Before watching the video, everyone pinned their hopes of getting clues on the video. However, after watching the video, this hope was completely shattered, not even a dross was left.
Facing the camera of Cheng Xurong's apartment, only the image of Hou Hongchang entering was left, and no one entered the apartment after that. No matter whether the murderer walked into the stairs or fled afterwards, there was no shadow left behind, as if the murderer flew with wings.
Hou Hongchang's mother broke out at that time, crying and chasing and beating the person in charge of the security camera in the community, insisting that their security measures were not complete, and the surveillance video had blind spots, which harmed his baby Dumiao. Hou Hongchang's father tried to stop him but didn't, so he could only squat aside, crying.
Hou Yu was still relatively calm, and asked Han Yue, "What do you think?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Han Yue said, "Blind spots in monitoring. The murderer had already anticipated that there would be a camera at the door before carrying out the operation. If you ask me, he must have ambushed in the stairs beforehand, after killing Hou Hongchang with a single knife , slipped down the sewer pipe opposite the building. This is a relatively old community, the monitoring facilities are not complete, and the sky is so dark, just hide in any flower bed and get out."
Hou Yu slammed his fist on the handrail of the stairs: "Who the hell is this kind of person who is so deliberate to kill Hou Hongchang?!"
At this time, Pei Zhi came over, patted Hou Yu hard, and said, "You should mourn. You are the only male left in the Hou family. You must stand up. I just had a preliminary examination with the forensic doctor. I find this very strange."
"What kind of strange method?"
"I'll ask someone to repeat the scene at that time and you'll know." Pei Zhi called an armed policeman, instructed him in this way, and then turned to Han Yue and said, "Han Er, what are you talking about with knives, guns and weapons?" You are more familiar with us than us, maybe you can see some tricks."
What Pei Zhi meant was to let the armed policeman act as Hou Hongchang, while he stood outside the door, pretending to be the unknown murderer. The armed police came over from the dining room in the door and opened the door. Pei Zhi stood outside, turned to Han Yue and the others and said, "For example, if I am a murderer, if I want to knock on the door, I must stand at this position, about 10 minutes away from the door. The distance is about 30 to 50 centimeters. The forensic doctor initially identified the murder weapon as a knife with a length of more than 15 centimeters. The blade is extremely curved and unusually sharp. If I were the murderer, I would Action, I have to put the knife in this position," Pei Zhi patted his right thigh with his hand, "this way I can draw the knife out of its sheath in an instant."
Han Yue interrupted him: "Under normal circumstances, a short knife of this length cannot be unsheathed in an instant, unless the leather buckle is opened in advance."
"This is the first unusual feature. According to the forensic analysis of this knife, it is likely that there is no leather buckle or catch, which can be pulled out with one stroke." Pei Zhi paused, his expression very serious, "This is not a standard knife. At least I have never seen it. It is likely to be specially made by a special person, and it is an extremely rare saber used by special forces to perform missions at night."
At this time, the armed police opened the door from the restaurant.
"Look, Cheng Xurong recalled that she only heard Hou Hongchang say 'Come here' in the bathroom, that is to say, when he opened the door and saw the murderer, he had no time to say a word, and the trachea was cut off immediately " Pei Zhi gestured on the neck of the armed policeman, "The knife mark pierced from here, the blade part cut off the throat, the tip part pierced the cervical spine, and then protruded from here. The entire knife mark is twelve centimeters long, It ran across the entire neck—the murderer drew his knife out of its sheath the moment Hou Hongchang opened the door, slashed with his hand, and ended Hou Hongchang's life in less than a second."
Pei Zhi paused, then looked at Han Yue and Hou Yu: "In this way, Hou Hongchang could not make a sound at all, and he didn't even have the possibility of struggling a little, and he immediately fell to the ground and passed away."
Hou Yu didn't speak, but felt a chill rushing up from the bottom of his heart, which made him shiver uncontrollably.
"Wait," Han Yue suddenly walked up to Pei Zhi, and gestured: "According to what you said, the force of the murderer's horizontal knife should be very strong. When the short knife protruded from Hou Hongchang's neck, the strength should not be exhausted. Hou Hongchang was standing inside the door, and the door frame was only a dozen or twenty centimeters away from his body..."
