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Judging from the movement speed of the pole, the old man definitely wanted to kill him. If County Head Mu were to hit him, with his body's condition, even if he didn't die, he would still be skinned alive.

I was extremely anxious, and at that time, I used all of my strength to rush towards County Head Mu's side with all my might. However, there were simply too many people around. My feet had already been squeezed out of the ground, making it hard for me to move a single step.

Bang!

After a muffled sound, the surroundings became unusually quiet.

I looked over to the source of the voice and saw Jiang Shan blocking right in front of County Head Mu. Fresh blood was dripping down from the top of his head.

Plop! Jiang Shan fell onto the ground. I pushed through the crowd with all my might and ran to his side to hold him in my embrace.

He was severely injured. I touched his nose and found that he still had a faint trace of breath. I shouted, "Hurry and send him to the hospital!"

After these words were said, the surrounding villagers spontaneously made a path for me. Actually, I was clear that these people weren't really that compassionate. It was just that they were afraid that Jiang Shan would die by their side while showing their responsibilities.

A colleague from the Public Security Bureau lifted Jiang Shan into the car. I watched the car leave, then turned around and walked towards the old man. Walking up to him, I took out my ID and told him, "You are suspected of causing trouble and using violent means to attack public officials. Now that the evidence is conclusive, come with me!"

I took out my handcuffs and handcuffed the old man, who struggled to break free while cursing, "Aiya, f * ck your ancestors! Mu Shangfeng caught you! You son of a b * tch, Mu Shangfeng! You will die a horrible death!" The villagers, they are bullying our Lu family's shack! "

I saw some young villagers who were probably bewitched by the village head. At this moment, they actually came closer to me with sticks in their hands, and their eyes were unkind. Looking at their eyes, I discovered that they looked quite similar to those demonic clan villagers in the 12.1 case.

I coldly snorted in my heart as I pulled out the gun in my waist and pointed it at the crowd. I shouted, "All of you, go down. If you take another step forward, I'll catch all of you!"

The moment the pistol was taken out, the surrounding people started shouting loudly. Some of the timid villagers had already put their hands on their heads and squatted on the ground. A colleague from the Public Security Bureau ran to my side and dragged the old man into the police station. Soon after, I ordered someone to carry the butt from the stretcher into the police station's autopsy center.

The surrounding crowd gradually dispersed. I walked to County Head Mu's side, and his breathing sounded heavy. I supported him, "Are you feeling better?"

County Head Mu nodded and panted as he said, "No … "It's alright. Help me in!" He raised his arm with difficulty and pointed at the police station.

I followed the steps of the County Head Mu, slowly walking on the red brick road of the Public Security Bureau bit by bit. The rustling sounds came from the surroundings, and the locust tree was currently swaying back and forth in the wind.

County Head Mu stopped walking. He turned his head and looked at the strange old locust tree. I saw a faint glimmer of hope in his eyes, but after a while, he sighed and said to me, "Let's go!"

After sending County Head Mu back to the Public Security Bureau's resting room, Elder Liang and I went straight to the autopsy center. Auntie Wang had already returned. She was wearing a white gown, and was checking the area in front of that butt.

This was the first time I saw the real thing. That butt was now quietly placed on the cold dissecting table. The muscles that should have been very elastic had now severely shriveled up. What's worth noting is that I found that the sides of the butt had been deliberately torn, and the wound had turned outwards. The white fat emitted a faint rancid smell, which made people feel nauseous.

The sphincter is so overturned that I can even see a small piece of the rectum inside the anus. The periphery of the sphincter is so charred that it should have been left behind by some kind of burn!

I quietly walked to the side of my buttocks, which had been cut off diagonally by a sharp weapon from my waist, revealing the white bones of my legs near the base of my thighs, which were neatly cut and stained with large amounts of blood. From the amount of blood flowing out, it seemed that the murderer had not frozen the corpse when he had cut off my buttocks.

There were many small cuts on the skin and there were faint traces of yellow-red rust on the flesh. It seemed that the killer's weapon was really a rusted iron saw.

Auntie Wang walked to my side, she lightly tapped her forehead with her gloved hand, and said: "The culprit is the same person, the victim is around 40 years old. The female, the deceased's buttocks were cut open by a sharp weapon, her skin turned out to be overturned, but …"

"But what?" At this time, Auntie Wang was using her right index finger to caress the tip of her nose. I am very familiar with her movements, she must have thought of some important clue.

