Shortly after the case of the boy in red, a series of strange child deaths occurred in Shancheng City!
A new ramen restaurant opened near Shancheng Experimental Middle School. The customers are mainly students. The owner is a couple named Cai. On December 14, around 7:40 in the evening, it was already dark. The proprietress of a stationery store nearby ran over and said:
The couple surnamed Cai said: Hurry up, something happened to your baby.
The couple hurriedly ran out and saw the four-year-old child hanging on a telephone wire at the phone booth in front of the stationery store, with his feet dangling five to six centimeters from the ground. He was already unconscious. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor announced that the child had died.
Death. The parents were heartbroken and felt that the death of their only child was unknown. They asked the police to investigate. The local criminal investigation department ruled out homicide and determined that the death of the boy named Cai was accidental based on superficial signs. This incident aroused public outrage, and many people believed that it was an accident.
The murderer picked up the child and hung him on the telephone wire. The child's jumping ability was limited and it was difficult for the child to stretch his neck to the height of the telephone wire.
A few days later, Mr. and Mrs. Cai went to the funeral home to arrange the funeral. The workers at the funeral home told them that the death of your child was a bit strange.
The worker in charge of the cremation said something that frightened them. This child was the seventh child named Cai who died mysteriously in the past month!
The couple surnamed Cai found it horrifying that seven children surnamed Cai died unexpectedly one after another. How could it be such a coincidence?
A person at the funeral home looked at the death certificate and was shocked: Your child was born on August 18, 2005, which is the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival!
Another worker said: July and a half.
This child was born on Ghost Festival!
Funeral workers all have their own taboos. They call the Ghost Festival the "Hungry Ghost Festival" or "July Half". The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. It is said that the door of ghosts opens on the 14th day, and all ghosts go out.
The ghost gate closes in the middle of the night. Children born on the Ghost Festival are called ghost cubs. People born on this day always celebrate their birthdays according to the Gregorian calendar.
Two of the seven children surnamed Cai had needle holes in their foreheads. The police concluded that their deaths were accidental.
These two children, a boy and a girl, lived in the same village. On their way back from school, they fell into a puddle under the mountain road and drowned. The police could not explain how the needle holes on the children's foreheads were formed. Other children
There were people who died from food poisoning, people who died from electric shocks, people who were involved in car accidents, people who died suddenly from asthma attacks, and a child who was hanged from a phone booth, a total of seven people.
There are seven children named Cai, the youngest is four years old and the oldest is 12 years old. The police said they are not related.
The angry villagers drained the pond in an attempt to find evidence of the murder, but found nothing. The two children who drowned and died were not cremated. The parents and villagers carried the bodies to the city hall to petition, seeking an explanation.
People in Shancheng City are panicked. A large number of parents picking up and dropping off their children gather at the school gate every day. A series of mysterious deaths of children have cast a shadow on the city.
The Shancheng police asked the special case team for assistance in the investigation. The director of the Shancheng Public Security Bureau is Wang Lingjun, a well-known anti-gang hero in the police community. He has received numerous honors throughout his career as a police officer and is one of the top ten outstanding police officers in China. He is also one of the few living first-class heroes.
This man looks gentle on the outside, but is tough on the inside. His ruthless style once shocked the Chongqing police circles, and the people in the mountain city gave him a thumbs up when his name was mentioned.
Su Mei said: It seems that Director Wang is in trouble, and he doesn't want to be blamed for the police's inaction.
Bao Zhan said: Chief Wang Lingjun, who is well-known in the police community, can lower his head and ask us for help, which shows how difficult this case is.
Professor Liang said: I have read two monographs by this person - "Proceedings of the International Association of Craniofacial Forensic Identification 2004" and "Trace Examination and Investigation and Solving Cases".
Hua Long said: This is a real man. He is the only one in the police force in the country that I can call brother.
Wang Lingjun used his highest standards to receive the special case team. In the past, the special case team was treated like stars when handling cases. Some local police held welcome banquets in luxury hotels, and some made great fanfare.
Gu Gu held a press conference. However, Director Wang Lingjun was different. He invited the special case team to have a barbecue at an open-air barbecue stall near the Public Security Bureau, which was regarded as a cleansing move for the special case team.
