Madness of the Heart

Zhu Linglong's body was found by an old man who went to the mountain for morning exercises.

It was rainy in winter, and a light rain at night stunned the blood gushing from her neck and rushed into the mossy mud beside the path. Her clothes were soaked, her ponytails were scattered, her long hair was spread on her face, her eyes and mouth were not closed, death had frozen her last-minute despair and pain.

"The dead body has spread to the whole body. The corpse spots appear on the back and the back of the thighs, and they merge in a large area. The acupressure does not fade, the cornea is highly turbid, and the conjunctiva begins to auto-dissolve." Autopsy, "Death time was about 12 hours, she was killed around 9 o'clock last night. The fatal injury was located in the neck, the sharp weapon cut off her neck artery, causing a lot of blood loss in a short period of time."

"What trace is this?" Lan Qiao asked, pointing to the blood hole on the corpse's forehead.

The forensic doctor shook his head, "It is not yet clear what the tools used to cause them, but I am sure that this is a post-mortem injury."

Lan Qiao's face was solemn, remembering the meeting held at the Criminal Investigation Bureau not long ago. In a case that the Crime Squad is currently investigating, there is a small hole in the victim's body that is of unknown significance.

Is this case related to the case in the hands of the Crime Squad?

After receiving the case report from the Dongcheng Sub-bureau, Mingshu immediately set off to Lvhuang Mountain at the southeast corner of Dongye City. When he got on the bus, he saw Xiao Yuan as well.

"Xiao Ju?"

"Come on." Xiao Yuan gestured to the empty space beside him, "I heard that there was a small hole in the deceased's head, I'll also go take a look."

The police car was speeding, and half an hour later, it stopped by the narrow road leading to the Green Phoenix Mountain from "Jushanqunshu".

"Go up the mountain from here?" Fang Yuanhang asked.

"Come closer from here." Lan Qiao said: "The identity of the deceased has been determined. It was Zhu Linglong, the owner of the'Jushanqunshu', 24 years old, a native of Dongye City. Judging from her dress when she was killed, She was running at night in Green Phoenix Mountain. The surveillance at the entrance guard spotted her."

When passing the gate, Ming Shu asked, "Is she entering the mountain from here?"

Lan Qiao nodded, "From the previous monitoring, it can be seen that Zhu Linglong enters the mountain at about 8:30 every night and comes back at about 10 o'clock. This access control is the only entrance that connects the Green Phoenix Mountain to the community."

"The community is under the sign of Green Phoenix Mountain, but in fact they are not responsible for the residents who enter Green Phoenix Mountain." Ming Shu observed the surrounding environment, frowning, "In my impression, Green Phoenix Mountain is a forest park, how do you look at it? Is it so desolate? It doesn't even have basic lighting facilities."

"The forest park is mainly located in the northern section." As a criminal police officer of the Dongcheng branch, Lan Qiao is naturally familiar with Dongcheng District. "This is equivalent to the back mountain of Green Phoenix Mountain. Basically, no tourists will come."

Ming Shu said: "In other words, although the back garden known as the'Jushanqunshu' is also known as the Green Phoenix Mountain Forest Park, it is actually an embarrassing zone of'no matter what's going on.'"

Lan Qiao sighed, "Yes, very few people will come here, but anyone can come here. Zhu Linglong, a girl who runs in this place for a long time, has always had safety hazards."

With that said, everyone has arrived at the scene of the crime.

That is a path that should be described as secluded. The leaves are towering, some are yellow, and some are still green. They are entangled into a dome above Zhu Linglong. If you ignore the tragedy below, you can even think of it as a rare city in the city. Beautiful view.

Xing Mu first walked up, checked and said: "Like Huang Yan and Li Zhaofeng, it is also an ice hammer."

Ming Shu asked: "Did you find any other clues at the scene?"

The trace inspector of the branch shook his head, "The fight between the murderer and the victim is very short. The victim can be said to be subdued in an instant. No skin tissue of the murderer was found in his nails or mouth."

The forensic doctor added: "There is no sign of assault. The murderer has an overwhelming advantage over the victim."

