It was half past five in the afternoon.
In the office of Team A in the Rùng Branch.
The whiteboard used for case analysis was no longer enough, so there were a few more at the scene. As for the photos of the victims, they had changed from one to five!
The atmosphere in the office was extremely tense. Five vacuum sealed corpses had popped up one after another. It was a rare occurrence.
Five corpses represented five lives that had been lost.
Who was it that mercilessly took away these five lives?
What was even more horrifying was that, according to the autopsy report, the five victims had all been starved to death, and their bodies had been sealed in vacuum bags after their deaths!
As the modus operandi of the five cases was exactly the same, and the bags used to seal the corpses were all from the same brand, the police could basically confirm that the deaths of the five victims were caused by the same murderer!
In other words, this was a vicious, serial murder case!
As the nature of the case was extremely bad, and the methods were extremely cruel, it had become the Key Case Investigation Unit's most important case, even surpassing the Bank Robbery Case.
"As of now," Miao Ying said with a heavy heart, pointing at a photo on the whiteboard, "Duan Dacheng was the earliest victim! Seven years ago, he was starved to death by the murderer, then sealed in a vacuum bag and stored in the safety deposit box of the Qinshan Bank on Yuhua Street! Also, when the murderer opened the account, he used Duan Dacheng's identity to register. "
"Yes, this is Bureau Chief Tang's fifth uncle," Zhang Jingfeng whispered to his colleague next to him, "Gong Xiuzhen's husband. When I was in the Missing Persons Department, I specifically looked for this person!"
"Then, six years ago, there was a leather shoe wholesaler named Tang Lingling!" Miao Ying pointed at a photo of a girl and said, "Tang Lingling disappeared six years ago, when she was thirty-three years old. After she was starved to death by the murderer, she was hidden in the safety deposit box of the Qinshan Bank on Yuhua Street. Not only did she use Duan Dacheng's identity to open the account, but the safety deposit box was also right next to Duan Dacheng's.
"Look further down, this time it was five years ago!" Miao Ying pointed at a photo of a girl with fair skin and said, "Tong Yun! She was 23 years old at the time, and the murderer hid her in the safety deposit box of the Qinshan Bank on Jiefang Street, using the registered name of Tong Yun!
"That year, the Qinshan Bank on Jiefang Street opened for business. For some reason, the culprit moved to another location, and he no longer used Duan Dacheng's ID, but Tong Yun's.
"And four years ago, the murderer actually changed locations!" Miao Ying pointed to the fourth photo, which was of a middle-aged man with a beard. "His name is Shao Zhenjiang, a sheep trader. He was 52 years old when he disappeared. After he was starved to death by the murderer, his body was deposited in the safe vault of Tongchuan Bank four years ago.
"But, for some reason, when it was Gong Xiuzhen's turn, the murderer returned to Qinshan Bank and hid Gong Xiuzhen's body in the safety vault on Yu Hua Street."
"Duan Dacheng's body is also on Yu Hua Road." Lan Bo shook his head and sighed. "Did the murderer intentionally reunite the old couple?"
"One per year!" Li Beini looked at Zhao Yu and sighed. "Senior, are you right again? Is it really a psychopathic murderer? "
"Among the five of them, they were of different ages, genders, and occupations. There was almost nothing in common." Miao Ying creased her eyebrows and said, "I wonder, why did the murderer choose these people?"
"I remember there was something in common?" Liang Huan recalled. "Are they all from Tongyang County?"
"No!" Zhang Yaohui immediately denied. "Neither Shao Zhenjiang nor Tang Lingling! Both of them were Qinshan locals, and had nothing to do with Tongyang County. "
"Tsk tsk … None of them have anything in common," Liu said, puzzled. "But there was a couple among the dead. It's really confusing! Could it be … that the murderer chose them as he pleased? "
"There's one more thing that we have to consider." Miao Ying shook her head and said, "Even though there's no new information, no one can guarantee that there won't be other victims!"
Indeed, the police detectives could not help but shiver. If there were more bodies hidden in other banks, it would be unimaginable.
"This is April, this is June, this is December …" Miao Ying pointed at the dates below the photos and said, "There's no pattern in the month that the murderer chose to kill, but there's a clear pattern in the date of disappearance and the time when the bodies were stored. See … "
"From the time the victims were reported missing to the time the murderer put them in the safe, it was about twenty-four to twenty-seven days …"
"Yeah!" Zhang Jingfeng shook his head and sighed. "That's enough time for a person to starve to death! This murderer is really perverted! "
"Zhao Yu," Miao Ying suddenly asked Zhao Yu, "you've been sitting there for half a day. It's not like you. Don't you have any opinions? "
"I do!" Zhao Yu nodded solemnly. "I told you I could find something in the bank, right? How was it? How was it?! Did you see that? There were so many bodies, and I was the one who found them all! Team Leader Miao, shouldn't you give me credit for this? How about you treat me to roast a whole lamb tonight? "
Miao Ying's eyes were fierce.
"Please!" Li Beini put her hands on her waist and complained, "Bro, look at the situation now. How can you still joke around? "
"Okay! Let's be serious! " Zhao Yu immediately straightened his clothes and said seriously, "I've been looking for half a day. If you ask me, there are only two possibilities. One, the murderer is a psychopathic murderer. Every time he feels bad, he will come out and kill someone. These people were all randomly chosen by him!
"And the second, I feel like … this case seems to be very similar to Li Dan's Lost Hand Case! The murderer looks like … like he's taking revenge!!! "
"Revenge?!"
Everyone was shocked by Zhao Yu's words.
"It can't be?" Li Beini was the first to object. "Gong Xiuzhen is just an old lady. Even if there's a grudge, there's no need to be so cruel, right? What about the others? They're not hooligans, nor are they thugs. What kind of grudge would they have to kill? "
"Don't get too worked up!" Zhao Yu was still very serious. "There are thousands of kinds of grudges in this world. Don't think that only hooligans have grudges, okay? Think about it. If you want to kill someone, it only takes one stab! But if you want to starve someone to death, how much effort would it take? How much risk would it take?
"Even so, the murderer has to starve people to death. Isn't this obviously revenge?" Zhao Yu waved his hand at Miao Ying. "Team Leader Miao, hurry up and use all the methods you have to find out the relationship between these five people. As long as we can link them to the same point, maybe the truth will come out!"
Zhao Yu was so sure because of his past experience. When he was investigating the Lost Hand Case, when Zhao Yu finally found the word "piano," the mystery was finally solved.
Then … would this time be the same as the Lost Hand Case? As long as they could find the key point, the case could be easily solved?
"That's true!"
After some consideration, Miao Ying agreed with Zhao Yu's opinion. She immediately sent a few people to investigate the relationship between the five victims.
Other than investigating the records of the victims, they also had to visit each victim's family to see if they could find anything in common.
Phew …
After the investigators got busy again, Zhao Yu could not help but take a deep breath. Although the appearance of the five corpses had disrupted the original rhythm of the investigation, to Zhao Yu, it was a relief.
Zhao Yu believed that the five bodies corresponded to the "Kun" hexagram that he had gotten that day!
In other words, the big incident that day had nothing to do with their personal safety. He could completely relax and focus on the investigation!
But because of the uniqueness of the "Kun" hexagram, Zhao Yu had been focusing on the former and had forgotten that the "Kan" hexagram was followed by the "Kun" hexagram!
Just as he was rubbing his palms together and getting ready to investigate the case, a phone call disrupted his rhythm.
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