Chapter 88 I called the police. The body was in that sewer...

Leisurely time always passes quickly. On the night Xu Nian returned to Daqu County from the orphanage, he received a call from Captain Tan. The surveillance video of August 12, 11 years ago, which they had coordinated from various branches and police stations, had arrived.

So the group hurriedly finished their meal and rushed to the Daqu County Branch.

Since a large number of personnel had been taken to Linshan City by Captain Yu, the captain of the criminal police brigade, there were only a few people left to look after the entire Daqu County. The arrival of Guan Xia and the others just made up for the embarrassing situation of having no one available.

Team Leader Tan was very enthusiastic and personally arranged their seats, prepared some food, drinks, and even eye drops.

After taking a look at the few remaining people from the Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade sitting against the wall, everyone found a place to sit down and prepared to start work.

With the experience from previous times, Guan Xia is now very proficient. He casually opened a surveillance video and was about to watch it carefully, when he noticed from the corner of his eye that Captain Tan, who had already left, suddenly returned and was communicating with Xu Nian.

A few minutes later, Captain Tan shouted to several criminal police officers from Daqu County in the corner, and then left with a few people.

There were not many people from Daqu County in the office originally. Now that they left, the only ones left were outsiders. Not only Guan Xia, but several people from the second squadron were also a little confused.

"Captain Xu, this is..." Jiang Yingyao asked in confusion after the door was closed.

Xu Nian explained, "Team Leader Tan just received a report that someone had found a female corpse. Team Leader Tan has taken his men to the scene. However, before they left, Team Leader Tan told me that the DNA comparison results came back late last night. The DNA found at the crime scene is a perfect match to that of the suspect, Zhou Yiyang. Team Leader Yu, who led the men to Linshan City to establish surveillance, has already apprehended the suspect and is on his way back, expected to arrive tomorrow evening."

Everyone understood. Wang Yu said with a smile, "Then we came by chance. We can take advantage of this opportunity to help them guard their house for a while. We just hope we don't get so unlucky and have another murder happen in the same day."

As soon as Wang Yu finished speaking, he felt something was wrong, as if he had set a flag, and he immediately made a few "Pooh" sounds.

The others gave her a somewhat condemning look. Guan Xia asked, "What about the deceased's identity? Has it been confirmed?"

Xu Nian said: "Captain Tan didn't say anything about this, which means it's still being confirmed."

"Then we can only wait a little longer," Jiang Yingyao said. "Since the suspects are under control, the identity of the deceased will be confirmed sooner or later. Now we should hurry up and find evidence that Zhou Yiyang was in Quming City at the same time as the deceased before the crime."

Guan Xia looked at the various USB flash drives piled on the table and prayed in her heart that everything would go smoothly.

In fact, as long as someone is killed, the evidence is there, just waiting to be discovered.

In the following time, good news came one after another with almost no effort.

First, Guan Xia found the figures of the suspected deceased and the criminal suspect in the surveillance video of a bus. However, the pixel of the camera 11 years ago was not high, and the bus was moving, so the deceased and the criminal suspect walking on the roadside only appeared briefly for a few seconds, but it was enough for Guan Xia who remembered the two people's clothes clearly.

Only ten minutes after her, Wang Yu also made a discovery. It was a surveillance video at the entrance of a rural credit cooperative. The deceased and the suspect seemed to be talking about something on the roadside, which took a very long time. Because there was some distance between them, their appearances were also blurry, but their clothing features were obvious and did not escape Wang Yu's eyes.

Another hour later, Xu Nian made a discovery. A surveillance camera installed at the gate of a home in the suburbs of Daqu County clearly captured two people walking very close to each other. As everyone gathered to watch, Wang Yu quickly checked a map of Daqu County and confirmed, "This direction leads to Jihua Township, and Songxiang Township belongs to Jihua Township. It seems they didn't take any transportation and simply walked there."

Everyone was cheered up, and Pang Le even commented happily, "It's true that the law is vast and nothing can escape it. As long as the law is broken, there will definitely be evidence left behind. But what makes me curious is how there was a family whose private surveillance video happened to capture the deceased and the suspect. What happened to this family that the surveillance video was kept 11 years later?"

