Chapter 12: There is always a loophole in a perfect plan.
The young man clearly looked unwell.
Whether his words can be used as a reference is another matter.
But now they had to go to the hospital, so Charlie Feng asked everyone to disperse: "Go home, the results will be out tomorrow."
Lin Meiqi also wanted to accompany him to the hospital.
She has research on the dead, but she still has to rely on doctors to know the mental state of the living.
But she wanted to go together, but was rejected by Feng Charlie: "It's too late now. It's not safe to go back to Kowloon Walled City."
Liang Yifeng volunteered: "I'll take her back."
Lin Meiqi had no choice but to say "oh" and followed Liang Yifeng into the car.
In the car, Liang Yifeng couldn't help but ask: "Do you want to move closer to the serious crime team? That would be convenient."
Lin Meiqi thought for a moment and shook her head: "The rent has already been paid, it's not appropriate to return it now. Besides, I'm used to living here, and the neighbors are all nice. The people in Kowloon Walled City haven't posed any threat to us yet."
"It will be too late if you make a threat. Don't worry about the rent. Just move in and I can pay the remaining penalty for you."
Lin Meiqi looked at him with wide eyes: "Wow, Sir Liang, you are so nice!"
Liang Yifeng's ears turned red when he was praised.
"However, it is not appropriate to ask Sir Liang to pay this money. But I promise you that after the rent is due, I will consider moving to a place near the Serious Crime Unit. Is that okay?"
Liang Yifeng nodded: "Okay."
After returning home, Lin Meiqi tidied herself up and fell asleep quickly.
Over the next two days, the case did not make any progress and even went in a more unpredictable direction.
The frightened young man was taken to the hospital for a check-up and was found to have no mental problems, he was just simply frightened.
However, he insisted that his so-called hallucination was just a fabrication to confuse people, or did he really see something unusual?
Everyone in the serious crime team felt that the problem was becoming more and more difficult.
That day, someone in the office took a newspaper and slammed it on the table, saying angrily, "That young man started talking nonsense again and even told the media. What's going on now? The public opinion we wanted to extinguish was not extinguished, but instead became more and more intense!"
"Didn't I tell him not to talk nonsense that day?"
"This young man dared to go to the haunted building in the middle of the night. What else is there to be afraid of? He went there even though the cordon was set up. What use can our words have?"
Da Huang had a headache after hearing this and held his head: "Why can't we find any clues inside the Guo Group?"
Lin Meiqi walked by with a cup of coffee in her hand: "Then it's not the group's business. It's probably related to Ziguang Commercial Building."
But what does it have to do with this building?
"It's been ten years. Could it be that the grudge happened more than ten years ago? But the victim was still young at that time and had not yet started working. How could he have offended anyone?"
Feng Charlie came and said, "The police headquarters asked us to speed up the case. Public opinion is out of control now. If it continues like this, all of Hong Kong will believe that this place is really haunted by ghosts. The spread of metaphysics is not good for public opinion."
Everyone sighed and groaned, but had no idea what to do.
"If we don't have any ideas, it must be something we missed," Feng Charlie said with certainty.
"Ring, ring, ring!" The phone rang. Feng Charlie stepped forward to answer it, and his expression suddenly changed.
After hanging up the phone, he said solemnly, "Another person was murdered in the haunted building."
Da Huang suddenly had an idea: "So, the murderer entered the building these two days, because we checked the building last time and there was no one else. If we look for surveillance this time, we can capture his trace, right?"
Feng Charlie: "Okay, go retrieve the surveillance."
The three stores have three different backends, and the gold shop has relatively high requirements for monitoring equipment, so it is not easy to tamper with it.
"We'll know what he's up to this time. This is the second time this guy has committed a crime, and there's always a loophole."
Feng Charlie looked at Lin Meiqi and said, "Come on, follow me to the scene."
Lin Meiqi nodded, put on her forensic clothes, and went to the scene with the autopsy tools.
This time the victim was on the fifth floor, still lying on his back, with a stab wound in the back, one of the wounds hitting the heart.
There were no fingerprints on the knife, and no blood or fingerprints were found on the walls and the floor. It was wiped very clean, and it was obvious that someone had cleaned the scene. There was no handle left on the knife. Both knives were the most common kitchen knives, and they were sold in the supermarket downstairs.
Since there is no special feature found on the murder weapon, it is difficult to trace the purchase path and thus the murderer.
Seeing that the scene was handled so cleanly, Lin Meiqi couldn't help but worry: "Sergeant, we can only hope for surveillance."
