Chapter 59 Haunted House Mystery: The Hanged Corpse

With a bang, a door appeared on the wall facing the bride, and the door slowly opened.

The store manager looked at Mu Mian in shock, "Have you seen the guide of our store? How do you know the password?"

"This is a very simple number reasoning question. The number is divided into two parts, the decimal part is a geometric sequence with a common ratio of three. The integer part is also a sequence, and the difference between two similar numbers in this sequence can form a new sequence, and the new sequence is still a geometric sequence with a common ratio of three." Mu Mian explained very seriously.

The boss was stunned, and he was a little dizzy just listening to her explanation. Can this be called simple?

Xiao Zhang and the others are no longer surprised. Mu Mian's brain function ability is not at the same level as theirs.

"Is the touch screen cleaned regularly?" Fang Rui asked.

"Yes, about once a week. We haven't had time to clean it this week, and the discovery of the corpse has disrupted our work schedule."

Fang Rui said to Xiao Wang: "Xiao Wang, extract the fingerprints on the touch screen."

The murderer must enter the password to enter this hidden level, so he is likely to leave fingerprints on the screen. Of course, it is not ruled out that the murderer entered the password while wearing gloves.

"Okay, boss!"

The manager took them into the hidden level.

The room was dark. The manager touched the eyeball on the wall, and the room instantly lit up with a light green light, and prop corpses dressed as brides or grooms appeared in front of them.

The corpses all appeared in pairs of men and women, with scars and makeup on their faces. Some were hung on the wall, and some were suspended above their heads. There were also many empty noose hanging above their heads, as if waiting for new victims to be hung on them.

"These are all prop corpses," the store manager said, pointing to the male corpse dressed as a groom above their heads, "except this one. He is a real corpse, and we don't know how he was hung up."

The corpse was hung by a noose made of coarse hemp rope. The dead man's face was pale, and his red tongue could be vaguely seen sticking out slightly. With his bloody and terrifying makeup, he looked very weird.

He was wearing a black suit stained with blood and a firework on his chest. At first glance, he was no different from other prop corpses.

"Today our clerk came in to clean up and found an extra prop groom. At first he thought some stupid player had moved it from another scene and he didn't take it seriously. In the past, players often did such wicked things. Later,

when he was cleaning the floor, the shoes of the corpse hit his face and he found that the corpse was wearing AJ. He immediately realized that something was wrong. How could a prop corpse wear brand-name shoes? As a result, when he touched it, it turned out to be a real corpse. We immediately called the police." The store manager described the process of discovering the corpse.

"Was the corpse in this state when you found it?" Mu Mian asked.

"Yes. We also know some common sense in solving crimes, so we didn't touch the body and sealed off the scene immediately."

Fang Rui asked: "Do you know this man? Is he a regular customer of your store?"

The manager immediately shook his head and said: "I don't know him. His face is like this, how can you tell who it is."

The body was hung very high, and it was a bit troublesome to take it down. Fang Rui was about to ask the store manager for a ladder when he heard the store manager say, "The raising and lowering of this rope can be controlled by a mechanism. It can go up or down by sliding the mechanism. Are you going to put the corpse down?"

"Yes."

There were many skeleton hands on the wall. The store manager found the hand facing the corpse. He slid the ring on the skeleton hand outwards, and the corpse actually fell slowly. After a while, it fell to the ground.

"This is also a small mechanism. If the player touches the rings on these skeletons, these hanging corpses will rise or fall." The store manager explained, and he added, "This design is very creative, right? This is unique to our store!"

"..." Xiao Zhang was speechless. It can be seen that this store manager is very satisfied with these unethical mechanisms in their store that scare people to death but do not punish their lives.

The lighting here is not very good, so Mu Mian can only roughly examine the body.

The deceased's face is extremely pale, and there is a deep cord groove in the neck. The location is roughly between the hyoid bone and the thyroid cartilage. The cord groove is deepest near the throat and gradually becomes shallower on both sides.

The deceased's cornea is highly cloudy, black spots appear on the sclera, the oral mucosa and conjunctiva are autolyzed, and the abdomen is septic and swollen. The body spots are close to the infiltration stage. From these characteristics, it can be inferred that the deceased has been dead for 18 to 20 hours.

"The deceased should have died between 3 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon," Mu Mian frowned and said, "The cause of death should be hanging."

"Hanging? You said he committed suicide?" The store manager exclaimed, "Oh my God, why did he come to my store to commit suicide? Wouldn't this affect my business? Why did he have to die here when he could have died anywhere else?"

"Hanging is not the same as hanging oneself." Mu Mian corrected him, "Hanging is death caused by suffocation due to gravity pressing on the neck. In layman's terms, he was hanged. There are two situations, he hanged himself or someone hung him up with his head down."

"That's unlikely. It's not easy to hang a living person. Shouldn't the murderer have strangled the person to death?" The store manager knew a little about homicides.

Mu Mian explained, "You can distinguish between strangulation and hanging by the shape of the grooves. In the case of hanging, the dead person's own gravity acts on the neck, and the force is uneven. The grooves may be light or heavy, or even empty .

In contrast, in the case of strangulation, external mechanical forces act on the neck. The neck is quasi-circular, and the force applied is relatively uniform, so the depth of the grooves will also be relatively consistent.

In addition, the grooves on most strangled victims intersect.

The grooves on this corpse are of inconsistent depth, and his face is pale, which can prove that he was strangled. If he was strangled, his face would be purple-red, just like the faces of the prop corpses hanging above. Your prop corpses are not made very professionally."

The shop owner stopped talking.

Fang Rui looked around the room for a while, then he reached out and moved the ring on the skeleton's hand. When he slid it outward, the rope would descend, and the distance it descended was positively correlated with the distance he slid the ring; and when he slid the ring inward, the rope would slowly rise, and the distance it rose was also related to the distance he slid the ring .

He looked at the empty rope, as if he suddenly understood the murderer's modus operandi.

He turned his head to look at Mu Mian, "Will the murderer first stun the victim, then put the victim's neck on the rope, slide the ring, let the rope slowly rise, and hang the victim. He killed people in this way, is he trying to pretend that the victim committed suicide?"

"But he was able to crack the password of the door. Although the password was not very complicated, he was able to solve it, which proved that he was not a stupid person. How could he be so naive to think that he could pretend to commit suicide in this way? This idea is too stupid."

"..." Fang Rui felt that he was being implicated. Was he also stupid to make such a guess?

"Fang Rui, you are very smart. Don't doubt yourself." Mu Mian comforted him.

"..."

There is no surveillance installed in this copy, but surveillance is installed at the entrance and exit of the copy, and the surveillance is useful. Fang Rui took away the surveillance video of the past month.

Back in the bureau, Mu Mian cleaned off the heavy makeup on the face of the deceased, revealing his clean and fair face. The deceased looked average, with heavy dark circles under his eyes. It can be seen that he probably liked to stay up late.

Apart from the abrasion on his neck, he had no other external injuries, let alone any resistance injuries. This shows that he had not struggled before his death.

The deceased was wearing a suit on the outside, a long-sleeved sweatshirt and a pair of blue jeans inside. The suit jacket was put on him first. His clothes were very neat, and there was no distortion caused by the struggle.

Mu Mian also extracted the deceased's blood for toxicology testing.

Fang Rui found a mobile phone in the deceased's pocket, and they quickly figured out the identity of the deceased.

The deceased's name is Liu Xiaonian, 24 years old, unemployed, and now lives with his parents and relies on them for a living. Liu Xiaonian is also an escape room enthusiast.