Chapter 253: The Appearance of the Victim

"You are a lunatic." Qi Dongjun didn't flinch, saying the four words that could hurt Xi He the most, word by word.

But this time, these words didn't successfully anger Xi He. He suddenly burst into laughter, laughing and laughing, the tone gradually distorted. Suddenly, the laughter disappeared, and only bone-chilling malice remained on his face: "I am a lunatic, then what about Qi Fei? Is the child who grew up in a world filtered by you normal?

No one knows better than you that the one who is crazy is not me, it is you! I want Qi Fei to see that all the light he sees is an illusion!"

The clock on the wall of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Nancheng Public Security Bureau showed it was already 1:00 AM.

Days of investigation had already made everyone exhausted, but more than half of the time Xi He gave had passed. No one dared to rest, still burying their heads in sorting out the clues collected so far.

On the whiteboard, Qi Fei's marker pen wandered. The relationship between the characters was complex. He repeatedly circled two names—Xi Zi Yun and Feng Yongshou, and these two people pointed to an unknown person, that short and thin mysterious person.

However, except for Feng Yongshou's half-true and half-false description before his death and Xu Tong's blurred glance, the only person who might know the identity of this person...

Qi Fei thought, drew another arrow from this mysterious person, and wrote "Qi Dongjun" at the other end.

"According to Xu Tong's memory, this person has a close relationship with Qi Dongjun's business. Now that Xi Zi Yun and Feng Yongshou are both dead, the only person who knows the identity of this person is Qi Dongjun," Qi Fei said, looking at everyone present.

Liu Tong rarely accompanied them late at night, holding a thermos cup with both hands. His expression was very different from usual. The kind of smile that seemed to hang in the bottom of his eyes forever would actually disappear.

"Not necessarily, the old method has no creativity, but it works," Liu Tong said. "A woman about 1.6 meters tall, with a slender figure, doing clothing business. Adding these three elements together, it is not impossible to find a missing person in Nancheng."

Wu Shanqiu sat on the rolling office chair and moved twice to get closer to Liu Tong: "Team Leader Liu, we have made a preliminary comparison and didn't find anyone who meets the conditions. I'm afraid the family members didn't report the missing person, and we can't find the record here."

"Maybe we can change our train of thought," Zhong Kui suddenly spoke. As she said this, she walked to Qi Fei's side, took the marker pen from his hand, and drew several divergent lines around the mysterious person, with a question mark at the other end of each line.

In the puzzled gaze of everyone, she knocked on the whiteboard and said: "Don't forget, this person is doing business. The characteristic of a business person is that they contact many people, especially those related to her business. The order back then was enough to make Qi Dongjun start his business, which shows that this person's resources in the industry must be much more than Qi Dongjun's. Qi Dongjun was her last client, but not the first one." She sneered, "There weren't as many people doing clothing back then as there are now. The probability of knowing each other is very high. If someone in the circle suddenly disappears, someone will definitely remember."

"You mean we have to find the group of people who were doing clothing business in Nancheng back then and ask?" Qi Fei asked, then questioned, "This difficulty is not lower than looking for a missing person."

"Zhong Kui's words make sense. The mode of doing business twenty-seven years ago was completely different from today. In my impression, there was a clothing wholesale market in Nancheng back then, and almost everyone doing clothing business in Nancheng was there." Liu Tong agreed with Zhong Kui's statement.

"The veterans of Dongjun Industry found by Lu Man must be able to contact those people back then," Zhong Kui said with certainty.

For a whole morning, people in the Criminal Police Brigade were making phone calls separately, contacting the clothing bosses back then who were obtained through Xu Tong and others.

Under Zhong Kui's suggestion, every time they asked about a suspected missing person's name, they wrote the name on the same whiteboard. As more and more people were contacted, gradually, one name appeared with higher and higher frequency, gradually leading other names by a cliff-like margin.

Qi Fei's bloodshot eyes stared at this name and muttered: "Li Yang'er?"

Wu Shanqiu held her notebook on the side and said: "We synthesized the information obtained from those clothing bosses. This Li Yang'er is a client of many clothing bosses, often coming to purchase bulk clothing, and is said to be doing foreign trade. She is an outlier in the clothing market. Generally, people engaged in this industry don't have a high level of education, but Li Yang'er is an exception. She is a high-achieving student from Nancheng University. Someone heard her talking to foreigners on the phone in fluent English.

Indeed, twenty-seven years ago, this Li Yang'er stopped appearing. At present, at least five clothing bosses said they received Li Yang'er's deposit but she didn't come to pick up the goods."

When hearing this, Qi Fei's thoughts strangely associated with other places—in Feng Yongshou's fabricated story, that thin and short mysterious person booked an ash urn but didn't come to pick it up—perhaps Feng Yongshou unconsciously mixed what he knew into the lie, and even he himself didn't know it.

Wu Shanqiu on the side was still talking: "As for the reason why Li Yang'er didn't appear in the records of missing persons, we also know. Before Li Yang'er went missing, she once revealed to several familiar clothing bosses that she planned to go abroad after earning one more big sum, so everyone defaulted to her immigrating after she lost contact.

The funniest thing is that these people guessed blindly and even misled Li Yang'er's family. They said that later, family members who claimed to be Li Yang'er did come to the clothing market to ask about her whereabouts, and they actually said she went abroad.

Li Yang'er is not a local; she is from Baicheng. We have already notified the Baicheng police and asked them to assist in contacting Li Yang'er's family."

As she was speaking, her phone vibrated twice.

She opened it and immediately handed it to Qi Fei: "This is the household registration photo of Li Yang'er just transmitted from Baicheng."

The woman in the photo had short hair, which was the popular career woman hairstyle in the millennium.

A pair of eyes were long and narrow, the corners of the eyes were raised, plus the thin cheeks, this feeling of the features made him feel familiar but couldn't remember where the feeling came from for a while.

"Hmm? Fox eyes and thin cheeks, shrewd and calculating, prone to early death." Zhong Kui's voice suddenly came from behind them, scaring Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu.

"Damn, how did you walk in high heels without making a sound?" Qi Fei complained.

Zhong Kui didn't respond to him, but pointed her slender, fair fingers at Li Yang'er's photo: "This woman's appearance is five points similar to that clay sculpture in the Huang Daxian Temple. No wonder Feng Yongshou said the Huang Daxian killed someone." ===== CHAPTER 254 =====