Huang Qifa and Ma Jun were stunned at the same time when they heard the words "Five Elements Kill".

"What about Five Elements Killing? What Five Elements Killing? Have you read too many fantasy stories? Why didn't you say it was ghosts who killed people?" Huang Qifai snorted coldly.

He Jiahui walked to the whiteboard, took out a pen, wrote down Chen Zishuo's name, and said at the same time: "The first deceased, Chen Zishuo, was burned to death. I don't know if you have noticed that his name happened to contain

The word "fire" was written."

He Jiahui wrote Fang Moxuan's name again: "The second deceased, Fang Moxuan, was buried alive, and his name also contained a native character!"

Ho Jiahui continued to write Liu Baorui's name: "As for the third deceased, Liu Baorui, he was wrapped in metal wire when he died, and his name also had a gold character in it.

Fire, earth, metal, what did you think of? Is it the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in Taoist culture? That's why I said, this is a five-element murder case."

Huang Qifai did not accept this statement. He said: "It is too far-fetched to say that the five elements of murder were based on the name of the deceased and the way of death!"

"One can be said to be a coincidence, two can be said to be far-fetched, and now it is the third one, which can no longer be explained by coincidence." He Jiahui paused and continued:

"I don't know how much you know about the Five Elements, but you must have heard of the saying that the Five Elements are interdependent. The Five Elements are interdependent: fire produces earth, earth produces gold, gold produces water, and water produces wood..."

"If I ask you to solve the case, tell me about the Five Elements Feng Shui!" Huang Qifai interrupted him.

He Jiahui answered: "Sir Huang, according to the order of the five elements I just mentioned, fire, earth, and metal, is it the same order as the order of murder?"

"Chen Zishuo is fire, Fang Moxuan is earth, Liu Baorui is gold, it seems like this!" Ma Jun nodded suddenly.

He Jiahui continued; "Sir Huang, when you told me the way of death of the second deceased, Fang Moxuan, I felt a little strange. It was just buried alive, so why did you expose your feet to the outside?

Later, I went to the death scene of Liu Baorui, and the way he died was even more bizarre. He tied the person with iron wire, inserted a lightning rod, waited for the lightning to strike, and electrocuted the person alive. How could this be a normal method of killing?

Using such a complicated method to kill people is obviously not killing for the sake of killing, but more like performing some kind of ritual, so I thought of the Taoist Five Elements Theory."

"Even if the murderer kills people according to the Five Elements as you said, what is his purpose in doing so?" Huang Qifai asked.

"Didn't I just say that this is probably a ritual of some kind. It may be to pray for good Feng Shui, or it may be to pray for immortality. For specific details, you have to consult an expert who understands the Five Elements of Taoism.

"He Jiahui said.

Huang Qifai snorted coldly: "What do you mean, we are the police. Do we, the police, have to ask Feng Shui masters to tell the cases? If word spreads that our regional crime team relies on fortune telling to solve cases, that will be really bad.

He has become the laughingstock of the police community!"

"Sir Huang, we are just consulting with professionals, not really telling fortunes."

He Jiahui paused and then said: "If you think it's embarrassing to ask a fortune teller, we can also go to the university to consult a professor. It's not embarrassing for the police to consult the professor, right?"

"Are you kidding me? Tell me, which university professor will teach people fortune telling and feng shui! They are professors, not Taoist priests who do things in Taoist temples, not mother-in-laws who beat villains on the roadside, and not those who ask for rice to invite ghosts.

The magic stick on the upper body!" Huang Qifai asked rhetorically.

Before He Jiahui could answer, Ma Jun reminded from the side: "Sir Huang, we have several universities in Xiangjiang, all of which have seminaries! The Chinese University where this case happened has a very famous seminary."

"The seminary is run by the church. They worship God, shout Hallelujah, and read the Bible. Foreign monks don't know anything about metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!" Huang Qifai said.

He Jiahui replied: "Sir Huang, the seminary does not understand the five elements of Taoism, but people who understand Taoism should know this! But I remember that there is also a course on religious studies in Chinese University, and the professor of this course,

You must have some understanding of Taoism.

What's more, the deceased were all students of the Chinese University, so the murderer is most likely related to the Chinese University. Maybe he is a person from the Chinese University. If we go to the Chinese University and consult with professors, we may find new clues."

