Chapter 60 A call from the deceased at the funeral
Du Yu asked the technician to mark out all the groove interfaces that matched the size. The number was far more than that of He Yunke's broken corpse.
"These grooved interfaces are almost always in the upper part of the concrete base, so they are not easily visible."
The bronze bird and the base are upper and lower structures, and the connecting part of the pouring is in the middle of the entire statue. The entire statue is about eight meters high. Even if the bronze bird takes up most of the head, the height of the concrete base below is higher than the height of a normal man.
Zhou Shi said: "If [the cleaner] hid in the huge groove left for the load-bearing column in the middle of the base that rainy night, it would have been possible to deceive the guard. He was already old, and the bad conditions at the time , due to various factors such as the slippery base and fear, I concluded that the guard would not climb up to the base to search carefully. ”
When he was scaring himself, there was a murderer wearing a raincoat and carrying several lives on his back, hiding less than one meter away from him, quietly waiting for him to leave. No one can guarantee whether the [cleaner] who has been participating in crimes as an accomplice will kill an innocent doorman.
It can be said that that was the day the guard was closest to death in his life!
Du Yu thought about it, "In other words, the exact time when [the cleaner] dumped the body was not when the base was completed two months ago as we theorized, but two days before the ribbon-cutting, He Yunke's body was dismembered and separated. Into these grooves? ”
The technician next to him scratched his head: "But when the statue was spliced, couldn't the construction team workers find foreign objects in these grooves? And how would the murderer know which spare interfaces are redundant and which ones can be used?"
To use an inappropriately simple example, the statue is a Lego toy. There are many protruding copper pillars at the bottom of the bronze bird, and there are recessed joints on the concrete base.
Even the construction team didn't know how many interfaces would be used when the final statue was assembled, otherwise they wouldn't have reserved so many spares at the beginning of the design.
Xu Yiqing thought for a moment and answered: "Is it possible that the [cleaner] dumped the body after the statue was assembled? After all, the bronze bird statue has been installed on the concrete base, so it is clear at a glance which interfaces are not used and have been filled by the construction team. ”
Du Yu frowned: "The interface is sealed with cement, how can we stuff the body in again? This is not back to the original contradiction of the problem."
Xu Yiqing said: "The paradox at the beginning of this case is that the time between the death of the body and the time for the cement to solidify was too long. There was a gap of several months. But if it was a few hours... I guess it also takes time for the cement to solidify. Just now Boss Dai also said that it only took them a whole morning to install the copper bird, and they didn’t even miss lunch.”
Du Yu looked at the technician next to him. For today's trip, he specially brought along the young man with the highest academic level in the bureau.
A top student majoring in criminal science and technology at the Public Security University, he is good at physical and chemical inspection technology and crime scene investigation.
"How long does it take for cement to set?"
"Look at the material of cement. Generally speaking, cement setting is divided into initial setting and final setting. The initial setting time refers to the time when the cement is mixed with water until the cement begins to lose its plasticity. The final setting time refers to the time from adding water to the time when the plasticity is completely lost. The national standard is silicic acid. The final setting time of salt cement shall not exceed 390 minutes, and that of ordinary silicate shall not exceed 600 minutes.”
"National standards..." Zhou Shi spread his hands: "I don't think this construction team will follow the national standards."
Du Yu winked at the technician: "Go to the construction site and ask the workers."
The technician understood it and went out for a walk and came back.
"As soon as I went out, two people followed me. Seeing me asking questions, they started to tell the workers to stay silent and go to work...but they still asked, it was ordinary cement."
Du Yu rubbed his chin: "Ten hours, assuming they finish at ten o'clock at noon, it will be evening when the cement hardens."
Xu Yiqing answered: "I don't believe they will be so abiding by the rules. They specially arranged for people to wait until the cement is completely plastic at night. Most likely, they will come to see the effect at dawn the next day, and they will sign the delivery with Fumei Group without any major problems."< br>
Du Yu asked again: "Is it difficult to dig out a cube about fifty or sixty centimeters long and wide before the cement is completely dry?"
