Chapter 165 Edmund Dantes (thirty-six)

"In the first album project, there were six unresolved cases, and one murderer was an incapacitated person, making a total of seven 'unsatisfactory' cases, in which the biggest suspect died bizarrely. The seventh case is The murder of Zhu Feng’s husband Yu Bin is a bit special.” Luo Wenzhou took an old file handed over by Xiao Haiyang, opened it on the coffee table, and showed it to everyone. It has long since become a stronghold outside the city bureau, and there are cigarette butts and half-drinking cans everywhere.

Luo Wenzhou: "Zhu Feng insists that the man who was imprisoned in the mental hospital was beaten up because his physical characteristics did not match the murderer she met at the crime scene."

"The murderer's real name is 'Qian Cheng', he lives near the crime scene, and the neighbors around him know him. Because of his mental disorder, Qian Cheng does not have the ability to live independently. He still lives with his old father in his forties. , after his father passed away, he entrusted him to a relative. The relative received the money, but he took care of him very badly. He only went to see him once a week. , Neighbors say that he doesn't take the initiative to provoke others, his temper is relatively mild, and he doesn't attack Xing much. When we first heard that he killed people, everyone couldn't believe it - the person in the photo is the murderer Qian Cheng."

Xiao Haiyang stretched out his hand and clicked on the photos in the old dossier. One was a photo from when he just got it back. People and tattered clothes were in a black ball, completely inhuman, like a walking mop; the second photo was clear. After drinking too much, he has already cleaned up, shaved his head, and changed his prison uniform. This time, he can see his original appearance. He seems to be a middle-aged man with a flat face and a straight face, but his eyes and expression are a bit strange. Not like a sober normal person.

"There are strict procedures for forensic identification of persons with disabilities as incapacitated persons. Even more than ten years ago, the management of this area was not so perfect, and falsification was not as easy as outsiders imagined, and if someone disagrees with the identification conclusion, they can still Apply in court to have another agency issue another opinion." Luo Wenzhou said, "This murderer has a name and surname in the local area, and everyone around him knows about him and his illness, so it's unlikely it's a fake."

"Also, this person is a mental patient who eats garbage. He has no money or background. He doesn't even care about his relatives. If it sounds unpleasant, he is a burden," another detective said. Such a big risk of fraud? I don't think Zhu Feng can be trusted."

Fei Du scanned the case description in the file with one glance and ten lines—

The murderer escaped after committing the murder... rushed to the police...with the help of enthusiastic people...blocked in the alley...the murder weapon...blood...

He raised his eyebrows and suddenly looked at the two photos Xiao Haiyang just took out.

"That's right, relatives treat him as a burden. Usually he is out of sight and out of mind. I wish he would disappear, and no one would look for him if he lost it." Fei Du whispered, "Is there a map near the crime scene at that time?"

"Yes!" Xiao Haiyang worked very carefully, and when he heard the words, he immediately took out an old map that was densely marked.

"The incident took place on a street where a small vendor formed spontaneously. I sorted out the testimony of witnesses. At that time, the deceased Yu Bin should have had an argument with the murderer in front of a stall selling ròu at the intersection, and then the conflict escalated. , the murderer suddenly picked up the knife on the ròu stall, stabbed the deceased to death, and then fled towards the road opposite the intersection. On the side of the road, he bumped into Zhu Feng who was rushing back to get the keys. After getting up, he brandished the bloody weapon. Continue to run and cross the road. A few minutes later, the police and security guards arrive, and some courageous people guide the way to help search. It will take about ten minutes-this is recorded in the eyewitness testimony, there may be errors- The police caught Qian Cheng in an alley."

Fei Du: "Where is the arrest location?"

Xiao Haiyang took a closer look and drew a circle on the map: "It should be this. Across the road is a shanty town to be demolished."

Luo Wenzhou: "What, what's the problem?"

"I think there are two more reliable guesses," Fei Du said. "First, the fact that the murderer was impersonated is nonsense, and Zhu Feng's own nonsense..."

"Second, the murderer was indeed shoddy, but not during the arrest trial, but before he was arrested."

