Madness of the Heart

Chapter 34 Demon Hunting (34)

Whether Zhan Huanxiong was the murderer of Luo Xiangfu or not, there is no conclusive evidence yet. He was motivated enough. He appeared at the scene of the murder and had time to commit the crime, but insisted that he saw the whole process of Luo Xiangfu’s murder.

In the case of an incomplete chain of evidence, the suspect’s confession is very important. As long as Zhan Huanxiong does not plead guilty, the crime team will have to continue the investigation. And even if Zhan Huanxiong pleaded guilty, the confession may be retracted in court.

So for every criminal police officer in the crime squad, this is a tough battle.

Zhan Huanxiong was temporarily detained at the Municipal Bureau.

Because he is suspected of entering the country illegally, this “temporary” maneuverability is very large. Unlike ordinary suspects, the police must release the person after the detention time limit has passed.

After the long and tense interrogation, Ming Shu found a small meeting room with no one. Sitting alone, seemingly in a daze, he was actually recalling every word and expression of Zhan Huanxiong.

Fang Yuanhang believes that Zhan Huanxiong has fabricated a story, and that the person wearing the raincoat in Zhan Huanxiong’s mouth is Zhan Huanxiong himself.

He actually thought so too.

Assuming that the murderer was someone else, how could Zhan Huanxiong be so coincidental that he was on the scene?

But in criminal investigation, coincidence or not is not the basis for judging whether a person is guilty.

Ming Shu leaned back on the chair, his eyelids closed, his eyebrows frowned tightly, and the bright light splashed on his eyelids, showing a dark red color.

Soon, the dark red moved, as if someone was approaching, gently blocking it with his hand.

He immediately opened his eyes.

“Why sit here alone?” Xiao Yuan held a police uniform jacket in his hand.

Only then did Ming Shu realize that the movement in front of him just now was that Xiao Yuan wanted to make a dress for herself.

“Xiao Ju.” He looked at the door, the door was not closed tightly.

It was at night when Zhan Huanxiong was arrested. After a few hours of trial, it is already two o’clock in the morning-when people are most sleepy.

In places like the Criminal Investigation Bureau, although many team members live their days and nights upside down, at this point in time, the corridors are still much quieter than during the day.

Ming Shu wiped his face and straightened his back. “I’m thinking about Zhan Huanxiong.”

Xiao Yuan moved a chair, “That’s right, let’s analyze it together.”

Ming Shu stared at Xiao Yuan, as if distracted, and did not speak for a long time.

Xiao Yuan asked: “What?”

Ming Shu don’t open his eyes, “…well, it’s nothing.”

He didn’t meet Xiao Yuan many times this time, and the last meeting was just discussing business affairs. A few days ago, he and Yi Fei and Xu Chun went deep into Shetu Town. The work of the crime team was supported by Xiao Yuan. Both of them were busy and had very little communication. After returning to Dongye City, he focused on arresting Zhan Huanxiong, and now he is alone with Xiao Yuan for the first time recently.

Xiao Yuan laughed, very low, but he immediately understood what he was thinking just now, Xiao Yuan could see clearly.

He cleared his throat and said seriously: “Let’s talk about business.”

Xiao Yuan nodded, “What do you think of Zhan Huanxiong’s confession?”

“Zhan Huanxiong is definitely the most suspected person now. What we lack is only the key evidence.” Ming Shu said: “He came to Dongye City to retaliate against Luo Xiangfu, but he witnessed Luo Xiangfu being killed by someone else. This is a coincidence.”

“It’s a coincidence.” Xiao Yuan said: “So you think Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer?”

“I…” Ming Shu paused, pressing his right hand firmly on the eye socket.

“You can’t make judgments easily.” Xiao Yuan said: “Mature than your little apprentice.”

Ming Shu raised his eyes and ran into Xiao Yuan’s gentle sight.

“Actually, I came to see you just to remind you that even if Zhan Huanxiong looks like a murderer, don’t make judgments lightly.” Xiao Yuan said: “Once you have a judgment in your heart, you think Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer. The focus of the investigation will be completely deflected, and while slamming his confession, he will look for key evidence that may not exist. If Zhan Huanxiong is the real murderer, there is no problem. But if Zhan Huanxiong is not, we will give the truth. A chance to breathe fiercely-once we thought that TA might be a serial killer, then when we focus on Zhan Huanxiong, TA might do it again.”

Ming Shu’s faint sleepiness has disappeared, and his eyes with scattered red bloodshot eyes are bright and serious, “I understand. If you want to investigate Zhan Huanxiong, you can’t give up the previous thinking.”

