On a dark night with a bright moon in the sky, the bright moonlight shines down on Hengtong County, which is surrounded by mountains, making it quiet and holy.
Accustomed to the hustle and bustle of big cities, when night falls, this long-lost tranquility makes people feel like a dream, especially when you raise your head and look up at the night sky, you can clearly see the
When the stars are so far away from me, everything seems so unreal.
As night falls, a cool breeze blows away the heat of the scorching sun during the day, making people feel comfortable all over. The breeze blows across the cheeks, just like a girl's tender little hands gently touching her face, which is gentle and comfortable.
After Xu Lang and the others rushed back to Hengtong County from Chenjiahe, they rejected Chen Bo's offer to treat them to a meal. Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan went directly to the guest house in Hengtong County, opened two rooms and stayed there, serving as waiters for Xu Lang and the others.
After being led to the room, Xu Lang stood by the window and looked at the city in front of him, which was extremely unfamiliar to him.
On this trip to Chenjiahe in Hengtong County for a visit and investigation, Xu Lang originally thought that he could obtain some useful information, and that was indeed the case. However, Xu Lang always felt a little weird and had a vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart.
Judging from the current investigation, in the hotel where Chen Qiumin was killed, the three people who often went to find Chen Qiumin were probably the peers who left Chenjiahe with Chen Qiumin. Chen Yuzhen and Chen Shan followed Chen Qiumin.
They left together, and Chen Wang left with Chen Jianjun. As for Chen Zhen, he left here after he was admitted to college. So, the question is, who are the three people who often go to Chen Qiumin?
Which three among individuals?
First of all, Chen Yuzhen can be excluded because, according to the memories of the waiter and owner of Fuyuan Hotel, the three people who often went to see Chen Qiumin were all men and no women.
If the three people who went to the hotel to find Chen Qiumin were Chen Zhen, Chen Wang, and Chen Shan, then what were they doing to find Chen Qiumin? Did they give the human flesh in the refrigerator to Chen Qiumin? If so, then, these human flesh
Where did it come from? If not, what happened to the human flesh in the refrigerator?
To confirm this, it is actually very simple. When Xu Lang and the others visited Chenjiahe for investigation, they had already obtained photos of five people, including Chen Qiumin. All they had to do was send the photos to Ding Haoqiong and the others and ask them to take the photos.
Take photos of several people and let people from Fuyuan Hotel identify them, and you can get the results.
If those three people are really Chen Zhen and the others, then who were the man and woman who appeared when Chen Qiumin first checked into Fuyuan Hotel? What is their relationship with Chen Qiumin?
When visiting Chen Jiahe, Xu Lang discovered that Chen Qiumin's grandfather only had one son, Chen Jianjun, and Chen Jianjun only had one child, Chen Qiumin. Chen Jianjun had no brothers and sisters, and Chen Qiumin had no brothers and sisters. After Chen Qiumin's grandfather passed away, there were
After her parents also passed away, Chen Qiumin was considered an orphan. Of course, by that time, Chen Qiumin had grown up and had the ability to take care of herself.
Then, a new problem arose. According to the recollection of the waiter at Fuyuan Hotel, when Chen Qiumin first checked into the hotel, a man and a woman came to see Chen Qiumin. The two sides had a fierce quarrel. It seemed that they did not agree with Chen Qiumin's stay.
At the hotel, I went home with them.
go home?
Which home should you go back to? Chenjiahe? Or some other home?
Does a person who has no relatives still have a home? In other words, as long as it is where Chen Qiumin lives, it is his home. So, which home do the two people go back to when they say they are going home?
If you want to know Chen Qiumin's past and whether he is really an ogre as Xu Lang had guessed before, you first need to find out the source of the human flesh in the refrigerator in Room 315 and the identities of the five people who once appeared in the hotel.
, Judging from all the current signs, Chen Qiumin is probably an ogre.
If Chen Qiumin is really an ogre, then the question arises again, when did he start eating people? When did he eat people for the first time, and who was the person who was eaten?
