Chapter 1147: Direction

The train drove north with a "woo-woo-woo" sound. In the dining car, Wang Xin looked at the scenery receding outside the window and smiled: "Don't say, it's only been a few days since I rode the train, but it feels like we've been off the train for a long time. Riding it today, I really miss it a bit."

Ma Kui glanced at him and said: "The one who wanted to be a criminal police officer was you, and the one who said he missed being a train police officer is also you. Should I transfer you back?"

"Look at you, can't I miss it?" Wang Xin habitually counterattacked.

At this time, a tall and thin woman opened the dining car door and walked in.

"Hello, hello, I am the train conductor, Li Aixia. I have heard of your great names for a long time."

Everyone met with laughter. The old train police officer following Li Aixia shook hands with Wang Yan with a smile and said: "Comrade Wang Yan, we have all studied the book you wrote on catching thieves. It's rare to see the real person today. How about it, after chatting for a while, show us a hand and let us see?"

"I'm also just lucky, what show a hand or not, let's exchange with each other." Wang Yan smiled gently, pulled the person to sit down, took out cigarettes and scattered them, saying, "Let's talk about the situation of the case first, old brother."

"Still old brother, my son is ten years older than you." The old police officer shook his head with a smile.

"Don't say ten years older, even if it's twenty years older, everyone is a comrade outside, let's talk as peers, right, Uncle Zhou?"

This old police officer was indeed surnamed Zhou.

He pointed at Wang Yan and laughed: "You kid are slippery, old brother likes to hear it."

"Fine, then let's talk about the case."

Comrade Zhou didn't stutter at all, directly saying: "You must have read the case file several times. Blood stains, human tissue, and severed limbs were found in the sleeper carriage and the two freight carriages towed behind. At the time, it was judged that a conflict occurred in the restroom of the two hard-seat carriages near the sleeper, and then the murderer threw the victim out of the restroom window and was rolled under the train and crushed to death.

At the time, we also tried our best to find the passengers of these two carriages, and the crew also carefully recalled the previous process, including receiving your news today, we were all thinking, but still didn't think of anything useful.

There were relatively few passengers that day, and it was afternoon, people were tired, no one paid attention to a man and a woman entering the restroom, and the time shouldn't have been long, and when they came out, there was only one man, so no one cared. This murderer wants to have good psychological quality and a certain anti-investigation consciousness. Our crew also didn't think of the existence of these two people."

"To be missed by people, that girl shouldn't look bad, right?" Wang Xin wondered.

"There are countless people on this train who don't look bad, can you remember them?" Old Zhou replied with a smile. He said, "This case can't be done, no clues at all. If you ask me, you guys shouldn't research it, wasting energy. Looking at it this way, you guys are also newly transferred criminal police, let's talk about something practical.

You guys made contributions as train police, and just transferred to criminal police, so you have to make achievements. This case is hanging there, just wait until the technology is developed later. There is no need to die on this one case, it's really not worth it."

Ma Kui smiled: "What the old brother said is indeed practical, but we still have to check it again. Solving cases is like this, check it out when there is nothing to do, who knows when you will find new clues and continue to advance."

"The principle is this principle, but many times what is done is useless work."

"We are just doing this, whether it's useful or not, we have to do it, right, to be worthy of the victimized masses." Ma Kui raised the height a little, and then asked some more detailed questions.

Everyone was a person on the train, and they all understood the work on the train very well, so there was no difficulty in talking.

Unsurprisingly, there was no harvest at all from the crew here.

After understanding the situation, Wang Yan's trio helped patrol the train, and Wang Yan caught three thieves at will, making Old Zhou click his tongue in wonder.

It was already night when they reached Chunlin, the trio rested in the hostel for one night, and the next day they followed the address to find it.

In a conference room of a factory, Wang Yan and the three met a middle-aged male salesman here.

Hearing the few people state their purpose, the salesman said: "Checking this case again?"

Ma Kui talked about the public security police for the people, and if there is nothing to do, check it again to find clues, and asked with a smile: "This time, we are still looking for you to understand the situation, and describe the person's appearance again, we will draw a portrait again. Comrade, do you still remember?"

