Chapter 217 Suspicious Suitcase
The three children giggled at Xiaohu's reaction.
Tingting gently stroked Xiaohu's back fur: "From today on, you are the 'chief mouse catcher' of our station!"
Father Xia was tidying up the shelves with Xiang Quan. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Hey, Brother Xiang, your kid is amazing! He's hiring a new employee for our express delivery station!"
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this, except Xia Lili.
Xia Lili was always thinking about the incident where the tabby cat was thrown to death by a strange man at night. She felt that there were many things wrong.
She asked the three children: "What time does your eldest brother usually bring you to the express delivery station in the morning?"
"During the previous renovation, the supervisor came at six in the morning."
The eldest, Tingting, replied, "The express station will open tomorrow, and Dad said he'll be here at 6:30 a.m. to sort the goods."
Tomorrow morning at 6:30
Could it be that... this cat abuse incident will happen in the early morning?
Xia Lili remembered that when the children saw the cat's body, the blood was fresh, which meant that the cat had died not long ago.
In the hallucination, the man threw the cat to death at night.
The sky at that time... was not pitch black, but dark blue.
This alley runs north-south, and the sky in the illusion is lighter on the east side...
Could it be that the incident of the man carrying the suitcase dropping the cat to death happened just before dawn?
Xia Lili said hello to Chang Yue and quickly returned home.
People who have a talent for painting definitely have a good sense of color.
Xia Lili found some paint and a palette and mixed the color of the sky in the illusion picture.
He also mixed out the color of the cat's bloodstains and the few drops of dark red blood on the elephant's path.
Xia Lili opened the dialog box with Li Qihan: "Captain Li, I have predicted the fate of another person."
"No, it's Doom-in-Chief, meow!"
After a while, Li Qihan sent a question mark:?
Xia Lili reports to Li Qihan the misfortune she foresaw about the little tabby cat being thrown to death by a suspicious man.
Afterwards, Xia Lili gave Li Qihan the two sets of colors she had mixed.
"Captain Li, when that man was dragging his suitcase through the alley, the sky wasn't pitch black. It was this color. Can you identify the time of year when this sky was this color?"
Xia Lili rarely stayed up late and had never observed the sky in Yangcheng before dawn in late autumn, but she guessed that Li Qihan, the overtime maniac, must know.
Li Qihan looked at the color card and replied, "It was probably around 4:30 in the morning."
Xia Lili understood that the cat was killed by the man at around 4:30 in the morning.
The three children discovered the dead cat around six in the morning, just over two hours later.
This explains why cats' blood is fresh and bright red.
Those few drops of dark blood on the alley...
Xia Lili's pupils shrank. It was definitely not a cat's!
The scene of the man's suitcase falling heavily to the ground flashed through his mind.
Could it be that those few drops of dark red blood seeped out of the suitcase and dripped onto the bluestone pavement in the alley?
He was dragging such a big suitcase in the early morning, looked hurried, behaved suspiciously, and was frightened by a cat. This man also had a violent tendency to abuse cats and his emotions were very extreme.
Xia Lili couldn't help but suspect that there might be fragments of the people hidden in the suitcase.
After all, this large suitcase is often used to transport corpses in various murder cases...
Li Qihan sent another message: "The blood color card you sent shows that the dark red blood has been there for a longer time. Your judgment is correct. The dark red blood is likely to have come from the suitcase."
"Did you see the man in the hallucination?"
——"I can't see it clearly, but I can describe the general outline, as well as the height, body shape and clothing."
Xia Lili said this, picked up a pencil, and sketched the appearance of the man who abused the cat on the sketch paper.
He had a long face, wore glasses, and had short hair. There was no light in the alley, so his facial features were blurry.
The man was wearing a polo shirt, trousers, and leather shoes.
He is probably under 40 years old, of average build and height...
Xia Lili made a phone call and asked Xia's father at the express delivery station to measure the height of the bulletin board in the alley behind the express delivery station.
In the hallucination, the man was dragging a suitcase past the billboard.
After a while, Xia's father sent a message saying that the height of the billboard was 1.7 meters, and the man was slightly taller than the billboard, so he was probably around 1.7-1.76 meters tall.
Soon, Xia Lili presented the portrait and appearance of this suspected cat abuser on paper. She also did not forget the size of the suitcase. It was a dark suitcase almost black, about 28 inches, but it was a common style and had no special features.
She sent this important information to Li Qihan.
After a while, Li Qihan asked a question: "Are the hands that this person is pulling the suitcase and holding the kitten by the scruff of the neck both left-handed?"
Xia Lili painted several portraits, including one of a man throwing a kitten to death and then walking away with a suitcase.
Only then did Xia Lili notice that the man was pulling the suitcase with his left hand.
Captain Li is so detailed.
Xia Lili carefully recalled the scene of the man catching the kitten. The man also used his left hand to catch the kitten!
So this man is left-handed? His dominant hand is his left.
Xia Lili had no idea about the case at first, because this time she did not see the scene of the unfortunate person being killed directly. Instead, through the experience of the kitten, she suspected that the man who abused the cat might be the murderer.
"Captain Li, are we going to use this portrait to look for someone now? Will that alert the enemy?"
Xia Lili felt a headache just thinking about it. "Besides, this guy looks like a company employee. I feel like there are quite a few tenants in this residential area, so there might be many people dressed similarly."
Li Qihan replied after a moment, "You said the man in your hallucination scolded Xiaomao, right? Do you still remember his voice?"
"I remember!" Xia Lili replied affirmatively. This man's curses were really dirty. He even cursed the kitten after dropping it to death.
"Come to the police station. We'll check the alley surveillance footage first. We're looking for an adult male who's 1.7-1.76 meters tall, wears glasses, has a long face, and is left-handed."
When Xia Lili arrived at Li Qihan's office, Li Qihan was studying the topographic map of the alley behind the express station.
This alley is interconnected and has 6 entrances and exits. Li Qihan has already transferred all the free police officers in the bureau to watch the surveillance and wait for the man.
"If there is a body in the box, it should be a woman or a child."
Li Qihan frowned and said, "A 28-inch suitcase can probably fit a female corpse that is under 1.6 meters tall and weighs 50 kilograms. Anyone taller than 1.6 meters will need to have their limbs amputated or bones broken."
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