sneak peek

The two rushed to the police station and saw a little sister sitting there crying, a policewoman next to her comforting her softly, and a pair of parents walking back and forth anxiously.

Feng Guohua took them to a small conference room, "The missing girl is called Zhang Wan'er. She is 16 years old and is a freshman in Lianyi High School. Her sister went to a friend's birthday party. It was too late to go home by herself, so she called I called my sister to pick her up. After waiting for a long time, Zhang Waner didn't show up. When I called her, the phone was turned off. In the end, it was a friend's parents who sent her home. After returning home, I told my parents. They felt that something was wrong, so they called the police. gone."

Gu Yexi picked up Zhang Wan'er's information and took a quick glance, "There are only her and my younger sister in the family, and she is the first child?"

Feng Guohua frowned, "Yes, and her family is not extremely poor. Her parents are in business, and their family background is quite good."

Mo Wang took a look at Gu Yexi, "It seems that the murderer killed Tan Lihua was really an accident. He didn't have anyone to give him blood, so he didn't care about choosing carefully, as long as he was of the right age, he would do it."

Gu Yexi: "There are no witnesses? Do you know where the person was lost?"

Feng Guohua: "I don't know, it was already late at that time, and people in small towns went to bed early."

Gu Yexi: "Didn't you say that the murderer would strike, did you tell them to be careful? Why did you let the child go out by himself?"

Feng Guohua looked at the crying little girl sitting outside and said: "Their parents were still ordering goods in the store at that time, and only my sister was at home. The younger sister was worried that her parents would scold her if they knew that she was late, so she didn't dare to ask her parents to pick her up. I begged my sister to go. My sister didn't want my parents to blame my sister, so I went by myself, hey."

Mo Wang looked at the map of the town, "There is a certain distance between the two families, and it takes more than half an hour to walk. In the middle of the night, she probably wouldn't choose to walk there?"

Feng Guohua nodded, "According to what my sister said, she said that she would ride a bicycle there, and it will take about 10 minutes."

Gu Yexi: "Did you find the bicycle?"

Feng Guohua: "No, there is only one main road from Zhang Waner's house to my sister's friend's house. We searched along the road, but found no bicycles, and no one said they heard any strange noises. Now we are investigating the small road, but I guess she is older. The ones at night can’t walk on the path.”

Gu Yexi half-closed her eyes, tapped her fingers on the table, "If I wanted to catch a girl riding a bicycle in the middle of the night, what would I do? Pretend to ask for directions to make the girl stop? Or just use The car stopped her? In short, let her stop first, and then catch her. But the girl will yell, there are residents on both sides of the road, such a quiet night, even if you fall asleep, you can hear the yelling, but no one listens So, why? Maybe, I knocked her out by surprise so she couldn't scream. But why did I take her bike with me? It's quiet on the road, but there's still the possibility of people passing by, plus tonight's special If there were more patrolmen, she might be discovered if she stayed for a second. So, she got into the car voluntarily. The murderer stopped the car, pretended to run into Zhang Waner, and offered to drive her to pick up her sister and take them home. She and the murderer took the The bike was put in the boot, and the process was quick and non-suspicious if anyone passed by, and then she got on the bike voluntarily."

Mo Wang frowned, "So you think that although the murderer's attack is urgent this time, he and Zhang Wan'er still know each other? But how did the murderer meet four high school girls who didn't know each other? Could it be that we guessed wrong, the murderer A local, and he deliberately drove into the city and dumped it in a garbage house, just to create the illusion that he is from the city?"

Feng Guohua: "Our town is neither small nor big. There must be people who know all four families, but that's the relationship between adults. It's really hard for an adult to know all four girls. No. If it is a local, then the biggest suspect is the teacher in the school."

Gu Yexi's intuition still told himself firmly that the murderer must be from the city and just came to the town to hunt, "Is there any teacher who worked here before and was transferred to the city three years ago? Or resigned?" , or just an intern who came to stay for a few months.”

Feng Guohua: "I'll contact someone from the school to ask."

After Feng Guohua left, Gu Yexi sat quietly like a monk in meditation. Mo Wang knew what he must be thinking, so it was not good to interrupt his train of thought, so he just stood beside him silently, waiting for him to figure out why.

It was only then that Mo Wang discovered that there was an ambiguous mark on Gu Yexi's collarbone, the skin was torn and there were some bloodstains on it. It looked like it was scratched by something, or caused by a fierce kiss, but Mo Wang knew , This must be the one I fell and gnawed just now, I felt embarrassed for a moment, and my mind began to wander, not knowing where to go.

"Mo?" Gu Yexi suddenly spoke.

Mo Wang quickly focused, "Huh?"

"Why did the murderer kill Tan Lihua?"

"Judging from his hasty kidnapping tonight, the murder is obviously not in his plan, at least not now. I guessed before that she intended to escape and was caught, or did she anger the murderer?"

