Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

Li Xiangnan had reviewed the autopsy details of the corpses repeatedly in the files, and was very clear about the manner of death and the fatal wounds of each person.

Looking down at the wounds repeatedly, they basically matched the details described in the case file.

"Consultant Li, based on the shape and depth of the wound, I have conducted extensive data analysis, and it matches the modus operandi of the boning knife used at the time!" The provincial medical examiner explained calmly from the side.

Li Xiangnan nodded silently. Chen Hanguo committed murder in the street, and the murder weapon and evidence matched perfectly. The victim's current state also matched the state at the time.

But what he wanted to see was something hidden deep within this case.

"Thank you!" He quickly bid farewell to the forensic doctor and, together with Wang Defa and a number of psychiatric experts waiting at the door, rushed to the crime scene on Changjiang South Road with the comrades arranged by the bureau.

It was a weekday, and the streets had already returned to their usual bustling state.

But as you walk along the pedestrian street on Changjiang South Road, the number of pedestrians suddenly decreases.

The past cases seem to still haunt the people here, making everyone afraid to get too close, only daring to stand at a distance and point and discuss the terrible scene that once happened here.

The chalk outlines drawn on the ground, long since blurred, are still glaringly obvious even after so many days.

"Wow, Dean, these four victims are quite far apart. You said before that it didn't seem like a random attack, and looking at it now, it really is! Chen Hanguo must know them; he was chasing after them and hacking away!"

Wang Defa, still shaken, stood with several senior experts beside a chalk circle, looking around with a sigh.

Li Xiangnan stood on the street, silent, but his sharp gaze swept across the surroundings.

Defa is right. When he looked at the case file before, he had some doubts. Chen Hanguo was a targeted killer, not an indiscriminate attack.

In other words, when he was mentally unstable that day, and his second personality took over, he quickly and ruthlessly found those four people in the crowd and killed them directly!

Because the chalk circles on the ground were as far apart as twenty meters, there must have been many people scattered and fleeing in between!

If we hadn't known them, there would certainly have been other innocent people who died!

So the question is, among these four people, are there any innocent bystanders?

Did Chen Hanguo only want to kill one person? Two? Three?

Have there been any cases of accidental injury?

Was my judgment correct?

These questions remain unanswered for now, because the deceased has passed away and cannot answer their own questions!

Li Xiangnan closed his eyes, trying his best to recreate the scene of that day in his mind.

Soon, he noticed that the first person to die in the case file was right next to the curb of a restaurant run by people from his hometown.

"Was it from that store that Chen Hanguo robbed the knife?" Li Xiangnan immediately asked Director Fan, who was accompanying him.

"Yes, according to the store clerk at the time, he suddenly rushed in, ran straight to the back kitchen, grabbed the heavy boning knife, and rushed out to attack Zhang Biao!" Director Fan recalled.

“First, it was Zhang Biao!” Li Xiangnan nodded, standing next to Zhang Biao’s white circle. He then walked north, stopped after about twenty meters, and looked at the white circle on the ground. “This is…”

“Ma Taihe!” Director Fan replied.

"Hmm!" Li Xiangnan remembered the order, then turned back and walked nine meters west. "Is this Sun Lianfang?"

“Yes!” Fan Deting, unaware of what he was calculating, quickly nodded and pointed to the last eighteen meters away, “That’s the last victim, located to the southwest, Chen Xiaoyan!”

Li Xiangnan nodded, walked south, and stopped where Chen Xiaoyan was.

Zhang Biao is currently positioned to his right (east), Ma Taihe is positioned to his northeast, and Sun Lianfang is positioned to his due north.

The four corpses are positioned in four directions, forming a square.

Something's not right with this case!

A certain outline gradually became clear in his mind.

The murderer's purpose was very clear, and his actions were swift and decisive. Without any hesitation, he killed four people directly, and then his frenzied behavior came to an abrupt end. He sat in a pool of blood and cried.

Chen Hanguo, the murderer, clearly harbored long-suppressed, rational hatred.

He killed selectively!

And after retaliating, he immediately stopped the violence.

Although he was crazy, his madness was just right.

This is the strangest situation!

Chen Hanguo went mad, then stopped halfway through his madness?

"Director Fan!"

Just then, a car suddenly stopped at the street corner, and a police officer hurriedly got out, whispered a few words to Fan Deting, and handed him a file folder.

Fan Deting stood by the roadside for a long time, and only came over after seeing Li Xiangnan finish a whole cigarette, with a hint of helplessness on his face.

"Consultant Li, the results of your previous request to thoroughly investigate the social relationships of the four victims are in!"

Fan Deting opened the folder and file bag. "This is all the information we could find. Four people, from different units, living far apart, with almost no overlap in their daily lives, let alone any common enemies! Consultant Li, is this... perhaps we're going in the wrong direction?"

Li Xiangnan took the documents and quickly scanned the uniformly formatted and neatly handwritten resumes, his eyes growing colder. "Something's not right! These people's resumes are too clean!"

"Clean?" Fan Deting frowned and immediately narrowed his eyes. "Advisor Li, you suspect..."

“Yes!” Li Xiangnan looked up, his eyes flashing like lightning. “Director Fan, the files of these four people are like they’ve been erased with an eraser, all traces of their growth have been wiped away! Think about it, Chen Hanguo’s clear-cut revenge must have a profound cause-and-effect relationship behind it! So I suspect that their files have been altered and manipulated!”

Fan Deting nodded slightly, this matched his earlier vague guess. Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he asked in surprise, "Advisor Li, do you think they might have all changed their names?"

"That's exactly what I wanted to say! There must be a connection between them, and perhaps we can delve deeper to analyze it! No matter where they are now, let's quickly change direction and investigate!"

“Organize a team to trace their career paths backward and check their former names in the household registration department! The key is to find out where they were more than 20 years ago, especially in the early 1960s, their workplaces, and so on! I think there must be some things we haven't discovered yet!”

This thought made Fan Deting's heart skip a beat, and he subconsciously asked, "Advisor Li, why are you so sure they're in contact?"

Li Xiangnan suddenly laughed and asked in return, "Director Fan, you're saying those four didn't know each other before?"

“Yes…” Fan Deting was taken aback, then nodded subconsciously.

"Then why would these four people appear together on Changjiang South Road? Could it be that they happened to be having a secret rendezvous in the crowd and were spotted by Chen Hanguo? Who would notice four people having a secret rendezvous in a pedestrian street full of pedestrians? So many people were killed in between them, is this really just a coincidence? I don't think so!"

"hiss!"

Upon realizing this, Fan Deting silently gasped, his eyes suddenly lighting up as he exclaimed, "So that's how it is!"

He was about to praise Li Xiangnan when he heard a call from behind, and then Qi Zhiyuan hurriedly got out of the car.

"Director Qi?" Li Xiangnan was a little puzzled. According to the schedule, Director Qi should be reporting to Zhang Zhidong about the specific gains of the trip to Yanjing. Why did he suddenly come here?

"Advisor Li, there's an emergency! Chen Hanguo's grandfather somehow found out about this and is at the Municipal Public Security Bureau. He insists on seeing you no matter what, as he has something very important to tell you in person!"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this news, Li Xiangnan's eyes narrowed.