Chapter 26 26 You keenly sensed that the murderer seemed to be in disguise, you...
Missing? Everyone's expressions, which had just relaxed a little, immediately became solemn again.
Jiang Yingyao's expression became visibly anxious.
Xu Nian's expression darkened. He didn't speak, but instead quickly flipped through the shortlist of individuals he'd selected. After a moment, he pulled out one and said, "This person, Luo Shun, male, 45 years old, from Pingshun Village. He not only has a regular stall at the market near Liang Xinhua's Shuimu Chuncheng residential complex, but also randomly sets up stalls in several nearby communities. He's most likely the murderer."
As Xu Nian finished speaking, Jiang Yingyao practically roared, "What are you still standing there for? Run! Our destination is Pingshun Village, and our target is Luo Shun. Hurry!"
The people who were watching Xu Nian quietly were suddenly shocked and began to run out in panic.
Xu Nian called out to Jiang Yingyao, who was about to run, "Wait a minute, Brother Jiang, I need to go to Shuimu Chuncheng Community."
Jiang Yingyao responded with a loud shout, "Qi Bai, you..."
Before he could utter the last word, Wang Yu, who had just run a few steps, stopped and shouted, "Captain Xu, Brother Jiang, I'll go. I'm the only female field officer in our squadron. Liang Xinhua is missing, and only his wife and daughter, Ye Lan, and Liang Panpan, are left in Shuimu Chuncheng. I'm the most suitable person to go."
Xu Nian waved his hand in agreement. Qi Bai, who was running in the front, heard the footsteps and shouted, "Xiao Wang, be careful."
Wang Yu responded loudly, "Got it."
Everyone quickly went downstairs and gathered in the car. Qi Bai turned on the police lights and drove very fast. As he drove, he glanced at Xu Nian in the rearview mirror and couldn't help asking, "Captain Xu, Liang Xinhua went missing after going fishing at 6 o'clock this morning. It has been seven hours since he disappeared. Do you think he is still alive?"
Xu Nian had his eyes closed, resting. Upon hearing this, he opened them, thought for a moment, and said, "Based on the autopsy results of the first four victims, they should still be alive. But we can't rule out the possibility that the murderer suddenly changed his mind."
Qi Bai also remembered and said, "The body parts of the four previous victims were all found at least two days after they disappeared, and the time of death was no more than 24 hours. Judging from the other marks on the body parts, they all suffered some degree of abuse before death. So, Liang Xinhua has only been missing for seven hours, so there is a high possibility that he is still alive."
After making this inference, Qi Bai felt a little relieved, but he still drove the car as fast as he could.
Xu Nian continued to close his eyes and rest. Just two minutes later, his cell phone rang.
After the call was connected, Jiang Yingyao's voice came over, "Captain Xu, I've had someone retrieve the information you requested about Luo Shun. Luo Shun did experience domestic violence for over a decade as a child, which lasted until 1991 when his father, Luo Zhengyang, was murdered by his wife, Hao Lili."
Jiang Yingyao paused, then continued, "After Luo Zhengyang's death and Hao Lili's imprisonment, Luo Shun dropped out of school at 16. He worked in Lianshi, Tadong, Linshan, and other places before returning to Yongquan in April 2009 to join the villagers in growing vegetables in greenhouses."
"It seems that Luo Shun definitely didn't just kill these four people," Xu Nian said with certainty. "In addition to the body parts of these four victims that have not been found, there must be at least a fifth person's body in Luo Shun's home."
Jiang Yingyao also remembered the fifth bloodstain DNA that was wiped from the trunk of the silver-gray car that was found at the beginning, but there was no body and the database did not match it.
Jiang Yingyao thought for a moment and asked, "Should we send a joint investigation to the cities where he previously worked? He handled the clues of the four people he killed so cleanly. No one knows how many people he must have killed before to be so clean, efficient, and cautious."
"Send it," Xu Nian couldn't help but pinch his brows again, "Ask the clerk in the remaining team to send it now."
"Okay." Jiang Yingyao agreed and hung up the phone.
