Chapter 208 Police Officer's Suspect
Qiu Huo looked at Lin Zhi with heavy eyes. As an adult, he was not a fool. Although he knew it was wrong, under such almost tempting words, he could not help but imagine the scene that Lin Zhi described.
The young man had delicate skin, and his knees became red and swollen after kneeling on the tile floor for a few minutes. His hands were tied with belts, and he struggled out of control, so bruises would appear in no time. He sneered in his heart, how dare he speak like that when he couldn't even stand it.
His eyes fell on the young man's hands fiddling with the flowers. The purple hydrangeas made his hands look even whiter and thinner, and they had a sickly feeling as if they would be broken at any time, as if they were more fragile than the branches.
Qiu Huo was angry and felt a little irritated. In order to suppress his anger, he subconsciously wanted to smoke, but in front of Lin Zhi, he did not take out a cigarette.
His expression was ambiguous, and he said, "You should be contacting my teammate here. You saved her number and can call her if you have any questions."
Qiu Huo originally thought that the young man in front of him would insist on interacting with him, but he saw the young man curved his eyes and asked, "Is it the female police officer?"
Lin Zhi had an impression of the short-haired policewoman. She gave people the impression of being bold and capable, and her name was also very distinctive.
"Wei Yunjun," Lin Zhi said her name with a smile, "It's a very special name, very nice to hear."
"I'll call her if I need anything, she seems like she should be more helpful."
Lin Zhike didn't intend to rush forward. In the current situation, he was at the center of the vortex, and Qiu might not be able to avoid contact with him.
He could see clearly that if Qiu had no feelings for him, there was no need to avoid him.
The smile on his face became more and more charming, like flowers on branches in spring catching the sunlight.
Qiu Huo suddenly felt that maybe his previous guess was wrong. This person's attitude towards everyone was so ambiguous. He was like this even when Wei Yunjun was not around. If he was in front of him, he didn't know how he would smile.
Wanting him to extend his hand to let Wei Yunjun help, Qiu Huo frowned unconsciously.
Lin Zhi prepared the flowers and looked at Qiu Huo who had a cold face.
Qiu Huo's face gives people a feeling of being fierce, and it looks even more fierce when he frowns. Lin Zhi is not afraid of him, but thinks he looks even sexier this way.
Qiu Huo did not judge Lin Zhi's words, and stretched out his hand and said, "I'll take one back for testing."
He took one of them and left with the card.
He did not return to the police station immediately. Instead, he drove to the flower shop, showed his ID, and while waiting for the video to be copied, he asked if the flowers had any special meaning.
The boss told him the words of Endless Summer. Qiu Huo looked at the blue and purple flowers, not quite understanding what the murderer wanted to express.
Qiu Huo returned to the bureau with the video and ran into Wei Yunjun who was holding the information.
If it were any other time, Wei Yunjun would definitely be surprised and tease the boss when he saw him bringing back a flower, but he was not in the mood today.
They are common in criminal cases, but the harm caused by serial homicides is different from that of ordinary cases. Especially this time the murderer is very cunning. They have not yet found the common points among the victims. They are in no mood to joke. After all, if they delay a little longer, new people may be put in danger.
Qiu Huo called her and put the flowers in her hand.
"Send him to the laboratory for examination. Send someone to follow Lin Zhi. He should be targeted by the murderer."
Wei Yunjun nodded and walked towards the laboratory. He heard Qiu Huo say, "If he calls you in the middle of the night, just transfer the call to me. The murderer may be targeting him. He is mentally ill, so you may not be able to control him."
"OK."
Wei Yunjun didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he nodded in agreement, thinking that the boss was really dedicated.
Using investigative means, Qiu Huo quickly obtained the information of the person who ordered the flowers and took Zhou Erhe to the house to investigate.
Zhou Erhe has returned from Binxi Garden. Just like the case in Changxiang, there are few clues to be found at the scene.
"There are not many people in the garden on weekdays, not to mention lunchtime. It's not a tourist attraction, and there's no one to manage it. At most, there are cleaners to clean it. Because the garden has been there for many years, all the surveillance cameras around it are broken. I searched everywhere and only found one that worked. After fiddling with it for a long time, the picture got stuck and I couldn't watch it at all."
Zhou Erhe cursed and swore at the murderer a hundred or eighty times. He spent the whole afternoon on it, but the bastard was like a rat and no one saw it.
The deceased, Zhou Xiachun, was 51 years old and lived in an old neighborhood near the garden. She had no job and came from the countryside to the city to take care of her grandson.
She usually goes out at noon to buy vegetables for the afternoon and the next day's lunch. The vegetable market is at the other end of the garden, not far away, and her life is very regular.
At 12:10, someone saw her passing through the garden from the vegetable market, and the people at the vegetable market could testify to this, but no one knew why she entered that remote path, which led to a small pavilion where sundries were stored and usually only cleaners would go there.
The body was discovered by a man who couldn't find a public toilet and couldn't hold his urine. He was in a hurry to find a place to relieve himself, and then he saw the woman lying on the ground. He was so scared that he lost his urge to urinate and ran out to call the police.
"What a piece of shit! Her grandson is in primary school and was so scared when he ran over after hearing the news. When I arrived, the vegetables she bought were neatly placed on the ground, which means the murderer may have tricked her into letting her down her guard."
