Chapter 200 Five people died in three days
As the saying goes, good things don't work, but bad things do.
Sun Shaozong’s premonition came true!
Although Qiu Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei followed the clues and found out the identities of the two victims in the human market, they gained nothing except bringing back a group of crying and screaming children from their homes.
Those two Liba are not completely without enemies.
But firstly, the hatred between them was not that great, so it was not worth such cruel killing;
Secondly, their enemies were all hard-working people. It might be possible that they killed people, but to say that they were willing to pour out an entire jar of Fenjiu and rent a horse-drawn carriage to dispose of the bodies - that was pure nonsense!
As the Chinese New Year was approaching these days, the market was bustling with activity, and no one noticed whether the two Liba left on their own or were hired by someone.
As for the person with a disabled right arm who Sun Shaozong had inferred from the corpse, he didn't even see his shadow, which caused Qiu Yunfei to say a lot of sarcastic things behind his back.
And then...
By the next morning, there was another body in the morgue!
The victim this time was a beggar. He also had his limbs broken, was doused with alcohol and froze to death. The injury to his right arm was also much more serious than the other parts.
The only difference is that the last time the body was dumped in South City, but this time it was moved to East City.
"The two locations where the bodies were dumped are approximately nine miles apart. It is almost certain that the bodies were dumped by a horse-drawn carriage."
"And considering that the deceased's frequent activities during his lifetime did not overlap much with the two Liba, we can basically rule out the possibility of revenge killing - and it is very likely that the crime was committed for venting without a fixed target."
Sun Shaozong muttered to himself as he marked the approximate locations of the two corpse dumping sites on a rough map of Shuntian Prefecture. He then connected them with straight lines and drew a circle with a radius of four and a half miles at the center.
He tapped the homemade charcoal pencil on the map and asked, "Zhao Wuwei, leaving aside the inner city and the outer city, how long will it take to check all the people with disabled right arms in the area I roughly circled?"
Zhao Wuwei stepped forward and looked at him carefully for a long while, his face turned as bitter as a gourd, and he said cautiously: "My Lord, if it were normal times, if I tried my best, it would only take three or four days, but now it's the end of the year, and there are so many people..."
Sun Shaozong was too lazy to listen to his complaints and asked directly, "Can you finish the investigation by the 28th?"
Zhao Wuwei's expression became even more bitter, and he slumped his shoulders and said, "This is really..."
"If you want to talk about manpower."
Qiu Yunfei listened lazily for a long time and suddenly interrupted, "There are plenty of them in the city defense camp. They are all my father's old subordinates. I can easily call for hundreds of people to help investigate the case in a few minutes."
As he said that, he pointed his nose at Sun Shaozong with a proud expression as if to say, 'Come and beg me, I will help you as long as you beg me obediently.'
Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong shook his head without hesitation and said, "No! At this time of year, mobilizing the city defense battalion to investigate the case is really too conspicuous and will easily cause panic among the people. If we really disrupt this New Year's Festival, even if we can catch the murderer, I'm afraid we will have done nothing."
"Tsk~"
Qiu Yunfei's face fell and he simply stopped talking.
"Young Master was anxious to solve the case, so he didn't think too much about it."
Lin Delu on the side hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Captain Zhao, this matter is difficult, but we have to investigate what needs to be investigated. Go and negotiate with Daxing and Wanping counties first to see if they can transfer some personnel to screen the areas designated by the adults before the 28th."
"As you command."
Zhao Wuwei had no choice but to obey the order.
Lin Delu asked Sun Shaozong again, "Sir, do you have any other instructions?"
"Not yet. There are really few clues at the moment."
Sun Shaozong shook his head helplessly. If it were in an ordinary ancient city, a clue of a disabled right arm would be enough to identify the murderer.
But the population of Shuntian Prefecture, including permanent residents and temporary residents, is no less than 1.3 million. Especially now that the New Year is approaching, a large number of foreign merchants and returning travelers have poured in, and many candidates from all over the country have also come to Beijing in advance to prepare for the exam...
How easy is it to rely on the hundreds of officers under the Criminal Law Department to conduct screening?
"Governor Lin, you stay in front and watch. If there is any news from Zhao Wuwei, report it to me immediately." Sun Shaozong said, and waved to Qiu Yunfei, saying, "Come on, let's go to the morgue and examine it carefully to see if we can dig out some clues from the dead beggar."
Having said that, he stepped out of the courtyard of the Criminal Law Department first.
Although Qiu Yunfei was very reluctant, he was afraid that Sun Shaozong would slap him a few more times in the name of official business, making him lose face completely, so he had to follow reluctantly and grumbled.
So on the 24th, Sun Shaozong took Qiu Yunfei to the morgue and spent most of the day there. But in the end, apart from a pile of vomit [vomited by Qiu Yunfei] and confirmation that the murder weapon was a thick wooden stick like a door bolt, there was nothing else they gained.
So much so that Qiu Yunfei later concluded that Sun Shaozong had deliberately abused the corpse just to see him make a fool of himself!
Time passed by minute by minute...
In the blink of an eye, it was the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.
"grown ups!"
Early in the morning, when Sun Shaozong had just dismounted his horse at the government office gate, he saw Lin Delu rushing out to greet him, shouting, "Two more died last night! They also had their limbs broken and froze to death, and then their bodies were dumped!"
Committing a crime again?!
Killed five people in three days!
This murderer is really rampant!
Sun Shaozong walked in with a gloomy face and asked, "Where was the body found? Has it been sent to the morgue?"
"It's still East City!"
Lin Delu said, carefully looking at Sun Shaozong's face, and said: "But it is not within the scope you defined before."
Sun Shaozong didn't react at all. The area he had defined yesterday was just a rough search range. It could only be said to be the most suspicious place at the time. He couldn't be sure that the murderer was definitely within this range.
Lin Delu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The body has been sent over, but..."
"But what?"
"But sir, please go back to the Criminal Law Office first - Liu Zhizhong wants to see you first."
Sun Shaozong suddenly froze in his tracks. Ever since Liu Chongshan was confirmed to be promoted, he had become a hands-off manager, under the pretext of letting Sun Shaozong get familiar with the heavy responsibility of governing the country in advance.
Now he suddenly summoned me...
"Has the case spread outside?"
"Of course."
Lin Delu smiled bitterly and said, "Five people died in three days, and they all died so tragically. You also know that we in Shuntian Prefecture can never keep secrets. The news has already spread all over the city."
As he spoke, he quickly added a flattering remark: "But the people are not panicking at all. They all think that with you here, the case will be solved as soon as possible!"
Tsk~
The expectations of the people are both motivation and pressure!
