Ten deadly sins 2 Diao Ai Qing

The past belongs to death, and the future belongs to oneself-Shelley

A young woman left her keys in the company. She took her son back to the company in the middle of the night to get the key.

The company is on the 40th floor, which is the office building of an international investment building. * * * There are four elevators that have been used for a long time.

Of the four elevators, only two are open at night, and one elevator is suspended due to fault maintenance, leaving only one elevator that is usually used to transport goods. The elevator is not monitored and the lights are dim.

There have been many stories about the haunted elevator in this building, and many employees have encountered strange phenomena, such as elevator failure, automatic doors often open on the eighteenth floor for no reason, but there is no one outside; For example, when you get out of the elevator at night, you will hear a creepy sneer behind you, but when you look back, there is no one in the elevator; Elevator monitoring even recorded a puzzling thing. The monitoring lasted for more than a minute. The picture shows that two white-collar men walked into the empty elevator. At 1 min 10 seconds, the elevator stopped and the two people who were talking got out of the elevator. What is terrible is that an old woman bowed her head behind them and followed them slowly.

This young woman never believes in ghosts. She and her son took the elevator to the 40th floor, and everyone on that floor was gone. It's dark and quiet here, and the light in the corridor is very dark. The young woman hurried back to the company to find the key and called her husband on a business trip. Ten minutes later, the young woman finally found the key and returned to the elevator. The elevator actually stopped upstairs-41building.

Young women think that someone has pressed the call button, and employees in the building often work overtime until late at night before going home. She doesn't think so.

The young woman saw her son's shoelaces loose. She told him to hold down the elevator, squat down and tie his shoelaces.

The elevator came down soon, and the automatic door opened, but my son somehow let go and stood still.

The elevator door closed and it went down soon. The young woman tied her shoelaces and blamed the child for not pressing the button. The child didn't know what the picture of fear was, and his face turned white and he couldn't speak. It is said that children's eyes are pure and they can see supernatural phenomena. The young woman called the elevator again and asked the child curiously what she saw.

Child: There is a girl in the elevator.

Mom: What's there to be afraid of, coward?

Child: Mom, how can people walk without feet?

Mom: Disabled people can use wheelchairs or crutches.

The child's next words made his mother's hair stand on end.

Child: My sister has no wheelchair or crutches.

Mom: You can sit on the ground, put your head in your hands and climb out.

Child: She is taller than anyone else.

Mom thinks it's strange, too. She leaned over and asked, that girl standing in the elevator has no feet?

The child hugged his mother in fear and said that she was not standing on the ground.

The mother picked up the child, and a gust of evil wind blew, and she shuddered, only feeling cold in her back. The elevator rises slowly from below. My mother was frightened and hesitated to take this elevator, but she really didn't have the courage to walk down the 40th floor. While waiting for the elevator, a frightened picture appeared in her mind. As soon as the elevator door opens, will there be a terrible female ghost hanging in the air, with long hair and red clothes, her tongue sticking out and dripping blood?

Finally, the elevator stopped in front of the young woman and the door slowly opened.

The fear of elevators is that you never know what you will see when the elevator door opens.

Date: 2010-1-0919: 22: 04.

Chapter VI Corpse Spasm

June 65438+1October 65438+July 2008, a mother and son went back to the company office to get the keys at night. After the elevator door opened, a spherical object rolled to her mother's feet, which turned out to be a bloody head. Mother stamped her feet in fear and screamed loudly. The child's eyes were glazed and he pointed at the elevator in horror. Mother looked intently and saw a headless body in the elevator. Strangely, the headless body is standing in the elevator.

The walls of the elevator were spattered with blood, which flowed like a snake and the lights were dim. There is a headless woman standing in the middle of the elevator.

This terrible scene scared my mother almost fainted. She wanted to leave with the baby in her arms, but she was weak. She pressed the phone button several times with trembling hands, and then dialed 1 10. ...

1 10 The command center quickly gave instructions to the police in the jurisdiction, and the local police rushed to the scene. The safety supervision and security department of the building actively cooperated to appease the frightened mother and son and cut off the power supply of the elevator at the first time.

The police are divided into two groups, one is responsible for making interrogation notes, and the other is responsible for on-site investigation.

The trial lasted all night.

The task force arrived the next morning and saw that the crime scene was well protected. A policeman surnamed Zhou served as the person in charge of the scene. He told the special case team that although he worked all night, he was still not sure whether the case was suicide, homicide or accidental death, so he asked the special case team to assist in the investigation.

