Here Lies The Wicked

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[ Serial disappearances ], interrogation transcripts, law enforcement recorders.

Missing persons: 16.

The first crime date: march 5.

Summary of the case: there have been a series of recent disappearances in Zhou city, and each of them has four things in common.

1. They were all alone before they disappeared, including their working place, community, residence, etc.

There were no footprints, fingerprints, hair, dander and other evidence near the missing place.

3. All the missing people mentioned mysterious footsteps to their friends or relatives on the phone.

No property was lost.

"Hello, lady Li. We are the Fuyang street police station. Regarding the case of your good friend, miss Ye Xiaoli, you are the first to find Ye Xiaoli missing and the first to report it. We need to ask for some details so that we can solve the case as soon as possible and find Ye Xiaoli as soon as possible."

"Ah, oh, oh, okay... This is?"

"This is our law enforcement recorder. Both the transcript and the recorder are necessary procedures. Lady Li doesn't need to worry."

"Yes, okay. I'm sorry, because, for the first time, I've met this kind of thing, and for the first time, I've been facing the police. Yes, I'm a little nervous, which makes you laugh."

"That's understandable. Let's continue."

"Yes... Yes, please."

"At Ye Xiaoli's house, we found Ye Xiaoli's private cell phone that fell to the ground. By checking the phone records, we found that Ye Xiaoli's last contact number was lady Li's. Ye Xiaoli contacted you four times in less than two hours. The first time was 19: 07, the second time 19: 15, the third time 19: 59, the fourth time 20: 39. The longest call was the third time 37 minutes, and the last call was the shortest. Five seconds and less than three minutes from the third call, which means that ye xiaoli had just hung up on her third call and was in a hurry to call you. Can we ask why Ye Xiaoli called you so many times before she disappeared?"

"I don't know if you believe it or not, is there really... Something dirty... In this world...? Woo, that day she said she was scared, she was scared, her voice on the phone was shaking..."

"Something dirty? Lady Li, relax. Speak slowly. Here, wipe it first."

"Thank you, thank you..."

"I think with lady Li's unstable mood, it's not good for the police to continue questioning. We can wait until lady Li is ready before we continue to take notes."

"I... I'm much better now. Please keep asking. Please find Xiao Li! Please save her!"

"Lady Li, don't worry. This is our job and responsibility. Lady Li said Ye Xiaoli was scared on the phone?"

"That day, I... I could tell that Xiao Li was scared... Her voice on the phone was really, really scared! She wasn't too timid in our financial office, but that day, I could tell on the phone that Xiao Li was scared and she was very uneasy! Because the new year's holiday just ended, there are more financial work, and Xiao Li is the niece of a relative of the boss. There are some financial matters that we outsiders can't get in touch with. You should understand what I mean, right? That day... Xiao Li stayed alone to work overtime. There were a few girls in our finance room who didn't work overtime often, but that day was different. Xiao Li suddenly called me in a panic at 7: 00 pm. Her voice was shaking with fear. I could feel that she was very scared, and even her whole body was shaking. She said that in the hallway outside the office, a man's footsteps kept pacing back and forth, walking slowly from the staircase to the office... Hoo, hoo, hoo..."

"Lady Li, do you need to take a break first?"

"Hoo, hoo, no, no... I'm much better now."

"Yes."

Later, Xiao Li said on the phone that she thought someone was playing a prank on purpose at first, but every time she yelled out who it was, she ran out of the office several times to look for someone, and at that time, the sound of footsteps suddenly disappeared. But in a few minutes, the footsteps would appear again, or they would continue to walk slowly down the stairs, just going back and forth, disappearing every time they reached the office door. It was as if... It was as if the recording was playing back and forth... It's the old cassette, two black tapes that can be played back and forth."

"Well, we know that."

"Not long after, Xiao Li called me again. She was scared and anxious. The footsteps were always there, never leaving. They were playing back and forth between the stairs and the office door, replaying them like tapes. Xiao Li was so scared that she cried out. In the end, I didn't even turn off my computer and finish my work, so I ran out of the company in a panic."

"What happened after that? Did Ye Xiaoli come home safe and sound?"

