The mayor also hurried over, and everyone was waiting for Professor Liang to reveal the answer to the mystery.
Professor Liang, however, tried to be mysterious and asked everyone: "In some cases, we not only have to deduce who is the most likely murderer, but also do the opposite. Who has the least suspicion of murder?"
Bao Zhan nodded and said, "The three missing girls are the least suspected."
The mayor said: "The three girls are dead. There is blood on the three red dresses fished out of the river."
Professor Liang said: "Currently, we can only confirm that Huanyu was killed. The other two girls are neither alive nor dead. The blood on their skirts does not necessarily mean death."
Hua Long said: "Could it be that Murphy and Zhao Xianxian are still alive and they are the murderers, or one of them is the murderer?"
The mayor said: "How is this possible? They are all victims. How can the victim be the murderer?"
Professor Liang said: "There are actually four Zhao Xianxian in this case!"
Professor Liang's words were astonishing. He explained his reasoning and analysis in detail. Zhao Xianxian disappeared three years ago and his whereabouts are unknown. There are only two possibilities: he is dead or he is still alive. If he dies, he will appear in Ukraine three years later.
Zhao Xianxian from Yangzhen is definitely not her, but someone else is pretending to be her. There are two possibilities for the person pretending to be Zhao Xianxian: a man or a woman.
Actors who dress up as women make people believe that a man dressed as a woman can deceive everyone.
The four Zhao Xianxian are: Zhao Xianxian who disappeared three years ago, Zhao Xianxian who disappeared again while studying painting in Wuyang Town three years later, the woman pretending to be Zhao Xianxian, and the man pretending to be Zhao Xianxian.
Professor Liang re-established the direction of the investigation, Hua Long and the mayor continued to search the murder scene in the town, and other members of the special case team listed cracking Zhao Xianxian's identity as the focus of the investigation.
Su Mei contacted the Public Security Bureau where Zhao Xianxian's household registration was located. The General Principles of Civil Law stipulated that if a person has been missing for more than two years, relatives can apply to be declared missing or dead. However, Su Mei found that Zhao Xianxian's household registration had not been cancelled. Various signs showed that
Zhao Xianxian is still alive. Su Mei remotely checked Zhao Xianxian's student status information. According to the school, a year ago, Zhao Xianxian even appeared in high school. A teacher who knew her saw her return to her alma mater.
The man sat on the swing in the school playground for a long time.
This teacher is the class teacher of Zhao Xianxian High School. He introduced to the special case team on the phone that Zhao Xianxian was excellent in both morals and academics in high school. She was versatile and had one of the best scores in the college entrance examination. During the vacation before she was admitted to college, she went to Wuyang Town to study painting.
, went missing, and his parents were devastated. The police and family searched for him many times without success. Later, his parents traveled across the ocean and gave up hope. What was strange was that two years after his disappearance, the head teacher actually saw Zhao again on the school playground.
Xianxian, the class teacher came up to talk to her, but Zhao Xianxian sat alone on the swing, remained silent in a daze, ignored the class teacher at all, and later left.
Professor Liang asked on the phone: "What is this Zhao Xianxian wearing?"
The class teacher replied: "I was wearing a red skirt that day. I remember clearly that classmate Zhao Xianxian likes to wear red skirts."
Professor Liang said: "How do you know that the person in the red skirt is Zhao Xianxian? Are you sure? Maybe they are two people who look alike?"
The head teacher said: "The clothes are the same, the hairstyle is the same, and even the teardrop mole on the corner of the eye is the same. Even though I haven't seen her for two years, it must be her."
Professor Liang turned back to Bao Zhan and said, "This mysterious person is very...
It’s really scary to be able to pretend to be Zhao Xianxian from a year ago.”
Bao Zhan asked: "Has Zhao Xianxian been in love in school? Are there many boys who like her?"
The head teacher replied: "Many, she received the most love letters and greeting cards. I remember one Christmas, the love letters and greeting cards piled up on her desk. However, high school was facing the college entrance examination. Zhao Xianxian focused on her studies and did not hear anything.
Who have you been in love with?"
Bao Zhan asked: "Among the boys who like Zhao Xianxian, are there any particularly perverted ones?"
After reminiscing, the head teacher remembered a person named Ma Liu, who was Zhao Xianxian's deskmate. All the teachers and students in the school knew that Ma Liu had always had a crush on Zhao Xianxian. One year, at Christmas time, other boys sent greeting cards, but Ma Liu didn't.
The gift given to Zhao Xianxian was a paper box. After opening it, there were more than a dozen mice in the box. Zhao Xianxian screamed in fright. She was usually most afraid of mice. Another time, Ma Liu gave Zhao Xianxian a bottle.
, Ma Liu said that the bottle contained his tears. Zhao Xianxian felt disgusted and accidentally broke the bottle. The angry Ma Liu used the bottle fragments to cut Zhao Xianxian's palm, and then cut his own palm. He
Forcibly pressing Zhao Xianxian's palm and his own palm together, the blood of the two people also flowed together. Later, because of this incident, the school expelled Ma Liu. The head teacher only came to Zhao Xianxian's class to teach in his third year of high school.
Therefore, the head teacher has never met Ma Liu, and these things are just rumors he has heard.
