sincerity of lies

"...I buried his head near the cliff." An Xinhe sat on the chair, her hands were restrained, bright light shone on her face, the shadows on her face disappeared, but the wrinkles left by life, after hard work The wind and frost are clearly visible, "The specific location is where Leilei's tombstone is located and about 10 minutes further up, there is a very conspicuous tree with a crooked neck, except for the roots, the whole tree sticks out of the cliff .”

"On the 19th, I injected Tang Jinglong with a needle in the parking lot of the unfinished building near the Laoxiang Hotel, made Tang Jinglong faint, and then put Tang Jinglong in the trunk and brought him back to the village."

"How can you, a woman, have the strength to tie up Tang Jinglong and put it in the trunk?"

It was the pre-examiner who questioned.

"Others helped me." An Xinhe said, "Several women left the hotel with me."

"In the dead of night, I dragged Tang Jinglong out of the trunk, tied him to a cart, and carried him up the mountain. I took him to the crooked neck tree, tore off the tape on his mouth, and asked him why he wanted to kill him. My daughter, he denied it at first, and then confessed that he had killed him in tears. He confessed his mistake to me, knelt down and begged me not to kill him, and said that he would give me a lot of money..."

When she confessed these words, An Xinhe was already at the Ning City Police Station.Not only her, but other women, including many men in the village, were also taken to the police station for interrogation separately to prevent collusion with each other.

Busy and busy, it was only two o'clock in the middle of the night.

It was still dark, like a huge pitch-black hood, covering the mountain village inside.

Ning City's inquiry requires someone to be responsible, and Xijia Village also needs someone to be responsible. Huo Ranyin did not return to Ning City with his colleagues, but stayed in Xijia Village to take charge of the work.

The mountain roads are not easy to walk at night, and the search for the traps will be left until dawn; but An Xinhe has clearly stated the address of her abandoned body, so Tan Mingjiu is arranged to take people there to look at that place first; as for Wen Yangyang, She took another group of people and searched every house in the village one by one.

In a short period of time, Wen Yangyang discovered rusty shackles, ropes, whips and other simple instruments of torture in the basements of various houses one after another.Most of them were randomly piled up in the debris pile, and some old bloodstains can still be seen.

After she finished counting the evidence, she was silent for a while, then rushed into Xi Zhengping's house with a blood test lamp, and aimed it at the head of the bed. Not surprisingly, it was covered with blood, and there were large and large splashes of blood.

Someone here brutally beat the victim over and over again, so that blood splattered almost everywhere on this headboard.

This is not an isolated case, just as every household has a basement and instruments of torture, the bloodstains left in their homes are also similar, with the exception of one household in the whole village - Cheng Zheng.

His house was the only place where no such disgusting marks were found.

Ji Xun hangs around here.Even though the police had confirmed that there was nothing superfluous here and left one after another, he still stayed and observed.

"What are you looking for?" Huo Ranyin waited at the side and glanced at his watch, "You followed me just now, I thought you didn't want to take the police car and wanted me to take you home."

"You guessed it right, you have to give it to me." Ji Xun pricked up his ears, not missing his benefits every second.

Huo Ranyin was silent for a while, and rubbed his eyebrows: "It's okay, I'll go first, I still have work, my car will be driven by other team members later, you go back with them."

"Go and search for corpses? Searching for corpses doesn't have to be a busy job. It might be better to lead a dog than a human." Ji Xun casually said, "At least they have a keen sense of smell, so they won't mistake the corpse."

"It's a miracle that you haven't been beaten to death so far." Huo Ranyin was not without irony.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not mocking the police for being parallel importers." Ji Xun laughed, "I'm saying that this kind of simple work can't work for you, so you should accompany me here and look for it."

"Is there anything unclear about the case so far?" Huo Ranyin said.

"Hmm - somewhat." Ji Xun replied.

"where?"

"I don't know, I'll know when I find it."

"Then let's review it." Huo Ranyin said lightly, "Before I came to the mountain village, I found Lu Ping. I was sure that Lu Ping was the murderer, but An Xinhe stepped forward. The whole case—the Xi Lei case and the Tang Jinglong case — indeed, a sea change has taken place at this moment.”

"Let's start with Xi Lei's case. This case is not complicated. After investigating Xi Lei's interpersonal relationship, Tang Jinglong was the person with the most sufficient motivation and the strangest behavior. The only difficulty in the case was that Tang Jinglong had no time to commit the crime. , which means that even if Tang Jinglong kills someone, he hires a murderer to kill—later I delineate this hired person as Lu Ping.