Draw a dragon and say: Can you commit suicide if you lose your head?

Officer Zhou said: I have never seen such a strange case. Do you believe in ghosts?

The deceased was Wen Xiaowan, a publishing editor. The publishing company is located on the 42nd floor of the building, which is the top floor. On the day of the incident, she worked overtime alone until late at night and died in the elevator after returning home. Her head was beheaded and her hands were tied with scarves. Although her head fell off, her body could not stand. At that time, a mother and son on the 40th floor were about to take the elevator downstairs, and they happened to find a bloody case in the elevator, so they called the police.

According to the witness's description and the preliminary autopsy report, the police decided:

Time of death-around 1 1 pm.

Death elevator, this is the primary crime scene.

Cause of death-unnatural death.

Police officer Zhou said that after investigation, a few days before the incident, the deceased Wen Xiaowan broke up with her boyfriend, feeling depressed and suicidal. On the day of the incident, due to work mistakes, the editorial department leader ordered her to work overtime and died in the elevator when she came home. The children among the witnesses once saw her hanging in the elevator, and the police speculated that she should have been hanging in the elevator.

The child only saw a woman hanging in the air, but didn't see anyone else in the elevator.

According to this, the police thought it might be suicide, but no rope or steel wire was found in the on-site investigation. Strangely, no trace of heavy objects hanging from the top of the elevator was found.

The reason for the separation of corpses is the violent pulling of external forces, which often happens in elevator accidents. The police basically ruled out the possibility of accidental death according to the traces of blood spatter. The neck wound was not caused by a sharp cut. It looks like tying the neck of the deceased with a rope or steel wire, pulling his head down abruptly, or hanging the deceased, then hugging the legs of the deceased and forcibly breaking the head of the deceased by his own strength.

Draw a dragon and say: How is it possible? No matter how powerful the killer is, it's hard to pull a person's head down abruptly.

Police officer Zhou said: Blood spatter marks on the four walls of the elevator showed that there was only one dead person at that time. There was no one around when her head was broken. If there is anyone, it will stop splashing blood. The police will definitely find out when they investigate the inner wall of the elevator.

Su Mei said: Many women are afraid to take the elevator alone, for fear of ghosts and being trapped in the elevator.

Bao Jian asked: Whose silk scarf is the deceased's hands tied behind his back?

Officer Zhou said: the silk scarf belongs to the deceased and is not fastened. It is not clear whether the victim tied it himself or the murderer did it. It is also from this point that we think that nine times out of ten this case is homicide. However, in the past, there have been precedents in which suicides hanged themselves with their hands tied behind their backs or jumped into the river, which needs further investigation and confirmation.

Professor Liang said: My intuition thinks that this is homicide, an impossible criminal case and a seemingly logically impossible criminal act. The murderer has a high IQ and knows the characteristics of murder in the secret room.

The results of field investigation show that the murderer seems to have disappeared from the air, or the murderer never appeared at all. No fingerprints, no shoe prints, no weapons, no clues to solve the case. This case is like a ghost or an evil ghost in the elevator. It suddenly grabbed the woman who took the elevator alone and pulled her head down abruptly with an incredible force.

Samui said, I saw a dead man standing for the first time.

Officer Zhou said: Yes, the dead man standing still has no head. Let's listen to the medical examiner's explanation.

The forensic doctor said that standing after death is a special phenomenon of corpse spasm and a rare phenomenon of rigor mortis.

Corpse spasm occurs at the moment of death, and the posture or expression at the time of death is fixed because of the rigidity of muscle contraction.

Corpse spasm generally does not go through muscle relaxation stage and lasts until normal rigor mortis appears. It mostly happens when mental stress or brain injury occurs, and it also happens when the medulla oblongata is seriously injured mechanically.

Corpse spasm is an extremely special and rare phenomenon of muscle stiffness. It is the moment when a person dies without relaxing his muscles, and the muscles immediately contract hard, quickly forming rigor mortis and fixing his limbs in a dying posture.

Corpse spasm can be local or systemic. Local corpse spasm preserves the contraction state of some local muscle groups at the last moment before death. This kind of local corpse spasm is more common. For example, some people who commit suicide with knives and guns still hold the killing tools in their hands after death. Strangle people, grab the rope with both hands. The drowning man's hands are claws, grasping the grass and sediment. Some victims of poisoning also leave painful expressions when they die. General spasm fixed the whole body posture before death. On the battlefield, although some soldiers died, they still left their guns in the shooting position, or hugged each other tightly and mutually assured destruction. In the case of limb spasms, most of them are local limb spasms, and only a few are general spasms.

