Chapter 187: Retrieving the body, the truth!
Chapter 187: Retrieving the body, the truth!
Everyone has a door, behind which lies the deepest secret in your heart.
It may be dark, sad, painful, twisted and deformed.
Will it be happiness, sweet as honey?
No, only things that cannot be told to others are secrets.
Only then will it be locked in a door like a safe!
"Squeak~"
After a long discussion in the office, Xu Huo returned to Shuangyue Village.
He pushed open the door that had the word "囍" hung on it.
A harsh sound sounded.
Before Xu Hao could see the scene inside the door clearly
"boom!"
The rotten wooden door suddenly broke, fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces, raising a cloud of dust.
Xu Hao paused, then silently raised his head and glanced in front of him.
Shen Fei was unwilling to enter this room no matter what, and he planned to go in and take a look during the day.
It is now ten o'clock in the afternoon. The sun is shining brightly, adding a strange vitality to the lifeless ruins.
The bedroom was clear, with black scars on the walls, showing traces of the fire.
He stepped into the silent house, reached out his hand, and wiped the dusty mirror.
The traces of rubbing reflected Xu Hao's face.
However, after the fire, the mirror had been damaged and the reflected image was very blurry.
He looked towards the marital bed.
The bed had long been burned to ashes, leaving only the iron frame.
In the rest of the dark, stained corners, one can vaguely see where some furniture once stood.
"Did you see anything?"
In a trance, Li Jianye's voice appeared.
Xu Huo looked back and saw Sun Jian, Li Jianye and others who were constantly walking in the ruins, trying to investigate the fire case six years ago.
"How can it be so easy to investigate a fire six years ago?"
Xu Hao shook his head.
Again.
What the police fear most are fire, water and time.
Fire can burn everything, time will wear away everything, not to mention that the fire happened six years ago.
"But Shen Fei was also arrested, which puts an end to Zhang Jiayu's case."
Sun Jian sighed and spoke.
The end point of the case is to arrest the person.
The end of a criminal case is the trial.
This is often what the police care about in a case.
But there is actually a third point.
That is the truth, which is also the specific process of the case.
Compared with the first two, the truth often appears from the perspective of evidence, but most people only care about "who killed whom", and then "who killed whom for what reason".
If the former is highly credible and has supporting evidence, then there will be little effort to investigate the subsequent matters, and the case can be closed with a high probability.
why?
Knowing the former, the latter question is easy to infer, but it is not specific and very vague. This is the case with Xu Hao now. He knows that the other party killed someone six years ago, but he does not know the details.
Of course, nothing is absolute. If the murderer dies before the police finds him, there is naturally no answer to this question.
In this situation, the police don't even have the chance to guess or verify the logic, so how can they possibly find a rough answer?
"Where's Shen Fei? Why doesn't he want to come in?"
"He fainted last night when he was burying Zhang Jiayu's grave, and he hasn't woken up yet."
Li Jianye shook his head in response.
Not awake yet.
Xu Huo was speechless and then looked at the house again.
Li Jianye did the same. He glanced around without any clues and sighed:
"Pity."
"I guess no one else knows the truth from six years ago."
"But at least there is an explanation."
Then, I took one last look at the room, recording everything inside with my camera and my mind.
And just when they were about to say something.
A voice suddenly sounded beside my ear.
"Boss, boss, we found the third body!"
The third body.
Wang Wei had four people in total, two of whom died, one is with the police, and the third disappeared.
In other words, the missing person has also been found?
However, the other party said "corpse" instead of "person".
Li Jianye paused, raised the intercom in his hand, put it to his lips and said:
"address."
"At the dam well in Shuangyue Village!"
The other party's voice came from the walkie-talkie. The three paused, then quickly got up, gave a few instructions to the police officers on the scene, and then hurriedly drove to the address mentioned in the walkie-talkie.
Shuangyue Village is named Shuangyue Village because there is a "Shuangyue River" and a "Shuangyue Dam", so the village is simply called Shuangyue.
The dam is not big, but it is the only larger river nearby. These days, except for the wells we dig ourselves, we basically pump water from this river.
Of course, a river's size refers to its width, not its depth.
Shuangyue River has another very direct name.
'Drowning River'
The river is very deep and bottomless. Many people have drowned in this river, including those who were bathing or swimming.
Well, fishermen have naturally drowned before.
Therefore, once someone in the village disappeared and was suspected of drowning in the river, the villagers could always find the body in the river based on their skilled experience.