At this time, Lan Qiao suddenly received a call from a technical reconnaissance team member, and the other party was emotional, saying that the public surveillance near the south gate of Green Phoenix Mountain had photographed suspicious persons.

The surveillance on the edge of the city has not yet been updated, and the quality of the night shots is worrying.

But even so, it can be seen that at 8:12 last night, an extremely weird person carrying a backpack entered the Green Phoenix Mountain from the 7th gate in the south.

He is strange because his neck is not the head of a normal person, but a huge wolf head!

At 9:49, the person reappeared in the surveillance near South Gate 7, and then left along the street to the west.

The southern section of Lvhuangshan Mountain is remote, and even in the daytime, few people pass by the South 7th Pass. When the camera captured this person twice, there were no witnesses around.

"Want Zhou." Ming Shu said: "To make the picture clear, I want a close-up of the details of this wolf's head."

Zhou Yuan nodded, "Understood!"

The case was officially transferred to the Crime Squad.

Xing Mu performed an autopsy on the corpse and found that Zhu Linglong had not taken any medicine before she was killed, and she was in an empty stomach exercise state. The murderer did not leave any clear directional clues on her. Judging from the fatal injuries and the appearance of the small holes after death, the murderer is "evolving" step by step.

The wound on Huang Yan’s neck is the most hideous, like a big mouth in the blood basin, with blood vessels and trachea turned out. The murderer used great strength during the attack, and may have repeatedly cut and stabbed Huang Yan because he was worried that Huang Yan could not be killed. . The small holes in Huang Yan's chest are dense, overlapping with each other, with different depths, reflecting the volatile and uneasy mental state of the murderer at that time.

Both Li Zhaofeng and Zhu Linglong’s wounds were relatively “clean”. Li Zhaofeng’s foot was stabbed twice with an ice-breaking hammer, and Zhu Linglong’s forehead was stabbed only once. This shows that after the murderer has experience, he has been able to control his emotions.

Especially when he killed Zhu Linglong, he was even comfortable.

"The murderer must know that he will be caught by the camera, but he doesn't care, he has a headgear." Fang Yuanhang said, "I suspect that the murderer also wore the wolf head when he killed Li Zhaofeng."

"The height of the murderer measured by monitoring is between 1.79 to 1.81 meters. It seems that the size of the murderer is correct. But the reason why he wears the wolf head is probably not only to hide his identity." Ming Shu said slowly: "The wolf head confronts the murderer. The victim is a prop with a certain meaning. The murderer hopes to use the wolf head to restore a scene, and then threaten the victim before committing the crime."

Fang Yuanhang said: “There are many other ways to hide your identity, and there are countless kinds of headgear. The murderer chooses wolf head. If our earlier inferences are close to the facts, then the intersection of the victims is the killing of werewolves?”

Ming Shu said: "A real werewolf kills."

Zhou Yuan has completed the processing of the picture. Due to the limitations of the shooting equipment, no matter how precise it is, it can be judged to the extent that the wolf head worn by the murderer belongs to the same series as the wolf head in Li Zhaofeng's home.

They are all werewolves produced and sold by the "Storm" Secret Chamber Club a few years ago to kill the surroundings.

Zhu Linglong's home in "Jishanqunshu" is located at 12-3 in Area A. It has two bedrooms and one living room. It is about 70 square meters. The decoration is very warm. There are animal dolls on the sofa, bed, and bay window. There are three A Barbie doll, at a glance, is a young girl’s residence.

"It seems to have been cleaned recently, and there is no sign of outsiders entering." Xiao Man said: "The electric water heater in the bathroom is boiling, and the air conditioner and electric blanket in the bedroom are turned on. The matter was completely unprepared."

"This is quite different from Huang Yan's murder." Ming Shu paced in the living room, his eyes rested on a basket of masks on the side of the coffee table, "Huang Yan actively turned off the surveillance and'greeted' the arrival of the murderer, but Zhu Linglong didn't know that she had been targeted by the murderer. Li Zhaofeng probably didn't know that she had become the target of the murderer."

"What does this difference mean?" Xiao Man frowned, "Imitate and commit crimes?"

