Chapter 70 Catch Him

I opened one of the files and looked at it with Zhong Mengfan. "The deceased were all elderly people who had lived alone for many years. They all died at home. Their bodies showed no signs of assault, and there were no signs of intrusion in their homes."

When he turned to the scene photo of the deceased, Zhong Mengfan turned his head slightly, swallowed a mouthful of water, and then immediately lowered his head to look carefully at the contents of the file.

I continued flipping through several more files. "The events in these files are spaced out, with no pattern. Based on these alone, I can only conclude it was a simple, accidental sudden death."

Zhang Yanliang nodded and shrugged slightly. "For cases like this, our procedures are fixed. Because the deceased was an elderly person living alone and wasn't discovered immediately after his death, by the time the surrounding residents or the property management discovered the body, it was usually too decomposed to be considered acceptable. Even the deceased's relatives wouldn't doubt the police's ruling of death. Furthermore, since the deceased hadn't been discovered for so long, these relatives weren't close to him."

He paused. "There are many cases of sudden death every year, and people don't usually pay much attention to them. But recently, we broke up a drug ring. When we searched one of the stolen goods sales points and did a final inventory of the items we found, we found the owner..."

He pointed at the files. "Several of these items came from those who died suddenly and unexpectedly. The place where the stolen goods were sold was originally a pawnshop. We carefully checked the pawnshop's accounts. The society's account books are difficult to check, and only a small part of the records can be found. According to the transaction time in the records, all of them occurred after the deaths of these deceased people - someone took their belongings after their death..."

Seeing Zhang Yanliang clearly hesitant to speak, I continued, "The files you produced are the result of matching people who died suddenly in this area with the owners of stolen goods. Have the owners of the other items recorded in that account book been found?"

Zhang Yanliang and I both realized that the number of deaths might be far more than this.

Zhang Yanliang shook his head. "The society's account books are a mixture of real and fake accounts. It would be very difficult to investigate the files of those who died suddenly and unexpectedly in other districts. Furthermore, we can't find any evidence that these victims were murdered. This is no longer a case that ordinary people can handle. The police search has stopped here. There are too few clues, and only these four files remain."

I nodded to show my understanding. If the murderer was a person with superpowers, possessing the ability to cause sudden and unexpected death without anyone noticing would be enough to scare ordinary people away.

Zhang Yanliang said, "Perhaps only you, as people with special abilities, can continue to find some clues."

I folded the file. "We'll follow up on this."

Zhang Yanliang nodded and said, "I hope you can find out the truth of this matter."

After the conversation, we walked to the police station parking lot to pick up our car.

Zhong Mengfan asked as he walked, "If the police can't find any clues, can we continue to find them? What should we do?"

"When it comes to investigating crimes, the police are of course more professional. But if the murderer is a person with special abilities, the scope will be greatly narrowed down. This is because the number of awakened people is actually very small, and because everyone's special abilities have different characteristics."

Zhong Mengfan followed my words and thought, "Oh, because ordinary people who awaken their superpowers need to register with the official system, change their household registration, and also make detailed notes on their superpowers. We can first apply for a list of all superpowered people in this city from headquarters and find someone, right?"

I found my car. "That's about it."

"But, I have no idea what kind of supernatural power it is to be able to kill someone in their sleep without leaving any marks on the body."

"You simply haven't come into contact with enough people with special abilities. I've got some ideas. Perhaps poison could be used," I said. "I once had a patient at the Special Abilities Academy who had the ability to do just that. Because this ability carries a certain degree of danger, and he couldn't control it well at the time, headquarters required him to use an inhibitor."

"Is he still a professional hero wherever he is now?"

I shook my head. "On the surface, he agreed to use the inhibitor, and then he escaped. Not all people with special abilities registered with the Super Hero Headquarters can become professional heroes. Many have abilities that are unsuitable for combat, and some, like this one, have powerful abilities but cannot control them.

These people are only one step away from becoming professional heroes, but ultimately fail to achieve their goal. Superhero Headquarters will pay attention to this, but it's impossible to take care of every aspect."

Zhong Mengfan opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat. "Then he is also a big suspect, isn't he?"

We left just as the patrol team was changing shifts, and many patrol cars were returning to the station from outside. A patrol car parked not far from us, and two police officers and several auxiliary police officers got out, seemingly preparing to hand over their shift.

My car caught the attention of one of the auxiliary police officers, and I was looking at him. He only looked at me for a few seconds and then left with his colleague.

This process is very short.

Seeing that I hadn't started the car yet, Zhong Mengfan asked, "What's wrong?"

"I'm actually hesitant."

"What are you hesitating about?"

"Should we leave temporarily, notify headquarters, and start again after making more thorough preparations, or should we just start now? My abilities don't have any particular advantage against poison-related abilities."

"Xia Ye, what are you talking about?" Zhong Mengfan became nervous. "It's not what I thought, is he here?"

I glanced at Zhong Mengfan. "I saw him, and he noticed us too. He has at least four lives on his hands. He's not a psychic like Qian Mei who only enjoys male beauty, plays with and enslaves men, but doesn't kill. Are you ready?"

Zhong Mengfan opened the car door and said without hesitation, "Of course we have to catch him! If we don't do anything now, everyone in the police station might be in danger!"

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