Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 378 (First Update, Seeking Votes) Crime Committed by an Acquaintance
Mo Youyou's words completely stunned Zhou Yi.

"Looking for me?" Zhou Yi asked back.

Mo Youyou was also a little confused, "Could it be... that there isn't one?"

She glanced at Qiao Jiali beside Zhou Yi and suddenly felt a little worried.

Just then, someone inside asked, "Youyou, who is it?"

A short-haired woman in her early thirties came out of the restroom and asked, seeing two strangers standing at the door, she immediately became wary and frowned as she asked Mo Youyou, "Do you know them?"

Mo You nodded: "Auntie, these two are...police officers..."

Mo Youyou's aunt was startled and exclaimed, "Police? What are you doing?"

Zhou Yi quickly said, "It has nothing to do with her. We're looking for her to find out about her classmates."

My aunt breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then you two come in and talk, don't stand at the door."

Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali entered the house, and Mo Youyou's aunt invited them to sit down and poured them two glasses of water.

A little boy, about five or six years old, came out of the room and pulled Mo Youyou, saying, "Sister, play with me." The aunt picked up the child and said, "Sister has something to do. Mom will play with you in the room first."

As she spoke, she picked up the child and walked towards the master bedroom, closing the door behind her.

Mo Youyou asked worriedly, "Officer Zhou, what happened to Xiaoshuang?"

“I don’t know either. I just got back from out of town this morning, but I can’t find her, so I came to ask you to find out how she is doing recently.”

"You just got back? Then how come she..."

"Youyou, why don't you tell us everything that's happened these past two days? The more detailed the better."

Mo Youyou nodded with a worried expression.

She said that Lu Xiaoshuang's schedule had been quite regular over the past week, consisting of attending classes and interning at the tax bureau.

Apart from that, she basically had no other plans, and her life on campus consisted of going back and forth between the classroom and the dormitory.

She didn't even go to the social event I wanted to invite her to before.

On the evening of April 29th, in the dormitory, she asked Lu Xiaoshuang what her plans were for the May Day holiday.

Lu Xiaoshuang said she planned to go home to see her grandmother and take her to try out hearing aids, since she had almost saved enough money.

Everyone else in the dorm heard it too, and several students from other places even discussed where they should go for fun.

Because there were no classes on the afternoon of the 30th, they had a day and a half off.

Lu Xiaoshuang asked her if she was going home, but she said that the time was too short and the journey was too tiring, so she didn't want to go back and planned to stay at her aunt's house for the night.

Then, after class the next morning, some people went to the cafeteria for lunch, while others left directly.

Mo Youyou had called her aunt in advance. Her aunt had taken a leave of absence to stay home and take care of the children because her mother-in-law's health had been poor for the past two years and she was unable to do so. So her aunt asked her to come over for lunch after class.

After class, she went straight to her dormitory, put down her books, picked up her bag, and left to catch the bus.

On the way out of the school gate, I ran into Lu Xiaoshuang, who was walking back.

Mo Youyou said that Lu Xiaoshuang seemed to have something on her mind at the time, and she walked in a hurry with her head down. She only stopped when Mo Youyou called her.

Mo Youyou casually asked, "Didn't you go to the cafeteria for dinner?"

Lu Xiaoshuang replied: I'm not eating anymore, I need to go find Brother Zhou later.

Mo Youyou said that she did not notice anything wrong with Xiao Shuang at the time, and even teased her a few times.

Then we said goodbye.

She has been staying at her aunt's house ever since.

This answer was more detailed than the information Zhou Yi got from calling the dormitory supervisor, and importantly, it contained a very unusual piece of information.

Lu Xiaoshuang said she was going to find him later.

This was impossible, because I was still in Anyuan at the time.

But based on his understanding of Lu Xiaoshuang, she wasn't the type to joke about something like this.

That leaves only two possibilities.

First, Lu Xiaoshuang wanted to do something she didn't want others to know, so she made up an excuse.

However, Zhou Yi believed that this possibility was extremely small, because Lu Xiaoshuang was originally a cautious person, and she had listened to Zhou Yi's repeated instructions before leaving. She would not do anything dangerous again.

The second possibility is that, from Lu Xiaoshuang's perspective, she genuinely believed she was going to see Zhou Yi later. This is because someone, through some means, impersonated her and lured her to some place off-campus…

"Youyou, are you sure Xiaoshuang said she was going to find me?" Zhou Yi asked to confirm.

Mo You nodded, indicating that she was sure she hadn't misremembered.

If this is true, then the problem is quite complicated.

