Chapter 59 59 Guan Xia and I both speculate that the murderer is very likely...
Guan Xia quickly scanned the words that popped up on the system interface, trying to remain calm on the surface, but she couldn't help but want to complain in her heart.
Although the system has helped the police solve several cases, she still finds it difficult to adapt.
After all, she and Pang Le walked all the way from the entrance and met many people, but they didn't meet anyone who looked nervous, otherwise Pang Le would not have made a bet with her.
After all the words popped up, they remained there for a few seconds. Then the system interface changed and a video appeared. Guan Xia immediately put his messy thoughts behind him and watched it carefully.
Guan Xia had previously speculated whether it was the man she had seen smoking next to the trash can, or playing games on the stone bench, but she didn't expect that the person framed by the system's red frame was a man walking on a small path a few meters away from the main road, separated from them by a bush.
The man had an ordinary appearance and height. Like other pedestrians, he was walking slowly on the path while looking at his phone. Both hands were busy, and it seemed that he was replying to messages. He did not show any nervousness at all.
The bushes that reached Guan Xia's waist just reached his thighs, completely exposing the two pockets of his casual pants. Perhaps it was because summer clothes were thin, and the system's prompts were preconceived. Now, after repeated viewing through the system's magnification, the bulge was long and wide, and it really looked like a utility knife. There were indeed dotted stains on the edge of the man's trouser pocket where the hem of his pants was close to the edge of his trouser pocket, but to be honest, if the system hadn't magnified it to this extent, it would be impossible to see it with the naked eye.
The system appears quickly and disappears just as quickly.
As soon as Guan Xia came back to her senses, she found that Xu Nian had a serious expression, and Pang Le was looking at her with a strange and excited expression, obviously realizing something.
Guan Xia also said crisply, "I thought about it carefully and I do remember a suspicious person. He was wearing a light blue T-shirt and khaki casual pants. He was about thirty years old, male, about 1.75 meters tall. He had something in his right pocket. Judging by the shape, it looked a bit like a utility knife."
Guan Xia glanced at the time and said, "It's been about 20 minutes since I saw him. He's about a hundred meters from the main road, right in front of the entrance to the community."
Guan Xia provided very detailed information. Upon hearing this, Xu Nian walked aside and made a phone call without saying a word.
Pang Le looked at Guan Xia with sparkling eyes, as if he was looking at a treasure. He lowered his voice and said excitedly, "Although this isn't the first time I've experienced this, every time I see you like this I can't help but wonder, what's wrong with your brain? We came in together and saw the same thing, so how come you can notice so many details?"
Pang Le couldn't hide his excitement as he grabbed Guan Xia's shoulders and shook them gently. "I wonder if the brain can be insured. I really want to buy a large insurance policy for your head."
Guan Xia also feels that her head is very important now, after all, the low-existence aura is in it.
Glancing at the crowd who kept glancing over even while recording statements with the police, Guan Xia grabbed Pang Le and walked to a corner. "Behave yourself! Someone just died, and you're so excited. Be careful not to get photographed and become a hot topic in the city."
Pang Le's expression changed and he became serious. He glanced at the corpse that was still waiting for the forensic doctor to arrive and said in a low voice, "You just said that the murderer was a man in his thirties. The modus operandi was probably to cut the victim's artery with a utility knife, causing him to bleed to death. Do these two have a grudge? Or is it just a random killing? After all, this kind of killing method is difficult to save even if the patient is in the hospital. I remember watching a TV show or a novel where a serial killer killed people in this way. The victims all had certain similarities. Could this be the case too?"
Guan Xia shook her head. Although she had a system, she didn't know more details. Even if she used her divergent thinking, she didn't know which direction to speculate.
She has read a lot of crime novels recently. Although there are some random killings, most of them are still in the same three categories: either for love, for revenge, or for money. Killing simply for the sake of killing is unlikely even in the world of crime novels.
After taking a look at the corpse, Guan Xia began to observe his surroundings.
