Weird Regulator

Another murder case...

Ji Li frowned and stared at Fang Shenyan's serious face suspiciously for a few times before silently lowering his head and grabbing the cigarette case on the table.

Fang Shenyan didn't see this. He always looked up at the ceiling, immersed in his memories.

Only the gurgling memories flowed out of his deep throat, colored with blood.

At that time, I had no specific concept of time. I just remembered that the No. 130 bus was far from out of service, which means that strictly speaking...

This time is still considered a busy city, and homicides should not occur, especially those that are not impulsive homicides.

Ji Li glanced at his watch. It was already 2:04 in the middle of the night, and they had to leave the Seventh Branch in fifty-six minutes.

So he coughed lowly and signaled him to tell the topic quickly.

Fang Shenyan was in a daze for a moment, as if the memory had become blurred and it was very difficult to recall, but in fact what he said was very clear.

“I was deep in the alley opposite the Dongling Road stop sign and saw a shadow being dragged into the deepest and darkest place by another shadow.

It was very quiet at night, and I only heard bursts of strange sounds, similar to the sound of a lumberjack chopping tree trunks with an axe. It was very hoarse and sour.

Etc., etc……

Ji Li couldn't listen anymore. He stretched out his hand to stop Fang Shenyan and asked:

That is to say, you didn't see two people, only two humanoid figures entering the deep alley, followed by the sound of knives, axes and saws?

Fang Shenyan looked down at Ji Li and nodded:

I understand, you suspected that I heard wrongly, and I thought so too at the time, but the next day I entered the alley and saw dark blood stains splashed in the cracks of the old wall.

At this point, Fang Shenyan paused: But I didn't see another murder news...

The confusion between Ji Li's brows became deeper and deeper, and he stared at Fang Shenyan in disbelief.

The doubts in my heart could no longer be contained, and I couldn't help but ask:

If I understand correctly, you also heard about another suspected murder case before meeting Mu Nianmei?

Yes, but except for the Mu Nianmei case, there were no other victims.

The conversation between the two was very short, and just like that, another murder case that only existed in Fang Shenyan's memory ended...

But the confusion in Ji Li's heart became deeper and deeper. He could hardly believe that such a coincidence could happen in this world.

Fang Shenyan was the last witness to the Mu Nianmei case fifteen years ago. At the same time, before meeting Mu Nianmei, he had heard about the same suspected murder and body dismemberment case.

Moreover, this man actually entered the hotel fifteen years later and participated in another similar murder and body dismemberment case announced by the hotel...

Three cases of murder and dismemberment came together at this point in time, and this intersection could be Fang Shenyan, a store clerk? !

Ji Li took a deep look at the man sitting opposite him smoking, suppressed his doubts in his heart, and then asked:

Then, it's time to talk about Mu Nianmei...

Because Fang Shenyan met Mu Nianmei after the murder in the deep alley, Ji Li directly ruled out the possibility that the deceased was Mu Nianmei.

It can be seen that this incident is not an easy memory for Fang Shenyan. Even such a mentally strong person smoked half a pack of cigarettes in a short period of time.

Fang Shenyan once again stretched out his yellowed fingers, picked up a cigarette, put it to his mouth, and said vaguely:

The sound of broken corpses didn't last long, it only ended in about six or seven minutes, but it probably wasn't finished because I heard the sound of someone throwing things through the wall.

I didn't know this at the time, so I stayed for a while, and after two or three minutes, I was about to turn around and leave.

I saw a very thin woman walking across the street. Under the dim light, she was particularly eye-catching.

In the cold winter, she was only wearing a bright red sweater, and it was baggy. From a distance, I knew that this woman was very thin and thin.

Ji Li's left hand suddenly jumped nervously at this moment, and he suddenly raised his head and looked around the warm and bright hall.

There was nothing around him, there was only gold in his eyes, but for some reason, a girl was automatically outlined on the edge of his iris.

