sneak peek

Mo Wang has only been here for a week, and most of the time he usually runs around with Gu Yexi, so he is not very familiar with Huang Jiade. At this moment, the two of them are staying in the same room, and there is nothing to talk about for a while, and they are all quietly talking about each other. Fiddle with their own things.

The good student Mo Wang was still studying the case seriously, while Huang Jiade was eating beside him. The boxed lunch that Feng Guohua brought just now was too salty. He couldn't eat it after taking two bites.

He opened a bag of bread and handed it to Mo Wang: "Little Momo, do you want to eat?"

Mo Wang smiled shyly and shook his head.

Huang Jiade asked casually, "Still thinking about the case? Do you have any new ideas?"

"Why did the murderer feel that he needed to drink blood? What stimulated him to have this idea?"

"This may not be known until the murderer is caught. Or you can ask a consultant, he may have a guess."

"Well, Captain Gu guesses very accurately every time."

"That's for sure. Gu is a yellow card for serious cases, and other teams can't catch up with him. How many people apply to our team in order to learn from him. But Gu has high requirements, and we don't lack people. , the application was rejected. I don’t know how many people envy you for being able to join the team this time.”

Mo Wang put down the documents in his hand, and moved towards Huang Jiade: "Have you known each other for a long time?"

"He joined the team a little earlier than me, and we stayed on the same team after that."

"Then he was like this before?"

"He has always been very good, and his temper has not changed much. But he used to be more careful when he first joined the team, and his image is not as unruly as he is now. Now he is old, and he becomes lazy when he is [-], so he doesn't pay attention to his image. , with an unshaven beard, just come out with a T-shirt and jeans. I went on a business trip to other places before, and tried to be mistaken for him by others, so embarrassing."

Mo Wang smiled, "At least Team Feng didn't admit his mistake today."

"That's because Meng Ning sent Gu's photo in advance. Since being admitted last time, every time we have to go to work in other jurisdictions, Meng Ning will communicate in advance and send the photo to avoid this situation from happening again. He It’s not that I’m going to get angry, it’s just that I’m having a child’s temper and I’m not convinced that others think I look more like the captain, haha.”

Mo Wang was a little jealous, "You two have a very good relationship."

Huang Jiade didn't realize it, so he opened the phone photo album and handed it to Mo Wang, "Haha, it's okay. Here, let me show you, Gu's old photos."

Mo Wang took the phone, which contained various photos of Gu Yexi in secondary school in different periods. His appearance has hardly changed, but his hairstyle is slightly different in each period. At first, he had a short cut, and then he had ordinary short hair with styling. Finally, there is this ordinary short hair without styling.From time to time, you can see Gu Yexi in the photo with a dull hair, and Mo Wang can't help laughing.

Huang Jiade proposed very "intimately", "I can pack this and send it to you. If Gu bullies you next time, you can use this photo to bully him."

Mo Wang was a little surprised and said, "Can you send it to me?"

Huang Jiade took his mobile phone and sent him photos, "Why not? Some of them were sent to me by others. Oh, by the way, I haven't sent you the photo of your jerk, so I sent it by the way."

Mo Wang took out his mobile phone, carefully downloaded all the photos sent by Huang Jiade, opened a separate photo album and saved it, and secretly set the Lagou photos as his WeChat chat background.

He hesitated for a moment and asked, "He, do you have any anecdotes to share?"

Huang Jiade thought for a while, "emmmmm, are you impressed? Oh! Once, when chasing a prisoner, he ran the fastest and was the first to pounce on him. We were in a park at the time, and the two of them rolled in the ground. Several times. When Gu got up, there were a few big lumps of dog feces on his body, which smelled so bad that we laughed to death. I took a photo, and Gu almost murdered me. In the end, the photo was destroyed by him, otherwise I can show you. Another time, he rescued a girl who was kidnapped. The girl liked him and clamored for a promise every day. She came to the police station to wait for him to get off work, and even ran to where he lived. Go, Gu was really terrified during that time, every day he either hid from my house or Li Zi's house, and finally the girl went abroad to be fine."

"He doesn't like that girl?"

