winter past

Yin Miaozai blinked her eyes, sat next to Xiaoman with her canvas bag in her arms, and looked at him in disbelief: "Lao Zhou really made the right introduction, why did you immediately see that it's from Montenegro?"

Her long hair grazed Xiaoman's arm, and it was a little itchy. Xiaoman scratched his hand, moved it aside, took off the earphone, and asked her with a smile: "It's expensive to find someone, will your organization reimburse you?" ? Do you want to issue an invoice?"

Yin Miaozai put the earphones back into his ears and found another video for him to watch.This time the video is shorter, and the camera is aimed at a heart on the pile of fallen leaves.

Yin Miaozai spoke quickly: "Do you think this heart looks like a human heart? This size, this color... A medical doctor in our group said that he can guarantee that it is 80.00% likely to be a human heart." .”

Xiaoman glanced at her, smiled and rolled his eyes: "There is no guarantee of 80.00% guarantee." He asked, "Are you a group of volunteers?"

Yin Miaozai poked her phone hard a few times, and her eyebrows twitched together: "Hey, look." She asked Xiaoman, "Then what kind of heart do you think? It's from a pig? It's from a sheep? It must be from a mammal, right?"

A hand shaking a bag of rat poison suddenly appeared in the video. Xiaoman pressed pause and zoomed in on that hand—this hand was also wearing black gloves, which were the same as those of the person walking in the woods just now. Gloves are similar.He magnified the bag of rat poison again, looked at it, and muttered softly: "It's a brand that can be bought anywhere, and it's not uncommon in rural areas..."

Yin Miaozai patted Xiaoman's arm and asked him, "Do you know the blue female corpse in Huangguozi Village? Have you read the news?"

As she spoke, she took out things from the canvas bag, and they were all A4 papers. She placed them on the table one by one, talking endlessly: "It has spread on the Internet, and the evening news has also been broadcast. In a rented earthen house in the village, a female body was found covered in blue. The person who found the body was the deceased's son, who was still in elementary school. It seemed that the person had been dead for many days, but his body was not rotten at all. On a hot day, do you think it’s possible? Also, the internal organs of the corpse have been pulled out, like the mummy used to do, the whole body has been professionally embalmed, and what’s even more abnormal is that the corpse was painted with nail polish! This It's a photo of the house where the accident happened, and this is the surrounding environment..."

Xiaoman glanced at the table and said, "Are the current news written in such detail? Not so good..."

Those A4 papers are either photocopied news or printed pictures.Yin Miaozai took a quick breath, pointed to a satellite map and said, "I suspect that this pervert who abused cats did it."

She pointed to a place name circled with a red pen on the map - "Huangguozi Village", analyzed the ground and said: "Look, this is Huangguozi Village, and this is Heishan. This village is the one closest to Heishan. In a village with a lot of people, this perverted cat abuser has been wandering around Montenegro, so he obviously has a certain understanding of Montenegro, maybe he just went there before." She knocked on the table twice, her voice lowered, "More What's strange is that the landlord of the dead woman had a dog that was healthy, healthy, and alive and kicking, but died for no apparent reason a few days ago." Yin Miaozai pulled down the progress bar of the mobile phone video, and turned up the video Volume, leaned into Xiaoman's ear and said loudly: "Listen! Can you hear a dog barking here! This dog may have eaten this rat poisoned heart to death! Maybe this dog It’s the landlord’s dog! This person has evolved from animal abuse to murder!”

Xiaoman heard the barking of the dog, and also heard a man laughing in the video, and the video ended with the barking of the dog and the strange laughter of the man.

Yin Miaozai began to take things out of the canvas bag again, again a lot of A4 papers, or a lot of photocopied news.There will soon be no room on the table, so they can only be stacked on top of the previous news.

There was a clear sound of drumming from the direction of the band, and the female singer howled dryly: "Hey!!" Then sang: "I want to cross this desert and find my true self!"

Xiaoman looked back at the dance floor and applauded.Couples of men and women on the dance floor separated, clapped their palms casually to the beat, tapped the beat, swung their arms, swung their shoulders, and danced.

Yin Miaozai tugged on Xiaoman, and said louder, "You know what? All perverted murderers either start from cruelty to animals, or they like to play with fire. We are already one step behind him now. He has already started killing people. It's really the same as the case in Montreal, let me tell you..."

