The fifth day.
midnight.
Xu Zhai.
Light snow fell outside the window again, making the late winter night slightly brighter and no longer lonely and cold.
At this moment, Xu Zhen was standing in front of a huge map, thinking seriously about something.
This map was drawn by him specifically after consulting his second cousin, combined with the existing map information of the Yamen, and based on his various case needs.
What is drawn on the map is naturally Yanping County, among which many places have been marked and circled by Xu Zhen.
Different circle bets use different colors.
Among them, the most conspicuous red color circled a total of twelve places, which were the places where the victims of the Ghost Faced Killer case disappeared and where the bodies were finally dumped.
Yanping County is indeed not very big. These twelve red dots cover almost the entire county area and seem to have no pattern.
However, after repeated deliberation, Xu Zhen still discovered some problems.
The straight-line distance between the kidnapping point and the body dumping point of each murderer's crime does not seem to be long, generally no more than one mile, that is, five hundred meters.
Xu Zhen suspected that the murderer probably did not use transportation and committed the crime on foot.
In this case, the murderer committed the crime in three important locations, one was the kidnapping location, one was the murder location, and the other was the body dumping location.
There is no doubt that the murder place in the middle is the most important. As long as the murder place is found out, it is possible to obtain the identity of the murderer.
Based on the map calculation, Xu Zhen believed that the killing place was not too far away and should be within the circle with a diameter of 500 meters.
However, after he drew all the areas, he found again that the area was still too big and could still cover the entire county.
oh……
Xu Zhen finally understood that the murderer should have more than one murder location. He committed six murders and changed at least four murder locations!
You must know that the Ghost-Faced Killer's methods of committing crimes are extremely cruel, desecrating the deceased and disfiguring the appearance. There will inevitably be a lot of blood and traces at the murder scene.
If it was in a randomly selected public place, the police would have discovered it long ago when they searched.
Therefore, Xu Zhen suspected that the murderer's place of murder might be his own private house.
oh……
Thinking of this, his eyes lit up, and he seemed to have found the key point of this case.
The real ghost-faced killer is probably a rich man! He has multiple private residences in Yanping County, so he can choose a suitable place to kill each time without being known to outsiders.
Therefore, after each crime, he had sufficient time to clean up the murder scene.
He is young, has martial arts skills, is rich, has a house, and has an extreme personality. He may have been hurt by a woman...
Taking these conditions into account, it seems that...who is the real ghost-faced killer will be revealed soon, right?
"Hey? What does this mean? Why is there still Ziyang Palace?"
Unexpectedly, just when Xu Zhen was very excited, he heard a question next to his ear, but he suddenly dodged and almost pulled out a dagger in fright.
Turning around, he realized that Shen Yu, the tiger girl, had entered the study at some point and was standing behind him.
I……
Xu Zhen's forehead was suddenly covered with black lines.
For the past four days, he had been staying in the Yamen to handle the case and never went home to spend the night.
The reason is that my daughter-in-law had a dream and went to her cousin's house. If she went home to spend the night, Shen Yu, as her bodyguard, would definitely be with her.
However, without their little wife, they are truly alone.
At Shen Yu's age, and at his own age, he was afraid that a man and a woman alone would become a raging fire, so in order to avoid embarrassment, Xu Zhen stayed in the Yamen.
However, it was different today. After the second cousin's map was drawn, Xu Zhen could not show it in front of others and had to go home and study it on his own.
The things marked on this map include not only the case, but also many of Xu Zhen's own thoughts, which must not be seen by outsiders.
"What do you mean by enclosing Ziyang Palace?" Shen Yu was very curious, "Does the Taoist priest of Ziyang Palace also have a problem?"
"You..." Xu Zhenda frowned, "Xiaoyu, it's so late and you're still not sleeping? You came to my place, are you..."
What Xu Zhen meant was that it was inappropriate for us to be alone in the same room in the middle of the night.
However, Shen Yu didn't care about it at all, and said naturally: "What do you mean, it's so late and you don't sleep, how can I sleep? My father asked me to protect you, I have to Look at you!”
Okay, Xu Zhen said in his heart, if you really want to look at me, just go and look under my quilt!
"You..." Shen Yu stared at the map with good eyes, very strange, "What have you drawn? Why is there Wansheng Casino? What do these little knives mean?"
"No, it's not..." Xu Zhen had no choice but to use his sharp tongue and start the fabrication mode, "Can't you see? This map was from a long time ago, and the Ziyang Palace circle was marked because of the previous Wei Yulang's wife once went to Ziyang Palace to offer incense. I have to ask the Taoist priest in the palace.
"Wansheng Gambling House was also circled because of several previous cases... As for those small knives, it was because they were found in the wrong place, and crossing them out does not count."
"oh……"
Shen Yu was really easy to coax, and he immediately believed it.
"Xiaoyu, I have to warn you," Xu Zhen hurriedly warned, "This map is my unique skill. Even Cheng Captou doesn't know about it. You must not tell it. This is between the two of us. Little secret!”
"Yes!" Shen Yu nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, Senior Brother Xu, it's a little secret, a little secret that only the two of us know!"
After nodding, she still had no intention of leaving. She seemed to feel that the map was very fresh, and actually squatted in front of it and looked at it carefully.
"Xiaoyu!" Xu Zhen naturally didn't want her to know too much, so he quickly yawned and said, "I'm sleepy and have to go to bed. Do you want to..."
The next words, Xu Zhen almost said: "Do you want to come together?"
Fortunately, I had a sharp tongue and temporarily changed it to: "Would you like to go back to your room and sleep?"
"I'm not sleepy, I'm energetic!" Unexpectedly, Shen Yu's emotional intelligence was worrying, so he immediately stared at the map and said, "You go to sleep first, brother, I will look at it for a while! This thing you drew is really interesting, I don't even know it. Did you know that our Yanping County is actually like this..."
Xu Zhen covered his face and after thinking hard, he had no choice but to pull the curtain to block the map and said, "Xiaoyu, don't look at it. The map hasn't been drawn yet! I'll introduce it to you after it's done."
"This..." Shen Yu pursed her lips, seeming to notice something, but seeing Xu Zhen's sleepy look, she still said with concern, "Okay, I haven't seen you resting in the past few days, so go quickly Go to sleep, senior brother, as long as I am watching over you, you can sleep peacefully and boldly..."
…
Late at night, lying on the bed, Xu Zhen still felt a little awkward.
Because the room where Shen Yu slept was right across from him, with only the living room in between.
I don’t know, what is this Huniu thinking?
Do you need to tell her a bedtime story yourself?
She said she was guarding herself, but if she didn’t know how to guard, she would just come in, right?
That hot little figure, that handsome little face, those sexy little freckles...
Of course, random thoughts are just random thoughts. Xu Zhen still realized relatively rationally that at the critical moment of the case, he could not let Shen Yu get too close to him.
Although the little girl is brave and kind-hearted, she is too casual in handling things. If she leaks something on some occasion, it may affect her plan to solve the case!
The truth of the case is about to be revealed, and I must not make any mistakes...
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