"Well, yes, yes, Xiao Li was very scared. She kept talking to me on the way home by taxi. She said she was afraid that she would think nonsense again, and she didn't know if the footsteps in the company were a prank or not. She wanted me to talk to her on purpose. This time, Xiao Li was really scared... No! No, no! No, no, no, no! Xiao li had just hung up the phone when she got home, but she called again very soon. She was crying, screaming and crying, repeatedly saying that he was coming. He was coming, and he was following... Woo, can you feel that Xiao Li was alone at that time, and her spirit had collapsed!"

"Lady Li! What happened to Ye Xiaoli?"

"...

"Control your breathing, take a deep breath, and then slowly exhale. Lady Li, you have to find a way to calm yourself down and calm down. You are in a very safe environment. No one can hurt you."

"Inhale, exhale... Inhale, exhale..."

"Did that footstep track Ye Xiaoli's apartment this time?"

"...

"Lady Li, the last call Ye Xiaoli made to you before she disappeared, did she tell you that she heard the footsteps again?"

"...

"Lady Li, please tell us immediately what happened to Ye Xiaoli in the last five seconds of the shortest call record? It's about whether the police can find your friend Ye Xiaoli within 24 hours of the most precious crime."

"Please save Xiao Li! That footstep... That footstep is at Xiao Li's house, at her house! Step by step out of the bedroom! Why! Why! Why! Xiao Li has been crying and shouting on the phone!"

"You mean, this time, the sound of footsteps came directly from Ye Xiaoli's house?!"

"...

"And then, what happened? Lady Li?"

"...

"Lady Li? Lady Li!"

"...

"Li siya, please cooperate with our police investigation. Now tell us immediately what Ye Xiaoli saw in the bedroom. Is the sound of footsteps different from before? This time, the suspect appeared directly in front of Ye Xiaoli? Did Ye Xiaoli see the suspect in the end?"

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[ Tongjiang bridge serial river crash ], interrogation record, law enforcement recorder, video tape 212 provided by the traffic police bureau to solve the case, bridge technical appraisal report, motor vehicle technical appraisal report, driving recorder sd memory card, autopsy report.

Death toll: 53.

The first crime date: march 2.

Summary of the case: in Tongjiang bridge, a section of Zhou city that had just been in trial operation for two days, a series of car crashes occurred. In two days, there were 21 car crashes and a total of 53 deaths. The bridge had been completely sealed off and the trial operation was suspended. There were three things in common about the previous fall to Jiangdu.

The time of the crime was late at night and there were no witnesses.

No one in the car survived.

3. By looking at the traffic police surveillance video, no other suspicious vehicles, suspicious personnel or suspicious targets were captured near the vehicles falling into the river.

"Um... Uh... Officer comrade, do you know that in our civil construction industry there is a kind of unspoken jargon called... Piling?"

"Living human stump!?"

"Yes, yes, it means the same thing, but that's a bit taboo after all. We usually use the official term' pile'. It seems that the police officers also... Believe this?"

"It's just a feudal superstition. The ancients were ignorant and left behind a bad historical habit from Luban. Do you want to say that Tongjiang bridge had a series of accidents because of the lack of a living human stake?"

"No, no, no... It's a river cut at the waist. This place is too cruel. A living pile... Might not be enough. Um... This... At least a few... Living piles can suppress this river. Well, in our line of work, there is a saying: the residential buildings can't be driven, a living pile will be successful immediately. In the past, the place where the graveyard was built can't be driven, as long as a living pile can be driven immediately... There is another saying: the construction of civil works requires sacrifice, and the construction of bridges requires human sacrifice. Building bridges is more taboo than building tall buildings on the ground..."

"Pa! Zhang Chengde, the ancient people are backward in superstition. You, who have received modern science education, why do you follow the feudal superstition? I see you, an old man who has worked in the construction industry for dozens of years, believe in these superstitious monsters so much that you say, in the residential areas, schools, bridges that you built in the past, you zhang Chengde also made a few murder cases, deceiving innocent migrant workers, water ghosts, or vagrants to go underground. Then you poured cement and bored yourself to death to hit a living person's stake! Finally, a construction accident to escape legal responsibility? I think your head wants to eat peanuts!"

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The case of human body oil covering rice, also known as the case of human body oil covering rice.

Death toll: undetermined.

Suspected case: unable to confirm.

Date of the first crime: unable to confirm.

Case summary: file sealed!

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