Wu Fan bias not open eyes asked: "You did not run over that person, or how? I see you chasing out quite fast, with a small elk child like, the general male can not run you, how can you still not catch up ..." "Where you so much nonsense, honestly stay!" Fu Xueqing viciously roared at Wu Fan.
Wu Fan swallowed his saliva and protested in a small voice, "I said Officer Fu, I'm not a criminal, can you uncuff me now."
Fu Xueqing glared at him, walked over and took out the key, unlocking the back cuffs for Wu Fan, but her gaze suddenly fell on the ground, her expression froze, she bent down and picked up a white string, asking, "I haven't seen this before, is it yours?"
"Of course it isn't. I was just about to tell you about it. Just now, just before you came back, a person suddenly ran to the door and threw this in without saying a word, and then the person left."
Seeing that Fu Xueqing was skeptical, Wu Fan hurriedly added, "It was the person you chased after just now, he didn't come in, but I recognized the pants he was wearing."
These words caught Fu Xueqing's attention, she took the string and looked at it repeatedly, muttering to herself, "It's a white string too ..."
"What, have you seen it before?" Wu Fan asked.
"There is something I haven't told you yet, after the victim Wang Wei was killed, I heard that she had a white giant clam string missing ..."
"Give me a look." Wu Fan took the string from Fu Xueqing's hand and touched it, and said rather knowledgably, "Giant clam is a kind of large shell, the texture of this string does feel like a giant clam, and it's likely that it's the same string that Wang Wei lost."
Fu Xueqing looked serious and said, "According to you, the person you just saw is the murderer!"
"Murderer?" Wu Fan looked at Fu Xueqing with surprise, his heart was secretly afraid, he didn't think that he had just met with the murderer, if that guy drilled in to kill himself, wouldn't it be as easy as a slap in the face?
Fu Xueqing's mind raced, connecting the events that happened before and after, "It looks like this guy intentionally lured me into the alley and then returned to throw Wang Wei's string into the store."
"Why did he do that?"
"I don't know." Fu Xueqing looked at the hand and said, "The disappearance of Wang Wei's hand abundance has long aroused our suspicion, and we followed this clue to find the suspect, Jin Zhancheng, who went to the temple and begged for this string to give to Wang Wei. But now Jin Zhancheng is still in custody, but someone sent back the hand string, indicating that the murderer is someone else. But why the hand murderer preferred to steal this less valuable string, and now inexplicably returned it, is really puzzling ..."
Fu Xueqing is saying here, Wu Fan suddenly "eek" a sound, "this string how there are letters on it, Buddha beads are absolutely not allowed to carve words."
"Letters?" Village Xueqing took the string from Wu Fan's hand and turned the beads to observe them carefully before realizing that there were letters engraved on many of the beads, and since the engravings weren't deep, they weren't really noticed at first.
Could it be that this is what the murderer carved on it?
Fu Xueqing counted, a total of five letters carved, from left to right in order - A, K, F, N, R. But if you look from the right to the left, the letters are not deep.
But if you look at them from right to left, the order becomes R, N, F, K, A.
Fu Xueqing's English was at the fourth grade level, and after pondering over it for half a day, she couldn't think of such a word. Spelled out in Hanyu Pinyin, the five letters didn't mean anything either.
"Do you understand what this means?" She asked Wu Fan.
Wu Fan shook his head even after reading it and casually joked, "Could it be a password?"
"A password?" Fu Xueqing thought about it, it wasn't impossible. But this move was really elusive. The murderer took the victim's string, could it be just to leave this string of mysterious characters on it?
Seeing Fu Xueqing's silence, Wu Fan couldn't help but say, "Officer Fu, I have an idea I don't know if I should say."
"You say."
"Even if like you guys said this murderer is a perverted Dracula. But I think that his intention of committing the crime is not just as simple as getting a thrill. His thoughts are more complicated than you guys speculate. Just like this string, from the murderer's behavior, he is early in the preparation of the murder when he has already designed these five letters in my opinion this is a kind of message, it is possible that he wants to express some kind of idea through these five letters, just like the Zodiac Killer in the history of the United States, who after killing several people in a row, sent a letter to the police which was written in a secret language, and contained some important information about his personal information in this letter, once the the police could decipher it, they would be able to catch him.
"According to you, if we can decipher the meaning of these five letters, we can catch the killer?"
"It's possible. At least it can provide us with some important clues." Wu Fan paused, "Moreover, I'm not sure if the murderer only gave this one hint, to be on the safe side, you'd better recheck this murder scene again ..."
