Chapter 66: Missing Sister (11) Superstition

Ruan Yu's voice was filled with worry: "If this is true, how are you going to convict him after so many years?"

Sang Luo understood what Ruan Yu meant. She had also thought about the issues that Ruan Yu was worried about. These things happened more than ten years ago. There was no evidence left at that time, and there is even less evidence now. Even if the general truth of the matter could be inferred, it would probably be impossible to convict Zhou Kailong.

"Corpses," Sang Luo gritted his teeth, "The bodies of the four girls are probably the only evidence we can find now."

Ruan Yu was very confused: "Where are you going to find their bodies? Zhou Kailong is the murderer, and he is the only one who knows where the bodies are buried. Unless he speaks up himself, we will never be able to find the four bodies."

Sang Luo said calmly: "Do you remember my previous analysis? I just said that Zhou Kailong moved his daughter's grave and reburied her in a place no one knew. He must have his reasons for doing this."

"Let's talk about the victim again. When my sister disappeared, my parents mobilized the whole village to help us look for her. We searched everywhere but couldn't find her. This shows that Zhou Kailong didn't kill her and dump her body on the spot. He abducted her to a specific place and then killed her."

"As I said earlier, these four girls all died in April. They were most likely sacrifices given by Zhou Kailong to his daughter, or even burial objects. Since they were sacrifices, they should be buried together with the grave, so I boldly speculate -"

"The four missing girls were buried together with Zhou Kailong's daughter Zhou Yueyue."

Ruan Yu exclaimed: "So that's how it is!"

In this case, everything makes sense. Why did all these girls disappear in April? Why did Zhou Kailong move his daughter's grave? Because he had to dig up his daughter's grave and bury a new person every once in a while.

No wonder Sang Luo just said that this must be a secluded place.

If someone passed by and saw Zhou Kailong burying someone, they would probably be scared to death.

After figuring it all out, Ruan Yu felt sad, and he began to imagine the scene at that time:

"It's so horrible. The girls were abducted and buried in a place that no one knows. I don't know if they were still alive when they were buried. If they were buried alive, it would be..."

They were both silent for a long time, and finally Ruan Yu sighed: "The death penalty is too light, he should be tortured to death!"

Sang Luo sighed softly: "Of course, so far, we don't have any evidence. Everything is just my guess. The most important thing right now is to find Zhou Yueyue's grave."

Ruan Yu became worried again: "How are you going to find it? Only Zhou Kailong knows the location of the tomb. He didn't tell anyone, and we can't go to the village to find out the information."

Sang Luo shook his head: "No need to go to the village to ask, I want him to tell me in person."

Ruan Yu was stunned for a moment, then said, "Are you planning to get him drunk? That's too unsafe!"

Sang Luo shook his head again: "Of course not. Zhou Kailong and I don't know each other, so why would he drink with me? Besides, getting someone drunk may not necessarily lead to the truth."

Ruan Yu was very curious: "So what are you going to do?"

"Before I called you, I went out again," Sang Luo paused, "I went to see Chen Xiujuan's mother, and she told me that Zhou Kailong has become very superstitious since the school accident. He always checks the almanac before going out, fearing bad luck. He also fasts and chants Buddhist scriptures during major festivals. I thought I could take advantage of his superstition to start my attack."

After talking about her plan, Sang Luo revealed another piece of news: "I also asked her mother a question - when Chen Xiujuan disappeared, did Zhou Kailong move away?"

"Her mother told me that Zhou Kailong had already moved away from the village, so I have a new guess—"

"Zhou Kailong moved out of Tianye Village not because of a conflict with Zhao Aiguo. The cause and effect of these two events are reversed. The truth is that Zhou Kailong deliberately had a conflict with Zhao Aiguo in order to move from Tianye Village to Huaishu Village as a matter of course."

Ruan Yu had heard Sang Luo talk about Zhao Aiguo on the phone before, but he was still a little confused:

"Why? If Zhou Kailong wants to move out, he can just move out. No one is stopping him. Why does he have to have a fight with others before he can move out?"

Sang Luo analyzed: "He was laying the groundwork for the next case. After he moved away, a few months later, the girl who lived next door to him, Chen Xiujuan, disappeared. Since Zhou Kailong had already moved away at that time, no one would think of him. He was perfectly invisible in this matter."

"I understand," Ruan Yu suddenly realized, "If the girl disappeared and then he moved away, then he would appear suspicious, but he moved away first and then the girl disappeared. Everyone would think that this case had nothing to do with him, and the competition with Zhao Aiguo was just a cover for him."

"But," Ruan Yu asked, "why does he have to move away? If he moves away, it means completely giving up his farmland in the village. Farmland is very important to rural people. Even though he doesn't make a living by farming, there is no need for him to give up his own farmland in vain."