Wen Xiaowan's head was broken, but at the moment of death, her stiff body did not fall down because of the spasm of her body, but stood all the time. Her head fell in the elevator, and the mother and son on the 40th floor called the elevator. The elevator stopped, and her head rolled out of the door because it was bumpy.

The space in the elevator was small, and the police quickly completed the investigation of the crime scene, and the body was also transferred to the autopsy room of the police in the jurisdiction for further anatomical analysis.

Four people from the special case team stood at the elevator entrance on the 42nd floor. At that time, the deceased Wen Xiaowan walked into the elevator from here.

Professor Liang asked the building safety supervisor to turn on the elevator power supply, asked police officer Zhou to record the running time of the elevator on 1 building, and asked the safety supervisor to call the elevator on the 40th floor. He plans to do a test of elevator running time.

The elevator door opened, the blood has not been cleaned up, and there is a strong smell of blood inside.

Samui waved his hand and said, Do I have to take this elevator? Can we not do this? ...

Bao Duo seems to smell something, and the smell of blood in the elevator is mixed with a strange smell, a burning smell.

Bao Jian warned: it is best not to go in. There is something wrong with this elevator.

Painting dragon laughed at their cowardice and pushed Professor Liang in a wheelchair into the elevator. Baojian and Napoleon wrasse had to bite the bullet and follow them. Professor Liang informed the police officer Zhou of 1 building and the safety supervisor of 40th floor to start recording time, and the elevator door closed soon.

The lights in the elevator were dim, and the four people in the special case team didn't speak. They imagined that the victim was standing in this elevator.

Professor Liang carefully observed that the blood on the four walls of the elevator was very scary under the light. A carpet at the foot is very hard and has not been replaced for a long time. The carpet was also soaked with the blood of the deceased. The exhaust fan at the top of the elevator is broken, and the elevator fire prevention device is not installed.

The elevator stopped at the 40th floor, and the safety supervisor pressed the stopwatch to tell Professor Liang the running time of the elevator.

Professor Liang nodded, the elevator door quickly closed and continued to descend.

Suddenly, the lights in the elevator flashed a few times, the power went out, and the elevator was in darkness. This over-age elevator, without any warning, fell rapidly from the 40th floor. Many people think that the elevator can jump up at the moment of landing to avoid disaster, but in weightlessness, people can't jump up at all. ...

Life and death hang by a thread. If the elevator falls to the ground floor, that is, the first floor, four members of the special case team will be smashed to pieces. Napoleon wrasse shouted, and drew a dragon with great speed. In an emergency, he pressed several buttons of the elevator and descended quickly. Four people stumbled and the elevator suddenly stopped on the first floor.

Elevators are generally equipped with self-locking devices. If the descending speed exceeds the limit, the elevator car will be locked.

In the dark elevator, all four people felt that they had their lives back.

The light flashed a few times and then came on again, and the elevator automatically started the emergency standby power supply.

As soon as the elevator door opened, officer Zhou looked surprised and asked strangely, why are you so fast?

The four people in the special case team were jumpy, and all of them broke out in a cold sweat.

Painting the dragon wiped the sweat from his forehead, pushed Professor Liang out of the elevator and said, I'm back from hell.

Bao Chop helped Samui, who was pale, and then came out. He said that the elevator was out of order.

Professor Liang said: The murder weapon has been found.

Officer Zhou said: Where is it?

Professor Liang said: This elevator is the murder weapon!

Chapter VII Hanging Female Bodies

The task force asked police officer Zhou to call police officers and hold a briefing in the conference room of the building. Different from the past, Professor Liang did not analyze cases and assign tasks, but first gave everyone a difficult problem.

This question is also a criminal reasoning test of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. If you can get it right in one minute, you will be admitted to the FBI.

The enthusiasm of the policemen in the meeting room was mobilized, and everyone was eager to try and looked very excited.

Fbi test: an old man in a wheelchair went downstairs by elevator. There is no one in the elevator, only the old man himself. But when he went downstairs, the elevator door opened and people found the old man dead with a dagger in his back. How did the killer do it?

The police officers at the scene talked a lot. There is no murderer in such a narrow space in the elevator, but how to explain the fatal sword?

