The Book of Death by Heart Poison

"No! This is the truth!" Jiang Haoxuan slapped his hands on the table heavily, staring at Hua Chong unsteadily, "What we said is the truth! At that time, Chen Shu threatened us with the video. If we don't agree to her, she will kill us." Give the video to the school!"

Hua Chong said, "What about the video?"

Jiang Haoxuan said: "After we promised her, the video was of course deleted!"

"It's over after deleting it?" Hua Chong said: "I happen to have a team member under me, and he can restore the deleted video."

Jiang Haoxuan didn't seem to be able to react, and after a while he said in surprise: "Huh?"

Hua Chong said: "Do you think he has restored the deleted video?"

Liu Zhiqin cannot restore all the videos. The basis for the restoration is the existence of the equipment, or it was uploaded to cloud storage, but Sheng Lin and Guo Zhen said that the video was recorded by Chen Shu's mobile phone, and Chen Shu's mobile phone is still unknown. Even if Chen Shu really recorded this video and used it as a bargaining chip to blackmail the three of them, it would be difficult to recover.

Hua Chong said this just to make Jiang Haoxuan even more flustered and lose the rein.

"You... you..." Jiang Haoxuan stammered, "I... can't..."

Hua Chong said: "Why are you nervous? Is it a terrible thing for you to restore the video?"

Jiang Haoxuan subconsciously said, "No."

"Oh." Hua Chong nodded, "I was wrong just now, you don't find it scary, you just find it incredible."

Jiang Haoxuan froze.

Hua Chong continued, "How can a video that doesn't exist in the first place be recovered? That's what you think in your heart, right?"

Jiang Haoxuan's face seemed to be frozen by the sudden drop in temperature, the surface remained motionless, but the tendons underneath kept twitching.

"Did I hit it?" Hua Chong said slowly, "Chen Shu has never threatened you with any video, and she has never had a relationship with any of you. She just wanted to save you because she chose to die." These three murderers. She is on your side, that is, on the side of evil. But because you can't understand her thoughts, you rack your brains to discredit her and make up such a lame lie."

Jiang Haoxuan's chest was raised high, as if he knew how to inhale fiercely into his lungs, but forgot how to exhale it.

Hua Chong knocked on the table, "Do you think this is clever? Do you think the police will believe you if you make up a story in advance?"

"No!" Jiang Haoxuan finally let out that breath, his cheeks flushed—it can be seen that he is not a person who is used to lying, and his logic is relatively poor. After questioning, he showed his feet.At this point, he is far behind his two companions.

Of course, the logic of those two people is not much better, they just think that they have set up the game seamlessly.

Hua Chong said, "No? Not what?"

"It's not what you said!" Jiang Haoxuan struggled in vain, but the more this happened, the more flaws in his words.

Hua Chong thought that it was right for Sheng Lin to let Jiang Haoxuan talk nonsense or pretend to be mentally ill, because Jiang Haoxuan really couldn't stand the cross-examination.

"I don't think it's incredible." Jiang Haoxuan explained anxiously: "You can recover if you can. We were indeed filmed at that time."

Hua Chong smiled softly, "At that time I was so afraid of the exposure of the video that would affect my future, but now I'm not afraid anymore?"

Jiang Haoxuan lowered his head again and clasped his hands tightly.

"The video has been deleted, and the phone has been destroyed by you. As long as you don't tell me, who will know that you and Chen Shu had sex under the influence of hallucinogenic incense?" Hua Chong knocked on the table again, "Jiang Haoxuan."

Jiang Haoxuan's shoulders shook so badly that he didn't dare to raise his head.

"Tell me, who came up with such an idea that cannot withstand scrutiny?" Hua Chong's tone at this time could be called gentle, but in fact, he has never been gentle to criminals, "You don't have to listen to your two friends anymore. They made a wrong net for you, and you still recite your lines with me seriously. The results of the autopsy have come out a long time ago, and Chen Shu was not seriously violated before his death."

Jiang Haoxuan didn't open his mouth, but a short and helpless sound came out of his throat.

Hua Chong stared at him, trying to figure out what he was thinking at this moment.

This is a rather uninitiated person, with mediocre grades, inflexible mind, not thinking deeply about things, easy to trust others, skeptical about himself, and trusting his friend Sheng Lin more than himself.Now that Sheng Lin is not here, he doesn't know what to say.