“Yeah.” Xiao Yuan said: “When you interrogated Zhan Huanxiong, I was watching the surveillance next door. His suspicion was really great, but his behavior was in line with his own logic.”

Mingshu also thought of this, but at the time facing Zhan Huanxiong, the spirit was tense, and it was definitely not as clear as Xiao Yuan.

“Xiao Ju, I want to hear your thoughts.”

“First, why didn’t Zhan Huanxiong call the police?” Xiao Yuan said: “A normal person would definitely call the police if he witnessed a murder. Even if he didn’t call the police immediately, he would tell his family and friends around him. However, Zhan Huanxiong did not follow the murder of Luo Xiangfu. Anyone said. Because in Dongye City, he doesn’t have anyone he trusts, and with his current status, he should be very reluctant to contact the police. Once a report is reported, the police station is likely to find him illegally entering the country, and he will be deported.”

“In addition.” Xiao Yuan continued: “He was born in Shetu Town, and he fought in neighboring countries all year round. In his consciousness, perhaps there was no such thing as an alarm at all.”

Ming Shu held his chin, “Zhan Huanxiong has an attempt to kill Luo Xiangfu, and he has followed Luo Xiangfu. After reporting the case, he will be exposed to the police.”

“Secondly, Zhan Huanxiong described the details of Luo Xiangfu’s murder.” Xiao Yuan said: “He said that the murderer took a picture of Luo Xiangfu before tapping Luo Xiangfu’s neck with a slender stick.”

Ming Shu’s eyes were still, “Xing Mu said during the autopsy that the murder weapon was a 1.3 cm three-sided cylinder. Zhan Huanxiong saw a slender stick, which is correct.”

“Now there are only two possibilities, one is that Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer, and the other is that Zhan Huanxiong saw the murderer.” Xiao Yuan said patiently: “Let’s make a rule of thumb. The situation where Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer, the story is made up by him. , With his skill, he can break Luo Xiangfu’s neck directly instead of repeatedly hitting it with a slender stick, right?”

Ming Shu nodded, “Yeah.”

“Okay, let this one go. It’s still the case that he is the murderer. Will he take pictures of Luo Xiangfu before he dies?” Xiao Yuan asked.

Ming Shu raised his hand, “Wait, he said the photo was taken. None of us knows whether Luo Xiangfu was photographed.”

“Maybe,” Xiao Yuan said.

Ming Shu asked: “How do you know?”

“Luo Xiangfu’s T-shirt has a large area of ​​sweat and saliva on the abdomen.” Xiao Yuan said: “Sweat is easy to say. The weather is so hot, and the abdomen will sweat. But under what circumstances will there be a lot of saliva on that spot?”

Ming Shu stood up and walked to the window to blow the air. After half a minute, he turned around and said, “The murderer lifted Luo Xiangfu’s T-shirt and covered his face! Shooting Luo Xiangfu naked! Luo Xiangfu was sweating out of fear. This must include the face, and then under fierce fear, Luo Xiangfu bit the cloth!”

Xiao Yuan said: “Then this is in line with Zhan Huanxiong’s eyewitness testimony.”

Ming Shu said, “I will think about it again.”

Now only the murder weapon is clear, and whether the murderer took pictures of Luo Xiangfu is unclear.

Zhan Huanxiong fully described the murderer’s act of taking pictures, either he actually saw it, or he fabricated it, or he took it himself.

The third kind of exclusion, as for the second kind, if it is fabricated, why is it fabricated to take pictures? Why not fabricate something else?

Only the first one is the most likely!

Xiao Yuan asked, “Did you think about it?”

Ming Shu became excited, “Yes!”

“Okay. Let me talk about the third point.” Xiao Yuan said: “If the murderer is Zhan Huanxiong, then his method of handling the corpse would be too hasty.”

Ming Shu remembered that when he first arrived at the scene, he felt that it was weird for the murderer to bury the body under the gravel.

There are more hidden places in the popular science amusement park. If the murderer wants to hide the body, the police will never find it easy. But the murderer only buried the body shallowly, and he would be discovered in ten and a half months.

The murderer seemed to be playing a game with the police.

“Zhan Huanxiong will not play games with us.” Ming Shu said: “After he killed Luo Xiangfu, he must find a safe place to dispose of the corpse. How could such a big flaw be left?”

