Chen Bai saw that Song Anchun kept looking at the bag in his hand and frowning from time to time, so he walked over and asked.
"What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
"Chen Bai, Shen Qiang's left hand is missing."
After Song Anchun finished speaking, Chen Bai also put on his gloves and rummaged around, but he didn't find Shen Qiang's left hand in the bag.
"Shen Qiang is disabled and has no left hand."
Wang Qingshan's sudden words startled Chen Bai. Wang Qingshan stood up and explained.
"It's like this. I actually knew that Shen Qiang's left hand was disabled when he came here. He explained to me that he had worked on a construction site many years ago and then accidentally broke his left hand in an accident. At that time, he He didn't have much money, so he had to have his leg amputated. Later, in order to prevent others from seeing it, he wore a prosthetic left hand. I didn't say anything at the time. Anyway, as long as this person didn't delay his work, he basically had no problem. What a big problem."
Chen Bai nodded, and soon all the kitchen staff were called, but after checking around, Chen Bai didn't see chef Yang Bin.
"Where is Yang Bin? Where did he go?"
The staff in the kitchen all looked at each other, and Chen Bai looked at them and asked anxiously.
"Don't any of you know where Yang Bin has gone?"
"Officer, Chef Yang said he went out for a walk last night and never came back."
"Yes, I saw it too. Chef Yang seems to have taken a bag, but we don't know what's in the bag."
After Chen Bai heard this, he looked at Xu Hai who was standing aside. He had said before that everyone in the resort was suspect, but now he didn't even know when someone went out.
"What are you still doing? Hurry up and find someone!"
After Chen Bai finished speaking, Xu Hai's men reacted and quickly went out to look for Yang Bin.
"Have you noticed anything strange here this week?"
Although Yang Bin was not here, there were still so many people here, so Chen Bai decided to ask them first.
"Strange things? No, right? It happens to be a holiday these days, and we still have a lot of guests here. We are busy almost every day, and we haven't seen anything strange."
"but....."
At this time, a person standing behind the crowd suddenly spoke, but this person got stuck after saying one sentence.
"But what? Young man, you can tell me anything you know. Don't worry, you can tell us as long as you feel something strange. As for whether it has anything to do with this case, we will decide for ourselves."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, the young man spoke.
"Actually, it's not a big deal. Previously, our chef Yang had a famous dish called sweet and sour pork. Many people agreed after eating it. But recently, I don't know what happened, but the chef's sweet and sour pork was always left over by the guests. , and even some customers were sent back after just a few bites. We also ate after the guests had withdrawn their dishes. It was indeed delicious as it was before, but we didn’t know why. I remember seeing it once The chef was studying this dish in the kitchen and was so angry that he broke several glass bottles on the dressing table."
In fact, this is just a trivial matter, and many people won't even care after hearing it. But Chen Bai doesn't think so. A chef will never make consecutive mistakes in a short period of time, since he can be said to be famous. If you have a dish, you must have your own unique skills, but how come you are being dismissed one after another?
"How long has this been going on?"
"It's probably been three or four days!"
Chen Bai nodded, but everyone searched the resort but could not find Yang Bin.
"Where did Yang Bin go?"
Chen Bai was a little confused, because it could be seen from the surveillance that Yang Bin was actually there on the night of Zhang Zhiyong's accident.
"Look at the surveillance camera at the door and see if Yang Bin ran out!"
Chen Bai was a little helpless. Xu Hai had obviously arranged someone at the resort, but in the end he still didn't know where Yang Bin went.
"Consultant Chen, judging from the surveillance, Yang Bin has not left here, but Yang Bin's dormitory is a blind spot for surveillance, so we can't see where Yang Bin went."
Chen Bai has a headache. Now they don't even know whether Yang Bin was killed or fled in fear of crime.
"Let's go! Let's go to Yang Bin's dormitory first!"
Everyone came to Yang Bin's dormitory. Because Yang Bin was not a local, Wang Qingshan gave Yang Bin a single room as a dormitory.
"This Yang Bin really ran away?"
As soon as everyone entered the door, they saw that the dormitory was in a mess. The wardrobe was opened and clothes were scattered on the ground.
"No, rather than saying that Yang Bin ran away, it is better to say that Yang Bin was taken away."
"What does it mean?"
Xu Hai was a little confused. Yang Bin's house was in such a mess. He didn't run away.
"Yang Bin definitely didn't run away. If he did, why didn't he take his cell phone with him?"
Chen Bai took out his mobile phone from under Yang Bin's pillow. The battery of the mobile phone was already hot. It seemed that Yang Bin should have been using his mobile phone before leaving.
"Xu Hai, Yang Bin is probably not far away yet. The phone is still hot. Hurry up and ask your people to find him."
"good!"
Putting aside the arrangements for Xu Hai, Chen Bai put his cell phone in the evidence bag and continued to inspect the scene.
"From the scene, it seems that the place was deliberately messed up by the murderer. Yang Bin should have been lying on the bed before the murderer came in. The murderer kidnapped Yang Bin and then deliberately messed up the scene, creating the illusion that Yang Bin was absconding in fear of crime."