Qi Bai was stunned. "I really didn't realize that Luo Shun was such a ruthless person. We were able to track him down so easily this time and uncover him before he killed another victim. Guan Xia's clues were really instrumental. Once this case is solved, I'm going to treat her to a nice dinner this weekend."
"Weekend?" Xu Nian laughed. "Don't even think about the weekend. We still have a tough job waiting for us after this case is over."
Qi Bai was incredulous. "I haven't heard of any major cases happening in our district. The Third Squadron just finished a case and is idle. Even if there really is a case, it wouldn't be our turn."
Xu Nian said, "Do you remember the place we went to that day where Pang Zhiye and Pang Wenzhe were last seen before they disappeared?"
Qi Bai suddenly remembered something and said in surprise, "No way, it's raining in the middle of the night, and we're still looking for some fatal clue?"
Xu Nian snorted, "A escaped, the suspect in the 217 family massacre case, is he a big shot?"
Qi Bai's eyes widened. "Isn't that a case in Danlin City? How did the suspect come to our Yongquan City? There's an entire province between us."
Xu Nian felt a headache just thinking about it. "The cigarette butt was found in the crack of a rock by the river. It was put into an empty mineral water bottle. I don't know where he threw it from before it got stuck in the crack. Now I'm not sure if he's still in Yongquan City. After all, the Cuiping Mountains are very long, spanning three provinces and several cities. But since the cigarette butt appeared in Yongquan City, we have to search the entire city. Our Second Squadron has an important case right now and doesn't need to get involved, but once the case is over..."
Xu Nian didn't finish his words, but Qi Bai understood, two words: overtime.
When Qi Bai thought about the dark and gloomy days that might come, his mood, which had just relaxed a little, immediately became heavy again.
The journey was smooth and it took less than half an hour to reach the destination. When Xu Nian got off the car, Jiang Yingyao had already made a preliminary allocation of the people present.
After listening to it, Xu Nian felt that there was no problem, so he added the subsequent arrivals according to the previous allocation.
This is a yard not far from the village, but a few hundred meters away. Walking along the road, you can reach the vegetable greenhouse. Behind it is a wasteland, but behind the wasteland is an unknown wild mountain. The mountain is not high, but it covers a large area and is covered with lush trees. It looks like a good place to bury a body.
Qi Bai stood behind Xu Nian, followed his gaze, and immediately understood something. He said with a bitter face, "No way, Luo Shun buried the remaining body parts in that wild mountain? It won't be easy to find them."
Xu Nian didn't say anything, just watched everyone running around. After all the personnel were in place according to the deployment, he waved his hand and took the lead in leading people into the yard.
The gate was closed, but it was easily opened by a nimble policeman who climbed over it.
As soon as they rushed into the yard, without Xu Nian saying anything, everyone rushed towards every house they could see in tacit understanding.
Soon, a series of responses came.
"Captain Xu, there's none in the living room."
"Not in the kitchen."
"The left bedroom is empty."
"Captain Xu, we've found something in the utility room." Xu Nian immediately ran over with his men upon hearing this.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw blood all over the floor. Liang Xinhua, who had been missing for less than 8 hours, was lying in a pool of blood. A policeman carefully touched his carotid artery with his hand, then looked at Xu Nian and shook his head.
This fact was beyond everyone's expectations, including Xu Nian, whose faces turned pale.
"Go call forensic doctor He." Xu Nian glanced at Qi Bai.
Qi Bai quickly ran out to call for help. Just as he ran out of the utility room, someone else shouted, "Captain Xu, there's something found in the bedroom to the right of the living room. It's Luo Shun's daughter, Luo Xiaoyun."
Everyone rushed to the bedroom to the right of the living room, where a policeman was carrying Luo Xiaoyun out of the closet.
The police officer said: "He is still breathing and has no external injuries, but he cannot be woken up. He must have been knocked unconscious."
Before Xu Nian could say anything, Jiang Yingyao rushed in and said, "Captain Xu, we've looked everywhere, but we can't find Luo Shun. Luo Shun's wife Jiang Chuntao isn't here either."