The perverted boy Ma Liu surfaced, and some of his strange behaviors were similar to the case. The special case team decided to split into two groups. Bao Zhan and Su Mei went to Zhao Xianxian's registered residence to investigate Ma Liu, Professor Liang and Hua Long
Still staying in Wuyang Town to search for the murder scene.
The town's police force is limited, so Hualong and the joint defense team members are divided into separate areas. Each person designates an area and conducts door-to-door inspections.
The area that Hualong was responsible for happened to include the veterinarian's home and the blind old man's home. The police conducted multiple searches of the yards of these two homes, but found nothing unusual. Hualong did not give up and decided to check again, but the blind old man remained the same.
Sitting in the yard, the cat is still playing in the grass, and the moon is still hanging in the sky.
When the blind old man saw the painted dragon, he burst into tears, and tears flowed from his dry eye sockets.
Hua Long felt very surprised. The blind old man said something puzzling to Hua Long:
"My eyes are blind, but my heart is bright. I can't see, but I can hear clearly."
Hua Long asked in confusion: "What did you hear?"
The blind old man said: "My grandson was killed, I know it."
Hua Long said: "Ah, who killed him and where is he?"
The blind old man said: "I heard him calling grandpa..."
Hualong questioned him again and again, but the blind old man just said that he heard his grandson's cry for help before he died, but he didn't know who killed his grandson or where. Hualong felt that the old man was a little confused and couldn't figure it out.
Without any evidence, he said that one of the erhu strings broke last night, and he realized that his grandson had been murdered.
Although these words did not convince Hua Long, they had already aroused his vigilance.
Hua Long began to rethink the entire case. Many scenes flashed through his mind like a movie. Two of them were very suspicious. He thought that Zhao Xianxian had performed hymen repair surgery. The girl might have been raped. He thought of Zhao Xianxian.
There are some sketches of small town buildings in those paintings, including the home of a blind old man and the yard of a veterinarian's house.
Hualong thought for a while and suddenly thought - where should Zhao Xianxian be when she painted these paintings?
Sketching is like taking pictures. If a person can take a photo of a building gate, he must be facing the gate.
Zhao Xianxian's painting is from an overlooking perspective. The location where she painted should be at a high place opposite the home of the blind old man and the veterinarian. Hualong saw an attic diagonally opposite, a dilapidated wooden building with wooden windows in the attic.
It was tightly closed, and there was a awning boat moored at the steps downstairs.
Hualong walked across the stone bridge and knocked on the door. A young man in his twenties opened the door. Hualong showed his identity as a policeman and said he wanted to check the fire protection facilities. The young man was very enthusiastic and invited him in. The courtyard is deep.
, passed through two doors, and there were some fishing nets on the stairs. It seemed that this was a fishing family. There was no light in the attic, so the young man said to get a flashlight. Hualong walked into the attic, and in the darkness, he could vaguely see the attic.
There were several iron cabinets inside, and a fishy smell assaulted my nostrils, and the attic also smelled of vinegar.
Although Hua Long is not as sensitive as Bao Zhan's nose, his sense of smell gradually separates another odor from the stench, appearing and disappearing, coming and going. It is a smell he is familiar with: the smell of rotting corpses.
Someone had died in this attic, and the stench of rotting corpses lingered for a long time.
Hua Long wanted to take out a gun, but found that he did not have a gun. When he turned around, the young man was standing in front of the door with a pale face. He did not take a flashlight, but threw a fishing net in his hand towards Hua Long. The fishing net
It opened and covered the painting dragon.
The young man first hit Hualong with a bamboo pen several times, but did not knock Hualong unconscious. Hualong struggled fiercely, but for a while he could not break free from the fishing net. The young man was a little panicked, and poured a large bottle of liquid on Hualong.
He quickly left the room and closed the door. This liquid is ether, which is extremely volatile. In a closed and small environment, it can make people unconscious within a minute. Hualong cursed and continued to struggle to get rid of the fishing net. After a while,
He felt his consciousness gradually blurring and soon passed out...
When Hualong woke up, he found himself lying in a metal cabinet with his hands tied behind his back and his feet tied with iron wire. There was a ball of towel stuffed in his mouth and several rounds of tape wrapped around it to prevent him from vomiting.
The towel in his mouth screamed for help. Hualong struggled a few times, but the wires on his wrists were tied very firmly, sinking into his flesh, and the wires were twisted into a twist, making it impossible to break free.
The dragon painting is surrounded by rats. How scared would a person feel when surrounded by rats?
Hua Long realized that he would end up like Huan Yu - being eaten by rats until he was left with only a skeleton.
This is a rectangular iron cabinet lying under the attic window. This iron cabinet is used to raise fish fry. It is two meters long, a little over one meter high and wide. It is sturdy and sealed. The cover is only the size of a few coins.
The ventilation hole was also covered with a copper lock.
This iron cabinet is like a coffin, and this is probably the grave of Hualong!
Hualong sat up, and the mouse beside him was rolling up and down. The space in the cabinet was small, his head was on the cover of the cabinet, and the attic window could be seen through the ventilation hole.
There are two options for painting a dragon:
One, sit back and wait for others to rescue him, but when others find him, they may only find his bones.
Second, save yourself and escape from the iron cabinet before the mice eat him, but what should you do to escape?
