Madness of the Heart

Chapter 12: Demon Hunt (12)

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Dongye University of Foreign Languages.

Downstairs in East 9th Building, the security belt has been pulled up, and many girls in pajamas are in groups of three or five, surrounded by the security belt with a terrified expression. Many of them were trembling, their hair was disheveled, and their faces were either red or pale, and some people were so scared that they cried.

The crowded and noisy dormitory in the past has become a hell on earth. The three girls who were alive and strong last night were slanted on their respective beds, and their two lifeless arms were hanging from the edge of the bed. Blood gushing from their carotid arteries soaked the mats and mosquito nets, spilled onto the yellowed walls, and flowed onto the cold, large checkered floor.

In the entire dormitory of 509, there are bloodstains everywhere, and the black and red liquid that gradually solidifies, like the screams that the girls can't make when their lives end. Just looking at it makes the scalp tingle.

On a wall was written a series of large characters in blood: They are damn!

The handwriting is crooked and ugly, like the distorted soul of the writer.

A string of bloody footprints extended from 509 to the gate of East 9th Building and disappeared into the flower bed, looking very infiltrating.

Three students from an institution of higher learning were brutally murdered overnight. This was an absolutely major and important case. As soon as the Nancheng Branch received the report, it immediately reported it to the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

At 9:00 in the morning, Xiao Yuan had led the serious crime team and the first criminal investigation team to personally come to Dongye Foreign Languages Institute.

The trace inspectors were collecting traces in the terrifying dormitory. Mingshu stood at the door of 509 and looked at the line of words on the wall with a serious expression.

It was Shu Yu from dormitory 510 who discovered the murder scene. Early in the morning, she planned to go to the playground to exercise her muscles and bones. When she opened the door, she saw that the door of 509 was wide open. It was eerily quiet inside, and the blood that spread out was shocking.

She took a closer look tremblingly, only to see Wen Jingjing's head hanging by the bedside, the wound on her neck like a bloody mouth.

For a moment, her mind was blank, only her feet moved back mechanically.

When she finally realized what happened to 509, she slumped to the ground and let out a hoarse scream.

At this time, she had been sent to the school hospital because she was too frightened.

Her roommates also all have dull eyes, unable to believe that such a tragedy that only happens in TV series and novels will happen around her.

"Ken... It must be Li Hongmei, and that... that girl, Chi Xiaomin!" Wang Jiao's hair was soaked in cold sweat, she kept breathing with her mouth open, looking a bit weird and funny.

But at this moment, no one can laugh.

Mingshu walked over, restrained the chill in his eyes, and asked, "Who is Li Hongmei? Who is Chi Xiaomin?"

Hearing these two names, the girls' mood changed suddenly, some cried louder, some shrugged their shoulders cowardly, and many more became angry.

"Yes! It must be Li Hongmei and Chi Xiaomin!"

"Li Hongmei is too vicious. She privately gave the dormitory key to someone outside. She even preached before!"

"Quietly they just said a few words to her, but she actually..."

"It's terrible, fortunately she's not in our dormitory."

"The school has to be responsible for recruiting such lunatics!"

"509 said yesterday that Li Hongmei and the woman with the keys were sent to the police station, but Aunt Zhang stopped them. Hey, if they went to the police station, they wouldn't be killed."

"It's hard to say, the police station won't take care of this kind of thing at all. At most, educate Li Hongmei and tell her not to bring people to the dormitory in the future. Li Hongmei's character is like killing anyone. It's Qin Manyue, she helped Li Hongmei to speak yesterday."

Mingshu listened for a while and learned that the Li Hongmei that everyone said was a member of 509, and Chi Xiaomin was an outsider that Li Hongmei brought back to the dormitory. Last night, Li Hongmei had a dispute with her roommate for taking Chi Xiaomin back to the dormitory and left at ten o'clock in the evening. Before the lights went out, 509 had only three victims.

East Jiu Building is a four-person dormitory, and the identities of the three victims have been identified—Wen Jingjing, a native, 21 years old; Qin Manyue, a native of Fengcheng, 22 years old; Lian Qiao, a native of Xinfeng County, Dongye City, 21 age.