After consulting a university professor, Huang Qifa was no longer so repelled. He nodded and said, "You can go, but you can't rely solely on the Taoist Five Elements. This sounds too mysterious, and it feels like guessing.

The normal investigation should continue."

"Of course!" He Jiahui nodded and continued: "As for the third deceased, all the surveillance videos of the building where the crime occurred have been retrieved. We are working overtime to watch the videos. There will definitely be clues in them.

The place where the deceased was found this time is different from the previous two times. This time it was not outdoors, but on the rooftop of a building. It is a relatively closed space. Surveillance video can be used to narrow down the scope of the murderer."

Ma Jun suddenly remembered something and said: "The five elements are metal, wood, water, fire and earth, there are five in total. The murderer has killed three people now, and there are still two left, which means he will continue to commit crimes. You just said

What is that five-element interaction?"

"Fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood, and wood generates fire." He Jiahui continued: "Now fire, earth and metal have all had their victims. According to the order of the five elements, it should be water's turn!"

"In other words, the murderer's next target is the person with water in his name, and the method of committing the murder is to drown him!" Thinking of this, Ma Jun immediately said, "Hurry and get the list of student union members!"

The list of student union members was handed to Ma Jun. He quickly read it and frowned slightly.

"There are quite a few names with water in them. Take the surnames as an example, there are people with the surname Jiang, people with the surname Pan, people with the surname Hong, people with the surname Shen. There are even more names with the word "water" next to them.

For example, Jiang Haichao, all three words contain water, and Liang Bing, two dots of water can be considered water! This one is called Zhu Chenyu, the word "rain" must also be considered water, right?"

Ma Jun said and handed the student union list to He Jiahui.

He Jiahui also took a quick look at it, but judging from the names, there were quite a lot of them.

Human life is inseparable from water, and the development of civilization is inseparable from vast water sources. Water is one of the most important elements in nature.

Therefore, ideographic characters such as Chinese characters are naturally filled with water, something closely related to human beings. Therefore, Chinese characters with water account for a considerable proportion. The higher the proportion, the greater the probability that it will be included in a person's name.

"Sir Ma, there are so many people with water in their names. We don't know who the murderer's next target will be. Even if the police want to provide them with protection, they don't have that many police forces!" He Jiahui said.

"The only way is to catch the murderer as soon as possible, otherwise there will really be a fourth victim." Ma Jun said helplessly.

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Huang Qi got angry and left angrily.

Yang Zai came over and said, "Sir Ma, check the surveillance video and find something! We found Liu Baorui!"

He Jiahui and Ma Jun immediately approached, and the figure of the deceased Liu Baorui did appear on the surveillance screen.

The first is the surveillance video of the foyer. Liu Baorui is seen walking into the door and then going straight to the elevator.

"The time is 2:50 pm last Saturday." He Jiahui glanced at the time displayed on the surveillance camera and then said, "Call up the elevator surveillance for the same time period."

The elevator monitoring was called up. Liu Baorui walked into the elevator, pressed a floor, and went directly upstairs. The elevator finally stopped on the eighth floor, and Liu Baorui also walked out of the elevator.

"Liu Baorui went to the eighth floor. Where is the surveillance video on the eighth floor? Pull it out immediately!" He Jiahui ordered.

But Yang Zai shook his head: "In this building, apart from the foyer and elevator, there are only a few places where surveillance cameras are installed, and there are no surveillance cameras installed on the entire eighth floor."

He Jiahui began to analyze: "Now it can be confirmed that the deceased Liu Baorui came to this building by himself and was not taken there. So the question is, why did he go to the eighth floor of this building?"

"There is no class on Saturday. He should have an appointment with someone else. Let's meet here!" Ma Jun replied.

He Jiahui nodded: "Yes, someone made an appointment with Liu Baorui on Saturday afternoon. The eighth floor of this building was their meeting place, and then Liu Baorui was killed. In other words, the person who made the appointment with him was very

Maybe he's the murderer!

I speculate that the murderer knew that there was no surveillance on the eighth floor, so he asked Liu Baorui to meet on the eighth floor. After Liu Baorui saw the murderer, he was stunned with sevoflurane, and then the murderer imprisoned him in the building where the crime occurred.

