Under my repeated urging, Zhao Da and I hurriedly got into the car. Zhao Da stepped on the accelerator and asked me what happened to these two things. I didn't dare to touch the clock and battery taken from the murder scene directly with my hands, but used my sleeve to prevent my fingerprints from sticking to them and causing trouble for the subsequent fingerprint identification.

After getting into the car, the doubts and surprises in my heart are even worse, both batteries are brand new, there are almost no traces of use, and there is no aging, that is to say, under the normal condition of the battery, they were taken out of the clock and placed in a high place, so, what does the person who pulled out the battery mean?

I didn't answer Zhao Da's question, but asked him to drive faster, and the ominous premonition became stronger and stronger, these two things seemed to hide important clues. The three hands on the clock also point to the position of the hour, the hour hand points to 4, the minute hand points to 1, and the second hand also points to 4.

I have encountered several cases in which some clever deceased tried their best to leave some information about the murderer before they died, maybe some letters, maybe some numbers, and it was by deciphering the meaning of those messages that the police were able to arrest the murderer.

The three numbers displayed on this clock may be a message of some kind. I had been looking at the two batteries in my hand and the hands on the clock, and before I could think of anything, Zhao Da had already driven the car back to the gate of the police station. He opened the car door for me, and I couldn't wait to run into the identification section of the police station.

Zhao Da also shouted loudly, asking the staff of the identification department to come over quickly. Under Zhao Da's order, the staff immediately conducted fingerprint identification on the two batteries and the clock. At that time, the most convenient and commonly used method of extracting fingerprints was to use graphite to extract them.

Graphite can extract the fingerprints on the surface of objects by physical means, which is also more effective, but this time, the graphite extraction method failed. The staff of the forensic department used several other methods of extracting fingerprints, but after working for most of the day, they were still unable to extract useful traces.

During this period, I never took a look off the clock and the two batteries, and I could see very clearly that there was no problem with the method and procedure of the staff of the forensic department to extract fingerprints. Normally, even if it is a clock that has just been bought, there should be a person's fingerprint on it, so that the fingerprint has not been extracted, and there is only one possibility, the person who cut out the battery will remove all the fingerprints on it.

Moreover, the person who has had his fingerprints removed must be very knowledgeable about the way the police collect fingerprints, otherwise it would not be possible to leave no clues. Zhao Da asked me what to do, I thought about it, and asked the people in the identification department to put away the clock and battery to see if there was a way to recover the fingerprints or other traces on it.

The staff took pictures of these two things with their cameras before taking them, and then we took the photos to Zhao Da's office, and I asked Zhao Da to call in the more capable people in the police force, and Zhao Da didn't know what I was going to do, but I did it anyway.

When everyone arrived, I posted the photo on the wall and expressed my thoughts and asked for everyone's opinions, but everyone didn't seem to want to discuss it very much, and they didn't say a word for a long time. Zhao Da saw everyone's sick look, and he got angry again, but at this time, a more rude criminal policeman stood up.

"Captain Zhao, it's not that we don't want to discuss, but look at what this stinky kid says, can you listen to it?" The criminal policeman said to Zhao Da, and he was still secretly glancing at me out of the corner of his eye. Zhao Da listened to what this criminal policeman said, his face suddenly changed, he looked at me embarrassedly, then looked at the others, and asked in a deep voice, is everyone thinking so.

Everyone hesitated, but no one spoke. I kind of understood, and people weren't convinced of me at all. The criminal policeman who spoke before spoke again, and he said, if I really had the rumored god, the case should have had clues a long time ago, and it would not be like now, without a clue, and the former captain of the police force died.

Zhao Da was so angry that he beat his chest and scolded everyone fiercely, but the expressions on everyone's faces still looked unconvinced. Zhao Da was helpless, let me not mind, I just smiled. Because of my style of doing things, and because I am very young, I have not been questioned by everyone over the years, and I have long been used to it.

I pointed to the photo on the wall and said to everyone, it doesn't matter if you believe me or not, but now the clue is in front of us, if you hesitate for a while, it is likely that you will miss the real culprit, if you don't want to check, it doesn't matter, I will check it myself. After saying that, I stared at the criminal policeman who spoke.

