Haizhou City in the millennium coincides with spring and red willows. As the holidays approached, Xia Mu returned to the host house and opened the cartoon boredly, but her ears were habitually paying attention to the movement behind her. The teacher Xia Jinlan talked about love, and she has already reached the stage of marriage talks, but she took Xia Mu's thoughts into consideration and has not made a decision for a long time.
At this moment, Xia Mu was absent-minded in the living room, with his eyes like a scanner, looking at Xia Jinlan from near and far, her eyes falling on the diamond ring box she was holding tightly. From birth to now, Xia Mu has lived in this old building for seven years. He is familiar with everything here and the teacher needs love. He should have a family of his own. His existence is like a layer of air, always lingering. Between the two.
After the conversation was terminated, Xia Mu immediately withdrew his sight and thoughts, and under Xia Jinlan's nagging, changed the TV channel in a rage, and a case of trailing into the room came into view, but did not attract their attention. When the phone rang, Xia Jinlan was obviously emotional when she answered it. In a few words, it was not difficult to reveal that the other party was a man or a man standing next to the public phone downstairs. She was dressed in dark work clothes and a mask. She couldn't see her looks clearly.
While Xia Jinlan was out to buy fish, Xia Mu hurried to the balcony to observe and made sure that she had entered the vegetable market, then returned to the room to take the diamond ring, and ran alone to the abandoned attic in a daze. Xia Jinlan had long been accustomed to Xia Mu's solitary temperament, and didn't care too much. Just as she took out the key to open the door, she unexpectedly walked into the corridor with the man in dark work clothes wearing a mask, except that the white gloves were exceptionally clean.
The man turned around unexpectedly, and quickly inserted the needle into Xia Jinlan's neck. The plastic bag fell to the ground, and a cyan carp jumped out of the woven bag, breathing in air. On the other hand, Xia Jinlan lost her life characteristics and showed a weird smile. The corpse was being dragged by the man to the center of the living room. The rectangular clock was placed aside, and there was a rapid and regular ticking sound at forty noon.
A few hours ago, Leng Xiaobing came to the police station with enthusiasm. Now, as a newcomer to the crime team, he has been working in logistics for a whole year. Master Chen Daming promised to let Leng Xiaobing face a big case. In order to celebrate this exciting day, Leng Xiaobing, on a whim, asked the forensic doctor Lao Gu to take a photo of himself. As a result, everyone laughed.
Chen Daming kept his promise and presented an old case that had been in the dust for ten years. It was also the largest serial homicide case in Haizhou in recent years. All the victims were young single women with a cheerful expression of death. No suspicious fingerprints or hair were found at the scene. clue. According to Chen Daming's account, the time between the first two cases was as long as three to four years, but the third and fourth cases were only one day apart. Because there is no rule to follow in time, the only similarity is that the murderer first controlled the victim with anesthetics and muscle relaxants, and then killed him in a cruel way of cutting the wrist.
On the same day, there was a corpse fragmentation case in the western suburbs. Originally, Leng Xiaobing wanted to go to police with his senior brother Gao Peng, but he was rejected and was ridiculed by the other party instead. In order to comfort Leng Xiaobing, Li Lan gave him his idol, Di Renjie Katu, as a talisman. A mysterious call came, claiming that there was a life case in the Hongguang Road Printing Factory community. In addition, the police did not disclose any information or the specific building numbers, so Leng Xiaobing and Li Lan had to look for them separately.
At this moment, the murderer was taking pictures of Xia Jinlan's body, and even though he heard the sound of police cars, he still tidied up the scene unhurriedly. Leng Xiaobing tracked down Xia Jinlan's house all the way. Due to being too nervous, he did not shoot at the murderer, but was stabbed by the opponent with a knife, and the flowerpot was stunned. Xia Mu hid in the attic and witnessed the whole process through the crack of the door, including the murderer who met Li Lan while escaping. The two scuffled together, and soon ended with Li Lan's tragic death.
After receiving the alarm, Chen Daming and Gao Peng rushed to speculate that the call for the report was deliberately made by the murderer, and found the same fingerprint on the public phone and the posted notice, plus the description of the phone booth owner, and the murderer can basically be identified. He is about 1.8 meters tall and has obvious scald scars on his right hand.
Leng Xiaobing, who was recuperating in the hospital, fell into pain and self-blame. He drew a golden rectangular old-fashioned alarm clock from his memory and analyzed that the murderer would place the alarm clock in front of the deceased every time he kills. The purpose is to let the deceased watch his own life go by. Criminal psychology. On the other side, Xia Mu stared at Leng Xiaobing silently, with hatred in his eyes, which made Leng Xiaobing particularly uncomfortable.
When the Interpol team visited nearby residents and described the characteristics of the murderer to everyone, she happened to be heard by the female student Shen Yu who had come to take the photo. She was stunned and asked for a notice about the murderer. After forensic identification and comparison, there were no clues except for the blood samples of Li Lan and Xia Jinlan. The murderer was as clean as ever, leaving no traces.
That night, Feng Xiaobing came to the hospital to visit Xia Mu, but he still couldn't make up for the damage to him. Young Xia Mu, even knowing that the police should shoot the murderer out of defense, asked Feng Xiaobing why he let the bad guys go. Later, when faced with a higher-level investigation, Feng Xiaobing explained that he was too late to react and deliberately concealed important details.
A sudden homicide not only involved a decade-long serial murderer, but even led to the sacrifice of Li Lan. Xia's father came forward to pick up Xia Mu, and Chen Daming also took the blame and resigned as the captain of the serious crime team. Before leaving, he told Feng Xiaobing that no matter how much trouble he encountered, he should pursue it and never give up.
With the trust of his master, Feng Xiaobing is truly aware of his responsibilities. The notice posted on the bulletin board of the community, day after day, weathered by wind and rain, turns yellow over time. Seventeen years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is the early autumn of 2017. Leng Xiaobing has become the captain of the serious crime team, and Xia Mu, who has grown up, has also come to the police station.