If it was just a baby's finger in the store, of course the case would not alarm the leaders of the provincial department, and it would not be so difficult to crack, just go directly to the owner of the store. The problem is, since then. Baby's organs appeared in all five stores on the same street. There are fingers. There are also a few toes, as well as ears, eyes. Nose, teeth......

The main thing is: These baby organs, after passing DNA tests, turned out to be not the same person. In other words, the five stores where organs appear represent five small lives.

Fools can see that this is definitely not an ordinary homicide, but a serial murder case that has lost its conscience, and what exterminates humanity is that the target of the murder is actually a baby.

Early in the morning, as soon as Deputy Director Xue received the report on the case, he immediately called me to his office.

After he gave me a brief introduction to the case, I didn't say anything at first, except that I wanted to look at the investigation materials and discuss it before giving him a reply. Not investigated. I don't think I have much to say, and there are some things that rash and rash judgments will only make the leader feel that you are not stable enough.

After Deputy Director Xue gave me a stack of very thick materials, I hurried back to the unsolved case team with the materials.

As soon as I returned to the unsolved case team, I called Zhao Xiaotian, Ah Pu, Chen Ye, and a few other temporary team members who were temporarily seconded to help us sort out the materials for a meeting to study and discuss.

First of all, I took the information and studied it with everyone. The stack of materials I have brought over are some detailed transcripts of the investigation by the following units and other case analysis materials. Basically, it can be said that all the information of the entire case is there. So, after some analysis, we learned a lot of things.

The crime scene was on a night market street in the city. The whole street is full of barbecue or casserole porridge, lobster city and other supper clubs. The street is very long, and on one section of the road, there are more than 10 porridge shops in a row, and the crime scene is in five of these more than 10 porridge shops.

The first case appeared eight days ago. After receiving the report, the police station immediately intervened in the investigation. The owner and proprietress of the Chaozhou casserole porridge and a few guys in the store were all arrested and taken to the police station. After all, they are all important suspects, and of course they will be taken away without leaving any stone behind.

However, after careful investigation, the owner and the guy of this shop are all honest people, they have no criminal record, they have no motive for committing crimes, and after being tested by a psychological counselor, there is no psychological problem, not like the murderer of that kind of perverted homicide.

But strangely, before the crime, they all said that they had not seen strangers enter the kitchen. If it weren't for someone else throwing the baby's finger into the porridge, how could there be a baby's finger! Everyone knows that the reason why casserole porridge uses casserole is because those porridges are boiled directly in a casserole, and all kinds of condiments must have been added at that time, how could fingers appear.

Therefore, the police who handled the case still targeted the boss and those guys. On the third day of the incident, the local police station received another report.

This time, the owner of a casserole porridge called to report the case, saying that a customer had eaten eyeballs from his shop.

In the next three days, three more casserole porridges had the same problem in a row, and the organs in each porridge were different.

The first time is the fingers, the second is the eyeballs, the third is the toes, the fourth is the ears, and the fifth is the nose.

In the five cases, all five organs were relatively small, so it was concluded that they were all organs in the baby's body. It was not until after the fifth case that the public security bureau below really had no choice but to report the case to the provincial department and request experts from above to support.

Judging from the investigation report below, it seems that the murderer only targeted the casserole porridge shop, because the five stores that had the accident were all porridge shops. As soon as I analyzed this common denominator, I immediately took Apu, Zhao Xiaotian, and Chen Ye to the scene of the crime to investigate.

It was afternoon when we went, and the shops where the accident had occurred were all closed.

Originally, I thought they were open at night, so they didn't open during the day, because many casserole porridge shops on this section of the road were closed. Later, we learned from the police at the local police station that it turned out that since the incident, all five stores had been closed.

Because although the police blocked the information, I don't know what happened, and the news of the baby's organs appearing in the casserole porridge was still spread. If it weren't for the timely handling of the provincial propaganda department, it is estimated that it would have started to go viral on the Internet.

When I heard the police officer at the police station say that, I immediately realized that the person who spread the news about this incident could be the murderer? His goal was to get these casserole porridge shops to close. Is this just vicious business competition? If that's the case, then the murderer is too perverted.

Thinking of this, I immediately asked, "When you asked the owner of the store where the accident occurred, did you carefully ask them if they had offended anyone recently?" ”

"I asked, but I said no." The policeman Xiao Xu shook his head: "Businessmen are relatively tactful, and they generally don't offend people easily." ”

"Then what do these five stores have in common, and why did the murderer only attack these five stores?" I asked.

When we are faced with a serial murder case, it is customary to first figure out what several cases have in common. Figuring out whether the killer committed the crime randomly or selectively is important for us to solve the case. Because the scope of the murderer can be greatly narrowed.

"I didn't find anything in common, but these shops are the best among the dozen or so porridge shops on this street."