"When you were most panicked, Chen Shu said that she could help you 'produce and sell yourself'. You didn't have time to think about it, and you were overjoyed." Hua Chong said, "As long as you push Zhang Xun'er's death to Chen Shu, you will lose everything by mistake." The matter of Zhang Xun'er being pushed into the sea is covered up."

Jiang Haoxuan shook his head one after another, and said in a low voice: "It's not like that, it's not like that..."

But how could Hua Chong stop, "But after thinking about it, you think that just telling the police that Chen Shu committed suicide, and you group of donkey friends did her a small favor, the police will not believe it at all, because you yourself can't understand Chen Shu. Why do you do this. You would rather smear Chen Shu, and pour dirty water on yourself, but also hide the truth. It happened that Sheng Lin bought a hallucinogenic fragrance, and one of the effects was promiscuity, saying that the group had a relationship with Chen Shu, And then forced by Chen Shu, this seems to be the most convincing statement for the police."

Hua Chong said again: "Sheng Lin and Guo Zhen played it countless times, right? Then they convinced themselves. But let me tell you, children's tricks didn't convince me."

Jiang Haoxuan seemed to have been defeated, his eyes were extremely blank and frightened, and the words of confession might have reached his lips.

"Answer my question just now, who came up with this crazy idea? Sheng Lin or Guo Zhen?" Hua Chong said, "It's not you after all, you just listen to them too much."

Jiang Haoxuan bit his lips to draw blood, and spit out vague words.

"Be clear, is it Sheng Lin or Guo Zhen?" Hua Chong said meaningfully: "This is related to the sentencing of the three of you."

Jiang Haoxuan raised his arm to wipe his tears, and finally said after a few minutes: "It's me, I thought of it!"

Hua Chong was slightly surprised.

The question just now was not really to determine who fabricated the lie, but to obtain a confession. The lie was most likely the joint "masterpiece" of Sheng Lin and Guo Zhen.

Jiang Haoxuan said it was himself.

After thinking about it for a while, Hua Chong understood.In Jiang Haoxuan's eyes, Sheng Lin was the smartest, and it was Sheng Lin who set up the situation, but the word "sentencing" scared Jiang Haoxuan. He was afraid that Sheng Lin would be sentenced severely, and at the same time he was unwilling to frame Guo Zhen—even if it was not at all. It was framed by the Internet, so he said it was himself.

This weak and uninitiated person suddenly became "strong" at this time.

Hua Chong sighed in his heart, and continued to ask: "What did you come up with?"

Jiang Haoxuan's mentality was completely broken, "I came up with the video thing, and it has nothing to do with them."

Hua Chong said, "How did Zhang Xun'er die? Was it you who pressed her chest?"

Jiang Haoxuan burst into tears, out of breath, "We really didn't intend to harm her, it was all because of that incense. Fanglong Island is full of incense. Brother Lin bought a box from someone, but we didn't expect that after smelling it, it would come out." The problem is, after smelling it, I want to find a woman."

Hua Chong said, "The three of you were together at that time?"

"There was no Guo Zhen." Jiang Haoxuan said, "He lives downstairs, and the bathroom is shared. He thinks it's crowded, so he borrows Sheng Lin and me's bathroom every day. When he came that day, we were lighting incense."

"I really can't control it." Jiang Haoxuan choked up and said: "My mind is full of that, I just want to find a woman, I must find a woman... We only know Zhang Xun'er and Chen Shu, Chen Shu can't do anything to us, But Zhang Xun'er is very open."

Hua Chong said: "So you gave half of the incense to her?"

Jiang Haoxuan nodded, "We asked her to explore in the north. The light in the south is too bright, and the stars are not as clear as in the north. She really went with us, but she didn't light incense at all. We had a dispute on the way, right there on the reef, and we , I couldn't help it, she pushed me, I almost fell."

Hua Chong said: "But she fell in the end. Who pushed her?"

"it's me."

"Really you?"

Jiang Haoxuan nodded and shook his head again, "I don't remember clearly, I can't see anything clearly, we didn't know she fell down, and then someone said something bad, so we went down to find her, but it was too late, she Dead. No matter how I pressed her chest, she couldn't wake up. I'm done, I'm done, I killed someone!"

Asking the police to take Jiang Haoxuan away for a rest, Hua Chong sat alone in the police room for a while.

