"Is this the place?"
In the end, Gao Tian took Little Silver to the scene of the apartment.
Little Silver looked at the terrain and felt that it looked familiar. There was no mistaking it, he had been here before.
"Isn't there an apartment for family members nearby? I have a friend who lives there, "Little Silver said.
"That's right." Gao Tian nodded.
This was also one of the main reasons why the higher-ups had demanded that this serial murder case be solved and the murderer found as soon as possible.
The people who lived in the family apartment were all retired senior cadres of Huaxiu nation's political circle. Such a large murder case in their jurisdiction had greatly disrupted the lives of these retirees, as well as the stability of the surrounding area.
In fact, the crime rate in Songhai city was still very low, and murders were even rarer. This was another important reason why the higher-ups attached so much importance to this case. There was a "family apartment" in this area. Everybody knew that the security management of the place where there was a family apartment must be excellent. However, knowing that there was a family apartment, the murderer still chose to take action in this area. It was obvious that he was extremely confident in his means of committing the crime. It could even be said that this was a judicial provocation that despised the laws and disciplines of the cultivation world.
Little Silver and Gao Tian stood at the entrance of the apartment building, which had six floors in total and was called Divine Leisure Apartment.
"Take me in to have a look." Little Silver took out his phone to look at the time.
"Are you in a hurry?"
"I have to go to East Huang Road before twelve. So, we just need to solve the case before eleven o 'clock. "
"…" Gao Tian sucked in a breath. It was already nine o 'clock … Solve the case in two hours? Who did you think you were Detective Conan? Even Conan needed twenty minutes!
But now that things had come to this, Gao Tian felt that it was good to let Little Silver have a look. In any case, he was here to reinvestigate the crime scene.
When he entered the residential building, Little Silver noticed that the security office had already set up a temporary police station downstairs. When several police officers saw Gao Tian, they stood at attention and saluted him. "Captain Gao!"
"Are you all registered?"
"Everything is going according to plan," replied a police officer.
Since there was no conclusive evidence, all the residents in the building were listed as suspects, and their movements were monitored. They had to register when they went out and when they came back until the suspect was found.
On one hand, this measure was to find clues about the murderer, and on the other hand, it was in fact to protect the safety of the other residents. Since there was a police station downstairs, the murderer presumably wouldn't have the guts to commit another murder in the short term.
"Give me a police officer pass," said Gao Tian.
The officer at the police station helped Little Silver register and then gave him a badge. "Captain Gao, may I ask what this is?"
"I've hired an outside expert from the Office of Strategic Deception. I'm asking him to help this time to see if there are any clues, "replied.
"An expert from the Office of Strategic Deception …" The policemen looked at each other in astonishment.
Little Silver took the tag and put it around his neck, then started to sniff the ground. As Gao Tian had told him on the way here, three people had died in this apartment recently, and Little Silver could very clearly distinguish them by smell.
The blood of the dead usually smelled of resentment. Ordinary cultivators wouldn't be able to tell, but as a holy beast, Little Silver could.
Little Silver got up from the ground and clapped his hands.
"Three people really died. I thought you were lying to me."
"That's why you were lying on the ground …"
"I'm just smelling it to confirm the truth. One died on the second, third, and fifth floors, right? "
"…" This was Gao Tian's first time seeing someone handling a case like this.
But he had to admit that Little Silver was indeed very amazing. The murders had taken place on the second, third and fifth floors, and he had been able to sniff out the scent from the first floor. This wasn't something an ordinary person could do.
On the way here, he had only told Little Silver that a few people had died, but hadn't told him exactly where the floor was.
"Follow me."
Gao Tian nodded. He took Little Silver up the stairs and began to investigate each floor.
"The first victim was a Golden Core Stage cultivator from Room 202. He was a 440-year-old young man. His main occupation was an alchemist, so he basically never went out. When he died, he was only halfway through refining the elixir in his furnace, and the range hood was working normally. We immediately extracted the gas from the range hood hood, and detected a trace of dark night fragrance. "
"Dark night fragrance?"
"It's a banned drug sold on the Dark Network. Just a trace of it can cause hallucinations in people. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any traces of the murderer's intrusion, nor were we able to find any clues on this alchemist. His corpse had already been incinerated at the first instant. After committing the crime, the murderer threw it straight into the alchemy furnace. "
Gao Tian said, "We can only deduce from the bloodstains left after the fight between the Alchemist and the murderer that this Alchemist was the first victim."
"An acquaintance?"
"Not likely. This alchemist usually lived alone, and he wasn't a local. Even his neighbors didn't know much about him. In other people's eyes, he was a very mysterious man. "
"So the problem now is that you don't know how the murderer broke into the house, killed everyone, and didn't leave any clues, right?"
"Mm, that's one of the suspicious points."
Gao Tian said as he walked, "After the murderer committed the first murder in Room 202, it was twenty-four hours before he attacked the second person on the third floor. The person who died was Li Daofei, an online live streamer. Like the first alchemist, she usually didn't go out. Her main source of income was through live streaming, and she usually did some talent shows where she swallowed spirit swords. But what the murderer didn't expect was that Li Daofei was doing a live streaming at the time. She was killed as soon as she opened the door. Her fans heard a loud noise, and when they saw that Li Daofei hadn't come back, they decided to call the police.
"Then, the third victim was a coder. It was also twenty-four hours before the murderer chose to make his move. At that time, we had only done a preliminary investigation of the scene, and the murderer committed the third murder when the police had already arrived. This was a provocation to us. "
"Are they all homebody occupations?" Little Silver shivered, because he also liked to stay at home. He hadn't expected to see three homebodies killed just like that … Now he finally knew where the nickname "damn homebody" came from.
So what if they were homebodies?
Who had they offended at home?
Little Silver clenched his teeth as he thought about how to get rid of the murderer.
At that moment, he suddenly raised his head and stared upstairs. "The fourth one."
"What fourth one?"
"It's on the sixth floor. I can smell the fourth victim," said Little Silver.
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