"That's right!" I nodded a little happily: "The murderer's purpose is probably to disrupt their business, maybe the murderer is one of the owners of one of the more than ten stores." ”

"No, no, no, it can't be!" Police officer Xiao Xu shook his head: "After so many cases in a row, all the more than ten porridge shops on this street are out of business, and no one dares to come here to drink porridge." ”

"That's right, if I heard that I drank porridge here and ate those things, let alone come here to drink porridge, I wouldn't dare to drink porridge in the future." Chen Ye looked disgusted.

"I know where to find the murderer!" At this moment, Zhao Xiaotian, who has always been very serious today, suddenly said.

"Brother Tian is wise, Brother Tian is Shenwu, Brother Tian, where should we go to find the murderer?" Ah Pu looked at Zhao Xiaotian with a look of adoration. At the same time, Chen Ye and Xiao Xu and I also looked at him together.

Zhao Xiaotian seemed to enjoy this appearance, only to see him shake his head: "The murderer's purpose is likely to destroy all the casserole porridge business on this street, you say, the casserole porridge on this street is not eaten, where will they go?" ”

"The nearest place to eat casserole porridge!" Chen Ye said excitedly.

There was a hint of excitement in the eyes of several of us, but Zhao Xiaotian said slowly: "It doesn't have to be the closest here, it's okay to be a little farther away, it's best to be a place like this where several stores in a row are casserole porridge, which is the least suspicious." More than a dozen stores collapsed at once, but not one store can eat so many customers. ”

"Makes sense!" I nodded: "Xiao Xu, where is the nearest casserole porridge shop, take us to see ......"

"This, this ......" Xiao Xu suddenly spit out a little.

"What's wrong?" I said blankly.

"There's a store that my uncle opened recently, and there's no way they could do that." Xiao Xu said with some concern.

"Your uncle drove it?" Ah Pu looked at Xiao Xu suspiciously: "You kid shouldn't be an inner ghost, right?" ”

"Brother Lie, you're laughing, how could I do such a hurtful thing." Xiao Xu said with a bitter face: "Let's go, I'll take you to my uncle's store to have a look." ”

Then, when Xiao Xu took us to a porridge shop in a small alley three streets away, we were relieved.

Uncle Xu's casserole porridge shop is called "Xu Ji Casserole Porridge", but the façade is very small and the house is very old. It's the kind of porridge shop that opens on the first floor of my house, but it's quite spacious inside. After entering the façade, there is an antique courtyard inside, which can probably seat one or twenty tables of people. It is said that the business used to be very good, but in recent years, there have been too many people in this business, and he has slowly compared his porridge shop that has been open for more than ten years.

As soon as Xiao Xu's uncle heard that we were here for the baby casserole porridge, he immediately started scolding, but he didn't scold us, but those colleagues.

"This is retribution, they buy some porridge made of dead shrimp and dead crabs, in order to achieve the taste of live shrimp and live crabs, they add synthetic flavors to the porridge, add those flavoring agents vanillin, ethyl malt...... I knew for a long time that their business would not last long. It must have offended some guest, and someone else is now coming to take revenge on them......"

Uncle Xu is in his fifties, and we talk a lot as soon as we go, but I can tell that this kind of cynical old man will definitely not be that kind of perverted murderer. Begging for the younger brother.

However, just because he didn't do it doesn't mean it has nothing to do with him. So we asked Xiao Xu who else was in his uncle's family?

When Xiao Xu heard us asking, he immediately mysteriously pulled me aside and told me behind his uncle's back that he said that he still had a cousin, who was crazy, and he had gone crazy seven or eight years ago, and told me not to mention his cousin in front of his uncle, because if he mentioned his cousin, his uncle would definitely be angry. Saying that his cousin was his uncle's heart disease, and since his cousin went crazy, his uncle would be furious when he heard someone mention his cousin.

I asked Xiao Xu why his cousin was crazy, and he said, "...... died in a car accident."

Hearing Xiao Xu say that, I didn't ask again. If Xiao Xu said that his cousin's child was poisoned by food while drinking porridge, I would definitely take all the people around his cousin as the subject of investigation, but unfortunately not.

After coming out of Xu Kee's porridge shop, we went back. When we returned home, we learned from colleagues in several other departments that there had been no reports of missing babies in Province H recently, so the whereabouts of the five babies could not be found.

No progress was made in the afternoon. At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhao Xiaotian, Chen Ye, and Ah Pu and I went to another night market street in the city for dinner. And deliberately chose a casserole porridge shop to eat.

But because we kept thinking about the baby casserole porridge in our minds, we didn't order the porridge. I just ordered some fried flower nails, lobster and the like to eat.

Originally, we were just here to see if the business here was as good as we expected. Supposedly, after more than a dozen stores over there are closed, the traffic here will at least double or two. But in fact, although the business is booming, according to our inquiries with the boss and the guys, the number of customers has not increased much.

This is a bit of a disappointment for us.

However, just as we were halfway through eating, we suddenly heard a woman screaming in the distance: "Ah, what is this......"