Chapter 5 He is just provoking you~
These young interns were very skillful and had almost cleared the scene. Captain Fang was counting the clues they had handed in, while Shen Qing was looking around on his own.
As expected, the watch Liu Mincheng handed over must be the one.
Shen Qing noticed that in the clue bag, there was not only the watch, but also a half-burned talisman.
"Hey, let me see the bag too."
Captain Fang handed it to him suspiciously.
Shen Qing put on plastic gloves and gently picked up the talisman with tweezers.
There are signs of burning flames, but it doesn't look like spontaneous combustion, it's more like human ignition.
He put his nose close to it and sniffed it gently. There was a faint smell of tobacco.
Was it lit with a lighter?
Most of the burning part of the talisman paper was soaked by the rain, but miraculously, a small part of it was dry.
Shen Qing looked at Liu Mincheng curiously and asked:
"Where did you find this?"
Liu Mincheng tilted his head and answered in a seemingly honest tone,
"It was pressed under a brick. I saw a black spot on the edge, like a burn mark, so I moved the brick away and saw this half-dried thing underneath."
"Where did you find it?"
Captain Fang looked at Shen Qingze with an inquiring look and asked for him first.
Liu Mincheng turned around and walked into the alley.
You won’t know until you go in that the alley becomes narrower and narrower. At the innermost point, it can only accommodate one adult standing upright. The three people who were originally walking side by side gradually became a queue.
Liu Mincheng walked in front, and Captain Fang walked at the end.
The alley is not deep, but when you walk to the innermost part, the space suddenly opens up. The overall design is like a leaky spout used to pour wine.
The front is empty, with a narrow passage in the middle and an open flat area at the back.
Shen Qingze and Captain Fang looked at this new space in amazement.
“I didn’t expect there was such a space at the back!”
Shen Qing looked around in shock.
Liu Mincheng scratched his head and said embarrassedly:
"I was lucky to find it by accident. It was too dark last night and this place was originally blocked by all those sundries and trash cans, so we didn't find it before. In order to find clues, we turned over everything and found this hidden entrance."
Captain Fang nodded and patted his shoulder in appreciation.
“Well done”
Liu Mincheng was immediately in awe and lowered his head shyly.
The floor here is half dry, and there is a large eaves above. The rain probably didn't wet the ground.
Following Liu Mincheng's instructions, they found the brick in the corner.
The bricks were unremarkable, covered in moss and several broken pieces. They must have been made from local materials.
But the placement is weird, between the inside and outside of the eaves
The left side is half dry, the right side is completely wet, and there are traces of burning.
Liu Mincheng took out a piece of white paper and demonstrated to the two what the talisman paper looked like when he found it.
"It seems that the murderer didn't expect us to find this place. He didn't clean up any traces and left it here in plain sight."
Captain Fang thought for a moment, then turned to look at Shen Qingze
"What do you think, sir?"
Shen Qingze raised the corner of his mouth slightly, shook his head and said:
"Captain Fang and I may have some disagreements. I think the murderer left this on purpose."
"Oh? Why?"
Shen Qing squatted down, and gently ran his plastic-gloved hand over the tiny burn mark, raised his ash-covered fingertips, and asked:
"You couldn't find any traces at the scene because it rained twice last night. It's unclear whether the first rain happened before or during the crime, but the second rain must have happened after the crime."
Captain Fang looked at the dust on Shen Qingze's fingertips and suddenly saw the light.
The bloodstains at the crime scene were diluted by the rain, and even the electronic watch was soaked to death. Even though there was a roof to block the view, the burning part was also soaked by the rain.
But Shen Qingze just scratched it lightly, and the dust stain on the glove was clearly visible.
Then there is only one possibility,
“So Mr. Shen believes that the murderer experienced a second burning here after the second rain ended?”
Shen Qing stood up and glanced at the two of them with approval.
"Smart! The murderer has the guts to burn here for the second time. Either he is not afraid that you will find him, or he did it on purpose."
"Then why do you think the murderer did this on purpose?"
Shen Qingze slowly took off his gloves and said casually:
"The talisman he burned was exactly the soul-calling talisman I used just now. The soul-calling talisman does not require time and place. As long as you know the name and birth date of the soul to be called, you can call it. The murderer went to great lengths to call the soul a second time at the crime scene and did not even clean up the traces. I guess he has only one purpose."
"What is it?"
Shen Qing held the gloves in his palm and glanced at Liu Mincheng beside him.
The other party seemed to feel his gaze and raised his head before responding, but Shen Qing had already looked away.
"Provoke you"
Committing a crime for the second time challenges the ability of the public security organs.
The watch soaked in water, the alleyway that was not deliberately concealed, the obvious evidence of the crime...
The murderer has been saying both explicitly and implicitly that even if he laid out all the evidence, you incompetent policemen would not be able to find him.
It seemed like a mockery, but more like revenge.
Shen Qingze didn't intend to explain the truth to Captain Fang too clearly. He thought that he had done his best.
The murderer's technique was not considered advanced for him.
The idea is very naive.
For these ignorant policemen who believed in atheism, this was indeed an unsolved case with no clues.
The murderer used some methods that ordinary people could not believe to exorcise ghosts to commit crimes for him. After the crime, he did not escape, but went to the crime scene for the second time and used soul-calling talismans to summon the soul of the deceased into prison. After everything was done, he left layers of clues.
He dared to tell everyone his modus operandi openly because he firmly believed that no one would believe such a thing. Even if all the evidence pointed to it, the police would question themselves.
In the end, it remains a mystery.
Trapped in our own judgments and thoughts, we are unable to grasp the truth.
The murderer was laughing at the police's ignorance.
I guess I am watching their jokes openly right now, feeling really good~
Shen Qing looked up with amusement, feeling curious about this discovery.
If possible, he really wanted to catch the audacious murderer right now and make fun of him.
Such childish behavior really made him happy.
Having been guarded in the underworld for too long, he hadn't felt such a lively resentment for a long time.
No matter whether he is a human or a ghost, he just wants to see this interesting and immoral guy with his own eyes.
"Let's go, Captain Fang. I already have some ideas in mind."
Captain Fang and Liu Mincheng looked up at him in surprise at the same time.
"Do you know who the murderer is?!"
Shen Qing walked ahead, raised his hand and beckoned the two to follow, and said in an unfathomable tone:
"Almost, but the time is not yet ripe~"
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