"The leaflet distribution ended at 9:30 a.m., and the time of death was about 10:30 a.m. There was only an hour in between. After getting off the bus, Lin Shu looked at his watch, "With Cai Peiyi's economic situation, it is impossible to take a taxi, it should be a bus, and the time to take the bus from the teahouse to the bicycle room is about 40 minutes, that is, it will take 10:10 to get home at the earliest." ”

Lin Shu thought as he walked, what kind of work could make the deceased earn dozens of yuan in less than 20 minutes. He thought about many possibilities, but he quickly ruled them all out.

"I can't figure out what it is." Lin Shu kept scratching his hair, which had been messed up with him.

"Little brother, are you annoyed? My sister can help you forget your troubles. A charming female voice came.

Lin Shu looked back and found that there was an exposed woman in front of him wearing a glitter suspender, and then he looked at the surrounding environment, alleys, hidden, rental houses, and at the same time near the bicycle room.

In an instant, all the clues were connected, and a complete picture had gradually formed in Lin Shu's mind. He hurriedly took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album and handed it to the woman in front of him, "Have you seen this woman the night before yesterday?" ”

The woman looked at it, did not answer, but lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "Brother, I do business to make money." ”

Lin Shu immediately understood, took out the only remaining red banknote from his wallet and handed it to the woman in front of him.

The woman recalled, "At about ten o'clock the night before yesterday, that woman came here to solicit customers, and her clothes were not revealing, and she didn't dare to get started, I thought she should be here for the first time, so I was a little impressed." ”

"And did she find the guest later?"

"Yes, I had two guests at the same time, and I couldn't greet them. I saw that the woman was pitiful, and she had been introduced to the guests by no one to help her, and I saw them walking together. ”

"Do you remember the guest's name or characteristic?"

"I don't know the name, but he said he was a bricklayer. If I see it again, I should be able to recognize it. ”

Finding an important clue, Lin Shu also knew that it was not something he could solve later, so he hurriedly contacted Zhou Yinglin, "Brother Hard, come to Shuangsha Town, I have found an important clue, and remember to drive, I don't have the money to take a car back." ”

Not long after, Zhou Yinglin took several police officers from the town police station to catch the suspect who was still laying bricks at the construction site under the identification of the massage woman.

In the interrogation room, a man who appeared to be honest was crying bitterly in front of three interrogators.

"I really didn't mean to kill her. I just didn't control it for a while, and I didn't think she would just die. The man said while sobbing, which can be regarded as a direct confession.

"Let's talk about it in detail, how to kill people."

"I was going to go to the alley to have fun after work that day, but it turned out that there were already people in Honghong, who I frequented. Seeing that she couldn't say hello, Honghong recommended me to go to the woman, and I saw that although she was thin, she was quite beautiful, so I planned to try it. As a result, I didn't expect that I followed this woman to her house, and the money was given, and she actually said that she didn't want to do it. I was angry and pushed her to the bed, pressed her, picked up the medicine bottle on the table and poured it into her mouth, I just wanted to teach her a lesson, and when I reacted, she had fainted, and I was afraid of getting into trouble so I closed the door and left. I didn't know I had killed until the next day when the police came. After the man finished speaking, he covered his face and wept bitterly.

Zhou Yinglin stood in front of the surveillance, sorrow quietly crept into her heart, and said regretfully: "If this man didn't run away in the end, but chose to call the police, the result might be completely different." ”

Lin Shu also sighed, "She should have chosen to make money with her body when she knew that her time was running out, but in the end, she probably regretted it because she remembered her daughter and husband." ”

"No wonder it is always said that the twine is broken in detail, and bad luck is only looking for the miserable." Zhou Yinglin also sighed, "Tomorrow is the weekend, can you accompany me to Lingyun Temple to pray for Yiyi's blessings, and then give Sister Cai an incense?" ”

"Okay, but before I can do that, there's one more thing I need to do."

Not long after, in Xing Xie's office, Lin Shu walked in with an embarrassed expression.

"You kid, you won't come to slap me again, will you?" Without waiting for Lin Shu to speak, Xing Xie spoke first.

"No, no, Team Xing, I had a bad brain at the time, and I'm here to apologize to you now."

"It's okay, I'm not hurt anyway, but it's not good for you to be punched by Lao Tzu." After speaking, Xing Xie laughed maliciously.

"It's okay not to say it, but when I say it, I feel a faint pain." Lin Shu rubbed his stomach and looked at Xing Xie with a deep resentful look, "But in addition to apologizing to you this time, I also want to ask about your flame dagger." ”

Hearing the words Flame Dagger, Xing Xie, who was still smiling evilly, immediately became serious, "Do you know this icon? ”

"Well, I've seen that in the midst of the fire where my parents died, there was such a man with a flaming dagger tattoo on his hand."

Hearing this, Xing Xie's pupils quickly dilated, and then said, "My mother's death is also related to this icon. Xing Xie calmed down and continued, "In the winter of 18 years ago, I had just turned 15 years old, and I had just finished self-study that night, and when I was about to get home, suddenly there was a moaning sound in the alley. After being taken to the hospital, the mother was able to save her life, but she fell into a coma. Since there was no surveillance at the scene and no eyewitnesses, no prisoners have been found so far, and there is not even a trace of clues. It took almost a month in the hospital for the mother to wake up, she was very weak and not particularly conscious, but kept repeating the words of the flaming dagger. I drew the flaming dagger myself as she described it, and after reading it, she pointed at the dagger with all her strength, then at me, and then swallowed her last breath. I've been looking for everything related to this icon ever since. That's why I later volunteered to join the criminal police team after I was discharged from the army. ”

After listening to Xing Xie's words, Lin Shu was very excited, "Are you sure that your mother's murder was in the winter of 18 years ago?" The fire in our house was 17 years ago after New Year's Day. The two cases are no more than two months apart, and you say that there is no connection, and no one believes it. ”

Xing Xie nodded, "I'm sure, but I've already seen your family's case when you came to the police force, and there is no mention of the flame dagger on it." ”

"Because everybody said it was a hallucination because I was too scared. But now it seems that I was not mistaken, that such a person did exist. ”

"But why did he attack my mother and kill yours?"

"Maybe we can find the answer to this question by finding their similarities." Lin Shu said after thinking for a while.

"My mother is a female worker in a cloth factory, with a high school education, from Fodong City, and moved to Anyang City after getting married."

"My father and mother are both from Anyang City and are teachers in the Department of Chemistry of Angong University." Lin Shu was a little frustrated immediately after finishing speaking, "It seems that the only common denominator is the settlement in Anyang City, and the criminals can't always commit crimes randomly." ”

"I didn't find a common denominator, but you're the only one who knows the icon since I searched for the Flame Dagger."

"No, I'm definitely not the only one, at least I know that Peng Hu also knows this pattern."

Xing Xie thought for a while in his mind, and then asked, "Are you talking about Peng Hu, the murderer of the corpse division case in Linjiang City?" ”

"Yes, he also found paper with a flaming dagger in his house. It's a pity that he's dead, and the trail is broken again. ”

The two of them fell into endless contemplation......

A day later, in the Lingyun Temple in Songyang City, two young people burned a stick of incense to pray for the living.

Maybe it was the blessings of the two young people who played a role, or maybe it was the Taoist priest of the year who was unpredictable. After Ye Yiyi's matter was exposed by the media, she quickly scraped together enough treatment fees with the help of the society, and was adopted by well-wishers after being discharged from the hospital.