Luo Wenzhou was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted: "You mean, the murderer in the street is not the same person as Qian Cheng who was caught by the police at the scene?"

"When the murderer killed and when Qian Cheng was arrested, he was covered in dirt and dressed in typical filthy han's clothes, and his facial features couldn't be distinguished at all. As long as the physical features were similar, in that sudden situation, unless they were acquaintances, those It's normal for passersby to not see the difference."

Xiao Haiyang: "Qian Cheng is someone who is unattended, so I'm afraid he has no acquaintances."

Fei Du continued: "At that time, apart from eyewitnesses, it was decided that the evidence was blood clothes and murder weapons. If, as Haiyang said, there was a certain time lag between the murderer's escape and the final arrest, then it would not be difficult to play tricks in it—he first needed to Find a place to stay in the shantytown to be demolished, kidnap Qian Cheng, the scapegoat, and take advantage of the chaos to escape the public's sight after murdering, fleeing into the shantytown, erasing his fingerprints, and stuffing Qian Cheng with his blood clothes and murder weapon."

"As soon as a lewd man in blood clothes and holding a murder weapon appears, if someone yells 'the murderer is there', the hunter will immediately chase after him subconsciously, and think he has caught the murderer. Anyway, this lunatic even I don’t know what to say, I can’t figure out what happened, let alone defend myself.” Fei Du paused, “There is no trace of murder in the public eye, as long as the retreat route is calculated properly, there is no accident, but cao compares it with xing. I bought a lot of public prosecutors."

Xiao Haiyang had a cold war with what he said.

"Qian Cheng's neighbors all said that although this person is not normal, he is gentle, and Zhu Feng also confessed that Yu Bin is a person who doesn't like conflict with others. Neither of these two people seem to be arrogant. There was a big fight on the street," Fei Du whispered, "this is a deliberate murder."

"But...why kill an ordinary art teacher?"

"This question is very important," Fei Du raised his eyes and looked at Luo Wenzhou. "Also, who was stabbed to death in the hospital afterward? Is it the real murderer? Or the unfortunate scapegoat Qian Cheng?"

"It's Qian Cheng," Xiao Haiyang said. "Qian Cheng's basic information was registered when he was arrested. Of course, the identity of the corpse must be confirmed by a forensic autopsy. The midway change must have happened long ago. And Zhu Feng also said, The murderer of her husband is still at large, and she does not admit that the one who died in the mental hospital was the real murderer of Yu Bin—what does that mean?"

Fei Du: "If the above speculation is correct, Qian Cheng should not have been killed by the 'reader' because he was innocent."

"Do you think the reciter won't kill innocent people?" Luo Wenzhou looked a little gloomy, "Then Chen Zhen, Feng Bin, and Xiao..."

"No," Fei Du interrupted. "The reciter will not kill innocent people with such a ritualistic method."

He said, stood up, and walked to the balcony that was integrated with the living room. There were sporadic whip pào sounds in the distance. This year, the urban area was not strictly controlled. Many people secretly released pào in advance, and the sky that had only been bright for a few days was filled with smoke.

"I can probably make a simple mental portrait of the reciter now."

Fei Du closed his eyes slightly. The man who appeared in Fei Chengyu's basement like a ghost many years ago showed a mysterious smile in his memory. He was tall and had deep eye sockets. His eyes were thick and couldn't be opened. The shadowy shadow, and the almost dazzling light...sharp, cold, and like hatred.

"The 'Reciter' is a mutual aid organization composed of former victims. The trauma that cannot be properly relieved for a long time will hurt people's sense of trust, sometimes accompanied by symptoms of hyper-alertness and aggression, which will change a person's life. Personality, alienating oneself, withdrawing oneself, increasing the sense of alienation from other people in society, and belonging only when faced with people who have experienced the same—this is why mutual aid organizations are beneficial.”

"But a normal mutual aid organization is to let the traumatized people be guided by professionals in a relatively comfortable and belonging environment, relieve pressure through positive feedback from each other, accept the facts, and slowly get out of the small circle and return to normal. Instead of immersing them in each other’s negative feedback, aggravating the estrangement with the outside world, and finally developing into a small group that is closed, isolated, and annihilated the sense of independence.”

