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It was raining cats and dogs, making it impossible to go out.

Zhao Si and the others had no choice but to hide in the room and read the case records. Perhaps it should be simpler and called transcripts.The windows were rattling by the wind, and rainwater flowed down the cracks and dripped into the ground.The "floor" of the house is particularly original - the original land is compacted.

That's right, this wooden house does not have a wooden floor, but the wooden house is built directly after the land is rammed.So there is hardened ground under your feet, so you can also light a fire directly in the house.The warm bonfire drives away the cold and humidity, making people feel warm all over.

The matter of reading the case records was left to Zhao Si and Fei Ya. Bagram was not in the mood to read these crooked words. He only felt that the sudden rain made people feel depressed.It seems that the gods have hinted something.

It's no wonder that Bagram is superstitious, who knows that there is really a god in the junction.

He leaned against the door frame and watched the heavy rain wet the muddy ground, and saw that there was no one in the village, and the whole was quiet.When it rains, there will be a special smell in the soil, probably the fragrance of the soil.

Bagram asked, "Is it often windy and rainy in your Windmill Village?"

Carefully supporting him, Ya Ge, the village head, said with a smile: "No, it just feels like there is a lot of rain this year. It is often windy, otherwise there would not be many windmills."

"Did it rain when the man died?" Bagram asked without reason.

"Uh, no." The village chief Ya Ge was still smiling.

"Why don't you put the dead body down?" Bagram was referring to the dead body hanging from the entrance of the village.

The village head, Ya Ge, restrained his smile: "This is a deterrent, and it's not time to let it go."

Bagram said no more.

Zhao Si and Fei Ya in the room divided the stack of papers into two, half for each person, and began to read by the light of the fire.Accord's organization is quite organized. According to the order of characters in chronological order, a simple filing is carried out, and who is who is marked and who said what, which greatly facilitates reading.

Like the one in Zhao Si's hand, it is marked: On the day of the incident, Weiner's house, Weiner's wife Meili, and the person who asked, Soldier John.

It shows that the soldier John questioned the wife of a man named Wiener, so is the dead Wiener?

From the dialogue below, it can be seen that the deceased was indeed called Weiner, Meili's husband and the head of the family.

John: "What's the dead man's name?"

Mei Li: "Weina, it's my husband."

John: "What were you doing when he died at home?"

Mei Li (crying): "I don't know how he died at home. I took the child out before. Then, and then I came back and opened the door and smelled blood. I thought he was slaughtering some animals. Then I saw... He was skinned."

John: "Well, it was skinned. We found that when we examined the body."

Meili: "Could it be the leathermaker in the village? I heard he complained that the leather is not very good recently."

John: "Please don't doubt others at will. The quality of animal fur is not good, and using human skin will not help. And human skin is not a good thing."

After the simple questioning, there are some records of the scene.

Meili brought the child to the village police, who notified the soldiers, and the first soldier to arrive at the scene was John.After briefly observing the corpse, John asked Mei Li.Weiner's body was skinned, and the bloody body was thrown on the edge of the stove, and the blood flowed all over the floor.Judging from the body, the murderer was quite skilled, not like a novice.

Probably the complete human skin was stripped in a short period of time. There were no crime tools at the scene, no signs of fighting, and the door lock was not damaged. It should be someone Weiner knew.

Seeing this, Zhao Si frowned, feeling that the records were too organized, as if he had traveled through a person who knew the relevant knowledge.He wouldn't be surprised if this record came from the volcano's mansion. Judging from the handwriting, it should all be written by the same person—the village chief Ya Ge.The village chief reorganized and transcribed it.

How did he know what tools to pay attention to, traces of fighting, door locks and so on?These should not even be understood by the soldiers.

After Weiner's body was examined, it was concluded that the fatal injury was in the heart.

Someone stabbed Weiner's heart with a single knife, and then skinned him.The time of death was in the morning. After the family had breakfast, Meili took the children out to play and chat with the villagers. Many villagers can testify to this.When the villagers passed by Weiner's house, they didn't notice anything unusual.

Ask the nearby villagers: Have you noticed that anyone has entered Weiner's house?

The answer was surprisingly unanimous: no.

The people in the village looked down and didn't see anyone who looked up, but no one found out who had entered Weiner's house, only Mei Li had entered and left with the child.Is Meili the murderer?There is no crime time, and she has children with her all the time.

After burying poor Weiner, the soldiers led the village police and knocked on the door of every house in the village.Then, under the supervision of the village chief and jurors, every villager was counted and their homes were searched.

After spending almost an afternoon, I finally found the crime tools from Jack's house - a bloody knife and a skinning tool.

Jack was arrested of course.There is no such thing as an interrogation room in the village, so the warehouse temporarily acts as an interrogation room.The interrogation is still conducted by John, as if he did everything.

During the interrogation, John was straight to the point. He didn't know any interrogation skills, and he could extract a confession by torture.So for the record, he was violent in the first place and totally freaked Jack out, but Jack pleaded not guilty.

John: "You killed the man!!!"

Jack (scared): "No, it's not me, why should I kill him?"

John: "That's the question I want to ask you, why did you kill Wiener?"

Jack (shaking his head vigorously): "It's not me, it's not me, it's not me..."

John: "The murder weapon was found under your bed board. Where did you go in the morning?"

Jack: "I'm doing farm work."

John: "I asked other villagers, and they all said they didn't see you. How can you argue?"

Jack: "I... well, I admit, I was lazy and hid in the windmill and went to sleep. But killing people really has nothing to do with me."

Judging from the investigation, Jack and Weiner have no feud.Jack is a single slacker in the village with a bad reputation but lack of motivation.But it doesn't matter, John can give him a crime of course.

John: "I see. You're a heretic, no, a heretic."

Jack (surprised): "What?"

John: "Murder first and then skinned. This is a cult behavior, right? What god are you offering sacrifices to?"

Jack: "Wait, wait, don't talk to yourself. If I peeled the skin, did you find the skin?"

John: "No. Because the skin has been sacrificed by you, so naturally you can't find it."

The case was closed and the village chief, jurors and all villagers were called to a public trial.After John gave his reasons, the "Jack is guilty" option was almost unanimously voted.Jack was hanged as a matter of course, which means that there is a corpse at the entrance of the village that belongs to Jack.

Zhao Si kept pinching the Qingming acupoint in the corner of his eyes.Whether Jack is the real murderer or not, he is dead, and it is up to the whole village to decide.It was equivalent to Jack's death, which was distributed to everyone.Even if someone is sent to investigate again, the people in the village will firmly insist: he is the real murderer.

And for good reason: cultists hold cult sacrifices.

It's a universal reason. In other words, they can use this reason to execute every "suspect" person.

"What is this? A mass incident?"

Zhao Si felt that this matter was not as simple as finding the real culprit.