On the morning of June 24

Another three days passed, and there seemed to be no progress in the case, and everyone was in a state of malaise.

As soon as Huang Fangyuan walked into the office and saw the two young men in the office hanging their heads and tired faces, he knew that he must have returned again after a busy day of work yesterday. Sure enough, Lin Xuan and Ge Bin couldn't wait to complain as soon as they saw Huang Fangyuan.

Ge Bin first said: "Boss, in the past two days, we have watched all the surveillance videos, but we still haven't found any suspicious people. ”

"I've seen it so many times, so many people come in and out of the park every day, where can I see the similarities? Where can you remember hundreds or thousands of faces? And as far as the pixels of the monitoring probe in the park are concerned, we can only roughly distinguish them from the clothes and body shape. As long as the suspect wears a different outfit every time he enters and exits the park, he will not be able to be recognized. Lin Xuan also complained.

"If you had to say the only thing in common, it was the security guards in the park. It is best to wear the same security uniform every day to go in and out. Moreover, they are all young and middle-aged, strong and able-bodied, and their limbs are completely consistent with the physical characteristics of the suspect provided by the victim. Ge Bin also echoed in a playful tone.

"Could it be that our investigation was going in the wrong direction in the first place?" Lin Xuan said.

"How?" Huang Fangyuan asked, his brows furrowed again.

"The suspect may not be a young man, or an old man? Psychopaths, perhaps? Lin Xuan had obviously shown impetuousness and boredom. This is most common among young civilian police, especially when they encounter difficulties or bottlenecks in their work. This is a typical manifestation of inexperience.

Huang Fangyuan pondered and ignored Lin Xuan. "I think the suspect was premeditated and prepared in advance, and he was selectively committing the crime, not randomly."

Wang Xiangrui was stepping into the door of the office at this time, and when he heard Huang Fangyuan's words, he asked directly, "Is there a clue?" ”

"No, it's just my gut feeling."

"We can't rely on intuition to solve cases, we still have to find clues, we have to use evidence to speak. This pointless search is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Wang Xiangrui's tone was full of rare sternness.

Huang Fangyuan knew that his words were groundless, and he didn't take Wang Xiangrui's attitude to heart, and continued to ask: "How is the situation of your visit to the witnesses there?" ”

"There's no useful information, and you don't even know what the characteristics of the suspect you're looking for are?"

"Assuming that the suspect planned to commit the crime, he had either chosen a more concealed escape route in advance, or he hid and observed after committing the crime, and then left after he was sure it was safe." Huang Fangyuan tried to reorganize his thoughts and find a breakthrough in the investigation, "so that he is likely to step on the point in advance, or leave the scene late." We can expand the range of viewing footage and extend the duration of the recording. ”

"Boss, Xiaoge and I already did this yesterday." Lin Xuan continued, "But there are too many people entering and exiting the forest park, and there is no surveillance video around the street garden of Shibei Xincun, and the nearest one is at an intersection 500 meters away, we have no characteristic information about the suspect, so there is no way to find it, and the work is too difficult." ”

Everyone fell silent again, this is a more difficult case that Huang Fangyuan has encountered in the past 25 years from the police, and it is of a bad nature and has a great impact, and it has caused a lot of public opinion turmoil in the society, and various rumors about perverted killers are flying all over the sky, so many middle-aged and elderly people do not dare to go out early in the morning to go to the park to exercise early, even if they go out during the day, they need to be accompanied. The leaders of the city government and the city bureau also issued a death order that the case must be solved. There was a lot of pressure on Huang Fangyuan's body.

"Boss, according to your conclusion, two more days have passed since the third case, will the suspect have already stepped on a good spot to find new prey?" Ge Bin said.

Lin Xuan slammed Ge Bin's arm and scolded angrily: "I won't say something auspicious, I don't think there are enough cases, it's not tricky enough, right?" You crow's mouth. ”

"Don't be like this, everyone is nervous by the case, and the nerves are not conducive to thinking, everyone relax." Wang Xiangrui cheered everyone up, "Last time Xiao Lin gave the suspect a nickname 'Craniotomy Jack', I think it's better to call him 'Hunter', this is easy to remember and easy to call." What do you think? ”

"Lao Wang, you are really ......" A rare smile appeared on Huang Fangyuan's face, and he patted Wang Xiangrui's shoulder. By the way, two days ago, the sub-bureau has issued an investigation of the items involved in the case, and the comrades of the public security group have also carried out control work on gold shops and watch shops in their jurisdiction. Let's go, Lao Wang, let's go around, try our luck, and see if we can get something? In the unlikely event that the Hunter sells the stolen goods, we may be able to get a key clue. ”

After Huang Fangyuan finished speaking, he took the lead and walked out of the office. Wang Xiangrui followed, and before going out, he turned to the two people behind him and said, "Don't be idle, continue to expand the scope of video viewing." ”

"Yes."

"Okay."

The two men looked at each other painfully.

