Chapter 75 Chapter 75 The Black Cat Sculpture Shedding Blood and Tears
Chapter 75
Hearing this, Wen Qun was stunned: "Mr. Xu, what you mean is..."
Xu Libai didn't look at him. He sat at the table and took out a list from the secret compartment. After Tang Xiaohua, Zheng Chaochao and other four people, he also drew a bright red cross after the name of the fifth person on the list.
He said calmly: "Even if the police don't find any clues, I will turn myself in after killing everyone on this list."
Wen Qun clenched his hands at his sides into fists: "Mr. Xu, you have changed."
The Mr. Xu Libai he knew was not like this!
In his previous life, his wife and daughter died tragically at the hands of criminals who hated him. He knew clearly that the criminals chose to target his wife and daughter because of his identity as a police officer.
Likewise, because of his identity as a policeman, he had no way of avenging his wife and daughter by retaliating.
From that moment on, he turned evil.
It was Xu Libai's men who contacted him and killed the criminal who hurt his wife and daughter in an extremely cruel way. From then on, he swore that he must protect Xu Libai.
So, when Qin Ye was about to find out Xu Libai's identity, he chose to drive his car into Qin Ye and die together with her.
How could Xu Libai surrender himself?
In his previous life, Xu Libai was never caught until the very end, and he died of old age!
Wen Qun thought about it and felt that the unexpected change happened to Qin Ye.
Ever since he traveled here, he has been using his identity as the "first immortal" to build momentum. Making trouble for Qin Ye was only one aspect, on the other hand, he wanted to gain the support of more believers.
Only in this way, when Xu Libai's secret "execution" of evil people is exposed in the future, will more people support and agree with them.
Just like this time, more and more idiots believe in and worship the "Cat Fairy".
These idiots were willing to do whatever he told them to do.
When Wen Qun thought of this, he gritted his teeth and became even more determined to find a way to get rid of Qin Ye.
Xu Libai raised his eyes and looked at Wen Qun, as if he saw through the other person's thoughts, and his eyes grew colder inch by inch.
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The next day, the police station received another report that another victim had died at the hands of the "Cat Fairy".
After Yu Cheng finished the autopsy, he said to Qin Ye: "The deceased was killed between 10 and 12 last night."
He glanced at the high school student who was locked up in the detention room last night and continued, "That was when they smashed the newspaper office last night."
According to the confession of these high school students, they watched "Revenge of the Cat Fairy" and became admirers of the loyal cat fairy who avenged the victimized people. Under the organization of a mysterious man, they decided to smash the newspaper office and force the newspaper to resume publishing "Revenge of the Cat Fairy".
The victim's home was just one street away from the newspaper office, which meant that the murderer might have appeared on that street last night.
Qin Ye nodded and was about to tell Yu Cheng that she had met Xu Libai last night when suddenly there was a burst of crying and shouting at the entrance of the Public Security Bureau.
"Police comrade! Help! Help!"
A middle-aged woman dragged a middle-aged man with a pale face and walked into the public security hall crying, "Save my man, please save my man."
Qin Ye walked forward, but before he could ask, the woman pulled the man to her knees, crying and sobbing: "Comrade police, please, don't let the cat fairy come to find my man!"
Everyone learned from the woman that the man's name was Jiang Dazhuang, and he was a bricklayer. He had recently been working at a construction site next to the newspaper office.
Jiang Dazhuang also has a history of cat abuse.
He was illiterate and did not read newspapers, so he had no idea about the recent sensation of "Revenge of the Cat Fairy".
Until last night...
Thinking of what happened last night, Jiang Dazhuang's legs were shaking with fear: "Last night I was working alone at the construction site. I just drank a sip of water and suddenly I felt numb all over and my back was cold... Then... Then the cat fairy appeared..."
Jiang Dazhuang was so scared that he wet his pants on the spot. Just when he thought he was going to die, a few boys holding steel pipes ran over on the street cursing.
"Those guys were shouting that they wanted to teach the police a lesson, especially the female detective..."
Jiang Dazhuang raised his head tremblingly, secretly glanced at Qin Ye, and seeing that she didn't react, he continued, "Maybe the cat fairy heard some noise on the street and left."
His legs were weak and he had to crawl back home using his hands and feet.
This morning, he heard that his neighbor who worked on the same construction site as him also died at the hands of the cat fairy last night.
Jiang Dazhuang was so scared that he didn't dare go out, but his wife thought that the police station would definitely be safer than home, so she dragged him to the police station.
