Chapter 14 Accident?
When Huathrush and Bai Ling arrived, it was almost dawn.
In order to protect the integrity of the scene, after discussion, everyone decided not to take the body back to the local police station immediately. Instead, they chose to build a temporary dissection table on the stage and perform the dissection on the spot.
"The deceased and the murderer might know each other." Bai Ling took off one side of her mask and pointed at Chen Shuai's naked body. "I didn't find any signs of a struggle on him. It looks like he and the murderer had an appointment, or even knew the murderer."
"Are you sure?" Gu Xia asked.
"Almost confirmed." Bai Ling sorted out her thoughts, walked to the execution platform and squatted down, "You can see that the blood is splattering, and the distance and position of the splattering are consistent with the direction of his head rolling down. If he was struggling at the time, it would be difficult to cause a fatal blow, and the guillotine would be stuck in his cervical vertebrae. But you can see that his cervical vertebrae were cut off at once, and there are no extra scars."
"How could such a heavy blade get stuck in the cervical vertebrae?" Gao Feng found it unbelievable.
"Of course, the strength of the human cervical spine is much stronger than you think. With current weapons, it is difficult to cause a fatal blow. If there is any, it can only be said to be a kind of inch force." Bai Ling said.
"Inch force?" Wang Zheng began to think.
"That's right." Bai Ling nodded. "Although the continuous force impact is strong, the force is actually evenly distributed on the object. Inch force is to hit the target with a single point. To some extent, it is more lethal than a force point with a larger area."
In order to make it easier for everyone to understand, Bai Ling quickly took out her mobile phone and connected it to the projection equipment in the auditorium. Soon a video appeared on the screen behind everyone.
The video begins with several faces with obvious foreign features.
They seemed to be adjusting the equipment, and soon the shaking camera stopped. Then the camera turned, and a wall appeared again, with a person kneeling at the bottom of the wall.
The man's hands and feet were tied up and he couldn't move. After a while, a young man holding a half-meter-long machete came to his side.
Snapped!
"What he was holding in his hand was a special machete." Gao Feng walked to the front of the screen and pointed at the machete with a pen. "This knife is made of pure steel. After being sharpened, the knife is faster and sharper than the ordinary kitchen knives we use!" He also recalled that he had seen a similar video on the Internet, but the object being chopped was a dead pig.
After the video was played again, soon the faces of everyone present except Bai Ling turned ugly .
Because the young man with the knife moved. He looked at the prisoner kneeling beside him with a mocking look, then with a ferocious face, he raised the machete in his hand and chopped it hard on the prisoner's neck!
Just when everyone couldn't help but gasp, something unexpected happened!
No one expected that the seemingly extremely sharp machete would be stuck in the spine!
"Okay, that's about it!" Gu Xia waved his hand quickly, and waited until the phone was disconnected before taking a deep breath and saying, "Comrade Bai Ling, next time you have something to say, just say it directly, and don't show the video."
"I will pay attention!" Bai Ling stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, looking very cute.
"Also, fix the switch first." Gu Xia's face showed a trace of anxiety. He didn't know why, but he always felt a little uneasy.
Gao Feng and Wang Zheng looked at each other, and soon they raised the gate to the top and tied the rope to the backstage door. As long as no one deliberately opened the door, the gate would not fall again.
"Let's get back to the point. It is indeed difficult to cut off a person's neck when the cervical spine is tense, but I always feel that there is a problem." Huamei has been silent since she came in, and only now did she finally put forward her opinion, "The execution platform used for the performance was built by the students themselves. For a one-time performance, it is impossible to use real materials. How can it bear such a heavy gate knife?"
"The execution platform has been adjusted by the murderer." Wang Zheng suddenly said.
"What!" Gu Xia was somewhat shocked. "You mean, before the murder, when no one was in the auditorium, the murderer went in and adjusted the execution platform?"