The girl had no coat in the cold wind, just a loose red sweater. Her exposed hands were trembling, but she did not hug her shoulders.

Her long black hair was hanging loose, and the paleness of her thin cheeks could still be seen. She was walking alone in the middle of the night like a lonely ghost.

Weird and pitiful.

Ji Li shook his head slightly, shook off the images in his mind, followed Fang Shenyan's words again, and smoked a cigarette.

I saw her, but she didn't seem to see me, even though we were getting closer.

Until we passed by her, I even turned my head and looked at the girl carefully.

November 13 was five days before Mu Nianmei’s body was found, and it was also the third day since she disappeared from Shandong University.

What I can confirm is that Mu Nianmei was not injured at that time, but she definitely suffered a huge blow.

This blow had even made her lose her mind, as if there was no place for her in the whole city.

If I had to use one word to describe her state...

Fang Shenyan frowned and searched for an adjective that fit Mu Nianmei's state at that time, and finally Ji Li said it for him:

Lost your soul?

That's right! He just lost his soul and is just a walking corpse! Fang Shenyan snapped his fingers and looked directly at Ji Li with bright eyes.

It's not like Ji Li hasn't checked Mu Nianmei's life experience. To be honest, it's hard for him to imagine what such a promising girl would go through to lead to such a situation.

Mu Nianmei is only twenty-one years old, and her family background is as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

She is an introverted and taciturn girl, but she studies hard.

Although she failed once in the process, she went all the way from the countryside to Shandong University and was admitted to the School of Economics, which shows that her character is relatively resilient.

When I was in college, I didn't have any enemies and didn't even have many friends. How could I disappear without any reason?

According to Fang Shenyan, something had happened in the three days since Mu Nianmei left school on the evening of November 10th due to electrical problems in the dormitory, and on the evening of November 13th.

And it was this incident that should be the main reason for Mu Nianmei's murder.

What happened in the past three days...

“I didn’t pay much attention to this quick moment until I went to the alley again that day and saw blood but no body parts.

I was young at the time, so I didn't think about killing people and dismembering their bodies, so I gradually forgot about it.

It was not until five days later that the Mu Nianmei case shocked the whole city that I thought I had seen the deceased that night.

However, in the end I did not choose to contact the police.

When the memory was over, Fang Shenyan had smoked up the last cigarette. He threw it on the ground and stamped it out, breathing a long sigh of relief.

Ji Li said nothing. His mind was so confused that he had no time to ask why Fang Shenyan concealed this extremely important clue.

For him, he should focus on the task at the moment, rather than questioning Fang Shenyan's failure to report what he knew.

Three cases of murder and corpse dismemberment were of abominable nature and with the same modus operandi: the case of dismemberment of corpses in the deep alley, the case of Mu Nianmei, and the hotel incident.

The time nodes are: 7-8 pm on November 13, 2000, 8 pm on November 13, 2000-4 am on November 18, and before November 18, 2015.

So far, among the three cases, the latter two are completely consistent in various details and can almost be handled together.

Only for the first corpse dismemberment case in a deep alley, Fang Shenyan's description was extremely vague, with very little information, and it was even unclear whether it was true.

But Ji Li must now boldly assume that if the case of mutilated corpses in the deep alley is real, then it has to be connected with the Mu Nianmei case.

There would never be such a coincidence in this world, so a more subversive idea appeared.

This idea is extremely out of the ordinary and extremely unreasonable, but if you change your way of thinking, it can be established.

Ji Li's eyes flickered several times, he gently reached out his hand and grabbed Fang Shenyan's wrist, and lowered his voice and said:

Is there a possibility that...

The corpse dismemberment case in the deep alley and the Mu Nianmei case are actually the same case.

At 8 o'clock in the evening on November 13, 2000, the Mu Nianmei you saw was a ghost...

I was scared when I wrote this chapter, woo woo woo