Huang Jiade found the girl's photo, she was a cute little girl, "She is only 16 years old, underage girl, so I dare not take care of it. Besides, I always feel that I can't take care of it."

Mo Wang blinked, "Then what do you think he likes?"

Huang Jiade shrugged, "I don't know, it's not that noisy?"

"Don't you know? He lived alone before?"

Huang Jiade vaguely felt that Mo Wang seemed to be overly concerned, so he glanced at Mo Wang slightly, "Of course he hasn't been single all the time, it's just that he has been single in the past few years. It's not good if he doesn't tell me about private matters. Ask. We have never met his previous partner, but we only know that there is such a person, but it is a long time ago."

Mo Wang nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Huang Jiade looked at Mo Wang for a while, "Little Momo, you?"

Mo Wang was a little nervous, "Me?"

"You, do you want to take a shower first?"

"Uh, well, I'm going to take a shower first."

Looking at Mo Wang's back, Huang Jiade smiled with the corner of his mouth crooked, thinking, this is interesting.

The next morning, Meng Ning called Gu Yexi. According to last night's criteria, there were still 208 eligible people after screening. This number is still too many, and the murderer may not be among them.

The three decided to visit the home of the latest missing person, Tan Lihua, to find new clues.

Tan Lihua's father was a decoration worker. He was the type who would work when there was a project, and stay at home if there was no project.The mother takes on some clothes changing jobs and earns some subsidies for the family, but she is mainly responsible for taking care of the four children in the family.Tan Lihua's elder sister is repeating her third year of high school, and her younger sister is in her third year of junior high school. They are both in a tense period. The family members are watching them closely. Although my younger brother is in the second year of junior high school, as the youngest child, his family also pays special attention to him, so Tan Lihua, a middle child in the second year of high school, has a very low sense of presence at home.

When Gu Yexi and the others arrived, only Tan's mother was at home, her husband went out to work, and the children all went to school.She was drying the quilt in front of the door, and when she saw someone coming, she asked a little nervously, "Who are you?"

Gu Yexi took out his police ID, "Police."

Tan's mother turned from nervousness to worry, "Did something happen to me, Lihua? Did you find her?"

Huang Jiade: "We haven't found her yet. We are here this time to learn more about her situation so that we can find her as soon as possible."

Mother Tan nodded and asked them to sit inside the room.

The decoration of Tan's house is very simple, and the furniture is obviously relatively old, but the house is clean and tidy. There are some awards and pictures of several children on one wall, which looks very warm.

Tan's mother brought them each a cup of tea, and rubbed her hands a little embarrassedly, "There is no good tea at home, and I don't know if you like it or not."

Gu Yexi smiled, picked it up and took a sip, "We rough people don't know how to taste tea. It's quite hot today, and it quenches our thirst."

Huang Jiade sat down and said softly: "I heard that Lihua was going to pick up her brother from school on the day she disappeared. Has she always been in charge of picking him up from school?"

Mother Tan nodded slightly, "My eldest daughter is repeating her third year of high school, and she is very nervous. She almost lives in school and does not go home. The third daughter is in her third year of junior high school, and she has a lot of homework. I have to work, and I have to do housework and so on. , let Lihua take charge of picking up her younger brother."

Mo Wang: "Has she ever tried to forget to pick up her brother?"

Mother Tan shook her head, "No, she has a very good relationship with her brother and cares about him."

Gu Yexi: "I heard from Captain Feng that young people in the town often leave home to work in the city. Do you think it is possible for Lihua to do so?"

Tan's mother's eyes were slightly red, "The child's father thinks so."

Gu Yexi: "But you don't think so?"

Tan's mother's tears began to fall, "I, I don't know. The child is older and doesn't like to talk to me as much as before. During this time, I didn't take care of her. But I don't believe my Lihua can say a word. She ran away without saying anything, and for two weeks, she didn’t call home a single call. I would wake up every night from a dream about where she was suffering.”

Mo Wang silently handed her a tissue, "Has Lihua met any new friends recently? Maybe she didn't tell you, but she may have told her sister."

Mother Tan shook her head, "No, I haven't heard of it. Her grades are not top-notch, but she works very hard. She usually puts a lot of effort into her studies and doesn't make friends randomly."

