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Late at night, in the grassland, the wind howled. A woman in white clothes covered in blood stood alone on the national highway. In the "Hupanlou Hotel" not far away, in the KTV private room with the door and windows locked, six corpses were lying in horrific shapes. The bizarre and complex crime scene puts criminal investigation into trouble. At a loss, the Provincial Public Security Department asked Beijing for help: it seconded domestic criminal forensics expert Liu Simiao to assist in the investigation. However, a shocking and inexplicable reason made it impossible for Liu Simiao to participate in the investigation of the case. Who can break through the layers of fog in the "Hupan Tower Murder Case"? What weird method did the real murderer use to kill six people? The secret room mystery that has been brewing for more than thirty years is sinking to the bottom of the lake little by little...

Late at night, in the grassland, the wind howled. A woman in white clothes covered in blood stood alone on the national highway. In the "Hupanlou Hotel" not far away, in the KTV private room with the door and windows locked, six corpses were lying in horrific shapes. The bizarre and complex crime scene puts criminal investigation into trouble. At a loss, the Provincial Public Security Department asked Beijing for help: it seconded Liu Simiao, a top domestic criminal forensics expert, to assist in the investigation. However, a shocking and inexplicable reason made it impossible for Liu Simiao to participate in the investigation of the case. Who can see through the layers of mystery in the "Hupan Tower Murder Case"? What weird method did the real murderer use to kill six people? The secret room mystery that has been brewing for more than thirty years is sinking to the bottom of the lake little by little...

Why are there so many stories of "people turning into tigers" in ancient notebooks? What is the truth behind the Di'anmen Temple murder incident? Why does the so-called "Wong Tai Sin" that people talk about cause people to be "possessed by evil spirits?" What exactly is the villain in "The Most Miserable"? What is the truth about the "Dry Well Murder Incident" during the reign of Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty? During the locust plague in 1644, locusts actually "encircled people and ate them up"? How did photography become the so-called "spiritualism" in the late Qing Dynasty? Creepy things are not ghosts, all clever tricks will eventually be solved; don't be confused by the riddles, read all the thousands of sails and the road is ordinary. My country's vast ancient notebooks contain a large number of mysterious and strange stories. However, due to the lack of science in ancient times, the ancients often used "ghosts and spirits" as explanations. Beginning in 2015, Beijing Evening News and The Paper have successively launched the column "Notes on Strange Tales", written by the famous scholar Hu Yanyun, who uses modern science combined with historical textual research to make new interpretations of various strange stories in ancient notes. This book selects thirty-two of the articles to reveal for readers the secrets and inside stories that have been concealed for thousands of years, and restore the truth.

Pingzhou City's overall urban relocation work has officially come to an end, and the Municipal Children's Hospital will also move to the new campus, leaving only one emergency department in the huge old city. On New Year's Eve, the inauguration ceremony of Pingzhou City's new district was about to be held. At this moment, bad news suddenly came: a bus carrying the emergency department of the city's children's hospital crashed into a bridge and fell into a glacier, killing all the people on board. In desperation, Zhou Yun, the department director who had just been dismissed, took over the task and led the few remaining staff to stick to their posts and deal with the large influx of children and parents during the peak emergency period. Just when Zhou Yun and others were extremely busy, a series of attacks against children occurred one after another. The victims were sent to the emergency department one after another, and the hospital area became more and more chaotic. However, no one knew the true face and true purpose of the murderer. At this point, a thrilling offensive and defensive battle began with the enemy outnumbered, life and death unpredictable, ups and downs, and thrilling...

Three corpses triggered a twenty-year journey to find the murderer. Two murder cases trace the changes of sixty years. A single move of chess sets up an unsolved puzzle that spans centuries. In the 1990s, a raging fire broke out in the forest under the Guixiao Stone in Xishan. After the fire was extinguished, two corpses in horrifying shapes were discovered. Was it homicide? Was it suicide? Or was it an accident that occurred during the conflict? When the criminal police investigating the case were at a loss what to do, a knife engraved with the word "Hu" was retrieved from the scene, which caught their attention. In order to clear the suspicion, Hu Yanyun embarked on a journey to chase the murderer. Unexpectedly, ten years later, a murder happened again in a forest cabin with the doors and windows locked. Faced with the bizarre and inexplicable case, Lin Xiangming told Hu Yanyun: "If you want to find the truth, I'm afraid you have to dig deep in history." Another ten years passed. Some of the witnesses of the case were poor, some were in the business, some were old, and some were seriously ill... After experiencing all kinds of tastes in the world and tasting the joys and sorrows of the world, they returned to the Guixiao Stone again by chance. Just when everything had settled, Hu Yanyun inadvertently got a glimpse of the truth. After being shocked, he remembered Lin Xiangming's words and took the train north, "traveling" through the long years to the starting point of everything - the turbulent 1960s...

