"Yes, yes," Zhao Yu said to Miao Ying over the phone. "Report to the Criminal Division immediately and ask them to send support! There's a new case, so we definitely don't have enough manpower … "
Zhao Yu then said, "Also, you and the city leaders should consider the matter of martial law. I think it's better to strengthen the defense for the time being.
"Mm … Mm … I trust you. I'll go to the crime scene now …" Zhao Yu said. "Yes, we don't have enough forensic doctors. Get some from Xinbin!
Sigh! What I was afraid of really happened. The thing I was most worried about still happened!
"Mm … Mm … I understand …" Zhao Yu said. "I know. I've been through a lot. I won't panic!"
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
"On the same day, there were two female corpses under the bridge. This … What do we do?" The heater in the car was turned on, but Captain Chou still shivered and said, "Including yesterday's … three cases, how could they be so close to each other?
It's like a mushroom. Before one side is plucked, another one pops up! Is it like bamboo shoots after a spring rain? "
"Don't panic!" Zhao Yu comforted him. "The corpses may have been hanging there for a long time, but they were found later.
"Let's talk about the location of the latest case first."
"Harry Harry Village," Captain Qiu said nervously. "This village is full of ethnic minorities. It's in the west of the city!
Just now, the village committee received a notice and conducted a special inspection. Then, they found it under a small bridge in the east of the village … "
"What? West? " After Zhao Yu heard this, he immediately thought of something. He quickly opened the map on his phone and looked at it carefully.
Xi Mengna looked curiously and saw that Zhao Yu had marked the locations of the previous cases on the map.
"Holy sh * t!" Zhao Yu swallowed and pointed to the map. "Look, the first case is in Donglitiao Village, which is in the east of the city!
The second case is in Baiqi Town, which is in the south of Manchuria!
The third case is in Mei Hexing Town, which is in the north of the city!
"Now, there's another ha … ha what's that again? Due west, due west!" Zhao Yu's eyes widened. "North, South, East, West, and West are all occupied. From the map, it looks like a square! Too righteous! "
"No … No no no …" Captain Chou grabbed his hair and said, "You … You've confused me! Wasn't the Third Oil Production Plant also in the south? Are there two in the south? "
"No," Xi Mengna said. "Our team leader suspects that the case at the Third Oil Production Plant might have been a copycat!"
"Ah?" Captain Chou was even more shocked. "Imitation … imitation of a crime. Is it so strange? Close … More importantly, this case happened not long ago, right?
"Only the police know the details of the crime scene. Who … who would imitate it?"
Xi Mengna told him the truth. "Our team leader suspects that when the case happened in Baiqi Town, someone was watching the crime scene and imitated it!
Moreover, this person is very likely to be from the factory. He's Chi Meixin's colleague … "
"Oh … Oh …" Captain Chou suddenly understood. "No wonder you asked me for the video of the crime scene!
"Fortunately, we recorded it, but … But …" He said worriedly, "Our criminal investigation team is not very professional. I don't know how Xiao Liu recorded it!
"If he only recorded the crime scene, but not the onlookers, then we're done for …"
"Let's not talk about that for now." Zhao Yu asked, "What's the situation with the body that was just found?"
"It's not near there. I've already sent the nearest person there, but they won't be able to get there now!" Captain Chou said. "According to the villagers who found the body, the body is also a woman. But, because it's frozen solid, we can't tell whether it's a domestic or foreign woman!
"I told them to protect the scene and wait for our people to come over!" Captain Chou said. "Harry Harry Village is a well-known well-off village. The villagers are all cultured, so they will definitely protect the scene!"
Is that so?
Zhao Yu frowned. He seemed to have thought of something.
"Zhao … Um … Leader Zhao …" Xi Mengna couldn't help but ask, "Is there any other explanation for what you just said? Could it be some kind of religious ceremony? "
"This is what I've been most worried about since I came to Manchuria," Zhao Yu said. "I always feel that the murderer's purpose is not just to kill people. There may be other purposes!"
"Yeah …" Xi Mengna also frowned and said, "There are so many bridges. If the murderer only wanted to kill people, which one couldn't he have chosen? Why did he have to choose one from the north, south, east, and west? "
"Tsk tsk …" Zhao Yu looked at the map and fell into a new thought. Now that the north, south, east, and west were all here, would the murderer make another move?
Had he already completed the mission, or … or would he choose a new place?
…
From the south of the city to the west, they happened to pass by a highway that led to Meng Xiang. With this highway, Zhao Yu and the others arrived at Harry Harry Village in just over 30 minutes.
When they arrived, the police officers who had gone there first had also arrived at the scene and were setting up a cordon.
Several local villagers in herdsmen's clothing were reporting something to the police officers.
"If we hadn't come out to patrol, no one would have crossed the bridge until the snow melted!" A herdsman with a white beard said. "To be honest, even if someone really crossed the bridge, it would be difficult to see the situation under the bridge!
"Look …" He kept looking at both sides of the river ditch. "There is no river on either side, so we have to go straight from the bridge. Who would look down at the bridge?"
Zhao Yu came to the bridge, and to his surprise, he heard the sound of running water.
"Hey!"
He quickly ran to the river and looked down. He was surprised to see that the river was not completely frozen. The ice on the right side was cracked, and there was water flowing through it.
"This …" Captain Chou was also surprised and asked the herdsman, "Why is there water here?"
"Oh … There is a spring in Alxa, and the spring water is warm," the old man said, pointing at the water. "But, after it flows here, it's all cold. After it flows past Yakoqi, it is completely frozen. Only some of it flows under the ice …"
While the old man was speaking, Zhao Yu could see that although there was still water flowing on the ice, the water was not turbulent and did not affect most of the ice.
So, he quickly put on his gloves and went under the bridge.
This bridge was the shortest one, and because there were piers under the bridge, it looked extremely narrow and dark. Moreover, there was a lot of plastic garbage under the bridge, as well as some smelly mud that had been melted by the warm water!
The frozen corpse was hanging in the middle of the bridge. Because of the lack of light, it was really difficult to see it from the outside.
Just by looking at the scene, Zhao Yu could already confirm that the case in front of him and the murder under the bridge were definitely the same murderer!
Whether it was the expansion pipe, the ring, or the knot, they were all neat and tidy, and there were no traces left on the ground. It was obviously different from the case in the Third Oil Production Plant.
But …
Zhao Yu came in front of the corpse and smelled the rotten stench of the corpse.
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