While the manhunt is in progress

Chapter 216
When they returned to the hostel, Song He and Ma Xuexian were carrying all kinds of food in their hands, which were astonishing in quantity and weight, and they were stunned by Dong Xiao who was accompanying them.

"Zhou team, you guys are..."

Zhou Kai's face was normal: "There is a pot in our group, let you see a joke."

"No, no." Dong Xiao quickly waved his hands, his eyes swept over Ma Xuexian, and Song He in turn, and finally fixed on Song He!

"Consultant Song, uh, I have a good appetite." After Dong Xiao finished speaking, he looked at Song He curiously, and couldn't understand how his stomach could hold so much food.

Seeing this, Song He smiled and said, "Xiao Dong, it's normal to be curious, but let's not be so obvious, okay?"

Dong Xiao suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and repeatedly bowed his body to apologize.

After Dong Xiao left, Zhou Kai looked at Song He who was eating and drinking and asked, "You don't have confidence in the investigation team that went to repair the city?"

Song He was not surprised that Zhou Kai could see that he was in a hurry, and replied, "There are too few people."

"Xiucheng has six districts and eight counties under its jurisdiction. Even if the development back then was not as good as it is now, and there were fewer factories, it would take a lot of manpower and time to find out."

"You must know that the biggest difficulty in this case is to determine the identity of the murderer, so most of the time will be spent on this."

"And this kind of official investigation, Ma Xuexian's false friends are not very useful. But fortunately, it is Xiucheng, and I still have a way to help."

The next day, when Song He and the others arrived at the police station, Jiang Zhao greeted them and asked, "Consultant Song, do you have friendship with Deputy Gu of the Xiucheng Criminal Police Team?"

"Yes." Song He knew what would happen after contacting Gu Li last night, nodded and said: "This case is a bit troublesome, so I asked him to help."

"Consultant Song, you always surprise us." Jiang Zhao sighed and said, "Deputy Captain Gu took the initiative to find the police officer we were investigating last night, but he helped a lot. He even arranged for the police officer to help us early this morning. We investigate."

"Consultant Song, our police department owes you a lot for this case."

Song He and Jiang Zhao had already entered the meeting room after chatting for a few words, but there were a lot fewer people present today, only a few elite police officers under Jiang Zhao, but Liu Linjun was not there.

"The director has too many things to do today. I can't make it through today." Jiang Zhao explained after sitting down, looked at Ma Xuexian and asked, "Officer Ma, has your informant made any progress?"

Ma Xuexian nodded and said: "The news just arrived. Thirty years ago, a person died in a hotel in Anshui County, Licheng. It is understood that the cause of death was a heart attack. The identity of the deceased cannot be found."

"This incident was widely circulated at the time, which caused the hotel's business to fail, and it closed down not long after. I estimate that the possibility of finding information and records is extremely small."

Jiang Zhao was a little excited at first, but when he heard that there was no way to track it down, he immediately calmed down, and began to habitually think about whether this road would work.

Seeing this, Song He said: "It's also a direction. Maybe we can find something along this line?"

"Yes." Jiang Zhao recalled after hearing this: "There are also two main railway lines in Licheng, running north and south. Since a case has been done in Gucheng, then according to the rules we analyzed, he can only..."

After the rapid progress of the first day, the progress of the investigation on the second day slowed down significantly.

After all, the doubts and clues in the electrocution case have been unearthed, and now we can only work hard on tracing the origin and whereabouts of the murderer.

But the clues of these two aspects are in other places, and the specific location is unclear, so they can only be speculated continuously.

So Jiang Zhao simply led the police officers to speculate along the main railway line, pushing out five cities where the case might occur.

Immediately afterwards, when Jiang Zhao and others looked at the five cities that needed to be investigated and worried, Ma Xuexian's performance suddenly made them suspect that this was really a spy leader!
"give it to me."

After Ma Xue said this, he calmly walked out of the conference room. Only an hour later, he returned to the conference room and announced in public: "I arranged for my informant to check, and there should be feedback this afternoon."

Under everyone's horrified gazes, Song He secretly guessed how many comrades Ma Xuexian had mobilized, but judging from his appearance, he still seemed to be able to do a job with ease, obviously far from reaching his limit.

Isn't it time to test where the limit of Ma Xuexian is?
An absurd idea popped up in Song He's mind, making Ma Xue, who was already a little uncomfortable because he was in the center of everyone's eyes, back and forth, as if he was being targeted by something unclean.

At this point, Jiang Zhao had to admit that the support team with only four members in front of him did have the ability to independently complete the investigation and solve a case.

Among other things, Ma Xuexian's "informants" all over the place are what all police stations are eager for.

However, Jiang Zhao quickly discovered the shortcoming of the assistance team, that is, the ability to carry out arrest and stalking was seriously insufficient.

This is not to say that personal abilities cannot be achieved, but that the basic number of people is limited.

However, what Jiang Zhao didn't know was that Song He and Zhou Kai combined might be stronger than the entire county police station when it comes to arresting and stalking!

In the afternoon, Ma Xuexian's "informant" sent news one after another that there had been sudden deaths of county hotel guests in three of the five cities!
And these three cities are indeed separated by one city on the main railway line.

"Consultant Song, this case...is too big." Jiang Zhao no longer took chances, and said with a serious expression: "Including the dead in the electrocution case, there are five dead in total. We only heard about cases of this level. Yes, never did."

"It's really shocking." Song He rubbed his brows, feeling a little depressed.

Although he had expected it in his heart, when the facts were in front of him, he found that he was still holding a little luck, hoping that it was not the serial murder case he had speculated.

But the matter has come to this point, he can only do his best to track it down!
"What I'm wondering now is why he didn't do the sixth case?" Song He called everyone's attention away from the shock: "Look, he has found a modus operandi that will not be suspected at all, then Why are there no traces of him committing crimes in the latter two cities?"

"It is speculated that the last case was in Dongshui County, Hecheng, and if he wants to commit crimes again, the next place will be Yuecheng."

"After he committed the crime in Dongshui County and before he committed the crime in Yuecheng, something must have happened to make him give up and continue to commit crimes."

Jiang Zhao thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "Do we still need to go to Hecheng to investigate this case? But the police didn't file a case, the hotel closed down, and there were guest check-in registers with little hope of keeping them. It can be said that there is almost no trace at all. "

"There may not be any traces." Song He shook his head and said, "Although there is no obvious pattern in the interval between the electrocution case and the subsequent cases, there are still some differences between the cases themselves."

"The murderer kills for money. In order not to expose himself and steal too much money, the harvest must be inferior to that of the electrocution case."

"Excluding the termination of the crime caused by accident, according to the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, he may have a safer or more profitable choice."

(End of this chapter)