"You have a point." Fu Xueqing listened to him and nodded, "But it's very late now, it's too late to find someone now, so if you don't mind, check with me."
"Can I do the same?"
"What's not to like, you've come in anyway, the idea was also yours, beating a dead horse, it's better if you can find something, it doesn't matter if you can't." Fu Xueqing was very quick.
Wu Fan was naturally happy, and just took this opportunity to learn more about the situation and collect material.
In fact, the two did not have any purpose, no one knows about the murderer, just intuitively check some seemingly novel things, or nooks and crannies that may hide "hints of the murderer".
Fu Xueqing checked to the cash register, casually picked up something and said: "This Wang Wei is really quite generous, like this bottle of lotion, how to also need one hundred and fifty-sixty dollars, but she used it as a gift."
Wu Fan is opening the corner door behind the flower rack to look inside, listening to Fu Xueqing say this, can't help but look back, I don't know what the reason is, his face suddenly changed greatly, walked a few steps to Fu Xueqing in front of him, staring at the things in her hand.
"What's wrong with you?" Fu Xueqing was a little surprised, "You are not thinking that this cosmetic has any problems, this is an international brand, in various supermarkets are all such packaging, there is nothing different."
"Oh, no ... nothing." Wu Fan's mouth was perfunctory, but in reality, he tried to suppress his inner shock.
What he was staring at was not the lotion bottle in Fu Xueqing's hand, but the pink cosmetic paper bag next to it, labeled with a small label of "free gift", with "Medea" written in English in a beautiful decorative font.
It reminded him that on the night he was sleepwalking, he had walked into the neighborhood KFC store in a blurred state carrying a cosmetic bag that didn't actually contain cosmetics.
He couldn't remember where they came from at all when he was awake, so he secretly poured out the liquid and the paper bag made him throw it away, but he remembered that the style of the paper bag, especially the letters on it - Medea - was exactly the same as the cosmetic bag he saw in front of him.
A terrible idea flashed in his mind, he could not talk to Fu Xueqing, turned around and ran to the gate, look at the signboard on the face of the door, under the name "Medea Hair Salon", there is a string of English letters that are not too eye-catching, it is Medea.
Wu Fan suddenly realized that Medea was the English way of writing "Medea".
That cosmetic bag of unknown origin actually came from this store.
This was incredible!
Immediately afterward, he instinctively thought of an even more horrifying situation - since the cosmetic bag he had thrown away had come from this store, was the bottle in the paper bag also from here?
What must have happened that night while he was sleepwalking, Wu Fan didn't dare to think any further.
"Hey, what are you running outside for?" Fu Xueqing called out to Wu Fan from inside the house, snapping him out of his shock. He hurried back into the store.
Fu Xueqing looked at Wu Fan in a puzzled manner, "Running around, nervous, thousand what is it, like seeing a ghost ..."
How dare Wu Fan tell her the truth, hastily digress, incoherently said, "I just saw a plate of fish ... in the inner room ... stinking too disgusting... ...I this person is allergic to seafood ... ran out to vomit ..."
Fu Xueqing is a thousand what, the eyes do not allow sand, has already seen Wu Fan mouth is not the heart, must be where is not right.
She looked down at the lotion bottles and cosmetic bags in her hands and didn't find anything wrong with them before she continued with Wu Fan's words, "I know that there's a plate of fish in the house, and I haven't moved the chopsticks yet. We also previously speculated from this that the night Wang Wei was killed maybe she was stewing fish to try to entertain her guests, and later proved that Jin Zhancheng did come to look for her that night, and the two also had sex, but for some reason, the two didn't eat ..."
Fu Xueqing said while walking towards the flower stand at one end of the room, bypassed the flower stand, pushed the door into the room and looked around, and asked Wu Fan: "You've checked everything here, found anything suspicious?"
"Checked, didn't find anything." Wu Fan then followed him in, his heart still thinking about that cosmetic bag.
Fu Xueqing looked at him suspiciously, "Didn't you say you were allergic to seafood, are you okay now?"
Wu Fan was startled, he actually forgot about this, and hurriedly pinched his nose, "Aiya, it stinks so bad, I'm getting nauseous and dizzy again. I was looking at that plate of fish a bit strange, forced myself to come in and take a look."
"Strange, where is it strange?" Fu Xueqing got to the bottom of it.
Wu Fan screamed in agony, making up one blind story would have to be rounded up with a bunch of blind stories.