The focus of the case is, where is Li Hongmei? Is that string of blood footprints left by Li Hongmei

The trace inspectors completed the preliminary investigation, and Xiao Man's face was very ugly, "Ming team, a total of seven types of footprints were collected, including blood footprints. From the analysis of the footprints and other traces at the scene, there was only one murderer, and she was a woman. When committing the crime, he did not even wear gloves, and directly cut off the carotid artery and trachea of the three victims with a straight-handled knife."

Mingshu looked at the dormitory door, "There is no sign of the lock being damaged by violence. Either the murderer used the key to open the door, or the victim opened the door for her. Brother Xing?"

"The two victims were killed while they were sleeping, and there was no sign of struggle. The other one struggled slightly." Xing Mu said: "The murderer used the key to open the door while they were asleep. The last victim killed the other two while the murderer was sleeping. She woke up at the same time, but it was too late. Her neck injury was the most serious, and the death process was the most painful. In addition, the knife marks on the necks of the three deceased were messy, and the murderer was obviously venting his anger."

In the dormitory room, Zhang Chunfang, who was called "Aunt Zhang" by the girls, has been brought under control.

Judging from the dead bodies of the three people, the murder occurred around 2 am today. Even in the summer vacation, the dormitory still has access control. The door is closed at 0:00 in the morning and only opened at 6:00 in the morning. If the murderer is an outsider, then Zhang Chunfang will have an inescapable responsibility.

"I... I don't know anything." Zhang Chunfang sat on the wooden chair, so frightened that she couldn't stand up at all.

There was no air conditioning in the dormitory room, and an old shaking head fan made a creaking sound, and the strongest wind was blowing on her face, like a pair of rough hands, wiping her tears into her slack. skin and wrinkles.

"What happened to Li Hongmei?" Mingshu asked, "The students said that you prevented the victim from sending Li Hongmei to the police station?"

"There was a quarrel in their dormitory last night. Li, Li Hongmei lent the key to someone outside..." Zhang Chunfang stammered and recounted what happened the day before, and at the end repeated: "I feel sorry for Li Hongmei. Persuade them not to send Li Hongmei to the police station. I didn't expect such a thing to happen, and it was Wen Jingjing and Qin Manyue who finally decided to let Li Hongmei go, not me, not me!"

Mingshu has seen too many murders, and he has already painted in his mind the picture of the four girls arguing in 509. He asked, "You said that Li Hongmei left at 10 o'clock last night. Did she come back later?"

Zhang Chunfang cried and nodded.

Mingshu asked, "When?"

"1 o'clock. She rang the bell outside, yes, I opened the door for her!" Zhang Chunfang slapped the table, her dry messy hair hanging down her cheeks, "I don't know what she's doing when she comes back, doing that kind of thing, or I No matter how hard she tried, she wouldn't open the door for her! She started working part-time since she entered the school in her freshman year, and she often came back in the middle of the night, I really don't know..."

"Then when did she leave, do you remember?" Mingshu asked again.

"It was very late. I put her in and went back to the room to sleep." Zhang Chunfang sobbed, "The access control is only for entering, no matter exiting, and anyone can open the door inside."

Xiao Man collected Li Hongmei's fingerprints on the access control button in the dormitory.

Mingshu stood up and turned around to see Xiao Yu'an walking quickly towards the dormitory room.

"Xiao Bureau." He raised his hand and shouted.

Xiao Yu'an was not wearing a police uniform, but was still a combination of shirt and suit pants. The shirt was tucked into the suit pants.

"Li Hongmei is very suspicious, and her mental state is unstable. It is very likely that she will continue to commit crimes and must be found immediately." Xiao Yuan raised her wrist and looked at the time, "The on-site investigation will be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Team, and you go to locate Li Hongmei and Chi Xiaomin. "

"Yes!"

