What's in the depths II

Dark clouds billowed in the sky, and the entire Huiyuan City was shrouded in shadow. The clouds finally couldn't bear the weight of the water vapor, and in an instant, heavy rain poured down.

In the morgue, the sound of the woman's mournful cry is still heard.

Lying on the mortuary table was a little girl who was only sixteen or seventeen years old. Her skin was as white as paper, her thin and soft hair was scattered, and her black eyelashes were like black butterflies.

Just the day before yesterday, this girl was teasing with her classmates that no one was allowed to do homework tonight, or she was still strolling on the playground with her girlfriends, pretending to pass by the boy she had a crush on for a long time, planning to muster up the courage to ask the boy tonight. He confesses.

But everything came too suddenly, without even giving people any time to prepare mentally.

The nearly fifty-year-old woman was leaning over the edge of the mortuary table, reaching out tremblingly to caress her daughter's delicate face.

An Yan glanced at his watch, walked up to the woman and respectfully said, "Sorry, ma'am, we are going to conduct an autopsy soon, why don't you please come back today."

The woman ignored An Yan, but fondled the girl's face over and over again, tracing the outline of the face with her fingers, she shook her head lightly, and said to her deceased daughter: "Honey, let's not do an autopsy, mother must Let you walk beautifully."

"I'm sorry madam, if it's a homicide case, we will prosecute it according to the general procedure. The corpse must be dissected." An Yan still explained solemnly.

"Get out." The woman's voice was a little cold.

She turned her head slightly, and everyone could see her blood-red eyes, and her two hands were still firmly holding her daughter's immature body.

An Yan nodded: "Then I'll give you a little more time, please sort out your emotions."

After saying this, An Yan walked out of the dissecting room indifferently.

"Are the family members of the deceased still unwilling to let go?" Seeing An Yan walk out, Yunqian guessed that he was suffocated inside.

An Yan raised his hand and slightly loosened his tie, shaking his head: "It's understandable to want to leave a whole body for my daughter, but the reality is often cruel, and we must go through legal procedures, unless she doesn't want to find out who killed her daughter. murderer."

"Speaking of which, how is the progress of the deceased Zhou Xinlu?" An Yan took off his white coat, picked up soap and rubbed his hands.

"The deceased's husband got off the plane last night and arrived at the airport this morning. He is on his way now. As for her son...the hospital said that he was still in a coma and had a high fever due to delirium. He also said that the child was already weak. , can’t compare with adults, and it’s still unknown whether he can make it through.” Yunqian sighed regretfully as he spoke.

"It's monitoring, have you checked it?"

"I've checked it. How should I put it? There are sixteen cameras in the community. Six of them don't have hard disks, so they can't retrieve the stored videos. Some of them said that they just cleared the disks because they didn't have enough storage space. The two left to see are the two at the gate, but there were a lot of people entering and leaving the community during that time period, hundreds of people from community residents, couriers, takeaway workers passed by there."

"Did the deceased ever have a record of online shopping or ordering meals?"

"Checked her cell phone, no."

"What about the deceased's interpersonal relationship during his lifetime?"

"The deceased was a full-time housewife. She usually went out to buy vegetables or pick up her children from school. We visited the supermarkets and vegetable markets where the deceased often went. The deceased had a quarrel with the supermarket cashier on No. 11 last month. , but we have seen the surveillance, the cashier was at work when the incident happened, and he had no time to commit the crime.”

An Yan looked at the report Yunqian handed over, frowned, and then said in a low voice:

"At the crime scene of the deceased Zhou Xinlu and the murder scene of the deceased Tu Jinger, someone mentioned that they had seen a so-called cat-faced woman there, a cat-faced woman with blue eyes, half of her face was a cat's face, and half was a human face. , the confessions of the two parties are surprisingly consistent, is there really something in this world that science cannot explain?"

"Actually... To be honest, I believe it a little bit." Yun Qian said awkwardly.

An Yan looked up at him with strange eyes.

"How should I put it, if the same person commits a series of crimes, then he must be premeditated. He has been observing in the dark for a long time before choosing the right time for him to strike. As far as the murderer is concerned, they must have something in common. But I don’t understand what a housewife and a middle school student can have in common, and they are two people who don’t know each other at all.”

"There are only two possibilities for those who don't have a clear target. Either they kill indiscriminately and take revenge on the society, or they are... monsters." Yunqian himself felt hairy when he said this.

"Let's not talk about ordinary people, even monsters have a clear choice of targets." Su Wenyu, who had been reading the autopsy report, suddenly said this.

"How to say."

"You guys, have you heard the legend of the Gap Girl?" Su Wenyu turned on the laptop, entered the three words "Gap Girl", and then turned the screen to the two of them.

A few horrific and bloody movie pictures made Yunqian's back feel cold. He quickly rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, and slid down the mouse to the page with words.

