Madness of the Heart

Chapter 3 Demon Hunting (03)

Before the transformation of the economic structure, Dongye City was once a heavy industrial city.

Accompanied by large-scale factories is a semi-enclosed community culture-in a community centered on factories, there are not only primary and secondary schools, hospitals, department stores, but also their own swimming pools and dairy farms.

Thirty years ago, the most important factory in Dongye City was the Tianhong Weapon Factory located in Xicheng District. Its community intelligence and worker welfare are so complete that young people today are unimaginable. Education has everything from kindergarten to high school, and there is even a popular science playground for children and children in entertainment.

Today, Tianhong Weapon Factory has long since withdrawn from Dongye City, and the factory buildings and communities have been replaced by high-rise buildings. The only thing that preserves the style of the year is the popular science playground that once made the children of the city yearn for.

Even the factory does not exist, why does the popular science playground remain in place?

This is related to the objective conditions of Dongye City at that time-more than a decade ago, there were only park-like playgrounds in the city. Together, these playgrounds are not as influential as Tianhong’s popular science playground. When Tianhong was evacuated, a real estate developer, under the direction of the Xicheng District government, bought the popular science playground from the Tianhong Weapon Factory, ready to upgrade and maintain it, and build it into a paid attraction.

However, contrary to expectations, the transformation of the economic structure means that a large amount of foreign capital and emerging industries have poured into Dongye City. The popular science amusement park has only been brilliant for three years after the withdrawal of Tianhong, and it has been replaced by two large-scale modern chain amusement parks.

Since about ten years ago, the popular science playground has no longer been managed. And because of cooperation disputes and interest entanglements, it cannot be removed there.

Today, the popular science playground has become a joke in Dongye City.

Many young people jokingly call it “childhood cemetery.”

In recent years, this “childhood cemetery” has become a favorite place for photographers and young couples.

The city of Dongye is changing with each passing day, and the popular science playground is surrounded by soaring, cold and exquisite commercial office buildings. Its decline and obsolescence happen to become another fascinating landscape, attracting people who are tired of the city but cannot escape from the city.

It was late at night, and the LED lights of the office building were shining on the edge of the popular science amusement park.

A mottled amusement train stopped in the wildly growing bushes, the head and the tail had fallen off. A rapid gasp came from the third carriage. Suddenly, a hand was slapped on the stained yellow and dirty glass, and the nail was pulled, making a toothy noise.

This rusty train is the favorite of “Little Fresh” during the day-people pose in various sad poses on the rails, then freeze the frame by the camera, and then add a paragraph such as “My pain you don’t understand” Kind of text is posted on social networking sites; at night, the train becomes a fun place for sensual men and women.

Ten minutes later, the slanted car door was “Kang Dang” pushed open, and a plump woman in a white suspender skirt took the lead to jump out of the train. She took a few staggering steps, took out the lighter, lit the lady’s cigarette in her hand with a sting, and swallowed the cloud comfortably.

Soon, the shirtless man also jumped down and smoked a cigarette with the woman. The two cuddled together, spoke in a low voice, and laughed ambiguously from time to time.

After the three cigarettes, the woman patted her skirt, apparently planning to leave.

However, the man seemed to be unfinished, holding her hand, kissing and sniffing.

The woman compromised with a smile, shaking her graceful waist, “Let’s change a place.”

This popular science amusement park has a confined space like a train carriage. The man looked around and his eyes lit up, “Let’s go there and check in.”

The woman followed the man’s fingers and frowned slightly, “Okay? It’s too dangerous there.”

The man was referring to a bicycle suspended on a steel frame. The steel frame is about three stories high from the ground, and the pedal bike does not have any security facilities, and it is quite dangerous just to climb up.

“Danger is stimulating.” The man smiled and seduced, holding a woman’s shoulders, “Xiaoshan, didn’t you suggest that we go to different ‘toys’ to check in every week? Why, I’m afraid to change to the sky?”

