Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

“There are not many tenants in old houses. Most of them are the owners themselves after their children have become independent. Although Donghua Community is close to the university town, the students who are willing to rent houses here are not short of money and have high requirements for living conditions. They don’t like such shabby old communities where even property management is basically non-existent.”

It does not mean that the information revealed by Huang Xuyao ​​can necessarily prove that the murderer lives nearby. Since there is no record of outsiders entering or leaving the community, and the murderer's dumping of bodies back and forth did not arouse suspicion, he is most likely a local resident who is familiar with the neighbors, and familiarity with the environment is also one of the conditions for his crime.

Xi Ming chatted with the security guard for a long time and got some information which was better than nothing.
"If there are vacant rooms for rent, they will directly post notices at the gate of the community. If you are interested, they will directly ask the owner to show you the house. They don't even sign a formal lease contract, let alone use their real names."

Colleagues who came to provide support rushed over, and upon hearing what had happened they had no choice but to knock on doors one by one to check on people.

Xie Qingfei was about to go upstairs with Xi Ming to check on the situation at Huang Xuyao's home. Suddenly, she turned around and saw a figure flashing behind the car the moment she looked over. Soon, the policeman who got out of the back seat grabbed the person and came back: "What are you doing sneaking around?"
"When did you come here?" Xi Ming signaled his colleague to let go first.
The boy who was caught by the police with a backhand and wearing a mask tightly was Qin Jiashu.

"When we leave the school." Xie Qingfei answered him, and then looked at the boy in front of him, "Is there anything else you haven't explained?"
Qin Jiashu took off his mask and asked sincerely: "Are you here to catch the murderer? Can I come with you?"
Xi Ming poked his forehead, with a speechless expression: "Are you annoying? Are you addicted to hindsight? Do we need you?"
Qin Jiashu argued anxiously: "But I have the right to know all this, I am Gan Tian's boyfriend!"
"Now you know how to declare your sovereignty," Xi Ming just thought it was funny, "Go wherever it's cool, don't block the road."

Qin Jiashu had never been treated like this before. His neck turned red, but he had no words to refute, so he could only follow Xie Qingfei's footsteps: "I just want to know the truth, what she experienced in her last days."

Xie Qingfei remembered something halfway through his walk, turned his head and asked, "How far have you and Gan Tian progressed?"
"what?"
"Those stages of dating, holding hands, kissing, and going to bed, where are you at?"
Qin Jiashu stammered, "Well, I've done everything I should do."
"Okay. Wait downstairs." Xie Qingfei said without paying any more attention to him and called Xi Ming to go upstairs together.

At Huang Xuyao's home, the murderer's crime trajectory has been basically restored. Gan Tian rested on the bed in the only bedroom after being brought back by Huang Xuyao. It was not easy for Huang Xuyao ​​to move an adult woman who had lost her ability to move. He put her on the bed with great effort, and he stumbled due to inertia. His hand hit the foot of the bed, and the poor quality wood thorns accidentally scratched her skin, leaving a blood mark that she herself did not notice. At dawn the next day, Gan Tian was still hungover and had not sobered up, so Huang Xuyao ​​went out to return to Jinchuan with his father who had contacted him early in the morning, leaving Gan Tian alone here.

What happened during this period can only be imagined by the police: Gan Tian woke up drowsy, feeling uncomfortable due to the hangover and the weakness of the first day of her period. She recognized that this was Huang Xuyao's rental house. When she got up and was about to go to the bathroom to wash her face, she suddenly found a man sitting beside the bed, staring at her while she was sleeping with an unknown length of time.

Gan Tian was startled and screamed reflexively.
Questioning, struggling, dying.
She was killed in this bed and then dragged to the bathroom and dismembered.

The dismemberment process was time-consuming and laborious. The other party had to erase his own traces of the crime, and unconsciously brought his personal habits into the process. He cut the body into neat small pieces and packed them in plastic bags according to categories. Gan Tian was probably already naked before. In the middle of enduring all this nakedly, the stimulating scene of blood and gray body collision actually excited this pervert again. He suddenly couldn't bear to let her be abandoned like this, thinking that she should accompany him longer and longer, and be used by him more, so he kept her organs and beautiful head that symbolized her female identity.