He dawdled and moved towards the table, his mind hurriedly pondering how to make up a set of fanciful reasons for Fu Xueqing to muddle through. This woman was very shrewd, if she saw the cracks, it might lead to some big trouble.
He walked over to the table and surveyed the plate of already stinking braised fish with a sad face, somehow his expression suddenly changed subtly.
Fu Xueqing waited for a while and asked after him, "Where exactly is it strange?"
"Do you know what kind of fish this is?" Wu Fan inexplicably asked back.
Fu Xueqing hadn't really paid attention to this, looking at the fish on the plate it wasn't small, with its head and tail exposed, shaped like a large carp.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is called Chili Red Dragon." Honestly, this discovery surprised Wu Fan himself, crookedly, did he really guess correctly?
"Is this the name of the dish?"
"Of course not, it's the name of a fish. It got its name because its scales are red and black, resembling a sprinkling of chili peppers. But the thing is, it's a very expensive ornamental fish, and one as big as this can sell for two or three dry."
"Just one fish like this is worth two or three thousand?" Fu Xueqing was startled, then she understood what Wu Fan meant, "How could Wang Wei use such an expensive ornamental fish for cooking?"
"Yes, and you notice, Wang Wei's store seems to have no fish tank, right, she bought such an expensive fish where to keep it, it can't be just for cooking, right?"
"Can it be that this fish was brought by the murderer?" Fu Xueqing was astonished, "The murderer made a special fish after the murder?"
Wu Fan examined the plate of dragon fish on the table which was already completely disfigured, and quickly realized that the fish was not even gutted, it was directly placed in a pot and braised, as the internal organs were not taken out, so no wonder it was so smelly.
He couldn't help but reach out and press on the fish, seemed to sense something, immediately broke open the mouth of the fish, put his fingers into it, and now he forgot that he was "allergic" to seafood, picking out half a day to see the Fu Xueqing nausea, followed by seeing Wu Fan from the mouth of the fish dragged out a thing that made her unexpected! --Actually is a branch of two-color flowers.
At a closer look, it was a plastic flower, with a large red and white flower cluster on a slender stem, dotted with a few green leaves.
There was no doubt that it must have been left deliberately by the murderer.
This guy's thinking and normal people are completely different, after killing people are not in a hurry to escape, actually have the leisure in the murder scene fish stew, but also to the fish belly into a branch of plastic flowers. As a result of the police in the investigation of the scene, actually not a single person noticed what articles in this plate of fish, but let a newspaper reporter found.
"Could this be another hint from the murderer? But what message could it represent?" To Xueqing, this was simply more puzzling to her than those few letter riddles.
Wu Fan pondered for a while, his eyes shining slightly, "I've thought of an explanation, do you want to hear it? "
"Speak quickly."
"But I have a condition." After whetting Fu Xueqing's appetite, Wu Fan was selling a secret.
Fu Xueqing really wanted to kick him twice, "What condition?"
"When you investigate the case next, can you bring me along?"
"How can this be! This is against the rules."
"I don't have to be physically present at the scene of the crime, I won't get in the way of your case, I'll just stay where you think it's safe and conduct some simple interviews. You said that I'm doing my best to help you finish your work, shouldn't you also provide me with some convenience so that I can go back and deliver my work, all are part-time workers, understand each other and help each other, no?" Fu Xueqing narrowed her eyes and looked at Wu Fan, calculating a sum in her heart, not really a loss, "Alright, I agree. You say it."
Only then did Wu Fan open his mouth, "I think the murderer is using this fish to foretell the next murder case to you."
"The next murder case?" Fu Xueqing's heart fluttered.
"To understand the murderer's cryptic words, you have to think in his way of thinking. Why would he buy such an expensive ornamental fish and bring it to the scene for no reason, I believe that in the entire city of Jiangzhou, there aren't many places that sell this kind of fish ..."
"What does that branch of flowers represent?"
Fu Xueqing rushed back to the criminal police team, and after some investigation, she determined that within the boundaries of Jiangzhou City, only the high-end ornamental fish market within the Ocean Pavilion sells this kind of chili red dragon.
Early the next morning, she rushed to the Oceanarium with her people, hoping to find out clues from the merchant's purchase records. Wu Fan was also exceptionally allowed to travel with the police. He tried to find a way to participate in the police investigation, in addition to facilitating the interview there is another reason that can not be said to outsiders - he wanted to take the opportunity to figure out what he sleepwalking that night in the end experienced, why the victim's hair salon cosmetic bags and bottles appeared in his hands? He had to figure it out to have peace of mind.