Xiao Man put down her cell phone, took off the earphones, and looked at the A4 papers: "The Montreal case?"

"That's right, the murderer started to release cat abuse videos on the Internet, and was discovered by a group of cat-loving netizens. They were one step too late and failed to find him before he started killing people. Now... now we are also one step too late ..." Yin Miaozai stopped holding the paper, raised her head to look at Xiaoman, her breathing was a little short, her black eyes glistened, and she spoke with a nasal voice: "I'm afraid he will kill someone again..."

Xiaoman picked out a photo of a rural earthen house, and there was a door plate on the two dilapidated wooden doors of the earthen house.

"No. 64." He said softly, licked his lips, took out the cigarette case, and poured out a cigarette.

"Yes, No. 64!" Yin Miaozai searched on the table, took out a piece of paper, and put it in Xiaoman's hand: "20 years ago, it was also Huangguozi Village, and it was also No. 64. The exact same case happened."

Xiaoman took out the lighter and wiped it, but it didn't light up.His hands were shaking.He had to hold the lighter with both hands and wipe it again.A cluster of flames burned out.He lit a cigarette, lowered his eyes, and said, "20 years ago, there was no female corpse painted blue."

Yin Miaozai said: "Do you know the Aegean murderer in Qingshi ten years ago?"

She snapped her fingers, a little excited: "He is also a murderer, he can also embalm corpses, and display corpses as if they were exhibits. Tell me, is this cat-abusing pervert in Montenegro imitating him?"

Xiaoman played with a lighter, looked at a table of new news and old news, and said, "I'm looking for someone for three thousand."

"I searched the Internet for a long time, and even went to the library to look through old newspapers. The news about the Aegean case ten years ago is here, but there is no mention of how to embalm the corpse. Maybe it is because I am afraid of imitators, and I am afraid To spread panic, this time the victim's body was embalmed very well. The range of suspects is very small, right? Doctors, forensic doctors, funeral home staff, and those who specialize in making animal specimens are just these types of people. Such professional knowledge, right?"

"Or do you want to catch him personally and get all the stolen goods? Catch him when he is abusing cats? Then you need to stay in the service, and I will count it for you on a daily basis, three hundred a day."

"Could it be that the police arrested the wrong person ten years ago? That person in the Aegean Sea killed so many people. At that time, every suspected case happened, the newspapers reported it wildly, but after he was shot dead, there was no follow-up article detailing it." According to the analysis, it is unreasonable that there is no one reporter to write a complete story, right? Also, it was the female detective Dai Rou of the Municipal Bureau who solved the case at that time. It stands to reason that if such a big case is solved, it should be recorded as a second person. Waiting for merit? Why should she be promoted? But she has nothing, and she is only a deputy captain. I heard that some people were transferred in this case, and some people quit the police directly. Don’t you think it’s strange? The announcement issued by the police at that time said that the murderer was directly shot dead by the criminal police in charge of the case. Fleeing, or attacking the police only to be shot dead? Someone in our group asked the reporter who was chasing the case at the time. The reporter was very tight-lipped and said that he could only tell us that no policeman was injured when the case was solved. The murderer was not The assaulter was shot, right?

"Did you know that the bullets used by the criminal police are very difficult to kill, and according to the general procedures for handling such cases, the police will not choose to kill the other party." stopped.

Xiaoman looked at her.The more she talked, the more excited she became.Yin Miaozai also looked at him with piercing eyes: "Could it be that the police were trying to solve the case as soon as possible...the higher authorities would give a dead line to such a big case. Find a scapegoat? The person who was shot at that time may not be the culprit at all, maybe he has an accomplice at large, an accomplice! That accomplice is the mastermind, and now he has come out to commit crimes again!"

Xiao Man shook the cigarette ash, turned his face away, and looked at the dance floor, only two couples were dancing.He said, "Gas and meals are extra..."

He said: "He has a notebook dedicated to recording information about victims."

"Ah? Who are you talking about?" Yin Miaozai flipped through the paper on the table, "What book, Aegean Sea Killer? How do you know? I don't remember it being mentioned in the news, you..." She glanced at the paper on the table. Phone, took a picture of the forehead: "It's eight o'clock! It's time!"

