Chapter 384: Ever-burning Light
After saying hello to Wang Jiewang, Yi Jiayi took Liang Shule and others to the small hospital where the body was kept.
Rushing into the wind and rain, even if they tried to hold an umbrella or put on a raincoat, the wind and rain still wet their clothes and hair.
They carefully drove around the mountain road and parked the car directly in front of the hospital. Many media people were still gathered outside the cordon of the hospital in such a bad environment. When they saw Jiayi, they immediately swarmed over.
Jiayi wiped her face and pulled all her hair back. Her brows were wrinkled by the rain, but she couldn't help shouting,
"Let's go back. The weather is too bad and it's dangerous. If you want to know the news later, just call the public relations department."
After shouting, she threw her umbrella to a female reporter who was holding a broken umbrella and was almost soaked by the rain, and then ran under Liang Shule's umbrella, rushing into the hospital in a cloak.
The lobby was dead silent, with few patients, most of whom were police officers.
Jiayi brushed her wet hair and turned directly to the autopsy room.
Xu Junhao and the other three forensic officers were concentrating on the autopsy, occasionally saying a few words, and the forensic assistants were writing down quickly.
"...There are some undigested mushrooms in the stomach..." Xu Junhao frowned as he examined the dead man's stomach.
"Could it be that the dead man had hallucinations after eating poisonous mushrooms, which led to his failure to escape from the temple?" Jiayi frowned, and immediately remembered what Sanfu and his team had learned about Taoist priests selling mushrooms when they were collecting confessions from villagers. Could it be that the Taoist priests had sold poisonous mushrooms, causing some people to die after eating them, and the dead man's family came to the Taoist temple to seek revenge?
"Not sure yet, we need a lab technician to test the ingredients." Xu Junhao put the mushroom sample into the evidence bag, turned around and saw that Jiayi's hair, shoulders and sleeves were all wet from the rain, frowned and said, "There are doctor's gowns there, take one and wear it."
"OK, Mr. Xu, I'll go to the morgue to take a look." Jiayi picked up a white doctor's gown and put it on, asking Xu Junhao for help.
"Go ahead. Do you want a doctor or assistant to accompany you?" Xu Junhao asked.
"No, I'll just take a quick look and won't touch the bodies." Jiayi said, and then she bypassed the medical examiners and doctors who were doing autopsies and went straight to the morgue at the back. As
soon as she opened the door, the cold air inside came over her.
Jiayi tightened her clothes and stepped into the hellish morgue. Looking at the bodies that were burned beyond recognition, she took a deep breath and started the nth round of "reading".
...
Yi Jiayi seemed to live in the autopsy room. There were more than a dozen bodies and countless heart-flowing images. No one knew which person's details contained subtle clues and evidence.
This is like the surveillance videos of later generations. When investigating a case, many police officers may have to watch hundreds or thousands of videos, watch them repeatedly, search carefully, find all suspicious people and suspicious information, and then check them one by one.
Although Jiayi did not feel like her eyes were going blind like the police officers of later generations who watched the surveillance, she was not much better. She had a headache as if her head was going to explode.
More than an hour later, Jiayi frowned and leaned against the wall of the morgue, lowered her eyes and stared at her toes, and began to recall all the effects she had seen.
The profile of the murderer was 170cm tall, about 120 pounds... a thin man of normal height.
Killing for revenge or other reasons, perhaps before the Taoists died, they had a conflict with one of the deceased.
The murderer who set fires and killed people is usually not a patient person. The murderer took gasoline and filled the perimeter of the Taoist temple with gasoline. This behavior shows that his anger value is very high. Such an angry and irrational state... the time of the conflict may be very close.
After carefully recalling the vast flow images and the longer memories of the deceased before his death, Jiayi vaguely captured some information.
After watching the flow images of all the corpses again, she was stunned for a while, suddenly flipped through the notebook quickly, and stopped at the page marked with a record and a corpse number.
No. 11...
Taking a deep breath, Jiayi returned to corpse No. 11 and was pulled into a flow image.
In the earlier part of her memory fragments, there is a clip:
[A man walked out of the Taoist temple and walked down the mountain, while raising his finger to the sky, and seemed to be talking about something, but because the distance was far, the man's voice could not be heard.
The man walked down the hillside without looking back, and only a head of short brown hair could be seen clearly.
The young Taoist stood in the Taoist temple, and from time to time he glanced at the back that was getting farther and farther away, and then turned back to sweep the ground. ]
This is the nth time Jiayi has watched the flow image. Because she had to take care of the pre-death memories of 17 corpses before, many pictures were not carefully read.
This time, she captured the back of the brown-haired man, and Jiayi observed everything in the picture in extra detail.
The height and build of the brown-haired man fit the profile of the murderer, and in the flow image, the young Taoist priest would occasionally glance at the brown-haired man's back as he walked further and further away, and there seemed to be a sense of uneasiness coming out.
After noticing these, Jiayi also found that the condition of the ground cleaned by the Taoist priest was very unusual -
it stands to reason that someone cleans the Taoist temple every day, and there may be some new fallen leaves and dust on the ground, but there are so many incense ashes and fallen fruits, which is very unusual.
These things would not be dumped on the ground, and it is very likely that someone knocked over the incense burner and fruit plate, or... someone deliberately overturned them.
Combined with the body language of the brown-haired man when he left...
Jiayi seemed to watch this flow image twice, and was basically sure that the brown-haired man should be swearing while walking down the mountain.
