head was placed seemed to be hollow. When they opened it, they found a relatively fresh male corpse. The facial features of this male corpse are basically the same as the photo of Wang Dong we have. The top of the head was cut open and the brain was completely taken away. In addition, some tissues in the chest cavity of the deceased were also missing. Xiao Zhang is still verifying it, but I don't think it is necessary. The missing parts of Wang Dong's body are exactly the materials for the human brain and sweet and sour spare ribs we found yesterday."
Officer Yang couldn't help but cover his mouth and retched as he spoke. I also swallowed my saliva and said, "So, the sweet and sour spareribs yesterday were indeed made from Wang Dong's corpse?"
Officer Yang nodded gently and said, "This is the result of Xiao Zhang's test last night. You didn't see it. When Wang Dong's wife heard the news, she fainted on the spot. She is still lying in the hospital and hasn't woken up yet."
"What about the murderer's method? Did Xiao Zhang say anything about this?"
"The technique was still very skillful, and Wang Dong's skull was very well preserved after being cut open. The location of the cut was also just right. Now we can be sure that the murderer is definitely a very experienced surgeon."
Actually, I have been thinking about this question before. Does a surgeon have to be able to completely remove organs from a corpse? Do the butchers in the slaughterhouse have the same method? However, when I heard Officer Yang say that Wang Dong's brain was also cut very intact, I immediately gave up this idea. After all, other parts can be explained, but the brain is the most complicated organ. It seems that the murderer is really a skilled surgeon.
Officer Yang continued, "This morning, we have sent people to various major hospitals in the city to collect blood samples. Once their blood is collected, if we find someone whose blood matches the blood on Xiaomei's bathroom door, then the case will basically be solved."
At this point, Officer Yang patted my shoulder and said, "Ji Wen, your performance this time was not good at all. You failed to solve the case with your own ability, and in the end, the case became solved with blood as the final clue. This will be detrimental to your future plans."
I don’t know if it was because of Officer Yang’s words or because I was holding my breath, but I immediately said, “Officer Yang, don’t worry. Although collecting blood is a way to solve the case, in my opinion, it’s still a bit stupid. I will definitely solve the case before you find the murderer!”
I had been taking this matter very lightly until now, but Officer Yang's words immediately aroused my fighting spirit, and my groggy brain of the past few days became completely clear at this moment.
Officer Yang looked at me and nodded with satisfaction, "This is the look that the Ji Wen I know should have. Now that things have developed to this point, all the necessary information is available. Tell me what you think."
I nodded, tried to organize the information in my mind, and briefly told Officer Yang my speculation at home yesterday.
"I think that although we already have a basic outline of the murderer, it is still a bit inappropriate to search for the murderer based solely on the surgeon's blood comparison. What if we were actually deceived by the blood on the door? Or, the murderer deliberately left the blood on the door to guide us in the wrong direction?"
"It is indeed as you said. Now almost all the information that can be given about the case has been revealed. Although the two victims do not seem to have any direct connection on the surface, the murderer chose Xiaomei's home as the place to dump the bodies twice. This is enough to show that the murderer's killing targets are not random. Each of his actions has a clear goal. So I think we still have to find a breakthrough from the first victim, Xiaomei! Maybe the death of the butcher Wang Dong was just because he knew the true identity of the murderer and was silenced. The murderer only had Xiaomei as his killing target from beginning to end."
I don’t know if Officer Yang understood or not. Anyway, Officer Yang kept nodding his head. We were talking while walking in the community, and I accidentally discovered that the surveillance cameras in this community did not seem to be so obvious. Along the way, I found that there were actually many cameras hidden in the dark. Although these cameras cannot monitor all places in the community, with such hidden cameras, even the residents in the community should not be very clear about the distribution of the blind spots in the entire community, right
If this is true, then the mysterious disappearing figure that I saw at that time might be someone who had seen the surveillance distribution map of the residential area. Only in this way could he perfectly follow every blind spot of the camera and leave the residential area without being noticed.
Thinking of this, I immediately turned around and asked Officer Yang, "Officer Yang, do you know which real estate company has the original surveillance camera distribution map for this community?"
Officer Yang smiled and said, "You've asked the right person. When this community was first built, it was originally intended for wealthy people to live in. The real estate developer also attached great importance to the security of the community, so he found our police and worked with us to install surveillance cameras. If you want to see the distribution map, we actually have it in our station."
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go over and take a look!"
Xiao Zhang is at Xiaomei's house as for Wang Dong's body, so we don't need to worry about it. Besides, Officer Yang said before that Xiaomei's parents have already come to Zhongwei City. I believe I can learn something I want to know from Xiaomei's parents.
Soon, Officer Yang drove me back to the police station. Before Officer Yang could find the distribution map of the community surveillance, a police officer suddenly came forward and said, "Officer Yang, you'd better come and take a look. The parents of the deceased are making a big fuss. We can't control the scene anymore."
Officer Yang frowned immediately after hearing this, and I also faintly heard a shrill cry coming from somewhere upstairs.
Officer Yang and I went to the second floor together and soon arrived at the room where the crying came from. As soon as we entered the room, we saw a middle-aged woman in plain clothes lying on the ground crying loudly. Next to her was a middle-aged man with half-white hair who was silently shedding tears and trying to comfort the middle-aged woman.
I guess these two people should be the parents of the deceased Xiaomei. Looking at their heartbroken looks, I also felt sad. After all, in this not very wealthy family, the death of an only daughter is not so easy to accept, and Xiaomei's death was so miserable. I guess when Officer Yang showed Xiaomei's body to her parents, he could only take out the rotten head.
Seeing Officer Yang coming in, Xiaomei's mother immediately stood up from the ground, rushed forward and grabbed Officer Yang's collar, shouting at the top of her lungs: "You said my daughter is being kept by someone, I don't believe it! My daughter is well-behaved and sensible, she has never valued any material pursuits since she was a child. What basis do you have to say that my daughter is being kept by someone? You should know that my daughter is very loyal in love. She has only had one boyfriend from three years ago to now, and the two of them have a very good relationship. How could she fall in love with someone else and look for a rich old man!"
Xiaomei's mother became more and more excited as she spoke, and Officer Yang was helpless. He tried to break free from Xiaomei's mother's hand, but I heard an amazing piece of information at the side: the deceased Xiaomei, indeed, had a boyfriend!