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Qin Ye lowered his eyes and looked at the trembling Jiang Dazhuang, and asked: "Jiang Dazhuang, do you know the previous victims?"
Jiang Dazhuang turned his head and looked at the blackboard with photos of the dead. The faces of the dead people were pale and their eyes were wide open in horror.
In a trance, he seemed to see himself dead. He was so scared that he fluttered back a few steps before he spoke: "Recognize him. I bought cat meat from Zheng Chaochao several times... and I also saw the dead doctor..."
Jiang Dazhuang's family was poor and they couldn't afford meat. He was so hungry that he killed a cat on the roadside and ate it.
From then on, he slowly fell in love with that taste, and even though his life is better now, he still wants to have that taste occasionally.
“That’s disgusting.”
Wen Tingting couldn't help but muttered something under her breath, then turned around and left.
Qin Ye felt somewhat uncomfortable, but thinking that Jiang Dazhuang might be the only person who had seen the "Cat Fairy" so far, he patiently continued to ask: "How did you know the deceased Zheng Chaochao, and the other deceased people? Please tell me in detail."
Jiang Dazhuang nodded hurriedly and confessed honestly: "I met Zheng Chaochao when I was catching a cat. He saw me catching a cat and scared me. As a result, he pulled me aside and started chatting happily. Then I found out...he knew a lot of people who abuse cats."
Zheng Chaochao took Jiang Dazhuang to their gatherings several times.
At first, Jiang Dazhuang thought he had met "like-minded people", but after joining them a few times, he realized that this group of people were simply cat-torturers.
He had no interest in abusing cats, and stopped participating in it over time. However, he would still contact Zheng Chaochao occasionally and buy dead cats from him directly to eat.
"That group of people... are all perverts. They said that the screams of cats sounded like those of babies. Especially this boy..."
Jiang Dazhuang pointed at Tang Xiaohua's photo, his fingers shaking. "He cut off the tails of all the cats he killed and put them all in a small box with peony flowers."
Tang Xiaohua once took out the cat's tail to show off to everyone at a party.
Qin Ye heard this and took out the five tails left on the five dead bodies from the evidence bag and asked Jiang Dazhuang: "Look at these tails, are there any you have seen before?"
Jiang Dazhuang only took a glance and nodded quickly: "I have seen it before! He even showed off to us at the time that he had plucked all the tails out of his body!"
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The laboratory had extracted several fingerprints from the tail a few days ago, and the fingerprints all came from the same person.
But everyone thought that the fingerprint on the tail belonged to the murderer, and no one thought that the fingerprint might belong to the first victim, Tang Xiaohua.
Li Quan immediately went to the laboratory to find someone to do some testing, and sure enough, the fingerprints on the tail matched Tang Xiaohua's fingerprints exactly.
This also means that the murderer did not leave the scene without taking anything away - at least, the murderer must have taken away the small box that Tang Xiaohua used to store the cat's tail.
The members of the criminal investigation team looked at each other and saw the joy on each other's faces of finally finding a clue.
Murong and Wen Tingting went to the Tang family again and learned from Tang Xiaohua's parents that Tang Xiaohua had indeed kept a small red lacquered wooden box locked with a few beautiful peonies painted on it.
Murong: "The word 'Hua', Tang Xiaohua's name, is engraved on the bottom of the box. It was only after we arrived that Tang Jun suddenly realized that he had not seen the box since Tang Xiaohua passed away. So -"
So - based on all the current signs, the box was taken away by the murderer.
After each murder, the murderer would take a cat's tail from the box and leave it on the victim.
The murderer turned this into "Revenge of the Cat Fairy".
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According to Jiang Dazhuang's explanation, Qin Ye followed the clues and found the place where the cat abuse organization held a gathering.
When she and her men broke into the room, the group was kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and praying frantically. The altar on the ground was filled with offerings, and on top of the offerings was a statue of a black cat with blood-red eyes.
According to the leader, the "Revenge of the Cat Fairy" incident has been making a lot of noise recently, and their cat-torturing companions have died one after another. They are really panicking...
They gathered here today to discuss and see if they could find a way to deal with the "Cat Fairy".
When I got there, I saw there was an altar in the room. The black cat statue on the table was staring at everyone. After a while, blood gushed out of the black cat's eyes and dripped onto the ground, quickly attracting the attention of the ants.
Dense swarms of ants were moving on the ground, arranging themselves to form four big words: "Blood debt must be paid with blood."