Chen Bai walked forward, but suddenly he felt something under his feet.
"Isn't this...the doll that Zhang Zhiyong threw away?"
Song Anchun was a little surprised, while Chen Bai looked at the doll in his hand and fell into deep thought. The doll appeared in both scenes, so now it seems that at least there is a relationship between the two people.
"Xu Hai, go to Shen Qiang's house again and see if there is anything like this in Shen Qiang's house."
Although it was just a feeling, Chen Bai had a feeling that Shen Qiang must have this doll in his home.
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
The case seems to have reached a deadlock at this point, but the biggest problem is not this, but that something is wrong with Xu Hai ever since he saw Shen Qiang's body.
"Xu Hai, I checked the mobile phones of Shen Qiang and Yang Bin and found that Shen Qiang, Yang Bin and Zhang Zhiyong had a group. Wang Qingshan was indeed tricked by them. These three people used the gambling game to plot against Wang Qingshan."
Xu Hai didn't reply, so Chen Bai continued.
"They seem to have known each other a long time ago. I think they first formed a group in 18 years."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, he saw that Xu Hai still looked indifferent.
"Xu Hai, did you hear me?"
"Ah? What did you say?"
When Chen Bai saw Xu Hai's appearance, it was clear that this guy didn't hear what he said.
"Xu Hai, something has been wrong with you since you saw Shen Qiang's body. What's wrong with you?"
Xu Hai wiped his face and hesitated before speaking.
"It's nothing, I just can't figure out what's going on with this case."
Although Xu Hai said so, his statement obviously could not deceive Chen Bai.
"Xu Hai, have you forgotten what I do? What are you hiding from me?"
Xu Hai looked at Chen Bai and knew that he would definitely not be able to escape this time.
"It's not a big deal, but to talk about it, we have to start with a case that my master followed up on twenty years ago."
Xu Hai took out a cigarette and lit it, smiled bitterly and said.
"Twenty years ago, when I was a trainee police officer, my master and I encountered a case. It was early morning after a rainy night. Someone reported that a female body was found in the suburbs of Qingpu District."
After Xu Hai finished speaking, he pointed on the map. Chen Bai saw that the location Xu Hai pointed at seemed to be the location of the resort.
"We rushed to the scene immediately after receiving the report. To be honest, I vomited when I saw the body for the first time. It was the body of a girl. The girl looked to be in her twenties, and the clothes on her body were They were all torn apart, with no good spot on their faces. We were all very angry at that time, but anger was useless. We still had to work hard to find clues. According to my master's inference, the deceased was tied here. The cause of death of the girl was that she was strangled with a wire and suffocated. The reason why my master concluded this was because he found ruts on the ground, but because it was a rainy night, we didn't find many useful clues."
Chen Bai didn't speak, just listened to Xu Hai quietly.
"After the body was brought back, the forensic doctor conducted a detailed autopsy and finally concluded that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxia. There were signs of binding on the wrists and ankles. The deceased had been violated more than once. Forensic doctors detected the DNA of three people from the bodies of the deceased. But as you know, that was twenty years ago. It was not easy for Qingpu District to have forensic doctors who could detect DNA. Moreover, at that time, even if you wanted to compare it, you could only Compare it to people with criminal records."
Xu Hai said, pressing the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray.
"We investigated the missing persons and found out that the girl's name was Xu Jiaying and she was a student at the Qingpu District University of Science and Technology. However, we only found out that Xu Jiaying was working as a tutor at night so she had to go out at night. But where did she go to our side? We don’t know yet. In the early 2000s, there were only a few people with mobile phones, let alone college students. There were not so many surveillance cameras on the road at that time, so we didn’t know where to go to check. The only clue was that my master’s base on the ground The rut marks revealed the make of the car, but it was useless, after all, it was just a Jinbei car that can be found anywhere."
When Xu Hai said this, his expression looked very painful.
"We have been investigating this case for three months without any results. Just when we were at our wits' end, another similar case appeared."
"The murderer committed another crime? How did you determine that it was the murderer again?"
This time Xu Hai did not answer Chen Bai's question directly. Instead, he stood up and came to his desk and took out a case file from the drawer.
"Chen Bai, look at this!"
Chen Bai took the case file and flipped through a few pages and found that after the case Xu Hai mentioned, three more similar cases came out.
"Every time the murderer commits a crime, he looks for young girls in their twenties. My master and I really try our best, but apart from being strangled by a wire every time and having the DNA of three people in the body, we have no clues. No. And there’s a little more..."
Xu Hai suddenly stopped when he said this. Chen Bai looked up at Xu Hai and asked with some doubts.
"what else?"
"These three people killed four people in total. The last one was Shen Man, the daughter of our real estate tycoon in Qingpu District. After Shen Man died, these three people disappeared. In fact, in these four cases, the murder methods and the DNA left in the deceased's body were very different. They are all the same. But the actions of these three people cannot be estimated at all. Only the last case has some clues."
Chen Bai took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked with some confusion.
"What clue?"