Thinking of this, Xu Lang sighed, as if everything was back to square one.
Xu Lang came to his senses, took out his cell phone, and dialed Ding Haoqiong's cell phone. The call was quickly connected.
"Are the four people in the photo the same people who once appeared in the hotel?" Xu Lang asked directly without any unnecessary greetings.
"After receiving the photo from Luo Jiayan, I immediately took the photo to Fuyuan Hotel and asked the hotel staff. After identification, they found that among the five people in the photo, one of them was born seven days ago.
I went to see Chen Qiumin before."
"Who is it?"
"Chen Wang."
"Chen Wang? How could it be him?"
Hearing this result, Xu Lang was stunned for a moment and said to himself. Then he thought of other things and asked quickly: "What about the other three people? Have the people in the hotel seen them?"
"No."
"No? How is this possible?"
Xu Lang was a little surprised. When he heard that one of the three people who had gone to find Chen Qiumin was Chen Wang, Xu Lang subconsciously thought that the remaining two people were Chen Zhen and Chen Shan. However, it turned out that Xu Lang
It was different from what he imagined, which made Xu Lang very confused.
"Have the identities of the remaining two people been investigated?" Xu Lang asked after pondering for a moment.
"Not yet."
"Any new clues?"
"not yet."
"How is the investigation on Chen Zhen and others going?" Xu Lang asked again.
"After we received the information from you, we have already started investigating. However, it is night now and we have not found much.
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"Tell me, what have you found during the investigation?" Xu Lang pursed his lips and asked.
"We retrieved the household registration information and identity information of several people, including Chen Zhen, and found that Chen Zhen is indeed a college student. Seven years ago, he passed the S University with excellent results, but..."
"But what?" Xu Lang asked quickly.
"However, he dropped out of school three years ago. That year, he was in his senior year and was about to graduate. For some reason, he dropped out of school suddenly without going through the withdrawal procedures."
Hearing this, Xu Lang frowned immediately.
After pondering for a moment, Xu Lang asked: "Do you know the reason why he dropped out of school?"
"We don't know this yet. We need to go to S University tomorrow and ask Teacher Chen Zhen to find out." Ding Haoqiong said on the other end of the phone.
"Have you found out what Chen Zhen is doing now?" Xu Lang asked again.
"This has not been found yet."
After another period of silence, Xu Lang asked: "What about the remaining people?"
"The time is too short, the information is too little, and no useful clues have been found yet," Ding Haoqiong said.
"That's it."
Xu Lang suddenly felt disappointed in his heart. He did not get the results he wanted. The disappointment was certain. However, Xu Lang knew that there was nothing that could be done about it. When Xu Lang and the others left Chenjiahe, it was already dark, and Ding
Hao Qiong and the others were definitely not idle today. It was not easy to find out this information in such a short period of time, and Xu Lang couldn't say much.
"that......"
Just when Xu Lang was about to ask if the autopsy results were available, he heard someone calling Ding Haoqiong. The two people seemed to be talking about something, so Xu Lang had to stop talking and wait for Ding Haoqiong.
About five minutes later, Ding Haoqiong said: "Brother Lang, we have made a new discovery."
"Oh, what did you find?"
Xu Lang suddenly became excited.
"I asked Lu Xing to look through the list of people with criminal records based on the identity information of Chen Zhen and others, and found that Chen Wang had been punished by the public security system."
"Have you been punished? What was the reason for the punishment?"
"It was because of trafficking in wild animals that I was punished administratively."
"When did it happen?"
"Oh, it was more than half a year ago."
"What animals are there?" Xu Lang asked.
"Golden pheasant, python and the like."
"How was it resolved in the end?"
"Fine and detain." Ding Haoqiong said.
"No prosecution?"
"Oh, no. According to the records, these are not wild, but domestic. Preliminary investigation also found that these animals are indeed domestic. Therefore, they were only fined and detained, and there was no prosecution."
"Did Chen Wang leave fingerprints and other information at that time?" Xu Lang asked.
