Back in the Criminal Investigation Building, the huge office area was empty, and He Xiaoli and other teammates who were on standby did not know where to go.

asked the young lady who was shuttling around with various materials, only to know that it was the technical team that located Chen Hao's mobile phone information, and He Xiaoli took people to find the mobile phone holder.

Pushing the door of the audio-visual inspection room open a crack, Xiao Ran looked inside, several long rows of high-definition screens were playing a huge variety of monitoring screens, looking at the bloodshot eyes of his peers, it was obvious that they had not slept all night.

went downstairs and handed over Ruan He's saliva swab and fingerprints to the forensic department, Xiao Ran also specially instructed to compare Ruan He's fingerprints with DNA in the system to see if they could be matched with other unsolved cases.

Although reason told Xiao Ran that it could not be Ruan He who acted directly on Wang Xiaomei and Zhang Hao, Xiao Ran always felt that Ruan He and this case seemed to have some kind of connection in his heart.

"How's your visit, are there any major breakthroughs?"

Yu Yu labeled a test tube, shook his head again, and asked himself: "I feel that you have not made any progress, it stands to reason that the corpse and its surroundings are generally the places where the murderer leaves the most information, but from our point of view, it is difficult for you to find this murderer." ”

"Just because it's hard to find doesn't mean you can't find it. Xiao Ran's tone was firm, he paused, and asked, "Has Wang Xiaomei's family come to identify the body?"

When she came, when she saw the body, her mother fainted on the spot, and when she came out of the funeral home, the whole family seemed to have lost their souls. ”

Yu Yu said calmly: "We persuaded them to mourn, Wang Xiaomei's relatives also said that we were ruthless, and we were not sad at all to see other people's daughters die so miserably......"

Xiao Ran patted Yu Yu's shoulder and didn't say much, after all, everyone understood in their hearts.

When he was studying at the police academy, Xiao Ran and his classmates went to study on the spot with a criminal police team of the Beijing Bureau.

At the beginning, Xiao Ran's classmates also asked this question, asking an old criminal policeman why he could face death so calmly, was it because he had handled too many cases and was numb?

At that time, the old criminal police did not pay attention to it, until the end of the observation, when they returned to school, the old criminal police told them that it was not numbness, but a kind of self-protection, to protect the case-handling personnel themselves from psychological problems: "When we worked, we stayed at the scene of the crime for a long time, and the cordon was pulled, outside were the masses, and inside were those evils that ordinary people could not encounter. ”

After coming out of the forensic department, Xiao Ran did not go to He Xiaoli and others, but took Li Fang to the Cangyuan community.

Li Fangfang looked at Xiao Ran, who was contemplative in the face of the soapberry tree, and said suspiciously: "Captain Shao has just led people over here, and all the questions that should be asked have been asked, what else do you want to check?"

"When I was in Zhanghao's residence before, I discussed with Brigade Lei that the murderer buried his face here, as if he wanted to pay tribute to something. ”

Xiao Ran patted the stout soapberry tree, lowered his head slightly, and looked closely at the faint heart-shaped scars on the bark, as well as some inconspicuous handwriting, "In the spring, there will definitely be a lot of children to play under this tree." - But it should have been a long time ago. ”

"That's a must, a hundred-year-old tree, I don't know how many children's childhood has been experienced. Li Fangfang said, and followed Xiao Ran out.

As soon as the two walked out of the old forest, they were stopped by several aunts on the side of the road, "Those two young men, come and ......."

Xiao Ran and Li Fangfang walked over, and Li Fangfang asked, "Auntie called us something?"

"This guy doesn't look like a bad guy at first glance, let's think too much, right?"

An aunt wearing a red volunteer hat pointed at Xiao Ran and said, "Does the young man have a girlfriend, I don't want to find one, do you mind if you have an extra ......?"

"Oh, don't say it, just your niece, if you don't have anything, don't pull it out and sell it!"

An aunt wearing white labor protection gloves pushed the red hat aunt, and then asked: "What are you two doing, what are you two running into this old forest, I see you two have been in for a while, what are you doing?"

"Oh, we're the police, the case-handling guys. Li Fangfang took out his documents and showed them to a few people.

Aunt Red Riding Hood suddenly realized: "We are from the neighborhood committee of the community here, help you keep an eye on suspicious people here, I saw that you two ran into the woods when you got out of the car, and I thought you two were murderers!"

"Thank you, thank you so much to the aunts, the aunts have worked hard. Li Fangfang hurriedly said.

"Didn't you just investigate yesterday, what's going on today? Is the murderer found?" asked the white-gloved aunt.

Li Fang said: "It's almost fast, I can't run away from him." ”

"Then you have to hurry, we haven't had this incident for decades, and now in the community around us, no one dares to go out at night, and there is a little daughter-in-law who lives alone at home, and she doesn't dare to live at home these days, and people are panicking. The red riding hood said solemnly.

Xiao Ran squatted down and asked, "A few aunts have lived here in Cangyuan for a long time, right?"

"I've lived here for more than 20 years, and at that time it was still a tube building, and I just got married at that time, and I have grandchildren in the blink of an eye. Aunt Red Riding Hood sighed with emotion, and patted Aunt White Glove, "I'm still short on time, this is a thorough old Cangyuan person." ”

The white-gloved aunt said: "I grew up here when I was a child. ”

"That's great. Auntie, do you know that soapberry tree?" Xiao Ran raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the big tree.

Aunt White Glove nodded and said, "How can I not know, that tree has been around since I was a child, and it must have been more than a hundred years, and at that time it was still a suburb, and Jinshan Avenue had not yet been repaired......

When it came to history, the white-gloved aunt talked endlessly for more than ten minutes, Xiao Ran neither answered nor interrupted, just waited for the aunt to finish, and then asked directly: "Then do you know that in recent years, the girls in your community, or whose girlfriends, like to play under that tree, and then die because of illness or accidents?—— don't be too old, if you are still alive, you are not more than thirty years old." ”

Several aunts from the neighborhood committee discussed with each other for a while, and finally the white-gloved aunt shook her head and said: "That's a lot, there are more than 10,000 people in our community, and tens of thousands of people in the surrounding communities, there are always a few incurable and unexpected ones every year, and some of them are unknown because they moved out, we can't tell, I can't tell!"

"Then you know as much as you can say, and we'll investigate later. ”

Xiao Ran took out a pen and paper, he also knew that it was unlikely to start from this aspect, he really wanted to make a statistic, and he couldn't really count it in a few months, but since he had a direction, he always had to give it a try, maybe he was lucky and caught up?

"Then I'll have to think about it. I remember that a few years ago, the youngest daughter of the Huang family hanged herself in the forest after failing to pass the college entrance examination......"