A few people were sitting on the mat, eating barbecue and drinking beer. The barbecue stall owner used a broken fan to fan the charcoal until it was red, and sprinkled it with chili powder. The surroundings were smoky and firey, and the sounds of punching and punching came from the table next door from several Shancheng stick sticks. .
Su Mei said: Director Wang is so stingy, so he just invited us to eat kebabs.
Director Wang Lingjun said: This is my highest reception standard. Going to a hotel to eat in a suit or tie is mostly for socializing, but only friends can sit and drink at the night market. I treat you as friends.
Hua Long said: You are really generous. I will drink with you from a larger bowl. This cup is too small.
Director Wang Lingjun said: Boss, take a few big bowls, I respect you all. Professor Liang Shuye, I have admired your name for a long time, I respect you.
Professor Liang said: It seems that I won’t be able to return home until I get drunk today.
Bao Zhan said: I blush when I drink and lose my temper after drinking, so I'd better use a small cup.
Su Mei said: Xiaobao and I both use glass cups, and you use big bowls to show your heroism. Wang Ju, you are not afraid of your sister-in-law scratching you when you are drunk.
Director Wang Lingjun joked: Girl, you are so beautiful. Do you have a partner? Would you like to introduce him to you?
Su Mei smiled and said: I don’t even know what my future husband will be like.
Director Wang Lingjun said: Your sister-in-law will say this - never marry a police officer.
Everyone burst into laughter, as it was not suitable to discuss the case in an open-air environment: several sticks at the next table actually started talking about Wang Lingjun, the director of the Shancheng Public Security Bureau, and everyone listened attentively.
Bangbang is a coolie in the mountain city. You will see some people in the streets and alleys, holding poles or bamboo sticks in their hands. These temporary porters are called Bangbang. They live at the bottom of society.
A Bangbang said: Director Wang Lingjun wears a bulletproof vest and sleeps with a gun under his pillow every day because he has offended many people.
Another bangbang said: Wang Lingjun often drove a taxi to visit privately incognito. When he was in the Northeast, Wang Lingjun had supreme prestige among the local tricycle drivers. Many of these people were laid-off workers and were often bullied and blackmailed by local gangsters. Wang Lingjun ordered that if such a gangster is caught, not only will he be severely punished according to law, but he will also be asked to take out all the money in his pocket and pay it to the tricycle driver as compensation. There is a widely circulated joke. Late one night, Wang Lingjun was walking home from work. A rickshaw driver saw it was him and hurriedly stepped over to see him off. Wang Lingjun declined and walked away, but within a few hundred meters, a string of tricycles followed, including more than a dozen.
The last one Bangbang said: If there were more officials like this, our society would be peaceful!
The four members of the special case team raised their glasses and toasted to Wang Lingjun together without saying anything.
No matter what kind of glory an official has received or what outstanding qualifications he has, it is all superficial phenomena. The official's monument only exists in the mouths of ordinary people. If leaders who attend various high-level meetings can understand the hardships of the people and participate in a Spring Festival transportation,
The problem of Spring Festival transportation will be solved easily; those officials who eat and drink with public funds hold a hundred meetings to discuss solving people's livelihood. It is far better to listen to the voices of the neighboring tables at an open-air barbecue stall and face public opinion up close.
The mountain city police are entering the final stage of their special campaign to crack down on organized crime. They are handing over illegal guns, solving backlogged cases, and chasing fugitives. Chief Wang Lingjun is extremely busy. The case of the boy in red and the deaths of seven children surnamed Cai have made the police's people-friendly image established over the years more difficult.
Questions were raised in the hearts of the people. Director Wang Lingjun invited the special case team, hoping that they could give the people of the mountain city an authoritative investigation conclusion.
The special case team analyzed that five of the seven children named Cai could be determined to have died accidentally.
In the case of the hanging of a boy in a phone booth, the special case team investigated the scene and came up with a result. The phone booth was cylindrical, 210 cm high, and had three semicircular stainless steel protective tubes at the bottom, which were 48 cm, 30 cm, and 11 cm high from the ground.
.Trace substance inspection proved that there were inconspicuous trampling marks on the second steel pipe. The child should have stepped on it and accidentally hanged himself to death.
The two children who died from drowning had needle holes in their foreheads, and the boy in red also had needle holes in his head. The cause of death of these three children was suspicious, and the special case team made these three children the focus of investigation.