"Lu Ping also has sufficient evidence to prove that he was the one who actually killed Xi Lei: his secret love for Xi Lei explained that he fixed his hair after the murder, his identity as a carpenter explained the nylon fibers left on the blades, and the relationship between him and Tang Jinglong Relationships explain more about his motives for killing."

"I agree." Ji Xun said, "There is really nothing to be suspicious about."

"But the police missed a small detail here, or in other words, with so much evidence above, this small detail has become something strange but no longer important." Huo Ranyin continued, "This detail is... the scene where Xi Lei died. Apart from Zeng Peng and Xi Lei's own DNA, only a large amount of Tang Jinglong's DNA was detected, and no Lu Ping's DNA was found."

"Take the case of Tang Jinglong again. Tang Jinglong was still active at 19:9 pm on the 19th, and An Xinhe has never left the village since returning to Xijia Village on the evening of the [-]th. Except for you and the lawyer yesterday, there was no outsider in the village who came to the car to leave. So how did Tang Jinglong's body fly from Xijia Village to Wushan out of thin air?

"Since it is impossible for the corpse to fly to Wushan out of thin air, and An Xinhe did kill someone, it proves...

"The bag of body parts in Wushan doesn't belong to Tang Jinglong at all!"

"Found it, found the body!"

"Be careful at the scene, and move the corpses out little by little!"

With a few shouts, Tan Mingjiu and Wen Yangyang, who were searching in the back mountain, saw the real face of the corpse one after another.

They gasped.

Carried out from the left side of the cliff, apart from Tang Jinglong's solitary head, there was also a headless body, both decayed to the same degree.

The left arm of this body is still wrapped with a bandage, this is... This is Tang Jinglong's body.

Tang Jinglong's head and body are all here!

"Three people died in two cases. The police ignored the existence of the third person from the beginning to the end, and always regarded this third person as Tang Jinglong. Indeed, as you said, it is possible to lead a dog better than the police in this matter." Huo Ranyin's tone was calm, the matter was not done beautifully, and he didn't blame people for ridicule, so there was no need to be angry because of it, "but wanted to put The third person is the same as Tang Jinglong, it is not difficult to say, as long as one thing is done..."

"Let the third person's DNA = Tang Jinglong's DNA.

"Tang Jinglong brokered the surrogacy and was suspected of secretly changing the order of donated organs. He has done so many illegal and disciplined things, and he had already expected that he might not have a good result. For this reason, he planned ahead and quietly gave the organ several years ago. He bought his own life. Using his previous experience in organ donation, he found a leukemia patient who was a successful match with him, and donated his bone marrow to him. A few years later, his DNA completely invaded the patient, and the patient Became 'he'."

When I went to Tang Jinglong's house to investigate, Rao Fangjie's casual words became strong evidence at this time.

Rao Fangjie said: "It seems that Tang Jinglong helped him when he was sick a few years ago."

"After the operation," Huo Ranyin continued, "Tang Jinglong didn't let the patient go. He kept the patient under his nose and took care of him. In the end, he even helped the patient's son with uremia to get a kidney replacement. How many people suffering from uremia in the world have been queuing up in the hospital but can't wait for a kidney source, so they can only die in despair."

"The lives of the father and son were saved one after another, and the patients have nothing to repay." Huo Ranyin said coldly, "I can only help Tang Jinglong kill people - it's not that he didn't leave DNA in the Xi Lei case, but left behind countless 'Tang Jinglong' DNA DNA; then, he was killed at home, his body was dismembered and thrown to Wushan to pretend to be Tang Jinglong's death, and to create An Xinhe's alibi—his name is Lu Ping."

"... When I was on the 18th, I killed Lu Ping first. He was Tang Jinglong's accomplice in killing my daughter. The reason I knew it was because Lei Lei talked with me about the medicine Lu Ping took when he called me. He accepted A leukemia patient who donated bone marrow, his DNA is the donor's DNA. Tang Jinglong saved Lu Ping, my daughter knew Tang Jinglong's secret, Tang Jinglong wanted to kill my daughter, how did he kill it, you can understand..."

"I came to Lu Ping's house, and Lu Ping was doing carpentry in the yard. I knocked on the door and told Lu Ping that I was sent by Tang Jinglong to give him money. Lu Ping had no doubts. After I went in, I even said a few words to him. Then I injected boric acid into Lu Ping's body with a syringe, and then used a chainsaw in the yard to dismember Lu Ping's body and discarded it in Wushan."

