Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 395 The murderer is still at the scene!

The woman placed her severed head between her knees. The bloody severed neck was so terrifying that it made one's scalp tingle, as if countless ants were drilling into Sun Zhihao's head.

This kind of bloody scene was not new to him, but this was the first time he encountered such a "fresh" scene. He immediately felt his stomach churning and wanted to vomit.

"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and make a phone call. Guard the scene well and don't let outsiders in."

Qiao Xue's voice was hurried and panicked, and she turned around and ran out of the bathroom.

Sun Zhihao swallowed his saliva and still made a "vomit" sound while shouting.

"where are you going?"

"The murderer didn't go far!"

Qiao Xue ran out of the bathroom and saw no less than a hundred people standing at the door, pointing and talking. The woman who had shouted "kill" in the hall was among them.

She was so frightened that she could not even stand. With the help of her companions, she was able to stand tremblingly, but her feet were still shaking.

Qiao Xue looked at the crowd carefully. With this method of killing, the murderer would chop off the victim's head, and there was a 99% chance that his body would be stained with blood.

Qiao Xue kept pushing through the crowd and quickly identified the murderer with a suspicious look.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the murderer has already fled the scene and would not stay here like a fool.

But Qiao Xue had to eliminate these people first. After finding no suspicious persons, she ran to the woman who called the police.

"You discovered the murder just now?"

The woman's face was pale, and she covered her stomach with one hand. Her lips trembled, and she wanted to answer, but in the end she nodded.

"Have you seen the murderer?"

"I... I don't know, don't ask me, I'm scared..."

Qiao Xue carefully observed her expression and continued to ask, "Was there no one else in the bathroom at that time?"

"I don't know. When I pushed the door open, I saw the body in the cubicle. I... I was terrified."

Just as Qiao Xue was about to speak, a voice came over: "Officer, why don't you tell me who died here? Maybe I can help you."

Qiao Xue turned her head and saw that the man was none other than the young master Ma Kang. His eyes were playful and seemed to be mocking her.

Before she could speak, she heard the man say, "You policemen are really unlucky. Wherever you go, you kill people..."

"The person who died was Su He, a model from your company. She was your employee, right?"

After these words came out, Ma Kang's face froze, and his eyes were instantly filled with doubt...

Qiao Xue took out her vibrating cell phone from her jeans pocket. After glancing at the screen, she answered the call, but her eyes remained on Ma Kang's face.

"Hello, Qiao Xue?"

"Director Luo?" She didn't have Luo Rui's number saved. At this moment, she could hear the whistling sound of wind on the other end of the phone.

"Tell me the details."

Qiao Xue took a deep breath, avoided the crowd, and whispered: "The crime scene is on the fifth floor of Jiashang International Hotel, in the staff restroom behind the venue..."

"How long has the person been dead?"

Qiao Xue raised her wrist and looked at her watch: "The time is now 7:35. Seven minutes ago, someone was found murdered in the toilet cubicle. Sun Zhihao and I immediately rushed to the scene and found that we were investigating the person involved in the headless corpse case. Su He's head was chopped off."

"Is the blood hot or cold?"

Qiao Xue couldn't answer, so she hurried into the bathroom and saw Sun Zhihao standing there, also making a phone call.

She walked to the cubicle door and scraped the blood with her finger.

"Warm!"

The other end of the conversation said, "The murderer hasn't gone far. Qiao Xue, check the location of the surveillance equipment immediately and chase him along the blind spot of the surveillance."

"okay, I get it."

Hearing her voice fading away, Luo Rui hurriedly said, "Don't hang up the phone."

"I understand." Qiao Xue put the phone to her ear again, rushed out of the bathroom, looked up, and found that the surveillance camera on the ceiling was diagonally facing the bathroom.

"Director Luo, there is a surveillance camera facing the bathroom. It should have captured the murderer's appearance."

The person on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment: "Tell me right now, was the murder scene in the employee restroom, or the women's restroom? Or is it a shared restroom for both men and women?"