In a certain room.

When there was a thunderstorm on Monday night, the murderer took him to the rooftop, tied him with wires and lightning rods, and electrocuted him to death with lightning.

There are only three flights of stairs from the eighth floor to the rooftop. It is not difficult to carry one person up, and taking the stairs can also avoid the surveillance of the elevator.

Or it could be that the murderer directly moved Liu Baorui to the rooftop and imprisoned him on the day he fainted, and then waited until Monday night to arrange the scene and use lightning to electrocute him."

Ma Jun nodded: "I agree with your inference. According to your inference, the person who visited the eighth floor of this building last Saturday may be the murderer! Yang Zai, check the video immediately and see what day it is on Saturday."

,Has anyone been to the eighth floor?"

"Wait a minute." He Jiahui continued: "What if the murderer went to other floors first, and then took the stairs to the eighth floor? This way he can avoid surveillance.

When the murderer carried Liu Baorui to the top floor, he knew to take the stairs to avoid the elevator surveillance, so he had no reason not to take the initiative to avoid the elevator surveillance. So in theory, anyone who appeared in this building on Saturday could be the murderer.

"

"Then check the surveillance for the entire day. Anyway, it was Saturday, and the faculty and students were all off, so there shouldn't be many people entering this building," Ma Jun said.

He Jiahui pondered for a moment and then said: "You can continue to narrow the scope. Just look at who has entered this building from 11 noon to 7 pm."

"Why?" Ma Jin asked somewhat puzzled.

Ho Jiahui explained: "The deceased Liu Baorui entered the foyer at 2:50 in the afternoon. I estimate that he made an appointment to meet someone at around three o'clock. If I make an appointment with you to meet at three o'clock, you will come back after lunch.

Or skip lunch and wait until three o'clock?"

"There are still three hours until lunch time at three o'clock in the afternoon. Of course I have lunch first before meeting you! You can't be hungry for three hours!"

Ma Jun said, showing an expression of sudden realization: "I understand! The people who made an appointment with Liu Baorui must have had lunch before coming to the building to meet Liu Baorui, so those who came in before lunch time can be excluded!

"

"That's right." He Jiahui showed a teachable expression, and then said: "For the same reason, people after dinner time can also be excluded.

If the appointment time between Liu Baorui and that person is after dinner, then Liu Baorui does not need to come over at three o'clock in the afternoon. He can come after dinner. Even if the other person is late, it will not be later than the time after dinner.

Normal lunch time will definitely not be earlier than 11 am, and normal people should have dinner at 7 pm. So we only need to pay attention to who has entered this building during the eight hours in between!"

The time is accurate to within eight hours, and the range has been greatly reduced.

Everyone put aside other work and began to check the eight hours of surveillance records of entering and exiting the building. The results were available in less than an hour.

Ma Jun came to He Jiahui's office and said, "Sir He, the results are out. Between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., a total of seventeen people, except Liu Baorui, entered this building.

Three of them left before three o'clock in the afternoon and did not return after that. There was no time overlap between these three people and Liu Baorui, so their suspicion could be ruled out.

Among the remaining fourteen people, five entered and exited the building multiple times, and the other nine entered and exited the building at one time, intersecting with the deceased in time. However, four of them entered the building together in twos, and also in twos.

We left together."

"With two people together, we cannot rule out the possibility of a gang committing the crime, but they can also prove each other's alibi." He Jiahui thought for a while and then asked, "Among these fourteen people, are there any women who entered alone?

"

"Four of them are women who went alone." Ma Jun paused and then asked, "Are the suspicions of these four people ruled out for the time being?"

"With the strength of women, it is difficult for an adult man to carry three flights of stairs. However, things are not absolute. Nowadays, people advocate fitness. Although many women are not as strong as men, they are not powerless. I can only say that they are

The possibility of committing a crime is smaller.

The specific situation depends on the actual situation. If you are a woman with a relatively thin body, she really cannot lift an adult man. If you are a woman with a relatively healthy body, it may not be possible."

He Jiahui paused and then said, "One thing that is certain at present is that the murderer is among these fourteen people. Let's go to the Chinese University in a while and consult the professor about the five elements. At the same time, we can also find out the identities of these fourteen people.

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