Recently, the biggest headache for Tian Chunda is that the terrible Friday is approaching every second. Despite Tian Chunda's best efforts, the erratic devil could not find any new clues no matter how he investigated. The only witness, the male employee, did not provide very specific and valuable evidence. The detective had visited him several times and asked him to offer as much as he could, but to no avail.

Citizens have also reported a lot of information to the police. Someone said ambiguously on the phone that a man often wandered around his house, looking at a young woman with a strange look, and they suspected that he was the perpetrator of rape and murder, and asked the police to investigate. Some are more certain that the man who lives in an apartment somewhere is the murderer......

Tian Chunda sent people to investigate the address provided by the reporter one by one, and the results had nothing to do with the case, and there were women who quarreled with their boyfriends and angrily called to accuse their boyfriends of being murderers, which is really ridiculous.

In the midst of nothing, as time passed, the terrible Friday predicted by the murderer - the 19th came.

It started raining early in the morning. Tian Chunda stared at the rain outside the window with red eyes due to lack of sleep, and thought to himself that it would be good if the murderer was someone who hated rain. If he hated the rain, he could have been stuffy at home all day, so that the third victim would have been spared today. But the sky is not as people wish, and it seems that he deliberately laughs at Tian Chunda, and the sky is sunny just after noon. The first two cases occurred between 10 and 12 p.m. at night. Tian Chunda still believes that this is the most dangerous time period. Therefore, all police stations in Nanshan City have increased the number of patrols tonight, and they have also specially sent people to squat in the dark alleys.

The clock moves relentlessly, and time moves forward hour by hour.

There is no indication that the killer lived in the vicinity of the first and second scenes, nor is there any evidence that the perpetrator was still committed in the two locations. But the first and second scenes can not be ignored.

Only Tian Chunda and Hao Dong were left on duty at the search headquarters. Their hearts were like frying oil, because the restless waiting was more anxious than going out on patrol.

"It's 9:30."

Tian Chunda looked at his watch and whispered, lighting another cigarette. The ashtray on his desk was piled up. Hao Dong silently poured out the cigarette ash for Tian Chunda, pushed open the window again, took a deep breath of air, looked at the sky and said, "What a beautiful moonlit night!" ”

Tian Chunda was in a bad mood, staring at the pale moonlight, as if looking at something ominous. The night of the first two cases was also such a moonlit night! Especially in the first case, the murderer stripped You Meiyun naked, probably admiring the obvious swimsuit marks on her tanned skin in the moonlight.

Is the killer walking around in the darkness tonight, looking for a new victim?

After 10 o'clock, and after 11 o'clock, there were still no reports.

Although no report came, Tian Chunda's heavy mood did not ease.

The phone rang suddenly, and Tian Chunda picked up the receiver and his face changed suddenly.

The third case finally happened.

The case occurred on the second floor of a residential building for sale.

There are three small two-storey houses of the same style. A billboard was erected next to the building with the words "Premium Residences for Sale".

Bian Qing, an employee of the Anju Housing Company, comes to inspect the house at 7 a.m. every day. Residential briefings are generally held after 10 a.m. Because dingoes often burrow into dwellings at night, it has become customary for him to inspect them.

Due to the rain last night, the residential area was damp. Bian Qing looked at the house on the right and didn't find anything unusual. When he looked at Building 2 in the middle of the second building, he shouted "Oops". Because the window pane approaching the rear door was broken, the window locks were also removed. A thought immediately flashed through his mind: "Is it a couple who have no room to spend the night here"?

Bian Qing opened the back door and walked into the building, and found faint footprints on the floor. The footprints went up the stairs, and Bian Qing also followed them up the stairs.

In an open room on the second floor, Bian Qing shouted "ah" again—a naked young girl, lying on the ground.

She's dead.

In this case, as in the previous two, the young girl who was strangled was naked.

She is about 1.60 meters tall and has a slim and well-proportioned physique. The legs were spread wide apart, and there were obvious signs of rape. The deceased was tanned all over, and the white marks on his bikini were very clear, and he was crumpled up by the stripped clothes and thrown in a corner of the room.

Tian Chunda and Hao Dong looked down at the female corpse at their feet.

Tian Chunda asked with a sad expression: "Do you know the identity of the victim?" ”

Police officer Hao Dong replied: "I have checked the deceased's purse, she is 30 years old Yuan Li, a waitress of a night club called 'Moonlight'. She lives in a premium apartment nearby and I can take you there. ”

Yuan Li's high-end apartment is a palatial seven-story building just minutes away from the scene of the killing.

