Chapter 0513 – Cooked
”Are you guys blind? That’s not a mannequin toy, that’s a corpse! Let go of me!” The homeless man was unable to break free from Li Zheng and Tian Lei no matter how much he struggled, tossing and turning for a few minutes before quieting down.
”No wonder he’s homeless, so he’s a lunatic.” The homeless man no longer resisted, Tian Lei also loosened up, Li Zheng acted the opposite of Tian Lei, taking out the handcuffs and directly handcuffing the homeless man.
”Hey, Old Li, it’s not too much to deal with a hobo, right?”
Li Zheng kicked away the trash next to him, revealing a few steel bars at the back that had been sharpened at the front, “Don’t take it lightly, they who wander the streets are capable of doing anything when they start to get tough.”
Looking at those hidden steel bars, Tian Lei stopped talking, he clearly remembered that the homeless man had been trying to run in that direction just now.
”I’m not a madman! I’m saving you guys!” The hobo stubbornly shouted.
”Cut the crap, all these doll pieces are from the trash you rummaged through, right?” Li Zheng looked at the broken dolls on the ground, after these toys were abandoned by their owners, they lost their delicacy and became weird and ugly, their cracked faces full of loneliness and sadness.
”No, they are not toys, they were originally here! Nothing to do with me!”
”Still weaseling?” Tian Lei placed the steel bars far away, making sure that the homeless man couldn’t touch them, “There are so many rooms in the neighborhood, why is it that the room you live in is littered with pieces of toys? Do you have some kind of special fetish?”
The homeless man seemed to be really feeling very wronged, and his tone of voice didn’t sound like he was lying, “Ming Yang neighborhood is very unlucky, many people have died, all the owners who live in here will be haunted by something, this is something that a lot of people in the eastern suburb know about, if it wasn’t for a heavy rainstorm once, and there was no place to hide from the rain, I wouldn’t have run into this place either.”
”Don’t digress, answer my question! Are these pieces of toys inside the house made by you?” Tian Lei’s voice turned louder.
”No. When I first entered this room, I saw that there were many corpses inside the house.”
”Then why do you still live in this house?” Tian Lei was no longer thinking of correcting the homeless man.
”You can’t go back after seeing those bodies! He’ll haunt you, there’s no use running anywhere!” The hobo yelled like he was crazy, “Now you’re stepping on their corpses, and one day, they’ll step on your corpses too!”
”Old Li, what do you think?” Tian Lei’s heart fluttered at the vagabond’s words, in fact, if he were to change the scene, he wouldn’t feel anything at all, it was really because this place was too weird.
”You believe even the words of a madman? You watch him, I’ll go ask Team Yan.” Li Zheng entered the bedroom, where Team Yan and Chen Ge were searching inside: “Team Yan, that homeless man is a lunatic, saying that all these doll pieces are corpses, and that bad things will happen if you touch them.”
”You’re too late.” Team Yan helplessly raised his hand towards Chen Ge’s side, this haunted house owner was more active than even the police, and didn’t use a flashlight, staring with glazed eyes, bending down to scrutinize each doll fragment.
Coughing lightly, Team Yan rushed toward Chen Ge and said, “Little Chen, did you find anything on your side?”
”Most of these dolls are made of plastic, the factory time span is large, they should have been collected by the homeless man from various places, what I’m more curious about is why did he break all these doll toys?” Chen Ge picked up a doll’s head, “Look guys, this break was obviously cut open with a knife, otherwise it wouldn’t be so neat.”
”Maybe it’s for venting?”
”I’m afraid it’s not that simple, I studied toy design and manufacturing in college, and I still know about the various materials used to make toys, and there are problems with these pieces from the material to the coloring.” Chen Ge placed the doll’s head in his hand in front of Team Yan: “Look carefully, do you find anything wrong?”
Yan team didn’t really see anything after looking at it for half a day, “Loss of color?”
”Yes, these pieces seem to have been boiled in boiling water, not only is the color fading badly, the edges are also completely deformed ……” Chen Ge looked at the pieces of dolls in a room and was a bit confused, “Who would be okay with boiling these dolls all over again? ”
Team Yan couldn’t figure it out either, and after taking the pictures, he walked towards the outside of the house, “Let’s go to 104 first, that room is the key to tonight.”
When the homeless man saw Team Yan come out, he started yelling again, “You saw the bodies, they’ll be coming for you tonight!”
”You’re biting off a corpse, is this just a human head in your eyes?” Chen Ge took out the doll’s head from earlier, and the homeless man saw it and hit the wall at once, his arms shielding his chest, his expression horrified, as if he had actually seen a human head, “Take it away! Get it away!”
The homeless man’s reaction did not look like an act, and this scene was out of Chen Ge’s expectation.
”Has he really seen something?” At first, Chen Ge didn’t take what the homeless man said to heart, but he had a new idea after seeing the homeless man’s violent reaction at this point.
Removing the toy doll’s head, Chen Ge followed the hobo’s meaning and said, “In your eyes these doll fragments are all corpses, so do you know who killed them?”
”I didn’t kill anyone! I don’t know anything about it! He just asked me to stay here to guard these corpses, I don’t know anything else!”
”Him?” Chen Ge and the three policemen froze for a moment, then all gathered around, “Who is he? Why are you being asked to guard the corpses?”
”I can’t tell you, I’ll die if I do! I will definitely die! He’ll kill me, kill you all!” The vagabond clutched his head and crouched on the ground, crying in agony.
”This murderer is really hateful, threatening a fifty or sixty year old homeless man.” Tian Lei looked at Team Yan and Li Zheng, “Should we take him back?”
”Have the police officer on duty at your police station come over and take him back for interrogation.” Team Yan stared at the homeless man’s face for half a day, “I’ve seen this kind of expression on his face on the faces of many murder witnesses, there’s a possibility that he may have actually witnessed a murder.”
”A murder, a murder?” Tian Lei didn’t expect an ordinary civil dispute to involve a murder, and immediately called Xiao Qing and the others on duty.
”Li Zheng, pay attention to taking pictures for evidence, give me the strong flashlight, let’s go to room 104 first.” Team Yan and Chen Ge walked out of the room and headed up the stairs.
In the hallway, Chen Ge saw through the glass window that there seemed to be an electric car driving past the two police cars in the rainstorm, and it also entered the middle of the Mingyang neighborhood.
”Yan team, I just saw someone else entering the neighborhood as well, riding an electric bike, it shouldn’t be sheltering from the rain.”
”The few of you pay more attention, enter room 104, after making sure there are no problems, we will leave immediately.” Team Yan walked in front, the few people did not stop, and quickly came to the 10th floor.