Xiao Yuan said: “And I think he really wants to stay in Dongye City. In that case, we must deal with the corpse. We have not announced the deceased information, but many people living in Xicheng District know about the popular science playground. When something went wrong, Zhan Huanxiong worked in a bar, and the news was even better. He knew that the police had found Luo Xiangfu’s body. Would he still dare to stay in Dongye City?”

Ming Shu shook his head, “Even if he likes this place, he should leave temporarily.”

Xiao Yuan folded his hands together, “So I thought, maybe it was really just a coincidence-Zhan Huanxiong came to Dongye City to get revenge, but he ran into a scene where his enemy was killed.”

Ming Shu put his hand in the trouser pocket of the police uniform for a while, then took it out again, a little lost and excited. These two completely different emotions are all present on his face, and a series of sweat beads have been turned over from his heroic hairline.

“If Zhan Huanxiong is not the murderer, then we will be wasting our efforts during this time.” He said: “The case still has to return to the previous progress, I…”

“It was not in vain.” Xiao Yuan stood up and walked towards him, “We have found vital witnesses. This is the result of your investigation in Shetu Town.”

Ming Shu took a deep breath, a kind of power unique to the criminal police rapidly growing in his body.

“The information he provided actually corroborated our previous guess.” Xiao Yuan said: “The murderer not only took pictures of Luo Xiangfu, but also deliberately set off Luo Xiangfu’s clothes and took pictures of his body. It was street photography that caused Luo Xiangfu’s troubles.”

Fang Yuanhang did not participate in the discussion and still believed that the murderer was Zhan Huanxiong.

He rushed to the “Black Leaf with Sting” bar to inquire about Xianzi. After a moment of dazedness, Xianzi said: “Brother Xiong did find me that day and wanted to change the shift back with me. But I will be ready to go to work soon, he is so I was definitely not happy when it happened, so I didn’t change with him.”

“So whether Zhan Huanxiong will appear in the popular science amusement park that day depends on the current boy.” Yi Fei said.

“Hey, hey, don’t draw conclusions so early!” Fang Yuanhang was anxious, “Maybe Zhan Huanxiong guessed that Xianzi was unwilling to change shifts, so he deliberately asked Xianzi this way and asked Xianzi to endorse himself. You think , If it’s time for me to take a break today, and the Ming team suddenly changed my shift, asking me to go to work today and take a rest tomorrow, I’m ready to go to work, and I have arranged what to do when I’m off tomorrow, and I’m about to go out soon. When I went to work, the Ming team told me to rest according to the original plan. So my plan would not be disrupted? Of course I don’t want it, no one wants it. This is a psychological tactic! Zhan Huanxiong knew it a long time ago. Xianzi will not agree to change back!”

Ming Shu laughed.

“Master, what are you laughing at?” Fang Yuanhang said, “My analysis is wrong?”

“No, that’s right.” Ming Shu said: “Knowing doubts and knowing that logic is used to support this logic is worthy of praise.”

Fang Yuanhang’s eyes lit up, “That…”

Ming Shu said again: “But this time, Zhan Huanxiong may indeed not be the murderer.”

Zhan Huanxiong was taken into the interrogation room again, and Wenli sat across from him vigilantly.

Compared with the night, Zhan Huanxiong was much calmer. He stared at Ming Shu faintly and said, “What else do you want to ask?”

“You said you saw the murderer.” Ming Shu said: “Then, besides wearing a hat and a raincoat, what other characteristics do you have?”

Zhan Huanxiong was silent for a long time.

Wenli thought that Zhan Huanxiong did not understand and was about to translate, but Ming Shu raised his hand to stop it.

Ming Shu is good at observing people, and he can see that Zhan Huanxiong is not not understanding, but thinking.

As for what to think…

Suddenly, Zhan Huanxiong grinned, “Do you want me to help you find the murderer?”

Ming Shu sneered, “Do you want to make terms with me?”

“Okay!” Zhan Huanxiong’s Mandarin mixed with native dialects, speaking very fast, Wenli immediately translated: “He said that he can help, but after you find the murderer, you can’t send him back, let him continue to live in winter. Ye City.”

“Come with me, are you worthy?” Ming Shu put his hands on his chest, staring down at Zhan Huanxiong.

Although he grew up in the same environment, his temperament is quite different from Xiao Yu’an. Xiao Yuan is gentle and majestic, but he has a deep stigma in his bones. This stigma is mostly constrained, but occasionally faces the suspect. , When criminals, it will suddenly burst out.

