When the police were tied up by Yu Can's two boxes of fruit, many other things happened at the same time.
For example, Ji Feng, he didn't know clearly, maybe there was no bomb in the fruit box, and the remote control was just a cover, but he couldn't take the risk.
There were too many crazy people, and some prisoners knew they couldn't escape, so they would drag a few more people to cushion their backs. Who wouldn't say it was unjust if they met such a person? But death is death.
Everyone has only one life.
He also has only one relative, his sister.
What's more, Yu Can has another hostage in his hand.
But he still couldn't figure it out, what exactly did Yu Can want to do? Did he think he could escape by holding him?
The car deviated from the main road and drove out of the city.
It was late at night, and the white light of the street lamps was so bright that it was cool, like winter snow, which suddenly stung the eyes. Ji Feng closed his eyes and suddenly said, "You threw away your phone, can you tell the truth?"
Yu Can asked, "What?"
Ji Feng: "Why Li Xiaonuan?"
Yu Can asked back, "Do you care about her because your father died in this case?"
"Because Li Xiaonuan is very special." He was not angered, and narrated calmly, "She was the first time the murderer had attacked after five years of abstinence. He also prepared a scapegoat in advance and retreated quickly after a successful attack, which was very different from the four cases he committed before."
Yu Can asked, "What do you think?"
"I asked you because I couldn't figure it out." Ji Feng said, "You don't want to answer this?"
The car turned onto the dirt road, and the scenery on both sides changed from the fences of the road to half-human-high weeds. The tires rolled over the bumpy road, and the car shook from time to time. After a while, Yu Can said, "She knew something she shouldn't know."
As expected.
"What about the others?" Ji Feng asked, "Who are they and why do you want to kill them?"
Yu Can didn't answer.
He said, "They are ordinary and honest people. Although they are young, you were also young in 2002. You are infertile, but they don't have children either. Their economic conditions are not good, and they don't have promiscuous relationships. They are diligent and kind... Ms. Yu, I don't understand, what is your motive?"
"Ordinary and honest." Yu Can repeated the two words lightly, and suddenly smiled with a cold expression. "You think I'm jealous, but you can't find a reason to be jealous, right?"
Ji Feng said readily, "Yes, that's why I'm curious."
Yu Can clenched his hands around the steering wheel tightly, and the veins on the back of his hands were exposed. "It's very simple. Some things seem ordinary to ordinary people, but they are things that some people will never get."
Ji Feng frowned, and the life stories of several dead people quickly flashed through his mind.
Liu Meng's father is a gambler, her mother died of cancer, Li Xiaonuan has both parents and is from a poor family, Wang Zihui's father is a farmer who works on the farm, her mother is said to have run away with someone and has no news... What do they have in common?
All the dead have only three things in common: they are young women, unmarried (this is just a guess), and childless.
After eliminating the impossible, is the remaining one the truth?
He couldn't help but look up and glanced at Yu Can.
"Don't look, you can't see it." Yu Can puffed out his chest, and under the bloated down jacket, his figure was still well-proportioned, a figure that many women envy.
Ji Feng stared at her for a long while, and suddenly asked: "The first victim is Yu Can?" He seemed to be asking, but his tone was firm, as if he had figured out the most puzzling part. "The time interval between the first case and the second case is too close, which does not conform to the usual behavioral logic of serial killers, unless the two cases have an obvious logical relationship."
His thoughts were smooth: "Are you Yu Can's older brother or younger brother? She is your sister, so you will not arouse any suspicion by replacing her identity. What about the second victim, is she also your sister? She discovered your actions, and killed her to silence her?
"You were afraid that their deaths would lead the police to find you, so you killed Liu Meng and Wang Zihui, trying to confuse the direction of the investigation. It was very smart. Of course, you became smarter in 2007. "
When he said the last sentence, his tone finally revealed a hint of anger.
The headlights illuminated the deserted path ahead, and gray snowflakes floated down and landed on the large glass in front of the car. They were scraped away by the wipers, leaving tiny water marks.
The lights were dim, and the bushes were full of phantoms.
"When I was very young, I often walked on such night roads." Yu Can spoke, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time, "In the countryside, my family was poor, and electric lights were not installed until 2000. When I was a child, I followed others to catch frogs by the pond, and I would walk through a road like this on the way home at night."
He fell into memories: "At that time, my eldest sister walked in front, I walked in the middle, and my little sister walked in the back. The frogs in the pockets kept croaking, and it was very noisy. When I got home, my elder sister was busy grinding flour and cooking noodles. After they were cooked, they ate steamed buns while I ate noodles with a poached egg inside. My younger sister kept swallowing her saliva, but my elder sister said that I was the only one in the family who could eat because I was a boy.
"I knew from a young age that boys and girls were different. Men have to carry on the family line and pass on the family line, but women can't. The meat and eggs in the family are also eaten by men, and women can only eat brown sugar eggs after giving birth. However, I don't know why, I always hope that I am a girl.
"The flowery dress my elder sister wore was very worn and old, but I liked it, even more than my own new clothes. My younger sister and I are not much different in age. Once I lied to her and asked her to exchange clothes with me. Who knew that my father found out and beat her up. She didn't get out of bed for several days. But my dad didn't touch me at all, and even praised me for loving my sister, so I didn't dare to tell the truth.