"Women's restroom." Qiao Xue answered without hesitation because she saw the men's restroom next door.

"Search all the trash cans against the wall on the fifth floor, or the ones that are not visible on the surveillance camera. Be quick!"

Qiao Xue frowned: "Why?"

"Don't ask why yet, I don't have time to explain to you!"

"Okay!" She didn't dare to delay. She looked around, observing the surveillance on the ceiling while looking for a trash can that was away from the camera.

At this time, sirens sounded in the distance, and a large group of security guards downstairs also rushed to the scene.

Luo Rui on the other end of the phone urged: "Have you found it?"

Qiao Xue almost broke out in a cold sweat: "Not yet... not yet."

There was no more conversation on the phone, and she could feel that Luo Rui seemed to be holding back his anger.

Qiao Xue jogged along the wall, holding the phone to her ear.

A moment later, she saw a metal trash can leaning against a pillar, away from the ceiling camera.

She hurried forward and took out the black plastic bag from the trash can with one hand.

Qiao Xue had just put the plastic bag on the floor when she saw what was inside and was shocked.

"Director Luo..."

"Say!"

"We found the murder weapon. It was a three-finger-wide sharp knife with a lot of blood on it."

"Besides this, are there any other suspicious items?"

Qiao Xue squatted down and poured everything in the plastic bag onto the red carpet.

"No more, all that's left are empty cigarette boxes and tissues..."

"Qiao Xue, listen carefully."

"You say, Director Luo."

“The murderer had the guts to chop off the victim’s head, so it’s most likely a male who committed the crime, and he did it in a hotel with so many people and eyes, which shows that he is bold and very arrogant.

In addition, he entered the women's restroom to commit the crime. He may have disguised himself. It is not ruled out that he disguised himself as a cleaner, security guard, or a woman.

The murderer is very skilled and smart. I suspect he may not have escaped yet and is still in the hotel."

"Uh……"

"He was at the scene, perhaps waiting for the police to arrive to satisfy his own competitive spirit."

Luo Rui's words made Qiao Xue's scalp tingle: "... Director Luo, why do you think the murderer is still at the scene?"

"If he wanted to flee the crime scene, you wouldn't find his discarded murder weapon in the trash can!"

Hearing this, Qiao Xue stood up and looked towards the center of the venue.

The 1,000-square-meter venue was divided into many sections. There were three catwalks for fashion shows, and marble pillars were erected throughout the venue.

The lights in the venue were dim. There were several hundred people watching the show and staff. Most of them gathered at the edge of the T-stage, and more people gathered near the bathroom behind the T-stage, whispering to each other curiously.

A few brave people wanted to go to the bathroom to take a look, but were stopped by Sun Zhihao who was standing at the door. At this moment, he was communicating with the security personnel, seemingly discussing something.

Luo Rui's voice continued to ring on the phone: "How long will it take for the police to arrive at the scene?"

Qiao Xue swallowed her saliva and said, "It will probably take another seven or eight minutes."

Luo Rui stopped talking. Qiao Xue only felt a pain in her hand holding the phone. Her eyes kept looking at all the people in the venue, but she couldn't detect anyone suspicious.

"Director Luo, I can't find him. Can you tell me how to find the murderer?"

Luo Rui's breathing could be heard from the other end of the line, but there was no response.

"Director Luo, I know this guy will run away once our people arrive. He is still in the venue, so we have to find him!"

"It will be dangerous."

"Director Luo, please tell me, how can I catch him?!"

"Are you really not afraid?"

Although Luo Rui was far away in Guangxing City and couldn't see her movements, Qiao Xue still shook her head vigorously: "I am a policeman, we are all policemen!"

"That's good! You don't have to go find him, he might have noticed you!"

"what?"

"If the murderer hadn't left the crime scene, he would have noticed you when you were rummaging through the trash can!"