The situation Jiang Haoxuan explained was in line with his inference. Zhang Xun'er was indeed killed by the three of Sheng Lin, and the hallucinogenic incense played a role in igniting it.As for the things that Jiang Haoxuan has not had time to explain - such as what Chen Shu said to them, I am afraid that it will not be too far from the inference.

But this is just a confession.

In today's criminal investigation, although the confession is important, it is the basis for the suspect to plead guilty, but what is more important is the ironclad evidence.With ironclad evidence, even if there is no confession, the case can be closed, but no matter how many confessions there are, without a single piece of conclusive evidence, the suspect can retract the confession at any time.

He leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes, and let out a long breath.

The next step is to look for evidence.

Based on the line of the shovel, Haizi arranged for the local police to conduct a new investigation.It is impossible for Sheng Lin and others to bring their own shovels. After the accident, they can only quietly steal the shovels from residents or shops.

There are two places they are most likely to attack, one is the homestay where they live, and the other is Wu Bi's home, because for the three of them, the homestay is a familiar place, and for Sheng Lin, Wu Bi is someone he has come into contact with. peddler.

"My family's shovels are all here." Wu Bi is now very cooperative with any investigation, leading Hai Zi to the tool room, "I have dogs in my yard, and not everyone can sneak in."

The tool room is very dirty, with a lot of dust, and it is easy to leave traces such as footprints.But Haizi inspected carefully, and found no trace of Sheng Lin and the other three.

Nothing was found at the homestay. The boss said that the shovel had never been lost, and he knew it well.

Haizi squatted at the door and lit a cigarette. He was not a heavy smoker, he just smoked to relieve stress, he smoked indiscriminately, and when the wind blew against him, he was choked to death.

The shovel must be found. The flower team told him just now that Jiang Haoxuan would not say anything after half of the confession. Sheng Lin and Guo Zhen denied Jiang Haoxuan's words, and when they asked about the shovel, they said they threw it into the sea.

But after the analysis, the flower team felt that the shovel could not be thrown into the sea. The three male students seemed to have no trust in the sea.At that time Zhang Xun'er fell off the reef, they had two ways to hide the body, one was to tie a heavy object and throw it into the sea, the other was to dig a hole and bury it in the woods.

In the end they chose to bury them in the woods, which shows that they are afraid of the sea, and this fear comes from the unknown and uncontrollable nature of the ocean. If the corpse is thrown into the sea, what if something goes wrong and is sent back by the waves?

That being the case, there is a high probability that the shovel will not be thrown into the sea.

Where you take it from, you have to put it back.Sheng Lin and Guo Zhen must have thought of something at the time. Zhang Xun'er disappeared. Sooner or later, someone would call the police. When the police went door-to-door and found that someone's shovel was missing, they would immediately think of digging a pit to bury the body.

So they have to send the shovel back.

Haizi only smoked half of the cigarette, put it out and continued to investigate.

The houses in Fanglong Island are all single-family, with different sizes and small yards. Almost every house has a house for storing sundries, and tools such as shovels are stuffed inside.

Wang Xiuxiang is in her 50s. Her wife passed away a few years ago. She has no children and lives alone.There are not many people on the island who live alone like her, and Haizi feels that she has a family as soon as he arrives at her home.

Because both stealing and returning the shovel can only be done secretly, the more people in the family, the greater the probability of being discovered.

Sure enough, Hai Zi found the footprints of Sheng Lin and the others in the utility room of Wang Xiuxiang's house.

Wang Xiuxiang said that she didn't know if anyone had touched her house, and she didn't go to the utility room herself. The shovels and hoes were all used by her wife when she was alive. She went in every year to clean it, and it took several months. Didn't go there.

This just preserved the traces left by the three of them.

Haizi immediately inspected the three shovels and found that the soil attached to them was different in composition, one was consistent with that in Zhang Xun'er's corpse pit, and the other was consistent with that in Chen Shu's corpse pit.

Sheng Lin still refused to plead guilty, looking at Hua Chong with fear and hatred, insisting that he just helped to bury Chen Shu and had nothing to do with Zhang Xun'er's death.

"We took the shovel, and we put it back. It's not surprising that Wang Xiuxiang's house has our footprints. We were all forced by Chen Shu. She asked us to get the shovel!"