"People are so strange. The more you don't dare to think about it, the more you can't forget it. When I was a teenager, I started to grow up. I felt very uncomfortable when I saw my Adam's apple, and my voice also changed. I didn't like it. I liked my little sister's body. Sometimes I would secretly look at her and imagine that it was my own..." At
this moment, my thoughts traveled through the corridors of time and came to the gloomy teenage years.
Yu Can found that he still clearly remembered how much the boy who was hiding in the back of the bathroom and peeping was eager, eager for the body that didn't belong to him.
"What happened later?" Ji Feng asked, "What happened? Did you hit her?"
"I got married when I was 18," Yu Can said, "an acquaintance introduced us. We didn't get a marriage certificate. We just did the same thing, setting up a table for a banquet and that was it. After getting married, I was considered an adult in my hometown. I said I wanted to work outside, and my family quickly agreed. So I brought my wife here."
"When we first came here, we were very poor and couldn't find a good job, so I lived with my eldest sister. My wife is a sensible woman, like many women in my hometown, obedient and dutiful. But there was one thing I was afraid she would tell others."
He told the story straightforwardly: "I never had sex with her. My eldest sister was afraid that she couldn't have children, so she asked her to see a doctor. Then she told my eldest sister. My eldest sister was afraid that I was sick, so she wanted to find an opportunity to talk to me alone, but..."
A series of uncontrollable sneers spilled from his throat, gloomy and violent.
"She saw me wearing my wife's clothes, she was scared to death, rushed in to strip me... When she came to her senses, I had strangled her to death."
He lightly passed over the most horrifying part, as if it was not important at all.
"I don't know how to tell you how I feel, you won't understand. She was lying there, her body was so soft and beautiful, I couldn't control myself at all, I immediately took off her clothes and put them on myself. It was so beautiful, really beautiful, I look a lot like my elder sister, in the mirror, I seem to have become her."
Twenty years have passed since the first case in 2002, but at this moment, when he recalled that moment, Yu Can could still feel the shudder at that time.
He immediately made up his mind to replace his elder sister and become Yu Can.
Ji Feng asked at the right time: "Then, how did you deal with the body?"
"I thought about this question for a long time," Yu Can raised his head and recalled his feelings bit by bit, "To replace my elder sister, I must destroy her face. At that time, I didn't know about sulfuric acid or anything like that. I just knew that it would be invisible after being burned by fire, so I decided to burn it."
Ji Feng nodded, thinking, the origin of everything.
"Who is the second victim? When did you do it?" He asked, but suddenly an interesting idea flashed through his mind.
If it was Teacher Jian here, he would definitely say: "The second victim must be your wife. She found some abnormal traces, otherwise you shouldn't have taken action against her so quickly..."
In a nutshell, speaking the criminal's words makes the criminal speechless.
Perhaps, this is the biggest difference between a detective and a policeman.
Yu Can continued, "I hid the body in the woodshed behind the rental house, and from that day on, I didn't let my wife go in. But she didn't listen. That day I went outside to get gasoline, and the window was smashed by the neighbor's kid. The wind blew in, and she went to the woodshed to find wood to repair the window, and then she saw..."
After a pause of three or four seconds, the voice rang out without any disturbance, as if it was all an illusion.
"She was a good woman, and she was on my side in her heart. She didn't dare to say anything and pretended not to know, but I still found out. To be honest, I was really conflicted during those days - every night, I held her in my arms to sleep, and when I was drowsy, sometimes I felt that it was my body, but when I was awake, I was jealous and crazy.
"I didn't want to kill her, but since she found out, she would yell sooner or later, so that night, when she came back from the night shift, I cooked her a bowl of instant noodles with eggs and ham, and poisoned her to death."
He exhaled and said, "As for the last two women, just like you said, I was afraid of being discovered, so I decided to kill two more. I didn’t think much when I was choosing, I just chose someone who looked similar to my sister and my wife. Oh, by the way, that was also my first time dressing up as a woman. In winter, I wore thick clothes and I was thin, so I couldn’t tell at all. My sister had a uniform issued by their agency, which looked very decent, so they were quickly fooled.”
Ji Feng asked, “Where is Li Xiaonuan?”
“After 2003, I actually didn’t want to kill anyone anymore. There was no need.” Yu Can took the initiative to uncover another mystery of the case, “I lied to my mother, saying that my wife ran away with someone, and my eldest sister found a husband far away and would not come back, so I sent some money back. They didn’t ask too many questions, and everything went smoothly, but I still had a bold idea in my mind - I wanted to become a real woman.”
“In 2007, I saved some money and went to the hospital for a check-up. I wanted to have surgery. Unfortunately, I was hit by a car on the road. A kind girl passing by helped me pack my things and sent me to the hospital. I was not paying attention for a moment, and she took the report away and returned it to me the next day.
"Although she said she had not read it, I was worried. The report was just a few pages, and you couldn't tell whether it had been turned over or not. But I pretended not to mind, got her name, and knew that she studied painting, so I said I would introduce business to her... Then you know everything, I found a good place and people, tricked her to come, and waited until the day when it was about to snow, bought lunch and went to see her... It was that simple."
After telling the past, the road came to an end.
The car stopped in the weeds, and there was a large dilapidated building in front.
Ji Feng flipped through the old map to study the Li Xiaonuan case, and after a little thought, he remembered where this place was.
Abandoned thermal power plant.
"Get out of the car." Yu Can said, "Don't play any tricks, your sister..."
Before he finished speaking, Ji Feng had already taken action.