The technician thought for a while and said: "It's a bit difficult, but if you just get the body parts in before the cement is dry, it will be much less difficult."
[Cleaner] After all, there is only one person committing the crime. Without the assistance of equipment and vehicles, it is impossible to completely dig out the cement and pour it again.
But just stuffing the body parts into the cement before it dries out is theoretically possible...even if it will cause some flaws in the cement after it solidifies.
But after the statue is assembled, no one will care whether the extra grooves are smooth and beautiful after being poured with cement. After all, they are all blind spots, and inspection is laborious and thankless.
As long as the joints of Tongque meet the acceptance standards, both Party A and Party B will be satisfied.
And He Yunke's body was quietly buried under the statue he designed.
This also indirectly shows that the [Cleaner] may have had contact with Zou Yi and was able to plan such a corpse dumping behavior. The [Cleaner] must have seen the drawings designed by He Yunke before he took the first step in making the statue separately. When the final splicing process becomes so familiar, you will realize that there are many splicing grooves reserved on the concrete base to hide the corpse.
So she froze He Yunke's body and chopped it into suitable sizes at the right time.
The meticulous planning and action ability are chilling.
And counting the time, [Cleaner] has almost seamlessly connected the case of the Basia Village fire and the corpse hidden in the statue since the Li Yueyue case. While she was helping Liu Zhuhua find a way to defraud the insurance company, she was helping Zou Yi solve domestic violence.
It can be said that as soon as Li Cheng was burned to death on the front foot, she chopped He Yunke to death on the back foot, froze it, and then cut it into more than ten pieces with a saw!
The method of dumping the body is basically clear, and Du Yu can issue a report on the case.
This incident had a considerable impact on both Jiangcheng City Government and Fumei Group, especially Fumei Group. After this incident, many senior executives resigned and also filed applications for protection with the Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau.
No matter how stupid a businessman is, he should have sensed that various cases since the Chinese New Year are targeting the Fumei Group. Some people don't want this multinational company to settle in Jiangcheng and have anything to do with Jiangcheng.
The three members of the task force knew that the "someone" mentioned by the Fumei Group actually meant only one person, but they had not yet investigated why the [cleaner] targeted the Fumei Group...
Or maybe why these people in the photo are related to the Fumei Group.
In the end, the case of the corpse hidden in the statue was combined with the previous cases and treated as a serial case. Jiangcheng Public Security issued a nationwide wanted notice for "Cleaner", and anyone who provided clues would be given a cash reward.
So on People's Bounty, a private enterprise aggregation platform, in addition to the minimum price of 4 yuan for a wanted criminal named Peng, there is another number that makes many people pay attention.
Five million.
In the era of large-scale construction projects in China, five million is not a small sum. It also contains the determination of Fumei Group, which claims to the outside world that it will give an explanation for the death of former company executive He Yunke.
It's just that this bounty criminal doesn't even have a photo now, let alone other identifying information.
The only thing the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau could confirm was that the other party was a woman with similar body proportions to Zou Yi, so they posted Zou Yi's data.
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The funerals of He Yunke and Zou Yi were held on the 42nd day after the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Zou Yi is from a single-parent family. Only her father and younger siblings from her hometown attended the funeral. Other relatives only sent gifts and condolences because of the long distance.
Du Yu and Xu Yiqing attended their funerals as usual. This was already their old tradition.
Coincidentally, it also rained and the weather was gray on the day of the funeral.
Although the rain was not heavy, it still gave the cemetery a hint of sadness.
He Yunke's parents insisted on holding a Western-style funeral for He Yunke, so there were no firecrackers or suonas in the cemetery. There were only people holding umbrellas surrounding the cemetery, watching the old couple leading their two children to cry.
Different from the past, Lin Sheng and Zhou Shi are here today. After all, they have contributed to this case. Putting aside their status as police officers, it is only human nature to express condolences to a family that has witnessed the breaking up of their family.
He Yunke and Zou Yi had too few family members, not even as many as He Yunke's colleagues and friends... Outside the cemetery, Xu Yiqing vaguely saw Pan Yao standing on the periphery of the crowd.