The woman snorted, “How can I be afraid?”

“Then go.” The man is full of confidence, deliberately showing the bravery of a man, “Don’t worry, there will be no accidents with me.”

Soon, the two climbed onto a pedal car. The old antique was crumbling on the steel frame, making creaking noises constantly. What’s even more fascinating is that most of the thin railings in the speeding car have long been broken, and three of them are stunned and shaped like sharp iron thorns. Once hit, the consequences would be disastrous.

The woman cautiously grasped the unbroken railing, her face pale in shock, “Forget it, forget it, this thing is too unsafe, we move a lot, and it will definitely fall.”

The man swallowed his saliva, obviously also scared, but he didn’t want to show his timidity in front of the woman, and said forcefully: “Don’t be afraid, it’s okay. It’s not very high here. We still have a carriage to protect. Even if it falls, it will fall. Nothing wrong.”

After speaking, the man stretched out his hand, intending to pull the woman into his arms.

The woman slipped on her feet and fell forward to the right.

The pedaling bike is inherently unstable and can’t stand the toss at all. The woman’s trip directly caused the car body to lose its balance, and the wheel “cocked” on the steel frame, and it was directly off the track.

The man and the woman looked at each other, and before they had time to react, they felt the world turned upside down.

The two of them fell straight down from a three-story building on a pedal car!

“what-”

The horrified cry was concealed in the darkness like marsh gas. The pedal car tore the air and crashed into the rocky ground below, with a heavy muffled noise, and then turned over, poking backwards on the ground like a vehicle falling from a cliff.

Five minutes later, a **** hand came out of the car. The woman’s white dress was dyed blood red, and her nails with rhinestones fluttered from the flesh.

Her face was bloody, she crawled and wept in a low voice, her long hair soaked in blood covered her face with heavy makeup.

This picture is extremely permeating, like a female ghost crawling out of the TV.

Behind her, the man kept moaning in pain. She knelt on the ground and turned around mechanically. When she saw the situation in the carriage, her pupils shrank sharply.

The man’s upper abdomen was actually penetrated by a slender iron thorn!

She wanted to yell, but she was so frightened that she couldn’t make a sound. The man looked at her fearfully, and said weakly: “Xiaoshan, save me…help me…”

Her eyes were blank, she shook her head stupidly, the blood on her forehead dripped with the movement, “No, no…”

The man panted, his expression turned fierce and distorted, “What are you doing in a daze? Call an ambulance, call a doctor, hurry!”

The woman suddenly stood up from the rocky ground, her blood-colored dress wafting in the night breeze.

“I can’t save you.” She murmured and backed away, looking like a sleepwalking, withdrew three steps, but suddenly woke up, picking up the man’s phone that had fallen on the ground.

“You…” The man’s pupils had faded, and more and more blood poured out from the wound.

“Don’t let others know, don’t let others know…” The woman shook her head frantically, “I’m sorry…”

“You stop!” The man struggled hard, while the woman had disappeared into the darkness as if fleeing for her life.

In the early morning of the next day, the pupils who came early to occupy the territory saw a **** scene only in a horror movie-a man lying on his side in a pile of rocks, with a rusty iron thorn stuck in his stomach, and the gray-white stone has been stained. Black and red. His eyes were protruding, and his eyes were full of pain, and his right hand stretched forward, as if to seize a glimmer of life.

The golden brilliance of the early sun sprinkled on him, and his breathing had already stopped.

After receiving the police, the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Xicheng Branch quickly sealed off the scene.

Forensic doctors preliminarily judged from the corpse spots and the degree of corpse stiffness. The man’s death time was between 11:30 last night and 0:00 this morning. Iron spurs penetrated the man’s liver, which was the main cause of death.