The person next to my pillow is actually a murderer on the run? How terrible are the "immortal jumps", "white doves" and "white ducks" in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China? Fish soup, rice and wattle flowers, why do tonics become intestinal poisons? Experts among the people: Are the grandfather and grandson really just "sleepwalking"? Why does the corpse in the coffin become a mockery of established facts? Shanghai Autopsy: How to restore the first collision between "The Collection of Purge" and modern anatomy? Beginning in 2015, Beijing Evening News and The Paper have successively launched the column "Notes on Narratives of Mysteries", written by the famous scholar Hu Yanyun, who uses modern science combined with historical research to create new interpretations of strange cases, mysterious cases, and unsolved cases in ancient notes. This book selects thirty-two of the articles to restore to readers the secrets, inside stories and truths that have been concealed for thousands of years.

Although there is only one truth, there are multiple versions of the story! The author of this book, Hu Yanyun, searched historical archives in the historical archives and combined it with more than 1,000 notes of celebrities from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to reinterpret many historical mysteries recorded in history, peel off the cocoons, and use modern criminal investigation methods to re-present the historical facts in front of people. The book is divided into 4 chapters, namely Legend: The B-side of the Empire; Important Cases: Those Unknown "Di Renjies"; Revealed: The Truth Behind the Weirdness; Ouchi: Scandals, Interesting Anecdotes and Strange Stories in the Palace, respectively describing the unknown things behind the well-known events in the market, countryside, officialdom and Ouchi.

Ten years ago. A serial murder occurred in the western suburbs that resulted in the death of four people. When Zhou Liping, who was under 18 years old, was arrested, everyone believed that he was the real murderer. Only Lin Xiangming, a police officer student who assisted in the investigation of the task force, insisted that Zhou Liping was only responsible for the last case. Zhou Liping was ultimately sentenced to only ten years in prison. Ten years later. Late at night, on Sweeping Ridge, a raging fire broke out in the tunnel pavilion of an abandoned subway station. Firefighters found multiple bodies at the bottom of the pavilion. Surveillance video and on-site evidence showed that the person who caused this tragedy was Zhou Liping, who had been released shortly after his release. This time, who is going to clear his name...

A collection of novels by Hu Yanyun, the master of Chinese reasoning, including "Sweeping Mouse Ridge", "Empty City Strategy", "Transformation" and "Broken Mirror". "The best mystery is to give a false answer from the beginning." The elite team of the police gathers together to challenge "multiple impossible crimes", the world situation VS justice, the collision of personal reasoning and traditional culture, bringing you a thrilling reading journey!

"In this cold world, only you can prove that I really existed. Only by holding your little hand can I feel a little warmth." He was impoverished and had only his four-year-old daughter to depend on, but her daughter died tragically in an "accident." In his madness, he slashed people with a knife and was imprisoned, only to realize that he had chopped the wrong target. Three years later, he walked out of prison, bent on revenge. However, his target was not only protected 24 hours a day by a top security company, but also hired the most outstanding reasoners in the country to monitor his every move. He has nothing but a father's determination and an incredible trick...

Hu Yanyun's masterpiece! Three packages containing human remains were delivered to the forensic center. Fourteen years later, a murderous curse was rang out at the crime scene... Death Breaker VS Forensic Doctor, a thousand-year showdown, who is the final winner? Three packages containing corpses were delivered to female forensic doctor Lei Rong. The deliverer issued a chilling challenge: If you can't find me, I will let the curse of murderous thaumaturgy spread like a plague... Who can stop the infinitely extending poisonous hand? Who can solve the murder mystery? The four major reasoning societies gathered together, not only helpless, but also fell into internal strife over an old case fourteen years ago. In that old case, someone also chanted a terrible curse at the crime scene, and the murder method has not been solved so far. Lei Rong had less than eight hours left. In order to uncover the horrifying truth that had been hidden for thousands of years, she opened "The Record of Clearing Wrongs" written by Song Ci, a forensic doctor in the Song Dynasty. She suddenly felt shuddering because she discovered that the real murderer was already standing behind her.