Sang Luo: "There are two reasons. One is to avoid the police investigation after Chen Xiujuan disappeared. Second, I think he has an important reason to move to Huaishu Village."

This time, without Sang Luo's reminder, Ruan Yu rushed to say, "I know - Zhou Yueyue's new grave is in the Huaishu Village area!"

"That's right," Sang Luo smiled, "Zhou Kailong buried his daughter's body near Huaishu Village. He had deep feelings for his daughter and would have visited her often. He deliberately found an excuse to move away just to be closer to his daughter so that he could visit her more easily in the future."

Ruan Yu also became excited: "This narrows the scope again!"

Sang Luo also nodded: "Poor mother Chen has waited for so many years, she still doesn't know that her daughter has been dead for a long time, and it was her next-door neighbor who did it."

Ruan Yu sighed, "Zhou Kailong is really too adventurous. He dared to attack his neighbor for the first time. Haven't you heard that rabbits don't eat grass near their nests? Later, he probably had experience, so he went to other villages to commit crimes."

Sang Luo shook his head: "No, I think his original plan might not be like this. His original plan was to eliminate all the children who survived the school accident."

"Ah?" Ruan Yu was shocked again. "This is too perverted. Those children finally survived the accident, but he targeted them again. Did he want to drag all the children in the village to die with him just because his daughter died?"

Sang Luo: "Maybe. His daughter went to school on time, but died in school. On the contrary, some students who asked for leave or skipped classes were safe and sound in the accident. He felt extremely unbalanced in his heart. He couldn't accept this result and wanted all the surviving children to have the same ending as his daughter."

"How did you come to this conclusion?" Ruan Yu asked.

Sang Luo: "When I visited Zhao Aiguo, Zhao Dazhu, the grandson of Zhao Aiguo, told me the whole process of Zhou Kailong's apprenticeship. I noticed several key pieces of information -"

"First, Zhou Kailong suddenly decided to change his career after the accident and started learning to blow sugar figurines. I compared the income from farming and blowing sugar figurines and found that the income from the two was similar. In fact, the income from selling sugar figurines was even lower. After all, customers don't come every day. Zhou Kailong's decision was not wise."

"He suddenly changed his career in middle age and had to learn a new skill, and his income was not as good as before. What do you think was his reason? I think there is only one reason - selling candy figures can bring him into contact with children, which is conducive to his crime."

"From the moment he became my disciple, he had a complete plan to kill people in his mind. In fact, he never got over that incident. He started his life again just to kill people."

"Secondly, Zhao Dazhu once said that Zhou Kailong often played with him when he was learning martial arts. They played games like arm wrestling and wrestling. Zhou Kailong was probably not just playing with him. He was testing his strength to see if Zhao Dazhu was a suitable target. After all, the conditions in the village were poor at the time. Zhou Kailong couldn't get drugs. If he wanted to subdue a child, he could only rely on strength."

"After testing Zhao Dazhu's strength, Zhou Kailong thought he was not a suitable candidate, so he changed his target and chose Chen Xiujuan from next door."

"Zhao Dazhu and Chen Xiujuan were both primary school students. Zhao Dazhu escaped because he skipped classes, and Chen Xiujuan also escaped because she asked for leave. In Zhou Kailong's eyes, they were both people who deserved to die."

"Before kidnapping Chen Xiujuan, Zhou Kailong made sufficient preparations. He first often gave Chen Xiujuan candy to eat to build a good relationship with her. Then he deliberately competed with Zhao Aiguo for business, causing the villagers to talk about him, so that he could take the opportunity to move away."

"After moving away, he found a day to return to Tianye Village. While Chen's parents were away, he induced Chen Xiujuan to climb over the wall and then tied her up next to his daughter's grave. He brutally killed her and buried her body in his daughter's grave."

"After the incident, since Zhou Kailong had already moved away, naturally no one suspected him."

Ruan Yu: "Since he had such a plan, why didn't he carry it out later?"

Sang Luo: "Because Chen Xiujuan's parents called the police, the police came to the village to investigate. Zhou Kailong realized the seriousness of the matter. If he continued to attack children in the village, the police would definitely find him, but he could not stop. His mind was extremely twisted and he needed to vent his anger by killing people."

"So he changed his plan and started looking for children of the right age from other villages at the market, and then looked for an opportunity to kill them."

"In the end, he was chosen..." Ruan Yu said cautiously.

"Sang Ruo." Sang Luo took over his words.

At that time, the family was too poor and had almost no snacks, and my sister was greedy. If she could go back to the past, Sang Luo really wished that she had bought the candy man at that time, so that perhaps everything that happened later would not have happened...

But there are no ifs in life.

The call lasted a long time. Looking at the dark sky outside, Sang Luo realized that it was getting late. She took the initiative to say:

"Hang up now. I'll meet you up early tomorrow morning. Remember to follow the plan."

"After so many years, it's time to end it."