After the actual visit found that just before Wang Wei was killed the day before, there had been someone with cash to buy a chili red dragon, but unfortunately this person did not leave more personal information, according to the businessman recalled, the person who bought the fish is a male, medium build, back head wearing sunglasses, there is a large handful of thick gills beard, speak in a very stiff voice, like outsiders. Can not say how old, may be more than thirty years old, may be more than fifty years old.
Fu Xueqing immediately became suspicious of this person, intuitively this guy must have disguised himself, intentionally in disguise his appearance.
She let people to check the market surveillance, did find this suspicious person, due to the distance is too far to see not too true, and this person wrapped very tight, did not reveal any obvious features.
This path didn't turn up too many clues, but at least it proved that their investigation was in the right direction and figured out the gender of the suspect.
Fu Xueqing had other means.
The murderer didn't just leave a fish behind, but also inserted a plastic flower into the fish's mouth, which should be another hint.
Fu Xueqing took Wu Fan and a few people out of the Oceanarium and went around the surrounding streets to see if they could find any other clues. If the murderer was intentionally hinting at them, then the clues would certainly not be hard to find.
"Team Fu, I remember, there seems to be a flower store in this neighborhood." A police officer who was familiar with the neighborhood suddenly popped up, "Could that plastic flower have been bought at the flower store?"
Fu Xueqing's eyes lit up, but there was indeed this possibility.
She let the police officer point out the way to find the flower store, located in a very conspicuous road next to the location of the crime scene is somewhat similar to the last one, but the flower store is open for business as usual.
Fu Xueqing walked into the flower store and saw a female owner introducing different flowers to a young couple. There was also an employee spraying water on the flowers.
It looked peaceful and didn't feel like there was any unusual atmosphere at all.
Fu Xueqing waited patiently for the couple to leave the flower store, she showed her ID to the lady boss, then took out the two-color plastic flower and asked her if it was sold in this store.
The female boss took a look and said, "Our store does sell this kind of flower, but the petals and leaves on your branch are missing."
Saying this, she turned around and went over to the shelves to find an almost identical two-colored plastic flower, comparing it to the one Fu Xueqing brought, except for the missing petals and leaves, the rest of it was exactly the same.
Fu Xueqing took out her cell phone and took a screenshot of the suspect's video to show the lady boss, who looked at it for half a day and didn't have much of an impression of it, perhaps because the suspect was dressed up as something else when he entered the store to buy the flowers, and the lady boss didn't recognize him.
Considering the identity of the woman who owns the store and the environment of the store is very similar to the last murder case, Fu Xueqing did a very detailed inquiry with, do not want to let go of any suspicious place.
While they were talking, the other police officers were listening patiently. As a reporter, Wu Fan was at a loss, not being a police officer, he didn't care about those tedious details, and he wouldn't need them when writing news anyway. He looked at the two-color plastic flower that the lady boss had just taken out, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled in his heart.
Why was the flower that the murderer had hidden at the crime scene broken?
Did he just find a random broken flower, or was it a deliberate act?
With this in mind, he casually skipped around the store, passing the window and inadvertently looking up and out, and suddenly his expression froze.
"Perhaps we misunderstood, the two-colored flowers left behind by the murderer are not referring to this flower store." He turned around and interrupted Fu Xueqing's conversation with the female owner.
"What's your basis?" Fu Xueqing looked at Wu Fan in surprise.
"There." Wu Fan pointed outside the window, "There is the Fifth Middle School. Do you still remember that I once told you that the murderer could possibly go after a girl from the fifth middle school?"
"I remember. But didn't you say that it was something you dreamed about, and that can be taken seriously?"
"I just think that this matter is too coincidental ... Well, leaving this aside for the moment, I do suddenly have a new idea - the murderer did buy the two-colored flowers from this flower store, but it wasn't the flowers that were used to imply this store, he actually was working on the flowers, that's why he deliberately yanked off the petals and leaves. I thought of the murderer's previous use of Wang Wei's string to leave an alphabetic code, and given his preference, I guessed that he could be using numbers to hint at us this time. I counted the remaining four red petals, two white petals, and three leaves, which meant that the numbers the murderer left for us were '4, 2, 3'. Of course, we don't know the order of the numbers, it could be '2, 4, 3' or '3, 4, 2', etc. Anyway, I think the next crime scene is related to these three numbers. Around the Oceanarium, the place that can be connected to those three numbers is probably in that middle school. If you believe me, you'd better rush over there right away to take a look ...