She grabbed the phone and muttered: "That pervert in Montenegro made a preview before, I don't know what he's going to do today."

She clicked on a WeChat group called "Search Squad", clicked on a link sent by a group friend, and the group friend also sent a message: "Damn, he really posted something new!! Just in Below that message!"

Yin Miaozai explained: "This is the group of our search team, the Montenegro killer, that pervert who abuses cats, the nickname we gave him, the videos I showed you are indeed spliced ​​together, what we spelled, are all The Montenegro killer posted it on the Internet. Didn’t we report that all his videos were taken off the shelves? He left a message under his homepage that day, implying that there will be new actions at 9 o’clock on the 8th.”

Xiao Man looked at her phone.The link sent by the group friend that Yin Miaozai clicked was still a video.Xiaoman pulled down the progress bar, exactly 2 minutes.

The pixels of the video are not high, and the picture is very dark. At the beginning, there is only a piece of fuchsia with a lot of noise in the picture.Yin Miaozai asked suspiciously, "What kind of place is this? Is this...a carpet?"

The camera moves up slowly, and the picture becomes brighter and brighter.

"His house?" Yin Miaozai put on one earphone and turned the volume to the maximum.Xiaoman also picked up the earphones and put them on.This video has no sound.

A bed and wallpaper appeared in the picture.A blue-topped and white-walled building complex was printed on the wallpaper, the bed sheet was white, and the pillowcase was blue.

"Why do I seem to have seen this room before?" Yin Miaozai muttered, rummaging through the news on the table.

Xiao Man stood up and said, "You wait for me here."

That's the end of the video.Yin Miaozai got up too, and asked him: "Do you see where this is?? So amazing?"

Xiao Man wiped his face and sweat from his hands: "Did you drive?"

Yin Miaozai grabbed her purse and said firmly, "I'll go with you."

Xiaoman took two steps back, nodded, turned around and stepped onto the dance floor, and bumped into a pair of dancing men and women head-on.

The band started singing slowly again.

"You asked me how much I love you..."

Xiaoman fell to the ground.Yin Miaozai hurried to help him, and asked, "Are you okay?" She looked at Xiaoman's feet, "Do you want to change your shoes?"

The man who bumped into him said, "Boss, you look bad, is it okay?"

The woman who bumped into him said, "Did you not eat again? Let me order you a takeaway, drink less, oops, stop smoking!"

The woman kicked away Xiaoman's dropped cigarette, Xiaoman waved his hand, smiled at everyone, got up and walked out.Yin Miaozai followed him, and the two went downstairs. She pointed to a jeep on the side of the road and said, "Where are we going?"

Xiao Man said, "Let me drive."

Yin Miaozai thought for a while and gave him the car keys.After getting into the car, Yin Miaozai said, "I'll call the police now."

"What's the report?" Xiao Man buckled up his seat belt, turned on the air conditioner, and blew into his face.He lit another cigarette.

Yin Miaozai was speechless, grabbed the phone and coughed twice, opened the window, and sent a WeChat voice: "The detective knows where he took the picture, let's go there now."

She kept receiving voice replies: "Be careful and safe", "Be careful on the road!"

Xiaoman said again: "Wait for me in the car later." He also opened the window and smoked.

"Where are we going?" Yin Miaozai asked again, she took out a piece of chocolate from her bag and stuffed it to Xiaoman.Xiao Man didn't want it, took a long drag, threw the cigarette out, closed the window, and said, "Aegean Sea Hotel."

"Aegean Sea... Grand Hotel?" Yin Miaozai swallowed her saliva, froze for a while, and started calling, but she didn't know who to call, but the other party never answered.She stopped calling or talking after that, and sat quietly, clutching her seat belt tightly.

The car arrived at Jixiang Street, turned into Ping'an Gate, passed a convenience supermarket, and Xiao Man stopped the car.

"Is this the place where the Aegean Sea Hotel is?" Yin Miaozai looked out for a while, then pointed to the high place and said, "It's really here."

Xiaoman said: "You wait for me in the car." He was about to get off the car.

Yin Miaozai also got out of the car: "I'll go up with you."

Just as he was talking, a woman with heavy make-up walked into an iron gate not far away with her arms around a man with a beer belly and a shiny face.Surrounded by low residential buildings.A street lamp stood alone at the door of the convenience store.