Pei Zhi followed his gestures and looked towards the door frame, only to see that there was no trace of a knife edge on the solid wood door frame, except for some blood splashes, it was smooth and intact as new.
"That is to say, after completing the assassination, the murderer put the blade in front of the door frame, and didn't even make any movement because the blade hit the door frame."
Pei Zhi paused for a moment, with a rare stern expression on his face: "This man has become unimaginably proficient in assassination and assassination... At first I wondered if Hou Hongchang bumped into that migrant child recently and caused something Enemies pay for murder, but now I feel that even if he bumps into ten or eight migrant workers, he will not be able to provoke such a terrible enemy... "
They all fell silent at the same time.
After a while, I heard Pei Zhi say slowly: "I don't have any other intentions, but if it's paying for the murder, it's fine, I'm afraid it's the higher-ups who do it... You know, there are always some special departments that are directly under the Ministry of National Defense. .Whatever they are planning, whatever they are planning, we have no way of getting in...”
The corner of Hou Yu's mouth twitched: "Ladies are directly under the Military Commission, how dare they attack the family's elite after eating a leopard?"
Han Yue interrupted Hou Yu, and asked in a deep voice, "Isn't Long Jiwei still lying in the hospital?"
Pei Zhi nodded.
"I don't believe that the people above did it. Besides, even if you want to do something, the Han family will bear the brunt of it. It can't be Hou Hongchang who has no serious work except eating, drinking and having fun." Han Yue pointed to the spray outside the door There was a puddle of blood, and the expression on his face was cold, "You have never been in the army, and you don't know what it will be like once the state machine is in operation. I can tell you that if the state really did it, Hou Hongchang would disappear without a trace." There is no trace, not even a hair. That is really a deterrent, a warning."
Both Pei Zhi and Hou Yu were silent for a moment.
"I can assure you that this is definitely an assassination from the people." Han Yue glanced at Hou Yu and said, "You should recall carefully who Hou Hongchang offended who should not be offended, and who he has offended. Enemies of energy, have those migrant worker couples made friends with any strange people... This is more reliable."
Although the Hou family tried their best to suppress this matter, the news that Hou Hongchang was assassinated in front of his mistress' house appeared in the newspapers the next day.
The news on the paper media is still restrained, but the voice on the Internet is much louder. Major websites pulled the headlines one after another, applauding everywhere, public communities, websites, blogs... everyone applauded and applauded, and all kinds of strange speculations were made about the identity of the assassin.
The Hou family lost a son. Of course, they were crazy about the applause on the Internet, but there was no way to stop it. They could only force the police to declare that it was murder for money.
In the end, a very embarrassing situation was formed, because when Hou Hongchang was killed, the surrounding furnishings and furniture were very neat, and there was no sign that the assassin had entered the door. This fully shows that the assassin is not for money, but for life. The police were forced by the Hou family to ambiguously say that it was a door-to-door robbery and homicide, and that all the decorations at the scene were in good condition, which made them extremely embarrassed in front of the reporters.
People are not fools these days, and they can easily guess what happened from the topsy-turvy narration of the media. For a while, it was rumored everywhere that the ignorant and arrogant second-generation official was killed, and he was killed with a single knife, just like the hero who helped justice cut off the head of a corrupt official, the plot of martial arts novels actually appeared around ordinary people …
That day, Han Yue was watching a pot of seafood soup he was making in the kitchen, when his cell phone rang suddenly, and it was Hou Yu who answered it, and his voice sounded exasperated: "Second Young Master Han! Please lend me a guard here! Bombed the XX newspaper, how dare he break ground on his rival..."
Han Yue said: "People's soldiers don't do this."
"Damn it, do you know what happened? This newspaper wants to gain popularity, make the headlines about Hou Hongchang's incident, and cause a lot of discussion about whether the murderer's actions are just. Is it worth advocating?" What, what..." There was the sound of shredding newspapers on the other side of the phone, and Hou Yu obviously couldn't continue reading: "I'm about to explode, is it justice? Is it worth advocating? If the murderer is caught by me, he must be skinned and cramped. Cut him off!"
"If you find any clues about the murderer, it's fine to ask me to borrow someone to investigate. But you can't do things like smashing the newspaper office." Han Yue tasted the soup and added a handful of salt, " The mouth of the people is better than that of Fangchuan, and the Hou Hongchang incident became so big because your mother insisted on blocking the mouths of the people at the beginning, but in the end it got worse and became uncontrollable."