So he asked Lin Sheng, who was holding an umbrella for him next to him: "How is your relationship with your family? It seems that you have never mentioned your family."
He only knew that Lin Sheng's family was quite wealthy. Thinking about it carefully, he had never seen Lin Sheng mention his family.
Lin Sheng sighed: "My parents left when I was very young. I don't know where they went. Anyway, my grandma said that I would do business abroad."
Xu Yiqing asked: "Ah Sheng, are you an only child?"
Lin Sheng shrugged: "Who knows, if my parents are alive, they might be able to raise another one. Anyway, I have no feelings for them, so what's the use of having money? I don't care about my grandma... I'm old I’m older and in poor health. Anyway, I never expect them to take care of grandma by myself.”
After a pause, Lin Sheng glanced at the master beside him: "Brother Xu, where are you?"
Xu Yiqing chuckled: "If I die one day, you will be the only ones who can come to my funeral."
Du Yu came over holding an umbrella and stood beside Xu Yiqing.
Lin Sheng went aside very wisely.
Du Yu said: "As for Zou Yi's motive for committing the crime, we have found out clearly in the past few days. When he was abroad, He Yunke was bewitched and had some special thoughts. He hated children, and he had reached the point of physical disgust. Zhou Shi Analysis may be because of He Yunke's incident His career is booming, and he subconsciously thinks that his children will drag him down, so he is succeeded by someone with intentions... You also know that many foreign religions like to infiltrate the executives of these multinational companies, and the Economic Bureau has discovered some financial transactions in this regard. "< br>
"After that, He Yunke became obsessed with Greek mythology. The oil painting "The Food of the God of Agriculture" is a typical example. You have also seen that painting. Isn't it very impressive?"
Xu Yiqing nodded.
Du Yu said: "One of the disturbing things in that painting was the severed limbs, so He Yunke began to develop a perverted mentality of being obsessed with severed limbs. It happened that Zou Yi wanted to tie He Yunke with a child, which aroused He Yunke's dissatisfaction." When he punched Zou Yi for the first time, everything was over The line between domestic violence is very clear. It either never happened or it happened again and again. Later, He Yunke even had the urge to use a knife on Zou Yi. That time, Zou Yi took the child and went back to her parents' home to hide for a while... The time when He Yunke and Pan Yao were dating ambiguously.”
Just looking at the figure, Zou Yi is undoubtedly perfect.
He Yunke's impulse to destroy the beauty of the human body is no longer limited to statues.
It was only a matter of time before he started killing people.
Zhou Shi even analyzed that the reason why He Yunke's design left so many grooved interfaces was probably because he left it as a back-up tool for himself to commit crimes in the future. In the end, it was used by the [Cleaner] to bury himself.
The bronze sparrow flying high is actually a lock and a coffin.
In ancient times, Cao Cao used it to enjoy his grand hegemony and imprison women. On countless nights standing among the statues of broken limbs in the storage room, He Yunke may have imagined killing a woman with his own hands, dismembering her, and pressing her in Under the bronze bird designed by myself.
As for that woman, Zou Yi is the most likely.
Zou Yi, who finally couldn't stand the domestic violence, had no choice but to accept the fact that she was disillusioned after the [cleaner] came to her door with evidence of He Yunke's cheating.
As for the cracks in the statue, technicians later analyzed that it was due to adhesion problems in the cement poured later due to successive heavy rains. On the night when Du Yu smashed the statue, the visibility was extremely poor due to heavy rain, so some details were ignored by everyone, which made the broken corpses embedded in cement look irregular after being demolished.
After Du Yu finished speaking, he watched the priest in black clothes finish reciting the prayer, and then directed everyone to put the black coffin into the cemetery.
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The two of them noticed a bird engraved in gold on the black coffin.
"Huh, I don't know where these two old men invited these fake foreign devils from." Du Yu looked at the solemn-looking pastor and joked softly.
Anyway, he didn't have a good impression of He Yunke, but he felt a little pitiful for Zou Yi.
No matter what, she is indeed the mother of two children and devotes everything to this family.