Xiao Man still said: "You wait for me here."

Yin Miaozai got out of the car anyway.Xiaoman looked at her, and then at the iron gate. He saw a surveillance camera installed on the gate, and then glanced at the light box of the "Aegean Sea Hotel" hanging high, and looked down from the gate. bypassed the gate.

"Aren't you going through the main entrance?" Yin Miaozai chased after him.

Suddenly, a man reeking of alcohol ran up to them from the darkness, Yin Miaozai screamed, Xiaoman protected her, the man waved the wine bottle and ran away laughing wildly, Yin Miaozai held Xiaoman tightly.Xiao Man pondered for a moment, then said: "Then you go and get a room, the reception is on the first floor, just enter the gate and turn left, you just stay in the room, you write down my number, I will call later I'll call you, tell me the room number, I'll go find you, don't open the door for anyone but me, remember?"

He reported a series of phone numbers, and Yin Miaozai took out his mobile phone to write it down, and nodded.Xiao Man then escorted her to the gate, at this moment, two burly men with bald heads, wearing gold chains, and smelling like meat came out of the gate. Seeing Yin Miaozai, the two men sized her up several times, One whistled and scratched his crotch.Xiao Man stood in front of Yin Miaozai and smiled at the two big men.The big men glanced at him, stepped forward and walked away.

Xiao Man pulled Yin Miaozai away from the gate and said, "Forget it, come with me."

He took Yin Miaozai to a nearby alley.The alley was wet, the ground was full of potholes, and Xiaoman's slippers were soaked. He threw off the slippers and said, "This is the back door of the hotel." He pointed to an open window on the second floor, under which there was a fence .

He returned the car keys to Yin Miaozai and said, "I'm going over the wall to enter the hotel now. After half an hour, I haven't come out yet. You go on your own. If you see any suspicious people or anything, you should call the police and call the police." , run to the car, drive away, understand?"

Yin Miaozai pursed her lips, nodded repeatedly, and sent out a WeChat voice message, saying: Zhao You, I'm going to the Aegean Sea Hotel now, the pervert I told you about last time may be here.

"Your fiance?"

"He's a criminal police officer." Yin Miaozai said, took out the anti-wolf spray in his bag, and held it in his hand.She asked again, "Wait, why on earth don't we go through the main entrance?"

Xiao Man didn't reply, he jumped up to the wall, there was a small path between the wall and the balcony on the second floor of the hotel, he made a gesture, jumped, climbed to the window sill of the second floor, and climbed into the second floor.He glanced downstairs, Yin Miaozai was still there, and there was no suspicious person walking around.She waved to him and made an "ok" gesture.Xiaoman then turned around to go upstairs, when a young man rushed into the stairwell, pointed at him, and cursed out of breath: "Fuck... I knew it was you when I saw it on the surveillance camera. It took me a long time, fuck...you...you still come..."

Xiaoman ran upstairs: "Hey, Ah Hui, long time no see, I'm here to find someone!"

"Look for your mother!" Ah Hui followed closely.Xiaoman ran up to the fourth floor in one breath. There were doors on both sides of the narrow aisle. He rushed to the door of 404 and was about to grab the doorknob, but someone hugged him from behind. Xiaoman struggled a few times when he dragged it out, but the aisle was too narrow, and neither of them could use their hands and feet, so they just pushed and shoved back to the stairwell.Ah Hui pressed Xiao Man against the window: "I have already called the police! Be more honest!"

There was the sound of chaotic footsteps downstairs.Ah Hui yelled towards the downstairs: "It's on the fourth floor! Hurry up! Fuck it!"

Xiao Man squeezed out a smile and raised his hands: "You have a good memory, the last time I came was five years ago."

"Fuck you, I can recognize you when you turn into ashes! What do you want to do again this time?" Ash sniffed vigorously, "Fuck, you smell like alcohol, I know, this time you plan to use alcohol to burn it, right? Alcohol What? Where is it hidden?"

Xiaoman said with a smile: "I really came here to find someone. I came with my friend, and she was waiting for me downstairs."

He looked downstairs, and there was no sign of Yin Miaozai in that secluded alley.

The wet ground reflected the red light of the light box signboard of the Aegean Sea Hotel.