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

Chapter 61: The Serial Case? More Scenes

Chapter 61: The Serial Case? More Scenes
The deceased, Han Longyu, male, 29 years old, was a local of Jinghai and worked at his father's company.

The time of death was between twelve and eighteen hours.

Cause of death: fracture of the hyoid bone.

Dismemberment after death.

The dismemberment tool was an axe.

Su Miaoyi accompanied Yan Cheng during the autopsy and did not see any other images.

“The factory I saw was very dirty. If the body was dismembered in the factory, the cut should be very dirty,” Su Miaoyi said.

At the cut of the corpse, there was only some down from the inside of the doll's costume.

Yan Cheng nodded: "Moreover, the break is very rough. Some of them didn't break off in one go, but after three or five hard chops with an axe."

“The killer’s methods were immature, coupled with psychological fear,” Su Miaoyi said.

“That’s right,” Yan Cheng said. “When we found the body in the garbage dump, it was perfectly intact. With so many thin threads connecting and sewing it up, and so many of us lifting it onto the truck and pulling it back, the threads still got stretched and shifted.”

The autopsy is complete, and Yan Cheng is finishing up the remaining tasks.

"You mean, the murderer sewed these body parts together in the junkyard and then put on the mascot costume?" Su Miaoyi asked. "That's no small feat; it would take him a long time in the junkyard. Although no one would go to a junkyard in the middle of the night, what if they did?"

“It is indeed risky,” Yan Cheng said. “However, his needlework skills should be quite good. Although the mascot costume is not completely sewn, you can tell that he is very skilled. It probably won’t take too long.”

Su Miaoyi then looked at the mascot costume on the ground.

“He was inexperienced, had to dismember the body, was afraid, yet still stitched it up,” Su Miaoyi said. “How much did he hate the deceased?”

Yan Cheng remained silent.

"What is this?" Su Miaoyi suddenly pointed to the severed area on the deceased's leg.

Yan Cheng walked closer and took a look.

"This isn't the plush material from a mascot costume, is it? It feels a bit stiffer," Su Miaoyi said.

Yan Cheng picked it up with tweezers and examined it.

It's too tiny; you can't tell what it's on.

"Doesn't it look like the fluffy texture of the mat you step on in a car?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Yan Cheng looked at her.

I think her eyes are really amazing.

It's like you can see things that others can't.

Oh, you can indeed see things that others can't.

The last person this amazing was...
Yan Cheng said, "It looks very similar."

"Is it going to be another dismemberment inside a car?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“Then the car needs to be very spacious,” Yan Cheng said.

“Or perhaps he wasn’t afraid, but rather because there wasn’t enough space, which is why he only chopped three or five times?” Su Miaoyi analyzed.

Yan Cheng nodded.

It was already dark when I came out of the dissection room.

She and Yan Cheng first ate something in the cafeteria, and then went to the conference room.

Zhuang Yanzheng had been busy, and as soon as he entered the conference room, he said, "A case from Xiang City has just been transferred here."

Everyone looked up at him.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "A month ago, a similar case occurred in Xiang City, where a body was also found inside a mascot costume."

He put the photo on the screen for everyone to see.

Judging from the bodies, it appears to be the same modus operandi.

“The difference is that in the case in Xiang City, a large amount of anesthetic was found in the victim’s body,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “The autopsy results showed that the victim was anesthetized and then dismembered.”

"We found the location of the dismemberment, in a grove of trees on the outskirts of Xiang City. The body was also found on the side of a small dirt road not far from the dismemberment site. However, we have not found any trace of the murderer."

After Zhuang Yanzheng finished speaking, he gave some information about the deceased in Xiang City: "The deceased was named Zheng Bin, 28 years old, from Jinghai. He went to university in Xiang City and then stayed there to work."

"They are of similar age and are both from Jinghai."

“That’s right,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “According to the information, they were high school classmates.”

"Have you committed any crimes together?" Su Miaoyi recalled the words she had overheard the murderer say.

"No results were found," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi fell silent.

"We went to check out the factory," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "We confirmed that it's a timber factory in the woods on the western outskirts of the city. It's been abandoned for more than three years. The owners of the factory moved away to live elsewhere, and the factory has been idle ever since."

“Few people go that way, and even if they do, no one goes inside the factory,” Qi Feng said. “The dust inside is very thick. There are fresh footprints and older footprints covered in dust. We initially determined that the footprints came from the same person. We also found two drag marks, both very fresh, which should be the marks of dragging the deceased.” “Han Longyu’s parents were hospitalized after seeing the body, and we can’t get any information from them yet,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “Zheng Bin’s parents are still in Xiang City; we’ve already notified them to come back. According to the Xiang City police, we haven’t received any useful information either.”

"Didn't you find anything at the landfill either?" Su Miaoyi asked again.

“The surveillance cameras near the landfill have been broken for a long time,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “We can only check for suspicious vehicles or people from distant cameras.”

That surveillance camera has been broken for who knows how long.

There's not a single image.

There are no replays saved.

If we hadn't checked the surveillance footage this time, we probably wouldn't have known that the cameras were broken.

"That whole area is broken?" Yan Cheng asked, somewhat surprised.

“I suspect that the surveillance cameras in that area were faulty from the start, and that they were just doing a perfunctory job,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “I’ve already filed a complaint against them, and the relevant departments have taken action.”

"The site where the body was dumped was very clean; nothing was found there," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi pursed her lips; the difficulty of solving the case had increased significantly.

"In the case in Xiang City, the source of the anesthetic could not be traced either," Yan Cheng said. "Logically speaking, such a large dose of anesthetic should have a traceable source."

When asked about the source not being found.

Su Miaoyi then thought of the cyanide from the previous case.

Then I thought of that man.

Could it be related to him again?

"Let's talk about the autopsy results first," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Yan Cheng was recounting the autopsy results.

Su Miaoyi went through the whole case. She then picked up the photo of the deceased from the table and looked at it.

As she watched, suddenly, the scene before her eyes changed once again.

The surrounding environment is somewhat old.

It's inside the school.

She walked in the corridor outside the classroom, with a few students around her.

They walk very slowly.