Chapter 238

12:36 AM, four hours after leaving Mocha Apartment.

This time, he was really a bit crazy. After killing Fang Shengnan, he actually impulsively left that extremely provocative sentence on the wall!

But this made him feel even more stimulated! At this time, curled up in this dark little room, he repeatedly savored the scene at that time in his mind, and couldn't help laughing! Another high-and-mighty, cold and heartless guy! Damn it!

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Time came to the next day, 8:00 AM. The case analysis room of the Criminal Investigation Detachment was already full of criminal police officers. Gu Changzheng stood at the very front. Behind him on the large whiteboard were photos and names of relevant personnel involved in the case. Today, another person's photo was added here—Xia Mingde!

According to the investigation, this Xia Mingde only worked at the Mintai Insurance Company for half a year for Angel Orphanage, and his performance happened to be this business of Angel Orphanage! And the files kept by the insurance company about Xia Mingde, besides recording his basic information such as age and education, discovered from his registered ancestral home that he was a fellow villager of the orphanage's old Dean Zhou Hui, both from Longxi!

This is a bit intriguing. Gu Changzheng thought of Zhou Hui who disappeared mysteriously that night. Up to now, her trace has not been found. Now thinking about it, it is very likely that it was a play directed and acted by herself! Zhou Hui, who was originally a victim, has now been listed as a suspect and is being searched for!

And that Xia Mingde, after leaving the insurance company shortly after finishing the Angel Orphanage business, had no whereabouts. This is another suspicious point, so he also became a key figure for Gu Changzheng to track down.

What made Gu Changzheng even more certain that the two had problems was that according to the insurance company's claim records, after the policy took effect in 2000, Angel Orphanage had handled several claim cases caused by accidents. Although they were all accidental falls and bumps, plus Zhang Xiaodong being burned, the insurance company paid out more than 200,000 in succession, which was not a small amount in the inland at the beginning of the new century.

It's just that after the Zhang Xiaodong incident, the orphanage seemed to have calmed down, and no accidents occurred again. The suspicion that had just arisen in the insurance company was not investigated again because no accidents occurred later. Seven years passed in a flash, who knew that such a major criminal case would appear now, and among the victims were four orphans from Angel Orphanage that year, and they were all bought accidental insurance by Zhou Hui at the insurance company!

"Zhou Hui?" Gu Changzheng carefully recalled the day Luo Fei was attacked. Although a pool of blood was left on the rocking chair where Zhou Hui sat, no one saw her being hurt or killed from beginning to end, and no trace of her or her corpse was found after that! A living person just disappeared into thin air!

Gu Changzheng shook his head, only blaming himself for always using his energy on the serial killer, but ignoring the irrationality of Zhou Hui's disappearance!

And now, Gu Changzheng even suspected that the deaths of those girls were also caused by Zhou Hui, and attacking Luo Fei, creating the illusion of being killed, tearing up Zhang Xiaodong's files... all these were to cover up the fact that she was the killer who killed those girls!

It seems that to find the clue of Zhou Hui's "disappearance", I have to go to Angel Orphanage again!

Once again coming to this Gothic building, it is now sealed by the police. Gu Changzheng came to the position where Zhou Hui was lying that day. The rocking chair was still in place, and the previous bloodstains had long since dried up, leaving only a black-brown mark.

He looked at the rocking chair in front of him, but his mind had already imagined various ways to disappear from here!

That day Luo Fei went downstairs one step ahead of him. When he arrived downstairs, Zhou Hui was no longer on the rocking chair! Several of them were attracted upstairs by the strange laughter in the attic until they found the source of the laughter, which took almost ten minutes! With so much time, Zhou Hui could calmly arrange everything and leave the house.

But several of them, because of the bloodstains on the rocking chair and the "hoodie" who stabbed Luo Fei, thought Zhou Hui was first killed or hurt by the "hoodie" and then hidden.

Now, Zhou Hui already had suspicion, so, after several of them left, she had enough time to set up a feint and leave. And in order to be more realistic, and also to push Zhang Xiaodong into the police's sight, she arranged for someone to perform the play of stealing files!

Actually, if you want to destroy those files, just burn them with a fire, wouldn't it be clean and neat?

"Hehe!" Gu Changzheng laughed bitterly a few times. It seems that he has bound his thinking, and his assumptions are still not bold enough.

The second floor covered with photos of victims had been thoroughly searched by Gu Changzheng's arrangement. It could be basically determined that it was the killer's temporary nest. Several spare scalpels were also found there. After comparison, they were the same as those used by the killer to commit crimes. There is a back staircase on the second floor that is not very noticeable. After Gao Ye was ambushed that night, that person escaped from the back staircase!

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The process of looking for Zhou Hui and Xia Mingde was extremely unsmooth. Zhou Hui was an old maid and had been single. That Xia Mingde had no whereabouts since leaving the insurance company. Maybe he was working in some city, but in this way, it was really not easy to find him!

So another week passed like this, and that "hoodie" never appeared again, but there had been no progress in the whole case! Just when Gu Changzheng was a bit unable to sit still, there was a new discovery in the orphanage!

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Before the car stopped steadily, Gu Changzheng had already pushed the car door and jumped down. The bones were discovered in the small forest behind the kitchen. The discovery process was also extremely accidental: the orphanage was sealed by the police because it was involved in a serial murder case, but the small forest and mountain forest behind the orphanage were not within the scope of the blockade, and the trees in that mountain forest had been contracted to a private boss a few years ago. On this day, the contractor went up the mountain to cut wood, but inadvertently found that a piece of ground grass grew particularly vigorously. This person had quite a lot of experience in agriculture and forestry. Seeing this fertile grass that was different from other places, he felt that there might be animal corpses buried underneath. Who knew, after digging it open, the skeleton inside showed that it was a bone belonging to a human!

The identification of the identity of this skeleton that had already turned into white bones was extremely difficult, and no personal belongings were found at the burial site, which made the confirmation of the deceased's identity even more difficult. Forensic doctor Old Zheng, after completing the preliminary crime scene investigation and leaving image data, was ready to collect the bones and take them back for further examination.

At this time, Gu Changzheng had arrived at the scene. Seeing Old Zheng who was busy, he asked directly: "Old Zheng, any discoveries?"

Old Zheng glanced at him and said: "Judging from the characteristics of the pelvis and hip bone, the deceased is male, about 25 years old at the time of death, and between 170 and 175 cm tall. Hmm, time of death, this needs further determination!"

"Cause of death?"

"This..." Old Zheng suddenly hesitated!