It's past eleven o'clock at night.
Ye Mo led the team to Tiantai Mountain.
This road is well built and even large trucks can access it.
It is said that the abbot of the temple paid for the construction to facilitate pilgrims to burn incense and worship Buddha in the temple.
However, it is not something that ordinary people can afford to build such a road.
It can be seen that the abbot of this temple is not an ordinary person.
Soon, everyone came to the door of the temple.
Under the temple is a large parking dam with bluestone steps on top. Directly above the steps is the temple gate.
Ye Mo walked up with a flashlight and came to the temple gate. He saw a few big words written in black ink on the gate: The temple was under construction and worship was suspended.
However, these words are crooked, and even the word " Temple " is written wrong.
Ye Mo realized something was wrong and immediately had the door broken open.
Soon, the temple door was smashed open, and Ye Mo was the first to walk in.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I suddenly felt a sense of death, and the whole temple was filled with a gloomy atmosphere, just like a supernatural scene where a ghost movie was filmed.
There are spider webs and fallen leaves everywhere.
It looked like no one had lived there for a long time.
As we continued walking, we heard an unpleasant smell.
Ye Mo put on his gloves, walked over and opened the door of the hall.
Instantly, a stench came out.
Ye Mo shone his flashlight and froze when he saw the scene in front of him.
Lin Xuan and Ye Xiaoyu were about to walk over, but were stopped by Ye Mo.
"You two lesbians, don't come in." Ye Mo shouted.
Lin Xuan and Ye Xiaoyu were both stunned.
The other two captains noticed something was wrong, so they walked over. When he saw the scene inside, he was so frightened that he almost backed away.
Under the big Buddha in the treasure hall, a rotting corpse was kneeling there. The whole body was covered with maggots, the belly was completely ripped open, and the internal organs were all over the floor.
The corpse's mouth was wide open, its eyes were white, and its mouth was full of maggots.
Anyone who sees such a scene will have nightmares.
Ye Mo immediately contacted the command center and sent more people to the scene.
Lin Xuan outside looked solemn: "Ye Mo, what's going on inside?"
"A highly decomposed corpse is kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, facing outside the gate. Its appearance is too terrifying. You two should try not to look at it." Ye Mo said.
"I understand." Lin Xuan nodded.
Ye Xiaoyu also subconsciously grabbed Ye Mo's hand.
"It seems that someone has washed the entire temple with blood." Ye Mo frowned.
"Why he buried the bodies of eighteen other people in the open space, but left one person kneeling here, it doesn't make sense." Zhang Xiaofan found it a bit difficult to understand.
"Perhaps this corpse should be the abbot of the temple, and the murderer must have some deep grudge against the abbot." Ye Mo said.
"Should we wait until daybreak before going in to investigate, or should we go now?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.
"We'll wait until daybreak. At the moment, we don't know what the situation will be, in case there are still toxic substances left or something." Ye Mo did not act recklessly to ensure everyone's safety.
Because there were no obvious injuries on the bones of the corpses, it cannot be ruled out that someone poisoned them.
Soon, more investigators arrived.
Everyone set up tents and set up a temporary command post at the parking lot.
At daybreak, professionals wearing chemical protective suits entered the scene and began investigating.
After ensuring that there were no toxic substances at the site, Ye Mo ordered an inspection of the entire temple.
After investigation, the second body was not found in the temple.
All valuable items in the temple were stolen.
Because it was daytime, the scene was not as scary as it looked at night.
Lin Xuan and Ye Xiaoyu also joined the investigation.
Looking at the kneeling corpse under the Buddha, even the forensic doctor felt a little numb.
There were five bowls placed on the altar behind the corpse. The bowls contained the victim's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and other organs.
Likewise, the bowl was full of maggots.
"Captain Ye, have you found anything suspicious?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.
"The victim died about five days ago. The body's hands and feet were chained. I guess the murderer trapped him here and tortured him for three full months before killing him recently. And he took out his internal organs and put them in a bowl for worship." Ye Mo said.
"This murderer is too crazy." Zhang Xiaofan felt that this was the most horrific case he had ever handled.
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Soon, the police investigating the case found a butcher knife under the Buddha statue.
This should be the murder weapon used to disembowel him.
After a preliminary autopsy by a forensic doctor, it was found that the victim died five days ago and the cause of death was a fatal stabbing of his throat.
The police investigating the case also found a small truck and three cars in the backyard parking lot, including two BMWs and a Mercedes-Benz.
After investigation, it was discovered that these cars were owned by the abbot of the temple.
Soon, with further investigation.
The identities of the abbot and monks of the temple were also found out.
The abbot of the temple is named Zhang Yuanshan, 48 years old, from coastal Fujian, with the Buddhist name Huiyuan.
According to the registration information, the temple was built eleven years ago and was entirely funded by Zhang Yuanshan alone.
And all of these murdered monks were from Eastern Fujian.
This also confirmed Ye Mo's speculation that these people were indeed from the south.
According to the temple's procedures and documents, the temple was built in full compliance with regulations at that time.
Zhang Yuanshan also has the corresponding documents and procedures.
This temple was originally an ancient temple. Zhang Yuanshan funded its reconstruction and restored its incense.
Zhang Yuanshan also has a Buddhist qualification certificate and a refuge certificate.
In the past ten years, the temple has not defrauded any pilgrims.
Then why would a temple that was in good condition suddenly suffer such a disaster?
Who is it that can kill everyone in the temple?
Is there any deep hatred between the murderer and the temple abbot that they want to disembowel him?
With all kinds of questions, Ye Mo and others continued to investigate in depth.
Soon, the clues were collected and everyone returned to the detachment.
In the detachment office, several people analyzed and discussed this case.
"The temple has had walls fall off and injure pilgrims before. Therefore, it has been frequently renovated and rebuilt in recent years, so it suddenly closed for three months. It failed to attract the attention of tourists and pilgrims, so it only appeared for three months." No one noticed anything unusual without opening the door," Zhang Xiaofan reported based on the investigation information.
"I just came back from the evidence room. The investigators collected the murderer's fingerprints on the murder weapon, which means that key evidence has been obtained in this case," Lin Xuan said.
"The murderer most likely only has one hand." Ye Mo suddenly came over with the report.
"How do you say it?" Zhang Xiaofan was immediately curious.
"We extracted the murderer's fingerprints from the minivan, but the strange thing is that the fingerprints are only on one side, and they are consistent with the fingerprints on the gear handle and the butcher knife." Ye Mo said, generally speaking, the right hand is in gear and the left hand is in control. It is impossible for the fingerprint of only one hand to appear on the steering wheel.
"One hand?" Zhang Xiaofan was stunned: "How could one hand kill eighteen people and imprison and torture the abbot Zhang Yuanshan for so long? There must be more than one murderer, right?"
