Chapter 67
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Dong Hwa Ice Factory had closed down a long time ago but its underground icehouse was very clean like it was regularly cleaned.
"Stay up there and guard the entrance. Don't let anyone lock us inside. I've already notified my colleagues, they should be here soon. "
Li Xue used her phone to look around and soon she found something.
"What's that?"
The light from the phone shone at the corner of the wall. Li Xue saw an incense burner and next to it was a colored picture of Meng Si.
"A picture of the victim? Why would there be a picture of the victim here? Someone is here to mourn for her? "
The underground icehouse was not that big. Li Xue could see the end of it with one glance. There were no obstacles so Li Xue's courage grew.
She walked to the corner but she did not touch the picture on the ground. Instead, she used the recorder to record everything.
"Did you find anything?"
"I found Meng Si's picture. Someone purposely came here to mourn for her. Based on the ashes inside the incense burner, the person has been here many times."
"That's all?" Han Fei placed great importance on the clue provided by Meng Si but from Li Xue's response, it did not appear to be anything important. "Why don't you come up? I'll go take a look. "
After pulling Li Xue up, Han Fei jumped into the icehouse. The moment he stepped into the icehouse, a strange sense of familiarity washed over him.
Sealed, cold, and boundless darkness kept surging in.
His limbs were numb. Han Fei was reminded of what happened to him at Meng Si's home. When the old lady lost control, Room 1031 gave Han Fei the same feeling as this icehouse.
'So, this coldness is what the old lady feels before her death!'
He turned on the flashlight function on his phone and walked to the corner. He studied the incense burner and Meng Si's picture.
Meng Si was very young in the picture. Her hair had not turned white yet. The person who came here to mourn for Meng Si only had this one picture.
'Dong Hwa Ice Factory should be the scene of her death. The person who came here to mourn for her must have some inside information and they are very close to Meng Si. They are most likely Meng Si's 3 children.
'The boss has an offering table at home, there's no need for him to come here. Other than him, there are only Meng Changxi and Meng Changan.'
The cold wind caressed Han Fei's face. Even though Dong Hwa Ice Factory's icehouse was underground, it had good ventilation. This confused Han Fei. 'Does the icehouse need ventilation?'
He followed the direction of the wind and came to a corner of the freezer. There was a gap in the drain that seemed to be connected to the floor.
Grabbing the gap, Han Fei pulled hard. He realized the drain was just a decoration, there was a tunnel underneath it.
'It can go further down?'
Looking at the dark underground tunnel, Han Fei hesitated.
The air became damp, and a faint stench wafted out of the tunnel.
"The drain of the freezer has been dug out. It's connected to the city's underground drainage system. Should we go down and take a look?"
"We'll have to wait for reinforcements. Previously, Xin Lu used to have an underground drainage system but with the expansion of the city, the system has been changed to an underground corridor system. It's so complicated that it's easy to get lost without a map." Li Xue used to be an officer at the crime unit. She would not hesitate when it was time to rush forward and she would not act rashly when it was time to think.
After waiting for about 10 minutes, two of Li Xue's former colleagues arrived. They were different from normal officers, they were members of the crime unit.
One of them applied for temporary access to the city's sewage system. He pulled out the map and they followed the tunnel underground.
There was a strange smell in the air. The underground river splashed noisily. They walked down the corridor meant for maintenance workers. Above their heads were the water, gas and communication pipes that had been laid for decades.
'If Dong Hwa Ice Factory is the first crime scene, then after the murder, the killer moved the bodies through the sewers?'
Li Xue was thinking about the case while Han Fei was thinking about everything Meng Si had said. The other officers were studying the map.
"Sister Li, the area that we're in doesn't show up on the map." One of the officers enlarged the map. "There's a man-made tunnel underneath the icehouse."
The city's sewage system map did not match the crime scene. Li Xue's group had entered an area that was not shown on the map. A hidden 'room' had been dug there.
Walking into the hole, Li Xue and Han Fei could not believe their eyes when they saw what they saw.
The dark hole was filled with various blueprints. There was also a thick stack of information about the frozen body case and the human jigsaw case.
Some of the information was yellowed. It was clear that they were collected over a long period of time.
"Don't move around! Put on your gloves! "
What surprised the police even more was that on the innermost wall of the cave, there were some cropped photos and pictures of more than a dozen people. Most of the pictures were circled with a black pen.
There were only 3 exceptions. The first was He Shouye. His picture was crossed out with a red pen.
The second was Meng Changan. His picture was circled out with a red pen. It was filled with holes. It was clear that the owner of the cave hated Meng Changan to the core.
To everyone's surprise, the third picture was very new. It was probably taken recently and the person in the picture was Han Fei.
On Han Fei's picture, there was a question mark drawn out with a black pen.
"The circled picture should represent the person who has been cleared of the crime, the cross should represent the person who has already been killed, the circled person should represent the next person to be killed, and the question mark at the end …"
All the officers turned to Han Fei. Han Fei was confused. "I felt like I was being followed. Could it be that the person who was following me is this person who lives in the sewers?"
"That's possible, but why would he draw a question mark on your picture? Did you do anything special when you were being followed? "Li Xue stared at Han Fei's picture.
"The first time I realized I was being followed was at the set of Flower of Sin. At the time, I was on the phone with you. I believe I said something — 'Compared to Meng Changxi, you should really pay more attention to Meng Changan. That guy who looks the most harmless might actually be his mother's killer." Han Fei's eyes widened. "Yes! After I said that, I heard a voice coming from the corner behind me. The person's heart probably wavered because of my words! "
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