Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The sixth floor was quickly investigated, but the police found nothing. He Laowu seemed to have suddenly disappeared from this building.
Zhao Li, who saw He Laowu’s back walking into the building, felt a chill on his back. He rubbed his arms and said hesitantly: “You think it’s not really like that, right?”
It was already past ten o’clock in the evening. It was dark outside and the street lights had dimmed. SHe didn’t even dare to say the word “ghost” directly when he spoke, for fear of being heard by something dormant in the darkness.
The others suddenly showed the same confused expression. Especially the two policemen responsible for protecting He Laowu felt that their hairs stood up when they recalled the previous situation.
Team Leader Chen crushed the cigarette butt and said in a deep voice: “Whether it is a human or a ghost, the case must be investigated clearly. Moreover, this matter is just a bit mysterious now, and it is more likely that someone is pretending to be a ghost!”
He asked Zhang Peng again: “Have you found out the specific situation of the flood in He family village in 1999?”
After Wang Qing came to report the news, they had already sent news back and asked the colleagues who had stayed behind to search the files. At present, the only information they had was some basic information about He family village and its villagers. If they wanted to get more specific information, they would have to retrieve older files.
“They are already looking for it. But the matter is too old and it will take more time.” Zhang Peng said.
After speaking, he bumped Wang Qing’s shoulder and asked, “Why hasn’t that little brother come down yet?”
After Wang Qing came down to report the news, Captain Chen and others originally wanted to go up to the seventh floor to inquire in person, but Wang Qing stopped them.
Wang Qing’s expression was tangled, and his facial features were almost wrinkled. After he came down, he remembered what Jiang Lan had joked with him, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it… didn’t seem like a joke.
Just thinking that the kind-hearted old man was actually a dead man made him feel sick in his heart.
“He said he still had something to ask the old man.”
After a pause, he added: “And he also said that the old man on the seventh floor… had died a long time ago.”
Zhang Peng was a materialist and did not believe in these ghosts and gods at all. He squinted at him and said, “Isn’t the old man on the seventh floor Qin Shuyi? According to the information, he lives in isolation and does not have a good relationship with the villagers. Although it is indeed strange. Yes, but he is still alive and well, why do you want to curse him to death? And how can a dead person still talk to you? That guy looks so young, is he reliable?”
Wang Qing didn’t know how to explain to them since the Tai Sui case had been classified as a special file, and those involved had signed a guarantee thus it could not be spread casually.
He could only say vaguely: “Jiang Lan helped our institute solve a special case. You will know if he is reliable or not when he comes down.”
However, Zhao Li, who was responsible for checking the surveillance system, had a don’t scare me expression: “The old man on the seventh floor?”
Captain Chen keenly noticed the change in his expression: “What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with the old man?”
Zhao Li licked his dry lips and said with a dry smile: “Didn’t Xiao Li and I investigate the surveillance of the fourth building… We looked at the surveillance for half a month before the incident. In the surveillance video, we didn’t see anyone ever entering or exiting the seventh floor.”
They had always suspected that the murderer was hiding in the fourth building, so they sent people to conduct around the clock surveillance to see if they could find the suspicious person. During the investigation, Zhao Li noticed that there was no movement on the seventh floor. When every household turned on their lights at night, there was no light on the seventh floor. At the time, he thought the resident on the seventh floor was not home.
But now when he heard what Wang Qing said, he immediately reacted.
Qin Shuyi was at home, but a living person did not go out to do shopping for half a month, and did not turn on the lights at night…
Zhao Li didn’t know what he was thinking of, but his expression was a little stiff.
“It’s impossible for a normal person to not go out to buy daily necessities for half a month, right?”
Zhang Peng retorted: “Maybe he just doesn’t like to go out, and actually stores a lot of daily necessities at home? There are not less of such weirdos.”
What he said made sense, but goosebumps still appeared on Zhao Li’s arms.
He didn’t refute Zhang Peng’s words, he just crossed his arms and kept rubbing the goose bumps that popped up.
At this moment, a scream that tore through the night suddenly came from the fourth floor.
Several people subconsciously rushed into the building, ran all the way to the fourth floor, and then they all stopped.
At the door of 404, a headless male corpse was hanging upside down from the ceiling. The person who had shouted was still shaking at this moment. It must have been He Laowu’s wife Li Xiujuan who was caught off guard when she opened the door and bumped into the body. Dark red blood had spattered, leaving dots of blood marks on the walls of the corridor. The door of 404 was wide open. He Laowu’s wife and son were slumped on the ground, their expressions dull, and their faces and bodies were splattered with blood.
He Laowu never came home. Li Xiujuan was worried and asked her son to go out and look for him again. He Laowu was affected in that flood. After that, his temper became a little weird and his brain also became a little weird. He would often do unexpected things. Li Xiujuan did not want to believe that her husband had been killed, she just thought that he must have fallen ill again and hid outside.
Who knew that as soon as she opened the door, she would bump into a corpse.