"If the murderer is really Xue Kai, he obviously likes Gan Tian, ​​so how could he have the heart to kill her?" Xi Ming asked as he lay on the floor in the outer room to check for drag marks.
"Liking someone is not the same as wanting to possess them," Xie Qingfei said, "If you can't get it, then destroy it. Didn't Jiang Ke already tell us this?"

Xie Qingfei stood in front of the bathroom door. She had a keen sense of smell. The smell of blood hidden under the scent of detergent was thick and clear to her. Even though she was used to the storm, she still found the feeling of being surrounded by blood plasma unbearable. When she was about to leave, she also saw the enclosed balcony facing the bathroom door.

The temperature has risen slightly in the past two days, but the room is not facing the sun, and the oppressive coldness inside still penetrates into people's bones.

Xie Qingfei walked to the foggy glass door and pushed open the cabinet in front of him. Seeing this, Xi Ming also stepped forward to help. Together, they pried the stuck sliding door open. The whistling cold wind rushed into the room, and the fallen leaves that had accumulated for many years on the ground less than half a square meter rolled from north to south and blew past the two of them, as if chasing the new spring.

Xi Ming sneezed and muttered, "It's too damp." When Xie Qingfei stepped on the floor outside, he also felt the warmth coming from the air conditioner hanging on the left wall.
"Who would turn on the air conditioner in the middle of winter? Aren't you afraid of—" Xi Ming was halfway through his complaint when he looked at Xie Qingfei in a daze.
The latter looked along the air conditioner's outdoor pipe: "4th floor."

[We found broken knife fragments in the deceased's bones. Most importantly, we extracted a small amount of □□ from the skin of her lower abdomen. After comparison, it was found to belong to Xue Kai.]

Just as Cheng Buyu sent the message, Dai Lin also brought the results of the investigation at the same time: [I have found the IP address of the creator of that website, as well as the smart forwarding location implanted in Gan Tian’s mobile phone. The location is in Donghua Community.]

[Also, this website has been shut down by its creator, but I exported all internal information before he did anything, including the list of all registered users. Stealing personal information is illegal after all, and I guess this little Zuckerberg is thinking that if the truth comes out one day, he can drag a bunch of people down with him, and the law doesn't hold everyone responsible. As for the people on the list... I'd better wait until you come back and see it for yourself.]

Xie Qingfei only had time to reply "1" and still had one hand free to pry open the door lock in front of him.
Xi Ming leaned against the door, the gun raised to his cheek, and as the lock cylinder turned, he gestured to the two criminal police officers behind him and immediately opened the door and rushed in. The dim living room was empty, and the cold air rushed out of the door frame, carrying the indescribable smell that hit him in the face like a chemical weapon.

Men are more sensitive to this smell. Xi Ming wrinkled his nose and pulled open the curtains. When the light first came in, he was almost scared out of his wits by the huge sweet portrait on the wall. When he saw the other pictures clearly, the strong urge to vomit rushed from his churning stomach to his throat. For fear of ruining the scene, he covered his mouth and ran out of the door, and then vomited towards the wall. On the wall in the middle of the living room was a huge single photo of a girl. As soon as he entered the door, he could see her smiling face. The ground, walls and even the ceiling surrounding this photo were all photos of a naked girl being raped by Xue Kai.

White cold air came out from the air-conditioner blades like a poisonous snake. The other two criminal police officers suppressed their shock and notified other colleagues who were still visiting the scene, and took photos of the scene to collect evidence.

The layout of upstairs and downstairs was the same. Xie Qingfei frowned and looked around.
The kitchen was obviously used frequently. It was fully equipped with cooking utensils and the knives were neatly arranged on the knife rack. However, the kitchen knife, which had been cleaned and used to cut food recently, had a small cut on the blade at the handle.

Xie Qingfei turned around and opened the bedroom door. After turning on the light, she found that the four walls were also covered with those photos. The smell was stronger than that in the living room. The bed sheets were in a mess, the trash can at the head of the bed was full of paper towels, and a small refrigerator was placed abruptly in the corner. She took the gloves handed to her by her colleague behind her, and when she opened them, she saw Gan Tian's rotten head and two other parts of the body.

Because of dehydration and cracking, her face no longer had the beauty it once had, but the sores covered by foundation and the bright lipstick on her lips were recently applied, layer after layer, and touched up countless times.
"Thank you, Captain. Here are some cosmetics." The colleague opened the drawer of the desk near the window and held up what he found to show her. "They are all famous brands."
When Xie Qingfei opened her mouth to answer, her voice suddenly broke, because she saw the genitals under the head were destroyed and bloody, and her throat felt as if it was blocked by something.

