Chapter 220

Someone here also said: "Tourist attractions — I feel like this person hopes that one day this group of people will discover it. No, not discover it, it's just a feeling that it was done in passing?"

"Yes, I agree it was done in passing. This person just found a suitable place, thought it was pretty good, and killed someone."

"We've also received police reports. These people — don't they have any characteristics?"

A few big shots gathered together and began analyzing the data. This was all they had.

Li Tian also came, and some impressive big shots from other provinces were also called over. Several people surrounded the photos of the deceased, beginning to profile and analyze.

Looks like this case has triggered the alarm.

"Tell us, how exactly did it trigger the alarm?"

So-called triggering the alarm — Qin Ming was explaining it to the audience in the observation room.

"The alarm is actually a term within the police force. The forensic side also knows about it. It means many old cases here haven't been dealt with, but this case is very severe in nature. Once something similar is discovered, it gets quite serious, and we have to start handling the cases together."

"The good thing is, the case will progress faster. The bad thing is, if this person isn't caught, they might still be committing crimes."

Here, Chen Fan tore off a piece of lamb and happily gnawed on it.

Bragging with a few young ladies.

"How about it, big brother's cooking is great, right? Let me tell you, following me in the future, I guarantee you'll eat well and live well. But at night, big brother gets very lonely. I've left the door open for you — remember to come find big brother. Big brother is a responsible man, he'll tell you bedtime little stories."

At this point, some people started feeling speechless — isn't it already this late, and you still have the mind to joke around?

And at this moment, everyone fell silent. Chen Fan was puzzled, then felt the weather gradually darkening.

Turning his head, he saw a group of people staring at him.

Chen Fan was speechless, stood up and said: 'I'm the forensic doctor. I've done everything I should do on my end. I need to eat now.'

Li Tian gave a look, and Zhang Tianxiong took his men and directly took Chen Fan away, bringing him into the meeting room.

The cameraman didn't follow — they were probably planning to make arrests here, not allowing any information to leak.

In the meeting room, Chen Fan looked at the cigarettes filling the room, then lit one and said: 'I'm not the killer.'

Everyone nodded.

Li Tian said: "Tell us your intuition."

Chen Fan was speechless, and said: "It's simple. When I arrived at the scene and looked around, I couldn't help thinking — this person is pretty good at picking places. This spot really isn't easy for people to pay attention to."

A resonance between criminals?

Here, someone said: "I showed the photo to a killer, and his evaluation was similar to Chen Fan's — said this person is pretty good at picking places."

At this moment, another person said: "I agree with Chen Fan. This person is very good at picking places, which means this person is mobile. It's just unclear why they're mobile."

Li Tian wrote on the blackboard and said: "Age profile is between twenty and forty years old, time is free, no wife or children for now, has money..."

When writing "has money," Li Tian froze for a moment, pulled up a few people, and said: 'I've found a few similarities among this group.'

Everyone looked at Li Tian — this guy, is he really that impressive?

Li Tian directly took out bank statements one by one, and said: "Here, here, and here — look, what are these?"

"Online loans. Yes, loans. All these people have a history of online loans."

Then, this matter has something to work with.

Several people began making contacts, calling to ask these online loan companies whether they had sold the information, and also found many people's personal data online.

Some of the deceased's information matched up, proving these people had indeed appeared online.

After calling here, the reply was that the other party didn't want to talk, saying their company hadn't disclosed anything.

This is simple to handle — the economic crime investigation side went directly to Zhijieshang Sect and knocked on the door. If you won't talk, fine, they'll dig up your entire ancestral grave.

Then the other party said a terrifying number — there were quite a lot of people.

Instantly, everyone's investigation fell into another dead end.

Chen Fan sighed and said: "Sigh, you guys are really dumb."

Everyone didn't quite understand.

Chen Fan said: "Whether dealing with adults or juveniles, don't you need a box? If you don't need a box, how do you think he does it? Come on, a tour group."

Everyone suddenly thought of something.