The police in the conference room can't give a reasonable answer even if they want to break their scalp. The time limit of one minute is coming.

Bao Jian blurted out: using the elastic rope and the downward force of the elevator to shoot the dagger, which is the way to kill when the murderer is not at the scene.

Everyone suddenly realized that a policeman asked, how did the murderer judge the position of the wheelchair old man?

Baojian explained that the wheelchair in the elevator must be close to the elevator button, and the murderer's dagger was aimed in that direction. On the handle of the dagger, the murderer connected a rubber rope with strong elasticity in advance, which passed through the ventilation hole of the elevator, and the other end of the rubber rope was tied to a fixture above the elevator shaft. When the elevator descends, the rubber rope will stretch with the elevator descending, and when the length reaches the limit, the rubber rope will tighten and break. Because of its elasticity, the dagger will shoot like a bow and arrow or a bullet, killing the victim.

Professor Liang nodded approvingly, and the answer was correct. Next, we can guess what we are looking for without saying anything.

I volunteered: there must be traces left by the murderer in the elevator shaft or the machine room at the top of the elevator. I will definitely find it. I just don't know what kind of rope the killer used, steel wire, nylon string or carbon fiber textile rope.

Professor Liang said: Let's study the neck.

Napoleon wrasse took out a prepared anatomical map of the neck with clear structure. The outermost layer is skin, muscles and lymph nodes are under the skin, longitudinal blood vessels and nerves are on both sides, respiratory tract and digestive tract are in front, and spine is behind fascia. The neck is very fragile, with many soft tissues and only one bone. The spine and neck are the pillars. There are ligaments between the cricoid cartilage of the spine. The executioner can easily behead by aiming at this position when beheading.

The task force analyzed the whole killing process in detail.

The wound of the deceased was in the submandibular triangle, and only mechanical force could eat the head alive. Suppose the killing tool is a steel wire, one end of which is put on the head and the other end is tied somewhere above the elevator shaft, and a huge force is generated through the elevator. The elevator has been descending. First, the deceased was hung high with his head on the top of the elevator. The steel wire tightened and pulled into his neck and soft tissue. The first splash of the victim's blood appeared at the top of the elevator, and the steel wire was pulled into the ligament of the spine, which is also a very fragile position in the neck bone. Then, the head was cut off by the steel wire, which quickly disappeared into the exhaust hole of the elevator.

The whole killing process is very fast, almost in an instant.

Due to the instantaneous stress, although the skin of the deceased's neck has tear marks, the whole wound is very neat.

Then according to the blood spatter trajectory and distribution map, it can be determined that the deceased has been standing after death. After the head was cut off by a steel wire, the deceased's body twitched stiff and fell from the air. The headless body fell in the elevator and swayed twice, but it never fell.

The headless corpse's neck spewed blood like a fountain, splashing all over the elevator wall.

Professor Liang said: the killing rope is very thin and has the characteristics of super strength and elasticity, and its length is at least as high as two stories.

Police officer Zhou asked inexplicably: The wire rope has not been found yet. How do you know the length?

Professor Liang said that the elevator that the deceased Wen Xiaowan took was on the 42nd floor. After entering the elevator, he must press the button on the first floor. The killer should have been in the elevator. He put a steel wire around the head of the deceased, tied his hands behind his back, and left on the 4 1 building. The witness is on the 40th floor. Mother and son bow their heads to tie their children's shoelaces. What the child sees is not the scene in the elevator, but a person hanging in the air, which means that the length of the rope is at least two stories high.

Hualong added that what the child saw was definitely not a body hanging in the air. At that time, the victim may not be dead, just hanging in the elevator, struggling, and his legs struggling to lean back. This is also the reason why children say that their sister has no legs. Then the elevator came up again, and the witness saw the standing body.

Officer Zhou raised a question: Time, it only takes a few seconds from 42nd floor to 4 1 floor. It is impossible for the murderer to tie the victim's hands behind his back and cover his neck in such a short time.

Professor Liang said: this question cannot be answered at present, and the time of the murderer's crime is still a mystery.

Before the meeting ended, Professor Liang assigned the task. Bao chop carefully surveyed the elevator shaft to find the tools and traces left by the murderer; Samui visited colleagues in the company where the deceased worked to find out the situation, especially those who had conflicts with the deceased. Police officers Hualong and Zhou were responsible for investigating the people who stayed in the building at the time of the crime, focusing on the elevator control room and those who knew that the deceased had worked overtime, and making a detailed list.

