Xiao Yi was used to the woman in front of him popping up a few words from time to time that he had never heard before, but the meaning was not difficult to understand.

He walked over, stood beside Xu Jing and looked at the form on the paper, and said, "The people in the government also think the same, when each deceased person is found, the maximum time of death will not exceed two days, and the rest of the time, she must be hidden somewhere by the murderer."

Moreover, when the murderer committed violence against the deceased, the deceased must have made all kinds of struggles and screams, and if there were other people near his hiding place, it would not have been possible for him not to hear any movement at all, so I speculate that his hiding place must have been in a relatively remote place where there were no people around, or that place could be isolated from the sound and could not be heard by outsiders, such as the basement. ”

"Yes," Xu Jing nodded, pointed to the places where several of the dead were found, and said: "Moreover, the deceased were all found in the suburbs, but most of the places where they disappeared were in Xijing City, and only the third case, Chen Lili, disappeared outside the city because she lived in a village outside the city."

This suggests that the murderer must have had some kind of means of transportation, such as a horse-drawn carriage or donkey cart, that would allow him to move the deceased very easily. ”

As she spoke, Xu Jing looked at Xiao Yi and asked, "I want to know, how well the usual guards in Xijing City search the passing vehicles?" ”

Xiao Yi said: "The strength will not be particularly large, the main thing is to check everyone's hand, if it is a means of transportation, it will be a simple check of the interior of the vehicle, after all, the people in and out of Xijing City every day are as high as tens of thousands of people, even if there are two city gates in the southwest, south, and northwest, it is also a huge workload, if everyone carefully checks, there are not many people in a day."

Unless the government is under martial law or there are important events to be held in Xijing City, the search will be intensified. ”

Xu Jing thought the same, she looked at Xiao Yi and said, "If someone reports to the official and says that someone in the family is missing, will the government be placed under martial law?" ”

Xiao Yi immediately understood what she meant, shook his head and said, "Generally not, there are too many missing people who report to the government every day, and the government also needs time to check whether that person is really missing, not because of some accident or just a moment of negligence." Unless something important is missing, the government will be put under martial law immediately.

If you want to ask about the Smile Killer case, the government has never issued martial law because of the Smile Killer case. ”

Also.

After all, most of the victims of the Smile Killer are women from ordinary families, and the interval between each case of the Smile Killer is so long that it is difficult for people to immediately associate the missing woman with him.

Xu Jing groaned: "In this way, it will not be too difficult for the murderer to transport the dead out of the city, but it is still relatively risky to transport a dead person out of the city, and I tend to think that the murderer took the victims out before they died." ”

Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, "You mean, that so-called safe house is outside the city, and the murderer is outside the city to commit atrocities to the victims?" ”

Xu Jing nodded and said, "I think so, if I were a murderer, I would do it." ”

After all, even if there is no martial law, the soldiers at the city gate will still conduct routine searches, in case they have a whim and search more strictly, it will be troublesome to search people out.

At this time, if they found a living person, the murderer still had room to maneuver, and if it was a corpse, it would be over directly.

"I also found something that I was a little concerned about."

Xu Jing suddenly picked up the brush on the small table that was placed on the side, and wrote four numbers in the blank space on the paper—one, one, three, four, and four.

Xiao Yi was slightly stunned, "What does this mean?" ”

"This is my calculation of the amount of time the deceased was actually in the hands of the murderer, and I calculated the number of days the deceased was missing, minus the time of death that they had inferred when they were found."

Xu Jing pointed to the fourth case and said, "For example, Qian Honglian, the victim, disappeared on July 26 and was found on July 31, and it is inferred that the time of her death was about two days ago, that is, she was actually in the hands of the murderer for about four days.

From these figures, it can be seen that the murderer did not keep the victim by his side for too long when he committed the first two cases, and it is likely that he committed the crime as soon as the victim was caught, and then dumped the body.

After he disappeared for a year and reappeared, he stayed with the victim for a noticeable amount of time. ”

Xiao Yi unconsciously stared at those numbers and said, "The cases he committed again after his disappearance for a year have more injuries on the victims than in the previous two cases, and he kept the victims, probably to torture them." ”

Xu Jing pursed her lips, "I guessed the same way, but I still feel that something is wrong, that is, to torture the victim, do you need to stay for four days?" The most important thing is that the style of acting before and after his disappearance has changed too much, what happened in the year he disappeared? ”

Xiao Yi couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and suddenly said: "Today I went to the Criminal Department and explained to the people under my command to list all the people who have at least one means of transportation in the city today. ”

Ah, this ......

Xu Jing couldn't help but glance at him subtly, "Your subordinates have no opinion?" ”

Although the price of the means of transportation is not low, even the cheapest donkey cart is not affordable for ordinary people, but the most important thing in Xijing is the rich and noble, not to mention the large population of Xijing, to list all the families who have at least one means of transportation, it is a headache to think about it.

Xiao Yi said funny: "It's just an ordinary job, what will you think?" The people of Dali Temple also tried to list it before, but because of the relatively large workload, they did not do half of it, and we continued their work to do it, which can be regarded as saving a little trouble.

Now there is no other breakthrough, even if it is cumbersome, we can only try it first. ”

Also, although it is a "stupid" method, in the absence of a breakthrough, you can only try everything.

"I have also explained to the prison guards who are responsible for the guarding affairs of the city gates, and asked them to instruct the people below to focus on the investigation of the carriages and horses entering and leaving the city gates in the past few days."

Xiao Yi continued: "Although it is not ruled out that the murderer has committed the crime, but we have not found it, this time the new victim has not appeared for a long time, and it may be that something happened to him and delayed his plan. ”

Xu Jing frowned slightly.

Another "stupid" approach.

If you can't find a breakthrough point, you can't use this method of finding a needle in a haystack, and you don't know that the case can only be solved in the year of the monkey.

Xu Jing thought for a while, suddenly picked up a new piece of paper from the table, nailed it to the vacant place of the wooden board, and said: "I also found that the location where the murderer threw his body was mainly concentrated in the west of Xijing, except for the fourth case, Qian Honglian, who was found near Famen Temple in the north, and the other places where the deceased were found were all in the west of Xijing. In other words, the murderer usually went out through the two gates on the west side to dump the corpse, is this his habit, or is there some reason? If it was habit, why did Qian Honglian's body appear in the north? ”

However, I saw that this new piece of paper was a map of Xijing and the surrounding area, and several places where the deceased were found were marked in red ink.

Xiao Yi didn't expect this woman to think so much, and couldn't help but glance at her with a little sigh, and said: "According to what you said, among the five current cases, only Qian Honglian was killed in July, and the other deceased were all killed in January and February, and there may be some deep meaning in this." ”

Every time he works with her to solve a case, he has to sigh, it is really a waste to not go to the Criminal Department or Dali Temple.

Xu Jing clapped her hands, immediately picked up a brush and wrote down this suspicion, and said: "The murderer is a serial murderer, judging from the cases he committed, he has formed his own style and habits, I think every detail about the case is not decided by the murderer at will, there must be his intentions."

And these intentions, as long as one can be understood, may be able to become a breakthrough in this case! ”

After writing, Xu Jing stared at the few pieces of paper in front of her, frowning.

Although there are many doubts, they are all very scattered and trivial, and there is still a lack of a thread to connect these doubts.

She didn't know where the thread was, and could she really wait until the next victim showed up to find it? (End of chapter)