Chapter 145 (Two in One)
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Lin Shuyue drank the half bottle of water in her hand and followed Hang Jiabai and others. When they arrived, the forensic doctor had also arrived. They were surrounding the body parts in several trash cans for identification.
Lin Shuyue took a few photos, then turned on the good and evil identification system and looked around.
Ye Xueyu stood beside her: "There are so many of these things, and I don't know how many people they belong to. This is really crazy." Ye Xueyu gritted her teeth.
Lin Shuyue nodded. He was indeed insane and extremely antisocial. She asked: "Have we found any information about the victim?"
"It has been compared with the DNA database. Jiangzhou is still investigating the missing persons in the past year, and the results are not out yet." We now have a rough idea of the information of several victims, all of whom are young and middle-aged people between 20 and 40 years old. When these young and middle-aged people disappear without reason, their relatives will definitely call the police. As long as their identities are confirmed, the case will be easy to handle.
After Ye Xueyu finished speaking, she took out her notebook and began to check on the people around who were watching the fun.
Xingfu Road is not far from Xinmin Road, only two alleys away, and is surrounded by messy residential houses. This road is lined with small restaurants and shops. In the morning and evening, people come here with fruits and vegetables to sell, and the flow of people is quite large.
Lin Shuyue listened to the caller telling Hang Jiabai about the situation when he found these things: "I sell vegetables. Every time I sell vegetables, I will clean up the stall. Today, when I was cleaning up and taking out the garbage, I saw something in the trash can. It looked like meat. I immediately thought of what happened last night, so I called the police."
The person who called the police was a man in his forties, with a good and evil value of about 10%.
"I think it's abnormal. Meat is getting more and more expensive. Who would have nothing better to do than throw such a big bag of meat into the trash can? Aren't you afraid of getting struck by lightning?" The uncle has been through hard times and he hates waste the most. Even if he hadn't heard about what happened on Xinmin Road last night, he would have called the police if he had seen this wasteful behavior.
Hang Jiabai expressed his understanding and asked them several more questions. They all came to set up their stalls at around six o'clock, and the stalls on Xingfu Road were closed around ten o'clock. Now that this kind of thing happened, people who had closed their stalls but had not left came around.
When asked if she had encountered any abnormal people, an old lady selling soy milk said, "I came here to set up the stall a little after four o'clock. When I pushed my cart over here, I saw a small truck parked at the door over there."
The breakfast shops on Xingfu Road all open around 5 o'clock, no earlier. But there are always some people who work four shifts or have not slept yet and will feel hungry around four or five o'clock. The old lady's soy milk and fried dough sticks become their few choices.
The old lady sets up her stall at four o'clock every morning and has been doing this for many years. Her husband is taciturn, but he has a good memory. His wife said something, and he added: "Yes, we saw it last night, but we encountered it later because it was raining. We came a little later, around 4:40, at the intersection ahead."
The old man is already sixty years old this year. As people get older, they sleep less, and because he gets up too early in the morning, he has developed the habit of observing the cars on the road around him.
"When we arrived this morning, the car was parked opposite, and a young man was putting things into the car. They were wrapped tightly. I thought the young man was abnormal at the time, but I didn't expect he was really abnormal." The old man slapped his thigh, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
When Hang Jiabai heard this, he immediately asked more detailed questions about the small truck and the young man.
The old man felt very honored to be able to help the police and immediately began to recall. Lin Shuyue listened on the side and took a look at the good and evil values. They were not high and were within the normal range. She retreated back into the journalist circle and started analyzing the situation with the reporters.
We are all acquaintances now, so we can get down to business without much small talk.
The reporter from Nan Fang Daily said: "I just took a close look and the cuts on those things were very smooth. I am sure that a normal kitchen knife or axe would never be able to make such a smooth cut."
"Yes, it's impossible to use normal tools to cut the bones so smoothly." Many of the body parts found today were still attached to bones. The largest piece was a human calf, which contained tissue, flesh and bones.
