Chapter 54: 52 Hidden Route

52 Hidden Route

The Enforcers of Cuizhu City have received a bizarre and thorny case, and are currently suffering from a headache.

Huang Cheng, the Enforcer Second Team Captain responsible for investigating this case, is currently standing in the darkroom of the interrogation room, scrutinizing Zhang Xiaoxiao, who is at a loss while being questioned by Enforcers.

To summarize the bizarreness of this case in one sentence: a woman used unknown means to kill everyone in the same subway car as her on the last train, and then inexplicably jumped onto the tracks to commit suicide the next morning.

Regarding the identity of the woman in black, Huang Cheng already has a relatively clear investigation result.

The woman in black is named Xieli; her profession is a high-end hairstylist, and her workplace reputation describes her as cold and without friends, but highly skilled.

As such a hairstylist, it is normal to carry some haircutting and styling tools, but when the Enforcers later searched through Xieli's belongings, they discovered that inside the bottom of the luggage bag filled with severed heads, there were actually weapons like axes, hammers, and Bone-Chopping Knives in addition to the haircutting tools.

The Enforcers found bloodstains on those weapons, as well as fingerprints left by Xieli's long-term use, all of which indicate that Xieli was a perverted serial killer disguised as a hairstylist in her daily life.

However, everyone is also puzzled; whether it be the axe, hammer, or Bone-Chopping Knife, none of them are very lightweight items. The deceased Xieli weighed less than 100 jin, yet she could use these things easily and at will, which is simply unbelievable.

Moreover, judging from the smooth and flat cross-sections of those heads, it can almost be determined that these people's heads were chopped off directly with one blow, which is neither practical nor scientific. If Xieli were a normal human, she could not have done these things given her "tonnage."

Therefore, the Enforcers suspect that Xieli had an accomplice, but when the Enforcers wanted to investigate the surveillance on that last train, they discovered that the cameras on that train were all broken, so the real-time footage of that train that night could not be checked.

Thus, the Enforcers could only judge how many people went to take that last train and how many people got off the last train by checking the surveillance at every entrance and exit of the stations the last train arrived at, and then combine this with the approximate time of death obtained from the autopsy of the severed heads to conduct a comprehensive analysis and deduction.

Everything eventually locked onto Zhang Xiaoxiao, who survived the bloody night, because Zhang Xiaoxiao got off that death train midway, getting off before Xieli made her move, perfectly escaping a disaster.

This might be a coincidence for Zhang Xiaoxiao, but in the eyes of the Enforcers, this young girl is a bit suspicious.

Now the Enforcers have reason to suspect that Zhang Xiaoxiao likely knew about Xieli's murder plan in advance; she is that accomplice of Xieli, so on that death train, she helped Xieli, and then got off the train early to clear herself of suspicion.

Regarding this, Zhang Xiaoxiao cries out that she is wronged; she clearly did not walk out of the station alone yesterday, and there should have been a young man with her.

However, what is even more bizarre than the surveillance of yesterday's death train being broken is that no one could find a young man matching that description from the cameras at any station.

Zhang Xiaoxiao is depressed and on the verge of tears; her mental state was such that she didn't even have time to be afraid, so how could she have colluded with a criminal to commit murder? And against a group of total strangers at that.

But the Enforcers do not think so; instead, they feel that Zhang Xiaoxiao's suspicion is growing deeper.

Because people who can cooperate with a perverted killer are generally perverts themselves.

Zhang Xiaoxiao certainly will not admit it, because she really is not one, but since the Enforcers do not believe what she says, she can only give up and act like a dead pig that isn't afraid of boiling water.

The Enforcers feel that it does not matter if Zhang Xiaoxiao does not plead guilty now, because they will continue to follow up on the investigation; as long as they find traces of Zhang Xiaoxiao injuring people inside that death train from last night, the Enforcers can convict her.

At the same time, what the Enforcers care about most is that if the heads of these corpses were in the bag, then where are the bodies of these people?

Bizarrely, they did not find a place to hide the bodies in the subway, nor did they have any leads or anywhere to start investigating. Plus, most of the evidence in the car was wiped away by the subway's daily cleaning and maintenance, disinfectants, and other cleaning supplies, leaving almost no clues behind.

The Enforcers began to have other guesses; they wondered if the bodies were disposed of directly somewhere along the subway line, and subsequently, the investigation team among them began to search along the subway line.

And it was this investigation that directly made Huang Cheng realize the severity of the matter.

Huang Cheng received a report from the investigation team saying that they had discovered a Hidden Track while on the underground subway passage, which was usually covered by a glamour, but in reality, that Hidden Track was right there, leading directly underground.

The Enforcer investigation team members collectively stepped into the Hidden Track area to begin the next step of in-depth investigation.

At first, Huang Cheng could still receive news from the investigation team, but ten minutes later, Huang Cheng discovered that he could no longer contact the investigation team members by phone. He only knew that after the Group Leader of the investigation team sent him an MMS of a blurry humanoid creature, he completely lost contact with the investigation team members.

Seeing this, Huang Cheng felt secretly anxious inside. He could not figure out what kind of thing could make a group of well-trained Enforcers feel such fear that their life or death was now uncertain. Then, as if he had thought of some possibility, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly dialed a phone call.

In just a moment, several mysterious people wearing black uniforms arrived at the Enforcer Security Bureau. They replaced the Enforcers who were originally interrogating Zhang Xiaoxiao, and they took over the questioning of Zhang Xiaoxiao.

And ever since the people were changed, Zhang Xiaoxiao did not expect the conversation to become abnormally smooth. No one deliberately repeated questions in various ways to verify the truth of her words, and no one used an oppressive environment to force her. She only truthfully confessed the strange things she encountered and her uneasy guesses to those mysterious people, and those men in black ordered the Enforcers to let her go.

Finally regaining her freedom, Zhang Xiaoxiao felt an indescribable joy in her heart.

Huang Cheng's apprentice, who had previously interrogated Zhang Xiaoxiao, saw an important witness being released just like that, and also saw them looking through the case files they had collected. He asked his master with displeasure: "Master, is this okay? The interrogation is very unprofessional, and they are like thieves, rummaging through everything."

Huang Cheng replied: "You don't need to worry about these things. As for what their identities are or what their background is, I will not tell you; it is not yet time."

"In short, according to the existing deductions, the bodies of those victims are mostly on that hidden underground railway route, and the only person who can enter this underground railway route is the driver at the time," Huang Cheng said. "Leave the matters here to them for now; we are going to go catch that driver."