"How could I forget? How many times can a person encounter a homicide in a lifetime? At that time, you guys also showed me the girl's photo, oh my mother, it almost scared me to death, I didn't lie at all, after watching it, I didn't eat well or sleep well for half a month, and when I got up to pee at night, my heart was beating."

"Come, come, come, comrade, smoke, smoke." Wang Xin sensibly lit a cigarette and lit it.

The salesman, like the comrade in the police station, first pinched the cigarette and pondered for a while, then spoke: "I didn't pay attention before, it was only when you guys came to understand the situation later that I remembered. It was in carriage 15, I left my seat and wanted to go to the aisle to smoke. Others don't pay attention, but I have to pay attention. Just as I reached that restroom, I saw a man coming out of it, and we bumped into each other.

That kid's clothes were a bit messy, and he looked panicked when he saw me. I didn't pay much attention, and brushed past him. Later when you guys asked me, I remembered this person was quite suspicious. That's all, I don't know anything else, I can't guarantee this person."

The trio nodded, this person's words were basically the same as the case file record a year ago.

Why Old Zhou didn't know before was naturally the order of investigating the case. It was the railway patrol worker who discovered the body, and then the railway criminal police carried out the investigation, investigated the surrounding area, confirmed that there were no missing persons, and then confirmed the passing train. Then they found the crew to understand the information, then collected passenger data, and visited them one by one. Furthermore, Old Zhou was cooperating with the investigation, not the person handling the case.

Wang Yan smiled: "Alright, then you describe the appearance, I'll draw it again."

"Is what you guys draw accurate? Someone drew it last year, and it felt quite different."

Sketching portraits is naturally a technical job, it's not easy to draw a person vividly, let alone listen to people describe it and draw it out of thin air. The technology is weak, which is understandable. After all, various systems and technologies are still developing now, there must be impressive people, but they are always a minority, not the later technology sinking, and the quality of technical personnel is constantly raised, raising the bottom line.

"No matter how different it is, it still has to be drawn. However, my drawing level is okay, you speak."

"This person is half a head shorter than me, I am 1.82 meters, that person is probably 1.75 or 1.76 meters, looking to be in his thirties. Thin, the face is also thin, a long face like a knife, the face is quite fair, the eyes are relatively long..."

Following the salesman's frowning description, Wang Yan and Wang Xin both took pencils and paper and started drawing. Old Ma couldn't draw, holding a small knife and sharpening the pencil on the side.

After more than twenty minutes, under the salesman's constant feeling instructions, the two constantly fine-tuned, and finally finished drawing.

The salesman stared wide-eyed in surprise, looking at the painting in Wang Yan's hand: "This portrait of yours is better than the one drawn by the comrade last year, and the one drawn by this comrade feels a bit like last year's. Yours is still the most like, basically it looks like this, you can recognize the person by looking at the picture."

"Let me see." Wang Xin leaned over, looked at the one he drew again, and asked, "Is it really like it?"

"Tsk, why would I tease you? That girl was so miserable, how could I be such a person to lie to you guys about this kind of thing?"

"Then if you see the real person, can you recognize it?"

"Yes!" The salesman said definitely, "I have a good memory, it's all practiced by running business these years, if I see the person again, I will definitely recognize it."

Ma Kui nodded: "Alright, that's it, we won't disturb you, if we really find the person, we might still have to trouble you."

"What kind of trouble is this, I can't ask for it."

"Let's go, comrade, thank you."

The trio packed their things and left the factory. Wang Xin held the portrait and compared it: "Why did I draw it the same as last year?"

"It's just looking into it, subconsciously imitating the one from last year, psychological factors. The difficulty of this kind of portrait drawing out of thin air is here, if you are not careful, you will follow the subconscious."

"I haven't seen you show this hand before?"

"Maybe this is genius." Wang Yan carried his hands behind his back, with a look of a master being lonely, his tone was sighing, pretending to be quite impressive.

Wang Xin shook his head helplessly, and said: "Look carefully, actually there are still similar places, you can still see a little bit if it's blurry."

"A difference of a hair, a loss of a thousand miles." Old Ma said, "Besides, what that person said just now can't be fully believed, whether it really looks like this, whether his memory has any deviation, that's not certain. The case file was written before, his description of the appearance this time is still a bit different. He said he remembered it deeper, but we can't believe it."

