Chapter 234: Please Invite the Next Victim

What Yu Dazhang wanted to do was very simple.

Since the Provincial Department did not take the victims seriously, he would investigate from scratch himself.

The commonalities and mutual connections between the victims had certainly already been investigated by the Provincial Department.

If they had found anything, they would not have easily allowed Yu Dazhang to get involved.

Directly questioning the victims was even more impossible.

Since the same suspect committed all the crimes, the other eight victims must be in the same state as Li Yong, completely unable to communicate.

This was the crucial clue the Provincial Department had overlooked!

Little did they know, some people can make mental patients speak.

At the very least, they could extract the final memory fragments.

They probably didn't do this because they never thought a hypnotist could also treat mental illnesses.

There was another possibility.

They might have tried finding a hypnotist before.

But the result was failure.

Three hours later, Yu Dazhang picked up Ye Zhiyu at the station.

The group then simply had a meal.

Since it was already late, Yu Dazhang planned to find a place to stay nearby.

Unexpectedly, Ye Zhiyu refused.

"When I came, General Manager Qu specifically instructed that the accommodation must not be lower than a three-star hotel."

"You're paying?" Yu Dazhang asked in a bad mood.

Ye Zhiyu puffed out his chest, looking wealthy and bold:

"All accommodation expenses this time will be covered by our Yisheng Group; you just need to pick the place."

Oh, he's being tough now... This was the first time Yu Dazhang had seen Ye Zhiyu like this.

Since Ye Zhiyu had come with a mission, Yu Dazhang didn't stand on ceremony and actually found a three-star hotel.

After washing up, Yu Dazhang lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, sorting through the clues currently in his possession.

He had already reviewed the files on Shao Xin and Liu Jinsong.

Among their social connections, no one met the suspect's conditions.

To put it bluntly, among everyone they knew, no one had the ability to avenge them.

Because it involved a case, the files on these two were extremely detailed, leaving no possibility of omission.

So the question arises.

If the suspect wasn't avenging them, then why target Li Yong?

Moreover, they even extracted this wrongful conviction.

What was the suspect's goal?

Shouting out against injustice when seeing it?

No matter how you think about it, it's nonsense.

And even if it was standing up for justice, why didn't they do it earlier?

It's been sixteen years already, and only now did they think to take revenge on Li Yong.

Playing at delayed justice?

So...

Yu Dazhang's brain worked rapidly, his eyes unblinking as he stared at the ceiling.

There was another possibility!

The suspect targeting Li Yong was not because of Shao Xin and Liu Jinsong.

These two were names Li Yong voluntarily gave up when he couldn't endure the torture anymore.

After all, framing someone for murder is a huge matter for anyone.

So when Li Yong's mind was on the verge of collapse, he spoke out the thing he considered most important.

Could it be because of something else?

Or, just as Ma Jian analyzed before, was it a crime of passion?

Deduction is like this.

First assume, then verify.

The possibility of a crime of passion still exists.

Moreover, there have been precedents for such serial cases.

For example, the Intelligent Trojan Horse case.

This was a serial murder case that started in 2001 and continued until 2003.

A total of seventeen people were killed, and one was lightly injured.

From beginning to end, there was only one killer.

The police forces of two cities conducted a joint investigation, yet in three years they couldn't even figure out the killer's general characteristics.

Guess how the killer was finally caught?

When he was killing the eighteenth person, that person, in a moment of desperation, used a move: acknowledging a thief as a father.

Weeping bitterly, he expressed his intention to support the killer in his old age.

Calling him "Dad" again and again, as affectionate as could be, he finally succeeded in moving the killer.

He escaped with his life. Once outside, he immediately called the police, and since then this vicious serial killer was finally brought to justice.

Killed seventeen people in a row and got away with it, only to die because of the one time he showed mercy.

Pretty laughable, isn't it.

Or you could all say it—swearing a sworn father does no harm.

Not only can you rise through the ranks, at the critical moment it can save your life.

This is a textbook crime of passion.

If the suspect is someone with brains and a rock-solid psychological makeup, the investigation will be extremely difficult.

In Yu Dazhang's view, these nine victims right now are no different from being dead already.

The person has gone completely mad; even if alive, they're just a walking corpse.

But from the angle of the crime, death is the most foolproof option.

This is also one of the points Yu Dazhang can't figure out.

Not a single error—every word, every line, every bit of content—read it!

Don't kill!

This is also a characteristic of the suspect.

The next day.

Yu Dazhang obtained the basic information of the remaining eight victims from Li Jun.

The information content was very simple.

Only name, gender, age, plus the family contact phone number attached.

Yu Dazhang didn't mind either, because having this information was already enough.

His purpose in getting the victims' information was to meet them in person, so overly specific details weren't important to him.

That morning he took Ma Jian and Ye Zhiyu to meet another victim.

Wei Cheng, male, 33 years old, owner of Yicheng Home Furnishings.

He was kidnapped a month and a half ago, and five days later was dumped near his home.

When he was found, the man had already gone mad, and was missing four fingers.

This time the meeting place was a psychiatric hospital.

Wei Cheng's severed-finger wounds had already healed, but his mental illness had shown no improvement.

"I deserve to die, I've done every evil thing…"

When Yu Dazhang saw him, he was continuously cursing himself, just like the first time he met Li Yong.

Only his vocabulary wasn't as rich as Li Yong's; he didn't use many idioms.

With last time's experience, this time Yu Dazhang went straight to the point.

After having the hospital arrange a private room, he patted Ye Zhiyu on the shoulder:

"It's all yours."

This time it was even more convenient, because it was a direct visit, so no family members were present.

So Ye Zhiyu had even fewer reservations.

Yu Dazhang, just like before, took Ma Jian and stood guard at the door of the ward.

In no time at all, screams came from inside the ward.

Whatever method Ye Zhiyu used, Wei Cheng's cries sounded extremely harrowing.

Even more pitiful than Li Yong's cries last time.

This bastard has the makings of a killer… Yu Dazhang couldn't help feeling a little worried about Ye Zhiyu.

Last time when he was messing with Li Yong's wounds, he noticed Ye Zhiyu didn't even furrow a brow.

There are only two kinds of people who can lay such heavy hands on a living person without changing expression.

1. A killer.

2. A doctor.

Clearly Ye Zhiyu is closer to the latter.

Fortunately Wei Cheng's screams only lasted two seconds before falling silent.

Even so, a doctor still noticed this side.

"What's going on in there?" a doctor walked over and asked.

"We're treating the patient." Out of trust in Ye Zhiyu, Yu Dazhang said matter-of-factly:

"There's a psychologist in there, with rich experience treating this type of patient—please don't disturb us."

Faced with two police officers standing guard at the door, the doctor finally gave up on further investigation and could only leave in annoyance.

This so-called treatment lasted a full twenty-plus minutes.

Although Yu Dazhang was standing at the door, he heard every word of the conversation inside the ward clearly.

Only after the room had gone completely quiet did he say to Ma Jian:

"Brother Ma, this time we're going to dig up a body."

(End of chapter)