Qiao Xue only felt a chill in her heart. The people and objects around her seemed like fleeting shadows, constantly rotating with her as the center.

Qiao Xue just felt dizzy. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to calm down.

"Director Luo, what should I do?"

No words were spoken on the other end of the phone.

Qiao Xue shouted anxiously: "Director Luo!"

On the phone, Luo Rui seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Listen, we have found the murderer, so you must be careful! Don't act alone before the police arrive. Can you promise?"

"can!"

“You are standing on the catwalk now…”

Before Luo Rui could finish his words, Qiao Xue ran to the bottom of the T-stage, supported herself on the surface with one hand, and jumped up.

"The murderer is unlikely to be an insider of the hotel, but he must have disguised himself, perhaps twice. At this moment, the murder has just happened, and everyone present is in a state of great panic and uneasiness. For psychological comfort, they will definitely gather in groups of three or five.

The murderer couldn’t possibly know these people. He would hide in a position not too far away and pay close attention to the scene, especially you, Qiao Xue. He would definitely notice you…”

As Qiao Xue listened, she glanced at the crowd below.

"The police came immediately, and the security guards also arrived. While the murderer was watching the show, he would prepare his own escape route and avoid surveillance, so he would not have taken the elevator.

It's on the fifth floor, and you can get downstairs in a few minutes. Look in the direction of the fire stairs and see if you can find this person!"

Hearing this, Qiao Xue turned around and looked back. At the six o'clock position, below the ceiling, there was a green sign with the words "Emergency Exit" hanging.

A man stood at the corner, staring at Qiao Xue with his slightly narrowed eyes.

Qiao Xue also immediately locked her gaze on him.

At the moment when the eyes of both parties met in the air, the elevator door suddenly opened with a "ding" sound, and a group of uniformed police officers immediately entered the venue.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the woman in cleaning clothes and long hair turned around and strode towards the emergency passage. "Stop!"

Qiao Xue shouted, "The suspect has been found! Towards the exit of the safe passage!"

After she finished speaking, she didn't care whether the police officers who came could hear her or not, because the two sides were quite far away from each other, and the police officers were obviously not alert and went straight to the bathroom without noticing her at all.

Qiao Xue jumped off the T-stage, pushed through the crowd and ran towards the safe passage.

Luo Rui on the other end of the phone had already heard her shouting, and he kept shouting on the phone: "Qiao Xue, don't chase! Qiao Xue, answer me, it's too dangerous, don't chase!"

Although Qiao Xue was holding the phone, she didn't reply.

She ran as fast as she could, and after turning a few corners, the stairs appeared in front of her.

There was the sound of footsteps coming from below. She stood at the handrail and looked down. The man was running quickly downstairs, taking three steps at a time.

"Police, stop!"

Qiao Xue shouted as she chased after him.

But because she was holding the phone in her hand, it was in the way, so she quickly put the phone in her back pocket, then lifted the hem of her coat and pulled out a pistol.

"Deng Deng..."

The empty sound of footsteps kept echoing in her ears. Qiao Xue held the gun in one hand and held the handrail with the other, chasing downstairs.

When she reached the third floor, she looked down and found that the figure had disappeared.

So she jumped down directly, then turned around and rushed to the second floor.

There were more than a dozen steps, and she reached the second-floor platform in two steps.

Just as she was about to go to the first floor, Qiao Xue was immediately stunned.

At this moment, she suddenly heard a "crunch" sound in her ears.

The sound was extremely clear and was particularly harsh in the empty corridor.

This was the sound of the spring door, and behind her was the fire door on the second floor!
Cold sweat trickled down my back, and the chill from my heart ran straight to the soles of my feet.

Qiao Xue turned around suddenly, but her body was only halfway turned when something caught her neck.

A huge force pulled her to both sides, and a thin steel rope pierced into her flesh.

Then, something pressed against her back and pushed her body forward, causing her head to tilt back while her body leaned forward.

"Well..."