This was known to Hou Huo when he saw the scene. He didn't say anything, but was thinking about the connection between the two victims.
This is what's strange, it can be said that there is no connection.
Whether it is their place of origin, appearance, personality, gender, age, or even blood type, the two people are different. They don't know each other and have never been to the same place.
Changxiang is quite far from Binxi Park, and it takes twenty minutes to get there by taxi. The murderer is very familiar with Runing. He knows that no one goes in or out of Changxiang at night, and he also knows that there is a small path in the garden. He is also familiar with the surveillance situation.
"Boss, the dead have nothing in common. Could this murderer be killing randomly?"
"Impossible. The interval between the two cases was only four days, but he must have prepared for more than that. He had a plan. He had chosen these two people long ago. There must be something about them that we overlooked."
Qiu may have sensed the murderer's caution this time. If he was really arrogant, he would have announced the killing in advance instead of giving notice. Fortunately, it hasn't come to that yet, but the situation is not optimistic.
Zhou Erhe clenched his fists: "Yes, he even wants to provoke us."
In a certain residential area, a woman who heard a knock on the door and opened it couldn't help but feel nervous when she saw the police coming.
When she heard it was about ordering flowers, she explained the whole story in one go.
"It was a friend I met on the forum. He said he was embarrassed to send flowers himself and asked me to help order them. We have known each other for a while. He is quite nice and has sent me gifts before. The last time he sent me a book, he put 200 yuan in it, saying it was for flowers, so I helped him."
It would cost less than two hundred yuan to buy the flowers, and the man said the rest was her hard work fee, so of course she happily agreed to help.
The woman and the man did not add contact information, they only communicated through private messages on Tieba. When Qiu clicked on it, he found that the user had logged out.
The woman cried out "Ah", and was obviously still confused. She didn't know what had happened in Binxi Garden, but she knew that it was definitely not a good thing for the police to come to her house, so she took out all the gifts that the man had given her.
Qiu Huo looked at the chat records. The man's ID was 'Xia' and the woman called him Xiao Xia. He claimed to be 20 years old and a college student in Runing, but he did not reveal which school or major, nor did he tell the woman his address.
The two people only shared their daily lives, and the content was very trivial.
What caught Qiu Huo's attention was that Xiao Xia sent a gift to the woman on the morning of the 15th, when they took Lin Zhi away. Since they were in the same city, the express arrived on the same day.
In the evening, he made a request to the woman who received the express delivery. The woman was very curious about why he ordered flowers to confess his love on the 18th. Was it because that day was his lover's birthday? Xiao Xia said no, it was just that day was very special.
The woman said nervously, "I went to the store to ask, and it turns out that hydrangeas are flowers given to newlyweds. I thought maybe today was his sweetheart's wedding, so he didn't order the flowers himself. Officer, is there anything wrong with the flowers?"
"There are some things. We need to take them back and investigate. If there is no problem, we will return them to you. If he contacts you again, you must tell us in time."
The gift Xiaoxia gave was two books, which were held in Zhou Erhe's hands. When he said this, the woman naturally nodded repeatedly.
Qiu Huo took photos of the chat records and returned the phone to the woman. As for the two hundred yuan, the woman said that she had already spent it. In fact, even if she had the fingerprints on it, it would be difficult to collect them.
"Boss, you're right. He was very selective. He had planned today's crime on the 15th, but he didn't commit the crime until the 14th. That bastard was so determined to kill, and his knife strike was so steady. He must have practiced for a long time."
Zhou Erhe drove back this time. Qiu Huo listened to his analysis and read the chat records again.
In fact, Xiao Xia's original words had nothing to do with his sweetheart or confession. He asked the woman to order flowers for someone because he was embarrassed to order flowers. When the woman asked why it was the 18th, he explained that it was a special day.
Xiao Xia and the woman had known each other for more than a month. They did not show any hostility in their previous chats and shared delicious food with each other. According to the woman, they met under a food post on a local forum.
Before the woman went to order flowers this morning, Xiao Xia asked the other party to add the four words "Binxi Garden" on the card.
Qiu Huo looked at the gifts Xiao Xia sent. The first one was a cookbook, which Xiao Xia gave to the woman after chatting with her for a week. The second one was the book sent on the 15th, which was a collection of poems.
After returning to the bureau, Wei Yunjun gave the flowers and the inspection report to Qiu Huo.
"It's just a normal flower, nothing added."
Qiu Huo knew this would be the result. After all, the flowers had not gone through the murderer's hands from selection to delivery. However, when he saw Lin Zhi carefully handling the flowers placed by the murderer, he couldn't help but take one.
Before others could throw it away, the young man put it at home and admired it.
Qiu Huo looked at the beautiful flowers blooming on the table and pinched his brows.
Lin Zhi also needs to be kept a close eye on. Rather than him being killed by the murderer, Qiu Huo thinks that he has more potential to be an accomplice or even direct the murderer to kill.
Normally Qiu would have definitely watched him personally, but his body's excitement forced him to keep his distance and calm down.
Qiu Huo did not go home that night. He was reading files in the office with his cell phone at hand in case anything happened. However, the cell phone did not ring after he stayed up all night.
The next day, Wei Yunjun walked into the bureau and was startled when he met the boss's gaze while biting a bun.
"What happened last night?"
Wei Yunjun shook his head blankly, looking at the boss's back as he turned and walked away, feeling a little confused.
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