Chapter 13, Poppy 13
Yu Wanying likes chatting with people. She has joined many groups, including several fan groups, but the group that Luo Siwei pointed out is very special.
The name of the group is Poppy's Secret Garden. There are more than 50 people in the group. On the surface, there seems to be nothing unusual, but Cha Junxi's real account is also in this group.
The group seemed to be populated by core fans who interacted frequently, a mix of men and women, each with a variety of profile pictures. The conversations were lively, with people chatting almost daily, saying good morning and good night. They also exchanged messages. Whenever Yu Wanying posted a video, they responded enthusiastically, helping her with tasks like liking and giving coins, and leaving comments on the videos.
This group was created over a year ago. Yu Wanying, a casual UP host, frequently joins the group and proactively chats with her fans. They exchange holiday greetings, and over time, she's even become close friends with several of them.
Luo Siwei looked through the chat records. There were a lot of records, most of which were just nonsense and there was no key information. She stared at the screen and searched through them one by one.
After searching for less than an hour, Luo Siwei's eyes were sore and he finally found a conversation.
"This person named Xiaozhu said, 'Sister Meiren, I'm going to Donglan next month. I'll celebrate your birthday with you then.'" Luo Siwei read out the words. "This Xiaozhu might be the online friend Yu Wanying met."
Xiaozhu has a cartoon avatar and looks like a naive little girl.
Yu Wanying and Xiaozhu added each other as friends. Luo Siwei checked the conversation records between Xiaozhu and Yu Wanying. The two became familiar with each other because Xiaozhu said that she was a freshman studying political science and law. Her parents were both lawyers and could help group members with legal advice and resolve disputes. Later, Yu Wanying took the initiative to add her, told her about the harassment she had suffered, and sought help.
Xiaozhu replied to her, and Luo Siwei did a quick search and found that many of her replies were simply pasted from relevant online cases. However, she had refined her responses with colloquial language, adding "my dad said" and "my mom suggested," making them seem like sincere help to her friend.
It seems that Yu Wanying has complete faith in this good friend and feels that Xiaozhu has helped her a lot.
Yu Wanying was constantly harassed. At first, she would tell some friends about these things, but her friends had their own lives after all. Yu Wanying was very sensitive. When her friends were very busy or expressed that they could not help with those things, she would stop talking about them and no longer output negative energy.
But just because Yu Wanying didn't say anything didn't mean those things didn't happen. She desperately needed someone who could listen to her and help her. Xiaozhu just happened to play that role.
Xiaozhu was always online, always gentle, comforting her, saying words of encouragement, and providing her with legal advice. She never despised her or gave her the cold shoulder. She would remember Yu Wanying's casual complaints and her little hobbies.
If Yu Wanying didn't take the initiative to confide in Xiaozhu for a while, Xiaozhu would still ask about her situation.
As time goes by, Yu Wanying and Xiaozhu become closer and closer.
Xiaozhu showed Yu Wanying her home and her photos, and Yu Wanying even sent gifts to her by express delivery.
She felt that she knew Xiaozhu very well, and her concerns gradually disappeared.
They once chatted all night long, and Luo Siwei felt that Yu Wanying even became mentally dependent on her.
So, when Yu Wanying heard that Xiaozhu was coming to Donglan to find her, she said she would go to the station to pick her up.
Then the two of them started chatting about Donglan's various attractions and delicacies. A few lines later, Xiaozhu said, "By the way, I might have a lot of things. Do you have any more from Donglan? We can get together."
At this time, Cha Junxi's account popped up: "I'm from Donglan too. I can go pick you up with my senior."
Yu Wanying said, "Okay, see you later."
Seeing this, Luo Siwei frowned, her mind racing as she realized a terrible fact.
"The netizen they are going to meet may not even exist..." As she spoke, Luo Siwei clicked on Xiaozhu's account to check the registered email address, and as expected, she saw three letters - MYD.
After hearing her words, Ni Xiang clicked on other members in the group.
MYD, MYD, MYD…
Make you die……
Ni Xiang looked at the results on the screen, her mouth agape with astonishment: "Are all the people in this group Cha Junxi's smurfs?!"
Luo Siwei hummed, her eyes fixed on the information on the screen: "This is actually a two-person group. Except for Yu Wanying, the others are all Cha Junxi."
The group was created by Cha Junxi, and he was also responsible for the review. Ordinary people who searched for the group would be rejected by him. It seemed that new members were pouring into the group from time to time, but in fact, those were his smurfs.
He kept switching trumpets and chatting with each other.
While threatening the girl, he invented a friend to stay by her side.
Cha Junxi, disguised as a network user, crazily invaded the girl's life, as if he had woven a cocoon for her and wrapped her in it.
Perhaps tragedy was doomed the moment Yu Wanying entered the group; it was a long-running trap targeting her. The group had existed for over a year, long enough for Yu Wanying to relax and become complacent. And that day's conversation was a self-directed drama staged by Cha Junxi, designed to deceive Yu Wanying's trust.
Ni Xiang felt her fingers cold as she sat in front of the computer. Yu Wanying had never imagined that everything around her was fake, and when the building collapsed and the truth was revealed, her death would be imminent.