The reporter from Nan Fang Daily said: "So I am sure that the murderer must be engaged in the work related to fresh food. And he must have high-tech cutting tools at home."
"Not necessarily? There are many tools that can be used for cutting, you don't necessarily have to be a butcher, right?" Someone replied, and then there was a heated debate, and gradually everyone joined in.
Lin Shuyue didn't say anything, but observed the surroundings, with her good and evil radar always on, but still found nothing.
Suddenly, Lin Shuyue's eyes fixed, she picked up her phone and sent a text message to Hang Jiabai. After a moment, Hang Jiabai raised her head and looked towards the nine o'clock direction. On the top floor, she saw a camera hidden in the blooming bougainvillea.
The camera was very hidden and only a round black sphere could be seen. If Lin Shuyue hadn't seen too many models of cameras, she would probably have ignored this one. It is really inconspicuous, especially hidden among the flowers.
The camera is facing this direction.
Hang Jiabai's face lit up with joy and he walked towards the building. Ye Xueyu followed immediately, and Lin Shuyue also followed. Ye Xueyu took her hand and walked together.
The camera is located on the fourth floor, which is also the highest floor of the building. According to the label on the first floor, the family living on the fourth floor is the landlord of the building.
Hang Jiabai knocked on the door. After a while, a 20-year-old girl came to open the door. After seeing Hang Jiabai and his friends, she didn't seem surprised. She turned around and shouted into the house: "Dad, the police are here."
A middle-aged man walked out of the room. The good and evil values of both the father and daughter were only 10%, but the middle-aged man's good and evil value was higher, at 11%.
The middle-aged man let the police in and led them to sit on the wooden sofa in the living room. Then he pointed to the computer in the corner and said, "The surveillance cameras are all there, police comrades, take a look."
The girl hid in the room.
Ye Xueyu went to check the surveillance video, while Hang Jiabai chatted with the middle-aged man: "Hong Jianxi, right? You don't seem surprised by our arrival?"
When I just walked in, the middle-aged man introduced himself.
Hong Jianxi smiled and said, "Not surprising, not surprising. We are the only family in Xingfu Road that has cameras. It's only a matter of time before you come to our door."⊙
Hong Jianxi installed this camera secretly without letting anyone know. When he knew there were body parts in the trash can on the street downstairs, he watched the camera footage from last night and indeed captured a sneaky person.
He had already prepared for the police to come to his door. He said: "I installed this camera because I thought it would be the end of the year and thieves would be rampant. It has only been installed for less than two months."
Hong Jianxi's rental building was robbed during the Chinese New Year last year, and a lot of money was lost. Hong Jianxi was very upset. Most of the people who rented his house were workers from nearby factories. They usually lived frugally, but this thief meant that at least half a month's work was wasted. A surveillance device is not cheap nowadays. He thought about it for several months and bought it with gritted teeth.
This thing is really not cheap. It cost him a month's rent. But Hong Jianxi never dreamed that he didn’t capture the thief, but instead captured a serial killer.
"Found it." Ye Xueyu's voice came from the computer. Hang Jiabai didn't bother to chat with Hong Jianxi and walked over immediately.
The picture on the computer screen has been frozen. A young man wearing a hooded shirt and gloves is standing in front of a three-wheeled bicycle, holding a garbage bag that Hang Jiabai and others will never forget and pouring it into the trash can.
Hang Jiabai clicked play and watched him put away a bag and then ride his bike to the next trash bin. Hang Jiabai looked at his feet, which were both covered with trash bags.
Hang Jiabai immediately realized that this was a very cunning, arrogant criminal who had a certain anti-detection awareness.
The young man rode a tricycle and disappeared from the surveillance screen. Lin Shuyue followed him over, but her eyes fell on a prototype logo on the rear of the tricycle.
Ye Xueyu took out a USB flash drive and copied the video footage. Hang Jiabai thanked Hong Jianxi and his daughter, and then the three of them went downstairs.
After reaching the street below, Hang Jiabai found the old couple selling soy milk and fried dough sticks. The old couple were ready to go back, but when they were questioned by the police, they came over again.