The other officers were silent, waiting for Fu Xueqing's opinion, Fu Xueqing hesitated and made up her mind, "Let's move now."
The hint left by the murderer with the dragon fish was what Wu Fan had first discovered, Fu Xueqing believed in his intuition for the time being, checking along this line of thought, there might really be something to discover.
However, the three numbers "4, 2, 3" were too abstract, so it wasn't too easy to find them.
The director of education rubbed his bald head peripheral circle of precious hair, very difficult to deal with Xueqing said: "Comrade police, I do not quite understand what you mean. It's too difficult for you to ask me to find three counts in such a large school."
Wu Fan, who was standing behind Fu Xueqing, interjected, "It's not that you're asking you to find these three numbers, but the places related to these three numbers. For example, do you have any offices, or classrooms or anything that are named with such numbers, like the twenty-third class of fourth grade?"
"No."
"Or second grade class forty-three, as long as the numbers fit together." Wu Fan also felt it was unlikely even after he finished speaking. How could there be so many classes in one grade.
The Head Teacher touched his head and was suddenly inspired, "We have several hundred student dormitories, it should be able to include the three numbers you mentioned."
The student dormitories of the Fifth Middle School were divided into boys and girls, each with more than three hundred rooms.
The three numbers "4, 2, 3" can be divided into six combinations, since there is no dormitory that begins with four, so two sets of numbers can be excluded, so the combinations included in the student dormitory will be left with four, plus the duplication of the numbers in the male and female dormitories, the dormitory that meets the requirements becomes eight, with four dormitories each for men and women.
If this was the answer to the murderer's riddle, then that meant that he would choose one of these eight dormitories to strike.
Fu Xueqing didn't dare to hesitate and hurriedly scattered the police officers to rush to each dormitory to check, hoping that it hadn't come too late. Wu Fan had an extra eye, he purposely glanced at the list of students living in these dormitories, and among the two dozen boys and girls a familiar name caught his eye - Ouyang Shanshan.
He instantly recalled the girl in his nightmare.
Coincidence, again?
He couldn't explain exactly where this sense of unease came from, but he could vaguely foresee that something terrible would happen.
That ominous premonition hidden deep inside awoke once again, like the feeling of being spied on in the dark of night.
He rushed to inquire about Ouyang Shanshan's situation, but the news he got was that Ouyang Shanshan didn't come to class today, she was a resident student and usually lived in the school.
Wu Fan did not dare to hesitate, all the way to inquire, rushed to the girls' dormitory, but also ran into Fu Xueqing, he did not care to talk to Fu Xueqing, a breath of air to the second floor 243 dormitory.
There is Ouyang Shanshan's dormitory.
He pushed the door but did not open, the inside is unlocked, knocked the door a few times, there is no movement in the room.
Wu Fan felt that the situation is not good, do not think too much, towards the door kicked two feet, kicked the door open and rushed into the room.
He saw Ouyang Shanshan at a glance.
Not dead, but alive.
At this moment, Ouyang Shanshan was lazily leaning on the bed, reading a book and eating a snack. The quilt stirred on one side, only wearing a close short shirt and shorts, clothes printed with the big head of the rogue rabbit, thin small arms and legs exposed, but white and clean, a small foot hanging under the bed back and forth swinging, looks very cozy.
When Wu Fan rushed in, she was scratching her feet while holding a shrimp bar to her mouth, I do not know what interesting to see, face happy.
Then, she happened to raise her head and Wu Fan's eyes, and both of them were instantly petrified.
Three seconds later, Ouyang Shanshan let out a scream like killing a chicken, which could be heard clearly in the corridor.
Fu Xueqing heard the screams and hurriedly arrived, seeing the scene in the house she also couldn't help but stare, "What happened, I'm a police officer!"
"Nothing happened, just a little girl who missed school." Wu Fan said.
This little girl who didn't know better actually glared at him.
Unexpectedly, Ouyang Shanshan's face suddenly changed, her little face was instantly filled with aggression and helplessness, she jumped off the bed and jumped headfirst into Fu Xueqing's arms, which completely stupefied Fu Xueqing.
She whimpered and cried, "Sister police officer come and save me, this perverted uncle came to harass me again, look at his colorful eyes, you quickly arrest him!"
"You guys have met before? What's going on here?" Fu Xueqing looked at Wu Fan suspiciously.