Several police cars were parked outside the popular science amusement park, and people watching the excitement were blocked from the guard zone. This is the summer vacation. Although the equipment in the amusement park has already stopped, it is still a “sacred place” for nearby children. They stretched their necks one by one, and Baba looked inside. Some imaginative children have even compiled an article “Midnight Horror”, eager to invite a few partners at night to explore the place where the dead body appears.

The serious crime team’s car was not parked with the Xicheng branch’s car. When Ming Shu got off the co-driver, he happened to hear a little boy enthusiastically saying to his companion: “Do you know how the person inside died? My brother and me Said, he died of a witch’s poisonous needle! The poisonous needle is—is it—long, swish from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet!”

Ming Shu: “…”

The little boy spit, “On the night of the full moon, a witch will appear, and use poison needles to punish the wrongdoer! Do you want to see the witch? Sign up here! My brother will take me, I will take you!”

The children were eager to try, with expressions of expectation and fear on their faces.

Ming Shu said “Hey”, the little boy turned around and blinked his eyes to look at him, “Uncle, are you going to see the witch with us?”

A fat kid said: “No way, uncle is an adult, and we are not in the same country, what if we file a complaint?”

The little girl with croissants said: “Uncle looks good, let’s let uncle participate!”

Ming Shu squatted down, “You want to go on an adventure?”

The most active little boy said: “If you are willing to be a bodyguard for us, and if you do not inform, I will let you participate!”

“Bodyguard?” Ming Shu showed a distressed expression, “but there are too many of you, I can’t protect you.”

The little boy opened his eyes wide, and said in doubt: “But you are very tall.”

“I heard that witches like to eat children the most. They eat at least seven children every night to maintain their appearance.” Ming Shu counted the points seriously, “You are exactly seven, and I can protect one at most.”

Upon hearing this, the children changed their faces.

The little girl said first: “Really?”

Ming Shu: “Of course it is true.”

The little boy hurriedly said: “Impossible! Don’t listen to his nonsense! Witches don’t eat children!”

Ming Shu shook his head, “Why should I lie to you? My dear, if I protect you, I can’t protect your companions.”

Children, you look at me and I look at you, but in the end they all retreat.

Ming Shu smiled, and then he pulled up the warning belt and walked towards the corpse.

This case should not have alarmed the serious crime team, and the Xicheng branch should be able to solve it, but soon after Ming Shu returned to Dongye City, he needed to enter the role of “the leader of the serious crime team” as soon as possible, so he rushed to the scene with people.

Trace survey work is underway, and the blood and footprints extracted need to be brought back to the branch office for further inspection. Ming Shu squatted beside the corpse and looked up at the steel frame in the sky.

“People fell from there.” Zhang Haiyu, the deputy captain of the Xicheng Detachment, wiped the sweat off his face. “There were blood stains in the bicycle. After the deceased fell to the ground, he crawled five meters out of the carriage to his current position. ”

Ming Shu put on his latex gloves and muttered to himself as he thought, “Why did he appear there in the middle of the night?”

“Some scavengers like to spend the night here.” Zhang Haiyu said: “But judging from the dressing of this person, he doesn’t look like a scavenger.”

Ming Shu nodded, “There is no surveillance installed around here, right?”

Zhang Haiyu frowned slightly, “No one is watching here. There are no cameras in the park, only on the streets outside.”

Mingshu pressed his fingers on the neck and collarbone of the deceased, and then moved to his lips, “There is another person who fell with him, most likely it is a woman.”

At this moment, the trace inspector shouted that two kinds of fresh footprints were extracted from the carriage and the rocks. One is determined to belong to the deceased, and the other is from a woman who is 1.55 to 1.6 meters tall and weighs no more than 95 kilograms. .

Zhang Haiyu looked at Ming Shu and gave a thumbs up, “Ming team, amazing.”

Ming Shu walked into the carriage, his sight swept through the blood stains, and finally landed on the left seat.