11:50 am.
Xu Hao came to the dam.
In early January, the river was frozen, and anyone who was not particularly heavy could easily stand on the river.
At this time, some policemen wearing winter cotton-padded jackets were standing on the ice, carefully digging the ice under their feet.
Xu Hao was also among them.
He squatted down and looked down silently.
There is a layer of ice beneath me.
There was a human face imprinted in the ice.
A swollen human face, soaked in water, stuck to the ice, with its mouth open, staring blankly upwards.
There were several voices coming from the side.
"Hey, the river has a dam, and everything is blocked by the dam."
The village chief stood aside, looking at the police cordon with a smile on his face.
It was his report to the police not long ago that led to the discovery of the third body.
"If we can't stop them, the most likely reason is that they are stuck somewhere on the river banks. I know the direction of the river and where people can get stuck."
"I came here early in the morning to try my luck, and I saw a hole in the ice. My heart skipped a beat, and I kept looking, and I actually found it."
"Damn it, I looked down at the fishing spot and saw a face under the ice. What a coincidence!?"
The village chief is also a fisherman and he has rich experience.
If you ask him to fish, he may not be able to catch anything.
But if you ask him to fish for something else, that would definitely be more than enough.
only.
"You don't look like you're having a heart-wrenching reaction."
Li Jianye on the side looked at the village chief speechlessly.
The other party was so happy that he almost set off firecrackers to celebrate, but he didn't feel like he was skipping a beat inside.
"Oh, I'm just afraid that no one will die."
The village chief waved his hand and said.
Li Jianye nodded subconsciously, but in a trance, he paused.
Li Jianye:?
"Ok?"
"Afraid that no one has died? You mean you are afraid of dead people."
"Young man, you are not from Shuangyue Village, so you don't know how much these four grandsons are hated. There is at least one person in every household who hopes they will be hit and killed when they go out."
"I looked at the big hole in the ice and thought he must have fallen into the water and made a hole to get out."
The village chief said with deep emotion.
"It's all right now. This grandson is the one who will go in. I can finally put my mind at ease."
"God has eyes!"
Li Jianye's eyes twitched, but he was used to it.
Xu Hao even ignored the other party's words the entire time.
After a quick survey of the surroundings, he stood up and walked ashore.
"How is it going? When can the body be fished out?"
Sun Jian came forward, put his hands into his sleeves, and asked while trembling.
"We have to wait a while. Once the tools arrive, we will break the ice and pull the person out."
Xu Hao looked at the other party and spoke slowly.
The body was not stuck at the dam, but at a corner of the river.
This is a well with many water pipes connected inside, and the body was just stuck by something.
If the surface ice is broken rashly, the corpse may break free and be washed away by the current. The hole made would be like carving a mark on a boat to find a sword, which would be completely useless.
Of course, you can also go into the water to fish.
But in this horrible weather in January, people go into the water to fish.
A police officer’s life is also a life!
The life of the auxiliary police is also a life!
Besides, the whole story of the case has been almost figured out, and the only surviving murderer, Shen Fei, has also been caught, so there is no need to rush for these few minutes.
"What's with that pit?"
Li Jianye asked.
The pit on the river is very far away. According to preliminary estimates, that is where the third person, Song Xiyang, entered the water, drowned, and died there.
"Analyzed the footsteps and the traces of the cave entrance."
"Most likely he wants to hide underwater."
Xu Hao sighed.
In a sense, the side effects of laughing gas are even greater than those of drugs. After all, it is an industrial raw material and is extremely harmful to the human body.
Coupled with the mental shock, the brain has long lost its ability to work normally.
"He dug up Zhang Jiayu's grave."
"But I saw that Zhang Jiayu's body was not inside. From then on, I guessed that I really mistook the hallucination for a ghost. Then, like Wang Wei, I found a place to hide."
"Then hid under the ice."
Normally, people wouldn't do this.
why?
Fear of deep water and fear of heights are often caused by a person's biological consciousness sensing danger and urging the body to leave.
If it were a normal person, he would definitely be urged by biological consciousness to leave the ice to avoid falling and dying.
However, the laughing gas has damaged his brain, not mentally, but physically!
The biological defense mechanism has long been half-dead, almost the same as Shen Fei.
"He has been hiding for three or four days and hasn't come out yet."
Xu Huo smacked his lips and spoke.
When the village chief heard this, a smile appeared on his face, and he looked happy.
"Hey, this kid is pretty good at swimming."
“I dived for three or four days without having to breathe!”