Gu Yexi: "The person who took her away may be a local, but he is currently working in the city. He looks more handsome, and his clothes are clean and generous. If you recall, have you seen similar people before and after Lihua's disappearance? "

Mother Tan frowned and thought for a while, then shook her head, "No."

Huang Jiade: "Does Lihua have any good classmates at school?"

Tan's mother: "Yes, she has a very good relationship with her deskmate, named Xiaohua."

Gu Yexi: "Do you know what special hobbies Lihua has? For example, singing and painting?"

Mother Tan hesitated: "She, she seems to like reading novels."

Gu Yexi nodded, "Can we take a look at Lihua's room? We won't touch anything, just to see if there are any clues."

Tan's mother took them to Lihua's room, "You can take a look around, I'm going outside to continue working."

Tan Lihua and her sister slept in a room with a bunk bed in the middle, which divided the bedroom into two halves, and she occupied the innermost half.

The wardrobe is shared by two people, and the only thing that really belongs to Tan Lihua is a desk and a small homemade bookshelf.There is no computer, no plush dolls, and no furnishings in the room. It doesn't look like a high school student's room at all.

Gu Yexi flipped through the desk, there were a few roadside stall magazines, some exercise books and a few excerpts, nothing special.He looked at the other two, "Did you find anything?"

Mo Wang picked up a piggy bank on the small bookshelf and shook it. There was obviously a lot of change in it, "If I want to run away from home, I will definitely take all my money with me."

Huang Jiade snapped his fingers, "Little Momo's observation skills are getting better and better. It's similar to mine here. The clothes in the closet are full. Why don't you bring some clothes when you run away from home?"

Gu Yexi touched her chin, "In other words, she must have been taken away."

Huang Jiade: "Since Tan Lihua probably knew the murderer, or wrote it in her diary?"

Gu Yexi spread his hands, "I didn't see the diary, but there are several excerpts of novels."

Mo Wang: "Her school is closed. She usually lives in the school. If she wants to write, she won't keep it at home, maybe in the dormitory?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "Well, it makes sense, let's go to the school and have a look."

The three bid farewell to Mother Tan, and stopped by the homes of the other two deceased.The family members of the first deceased, Ning Pan'er, had already looked away. They either didn't know or didn't remember the questions Gu Yexi asked, and they didn't ask any useful clues.The body of the second deceased was only discovered yesterday. Although the body has not been sent back, the family members are already preparing for the funeral and have no intention of talking to them.

After a casual lunch, the three came to the school.

Tan Lihua's class teacher is a dull and rigid middle-aged man in his 40s, with a cut-cut hair and a pair of black-rimmed glasses, the image of a standard middle school teacher.

The homeroom teacher seemed a little surprised when he knew the police were coming, "Didn't you come here to ask before? Why are you here again?"

Gu Yexi really wanted to respond to him with a sentence that elementary school teachers like to say: I wrote my homework yesterday, so why not write it today?

But he didn't say that, but pulled out a polite smile, "Let's find out more, can you tell us about Lihua?"

The homeroom teacher pushed up her glasses, "Lihua, she is usually quiet and obedient. She studies very hard, but her grades are just so-so."

Huang Jiade: "Has she met any new friends recently, or have you seen her with social people around the school?"

Class teacher: "The children nowadays are doing a good job of keeping secrets. How can I know these things? I don't know if she knows any social youths, but I have never seen her with such people."

Gu Yexi nodded: "I heard that she has a good relationship with her tablemate, can we have a chat with her?"

The teacher in charge hesitated for a moment, and said, "She is in class now, but the next class is physical education, why don't you wait and let her come over after this class is over?"

Mo Wang: "Then can we go to Lihua's bedroom first?"

Class teacher: "Lihua's parents have come to pick up all of Lihua's things, so there is nothing to see. Besides, there are other students living in the dormitory. Isn't that good?"

Gu Yexi: "We understand that since everything has been taken away, we won't read it."

The head teacher took them to the school auditorium and asked them to wait here first, and then bring Tan Lihua's deskmate over later.