This criminal policeman is not too young, and his status in the police station should not be low, otherwise he would not dare to speak on behalf of everyone. He stopped talking, and I could tell at a glance that he didn't have anything to say. I smiled and let him have something to say, and I never deprived others of their freedom to speak.

"Okay, Professor Li, I'll just say it bluntly, I don't think this case can be solved at all!" His eyes rolled, and he finally said something unspoken.

"Why?" I followed his words and asked.

"I don't believe anyone can solve a case that Captain Zhong can't solve. Lao Zhang also said, let's not meddle in this case......" He said at this point and stopped. I feel a little helpless in my heart, the case of the woman in red has brought too many unexplained things to this police force, he doesn't say it, and I know what he didn't say what he didn't say, it's nothing more than all kinds of myths.

"Look at what is written on your arms, if you don't think it's worth those two words, I have nothing to say. Strictly speaking, I'm not a police officer, I'm just a teacher, I can pat my ass and walk away, as long as you say it. I don't have any mood swings, "But if you need me, I'll keep looking into it, and there's no case in this world that can't be solved." ”

With that, everyone looked towards their arms. Zhao Da clapped his hands at this time, cheering everyone up, and he said to everyone, he believes me, if anyone dares to say more, take off the police uniform on his body and go home obediently. Under Zhao Da's threat, no one dared to say anything more.

I know that people still can't convince me, and it's true that after I came, I didn't make the case clearer, but the facts of the case became more complicated. In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Zhao Da didn't let everyone speak, he laughed a few times, and let me analyze it directly for everyone.

I nodded, pointed to the clock and battery in the photo, and said, "The clock and battery are not normal, and they are likely to be an early warning of the case." "Early warning is a term within the public security system at that time, which refers to the fact that the victim and the eyewitness who is inconvenient to show up indicate the identity of the perpetrator or indicate the clues of the investigation, and the indirect evidence left behind may also be left by a perverted murderer in order to satisfy a certain deformed psychology and challenge the authority of the public security system.

Six years ago, in one of the easternmost provinces of our country, there was a perverted serial murder case, and the murderer left clues indicating his identity in each homicide case, and finally the murderer was planted in the early warning information he left. On this clock and battery, no fingerprints can be extracted, it is obvious that it was not left by the deceased, and the biggest possibility is the early warning information left by the murderer to the police.

When Zhao Da heard my analysis, he immediately catered to me, saying that what I said was reasonable, and although the others did not speak, I could see from their expressions that they had no way to refute what I said. I continue to analyze that this warning message is composed of two things, the battery, and the clock.

Generally speaking, the early warning information left by the murderer either indicates his identity or the time and location of the next crime. I thought about it carefully for a while, and asked Zhao Da to call up the address book of all the local areas, and he asked everyone to search for all the addresses related to batteries or clocks.

I prepared them to do all of this while I thought about what the numbers pointed to by the three hands of the clock. Finally, Zhao Da shouted at me, and he told me that if the battery had something to do with the address, would it represent a large local power supply bureau?

Zhao Da was holding an address book in his hand, I quickly grabbed it, the power supply bureau is also in a very prosperous area, and all the employees of the power supply plant live.

"Check if there's any surveillance!" While flipping through the address book, I said to Zhao Da, and Zhao Da immediately asked people to investigate. The three hands of the clock pointed to 4, 1, and 4 respectively, so I immediately turned to No. 414 of the Power Supply Bureau, and the account information on it showed that a man lived in this place.

"Professor Li, there are no surveillance cameras in that place!" The people sent out by Zhao Da hurriedly ran in.

I looked at my watch, it was exactly four o'clock in the afternoon, I yelled no, my instinct told me that something was going to happen!

"Captain Zhao, take a few people to follow me to No. 414 of the power plant immediately, and a few others, and then check the identity information of the corpse on Victory Street, and see if we can find the family of the deceased or something!" I immediately urged.

After Zhao Da repeated my order, he took a few people and hurried to the power supply bureau with me. Zhao Da asked me in the car, shouldn't the victim of the woman in red case be a woman, why did I go to find out where a man lived. I can't say why, but I trust my instincts, and this hunch is very bad.

The car was driving fast and I kept looking at my watch, and just around 4:14 a.m., my phone rang with the number it showed the same number I had received that night. Even more ominous, I picked up the phone......

"Professor Li, it's too late......"