Despicable Games [lower part]

"The night before the first deceased was discovered, someone witnessed a 'cannibal' eating people a mile outside the city." Du Qianlin said, looking at the file in his hand.

Kang Wenwen also looked at the dossier, "Well, it is said that a large pot of boiling water was set up on the side of the road, and a flesh and blood corpse without skin was lying at its feet. Passers-by interrupted and fled with the corpse."

The dossier recorded the death conditions of the two deceased. When they were discovered, they were both corpses with their skin stripped off and only fat tissue.

"Why didn't it record where those human skins went?" Kang Wenwen asked.

"The witnesses said that they saw the 'ogre' either running away with the human skin, or peeling the skin. But after the deceased was found, no human skin was found at the scene?"

Du Qianlin also felt that this place was very strange.

"Probably taken away by the 'ogre'."

"Take it away? Do you want to do it? Let's not talk about whether it's feasible. Everyone knows those who have disappeared. Even if the 'ogre' is wearing the skin of the dead, it can't be mixed among the people." Kang Wenwen raised his hand lightly Bite your fingers.

Du Qianlin reached out and pressed his hand, "If it is possible to 'change faces', then this script is too bizarre. I don't think "71" will let a surreal 'ghost' be the murderer."

Kang Wenwen also agreed with Du Qianlin's point of view.

Ghost, if such an ethereal existence really becomes a murderer, how will it be 'brought to justice'. "71" has always pursued "fairness". From 5000 years to modern times, there has not been a single legal rule for "ghosts".

"Forget about that, the Bone Forest will be here soon." Du Qianlin pointed his chin forward.

The bone forest is three miles east of the city, which is about 20 kilometers away. Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin walked for more than [-] minutes.

The bone forest is not extremely gloomy. It may be that the perennial decay gas has affected the leaves in the forest to be empty and lush, but the trees are full of branches and trunks.

Before he got close to Kang Wenwen, he saw the straw mats sandwiched in twos and threes on the branches.Some are corrupted and blackened, some are brand new.

Going closer, Kang Wenwen could already smell the rancid smell. It is not yet midsummer, and it is not noon, the smell is already so strong, it is hard to imagine that there was a poisonous gas array at those times.

"Whoa - whoa - whoa -"

Perhaps sensing someone breaking in, the crows and vultures standing on the branches screamed and flew up.

Only then did Kang Wenwen see that some straw mats had been pecked open by crows and vultures, and it was unknown how much they had eaten.

"Don't look, some places are still proud of being eaten by crows. It's a good thing to think that they will not be corrupt after being eaten clean." Du Qianlin raised his hand to slightly block Kang Wenwen's sight, and comforted him softly .

Kang Wenwen reluctantly raised the corner of his mouth, "It's nothing uncomfortable. In the past, there was no such thing as a child who could eat each other. At least the people here are not so mad. These children at least have a straw mat and a place to sleep."

Du Qianlin rubbed Kang Wenwen's head, "This is where the body was found."

Kang Wenwen looked at Du Qianlin's fingers. It was under a thick tree with roots lying dormant on the ground, as if he was dissatisfied with the status quo and wanted to break through the roots.

"There is nothing here. Although the second body was also found here, it has been six or seven days since now and there are no traces." Kang Wenwen said to Du Qianlin.

Du Qianlin nodded, "I know, but since the murderer threw his body here for the first two times to be discovered, will it be here for the third time?"

Kang Wenwen looked around, "So you suspect that the murderer has a special view on this place, so he chose to throw the body here?"

"Although this is a mass grave, the murderer took pains to peel off the human skin, and then ran here with the corpse from two miles away, leaving the corpse behind. This is really abnormal," Du Qianlin said.

Kang Wenwen also had such doubts, "Could this be another revenge script."

"Those dead are the people who killed his children. His children have no land to bury, so he wants to kill those people and throw them here to sacrifice the children who died young?" Kang Wenwen looked up at the tree when he said that. treetops.

Du Qianlin also looked up at this sturdy tree, but it was a bare tree with a few leaves that would be blown away by the wind at any time, and there was no straw mat on the tree at all.

Of course, if it was really revenge, the murderer would definitely not put it directly under his child's tree, which is too obvious.

"Has the relationship between these three victims been found out before?" Kang Wenwen asked.

The dossier was in Du Qianlin's place, and he took it out again, flipped through it and shook his head, "No, it may be because there were cases of 'ogre' killing people before, so everyone thought it was a 'ghost' committing the crime, so I didn't think about the murderer at all. He is a person with flesh and blood and selfish desires."

"There was also..." Kang Wenwen muttered in a low voice.The dossier only records the cases related to 'cannibals' in the past three months,

"Why can't we find the case about the 'ogre'?" Kang Wenwen asked.

Du Qianlin shrugged, "Every quarter, a batch of files from the yamen will be sent to the warehouse. We can only find files from the last three months."

"Although the records of the last two months were also recorded, the records are very rough. Except that the corpse was found in this bone forest, the specific location was not even written."

Although they are all bone forests, it is impossible to determine whether this is the current location.

Kang Wenwen was upset and said, "How do the yamen servants who record files here work? Are they so perfunctory?"

Du Qianlin opened his mouth, really wanted to say, you are the one who is responsible for recording the files.

There are not many clues in the bone forest, and Du Qianlin doesn't have much hope for this place.

But when he went back, he took Kang Wenwen around to the place where he witnessed the 'ogre ghost' set up a pot to boil water.

No one has passed by for only a month, and green grass has grown there.

The place where the fire was burned was under a banyan tree. Kang Wenwen dug the soil with stones from the side of the road, and dug out the blackened soil that had been burned during the fire.

"It is indeed here."

