A faint mist floated in front of my eyes, intermittent blood stains spread downward from the top step, and a white high-heeled shoe flipped over and landed on the third step.
Yu Zhesen and An He stopped by the steps and looked down from a high position. They could vaguely see a figure lying on the ground more than ten meters away.
"It's a woman, wearing a brown dress. Her abdomen seems to have been severely injured, and there is no sign of life." Under the activation of God's blood, Yu Zhesen's eyes emitted blazing golden light like two small suns.
An He used his secretly installed military-grade detection module to quickly scan the surroundings: "No attackers were found. It seems that they retreated under the cover of the fog before we came."
Yu Zhesen closed his eyes briefly and tried to launch a reverse causal prediction in his mind.
Based on the bloodstains and traces left at the scene and the position where the woman fell to the ground, the reverse causality prediction can reversely deduce her state and body movement trajectory when she was attacked.
An He established a spiritual connection with him and shared the results of the inference.
"She was attacked where we were standing, and then she fell down the steps while struggling to escape, and crawled to her current location." Yu Zhesen opened his eyes after the deduction.
An He evaluated his reverse deduction and thought that there was nothing wrong with the conclusion. He added based on his own investigation knowledge: "I agree, that's more or less the case. This woman is relatively tall, nearly 1.8 meters tall including high heels.
I estimate that the attacker is at least 1.8 meters tall."
Yu Zhesen carefully avoided the blood stains on the steps and walked below to observe the victim up close.
When they got closer, they discovered that the woman's abdomen had been almost hollowed out, leaving a terrifying hole fifteen centimeters in diameter and a large number of internal organs missing.
"So cruel..." An He shook his head slightly.
"Can you tell how the attacker carried out the attack?"
An He had some guesses in her mind, but she felt it was not rigorous, so she replied that this could be left to the forensic scientists of the Security Bureau to judge.
"Report the crime first." Yu Zhesen took out his mobile phone, "The murderer has escaped. I am on vacation now, and it is not convenient to launch an investigation directly in Xingzhou City."
As soon as he called the Xingzhou City Security Bureau to report the crime, he saw Li Xiao and others turning back from the front. They were also attracted back by the scream before.
Li Xiao, Luo Chengyan and three other executive specialists from the Security Bureau's rapid response department came to the scene. Everyone's expressions were extremely solemn - such a cruel attack was carried out in broad daylight near the memorial ceremony held by the Security Bureau for the martyrs.
, the murderer can simply be described as crazy.
"Are the criminals provoking the Security Bureau?" A short-haired male commissioner in his early thirties and wearing glasses muttered to himself while holding his chin.
"This happened right after we left. It's hard not to think about it." Li Xiao frowned, her serious look was very different from usual, and she had a majestic temperament.
Luo Chengyan approached the head of the woman's corpse and squatted down. He touched the top of the woman's head with one finger and slowly moved her head to expose the back of her neck that was originally pressed underneath.
So everyone present saw three slanting blood marks on the back of the woman's neck, which were obviously caused by scratches with sharp objects.
Li Xiao, who had already walked around the scene and looked around, returned to the body and speculated based on what Luo Chengyan found: "The victim was attacked above the steps. The murderer first tried to grab her from behind, leaving a wound on the back of her neck.
Scratches. After being frightened, the woman screamed and struggled violently. During the process of resistance, her abdomen was severely injured by the murderer. She rolled and fell down the steps and crawled for more than ten meters with her survival instinct, and finally died here."
Yu Zhesen and An He looked at each other. Li Xiao's reasoning was similar to the picture they deduced through the prediction of the law of cause and effect. Due to the addition of Luo Chengyan's discovery, Li Xiao's reasoning was even more detailed.
Five minutes later, a flying assault vehicle patrolling nearby parachuted into the scene of the crime carrying a duty team from the Xingzhou City Security Bureau. The seven commissioners who got out of the vehicle were all fully armed.
The leader of the team wears Silver Flash exoskeleton armor, and the other six team members use Riptide exoskeleton armor. One senior commissioner leads six lower-ranking commissioners. This is the standard configuration of an ordinary duty team in Starzhou City.
The A-level specialist wearing the silver flash exoskeleton armor was obviously a little surprised after arriving at the scene, not because the victim's death was too tragic, but because he recognized that Li Xiao and others present were elite members of the rapid response department.
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"Security Patrol Group 16." He saluted Li Xiao and then announced his home address with a more modest attitude: "Can I ask you about the situation at the scene?"
Li Xiao signaled to the patrol captain, Yu Zhesen, who was standing on the other side: "He is the one who reported the crime. He arrived at the scene before us."
The patrol captain turned around and looked at Yu Zhesen. He probably did not pay attention to the live news broadcast on the day when the crisis was lifted in Qidao City, and did not recognize Yu Zhesen as the person who had recently won the title of Defender Medal and Iron Dome Hero.
"Sorry, I need to register your identity first." The captain of the patrol team took off the external law enforcement scanner from his chest and motioned to Yu Zhesen to extend the hand wearing the citizen bracelet.
Yu Zhesen calmly stretched out his bracelet and asked the other party to scan his citizen information. Then he saw the patrol team leader trembling.
Luo Chengyan, who was not far away, let out a gentle "hum" and deliberately turned away his face and looked elsewhere.
"I'm sorry." The captain of the patrol team saluted Yu Zhesen, "Can you please explain the situation?"
"I came about two minutes earlier than them. I came after hearing the screams from the cemetery. The scene was not moved and I never witnessed the attacker." Yu Zhesen explained the information he knew.
Li Xiao then added: "We also came after hearing the screams. We didn't meet anyone when we came from the south road. By the way, there is a situation that needs to be explained. Before the incident, we and Yu Zhesen were both there.
Over there at the cemetery. We left and passed by here about fifteen minutes ago, and we didn’t find the victim or anyone else at that time.”
"There is no other road here. It leads to the cemetery to the north and the road you are taking to the south." The team leader took the tablet from the team member's hand and looked at the electronic map and said.
"So this female victim should also have left the cemetery, but behind us." Li Xiao nodded.
"Could it be that the murderer also followed this woman from the cemetery?" Yu Zhesen made a reasonable guess.
As soon as Li Xiao and others left, the female victim and the murderer also happened to leave the cemetery and came to the steps along the south passage. The murderer launched the attack here, and then did not take the normal path but took another approach.
way to escape.
The team leader had no comment on this. After he had a general understanding of the situation and took photos of the scene for evidence, he called on the team members to carry the victim's body into the car and take it back to the forensic doctor for autopsy.
Yu Zhesen raised his head and watched the flying assault vehicle take off and leave. He heard Li Xiao say to him from the side: "This is the third murder case in the fog that has occurred in the past half month."
"The third incident?" Yu Zhesen turned around in surprise, "When did the first two incidents happen? Where were they?"
Li Xiao replied: "The previous one happened just yesterday evening, and the deceased was found on Laonanmen Street, District D, Xinghuan. The earlier one happened twelve days ago near the ruins of the former United Industrial Zone in the old city."
Laonanmen Street, District D of Xinghuan... Yu Zhesen subconsciously looked towards An He.
An He nodded. That place was not far from their home, about 1.8 kilometers in a straight line.
Yu Zhesen fell into deep thought - the fog when he met the "Benevolence" arbitrator last night was probably a cover for the murderer.
Li Xiao said that all three cases occurred when there was fog. This cannot be explained by coincidence. There must be some connection between the fog and the murder. The question is whether the murderer had the means to create the fog, or whether he used it just right.