Chapter 232

"Ah!" Gu Changzheng suddenly shouted!

"What's wrong? Captain Gu!" Luo Fei's hand holding the gun trembled, almost pulling the trigger!

"Go down quickly! That Old Dean..."

Gu Changzheng shouted. Only then did everyone remember that they were attracted by this sudden strange laughter and didn't leave anyone to look after the sleeping Old Dean Zhou Hui!

Luo Fei was young after all, his legs and feet were flexible. Hearing this, he turned around and ran downstairs! Gu Changzheng glanced at this deliberately set up disgusting scene in the attic and Old Zheng and said: "Old Zheng, I'll leave this to you, see if there are any useful clues!"

Old Zheng nodded while putting on his gloves, calling his assistant to investigate the scene. Just then, a loud shout was heard downstairs! It was exactly Luo Fei's voice, followed by a loud "Bang!" Gu Changzheng recognized that it was a gunshot! His expression tightened, and he hurriedly quickened his pace downstairs!

Gu Changzheng arrived at the first-floor file room about half a minute later than Luo Fei, only to see him leaning against the outer wall of the file room with a pale face, blood from his abdomen oozing out between his fingers, and file bags scattered all over the floor at the entrance of the file room. He hurriedly ran over to support Luo Fei and said: "Luo Fei! Where are you hurt?"

Luo Fei caught his breath and said in a weak voice: "Captain Gu, the person, that gray hoodie, ran, ran out!"

Gu Changzheng quickly looked around, only to see that the rocking chair where Old Dean Zhou Hui was lying was empty, and there was a pool of blood on the back and seat of the rocking chair. He reached out and touched it, the blood was still warm, and looking not far away, the main door was wide open!

He hurriedly looked into the file room, only to hear Luo Fei whisper: "No, not lost, the files are not lost. When I came down, the old Dean was already gone. I, I was wondering when I saw that gray-clothed person run out of the file room. Before I could react, he had stabbed my stomach. I, I fired a shot, but didn't hit him. He dropped the files and ran, ran away!"

"Alright, I know, don't talk anymore! I'll call an ambulance immediately! You endure it! Ah!"

He didn't expect that his trip to Angel Orphanage would have so many twists and turns. Now saving Luo Fei is the priority, and besides, in this short while, there was already no trace of anyone outside!

After Gu Changzheng handed Luo Fei over to the arriving ambulance, he had the supporting criminal police officers seal and take all the files in the file room back to the team, and implemented a blockade of the entire villa.

At this time, Old Zheng, who was investigating in the top-floor attic, came to his side. Gu Changzheng saw that his leather shoes and the lower half of his trouser legs were soaked and was about to ask, but heard Old Zheng say: "Judging from the dust coverage of the items at the scene upstairs, those things have been placed for at least a month. There has been a lot of rain during this period, and the location of this house is far from the urban area, so the air quality is relatively better, so the dust on the items there takes at least half a month to form the current appearance. That tape recorder was also placed there long ago. Besides the fingerprints left by Luo Fei pressing it for the second time, there are no other traces on the buttons! No other people's footprints were left in the room or the passage leading to the outside!"

"Oh? Hehe! Escape room game? Who turned on that tape recorder?" Gu Changzheng asked with a frown.

"It's not necessarily an escape room. The other party is playing tricks. The attic of this kind of building has skylights. Although it's not easy for people to stand on it, it's not necessarily impossible!" Old Zheng pointed to the roof and said.

"I went up to take a look. There is a skylight on the roof slope. The window can be opened from the outside. If prepared in advance, use some kind of instrument to grab the tape recorder and then send it down from the window, so no traces will be left!"

Gu Changzheng suddenly realized and said: "The window on the roof opens upwards. After opening, it can just block the rainwater outside, so there will be no rainwater entering the indoor floor. The tape should have a blank at the beginning. The other party is really calculating! He did this, nothing more than playing tricks, making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, creating opportunities for him to kill Old Dean Zhou and destroy the files!"

"But where is the Old Dean?" Old Zheng looked up at the high roof with his hands behind his back.

"She must still be in the house. When Luo Fei came down, he happened to bump into the gray-clothed person wanting to take away the files. The blood on the rocking chair was still warm, indicating that she was just hurt by him!" In fact, at this time, Gu Changzheng didn't know whether Old Dean Zhou was dead or alive, but remembering that kind face, he subconsciously thought she was just hurt by that gray-clothed person!

"Old Zheng, did you find anything on the roof?" Gu Changzheng asked.

Old Zheng held up a transparent bag in his hand: "He left this on the window sill!"

Gu Changzheng saw that there was a small piece of gray fiber inside.

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Luo Fei, who was carried into the ambulance, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Before that cold light pierced into his body, he saw that the gray-clothed hoodie was using a scalpel, but with a lengthened handle!

When he reacted and fired, the person's hat fell off when he dodged, but he still didn't see the person's appearance, because on the face under the hat was a half-face white mask! However, Luo Fei still saw the eyes behind the mask. Pitch black, cold! Revealing a kind of cruelty and bloodthirst!

He wanted to report these situations to Gu Changzheng immediately, but at this time he felt his eyelids heavy, and the siren emitted by the ambulance in his ears seemed to be getting further and further away...

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However, Gu Changzheng and others, who did not find Old Dean Zhou after a thorough search of the scene, were completely at a loss. Does the gray-clothed person have such great ability? Where could Old Dean Zhou have been taken by him? Could it be that she evaporated into thin air?

This is of course impossible. Facing an unprecedented predicament, Gu Changzheng calmed down instead. He recalled the several murder cases that had occurred since September. It seemed that no conventional traces were left at the scene. Instead, it seemed intentional that the killer left half a cigarette of the same brand. During this period, because the killer committed crimes frequently and the investigation of the case had no progress, not only he, the detachment captain, but the entire Zizhen police force and higher-level leaders were under great pressure! Perhaps, at this time, he should calm down instead, look at the essence through the appearance of these cases, and sketch out the killer's psychological portrait, rather than running around between these cases led by the killer like this.

Every person the killer kills is violated after being killed, and cruelly sliced open and cut off private parts. These can infer that the killer is perverted or even has mental problems. But later, he arranged the victim's internal organs into a cross shape and stabbed the victim's eyes to ruin—is this a ritual or a feint? He took such a big risk to kill Old Dean Zhou under the eyes of the police and stole the files. It seems that this Angel Orphanage has a great connection with him!

Sorting out these complicated clues, Gu Changzheng felt that he had a new understanding of the gray-hooded killer. His kill list was in the files of the orphanage!