Hou Yu knew that once Han Yue said no, there would be absolutely no room for maneuver, so he could only be angry for a while, and cursed: "As long as I catch that murderer, I will definitely kill his whole family!" As he said, he slammed the phone hard.
Han Yue stuffed the phone back into his pocket, and a sneer suddenly came from behind him: "Then he has to catch it."
When Han Yue turned his head, Chu Ci had come back from get off work without knowing when, and was standing at the door of the living room taking off his white coat, wearing only a light blue checked shirt and washed white jeans. That tone was so simple and refreshing that Han Yue fixed his eyes on him and stared at him motionless for a long time.
Chu Ci stood vigilantly at the door: "What are you looking at?"
"...It's nothing." Han Yue turned his head and looked at his pot of seafood soup, "I was thinking that Hou Yu called me just now and asked me to borrow the guards to smash up other newspapers... The Hou family really jumped the wall this time."
Chu Ci sneered: "Aren't you also helping them catch that murderer? They are all the same breed, why use a dog to describe your companion."
Han Yue couldn't hear Chu Ci talking to him in such a tone, and felt that he was going to get angry immediately, and he endured it for a few seconds before suppressing his anger: "Do you think it was right for Hou Hongchang to be killed?"
Chu Ci stood at the door without saying a word, his eyes were cold, noncommittal.
"Let me ask you, it's true that Hou Hongchang killed someone's child, but should he be killed? Which law in China stipulates that traffic accidents should pay for life? Even if some serious driving error caused a serious traffic accident, it would be fine if he was killed or cut. National affairs, no matter feeding guns or injections, it is only counted after the high court judges the bailiff to execute it." Han Yue snorted disdainfully, and said: "If everyone ran to be Zorro, the world would soon be dead. It’s messed up. What is a country? A country is a huge machine, and laws are the rules for operating this machine. No one has this kind of power! Do you think there are heroes in martial arts novels in modern society? You are naive."
Compared to Han Er Shao's usual fiery temper, although these words were harsh, they were already very rare. According to his usual personality, it is possible to swear or kick when he opens his mouth at this time.
This is because the person in front of him is Chu Ci. If it were his father, or his eldest brother, Han Yue might already be knocking on the table to shake his face.
After hearing what he said, Chu Ci was silent for a few seconds, and then even smiled.
There was no real smile in this smile, but a sarcastic and cold taste. But Chu Ci seldom smiled. Most of the time he was expressionless, and it was very rare to smile once in a while. Han Yue couldn't help but stared at him and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"I laugh at you." Chu Ci said flatly, "I laugh at you that you still don't know why Hou Hongchang had to die."
Han Yue's first reaction was me, I really shouldn't be angry with him just now, I heard that depression is serious and there are suicidal tendencies
"It is true that there is no law in China that stipulates that traffic accidents should be punished by death, but Hou Hongchang drove drunk, disregarded human life, shirked legal responsibility afterwards, and even trampled on the life of the child killed by him... What he committed The crime is not just killing a child, but he has completely broken the authority and dignity of the Constitution that the People's Republic of China depends on as a republic!"
Chu Ci's tone was not serious, but it was so cold that Han Yue couldn't speak for a moment.
"Article 33 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China stipulates that all citizens of the People's Republic of China are equal before the law. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that human beings enjoy the right to life, freedom, and personal safety. Tenth Criminal Law Article 4 stipulates that knowing that one's own behavior will cause socially harmful consequences, but hoping and allowing such harm to occur is an intentional crime of a heinous nature."
Chu Ci paused, looking at Han Yue with slight contempt and contempt.
"Drunken driving causes traffic accidents. Of course, death is not a crime. But Hou Hongchang put his own privileges above the highest right to life of ordinary people. The nature of this behavior is unconstitutional. This violates universal values and human rights constitutionalism. His crimes are not enough for him to die a thousand times!"
Han Yue had an intuition that every word he said was correct, but this intuition made his heart slightly tense, and a cold chill shot up from his spine.
He was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "... some classes of people will not share this view."
Chu Ci glanced at him without saying a word, turned around and strode out of the living room, and closed the door of the study hard.