On a summer night, at a "horror talk", Xiao Qing, a singer who sang in a bar, told the story of a "mirror murder": a wife and her best friend conspired to kill her husband. Later, the husband's ghost appeared through the mirror again and again, and finally took revenge... Fan Yifan and Yang Wei who were present thought that Xiao Qing was insinuating them. After a quarrel, Xiao Qing left. Yang Wei really couldn't tell the story, so she suggested an alternative. She called the house where she lived alone in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, the call was answered in the room that was supposed to be empty... Yang Wei hurried home to check, and everyone followed, but when they rushed into the room, Yang Wei had been killed. The crime scene was exactly the same as the story told by Xiao Qing: a sharp knife penetrated the heart, blood flowed, and there were broken lenses left on the floor...

Traditional ghost plays were once banned because "the stage image was too scary", and a thousand-year-old mystery was once again staged and "burned into a black basin and buried in a cellar." How many people have burned themselves into a crock pot with their own hands? ! On a night of heavy rain, in a bungalow near the kiln factory in Yuyang County, the tune of the traditional Peking Opera "The Story of the Black Pot" suddenly rang out. The sad singing was like the long hand of a ghost slowly stretching out, unveiling the prelude to the horror drama: a black basin with dark red traces suddenly appeared in front of the world, and a burnt adult molar was embedded in the black basin. In this regard, a series of strange murder cases occurred one after another in Yuyang County, including a sharp knife inserted into the heart, a corpse with a vicious face, a secret room with locked doors and windows, and a scene without traces... It was not until the criminal investigation work reached a desperate situation that the police suddenly realized that the entire case was almost a re-enactment of the terrifying "Wuben Ji Incident" from a thousand years ago! Secret room + impossible crime + case within a case + shocking reversal. Hu Yanyun's masterpiece!

On a summer night, at a "horror talk", Xiao Qing, a singer who sang in a bar, told the story of a "mirror murder": a wife and her best friend conspired to kill her husband. Later, the husband's ghost appeared through the mirror again and again, and finally took revenge... Fan Yifan and Yang Wei who were present thought that Xiao Qing was insinuating them. After a quarrel, Xiao Qing left. Yang Wei really couldn't tell the story, so she suggested an alternative. She called the house where she lived alone in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, the call was answered in the room that was supposed to be empty... Yang Wei hurried home to check, and everyone followed, but when they rushed into the room, Yang Wei had been killed. The crime scene was exactly the same as the story told by Xiao Qing: a sharp knife penetrated the heart, blood flowed, and there were broken lenses left on the floor...

On a night of heavy rain, the only "haunted house cleaning team" in the provincial capital was suddenly hijacked. The hijacker challenged the police: within four hours, he would force the cleaning team to clean three haunted houses with unsolved crimes in succession. The police must investigate the scene and solve the old case within the specified time, otherwise he would kill the hostages! Every second counts! Criminal forensics expert Liu Simiao took Xu Ran, a survivor of the "Maple Villa Murder Case", deep into the eerie haunted houses, inspecting the thoroughly cleaned scenes to find the horrific truth that has been obscured by time. At the same time, female forensic doctor Lei Rong came to the renovated "Maple Villa" for a dinner. Unexpectedly, in this villa where five people were killed, someone was found dead in the secret room again that night.

"In the dark, she touched the bone"... In the basement of the suspended villa area, the police rescued a female college student: the victim was seriously injured and dying, with a matchbox beside her - this was the only clue left by the murderer to the police. Cases followed one after another, and the crimes continued to escalate. In the face of the conspiracy set by the murderer, the task force went astray step by step. Lin Xiangming, Liu Simiao, Lei Rong and other young police elites joined forces and used advanced criminal investigation techniques to gradually get closer to the truth. When everyone thought the case was about to be solved, death appeared in unexpected places...