sneak peek

Meng Ning sent a document to each of them, "This morning in a garbage house in the south of the city, a female body was found. The blood was drained from the whole body. The time of death was around 8 o'clock last night. The cause of death was excessive blood loss. The deceased There were many pinhole wounds on his arm, and it was suspected that blood was drawn repeatedly for a long time before his death. The hymen was intact and had not been violated. The deceased was Huang Lingling, a second-year high school student who disappeared 8 months ago. I went to school in Yizhen."

Huang Jiade: "Repeated blood draws? Could it be the underground market selling blood?"

Gu Yexi disagreed, "If that's the case, why did you drain her blood and kill her? Do you know how much her organs can be sold for?"

Li Zi is not a local, so he asked with some doubts: "Lianyi Town?"

Huang Jiade explained: "It's a small town under the jurisdiction of our city. It's a bit remote. It takes more than three hours to drive there."

Mo Wang: "Did the murderer capture the deceased and live with him in the city and dump the body here; or did he live in Lianyi Town all the time and drive over three hours to dump the body after the murder?"

Meng Ning: "There are many deserted mountain roads on the road for more than three hours. Why don't you just dump the body and deliberately drive to the city and throw it in a garbage house? I don't think it's reasonable."

Gu Yexi nodded in agreement, "The murderer is probably from the city. It says today is the deceased's 18th birthday?"

Meng Ning: "According to the birthday on the ID card, yes."

Li Zi sighed: "I was killed the day before I turned 18, hey."

Don't forget to look through the information, "There is only this little information about her disappearance?"

Meng Ning: "It can be said that there are almost no clues."

Huang Jiade: "I remember, was there a similar case last year?"

Meng Ning gave him a compliment, "Look at the second document. In September last year, a female body was also found. When she disappeared, she was a freshman in Lianyi Town High School. Her name was Ning Pan'er. She had been missing for a year. Many, the cause of death is the same, and they were also found in the garbage house, but it was not the same garbage house."

Gu Yexi frowned and looked at Ning Pan'er's birthday. Sure enough, as he expected, she was killed on the last day of her 17th birthday, and her body was found on her 18th birthday.

Mo Wang also noticed this, "They all died the day before their 18th birthday, isn't it a coincidence?"

Gu Yexi: "It's definitely not a coincidence, what do you think is the reason?"

Teacher Gu started the quiz again, and Meng Ning said first: "Keep youth forever, stay at the age of 17?"

Li Zi: "The murderer only likes underage girls, and he doesn't want them when they are adults."

Huang Jiade: "Maybe the murderer thinks he is saving the girls from entering the complex world of adults."

Mo Wang stared at the photo of the corpse, frowning slightly, "18 years old, if you think of it as a deadline, then it is expired?"

Gu Yexi suddenly asked: "Meng Ning, I remember that the garbage house was built in recent years. Inside are garbage sorting boxes, and different types of garbage are put in different boxes. It is said that they are striving to be civilized and environmentally friendly citizens. The deceased What kind of litter box did it go in?"

Meng Ning looked through the pile of on-site photos on the computer, "It's... food scraps."

"What about the dead last year?"

"Uh... also food scraps!"

Gu Yexi closed his eyes and thought for a while, "This garbage house is not close to the residential area, so the murderer took the dead body there and threw it there, and it was specially thrown in this trash can. In the murderer's heart, the dead It's food, and now she's going to expire, so she's throwing it away."

Meng Ning suddenly felt sick, "Food? You mean, he's drinking her blood?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "He may think that he has a reason to drink human blood, and if he doesn't drink it, something serious will happen. And it must be the blood of a girl under the age of 18."

Li Zi looked contemptuous, "This pervert is disgusting enough."

Huang Jiade grasped an important point, "And it's a polite pervert who put it in the trash can for food scraps."

Meng Ning: "Girls are good at killing people, not only killing people, but also throwing them in dirty trash cans, how to be polite?"

Gu Yexi: "In his heart, these girls are just food, so naturally he doesn't need to be polite. Will you be polite to your fried chicken?"

Meng Ning cursed the murderer in a low voice, "Pervert."

Mo Wang said with some concern: "The time of death of the first deceased is almost the same as the time of disappearance of the second deceased. There is only a week difference between each other. It can be inferred that the murderer will only keep a young girl by his side? If the murderer feels that he must If he drank the blood of an underage girl for a long time, can we think that he has a girl in his hand now?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "It's very possible. Let's first look at the commonalities of the two deceased, judge the murderer's preference, and then screen whether there are any eligible missing persons in the past two weeks. From here, we may be able to catch the murderer faster .”