"Yes."
"Find a way to find him."
"knew."
"Are the autopsy results out?"
"Come out."
"How to say?"
"Chen Qiumin did commit suicide and was strangled to death, and the food that strangled him to death was the meat from his own thighs."
"What about the human flesh in the refrigerator?"
"According to the test and comparison results of Qin Forensic Doctor, the human flesh in the refrigerator was not Chen Qiumin's."
"Whose is that?"
"It's still under further investigation, but..." Ding Haoqiong hesitated.
"But what?"
"The human flesh in the refrigerator was tested and compared, and it was found that it came from three people, two men and one woman. However, the body parts had been cooked at high temperatures, which destroyed the DNA. It is temporarily impossible to find the victim through DNA data. Qin Forensic Doctor is already using it
With further dissection, I hope we can find some valuable information."
Hearing this, Xu Lang's mood became more solemn. He was silent for a long time and said: "Find a way to determine the identity of the victim as soon as possible and find the source of the body."
"I know, when will you come back?" Ding Haoqiong asked.
Xu Lang thought for a while and said: "There are still some problems with the investigation here. I will go back in a few days."
"Oh, be safe there and come back as soon as possible."
"knew."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Lang put down the phone and his expression became extremely solemn.
It has long been established that Chen Qiumin did not commit suicide but was a homicide. Xu Lang also knew the cause of his death. In fact, Xu Lang and the others also had suspicions about Chen Qiumin's murderer, and this
That person is Sun Wenyao.
Chen Qiumin's death was indeed tragic, but that was not what Xu Lang cared about most now. What Xu Lang cared about most now was the corpses in the refrigerator, the cooked human flesh.
When Xu Lang opened the refrigerator for the first time, he heard Qin Mingyue introduce the body parts in the refrigerator. Xu Lang guessed that the victims might be two people, a man and a woman. However, the current autopsy results told Xu Lang that
I still thought too little. There were three victims.
Who are these three victims? Are they dead? Judging from the parts of the body parts in the refrigerator, these three people are definitely dead. So, where are their other bodies? Also, this is just the police finding Chen
When Qiu Min's body was found, it was accidentally discovered. Chen Qiu Min lived in Fuyuan Hotel for more than a year. During this period, someone would look for Chen Qiu Min every seven days. So, does that mean that every time someone went there?
Looking for Chen
When Qiumin falls, does it mean someone dies?
If this is really the case, then how many victims have there been in this period of more than a year? Once every seven days, that is, once a week, and there are four weeks in a month, twelve months in a year, and one year
There were about fifty-two weeks, so does that mean that at least fifty or sixty people were killed?
This is just Xu Lang's preliminary speculation. It is possible that the real victims are far more than these. There may be many fewer victims than Xu Lang speculated. No matter what the result is, it means that someone must have been killed, and more than one or two.
So simple.
Thinking of this, a new problem arises.
Although S city is very big, if someone disappears or is killed one after another, someone will definitely choose to call the police, and the police will definitely file a case. It is not unusual for a lot of people to go to the public security bureau to report missing cases every year. However, if someone
Frequent disappearances will definitely attract the attention of the police, who will naturally open a case for investigation. Xu Lang does not believe that if dozens of people are really missing and murdered, the police will not be able to find a single trace.
Although Xu Lang only returned to City S at the beginning of this year, after the establishment of CSY, Xu Lang went through many files in recent years and did not find this problem. Tian Yongchun, director of the General Bureau of Public Security and captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Team
Neither Du Ziqiao nor Deputy Director Ning Yanran mentioned this matter. If many people really disappeared in a short period of time, it is impossible for the General Bureau of Public Security not to know about it and to intervene in the investigation. However, the reality is that
No, this is a big question.
Xu Lang stood by the window for a long time, then walked back to the bed and lay down, leaning half against the bedside. He picked up the notepad on the bedside table and began to reorganize the doubtful points of the case.
