Tiger Eye Detective-Cabin Fever

Untitled Part 6 - So Hard to Die

In a silence that could be suffocating, Li Yuejun took out a lighter and lit the cigar that had been in his mouth, took a hard drag, and said coldly, ''Say your preliminary inferences in full. Waving his hand, he signaled the police officer in charge of recording beside him.

"Why the murderer set up this trap is not quite clear to me now. I'd better start with how that candle went out."

"Uh-huh."

"The candle was blown out by the first victim, and for that he paid with his life."

"Why?"

"That brings us to this knot above the candle." Lei paused to lean against the wall absently, took out his cigarette case and took out another cigar and held it in his mouth, "ching" and struck a match to light it, gently waved his hand to extinguish the fire and throw it out the door, exhaled a large mouthful of light blue smoke, then held the smoldering cigar in the corner of his mouth, squinted his eyes and said, "There was gasoline on the knot, and the reason it didn't get caught in the flames of the explosion was that it was not in the flame of the candle. The only reason it didn't burn out in the flames from the explosion was because it was tied above the candle. The flames only blazed the surface, but most of it remained. The rest of the cotton rope wasn't so lucky."

Li Yuejun whispered, "Those ashes 。。。。"

Lei stops nodding, "Those are the rest of this cotton rope, and those ashes are distinctly different in color and shape from the paper ashes and the ashes of some fabrics. In the blink of an eye, the gasoline-soaked cotton rope was pushed by the air currents, shifted from its original position, and was quickly turned into ash by the flames. Even though it was dispersed by the wind, it left scorch marks on the floor as it burned. I measured the original length of the cotton rope according to these intermittent scorch marks, and the furthest scorch mark was less than ten centimeters from the kitchen. This means that the end of this cotton rope would have led to the kitchen! In the kitchen is none other than 。。。。"

"The second deceased!" Li Yuejun suddenly realized, "The murderer played a trick!"

Lei Stop nodded somewhat heavily, "A very vicious little trick. The scuff marks on the floor proved that the murderer had moved the table, he pushed the table in front of the first deceased who was tied up as a brown, and glued the candle tied with a cotton string to the tabletop which was nearly a meter away from the first deceased, this distance determined that the first deceased could not blow out the candle in place without moving a muscle. The rest of the dead man's body was firmly immobilized, and he had to move his neck in order to blow out the candle. And that deadly murder weapon was waiting for him in the neck! The piece of cotton rope that allowed the deceased to pull down the blindfold was so that the deceased could see the situation in front of him after the murderer had left."

Li Yuejun: "Then the murderer must have told the first victim about the second victim's situation in the kitchen before he left."

"Right!" Lei stops to clip the cigar to flick off the ash that has been nearly a centimeter, and then stuffs it back to his mouth to take a big puff, and says vaguely, "The murderer is asking the first dead person to make a choice, and it's a bloody game in which only one of the two can live."

Li Yuejun's brow furrowed again, "Something's wrong, isn't it? The gas is on, the candle is lit, even if the first dead person doesn't move a muscle and lets the candle flame ignite the cotton rope, it will still trigger the same explosion, still the same death ah!"

Lei stopped and shook his head, "If the first dead person doesn't move, he will only be burned when the explosion occurs, but he will never die. I just studied the knife ring stuck on his neck, that is a fine device, at the bottom of the knife ring near the cervical vertebrae of the deceased there is a protruding obvious button, as long as the first deceased's neck is pressed backward against the button, the front part containing the blade will open up. Without such a device, the murderer wanted to bring to the deceased also have to take a lot of effort ah! In this way, even if the airflow from the explosion overturned the chair, the arteries of the first victim would not be cut by the vibration. Moreover, the murderer placed the table and three chairs in front of the first dead person to block the airflow. Behind the dead man's chair is the wide sofa, once the dead man's chair is overturned by the air current will serve as a good shock absorber. And the door to the kitchen is half-covered, which will also minimize the damage to the first deceased from the blast airflow."

Li Yuejun sighed, "This murderer really took great pains!"

"After the murderer left, the first deceased quickly pulled off the blindfold after unremitting efforts. The situation in front of him stunned him; he began to smell the odor of gas being constantly coming from the kitchen, and also saw the rope leading to the kitchen and the candle which was about to burn to the rope. He knew that he was faced with a difficult choice: either he would remain motionless and keep his life, as he had just said, he might be burned, but he would not die, but his son in the kitchen would certainly die. The second option was to give up his life, blow out the candle, prolong his son's survival, and wait for help. Of course, he doesn't know that the murderer has tampered with the doorbell!"

Lei paused and looked around at the dazed police officers and Li Yuejun, then said, "Looking at the current scene can already know the answer!" With a long sigh, "I have never really seen such a torturous death."

"The murderer knows how to use tools to open the lock, but the technique is not too skillful, and in the hands of a set of self-made new lock-opening tools, the abnormal scratches in the lock's eye can prove this."

"This is more useful in narrowing down the scope of exclusion." Li Yuejun said

"There's one more thing to note, the murderer should have a gun!" Lei Stop said still in a slow voice.

"What, the murderer has a gun!" Li Yuejun was shocked.

The corner of Lei Stop's mouth moved slightly, sort of a cold, hard smile, "For a tall, fit adult man like the first deceased, a knife would not be able to make him bow down. Furthermore, the blunt force injury in a rectangular shape at the back of the deceased's head can also indicate this."

Li Yuejun and all the police officers' expressions became grave.

"We must catch him!" Li Yuejun said hatefully.

"He can't run away!" Lei stop replied, his tone was calm but with a vow of determination, then as if he remembered something, he said, "Now there is a very important thing that needs to be done immediately."

"What is it?"

Lei stopped and looked at Li Yuejun: "Immediately send the two dead people back to the bureau and conduct an autopsy examination overnight!"

"Autopsy? Isn't the cause of death already clear? Why do you still need an autopsy?!"

"I think the bodies of the two deceased may have another mystery, I suspect that the murderer has left clues in the bodies of the deceased!"

"Ah!" Li Yuejun stared at Lei Stop in surprise. This unbelievable case had made even this veteran public security officer lose his usual calmness.

"With the current investigation of the scene, the murderer's layout is well thought out, his mind is fine, and he didn't leave any cracks. All the physical evidence that we can find has a role to play in its existence. There's only one thing that serves no purpose, it's simply an object that should have disappeared!"

"That paper cup!" Jing Dongren, who had been standing to the side without saying anything, suddenly spoke.

Everyone looked at Lei Zhuang, who slowly nodded, "Yes, it's that paper cup. Just now I used a magnifying glass to carefully study for a long time, there is an enlarged lip print on it, according to the size of the first deceased, the lip print on both sides of the cup body there are also hard pinching caused by the folds, from the folds of the direction of the extension and the angle of the force should be the first deceased coma when the murderer used to fill the water left. Because the rim of the cup has a lot of overflow water stains, the angle and clarity of the lipstick is not normal drinking water may leave. Then the next question arises, why did the murderer fill the first victim with water? Then one can only boldly hypothesize that the murderer was helping the unconscious deceased to swallow something that was difficult to swallow!" A brief pause, and continued: "The murderer did not take away this paper cup instead of leaving it at the scene, certainly not a momentary lapse, to his style of doing things is impossible to make this kind of mistake. Then there is only one explanation 。。。。。"

Lei stopped looking at Li Yuejun, his eyes flashing with a deterrent cold aura, "He is using this paper cup to convey a message to us!"

"There is something inside the dead man's body!"