There is no surveillance inside the dormitory, but there are multiple high-definition cameras in the open-air areas of the campus. The members of the technical investigation team quickly called up the surveillance. The video showed that at 2:31 in the morning, Li Hongmei appeared in the cafeteria closest to East Ninth Building, holding a straight-handled knife, and then left the campus along East District Avenue.

The last time she was captured on camera was at the "Old Class Inn" outside the east gate of Dongye Foreign Languages Institute.

Yifei bright documents. The receptionist at the front desk was a middle-aged woman who had never seen so many police officers before. She was so frightened that she quickly turned off the soap opera that was playing on the computer, and immediately took everyone to the guest room on the third floor.

This hotel has a bad environment. It is a low-end guest house. The walls are mottled and the railings are all black and rusted. In order to keep up with the trend, the name was changed to the inn. It is the lowest hotel nearby, 50 yuan per room.

The receptionist shivered and opened the door, "The person you're looking for will live there. I'm just running a hotel, so I don't know what she does."

In the face of female college students, the serious criminal police officers are really reluctant to carry guns, but the tragic situation of 509 constantly reminds them that there may be a crazy murderer just across the door.

The door opened inwards, and the rustling of the wheels made the scalp tingling.

Many horror films use this sound effect.

There is only one narrow ventilation window in the house. The glass is full of heavy stains that have accumulated for an unknown number of years. Light can hardly penetrate. The only ceiling light is turned off. The darkness and musty smell seem to have substance. They pounce.

The gun in Mingshu's hand was two meters away, facing a young woman's forehead.

It was Li Hongmei.

Li Hongmei sat on the bed with only one layer of straw mats, a light yellow T-shirt, cropped jeans, and a pair of low-quality "hole shoes" on her feet.

In the ID photo, her eyes were dull, and the lines on her face were stiff and ugly. The real person is even more ugly than the ID photo - small eyes, flat nose, rolled nostrils, thick lips, wide face plate, brain gate, acne on cheeks and forehead, sparse hair pulled back in a loose ponytail.

Humans are visual animals, they like beauty and hate ugliness. It is conceivable that Li Hongmei's appearance may have caused her to be discriminated against and excluded from her childhood. And this marginalized situation has followed her like a nightmare.

Seeing the police, Li Hongmei was neither surprised nor afraid, her eyes wandered across everyone's faces, and finally settled on the pistol pointed at her.

Mingshu slowly put the gun down, and out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of the clothes hanging on the plastic rope at the end of the bed.

There seemed to be bloodstains that could not be washed off.

Li Hongmei is wearing this underwear to commit the crime.

Yi Fei had already walked over, took off the half-wet T-shirt and straight jeans, and put them in the large evidence bag.

"Are you here to catch me?" Li Hongmei said, with a short sentence in a funny dialect.

Her voice was harsh, even at normal volume.

Fang Yuanhang suddenly thought of the woman in the countryside who yelled at the street.

Mingshu asked, "Did you kill 509's three people?"

Li Hongmei didn't answer, but slowly bent down, probed under the bed with her hands, and dragged out a worn-out cardboard box.

"Be careful!" Yi Fei shouted.

Mingshu didn't avoid it, and when he saw the contents of the cardboard box, his eyebrows wrinkled fiercely.

It was a straight-handled knife full of blood!

"It's me." Li Hongmei took out the knife and said, "Wen Jingjing and the other three were all killed by me, because they all deserve to die!"

They all be damned.

This sentence is written on the wall of the 509 bedroom.

"Let me take a shower again." Li Hongmei stood up and opened a wooden board. "After the shower, I'll go with you. I have body odor, and no one can stand it, and neither can you."

Criminal Investigation Bureau, Serious Cases Unit.

After inspection, the blood on the straight-handled knife came from the three victims, and there were Li Hongmei's fingerprints on the handle. The footprints and monitoring at the scene all pointed to Li Hongmei. Li Hongmei has also pleaded guilty. Li Hongmei is the undisputed murderer of this appalling dormitory murder case.

Mingshu looked at her through the one-way glass of the interrogation room, a strong anger burning in his chest.