First, Chen Qiumin was killed in Fuyuan Hotel. It was a homicide. So, who was the murderer? Although Xu Lang now suspects that the person who killed Chen Qiumin was probably Sun Wenyao, but there is no evidence to prove this. At present, it is just
It's just speculation. If Sun Wenyao really killed Chen Qiumin, what was his motive?
Second, who are the three men who go to Fuyuan Hotel every seven days to look for Chen Qiu Min? Except one of them is Chen Wang, who are the other two men? What is their relationship with Chen Qiu Min?
Third, when Chen Qiumin first checked into Fuyuan Hotel, a man and a woman came to see Chen Qiumin. What was the relationship between this man and woman and Chen Qiumin? Do they have any contact with Chen Wang?
Fourth, whether Chen Qiumin is an ogre, it is only speculation for the time being. When did he start eating people, and who was the object of his eating?
Fifth, the corpses in the refrigerator were human flesh, and there were three victims, two men and one woman. So, how many real victims are there?
Sixth, Chen Qiumin left Chenjiahe more than two years ago, and he checked into Fuyuan Hotel more than a year ago. So, where was he during the nearly one year between when he left Chenjiahe and when he checked into Fuyuan Hotel?
?What did you do?
Seventh, Chen Qiumin had four good friends, Chen Zhen, Chen Wang, Chen Shan, and Chen Yuzhen. Except for Chen Wang, who appeared in the police sight and was related to Chen Qiumin's murder case, where were the remaining three people? Where are they and Chen Qiumin?
Are the cases related?
After writing this, Xu Lang suddenly thought of what Chen Bo said on the way back from Chenjiahe. Xu Lang wrote down the three words "Chen Jiahe" in his notepad. He felt that Chen Jiahe might not be as simple as he saw.
First of all, Chenjiahe is just a small village. The people on this side of the river have all gone out to work and have moved. But on the other side of the river where Chen Qiumin and others live, there are still so many people. Why is this?
Secondly, when Xu Lang and the others went to Chenjiahe to visit and investigate, Xu Lang found that the villagers all had surprisingly consistent impressions of Chen Qiumin. She was able to eat, had a large appetite, and was very fat. Apart from that, no other information was mentioned.
As for the village chief Chen Weiguo, he mainly told about the affairs of Chen Qiumin's family. In fact, these things can be found out without asking them and just a little investigation. If they are told, they are not said.
Also, when Xu Lang and the others went to Chenjiahe to investigate, he found that both the villagers and the village chief seemed to be very enthusiastic, but they were very wary. It seemed that they did not want Xu Lang to stay in the village for too long.
, why is this? Especially when Xu Lang and the others left Chenjiahe, the men who were supposed to be eating at home stood at the door, staring at themselves from a distance, as if they were demonstrating or driving away
Xu Lang and the others.
In addition, Chen Bo said that since he was a child, his family had ordered him not to play on the other side of the river, and not to have too much contact with the children on the other side of the river. Why is this?
Weird, very weird.
When Xu Lang thought about what he heard and saw in Chenjiahe during the day, the only thing Xu Lang felt was weird.
"Dong dong dong..."
Just when Xu Lang was still thinking about what was weird about Chen Jiahe, there was a knock on the door. Xu Lang subconsciously turned his head, glanced at the door, put down the notepad in his hand, stood up, and walked to the door.
, opened the door and saw Luo Jiayan holding two bowls of instant noodles.
Just now, Xu Lang didn't feel hungry. Now, after seeing the instant noodles, his stomach immediately growled. He quickly let Luo Jiayan into the room and closed the door.
When Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan set off from S City, they had some breakfast and then came to Hengtong County. They originally planned to have lunch and dinner here, but the lunch at noon was quite exciting.
Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan couldn't eat at all and ran away. When they arrived in Hengtong County, Xu Lang and the others rushed to Chenjiahe to conduct a visit and investigation. They hadn't eaten for a day and were already very hungry.
"I guess you're hungry. Eat quickly." Luo Jiayan said with a smile.
Xu Lang was not polite, took the bucket of noodles and started eating.