Hua Chong said, "What about the composition of the soil? How do you explain it? According to what you said just now, the three of you just dug a pit to bury Chen Shu, so why is the soil from Zhang Xun'er's corpse pit on the shovel?"

Sheng Lin puffed his eyes, Hua Chong could tell that he was in a mess.

"That's Chen Shu! Yes, it was Chen Shu who killed Zhang Xun'er and buried Zhang Xun'er! She got the dirt on when she buried Zhang Xun'er! She knew that Wang Xiuxiang's shovel was easy to steal, so she let us go Take it! She's a murderer!"

Hua Chong said: "Then why is there no trace of Chen Shu in Wang Xiuxiang's house, only the footprints of the three of you?"

Sheng Lin panted heavily, "Because...because..."

"Also." Hua Chong said again: "If Chen Shu killed Zhang Xun'er and buried Zhang Xun'er, why did she need to steal three shovels? Can she use three shovels by herself?"

Sheng Lin could no longer think of sophistry.

Hua Chong said coldly: "We found the soil from Zhang Xun'er's corpse pit on the three shovels. The fact is that you, Jiang Haoxuan, and Guo Zhen killed Zhang Xun'er!"

Sheng Lin shouted in despair: "No! I didn't kill people! I didn't kill people!"

The self-righteous plot of the three was completely shattered under the step by step of the experienced criminal police, but Hua Chong did not stop because of this.

Although Zhang Xun'er was killed by the three of Sheng Lin, there was still a huge shadow behind them.

Whether it was planning or inducement, it was the mysterious man who pushed down the first card.

Hua Chong walked quickly through the corridor, his footsteps were sonorous and powerful, and finally stopped in front of a door, raised his hand to knock on the door, but finally retracted it, gently pressed the doorknob, and walked in without permission.

The room was filled with the sound of fingers typing on the keyboard, Liu Zhiqin turned his back to him, and lines of code appeared on the computer screen.

Next to the notebook, there are a bunch of electronic equipment, including mobile phones, tablets, cameras, and game consoles. These are the belongings of the three of Sheng Lin.

Hua Chong looked at it for a while, then closed the door and left.It was getting late, and Liu Zhiqin hadn't eaten yet.

There is no takeaway on Fanglong Island, so you can only go to the store if you want to eat.Hua Chong woke up for a while in the cold wind, and when he stopped, he looked to the right, and it was the seafood stew restaurant opened by Wang Xiuxiang.

He went in and asked for a meal for one person, and asked to pack another.Wang Xiuxiang provided important evidence, Hua Chong chatted with her a few words, and accidentally mentioned the half god, Wang Xiuxiang immediately showed disgust: "The half god is messing up, you police should also talk to the people outside."

Hua Chong was a little surprised.Regarding the half god, he had heard two versions, one in Minqian County and one in other places.After going to the island, he went to the half-cut temple. The half-god is indeed a kind god in the local area, but he doesn't know why it has been spread as a vulgar custom of killing women outside.

Wang Xiuxiang is from the island, so it stands to reason that he should know what the real half-god is, but why do he still think that the half-god will cause trouble?

Hua Chong deliberately asked: "What's the matter with the half god?"

Wang Xiuxiang put the food on the table, and while Hua Chong was eating, she talked about it, and the content was similar to what Hua Chong had learned on the Internet and in Fenglan City.

Hua Chong said, "Aren't these all rumors?"

Wang Xiuxiang's face changed slightly, she stood up and said, "It's not a rumor, it's true."

On the way back to the police station with the packed box, Hua Chong kept thinking about what Wang Xiuxiang said.He has talked about the half god with many people, as long as they are people in Fang Longdao, they all say that the half god is a good god, Wang Xiuxiang is the only exception.But when he continued to ask just now, Wang Xiuxiang refused to answer. She just said firmly that half-gods harm people, and those who harm people are all innocent women.

Hua Chong pushed open the door again, the sound of keyboard tapping had disappeared, Liu Zhiqin leaned back in the chair, and did not turn around immediately.

The notebook is playing a piece of audio, the recording is not clear, the noise is very loud, if you listen carefully, there is the sound of waves hitting the reef.

Hua Chong walked over, Liu Zhiqin knew it was him, and made a motion of pressing his index finger on his lips.Hua Chong nodded, and gently put the packing box on the table.

A few people were talking, suddenly, a person's voice was raised, it was Jiang Haoxuan's voice.

"What to do? What to do? She is really dead!"