Chapter 144 That’s right, but guilty!

The murderer had been to the orphanage.

The other party secretly donated a lot of things for this, such as milk, bread, rice, and books. The total amount of purchases alone amounted to 350,000.

There are a lot of these supplies, so many that if the welfare home receives normal subsidies from above, they are enough to provide a good life for the children in need for a few years.

But unfortunately, the supplies are gone.

As soon as it was pulled over, it was sold!

“So, the director of the private welfare home died.”

December 6th, 8 o'clock in the morning.

Xu Hao looked at the scene around him and spoke slowly.

"The murderer is seeking revenge, revenge for everything the dean did, but..."

"Who do you think this feeling of revenge is directed at?"

Li Jianye beside him paused after hearing this, then said, "Dean."

The only dead body was the dean, so the emotion was directed at the dean.

"That's right. The other party's revenge is only directed at the dean. What about the others?"

"What about these children who have no parents and are locked up in welfare institutions?"

Xu Huo asked again.

"The supplies were sold. Will the murderer hate these children?"

Will it?

Won't.

I’ve never seen anyone who, because of poor college entrance examination results, resents polar bears for eating penguins in the zoo.

"you mean"

"Will he, will he do something similar again?"

Qian Hua thought for a moment, looked at the slightly curious eyes around him, and suddenly said.

This is a welfare home.

There are a few welfare homes in Linlan City, with 120 orphans of different ages. At this moment, some children aged seven or eight who have not gone to school are hiding around, looking at Xu Hao and others with curious eyes.

Behind the trees, under the ping-pong table, or on top of the wall, there are little black heads everywhere.

"Yes, the other party's purpose was to provide some assistance, so the scene of the rich area being looted appeared in early November."

"As a result, all efforts were wasted and the goal was not achieved, but the emotion will not involve the child, so he will just continue to promote the goal progress from other angles!"

“That’s why the case that happened in early December.”

Xu Hao spoke again.

“Why was the deceased’s home ransacked?”

"But is that money enough?" Li Jianye was confused.

The 350,000 yuan could not be recovered, and the dean died before he got the money.

The supplies had to be re-arranged, and the property in the deceased's home, excluding the person who died in the office, might not add up to 20,000.

Compared with 350,000, it is just a drop in the bucket.

But. "It's better to have it than not to have it."

Xu Hao replied and added another sentence.

"It was also because of the dean that he did this the second time. If nothing unexpected happens, he should no longer make this kind of anonymous donation."

"But because of my identity, I can't show it!"

That is, face-to-face gifting? Making sure the other party gets it!? Qian Hua paused, then immediately understood.

Yes, the murderer didn't have much money in his hands, only a few tens of thousands, unlike 400,000 yuan that required others' help to deal with.

He can handle it all by himself! "Did the other party have direct contact with these orphans?!"

Li Jianye was stunned, looking at the children around him who looked like silkworms.

They are in an orphanage.

Since last night, after finding the director’s dead body, he took people to the private welfare home, where they have been staying until now.

"Yes, it's hard to imagine that these kids have most likely been with a murderer who kills without blinking an eye."

Xu Hao nodded, paused for a moment, and then said:

"But for them, the executioner might be safer than the director of the orphanage."

"As for how to check."

"How's the information gathering going?"

Xu Hao changed the subject and looked at the police in the distance.

There were countless police officers there, constantly questioning the children around them.

Several caregivers were also explaining something nearby.

They are questioning.

After daybreak, we conducted a visit and investigation on the children, but they were too young and the progress was very slow.

Until "Amitabha. Officer, I am here."

In a trance, a voice rang in my ears.

Xu Hao turned his head to look.

A monk with simple clothes, hunched back and looking like an ascetic got out of the police car and walked slowly towards Xu Hao.

There were two little boys with vigilant eyes beside the other party. They were Xiaolong and Xiaohu. Their eyes were inadvertently scanning everything around them, especially the back.

The little girl dragging the tire was held by a monk, and there was another girl with eye problems around her neck, holding her head with both hands.

"Sorry, Xiaolong, Xiaohu and the others insisted on coming along, so we were delayed for some time."

A trace of embarrassment appeared on Monk Du'e's old face.

He put the two little girls down, and the girls hugged his legs in fear.

"Boss." The police officer driving the car looked at Qian Hua and nodded.

Xu Hao didn't say anything.