Wu Fan glanced at Ouyang Shanshan with disdain, his nose hummed, and said to Fu Xueqing, "Don't listen to her nonsense, look at her like that, she's as thin as a quail, and she's still harassing?"
"Hey, what do you mean?" Without waiting for Fu Xueqing to speak, Ouyang Shanshan quit, "You think I'm skinny? My plumpness is youth, by the time I mature, you'll be an old man."
"Who are you calling an old man, I'm in good health." Wu Fan was also not willing to show weakness.
"Alright!" Fu Xueqing droned on.
If she didn't stop, these two would have to fight, and she didn't have the time to be here with them.
Fu Xueqing took a look at the room, pushed the door to look at the bathroom, and turned back to Wu Fan, "The other dormitories have all been checked as well, and there is nothing unusual. If that guy was really planning to make a move here, he should have done it long ago."
Wu Fan could hear from Fu Xueqing's tone that she already had some distrust in herself.
However, Fu Xueqing was a strict person, and she carefully interrogated the students in these eight dormitories one by one, and did not find any suspicion, so it looked like their investigation was going in the wrong direction altogether.
Compared to Fu Xueqing, the other police officers were even more dissatisfied with Wu Fan, just because of his unfounded intuition, let everyone waste so much time and energy, they at least are also working in the criminal police, why should they listen to a news reporter in this nonsense?
Wu Fan was not sure if he had guessed wrong, and also let Ouyang Shanshan this little girl damage a pass, the heart is naturally angry. The most annoying thing is that the other students are the police asked what answer, this little girl has nothing to do with the police initiative to chat up the day, but also deliberately cover the mouth and bite the ear, Wu Fan also do not know what she said to Fu Xueqing them, and found that these people look at their own eyes began to look not quite right.
Fu Xueqing hesitated again and again, secretly pulled Wu Fan into a corner and advised him in a low voice: "I welcome you to help us with the case, but I don't want you to be with a personal agenda, especially ... she is only fifteen years old. "
Wu Fan had one head and two big heads. Where is this all with ah, how does it sound as if he is a strange uncle?
He then looked at Ouyang Shanshan who was standing in the distance, gloating and sticking her tongue out at him, Wu Fan understood in his heart, this little bastard must not have said anything good about himself just now.
If Fu Xueqing and the police were not there, he would have beaten her ass into eight pieces.
This is a good thing, they are busy half a day, not to mention the effort is not pleasing, inside and outside are not people.
He secretly gas dark hold, calm down a thought, he is just a small reporter, get the news is enough, why have to get involved with the police to go together.
And today's harvest for him is quite generous, got the first-hand information about the case, absolutely can to Guo big head of the delivery. Thinking like this, he was in a much better mood again.
After Wu Fan separated from the criminal police team, he returned to the newspaper office and worked overtime until the early hours of the morning, rushed out the first manuscript, which was published in the headline of the legal column of Jiangzhou Evening News on the next day, and then maintained the serialization speed of one page per day.
Wu Fan in the case of the report in a whim, very creative at the end of each report to leave a different question, inviting readers to participate in the analysis of the case, to provide ideas. In this way, the effect was immediate, the newspaper sales jumped three times in just a few days, causing a wide-ranging debate in the whole society. Hundreds of readers wrote letters to the newspaper's mailbox to express their insights, and even the newspaper's hotline was about to be blown up.
Wu Fan had transformed into a gold medal reporter, and everyone in the editorial department had started to call him Brother Wu, even Big Head Guo's tone towards him was different from before. This let him suddenly have a kind of life peak of the magnificent feeling, according to this momentum development, promotion and salary increase is not at all in question. Happiness doesn't come too suddenly, okay.
Wu Fan mood, even with the nightmare are not doing, just in time for the May Day holiday, but also accompanied his girlfriend to go shopping malls, eat western food, buy clothes, watch movies, in advance to live a petty life.
But he did not expect that early in the morning on the last day of the long vacation someone knocked on the door to wake him up, opened the door to see two uninvited guests - the police.
"Your name is Wu Fan, right?" One of the policemen asked.
"It's me."
"Please get dressed and go back with us to assist in the investigation."
Hearing the other party's cold tone, Wu Fan sucked in a breath of cold air and had to obediently put on his jacket.
His girlfriend, Bai Ruolin, came out of the house and pulled him in, asking nervously, "What happened?"
Wu Fan didn't want her to worry too much, and said in an evasive manner, "I know a policewoman named Fu Xueqing, and we made an appointment to go and talk about work matters."