A moment later, the Auntie Wang said, "From the degree of opening of the wounds, these wounds should have been cut open a long time after the death of the deceased!"

"Un, your judgement is correct!" Elder Liang walked to the side of that butt. He lightly reached out his hand and rubbed the wound's edge, and I discovered that his eyes emitted a faint light. Immediately after, Elder Liang extended his hands and grabbed onto the sides of the butt, his thumb and forefinger pinching hard onto the skin on both sides of the wound.

"Doubt?!" The Elder Liang booed, as if he had found something important. He laughed a little and said, "I finally found something different!"

Elder Liang used his hand that was stained with the fat of the dead person to stroke his beard. He said: "The deceased person is a disabled person, and had sat in a wheelchair for many years!"

"You mean?" After Auntie Wang heard everything, he immediately ran towards the dissecting table. He saw her pick up the scalpel and gently peel off the skin on the wound.

After peeling off the skin, Auntie Wang placed a small piece of skin onto a glass tablet. Soon after, I saw her take the glass tablet under a microscope in Dissecting Room. No wonder the murderer had to scratch his buttocks. It seems like they are afraid that we will find out that the victim is a disabled person! "

"Little Chuan!" Elder Liang reached out his hand to pat my shoulder, "This is an important clue, go investigate it properly!"

"En!" I nodded my head heavily. "Don't worry, I will definitely capture him and bring him back!"

This is the first time we have found clues from a dead person's body since we came to the Shanghe County. I am currently very excited. Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for a person who was permanently paralyzed to not have someone to take care of them. Her life was already a mess, so after being lost for so many days, how could her family not report this to the police?

If that was the case, then the only explanation would be that the deceased was a prisoner in custody, and there really was such a prison in Shanghe County. This deduction was very easy to establish, after all, the first victim, Wang Yang, had come out from the prison.

On the way to the Task Force Conference Room, I once again carefully thought over the three recent cases in my mind. Of the three cases, the location where the buttocks were found was around Shanghe County, one was in the graveyard, one was in the small forest, and the third was on the toilet lid of a family in the Lu family's shack.

Three places, three places, three strange buttocks … Was there a connection? Every killer would try to conceal himself completely, but why would this killer try to do the opposite? Were the three bodies premeditated, or had the murderer simply sought them out?

That's not right!

In that instant, a light suddenly flashed through my mind. That light seemed to have a fleeting illusion. I stopped in my tracks and leaned silently against the cold wall of the corridor, deep in thought.

"Three places, three places, three places, three places …" These words kept coming back and forth in my mind. I felt like I was grabbing onto something.

Fragments of images flashed past my mind. Zhou Xiaoxiao's frightened face, Second boy's silly chuckle, Da Qiangzi's calmness with his eyes tightly shut, the fierce and fiendish expression of the Lu family's shanty village chief, County Head Mu's slight sigh, the courage to fight it with his life on the line.

And … The Cheng Yuee who sat on the brick bed and masturbated to his dead husband's image … Oh right, there was also that mirror!

A layer of goosebumps instantly appeared all over my body and my pores instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Heavens! If that's what I thought, there might be more dead in this case!

My hands were shaking so badly that I took out a cigarette case from the Pocket and lit it. The feeling of the cigarette entering my lungs gave me a temporary calmness.

It seems that our previous investigation direction was completely wrong. Not only did we suffer the interference from Second boy's confession, we had even misunderstood the direction of the investigation.

I remember that the first buttock was found in the Estuary Village, which is located in the southwest direction of the Shanghe County, about 50 kilometers away from it. The second one was to discover that the village was located in the northeast part of Shanghe County, which was about the same distance as the Estuary Village and Shanghe County.

If the third spot where the buttocks were found, which was the Lujia shack, was also located in the same area, then wouldn't that be the location of the gossip?

The dead had already appeared in the southwest and northeast. There were also six other locations: east, south, west, north, southeast and northwest. If my theory is correct, there are at least six more dead men whose buttocks have not yet been discovered.

I heaved a sigh of relief. I thought, if only Liao Mengfann was by my side right now, would her thoughts be the same as mine? She also didn't know that no one from Ministry of Public Security had come to pick her up.

"Little Chen, ah, how many times have I told you to keep your books in order? Don't move the things on my table. These are all carefully arranged by me. If you mess things up, it wouldn't be good!"

When County Head Mu's voice reached my ears, I looked up and realized that I was standing outside County Head Mu's office.