Accompanied by the roar of the engine, the air in the Audi car almost stagnated.【】

Ye Fan looked at Lu Yuan and understood something from the latter's pale face.

"Did that guy do it again?"

"Eighty percent yes. Anyway, go to the crime scene first."

Lu Yuan's facial muscles bulged horribly outward, and his previous relaxed attitude was completely gone. He slapped the steering wheel a few times, then stepped on the accelerator and started the car.

The fourth murder in two months made the task force's previous promise to solve the case within a deadline look like a joke.

Ye Fan took the file silently and looked down at it.

He looked at it very carefully, and kept rubbing the file with his leather-gloved right hand. Whenever he flipped through the photos related to the murder scene, he would stop, frowning and thinking for a while.

Words are combined into pictures, and the pictures gradually turn into images. Scenes of bloody scenes are constantly floating in my mind...

After a while, Ye Fan closed the file in his hand and pinched the tip of his sore nose with his hand.

"The murderer should be a male, no older than 30 years old, over 1.70 in height, in good financial condition, contemptuous of the law and the public security system, and with a perverted hatred of women..."

"That's all?" Lu Yuan's tone was full of disappointment.

The criminal psychological profile conducted by Ye Fan was also taken into consideration by the task force before. Based on these alone, it was impossible to identify the murderer in the huge crowd.

"Um."

Ye Fan handed the file back to Lu Yuan and turned to look out the window.

At this stage, he had no intention of revealing more details. What's more, the case itself is really weird.

Most serial murderers will show a cyclical pattern in the process of committing crimes, and the time between them is called the crime cooling period. When the excitement of the last crime gradually subsides, those bastards will start looking for the next person to kill.

object.

Before today, the murderer of the May 25 rainy night serial murders had been following this pattern of committing crimes.

However, the occurrence of the fourth murder completely broke the previous pattern.

Third, there was only a short period of five days between the two murders, which was far shorter than the fifteen-day crime cooling-off period speculated by Ye Fan. The murderer happened to commit the crime at this time, and it seemed that he had an ulterior motive.

In addition, there are too many details that are contrary to common sense, and the murderer's motive for the murder is still unknown.

If it weren't for the exchange conditions given by Kong Fangping, Ye Fan would never have gone back to China to intervene in such a troublesome case.

The H City Criminal Investigation Detachment has many experts in reasoning and criminal psychology. Even the old guy Kong Fangping is helpless. That damn murderer is definitely not easy to deal with.

…

An hour later, the black Audi parked near the Third Alley in Binhe District.

The area around the alley has been cordoned off by the police, and the outside of the yellow cordon is crowded with people doing good things, pointing inside the cordon from time to time.

Lu Yuan parked the car, spent a lot of effort to squeeze through the crowd, and got into the cordon with Ye Fan behind him.

The trace identification team and the physical and chemical analysis team have already started work. A bridge has been built outside the crime scene in advance and extends inward along the alley.

There was a sour smell permeating the alley, and there was still deep water in some areas. Ye Fan speculated that the heavy rainfall last night had already washed away all the valuable clues at the scene.

"Don't look around and come with me quickly." Lu Yuan's tone increased, his face as dark as water. After entering the scene, he seemed to be a different person.

Ahead, the Banqiao passage reaches its end.

There is a large ball of white cloth lying flat on the ground, tightly wrapped, and a figure can be vaguely seen underneath.

Ye Fan knew clearly that there was a cold corpse under the white cloth. A total of four similarly cold corpses appeared.

Unconsciously, I clenched my fists, and a certain painful memory slowly emerged from the depths of my heart.

"Lao Zhang, move quickly, Brother Wang, find the witnesses, Team Li, remember to inform the forensic doctor that he must make a conclusion tonight. Lu Yuan, how did you get here?"

A sharp female voice came from the alley ahead, causing Ye Fan to withdraw from his thoughts.