Bai Ruolin glanced doubtfully at the two police officers standing outside the door, "Then there's still a need to send a special police officer to pick you up?"
"To appear to take me seriously, besides, your husband is now a celebrity journalist. How can he just come and go as he pleases?"
"I can see that it is very important to you ah, but also specially sent a young and beautiful female police flower to ask you to meet." Bai Ruolin bristled, obviously jealous.
Wu Fan suddenly realized that Fu Xueqing might have met with Bai Ruolin when he investigated himself before. He had accidentally dug himself a hole.
But right now there was no time to explain, letting his girlfriend be jealous was better than letting her be scared.
He secretly prayed and hoped that he would be safe this time.
Wu Fan followed the two policemen out of the house, got into the police car, all the way to the criminal police force without words, Wu Fan was a little anxious, but didn't dare to ask more questions.
The two policemen brought Wu Fan to an interrogation room, Wu Fan immediately got nervous, he had been here before, and
Could it be that this time, he was in the middle of something? This peak of life was also too short.
He quickly recalled what kind of trouble he might have run into.
The biggest involvement between him and the victim Wang Wei was the giveaway bag and bottle containing cosmetics. Out of an abundance of caution, the paper bag had been thrown into the trash, and the liquid in the water bottle had been allowed to be poured into the toilet. All of this visible evidence against him was destroyed, and he didn't know if there was any other evidence against him.
After the first few days of suspicion, and nothing happened, Wu Fan himself gradually relaxed, often secretly consoled himself that night nothing had happened, he was only sleepwalking around his own home, casually picked up that giveaway bag from the ground. He didn't do anything, and no one knew about it, that's all.
But today, suddenly and inexplicably, he had been brought in by the police to stand trial, and he snapped back to that incident. It was the only thing on his mind, and other than that, he couldn't think of any other reason for the police to interrogate him. He walked into the interrogation room apprehensively, his scalp tingling at being back in this place again. There was a police officer sitting in the room waiting for him, it was no other than Fu Xueqing.
Wu Fan cursed his own crow's mouth, casually told his girlfriend so, I did not expect it is really this "bitch" looking for himself.
Wu Fan secretly surveyed her, her face was as cold as a block of ice, his heart was even more uncertain.
"Sit down." Fu Xueqing dropped a sentence, looking at Wu Fan cautiously sitting on the chair opposite to his own, coldly asked, "You know what you're here for, right, give an honest explanation yourself."
Wu Fan's heart tightened, could it be that the police really found other evidence, he was hesitating to open his mouth to tell the truth, Fu Xueqing suddenly slammed a newspaper on the table and angrily said, "Explain to me what's going on here?"
Wu Fan froze, picked up the newspaper on the table and flipped through it, all of them were the legal section of the Jiangzhou Evening News, and he was familiar with the reports that came from his handwriting, such as "Hair salon owner killed, Jiangzhou police encountered problems" "The murderer is suspected to be 'Dracula'", etc. His carefully chosen headlines were enough to attract everyone. His carefully chosen headlines were enough to catch every reader's eye.
Seeing these, Wu Fan was relieved as he honestly admitted, "I did write these."
"Nonsense, of course I know, it has your big name written on it!" Fu Xueqing was furious and questioned Wu Fan, "I'm asking you, without our consent what gives you the right to write these things?"
"I greeted you before ah, I helped you crack the hints of the murderer, you let me participate in the investigation and write the report. Didn't we all come to an agreement?"
"Even if we agreed to your report, you can't write everything without reservation, at least you should give me a look over before publishing. Because of this, I received a severe criticism from the director on your behalf, and I might even be disciplined!" Fu Xueqing didn't say that the director was her father. If she hadn't run fast, the teacup could have been thrown at her head.
"I'm really sorry ah, I didn't know, look at me this guilty, I'll definitely find a way to compensate you ... But then again, it would be good if you could remind me in advance ..." Wu Fan deliberately played dumb, wanting to muddle through. Anyway, the article had been published and the purpose had been achieved, so there was no choice but to be a small man before a gentleman.
"What do you know, your behavior is interfering with our case at a small level, and at a large level, you are stimulating the criminal. You make such a big commotion, in case he also reads your report, how do you know how he will react?"
"I think you're being alarmist, there's no basis at all ..."
Splat-
Fu Xueqing suddenly slapped the table, startling Wu Fan, "What are you doing, you want to threaten me?"
Fu Xueqing's face was gloomy, "Just now, we received another case."
