The Evil White Nightmare (19)

The next morning, Meng Siqi deliberately got up a little late to avoid running into Lu He and Shen Xiangming when she went out. However, she still ran into Shen Xiangming at the police station. Not only did Shen Xiangming have a cracked mouth, but one of his cheeks was also swollen, so one of his eyes was squeezed very small, making him look very wolfish.

But Shen Xiangming just smiled at her without saying hello to her, as if it was a smile of relief. Meng Siqi also smiled and walked past him. She still remembered Lu He's warning to Shen Xiangming, "Don't get close to Meng Siqi in the future, otherwise I will beat him to death." This may have made Shen Xiangming alert.

The entire police station noticed the injuries on Lu He and Shen Xiangming's faces, but no one asked the reason. It seemed that in everyone's mind, the two had a fight.

Liu Maoping also discovered it. Lu He explained that he fell off his bike, while Shen Xiangming explained that Lu He was distracted by looking at the girl while riding his bike and bumped into him. This made Liu Maoping think that they just had a fight. However, Liu Maoping knew that the two were friends in college, and they probably had a lot of small grudges in life. He didn't want to interfere since they solved the problem in a man's way.

In the morning, Xu Wangtu was discharged from the hospital and returned to the interrogation room. Han Changlin was not in the office. Feng Shaomin assigned Meng Siqi and Tang Xiaochuan to participate in the interrogation with Team 1 because Xu Wangtu was involved in two cases of Team 1 and Team 2.

Meng Siqi usually doesn't have any random thoughts when she's working, but when she arrived at the door of the interrogation room, she remembered that she would meet Lu He. Lu He's words last night were still ringing clearly in her ears, and she didn't know what kind of mentality she would have when she saw him again.

She stood there for a second or two, and only after Tang Xiaochuan opened the door and looked at her did she regain her composure and walk in with Tang Xiaochuan. Lu He was inside, but after she entered, Lu He never turned around to look at her. It was not until she sat down that she felt Lu He turned around and looked at her.

This is working time, Meng Siqi quickly put aside these distracting thoughts and faced the suspect Xu Wangtu seriously.

Xu Wangtu had been interrogated once before. Last time, his mental state revealed a great deal of shrewdness. This time, he was like an eggplant hit by frost. He sat with no strength, hanging on by his last breath, as if he would fall down at any moment. However, after Meng Siqi entered the room, there was a hint of resentment in his eyes.

Even though Xu Wangtu was in a very low mental state, Meng Siqi could tell from his neatly tidy hair and neatly tidied clothes that Xu Wangtu was very clean and took good care of himself.

This interrogation was arranged in advance to be presided over by Meng Siqi, but Meng Siqi did not expect that Xu Wangtu had a good attitude towards admitting his guilt.

He said that after his son Xu Jianfei was expelled from school, he went to Liu Zizi's parents three times to ask for understanding, but was rejected every time.

Seeing Xu Jianfei sinking into depravity and almost committing suicide, Xu Wangtu began to plan a revenge plan. His original plan was to kidnap Liu Zizi and force her to tell the truth.

After school that day, it was raining heavily and he saw the girl, Liu Zizi. He had seen Liu Zizi's sky blue schoolbag and a gray bear doll tied to it at her home.

In addition to these, there is also a school photo of Liu Zizi, but it is a photo with a female classmate.

Taking advantage of the heavy rain, Xu Wangtu used drugs to bring Liu Zizi, who was walking in the rain, to the car. The umbrella and heavy rain blocked the surrounding vision. Xu Wangtu had smeared the drugs on the handkerchief in advance. The little girl fainted after taking only a few puffs.

In those four cases, he took advantage of bad weather because it was easier to move around. Two times it was raining heavily, one time it was foggy, and one time it was snowing.

After Xu Wangtu took Liu Zizi away, he settled down at an abandoned construction site that he had scouted in advance. At first, he really had no intention of killing Liu Zizi. He took off his coat and put the child on it. At first, he vented his anger on the child, stroking her belly and asking her if she had slandered the teacher like this at the time. The child's quiet sleep made Xu Wangtu begin to feel excited.

Starting from venting his resentment, Xu Wangtu became obsessed with the child's body. On the deserted construction site, he turned on the car lights and molested the child as he pleased while flipping through the child's books. But he soon found that the name in the textbooks was all Qian Shuyin. Only then did he realize that he had kidnapped the wrong person.

He began to realize that Qian Shuyin and Liu Zizi might have the same schoolbags and teddy bear dolls, and the photo he saw at her house that day was of Qian Shuyin and Liu Zizi. With so many coincidences, he mistakenly took Qian Shuyin for Liu Zizi.