Professor Liang told everyone that the work must be meticulous, and the name of the murderer is likely to be hidden in this list.

Everyone took their responsibilities and began to work soon.

It was Friday when the crime happened. Two days later, employees of all companies in the building started to work.

A female editor who worked overtime until late at night was killed in the elevator, her head was broken, but her body was still standing. The terrible news came like a frying pan. Colleagues in the publishing company where the deceased Wen Xiaowan was located were all shocked. Everyone was unwilling to do it, and three employees submitted their resignation reports that day. They have to take the elevator to and from work every day, and they are very scared when they see the elevator where the crime happened. I believe that every colleague will have a psychological shadow for a long time.

Su Mei asked the editor-in-chief of the publishing company: Wen Xiaowan's boyfriend is one of the three resignees.

The editor-in-chief said: Yes, job-hopping and turnover of publishing editors are normal things.

Samui said: I think it has something to do with this case. Does your company have any competitors?

The editor-in-chief said: The competition is fierce. Almost every publishing company is our competitor. The 40th floor is a cultural company.

The editor-in-chief briefly introduced that their publishing company and the cultural company on the 40th floor worked in the same building, but because of competition, there was a legal dispute before, and finally the cultural company lost.

Samui recorded the editor's words in notes, and then asked Wen Xiaowan's boyfriend, whose name is Andy. He and Wen Xiaowan are colleagues, a book planning editor, and have done many suspense books. After the incident, the police went to their residence to make an inquiry record and found no doubt.

When Andy was questioned, he was very calm. His attitude is that this matter has nothing to do with him. He and Wen Xiaowan have broken up.

Samui suggested that you only break up for a week. Colleagues confirmed that you used to love each other very much, and had a big fight when you broke up.

Andy tilted his head to one side and said flatly, Isn't that what lovers do when they break up?

Samui said: Your eyes are a little red and swollen. I can see that you are crying. We found that you gave her a silk scarf.

Andy glanced at Napoleon wrasse, bowed his head, and tears came out again.

Andy told Samui that before breaking up, Wen Xiaowan straightened her hair and had an ionic perm. She didn't dare to sleep at night for fear of crushing her hair. He knew a trick, put a scarf or silk on her pillow, so that her hair wouldn't deform easily after she got up, so he gave her a silk scarf.

Su Mei said: It seems that you have a good relationship, but there is such a passage in your blog. Let me see-

Every time you fall in love, it's your first love. You can't love someone for life. There are beautiful women in the world, and beautiful women are like clouds. I always want to appreciate different women, feel different love, have passionate love, unforgettable feelings and gentle attachment, so as to live a good life. Braised pork with plum vegetables is delicious. Why do you want to eat one dish all your life?

Andy impatiently interrupted Napoleon wrasse and said, this is my view on love. What's the matter?

Su Mei said, Do you keep a diary to make her angry?

Andy raised his voice and said, I'm tired of her. Xiaowan is jealous, jealous every day. I see pictures of beautiful women, and she always goes against me. She also has to check my mobile phone text messages and forbid me to do this and that. Break up when you are bored to death.

There is no progress in the investigation of Hualong and Zhou police officers. There are several working groups under the building property management department, including security group, maintenance group, health group and hydropower group. When the elevator tragedy happened, several people in each group in the building were on duty at night. There were originally two people on duty in the elevator monitoring room. Because the only elevator running on the night of the incident was not monitored, the two people on duty took time off to leave. Two security guards of the security team found nothing unusual when patrolling at night.

Hualong and Zhou police officers asked one by one, and asked the personnel on duty to write down what they were doing at the time of the crime and their relationship with the victims.

Wen Xiaowan looks ordinary, but she has a hot figure, fashionable clothes and elegant hair. Seen from the back, her back looks charming. The autopsy results showed that she was not sexually assaulted, and no one on duty at night knew her, only a few people had a little impression of her.

Bao Duo first made a careful survey of the elevator room. There are traction wheels and guide wheels in the elevator machine room, and no trace of hanging steel wire on the base is found. Bao chop is a little disappointed. He also checked the bottom of the elevator shaft, hoping to find the murder weapon such as wire rope, but found nothing but garbage.

When Baodou was about to give up, a lifting point was found on the guide rail bracket at the top of the elevator shaft. The friction marks are very new, and the antirust paint has peeled off. Obviously, the weight is hanging here. It seems that this is where the wire rope is tied.