Baole City, 7:20 in the evening.
It was completely dark.
The night sky is empty, without a single star.
In the vegetable store at the north entrance of Sunshine Home Community.
The police officers were busy searching.
In the cold storage further inside, Chen Ting and others gathered at the corner that Teacher Jiang Daoqing had just pointed to.
A clay statue was lying there at an angle.
It looks slightly smaller than the thirteen palm-sized clay statues found under the cliff cave in Taihang Mountains.
Because the clay statue in front of me has no head.
Judging from the cracks on the neck, just like the bodies of the thirteen clay figures that disappeared before, they must have been strangled by someone.
"The fourteenth clay figure?
Doesn't that mean there's a new victim?"
Xiong Beibei said in astonishment.
Xu Xinyi, who was standing next to him, shook his head:
“Not necessarily!
There are no new reports of missing girls.
Besides!
The thirteenth girl disappeared less than five days ago.
In the past two days, the cloaked man is probably in a state of panic with the search in Taihang Mountains, the exposure of the cliff cave, the transfer from this vegetable store, etc.
Moreover, searching for the fourteenth target, tracking, kidnapping, etc., all take time.
He may not have had time to do it yet.
But the police investigation, especially the fact that we're moving so quickly.
It will definitely make the other party very anxious.
If we have to take action, it will probably be in the next few days."
Mina also said: "The question now is, who is the cloaked man's fourteenth target?
If we can determine the other party's identity as soon as possible, we can find him before the cloaked man takes action.
Maybe, we can find traces of the cloaked man around her and capture him.
The question is, how do we determine the identity of this fourteenth target?"
Mina held her chin and thought for a moment before saying:
“First of all, the face of this fourteenth victim definitely looks very similar to Gao Ya.
The clay figure on the ground with its head missing is evidence of this.
The bodies of the previous thirteen victims could basically be pieced together to form a headless body, with only the head missing, which also illustrates this point.
As for where we can find someone who looks like Gao Ya...
Then we have to consider where the murderer would go to look for someone who looks like Gao Ya.
Judging from the six videos previously provided by Team Leader Shen, the cloaked man appeared in the movement trajectories of the thirteen victims.
The cloaked man should be looking for his target in crowded areas such as scenic spots or squares where activities are held.
Now, we found this vegetable store.
This must be the Cloaked Man's, a very important stronghold.
Moreover, there are a lot of surveillance cameras in this area, and the cloaked man's search for the fourteenth victim should be a new move in recent days.
The monitoring should not be covered.
Perhaps, we can track the cloaked man through the surveillance nearby to see if he has visited any new scenic spots or places where people gather.
Then, in that area, look for someone who looks like Gaoya."
Sure enough, great minds think alike.
Mina's idea was similar to the results of the group members' previous discussion.
Song Huaimin also nodded repeatedly:
“That’s a good idea.
And, maybe it's not that troublesome.
Tracking the cloaked man on surveillance can directly pinpoint his current location."
The next step, of course, is to check the surveillance video and identify the samples collected from the vegetable store.
Shen Ting and others left the vegetable store and returned to the Investigation Bureau.
As soon as I returned to the meeting room, a message alert sounded in the case-solving group.
Kiko: "Group leader!
Didn't you ask us to further confirm where the cloaked man came from in this vegetable store?
After leaving the vegetable store, where did you go next?
Hehe, I have discovered the traces of the cloaked man in the past few days.
(*￣3￣)╭??”
She posted a series of videos and a map in the group.
On the map, there are several tracks centered around vegetable stores.
However, these trajectories are not continuous.
In many places, it is intermittent.
Kiko explained:
“Those videos were collected by me using a program, and they were surveillance footage of cloaked figures.
Based on the surveillance footage, I marked the route the cloaked man took on the map.
It's intermittent because the cloaked man was not photographed in some places.
But even so, it can be seen that the routes are divided into three categories.
One direction is Taihang Mountains.
We should go to that cliff cave.
One went to the suburbs, out of the surveillance area, and the destination is unknown.
But when he left the vegetable store, he was pulling the suitcase.
There is a high probability that the missing limbs of the 13 victims are inside.
They must have been moving things from the vegetable store after discovering that the cliff cave was exposed.
The other trajectory eventually went to a place called Baimashan.
It looks like it should also be a scenic spot.
Didn't you mention in your previous discussion that the Cloaked Man might want to take the head of the fourteenth victim?
Based on his previous habit of searching for targets, I guess he was looking for it on Baima Mountain.
╭?( ˙o˙)╯?”
Shen Ting randomly picked a few videos to check and found that the cloaked man did appear in every video.
On the map, the cloaked man's trajectory can indeed be divided into three routes.
"White Horse Mountain?"
Chen Ting shared the surveillance footage of the entrance ticket gate at Baimashan in recent days.
And upload the video to the case-solving group:
"Everyone, look for someone who looks like Gao Ya among the tourists entering the scenic area!"
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