"That's the principle." Wang Xin nodded, "Old Ma, I represent the organization and express affirmation to you, it still has to be the old comrade."

"Get lost, who are you to represent."

The trio laughed and joked, hurried to the train station, and boarded an afternoon train to Harbin. The other person who had seen the murderer was in Harbin.

This person was also a unit employee, but he had gone to Tianjin to visit relatives.

He said: "I was in carriage 14 at the time, I really didn't remember which station, but I remember it was a period of time after passing Jincheng, I went to the restroom, and heard a man and a woman arguing in the aisle, their emotions were quite excited, but I could hear they were suppressing their voices, quite civic-minded, so I went over and looked.

Because that girl was quite attractive, I also persuaded them a few sentences at the time. Then I didn't pay attention, men and women, arguing is too normal, I fight with my wife every day, doesn't it also pass well.

Oh right, there was also an accent, I really didn't hear it. I haven't been to many places, anyway, I could hear it was a northern accent. You guys asked last year."

Then it was this person talking about the characteristics of the man and woman, and started drawing portraits.

However, this time Wang Yan didn't draw the man's, only Wang Xin was drawing. Wang Yan listened to the description, basically the same as what the salesman comrade said before, and finally took out the one he drew earlier, and sure enough, this person insisted that it was it.

And seeing the portrait of the victim drawn by Wang Yan, he also said it looked like it...

But as Ma Kui said, these don't count, even though Wang Yan is confident in the portrait technology.

After visiting this person who had seen the murderer and the victim, the trio didn't go to a restaurant in Harbin. After all, the case-handling funds were limited, and the salary was also limited, how could they always be so luxurious. Instead, they went directly to Harbin Station, where the crew was provided with dinner, they used to eat there before, and only occasionally went out to restaurants to satisfy their cravings.

And Harbin Station also provided accommodation, even if the three were now transferred to criminal police, logically they should spend money to stay in a hostel, but Harbin Station's place was always abundant, they didn't want to face and go over to stay, who could say anything, they were all friends, besides, they weren't staying without leaving, occasionally falling down, there was no problem at all.

The three finished eating and came to the dormitory. They just saw Old Cai, Old Wu, Old Lu, and others playing poker, and were very surprised to see Wang Yan and the others come over.

"Oh my, why did you guys run here?" Old Lu asked.

"Handling a case." Old Ma replied with a smile.

Cai Xiaonian asked curiously: "What case?"

"The one from last year where the person was crushed."

"Can it be solved?"

"Good fellow, do you think you're on the kang at home? Say solve and it's solved? The three of us have been running for two days, haven't rested, and in the end, there are no useful clues. Basically a wasted trip."

"Not a wasted trip, isn't your wife here?" Cai Xiaonian smiled, "At noon today, little Yaoer mentioned you, you became a criminal police officer and can't see anyone, she has an opinion. Hurry up and find your wife, don't talk nonsense here."

"This is still holding a small meeting to discuss the case, where is there time? Anyway, we're going back tomorrow, and we can see her."

Old Lu said: "Hey, that's just right, when you go back, you can catch thieves on the way. I'm not saying the train police on the train can't catch thieves, it's just that you guys catch them faster and more."

Chatting and laughing for a while, the trio found an empty room, closed the door, and chatted about the case.

"Tell me, what do we do next?" Ma Kui poured hot water and drank it with a "slurp."

Wang Yan and the other two both lit cigarettes, as if discussing the case without smoking always lacked something.

"Currently known is limited, what can be determined with high probability is that our portrait this time is drawn correctly, of course, it doesn't exclude that the one behind is dealing with things, saying whatever is right. Besides, listening to what this person said today, I'm not sure, I just have a feeling."

"Can I scold you if you say it wrong? It's just to diverge thinking. Besides, how important is feeling, don't we rely on feeling to catch thieves?" Wang Yan smiled.

"That's not necessarily." Wang Xin glanced at Old Ma.

The latter directly scolded: "Get lost, talking about serious business, hurry up and say it, don't be dawdling."

