"Cutting fingers?" Lin Qiye seemed to be thinking about something.
Many mysterious creatures have perverted hobbies. For example, the Ghost-Faced Man would first gnaw the person's face until it becomes blurry after killing someone, and then eat the rest of the body.
A creature that likes to cut off people's fingers... He has never heard of it.
"Where is the blood at the scene?" Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked.
"There wasn't much blood at the scene. Most of it was from the bleeding of the ten fingers that were cut off. The blood flowed from the wall to the ground, which is recorded in the photos."
Xiao Hei bent down, picked up two photos from next to the number plate, and handed them to Lin Qiye.
Lin Qiye looked at it carefully for a while, frowning slightly, "Strange..."
"What's wrong?"
"Don't you think the amount of bleeding is a little too little?" Lin Qiye pointed at the bloodstains in the photo. There was only a small pool on the wall and under the body of the deceased.
"There aren't too many blood vessels connected to human fingers. Even if they are cut, it won't cause massive arterial bleeding. It's understandable that there isn't much blood." Xiao Hei said.
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
"Anyway, let's take a look at the video recorder first. It may be the only clue that can help us find the 'mysterious' one." Wen Qimo took Lin Qiye into the tavern. Xiao Hei took out the video recorder from the evidence bag and handed it to the two of them.
Turn on the recorder and the video starts playing.
The first thing that caught my eye was a greasy man with Mediterranean hair. He was fiddling with the video recorder curiously, with a slight blush on his cheeks, and looked like he was drunk.
"This is the owner of the pub. They were holding a cocktail party the night before last and it was very lively." Xiao Hei explained.
The pub owner seemed to have figured out how to use the video camera. He held it in his hand and filmed the lively scene of the entire party. It must be said that the party was really well organized. There were many guests who came to support it, and many of them were young and beautiful girls.
"The next few hours were all unimportant shots of the cocktail party. You can just go back and watch them." Xiao Hei pressed the fast-forward button.
The party ended quickly, leaving the bar in a mess. The owner took down the video camera, his face was red, and he looked like he had drunk a lot. He even started to feel dizzy when walking.
It was for this reason that he threw the VCR on the bar in a daze, forgot to turn it off, and even forgot to stop recording. He simply said a few words to the waiter Sun Xiao, then staggered out.
For the next half hour, Sun Xiao was cleaning up the pub.
Suddenly, the picture on the video recorder began to fluctuate strangely, as if it was interfered with by something, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and finally fell into complete darkness.
Lin Qiye frowned and looked up at Xiao Hei, who shook his head and motioned for him to continue reading.
The screen went black for about ten seconds, and then the picture reappeared. The shooting angle of the video recorder seemed to have shifted slightly. No, it should be said that the angle of the entire bar counter had shifted slightly, as if something had hit here.
In the picture, the situation in the backyard can be captured through the door leading to the backyard, but the backyard is open-air, there are no lights installed, and it is dim. Therefore, with the lights on in the pub, the backyard in the distance is a little blurry.
But that didn't stop them from seeing what happened next.
Sun Xiao, who was wearing a waiter's uniform, seemed to be grabbed by some invisible force and pressed against the wall of the backyard, as if someone was choking him by the throat and lifting him up in the air little by little.
His limbs were dancing wildly in the air as if he was struggling.
Then, iron nails automatically bounced up from the ground in the distance and pierced into his body, nailing him to the wall. Sun Xiao opened his mouth wide, as if howling in pain.
Although the distance was far and the lighting conditions made it difficult to see the details from the camera's angle, they could still see that Sun Xiao's fingers seemed to be getting shorter and shorter, and finally disappeared completely.
Then, the last iron nail flew up and pierced directly into Sun Xiao's heart.
Sun Xiao's body trembled, his head lowered, and he remained motionless.
After another minute or two, the screen fell completely into darkness. It must be because the camera ran out of battery after a long period of filming.
After watching the video, Lin Qiye walked to the place where the video recorder was originally placed, looked towards the backyard, and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Something is wrong..."
Wen Qimo and Xiao Hei looked at each other, "What's wrong?"
"In the video, the deceased's fingers were not cut off all at once, but disappeared bit by bit... But the autopsy report said that his fingers were cut off smoothly by some sharp weapon."
Wen Qimo pondered for a moment, "The picture is too far away, we can't see all the details. Maybe he used a knife, like cutting a carrot, to cut off the finger bit by bit, and finally cut to the root of the finger?"
"Where is the finger?" Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes. "Where did the severed finger go?"
"Maybe he was eaten?"
"Like eating steak, cut a piece and take a bite?" Lin Qiye shook his head. "If so, this mysterious thing is too romantic."
Then, Lin Qiye asked again: "What time did the cocktail party end last night?"
"Two-thirty in the morning."
"The time matches..." Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, "There are no cameras nearby?"
"The only camera is at the east street entrance, but it can only capture the exterior of the pub from a distance, not the inside. We have also retrieved the footage, but no other suspicious persons approached during the time of the incident."
"From the footage, it seems that the deceased screamed. Did the residents nearby hear it? Can we use this to confirm the exact time of death?"
Xiao Hei shook his head. "This area is a commercial district. At the time of the crime, all the shops around were closed. There was no one around here at all."
Lin Qiye fell into deep thought again.
For some reason, he always felt that... this incident was weird, but he couldn't tell exactly what was weird about it.
He still needs more information and more thinking.
"Anyway, we can now confirm that there is a 'mysterious' creature wandering around here. From the video, we can infer some of its characteristics," Wen Qimo said.
"Possessing the ability to turn invisible or control objects, likes to cut off people's fingers, and can cause a slight impact on surrounding electronic equipment."
Wen Qimo sighed, "This range is a bit too broad. I don't know how long it will take to filter out the 'mysterious' that meets these conditions..."
At this moment, Lin Qiye seemed to have thought of something and spoke again:
"Didn't they say there were three similar cases before? Where are the relevant files?"
"Since the previous three cases did not show any 'mysterious' characteristics, they were all taken over by the local police station and investigated as ordinary serial murder cases. We also have the relevant files, and I will show them to you later." Wen Qimo said.
Lin Qiye thought for a moment, "If possible, I would like to see their bodies in person."