He looked Xiaolong and Xiaohu up and down for a long time, and suddenly spoke.

"Give him the key back."

key?

What key? Everyone was stunned and subconsciously looked at the two teenage children.

Xiaolong suddenly took out an iron key and threw it at the police officer who drove over. He stood behind the monk, scanning the surroundings with his hostile eyes.

The police officer lowered his head and looked at the thing in his hand with surprise.

Car keys!?

"When?" he said in shock.

"I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of it."

Du'e's face showed sadness, his eyes had a complicated expression, and his emotions were mixed. He lamented and apologized.

"Stop talking. I ask questions and you answer them."

Xu Hao was too lazy to care about these trivial matters.

Let them steal if they want. To be honest, it is not possible to gain the trust of these kids by just giving them a few meals and a few days' accommodation.

Why? Because the clothes they are wearing are blue.

On the streets, the people who drove them away, spit on them, and beat them were also wearing blue uniforms.

"Okay, I understand."

Monk Du'e nodded and said silently.

"Where is the address for bread distribution in Linlan City recently?"

Xu Hao sat on a stone bench in the yard of the welfare home. He looked at the other person and motioned him to sit down and talk.

“Distribute the bread.”

Monk Du'e paused.

"Don't say there is no evidence. I have sufficient evidence to prove the existence of this matter. You can refute it if you want, but after refuting it, you need to go to the police interrogation room to see the police's evidence chain."

Xu Hao said casually.

Du'e was silent.

The two of them just sat there in silence, not even looking at each other, and not a single movement appeared.

Time just passes by minute by minute.

Li Jianye beside him was extremely anxious.

Qian Hua looked at the two children, thought for a moment, and took out a red banknote.

The tire-skin little girl tilted her head, put her index finger in her mouth and bit it, her eyes shining as she watched the scene.

She held out her hand, but “Swish!”

Xiaolong pulled her hand back, looking at Qian Hua with hostility in his eyes, and together with Xiaohu, he protected the two children behind him.

The blind one is called Xiaobai, and the tire skin girl is called Niuniu.

Niu Niu bent over and looked down at Qian Hua with her clear eyes. She blinked and then tilted her head to express her confusion.

"Officer, did that kid commit a crime?"

In a trance, Monk Du'e finally spoke.

His tone was slightly heavy.

"child?"

"Well, it looks like the murderer. You have indeed seen him."

Xu Hao smiled.

"What did he do? Steal?"

Du'e spoke again, not caring about Xu Hao's words.

"It's more serious than theft." Li Jianye said sullenly, and he also sat down on the stone bench.

Upon hearing this, Monk Du'e fell silent again.

The weather in December is very cool.

The leaves in the yard rustled, hair danced, dust swirled on the dark ground, and the children around them sneezed continuously with red faces.

Li Jianye wrapped his clothes unconsciously.

Qian Hua was still teasing the children. He pointed behind Xiaolong and Xiaohu.

Please...collect 6_9_book_bar (Six//Nine//Book//bar)

Xiaolong looked back and found that Xiaobai and Niuniu were already playing with the children from the welfare home and were no longer behind him. He turned back and saw Qian Hua's half-smile.

Xiaolong and Xiaohu suddenly felt ashamed and hot, and pulled Xiaobai Niuniu, who had a confused look on her face, back.

"Take your time to think about it. You have a day to think about it."

Xu Hao glanced at the time.

The hour and minute hands of the watch now show half past nine in the morning.

"If my guess is correct, he should show up between the afternoon and evening. Well, that means you still have at least eight hours to think about it."

"If that child disappears from now on, can you let him go?"

Monk Du'e suddenly asked again.

"Wow, monk, are you going to convert him?" Li Jianye became interested.

Du'e didn't say anything, just stared at Xu Hao.

"I don't care who he kills, or how many he kills."

Xu Hao suddenly spoke, his tone calm.

"What's important is that he is competing with the police for law enforcement power."

"I can see that the child has a good heart."

“The police aren’t bad.”

Xu Hao spoke calmly.

"He won't make mistakes." Du'e shook his head.

"But he committed a crime." Li Jianye spoke up and cited the law.

Du'e was silent.

After a long while, Du'e compromised.

He looked at Li Jianye and said, "If I tell it now, can I get the reward?"

Bounty?

Is this monk thinking about the reward?

This time, Qian Hua was stunned and subconsciously turned his head to look.

