CHAPTER XXIII
Ning Zhiyuan looked at the surrounding environment, there were relatively few pedestrians on this road, and now there were not a few cars and pedestrians passing by in broad daylight. Across the road www.biquge.info, there are a few shops selling travel goods across the road that are not yet open. Diagonally across from a grocery store open, an old man in his sixties wearing reading glasses sat on a small bench at the door, stretching his neck to look at the excitement.
After a while, Shi Mingliang came over with a toolbox and followed Chen Feng. Ning Zhiyuan pointed out the position that Erdan said to Shi Mingming, and briefly explained a few words. Shi Mingliang set the toolbox aside and began to carefully search the location and its surroundings.
Ning Zhiyuan crossed the road to the grocery store opposite, and said to the old man at the door, "Uncle, bring me two boxes of Coca-Cola." "Okay!" The old man wanted to get up and go to the house to carry water, but Ning Zhiyuan took out the money from his wallet and handed it to him: "You don't need to move, I'll call someone to pick it up in a while." Uncle, what time does your store close at night? ”
The old man took the money, put it in the waist bag on his waist, and said while looking for change, "I live here, and I usually go to bed before I go to bed." Ning Zhiyuan squatted down and looked at the old man sitting on the bench, and asked, "At about ten o'clock last night, there was a person standing across the road, did you see it?" ”
"Can you tell me what you do first?" The old man looked at Ning Zhiyuan from the reading glasses and handed over the recovered change. Ning Zhiyuan took the money and smiled and said, "We are from the Municipal Public Security Bureau." "Do you have any papers?" The old man's eyes were full of vigilance.
Ning Zhiyuan put the change into his wallet, took out his documents and handed them to the old man. The old man pushed his reading glasses and looked at the words and photos on them carefully, then took off his glasses and said, "It's really from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, police officer, don't blame me for the old man's troubles, I'm afraid of retaliation." ”
"You're old and quite vigilant." Ning Zhiyuan smiled, "Don't worry, we have a confidentiality system, and we won't leak the person who provided the clues." ”
The old man smiled embarrassedly and said, "Since you are a police comrade from the Public Security Bureau, then I will tell you that there was a person who stood opposite for a long time last night." I was already closing, he knocked on the window and bought a pack of cigarettes, and when I finished his business, he closed the store. ”
"And how do you know he's been standing across from him for a long time?" Ning Zhiyuan asked. The old man lowered his voice and said, "That man's hair is quite long, and it would not be strange if he was a young man, but he is not a young man, so I will take a few more looks." When he was gone, I put the board on, turned off the lights, and glanced in the direction he was going, and saw him cross the street and stand on the opposite side, as if waiting for someone, I went into the house and turned off the lights and looked through the window for a while. I just wanted to see what the people he was waiting for were like, but after a long time, no one came, so I was quite sleepy, so I went to sleep. ”
"Get me a pack of the kind of cigarettes he bought last night." Ning Zhiyuan stood up and took out the money again and handed it to the old man. When the old man took the cigarette out of the house, he asked again, "Uncle, if you see this person again, will you still recognize it?" "Yes," the old man nodded, "don't look at my age, but I still remember it accurately." ”
"Okay, let's get the picture and come back to you for identification." Ning Zhiyuan said, turned around and greeted Erdan across the road, asking him to move Coca-Cola back and distribute it to the workers, and Erdan happily carried two boxes of water back to the construction site. Ning Zhiyuan also returned to the other side of the road, he handed the cigarette to Chen Feng and Shi Mingming: "That person smoked this kind of cigarette yesterday, look carefully to see if there are any cigarette butts around." ”
After Shi Mingming's investigation, several people expanded the area and searched around, and really found a few cigarette butts, including the brand that Ning Zhiyuan had just bought from the opposite side, and Chen Feng carefully put the cigarette butts into the evidence bag.
Back at the scene of the crime, Zhang Wei was conducting a preliminary examination of the body. Shi Mingliang continued to investigate the scene, and Ning Zhiyuan, Chen Feng and Fang Jianye also searched the surrounding area of the scene.
"Team Ning, look here." Chen Feng stood on the edge of the grove about twenty meters away from the corpse and beckoned to Ning Zhiyuan, who hurriedly walked over. Two or three meters away from the woods, the branches of several trees were broken, and there was still a new tender green on the cross-section, indicating that the branches had not been broken for a long time. There were still blood stains on the overwhelmed grass on the ground, but there were no very messy footprints on the ground around it.
"This should be the first scene." Ning Zhiyuan straightened up and looked around. The area of the grove is not very large, only a few dozen trees. It's a little farther away from the playground site than the place where the bodies are kept. It seems that the murderer moved the body near the construction site after committing the crime here.
At about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the on-site investigation work finally ended. After Zhang Wei arranged for the car in the bureau to load the body back to the bureau, he took off his gloves and said to Ning Zhiyuan: "The time of death was probably between eleven o'clock last night and one o'clock in the morning. The state of the corpse is basically the same as the previous one, and I will tell you the details when the autopsy is over. ”
Shi Mingliang continued: "Team Ning, judging from the current situation at the scene, the modus operandi is completely consistent with Lin Yixiang's, and it can basically be determined that it was committed by the same murderer." "And he's more unhurried this time." Ning Zhiyuan's face was heavy, "Killing the victim in a grove not far from the construction site, and then moving the body closer to the construction site, is obviously a provocation to the police." ”
"This is too arrogant," Fang Jianye gritted his teeth angrily, "He is not afraid that he will be discovered by the people on the construction site when he commits the crime?" What if the victim calls for help, the grove is so close to where the workers live, and it is at night, as long as the victim shouts, it will definitely wake up the people on the construction site! ”
"If it's a dead person, there won't be a cry for help." Ning Zhiyuan groaned, "Don't forget that Lin Yixiang was ***." If I'm guessing correctly, this time the killer still went straight to the victim's death, and then took her to the grove. ”
"It's very likely." Zhang Wei nodded, "Judging from the surface of the corpse, there are no other external injuries except for the scars under the neck. The murderer's arm is extremely strong, and with his previous experience in committing crimes, it is very likely that the victim will be strangled directly with one hand. ”
Several members of the special task force were talking as they packed up their things and prepared to go back to the bureau. At this time, Ning Zhiyuan received a call from Ye Yimin, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau.
Ye Yimin's voice on the phone was very anxious, the previous serial murder cases were relatively long apart, and judging from the current situation, the murderer has accelerated the frequency of crimes, which means that if the murderer is not arrested as soon as possible, it is very likely that someone will be killed.