The Winter Flower Ice Factory has been closed for a long time, but its underground ice vault is very clean as if someone is constantly cleaning it.
"You stay up there and guard the entrance to prevent someone from coming over and locking us both in. I've notified my colleagues nearby, they should be coming over soon."
Li Xue took her phone and looked around the ice vault, and soon she made a discovery.
"What's that?"
The bright light from the phone shone towards the corner, and Li Xue saw an incense burner with a colorful photo of Meng Shi next to it.
"A photo of the victim? Why is there a photo of the victim here? Someone is paying tribute to her here?"
The underground ice vault is not large, you can see the top at a glance, and there are no obstacles blocking the view, so Li Xue was slowly emboldened.
She walked to the corner and did not touch the last photo on the ground, but used the law enforcement recorder to capture everything.
"Did you find anything?"
"I found Meng Shi's photos, someone came to this place specifically to pay her respects, and looking at the incense ash in the incense burner, that person has come here many times."
"Is that all?" Han Fei attached great importance to the clues provided by Meng Shi, but from the feedback of Li Xue, this does not seem to be much of an important clue: "Why don't you come up? I'll go down and take a look?"
After pulling Li Xue up, Han Fei jumped into the ice vault, and almost the moment he entered it, an inexplicably familiar feeling came over him.
The enclosed, cold, boundless darkness kept coming.
His hands and feet were a little numb, and Han Fei remembered his encounter at Meng Shi's house when the old lady was out of control, the feeling that room 1031 brought Han Fei was exactly the same as this underground freezer.
"So the kind of cold is the feeling of the old woman before she dies!"
He turned on the phone lighting function to the corner and looked at the incense burner on the floor and Meng Shi's photo.
Meng Shi in the photo was very young, her hair had not yet turned white, and the person who came here specifically to pay tribute to Meng Shi seemed to have only this one photo in his hand.
"Winter Flower Ice Factory should be the first site of the death of the victim, the people who came here to pay their respects to her must have known the inside story and had a close relationship with Meng Shi, most likely Meng Shi's three children."
"The oldest set up the offering table in his own home, there is no need to run to this place specifically, removing him, there is only Meng Changxi and Meng Changan left."
The cold wind blew across Han Fei's face, the icehouse of the Winter Flower Ice Factory was designed underground, but it was extremely well-ventilated, which made Han Fei rather puzzled: "Does the icehouse also need to maintain air circulation?"
He looked for the direction of the wind blowing to the corner of the ice house, and the drainage port that seemed to be connected to the floor as a whole had a gap.
Grabbing the gap, Han Fei pushed hard, and he found that the drainage opening was just a decoration, and there was a passage underneath.
" It can still lead down?"
Looking at the dark underground passage, Han Fei hesitated.
The air became humid and a faint stench gushed out of the passage.
"The ice vault drain was hollowed out and connected to the city's underground drainage system, should we go down and take a look?"
"Wait for support, New Shanghai used to use underground pipe network type drainage facilities, then with the city upgrade and expansion, now all modified into underground corridor type drainage, which is connected in all directions, intricate, without a map going in would be easy to get lost." Li Xue was previously a member of the criminal police force, she is experienced, will never hesitate to rush forward, and will rarely be reckless when it comes to calm thinking.
After waiting for ten minutes, two of Li Xue's former colleagues arrived, they are different from ordinary civilian police, members of the criminal investigation team.
One of the detectives applied for temporary access to the city's sewage system and pulled up the map, and only then did they follow the passage into the underground.
There was a faint strange smell in the air, the underground artificial river emitted a clattering sound of water, and they walked in the aisle for the maintenance staff to walk, and overhead were the pipelines of water, gas, and communication that were laid more than ten years ago.
"If the winter flower ice factory is the first crime scene, then the murderer after the murder, was the body transferred through the sewer?"
Li Xue was thinking about the case, Han Fei was thinking about every word Meng Shi had said before, and the other police officers around him were studying the map.
"Sister Li, this area we're in doesn't appear on the map." A civilian police officer zoomed in on the electronic map, "There is a man-made dug-out passage under the ice bank."
The map of the city's sewage system and the scene do not cross-reference, and they entered an area not shown on the map, where a hidden "room" had been dug out.
Entering the hole, Li Xue and Han Fei saw the scene in front of them, and they were a bit disbelieving.
There were all kinds of drawings in this dark hole, and a thick pile of information about the freezer corpse case and the human jigsaw puzzle case.
Those information has been yellowed, you can see that a great period of time has passed, it should have been collected little by little over several years.
"Don't move around! Put on gloves!"
What surprised the police, even more, was that the innermost walls of the cave were covered with cropped photos and pictures of a dozen people, most of whom were circled with a black pen.
The only exceptions were three people, the first being He Shouye, whose picture had a cross drawn on it with a red pen.
The second was Meng Chang'an, whose picture was circled with a red pen, filled with holes poked out by the nib, so you could see that the owner of the cave seemed to hate Meng Chang'an to the bone.
The most unexpected one for everyone was actually the third photo, which was very new and should have been taken recently, and the person in the photo was Han Fei.
In Han Fei's photo, a question mark had been drawn with a black pen.
"The photo circled with a black pen should indicate someone who has been ruled out as a suspect, the cross drawn with a red pen represents someone who has been killed, the person circled with a red pen may indicate the next person to be killed, and as for the last question mark ..."
All the police officers looked at Han Fei, Han Fei also felt strange: "I felt followed some time ago, could it be that the person who followed me is this guy who lives in the sewers?"
"It's very possible, but why would he draw a question mark on your photo? Did you do anything special while you were being followed by him?" Li Xue focused on the photo of Han Fei.
"The first time I found out I was being followed was on the set of 'Flowers of Evil' when I was on the phone with you, and I think I said something like - you should really pay more attention to Meng Chang'an than Meng Changxi, the guy who looks the most harmless might be the one who killed his own mother. " Han Fei's eyes snapped open: "Right! I just heard a voice coming from the corner behind me after I said this, the other person should also have inner turmoil because of my words!"
"Now from the information the police have, all the evidence points to Meng Changxi, you are the only one who speaks for him, you think the real culprit is Meng Changan." Li Xue looked at the thick information in the hole in the ground and made a bold speculation, "Could the person living in the sewers be Meng Changxi who disappeared years ago?"