"This is the Cat Fairy's warning! Because we abuse cats... the Cat Fairy will kill us, he will kill us..."
They were so frightened that they burst into tears, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the black cat statue on the altar, begging for mercy.
The group of people were quickly taken away by the police, and soon only personnel from the Criminal Investigation Team 1 and the Forensic Examination Department were left at the scene.
Qin Ye stared at the black cat on the altar for a long time, put on gloves, and picked up the black cat statue from the table. It felt extremely cold.
Liang Dong subconsciously took two steps back and tried to dissuade him: "Captain Qin, don't touch this thing, it looks very evil..."
Qin Ye pulled the corner of his lip indifferently and tapped lightly on the body of the black cat statue. Sure enough, a muffled sound of foreign objects hitting the body came from inside. She picked up a hammer and carefully knocked a small hole in the statue, and a piece of frozen blood fell out of the statue.
Wen Tingting stepped forward in surprise: "Huh? This is..."
Yu Cheng put the blood clot into the reagent bottle and said, "The color of this blood is still very fresh, so the time of death should not be too long. I will tell you the results after I go back and do a careful test."
Qin Ye stared at the statue filled with blood and marveled at the murderer's cleverness.
The murderer made waterproof protection for other parts of the black cat statue, except for the eyes, which were left empty. The blood clots frozen in the statue melt over time, creating the illusion of "the cat fairy crying".
As for the ants on the ground...
She leaned over and touched the blood on the ground, then put the blood-stained gloves to her nose and sniffed. Behind the bloody smell, there seemed to be a hint of sweetness.
She turned to Yu Cheng and said, "Please ask the inspection department to inspect this ground. The 'Cat Fairy' must have done something here."
Sure enough, it was soon discovered that the ground had been coated with sugar water in advance.
The murderer wrote the words "blood debt must be paid with blood" with sugar water, which attracted the ants to gather together.
Qin Ye smiled - this murderer was indeed very good at taking advantage of and inciting people's hearts.
The murderer knows very well that these cat abusers are particularly afraid of the "Cat Fairy", so he uses this crude but "fantasy" method to scare these cat abusers into defeat.
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Yu Cheng conducted a detailed test on the blood clot in the black cat statue and found that the blood clot was a mixture of blood from multiple people.
"I suspect that this human blood belongs to the five deceased people, but with the current testing methods, it is difficult to separate the blood and retest it."
Yu Cheng's face was filled with worry. "I'm afraid you won't be able to use these blood clots as a breakthrough point."
Qin Ye took the test report and looked at it, then sighed: "It seems that now I can only listen to the bureau and take the dumbest approach."
We learned from the captured cat abusers that their "cat abuse club" has two member contact books.
One of the volumes was in his hand, and the other was in the hand of the deceased Zheng Chaochao.
When the police investigated the scene, they did not find the contact book at Zheng Chaochao's residence.
Considering that Zheng Chaochao's residence was turned into a mess, Qin Ye suspected that the contact book was now in the hands of the murderer. It is because of this that the murderer can accurately identify cat abusers time and time again and commit the crime.
All the surviving members of the "Cat Abuse Club" listed in the contact list are secretly protected by the police.
Wen Tingting was somewhat resentful about this: "This group of scumbags... why do they make our police waste their energy? I read in a foreign crime analysis book that every cat abuser is a potential murderer. It's really..."
As she spoke, her eyes turned red with anger.
Qin Ye put his hand on her shoulder and patted her gently as a silent way of comforting her.
Of course she could understand Wen Tingting's feelings.
If these cat abusers died in an accident, she would not feel sorry for them, and might even say it was retribution. However, now these cat abusers have died from abuse, and the real culprit behind the scenes is using this serial murder case to incite the emotions of countless people.
The longer the case is delayed, the more innocent people will be implicated.
Waiting for something to happen is the best approach right now.
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Qin Ye was worried that the murderer would notice the police in the dark, so he decided to proceed on multiple fronts.
She focused her attention on the unique black cat statue, and after much research, she finally found the store that sold the most similar statues in the city.
The shop owner held the statue in his hands and examined it carefully for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Comrade police officer, this is not sold in our store. I dare say that there is no store in the city that sells statues like this."
This black cat statue is so exquisite that it is simply beyond the level of craftsmanship that the city’s sculpture factory can produce.
"But I know someone..."
The shop owner frowned and thought for a long time, then slowly spoke, "If he made it himself, he should be able to make a sculpture of this level. But as far as I know, his hands are broken..."
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