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Guan Xia read books very hard and seriously for the whole morning, but the overly professional knowledge made Guan Xia dizzy. When he thought carefully, he didn't remember a single word.
After lying on the table for a while in frustration, Guan Xia slowly went to make lunch. She originally wanted to take a nap, but she tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep. She always felt that she had not gained anything from her hard work for the whole morning.
Guan Xia reflected on whether she had taken a step too big. After much thought, she decided to continue watching the drama.
Although criminal investigation dramas are just TV dramas, the professional knowledge contained in them is still dense and very reliable.
Guan Xia made this decision happily. Thinking that she couldn't sleep anyway, she simply ran back to the study to relieve herself and put the book she had read a dozen pages of back on the bookshelf.
After thinking for a while, Guan Xia adjusted the positions of the books on the bookshelf.
He put professional books at the bottom, and novels, crime records and other books in the most easily accessible places. Looking at the pile of novels that he felt he could understand just by looking at the titles, Guan Xia finally felt relieved.
Guan Xia picked up the phone on the desk and was about to move to the living room to watch a TV series when he accidentally looked up through the window and saw a familiar figure walking towards Building 7.
A wide hat, a black windbreaker, carrying a fishing rod and holding a red bucket, isn't this the domestic violence man called Lao Liang that I saw yesterday evening?
Went fishing early this morning and came back at this hour? Looks like you didn't catch much, otherwise you would have been showing off the fish like you did yesterday evening.
Guan Xia glanced at it casually and looked away without any interest, but she felt something was wrong all the way back to the living room.
This was an inexplicable intuition. Guan Xia felt that everything was normal rationally, but she felt inexplicably uneasy.
Guan Xia suspected that it was the system's fault.
Thinking of the system, Guan Xia's irritable mood suddenly calmed down as if a bucket of cold water was poured on him, but a feeling of horror began to surge up.
Guan Xia subconsciously sat up straight and began to carefully recall the figure she had just seen. The wide fisherman's hat and the black windbreaker were indeed the clothes worn by the domestic violence man named Lao Liang whom she had seen yesterday evening, but the clothes did not seem to be as full today.
Lao Liang wasn't very fat, but he had a big beer belly, which made his loose jacket bulge out his abdomen. And the figure just now...
Guan Xia finally figured out what was wrong and stood up in shock.
Although the figure just now was wearing the same clothes as Lao Liang last night, that person was not Lao Liang. The real Lao Liang went out fishing this morning. Since it was not him who came back, then who was it?
Guan Xia couldn't help but think of the figure he had seen when camping and climbing that day, and recalled the figure he had just seen, gradually merging the two figures into one.
Guan Xia was horrified and almost wanted to scream. It was the murderer, the serial killer. Why did he pretend to be Lao Liang? Why did he go to Building 7? Lao Liang was out fishing, so what was he doing in Building 7? Was his target the woman being abused? Or the little girl, only seven or eight years old?
Guan Xia was so frightened that she froze, her mind in a mess. It took her a few seconds to remember to call the police.
Guan Xia almost pounced on the coffee table to pick up the phone. With trembling hands, she found Xu Nian's number and dialed it.
The phone rang only once before it was quickly picked up. Xu Nian's voice came over, "Guan Xia? What did you find out?"
As Xu Nian finished speaking, the system interface appeared.
You are being questioned by the police, and you suddenly remember that at 2:04 pm on May 10, when you were tidying up the bookshelves in your study, you saw a suspicious-looking fisherman through the window. His clothes were the same as the fisherman you saw last night, but his body shape was different. You keenly noticed that it seemed like the murderer was in disguise, so you decided to tell the police.
The system's appearance confirmed Guan Xia's guess. Guan Xia spoke rapidly, "The murderer, the murderer I saw on the day of camping, was in Building 7 of Shuimu Chuncheng Community."
Xu Nian's voice didn't sound surprised. He just said, "Lock the door and don't go out. We'll be there soon."
Guan Xia hung up the phone and immediately ran into the study, but she didn't see that figure anymore. Guan Xia knew that he had already walked into the unit.
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