He was a little crazy at the time, pounding the ground and shouting desperately. Just at this moment, the girl woke up in a daze. He was startled and covered her mouth again with the handkerchief dipped in medicine, but the effect of the handkerchief had worn off. He went back to the car to look for it again, only to find that the bottle of medicine was missing. It was very likely that she was accidentally lost on the way.

He returned to the child again. The girl saw him and cried in fear, but because of the effect of the drugs, she had no strength and could not get up. Xu Wangtu knew that his identity had been exposed. He was completely irrational at the time. He directly picked up the clothes he had taken off the child and covered her face with them. Soon, the child was suffocated to death.

Xu Wangtu remembered that the child grabbed him a few times with his little hands at the end, but he felt pleasure.

From that day on, Xu Wangtu suddenly found that he liked that feeling. When he had no contact with children, he felt extremely empty inside, as if he was trapped in hell. This was also the origin of the three cases that followed.

After committing the first crime, he abandoned the child's body on the construction site and cleaned up the scene. He found the child's home phone number from the test paper, and made a fake ransom call from a public phone nearby, and then there was no further action.

However, in the next three cases, he chose to commit crimes randomly. His targets were children who were nicely dressed and clean, because such children attracted him and their family conditions must not be too bad, which fit the illusion of kidnapping and extortion. After molestation, he would kill.

He abandoned the second child by the stream and the third by the fire. He gradually realized that his behavior was beginning to conform to the elements of "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" and that the totem could confuse the police even more.

For the fourth child, he specially built a bird's nest made of branches and placed him in the nest after killing him. At this point, the "wood" element was completed, and only the "gold" element was missing. He had decided to look for a new target, a little girl who had just won a dance competition award in a school. The girl's surname was Jin.

However, an "accident" happened at this time. Because Xu Jianfei joined an Olympiad training class, Zhou Yingjun came back from her parents' home for the first time since the divorce and brought back her granddaughter Xu Yizhou. Xu Wangtu had to spend time taking care of his granddaughter, so he had no time to commit the fifth murder.

When Xu Wangtu described the process of these crimes, his eyes were cold-blooded, without a trace of emotion. Only when he turned to Xu Yizhou did his emotion fade a little. Finally, he said: "I never thought that Zhou Zhou would do it in the same way... If I knew this would be the case, I would not..." His eyes gradually turned red.

However, the interrogation room had become dead silent. This was the toughest interrogation and also the most tormenting one in Meng Siqi's criminal career. Xu Wangtu described the process of molesting and killing children four times. He was a hundred times more evil than the devil. He deserved to be cut into pieces and tortured alive. However, as a police officer, Meng Siqi knew that there was only one outcome for Xu Wangtu, and that was the death penalty.

But this cannot soothe the children's unjust deaths, nor can it soothe the grief and pain of the four children's parents.

She could sense that all her colleagues in the interrogation room were angry. Meng Siqi suppressed her anger and said in a sharp voice, "Xu Wangtu, does your son Xu Jianfei know that you have committed a crime?"

"I don't know either. I took Qian Shuyin into the car that time and her red scarf fell under the seat. I didn't find it later. Jianfei borrowed my car and he might have found the red scarf, but he doesn't necessarily think I kidnapped Qian Shuyin because I created a very good alibi on the day I kidnapped Qian Shuyin. I can only say that Jianfei suspected me."

"So what do you think the person who kidnapped Xu Yizhou has to do with you?"

Xu Wangtu raised his head, and his eyes turned red again when he mentioned Xu Yizhou. "I don't know. I was threatened that time. They asked me to put on clothes and a helmet and deliver the money to the dock. I have been in the motorcycle club and now I am the deputy principal of the driving school. I am confident that my driving skills are good. I was lucky to escape your pursuit that day, so I just wanted to pay the money and save my granddaughter."

Meng Siqi continued to ask: "Why use an eraser to wipe the children when... molesting them?" In fact, when Meng Siqi described this problem, he was not only confused but also heartbroken.

"I have a germaphobia. Children are very clean, ten times cleaner than adults, but they are bound to have some dirt on their bodies, so I will use an eraser to wipe off the dirt. I want them to be clean, and then I will feel very comfortable..."

Meng Siqi felt a tearing feeling in her heart, but she did not show it and endured it instead.

After asking a few more questions and confirming that the chain of evidence was complete, Meng Siqi planned to end the interrogation. The depression she felt from this interrogation was too severe.

She glanced at Lu He, who understood. He stood up and ordered Lin Tao, "Lin Tao, take Xu Wangtu to the crime scene to identify him clearly."

"Okay, team."

Lu He wanted to make the evidence chain as complete as possible. After giving his instructions, he glanced at Meng Siqi and said, "Siqi, you guys go back first. I'll have someone send the transcript to the Korean team later."