"I don't rule out the possibility of imitating crimes, but if it's really imitating crimes, then you can only find it from the'inside guy'." Ming Shu said: "The detail of Huang Yan's chest has a small hole, which has never been announced."

"Inside lads" committing crimes are a very sensitive topic, Xiao Man shook his head, "I don't think it will."

Ming Shu said: “From this series of cases, I don’t think it is enough. Obviously, the murderer and the three victims have an intersection. Li Zhaofeng and the murderer have the werewolf headgear of the "Storm" Secret Chamber Club. Before Huang Yan met Cai Xinyue, I've been to Storm before, and the murderer wore the werewolf headgear of Storm and killed Zhu Linglong. I am now even more convinced that the small hole smashed by the ice hammer means wolf teeth-the murderer can't find it better than the ice hammer It's more like a spike tool, and it's not easy to get a real spike."

Xiao Man said: "That said, Zhu Linglong might also have a werewolf headgear!"

However, until the indoor search was over, the crime team did not find the werewolf headgear. There were two boxes of cards for werewolf killing, but they were placed at the bottom of the bookcase, and it seemed that they had not been used for at least two years.

Similar to Li Zhaofeng, Chu Linglong also has many other cards.

Two manuals are placed in a conspicuous position on the computer desk with tickets inside. Tickets and manuals belong to the "Ninth Battlefield" secret room opened by "Tianyun Chaodu" not long ago.

Ming Shu remembered that this secret room was the place where Huang Yan had arranged to go with Cai Xinyue before Huang Yan was killed.

Their death is also related to this secret room that suddenly appeared in Dongye City?

"The last time you went to'Storm,' what they said was that this werewolf headgear was no longer on sale two years ago, and the real werewolf killing spontaneously organized by guests was more popular three years ago." Xiao Yuan said: "That The intersection of their group may have been three years ago."

A group of strangers played a game of werewolf killing in the "Storm" secret room club three years ago, and then each returned to their own lives. Now the werewolf killing has long passed, but the participants have been killed one after another. From a perspective, this is a real werewolf killing.

"Now the investigation has encountered some obstacles." Ming Shu held a porcelain cup to warm his hands, "'Fubo' never registered guests, and only kept the monitoring for the last half a year. Let alone three years ago, who was there a year ago." Storm’s consumption is not easy to find. The number of participants in the werewolf killing varies, 6, 8, 10, 12, or even more people can play. The murderer knows who the players were at the time, but we don’t I know. As long as the murderer wants to act, he can act at any time. I am worried that the next murder will happen soon."

"It's not that there are no ideas at all." Xiao Yuan said: "They are gathering in Storm, but if they play live werewolf killing, Storm does not provide a location, they can only find the location by themselves. The city is not a good choice, the most ideal place is Remote forests or villages. Li Zhaofeng likes to run to the southwest, such as Wulizhou. He might even propose to go to Wulizhou, but the feasibility is almost zero."

"Because it's too far!" Ming Shu put down his cup, "The more people there are, the more difficult it is to coordinate. Li Zhaofeng was a white-collar worker, and Zhu Linglong was a student at the time. They weren't people with enough time. They could only choose a nearby village."

"Usually, women are more keen to take pictures than men, especially when they go to a new place." Xiao Yuan said: "Let Zhou Man and the others find all the photos of Huang Yan and Zhu Linglong, especially the photos three years ago. Make a comparison on the timeline of, maybe you can find the same place."

Wang Jun was questioned again, but she had almost no information to provide the police.

At least four years ago, her marriage to Li Zhaofeng fell into a quagmire, and Li Zhaofeng never revealed what she thought to her.

In the company, although Li Zhaofeng is very popular and talks to almost all his colleagues, no one knows what his entertainment is after get off work.

This is a man who takes the initiative to erect a wall around him. He has a world that belongs only to him.

I'm afraid he can only perceive the joy of being alive when he is traveling and playing games with headphones on.

While the investigation continued to deepen, the Forensic Medical Appraisal Center determined that the skull belonged to the celestial burial person in Wulizhou and was not involved in the murder.

