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

Chapter 77 Blood Collection, Mo Xiaoxiao Disappears

Su Miaoyi went to check the surveillance footage and told the property management that she had gone home a few days ago. Before returning home, she left a bag at the door. She thought the community security was good, so she was not in a hurry to come back. She did not expect that when she returned, someone had taken the bag.

They did not tell the property management that their home had been ransacked.

First, the items in the house have been put back in their original places, making it difficult for the average person to notice.

Secondly, she had already told Zhuang Yanzheng that someone would come to investigate.

Since the person who came to rummage through the things had carefully put them back in their original place, clearly not wanting to be discovered, she didn't want to make a fuss for the time being.

She pulled up all the surveillance footage from the days she was away.

But one day the surveillance footage stopped.

The property management company didn't know what was going on either, so they quickly contacted technicians to check.

Su Miaoyi waited in the monitoring room for a while.

After the technicians checked, they said it had been deleted and could not be recovered because it had been deleted too thoroughly.

However, the property management company has not deleted the surveillance footage.

They then retrieved the surveillance footage from that day's monitoring room.

As a result, the surveillance footage from that day was also deleted from the monitoring room.

It's been a week, and the monitoring room is cleaned every two days, so there's no trace left.

Finding nothing, Su Miaoyi went out to eat first.

After finishing our meal, we rested in the restaurant for a while. Not long after, Zhuang Yanzheng called.

"Where is it?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“At the restaurant across from the residential area,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Wait there, we'll be there soon," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Next time, just call directly. If I don't answer, call Qi Feng or Chu Xingrou."

"It's nothing urgent, it's been several days, the traces of it being turned over won't disappear," Su Miaoyi said.

"Okay, just wait."

After hanging up the phone, it wasn't long before Zhuang Yanzheng arrived with Chu Xingrou and Qi Feng.

The four of them went to their lodgings together.

Su Miaoyi first had them check if there were any fingerprints on the door lock.

“This mark.” Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the scratches on both sides of the lock.

"Is it like a lock-picking device?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded.

Once inside the room, Su Miaoyi showed them all the places that had been searched, and then searched the other areas as well.

No useful fingerprints, footprints, or hair were collected.

However, they found a few strands of Su Miaoyi's hair in some nook and cranny among the clothes and carpets.

"You can't go bald in a while, can you?" Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the few strands of hair.

Su Miaoyi looked at him: "You stay up late, and you're getting on in years. You're the one who should be worried about this."

Zhuang Yanzheng clicked his tongue.

Su Miaoyi sighed: "Going home, I still have to investigate the case. What is it?"

She stood by the dressing table, talking as she took things out of the drawer to see if there were any traces.

"Does this restoration technique seem familiar to you?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Su Miaoyi looked at him: "You mean... Cao Hong?"

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded.

“I have never been to the scene of Shao Dong’s murder, I have only seen the photos.” Su Miaoyi knew that he had been there.

While she was resting with Lu Zhishen that day, Zhuang Yanzheng and Kang Ting went to the scene.

“Very similar,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi thought of Jiang Junrui through Cao Hong.

Why are they searching her place? What does she have in her possession?

Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her, then continued looking around.

Su Miaoyi didn't say anything more and looked at the drawer again.

She emptied the drawer and shone a flashlight inside.

"Xingrou," Su Miaoyi called out to her, "Come and see if there's blood here." Chu Xingrou came over immediately.

There was a sharp nail protruding from the very back of the drawer.

It was a very small, pointed tip, with what appeared to be a trace of blood on it.

Chu Xingrou shone her surveying light on it: "It seems so."

However, it was too far inside, and there were only a few dried blood streaks, making it difficult to collect.

"Demolish..." Zhuang Yanzheng only uttered one word.

With a single pull, Su Miaoyi yanked the entire drawer out.

There are latches inside the drawer; it will lock itself in place once you pull it out to a certain extent.

With a forceful pull, Su Miaoyi removed the clips directly from the wooden board.

This startled both Qi Feng and Chu Xingrou, who were unprepared.

Zhuang Yanzheng was also taken aback: "It's true that things from your own home are always better; you can do whatever you want with them."

Chu Xingrou collects blood.

"I just bought a dressing table a month ago." Su Miaoyi hesitated for a moment, then said, feeling a pang of regret.

“Perfect, let’s move to a new place and get a new dressing table,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"Are we moving again? We've just gotten used to it." Su Miaoyi frowned. "Besides, the security here is already very good. It'll be the same if we move somewhere else. If they want to look for us, they'll still come looking for us."

“You can’t stay here,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “Knowing this place is dangerous, why stay here? Aren’t you just waiting for them to come knocking on your door?”

Su Miaoyi thought what he said made sense, so she didn't say anything more.

After leaving her residence, Su Miaoyi took some essential items and a few clothes and followed them to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

It will take time to compare the collected blood with the DNA.

Su Miaoyi made a note, and after Zhuang Yanzheng got off work, she left with him.

"where to?"

"Let's find somewhere to eat first," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "We're tired of eating in the cafeteria."

Su Miaoyi didn't say anything.

After a moment of silence, Zhuang Yanzheng asked, "Did you and Jiang Junrui know each other before?"

Su Miaoyi looked at him.

"If the person who went through your room was Cao Hong," Zhuang Yanzheng paused for a moment, "what was he looking for?"

Su Miaoyi paused for a moment, then said, "I lost a piece of my memory."

"Hmm?" Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her. "What?"

Su Miaoyi told him about the few days she had lost her memory.

She also shared with him the fragmented memories she had recalled in Jiangcheng.

Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her a few more times: "Where's Mo Xiaoxiao?"

“I contacted her when I was in Jiangcheng. But her phone number was no longer in service, and she doesn’t use WeChat anymore,” Su Miaoyi said. “I also contacted her parents. They said she went abroad a few months ago and hasn’t been in contact with them for a while.”

"You haven't been in touch for so long, aren't you worried about your family?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“She was in the same situation as me. Her family wanted a boy, but the policy only allowed one child per family, so she went to live with her maternal grandparents in the countryside after she was born,” Su Miaoyi said. “Later, her maternal grandparents passed away, and she returned to Jinghai to study. She had a very bad relationship with her family.”

Zhuang Yanzheng remained silent.

Su Miaoyi continued, "Her parents said that she sent a message to her family before she went abroad, saying something like she was going to work overseas and that it might be inconvenient to contact her."

"That's the strange thing. Knowing Mo Xiaoxiao as I do, she wouldn't tell her family she was going abroad."

"Are you worried something might have happened to her?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“Actually, before I came back from Jiangcheng, I asked Captain Kang to check, but we couldn’t find any information about her going abroad. She has never applied for a passport,” Su Miaoyi said. “Captain Kang is treating it as a missing person case for now.”

Zhuang Yanzheng asked, "When you came back in June, did you bring anything back from Jiangcheng?"

Su Miaoyi shook her head: "I don't remember."

Zhuang Yanzheng frowned.

What they're looking for must be very important.

But what if Mo Xiaoxiao's disappearance is related to this matter?

Why did it take several months before they contacted Su Miaoyi?

What were they doing during those months?