Chapter 31 Long time no see text message
"When he was about to raise the knife, he could no longer turn back." Wang Zheng watched the video of the interrogation that had already ended, recalling the thin figure, with mixed feelings in his heart.
"No matter what, he should be punished by law if he committed the murder." Gu Xia was silent for a while, then said, "The Beehive case is over, but there is still no clue about the dismemberment case. I want to wait here and see if there are more corpses to be found."
"I'll stay with you." Wang Zheng said.
For the task force, the end of a case means the temporary separation of the entire team, but this is a good thing in everyone's mind, because as long as five people get together, something big is definitely going to happen.
"You want to stay?" Gu Xia frowned. "Think it over carefully. You will graduate soon, which means you will be unemployed. And your thesis..."
"No hurry." Wang Zheng shook his head. "The research topic of the thesis is criminal psychology, so I need to get in touch with more murderers."
"That's right, and your family is not short of money." Gu Xia said the secret, then laughed dryly to himself twice and continued: "You have to think about it carefully. You and Huamei have an eight-minute rule. I am also a psychologist and will not interfere with her treatment methods."
"I understand. People in the same trade repel each other." Wang Zheng started joking. Just as he was about to continue, his cell phone rang at an inopportune time. He opened the screen and saw a text message, "I'm going to be out for a while."
"Go ahead, call me if you need anything." Gu Xia waved his hand.
Wang Zheng did not leave the police station. After he went down one floor from the fire escape, he saw a man who was also alone in the room. After opening the door, he saw several uniformed police officers in front of him, typing on the computer keyboard.
"I need a computer and a quiet place." Wang Zheng showed the certificate issued to the task force when they were on duty.
The effect of the certificate was better than he had imagined. He was soon taken by a police officer to a quiet little room. There were only three computers in the room. The screens were covered with a layer of dust and it seemed that they had not been used for a long time.
After thanking the police officer, he locked the door. After making sure there were no surveillance cameras around, he chose a relatively clean computer and turned it on. Listening to the buzzing sound coming from the computer case, a helpless expression appeared on his face.
"This system is quite old." Wang Zheng looked at the scrolling progress bar and waited for a full ten minutes before finally entering the system. Then he opened the social software as if he was familiar with it.
Beep beep beep!
A friend invitation appeared in the lower right corner of the screen. Strangely, the other party had no nickname. On the blank interface, there was only a note with a man written somewhere, and the avatar was a landscape photo.
"How did you think of contacting me?" After accepting the friend request, Wang Zheng couldn't wait to type and ask.
"I guess if you come online after receiving the text message, it means you need me." The other party replied.
"Okay, I do need you." Wang Zheng's expression was somewhat helpless: "My ability is limited. I can only use it once a week, and each time is only for eight minutes. But I have a case on hand right now, and I think only you can help me."
"Isn't it possible for Gu Xia?"
"No." Wang Zheng hesitated for a while and said truthfully: "So far, we have only found the head of the deceased at the scene, and we know nothing else."
“You should consult a forensic doctor about this matter.” The man replied, not forgetting to add a knife emoticon at the end.
"Don't waste your time talking nonsense. If you don't solve this problem for me now, I will delete you as my friend!" Wang Zheng pretended to be angry and sent a bleeding kitchen knife.
"Okay, five minutes!" After typing this line of words, the chat box suddenly became quiet. Sure enough, five minutes later, a piece of heavy news rushed into Wang Zheng's mind: "In the past six months, there have been no reports of missing persons in the cities near Shizi Township. However, there was a missing person case in O City a year ago. The missing person was named Chen Cheng, 30 years old, and his identity was not simple."
"Someone is blocking the information?" Wang Zheng immediately had a bad feeling. If someone blocked the news locally, the task force would have no chance of solving the case.
"Not really." The man sent another message: "Chen Cheng hasn't appeared for a year. His wife successfully took over his inheritance and remarried. Although they are still posting missing person notices, there is basically no hope. You can search for it yourself. My time is up ."
"OK!" Wang Zheng looked at the other party's dimmed profile picture and immediately started searching on the Internet. Sure enough, just as the other party said, a person named Chen Cheng did disappear a year ago.
boom!
At this moment, the screen in front of Wang Zheng suddenly went black, and the lights in the room dimmed. After a few seconds, all the power sources lit up again.
"Why does this person act like this?" Wang Zheng was speechless. He probably knew who was the culprit who caused the power outage in the police station.
I rushed back to the office again. Gu Xia was smoking depressedly. I don't know when Xun Huo came. He kept flipping through the folder in his hand with an ugly look on his face.
"Professor Gu, Director Xun." Wang Zheng greeted the two of them, then sat aside obediently.
"Professor Gu, this is indeed a difficult matter." Xun Huo paused and continued, "The police have expanded the search area, but have not found any corpses in the places you think they might appear. In addition, the hotels have been checked and no outsiders have stayed there in the past six months."
"How did that person get here? Did he travel through time?" Gu Xia was a little angry.
"That's it!" Xun Huo said with a sad face, "We did cooperate with your task force this time, but we are wasting police resources when we don't have any clues. The higher-ups will hold us accountable..."
"That's something I should consider." Gu Xia crushed the cigarette butt into the ashtray. "Chief Xun, I hope you don't forget the oath you took when you joined the police."
“I dare not, I dare not.” Xun Huo wiped the sweat from his forehead, verbally assured that he was definitely expanding the search range, and then fled.
"Why are you so angry?" Wang Zheng was a little surprised when he saw Gu Xia, who was still angry.
"I'm in menopause." Gu Xia laughed at himself and asked, "Didn't you go out? Why are you back so soon?"
"I just got some information from my informant." Wang Zheng said with a smile, "My previous direction was roughly correct, but I overlooked the issue of time. If we push the time of the deceased's head back half a year, our search should be much more accurate."
"It was just a year ago." Gu Xia stretched out his fingers and rubbed his stubble. Suddenly, he said, "I forgot that Xun Huo was transferred to Shizi Township in the first half of this year. He encountered the beehive case not long after taking over. I guess he didn't have time to read the previous case files!"
Wang Zheng nodded in agreement. Indeed, in such a short time, he had to handle official duties and be responsible for visiting cellular cases , so it was difficult for him to have time to review some old cases.
"No, I need to ask him to come down again." Gu Xia stood up and quickly made a phone call. Soon, Xun Huo, sweating profusely, ran back in a hurry with a stack of documents and said, "Professor Gu, this is what you wanted."
"Thank you." Gu Xia didn't even look at him. He just picked up a file at random and started reading it.
Xun Huo did not dare to embarrass himself in front of the ancient hero, so he nodded quietly to Wang Zheng as if to show goodwill, then turned around and left in a hurry.
"This director is the one who did it." Wang Zheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't care about Gu Xia who had gotten into the case, and asked quickly, "Professor Gu, what is your relationship with Xun Huo? Is he your student?"
"What student?" Gu Xia waved his hand in disdain and said, "He is a distant relative of my lover. According to seniority, he should call me grandpa."
"He's really a grandson!" Wang Zheng asked in confusion, "Why do you still treat him like this?"
"Bullshit!" Gu Xia said unwillingly, "My family members, from the oldest to the youngest, call you professor as soon as they meet. Are you happy to ask you to do that?"
"Definitely not!" Wang Zheng thought that if a distant relative who was a generation older than him called him professor, he would probably not be able to accept it.
"That's it, hurry up and look at the file!" Gu Xia lowered his head and began to read it carefully.