"In fact, the three previous cases have one thing in common, that is, all the belongings carried by the victims were looted. But for the last victim, Shen Man, we found that Shen Man's bank card was separated before Shen Man died. More than 100,000 were taken away. Of course, they were taken away in two days."
As soon as Chen Bo was about to say something, Xu Hai continued.
"Yes, I know you can use surveillance to check people, but they are not fools. They covered their faces when withdrawing money. And since Shen Man was killed, this case has disappeared. These three people have never been seen again. Twenty years after the crime was committed, I dreamed of catching these three people. Today I saw the wire marks on Shen Qiang's neck, and I suddenly remembered the previous case."
"Xu Hai, I have an immature suggestion, do you want to hear it?"
Xu Hai looked at Chen Bai, smiled and said.
"I know what you are talking about. Why don't you just look at the DNA of these three people? I have already seen it. The DNA of Shen Qiang and Zhang Zhiyong is consistent with that of that year."
"In other words, Shen Qiang and Zhang Zhiyong were the murderers of the wire murder case that year, and I have a hunch that Yang Bin was probably the murderer that year."
Chen Bai nodded and put the cigarette butt in the ashtray.
"In that case, let me tell you something."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, he turned the computer in front of him to Xu Hai.
"Xu Hai, I took a look at the mobile phones of Shen Qiang and Zhang Zhiyong, and I saw such a conversation in the group chat between the three of them."
Yang Bin: Shen Qiang and Zhang Zhiyong, I said we can never appear in the same place.
Shen Qiang: Why are you nervous? What happened twenty years ago is long gone. As long as you don’t say it, I won’t say it, and none of us say anything, nothing will happen.
Zhang Zhiyong: Okay, don’t talk about this if you have nothing to do.
After Xu Hai saw the chat records restored by Chen Bai, he became more certain that these three people were the murderers of the wire murder case twenty years ago.
"But if that's the case, then who killed them?"
Xu Hai was a little confused. Zhang Zhiyong and Shen Qiang were killed and Yang Bin disappeared. This was definitely not a coincidence. If Yang Bin also died, who would be the person who killed them? The three people who died twenty years later happened to be twenty years later. The real culprit in the former serial murder case cannot be said to be a coincidence.
"You study here first, and I'll go to the forensic laboratory."
After Shen Qiang's body came back from the resort, Song Anchun and Zhao Pengcheng had been conducting autopsies.
"How's it going? Is there any result?"
When Chen Bai walked in, he happened to see the two of them trying to piece together all the body parts in the bag.
"Chen Bai, if you are fine, why not go find Yang Bin. Now Yang Bin may be the only living person among the three. If you find Yang Bin, you will most likely find the murderer of these two cases."
Chen Bai put the coffee in his hand on the table. He was a master of criminal psychology, so he naturally knew why Zhao Pengcheng did this to him.
"Yang Bin, your captain has taken people out to search. It won't take long to find him. But to be honest, it's just a waste of time. Zhang Zhiyong and Shen Qiang are both dead, and Yang Bin probably won't survive either."
Zhao Pengcheng did not refute what Chen Bai said, he just lowered his head and went about the work in hand and stopped talking.
"Are those people suspicious?"
"No, those people don't know anything."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, he came to the autopsy table. By this time, they had almost pieced together the body.
"The cuts on the body were neatly cut. Judging from the way the knife was cut and the way he exerted force, the man who cut the body was not very strong, because he cut several times repeatedly in many places. The strangulation marks on the neck were very deep, indicating that the murderer had a deep affection for the deceased. Deep hatred. And this time, I found something different."
Song Anchun said as he picked up Shen Qiang's right arm. Chen Bai saw a pinhole on Shen Qiang's right arm, which was almost invisible if you didn't look carefully.
"Is it possible that Shen Qiang was knocked down after being injected with drugs?"
"Because Shen Qiang has been dismembered, it is basically impossible to extract the stomach contents. But what I can confirm is that the murderer is likely to have medical knowledge. In addition, judging from the state of Shen Qiang's dismemberment , the murderer seems to have some knowledge of anatomy.”
Chen Bai nodded. Even so, he still couldn't pinpoint the murderer.
"Hello? Okay, I understand."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, he hung up the phone and left the forensic laboratory.
"You said you found something new at Shen Qiang's house?"
"Yes, didn't you tell me before that both Yang Bin and Zhang Zhiyong received the doll? When my people searched Shen Qiang's home, they accidentally found the doll from Shen Qiang's closet."
Chen Bai and Xu Hai rushed to Shen Qiang's house immediately. Chen Bai compared the dolls seen in Shen Qiang's house and found that they were exactly the same as the dolls Yang Bin and Zhang Zhiyong received.
"Chen Bai, what does this doll represent?"
Xu Hai was a little confused. Although he knew that this was the murderer's sense of ritual, he didn't know what this doll represented.
"I....."
"Bang bang bang!"
Just as Chen Bai was about to say something, he heard someone knocking on the door, but before he could open it, the door was opened.
"Who are you?"
Chen Bai saw a woman coming in. She was wearing a floral skirt and bright red high heels. The woman looked at Chen Bai and the others with doubts and confusion in her eyes.