Spreading out the map, the special case team chose a forest police station closest to the three children as a temporary office location. Director Wang Lingjun could not mobilize more police personnel, so he sent an assistant named Tang to assist the special case team in the investigation. Tang
The assistant told the special case team that the forest police station was very simple, but it was actually a checkpoint located halfway up the mountain with nice scenery.
On the top of the mountain, pilgrims gathered in a Taoist temple, smoke filled the air, and many people prayed and burned incense.
There was a temple fair at the foot of the mountain, which was very lively. Assistant Tang and the special case team met a Taoist priest who told fortunes at the temple fair. The Taoist priest was over fifty years old, had a beard, and wore a Taoist robe with big collar and big sleeves. He was sitting on the ground with the Zhouyi Bagua diagram in front of him.
There are also divination tools such as oracle bones, copper coins, and yarrow. The Taoist priests do not wear shoes and claim to travel around the world with bare feet, forming good relationships and planting good karma regardless of age.
Bao Zhan always respected those who became monks and practiced Buddhism. He reported his birth date and asked Taoist priests to tell fortunes.
The Taoist priest closed his eyes attentively. After a while, he was shocked and said: I am hiding in the grass and trees, living here, and this is the first time I have seen such a powerful and noble numerology.
Bao Zhan said in a respectful tone: Taoist Master, please give me some advice.
The barefoot Taoist priest said that Bao Zhan had a rough childhood and had gone through many disasters. Bao Zhan nodded in agreement.
The Taoist priest then said something enigmatic:
Don't watch the clouds and forget about the vast sea. There are no roads in the rivers and lakes, so you have to search up and down.
Holding a branch, you can see that a gentleman is using his sword to slaughter people and sheep;
What I hear when I look at the wall are the cries of my neighbors and the compassion of the people;
In a time of peace and chaos, all the stars have returned to their positions.
The sun, moon and stars can be stored in a well. If I don't know, what's the point of having enough?
The barefoot Taoist priest accurately calculated that the four members of the special case team were policemen and came to solve the case. However, there was little hope of solving the case, unless - ghosts knocked on the door in the middle of the night and ghosts appeared during the day! These strange words surprised Su Mei and she reported it to the police.
The Taoist priest asked the Taoist priest to calculate her marriage based on her birth date and birth date. The Taoist priest said some words that were difficult to understand, such as Zhengguan, Pianguan, Xinbijian, Wuzhengyin, etc. It was difficult for Su Mei to understand, so the Taoist priest wrote a word on the palm of Su Mei's hand.
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Su Mei looked shocked and felt incredible.
When the Taoist priest writes, the sleeves of his Taoist robe cover Su Mei's hand, so no one else knows what he is writing.
On the way up the mountain, everyone was very curious. Bao Zhan asked Su Mei: What is that word?
Hua Long also asked: What is your future husband’s name?
Su Mei’s answer was: It’s the name of one of you two, but I won’t tell you.
It was already evening when we reached the halfway point of the mountain. We planned to rest for the night at the forest police station, and tomorrow we would go to the village where the boy in red and the two drowned children died to investigate. This police station is a checkpoint. There are police on duty during the day, but it is uninhabited at night.
, the main job is to check passing vehicles and prohibit illegal logging of trees. They also patrol the mountains and forests to guard against fire accidents.
Several tile-roofed houses were dilapidated, with overgrown weeds behind them and wormwood growing on the roofs. The checkpoint looked eerie at night. At midnight, there was a knock on the door, and what the Taoist priest said came true - a ghost knocked on the door in the middle of the night.
After Hualong checked, he found that there was not even a human figure in front of or behind the house.
However, the four members of the special case team and Assistant Tang clearly heard the knock on the door.
Everyone thought the knocking on the door was extremely strange. When they looked up, a small handprint suddenly appeared on the door.
It was a bit cold on the mountain, and the wind was blowing. The handprints looked very scary. The handprints were not bloody. They were like a wet hand patting the door. There was some liquid left on the door, which gave off a smell. Bao Zhan came closer.
After smelling it, he was very familiar with the smell of this liquid - the smell of rotting corpses!
Such a terrifying picture appeared in the minds of the special case team and Assistant Tang:
A rotting corpse stood staggeringly in front of the door, raised his hand dripping with corpse liquid, and knocked on the door.