"When a pervert is madly obsessed with a woman, how far can he go?" Luo Siwei's eyes flickered slightly. "Cha Junxi has given us the lower limit of the answer."
This may seem incredible, but with the development of the Internet today, it is possible to do it as long as you put your heart and spend time.
What’s even more terrifying is, who would stay vigilant about a group that they have joined for a long time and have been chatting in?
Ni Xiang has joined various online groups and chatted with strangers online. She reflected on this: Are the people she chats with online every day really the person she thought she was? Do the groups she joined actually exist?
The office was quiet in the early morning. It took Ni Xiang some time to process all this. She felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
Luo Siwei quickly regained her composure. She calmly instructed Ni Xiang, "Record all this information. We still need to continue looking for more evidence."
In the criminal investigation building in the early morning, two female police officers were working hard. They collected clues bit by bit and recorded all the doubts.
As the investigation deepened, the sky gradually cleared and the sun slowly rose.
Luo Siwei looked at the densely packed information that had been sorted out.
The messy lines are being connected one by one, gradually forming a network.
Now there is only one most critical question left: where will Cha Junxi live?
The boy can talk to his goddess anytime, so what's next?
Of course he wanted to see her all the time, and then, get her...
He would choose to live in a place close to Yu Wanying, but not so close that she would notice him.
Cha Junxi wasn't one for running away. He had no home, no friends or family, and was aloof from socializing, disliking strangers. He lacked life experience, couldn't cook, and only ordered takeout. He preferred staying in familiar surroundings and was glued to electronic devices and the internet. Escaping would have been far more dangerous and uncontrollable for him.
He might pull out the SIM card he usually uses to communicate, hide himself, and use the Internet to keep an eye on changes in the outside world...
Thinking of this, Luo Siwei's eyes fell on the map near the university town. She stretched out her slender finger, pointed at the residential complex where Yu Wanying rented, and then drew a circle around it with it as the center. "Cha Junxi might still be here."
In the early morning, the third branch gradually became lively.
The detectives walked into the office and started their day's work.
At the noon meeting, Luo Siwei announced all the investigation results he and Ni Xiang had conducted this morning.
She first talked about Cha Junxi's many trumpets and his behavior of deceiving Yu Wanying. The police officers on the same team found it incredible to hear the truth.
Luo Siwei then said, "I followed this line of thought and found that Cha Junxi's rental place should be near Yu Wanying's rental house. Then I found some new clues."
Ni Xiang cooperated with her to project a surveillance video on the projector. The video was shot at the only small supermarket open 24 hours a day near the community.
"On the night Yu Wanying was murdered, at 9:38 p.m., someone bought a pair of women's underwear with cash at a nearby supermarket. The underwear was exactly the same style as the one worn by the corpse."
"Although he was wearing a hat and a mask, the supermarket's checkout surveillance camera still captured this scene. Based on his physical characteristics, this person is very likely Cha Junxi."
"There are some other discoveries." Luo Siwei opened two screenshots on the slideshow. "One of the photos was posted by Cha Junxi himself on WeChat Moments. The other one was posted by the account named Xiaozhu that Cha Junxi pretended to be."
Although the two photos are slightly different, they were obviously taken in the same location.
Shen Qing said excitedly: "This confirms that these two accounts do belong to Cha Junxi!"
"No, it's not just that." Luo Siwei said, magnifying one of the details. This was a bird's-eye view, and the photographer's feet were captured in the corners of both photos.
Deputy Captain Lao Han noticed something and exclaimed, "Knot!"
The way the knot in the photo was tied was exactly the same as the way the rope was tied on Yu Wanying's left shoulder after she was murdered. This is direct evidence that Cha Junxi was involved in the murder.
"The last point is the usage time of the account." Luo Siwei pointed at the small accounts they had found. "In order to disguise their activity, these small accounts basically posted one to three Weibo posts every day."
Shen Qing understood and touched his chin: "But since Yu Wanying was murdered, none of the accounts have made a single post..."
This is a detail that is easily overlooked.
Luo Siwei nodded and continued, "Even in that group, no one said good morning or good night anymore. It was as if everyone was collectively muted. Because only the real murderer knew that Yu Wanying had been killed at that time."
The prey is already dead, so the beast naturally doesn't need to act anymore and hide.
"Also..." Luo Siwei pointed at Zha Junxi's Weibo, "His main account posts the most frequently. During the day, he posts a message every three or four hours. But on the afternoon of the day Yu Wanying was murdered, he didn't update his online messages for six hours."
And these six hours should be the time when he killed Yu Wanying.
Luo Siwei added, "Perhaps he noticed that Ye Ruxi was under police investigation and was worried that he would be implicated. Cha Junxi took a leave of absence the day before yesterday. After that, he also stopped updating his information on social networks."
More and more clues converged, pointing to Cha Junxi. With these evidences, the police had enough to lock on the suspect.
Shen Qing asked: "So now, how do we find Cha Junxi?"
"Reverse investigation." Luo Siwei raised his eyebrows slightly. "Cha Junxi also posted a lot of relevant information online. We can use the way he stalked and harassed Yu Wanying to find his whereabouts from that information!"
That is, defeat the pervert using the methods used by perverts.
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This article will be published on Wednesday, the 9th. The case will be updated by then. Thank you little angels for your support.
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