"Okay. Team Lu." Meng Siqi knew that Lu He could see that she was in a low mood. She and Tang Xiaochuan walked out of the interrogation room together and finally felt a little better. On the way, Tang Xiaochuan told her to go back and have a good rest and not to think too much.

Xu Wangtu's confession is not the end of the case, because there is still the whereabouts of Xu Yizhou and the secret of the White-Faced Man.

In the afternoon, when she was organizing her notes on her desk, a tall figure walked into the office. It was Zhao Leiting's voice that brought her out of her heavy mood, "Hey, Captain Lu, how come you have time to come to our place?"

When Meng Siqi looked up, she saw Lu He walking towards her and Zhao Leiting with his hands behind his back. His face looked pale, but his eyes were looking at her.

Meng Siqi remembered that Lu He almost never came to the second team's office. She was confused for a moment. He wouldn't want to talk to her about something unrelated to work, would he? He wouldn't even confuse work and life time.

She felt her face flush and quickly glanced at the office. She found that fortunately only Zhao Lei Ting was there. If Team Han and her master were there, she would not know how to explain.

Zhao Lei Ting smiled and said, "Is Team Lu here to visit us? Or is he here to visit Siqi?"

She stood up, feeling a little awkward, because Lu He was walking towards her. She was afraid that he would grab a cup of milk tea from behind her the next second, and she would be so embarrassed on the spot. Didn't he say that he would pursue her after half a year? Are all men really like this? He can't even wait for half a year.

Lu He walked to her desk, still as calm as ever, completely different from him last night. He just looked at her indifferently, making Meng Siqi a little at a loss.

Lu He took out something from behind him. At that glance, Meng Siqi felt as if he was gliding to the ground, because what he was holding in his hand was a file.

"Both your Lao Han and Lao Feng are not here?" Lu He asked.

Meng Siqi nodded. Lu He meant that since they were not here, he could only discuss this matter with you.

Zhao Lei Ting tilted his head in the back, looking at her table as if he was looking at something good.

"This is the file of the Red Paint Serial Murder Case from more than 20 years ago." Lu He placed the file on her desk.

Meng Siqi was startled, and when she looked at the yellowed file, she had mixed feelings. She was deeply impressed that the Red Paint Serial Murder Case happened first, and the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case happened later, and the two cases happened 24 years apart.

Judging from the news in the original world, the methods used in the two cases were similar. In the red makeup case, the murderer used cosmetics to carefully apply makeup on the girl, while in the red paint case, the girl was painted with red paint, but the location and brushstrokes of the painting were very similar. At that time, some experts believed that the two cases might be related by imitation, but it was not ruled out that the same person committed the crime.

As for why it is red paint, it is because around the 1970s, cosmetics were rare and paint was more common due to environmental limitations.

Meng Siqi also understood. It was last night that she and Lu He mentioned the Hong Zhuang serial murder case. Lu He seemed to want her to know more about it.

"Captain Lu, sit down." Zhao Leiting moved a chair over.

"Okay." Lu He sat down and asked Meng Siqi to sit down as well. He opened the bag, took out the file, opened the first page and placed it in front of Meng Siqi.

Meng Siqi read the first page carefully. She knew very little about this case, but the words were full of mystery and weirdness. The murderer was extremely careful in the process of committing the crime and did not leave any clues. Three women died in the Red Lacquer Case, all young women, between the ages of 19 and 27.

The police captain who participated in the investigation was Liu Maoping. There was also Liang Chenghao, but his identity was an external criminal psychologist. She remembered that Liang Chenghao was Liang Ran's father and Lu He's adoptive father, which meant that Liang Chenghao lived in Jinyang City for a long time.

Who would have thought that these yellowed and moldy pieces of paper would actually connect the world together? What did they experience 24 years ago?

Not knowing what kind of past event that was, she silently memorized the names of the three female victims. Perhaps she would have to learn more about them in the future.

When she turned to the back, her eyes suddenly flashed, and a name shot into her eyes like a sharp arrow - Xu Wangtu.

"Xu Wangtu is also involved in this case?" Meng Siqi looked up at Lu He.

He nodded and said, "Xu Wangtu was probably 27 or 28 years old at the time. Xu Jianfei was born to him and his ex-wife. His second wife, Xie Wenjuan, was one of the victims. Xu Wangtu came to the police station for questioning at the time."

Meng Siqi quickly turned to the page of information about Xu Wangtu's wife. The deceased was named Xie Wenjuan, 24 years old, a Chinese teacher at Hope Primary School in Jinyang City. One afternoon 24 years ago, she was murdered in her home in the Hope Primary School dormitory. At that time, all her clothes were taken off, and there were patterns painted with red paint on her body.

This is also the third and final case of the Red Paint Serial Murders.