Gu Xizhou had just arranged for Fang Zhi to inform the family members of the missing persons that had been reported missing in the past week to come over and identify the bodies. Xiang Yuan suddenly said, "Old Gu, want to have dinner together tonight?"
"No," Gu Xizhou waved his hand. "Let's investigate this case first."
Xiang Yuan took a sip of his red date wolfberry and looked at Gu Xizhou strangely. "That's strange. You used to live in the police station, but now you go home after work every day.
"Old Gu, don't tell me you're keeping a mistress in your house?"
"I'm not!" Gu Xizhou defended himself. "I have a son at home. What if he starves to death if I don't go home?"
Xiang Yuan nodded. "Okay, I'll go look through the body again and see if I can find any clues."
"Okay."
After that, Gu Xizhou returned to his office. Seeing that his subordinates were all there, whether they were working or not, he didn't want to leave early, so he closed the office door and dozed off on his desk.
After sleeping for a while, he was suddenly woken up by his phone. He looked at the caller ID.
Si Yu?
Gu Xizhou picked up the phone and said, "What's wrong? We've only been apart for a while and you're already calling me. Don't tell me you miss me? "
Si Yu was speechless.
Hearing that there was no response from the other end, Gu Xizhou was probably angry. "Tell me, what's wrong?"
"Take a look at the forum," Si Yu said calmly.
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and turned on his computer. He entered the forum URL that he had recorded in the memo into the search bar and entered it.
There were a few new posts on the forum, and one of them was at the top – Suspected Death World Appears.
Gu Xizhou glanced at it. Probably due to the rules, the content of the world could not be revealed. The person who posted the post was very vague and only mentioned that it was related to numbers. Also, this was his 46th time entering the mission world, and the people who entered the mission world with him were all people who had experienced the mission world more than him.
LZ: From the first time I entered the mission world until now, I have lived for 23 years … but I have never seen a world like this.
When Gu Xizhou saw that it was related to numbers, his first reaction was the note that Fu Yiran had given him — '6' for life, '1' for death. Good luck.
"Could it be that the note Fu Yiran gave me is related to this world?" Gu Xizhou patted his desk. "But the poster said that it was his 46th time entering a mission world. Although I've entered four mission worlds, I've only entered two of them. I'm still far from 46th."
Si Yu nodded and said, "I just saw it and felt that it might be related. Oh right … how much did your lifespan increase this time? I forgot to ask you this morning."
Gu Xizhou looked at the countdown in the air and raised his eyebrows. "Hmm … seven days."
"Only seven days?" Si Yu was stunned and asked.
Gu Xizhou said helplessly, "That's right. After all, I've been on a mission with you, someone who has experienced 18 mission worlds. In the end, my lifespan only increased by seven days. I'm impressed."
"What about you?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"My lifespan increased by less than one-ninth of my previous mission world's reward." Si Yu's expression darkened. "I feel that after bringing you along … the world's reward has decreased."
Gu Xizhou: "…"
Why did he suddenly feel guilty …
Was it because he had been caught cheating?
Hmm … the mission world must have found out.
"I think it has become stingy." Gu Xizhou whispered, "I've only been on it for seven days!"
Si Yu finally sighed and admitted that he was unlucky. "Forget it, the mission world's reward is not standard."
"Yes, yes, yes," Gu Xizhou said immediately.
Gu Xizhou hung up the phone and let out a long sigh. If Si Yu knew that his time had been deducted because he had cheated, he definitely wouldn't bring him and Fang Zhi along.
He definitely couldn't tell him!
At the entrance of the corpse display room stood an elderly couple and a middle-aged couple. They were in low spirits and were very worried that they would be recognized as their missing relatives.
At this moment, the two men who had just gone in to claim the corpse walked out with relaxed expressions on their faces. It seemed that the corpse inside wasn't their relative.
The last four people who had reported the missing person sighed in relief after seeing the clothes.
However, Fang Zhi's heart tightened. If it wasn't a missing person, they wouldn't be able to confirm the identity of this nameless corpse. It would be very difficult for them to fight in close combat.
After sending them off, Fang Zhi knocked on Gu Xizhou's door. As he went in, he took out a test report that he had just received and handed it to Gu Xizhou.
"Gu Ge, in the past week, all the people who reported the missing person have come to have a look. None of them are their relatives. This is the test report that the forensic doctor asked me to pass to you.
"The deceased is about 34 years old and is male. As all the body parts haven't been found, we can't confirm the cause of death for the time being. We have expanded the search area and are trying to find all the abandoned body parts. The blood samples have been sent for testing to see if there is any possibility of drug poisoning.
"The receipt is still being repaired."
"Okay." Gu Xizhou said calmly, "You've worked hard today. Go back and rest early."
Fang Zhi nodded. He had done his part for the day. He looked up at the time and saw that it was already past eight o 'clock. It was time to go home and have a good sleep.
Gu Xizhou sat on the chair and flipped through the information that Fang Zhi had given him. He read it carefully for a moment.
When he got home, Gu Xizhou pushed open the door and saw his dog son falling from mid-air and wagging his tail wildly.
"Woof, woof, woof!"
The 'ghost' playing with the dog caught the falling dog and saw the person who opened the door: "…"
"Oh, some ghosts keep saying that they don't raise dogs," Gu Xizhou said. He then added, "In the end, they're just ghosts who don't care about what they say."
Gu Zhizhi: "…"
Gu Xizhou closed the door and said in the living room, "Zhizhi, don't throw things out casually in the future. How bad would it be for the neighbors to see a pair of slippers in front of our house?"
Gu Xizhou picked up the slippers that had been thrown at the door and put them on. "Zhizhi, why don't you make me a meal?"
"Slap!"