Hang Jiabai asked the old man the key question: "Uncle, you said you saw that young man loading something onto the vehicle. Was he loading a tricycle?"
The old man was already old, but his eyesight and hearing were still sharp. He thought carefully and said, "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have remembered that the young man was wearing a three-wheeled bicycle, and the exposed iron rod should be the handle of the bicycle."
"The more I think about it, the more it looks like it." The old man reiterated.
After thanking the old man, Hang Jiabai called Jiangzhou and asked him to check for the same white van that appeared near the park early yesterday morning and early this morning.
People from the city TV station came to interview, carrying cameras. Hang Jiabai's face suddenly became serious. After replying a few words in front of the camera, he left. There were no clues for a while, so Lin Shuyue returned to the newspaper office.
It was lunchtime, so Lin Shuyue went straight to eat. Today we had stir-fried meat with bean sprouts. There were only a few slices of meat, just bean sprouts and soup. In addition, we had a chicken stew with potatoes, half chicken and half potatoes. It tasted very fragrant and was perfect when mixed with rice. Lin Shuyue got some food and sat down with Li Mingfang and the others.
Li Mingfang and the others were still talking about the gossip in the building. As they talked, they started talking about Shengda Trading next door, and the topic mainly revolved around Zhong Jiali.
"Have you noticed that we haven't seen Zhong Jiali for half a month?" The speaker was Xiao Huang from the advertising team.
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao He at the front desk answered, "Yes, I haven't seen her for half a month. It's strange. Zhong Jiali treats Shengda Trading as her own private property. She feels uncomfortable if she doesn't come for a day. How can she endure it for so long this time?"
Li Mingfang: "It's better that she doesn't come. Once she comes, all the women in Shengda Trading will be bullied. What's wrong with her? How can she be so two-faced towards men and women? I can't figure it out even in my dreams."
Lin Shuyue had seen Zhong Jiali many times before, often in the stairs.
When you meet her, she rolls her eyes to the sky when she treats girls, but becomes gentle and warm to boys. Like an idiot, Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang complained about her a lot. After Yuan Shuzhen joined Shengda Trading, she often told her about Zhong Jiali's strange behavior.
"How old is she? She's not married yet?"
Li Mingfang took a bite of the spoon and said, "She must be around 27 or 28 years old, right? She should not be married. It is said that she came back from studying in France, where she learned about the culture and wants to be a single-child policy holder. She does not plan to get married. But she should have a French boyfriend, who is an old man."
After Li Mingfang said this, Lin Shuyue also remembered. At the beginning, when Lin Jianxin approached her and wanted her to follow his arrangements and marry the person he liked, he took her to a French restaurant, where she met Zhong Jiali and her French boyfriend.
"She looks old, but she shouldn't be that old?" As we all know, Caucasians have a very short flowering period, and they age very quickly after reaching a certain age.
"Who knows. Never mind her, let's just have a meal. There's a milk tea shop in the basement of Xijiang Apartment across from us, it's called something like Subway. Why don't we go buy a cup? I heard it's delicious." Li Mingfang suggested.
They said they wanted to drink milk tea, and Lin Shuyue also felt craving for it. I didn’t think about drinking it before because at that time in 2004, milk tea had not yet appeared on a large scale. Milk tea shops like those that were everywhere in later generations are basically nowhere to be found nowadays.
It was probably about 10 years ago that milk tea became popular on a large scale in towns and cities across the country.
"I'm going too, take me with you." Lin Shuyue raised her hand actively.
Milk tea is not expensive and everyone has enough money. After Lin Shuyue responded, they also followed suit. Li Mingfang was smiling happily. After she moved into Xijiang Apartment, her desire to explore the surrounding area increased rapidly. This store started to be renovated at the end of last month and only opened today. The sign was hung last night and Li Mingfang saw it at a glance when she went to work today.
While eating, Lin Shuyue thought for a while, found Yuan Shuzhen's chat box, and sent her a message.