"Don't worry, young man. Let's see when he wants to come up for air."
Xu Hao:.
Several policemen around couldn't help but look back at the village chief, their eyes full of doubt about life.
Xu Hao felt that the village chief was a little naughty.
He thought for a while and said:
"Where do these pipes connect to?"
The village chief never thought:
"The water plant. The river water is purified in the water plant. Is there any need to ask?"
"Who drinks this water?" "We, of course."
As he was speaking, the village chief paused, fell into deep thought, and then his face was filled with anger.
"This beast is a disaster to the village even after his death!"
"Bah! Why don't you die farther away? God is blind!"
Xu Hao smiled and ignored the village chief who was old in appearance but young in mentality.
He stood on the shore and watched silently.
After a while, the police arrived in a tricycle with some iron hooks and saws.
Xu Hao went down personally and started breaking the ice using these tools.
The river water in January is freezing cold.
After just a brief touch, my hands lost all feeling, even with gloves on.
But before long, the opposite would happen and your hands would become hot and itchy.
This is due to 'neural regulation reactions' and 'the blood circulation system's tricks.
half an hour.
As the police cast a hook into the hole they had dug in the distance and hooked the body, everyone began to pull up the corpse.
a long time.
A body was salvaged from the water.
He had already been swollen from being soaked, and his body looked like a bloated piece of pork.
It's also like a sponge. If you squeeze it slightly with your hand, the swollen flesh seems to be able to squeeze out liquid.
Xu Hao once again asked someone to confirm his identity.
After ensuring it is correct.
His last look was at the ruins of Zhang Jiayu that had been burned by fire.
A little bit.
"Let's pack up"
Xu Hao was silent for a moment and said:
"Collect the team."
This is a oolong case.
Before this, no one in the entire police station dared to guarantee that the murderer existed in the spirit of the human mind!
Maybe it's an illusion. Or maybe it really is a ghost.
But no matter what, the other party is not a living person, but the police are handling the case as if he were a living person.
no way.
A life lost may be considered an accident.
But two people died, one was missing, and one went crazy.
Such serious consequences really made it difficult for the police to believe that the short-term source was actually caused by an illusion!
Of course, this does not mean that the police have not gained anything.
First, there was an unsolved case six years ago, which now got a new answer. The wrongly accused was cleared and the murderer was arrested.
Simultaneously.
There is also the issue of laughing gas.
"There's news from the anti-corruption police."
"They are now conducting a sweep of the entire city, KTVs, clubs, bars, hotels and other areas. They are all being searched 24 hours a day, in three shifts."
In the afternoon, half past three.
Zhang Liang returned to the office to drink some water and happened to hear this conversation.
"what happened?"
Zhang Liang walked into the office carrying a cup of water. The sound of his leather shoes was very clear. He looked around suspiciously.
"The problem with laughing gas."
Li Jianye heard the voice, turned around and explained.
If you still don't understand,
You can refer to paraquat, a great pesticide that was banned.
So many people died from drinking alcohol, do businesses need to be held responsible?
No, so neither is nitrous oxide.
"The current situation is that several key persons in charge have been arrested and can be sentenced, but for the rest, the police are looking through the regulations overnight. If there is no such article, there is a high probability that an additional article will be added."
Sun Jian was also talking about information from the capital.
So don’t worry about the future, worry about the present.
"It's cheap to make. Even if you destroy it today, another one will pop up in two days. Before the law is updated, it's an indestructible cancer."
Sun Jian said so and gave his own evaluation.
"Take it easy."
Li Jianye nodded and sorted out the documents in his hands.
With indirect evidence against Shen Fei, as well as video and chain of reasoning, the case has come to an end.
He is organizing the reasoning process and chain of evidence of the case and will hand them over to the prosecutors when the time comes.
As for the verdict
Shen Fei wouldn't live long in this condition. He would probably die before the verdict came.
The only victim in this case is a victim with the same appearance as the current case.
Xu Hao stood up from his chair and walked to
"Zhang Jiayu, male"
He looked at the document in Li Jianye's hand.
After two days of searching, they retrieved Zhang Jiayu's information from the school and other places and pieced together one person's experience.
"I have no parents. My mother abandoned my father when he was young. My father died of alcoholism. I was raised by my grandfather."
"Later, when he was in school, my grandfather knocked on every door and borrowed food and money to support his education."
“His grades are excellent.”
It's strange to say, but when the family pressure is very high, a child will either have extremely poor grades or extremely good grades.