"Thank you, Captain! Thank you, Captain!" the people in the living room shouted again, "We've found something!"

Then there was a quarrel.
"Hey, who are you? You can't come in here!"
"Let me in, I am..."
When Qin Jiashu was guarding downstairs, he saw the remaining policemen rushing upstairs as if they had received some news. He followed them upstairs. As soon as he walked out of the corridor, he saw Xi Ming squatting against the wall and vomiting. Knowing something was wrong, he pushed through the crowd and rushed inside.
The person at the door was caught off guard and was pushed open by him. As a result, the boy immediately collapsed when he saw the scene in the living room.

Xi Ming rushed in and pulled the man up. Qin Jiashu grabbed his arm with his backhand, his eyes bloodshot: "He did it, where is he? I want to kill him!"
"If I knew where he was, I would have arrested him immediately without you telling me. Okay, calm down, and be careful not to destroy the scene!" Xi Ming was so worried that he would step on or bump into things carelessly that he didn't care about being disgusted.
Qin Jiashu's body was clamped, and he couldn't look up or down. No matter where he looked, he could see Gan Tian being tortured, from every angle and in every way. And Xue Kai's crazy and ugly face and body were like a devil dragging her straight to hell.

He thought she must have been very scared at that time.

When they watched horror movies before, she was always scared by the low-quality plasma makeup. She was afraid to play some slightly exciting projects in the amusement park. She was too timid and would hide behind him every time she felt scared. At that time, he made up his mind that he would always protect her and would not let her encounter any danger.

But it was precisely because of his acquiescence that Xue Kai had developed such a bold and evil idea. Perhaps at the moment when he decided to protect her for the rest of his life, Xue Kai's gaze on her had already been an invisible harm, and he knew it clearly, but he never took it to heart.

When Xie Qingfei came out of the bedroom, Qin Jiashu looked at her. Perhaps he could tell something was wrong with her expression, and his absent-minded gaze lingered behind her for a few seconds.

Xie Qingfei didn't plan to say anything to him. She walked up to the policeman who had just called her and asked, "What did you find?"
The policeman found a drawer of CDs under the TV cabinet. Xue Kai used a very traditional storage method. There was also a DVD player at home, which was probably left by the landlord. The dates on the CDs started from the 3rd of last month and ended yesterday. Combined with the photos posted indoors, it was easy to guess what the content was.
As important evidence, these must be brought back to the police station, and with the evidence the police can formally issue a warrant for the arrest of Xue Kai.

Following her attitude, the other police officers no longer paid any attention to Qin Jiashu. They bypassed him, collected all the evidence and prepared to pack up.

Qin Jiashu trembled, and suddenly stood in front of Xie Qingfei: "I know I was wrong."
He spoke incoherently: "Xue Kai... He and I have a very good relationship, and he doesn't seem to be a bad person. He never fights or competes in the dormitory, and it's because he never took the initiative to tell me about his feelings for Gan Tian that I was not on guard against him. I thought he was just secretly in love with her! How dare a man like him set his sights on Gan Tian? Don't you think it's ridiculous? I didn't know..."

"Come here," Xie Qingfei interrupted him, "Are you here to seek justice for the dead, or do you want to confirm with your own eyes whether the murderer is Xue Kai?"

"I……"

Xie Qingfei exposed him mercilessly: "The murderer is Xue Kai, so you are also one of the accomplices and should feel guilty for the rest of your life. You failed to reduce your guilt, so wake up and put aside your affectionate male lead script. You know you are wrong and you regret it. You can apologize and repent in front of Gan Tian's parents, but what's the use? She won't come back to life because of this."

Whether it was due to Huang Xuyao's jealousy or his love rival Jiang Ke's struggle, Qin Jiashu had never really felt that Gan Tian's death had anything to do with him. But the reality was in front of him, he had indeed held the knife in his hand, and he could no longer shed tears and scold the murderer while staying out of it.
Gan Tian came to Shengzhou to study alone. He knew that her friends had betrayed her. He also knew that she could only rely on him, her boyfriend.
But Qin Jiashu suddenly woke up and realized that the love he gave was so cheap.

(End of this chapter)