"There are many literatures on the psychological research of group xing. The famous September massacre in Paris and the Rwanda massacre are typical cases. The initiator of the 'Reciter' is an expert in this field. He has successfully constructed such a group-they They think they are persecuted and righteous, and the over-vigilance of trauma is constantly increased. The hatred for the perpetrator at first will be like a full bowl of water, and after it overflows, it will spread to everyone outside-they feel The injustice is the fault of the society and everyone in this society, and the police who should uphold justice are even more incompetent and unforgivable."

"In the end, people outside the small group are materialized and can easily become a tool for revenge. Even if innocent people are injured, they are regarded as necessary sacrifices on the road to revenge and justice." Fei Du's eyes swept to all the detectives who were implicitly angry. "But 'revenge tools' and 'revenge objects' are not the same. In order to increase the cohesion of the group, they must have certain beliefs, and cultivating this belief requires a sense of ritual - such as 'tit for tat' to the perpetrator, death by him crimes committed."

"What do you mean, Fan Siyuan, the founder of the reciter, designed this group from the time he killed the first person in the first picture album project." Luo Wenzhou asked, "Murdering is part of his plan, not anything' Staring into the abyss' type of obsession."

"No," Fei Du said, "this group has a stable structure. Its members are simple, cohesive, and very loyal. It was designed and cultivated by Fan Siyuan consciously. It's not out of righteous indignation, if Fan Siyuan had contacted Zhu Feng earlier, he should have realized that the person who was detained in the hospital is not the real murderer, and there is no point in killing him."

"The time when Zhu Feng broke into the hospital is very close to the time when Qian Cheng was finally killed," Luo Wenzhou pondered for a moment, then said, "Is it possible that this is the case, the real murderer heard Zhu Feng's accusation and realized that he had been replaced. It wasn't so frivolous. It happened that the album plan had an accident, so he fished the case into troubled waters - giving an unconscious impression that Qian Cheng was the target of revenge, so he was the real murderer, and later people would It is preconceived and will not be pursued carefully.”

Xiao Haiyang jumped up abruptly: "So the murder of Zhu Feng's husband Yu Bin was arranged by the inner ghost of the city bureau!"

Luo Wenzhou: "Go and find out where Yu Bin was in contact with people before his death, where the school and the students he taught have been."

Xiao Haiyang jumped up.

At this time, another criminal policeman asked, "Captain Luo, is there any suspicion of the inner ghost back then? Should we keep an eye on it?"

Before Luo Wenzhou could speak, Fei Du glanced at his watch.

"No need for now," Fei Du said. "It's almost time, someone will go."

After the investigator in charge of Fei Du sent him away, he kept going back to look at Fei Du’s surveillance records—it was a long time, chatting with different people for several hours, and the information was chaotic and disorderly. First, he found someone related to Pan Yunteng. , went through it from beginning to end, and sure enough, as Fei Du said, it was all inexplicable inquiries and greetings from the students, and there was nothing of value. The investigator was a little disappointed and was about to give up, but vaguely felt that there was something stuck in his throat.

When combing the information from beginning to end again, he suddenly noticed something and pressed to pause the playback.

On the screen, a subtle look flashed across Fei Du's face, and then he sent a voice message as if pretending to be calm: "I haven't heard of it, what could be wrong?"

The investigator was stunned for a while, then he replayed the conversation between Fei Du and the "philosopher" from beginning to end, and then called the technicians—Fei Du didn't have a headset, and he didn't put it on when listening to the voice message. Close to the ear, the faint male voice in the handset of the mobile phone can be heard directly in the bug. After amplification by technical means, the voice information sent by the "philosopher" is very clear.

The keyword "Zhang Ting" shocked the investigators.

At the same time, Zhou Huaijin, who had quietly returned to the Zhou family's old house, was after all the only remaining heir of the Zhou family. He was very efficient and had already obtained the whereabouts of Zhou Yahou's former assistant thirty-eight years ago.