"Yes, if you provide complete and valid information, you will be rewarded 50,000 yuan."

Xu Hao nodded and finalized the matter.

Li Jianye was stunned and looked at Xu Hao in disbelief.

"More." He whispered.

Linlan City is not considered poor, but the police are poor. Xu Hao only earned about 100,000 yuan for solving a case, but he could earn 50,000 yuan for providing a piece of information. Xu Hao ignored these words and stared at the other person.

"Provide important information and help the police arrest the other party directly, and reward 100,000 yuan."

One hundred thousand!? Li Jianye's eyes twitched.

"good."

Du'e nodded and agreed without hesitation.

"That kid didn't show up very often. He showed up about a month and a half ago. I didn't notice him at first."

Monk Du'e fell into reminiscence, and past memories began to emerge in his mind.

"Until Xiaolong and Xiaohu suddenly took out some money one day."

"They stole, but the method of stealing was not taught by me, so I guessed that someone was teaching them."

"I didn't point it out. After all, being a thief, even if you end up in jail, is much better than being a homeless person."

"But I was worried, so I followed them one day."

"I saw the person who taught them to steal. It was a child, very young, about twenty years old."

Hear this.

Li Jianye quickly pulled out his hands, which he had finally warmed up, and took out a wanted warrant.

"Is this the man?"

Du'e took two glances and then nodded.

"It's him."

"I have seen him four times in total, and each time I saw him in a different place."

"Sometimes I saw him squatting on a street with some food in his hands to distribute."

"I've also seen him doing nothing, just squatting on the side of the road in a daze."

daze?

Qian Hua was stunned. He stopped teasing the child and walked over to speak seriously.

"Is it over there on Baoxin Street?"

Du'e was puzzled, but nodded.

Hearing this, Qian Hua remained silent and said to Xu Hao and the others, "The place where the incident happened six years ago was a place where small vendors set up roadside stalls six years ago."

“Do you have a fixed haunt?”

Li Jianye asked.

"I have only seen it a few times, so I can't tell which one appears more often."

Du'e shook his head.

Xu Hao stopped looking at him and turned to look at Qian Hua beside him.

"Is there any abandoned area in Linlan City?"

"There are quite a few, including abandoned vehicle transfer yards and abandoned factory sheds." Qian Hua said subconsciously.

"Did an eighth person die last night?"

Xu Huo asked again.

Last night he did not rush to call Du'e over for investigation, but instead gathered a large number of police forces to conduct a detailed search of those urban management personnel.

"No one from the urban management brigade was missing, and his family was not harmed."

Qian Hua said this time with great certainty.

The information provided by the court was very complete. All the people hiding in the dark were killed, and the remaining two in the open were also killed.

In other words, the other party has no target.

No, there should be no murder target! "How is the scale of the issuance of wanted warrants?"

In a trance, Xu Hao asked again.

"There are a lot of them printed. With the site as the center, the surrounding area is covered with his portrait. There are portraits of him on every telephone pole or in front of every door."

Li Jianye replied.

Xu Huo smiled and suddenly asked, "Do you know why I issued a wanted order even though I knew Du'e existed?"

Li Jianye paused and shook his head.

Du'e is the informant, and his effect far exceeds the clues provided by passers-by.

Logically speaking, there should be no need to print so many wanted posters, but Xu Hao increased his firepower instead. "The wanted posters are not for the residents to see, they are for Sun Jiang to see!"

Xu Hao spoke.

"For a thief, not many people understand the police search capabilities better than them."

"The existence of the wanted warrant tells him that the police have already found out his true information, including his facial features."

Xu Hao had said before that the best way to achieve a perfect crime is to prevent the police from finding the body and not letting them know too much information! On the contrary, as soon as the information comes out, the case will be solved quickly!

"And now, Sun Jiang is in this stage."

"He is running out of time, but his goal has not yet been achieved. Under this contradictory situation, his mentality and behavior will inevitably be radical."

"Anything that touches on aggressive behavior to achieve the goal is nothing more than killing three birds with one stone, completing a two-second task in one second."

"As for the murderer's behavior, the only radical action he could take was..."

“We face several times as many people who meet the target at one time.”

“And this kind of place.”

Having said that, Xu Hao paused.

Finally, his eyes were fixed on one place. This place was near an orphanage where a large number of children had escaped, according to the numerous pieces of information he had found last night.

And its name is "The Dump."

(End of this chapter)