Upon learning of the bad news, Zhu Linglong's mother fainted and was admitted to the hospital. Her father Zhu Zhenyou endured grief and came to the Criminal Investigation Bureau to assist in the investigation.

Zhu's family is in the ornamental plant business, and the living standard is above the middle level in Dongye City. Zhu Zhenyou has a hoarse voice and constantly wipes tears with the towel he carries with him.

"Linglong is my only daughter. She was held in the palm of my hand by her mother and I since I was a child. Before graduating from university, we thought about buying her a house. At that time, we wanted to buy a house in the northwest of Dongcheng District, which is close to the city center. Linglong didn't want to, she insisted on buying it here, saying it was backed by Green Phoenix Mountain, and the air is good." Zhu Zhenyou lamented, "If we are to blame, we are parents for not taking care of her!"

Ming Shu placed the wolf head he found in Li Zhaofeng's house in front of Zhu Zhenyou, "Do you have any impression of this kind of headgear?"

Zhu Zhenyou was stunned for a moment, and tears fell in his eyes, "Where did you find this? This is related to Linglong's murder?"

Ming Shu said: "Do you have an impression? Zhu Linglong also has a similar werewolf headgear?"

The sad old father took the wolf's head with trembling hands and looked at it for a long time, "We also have one in our house, which Linglong brought back when she was in college. Then she moved to a new house and said that she didn't want it, so her mother put it away."

Fang Yuanhang rushed to the home of Zhu Linglong's parents and found a werewolf headgear in the locker.

Compared with the other two wolf heads, Zhu Linglong's is obviously more delicate, and even the color is not gray and black, but snow white.

"Fengbo" manager Xu Cheng said: "This is a female wolf headgear, which is made according to the female's head circumference, but many customers think it is too cute and does not have the sense of deterrence of a werewolf, so it has not sold well."

"We have found three werewolf headgear now." Fang Yuanhang said: "Huang Yan didn't have a headgear at home, either she didn't buy it, or she later dismissed it as useless. I still can't think of the murderer's motives. They are. A group of people once played a game and haven't been in contact for several years. Why did they suddenly kill?"

"What happened to the game that year." Ming Shu said: "I suspect that it is because of this incident that this group of people never contacted again after they were separated."

"Fuck!" Fang Yuanhang was stunned, "Don't someone who played the game with someone died? The murderer takes revenge for this dead person?"

"Team Ming! I found it!" Zhou Yuan yelled excitedly on the phone: "Can you and Xiao Ju come over and have a look now?"

There are a number of photos stitched together on the screen. They are from Huang Yan’s computer and Zhu Linglong’s social platform gallery. The shooting time was concentrated in early October three years ago. The earliest one was October 3rd, and the latest one was October 6.

It can be seen from the photos that it is a countryside with low earthen houses and fields, but the fields are overgrown with weeds and are in a barren state. There are no villagers and no other people in the photo. It is a pure landscape photo.

Ming Shu learned from Xu Cheng that there was an unwritten rule among those who played werewolf killing in the past, especially among live werewolf killing fans, that they would not take pictures or ask for each other’s information. This is the same as rushing to make friends later. There is a fundamental difference between the guests who come.

So no one in the photo can understand it.

"Can you be sure where this is?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Zhou Yuan said: "In the southernmost Maoyang Village of Han Province!"

At the same time, the investigation of Zhu Linglong's interpersonal relationship is also underway.

Liu Ying couldn't stop crying, "I also asked her to apply for a fitness card with me. If I keep her, she won't be killed!"

Ming Shu said: "You are the closest colleague with Zhu Linglong. Have you ever heard her talk about secret rooms and werewolf killings?"

"Yes." Liu Ying wiped her tears, "Linglong told me not long ago that she went to the newly opened secret room in the'Tianyun Chaodu', and she felt very scary after playing...Ah!"

Following Liu Ying's scream, Ming Shu frowned, "What's the matter?"

"Werewolves killed Linglong, also told me." Liu Ying covered her mouth, "she said, she said that she had played a live werewolf killing a few years ago, and the lake and the shadow of the lake were playing together!"

