Chapter 5 Conflicting Information! ‘Honest boy’
The crime scene is not far from Xu Hao's residence. Walk out the door and turn right for 300 meters to reach the breakfast stall. Then about 100 meters to the right is the intersection.
"Wow"
The rain was still falling, and the raindrops were slightly denser than before. Li Jianye felt increasingly helpless.
"Pa~"
Pushing open the car door, Xu Hao stepped out of the car, ignoring the raindrops on his body, and glanced around.
The weather is dark, police cars, onlookers, warning tapes, flashing lights, and
The four corpses kneeling on the ground.
He smacked his tongue a little,
It has everything except surveillance cameras.
These days, even in the capital, the center of the Eastern Kingdom, surveillance is rare.
"Put on your raincoat!"
Chu Xi was very dissatisfied. She took out a black raincoat from the back seat of the car and put it on Xu Hao.
"How was the victim's identity check?"
Xu Hao stood there and looked at Li Jianye.
"Just briefly mention the victim's identity, relationship, interview and investigation information, where he disappeared, and the report."
Li Jianye nodded, thought about it for a moment, and then said:
"According to our investigation."
"The four victims are freshmen and have not yet entered school."
"The four of us went to junior high school and high school together, so we can be regarded as growing up."
"According to interviews and surveys, the reputation of the four people is pretty good. People around them evaluate them as honest, have no enemies, have no clear conflicts with others, and have a small social circle."
"The other party disappeared on the night of August 31st and went to an unknown location. When he reappeared at 5:30 in the morning on September 1st, all four of them were corpses."
"As for the report."
Li Jianye paused and found a document from the shed.
At the same time, he also handed over a few photos.
"The report shows that the body contained alcohol and was covered in fatal injuries. However, judging from the victim's expression, most of the injuries appeared after death, that is to say"
Xu Hao turned over the pages. When he heard this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Jianye.
"Corpse abuse?"
Li Jianye nodded, "Yes, the murderer did not stop after killing four people, but continued to torture the corpses with the murder weapon!"
Hearing this, the people around him fell silent.
It's not enough to kill the person, you also have to torture the corpse, turning the corpse into the current state of being riddled with holes. There is no good spot on the whole body, and it is full of bloody wounds.
Even this is not enough.
Xu Hao lowered his head and looked at the four corpses kneeling on the ground.
The other party didn't finish after abusing the corpse. He also found a few wooden boards and nailed the other party to the cross. Then he dragged him to the crossroads and made him kneel on the ground!
As for the principle, the corpse is kneeling on the ground and leaning back, with the end of the cross behind it supporting it, forming a triangular structure.
Xu Hao knelt down, got closer, and looked at the two hands carefully.
The center of the palm was penetrated by a nail. Looking back, one could clearly see the sharp head of the nail that penetrated the wooden board.
"Any guesses?"
Xu Hao looked up, put on his gloves and opened the corpse's eyes, looking at the whites of the eyes.
"At present, the traces on the scene look very much like a shoe cult ceremony."
Li Jianye replied.
Xu Hao nodded.
Indeed, the cross, Jesus, corpse abuse, collective death, the four directions of east, west, north and south.
It's very similar to the shoe cult, and it's very possible that it's even the shoe cult!
But
"Wrong."
Xu Hao lowered his head and turned over the torn clothes and the bellies of the four corpses.
The wounds were irregular and messy, and not all the people's stomachs were cut open.
"Wrong?" Li Jianye paused.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Hao paused, then turned his head and looked at Chu Xi, who was standing aside blankly.
"I said, you remember."
When he spoke, Chu Xi came to her senses, nodded immediately, and took out a notebook and a ballpoint pen from her bag.
"I'm ready!"
“First, reason around objective clues.”
"Are there any clues between your fingers?"
Xu Hao stood up and looked down at the four corpses.
Li Jianye shook his head directly, "No, the police have checked this point and there are no clues at all."
The finger joints are a place that the police conduct routine inspections. It is very likely that some of the murderer's fur and flesh will remain inside, which is a very important clue.
Koto District Police checked, but unfortunately, there was nothing inside.
What if the murderer cleaned it up on purpose? The luminol reagent will teach the murderer how to behave.
What if I cut my nails? If there are no clues, what will you cut? ? Thinking about it the other way around, there are clues, so it was cut. That is, there was a fight between the victim and the murderer, and the murderer may have been injured. The police can continue to investigate along this point, thinking both ways.
But the victim.
"Yes, there are no clues. There are no clues between my fingers."
Xu Hao nodded without denying it. He turned to look at Chu Xi, "Do you still remember the reasoning formula I told you three years ago?"
Inference formula?
"Remember, remember."
Chu Xi immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Are those symmetry reasoning formulas!?" "What kind of formulas?" Li Jianye was stunned.