Gu Yexi shook his head slowly, "The two girls who were arrested before must have tried to escape, and they probably angered the murderer when they were first arrested, but he didn't kill them, they waited until the last day when they were 17 years old. Why are you so impatient this time?"

Mo Wang knew that Gu Yexi already had the answer in his heart, so he stopped guessing and asked directly, "What do you think is the reason?"

Gu Yexi: "If I buy a fish, whether it's the fish trying to escape the kitchen or yelling at me, will I kill the fish and throw it away because I'm angry? No, I won't , it will be my dinner anyway. If I choose not to eat this fish and throw it away, it will only be a reason because there is something wrong with this fish and it cannot be eaten."

Mo Wang understood, "Do you think that Tan Lihua may actually be 18 years old, and the murderer found out that her food had expired, so he killed her?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "Think about it, the murderer knew that he drank expired blood, and he might immediately think that he was going to be beaten back to his original shape. The more he thought about it, the stronger the psychological suggestion, and he would naturally change back to his original form. For example. So he killed Tan Lihua in a fit of anger, and didn’t drain the blood, because it’s useless to come back with expired things. In fact, the birthdays on our ID cards are not necessarily accurate. I want to go to Tan Lihua’s Check at home if I'm right."

Mo Wang hesitated, "It's midnight now, or tomorrow?"

Gu Yexi: "I can't wait any longer. If I'm right, I'll figure out how to catch him."

As soon as the two reached the door, Feng Guohua came back, "Captain Gu, where are you going?"

Gu Yexi waved his hand, not bothering to explain, and asked, "Is there a result to what happened just now?"

"The principal said that a teacher was transferred to the city three years ago, but died in a car accident last year. There were two interns who were in the fourth year of the university and they were both girls. They had no relationship with Zhang Wan'er."

Gu Yexi: "Okay, you guys continue to look for Zhang Wan'er, let's go to Tan Lihua's house."

Late at night, the town is very quiet, and there are no other lights on the roadside except for street lights, which is very different from the night in the city.The meowing of stray cats came from the grass, and the milky sound was very pitiful.

Gu Yexi knocked for a long time before Tan's mother came to see the door. Her eyes were red, it seemed that she already knew the news of Tan Lihua's death.

Gu Yexi didn't intend to go in, just stood at the door and asked: "The birthday registered on Tan Lihua's ID card is wrong, right? In fact, she is already 18 years old?"

Mother Tan was taken aback for a moment, "Why do you ask this?"

Mo Wang: "This is very important for us to solve the case, I hope you can tell us."

Tan's mother stood silently for a while, then looked back at the room, and said, "If I tell you, can I help you catch Lihua's murderer?"

Gu Yexi nodded slightly.

Mother Tan lowered her voice, "Lihua has a younger sister, one year younger than her. When Lihua was about to go to school, her sister just fell ill and died. At that time, we really had no money for her to go to school, but the child had already been delayed. I haven't gone to school for a year, so I have no choice but to let Lihua use her sister's identity, so that it can be delayed for another year, and we will say that it is my sister who died."

Gu Yexi: "Does she know about this?"

"She knows, she also understands. Lihua has always been very sensible." Tan's mother couldn't help but shed tears.

Mo Wang wanted to comfort her, but a man's voice came from the room, "Who is outside? What's wrong?"

Tan's mother wiped her tears, turned her head and said, "It's okay, you can go back to the house, I'll come here now."

Gu Yexi said in a low voice: "For Lihua's matter, I hope that your condolences will change."

Tan's mother was red-eyed, "You will catch the murderer, right? Catch the beast that killed Lihua?"

Gu Yexi nodded slightly, "Yes."

The two drove back to the police station, Mo Wang asked: "Now that you have confirmed your thoughts, what are you going to do?"

Gu Yexi: "We used that website to give the murderer psychological hints, making him believe that after drinking expired blood, his body developed a disease, and lured him out."

Mo Wan was puzzled, "Even if he really believes that he is sick, it doesn't mean he will go to the hospital to confess the truth, right?"

Gu Yexi smiled, "Of course not, but he will seek help on the witchcraft website. The black witchcraft on the website will tell him that he must dig out the hearts of people with expired blood and eat them in order to heal himself."

Mo Wang understood, "Then he will steal Tan Lihua's body, as long as we wait, we can catch him."

Gu Yexi woke up Meng Ning in the middle of the night and asked her to arrange for Tan Lihua's body to be sent back to the funeral home in Lianyi Town tomorrow.And imitating the writing style of the website, a black witchcraft article was published, telling what would happen if you drank expired blood, and how to reverse this situation.

Meng Ning felt dizzy, "Boss, how do you make this up?"