The seat has been skewed, and the iron and wooden boards are squeezed and deformed. He bent down, twisted a long piece of hair from the gap in the seat, and squinted at the sun.

The hair has been dyed, it is the golden red that is popular recently, and the hair roots have hair follicles, which can detect DNA.

“Others are walking a tightrope for love, and this one is climbing the track for love.” Ming Shu sealed his hair in a physical evidence bag and handed it to the mark inspector, his eyes cold, “safe hotels look down on it, so I have to run to such a place to toss. life.”

Zhang Haiyu is also an experienced criminal police officer, and one can see what happened at night.

But what he didn’t quite understand was that since the two were lovers in the wild, why did the woman in the car leave the man behind after the bike crashed?

A man will not die if he is sent to the doctor in time.

“The two of them are secret rendezvous. Maybe they have family members. This relationship is not visible.” Ming Shu said: “There is no lack of evidence at the scene. This case is not difficult to solve. First, confirm the identity of the deceased. Does he have any documents?”

“Yes.” Zhang Haiyu picked up a physical evidence bag with a gray men’s wallet in it, “Zhang Sihao, 24 years old. However, his identity has yet to be verified. What’s strange is that he can’t find his mobile phone anywhere.”

Ming Shu raised his eyebrows for a while, his eyes narrowed into a long narrow line, “It’s his lover who took his mobile phone.”

When the police came to the Joy Hotel, Xu Linshan was packing up the ashtray that was broken by the guests.

She is 27 years old this year and was born in a backward village in a neighboring city. She came to Dongye City to work as a cleaner, sold fake wine, and sat in a hair salon when she was a young adult. After being introduced three years ago, he married an honest taxi driver and settled down, gave birth to a child, and worked as a room cleaner in this hotel.

She hadn’t read many books, she had no common sense or knowledge, she was kind of pretty, she loved vanity, she was old and ugly, she hated her husband, and she didn’t even notice the little effort on the bed.

Six months ago, she met Zhang Sihao who was also working at the Joy Hotel, and she was doing the firewood at just one point.

Zhang Sihao was born in the countryside like her. When she was a teenager, she left her hometown, drove a car, and was a duck. She was handsome and sunny, and she didn’t know how many times he was taller than the one in her family. But Zhang Sihao is poor and can’t save money just like her.

She looked down on her husband, but she didn’t look down on Zhang Sihao much. In the few years she was sitting on the stage, she had slept with more rich men. But relatively, they also look down on her.

Otherwise she would not marry a bald beer belly taxi driver.

When Zhang Sihao chased her, she hesitated. But hesitated and hesitated. I felt that it was better to sleep a few times first. Anyway, it was not me who would suffer. In the future, when I met a man with better conditions, I would just kick Zhang Sihao off. She has always had a clear understanding of herself—not a good wife or mother, who is greedy for the body of a handsome boy, and is reluctant to live a stable life given by her husband. She can cheat, but cannot be discovered.

Zhang Sihao loves to play and took her to the popular science playground for the first time two months ago. She was so hooked that she proposed to “check in” at every amusement facility.

Yesterday, it was their eleventh time to “check in.”

Her husband drove a taxi with others and often operated night shifts. This gave her the opportunity to have an affair and sang with Zhang Sihao almost every night.

But she never expected that something like that would happen last night.

This is simply unlucky.

Since the incident, she has always been in panic and confusion. The unstoppable blood on Zhang Sihao’s abdomen and the grim and painful expression on her face imprinted on her retina, making her shiver constantly.

I didn’t mean it, I didn’t die—she said to herself over and over again—I really can’t call an ambulance. When the ambulance comes, our affairs will definitely be discovered, and then I’ll be over! I still have children and a family. I can’t let anyone find out that I am affair with other men!

The moment the police showed her credentials, she panicked like a puppet, not understanding why she was found.

Criminal Investigation Detachment, Interrogation Room, Xicheng Sub-bureau.