Among the crowd, there is a short-haired policewoman with straight facial features, fair skin, and the streamlined lines of her legs and arms are clearly visible. The policewoman is not old, but she is very heroic, and her strong aura makes the other police officers around her stand out.

They were all speechless.

Lu Yuan walked quickly to the policewoman and whispered a few words. The latter quickly turned around and looked at Ye Fan up and down.

"Are you the criminal psychology expert mentioned by Lao Kong, Ye Fan?"

Ye Fan nodded, but did not speak. His eyes always lingered near the female corpse.

"Hello, I'm Murong Xue." Murong Xue took the initiative to step forward, stretched out her hand, and said gracefully: "The incident happened suddenly, and the welcome banquet can only be dealt with later."

Ye Fan frowned slightly and whispered: "I need to understand some basic information."

"At 8:25 a.m., the Hebin North District Police Station received an alarm call. The reporter claimed that a black travel bag was found near the Third Alley, with a female body wrapped in the bag. The previous three serial murders had already been

It caused an uproar in H City. The police from the police station immediately contacted the criminal investigation detachment and sealed off the crime scene as soon as possible."

"The person who reported the case is a scavenger and has no stable job. He has been taken to the city bureau for questioning."

The occurrence of the fourth murder almost declared that all the previous efforts of the police were in vain. If there is still no substantial progress in the case, the task force will most likely be disbanded on the spot and the superior leadership will be held accountable.

Lu Yuan looked solemn, walked to Murong Xue, and whispered: "Captain, has the identity of the deceased been found out?"

"People have been arranged to investigate, and the results will be available within today."

"Time of death?"

"We have to wait for the follow-up forensic conclusion." Murong Xue paused and pursed his lips unconsciously: "Preliminary estimate is that it was between ten o'clock last night and two o'clock in the morning."

"Damn it, the rainstorm hasn't stopped at that time." Lu Yuan cursed secretly. He chose to commit crimes on rainy nights every time. The murderer was as cunning as ever.

"Thinking about it, the murderer is so familiar with the weather in H City, which means he is most likely a local or has lived here for a long time. Using this as an entry point can narrow the scope of our investigation."

Having said that, Murong Xue also knew in her heart that of the three million people in H City, the floating population only accounted for less than one-third.

Even if this third is removed, the investigation work will still be very difficult. The difference may just be to find a needle in a river instead of a needle in a haystack.

"The body was always in the duffel bag?"

Ye Fan spoke abruptly, which made Lu Yuan and Murong Xue a little surprised.

"At least it was inside when the scavengers found the body."

"Open it and let me take a look." Ye Fan pointed to the white cloth on the ground and looked at Murong Xue with inquiring eyes.

The latter didn't hesitate for too long and quickly agreed.

In my impression, Lao Kong rarely took the initiative to praise others, and Murong Xue also wanted to take this opportunity to see what this criminal psychology expert from afar was really capable of.

The next second, the white cloth was lifted.

The hot and humid environment caused the corpse to exude a rotten smell. The torn sores near the left face attracted many mosquitoes and flies to bite them. The three big words on the chest continued to sting the nerves of the surrounding police officers.

Ye Fan slowly took off the leather glove on his right hand, revealing his well-jointed palm. He looked at the female corpse from top to bottom, his brain running rapidly.

It rained heavily at the time of the crime, but the woman's body's hair was not completely soaked. So, the Third Alley was just the place where the body was dumped, and the woman was not killed here.

The travel bag was well sealed, and only a small amount of rainwater seeped in after the murderer dumped the body. The deceased's wrists and ankles had marks of being tied up with ropes, and the upper body was covered with scattered purple contusions, which were caused by the beating before death.

To.

The fatal injury was a strangulation mark on the neck. After the torture, the murderer brutally killed the woman and carved humiliating words on her chest.

After integrating this information, Ye Fan lowered his right hand beside the female body.
Chapter completed!