Qiao Xue felt a congestion in her brain and her throat became unable to speak. She reached for her throat with one hand, but was unable to pull free the steel wire rope that had sunk into her flesh.

The other person's strength was so great that she could hear heavy breathing coming from his mouth.

At the critical moment, she reached back with her gun hand and pulled the trigger resolutely.

"Click..."

She forgot to pull the safety bolt on the pistol and couldn't pull the trigger.

She stretched out her other hand and tried to pull the safety pin, but at this moment, the man behind her exerted the last bit of strength in his wrists, grabbed the wire rope with both hands, and pulled it hard to both sides.

Qiao Xue's muscles stiffened, and the pistol in her hand fell to the ground with a bang.

There was only despair left in Qiao Xue's heart. Her neck felt as if it had been burned by a pair of red-hot tongs, and blurry images appeared in her eyes.

She can't breathe!
She has no hope of survival!
She has given up struggling!

The only thing left in her remaining sanity was Luo Rui's shout on the phone: "Don't chase! Don't chase!"

But I can't look back, I'm a policeman.

Qiao Xue closed her eyes and let death take her away.

"Master, I'm here to see you..."

She recalled the scene of her master's sacrifice in her mind. In her last consciousness, she only heard that familiar voice in her ear.

"Police! Let her go!"

Then there was a burst of gunfire!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The bullet whizzed past the left side of her head and hit the spring door behind her, and the man pushed her body forward.

Qiao Xue felt her neck loosen and her body fell to the ground.

Suddenly, the air rushed into my throat, and it felt like it was burning.

Blood also flows back from the heart to the brain quickly.

"Cough cough..."

Qiao Xue turned sideways and started coughing violently.

The figure held onto the railing and jumped down the stairs.

She tried hard to open her eyes, but she felt dizzy and there were residual images on her retina.

"Hey, chase him, chase him quickly..."

Sun Zhihao was standing on the platform on the third floor. When he saw Qiao Xue crawling downstairs, he put away his gun and quickly jumped down.

"Sister Qiao, are you okay?!"

"Ahem, chase him, chase him quickly..."

Sun Zhihao didn't move, but pulled her arm and carefully helped her up.

"I'll take you to the hospital first."

Qiao Xue tried hard to stand up, and after breathing smoothly, she wanted to run downstairs.

Sun Zhihao grabbed her and said, "Are you going to die?"

"I...the murderer ran away..."

"Just run away! If Director Luo hadn't called me in time, you would have been dead!"

Qiao Xue leaned on the handrail, her face pale and weak. After glancing at him, she ordered, "Quickly notify Team Li and block the surrounding blocks. We should be able to find this person."

After saying that, she ran downstairs.

Sun Zhihao couldn't let her do whatever she wanted, so he followed her closely and said, "I've called Team Li, and the hotel floor has been blocked."

The two men ran out of the fire escape and came to the street outside the hotel.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, with dazzling neon lights all around, and a constant stream of cars and pedestrians.

"Fuck, fuck!"

Qiao Xue kicked the trash can on the side of the road, enduring the discomfort in her neck. She saw a wig hanging on the edge of the trash can.

She walked over, took the wig in her hand, and then found the cleaning staff's uniform from the trash can.

This was the disguise the murderer had discarded when he escaped.

But this person has disappeared into the night!

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Guangxing City.

On a white yacht near the coast, Luo Rui stood on the deck, holding a mobile phone in one hand and looking at the waves rolling with white foam and hitting the reefs under the cliff.

"Director Luo, Qiao Xue is safe." Sun Zhihao's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Hearing this, Luo Rui let out a long sigh and felt a little more relaxed.

A few minutes ago, when Qiao Xue was locking on the suspect, the two parties had been on the phone all the time.

Luo Rui strongly urged her not to act on her own, but Qiao Xue remained unmoved. Based on her police duty and instinct, she went alone to chase the murderer.

At that time, Luo Rui was highly concentrated, listening to every sound that came into his ears.