Zhan Huanxiong obviously didn’t expect that the exquisite-looking and a little overly particular policeman in front of him had such an arrogant side. For a while, he was stunned, and his thoughts were confused. I subconsciously wanted to convince myself that this person was just bluffing, but suddenly thought that outside the bar yesterday, it was this person who ran wildly and robbed himself off.

Is a ruthless character.

Zhan Huanxiong swallowed, and his momentum became shorter, “What do you want?”

“Listen to me.” Ming Shu said, “You are working in Shetu Town. I can’t control you for the time being, but someone can take care of you. Has the Special Operations Team of the Ministry of Public Security heard of it?”

Cold sweat gushes out of Zhan Huanxiong’s back.

Ming Shu continued: “Now that you are on my site, you can’t help but make unreasonable conditions. You can answer whatever I ask, understand?”

Wenli had never seen Ming Shu speak in this tone, and followed him with anxiety.

Zhan Huanxiong opened his mouth for a long time, and finally said, “I, I will cooperate.”

Ming Shu leaned back in his chair, “Tell me the characteristics of the murderer.”

According to Zhan Huanxiong’s confession, the height of the murderer was between 1.62 meters and 1.65 meters. Because he was wrapped in a poncho, his face was also covered, so he could not tell whether he was a man or a woman. The poncho is loose, the chest and abdomen are fluffy, and the body shape cannot be distinguished, but the shoulders are almost close to the body. It can be seen that the murderer’s shoulders are thinner, and the possibility of being a woman is relatively high.

“In line with our previous inferences.” Yi Fei distributed the boxed lunch to everyone, and found that only one box was left when it was his turn.

From the captain and the deputy team to the trainees, the serious case team has an amazing appetite. They usually eat in the cafeteria, but they can’t get enough for one portion when ordering takeout. Ming Shu felt sorry for everyone, and ordered a box lunch from a nearby stewed meat restaurant, probably because the quantity was wrong, and one box was missing at the end.

Yi Fei didn’t say anything, Ming Shu glanced at him and handed over the second copy that he had not opened yet.

“You eat it yourself.” Yi Fei said, “I’ll be enough for one serving.”

“Enough a ghost, who lost the skill competition last time without eating?” Ming Shu’s bossy style, “Don’t be wordy, take it.”

Yi Fei smiled: “Then what about you? One serving is not enough, right?”

“Let’s talk when you are hungry.” Ming Shu returned to his position and listened to the team members discussing while picking up rice.

“I don’t think we can be preconceived.” Fang Yuanhang said: “If we believe that the murderer is a woman, then what if—I mean in case, if the murderer is a man, wouldn’t it be troublesome? Now this situation cannot be completely ruled out. Are men suspected of committing crimes? Men can also be under 1.65 meters, and men can be very thin.”

“But the skeleton is different.” Xing Mu said: “No matter how thin men are, their shoulders are wider and thicker than women.”

“Zhou Yuan is very thin.” Fang Yuanhang said: “Looking at the back, the police flowers of the special police detachment next door are stronger than him. And we can’t completely believe Zhan Huanxiong, the deviation of the body shape description is too big.”

Ming Shu smiled, “It makes sense.”

Fang Yuanhang became more interested, “Master, I’ll add chicken legs!”

“I have been thinking more and more recently. Keep this enthusiasm for questioning.” Ming Shu turned his eyes. “The murderer had his legs apart and his feet standing on Luo Xiangfu’s waist to take pictures. Just now I asked Xiao Yun and Zhou Yuan to be in Zhan. Huanxiong tried the same action in front of him. Zhan Huanxiong thought that Xiao Yun’s posture was more like the murderer he saw.”

Xiao Yun is a female member of the special police detachment, tall and beautiful.

Fang Yuanhang was puzzled, “This…”

“Men and women have many differences in body movements.” Ming Shu said: “Some are determined by differences in bones, and some are determined by factors such as lifestyle habits, physical strength, body shape, etc. They are all small differences, but sometimes they are enough to influence key judgments. .”

Quickly resolve the loss of meals, and everyone is back on the job. In the evening, during the normal off-duty hours of general occupations, Xiao Yuan suddenly appeared in the crime team.

Ming Shu thought that there would be another meeting, and hurriedly said, “Xiao Ju, wait for a minute, here I am…”

Xiao Yuan walked to him with a low voice, “No meetings. Don’t work overtime tonight, take you to a place.”

“Huh?” Ming Shu was surprised.

No overtime? Stop working overtime as soon as the case progresses?

He is ready to sleep in the game.

“Where to go?” Ming Shu asked.

Xiao Yuan said: “Go on a date.”