Chapter 361: Searching for the suspect and refining the life-extending pill
"We will mainly check the residents of Building 11!" Meng Fuling asked the property management to bring the owner registration book.
There are two units in this building, each unit is 23 stories high and has four households per floor.
There are a total of 184 households in the building, but only 122 of them actually live there.
"Oh my god, 122 households? Do we have to check them one by one?"
Just looking at these lists, Wen Xiaoli was about to collapse.
"Yes, Master, there are too many people here. Can't we check them all in one day?"
The police couldn't help but shake their heads: "It's over. If we don't find this person today, a new victim will appear tomorrow morning."
"No need for careful investigation!" Meng Fuling said calmly.
"If I'm not mistaken, the Soul Reaper is anxious to refine the elixir because he has reached the stage where he has to take the life-extending elixir."
"They perform a ritual every seven years, and once this ritual begins, it cannot stop."
"So during the ritual and elixir-making period, this Soul Reaper's hair was white."
"The rapid aging process has revealed gray hair, and even if she wanted to hide it, she couldn't."
"White hair? What if it's an elderly person?" Wen Xiaoli thought, "Maybe if they dyed their hair, then we can't tell."
"No!" Meng Fuling shook her head. "I've personally seen Soul Reapers with heads full of white hair unwilling to die. Their white hair can't be dyed no matter what."
"That narrows it down!" Wen Xiaoli asked quickly, "Do they have any other characteristics?"
"To refine the life-extending elixir, one must have an alchemy furnace, so we must check whether there is an incense burner and an alchemy furnace in their house."
"Great! This narrows the scope!" Several people looked at each other and said, "Let's split up!"
Wen Xiaoli and Meng Fuling formed a group, and the other two policemen formed a group to check the residents of the two units one by one.
The fans in the live broadcast room became excited, after all, catching a criminal is very exciting.
"Master, are you investigating the suspects? Suddenly, that amount of money is so exciting."
[This serial sorcerer is hiding in this building. Does it feel like watching a suspense drama?]
[There is only one truth, and the murderer is you. Hahahaha, I feel like Conan.]
[But I think there are very few people in this building who have alchemy furnaces at home with white hair.]
[Hmm, the characteristics are still very obvious. It seems that we can find this Soul Reaper quickly.]
Wen Xiaoli and Meng Fuling checked two units, starting from the first floor and knocking on the doors of every household upstairs.
Some people are very impatient and some start scolding them as soon as they meet.
There were even some who refused to open the door and let them go, but the majority of people were able to accept the investigation calmly.
Wen Xiaoli looked at the list in her hand and said, "Fuling, we've checked the 10th floor. Are there any suspects in the dozens of households below?"
"No!" Meng Fuling shook her head: "Not these people below."
Even if there are residents with white hair, most of them are naturally aged elderly people and not soul stealers.
It was already dark, and more than half of the area had not been checked.
Without taking time to eat, the two of them continued to take the elevator to the 11th floor and rang the door of room 1101.
"What's going on?" Wen Xiaoli pressed the doorbell several times, but no one inside responded.
Could it be that there was no one in this house? It was clearly written on the list: "This family seems to be a single mother!"
It’s so late, you shouldn’t take the child out for a walk, Wen Xiaoli is ready to come.
Meng Fuling stood there without leaving: "No, there is someone at home!"
Just then the door of the room opened and a woman in home clothes hurried over.
She had a shower cap wrapped around her head and looked like she had just come out of the bathroom.
The woman looked to be in her thirties when she saw Wen Xiaoli in a police uniform.
"Comrade police? What can I do for you?" She looked at the two men with a confused look on her face.
"Routine inspection, here are our ID cards!" Wen Xiaoli took out her ID cards for them to see.
"Can we go in?" Meng Fuling asked, staring at her tightly wrapped shower cap.
"Oh, sure!" she said, opening the door and letting them in quickly.
The room is not big and looks like a two-bedroom apartment.
There was no one else in the house, and it looked like the woman was the only one at home.
"Are you alone?" Wen Xiaoli remembered to write down the family's names: "Your name is Zhang Wenli?"
"Yes, my name is Zhang Wenli!" she said, opening the drawer to take out her ID card. "This is my ID."
The name was indeed the same as the registered person. Meng Fuling's eyes fell on the TV cabinet opposite.
There is an incense burner on it and a Buddha statue behind it. There is no smell because it is not lit.
"Do you believe in Buddhism?" Meng Fuling walked to the incense burner and asked.
"Ah, it's not mine." Zhang Wenli explained with a smile: "I'm not the owner of the house, I rented it."
"The original landlord was a Buddhist, and since it was their belongings, I didn't bother to deal with them."
Wen Xiaoli looked at the list and saw that it was indeed marked as a tenant.
Meng Fuling kept looking at the Buddha statue, and her eyes vaguely felt the hostility emanating from the statue.
She was about to reach out to check when she suddenly heard a child crying from the inner room.
"Waaaaa!" The crying continued, and Zhang Wenli hurried to the bedroom.
She came out holding a one-year-old child: "Oh, my dear son, are you hungry?"
She turned around and skillfully found a bottle to make milk powder, and then prepared complementary food to feed the baby.
The child didn't know what was going on and kept crying.
She only stopped for a while after drinking the milk. She saw the two of them while holding the child.
"I'm sorry, my husband divorced me, so I'm raising the child alone now."
"Could you please help me get the child's clothes?" She was holding the child and couldn't move her hands.
At this time, there were milk stains on her body, and Meng Fuling stood up and walked into the house.
As he picked up the clothes beside the bed, his eyes glanced at an ornament hanging on the wall.
It was a piece of blue fabric with an abstract painting embroidered on it.
The middle looks like a person's eye, and the surrounding area looks like the sun shining.
Looking at the painting, Meng Fuling curled up the corners of her lips into a sneer, turned around and walked outside.
"Do you need me to help the child change his clothes?" she said as she handed over the clothes.
"No, thank you!" Zhang Wenli smiled and helped the child take off his clothes.
Everything went smoothly without any doubt, and Wen Xiaoli was about to ask something.
"Let's go!" Meng Fuling stood up and said, "The person I'm looking for is not here."
"Oh, okay!" Wen Xiaoli didn't have any doubts and left with him: "Then you go ahead and get busy!"
The door closed with a snap, and Wen Xiaoli said slowly, "I should have checked her hair just now."
Because his attention was focused on the child, he was pulled away by Meng Fuling just as he was about to speak.
She glanced at the door behind her, then pulled Wen Xiaoli out of the elevator.
After knowing that they had entered the elevator, Meng Fuling cast a prohibition spell on the live broadcast room.
Then he slowly said, "No need to look! She is the Soul Reaper we are looking for!"
"Ah?" Wen Xiaoli was immediately anxious when she heard it: "No way?"
"Then why didn't you say anything just now? And why did you pull me out?"
When the fans in the live broadcast room heard this, they became anxious. Why did he run away when they had already found him?
[Master, are you scared? Why don't you take her down right away when you know it's her?]
"That's right, isn't he just an evil spirit master? Could his skills be even higher than my master's?"
[Isn't she just an ordinary mother? How can you tell she's a Soul Reaper?]
[The shower cap he's always wearing is suspicious. Is he deliberately trying to hide his identity?]
[I don't understand the master's operation. Is he worried about something? I really don't understand.]
Not to mention the fans, even Wen Xiaoli couldn't understand it.
Meng Fuling's eyes were slightly cold: "Because she has a hostage, and suddenly taking action might hurt the child."
Zhang Wenli took the child out of her arms on purpose in front of Meng Fuling.
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