At half past eight in the evening, in a noodle restaurant in Chengzhou, Heyang Province.
"Boss, this doesn't seem to be your style, does it?" Cui Lizhu said to Zhao Yu, who was deep in thought, while holding a bowl of steaming mutton noodles. "According to your usual routine, you should be setting up your whiteboard in the police office! Why are you suddenly in the mood to treat me to stewed noodles? "
At that moment, only Zhao Yu and Cui Lizhu were eating stewed noodles in the noodle restaurant. Miao Ying and the other team members had returned to the Heyang Police Station to investigate the Killer Diary Case.
"Nothing," Zhao Yu said. "I haven't seen you for a long time, so I wanted to get closer to you …"
"Eh …" Cui Lizhu pointed at her snow-white arms and said, "Look, I have goosebumps! Boss, don't say something like that. Whenever you say something like that, I feel like you have ulterior motives! "
"Go to hell!" Zhao Yu took a bite of the mutton and said, "My tinnitus is acting up again. Your sister Miao saw that I was working too hard, so she asked me to hand this case over to her. She also asked me to take a good rest and not get involved anymore …"
"Wow," Cui Lizhu said. "Boss was impeached! That's interesting!
"But, you can rest," Cui Lizhu stuck out her tongue. "Why do you have to drag me along? Don't tell me you don't want me to do anything?
"Don't you know that in the case of the Memoirs of a Murderer case, I also made a great contribution?"
"Alright," Zhao Yu glanced at her. "It's lonely to be alone. Is it too much to ask you to accompany me to eat a bowl of noodles?"
"Of course, of course! But … "Cui Lizhu blinked her big bright eyes." You want to tell me about your brave performance in Korea? That's not too much, right?
"How about it? You must have fought a lot over there, right?
"The brave and powerful detective Zhao Yu, fighting against the Koreans …"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't talk nonsense. Tell me what?" Zhao Yu pointed at Cui Lizhu's phone. "Hurry up and tell me something serious. What were you looking at just now? Did you find any new information on the case? "
"Oh …" Cui Lizhu opened her mouth. "I understand. You want me to be your informant! Cough! You should have said so earlier! The two of us have such a close relationship, isn't it just a matter of a word? "
"Alright," Zhao Yu said. "Hurry up and tell me!"
"Hehe, I knew you couldn't let go of the case." Cui Lizhu turned on her phone and said, "I just checked. The University Games will be held in November of 1997!
"The sports meet is held once every four years, so it was held in 2001. But I think the murder case happened in 1997, right?"
"Oh …" Zhao Yu nodded. "The murderer said that if the sports students returned to school early for training, he would be exposed. Does that mean that there were sports students living in the Zizhen building?"
"I don't know yet!" Cui Lizhu took a sip of the soup and said, "Ever since I was pulled into the Special Investigation Group by you, there have been many strange cases.
"We just solved a murder memoir, and now there's a murder diary! Just watch, the person who wrote the diary must be a freak like Tu Qiang! "
"Tsk tsk …" Zhao Yu smacked his lips. "Isn't the HeYang Police Station a little slow? So far, the identity of the deceased has not been found yet? "
"Mm …" Hearing this, Cui Lizhu finally regained her seriousness. "I just asked, and the forensics department has extracted the DNA of the deceased and compared it with the database, but … But …"
"No way!" Zhao Yu was surprised. "The comparison was not successful? How … How could this be? "
"Yes!" Cui Lizhu echoed. "I'm also quite puzzled. Although the database wasn't established at that time, after the establishment of the missing persons database, the families of the missing women didn't know to record their information."
"That shouldn't be possible!" Zhao Yu swallowed. He felt that something was wrong. "If the deceased were college students, then their families shouldn't have recorded their DNA information, right?
And, even if one or two of them didn't record their information, wouldn't all four of them be recorded? "
Cui Lizhu said, "It seems that we can only compare it with the missing cases that were reported that year! But, Captain Mou said that in that era, there were many similar cases of missing women, so it would take some time to compare them! "
"By the way, the school has confirmed it," Cui Lizhu said. "They confirmed that since the 1990s, there has not been a single case of a missing student in the school!"
"So, at least the deceased was not from He Yang University …"
"Mm …" Zhao Yu said. "If it was a student from our school, then the school would have already searched for them. Maybe they would even open the garbage chute to check!"
Cui Lizhu's eyes widened. "So, the murderer must have made preparations in advance. He must have known that he couldn't do anything to a girl from our school!
"So … Who could these murdered girls be? Could it be a student from another university? Could they have been lured to the dormitory by the author of the murder diary, then raped and killed? "
"It's also possible," Zhao Yu said. "It's not a college student! After all, the crime happened during the summer vacation, so it's possible that it was another woman … "
"You mean …" Cui Lizhu understood what Zhao Yu meant and asked, "Are you referring to girls who are engaged in special professions?"
"I've dealt with similar cases before. Most of the missing women who didn't enter the DNA database for comparison were girls like this!" Zhao Yu said. "And, such girls are more likely to follow the murderer to the university dormitory …"
"That's true …" Cui Lizhu nodded. "Who would have thought that there would be a murderer hiding in the university dormitory?
"But …" Cui Lizhu guessed again. "The diary mentioned a name called Xiaoling. I was thinking, if the deceased was really engaged in such a special profession, then why would the murderer kill her?
"It's just a transaction of money and body. There's no need to kill her, right?"
"So, either we guessed wrong, and it was just a coincidence that the girl's data didn't enter the database, or …" Zhao Yu said seriously, "The murderer has a serious psychological problem. He lured the girl to the university dormitory in order to kill her!"
"You're right. I still have some impression in my mind," Cui Lizhu said. "At that time, the university didn't have strict access control and security measures, and there were no surveillance cameras. If it was during the summer vacation, it wouldn't be difficult for the murderer to bring a woman back to the dormitory.
"Who is this person?"
"Is there any progress on Zhang Peipei's side?" Zhao Yu asked. "The murderer used a lot of tape to wrap the body. Were there any fingerprints or dandruff that could be examined on the tape?"
"Dr. Zhang is still examining the body. I don't know about the dandruff, but …" Cui Lizhu replied. "There shouldn't be any fingerprints left, right? Otherwise, I would have known about it a long time ago!
"Boss, let me be fair. Please don't blame Sister Miao for being angry!" Cui Lizhu looked at Zhao Yu with concern. "Your complexion is really bad!
"How about this? I promise to be your informant and provide you with information at any time, but you must take care of your corpse. Oh, bah bah bah, take care of your body and have a good rest. Is that okay?!
"Don't worry. With Sister Miao and us, we will definitely solve this case beautifully! Just wait and see! "
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