Chen Fan compared the photos of four people.

Then he searched around the room.

Hmm, this thing — a hammer can handle it.

Hmm, this — rope, easily handled.

Hmm, this — death by suffocation, a towel, what else could it be, a pillow?

The strength must be great, definitely a man, so naturally he'd carry a razor or something, but this hammer — he must have it on him at all times.

Everyone nodded at this.

Then, a group of big shots continued making calls, and afterward, the tour guides at the tourism bureau said many people didn't remember these things.

The information once again fell into a dead end.

Li Tian said: "I think we need to investigate from the fake ID side."

Investigating fake IDs?

That's right, this person is very cunning. Continuous tourism requires ID card entry, so fake IDs would be quickly identified — surely not many people would use fake IDs to travel.

Soon, the ID card search results came out. Two were abnormal IDs — these two people hadn't traveled at all, and were very far from here.

At this moment, Li Tian and the others felt relieved — finally, they had caught a tail.

Here, Chen Fan returned to the scene and found it was already very late. Everyone had long been preparing dinner. Chen Fan was speechless and could only wait for dinner.

Right now Chen Fan felt he could eat a whole cow.

"Even if the King of Heaven himself came today, I won't let him stop me from eating meat."

Li Tian said: "There's nothing more for you here. We'll record your merit later — we've already started trying to lock it down."

Chen Fan said, "What were you doing earlier?"

"Earlier we hadn't spotted this kid, and besides, the three people had no connection back then. We investigated over here too, but the screening approach was right—we just overlooked the possibility of a fake ID."

Chen Fan said, "A fake ID? Why?"

Li Tian said, "How do I explain this to you? You can understand it this way: a person kills ten people, all adults—we'd call him a murderous demon, right?"

Chen Fan nodded.

"But remember, if a child shows up, then the nature of it is different. This person is someone with no absolute rationality, yet extremely meticulous in mind—a person who has already turned killing into pleasure."

Chen Fan still didn't get it, and honestly, neither did the audience.

Li Tian took out a photo and said, "Cute? Adorable?"

Everyone looked at the little lamb and nodded.

Li Tian pointed at the lamb meat on the table and said, "When it grows up it looks like this. Would you still like it? Still think it's cute?"

Everyone seemed to be starting to understand.

Chen Fan said, "This is actually human compassion. Humans only feel this emotion when facing the weak. Even criminals—go take a look inside a prison, how many of them have bullied children? You basically can't find five in an entire prison. It's a low-probability event. So generally, when it does happen, the prison uses its own laws to teach these people how to be human."

In that instant, everyone understood: killing someone on equal footing with yourself is murder, but going after a child—that's pure perversion.

In that instant, everyone felt a chill creeping up their backs, cold sweat breaking out. Holy shit, isn't this just a little too creepy?

Li Tian sat down beside Chen Fan and said, "There are probably quite a few cases around here. Just wait—once this guy gets caught, he's a hundred percent going to want to find you."

"Why?"

"The livestream. This kind of person really cares about who it was that found him. You found that child, and I'm even more hoping there was only one. If there were two, I'm afraid I couldn't hold back and would beat this piece of scum to death on the spot."

Chen Fan picked up his glass and said, "Won't you have a drink?"

"No drinking. I need to stay clear-headed at all times. Once we catch him, I'm going to have a proper talk with him."

Time rolled around to twelve at night. The livestream had been shut down a little after ten—the person had been caught.

Lucky break—right around this area.

This guy had guts, operating right around here.

This actually fits the most basic pattern of a criminal: operating within their own safe zone.

It means he's within this province. The good news is, within our own province, this is where the cases pile up the most; other places have the fewest cases.

The person who got caught over here, sure enough, immediately asked to see Chen Fan.

The bureau held a study session and decided to turn on the livestream directly. No matter how many people watched, this time they were going live.

Li Tian specifically went and changed into a suit. Chen Fan, on the other hand, was very calm and simply walked into the room.

Sat down.

Li Tian had no choice but to sit down as well.