I didn't even have time to put on my clothes before I ran out of the room like a madman and rushed to the front desk to call the police. Soon, the police from the police station arrived.
When the police arrived and saw Huang Po and me again, they couldn't help but complain, "Why is it you two again? Have you run into some evil spirit?"
Jiang Lixin was nailed to the ceiling with five long iron nails, one through each wrist, each ankle, and one near the hyoid bone on her neck.
The police at the police station usually deal with ordinary public order disputes. Two of the policemen went in, took one look, and vomited. This was much more disgusting than the old woman who hanged herself last night.
Then they called to report the situation and requested the intervention of the criminal police team from the provincial capital.
Only then did I learn that the city we came to was actually a county - level city. It was independently managed administratively but still under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital in many aspects.
More than forty minutes later, the people from the criminal police team of the provincial capital arrived. The one leading the team was the criminal policeman who had interrogated me before.
When he saw me, he was stunned. "Chen Feng, why is it you again?"
I forced a bitter smile. "What can I do? I don't want this either."
The criminal policeman entered the room and took a look. He immediately realized that this case was extremely difficult. The corpse was nailed upside - down to the ceiling.
This hotel was a local self - built house, and the ceiling height was at least 2.6 meters. Just taking the corpse down from the ceiling was not an easy task.
The criminal police team first took fingerprint and trace samples at the scene and then called the fire brigade, asking them to bring tools to take the corpse down.
The fire brigade temporarily played the role of forensic doctors and removed the corpse from the ceiling.
During the process of removing the corpse, everyone realized that the situation was extraordinary this time.
The iron nails driven into Jiang Lixin's body were a full 18 centimeters in length. They were not the common cylindrical steel nails in real life but square - edged steel nails.
This kind of steel nail was extremely rare because it was not commonly used. The square shape was not conducive to packaging and transportation, and it also affected the strength of the nail.
These steel nails, with their four sides like sharp blades, seemed to be specially made to torture people or cause bleeding, so that when they were driven into a person's body, the person would suffer more pain.
The five steel nails were deeply driven into the concrete ceiling. The fire brigade couldn't pull them out even with special pliers. In the end, they had to use a small circular saw to cut off the nails at the junction of the corpse and the ceiling.
After the corpse was taken down, the forensic doctor from the criminal police team immediately conducted a preliminary autopsy.
Although a detailed dissection had not been carried out, judging from the wounds made by the nails on the corpse and the measurement of the liver temperature, the forensic doctor reached a shocking conclusion.
Jiang Lixin died around five o'clock in the morning, and she was alive when she was nailed to the ceiling because the wounds made by the square - edged nails on her hands and feet showed that she had struggled violently.
This is just impossible!
At five o'clock in the morning, a girl was hoisted up to the hotel's ceiling and slowly nailed to it with five long nails until she died.
The nail in her neck was the last one driven in. It was after this nail was driven in that Jiang Lixin died.
According to the forensic doctor's autopsy results, the situation should be like this.
The problem is, even a well-trained criminal group may not be able to do such a thing.
First of all, Jiang Lixin was very light. But how much equipment and manpower would be needed to fix a living person weighing about a hundred catties on the ceiling?
Moreover, I was lying in bed sleeping at that time. If several people came in, they should have alerted me.
But I didn't feel a thing and didn't even realize that such a horrible thing had happened in the room.
Secondly, when Jiang Lixin was nailed into her body with square - edged steel nails, she must have screamed in pain. It was the dead of night at five in the morning. Why didn't anyone hear it?
This is simply beyond human ability. It's impossible.
The criminal policemen also retrieved the hotel's surveillance videos. However, there were only the videos from the corridor and the front desk. There was no surveillance in the rooms. If there were, it would have been a large - scale peeping scene.
According to the surveillance video, Huang Po and I returned to the hotel at three o'clock in the morning and then went back to our rooms to sleep.
More than an hour later, at four forty - four in the morning, Jiang Lixin walked back from outside. She looked expressionless and walked a little stiffly.
When she passed by the hotel front desk, the young receptionist was dozing off, so she didn't notice her.
Then she went upstairs and entered our room. From then on, she never came out.
According to the surveillance video, I still can't get rid of the suspicion of murder. Although it's quite absurd to nail someone to the ceiling, she died in the same room with me. It's really hard to explain.
The criminal policeman was very experienced. After frowning and walking around the room, he said, "Take apart all the sockets in the room and look for hidden cameras. There must be something."
I couldn't help scowling. Was it a case of hidden peeping? Fortunately, I was too tired yesterday and didn't have any passionate scenes with Jiang Lixin. Otherwise, it would have been so embarrassing!
Several criminal policemen got busy. Soon, they found four cameras from the socket boxes, pointing at the bed from different angles.
I was sweating profusely: "Damn it! This is just way too brazen and outrageous! Who'd dare stay in a hotel after this?"
Seeing the hidden cameras found in the room sockets, the hotel owner, who had been coming to watch, tried to slip away, but was grabbed by a police officer from the police station.
"Where are you going? We'll settle this matter with you later. Don't think we'll just let it go."
The voyeuristic videos were connected to a storage disk. It seemed that they would be transmitted after a certain period of recording.
The criminal policeman in charge of technology connected it to the computer and opened it. The first picture showed someone rolling on the bed.
The criminal policeman's face darkened: "Check the recording time and start from last night. Don't look through all the content."
This is all voyeuristic junk. If you don't set a start time, it'll be like a porn review session!
The criminal policeman in charge of technology soon found the latest voyeuristic content, starting from when we checked into the hotel yesterday afternoon.
However, there wasn't much to see in this part, and I quickly fast - forwarded past it. The main purpose was to confirm whether anyone else had entered the room besides us and if there was a murderer lying in wait.
When it was three o'clock in the morning, after I returned to the hotel, the surreptitiously recorded video started again. After washing up, I lay down to sleep, but I tossed and turned restlessly all night.
This went on for over an hour. Then Jiang Lixin opened the door and walked in. She came over and sat by the bed.
Seeing this, the people present perked up. They were about to find out what exactly had happened.
But the next moment, something unexpected occurred.
Jiang Lixin wore a strange smile on her face. She waved at me, who was sound asleep in the bed, and I got up as if sleep - walking. Then came that indescribable thing.
I suddenly felt so embarrassed. Watching a video was different from watching a video of myself, especially when being watched by a crowd in public. I was almost going crazy.
But I didn't have time to be shy the next moment because I noticed something.
That is, after Jiang Lixin hugged me, she kept biting my right ear, as if sucking blood.
Since I met that female corpse, everyone who touched my right earlobe had died mysteriously.
It was the same this time. Was there something poisonous on my right earlobe?
Would The Tongue Licking the Ear still be there?