Wang Yu glanced at the label on the USB drive and said, "It's from the local police station. I guess there just happened to be a burglary during those days."

Because they had achieved their intended goal, everyone relaxed completely, carefully put away all the USB drives, and sat down in groups of three or four, chatting casually.

At the end of the conversation, Wang Yu was really impatient with Qi Bai's constant howling in the group, so he simply pulled Guan Xia and Pang Le over to play games.

Pang Le agreed happily, but Guan Xia thought of her last gaming experience which was very uninspiring and refused firmly. She would rather be in a daze than have a black screen for the entire game, constantly dying and resurrecting.

The two of them got together and happily played games with Qi Bai via microphone. Guan Xia was bored, so she just watched a criminal investigation drama.

I was watching intently when I suddenly noticed a figure appear in front of me. When I looked up, I saw Xu Nian looking down and observing something.

Guan Xia looked up at him in confusion, followed his gaze, and found that he was looking at the wound on her knee.

It was only then that Guan Xia discovered that perhaps because he had been riding in the car too much in the past two days, the place where the thick scab had formed was a little torn. There was no blood seeping out, but there was some redness and swelling around the wound.

"It's probably inflammation," Xu Nian said in a young voice, taking out two things from his pocket and handing them to her: a small bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a small bag of unopened cotton swabs.

Guan Xia was a little surprised. She didn't expect that even though Xu Nian had been so busy these days, he could still observe the abnormality of her wound so carefully without her even noticing it herself.

"Do you need my help?" Xu Nian asked again. Guan Xia suddenly came back to her senses and took the things from Xu Nian's hand and said with a smile: "No, I can do it myself. But thank you, if you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have noticed."

Xu Nian pursed his lips and said nothing, but moved a chair and sat next to Guan Xia. While watching her disinfect the wound, he said hesitantly, "Today at the orphanage... I saw your expression, and it didn't seem good. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Xu Nian asked seriously. Guan Xia thought about it. She did need someone to help investigate Meng Lan's case, but in her opinion, Sister Ji was enough for the time being. So after thinking about it, she didn't say anything, but just asked a question that made her a little confused.

After carefully disinfecting the wound, Guan Xia threw the used cotton swab into the trash can. While twisting the cap of the hydrogen peroxide bottle, she asked Xu Nian, "Your good friend back then changed drastically in a short period of time. How did you communicate with him? Did you try to hold him back?"

Guan Xia asked these two questions to Xu Nian as well as to herself. Although she had spoken lightly to Pang Le during the day, she was still a little confused in her heart. She never had many friends, but she cherished every one of them. Faced with Meng Lan's sudden change and some of her not-so-good intuitions and guesses, she was quite at a loss.

Xu Nian didn't press the issue. Upon hearing Guan Xia's question, he sat up straight, frowned, and thought for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "I've indeed communicated with him many times, but it's obvious that nothing has changed. Everyone has their own ideas and difficulties. All we can do, besides helping him to the best of our ability, is respect his choice."

Perhaps it brought back memories of Xu Nian, and after saying these few short words, he fell into silence.

Guan Xia also fell silent. Indeed, reality is not a fairy tale. Everyone has their own life. Apart from helping within her ability, she could only respect them.

Guan Xia sighed inwardly and quickly adjusted her mood. She has always been like this. After making a decision after a deep analysis, she will resolutely carry it out and will not cause herself any more trouble.

After thanking Xu Nian earnestly again, Guan Xia put away the remaining hydrogen peroxide and cotton swabs and was about to continue watching the show when Xu Nian's phone suddenly rang.

After a brief exchange of words with the person on the other end of the phone, Xu Nian suddenly stood up and said helplessly, "It's time for work. Captain Tan hasn't finished examining the scene yet and can't get away. But Daqu County received a report of another homicide, so Captain Tan asked us to help check the scene first. He'll be there soon with his men."

As soon as Xu Nian said this, those who were playing games and watching short videos stopped and looked at him in surprise.

"No way? I've already spitted, and it actually came true." Wang Yu shouted in disbelief as he turned off the game.

Pang Le patted Wang Yu's shoulder with amusement and said, "This Daqu County is really weird. Cases come one after another. No wonder I thought the investigation was going so smoothly this time. It turns out there was someone waiting here."