Li Zi stared at the photo carefully, "The most obvious thing in common is the underage girls who are all studying in Lianyi Town High School. Their looks are relatively ordinary, and they are not very conspicuous."

Huang Jiade: "The family conditions are not very good, they are all poor students."

Mo Wang: "They all have several brothers and sisters, and the victims are all middle children."

Meng Ning: "The grades are average, the teacher doesn't have much impression, and the students don't know much about it."

Gu Yexi touched the stubble of his chin, "The family is in a difficult situation and there are several children. If one of them is lost, it is due to economic reasons, and there are several other children to take care of. Compared with those parents who only have one child, The parents of the deceased would be more likely to give up searching for them. The middle child, who is generally the least noticed in a family, is less likely to be found when lost, and it would be easier for the parents to let go. In addition, the two This deceased person is not conspicuous in school. She has few friends, teachers don’t pay much attention to her, and she is not easy to be noticed if she is lost. Teachers and classmates will not be obsessed with finding her. So in general, the murderer is a special Choose those 16- and 17-year-old girls who play background roles at home and at school to be their own blood suppliers. Meng Ning, first look at how many 16- and 17-year-old girls in Lianyi Town have been in the past two months. [-]-year-old missing girl."

Meng Ning tapped the keyboard for a while, "Uh...there are 4 of them."

"It's average at home, but it belongs to the middle child in the family?"

"emmmmm, 3."

"Academic performance is average."

"It's all pretty average..."

"Remove the pretty ones."

"Then there is only one, 17-year-old Tan Lihua, a sophomore in high school who disappeared two weeks ago."

Gu Yexi leaned over to look at Tan Lihua's information, "It should be her right, her 18th birthday is next January, so for the time being, her life should not be in danger, but we still have to rescue her as soon as possible."

Meng Ning felt a little headache, "What to do, the three missing people are all in Lianyi Town, but the murderer is in the city."

Gu Yexi shrugged, "That's not easy, Mo Wang and Jia De followed me to Lianyi Town, starting from the missing part of the three victims; you and Li Zi stayed here, starting from the part of throwing the corpses .We do it in two lines."

Two hours later, Gu Yexi and his party drove to Lianyi Town with their hastily packed luggage.

Although Lianyi Town can't be said to be the most remote town in the city, it is indeed the town with the most mountain roads to walk, and these mountain roads are very difficult to walk.Huang Jiade was so dizzy from being bumped that he simply closed his eyes and fell asleep. Although Gu Yexi was not dizzy, after being bumped for such a long time, his butt hurt like hell, just like being tortured in ancient times.Mo Wang didn't seem to be affected in any way, and he still read the case materials seriously.

Gu Yexi suddenly felt the phone in his pocket vibrate all the time, thinking that there might be something urgent, but he happened to be stuck on a difficult mountain road, his hands could not leave the steering wheel, and it was difficult to stop, so he quickly called Mo Wang next to him: "Mo, take out the phone in my pocket."

Mo Wang glanced at him in confusion, "Huh?"

"Hurry up, don't hmmmm."

Mo Wang hesitated for a moment, and shyly put his hand into Gu Yexi's pocket.Because it is sitting, the pocket is tight and it is not easy to take out the phone.Mo Wang was afraid that he would accidentally run into some embarrassing place, so he kept his head down and his ears red all the time, and finally took out the phone from Gu Yexi's pocket, and a screen of text messages was displayed on it.

Gu Yexi asked anxiously: "The password is four 1, what's wrong? Is something wrong? About the case?"

"No."

"what is that?"

"It's Bureau Pan."

Only then did Gu Yexi recall the kidnapping text message he had sent to Pan Weiren just now, and it is estimated that the other party only had time to read the text message now, "What did he say?"

"He didn't say anything."

"Didn't say anything???"

"He sent 10 themes of the police academy lectures."

Gu Yexi immediately started to have a toothache and a headache. Every time he and Pan got into trouble, the other party would push him to do various lectures and trainings.What he hates the most is doing these things. It seems that the meal expenses this time will not be reimbursed, and he might be cheated.

Gu Yexi said with a mournful face, "Mo."

Mo Wang didn't quite understand why this text message was so lethal, "Huh?"

"You have to save me."

"How to help?"