Xu Hao was not surprised by the other party's results.
He continued to look down.
"His grades were good enough to get into high school. In those days, getting into high school was a very honorable thing. But even though his grades were good enough, he got into a technical secondary school."
"I studied in a technical secondary school, and when I graduated, I worked in the kitchen. Then I took the money and left. Within two years, I built a restaurant with a high reputation in Jiangsan City."
"The day of his death was his wedding day."
"The bride is his. Well, to use the words of you young people, she is his childhood sweetheart."
"It was because her family was here that we chose to get married here, and by the way, we wanted to repay the kindness of our neighbor."
"Unfortunately, that night, Wang Wei and others broke into the other party's home and committed a tragic crime."
Li Jianye slowly explained the ins and outs of the case to those around him.
He paused and added.
"No, it's not one tragedy, it's two."
Is it confusing to go to technical secondary school when your scores are enough to get into high school?
Actually it is not.
If you calculate the time, it was probably more than ten years ago. At that time, the government guaranteed job placement for those who graduated from technical secondary schools.
Unlike the academic involution in the previous life, technical secondary school is a very sought-after academic qualification. Some people have never even thought about going to university and specifically take this exam.
"The biography and other things have all been added."
"Unfortunately, the whole process of death is unknown."
Li Jianye looked at the table and saw the murder weapon wrapped in a sealed bag, which was the bloodstained butcher knife.
The forensic doctor made another test report.
The body tissue and blood left in the grave belonged to the same person.
Zhang Jiayu is indeed dead.
"The only thing that's certain is this."
"After killing someone, Wang Wei faked the scene to look like a fire and fled, taking a large amount of money with him."
"That much is certain, but there is no way to know more specific details."
After explaining the whole story.
The people around fell silent.
A man who died six years ago.
Six years later, the three murderers were killed and a man was driven crazy.
It's hard to imagine that such a case could happen.
"Newly married, childhood sweethearts, young and famous."
Zhang Liang spoke with a slight smacking of lips.
These are probably the most beautiful moments in life.
The childhood sweetheart was both his first love and his first marriage, and at a young age he became a well-known boss worth millions.
You know, it was a million in the 90s.
Pity.
With the appearance of a raging fire.
Everything is sealed behind the door with the word "囍" on it.
Only Xu, Wang, Wei and three others knew the truth.
But three people died and one became a madman.
The police couldn't figure it out no matter how hard they tried.
This is not a question of whether or not we are willing to check, but that we simply cannot check!
Just like, if you can prove that 1+1=3, it will overturn the most foundation of existing science, which will be extremely valuable for human beings and even for the entire universe.
But why don't you prove it?
Because this cannot be proven at all.
The same is true for the police.
No one present said that they didn't want to investigate or that they were tired of investigating.
They want to, but they just can't do it.
Even if the entire ruins were filled with people, with each person checking an area of one centimeter, they would still not be able to find anything.
Six years after the fire were enough to destroy all clues.
"That's the case for now."
"If there is no problem, I will submit the file."
Li Jianye suddenly broke the silence.
Submit the case file for inspection, and then wait for the court process.
"Wait a moment."
Suddenly, Xu Hao spoke up and stopped the other party.
"what happened?"
Li Jianye asked doubtfully.
"Six years ago, don't submit the files on the fire case yet."
Xu Hao took a deep breath, was silent for a moment, and said:
"I'll think of another way."
Li Jianye paused, then nodded without saying anything to dissuade him.
"it is good."
He left a file in his office drawer and left with the case file.
After a while, it was time to get off work.
The people from the police station disappeared one after another.
Xu Hao also left.
After returning home, I gave a few words of counselling to the two children at home, then started to wash up and get ready for bed.
January 9th, 10:30 p.m.
Xu Hao took a deep breath, lay on the bed, and gradually closed his eyes.
There is nothing others can do. There is no physical evidence to find out the truth of six years ago.
But Xu Hao is not someone else.
Maybe he can!
In a trance, a clear voice echoed in the room.
"Dream."
As the two words fell.
Xu Hao's consciousness gradually sank, as if he was being pulled into the abyss.
In his senses.
A front door that was burned by a fire and had the word "囍" (囍) pasted on it.
Slowly opened in front of him, revealing the scene inside the house
ps: It’s the end of the month, do you have a monthly ticket? QAQ
My ranking has dropped rapidly in the past two days. Is there any monthly ticket that can help me stay in the top 100? QAQ
(End of this chapter)