Xiao Yuan came over and patted him lightly on the shoulder.

"You only saw me killing them, did you see them killing me too? I was killed by them!" Facing Yi Fei, Fang Yuanhang, and a policewoman from the first criminal investigation team, Li Hongmei He seemed very calm, "They are all devils. I have been bullied by them for three years, and they still want to play me, so why can't anyone come to save me?"

The policewoman asked, "What did they do to you?"

Li Hongmei pursed her lips, fell into a long period of thought, and finally shook her head with a smile, "How can you people who have never experienced troubles understand? How can you believe it? When you look at me, do you still think—this woman How can there be such a miserable person like her? They are all high-quality college students, how can they have such a bad heart as she said? "

The policewoman said: "There is no reason for you to brutally kill your classmates for any reason."

"Then I look ugly, I have body odor, my family is poor, and I don't have parents. Is that the reason why they can trample me wantonly?" Li Hongmei squeezed her fingers, "You people who are born superior, treat the misfortune of others as a fantasy, you I thought I was kind, hahaha, I didn’t believe in the suffering of others, satirized the suffering of others, and taught me a lesson from above, it’s not kindness, it’s not pure, okay, it’s vicious!”

The policewoman blushed from choking, "You..."

"You can't speak, right?" Li Hongmei at this time was completely different from the sluggish person that the students said, she was actually aggressive and able to speak well, "You are so beautiful, you were often chased when you were studying, right? Now? You became a policeman, and there are many men around you. Unlike our foreign language college, all of them are women when you open your eyes. You are enjoying the stars, and you told me that any reason is not the reason for me to brutally kill my classmates. I want to ask You, what qualifications do you have to ask me? Have you experienced what I have experienced? I am afraid you can't even imagine it."

The policewoman stood up and rushed out the door.

Yi Fei and Fang Yuanhang looked at each other and had to suspend the interrogation, waiting for the female police officer to take over.

"Can't it be just the two of you?" Li Hongmei said, "Why did the policewoman come to talk to me? Did you deliberately humiliate me?"

Fang Yuanhang didn't understand her logic, "This is the rule above."

"Then you find someone who looks as ugly as me." When Li Hongmei mentioned ugliness, her tone was indifferent and almost sad, "I don't want to face beautiful women."

This requirement is difficult.

There are indeed common-looking female police officers in the Criminal Investigation Bureau, but none of them can be called ugly, let alone the level of Li Hongmei.

Li Hongmei's facial features, for anyone to look at, belong to the level of "crooked melons and cracked dates".

"Isn't it?" Li Hongmei smiled, "That's fine, I don't want to talk about it. It's useless to tell you guys, no one can understand me..."

In the inquiry room on the same floor, Zhang Chunfang, who had calmed down, had already explained everything she knew.

Li Hongmei is not from Dongye City. She comes from Xiaben Village, a backward fishing village along the coast. Both her parents are dead and she has no other relatives.

Because of his poor family background, ugly appearance, severe body odor with no money to treat, and shortsightedness and vulgarity brought about by poverty, Li Hongmei was targeted by the entire dormitory and the entire class from the beginning of her freshman year.

Her classmates gave her the insulting nickname "Sao Sao".

It's not a coquettish show, it's a stinky show.

When dividing the dormitory, Wen Jingjing proposed to let Li Hongmei live in a room alone, on the grounds that Li Hongmei really stinks. But firstly, there was no dormitory vacant, and secondly, Li Hongmei couldn't afford to live alone in a dormitory.

Li Hongmei knew that she was disliked and had very little time to go back to the dormitory. Except for classes, she just worked outside.

Wen Jingjing is a local, a middle-class family, and has a very good living environment. At first, she just looked down on Li Hongmei. Later, because the famous brand perfume in the dormitory disappeared, she suspected that Li Hongmei was stealing it.

"It's not me." Li Hongmei was blocked in the dormitory and retorted nervously, "I didn't take your perfume."

