Early the next morning, despite the dissuasion of doctors and family members, Director Xie took his illness to attend the case analysis meeting of the "10.17 case".

At the meeting, Xia Shi, as the main person in charge, first introduced the basic situation of another case related to clownfish to the new members of the task force.

"At about 6 o'clock in the evening of October 4, 2017, a burglary and homicide occurred in Room 403, Building 4, Ganges Community, R City. The victim, Ma Zhichen, male, born in 1991, was in a drug driving accident that caused a pedestrian crossing the road to seriously injure his brain and became a vegetative person, and remained alive in the hospital for more than four years before dying of multi-organ failure in the early morning of August 2, 2017.

The autopsy confirmed that the cause of Ma Zhichen's death was a heroin overdose, and the source of the drug has not yet been identified. The murderer bound and tortured him during his lifetime, with the intention of forcing him to confess his sins and repent. We found a clownfish about 6 cm long in the victim's mouth, and through the investigation of various aquarium markets on the market, the murderer's way of obtaining the clownfish has not been identified, and the possibility that the murderer raised the clownfish himself cannot be ruled out.

"Based on the footprints left at the scene, we speculate that the killer of Ma Zhichen is an adult male, about 180 centimeters tall, weighing 80 kilograms to 85 kilograms, and has a very strong body. After the incident, we conducted a detailed investigation of Ma Zhichen's social relations, and basically ruled out the possibility of acquaintances committing the crime. ”

After introducing Ma Zhichen's situation, Xia Shi compared and analyzed Li Baofang's case. "In the early hours of yesterday morning, four child abduction cases were committed in Jinshui County, and the fugitive wanted criminal Li Baofang, who brutally raped and killed three young children, was taken by the murderer to the unfinished building at No. 38 Qinglong Street and killed. Although the murderer's modus operandi is very different from the previous case, the motive for the murder seems to be to eliminate harm for the people.

"Whether it's Ma Zhichen or Li Baofang, they are all suspects and wanted criminals who have been targeted by the police in the near future, and the murderer chose these two people as targets just to provoke the police and prove his strength at the same time.

"It stands to reason that these two cases involving clownfish should be committed by the same murderer, but according to the shoe prints collected by the technical team in the unfinished building, as well as the description of the physical characteristics of the murderer by the eyewitness Ye Fei, we judge that the person who killed Li Baofang should weigh around 140 kilograms, which is quite different from the data obtained before.

From this, we can give rise to two conjectures. First: The two cases were not committed by the same murderer, and there were people in the know who imitated the crimes; Second, although the two cases were not committed by the same murderer, there was a close connection between the two murderers, and it cannot be ruled out that the two were accomplices in the crime.

"Personally, I'm more inclined to the second speculation. My reasons are threefold. First of all, only a very small number of people know the details of Ma Zhichen's case, and among these people, more than 90 percent of those who have the ability to commit crimes and meet the characteristics of murderers are people from within the special case team. In the absence of evidence, I will not casually point the finger at my brother.

"Secondly, the murderer dared to kill a wanted criminal under the nose of the police under the condition of martial law in the whole city, and dared to blatantly provoke after the killing, and did not leave any handle for the police.

"Third, in addition to the cases of Ma Zhichen and Li Baofang, the murderer seems to have foretold us of the upcoming case, and this case, I suspect that it is related to Dong Wei, who inexplicably 'disappeared' in Jinshui County many days ago. If it were a simple imitation, the development of the case would not have become so complicated. ”

Xia Shi said and switched the slide to a picture, and explained to everyone: "This is the note found in the stomach of the clownfish when Director Zheng dissected the corpse, and the coordinate information on it is undoubtedly a hint left by the murderer. I checked the geographical location of this set of coordinates on the map, which is a small village called Sanqiao Village, which is more than 500 kilometers away from R City in the north of Sichuan. In order to find out the murderer's intentions, we should immediately send a team of people to investigate the area, and I believe that the murderer must have left us more clues there. ”

As soon as Xia Shi's words fell, Zhao Hongshan immediately raised a question, "Regarding Li Baofang's case, is the possibility of the victim's family retaliating against the crime completely ignored?" ”

"Well...... this" Xia Shi hesitated for a moment, a little undecided. In his opinion, the families of several child victims, except for Concubine Ye's father, who was a police officer, did not seem to have the conditions to commit crimes. At the time of the crime, Concubine Ye's father had been staying with his family and did not have the time to commit the crime, so he ......

"I think it's worth thinking about." Just when Xia Shi was in trouble, Gu Song expressed his opinion. Of course, he thought of what Xia Shi was thinking, but he also thought of a question that was ignored by everyone, "Don't you think that the case that happened seven years ago, and the person involved in the case, is particularly in line with our criminal profile?" ”

Hearing this, everyone present was stunned for a moment, but soon someone reacted and suddenly said, "Are you talking about the case that happened in Yuanfeng Town seven years ago?" The murderer is Zhang Guoer's family? ”

"But Zhang Guo'er's parents are no longer alive, and if you want to take revenge, you don't have this chance." Zhao Hongshan shook his head with regret and said.

"No, the person Officer Gu said is not Zhang Guoer's family." Huo Yan had already thought of the identity of that person and reminded everyone, "Do you remember when Li Baofang's brother Li Baoyuan was interrogated, there was a policeman who was sent to a grassroots police station with difficult conditions for extorting confessions by torture? He has many characteristics that fit our psychological profile: he is physically skilled, intellectually outstanding, he loves to fight and fight, he has witnessed the misfortune of others, he has experienced unfair treatment firsthand, he is dissatisfied with the police, and he is eager for justice.

"The most important point is that in this world, no one cares more about Zhang Guoer's case than him, and no one wants to kill Li Baofang with his own hands more than him. Li Baofang had been tortured by the murderer to extract a confession before his death, and judging from the results, the murderer should have achieved his goal and asked Zhang Guoer's whereabouts. Considering these factors, the policeman is indeed suspected of committing a crime. ”

"I remember, the person you said is called Chen Tao." Xia Shi also learned about Zhang Guoer's case, and knew that Li Baoyuan's death had little to do with Chen Tao, that person was just unlucky and carried the black pot, but his life has changed from then on.

To say that Chen Tao experienced that major blow, his psychology was distorted, and he changed from a law enforcer to a killer who ignored the law, Xia Shi believes that there is such a possibility. But what he couldn't understand was, how could that person get their case information? How did he attack Li Baofang before them?