Pang Le looked at Guan Xia and winked, then asked Xu Nian expectantly, "Can Guan Xia and I go to this event?"

"Why not?" Before Xu Nian could answer, Wang Yu said, "After all, you are external experts hired by our branch, right, Captain Xu?"

Xu Nian nodded and said, "Just be mentally prepared and don't spit it out."

When they left the Daqu County Police Station, Guan Xia took a look at the time and it was almost dawn.

Although almost all members of the Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade were out on field duty, one couldn't really rely on outsiders to handle a murder case, so Captain Tan reluctantly found two more people to go with Guan Xia and the others.

When they arrived at the scene, it was already early morning, but surprisingly, there were many people at the crime scene. In addition to ordinary people, there were also several firefighters in uniform who were obviously on a mission.

Two Daqu County detectives rushed over first and asked directly, "Who called the police?"

A young man, covered in dirt and blood, whose appearance was unrecognizable, limped up and raised his hand, saying, "I called the police. The body is in that sewer."

The young man, limping ahead, led the way. He said with some fear, "I was unlucky today too. I wasn't paying attention to the manhole cover when I was using my phone, and I stepped on it. It was loose, and I'm skinny, so I fell right in. Luckily, my phone fell with it, and the screen, though cracked, wasn't broken. I turned on the flashlight and was about to call 119 when I saw a body out of the corner of my eye. It looked like it had been strangled, its eyes wide open. I was nearly scared to death."

The young man kept talking, and the people around him moved curiously, obviously wanting to see the scene.

Fortunately, officers from the nearby police station arrived in time and quickly maintained the scene. The sewer obviously could not accommodate too many people, and in the end only two criminal police officers from Daqu County and Xu Nian went down.

Jiang Yingyao and Wang Yu habitually asked the onlookers about the situation. Guan Xia and Pang Le stood at the edge of the manhole with the cover removed, and looked inside, but it was too dark. Even with the lights on, they could only see the moving heads and no corpses at all.

Guan Xia looked for a few minutes and saw nothing, so she simply looked away and observed her surroundings.

This is a small road with only two lanes. There is a residential complex not far away. The gate should be a side gate that not many people use, but it is locked at this time. Instead, someone removed a railing from the fence next to it, which is just enough for a thin person to get in and out. Probably because they heard that a murder had occurred here, many residents of the residential complex are watching. Those standing outside the community are thin, mostly women and children, while those standing inside are relatively plump, mostly middle-aged and elderly men.

In addition, several passing cars stopped and stood on tiptoe at the outermost edge of the crowd, looking out. Probably seeing nothing, they began to whisper to the people around them.

Guan Xia looked around and was about to look away, but somehow, when her sight passed by a young man standing at the outermost edge, her attention was suddenly drawn to him, just like the previous times, with an inexplicable intuition.

Guan Xia immediately understood something and looked at the young man carefully.

He didn't look very old, about twenty-eight or twenty-nine, and was quite tall, but very thin, with almost no flesh on his face, and his cheeks were sunken. Guan Xia glanced at the gap where a railing was missing not far away. With this man's physique, he could definitely get in and out very comfortably.

Guan Xia's gaze was very direct and not concealed at all. The young man soon noticed it. He had originally been calm and was watching like everyone else, taking advantage of his height. After noticing Guan Xia's gaze, he suddenly retracted his gaze as if burned. At the same time, he became a little panicked and subconsciously began to retreat. In a few minutes, he crawled through the railing with his hands and feet and disappeared from Guan Xia's sight.

Guan Xia glanced at the residential complex not far away and immediately felt relieved. It seemed that this case should not be difficult to solve. If her intuition was correct, she now not only knew the appearance of the suspect, but also knew the residential complex where he lived. Now she just had to understand the specific circumstances of the case and find evidence that he was the murderer.

However, thinking of the inexplicable intuition just now, Guan Xia recalled carefully. Including this case, this has happened three or four times. She had never done this before. Could it be that the system quietly upgraded her without her noticing?

This was too covert, without any noise at all. She still remembered the system interface that was triggered after the inexplicable intuition last time. Whether it was the text style that popped up, or the color or border of the interface, it was exactly the same as before.

But this is really good news. Perhaps changing passive triggers to active triggers will really be possible one day.