Yuan Shuzhen is eating out. The boss of Shengda Trading is not as powerful as Pengcheng Metropolitan Daily. They eat lunch outside and receive a meal allowance of ten yuan a day.
When Lin Shuyue finished her meal, washed her lunch box and went downstairs with Li Mingfang and the others, Yuan Shuzhen was sitting in the lounge on the first floor waiting for her. When she saw Lin Shuyue, she came over.
Li Mingfang and the others greeted her warmly. They all worked in the same building and knew each other.
Because they had just talked about it, before they even left the building, they were talking about Zhong Jiali.
Speaking of this person, Yuan Shuzhen had a lot to say: "Our young CEO Zhong seems to be living in the last century. In the company, men can be forgiven for making mistakes, but if a woman makes a mistake, she will scold her even if she finds out that she made a small mistake in punctuation."
Yuan Shuzhen thought her previous boss was weird enough, but she didn't expect that this boss's sister was even weirder. It really proves the saying that money is hard to earn, but shit is hard to eat.
"Last time, Luo Teng from their sales department screwed up a client and the company lost a lot of money. The boss was furious with Luo Teng, but she went up to persuade him, saying that Luo Teng didn't mean it. The boss was also stupid and listened to her in everything."
"Luo Teng certainly didn't do it on purpose, but he made a lot of low-level mistakes. Different companies have different quotations. He took the contract that was given to another company to sign with the current contract company. When they saw that the quotation was so much lower, they thought it was easy for him to be taken advantage of. It's really speechless. A big client is gone, and all the efforts of everyone are in vain." Yuan Shuzhen got angry when she talked about this. They worked so many overtime jobs for this client, but it was all gone at the last minute.
But the big idiot still has a talisman.
"The men in our company call Zhong Jiali a goddess, and the women call her an idiot." Yuan Shuzhen sneered. For men, how could Zhong Jiali not be a goddess? She is simply their patron saint. Whenever they make a mistake, it is always right to go directly to Zhong Jiali.
Li Mingfang and her friends have heard similar things many times, but every time they hear them, they can shed tears of sympathy for the women of Shengda Trading.
"Can your boss's wife bear it?" Lin Shuyue couldn't help but ask.
"No, that's why they quarrel in the company every day. Our boss's wife is only in her thirties and she already has breast hyperplasia." As soon as Yuan Shuzhen said this, everyone felt more sympathetic.
A group of people were waiting to cross the road. Yuan Shuzhen said, "During the half month that Zhong Jiali was away from the company, our boss lady was in a particularly good mood. She even smiled as she walked. She even treated us to a meal and sang a song with us."
Of course, these programs of the boss lady do not involve the men of the company. The gender divide at Shengda Trading is particularly severe.
"The men in our company are having a hard time these days. They still work according to their previous work habits, and they get scolded every time. The boss scolds then the boss's wife. Now they talk about Zhong Jiali every day." Yuan Shuzhen felt relieved when she talked about the life of the men in Shengda Trading during this period.
They are colleagues, doing the same job and getting the same salary, so why do women have to feel so much pressure?
Lin Shuyue: "Where did Zhong Jiali go?"
From the various events described by Yuan Shuzhen, Zhong Jiali was very eager to control power. Lin Shuyue didn't think that such a power-hungry woman would give up the power in her hands for so long. You have to know that the situation in the power field is changing rapidly. Even if you leave for one day, the situation will change drastically.
"He said he went back to France to attend a meeting. Anyway, he has been gone for more than half a month. Our boss didn't answer the phone or video calls. Our boss' temper is getting worse and worse." After Yuan Shuzhen finished speaking, they entered the milk tea shop.
There are several wooden tables, green leather chairs, a lot of popular sentimental quotes on the walls, and some small decorations. There were a lot of powders on the bar, a freezer behind it, a girl with a big afro was playing the Penguin Dance, and the music playing in the shop also had some biubiubiu sound effects.
There is a menu and prices on the wall. The prices are not expensive. Original milk tea is two yuan a cup, and other flavors of milk tea have different prices because of the different added ingredients.
