Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 38 Portrait Analysis

Chapter 38 Portrait Analysis
Su Miaoyi called Zhuang Yanzheng and told him everything she had seen.

Then he called Lu Zhishen again.

After waiting a while, Lu Zhishen answered the phone: "Hmm? What's up?"

Su Miaoyi heard his voice and it sounded like he had just woken up: "I saw something again."

Lu Zhishen paused for a moment, then his voice became clearer: "The serial killer?"

“Yes,” Su Miaoyi said. “I didn’t see a face, only a figure.”

It has no face but a body, which might be helpful to the case.

"Wait a moment." Lu Zhishen went to get paper and pen. He had stayed up all night at the police station and had just fallen asleep after returning home. Suddenly, his mind started racing. He walked from the bedroom to the painting studio next door, staggering a couple of steps. "Still in the old town? I heard you were going to jump into the river to commit suicide."

Su Miaoyi: "."

Good news goes unnoticed, but bad news is in the public eye.

Su Miaoyi sighed, "I feel that life has no meaning, and I want to become a mermaid in the river."

Lu Zhishen paused for a moment: "The kind of mermaid with a fish upper body and legs lower body?"

Su Miaoyi imagined it for a moment.

A mermaid?

Lu Zhishen said, "Alright, go ahead and speak."

Su Miaoyi shook off the image of the mermaid in her head: "Man, about 1.83 meters tall, weighing about 70 kilograms. Age..."

Judging from the killer's voice, his gait, the strength in his hands, and the skin on his neck.

"Between forty-five and fifty years old," Su Miaoyi said, stating the conclusion she had in her mind.

"His body proportions aren't very good; visually, it gives the impression that his upper and lower body are divided into a 50/50 split. His head is relatively narrow and small, but his shoulders are very broad. He has uneven shoulders, with his left shoulder being higher."

“Continue,” Lu Zhishen said.

Su Miaoyi tried hard to recall the features in the footage: "He was wearing a baseball cap and a mask, the brim pulled low, so you couldn't see his face at all. But during the attack..."

She raised her hand and touched her face.

The pain still seemed to linger on my face.

The pain felt so real.

This is the first time I've felt that empathy can be so terrifying.

"I vaguely saw his eyes. I only saw his expression, not the shape of his eyes." She suppressed the fear that arose in her heart, because at that time the victim's eyes were full of blood and tears, and what she saw was very blurry.

However, I still noticed his expression.

I not only saw it, but I also felt it.

“He was very excited,” Su Miaoyi said. “And very happy. He was holding a scalpel and cutting the victim’s face, and he was excited with every cut.”

"What kind of excitement?" Lu Zhishen asked.

In her bedroom, Su Miaoyi looked at the little sparrow that had landed outside the window. Following Lu Zhishen's guidance, she said, "It's exhilarating, satisfying, a twisted and ferocious joy."

"Okay." Lu Zhishen's single word sounded both like a response to her words and a compliment.

Su Miaoyi didn't speak, but listened to the sound of his paintbrush swishing through the phone.

After a while, Lu Zhishen said, "Clothes."

Su Miaoyi immediately realized: "A short black trench coat, with a black shirt underneath, black sweatpants, and black sneakers."

A good mix-and-match style of clothing.

Su Miaoyi thought to herself, then said, "There's no obvious logo on it."

She paused for a moment after she finished speaking.

"What's wrong?" Lu Zhishen asked.

“I suddenly felt like he had changed his clothes,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Ok?"

“The trench coat, pants, and shoes all look to cost less than a hundred. But the shirt he was wearing underneath, even though I only saw the collar and a little bit of the chest,” Su Miaoyi said, “the texture of the fabric and the support of the collar make me think it must cost at least four figures.”

“If he changed his clothes to avoid being monitored, he should have had a bag containing his clothes on him,” Lu Zhishen said.

Su Miaoyi nodded: "That's right."

Although she didn't see it, the murderer likely threw it outside or placed it where she was changing clothes.

"Is there anything else to add?" Lu Zhishen asked.

“No more,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Okay, I'll send it to you to take a look later."

"it is good."

Su Miaoyi hung up the phone. She sat on the bed, looking out the window.

The buildings in the old town don't get very good natural light.

For some reason, looking out like this made her feel very uncomfortable and depressed, so much so that she could hardly breathe.

It's as if she's been locked up here.

I forced myself to look away.

She looked down at her hands.

Even though I wore gloves while cleaning, I still got wet, and the area around the abrasion is a bit swollen.

She stared blankly at the wound. After a while, Lu Zhishen sent her the portrait.

The two communicated again and made some changes.

After finalizing the version, Lu Zhishen sent it to Zhuang Yanzheng.

After receiving it, Zhuang Yanzheng immediately forwarded it to all departments.

Then, Su Miaoyi received his call.

"When are you going back?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"I plan to go back this afternoon."

"Can we come a little earlier?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked. "We're on our way to the body disposal site. Would you like to come along and take a look?"

Su Miaoyi thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll tell my uncle and aunt."

"Ten minutes from now, cars won't be able to enter the alley outside your residential area; it'll be difficult to make a U-turn," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"it is good."

Su Miaoyi reassured Cheng Yong and Ge Yu for five minutes, assuring them that she would be fine and telling them to relax.

It took another five minutes to walk from home to the alley entrance.

Less than a minute after I arrived, Zhuang Yanzheng arrived: "Get in the car."

Su Miaoyi quickly got into the car.

Then he and the girl sitting behind him looked at each other.

She wore a hat to cover the injury on her forehead, and pushed the hat up further to see the girl.

Zhuang Yanzheng was driving ahead, and after driving a distance, he looked in the rearview mirror and saw the two people behind him still staring at each other.

Yan Cheng, sitting in the passenger seat, also turned around and looked at the two of them.

"What are you doing? Don't fall in love with each other," Zhuang Yanzheng teased.

Chu Xingrou immediately looked away, placed her hands on her lap, and sat up straight, looking quite reserved.

Su Miaoyi, however, was different. From the first day she met Zhuang Yanzheng, she knew nothing of being reserved. After greeting Yan Cheng, she asked Zhuang Yanzheng, "Captain Zhuang, are there any girls in the field team?"

Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her again in the rearview mirror.

Her eyes were shining with excitement.

Suddenly, looking into her eyes, he remembered the past.

The investigator sat by the roadside eating a steamed bun.

Qin Leyan said, "Deputy Captain Zhuang, when are you going to recruit a female police officer for the field operations team?"

"What?"

"I'm getting a little tired of seeing you guys."

"I brought you here to handle a case, not to check on people."

"It won't interfere with the case. And we can even chat during our breaks."

"What? There are so many of us, aren't we enough for you to talk to?"

Qin Leyan's expression suddenly turned slightly disgusted: "Anyway, just remember to keep an eye out, don't let other places take it."

Zhuang Yanzheng snapped out of his daze and asked, "Why are you so excited about the female officers in the criminal investigation team?"