Du Qianlin stood under the tree and looked in the direction of the county.

"It's only 500 meters away from the city gate. It's too bold for the 'ogre' to eat people here."

Kang Wenwen said, "He doesn't know how to eat people, he just does it for people to watch."

"At that time, why would anyone walk on this road at night?"

Du Qianlin shook his head, "I don't know. I went to the witness yesterday when I found out about it. But he's gone crazy now."

"Crazy?" Kang Wenwen asked in surprise, "But according to the file, his testimony is fluent, and there is no sign of madness?"

Du Qianlin lowered his eyes and said, "This is the weird place. After the man finished talking about what happened when he saw it, he went crazy and smashed up his stall in the street without taking a few steps out of the Yamen."

Kang Wenwen frowned, "Then the second witness?"

"Aren't they crazy? More than one person saw the 'ogre' for the second time. Someone saw a gray-robed man running towards the outside of the city with a piece of bloody human skin in his hand, and someone saw him lying on his stomach in an alley. Eat corpses."

Kang Wenwen narrowed his eyes, got up and took out the file in Du Qianlin's hand, "Why are these contents not recorded in the file?"

"Someone in the yamen deliberately erased the evidence?"

Du Qianlin raised his hand and touched the bridge of his nose, as if he wanted to help his glasses, but he forgot that his character was not wearing glasses.

"I don't think someone deliberately erased the evidence."

Kang Wenwen frowned, "How can you be sure."

"I think it's just that his hand speed is relatively slow, that's why he was short in recording." Du Qianlin said helplessly.

Kang Wenwen looked at Du Qianlin's strange expression and always felt that Du Qianlin was hiding something from him.

"Is there something you are hiding from me?" Kang Wenwen thought so and asked.

Du Qianlin seemed to be holding back a smile, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, but he suppressed it.

Kang Wenwen was a little angry, "Are you playing with me?"

"No." Du Qianlin reached out to hold Kang Wenwen, but he avoided him.

"Have you forgotten your character identity?"

"..."

Du Qianlin and Kang Wenwen had already returned to the city before it was evening, and they wanted to go to Zhang Dengjin first.But there are more people on the streets in the city than before, and there are not many people on the streets in the middle of the night.It seems that the news that Zuixianlou Hua'er is a 'cannibal' was leaked by someone.

"Do you think it was Qiao Er who said it, or the people from Zuixianlou?" Du Qianlin asked Kang Wenwen beside him in a low voice.

Kang Wenwen looked at the whispered discussions around, and the passers-by who looked at each other with hatred and fear shook their heads, "I think it was passed on by the murderer."

"If the previous sightings are true, then I don't think Hua'er is the murderer."

"Huh?" Du Qianlin looked at Kang Wenwen with raised eyebrows.

"The murderer must have two conditions." Kang Wenwen stretched out two fingers.

"One is extraordinary strength, able to hold the corpse of a grown man with his arms, or run with one shoulder. I don't think Hua'er can do it."

Hua'er was shorter than Wen Wen, so it was obviously very difficult to take the first deceased over 1.7 meters away.

"Second, the murderer is proficient in the texture of human muscle." After killing, he can peel off the human skin, so that the muscles of the corpse do not have obvious erosion.Then this person should have skinned a lot of human or animal skins.

"Hua'er's fingers are slender, and only the pads of the fingers are a little callous. I guess it should be caused by playing the piano, but people who hold knives all year round should have calluses on the palm and root of the finger."

Du Qianlin looked straight at Kang Wenwen.

Kang Wenwen "Why are you looking at me like this? Am I wrong?"

Du Qianlin pursed his lips and chuckled, "You can see so many things just after drinking half a cup of tea with Hua'er?"

"Do I have more? You've only been in the city half a day longer than me, and you know everything." Hearing Du Qianlin's eccentricity, Kang Wenwen was not to be outdone.

Du Qianlin felt Kang Wenwen's displeasure, and smiled wryly, "Didn't I tell you everything, and I didn't hide it."

"Then did I hide it?" Kang Wenwen said angrily.

Du Qianlin had no choice but to admit defeat.

"Then why do you think it was the rumors spread by the murderer?"

Kang Wen said, "If Hua'er is really an 'ogre', then Qiao Er really 'coincidentally broke' the identity of an 'ogre' last night."

"But since Hua'er is not the murderer, why did Qiao Er see the 'ogre' enter Hua'er's room and see her changing clothes?"

Du Qian understood clearly, "So this was deliberately arranged by the murderer, so that Qiao Er could see it."

"To spread rumors, it is better to let people 'see with their own eyes' so that everyone can believe it." After all, seeing is believing.

Kang Wenwen said again, "But I don't understand why the murderer planted Hua'er. She is a woman who can't carry her hands or shoulders. Anyone with a little brain can tell that she is not the murderer."

Du Qianlin touched his chin with his right hand, but shook his head, "I don't think so."

"Look at these people, although the discussion is heated, some people don't believe it. But no one can clearly explain why."

Kang Wenwen also frowned and looked at the people discussing around him.

"It doesn't matter that Hua'er is a woman. Are there still few stories about female ghosts killing people?" Du Qianlin turned his head to Kang Wen and asked.

Kang Wenwen's eyes widened suddenly, "Just because flowers are more suitable for 'ghosts'?!"

"The top card of Zuixian Tower, people who have seen her say she is beautiful, and those who have not seen her even say that she is like a fairy. But such a person is a female ghost who needs to kill and suck her energy. This is indeed justified, even It's extremely reasonable."

In such an era of feudal superstition, it is more believable that female ghosts harm people.

But why would the killer do this?Is he going to stop, push out a flower to die in place of death, and escape?

However, there is still a missing person who has not been found.