"That's right!" Wang Zheng's eyes lit up. "Gao Feng, go check the surveillance. Hua Mei, help me find the psychological assessment data . Bai Ling, I need you to do me a favor!"
"What help?" Bai Ling asked puzzledly.
"Take the body back to the forensic room first. I suspect someone has tampered with the body!" Wang Zheng said quickly.
"I understand." Huamei nodded, but then quickly asked, "What about you?"
After what happened with Fan Qian, the members of the task force were very worried about Wang Zheng, fearing that something might go wrong if he acted alone.
"Professor Gu and I will stay in the auditorium and look for clues." Wang Zheng smiled.
"Okay, that's decided. Let's act on our own. If anything happens, call me immediately." Gu Xia put his hands aside and made a phone gesture.
Soon, the other members of the task force started to busy themselves with their own affairs, and the local police also prepared a body transporter to transport Chen Shuai's body to the police station. Only Wang Zheng and Gu Xia were left in the auditorium.
"What did you find?" Gu Xia suddenly asked, looking at Wang Zheng who was standing there in a daze.
"You can say yes or no." Wang Zheng shook his head and pointed to the ground and suddenly said, "There should be a chair here, but why is it gone?"
"What!" Gu Xia was shocked.
Following the direction of Wang Zheng's finger, Gu Xia walked closer and observed carefully for a while, but did not find any traces of chairs, and could not help but shook his head.
"It's not an illusion." Wang Zheng was silent for a while. "I have been thinking since I came in. If the murderer wants to kill someone, why didn't he choose a quieter place, but here, let the deceased change into a performance costume, and must use props from the play to kill the deceased?"
"Maybe the murderer is a drama fan?" Gu Xia also fell into thought.
"And he is a person who pursues perfection." Wang Zheng said: "If I want to watch the most perfect and realistic stage play, I will definitely not choose to sit in the audience. I will find a place that is closest to the actors and can observe the details the most, and enjoy it quietly with a glass of red wine at hand."
"I think... it's very likely."
Gu Xia stood where he was, then half-squatted. When he looked up, he could clearly see the performance area on the stage. He could also clearly see through his emotions and see everything in the shackles of the execution platform. Then when he turned around, he saw a scene that surprised him.
Wang Zheng, who was standing in place, suddenly had a complicated look in his clear eyes. He looked around the entire auditorium, then the corners of his mouth suddenly curved into an arc and he chuckled.
“It’s a perfect show and I invite you to watch it with me.”
As he spoke, Wang Zheng walked to the front of the auditorium and bowed to the empty auditorium in front of him. Then he turned around gracefully, walked to the center of the stage with a smile, and stared at the execution platform in front of him without saying a word.
"I have transformed this execution platform to perfection."
Wang Zheng looked very satisfied. After looking around, he focused his eyes on the front and said, "Now you can perform to your heart's content."
"Me?" Gu Xia looked at the man facing him, pointing at the execution platform, and couldn't help but feel a little scared, "Wang Zheng, you..."
"Don't you want to perform the most perfect stage play?" Wang Zheng smiled. "With today's perfect performance, you are destined to be a famous person in history. I will put your performance in every corner of the world for everyone to appreciate."
"Don't you want to? Then I'll do it."
Wang Zheng's smile became even wider. He walked to the execution platform, calmly opened the shackles, then lay on the ground, stretched out his arms, and gently closed the shackles.
"Then let me complete this perfect art."
Wang Zheng looked at the gate knife hanging above his head and smiled with satisfaction.
whoosh!
The gate knife hanging above Wang Zheng's body suddenly moved on its own. After being freed from its restraints, its huge weight chopped down completely uncontrollably, and one could even hear the whistling sound of the wind.
"not good!"
Gu Xia's face changed, and he took the opportunity to lunge forward, holding the rope of the switch tightly. His body was pulled far away by the huge force. When he turned back inadvertently, he suddenly found that the tightly closed backstage door was actually opened!