Although the purpose of giving birth to the child was not purely pure, and she also had a money-worship mentality to marry into a wealthy family, Zou Yi did fulfill her responsibilities as a mother and wife.
On the contrary, He Yunke, who committed domestic violence and had an affair, did not deserve sympathy.
Zhou Shi came over, and Du Yu, like Lin Sheng, was about to leave in a sensible way, and handed the umbrella to Xu Yiqing: "Don't always let women hold umbrellas for you."
Before Xu Yiqing could say anything, Du Yu passed Zhou Shi.
"This is my first time to attend such a Western-style funeral," Zhou Shi said.
Xu Yiqing answered: "I still want to hear the sound of suona after I die."
Zhou Shi smiled and said: "You are dead, how can you still listen?"
Xu Yiqing spread her hands, remembered what Du Yu said, and signaled Zhou Shi to close the umbrella and share one with herself.
Zhou Shi was slightly surprised when he saw this, thinking that Mumu had awakened today.
"Although it is a bit inappropriate, I still want to say happy birthday to you."
Xu Yiqing was stunned for a moment and then realized that today was his birthday.
Even Du Yu and Lin Sheng didn't know his birthday, and they almost forgot it...because celebrating birthdays always reminded him of his younger brother. He hadn't celebrated birthdays in these years, and only Zhou Shi still remembered it.
It happened to be on the same day as He Yunke's funeral, no wonder Zhou Shi said it was a little out of time.
"Thank you." He was very sincere and touched. "Would you like to come to my place later? Is there anything you want to eat..."
The next second, before he could finish speaking, his cell phone suddenly rang.
Xu Yiqing took out her phone and took a look. It was a series of completely irregular numbers.
Overseas phone calls!
Xu Yiqing looked solemnly and looked at Zhou Shi.
Zhou Shi also instantly understood who was calling.
So she hurriedly called Du Yu, and Xu Yiqing trotted behind her, fearing that the phone call would be hung up.
Hesitating, he decided to pick up the call first and turned on the speakerphone and recording.
There was a loud noise, and then a man begging for mercy and screaming.
"Don't, don't... cough, don't kill me! What happened back then has nothing to do with me. I was not a participant...it was the [Forensic Examiner], [Police] and [Butcher] who were the instigators!"
The sound was intermittent, mixed with the sound of breathing like a bellows.
Xu Yiqing immediately realized that it was because his neck was injured and the vibration of his vocal cords was affected.
It's He Yunke!
Xu Yiqing's eyes widened.
Although I have never met He Yunke, nor communicated with him, nor even heard his voice.
But I was immediately sure that the person who said this was He Yunke!
So the next second, Xu Yiqing also realized that this should be a recording.
[Cleaner] is playing a recording for himself... the recording of He Yunke before his death!
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
"Say blessings."
The voice of this sentence has been processed so that men, women, children and adults cannot be heard clearly. It is obvious that [the cleaner] was well prepared for making this call. The audio was segmented and processed, creating an audio mosaic for his own voice.
"Happy birthday..."
He Yunke panted and said the blessing as requested by the [Cleaner].
Xu Yiqing stopped running and let the rain fall down on the edge of the umbrella in front of her, forming a curtain of rain.
The rain suddenly became heavier, which was noticed by the umbrella in my hand becoming heavy.
On his birthday, Xu Yiqing received a blessing from the deceased, but was forced to say it by his murderer.
Weird and disturbing!
Before he could think, what followed was He Yunke's scream and the tooth-trembling sound of a sharp weapon chopping flesh.
[Cleaner] hacked He Yunke to death without being sloppy at all, simply and neatly!
When He Yunke completely lost his voice, the phone was silent for a few seconds, and then a beep sounded that seemed to indicate the end of the recording.
"Did you hear that? I'm sorry that I didn't let Li Cheng wish you a happy birthday too." [Cleaner] said on the phone.
Xu Yiqing was certain that this paragraph was not recorded, but that she was actually communicating with him on the other end of the phone!
Right now!
The cold words, the impact of He Yunke's death, and the harsh sound quality caused by the mosaic all made the [Cleaner]'s next words sound like a devil's whisper.
"It's your turn next."
(End of chapter)