The murderer's thoughts?
Bai Mo looked at Teng Jie in confusion. Teng Jie's tone was very much like a teacher teaching in the classroom, and the murderer's idea seemed to be a mathematical problem that could be solved through a formula.
"Your task now is to find the way the murderer fixed the deceased in the first painting. Direct guessing is definitely blind. Why not try to find it from the known conditions?" Teng Jie pointed to the hand painting on the wall.
In order to make it easier for him to draw, Bai Mo hung both hand-painted paintings on the wall. At this moment, Teng Jie was referring to the second painting Bai Mo received today.
"The second painting?" Bai Mo pursed his lips.
Teng Jie nodded, "Compared to the first painting, the murder method in the second painting is easy to see. The deceased is lying on the table. Don't you think the props used by the murderer to fix the deceased are also revealed?"
Regarding the murder weapons and props in the second painting, Teng Jie gave his own inference that there should be multiple objects fixing the body on the platform under the deceased, such as semicircular cuffs that cuffed the limbs and neck of the deceased. ,waist.
This kind of cuffs is wider, which makes it easier to fix the deceased to prevent him from moving. Secondly, it does not tighten the body of the deceased, making it easier for the murderer to draw.
Bai Mo nodded thoughtfully, but then shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, Teng Jie stretched out his hand to stop him, "First draw a tool like yours as I told you."
"Okay!" Bai Mo didn't refute, picked up the brush and started painting.
Teng Jie's description was very detailed, and Bai Mo had already built a prototype in his mind, and he quickly moved his brush on the drawing board.
After a while, Bai Mo stopped painting.
Teng Jie picked up Bai Mo's painting and had to say that Bai Mo was really professional and painted the picture he wanted in a short time.
In the painting, the deceased is lying on the platform in a large shape, with his limbs, neck, and waist fixed by circular shackles.
"Yes, it's exactly what I thought." Teng Jie placed the painting in front of Bai Mo, "You should have doubts in your heart."
"Yeah!" Bai Mo nodded quickly, "Although those semicircular shackles will not affect the portrait, the feedback given to me by the two hand-painted paintings is extremely natural. Based on my experience, I judge that the murderer's portrait should not have been covered up. . In other words, the deceased definitely did not have these shackles on him at the time."
Teng Jie smiled, "I didn't say so either!"
Bai Mo didn't understand what Teng Jie meant, so he shook his head.
"This is a simple misunderstanding." Teng Jie said, "You always think that the murderer draws a picture while killing, but have you ever thought that killing is only a momentary thing, but drawing is a continuous action. Especially hand-drawing is the most time-consuming.
Your usual portraits are all about a moment, so you have preconceptions. The image in the painting should be continuous. In other words, the murderer removed the tools after the murder and then started to draw the portrait. "
"Understood." Bai Mo nodded, "But there are no signs of damage to the blood around the deceased. With so many cuffs, it will definitely destroy the scene when he takes them off."
The blood stains in the painting were very natural, and Qin Youwei also believed that the scene had not been contaminated, so Bai Mo did not consider it in this direction.
"Have you forgotten?" Teng Jie adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, "The murderer is a man with strong hands-on skills. Since he can make weapons, why can't he make a platform that can open and close cuffs from a distance? "
Bai Mo was stunned for a moment, and then sneered. He had completely understood what Teng Jie meant, and had to admit that Teng Jie's imagination was indeed very big.
The murderer is good at making tools, so he can make more tools to help him commit crimes, so he will blur the background in the painting. This is completely consistent with Lu Wan's previous conjecture. The murderer hides not only environmental information, but also his auxiliary tools.
Bai Mo looked at the first painting again, and he finally understood why Teng Jie asked him to explore the second painting.
The murderer must have used other auxiliary tools when he killed, and they can be controlled from a distance. He just needs to unlock the auxiliary tools after killing.
"The murderer's thinking mode is very simple. He cares about protecting the body of the deceased. That's why I say the cuffs he used are very wide." Teng Jie said, "This excludes tools such as ropes. He needs to completely control the deceased. , to keep the deceased in a kneeling position with his hands on his chest, the simplest tool should be a stand."
"Shelf?" Bai Mo repeated.
"Hmm!" Teng Jie gestured in the air with his hand, "Have you seen the wooden dummy on TV? It's like a wooden dummy, with protruding wooden sticks and cuffs, forcibly fixing the deceased into the posture in the painting."
Teng Jie was afraid that Bai Mo wouldn't understand, so he picked up a pen and drew a schematic diagram on the paper.
"The second picture gives too much information. We can see that the props made by the murderer are very simple, so we have to start from a simple and convenient point of view. The deceased is kneeling with his hands on his chest. In this way, there is a gap between the arms and There is a big gap between the legs." Teng Jie said while drawing.
Teng Jie pushed the schematic diagram in front of Bai Mo, "I think this is the tool for fixing the dead."
Bai Mo was stunned when he saw Teng Jie's diagram. He fantasized about various tools for fixing the dead, but none of them were close to what Teng Jie drew because the tools Teng Jie drew were too simple.
Teng Jie drew a shelf. In order to set off the height of the shelf, he also used a few lines to draw a kneeling person on the side.
This is indeed a shelf, only a few dozen centimeters high, with seven branches extending out like branches. The ends of the branches are semicircular, representing cuffs, which cuffed the two forearms of the person in the painting. Upper arms, waist, thighs.
With Bai Mo's imagination, he immediately imagined what this tool should look like, and then he imagined the scene of the deceased being fixed by this tool. He had to admit that if these parts of a person were fixed, it would indeed There was no way to break free.
"Is it that simple?" Bai Mo glanced secretly at Teng Jie, who was looking at him with his chin in one hand.
"Actually, there is some supporting evidence for this inference," Teng Jie said. "The murderer was pursuing a sense of image, so in order to ensure that his image would not be destroyed, he chose to use tools to kill people remotely.
For example, in the second painting, the murder weapon is dropped from a high altitude through a pulley block, and then raised again through the pulley block after the murder, perfectly protecting the environment around the deceased.
The murderer's method of killing in the first painting should have been to remotely remove the deceased's head with a tool, and then place it on the deceased's hand, just like the claws in a claw machine. "
"Understood!" Bai Mo nodded repeatedly, "That's why the shelf holding the deceased is very low, so as not to block the murderer's view."
Having said this, Bai Mo suddenly raised his head and looked at Teng Jie, with a trace of scrutiny in his eyes.
Teng Jie's guidance was so successful. The picture he gave made Bai Mo feel that everything was reasonable, and it was precisely this kind of reasonableness that made him notice the abnormality.
Why can Teng Jie know all the murderer's killing methods?
"Alas -" a sigh sounded in the room, and Teng Jie showed a bitter smile, "It seems that you have discovered it. I do know all the murderer's methods, and I even know his next murder method, because This is a serial murder case from one of my books!"
