There seems to be no progress in the case investigation in Guangzhou. There is progress, but Bao Heizi did not see it. Therefore, he sent Mr. Gongsun.

Gongsun Ce can indeed help a lot when he comes here, at least he is shorter than the other people in the yamen, while two are the best.

Xiao Yuer immediately told him some of the situations he had investigated before, focusing on the four possible types of people he had summarized, and speculation on the reasons why the small leader could easily carry out arson.

"Interesting." Mr. Gongsun touched Cunxu's beard and smiled slightly. He was very interested in Xiaoyuer's analysis that there might be an insider.

"However, the motivation of this insider is somewhat incomprehensible, which makes sense." The gentleman who shook his head as if he was an endorsement may have a slowness in his CPU brain.

"If this insider colluded with the little boss, he should have a plan, but now it seems that the fire may not bring him any substantial benefits."

Xiaoyuer listened on the side, and he also knew that only future officials of the Celestial Empire would do these things.

"Because once the brothel fire burns, the yamen must investigate it strictly, and both gangs will definitely be hit. As long as they are interrogated, they will not be able to escape if they bite their dogs. Besides, there is no airtight wall in the world. I guess before the yamen comes to him, the accomplices will have to dig a hole and bury him alive."

Gongsun Ce nodded and said, "There is another suspicious thing. After the incident, all the gang members of the two factions were arrested. Why did they run away the little leader? Is this accidental or inevitable? And the boss of the Chengbei Gang just asked him to go to the brothel to make trouble, but why did he make such a big noise? Did he not expect the consequences of doing so?"

The two discussed together, and Xiaoyuer shook her head and said:

"The little leader has no whereabouts now. The insider may still be working in the quarry or has been killed. If that is the case, then we are exhausted and are actually investigating a dead case."

Gongsun Ce continued: "So from any perspective, setting fire in brothels is a kind of act that has no meaning to the gang or the individual. It can even be said that it is just playing with fire, just to lose nearly a hundred lives in vain."

Gongsun Ce's analysis made Xiao Yuer feel deeply. He touched his chin that had no beard at all and murmured: "Am I wrong? There is no so-called inner demon at all?"

Mr. Gongsun said: "Your judgment is actually very accurate. Since the little leader can successfully carry out arson, it has proved that your speculation is correct in a sense. However, is there another possibility that the so-called insider may not be an internal member of the gang, but he is still familiar with the gang members. If this inference can be established, then all problems can be solved."

After thinking about it, he said, "If this insider was not a member of the gang, he would naturally not be worried about being discovered by the yamen later. Combined with the phenomenon of the small leader missing later, it may be that he had murderous intentions after the matter was completed, so he wanted to be clean and neat, or assist the small leader in escaping."

"This statement seems to be tenable. But why should "external ghosts" act as internal support for small leaders?"

Gongsun Ce said: "As for the motive of this external ghost, from the moment, the appearance purpose seems to be very single, which is to create a brothel fire. But what is its deep motivation? It is a bit difficult to guess."

Xiao Yuer thought: "Maybe there was a client who was his enemy that day, maybe he was furious and wanted to take revenge on society, maybe he wanted to build a house on that piece of land. But in short, it was just a trick of killing people with a knife."

They studied for a long time and although they had a certain in-depth analysis of the brothel fire, they seemed to be a little farther away from the human skin drum case in front of them.

Finally, the two of them had a unified understanding. Since the fire occurred in the brothel and Huang Lei did die because of this, they temporarily set the motive on Huang Lei. Imagine that the murderer created a brothel arson case to burn Huang Lei to death. Investigating in this direction may be the only way in front of him.

But when we reexamine the fire from this perspective, a new problem arose again, and it was actually a matter of motivation. Why did the murderer take such a big risk and would rather lose the lives of countless innocent people and use arson to let Huang Lei die? It seems that he has gone around and returned to the starting point.

As previously speculated, this foreign ghost had a grudge against Huang Lei and had to put Huang Lei to death, but why not take other methods, such as stabbing a knife, putting rat medicine, hitting sticks, and pushing down from the upper floor. But he chose a very difficult method such as arson, so he must have his own special psychological needs.

There is another question, and the most important point, that is, when was the skin behind Huang Lei stripped off?

Assume that Huang Lei has died in that fire, then was the skinning done before or that night? The first possibility is that Huang Lei peeled it to escape the blow before the fire; the second possibility is that on the night of the day the fire, the murderer took the skin and then set it on the small leader to set fire to achieve the purpose of destroying the corpse.

Assuming that the person who was burned to death in the fire was not Huang Lei, let’s not talk about who the real dead is, or the human skin, whether it is before or after arson, there are two possibilities. First, Huang Lei asked someone to peel it off in order to remove the conspicuous characteristics, but after he pretended to die, he was murdered and skinned again.

However, if the deceased that night was not Huang Lei, he had to overturn all the previous assumptions and reasonings. In other words, there was no so-called external ghost at all. Everything was Huang Lei's own conspiracy, and the real ghost was himself. He took advantage of Xiong Tianyang's departure from the brothel and controlled his two companions, and then found another corpse similar to his size. To be precise, he was a person who temporarily lost his ability to move. After that, he sent a signal to the small leader outside, asking them to enter the brothel to set fire, and he would escape.

But in this way, the matter inside became extremely complicated. After Huang Lei resurrected the corpse, was he sure that he was really murdered and skinned? Because if it were Huang Lei's own behavior, how could this human-skin drum return to the Duanzhou opera troupe? Huang Lei tried his best to create the illusion of his own death. When he sent the drum back, he was telling others that he was not dead, and that it was someone else who died. If, as another speculation, Huang Lei was murdered again after creating a fire, the murderer this time was the fifth person, but who would he be? How did he know that Huang Lei was not burned to death, why did he kill Huang Lei, and why did he let the drum appear in the world? What was his motive for the murder and the purpose of sending the drum?

Also, what is the purpose of Huang Lei's death? Did he just escape crimes as previously speculated? If so, the premeditation of arson was too complicated, obviously a bit far-fetched. But if he had other purposes, what was the purpose, and what was the reason that prompted him to choose the form of arson? Moreover, how did he hook up with the little leader? As a escaped foreigner or a gang member who opposed the little leader, how likely is it that the two of them would work together to commit the crime?

Not only that, we also need to think of the missing little leader after the incident, and the scapegoat who was suspected of replacing Huang Lei's burning. What kind of role do they play in this brothel fire and human skin drum case? Is there a second or third murder case hidden here?

Finally, based on the people who were inferred before, the people who rescued Huang Lei, the people who had a special relationship with the boss, and the people who Huang Lei defected to... With so many people, what kind of relationship do they have with the fifth person they inferred now? They are divided or overlapping each other?

After such detailed reasoning, the human skin drum case became more and more confusing, not only triggering more mysterious cases, but also implicating more people involved in the case. They are closely entangled with each other, as if they are right to think in any direction, and it seems that they are wrong in any direction.
Chapter completed!