Gu Yexi: "You just write in the direction of the gods and gods. The symptoms of drinking expired blood are blurred. What kind of headache, rapid heartbeat, itching all over the body, these symptoms seem to be nothing, The murderer is easy to get right. And remember to write that if drinking blood is to cure diseases, drinking blood from expired blood will cause the cured disease to recur, and the heart of the person who has expired blood must be dug out Eat it to solve it."

Meng Ning felt disgusted when he heard about heart-eating, "Boss, do you think he would really be so crazy to go heart-digging?"

Gu Yexi said with certainty: "He will."

After tossing all night, in the morning, Zhang Wan'er had no clue at all. Gu Yexi calculated that Tan Lihua's body could be sent to the funeral home in Lianyi Town this afternoon. Before that, there was nothing he could do. He and Mo Wang planned to Go back to the hotel and rest for a while.

Gu Yexi was exhausted. When he entered the room, he took off his clothes, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and stopped moving.

Mo Wang was embarrassed to look at the person on the bed, but the room was so big that there was nowhere to put his eyes.He walked over to cover Gu Yexi with a quilt, and the other party murmured, "Thank you."

Mo Wang was stunned for a moment, "Yeah."

Gu Yexi buried her head in the pillow, her body curled up like a tired little fox.

Mo Wang sat quietly, watching Gu Yexi fall asleep, and snored slightly.After repeatedly confirming that the other party was fast asleep, Mo Wang stretched out his hand, and lightly poked the little dummy hair. The little dummy hair shook slightly like a reed blown by the wind, and then stood up again.

Mo Wang laughed and played like this for a while.

Gu Yexi was sound asleep and didn't react at all.

In the afternoon, Meng Ning and Huang Jiade came.

When they entered the door, Gu Yexi had just woken up, his eyes were a little confused, the stupid hair was still standing up as expected, the quilt half-hidden his shirtless body, and the sharp-eyed Meng Ning saw his collarbone. That little seal instantly felt like he was here to fight pornography.

Meng Ning: "Tsk tsk tsk, is Miss Gu here to investigate the case, or to seduce our little Momo?"

Mo Wang's ears turned red immediately.

Gu Yexi flew over with a pillow, "Has that article been published yet?"

Meng Ning dodged lightly, "It's early."

Gu Yexi: "Make sure the murderer knows that Tan Lihua's body is in the funeral home."

Meng Ning picked up a piece of clothing and threw it on Gu Yexi's face, "We drove the police car swaggeringly and sent the body over, and it was written in newspapers and online news that the body will be returned today and placed in the funeral home for burial."

Huang Jiade: "The employees of the funeral home mingled with the police, and we also hid some people inside. As long as he comes, he will definitely not be able to escape."

Gu Yexi scratched her hair, put on her clothes, "Let's go, let's wait for him to take the bait."

As night fell, Gu Yexi and Mo Wang's car stopped one street away from the funeral parlor, waiting for the murderer.

No one knew when the murderer would come, or if he would come or not, Gu Yexi sat quietly without saying anything.

Mo Wang suddenly broke the silence, and asked in a low voice, "How did you think Tan Lihua's birthday was wrong?"

Gu Yexi glanced at him sideways, and said casually, "Is the birthday on my ID card my birthday? My parents accidentally picked me up when they were playing by the stream. I don't know when I Born, so I just reported one at random. I thought that Tan Lihua might be in a similar situation. It doesn’t mean that she picked it up, or that the birthday may have been wrongly reported.”

When Gu Yexi suddenly had such an idea before, Mo Wang was very concerned. He always felt that what Gu Yexi said was a little strange for a moment, but now he finally understands.He felt as if he had asked a question that shouldn't be asked, and he became a little nervous. Gu Yexi's tone didn't tell whether he cared or didn't mind.

He felt that he should say something, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Feng Guohua's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "The murderer has appeared, now run in your direction!"

Mo Wang looked out the window. A man in his 30s was running past them and turned into a small alley. The car couldn't get in. The two immediately got out of the car and chased after them.

If it's just a competition of running, that person can't compare with Gu Yexi and Mo Wang, but he is obviously very familiar with the terrain here, he is very skilled at turning the path, and his position is so coquettish, the two of them were almost thrown away by him up.

In the end, the two chased to a dead end, but the man disappeared out of thin air.

Mo Wang looked around suspiciously: "Did you lose track?"

Gu Yexi was also a little confused, "Impossible, I obviously..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Gu Yexi was grabbed by Mo Wang and bumped into the other's arms.There was a gust of wind blowing behind him, and then there was a muffled sound of a stick hitting an arm.

Mo Wang let him go, rushed forward and wrestled with the person who appeared from some corner.Gu Yexi hurried over to help, and the two of them subdued the man.

Just at this moment Feng Guohua brought someone along, and the flashlight shone on the man's face, and the man turned his head vigorously to prevent everyone from seeing his face, but Feng Guohua still recognized it, and said in surprise: "It's you!" ?!"