The incense ash and fruits were most likely overturned by him, and he may have had a conflict with the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple, which is why he did this.
This can also be seen from the uneasy expression on the young Taoist priest's face.
However, this Taoist priest swept the floor twice, and was assigned by the old Taoist priest to move things to the back. After leaving and entering the yard, the contents of his memory had nothing to do with the brown-yellow hair.
When he chatted with other Taoist priests after dinner, he did not mention the conflict behind the brown-yellow hair and the incense ash and fruits on the ground...
Jiayi frowned, and she was not sure whether the man was the murderer. She didn't even see the face of the brown-yellow hair.
Standing in front of the corpse, he tried to recall whether it was in the memories of other dead people-
suddenly, Jiayi had a flash of inspiration, and Jiayi ran to the corpse of the female dead person again.
Soon, Jiayi saw a picture that only flashed in her mind flow image.
The female victim walked out from the back yard and asked the Taoist priest next to her what happened, while at the same time she poked her head into the front yard.
The Taoist priest who was questioned said, "It's okay, go back and continue your work. Be careful not to get involved in this madman's trouble."
The female victim then obediently returned to the backyard and stopped watching.
But just a glance left Jiayi with a clear and important image -
the brown-haired man was standing in the yard, arguing with the Taoist priest with a red face and a thick neck, and his mouth was particularly dirty:
"Fuck you, a bunch of idiots, there are so many eternal lamps, what's wrong with praying for me? What's the old idiot who hangs a pot to save the world, it's all bullshit, a liar -"
The brown-haired man screamed hysterically, his facial features were distorted, but Jiayi still saw his face clearly and remembered his appearance.
Because the conflict was too far away from their death, Jiayi could not find any other footage except for the two incomplete end clips of the conflict.
But after watching the flow images of other people, Jiayi finally caught two Taoists talking about the conflict brought by Brown Hair while enjoying the cool air before going to bed.
It seems that Brown Hair came to the Taoist temple and got a bad fortune. He spent 20 yuan to buy a peace charm and felt that it was not enough. He wanted the Taoists to help him offer a long-burning lamp to pray for him, but he didn't want to spend money. In the end, the commotion was so big that the Taoists had to wave brooms to drive him away. Unfortunately,
in the afternoon, Jiayi still couldn't find any footage that could prove that Brown Hair was the murderer.
Her head was aching. She gritted her teeth and walked out of the morgue. She hugged her chest and rubbed her arms. After shivering, she walked into the autopsy room.
Xu Junhao had just finished dissecting a corpse. He wiped the sweat off his face, exhaled, and walked to the side to drink water and rest.
Seeing Jiayi coming over, he asked his assistant to pour her a cup.
The two of them sat together against the wall. No one spoke, but just drank hot water in silence.
After the forensic assistant sutured the abdominal cavity of the corpse being dissected, he turned to Xu Junhao and asked, "Sir Xu, which corpse will you dissect next?"
Xu Junhao thought for a moment and said, "Isn't there another dog's corpse? Let's move it over for dissection."
In the past, there have been cases where the murderer also poisoned the victim's pet, so in cases where a pet died at the same time, the forensic officer would also dissect the pet's corpse.
Watching the forensic assistant move the dog's corpse to the dissection table, Jiayi's pupils suddenly contracted. She almost jumped up from the chair and walked to the wolfhound's corpse in one step.
The next moment, she was pulled into a very different flow image.
The dog's world is not as colorful as the human world. In the dog's world, red looks black, and the Taoist temple seems taller and more majestic than it should be.
It seems to be sick, lying listlessly in the doghouse at the door.
The rustling outside the door attracted its attention, but it was too uncomfortable. The usually alert dog just raised its head, stared at the people outside the gate and whimpered a few times.
Under the moonlight, a man stood outside the door, holding two buckets of something, and splashed it hard on the door and the wall...
When the man threw the burning fallen leaves at the gate of the Taoist temple, a little flame almost turned into a fire dragon in an instant.
The flame instantly lit up the world in the dog's eyes. Before the fire blocked his sight, Jiayi saw the face of the arsonist through the dog's eyes.
Short brown hair, dark skin, sparse eyebrows, puffy triangular eyes, wide nose and wide mouth.
This is the person who had a conflict with the Taoists in the daytime!
Jiayi took a deep breath and when she came out of the mental image, Xu Junhao had already walked to the dog.
"Looking at the proportion of its legs and body, it must have been a very healthy dog when it was alive." Xu Junhao sighed. "
It looks very similar to Police Dog Eleven." Jiayi pursed her lips after saying that, thanked Xu Junhao for his hard work, and finally left the autopsy room.
Jiayi walked all the way to the door of the hospital. The heavy rain was still falling, still pouring, without any sign of abating.
The sky was completely covered by dark clouds. If it weren't for the watch telling her that it was only afternoon, she would have almost thought it was dark.
Could it be just for a long-burning lamp?
The whole Taoist temple was about to be destroyed...
Jiayi once again witnessed the evil and absurdity of human nature. She wiped her face and turned to Liang Shule and the others and said,
"Let's go visit the villagers again."
"Now?" Liang Shule looked outside the hospital. Even the big trees were destroyed by the wind and rain.
"... Let's go." Jiayi thought for a while and said the same thing.
The longer time passes, the more blurred people's memories become.
She needs an eyewitness.