"Tell him that we are just joking, and tell him not to arrange for me to do that."

Mo Wang understood that Gu Yexi was not only afraid of mice, but also afraid of giving speeches, so he couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled, "Okay."

Gu Yexi held out a little finger.

Mo Wang was taken aback for a moment, then stretched out his little finger to hook him up, "Yes."

There was a "click" sound from the back seat, Mo Wang turned around, it turned out that Huang Jiade woke up and took a picture of the scene where they pulled the hook just now.

Huang Jiade chuckled, "Add a filter and send it to you. But by the way, boss, you don't want to give a speech, why did you ask Mo Wang to intercede with Ju Pan?"

Mo Wang hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

Gu Yexi replied seemingly casually, "You see little Momo is so cute, he looks like a Teddy, if he goes to speak, can old man Pan refuse?"

Mo Wang subconsciously covered his face, feeling that Gu Yexi was talking too seriously and nonsense.

But Huang Jiade thought it made sense, nodded and said, "Indeed, indeed."

Mo Wang: ...

Although Lianyi Town is relatively remote and there are many extremely poor households, the whole town is quite advanced in construction. It cannot be said to be a remote village, but it is a bit of a paradise. It is far away from the city and the folk customs are simple. Apart from running away from home in a boring life, almost no cases have occurred.This murder case is the most horrifying case they have seen in decades.

When Gu Yexi and his party arrived in Lianyi Town, although they were all hungry, they still went to the town police station to look up the information on the disappearance case.

The captain of the criminal investigation team in the town was already waiting for them at the door. As soon as Gu Yexi got off the car, he immediately greeted him, "Gu Dui, hello, my name is Feng Guohua."

Gu Yexi shook hands with him and nodded, and briefly introduced, "Huang Jiade, Mo Wang."

Feng Guohua led them inside, "It's hard work, you drove all the way here, haven't you had dinner yet?"

Gu Yexi was not in the mood to chat, and asked directly: "Is the information on the three missing cases complete? We want to study the case immediately."

Feng Guohua took them to a shabby conference room, and there was a cardboard box on the table, "The information is all in there, but, to be honest, there are no clues. We are a small place, there is no road monitoring, where are people lost?" I don't know, and there are no witnesses."

Gu Yexi nodded, "I understand."

Feng Guohua paused for a moment, then continued: "Team Gu, to be honest, we say that every year, dozens of children will run away from home, and most of them will go to big cities to work, and it won't take long. Contact your family to keep safe, Tan Lihua's disappearance this time may be the same. Are you sure you were taken away by a perverted killer?"

Gu Yexi: "At present, this possibility is relatively high, but other possibilities cannot be ruled out."

Feng Guohua nodded: "Okay, then I'll get you some bottles of water and some food? Are you here to look at the case first?"

"Okay, thank you."

After Feng Guohua left, Huang Jiade said in a low voice: "It seems that the murderer chose this town for another reason, that is, the people in the town are very accustomed to underage girls running away from home, so they may not think that they are really lost. "

Gu Yexi: "Well. Three missing persons, let's study one each, so it will be faster."

The first deceased, Ning Pan'er, had two older sisters, one younger sister and one younger brother. She didn't come home from school on Friday, and her family didn't care. They thought it was because of the exam, so they stayed in the school dormitory to study.I didn't go to class until Monday, and the teacher came to contact me and found out that I lost it.The family insisted that it was impossible for her to go to the city to work, but after several weeks of investigation, there was no clue.The police decided not to waste resources. There are four children in the family. It is impossible for the parents to stop work to find them, and they have no money to hire a private detective. They have to give up.

The second deceased, Huang Lingling, had an older sister and two younger brothers. On the day of her disappearance, she asked for leave at noon to go home to rest because she was unwell, but she never went home after leaving school.According to her family, Huang Lingling has always wanted to live in a big city, so everyone thought she slipped out of school under the pretext of being sick, but actually went to work in the city. It was not until the body appeared that she realized that it might not be that simple.

The third missing person, Tan Lihua, has an older sister, a younger sister and a younger brother. She disappeared two weeks ago. It was Friday after school. She was supposed to be responsible for picking up her younger brother home, but she never showed up. In the end, the younger brother ran back by himself. home.The family members are not sure whether she will go to work, but her sister thinks that she is not such an irresponsible person, and even if she wants to run away from home, she will take her brother home first.

