After this case, the reason why the Huaicheng police reported it to the province as soon as possible was because there was an almost identical case last summer.

Zhao Fei'er, a 23-year-old graduate of Huaicheng University, is a native of Tongxian County, the capital of Hunan Province. Both parents are in their hometown, and the family is poor. Zhao Feier has an ordinary appearance and a cheerful personality, and she has never found a formal job after graduation, so she works part-time in a bubble tea shop.

Like Liu Yisha, Zhao Fei'er also lives in the "slum" near the school. The straight-line distance between the residences of two people is not more than 2 kilometers.

On the summer night when Zhao Fei'er disappeared, she came home from the night shift from the bubble tea shop. Due to the distance to work, it was already past one o'clock at night when I got off the bus. She needs to walk about 1.5 kilometers to get home.

The next day, Zhao Feier did not go to work. The bubble tea shop couldn't reach her.

On the third day, she still didn't come to work. A colleague in the bubble tea shop called the police.

Three days later, her body was found by villagers on a remote mountainside in the countryside. Zhao Fei'er was packed in the same 20-inch black box, naked, with broken joints, and she was folded into the same neat and deformed appearance.

The fatal injuries were the same, all blunt trauma to the head, resulting in a ruptured skull. Serious sexual assault is consistent. The corpse was cleaned up in a consistent manner, very clean and thorough, leaving no fingerprints or DNA.

But the murderer a year ago seems to be a little more careless. Forensic officers extracted a valid fingerprint on the inside of the handle of the box.

However, in the fingerprint database held by the police, no match was found.

The police believe that it was on that section of the road that was only 1.5 kilometers that Zhao Feier was taken away by the murderer. They even got their hands on a precious fingerprint. But the murderer could not be found. The final location of Zhao Fei'er's mobile phone was found in a trash can in the downtown area, so there is no way to determine the exact location and time of her disappearance.

The Huaicheng police were very nervous for a while, because they had basically ruled out all kinds of possibilities such as vendetta killings, and they had reason to believe that the murderer was a stranger and that his methods were so cruel and perverted. Police fear a second body will appear.

However, time passed, the killer disappeared, and no new victims appeared.

Until, a year later, today.

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Like many third- and fourth-tier cities, the city center of Huaicheng has a bright and positive face, with commercial housing everywhere, a central garden full of greenery and square dances, and slogans such as "developing tourism" and "creating civilization" can be seen everywhere on the streets.

Peel off the skin and go further inside, gradually approaching the area rented by the two victims. The house began to get short, old, dirty. Densely packed one after another, the high and low levels are uneven, and the architectural style is mostly monotonous and rigid, reflecting the poverty and urgency of that era.

The roads are also messy, some wide, some narrow, jumbled and intertwined, but all dirty. Shops: kiosks, florists, bubble tea shops, fruit shops...... There are also wet markets, residential areas, sub-district offices, primary schools, ...... It's all mixed up in a way that doesn't have any rules. There are also patches of shantytowns, scattered among them.

It is the most densely populated and chaotic area of the city, and it is also the most primitive and lively place.

You Mingxu and Xu Mengshan drove downstairs to Liu Yisha's house. Half of his own people meet, so he naturally follows.

It is a small 5-storey building that used to be a collective dormitory for a certain unit, and is now a rental house. On each floor, there are dense rows of windows and doors, and the corridors are full of miscellaneous items and clothes to dry. You Mingxu frowned: This is going to be firefighting, and it is absolutely unqualified. But this is the only way for the city's "ant layer" to survive.

It is far better to live in insecurity than to live in nowhere.

The three of them went up the spiral staircase on one side. You Mingxu stood on the stairs and looked back, there were too many crowded buildings and too many windows around. If there is a pair of eyes peeping at Liu Yisha, there is no way to find it.

The stairs of the old building are very narrow, and there are still a lot of damages on the steps. You Mingxu was behind him, and his eyes and hands quickly hugged his waist. But this guy was too heavy, and the two of them crashed into the railing together. The railing was also tattered, and You Mingxu was shocked into a cold sweat. Yin Feng was also a conditioned reflex, feeling that his body was out of balance, but he pulled You Mingxu into his arms to protect him.

When the two of them hit the railing, she put her arm around his waist, and he hugged her in his arms. Both of them were silent for a moment, You Mingxu smelled the scent of the shower liquid in his arms, and the familiar feeling brought by the man's tall body reminded her of the picture of the two kissing wildly a few days ago.

"Does it matter if Ah Xu wants it?" He asked softly.

"It's fine." You Mingxu broke free from his arms, his face was flat and he continued to walk up. As a result, I heard him say to himself behind his back: "It doesn't matter if you're handsome. ”

You Mingxu's face was expressionless. I feel a little unhappy in my heart for some reason.

They arrived at the door of Liu Yisha's house.

This is a side household on the fifth floor, which should be the cheapest one. There was a seal at the door, and a policeman was on duty. When the three of them went in, it was a room with a toilet of no more than 15 square meters. White walls and concrete floors, a small bed, table, wardrobe, two chairs.

Even though everything in the house is simple and cheap, it is clean and tidy. Clothes are neatly stacked in the cupboard, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and towels are arranged. There are several books on the table, in addition to two romance novels, there are also "Introduction to E-commerce", "Super V Teaches You to Open an Online Store", and "The Secret of Taobao's Annual Income of One Million".

You Mingxu picked up the book and flipped through it, glanced at Xu Mengshan, and put it down.

After a preliminary investigation, they also had a basic understanding of Liu Yisha. Compared with the first deceased, Zhao Fei'er, Liu Yisha's appearance is relatively good, and she is also more introverted and weak. According to teachers and classmates, Liu Yisha's grades and abilities are not outstanding, and she is not self-motivated. But also an honest man. The family is very poor, so her life has been relatively difficult.

She once had a high-level boyfriend, but because her boyfriend went to another place after graduation, this campus romance also ended. After graduating, Liu Yisha had even less contact with her classmates, and almost no one knew how she was doing.

Of course, she also has a girlfriend or two. They said that Liu Yisha had mentioned that she wanted to open an online store to sell clothes. However, start-up capital has always been an issue. So I didn't see any movement.

The small house is like Liu Yisha's short life, which can be seen at a glance. You Mingxu ran to the railing outside the building to smoke, and she was thinking about a question: Liu Yisha, how did she disappear?

According to a girlfriend, the last time Liu Yisha spoke to her on the phone was five days ago. And the last time a neighbor saw Liu Yisha was in the evening four days ago. The time of her death has been determined to be between 2 and 3 o'clock on the night two days ago. In other words, she disappeared and was killed 4 days ago, between the evening of the 7th and the 9th.