If the victim hadn't come back from the store and had been mishaps, she would have been able to return to her residence soon. She lives in a two-bedroom room.

As a hostess at a night club, Tian Chunda thought that the room must be gorgeously furnished, but he didn't expect it to be quite simple, and the three-sided mirror and wardrobe didn't seem to be very expensive.

"It seems that she may have a lot of savings." Hao Dong said.

They opened the small drawer of the wardrobe, as if to confirm Hao Dong's words, and found a fixed deposit book of nearly 300,000 yuan.

The key to the rental safe was also found in the room, and it seems that she even stored her jewelry.

"No matter how much you save, if you are killed by a murderer, everything is useless." Hao Dong shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Do you think it's a crime?"

Tian Chunda looked at the room and asked Hao Dong.

"I think it's the same killer as the first two cases. But isn't the form the same as wandering and killing? I don't think the victim and the killer knew each other this time. It is possible that he was killed late in the night, and the victim and the murderer met by chance. ”

"Are you saying that for the murderer, the third victim is no matter who it is?"

Tian Chunda asked calmly.

Tian Chunda likes to listen to the opinions of his subordinates; And I like to listen to opinions that are contrary to my own ideas, because this can avoid subjective arbitrariness. Generally, the person in charge of the case likes to listen to people who agree with their own opinions, and this kind of person may be more common, but Tian Chunda believes that there are several different versions of the case or the murderer, which are more referential.

"Not bad." The young policeman Hao Dong replied clearly.

Tian Chunda smiled, he likes people who make a clear statement.

"Can you tell us your reasoning?"

"The murderer in the three cases is obviously the same person."

"You go on."

"I have two thoughts, one is that the murderer knew these three victims and killed them one after another for some reason. But I don't think that's convincing. ”

"Why?"

"The first two victims were female college students and company employees; Compared with the club hostess this time, the identity is not quite the same; Moreover, the three of them did not live in the same place, so it is difficult to think that the murderer and the three girls had any relationship that had to be killed. If you hate it so much that you want to kill three women you know in succession, then it is very illogical to rape first and then kill. ”

"What else?"

"My other thought is that the killer didn't know the victim at all. This idea is perfectly in line with this case. I think the murderer was a young man, lonely, not good at words, so he didn't have a girlfriend, maybe he had been betrayed by a woman. ”

Tian Chunda nodded, "Just now you said that there are two hypotheses that the murderer knows the victim and those who don't know him at all, and there is another hypothesis, right?" ”

"What assumption?"

"Think about it."

Tian Chunda patted Hao Dong on the shoulder. Tian Chunda also said: "The victim's skin this time is also very tanned; The traces of bikinis look obvious. ”

Hao Dong said: "I feel the same way. However, this may be a fortuitous agreement. It's September, and it's no wonder that girls in the summer go to the beach and don't get tanned by the sun! ”

Tian Chunda said: "But this time the victim was a hostess at a night club. Generally speaking, women in this profession do not like to bask in the sun. There are, of course, exceptions. Individual hostesses take pride in their tanned skin. But it seems that it was too fortuitous that one of the few hostesses of this kind was killed. ”

"So, do you think the murderer already knew that the victim's skin was tanned?" Hao Dong asked.

"It's embarrassing because I can't decide!"

Tian Chunda did not think that the murderer and the victim knew each other. When killing someone he knows, the killer will cover the face of the deceased with a handkerchief or clothing, and the body will be buried. Because once the body is found, the people around her will be the first to be suspected. But this time the murderer was different, neither hiding the body nor covering his face. It seems that there could not have been an intimate relationship between the murderer and the victim. But how did the murderer know that all three women were tanned? Because of a tanned face? But all three women were attacked at night, how could they see their faces clearly at night? In particular, this time, the victim was a club hostess and had her face covered with makeup. Perhaps the murderer was a staff member of the public bath. But it doesn't make sense to talk about public baths, because the homes of the three victims all have bathing conditions, and the three people live far apart, so it is difficult to bathe in the same bath at the same time.

These conclusions are negative. But Tian Chunda still didn't give up the murderer's idea that he knew that the victim's skin was tanned, because it was a conclusive fact that the naked bodies of these three young women were so tanned!