Lin Shuyue had been mentally prepared for this. When milk tea first appeared, it was mixed with milk tea powder. It was only later, when there were more and more milk tea shops, that various milk teas with real ingredients appeared.
Lin Shuyue ordered a cup of original flavor with ice and less sugar. Li Mingfang and others were very curious and asked the owner many questions before choosing the flavor they wanted.
The owner stopped dancing and stood up to make milk tea for everyone. In less than twenty minutes, five cups of milk tea were ready. No one wanted to go back as there was still a long time before lunch break. It happened that this place was close to Lin Shuyue and her friends' residence, so Li Mingfang asked everyone to go upstairs and play.
As they were talking, the group got on the elevator and went to Li Mingfang's apartment. As soon as we entered the door, we heard everyone exclaiming. After the tour, everyone asked to see Lin Shuyue's apartment. Although the layout of the two houses was the same, Lin Shuyue still satisfied their desire to see.
As soon as they entered Lin Shuyue's room, colleagues at the newspaper expressed envy. Li Mingfang's apartment was also decorated in the same way, with the same furniture, but that was bought by Li Mingfang with real money, while Lin Shuyue's was won in a lottery.
Lin Shuyue listened to their envious words but smiled without saying anything. I sat on the sofa and talked to Yuan Shuzhen, letting them look around.
The topic unknowingly turned to Zhong Jiali again. For some reason, she always had an inexplicable intuition that Zhong Jiali was related to this dismemberment case. This intuition is subtle, but Lin Shuyue will not let go of any intuition.
Because of what Zhong Jiali did, Yuan Shuzhen and her group almost stripped Zhong Jiali's panties off.
She glanced at the people who were looking at the layout upstairs, then secretly approached Lin Shuyue and said to her, "Ah Yue, do you know S.M?"
Lin Shuyue's eyebrows jumped: "I know."
Yuan Shuzhen said: "People in our company said that Zhong Jiali is from this circle. She is also a M. It is said that Zhong Jiali came to work with whip wounds on her body several times, and sometimes she came to work very weak."
Lin Shuyue's heart was beating like a drum. Originally, this was just her intuition, but now that Zhong Jiali was from the SM circle, this intuition became even stronger.
"How do you know she is from this circle?"
"Someone in our company heard what the boss said to her. Our boss said that if she continues to play like this, she will eventually kill herself."
Lin Shuyue didn't plan to ask any more questions after this. Xiao He and the others didn't stay at Lin Shuyue's house for long. They sat and chatted for a while and finished a cup of milk tea. It was almost time to go to work, so Lin Shuyue followed.
After turning on the computer, Lin Shuyue browsed the forum as usual and sent a message to Hang Jiabai. Hang Jiabai had no idea because the license plate of the car was covered. After driving on a road with surveillance cameras for a while, it entered a place without surveillance cameras and then disappeared. They visited many places today but didn't find any useful information. ⊙
Hang Jiabai did not reply for the time being. Lin Shuyue opened the forum and saw that the dismemberment case was a hot topic on the forum, but it was also mixed with the report that Lin Shuyue wrote yesterday. Yao Hongyi and Jiang Yele were nailed to the pillar of shame.
In that post, many homosexuals spoke out for their group. Lin Shuyue took a look at it, then closed the post, found the reply she saw at night, and clicked on the poster's personal homepage. Most of them were speeches on the forum. Judging from his past speeches, he was quite violent and his tone was very aggressive.
Lin Shuyue kept scrolling down and asked Ye Xueyu a few questions. Ye Xueyu's reply was faster than Hang Jiabai's: We didn't find the person who spoke on the forum.
Lin Shuyue was not surprised until she scrolled to the bottom and saw a historical statement from three years ago when the forum was first established: Pengcheng S is looking for M.
Lin Shuyue stood up suddenly, ignoring the surprised looks of her colleagues, she walked to the tea room and called Hang Jiabai.
"Abai, I suspect the deceased was from the SM circle. I also suspect that the person who spoke in the forum screenshot I sent you last night was the murderer."
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