Mo Wang: "If Tan Lihua's things have already been taken home, then there really is no diary."

Huang Jiade sat down on the chair, "Or she took it with her, and took it away when she was caught. It seems that I can only hope that this deskmate has clues in his hand."

Gu Yexi crossed Erlang's legs, held an unlit cigarette in his mouth, tilted his head and said: "Although the murderer should be a handsome guy who can speak well, but the three girls were cheated by him like this? I always feel that there is a relationship between them. There may be some other connection that made these girls trust him so much and follow him unpreparedly."

Huang Jiade: "This is the beginning of love. I think it's normal to meet a handsome guy with a smooth tongue and be cheated. Maybe they thought they were eloping with the handsome guy, but it turned out to be the handsome guy's dinner."

Gu Yexi: "Really? Is it that easy to lie?"

Huang Jiade: "You can't fool yourself, it's because your skill is insufficient, don't doubt others."

Gu Yexi casually crumpled a ball of paper and threw it over, "Fuck you."

Mo Wang watched them quarrel quietly from the side, and waited until they stopped arguing before saying, "Or, the murderer observed the girls first, knew what they liked, and pretended to have common hobbies with her, and approached them?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "It's possible that when you meet another person who has the same hobbies as you, you will preconceive that the other person is a good person, and you will think that the two of you must be a good match."

A bell rang, indicating that get out of class was over. After a while, a short and thin girl walked in timidly. After seeing three male policemen inside, she became more nervous and stood away from them.

Gu Yexi kicked Mo Wang lightly, the meaning is obvious, the good-looking and young little Momo is more suitable for communicating with underage girls.

Mo Wang stepped forward, "Hello, my name is Mo Wang, and I'm one of the police officers in charge of Tan Lihua's disappearance. Are you Xiao Hua?"

The girl nodded and seemed to relax a little.

"We heard that you and Tan Lihua have a good relationship?"

"Well, we are at the same table and roommates."

"The Friday that Lihua disappeared, did I tell you that I wanted to meet some friends?"

"No."

"Then, has she met any special new friends recently? Except the classmates in school."

Xiaohua shook her head without thinking, "No, she didn't mention it to me. If there was, she would definitely tell me."

"Then have you seen any suspicious person appearing around here recently? He's from the city, he's handsome, he's good at talking, he's well dressed, and he's very tasteful."

Xiao Hua was slightly stunned, as if thinking of something, but shook her head again, "No, I haven't seen anyone suspicious."

"I heard from Lihua's mother that she likes to read novels?"

"Ah."

"Then did she join any reading clubs or something? Did she mention any friends with common hobbies?"

"There is no reading club. We usually read novels together, there is no one else."

After Xiaohua left, Huang Jiade said with a headache, "What should I do? Is the acquaintance we agreed to commit the crime?"

Mo Wang didn't know what to do next, and now, after going around in circles, there was still no clue as to how Tan Lihua got lost.

The two looked at Gu Yexi subconsciously. Generally speaking, he can always find a breakthrough in a difficult situation.

Gu Yexi was in a daze, but when she realized that they were staring at her, she spread her hands innocently, "What are you looking at me for? I'm a fairy?"

Huang Jiade flattered Li Zi, "Aren't you a match between gods and gods, we all count on you."

Gu Yexi flicked his unlit cigarette in his mouth, "Shit."

Huang Jiade: "Then what should we do now? There is no clue?"

Gu Yexi blinked and blinked, and suddenly stood up with a "whoosh". They thought he had a plan, but he touched his butt and said, "Suddenly I really want to eat popsicles."

Mo Wang: ...

Huang Jiade: "Fuck you."

But in the end they followed Gu Yexi to the school canteen to buy popsicles.

Gu Yexi held a strawberry-flavored popsicle in his mouth, and sat on the edge of the playground, staring at the students in physical education class. The other two thought he was thinking about his next plan, and they stood aside and dared not speak for fear of disturbing him.

In fact, Gu Yexi was just thinking about how much sugar this popsicle put, it was so sweet that he wanted to look at the sky at 45 degrees.

After a while, Huang Jiade went over and kicked him, "You ate the popsicle, what's next?"