This is a small path only two meters wide, about three or four hundred meters away from the main road. Although the distance seems not far, due to the dense vegetation and the height difference, even if there are people nearby, they can hardly see what happened unless they turn around from the end of the path. The body fell on the path in the east-west direction. Judging from the direction of the blood dripping from west to east, the young man had a subconscious desire to survive after being injured. He wanted to walk out of the path to find someone for help, but the amount of bleeding was too heavy and he fell down before he walked far.
Guan Xia was observing carefully when Pang Le suddenly touched her arm and pointed in a direction, saying, "Look, what is that? It looks like a bouquet of flowers."
Guan Xia looked in the direction Pang Le was going. In the woods a few meters away from the body, there was indeed a large bunch of roses hidden in the grass. In addition, there were some scattered petals nearby, which looked like they had been thrown in by someone.
"It is indeed flowers," Guan Xia said, "and they are roses, a large bunch. If they belong to the deceased, it means he probably came to the park to meet someone."
"Boyfriend or girlfriend?" Pang Le guessed, "If someone can send roses, even if they are not boyfriend or girlfriend, it is likely that they are confessing their love."
As the two were discussing, a cell phone suddenly rang.
The ringtone sounded very familiar; it was the default ringtone for a major mobile phone brand. So, as soon as it rang, not only Guan Xia and Pang Le, but also several passersby who were recording statements nearby began to search their pockets. But they soon realized it wasn't the phone. A uniformed police officer shouted, "Captain Xu, it's the deceased's phone."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Nian hurried to the side of the body, trying to stay away from the bloodstains. After the police handed him a pair of gloves and he put them on, he carefully took the cell phone out of the deceased's trouser pocket.
It’s a pity that the call was hung up as soon as I took out my phone, but it only took a few seconds before it rang again.
Guan Xia tried to hear clearly what Xu Nian said after he answered the phone, but unfortunately the place was too noisy and there were voices everywhere. She could only vaguely hear a few words even though she tried hard to listen.
But Guan Xia soon lost her curiosity because a few minutes later, a beautiful girl in a light green dress and full makeup pushed through the crowd and rushed in. When she saw the dead man lying in a pool of blood, she couldn't help crying, "Jingming!"
The girl's expression was one of shock and grief, and she subconsciously wanted to pounce on the deceased, but was quickly stopped by two quick-eyed and quick-handed policemen, who carefully grabbed her arms to prevent her from getting close to the deceased.
With the appearance of the girl, the originally noisy crowd quieted down, looking at the couple with pity and compassion.
Pang Le also sighed and said, "God damn bastard, do you have some deep hatred to kill someone, and you choose this time."
Although it is not clear what today means to the couple, just looking at the bouquet of roses thrown in the woods and the sad and desperate expression on the girl's face, you can tell that it must be a special anniversary.
The crowd was quiet for a while, and then they started talking in low voices again, but this time they were no longer speculating about the relationship between the murderer and the deceased, but began to speculate about the relationship between the murderer and the girl. Guan Xia didn't listen carefully, but could hear someone guessing whether the murderer was the deceased's rival in love, and killed because of unrequited love.
Pang Le couldn't help but murmur, "The murderer chose such a special day to kill someone and then threw the flowers into the woods. It was clearly an act of venting anger. Maybe it was really a murder for love."
Guan Xia also had such a guess, but when he thought of the murderer's calm departure after killing someone in the video played by the system, he felt that it was not the case. After all, if the murderer really killed for love, it would mean that it was his first time killing someone. Even if he was born with an antisocial personality, he would not be so calm when killing someone for the first time.
Guan Xia stroked her chin. She always felt that the murderer's body relaxation was similar to that of the maintenance worker she met when she first bound the system. He might be another serial killer.
Thinking of this, Guan Xia whispered, "I don't think so. The suspicious man I saw was walking towards the exit in a leisurely manner and was playing with his phone the whole time. It didn't look like this was his first murder."
Pang Le was a little surprised and tried to control his voice, saying, "Another serial killer? So, he doesn't specifically target couples, does he?"
Guan Xia looked at the deceased and then at the beautiful girl who was shaking from crying. She nodded hesitantly, "It's possible."
