Chapter 5 Conflicting Information! 'Honest Child'

The crime scene is not far from Xu Hao's residence. Walk out of the door and turn right. About 300 meters away you will find the breakfast stall, and about 100 meters to the right you will find the intersection.

"Wow"

The rain was still falling, and the raindrops were slightly denser than before. Li Jianye felt more and more helpless.

"Pah~"

Pushing open the car door, Xu Hao got out, ignoring the raindrops on his body, and glanced around.

The weather was gloomy, there were police cars, onlookers, cordon, flashing lights, and four bodies kneeling on the ground.

He was a little surprised. There was everything except a surveillance camera.

Even in the capital, the center of the East Country, surveillance is very rare these days.

"Put on your raincoat!"

Chu Xi was very dissatisfied. She pulled out a black raincoat from the back seat of the car and put it on Xu Hao.

"How's the victim identification going?"

Xu Hao stood there and looked at Li Jianye.

"Briefly describe the victim's identity, relationship, investigation information, and disappearance location, as well as the report."

Li Jianye nodded, pondered for a moment, and then said:

"According to our investigation."

"The four victims were freshmen and had not yet enrolled."

"The four of us went to junior high and high school together, so we can be considered childhood friends."

"According to the survey, the reputation of the four people is quite good. People around them describe them as honest, have few enemies, have no clear conflicts with others, and have a small social circle."

"The other party disappeared on the night of August 31st. No one knew where he went. He reappeared at 5:30 in the morning of September 1st. All four of them were dead."

"As for the report."

Li Jianye paused and found a document from the shed.

At the same time, he handed over a few photos.

"The report shows that the body contained alcohol and had fatal injuries all over its body. However, judging from the victim's expression, most of the injuries appeared after death, which means..."

Xu Hao flipped through it and when he heard this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Jianye.

"Corpse torture?"

Li Jianye nodded, "Yes, the murderer did not stop after killing four people, but continued to torture the corpses with the murder weapon!"

Hearing this, the people around fell silent.

It's not enough to kill the person, they also have to torture the corpse, turning it into the current state full of holes. There is no good place on the body, all are bloody wounds. And even this is not enough.

Xu Hao lowered his head and looked at the four corpses kneeling on the ground.

The other party did not stop after torturing the corpse. They also found a few wooden boards to nail the other party to the cross, and then dragged him to the crossroads and made him kneel on the ground! As for the original corpse, it was kneeling on the ground and leaning back, with the tail end of the cross behind it supporting it, forming a triangular structure.

Xu Hao squatted down, moved closer, and looked at the two hands carefully.

The nail pierced through the center of my palm, and when I glanced back, I could clearly see the sharp head of the nail that pierced through the wooden board.

"Any guesses?"

Xu Huo looked up, put on gloves, casually pried open the corpse's eyes, and looked at the whites of the eyes.

"From what we can see so far, the traces at the scene look very much like a shoe teaching ceremony."

Li Jianye replied.

Xu Hao nodded.

Indeed, the cross, Jesus, corpse abuse, mass death, four directions of east, west, south, and north. It is very similar to shoe cult, and it is even very likely to be shoe cult! But "it's wrong."

Xu Hao lowered his head and rummaged through the tattered clothes and the stomachs of the four corpses.

The wounds were irregular and messy, and not all people had their stomachs cut open.

"Wrong?" Li Jianye paused.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Hao paused, then turned his head and looked at Chu Xi who was standing there in a daze.

"I said, you remember."

He spoke, and Chu Xi came back to her senses. She immediately nodded and took out a notebook and a ballpoint pen from her bag.

"I'm ready!"

“First, reason around objective clues.”

"Is there any clue information between your fingers?"

Xu Hao stood up and looked down at the four bodies.

Li Jianye shook his head directly, "No, the police have checked this and there are no clues at all."

The gaps between fingers are a place that the police routinely check. There is a high possibility that some of the murderer's fur, blood and flesh may remain there, which is a very important clue.

The Jiangdong District police checked, but unfortunately, there was nothing inside.

What if the murderer cleaned it up on purpose? Then the luminol reagent will teach the murderer a lesson.

If you cut your nails, why would you cut them if there is no clue? If you think about it the other way around, there is a clue, so you cut them. That is, the victim and the murderer had a fight, and the murderer might be injured. The police can continue to investigate based on this point. There are two ways of thinking.

But the victim... "Yes, there are no clues, nothing between the fingers."

Xu Hao nodded without denying it. He turned his head and looked at Chu Xi, "Do you remember the reasoning formula I told you three years ago?"

Reasoning formula?

“I remember.”

Chu Xi nodded immediately, like a chicken pecking at rice, "Those symmetry reasoning formulas!?"

"What the hell is this formula?" Li Jianye was stunned.