Gu Yexi stared at him, "A 16 or 7-year-old girl should be quite vigilant. If they are willing to get in this man's car, they must know him, right?"

Huang Jiade: "Yes, didn't we always think so?"

Gu Yexi: "But according to the information, apart from the fact that they all attend this school, they have no common acquaintance and live in the city."

Mo Wang squatted down and sat next to Gu Yexi, "Well, their social circle has been investigated, and there is no suitable person. So the murderer probably met them not long before the disappearance, so we did not track down arrive."

Gu Yexi: "But the people around the three girls said that they didn't know anyone new. The only point of intersection between them is this school, right?"

Huang Jiade: "You mean, these three girls all met the murderer at school?"

"Or, it's a senior who has graduated and came back to play, and I met it by accident; or it's a special external teacher who came here for a few weeks as a friendly guest." Gu Yexi was about to take out his phone and ask Meng Ning to check it out. Thinking of the other party, I called.

Meng Ning seemed a little anxious, "Boss, I have made a major discovery!"

Gu Yexi: "What's wrong?"

Meng Ning: "Today the forensic doctor re-examined Huang Lingling's body and found that there seemed to be something on her scalp, so she shaved her hair and found a tattoo on it. The pattern is very special. I photographed it and searched it. It is A medieval witchcraft website. I sent you the website address, you go up and have a look first, I am checking the information on the website.”

Gu Yexi frowned slightly, "It is very likely that the deceased also had tattoos on his scalp, but it was covered by his hair, so we didn't find it. But there is no way to verify it now. By the way, Meng Ning, you can check the whereabouts of the two deceased. In the past two weeks, are there any graduates of Lianyi Town High School who meet our requirements and come back to school to play."

Meng Ning: "I can't check it. I have a friend who went to that high school. She said that graduates don't need to register when they go back to play, and they just need to tell."

Gu Yexi felt dizzy, "Does this high school have specially hired teachers, the kind who come here for two weeks?"

Meng Ning: "You think too much. There is no such thing in a small town like Lianyi Town."

Gu Yexi hung up the phone, and Mo Wang immediately asked, "Tattoos?"

Gu Yexi nodded, repeated what Meng Ning had just said, and opened the website.

The design of the website is very good, the main section is divided into four parts, White Witchcraft, Black Witchcraft, Witchcraft History and Forum, the contents of White Witchcraft are relatively ordinary content, nothing more than similar to putting your own hair and The hair of the person you like is tied together and buried, which can achieve the same kind of heart-to-heart connection.And Black Witchcraft needs to pay to become a premium member to view it, 666 yuan per month, which is simply too expensive.Fortunately, Meng Ning set up a black account for them very "intimately", and they can watch the content for free.

Gu Yexi browsed through it, and the content inside was quite heavy, for example, it was mentioned that eating the heart of a child born on the night of the full moon in July can cure terminal illness.

Gu Yexi frowned, entered drinking blood as a keyword, and found a lot of articles, among which the one with the most hits was about a nobleman in the Middle Ages who arrested underage girls and raised them in captivity in order to cure his imbecility problem. , drink their blood for healing.

Huang Jiade: "Could it be that the murderer didn't commit crimes and decided to follow suit after reading this article?"

Mo Wang was puzzled: "But according to the time, the murderer has been drinking blood for three years. Obviously this treatment method is useless, but the murderer is still drinking, why?"

Gu Yexi: "It's very simple. His inability to lift is not a physical problem, but a psychological problem. After he drank blood, he mentally hinted that he was fine, so he could lift it. After that, once he stopped drinking, under the psychological hint, he could lift again. Call back to the prototype."

Mo Wang: "The murderer believed that the black magic on this website saved him, and became a loyal fan of it ever since, so he tattooed the website's logo on the dead man's scalp?"

Gu Yexi tapped on the back of the phone, "It's more like a farmer branding his own pig to mark it as my pig. The murderer imitated this move and marked the girl as his own food, doing this You can let him convince himself that he doesn't treat the girl as a human being at all, but just an animal for his own blood."

Huang Jiade looked disgusted, "Pervert."