As soon as the voice fell, Lin Meiqi suddenly realized something, stared at the victim's clothes for a long time, and then asked Feng Charlie: "Are his clothes branded? Could he be rich again?"
Charlie Feng pinched his chin and looked at the corpse: "Yes, this is all from the French luxury brand UYR."
Finally they found a common point, another rich man, but the murderer still revealed his flaws.
But the question is, why did the second victim walk into such a building?
He came here even though he knew a murder had happened here. Who was he going to meet?
Feng Charlie thought about it and always felt that there was a line that was blocked. He couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried, but it was vaguely as if it had appeared.
"Is the first crime scene really here?"
Lin Meiqi nodded: "Yes, the direction and size of the bloodstains are consistent with the conditions at the scene, and there was no artificial transfer."
Feng Charlie said, "Okay, let's go back and check the surveillance first. Maybe we can find more clues."
Several people drove to the serious crime squad, where technical investigators were checking the surveillance footage to ensure that the content had not been replaced or overwritten.
But after watching the surveillance footage of the past few days, I still found nothing.
The technicians, who were so tired of watching, complained: "How can there be such a weird thing in the world? There was only the victim in and out, but no trace of the murderer."
"Could it be that they are overlapping?"
The technician said, "That's impossible. The two people need to have every step and even hand movement to be exactly the same. And you can see that the two surveillance cameras are shooting the victim from completely different angles. There is no way there is someone else beside him."
Another technician spread his hands and said, "Is it really a ghost? Then I have to go and pray."
Feng Charlie: "What are you talking about? Do you really believe this?"
"But this is too strange."
Lin Meiqi watched for a while and suddenly asked, "Is it possible that the ventilation duct we found earlier is the real entrance and exit?"
Feng Charlie was also thinking about that possibility: "There is no entrance or exit monitored by a surveillance camera, and no other places can enter or exit. We have checked inside and outside several times. Then the only thing left is the ventilation duct. It seems impossible, but I have to doubt it again."
Da Huang was confused: "But he's just a child, how could he kill someone? Isn't that person less than 1.23 meters tall? Then how did he stab an adult male from top to bottom and kill him in one shot? How can a child know the human body so well?"
Lin Meiqi shook her head: "Is it possible that he is not a child? There is a kind of adult who is also short in stature."
Feng Charlie thought: "I know there is a village dedicated to dwarfs. The people there seem to stop growing after the age of ten and remain shorter than adults."
Lin Meiqi shook her head: "But this is also problematic. If the murderer is really that short, then the knife would not have stabbed in like that. It is impossible to persuade an adult male to lie on the ground and wait to be stabbed while being conscious. So there is another possibility. If he is not a little adult, then she is..."
Feng Charlie and Liang Yifeng said in unison: "Acrobat!"
Lin Meiqi replied: "Yes, that's what I thought of."
Acrobats have flexible bodies, and they can sometimes break free from some restraints and perform bone-shrinking skills. This acrobat can also climb walls and run on rooftops, of course with the help of tools.
Jumping from a height of more than ten meters is difficult for ordinary people, but for an acrobat, it may not be difficult.
"There may be footprints or some evidence left in the ventilation duct, but I can't get in and see them," said Lin Meiqi.
"If necessary, we can visit the nearby circus." Feng Charlie said.
Charlie Feng took out the photos she had taken while collecting evidence around the building. There were rows of tall trees behind the building, and it was difficult for a normal person to climb up and down. But at this moment, she had a guess in her mind. She pointed to a photo and said, "There are two trees outside the third-floor ventilation duct. A normal person would fall if they jumped to the distance of these trees, but if they were aerial acrobats, they could jump directly from the ventilation duct onto the tree branch, and then slowly slide down to the ground."
"The tree may have been rubbed by clothing or shoes!"
Charlie Feng found the current locations of several acrobatic troupes and said, "Separately check."
Lin Meiqi followed Feng Charlie and Liang Yifeng to an acrobatic troupe in the suburbs. It was said that there would be a performance there in a few days and it was currently in the preparation stage.
After arriving, Lin Meiqi got out of the car and saw a large shed in front of her.
After taking two steps, she heard a loud "roar" and she took two steps back suddenly.
Liang Yifeng quickly supported him and said, "Don't be afraid, the lions are in the cage and won't run out."
Lin Meiqi knew that her reaction at that moment was just subconscious.
She patted her chest and sighed, "People who can tame animals are really amazing."
Several people entered the shed. When the boss of the acrobatic troupe saw someone entering, he hurriedly drove them out: "What are you doing? Get out quickly. Now is not the time for performance."
Charlie Feng took out his police ID and said, "Police, there is a case involving the circus. Let's find out the situation."
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