Faced with her hair, footprints, and blood identification report, Xu Linshan refused to admit that she was with the deceased Zhang Sihao last night.

“You are mistaken. He and I are just colleagues, and we don’t even say a few words. I have a family and my child is only one year old. How could I stay with a man in the middle of the night?”

“The public camera outside the east gate of the amusement park has captured you-at 9:03 last night, you and Zhang Sihao entered the amusement park and behaved intimately; at 11:12, you left alone with a panic expression.” Ming Shu watched leisurely She turned to the laptop computer that was playing the surveillance video, “Plus the evidence I just issued, Ms. Xu, your confession is not as important as you think.”

Xu Linshan did not have any anti-reconnaissance awareness, did not know the existence of cameras, did not know that footprints and blood could lock a person’s identity, thinking that as long as Zhang Sihao’s mobile phone was taken away, Zhang Sihao could not call for help, and left the scene before being witnessed. Foolproof.

She was picking her fingers irritably, all she wanted to cover her affair.

Ming Shu said again: “Your behavior contributed to Zhang Sihao’s death.”

Xu Linshan opened her eyes quickly, “That was an accident! I didn’t know that iron thorns would penetrate his body!”

“So you admit that you were in the speed car with Zhang Sihao?” Zhang Haiyu said.

Xu Linshan shuddered, “I…”

“Do you want to see Zhang Sihao’s autopsy report?” Ming Shu pushed a folder in front of Xu Linshan with his fingers overlapped. “He had multiple soft tissue bruises, two broken ribs, and internal organ bleeding, but there was no bleeding when he fell to the ground. He died immediately. If he is sent to the doctor in time, he can get his life back.”

Xu Linshan’s eyes wandered, her teeth clenched.

“And you have no other injuries except your head.” Ming Shu leaned back, “It seems that Zhang Sihao protected you when the accident happened?”

Suddenly there were tears in Xu Linshan’s eyes, and she only shook her head gently, “I don’t know, I don’t know he will die…”

“Really? You really didn’t know he was going to die? Did he ask you for help? Ask you to dial 120 for him. But not only did you not call an ambulance for him, you also deliberately took away his cell phone.” Ming Shu The look in his eyes became colder, “Ms. Xu, it will not be good for you to hide it any more.”

Although Xu Linshan has maintained an unclear relationship with different men all year round, she was even swept a few times when she was sitting on the stage in the hair salon, but she never entered the interrogation room, let alone dealt with the serious criminal police. When Ming Shu was forced by a few words, he immediately went into a mess, and tremblingly confessed his affair with Zhang Sihao.

In the end, she looked at Ming Shu with red and swollen eyes, “I… Am I going to be sentenced? But it really wasn’t me who killed him, I didn’t kill him, it was just an accident…”

The case was completely clear. Ming Shu took a cold look, got up and left the interrogation room, but when he closed the door he saw a middle-aged man with a bald head waiting sadly in the corridor.

The middle-aged man is Xu Linshan’s husband. He looks ordinary and even a little ugly. To describe it in a buzzword, it is “greasy.”

Ming Shu looked at him for a moment, then sighed softly.

At first glance, a man is an honest person who lives by his duties, works diligently, and gives his wife and children the best possible life with a small salary.

People always laugh at “greasy”, but they don’t realize that “greasy” is actually a state of happiness.

Xu Linshan was disturbed by this, secretly cheating with the glamorous young man, and easily knocked the man’s unsustainable happiness to pieces.

This woman is typically stupid, poisonous, and ignorant.

Xu Linshan’s cry came from the interrogation room, and the man’s facial features were even more ugly. He asked a policeman awkwardly, “What’s wrong with Xiaoshan? Don’t beat her…”

Ming Shu curled his lips and was about to leave when he heard a rush of footsteps.

“Master!” Fang Yuanhang ran over, looking excited, “The police are about to go out again! There is actually a corpse buried under the rock!”