As winter sets in, the weather gradually turns colder.
This winter seems unusually cold; the river in the suburbs froze over as soon as December began.
The ice has thickened, and in the past, people would definitely have played on the ice. But now, people go to ice rinks to skate, which is safer, so the wild river has become the territory of fishermen.
Sure enough, three or four people arrived early this morning carrying fishing rods and buckets.
Even if the river freezes over, we can just chisel a hole through it.
Several people came to the river with their tools and had just chiseled a hole in the ice when something floated up from the bottom of the river.
"Look, it looks like something is floating over from under the ice!"
"Is this trash from the river? Let's hook it over and take a look!"
The man stuck his fishing rod in and stirred it a couple of times. They only saw it clearly when it floated down to the bottom of the hole.
That's not trash, that's a person!
"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!!!"
The group was so frightened that they dropped the bucket and scrambled to the police station.
...
Two hours later, Lu Qing received a phone call.
"Girl, are you free now?"
Lu Qing: "I just finished my exam, what's wrong?"
Li Hui: "Many female corpses have been found by the river in the suburbs. Go and take a look!"
Lu Qing frowned:
"Is it related to heretical practitioners?"
Li Hui: "That should be true."
Lu Qing: "Okay, I'll be right there."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Qing went straight to the outskirts of the city without even eating.
When she arrived, Jianming and Liu Manyun were already there.
"Idol, you've arrived!"
Lu Qing: "What's going on?"
Liu Manyun: "This morning, some fishermen found the body here. The criminal police team was the ones who reported it, but when they arrived at the scene, the instruments in their pockets went off."
The equipment was distributed to everyone during the investigation, and it wasn't taken back after the investigation ended. By sheer coincidence, he ended up taking it with him.
Upon arriving there, the instruments went off when he touched the body, and he immediately notified the investigation bureau.
At this moment, Jianming walked over:
"I just checked, and the deceased should not be a heretic. The reason the instrument made a sound is because the murderer had evil energy on him."
The instruments detected the lingering evil energy left over from the crime.
Lu Qing looked into the distance and saw that there were already ten corpses on the shore, but people were still being pulled out.
Bodies are still being pulled up from the river.
Without exception, all of these victims were girls, and they were naked, with signs of abuse all over their bodies.
Greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire—this kind of heretical practice must be characterized by the word "evil."
Lu Qing walked over, his gaze sweeping over the faces of all the dead.
Her eyes widened in shock when she saw one of them.
This girl...this girl...she knows her!
She is the girl who once gave herself an umbrella during a rainstorm.
The girl's smile was still deeply imprinted in Lu Qing's mind, but now what lay before her was a cold corpse.
Lu Qing felt a sudden, dull pain in her heart, as if an invisible hand had squeezed it hard.
Her nose felt sore, but no tears fell.
Grief and indignation welled up in his heart, and Lu Qing clenched his fist and slammed it hard into the ground.
Yu Jin's force caused the entire river surface to tremble violently.
"Idol, what's wrong?" Liu Manyun rushed over to help Lu Qing up.
Lu Qing stared at the girl's corpse, unable to utter a single word.
"Idol, do you know her?"
Lu Qing took a deep breath, slowly squatted down, and reached out to close the girl's unseeing eyes.
Because she had been frozen in the river for too long, Lu Qing warmed her eyes with the warmth of his palms for a while before letting her close her eyes.
"Don't worry! I will definitely catch him and avenge you!"
Lu Qing closed his eyes, and after a long while opened them, his gaze becoming sharp.
The police officers searched the river for a day and a night and finally retrieved all the bodies.
There were fifteen corpses in total; the autopsy room was almost overflowing.
Chu Qianjin was shocked when she learned that there were so many corpses to be dissected.
In all his years as a forensic doctor, this was the first time he had encountered a situation requiring the dissection of fifteen corpses at once.
With such a large workload, it was impossible for him to complete it alone in a short period of time. He had to borrow two people from other places to work with him.
There were three chief inspectors and three assistants, making a total of six people.
Even so, it took them two whole days and nights to complete the autopsy.
When they came out of the dissection room, they were all exhausted, pale, and unsteady on their feet.
Helian Shi quickly helped Chu Qianjin to sit down in a chair.
"Would you like something to eat?"
Chu Qianjin pursed her lips and gently shook her head: "No need, I can't eat."
Lu Qing brought over a few cups of sweet soup to help them replenish their energy.
After dissecting so many corpses, even a veteran forensic doctor will feel unwell, and sugar water is the best way to replenish that.
Their complexion improved after drinking the sugar water.
Chu Qianjin: "The victims all died from the same cause: drowning."
Upon hearing this, Lu Qing's eyes widened in surprise:
"They had so many injuries on their bodies, yet they drowned!"
Chu Qianjin nodded: "Those injuries were sustained before they were born; they were still alive when they were thrown into the water."
Lu Qing couldn't help but clench her fists.
In such cold weather, after being stripped naked and tortured for so long, she was finally thrown into the icy river and drowned.
Such a method of murder cannot be described as cruel; the killer is simply insane!
"I've written all the details in the autopsy report, you can see for yourselves!"
Chu Qianjin handed over the autopsy report.
Helian Shi then picked him up and carried him away from the police station.
Lu Qing flipped through the autopsy report, his anger growing stronger with each reading.
These victims had all been assaulted, suffering burns from sticks, whips, candle burns, knife cuts, and having all ten fingernails pulled out...
Lu Qing was certain that the murderer had an unusually strong desire to commit violence.
The souls of these victims have all disappeared; otherwise, she could have captured the person simply by summoning the victim's soul and asking him questions.
It got dark, and Lu Qing neither returned to school nor went home.
She sat quietly in the investigation bureau all night, constantly going through the files of the victims.
Many of the victims had old injuries, some dating back more than a year ago.
But the time of death was roughly the same.
This means that the murderer had been kidnapping girls and imprisoning them somewhere for more than a year, slowly torturing them.
Until recently, something triggered him, forcing him to kill all his prey.
It's from the last investigation!
Fifteen girls were imprisoned in one place, making them easy to spot.
Perhaps to make it easier to escape, he had to kill these prey.
But what kind of place could imprison so many girls without being discovered?
Lu Qing thought about it all night and had a headache.
When it was dawn the next day, seeing that Lu Qing still had no intention of resting, Gu Xicheng couldn't bear it any longer, so he went behind her and pressed her pressure point to put her to sleep.
After Lu Qing fell into a deep sleep, Gu Xicheng picked her up and carried her to the car.
Gu Xicheng did not leave, but returned to the police station to start the investigation with Jian Ming.
Because he knew that Lu Qing wouldn't get a proper rest until the murderer was caught.
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