Huang Fangyuan and Wang Xiangrui had just walked out of the gate of the police station when they received a call from Deputy Director Cui.

"Lao Huang, there is a clue." The voice of a middle-aged man came from the other end of the phone.

"Really?" As soon as Huang Fangyuan heard this, his spirits immediately perked up, and a bright light flashed in his eyes, "Okay, I know, where is he now?" …… Okay, I'll wait for him in the office with Lao Wang. ”

After hanging up the phone, Huang Fangyuan couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, turned to Lao Wang and said, "There is a clue." Let's go back to the office first and wait for Lao Liu of the security team to come back. ”

"Did you find the 'Hunter'?" When Lao Wang heard the words "there are clues", he was also instantly excited.

"Cui did not elaborate on the details of the phone call, only saying that a watch of the same model as the one lost in the second case was found in a watch store."

"Great, Lao Liu works very carefully, I guess there will be a drama this time." The two turned and walked towards the office.

While waiting for the elevator, Wang Xiangrui inquired about the whereabouts of Deputy Director Cui.

"He's having a meeting at the precinct. After the meeting, he was going to report the situation to the task force, and he asked us to try to dig up some clues from the watch shop. ”

In less than ten minutes, Lao Liu of the security team brought the staff of the watch shop and the suspected items involved in the case to Huang Fangyuan and them, and briefly told what happened.

An hour earlier, the owner of the "Kobayashi" watch shop had called him and said that one of his buddies had received a watch for repair this morning. During the repair, he found that some of the scratches on it were the same as those described on the investigation, and he did not dare to slack off and immediately contacted him according to the contact information on the investigation. After his preliminary inspection, it was judged that the watch was similar to the item involved in the case, and at the same time as the watch was detained, he immediately reported the situation to Deputy Director Cui, and according to his instructions, he took the person and the object back to the police station and handed them over to Huang Fangyuan and them for disposal.

After Lao Liu left, Huang Fangyuan, Wang Xiangrui and Ge Bin took the guy to the interrogation room on the first floor. After Ge Bin entered the door, he casually closed the door, and pointed to a chair in the center of the room, motioning for the other party to sit down.

Huang Fangyuan and Ge Bin's eyes fell on the person opposite in unison, looking at the person in front of them with solemn expressions. The man was dark and thin, not tall, and wore a navy blue short-sleeved crewneck T-shirt that had been washed and faded. It may be the first time to come to the police station, and facing two police officers at the same time in a closed environment, the visitor seems very nervous. Even if he sat on the chair, the man only dared to occupy one-third of the chair surface, and his upper body was still straight and did not dare to lean back against the chair, as if there was electricity on it. He looked at his place uneasily, his hands resting on his knees rubbing together and his feet moving on the ground with nervousness.

"What's your name? What for? Huang Fangyuan lit a cigarette and asked in a calm tone.

"My name is Mao Feng. Worked in Boss Lin's shop, specializing in repairing watches. The visitor replied in Mandarin with a strong foreign accent.

"Do you know why I called you?" Huang Fangyuan continued to ask.

"Yes." Mao Feng replied cautiously. He didn't dare to look up, and his eyes stayed focused on the ground.

"From now on, whatever I ask you, you have to answer truthfully, understand?" After seeing Mao Feng nodding vigorously, Huang Fangyuan continued to ask, "What does the person who sent the watch to repair look like?" ”

Before answering the question, Mao Feng glanced at Ge Bin on his left side, and at this time, his ten fingers were rapidly tapping on the keyboard, obviously carefully recording the conversation in front of him.

"A man in his thirties, with a small head, small eyes, very dark skin, a black mole on the corner of his eyebrows, and speaks Mandarin." Mao Feng answered quite fluently, obviously Lao Liu had already asked similar questions before.

"How tall is it?" Lao Wang added a question.

"It's about the same as me, about 1.75 meters."

"Seems to fit our description of 'Hunter'." Wang Xiangrui glanced at Huang Fangyuan and said, "There's a drama now." ”

"Did the person who sent it for repair leave his contact information?" Huang Fangyuan continued to ask quietly.

"Yes, he asked me to call him as soon as I got my watch fixed, and he would come and pick it up himself." It seemed that he was gradually adapting to the current environment, and Mao Feng's answer was much calmer.

"Where is the watch broken and needs to be repaired?"

"The buckle of the strap is loose, and I need to change it."

In the following half hour, Huang Fangyuan and Wang Xiangrui took turns asking questions. After completing the inquiry, Huang Fangyuan reported the latest progress to Deputy Director Cui, who in turn reported to the task force. Subsequently, the members of the task force studied the next step and immediately deployed specific arrest measures to Huang Fangyuan and them.

Huang Fangyuan, who received the instructions, asked Mao Feng to call the person who sent the watch for repair, informing the other party that the watch had been repaired and asking him to confirm the time of picking up the watch. After negotiation, the other party finally decided to go to the "Xiaolin" watch shop at 16 o'clock in the afternoon to pick up the watch.