"Symmetry relational reasoning, such as 1 meter = 100 centimeters, so 100 centimeters = 1 meter; antisymmetric relational reasoning, a is greater than b, so b is less than a; transitive relational reasoning, a>b, b>c, so a >c, three relationship reasoning to analyze”
Xu Hao nodded, "Some mathematical logical reasoning formulas are very practical."
After that, he had no intention of continuing to explain. He lowered his head and looked at the documents in his hand.
“Based on interviews and surveys.”
"At four o'clock, an employee of a breakfast shop that was open for business saw a figure in the center of the intersection. Because the sky was too dark, he could only see a black figure, carrying something on a tricycle, because 'existence is reasonable.' Psychological logic leads to not paying attention. ”
"Looking at it now, the black shadow is probably the murderer, and the person carrying it is the victim."
Li Jianye nodded. The weather was too cloudy on the day of the incident. In addition, the street lights were turned off at ten o'clock in the evening to save power. Don't expect any light at four o'clock in the morning. You will not be able to see your fingers.
"How many dark shadows?" Xu Hao glanced at him.
"According to witnesses, a dark shadow."
A policeman spoke first.
"How many victims?" Xu Hao asked again.
"Four, obviously." The man pointed to the bodies on the ground.
"Say it together."
"One murderer, four victims"
As he spoke, the man paused for a moment, then came back to his senses and froze on the spot.
"That's right, a murderer with no accomplices. Judging from the strength of the wounds on the body, the murder weapon, and the interview information, there is indeed only one murderer."
Xu Hao nodded. This is normal. Most murder cases have only one murderer.
But.
"The four victims are all around eighteen or nineteen years old. Their bodies are at their peak. Even though their strength is not at their peak, why."
Xu Hao pointed to the clean fingertips on the four corpses.
"Not even a scrap about the murderer?"
"Four of them hit one, and they didn't even get hurt? Four of them just killed each other? Are they waiting to be killed by him?"
Several police officers of the same age group as Xu Hao paused.
Waiting to be killed, is that possible?
Maybe, some cases are like this, but the frightened expressions of these four corpses mean that this case is absolutely impossible!
"It is impossible for the victim to be killed at the slightest opportunity, but this was violated at the scene."
"Remember these, and then substitute them into transitive relational reasoning, a>b, b>c, so a>c."
Xu Hao continued to speak, guiding the thoughts of several people.
"That is, it is impossible for the victim not to resist, but there is no trace of resistance at the scene. Therefore, in order to achieve the current scene, there must be a reasonable behavior."
"In other words, there is something, or something, that makes the victim unable to resist!"
What?
"Alcohol!" Li Jianye recalled the report that was identified by a doctor instead of a forensic examiner.
"Yes, alcohol, besides alcohol there is this"
Xu Hao lowered his head and hugged a corpse. The corpse's head rested weakly on his shoulder. He didn't pay attention and pointed at the injury on the victim's lower back.
"Alcohol + back injury."
Needless to say, alcohol hurts my back
Li Jianye's head turned quickly, "An acquaintance committed the crime!?"
Most back injuries are committed by acquaintances, but.
"No, that's not right. According to the clues, the victim doesn't know many people at all. It's impossible to have friends that the police don't know about," he added.
"Keep this in mind and let's not mention it for now."
"Look at the alcohol first."
Xu Hao continued: "Ninety-five percent of the alcohol was drunk by the victim voluntarily, and it was not a threat. If the murderer has the ability to forcefully get four people drunk, then he himself does not need this ability."
If it was a threat, there would be no back injury.
"Judging from the identification results, it is most likely that he was killed on September 1st between 0:00 and 4:00 in the morning. He drank during this time."
"The victim was out at the time. Where can I drink a lot of alcohol?"
September day, many people, going out drinking, night
"Based on the contents of the victim's stomach, we investigated nearby barbecue stalls and other late-night snack or dinner areas, but unfortunately, no information about the existence of the victim was found."
Li Jianye shook his head.
"Really?"
Xu Hao shook his head. He opened the mouth of the corpse, and a faint smell of alcohol came out.
The victim drank a lot, and had no metabolism or gargling. It has been about thirty hours now, and the smell of alcohol still remains on the second day after drinking
"You should find a sommelier to smell it."
A smile appeared on Xu Hao's face, "This tastes like"
"Cocktail."
cocktail?
Li Jianye was stunned, then frowned, "What kind of wine is this?"
He didn't understand a bit. At the age of forty, he knew the aroma of sauce and Fenjiu red wine, but this was the first time he heard about the so-called cocktail.
"Cocktail, you are investigating in the wrong direction, it should not be a restaurant."
"But"
Lowering his head and looking at the investigation information in his hand, Xu Hao's smile grew wider.
"Bar, nightclub."
"Tsk, what an honest boy."
"Captain Li, it looks like."
Xu Hao raised his head, looked at Li Jianye, and said:
"The authenticity of your investigation report needs to be investigated."
(End of chapter)