"Hello, Officer Gu. I'm Guo Tao, the leader of the Serious Crime Unit. Nice to meet you. Thank you very much for coming here to help investigate this case." Captain Guo walked into the ward and said to Gu Yanting who was sitting on the chair.

Hearing the words of the visitor, Gu Yanting stood up and replied politely: "Team Leader Guo, you are too polite. I have also heard of Captain Guo's name. I didn't expect that we could work on a case together this time. I look forward to your guidance in the future." Although Gu Yanting wanted to stay with Yun Miao for a while, he also knew that now was not the time to relax. The most important thing now was to quickly analyze the case, organize the clues, and find the murderer as soon as possible. This must be the news that Yun Miao had been waiting for.

However, worried about disturbing Yun Miao, Gu Yanting looked at Yun Miao's condition and then motioned Guo Tao to talk outside.

"It seems that Captain Gu and Miss Yun Miao knew each other before. I wonder what the relationship between Captain Gu and Miss Yun is? Sorry, I'm just curious and I don't mean anything else." After arriving at the corridor, Guo Tao hurriedly asked about the relationship between Gu Yanting and Yun Miao. You know, they have checked Yun Miao's information and know that she basically stays in City C. I don't know how she knows Captain Gu Yanting who is far away in City A. When he said the latter part, he always felt a questioning tone. Worried that Gu Yanting would misunderstand what he meant, Guo Tao hurriedly explained.

"It's my job. I can understand you, Captain Guo. I met Miaomiao by chance when I came to City C a few months ago, and we've kept in touch since then." Gu Yanting knew that people in their position were accustomed to examining all relevant clues they came into contact with in their lives, so he did not feel angry or any other unpleasant emotions about Captain Guo's questions. Instead, he comforted Captain Guo with understanding, and slowly explained how he met Yun Miao.

"So, Captain Gu and Miss Yun have been in contact all this time. Did Miss Yun have any abnormal behavior or words during the time she was in contact with you?" Guo Tao was eager to find a breakthrough in the case. When he learned that Gu Yanting had been in contact with the survivor of the case, he couldn't wait to ask.

"There's nothing unusual about that." Gu Yanting shook his head and continued, "We were just chatting normally, but I couldn't contact Yun Miao for the past few days. I had planned to come find Yun Miao after I handed over the things at hand, but I didn't expect her to get into trouble. But... was Yun Miao's accident on the 18th?" Gu Yanting paused and asked Guo Tao the specific time when Yun Miao got into trouble.

"Yes, to be exact, the accident happened in the early morning of the 19th, but did you find out from the case file?"

"No, because there has been no reply from Yun Miao since the 18th. Yun Miao is a person who pays attention to time and details. If there is a situation where he cannot reply, he will tell me in advance and will not suddenly stop replying. And Yun Miao should still be participating in a school activity at that time. The activity should have ended on the morning of the 19th." Gu Yanting leaned against the wall behind him and slowly talked about the day when he lost contact with Yun Miao.

"By the way, have you checked Yun Miao's cell phone? Why did she suddenly go home?" Thinking that Yun Miao got into trouble because she suddenly returned home, Gu Yanting suddenly asked Guo Tao why Yun Miao went home before the end of the event.

"Since the Yun family's accident, we have also checked their call records and text messages. At that time, there was nothing wrong with the Yun family's parents' phones. Only Miss Yun Miao's phone was not found. Not only at home, but colleagues also went to the event site to check and found it was not left there. In addition, we asked the teacher who led the school event. The night before the end, Miss Yun Miao went to find her and said she wanted to go home early. However, because it was late, the school's arranged vehicle could not go out, so she refused. At that time, a male classmate came to send Miss Yun home. We also asked the male classmate, and there was no problem. He sent Yun Miao downstairs that night and left. After that, Yun Miao also used her father's phone to contact the teacher to report that she was safe. All of this is true to what they said."

It was because there was no problem with all of this that was the most troublesome thing. There was no clue at all. Every time they thought they had found a clue, it would be denied the next moment. They had faced this situation countless times during this period of time.

Hearing what Guo Tao said, Gu Yanting felt a rare sense of loss, but the only thing to be thankful for was that the murderer was not targeting Yun Miao. So is it possible that the murderer had originally inquired about Yun Miao's whereabouts and chose that day, but Yun Miao returned home for some reason, which led to the murderer committing the crime. The murderer may have wanted to kill Yun Miao at first, but in the end, for some reason, he let Yun Miao go, maybe because he couldn't bear to do it! Putting yourself in the murderer's perspective, you may not be able to completely kill Yun Miao.

The most important thing at the moment is that if we rely on this alone to identify the suspect, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. After all, there are countless people who have a crush on Yun Miao near the community where she lives. If we check them one by one, it will take a long time.

Gu Yanting expressed his guesses and suspicions one by one, and his guess about the murderer's special treatment of Yun Miao was basically similar to Guo Tao's.

"At present, we still need to compare the previous case in City A with this case to see if they are committed by the same murderer. If it is confirmed that it is the same murderer and there are no other clues, our only solution now is to put all the similar cases in the past together for cross-comparison to see if there are any new discoveries." Considering the clues at hand, Gu Yanting, who still had no clue, said after thinking for a moment.

"That's the only way." Hearing Gu Yanting's proposal, Captain Guo could only nod in agreement, after all, there were really no other clues at the moment. For cases like this, the longer it takes, the harder it will be to find the murderer later, because judging from the many previous cases and the crime scene that was so clean that there was no clue at all, the murderer was a very cautious person with strong anti-detection capabilities.

If they cannot find him as soon as possible, the more time they give him, the more clues they may miss at that time will be dealt with, and it will be more difficult to find him in the future, or they can only wait until he commits a crime again. It has been almost three years since the murderer committed the last crime, and they also need to figure out why the murderer did not commit another crime during this period of time, and why he took the risk of committing a crime again after being quiet for so long? All of this is like a huge puzzle, tightly surrounding Gu Yanting.

He always had a hunch that if he could figure out why the murderer committed another crime after staying silent for so long, then he would be close to identifying the murderer.

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