"I didn't go to see Tang Jinglong until the next day, on the 19th... I was very disappointed." An Xinhe said flatly, "Before he died, Tang Jinglong turned upside down and all he could talk about was money. If money could buy his life back, then money I will definitely be able to buy back my daughter's life."

"An Xinhe chose Wushan as the place to dump the body, hoping to mislead us by taking advantage of Wushan's garbage transfer time. She knew that the body would be found on the 23rd, and from the 18th to the 23rd, it took five days to determine the degree of decay of the body. The precise date could not be determined at the time of preliminary forensic testing.

"The DNA left in the police station in Xi Lei's case allowed Wushan's body to be identified immediately. We were negligent and did not use other methods to confirm the identity of the deceased. For example, the murderer took away the head and fingerprints but forgot to take it away Lu Ping did not have a broken left arm, which should have been a flaw.

"After Lu Ping killed Xi Lei, he originally wanted to go far away, which is why the neighbors saw him packing his luggage very early—this also misled us, making us think that Lu Ping had committed a crime and absconded, and planned to cooperate with various units to go down. Issue wanted documents.

"But in fact, Lu Ping was found by An Xinhe long before he was about to escape. The last day she saw 'Lu Ping' throwing garbage in the neighbor's testimony, what she saw was not 'Lu Ping', but An Xin who pretended to be Lu Ping after killing Lu Ping He, the garbage bag in An Xinhe's hand is Lu Ping - Lu Ping who has been dismembered by a chainsaw.

"When Tang Jinglong on the 19th appeared alive in front of others, he passively helped the murderer to complete a perfect alibi. The murderer used Tang Jinglong's self-important tricks and the police's blind self-confidence to repay him in the same way. body, and completed his own murderous plot."

Huo Ranyin nonchalantly said a reflection statement including his own criticism: "Now that the matter has come to an end, the modus operandi is very clear."

"It is indeed clear." Ji Xun did not deny it.

"That leaves the motive for committing the crime."

He stopped, walked to the window, and looked at the dark and endless mountains.

These mountains surrounded the mountain village, densely packed under the moonlight like a cage made of thorned railings.

It is actually not far from here to Ning City, but the mountains are too deep, and it will take four hours even by highway.This expressway was built seven years ago, and the beautiful brand-new asphalt road from the expressway to the mountain was finally repaired two years ago because of the implementation of the "every village has road" policy.

After the road was repaired, a few small villages around here started small businesses such as podocarpus and tea, which gradually made life prosperous and gradually connected with the world.

But there used to be no way.

Facing the impenetrable darkness, Huo Ranyin finally closed his eyes and said, "An Xinhe's motive for killing Tang Jinglong, or the motive of the women in this village conspiring to kill Tang Jinglong is..."

"My daughter...Leilei, is the only girl who has survived in the village for so many years. We can't get out, only she has successfully left the village. She left with the hope of all the women here. But Tang Jinglong killed killed her. He killed our hopes."

"He's going to die. Whoever kills our hopes dies.

"I chopped off his head and finally buried them all."

After a long silence, the pre-interrogation asked: "What else do you want to say?"

"It's nothing." An Xinhe said, "Let's judge quickly, there is no need for leniency, and there is no need for a lawyer."

"They have no way out." Huo Ranyin said plainly, without any ups and downs in his tone, "Their lives were already dead when they were trafficked into the mountains. This village was like a cage full of thorns to them. They should have tried everything possible They used to do this, but just like what you experienced at night, the woman who wanted to escape was treated as prey, chased and laughed at, and then pushed into the pit. I don’t know whether it is dead or alive. Later , they can only resign themselves to their fate and stay in the cage. After staying for a long time, this damn scary cage has become the only place they can inhabit. So even if they open the door of the cage, they have no ability and dare not out."

He thought of the bird in Xi Lei's house, and he made an analogy: "They are birds with broken wings in a cage. Some birds died. Others survived. There is actually no difference between being alive and dead, even worse than being dead." They are still in pain because they keep killing their own daughters, and their pain and numbness intensifies with each baby girl they kill. The difference is Xi Lei."

"Xi Lei is not only the daughter of An Xinhe alone, she has become the daughter of all the women in the village from the moment she survived. She is the continuation of their lives, the lamp of their lives, and now this lamp is extinguished , they have nowhere to go."

"Crime and kill."