"What?" Ming Shu asked, "Huying? The one who played "The Red Dust and Jianghu"?"

Liu Ying nodded and shook her head, as if she didn't understand what she was talking about, "Linglong said it was Huying, but I didn't believe it, so she told her to take the photo. She said no, and even if I didn't believe it, it's fine."

This is undoubtedly an extremely important clue, and Zhu Linglong's other friends also confirmed that after Huying became popular, Zhu Linglong did say that he had played live werewolf with Huying.

"But we all treat her as a liar, and never take it seriously."

"Linglong is actually a bit vain—although I said that a person who has passed away is not very good, but when she was studying, she also said that she knew this star and that star, but she was later exposed, and she said she just dreamed of them."

"Zhu Linglong may not have lied this time." Ming Shu said: "Before Huying became popular, she did go to the "Storm" secret room club. When we went to "Storm" the last time, I saw that the lake has been playing on the screen. The video,'Storm' is using Huying for publicity!"

Xiao Yuan turned around from the window, "If Hu Ying was a participant in the real werewolf killing that year, then he must also be the target of the murderer. The murderer did not act on him for the time being because he was a star and it was difficult to do it on him. The biggest. However, another possibility is not ruled out..."

"You mean, Huying is the murderer." Ming Shu shook his head as soon as he said it. "Why would a star who is at the peak of popularity suddenly kill someone? The possibility is too low."

"No matter what kind of possibility it is, contact the economic company first." Xiao Yuan said: "It may only be him now who can explain exactly what happened that year."

In the headquarters building of Fang Chi Entertainment, a nanny car parked quietly in the dark.

Two years ahead, Fangchi Entertainment is still a little-known entertainment company, and there is not a single artist under it. This year, however, the "dog **** luck" was suddenly gone-Huying became popular because of the "Red Dust and Jianghu" filmed last year, and Xinghuan Entertainment in the same city was struggling because of Chu's scandal.

Now Fang Chi's reputation in the industry is rapidly surging with Huying, and it has the momentum to replace Xinghuan Entertainment.

Almost all young artists who have become popular overnight will choose to take advantage of the situation to sprint, receive endorsements, receive variety shows, and receive new films, for fear that they will not be able to burn themselves into the most dazzling beam.

Before the broadcast of "Red Dust and Jianghu", Fang Chi formulated a series of business plans for Huying. Huying was able to cooperate at the earliest. Since entering this circle, he has always been a hardworking one. But when the popularity of "Red Dust and Jianghu" spread across the country, Huying asked the company to "cool down" itself on the grounds that it wanted to concentrate on filming in the future and did not want to spend too much time on the imaginary traffic and popularity.

But why is Fang Chi willing to put down such a cash cow?

For a period of time, Hu Ying was continuously stuffed into variety shows and accepted various interviews. Last month, Huying directly complained to the agent that he needs rest and his family needs to take care of him.

Fang Chi began to hype up the filial character of Huying.

Tonight, Huying has finished recording a program and returned to Fangchi with Man Lin.

It's a rare trip to the company for popular fried chicken, and many employees and 180 line artists poked their heads out to watch the excitement.

Man Lin closed the door, and the smile that was still hanging on his face immediately disappeared, "When do you want to rest? You don't want to read the book I found for you! Lake Shadow, you think you can rely on "Hong Chen and Jianghu" "Red to next year? How many years have you been through it? Tell me? Now it’s hard to get ahead. You don’t cooperate with my marketing methods, but you are picky! Can you correct your attitude? You are a trafficker , Not a powerful artist! You don’t have the capital to cultivate life and nourish your health at all! By next year, when a new hot drama is broadcast, all your little fans will recognize others as brothers!"

Huying sat on the sofa with an indifferent expression, indifferent to the agent's bitterness.

He didn't even glance at the agent.

This look is very different from the public perception of Lake Shadow.

"This notebook, you must pick it up for me." Man Lin said angrily.

Hu Ying lowered her eyes, her gaze fell on a modern idol script.

Half a minute later, he got up and said: "Sorry, I don't have time for the moment."