Soon, based on eyewitness accounts, the police department drew a sketch portrait of the murderer. Ben is here, and the next work should be very good to do, after all, although the city is not small, it is not difficult to find qualified homeless people with portraits in theory.

Zhao Ming remembers what he said at the time, "Considering the fact that the murderer still knows that he does not leave fingerprints, this murderer may be a homeless man, but he is very likely to have a normal mind, that is, when he encounters the police, he will hide and run." ”

"Moreover, based on the cruelty of the murderer, the police officer in charge of the search must pay attention to his own safety and not rush to the murderer."

Zhao Ming clearly remembered that he had said something like that, but how could he have thought of it......

It should be said that no one expected that the search for the entire city lasted for seven days. But no one has found the kind of homeless man who should be easy to find.

The hopes of the criminal police detachment gradually faded, and Zhao Ming had to start thinking about a question, he stared at the sketch portrait and asked himself silently, "If you dress like a homeless person, is it really a homeless person?" Could such a costume be just a disguise? ”

Zhao Ming was reluctant to accept this idea, because if the homeless man's costume was disguise, then the murderer would only be a murderer with a high IQ and a psychopath.

So at that time, he decided to investigate for the time being according to the idea that the murderer was a homeless man.

The homeless man is also a human being, and if the murderer had not lost his mind, then he would have hid if he knew that the criminal police were searching for him all over the city. And they hide in strange places, and urban sewers are one of the most important places.

Once the murderer hides in the sewer and does not come out for a short time, it is almost impossible for the police station to find him, relying on the police department's own strength.

At the same time, the pressure on urban residents, including higher-level leaders, to solve the case is increasing. For a while, it felt like everyone was forcing Zhao Ming and them to solve the case.

As a last resort, Zhao Ming had to take the last method, set up a reward, and spread the sketch portrait of the murderer with the help of the media. Of course, when it was disseminated, the name of the suspect was used.

The media spread the word very quickly, and every day there was a steady stream of calls to the police station, and everyone on the other side of the phone said that they had seen the killer somewhere.

Zhao Ming had already expected that when he decided to borrow the power of the media, but because the pressure to solve the case was too great, he could only accept it and try to sift out credible news as much as possible.

Fortunately, during that time, the operation of the police station played a more or less role, at least in the face of the overwhelming search work, the sixth victim never appeared, and that was the only thing that could make Zhao Ming breathe a sigh of relief.

By the fifth day of media transmission, the enthusiasm of the masses had subsided, and the number of calls to the police had become much frequent. But on that day, Song Tao received a phone call, and Zhao Ming happened to be next to him at that time and heard the content of the call clearly.

On the other side of the phone, a hoarse and dull voice came, the man didn't say much, in fact, only two, "The suspect you are looking for is hiding in that abandoned steel mill in the east of the city, and he is preparing to kill his sixth victim." ”

Originally, this kind of alarm call should be very noteworthy. But because of that time, whether it was Zhao Ming or Song Tao, they all received a lot of calls saying that the suspect was killing people, and some of the police even described it vividly, and they couldn't tell the truth from the false.

For this reason, the entire criminal police detachment can be regarded as running in vain. So forgive Song Tao, who received this kind of alarm call again, was not too excited.

At that time, it was already past the end of work, and that day the bureau just decided to let those criminal policemen go home early to rest, after all, the entire criminal police detachment had been working for more than half a month for that case, and everyone had no rest. Many of my colleagues are running out of steam.

When I received the call to the police, there were four people in the team, including Zhao Ming and Song Tao. Song Tao took notes while dragging the person who called the police, "You said you saw that the suspect was preparing to kill someone, so you are also near the steel mill now?" ”

"Yes," the person who called the police did not hang up the phone, and his voice was still hoarse, "you guys hurry up, or it'll be too late." ”

"Okay, the officers will be there shortly." Song Tao responded, at that time, Zhao Ming and Song Tao thought that the police call must be fake, after all, the suspect has been committing crimes in a remote alley, and it has become a fixed pattern for the suspect, and there is no reason to change suddenly.

"Can you describe to me what you're seeing now?" Song Tao asked.

"I saw ....... killer tying up the victim, pulling out a fruit knife and walking towards the victim."

"Can you see which hand the suspect is holding the fruit knife?" Song Tao asked, this is the only information that the police department has not released to the media and no channels: the results of the forensic autopsy show that the suspect is a left-hander, and the murder is done with his left hand.

"Right hand, right hand!" The hoarse voice on the other end of the phone replied.

Hearing this, Zhao Ming and Song Tao on the other side of the phone both shook their heads, and Zhao Ming had already picked up the phone next door and was about to contact the ordinary police officers to go over and verify.

I never thought that at that time, the other side of the phone suddenly hurriedly shouted, "No, no, no, I'm standing opposite the murderer, my right is his left, left, left, he is holding a knife in his left hand!" ”

With a 'snap', Zhao Ming and Song Tao stood up suddenly, the two looked at each other and didn't speak, but they all had the same meaning in their eyes: it was true.

"Don't hang up, we'll be there in a minute!" Song Tao almost yelled at the phone, and when the words came out, Zhao Ming and Song Tao immediately ran out desperately, and Zhao Ming did not forget to order the remaining two people in the office, so that one of them was responsible for continuing the call with the police and grasping the implementation situation, and the other was responsible for contacting and sending additional support to the steel plant.

The alarm bell sounded, and Zhao Ming drove straight to the steel plant. From the police station where he and Song Tao worked, if you want to reach the steel factory in the east of the city, even if you ignore the traffic lights all the way, it is estimated that it will take twenty or thirty minutes at the earliest.

It can be imagined how anxious Zhao Ming and the others in the car were at that time.

Song Tao on the co-pilot has already contacted the colleague in the police station who is responsible for continuing to communicate with the policeman, "The policeman said that he had stabbed the first time!" ”

"Contact the hospital and ask them to send an ambulance to get there!" Zhao Ming was also yelling.

Hurry up, when Song Tao said that he had stabbed him for the fifth time, the speeding police car finally arrived near the steel plant.

Because the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and the area of the steel plant was definitely not small, Zhao Ming turned off the alarm bell early to prevent the suspect from hearing the alarm bell and escaping.

After all, you must know that the area in the east of the city is huge as a whole, and some areas are overgrown with weeds. If the suspect starts to escape, Zhao Ming feels that he and Song Tao alone may not be able to catch the suspect.

"We must not let him escape!" Zhao Ming and Song Tao said something with a tacit understanding.

"On the first floor, the police said that the suspect was on the first floor of the steel plant." As soon as Song Tao finished talking to Zhao Ming here, he asked at the mobile phone, "Do you see which corner it is?" East or West? ”

Zhao Ming and the others waited for an answer on the phone as they moved forward.

None of them expected it, they didn't wait for any answer at all.

"The phone hung up!" The voice of a colleague in the police station came!