I was a little surprised, and after carefully identifying it, Lao Zhang leaned over to take a look, and finally, we came to the conclusion that this hammer was the same style as the hammer used by the murderers in the previous two cases.

I put it in my sealed bag and as soon as I got up, I almost fell to the ground with a dizzy feeling in my head, as if I had inhaled too much of this rancid smell.

Lao Zhang hurriedly came over and stretched out his hand to support me, and after a while, he gradually returned to normal, and then gradually felt better.

Although I still had a strong sense of dizziness in my brain, I felt extremely clear and excited, because I had finally found a clear direction to investigate the case, that is, the hammer in my hand.

I called back the team to collect the team, and their investigation results were already as I thought, and they found nothing.

I cleaned the hammer I brought back, and when it showed its original appearance, I took it out and compared it a little, and sure enough, it was the same type of hammer.

Coupled with the previous two, the degree of wear and tear of these three is even about the same, and it is obvious that it is still very new, and it is not used too much, indicating that the murderer used it as a tool for murder from the beginning, rather than a temporary intention.

In other words, no matter what the murderer's purpose was, whether it was love murder or vendetta, robbery or murder, he had already made sufficient plans and preparations to evade the police investigation, and it turned out that he did it.

Put the three hammers on the desk one after another, and their users should be the same person, then the civilian house in the old city should be his hiding place.

He must have already discovered us when we went to investigate, otherwise they wouldn't have disappeared before we arrived, and even the footprints in the house would have been cleaned up.

To be on the safe side, I still sent a few members of the team to the old town and took turns patrolling.

These three hammers, judging from their newness and age, are still relatively new, with very little wear and tear, and almost no traces of rust, which means that they have been used for a short time, and they should have been purchased several times at the same time, or in a short period of time.

Since you know this, you only need to check the purchase records of the hardware store to know, although there are many ordinary customers, the boss may not remember, but if you buy more than one or buy a hammer in a row, the boss will definitely have an impression.

Immediately began to prepare to go to various hardware stores to investigate, in this era, there are not many hardware stores, in Yangpu District, where our police force is located, there is only one hardware store, and there are no more than ten in the entire S City.

I sent people to other urban areas to investigate, and I myself brought a few people and changed into civilian clothes. , go to the store in Yangpu District and see for yourself.

This is a very small shop, a total of more than a dozen square meters, large and small objects are piled up in the store, leaving only a very narrow road for people to pass, the boss saw our group to the door, hurriedly ran out, asked us what to buy.

I took out my ID to identify myself, the recent head knocker thing walk fast, in the local can be said to be no one who does not know, when I heard that we are here to investigate the head knocker, the boss seems to be very cooperative.

I asked him if he remembered anyone buying hammers from him in bulk, and he tried to think about it for a while, and then told me,

"The hammer is basically used by every household, and there are quite a few people who come to buy it, sometimes they can sell more than a dozen a day, where do I remember it, as for the bulk purchase you said, there are so few, generally workers on the nearby construction site, they are all regular customers, they have known each other for many years, they should not be murderers."

Hearing this, I kicked in my heart, signaled him not to think too much, just to do a simple investigation, not to say that whoever bought the hammer was the murderer, and then asked him what the workers looked like.

Xiao Luo next to him hurriedly took out a notebook to record, the boss said while recalling, sure enough, when he said the last one, the appearance he described was clearly Xie Dacheng!

I listened quietly on the surface, but I was a little excited in my heart, although this didn't prove anything, but I had always doubted Xie Dacheng, and now, it confirmed my thoughts even more.

I glanced at Lao Zhang, and he obviously knew that the person the boss said was Xie Dacheng, and I was going to let someone take Xie Dacheng back to investigate, but Lao Zhang looked at me, shook his head slightly, and spoke before me,

"Don't startle the snake, now Xie Dacheng has obviously taken precautions against us, don't move Xie Dacheng easily when there is no sufficient evidence."

I was a little surprised, but nodded to him, "So what's next?" ”

After a moment's thought, he motioned for me to go back to the team first.

When I returned to the team, before I entered the gate, I heard the sound of commotion inside, I pushed the door in, and found that it was a pair of middle-aged men and women, the woman was pulling Xiao Zhang, crying and crying and saying something.

I walked over to ask what was going on, and when Xiao Zhang saw me coming in, he hurriedly ran over and told me that it was Chen Zhi, the son of the old man who was killed, and his daughter-in-law, Wu Li, who had rushed back from out of town after hearing that the old man had been killed.

I hurriedly stepped forward to comfort them, telling them that I, as the person in charge of the case, was doing my best to investigate the case and would definitely bring the murderer to justice, so I could reassure them.

Chen Zhi kept a gloomy face and didn't speak, but Wu Li kept crying, pulling me to babble something, I had to listen patiently, while dissuading, after a long time, Wu Li was probably tired of crying, and the man pulled her away.

was so noisy, my face was a little ugly, Xiao Zhang saw me like this, and secretly slipped away.

I was sitting in my office and suddenly I thought of the dark shadow again.

When Liu Guilan died, I saw him appear at the scene of the crime, but at the scene of the old man's death, I didn't hear anything about the black shadow, what does this mean?

And it seems that since the old man was killed, I have never seen a black shadow again, and it is obvious that it often appears in front of my eyes and even has a provocative taste, but it suddenly disappeared overnight.

It occurred to me that the strange house in the civilian housing area was the hiding place of the black shadows.

I was a little excited and immediately came to the hospital.

The Wang team still looked like he was demented, and he needed to be taken care of by someone to eat, drink, and Lazar, and I sat in front of his hospital bed and told him about the recent cases and clues, but he just looked at the ceiling with blank eyes, and there was no reaction.

I don't know why I came to tell him this, but when I saw him and thought about the night he was killed, I still felt some palpitations.

turned around and came to the door of Wang Lianxiang's ward, standing outside the door, only to see her sitting on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the wall in front of her, and not speaking, just sitting all the time.

I asked the nurse if Wang Lianxiang was still crazy recently, and she said that Wang Lianxiang had been relatively normal in the past few days, and she hadn't made much noise, which was great news for the nurse on duty.

So I went to Wang Lianxiang's hospital room, and when she saw me come in, she just turned her head to look at me, and then continued to stare straight at the wall.

I went up to ask her, but she didn't speak, and she didn't seem to hear what I asked.

It wasn't until I asked her if she had seen that dark shadow these other nights, that her face suddenly changed dramatically, and she opened her mouth vigorously, but she didn't make any sound.

I felt something was wrong, and asked her again, but she just kept her mouth open, her expression was very frightened, and then she reached out and pointed to the small window behind me.

I turned abruptly and saw a hammer shrinking down the window, and I rushed to check it, only to see the back of a man running away.