Hearing the empty footsteps in the corridor, he knew that Qiao Xue might be in danger, so he immediately hung up the phone and called Sun Zhihao.

If he had not been so decisive and Sun Zhihao had not acted quickly, Qiao Xue might be dead now.

"Director Luo, the murderer has escaped."

Luo Rui put down his hands from his waist and said in a relaxed tone: "If you run away, then run away. Now I order you, Qiao Xue, and Zhang Yong to withdraw from this case immediately."

"what?"

"What? Didn't you hear me? Let the Yonghe City Criminal Police Brigade handle this case. My men are almost dead. What are they doing? Cat and mouse, when have you ever seen a cat almost lose its life? Get out of here right now..."

"Uh... ahem, Director Luo, I'm Li Xu."

Luo Rui had already heard the sound of the phone being handed over, and the second half of his words were addressed to the other party.

"Oh, Captain Li, how are you?"

"Hehe, this... yes, yes, I haven't seen you for a few days." After a pause, the other party continued: "You should have heard about the case. I think..."

Luo Rui immediately interrupted him: "I don't want you to think, I want me to think. Li Detachment, the case that the provincial department's attack team is responsible for is a task assigned by the provincial department's criminal police corps. If the provincial department does not assign it, it is not our turn to be responsible for this case.

From this moment on, Captain Cai will take my people back to the provincial department. I wish you good luck! "

"Director Luo, don't hang up yet!" Li Xu said anxiously, "Can you listen to me for a few words?"

"Please tell me."

Li Xu licked his lips and said, "You should know the situation of this case. The murderer is extremely cruel and only targets women. We just found out the identity of the headless corpse..."

Before he finished speaking, Luo Rui immediately interrupted him on the phone, "It's not you, it's the credit of the provincial department's attack team, they found out the identity of the suspect!"

"Yes, yes, that's right." Li Xu didn't dare to take credit anymore, and said hurriedly: "If Director Luo hadn't accurately guessed that the victim was a local, we wouldn't have been able to find out the victim's identity so quickly.

Director Luo, this case happened at the end of October, and it has been two months. Just when Qiao Xue and the others had made some progress in their investigation, the murderer showed up. He beheaded the person involved, Su He, in public!
In the past ten years, we have never seen such a big case in Yonghe City. Director Luo, please help us. Not to mention whether the murderer will continue to commit crimes, Officer Qiao almost lost his life. We must capture this murderer at all costs and spare no effort!"

Luo Rui was calm, he understood that Li Xu didn't need to beg, as the provincial department would definitely pay special attention to such a tragic murder case. After all, everyone was in the same system, and they would prosper together and suffer together. This matter might very well fall on his head.

The local municipal bureau requested that the provincial department would do its utmost to solve the case in order to calm the impact of the case. Li Xu knew this, but he asked Luo Rui for help because there was no other criminal policeman like Luo Rui in Haidong Province with his speed of solving cases and accurate inference ability.

Hundreds of guests who came to watch the catwalk show tonight have been taken into custody by the police, and surveillance footage, visits and investigations, and recording of testimonies are all being carried out in full swing.

At the restroom door, the city bureau's forensic doctors in white coats and investigators in blue uniforms were also entering the crime scene in an orderly manner.

When Li Xu arrived, Sun Zhihao had already told him how Qiao Xue had identified the suspect.

Qiao Xue was sitting in a chair in the conference hall. Medical staff were checking the wounds on her neck. Her throat was torn and it hurt when she spoke, so she wrote down with a pen and paper that if it weren't for Director Luo, she would never have discovered the murderer.

At that time, Li Xu was extremely surprised. Luo Rui was not at the scene, but he was able to accurately identify the murderer just by contacting him by phone and remotely commanding Qiao Xue. Such judgment and thinking abilities were beyond the reach of Qing Gui Chen Hao.

Li Xu's heart was in turmoil. He held the phone tightly, waiting for Luo Rui's answer...

(End of this chapter)