The body hadn’t cooled down yet, and she could even feel the body heat coming from under his clothes. The shock was so sudden that Li Xiujuan collapsed on the ground, her eyes widened in horror, but she couldn’t make a sound.
Her son who came out behind her was also frightened to death.
Team Leader Chen looked ugly and asked Zhao Li to help the mother and son to the side. He called back to the team and asked for more help.
In one day, two murders occurred in succession, and one of them happened under their noses. Everyone looked unhappy.
While they were busy sealing off the scene, Jiang Lan finally persuaded Qin Shuyi to bring the Sao Qingniang downstairs with him.
Sao Qingniang was obviously reluctant, but after listening to Qin Shuyi’s words, she could only follow reluctantly.
Jiang Lan walked to the fourth floor and when he saw the headless corpse hanging upside down from the ceiling, he turned back and glanced at Qingniang.
At this time, Sao Qingniang had changed her body again. She was only as long as his fingers. She was carefully put into his shirt pocket by Qin Shuyi, such that only her head was exposed. Her eyes were rolling around, obviously watching the fun.
Jiang Lan thought to himself that this naughty kid really lacked education, earlier she pretended to be aggrieved while taking out He Laowu’s body to cause trouble.
He bared his teeth coldly at Sao Qingniang.
Wait, sooner or later you will receive education.
Team Leader Chen and others were busy putting down the bodies to seal the scene. When they saw Jiang Lan and the others coming down, they pinched their brows tiredly: “Another one died.”
Others stared at Qin Shuyi.
Apart from Qin Shuyi’s temperament looking a little gloomy, there really didn’t seem to be anything wrong with him.
Zhang Peng raised his lips and said silently to Zhao Li: Look, how does this look like a dead person? Have you ever seen a dead person who can walk and jump?
Zhao Li also looked a little shaken.
It was Wang Qing who observed the most carefully. He stared at Qin Shuyi’s wrist for a long time, and gently bumped Zhao Li’s expression with his elbow, gesturing for him to look at it.
Zhao Li who stared at it carefully: …
As a police officer who had been dealing with corpses all year round, he naturally would not fail to recognize the corpse spots.
His expression suddenly became unnatural, and the goosebumps that had just subsided appeared again. He subconsciously leaned against the wall to distance himself from Qin Shuyi.
Others were unaware of this and continued to search for evidence at the scene. Only Li Xiujuan’s dull expression suddenly changed after seeing Qin Shuyi, and she rushed to catch Qin Shuyi in three steps. She then yelled with red eyes: “Is it you? Is it you?”
Qin Shuyi took a step back when she rushed towards him. When he saw her embarrassed appearance, he smiled slightly but said nothing.
This smile disappeared in an instant. No one else saw it, but Li Xiujuan saw it clearly. She collapsed on the ground for a moment, crying with tears: “It’s really you, it’s really you!”
Then she suddenly got up from the ground, grabbed Captain Chen and said, “He is the murderer, he is the one who killed my husband, please arrest him quickly!”
Captain Chen didn’t know the inside story and looked at her with a frown: “As far as I know, this old man is actually almost seventy years old. He has no ability to kill. There is also no motive for killing yet.”
Li Xiujuan suddenly felt as if someone had strangled her throat. Her eyes flashed and her words faltered. She was vague for a long time without saying anything, but she insisted that Qin Shuyi was the murderer.
Team Leader Chen had been engaged in criminal investigation for so many years, so he naturally noticed something unusual about her. He stared at Li Xiujuan, who looked a little crazy, and said slowly: “We can’t arrest people randomly without evidence.”
Li Xiujuan suddenly became speechless.
She opened and closed her mouth several times, but she no longer dared to make a sound. Her son didn’t know the situation and quickly pulled her aside.
No one noticed that in Qin Shuyi’s jacket pocket, a small red Sao Qingniang was rolling her eyes and staring at Li Xiujuan gloomily.
Jiang Lan may have noticed, but he lowered his eyes and said to Captain Chen, “I know who the murderer is.”
Everyone else immediately turned to look at him: “Who is it?”
Jiang Lan smiled, glanced at Li Xiujuan, and said, “It’s not convenient to talk about it here. Let’s talk about it after we collect the body and go to the bureau.”
Captain Chen actually didn’t quite believe it. The serial killer this time was too weird. He was already prepared for a long-term fight. Jiang Lan found the suspect so easily, that he felt it was unlikely.
But looking at Jiang Lan’s determined expression, he still felt that he could listen to his opinion, and maybe he could get some unexpected inspiration.
In the end, he did not refute Jiang Lan’s statement.
While talking, reinforcements from the bureau also arrived, and He Laowu’s body was quickly restrained and carried down.
Jiang Lan and the Qin father and daughter, as well as Li Xiujuan and her son, all got into the police car together and prepared to go to the police station.
When Li Xiujuan passed by him, Jiang Lan saw the little puppet hiding in her hair. He turned back and glanced at the Sao Qingniang, giving her a silent warning: Don’t go too far.
Sao Qingniang grinned.
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