Chapter 240: Connections Used
This is another encounter with bad luck.
Xia Lili quickly leaned against the wall to stand, and the hallucination fragment had already appeared in her mind.
In the hallucination, Tao Lu took apart a milk tea straw and was about to insert it into the milk tea cup when she suddenly received a WeChat message on her phone.
The neighbor sister from room 202 said that she couldn’t finish the barbecue she bought, so she invited Tao Lu to have barbecue with her.
"Wow, the neighbor sister is feeding me again."
Seeing that there were still two cups of milk tea on the table, Tao Lu happily carried the milk tea bags and went to Room 202 next door.
Tao Lu found that the door of Room 202 next door was ajar, so she pushed it open and walked in.
He closed the door behind him.
"Sister" Tao Lu saw that the living room was empty and there was an untouched barbecue on the coffee table. She put the milk tea on the coffee table.
"Where are you? I'm coming."
Tao Lu pushed open the bedroom door and found her neighbor's sister lying on the bed, her stomach ripped open and covered in blood!
Blood stained the sheets and dripped onto the floor.
Tao Lu screamed in fear, but her screams soon stopped because someone strangled her neck with a rope from behind.
Tao Lu's face gradually turned purple, and then she stopped breathing, became weak all over, and fell to the ground.
The hallucination came to an abrupt end.
Xia Lili opened her eyes in horror.
The neighbor sister who died in bed in the hallucination was stabbed multiple times and her internal organs were exposed. It can be seen that the murderer used an extremely cruel method of killing people slowly, and she did not have a mobile phone with her.
So, the WeChat message Tao Lu received inviting her to have barbecue next door was not sent by her neighbor at all!
The neighbor's sister might have been killed by then.
The invitation WeChat message was sent by the murderer using the neighbor’s mobile phone!
The purpose is to trick Tao Lu over and kill her!
Xia Lili pinched her thigh hard to wake herself up immediately.
Tao Lu had already helped her sit on the stool: "Sister, what's wrong with you? Are you tired from too many orders?"
Xia Lili had no time to explain!
Because Tao Lu received a WeChat message from her neighbor’s sister inviting her to a barbecue, the message was received at 8:13.
And now... Xia Lili glanced at her phone, 8:08!
At this time, the murderer may have entered 202 next door and is committing violence!
Now we must go to 202, stop the murderer from committing a crime, and catch the murderer.
Xia Lili dialed Li Qihan's number and long-pressed the function key on the side of the phone.
Xia Lili's phone is equipped with an emergency shortcut button. By long pressing the button, the location can be sent to emergency contacts.
The emergency contact set by Xia Lili is Li Qihan.
While waiting for the call, Xia Lili showed his police ID and said to Tao Lu, "There's no time to explain now. Call 120 immediately. Your neighbor may have been killed. I'm notifying my colleagues!"
Tao Lu was stunned when she saw Xia Lili's police ID. Was this girl an undercover police officer? She fumbled with her phone and dialed 120 for emergency services.
At this time, Xia Lili had already put on a deliveryman's helmet and came to the door of Room 202 next door, fully armed.
I devoted myself to practicing the lock-picking skills last week, and I didn’t expect them to come in handy so soon!
She observed the lock of 202 and found it was an old-style lock structure.
Whenever Xia Lili goes out, she always carries a tool kit and self-defense gear with her, fully armed.
He took out a thin wire from his pocket and fiddled with the keyhole of door 202 for a few times. In less than ten seconds, the lock was opened.
Xia Lili did not break in directly, but knocked on the door several times, making a loud noise.
"Police, open the door!"
In the specific situation where the murderer is committing a crime, protecting the house in this way does not alert the murderer, but rather lets the murderer know that someone is outside, making the murderer nervous and panic, stopping the violence against the victim, and giving the victim hope of survival.
When Xia Lili pushed open the door of Room 202, she saw a dark figure falling out of the living room window!
The murderer jumped out of the window and escaped!
She hurried to the window and saw the murderer got on a common black electric bike on the market. The license plate was blocked and the murderer rode away on the electric bike.
Xia Lili only took a picture of his back with her mobile phone.
But it was not a big problem. She was already in a hallucination and could clearly see the murderer's clothes and height.
Li Qihan's voice came from the phone: "I have coordinated with the nearest police to rush to Ximing Community."
"What's the situation at the scene?"
——"The murder has already happened, and I stopped the other party from committing the crime."
"The murderer has escaped."
"When the murderer fled, he was wearing a gray-black jacket, black pants, and dark blue sneakers. He was estimated to be about 175cm tall, wearing a black baseball cap and a black mask. He had double eyelids and his left eyebrow was broken."
Xia Lili said as she hurried towards the bedroom.
Xia Lili pushed open the bedroom door and took a breath. The girl lying on the bed had three knife wounds on her body.
Blood was oozing from the wound, soaking the clothes, but the person was still breathing, and the bleeding was not as terrible as in the hallucination!
At this time, Tao Lu also stumbled in.
I saw my neighbor's sister on the bed being stabbed and screaming in surprise.
However, what surprised Xia Lili was that Tao Lu used bed sheets and pillowcases to stop the bleeding of her neighbor's sister with trembling hands.
Seeing Tao Lu's professional technique for stopping the bleeding, as if she had learned first aid, Xia Lili hurriedly said, "You take care of her here. Wait for the ambulance to come. I'll go after the murderer!"
Tao Lu nodded repeatedly, looking at Xia Lili with a dazed look in her eyes. The rat-catching hero in front of her turned out to be a plainclothes policeman!
Xia Lili ran straight to the elevator and sent a group message to the delivery riders she had added: "Brothers and sisters, a reward is being offered to find this person. At 8:14, he fled from the alley on the east side of Ximing Community towards Qinyuan Road on a black electric scooter!"
Xia Lili repeated in the group the characteristics of the murderer that she had previously described to Li Qiuhan, and attached a photo of the murderer's back that she had taken.
"If you have any clues, please contact..."
"Anyone who provides effective clues will be rewarded 1,000 yuan for each piece of information!"
“Please spread it! Please pin it to the top!”
After Xia Lili's reward message was sent out, it caused a huge stir, and the message in the delivery rider group immediately became 99 replies.
Those riders who had been helped by Xia Lili forwarded Xia Lili's reward notice.
The group administrator also set Xia Lili's message as a group announcement.
The news spread quickly among every delivery rider group in Yangcheng.
"bite--"
The elevator door opened and Xia Lili ran quickly towards her electric scooter.
Just then her phone rang.
There was an unfamiliar male voice on the other end of the phone: "Hello, I want to provide a clue!"
"I just saw this guy while waiting for the red light on the east side of Qinyuan Road. He was driving his electric bike very fast and almost hit me. He ran the red light!"
Xia Lili delivered takeouts one after another and was already very familiar with the terrain of Yangcheng's old city. She immediately had an idea of the murderer's escape route in her mind.
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