Pang Le clenched his fists, his expression tense. "That bastard, he must be another scumbag who can't stand seeing others doing well just because he's not doing well himself. I'd better not let me meet him, or I'll beat him to a pulp."
Guan Xia also felt that this kind of serial killer who targeted couples was perverted no matter what his motives were.
The two discussed in a low voice for a while, and finally waited for the Pingjiang District criminal police who arrived after receiving the call.
But to Guan Xia's surprise, she didn't see a single familiar face.
So when Xu Nian came over with a pen and paper, he couldn't help but ask, "Have you been transferred? You're not in the Second Squadron anymore? And aren't you on vacation? Why are you here today?"
Guan Xia looked at him in confusion, wondering if he had been promoted because of the several unsolved cases he had solved before.
Xu Nian handed over the pen and notebook and said, "I am indeed on vacation, but the third squadron in charge of this case is far away, and it will take some time to get here, so the bureau asked me to protect the scene."
Guan Xia said "oh" in understanding, took the pen and notebook, and knew what to do without Xu Nian reminding her. She opened the book to a blank page and started drawing with the brush.
The system paused the video. Guan Xia didn't need to think at all, so she asked as she drew, "Oh, I just recalled a little detail. The suspicious man was not in a hurry when he left, and he even had time to play with his phone. Pang Le and I both suspect that this is not his first crime."
Xu Nian turned around and glanced around. Seeing that the nearest group of people were only a few meters away, he lowered his voice and said, "This is indeed a serial murder case, but because it's the Third Squadron investigating, I don't know much."
Guan Xia and Pang Le looked at each other and showed an expression of "as expected".
Pang Le leaned his head closer and asked carefully, "Can you tell me about the previous victims? Guan Xia and I both suspect that this murderer is likely targeting couples."
The police probably couldn't keep this information secret for long, so Xu Nian said without hesitation: "In addition to the current deceased, I know that the deceased in Pingjiang District who was suspected of dying by the same method was an elderly man, 72 years old, who died at Changqing Square near Qingnian Road around 9:00 pm on Monday, June 6."
"An old man?" This was somewhat unexpected to the two. Pang Le asked, "Does that old man have a wife?"
Xu Nian said, “Yes.”
Pang Le thought for a moment, scratched his head, and said, "Although they are not lovers, they are husband and wife. So it seems that Guan Xia and I's inference should be correct. He really is targeting the couple with the best relationship and killing one of them. This murderer is really perverted. He must be jealous."
Without more information, Xu Nian could not make arbitrary speculations like them, so he fell silent.
Guan Xia paid some attention to Pang Le and Xu Nian. Seeing Xu Nian's silence, she knew that this was all the information he had from the police station. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Since you are at the scene today, will you participate in solving this case?"
Xu Nian watched Guan Xia sketching seriously and said casually, "I'll just help protect the scene temporarily. When you finish, I'll hand it over to Captain Jian from the Third Squadron, and then I can leave with you."
Pang Le was a little surprised and disappointed. "If you don't join the investigation, then we will never know the details of this case. I'm really curious about the murderer's motive. Is it the same as I speculated?"
Guan Xia also looked at Xu Nian with some anticipation.
Anyway, since she encountered it and provided clues, she really wanted to know the cause and effect of this case.
Facing the expectation in Guan Xia's eyes, Xu Nian said in a low voice, "You provided a portrait of the suspect, which is equivalent to directly reversing the process according to the standard answer. I believe that Captain Jian will be able to solve the case in no time. When the time comes, I can tell you the relevant details without having to keep it secret."
With this promise, Guan Xia was more motivated. He drew the suspicious person in the video almost as fast as he could, in a shorter time than usual.
Xu Nian also acted very quickly. After taking the sketch from Guan Xia, he immediately went to find Team Jian who was leading people to conduct on-site investigation. After a brief communication, he left the scene with them.
When Guan Xia left, the girl's crying could still be heard. Her crying had changed from heart-wrenching to unstoppable sobbing, which made people feel sad and sigh at the same time.
Things in the world are so unpredictable. No matter whether it is the world before traveling through time or the world now, you never know which one will come first, accident or happiness. Facing an unknown tomorrow, you must live well today.
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