"Case?" Wu Fan was secretly surprised and had a premonition.
"What do you think, otherwise what was the point of bringing you here?"
This caught Wu Fan off guard, "You don't suspect me of being a murderer again, do you?"
Fu Xueqing gave him a blank look, "Even if it's not you, it's still a guarantee that it's the murderer who read your report and was stimulated to kill."
Wu Fan almost spat out blood, this big girl had to put a big hat on herself.
He asked cautiously, "Then what are the specifics?"
Fu Xueqing looked at him intently.
Wu Fan hurriedly added, "I promise to keep it a secret this time, not to talk about it outside, if you don't agree, I won't say a word."
Fu Xueqing didn't hold her face, "Puffing" a laugh, turn her face and a serious face, "This time the victim is a female cleaning."
"Female cleaning ...," Wu Fan's expression changed in shock, wanting to speak again.
Fu Xueqing saw his meaning, "Good, it is the fifth middle school's female janitor, the crime scene in the girls' dormitory.
Wu Fan swallowed his saliva laboriously, "The dormitory door number is ..."
"243, we went to that dorm room a week ago."
Wu Fan's heart tightened, what he didn't want to happen finally happened.
"I know why you came to me ...," Wu Fan sighed day.
"Yes, your judgment was correct." Fu Xueqing admitted, "It's a pity that we didn't pay enough attention to it and underestimated the murderer, if we could have taken precautions earlier at that time, we might have been able to avoid that woman being killed." Her tone was not without a sense of self-blame.
"I think that unless you guys can catch that murderer in advance, otherwise even if you take precautions beforehand, then he would have chosen another target or another time to strike. You guys will always be led by the nose." Wu Fan spoke from his heart.
Fu Xueqing nodded, "Indeed, this case is very special, it's more like the murderer is working at his own whim, and the normal way of thinking about the case doesn't work at all. Originally, most of the people in the police force thought that the murderer was Wang Wei's mistress, Jin Zhancheng, but this throat slitting case that just happened has undoubtedly overturned the previous idea. It can be said that we are now back to square one. Now Captain Lu and several members of the police force are at the scene of the crime. I purposely brought you here to actually hear your opinion."
This woman is really an expert in playing reversal, Wu Fan felt a little flattered again, "I'm just a reporter, it's okay for you to let me talk casually, I can't take the responsibility ah, in case I mislead you guys and affect the case ..."
Fu Xueqing waved her hand and interrupted him, "I've heard you analyze the case, although you don't admit that you've studied criminal psychology, you do have a strong insight into the crime scene and have mastered professional profiling skills. The fact that you were able to pick up on the hints that the murderer left at the crime scene is enough to show that you were able to understand this murderer's thought process. I'm willing to listen to your thoughts until we, the police, find more clues at this point."
"Alright, since you're willing to believe me, I won't hide it from you, consider it as my compensation for getting you into trouble." Wu Fan thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I don't have more to say. Didn't the murderer leave us two hint puzzles? One is the red dragonfish and the other is the giant clam string. Since he likes to play mind games with the police so much, if it were me, I'd look into these two things."
"I've looked into this one, but unfortunately there's not much progress." Fu Xueqing wore a sad face, "The suspect in disguise that was captured by the Oceanarium's surveillance was unaccounted for after leaving the Oceanarium, and no clues were found. The recorder I found that night was tested by the people from the technical section, no fingerprints were found on it, the laughter was parsed and initially judged to be a male voice, this is the only progress so far."
"Have you cracked the alphabet riddle on Wang Wei's string?"
"Not yet. I've asked a university professor, and he said that this kind of alphabetic code is too short and without reference, it can be interpreted in many different ways, so it doesn't help us much in solving the case ..."
Fu Xueqing paused here, "So I think it's best to bring you to the murder scene."
"You want to take me to the murder scene?" This was something that Wu Fan had never expected.
"What, you don't want to go?" Fu Xueqing raised her eyebrows slightly, "For a reporter, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don't you want to tell the readers about the results of the detection of this case in your legal column?" "Of course I want to la, just feel a little sudden ..."
"Naturally, I didn't take you there for nothing; I want you to do a criminal mind profile for me when you see the crime scene."
"Criminal mind profiling? But I don't know anything about that."
"It's describing the impression the murderer gives you, and I hope you value this opportunity or else ..."
"Otherwise what?"
Fu Xueqing revealed a horrifying smile and didn't explain too much.
Time was running out, she directly drove Wu Fan to the fifth middle school.