"Who else could it be if it weren't for you? You are so stinky and smeared all day long. I just bought that bottle of perfume last week and used it once in front of your face, so you're thinking about it? I told you earlier, Body odor is a disease, and it needs to be cured! You work all day to earn so much money, why don't you cut up your stinky and rotten meat? If you don't have enough money, we can crowdfund it for you!"

Wen Jingjing has a very strong personality and a loud voice, so the students on the 5th floor came to watch the fun.

Li Hongmei kept explaining, but she kept repeating the words, "I didn't steal it, I didn't even know you had a bottle of perfume."

Wen Jingjing was furious: "You still quibble? Then tell me, where is my perfume? There are only four of us in the bedroom, do you want to slander Manyue and Qiaoqiao? They both have perfume, okay, they need to steal mine. perfume?"

Qin Manyue is a goddess majoring in English. She is tall and slender. She usually looks cold and cold, standing aside without speaking.

Lian Qiao refused, and quickly stood in line with Wen Jingjing, "I stole perfume? Li Hongmei, you can, dare to pour dirty water on me!"

There was no quarrel in the end. Li Hongmei insisted that she did not steal perfume, but no one believed her. This matter spread from the dormitory to the class, and even the few boys often used "ugly", "stinky mother-in-law" and "thief" to insult her.

In the second semester of college, under Wen Jingjing's organization, Li Hongmei was completely isolated.

English majors have oral training classes every day, and no one pairs with Li Hongmei to practice. When everyone in the classroom was talking, she sat alone in the corner, reciting words in a low voice.

Satire, abuse, and wearing small shoes are common, and Li Hongmei is accustomed to it. In the second year of her sophomore year, Wen Jingjing intensified. He recruited a boy from another school and forcibly broke the bathroom door while Li Hongmei was taking a shower. The camera and mobile phone were aimed at her at the same time.

No matter how Li Hongmei struggled, it was useless, the boy's arm pinched her and spoke slander to her. She cried and refused, but the shutter sound of the camera was more intense...

There was no rumor about the nude photos, Wen Jingjing didn't have the guts.

After that, Wen Jingjing, Lian Qiao, and Qin Manyue saw that Li Hongmei would not resist, and all the boys in the class were on their side, so they felt more confident.

Li Hongmei was beaten many times, and sanitary napkins stained with blood frequently appeared in lunch boxes and water glasses.

"Does the school care?" a detective asked.

"Manage it? How can I manage it? Li Hongmei is the most difficult child in the whole English department. Those who bully her, some of her parents are officials, some are in business, and most of them are locals. She is an orphan and is studying far away from home. How can you provoke those people?" Zhang Chunfang sighed, "Li Hongmei would still ask the counselor for help when she was a freshman and sophomore, but the counselor ignored her at all, and the student council also turned a blind eye, and Wen Jingjing was herself. Vice-President of the Student Union. In her third year, Li Hongmei should also be aware of her situation. She has never complained to anyone. She tries not to stay with her classmates. The missionary, brought back to the dormitory to drink water, and was taught by Wen Jingjing and the others. I thought she was pitiful, I helped her, and told her that it would be okay to endure until graduation. She said she understood. I am just a dormitory manager, and the others are me I can't help her, the only thing I can do is to open the door for her when she comes back from work in the middle of the night... Hey!"

A small number of students stood up and confirmed Zhang Chunfang's words, but most of them said nothing.

The school was busy controlling public opinion. Li Hongmei's counselor did not admit that Li Hongmei had been bullied for three years.

In Wen Jingjing's laptop, Xiao Man found a photo of Li Hongmei that was forcibly taken.

This is hard evidence that Li Hongmei was bullied.

Li Hongmei's state was as if it was over, she shook her head with a smile, "I should have killed them a long time ago. I was so kind to them, I killed them in my sleep. As for them, they are much more cruel than me. , I'm three years late, I feel more pain than them..."

When night fell, Mingshu poured a cup of herbal tea, rubbed his sore eyes, and picked up the coat on the back of the chair.

Li Hongmei has pleaded guilty, but the case is not entirely without doubt.

Where is that person named "Chi Xiaomin"