Huang Jiade was a little puzzled: "It doesn't matter whether it's at noon or after school on Friday, it's all during the day, and their home is not too far away. There should be people along the road from school to home, and it should be the same for a teenage girl who was arrested. He would yell, why is there not a single witness?"

Mo Wang: "Maybe, he gave them medicine first? Make them unconscious before stuffing them into the car?"

Huang Jiade: "Then someone should have seen it, right? Putting a fainted girl into the car is suspicious, right?"

Gu Yexi thought for a while, "No one noticed, could it be because they all left with him voluntarily?"

Mo Wang: "Do you think he might trick them into getting into the car with a job offer or other excuses?"

Gu Yexi: "I think they are all acquainted with the murderer. Huang Lingling is not feeling well, and it is reasonable for her to get into the car when she meets someone she knows well. In Tan Lihua's case, the murderer may propose He dropped her off to pick up her younger brother, so she got into the car unsuspectingly. As for Ning Pan'er, it might be similar. He drove her home on the way, or treated her to ice cream. Anyway, it's like An acquaintance committed the crime."

Huang Jiade took a sip of Coke, "But didn't we infer before that the murderer was from the city? If he wasn't a local, how could he be an acquaintance with them?"

Gu Yexi: "Or he was originally a local, but he just went to work in the city. He came back occasionally, and after catching a girl, he brought him back to the city to continue living. Team Feng also said that most of the young people in the town They all look out for life in the city, and they will pay special attention to and have a good impression of those who come back from the city. It is not difficult for the murderer to attract the attention of these girls, first befriend them and then abduct them."

Mo Wang: "If you put it this way, the murderer must be a person who has no social barriers, and is even very eloquent and charming."

Gu Yexi nodded, "He must have good looks, and he dresses cleanly and tastefully. He is different from most of the boys in the town. He is more mature and stable, and he looks like he knows everything. It makes people feel safe and comfortable. Undefended."

Huang Jiade turned on the speakerphone and called Meng Ning, "Student Meng Ning, are you still in the bureau?"

Meng Ning yawned at the other end, "Li Zi and I just came back from the garbage house. There is no surveillance there, and there are no clues at the scene. There are no witnesses. It was a waste of time to run all afternoon. What about your side? Got a clue? "

Gu Yexi: "How many people in Lianyi Town work in the city, including those who have transferred their household registration to the city, and are male between the ages of 25 and 30."

Meng Ning: "emmmmmmm, there are too many, 1545, and only registered ones are included."

Mo Wang: "During the two weeks before the disappearance of the three girls, they all stayed in Lianyi Town, and left Lianyi Town a day or two after the girl disappeared?"

Meng Ning: "Uh...no."

Gu Yexi: "There is no need to register when returning home. If he drives by himself and takes an ordinary road, we may not know that he was in the town during that time."

Huang Jiade said wittily: "But it is certain that the murderer must have used a car. Whether he owns his own car or rented a car, he must have a driver's license, right? Meng Ning, how many of them have a driver's license?"

Meng Ning: "967."

Gu Yexi frowned, this is still an astronomical figure, "The murderer should have trapped the girl in his own home, so it's not a shared house, check if she lives alone."

Meng Ning: "524."

Mo Wang thought for a while: "The day Tan Lihua disappeared, the murderer must have been out of the city, right? Meng Ning got rid of those who went to work that day, or those who had evidence that they were from places other than Lianyi Town."

Meng Ning: "Hey, little Momo is smart, but this is not so easy to check, I need a while to deal with it, and I will give you an answer tomorrow morning?"

Gu Yexi: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, let Jiade ask you for a marriage talisman when you go back."

Meng Ning gritted his teeth and said, "You can keep it for yourself, Mr. Gu."

It was late at night, and there were not many clues for the time being. The three of Gu Yexi planned to sleep first, and then continue to investigate after getting up early tomorrow.Before coming here, Gu Yexi booked a room at the only hotel in the town. Because there were three people, I booked a double room and a single room.

The three went up with their luggage, Gu Yexi walked towards the double room, Mo Wang and Huang Jiade stopped beside him naturally, waiting for him to open the door and enter.Obviously, both of them thought that Gu Yexi planned to live with him.

Gu Yexi raised his eyebrows, looked at Huang Jiade, then at Mo Wang, and took a step back: "I won't pick up guests today, you two should sleep together."

Mo Wang stood awkwardly, Huang Jiade punched Gu Yexi, "Fuck you."

Gu Yexi threw the key card of the double room to Huang Jiade, made a face, and turned to the single room.