Chapter 115 The Unsolved Case from One Year Ago

"Did you see what the murderer looked like just now?" Yu Qing asked curiously.

Lu Chi shook his head: "No."

Yu Qing said with some regret, "What a pity, I didn't see it either. All that effort wasted."

“The murderer is a woman,” Lu Chi said after a moment of contemplation.

"How did you figure that out?" Yu Qing asked, somewhat surprised.

“During the fight with her just now, I noticed that her wrists were very slender, much smaller than the bones of an adult male. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the murderer is a thin person with an ectomorphic skeleton,” Lu Chi analyzed.

Yu Qing recalled the details of what had just happened and nodded: "I agree with you. When I hugged her, I smelled a very peculiar perfume. And the moment her body hit the wall, her first reaction was not to fight back, but to press her hat down tightly. That's very suspicious."

"This shows that the killer cared a lot about her identity and should be a young woman," Lu Chi added. Although these details cannot completely confirm the killer's identity, they at least provide them with a direction.

"Where's the memory card?" Yu Qing suddenly asked.

"Here it is." Lu Chi quickly took out a small, square card from his pocket and handed it to Yu Qing.

Yu Qing took the card, examined it for a moment, and said with a hint of anticipation, "I hope this memory card can help us find more clues."

The two quickly left the scene and took a taxi home.

Along the way, Yu Qing kept replaying the details of what had just happened in his mind, trying to find more useful information, but the murderer left too little information, so he could only transfer his hopes to this memory card.

Back at Yu Qing's home, he quickly turned on the computer, inserted the memory card, and the two stared intently at the screen, hoping to find some clues.

The image is somewhat blurry, but still barely visible.

"Look, the murderer's car."

Yu Qing suddenly pointed at the screen and said.

In the footage, a black Mercedes-Benz slowly drove into the residential area and stopped near the crime scene, a location that the roadside surveillance cameras could not capture.

Immediately afterwards, a figure got out of the car and quickly walked towards the courier station. Although the face was not visible, the figure and movements were very similar to the perpetrator from before. The figure was wearing a black hoodie and a mask.

“That’s right, it’s her!” Yu Qing’s eyes narrowed slightly.

The surveillance footage shows that the murderer committed the crime at 11 p.m., around the time Yu Qing and Lu Chi had just arrived home.

The video lasted for more than ten minutes before showing the perpetrator quickly running out of the courier station, getting into a car, and leaving the residential area.

“She scouted the location beforehand,” Lu Chi suddenly said.

Yu Qing nodded in agreement: "You're right. The way he parked was too coincidental. It was obviously a premeditated crime. It's a pity we can't see the license plate number."

“There’s more than one murderer,” Lu Chi added.

"What do you mean?" Yu Qing looked at Lu Chi in surprise.

Lu Chi rewound the surveillance footage, pointed to the screen, and said, "Look closely, she got in and out of the car from the passenger seat, which means it was a gang operation, and someone was specifically there to help her."

Yu Qing stared at the car on the screen and realized that the murderer had indeed gotten out of the passenger seat.

The two exchanged a glance, both revealing solemn expressions.

Things have gotten worse!

The murderer has seen their faces, and the situation they are in is that the murderer is in the shadows while they are in the open, putting them in a passive position instead of an active one.

Moreover, the perpetrators committed an organized and premeditated crime, and they have evidence in their hands. The murderers will certainly not give up so easily.

"Should I have made a mistake?" Lu Chi said with some regret. He hadn't thought that much about it just now, and now that he thought about it, he realized he had made a foolish decision.

"It's not your fault. The murderer was right in front of us. That was the best chance to catch her, but we didn't expect her to get away," Yu Qing comforted her.

"What if the murderer retaliates?" Lu Chi turned to look at Yu Qing. He wasn't worried about the murderer retaliating against him; he was worried about the murderer retaliating against Yu Qing.

“It’s alright, I have a plan.” Yu Qing stared intently at the monitor screen for a while, then took out the memory card and said to Lu Chi, “We’ll seek help from the police tomorrow, and this is our pledge of allegiance.”

...

The next day, in the morning.

When the coffee machine started humming, Xiao Wang was sitting in front of the computer staring blankly at the screen.

Computer records show that in the Jinxiu Haoting case a year ago, the perpetrator turned himself in a month later.

He knew absolutely nothing about this.

Xiao Liu walked up to him with two cups of coffee, placed one on Xiao Wang's desk, and asked while drinking his own coffee, "So? Any leads?"

Xiao Wang snapped out of his daze and looked up at Xiao Liu.

He said somewhat dreamily, "Sun Wei's case seems to have been closed."

Xiao Liu nearly spat out his coffee. His eyes widened as he stared at Xiao Wang in shock: "What did you say? Sun Wei's case is closed?"

Xiao Wang pointed to the computer screen, somewhat bewildered: "Look for yourself, the case progress shows it's closed."

Xiao Liu put down his coffee cup, walked to Xiao Wang's computer, carefully looked at the information on the screen, and frowned: "This is not right. Even if such a big case is closed, Director Yuan would notify us to hold a meeting to summarize it. How could it be closed quietly?"

"Pay attention to who closed the case," Xiao Wang reminded him.

Xiao Liu turned his gaze back to the computer screen, and when he saw the name of the person who closed the case, his expression changed slightly: "How could it be Captain Xu?"

Xiao Wang rubbed his temples: "I'm still confused. I remember that Captain Xu was indeed in charge of this case, but the case was closed a month later, and by then Captain Xu had already..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Liu suddenly felt a chill rise up his back.

Generally, police stations will have a section for the person who closed the case.

The person who closes the case is the person in charge in a legal sense.

But now it turns out that the person in charge is dead.

How can a case be closed if someone is dead?

Xiao Liu swallowed hard, his voice trembling as he asked, "Don't you feel a chill down your spine?"

Xiao Wang shuddered: "It must be... the air conditioning was set too low...!"

"I didn't turn on the air conditioner!" Xiao Liu said, her voice trembling with tears.

"Then how could it be cold?"

"I don't know!"