Chapter 8 Morse Code
The man who jumped out of the alley clamped Wang Zheng's shoulder tightly with his muscular right arm, while his left hand held a small knife, holding the blade diagonally with his wrist and gently pressing it against his trachea.
The blade was sharp enough to cut Wang Zheng's trachea in a breath, making it impossible for him to scream.
"It's you." Wang Zheng opened his eyes . Although a knife was pressed against his neck, his tone suddenly became much more relaxed.
"I thought someone would find me, but I didn't expect it to be a kid like you." His tone was a little sad, and he even had to admit that he was a little old.
"You've been traveling back and forth between six cities in J Province. You should have already thought about being caught, and even your escape route." Wang Zheng relaxed his tense body and said softly.
"How do you know?" he said frivolously, with a hint of excitement in his tone.
"In recent years, the number of missing persons has increased, but it is not the common child trafficking. Although I have not accessed all the files, I have remembered a lot." Wang Zheng paused, put down his right arm, tapped his trouser leg with his fingers, and continued: "To commit a crime and escape at the same time, I think you would not be so unscrupulous without an accurate route plan. For example, you are holding me hostage with a knife now."
"Are you a policeman?" He was puzzled for a while, and suddenly said: "No, you are not! If you were a policeman, you would not be the one coming here, and your body makes me a little excited..."
As he said this, his right hand was dishonestly pressing on Wang Zheng's left shoulder, as if he was buying pork and choosing which piece was more suitable.
"No need to touch, my body fat distribution is 15 percent." Wang Zheng suddenly said.
"Nice figure." He said with more excitement, "Each percentage of body fat has a different taste. 15% is right between muscle and fat."
"Like pork belly?" Wang Zheng suddenly laughed.
"It seems that you think the same as I do. Why don't you join us?" He also laughed.
"I don't think so, because..."
While Wang Zheng was talking, his right arm had been adjusting the posture and waiting for an opportunity. Finally, when the other party laughed and relaxed his vigilance, he suddenly thrust his right arm backwards, and at the same time, he raised his left hand and immediately grasped the blade of the knife.
Swish!
At the same time when the knife fell from Wang Zheng's hand, another black shadow rushed out from the street behind. His movements were faster than that man's reactions. He suddenly made a move, grabbed the other person's hair with his left hand, and kicked the other person's knee directly with his right foot. The other person knelt down, and at the same time, his right hand went directly under the other person's armpit to hold the other person's arm.
All in one go!
After seeing the other party being pinned down, Wang Zheng finally felt the sharp pain in his palm. He couldn't help but curse and began to breathe heavily.
"Why didn't you let me do it just now?" Gao Feng's voice came, and he looked at Wang Zheng with some confusion.
It turned out that Gao Feng had already arrived when Wang Zheng was just held hostage as he entered the alley. However, because of Wang Zheng's signal of slapping his trouser legs, Gao Feng was constantly reminded to wait for an opportunity, so he stayed in the dark.
It was not until the moment Wang Zheng took the initiative that he finally found an opportunity and successfully pinned the opponent to the ground with one blow.
"The knife was placed here with me. If you had done anything, I would have died." Wang Zheng clenched his left fist and pointed at his neck with his right finger.
Gao Feng took a closer look and found that there was indeed a long wound on Wang Zheng's neck, which was enough to prove how dangerous the situation was.
"The car is waiting outside. I'll take him out first. Is your wound serious?" Gao Feng said.
"It's okay, but I have something to ask him later." Wang Zheng waved his hand and walked to Gao Feng's side. Only now did he see the other person's appearance clearly.
The other person was a middle-aged man wearing a clean Western-style chef's uniform, with a white beard under his dark face.
"Where are your accomplices?" Wang Zheng stared into the middle-aged man's eyes and asked.
"Accomplice?" The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You guessed wrong. I don't have any accomplice."
"Take him away." Wang Zheng shook his head. He knew that even if he asked again, he would not be able to get any other questions out of him.
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The prisoner sent to the detention center was quickly identified through population comparison. His name was Fan Qian, from H Province. He used to be a western cooking consultant for a chain restaurant in H Province and was paid very well.
The prisoner was successfully arrested and the trial was held as scheduled.
Due to the special nature of the task force, Gu Xia did not intervene and readily handed over the interrogation work to the police officers of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Team. Fan Qian was equally happy, so without any twists and turns, the interrogation was perfectly completed in less than two hours.
Fan Qian readily admitted his crimes and narrated the places where he had committed crimes over the years and how he had lured his victims. He described the appearance of each victim in detail and even the names of some of them.
Based on the clues, the police were able to match many of the missing persons. The most outrageous thing was that some of them were children of several years old.
However, when the police asked him the reason why he ate human flesh, he chose to remain silent. However, based on the clues the police had obtained and his own confession, the facts were fully understood and the evidence was sufficient, so the police immediately placed him in solitary confinement and tried to transfer him to the procuratorate for prosecution in the shortest possible time so that he would be punished by law.
"Finally done." Gao Feng stood in front of the window of the forensic room, stretched lazily and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Since arriving in City B, the task force has been working non-stop for the past four days, and now that the criminal has been caught, everyone feels relieved.
" This Fan Qian is really ruthless." Bai Ling looked through the files sent by Wang Yongchang, her expression somewhat speechless, "For eight years, he drove from Province H to City B. Every time he passed through a city, he ate at least one or two people. He committed more than thirty crimes!"
"How can such people be rational?" Gao Feng yawned. "These criminals think that challenging the law is a kind of enjoyment in itself. Moreover, they can act under the noses of the city police, have not been caught for so many years, can eat people, and feel a kind of constant stimulation. Isn't this a kind of enjoyment?"
"Crime is a kind of drug. Once you get addicted to it once, you will want to do it again." Wang Zheng suddenly said out of the blue.
"Are you awake?" Gao Feng was a little excited.
Wang Zheng had fallen into a coma since returning to the Municipal Bureau, so even though he had a lot of questions, he didn't dare to wake Wang Zheng up. Now that he was awake, he could naturally ask.
"If you want to ask anything, give me two minutes. I need a glass of water." Wang Zheng smiled bitterly, walked to the water dispenser, drank a sip of water, and said, "Ask."
"How did you know that Fan Qian was the suspect, and how did you know he had a car?" Gao Feng said, pulling out his notebook from his pocket.
"You look more like a reporter." Wang Zheng said sarcastically, then smiled and said, "At first, I was confused by the production date of the cans. I thought he was a typical targeted criminal, but after arresting Li Shaokun, I found a suspicious point. The color, smell, and even the degree of sealing of the cans were all different."
"Since I discovered the suspicious points, I have learned some new things. For example, among the missing persons whose DNA databases can be searched, many of them are middle-aged and some of them have been doing fitness exercises for a long time. The only way to bind middle-aged people is to use food."
"So you have locked on the clue, he is a chef?" Gao Feng said in surprise, and Bai Ling on the side also showed a surprised expression.
"Yes." Wang Zheng paused and continued, "Later, with the information sent by the Municipal Bureau, I found that in addition to City B, there were also missing persons in other cities, C and D, and there were clues to compare, so it is very likely that he was a vagrant and randomly selected targets, but he must have planned a retreat, so I inferred that he had a private mobile food truck and even rented a store."
"Oh my god, you got it all right!" Bai Ling exclaimed. Wang Zheng's words were basically consistent with the confession in the file in front of her.
"I have another question." Gao Feng scratched his head and asked in confusion: "How do you know how to use Morse code and countermeasures?"
Wang Zheng’s expression froze.
