Chapter Twenty-Three: The Smell Chases the Murderer

Everyone has their own unique taste, which Xiang Kun feels more clearly after this great improvement in his sense of smell.

However, he had only woken up for a few hours tonight, and he was still very unfamiliar with the identification of various smells, and before at the crime scene, he had wondered if he could find the smell of the perpetrator and then follow the smell.

But Xiang Kun lacked a source of smell, the assailant should have left not long ago, and there was still a residual smell at the scene, but he couldn't distinguish it from the various smells, or there were too many options, there was no way to be sure.

After the police came, there were more people at the scene, and it was naturally more difficult to track down.

However, Xiang Kun relied on his strong hearing to hear the conversation between the police and knew that the murder weapon had not been found.

The murder weapon should have been stained with the blood of the victim, and at the scene, nothing was found to wipe the blood stains on the blade, so the blood on the murder weapon should still be left and had not had time to deal with it, or the paper and cloth after wiping it were still on the perpetrator.

Xiang Kun then came up with an idea to see if he could find the perpetrator or the murder weapon by tracking the smell of blood.

The direction where the victim's blood smells the strongest is naturally the previous crime scene.

But Xiang Kun will not return there, but will go in the other direction.

According to his judgment, when he saw the victim, the assailant would not have been away for more than three minutes.

And Xiang Kun didn't see any suspicious characters before he smelled the blood, nor did he hear the panicked footsteps, obviously the direction in which the assailant fled after injuring people would not be on his side.

After eliminating one side, the assailant still has two ways to go, but one of the lanes leads directly to the main road outside, which is very lively, and there are still many pedestrians at this time period, and there are also many surveillance cameras, so it is easy to be located.

Judging from the style of the assailant who did not do it directly at the door of the ATM, but followed him to a more remote place and then attacked, he should not go there.

So Xiang Kun chose the remaining road and sailed all the way.

However, he was basically unable to follow the smell of the victim's blood, because if he did, he would definitely go in the direction of the crime scene.

Xiang Kun was not discouraged, anyway, he didn't take catching the perpetrator as his task or responsibility, just trying to practice his olfactory tracking ability.

Xiang Kun imagined himself as the perpetrator, and every time he arrived at the intersection, he almost subconsciously chose one side to move on.

After walking so far, the smell of blood left at the crime scene was already very weak, and when Xiang Kun was almost about to give up tracking, he suddenly smelled a faint and "familiar" smell, mixed with various thick and mixed smells.

Xiang Kun immediately perked up, this smell was the smell of the victim's blood, although it was so faint that it almost dissipated, but the direction of its source was different from the direction of the crime scene, that is, he could find the target.

Following the smell, Xiang Kun walked back and forth for more than ten minutes, and finally determined that the source of the blood smell was in an open garbage bin.

The garbage bin was obviously for the nearby residents to throw domestic garbage, some of the garbage bags containing kitchen waste were broken, and the soup and water and food scraps inside were everywhere, and as soon as they approached, all kinds of pungent smells surged into it, especially now that Xiang Kun's sense of smell has been enhanced a lot, it is even more tormenting.

He had to stay focused to keep his eyes on the scent of the victim's blood.

Looking at the trash bin full of flies, Xiang Kun couldn't help but hesitate, he had no obligation to track down the suspect, why did he go through the trash can?

But after hesitating for a while, he still wanted to see if the target he was tracking was right, whether it was something stained with the victim's blood, and whether it was a murder weapon?

Xiang Kun sighed, stepped forward to chase the flies off the bin, and then began to lean over and rummage.

It didn't take long for Xiang Kun to find something stained with the victim's blood, not a murder weapon, but a pair of bloody cotton gauze gloves.

Xiang Kun didn't take it directly with his own hands, pulled a clinker bag from the side and pinched the gloves, picked it up and put it to his nose and smelled it, and a smell mixed with various types of stench made him sneeze three times in a row.

However, he still keenly captured the smell of people from this smell.

It was the secretion of various skin glands such as sweat glands and sebaceous glands on the hands, and the smell was not so easy to dissipate when stuffed inside the gloves.

As for the smell of the victim's blood, it is needless to say, even if you don't smell it, you can see the blood stains on the gloves with the naked eye.

Xiang Kun hesitated for a moment whether to tell Officer Chen the location of the gloves, but after thinking about it, he threw the gloves back into the trash can, and did not call Officer Chen, which was really an excuse that was difficult to find.

And he thinks that with the search strength of the police, he should soon find this side as well.

Of course, hopefully the bin hasn't been cleared by the sanitation workers by then.

Although he got the smell of the assailant, Xiang Kun never found anything after walking around the neighborhood a few times. In the city, there are too many distractions, whether it is sound or smell.

The next day, Xiang Kun added his WeChat account to the number given by Officer Chen and asked about the progress of the case.

He was not too hopeful, because he knew that the police would not disclose the progress of the case under investigation, but what he didn't expect was that Officer Chen sent him a photo directly.

The efficiency of the police's investigation is much faster than Xiang Kun imagined, and the identity of the suspect has been confirmed in one night!

According to Officer Chen, the suspect had just been released from prison in March this year, and arrived in the city in April, but he did not expect to commit another major crime a few months later - the victim who was stabbed last night had passed away in the early hours of the morning after rescue efforts failed.

Photographs and information of the suspects have already been sent to stations, airports, hotels, and hostels, and later on, local television stations will also release the news that he is wanted, so it can be said that it is a matter of time before he is arrested.

Officer Chen also told Xiang Kun that if you see the suspect, don't be impulsive, call the police, or call him directly.

In Xiang Kun's view, the suspect has basically booked a prison meal, and in this era, cameras are everywhere, real-name authentication is required everywhere, and ID cards are required to open the way, not to mention that he has committed a murder, and now there must be a large number of police forces invested in chasing him.

In this case, Xiang Kun didn't think about tracking down the suspect according to the smell he obtained, after all, this is a big city with a population of more than 10 million, and in the absence of a certain range, trying to find someone by smell is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

But what Xiang Kun didn't expect was that before the suspect was caught, he actually met him first.