"I feel this murderer might be from our Ningyang, at the very least, he must be from the Ningyang area or south of Ningyang."

Seeing the two looking at him, Wang Xin smoked a cigarette and continued, "The victim's body was found on the section from Liaozhong to Ningyang, it feels a bit wrong. If there was hatred, they would have killed long ago, no need to talk nonsense, and no need to do it on the train. I think it must be that this girl was going to Ningyang, and after arriving at the station, it would have some influence on this murderer. The murderer didn't want to receive this influence, so evil thoughts arose, and only then did he kill."

Ma Kui stared: "Finished?"

"Finished. Look, let me say it, I said it, and after saying it, you still stare."

"You should say more, you have a feeling, you have to analyze it. Just assume this is the answer, reverse push. Police Academy Second Place? Hmph." Ma Kui stabbed him, "Come, let the Police Academy First Place say it."

"His feeling is quite right, I feel it's the same thing."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "The comrades last year asked everything that could be asked, the passengers found were scattered in various carriages, but these people all said they didn't see a man and a woman together. That girl didn't look bad, we even looked at this person's wife today, and pointed to some female workers in the factory, let him evaluate, confirmed his aesthetic vision, what he said was really attractive.

And after the train passed Jincheng, this person today saw them arguing. This explains one point, this murderer probably boarded the train after the woman, it doesn't matter if you guess wrong, anyway, no matter which station they boarded, the murderer never met this woman.

To say they are not familiar, they suppressed their voices when arguing, to say they are familiar, this murderer didn't go over to talk early. To say because of feelings, stalking, etc., this girl is self-respecting, forensic identification is still a virgin. Then it can be confirmed that there is some emotional dispute, the matter is not settled, how can it reach the point of killing. Instead, they should go over to talk early and pull feelings.

Anyway, all kinds of things, I feel, feeling, this murderer in the previous section, might be observing. He is afraid of something in his heart, so he never went to talk to the victim. And after passing Jincheng, his pressure became greater, he had to go, and the girl herself was resistant, this is why the two sides argued. But the murderer also mastered some situation, making the girl dare not shout loudly.

Then, the two talked and collapsed. Just like you said, this girl is holding some handle, which has an influence on this murderer, the closer to Ningyang, the more pressure he has, the more murderous intent he has."

Ma Kui nodded: "Some truth."

"Then what?" Wang Xin asked.

"What then?"

"Then what do we do, we know this now and it's useless. There are many people in Ningyang, we can't just take the portrait and ask one by one, right?"

Wang Yan said: "Can check train tickets. Currently, we have a consensus on the girl's destination being Ningyang, and it is certain that she came from inside the pass. Then start from the starting station, including those who supplemented tickets on the way, and screen the passengers whose destination is Ningyang.

On the other hand, can also check the train schedule from Ningyang, to Liaozhong and Shanhai Pass a few days before the incident, confirm the personnel list within five days, and then confirm the train schedule of the incident, whether there is corresponding personnel information at each station along the way."

In this era, you need an introduction letter to buy a train ticket, and there is registration, and the identity can be checked. Of course, there are those who escape tickets, that's another matter.

"Are you talking, brother?" Wang Xin stared wide-eyed, "Do you know how many people that is? Thousands, even tens of thousands, how to find? People have times when they are blind, if you are not careful, you will miss it, how do we find? Do you guess why the comrades last year didn't do this?"

Wang Yan shook his head with a smile: "But the comrades last year didn't conclude that the victim's destination was Ningyang, nor did they guess that the murderer was a Ningyang person, confirming these two points, the workload is sharply reduced.

Checking the murderer's quantity is indeed large, the three of us can't handle it, check the victim first, start from the starting station, buy a ticket directly to Ningyang, this number is definitely not much, at most one hundred or eighty people. As long as this girl didn't escape the ticket, there is a high probability of finding her. Old Ma, what do you think?"

"Do as you say. After returning to Ningyang, we will contact various places to ask for records." Old Ma nodded with a smile, following the good advice... ===== CHAPTER 1148 =====

"Do as you say. Once we're back in Ningyang, we'll contact various places to request the records." Old Ma nodded with a smile, following the flow of the conversation...