"There are many rumored versions of the Gap Girl, but the more reliable one is that the mother suffers from mental illness and often beats her sons and daughters, but when she wakes up, she regrets it so much that she kneels down and begs forgiveness for her sons and daughters, and gives her son a pair of scissors , said next time if he got sick again, he would ask him to cut off his head. Later, the woman got sick again and beat her daughter to death. In desperation, the son used scissors to defend himself, cut open the woman's mouth, and killed the woman Keep her body in the closet."

Su Wenyu continued to explain:

"Since then, there have been urban ghost stories about girls with gaping mouths in Japan. In an abandoned park in front of a public elementary school, elementary school students often go there to play after school. A woman wearing a mask will leave at six o'clock. Come over and ask them if they are pretty. If the elementary school students answer 'you are ugly', they will be dragged to a certain place and killed by her. If they answer 'you are beautiful', the woman will take off her mask and show them her appearance... ..."

Yunqian gasped after listening.

"But even a girl with a slit will have a fixed goal, which is elementary school students, because her two sons and daughters are elementary school students. Women are very beautiful before disfigurement, and they will often ask their sons, 'Is mother beautiful?'"

"In this way, it seems that the cat-faced woman who is comparable to us really does not have a clear target for the crime. If I have to say that the two victims have something in common, they are both women, and they are both good-looking." Yunqian said While talking, the movement of rubbing his arms never stopped.

"Say, do we want to check the people who died recently, and there were cats passing by when they died..." After hesitating for a while, Su Wenyu suddenly said this.

An Yan rubbed his eyebrows, as if he didn't want to start such a meaningless discussion.

"When the rumor of the cat-faced girl spread widely in Harbin, all schools held parent-teacher meetings, and two of them were very strange. One was that children must go to and from school together, and the other was that each of them should wear a red bracelet. , as we all know, red bracelets are used to ward off evil spirits." When Su Wenyu said this, his voice was very low, as if he was afraid that someone would overhear him.

"Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, the number of people who die from various causes every day is a huge number. Check them one by one. Are you planning to investigate this case when you are a police officer?" Yun Qian couldn't help interjecting.

"Now there is no trace of the deceased Zhou Xinlu's side, and Tu Jinger's family members don't allow us to conduct an autopsy. What do you think we should do?" Su Wenyu pulled his laptop irritably and closed it.

Indeed, if there are serial crimes but no common ground, it is difficult to guess the motive of the murderer. If the motive cannot be found, the suspects cannot be narrowed down. This is a very troublesome thing.

Just when the few people were at a loss, the police station called and told Yunqian and Su Wenyu to return to the team quickly, and there was an emergency waiting to be dealt with.

The two looked at each other, feeling a sense of uneasiness in their hearts, and they didn't dare to delay, so they ran to the police station.

When a few people arrived at the police station, Yu Yuan was already waiting in the police car. As soon as the two jumped into the police car, Yu Yuan quickly started the car, kicked the accelerator and went straight to the road.

"Yu Dui, why is it so urgent? Is there another case?"

"Yes, and you may not believe this case."

"how."

"The 30-year-old daughter killed the 55-year-old mother, and then died inexplicably, in her own home."

Hearing this sentence, Yu Yuan shuddered all over in a cooperative manner, and the coldness went from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

He had seen and heard many cases before, including those who killed their wives and husbands and sold their children, but this was the first time he had heard of a daughter killing her mother.

He vaguely felt that the world is really not peaceful recently.

The crime took place in a residential house in the suburbs, not far from Lu Yuanyuan's house, the same mess, and the same gangsters walking around.

The old-fashioned residents have already put up a long cordon downstairs. A gray-haired man is sitting at the door and crying, surrounded by many watching residents, pointing at the house.

Several people pulled up the cordon and got in, walking into the dark and messy corridor.

As soon as they entered the room, they saw two corpses. The older one was covered in blood, his clothes were swollen with blood, a fruit knife was stuck in his neck, and there was a cute cat head toy in his hand.

The other younger one only has a few splatter-type blood spots on her body, but her hair is messy, it looks like it hasn't been washed for a long time, and her pajamas are also yellowed. Her eyes are wide open, almost bursting Out of the eye sockets, the ten fingers were frozen in mid-air in a very twisted state, there were still wet tears on the face, the exposed skin was bruised and purple, and a red rope was tied on the wrist of the right hand.

Yunqian and Su Wenyu couldn't stand this scene, and they didn't dare to look at it carefully.

"What's going on here?" Yu Yuan covered his mouth and nose and asked the police officer of the criminal investigation department next to him.

"According to the victim's husband, this is his wife and daughter. The daughter was working in the city center, but she rushed back to her parents' house in a panic a month ago, yelling about a female ghost with a cat face... Early stage Fortunately, in the later stage, she was completely mentally disturbed. She locked herself in the room without eating or drinking, and often screamed in the middle of the night. Shouting that the cat-faced girl is here."

Another cat face girl.

Yunqian and the others are already terrified of this word now, and they even feel nauseated when they hear it.