"Symmetrical reasoning, such as 1 meter = 100 centimeters, so 100 centimeters = 1 meter; antisymmetric reasoning, a is greater than b, so b is less than a; transitive reasoning, a>b, b>c, so a>c, three relational reasonings for analysis"

Xu Hao nodded. "Some mathematical logical reasoning formulas, very practical."

After saying this, he had no intention of continuing to explain. He lowered his head and looked at the documents in his hand.

“According to the survey.”

"At 4 o'clock, an employee of a breakfast shop that was open for business saw a figure in the center of the intersection. Because it was too dark, he could only see a black shadow carrying something on a tricycle. He didn't pay much attention to it because of the psychological logic of 'existence is reasonable'."

"From what we can see now, the black shadow is most likely the murderer, and the one being carried is the victim."

Li Jianye nodded. The weather was too cloudy on the day of the incident. In addition, the street lights were turned off one after another to save electricity starting at 10 pm. Don't expect any light at 4 am. It was pitch dark.

"Several dark shadows?" Xu Hao glanced at him.

"According to eyewitnesses, a dark figure."

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A policeman spoke first.

"How many victims?" Xu Hao asked again.

"Four, obviously." The man pointed to the bodies on the ground again.

"Say it all together."

"One murderer, four victims"

As he was speaking, the man paused, then came to his senses and stood there in a daze.

"That's right, there is only one murderer and no accomplices. Judging from the strength of the wounds and the murder weapon, as well as the information from the interviews, there is indeed only one murderer."

Xu Hao nodded. This was normal. Most murder cases only had one murderer.

But. "The four victims were all around 18 or 19 years old, their bodies were at their peak, even if their strength was not at its peak, but why?"

Xu Hao pointed at the clean finger joints on the four corpses.

"Not even a scrap of information about the murderer?"

"Four against one, and they didn't even get hurt? Four people waiting to be killed? Waiting to be killed by him?"

Several policemen of the same age as Xu Hao paused.

Waiting to be killed, is that possible? Maybe, in some cases this is the case, but the terrified expressions on the faces of the four bodies mean that this case is absolutely impossible! "It is impossible for the victims to be killed, but the scene contradicts this."

"Remember this and substitute it into the transitive relational reasoning: a>b, b>c, so a>c."

Xu Hao continued to speak, guiding the thinking of several people.

"That is, it is impossible for the victim not to resist, but there was no sign of resistance at the scene, so there must be a reasonable behavior to achieve the current scene."

"In other words, there is something or something that makes the victim unable to resist!"

What is that? "Alcohol!" Li Jianye recalled the report that was made by a doctor instead of a forensic doctor.

"Yes, alcohol. Besides alcohol, there is also this."

Xu Hao lowered his head and hugged a corpse. The corpse's head leaned weakly on his shoulder. He didn't care and pointed at the wound on the victim's lower back.

"Alcohol + back injury."

Needless to say, the alcohol made Li Jianye, who had a back injury, think quickly, "An acquaintance committed the crime?!"

Back injuries are mostly committed by acquaintances, but... "No, that's not right. According to the clues, the victim doesn't know many people at all. It's impossible for him to have friends that the police don't know." He added.

"Remember this for now."

“Look at the alcohol first.”

Xu Hao continued, "Ninety-five percent of the time, the victims drank the alcohol voluntarily, and it was not a threat. If the murderer had the ability to force four people to get drunk, he wouldn't need this ability himself."

If it was a threat, there would be no back injury.

"Based on the results of the identification, it is highly likely that the murder occurred between 0:00 and 4:00 a.m. on September 1st, and that he drank during this time."

"The victim was out at the time. Where could he have drunk a lot of alcohol?"

It was a September day, many people were out drinking, and at night "we investigated nearby barbecue stalls and other late night snack or dinner areas based on the contents of the victim's stomach, but unfortunately, we did not find any information about the victim's existence."

Li Jianye shook his head.

"Yeah?"

Xu Huo shook his head. He pried open the corpse's mouth and a faint smell of alcohol came out.

The victim drank a lot, and did not metabolize it or rinse his mouth. About thirty hours later, on the second day after drinking, the smell of alcohol still remained. "You should find a wine taster to smell it."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "This taste is..."

"cocktail."

Cocktail? Li Jianye was stunned, then frowned, "What kind of wine is this?"

He didn't quite understand. At the age of 40, he knew about Maotai-flavor liquor and Fenjiu red wine, but this was the first time he heard of a so-called cocktail.

"Cocktail, you are investigating in the wrong direction, it shouldn't be the restaurant."

"But"

Looking down at the survey information in his hand, Xu Hao's smile grew even wider.

"Bars and nightclubs."

"Tsk, what an honest child."

"Captain Li, it looks like."

Xu Hao raised his head and looked at Li Jianye, saying playfully, "The authenticity of your investigation report needs to be investigated."

(End of this chapter)