The 'ghost' slapped Gu Xizhou on the back. Gu Zhizhi coldly took the documents from his hand, sat on the sofa, and began to flip through them.
This slap was probably to tell Gu Xizhou, 'Don't even think about it.'
Gu Xizhou saw him like this and took out his phone to order takeout. He sat down and briefly explained the investigation of the crime scene.
Gu Zhizhi: "The murderer killed with a motive. It's difficult to confirm from the missing persons."
Gu Xizhou: "Why?"
Gu Zhizhi: "The murderer cleaned out everything that could prove the victim's identity. This was a premeditated crime, so there must be a plan. Also, the location you mentioned was very remote. The body was buried in the ground. If it wasn't for the dog, the possibility of finding it was almost zero."
Gu Zhizhi: "The location was very remote. The locals rarely go to the small hills. At the same time, the murderer prepared the same bags. It's obvious that they prepared these things in advance. I even suspect that the murderer … drove here to dump the body."
Gu Xizhou asked, "You can think of so many things with just these?"
Gu Zhizhi wrote a line with a pencil: "Rookie devil cultivator. This is the basic quality of a criminal police officer."
Gu Xizhou: "…"
Really, sometimes he really wanted to hit the ghost.
Gu Xizhou thought about it and held back. After all, there were rules. He couldn't see Gu Zhizhi. He might even be beaten up by the 'ghost'.
"Then we can only pin our hopes on that blood-stained parking ticket?"
Gu Zhizhi: "Yes."
Another day passed. Just as Gu Zhizhi said, the source of the corpse was still not confirmed.
"Someone died, but no one reported missing …" Gu Xizhou looked at it and felt a headache coming. Could it be that the body was really dumped in a remote place?
Gu Xizhou was vexed for a moment when he heard someone knocking on the door. It was Xiang Yuan.
Xiang Yuan walked in with a document in his hand and handed it to Gu Xizhou. He held a thermos in his hand. "That ticket was printed by a thermal printer. After I recovered it, I checked it. This ticket is from an underground parking lot in Xijing."
"Oh … that's true." Gu Xizhou grabbed the photocopied document. On the document was a photo of the receipt. Gu Zhizhi, that jinx, had been right. For the past two days, he had called all the people who had been reported missing in the past ten days to come and identify the bodies, but none of them turned out to be her!
"The deceased was lucky," Gu Xizhou said.
If it wasn't for that ticket, this case would really be difficult.
Gu Xizhou asked someone to call the parking lot in Xijing and confirmed that the ticket belonged to a black Mercedes-Benz with the license plate number XXX. Based on the expensive clothes that the deceased was wearing before he died, he concluded that the other party might be the owner of the car.
"Let the traffic police check the owner of the car."
Fang Zhi ran over, panting. He said to Gu Xizhou, "The owner is a woman."
"Owner, Feng Tian, female, 31 years old, divorced …"
"She's not married?" Gu Xizhou asked, "What about her ex-husband?"
Fang Zhi frowned and said, "Her ex-husband died seven years ago."
"Seven years?" Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. "How did he die?"
"After the car accident, the car spontaneously combusted. After his death, she received nearly one million yuan in compensation. Seven years after her ex-husband's death, she had a total of five shops in various major shopping malls. However, she didn't remarry in the past seven years."
"Can you contact her?"
Fang Zhi nodded. "I've already gotten her registered phone number. Do you want to call her now?"
Gu Xizhou shook his head. "I think the situation is a bit complicated. Let's contact the police in Xining first and check her address first. We'll go there directly when the time comes."
"Okay." Fang Zhi was stunned for a moment. "This time, Gu Ge and I will be going too. Are you going?"
"Yes, you and I can go and see your sister on the way." Gu Xizhou shrugged. "Pack up. We'll drive there in the afternoon."
"Okay!"
Gu Xizhou said as he took Fang Zhi with him. They drove at lightning speed for almost three hours before arriving at the police station in Xining. The first person they met was Song Qian, whom they had met at the human trafficker's office last time.
"We meet again." The two of them shook hands. Song Qian said calmly, "Get in the car first. I'll take you there. She lives in one of our villas."
Gu Xizhou nodded. "Okay."
It was already three in the afternoon when the car stopped in front of the villa. Gu Xizhou had some bread and milk in the car. The few of them knocked on the door.
The woman who opened the door was a little dazed when she saw the police. She leaned against the door and asked carefully, "Hello … Is there anything I can help you with?"
Mature, beautiful, sexy, with a pretty face and a hot body. Such a beautiful woman had been single for seven years for her dead ex-husband. Gu Xizhou found it strange.
"Hello, are you the owner of license plate number XXXX, Feng Tian?"
The woman nodded. "Yes."
"I want to ask you something. Can we talk inside?" Song Qian took a step forward and showed his police badge.
Feng Tian took a step back and let Song Qian, Gu Xizhou, and the others in.
The five of them looked around after entering.
There were many children's toys, a wooden horse, and a crib.
"There's no one else in the house. Make yourselves at home," Feng Tian said softly as she took out a few glasses of water from the fridge and placed them on the table.
Gu Xizhou was slightly taken aback. He grabbed a plush toy next to him and asked casually, "Is this your child's toy? But I remember your profile says you're divorced. "
Feng Tian was stunned for a moment. She shook her head and said bitterly, "It's not my child's … After my ex-husband died, I haven't remarried."
"Then may I ask what you're using this room full of toys for?" Gu Xizhou asked.
Feng Tian said, "It's just for observation … Maybe it'll be useful in the future …"
Gu Xizhou nodded. He had taken a closer look at the plush toy just now. Some parts of the fur had been removed. However, it should have been done recently. The woman did not look like someone who would remove a plush toy out of boredom. Moreover, there was a watermark on the toy.
She was lying.
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