"Just half an hour ago, the husband of the deceased had just returned from shopping outside when he saw his wife comforting his daughter with a cat-head toy and telling her not to be afraid. Cats are very cute. As a result, the daughter copied it directly from the fruit plate. He picked up the fruit knife, yelled 'Kill you monster', and then jumped at her mother, stabbing her neck seven or eight times. By the time her husband reacted and wanted to stop it, it was too late... "

Yu Yuan's face wrinkled after hearing this.

He looked around the room, and he could tell that the family's conditions were not good, and it could almost be described as a house of bare walls. The old father also turned gray overnight after his daughter's accident. Tough guys feel really pitiful.

Several people entered the room of the deceased. As soon as they entered the room, a stench came in their nostrils. They saw that the room was full of feces, there were dozens of scratches on the wall, and there were meals left on the table at an unknown time. , didn’t move a bite, there was already a layer of penicillium, there was still a large thick bloodstain on the wardrobe, the windows had been sealed with wooden boards, and no light could come in.

I can't imagine that someone can really stay in this room for so long.

Su Wenyu retched, covered his mouth, turned his head and ran outside.

"It's too miserable..." Yun Qian's face was not very good-looking, and there was still livid in the pale.

Now, there is the No.3 victim in the "cat-faced woman" rumor, and she is also a woman, about the same age as the deceased Zhou Xinlu, but it is not directly caused by the cat-faced woman.

The forensic doctor preliminarily judged at the scene that the deceased Jiang Ziling suffered a cardiac arrest due to excessive fright. Her father did not know anything about cardiac resuscitation, so he had to notify the police first. He didn't even call an ambulance, or maybe he thought that an ambulance would be called. It didn't work either.

Instead of letting her live in pain and panic every day, it is better to let her rest in peace.

Yu Yuan shook his head, sighed softly, turned and went to the living room.

Several forensic doctors were still busy conducting trace examinations there. They said that the deceased did die from cardiac arrest, and there was no fatal trauma on the body surface, but there were a large number of open wounds, ten fingers and nails were all broken, blood was stained, and there were fingers on the neck. pinch marks, but according to the comparison, it was the deceased's own finger marks.

"Damn, cat-faced girl, cat-faced girl!" Yu Yuan slapped the wall angrily, "Whoever you are, I'll catch you."

When they finished work and returned to the police station, they saw Su Wenyu leaning on the bench downstairs with a hopeless expression when they got downstairs.

"How long do you plan to sit here?" Yu Yuan rolled his eyes at him, "Take you to the scene, are you here on vacation?"

Su Wenyu covered his mouth and waved his hands, his face was pale: "I don't have much experience, and it's too late to teach now. To be honest, the scenes are a bit beyond the scope of ordinary people's acceptance."

Yunqian nodded in agreement.

"Okay, this is the second case you've been involved with, so let me spare you this time, go and have some good pressure tonight..."

Before the word "surprise" was uttered, Su Wenyu was startled again, ran to the side to support the tree trunk, and began to vomit.

It was just retching before, but this time it was actually vomiting.

Yunqian turned his head to the side in disgust, not looking at him.

The phone vibrated twice in his pocket, and Su Wenyu wiped his mouth and took out the phone out of his pocket angrily.

The three big characters "Jiang Jingyao" on the screen were like a burst of stimulant. He almost jumped three feet high and patted his face vigorously. Then he picked up the phone and calmed down his emotions so that his voice sounded Not so strange.

"Hi, hello, is this Jiang Jingyao?" That contrived posture made Su Wenyu look like a coquettish bitch.

"Yes, it's me, um... do you have time tonight? I want to ask you out for dinner, and talk about my cousin Jinger by the way."

Su Wenyu, who just heard that the food was "lost for thousands of miles", now looks like a starving ghost who missed a few meals, nodding desperately in a hurry: "I have time, yes, then we have an appointment until seven o'clock, Jingtaiyuan, I know where it is, okay, I will trouble you."

Yu Yuan looked at him from the side, and then looked at Yunqian who was still in a daze, and felt that he had done something wrong. Why did his subordinates look more stupid than the other? Why don't you consider falling into the criminal investigation department? , at least the one over there looks smart...

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The melodious guqin tune, a wisp of green smoke rising from the artificial stone, accompanied by the gurgling water, in this environment, even the diners who came here couldn't help but lower their voices.

Sure enough, Jiang Jingyao has completely changed after being abroad for a few years. I only remember that he was indifferent and not talkative before, and he never worried about the affairs of the class. Boys hate him, so every time in physical education class, other boys would get together to play basketball, and deliberately lift up their clothes to show the girls what they think they have a good figure. At this time, Jiang Jingyao just sat silently, with his ears plugged Headphones, eyes empty.

But after coming back this time, it is obvious that others are cheerful, enthusiastic, and talk more, and even take the initiative to leave contact information.

I haven't seen him for a few years, and this person looks more refined. At that time, his face was still a little fleshy, and he looked childish. Now, the jaw line is so hard that it can scrape putty on the wall.

Wearing a tailored suit, he sits at the dining table looking down at his phone.