Chapter 20: Weirdos
When Wen Tao was running around at night to see if he could hit the murderer, he found that there were many suspected plainclothes people on the side of the road, and some of them also pretended to run at night; Some pretend to sell late-night snacks on the side of the road; Some pretended to be drunk passers-by chatting...... It is true that their acting skills are very good, if Wen Tao hadn't guessed that the criminal police team would take action, he might not really be able to find the strangeness and vigilance in their eyes.
But just because there are a lot of strangers at the street corners that are often passed by, for a murderer with high nervous nerves, if the murderer is smart enough, he should be scared to "rest" for a while, and it is estimated that tonight should be in vain.
Of course, this can't be blamed on these ordinary policemen, it's just that they don't know yet, they are facing a high-IQ madman, even if the acting skills are foolproof, just the fact that there are more passers-by than usual is enough to arouse the vigilance of the murderer.
Just when Wen Tao was thinking that it was not a way to go on like this, he was working blindly at all, whether to ask Tianyi to find the appearance of the murderer, and the price he paid should still be within his bearing, a strange figure walked out of a community in front of him.
This is a middle-aged man wearing a fancy blazer with a dark blue shirt underneath, gold-rimmed glasses, and casual cloth shoes on his feet. Although the matching of these shoes and clothes does not look abrupt, it always makes Wen Tao feel a little discordant.
And the strange place is not the shoes, but in the city of Chongqing in late July, there are really few people who dare to wear so much. Wen Tao remembered the reasoning with Wei Xiao about the murderer in the bookstore during the day, which made him pay more attention.
When the man passed by Wen Tao, he found that Wen Tao was looking at him, so he smiled and nodded to Wen Tao and politely said hello. The face was calm and the demeanor was decent, as if the place where they met was not the entrance of the community, but the scene of a party.
Wen Tao smiled back, and then the two of them left by mistake.
Out of the corner of his eye, Wen Tao also saw the middle-aged man in the suit and stepped forward to talk to the boss who was obviously selling supper, but his eyes had been glancing.
Well? Is this also a police officer? Or is that boss not the plainclothes that Wen Tao imagined?
After going around a few more neighborhoods, there were no more special people, so I went straight back.
Since Wen Tao's scope of action was within the suspicious range originally planned by Wei Xiao and them, they did not encounter the police who blocked the scene and questioned and investigated at the entrances and exits of various districts.
When I returned home, I found that there was not a single candy in my pocket, so I started today's cultivation again.
The next day, Wen Tao went to buy today's morning newspaper to see if anything happened yesterday.
I looked at it and was stunned.
On the largest edition, it is written "The third tragedy!" Last night, all the members of the South Shore District Police Station were dispatched, and the murderer is still at large! These are a few eye-catching big words.
"Did we guess wrong?" Wen Tao muttered to himself, he didn't expect this murderer to succeed in that situation last night.
He suddenly thought of the strange man in the suit last night, and finally knew what felt abrupt.
The shoes the man was wearing didn't make the slightest sound!
But he only knew the appearance of the other party, and it was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find him in Chongqing, a city with tens of millions of permanent residents and millions of floating population, so he thought of the police's Skynet system and population database.
He called Wei Xiao and said, "Officer Wei, I saw a strange person at the gate of a nearby community last night, which is in line with the appearance of the murderer we reasoned before, I don't know if it will help solve the serial murder case?" ”
"Huh? You first describe the appearance of the murderer, and if it does, we will ask you to come to the police station to see if the computer combination of the face photo is correct. "When he was worried about the ineffectiveness of last night's operation, and Wang Gang, who was worried about being scolded in the director's office, Wen Tao brought him good news.
Because he was anxious to know the other party's appearance, he didn't ask why Wen Tao appeared there.
Wen Tao told Wei Xiao some details of his appearance, dress, and movements, to see if he could use their internal system to find each other. Wei Xiao was silent for a while before replying in a hoarse voice: "No need, I know this person, and he is now in our police station." ”
Wen Tao was a little surprised: "You caught him?" ”
"No, he's an expert in criminal psychology that we've hired and an acquaintance who has worked with us many times, so it can't be him. I'll ask him why he was there last night, though. ”
Putting down the phone, Wei Xiao felt a little bitter in her heart.
In the end, there are still no clues?
After thinking about it for a while, although reason thought that this was a waste of time, as an excellent criminal policeman, his intuition decided to send the information of this criminal psychology expert to Wen Tao, and at the same time he was going to chat with that expert to see why he appeared in that community last night, and at the same time knock on the side where he appeared in the past two nights.
It's not that he trusts this ordinary bookstore owner much, on the one hand, he follows his instincts, and on the other hand, because now that the case has fallen into a bottleneck, since there is a suspicious point, maybe it can develop into a breakthrough point?
"Hi, Dr. Gao, how are you doing...... Wei Xiao chatted with the psychiatrist who had just come out of the director's office. If Wen Tao was present, he would find that although Dr. Gao had changed into a suit today, in addition to the style of clothing, the cloth shoes on his feet last night had also been replaced by cowhide shoes at the moment.
After Wen Tao on the other side received the information, he printed it out in paper form for easy reading.
Gao Qilu, male, 35 years old, from Modu, graduated from Stanford University with a double master's degree in psychology and law. Having a wife and no children, she is a psychiatrist and an expert in criminal psychology, and has won many national psychology awards.
Five years ago, for his wife, who was 3 years younger than him, he began to move to Chongqing City to live and run a high-end psychological counseling clinic. Three years ago, in June, due to an accident involving his wife, who fell down the stairs at home and paralyzed the lower half of his body, in addition to hiring someone to take care of his wife, the focus of work also began to shift to the family. In July of the same year, he became a special criminal psychology expert of the Municipal Police Department, and has helped the Chongqing Police Department crack more than 100 large and small cases in the past three years, and has won the trust of the leaders of the Municipal Bureau.
There is nothing wrong with the introduction of Gao Qilu's resume in the previous paragraph, but as an outsider, the more I look at it, the more I admire it, and what attracts Wen Tao is the small print in the personality habits column.
Although there are professional nurses to take care of him, Gao Qilu still returns home early every night to accompany his wife, and sometimes if he can go home before the afternoon, he will cook a good meal for his wife. According to many people who have eaten Gao Qilu's food, Gao Qilu not only cooks deliciously, but also has very good knife skills.
He is a marathon enthusiast and likes to walk and jog with his wife, but after his wife broke her leg, she pushed her to walk with her to breathe fresh air. And when he usually goes out to work, if it is less than half an hour's walk from home, Gao Qilu prefers to walk rather than drive. Perhaps it is this habit that allows him to maintain a healthy body during high-intensity work.
Isn't the characteristics of going home every night, knife work, and high education and high IQ consistent with the characteristics of the murderer who was deduced with Wei Xiao? And as a psychiatrist, going to the homes of patients in various communities to treat patients is not also in line with the characteristics of the murderer's familiarity with the security systems of multiple communities?
He is not a policeman after all, so he doesn't understand why Gao Qilu, who has met all the conditions, doesn't investigate, but chooses to go to the haystack every night to find a needle? Wen Tao thought suspiciously, his brows twisted into a line.
But after thinking about it carefully, Wen Tao figured it out.