The fact that someone tricked Lu Xiaoshuang into leaving in this way implies at least two things.

First, someone is plotting against Lu Xiaoshuang. This person might be the murderer of the major case in her previous life.

Secondly, this person knows about his relationship with Lu Xiaoshuang, and may even know that he is not in Hongcheng.

If that's the case, then this person has likely been secretly monitoring Lu Xiaoshuang.

This is truly chilling, because one is completely unaware of it.

But this information also confirmed one thing for Zhou Yi: the massive case was definitely not a case of itinerant crimes.

It must have been done by someone who knew Lu Xiaoshuang.

Could it be that even a large-scale investigation by a task force of 3,000 people in the previous life failed to uncover this person?

What kind of murderer could be so airtight and leave no trace when facing a police investigation?
But why did the murderer kill Lu Xiaoshuang?
Every murder case must have a motive, which is mainly nothing more than revenge killing, crime of passion, crime of money, and rape-murder.

Murder for financial gain and murder by rape are ruled out first, because Lu Xiaoshuang had no money and was not raped in her previous life.

As for the crime of passion, Zhou Yi asked very directly when we were having Western food last time, so that possibility is unlikely.

Unless there really is some pervert who has distorted feelings for Lu Xiaoshuang and hides them so deeply that even Lu Xiaoshuang herself is unaware of them.

As for the vendetta, he couldn't understand how this kind and innocent girl could have such a deep-seated hatred with anyone.

He thought of the sweater and asked, "Youyou, do you know that Xiaoshuang has a white wool sweater?"

"Yes, I know. She said it was given to her by Officer Zhou's aunt. She took it back to her dorm before you went out with her that day."

"Have you seen her wear this sweater again, or take it out again?"

Youyou thought for a moment, then shook her head: "No..."

Suddenly, Mo Youyou said, "I remember now, this sweater was cut up."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi hurriedly asked, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Xiaoshuang is furious. She even took it to the dorm supervisor."

"Who did it?"

“Auntie said we can’t make things up without evidence,” Youyou said angrily. “But I’m sure it was Xu Liu who did it.”

"Xu Liu?" Zhou Yi asked, puzzled, because he knew the name; she was Lu Xiaoshuang's roommate.

The standard dormitory room in Hongda is for eight people. There are two bunk beds on each side, four desks in the middle, and a floor-to-ceiling cabinet with nine storage lockers on one side of the entrance.

After the major case in her previous life, Lu Xiaoshuang's seven roommates naturally became the focus of the investigation.

For these roommates who lived together day and night, the police suspected whether there were long-standing and accumulated conflicts caused by differences in living habits, details, and discrimination.

However, the actual investigation revealed that Lu Xiaoshuang had almost no interaction with most of her roommates, let alone any conflicts. That's why everyone had a near-unanimous assessment of her as having a withdrawn, introverted, and unsociable personality.

Such things cannot be concealed, because the police conduct separate and cross-examinations.

Xu Liu was one of them; she was just one of the roommates and nothing special.

In the statements of the other roommates, including Mo Youyou, there was no mention of any conflict between Xu Liu and Lu Xiaoshuang.

“Tell me the specific details of what happened,” Zhou Yi said.

"Ok."

Mo Youyou not only recounted what happened after Lu Xiaoshuang discovered that her sweater had been cut, but also recounted how Xu Liu had verbally abused Lu Xiaoshuang for no reason.

Qiao Jiali noticed that Zhou Yi's brows were furrowed, but she didn't know that Zhou Yi was deep in thought because he had gained some new information that was different from his previous life.

"Youyou, has Xu Liu ever targeted Xiaoshuang before?" Zhou Yi asked.

"No, she and Xiaoshuang were just normal classmates before. I don't think they ever really talked."

This information matches the investigation from the previous life.

"So, what kind of person is Xu Liu usually?"

Youyou thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I'm not very familiar with her. I only know that her family seems to be quite well-off, and she's usually a bit arrogant."

"Where is she from?"

"I don't know, I only know that she came from the south, but she didn't seem to say exactly where."

Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali exchanged a glance; it seemed they needed to check this person's information.

"Sister Qiao, ask Captain Wu if Xu Liu is in the dormitory."

"it is good."

Just as Qiao Jiali was about to make a call, Mo Youyou said directly, "She's not in the dormitory. It seems she took leave on the 29th and 30th, and she wasn't in the dormitory on the night of the 28th."

"Are you taking leave? Where are you going?"

"I don't know, she hasn't told anyone else."

Qiao Jiali said, "Then I'll call Captain Wu and ask their counselor about Xu Liu's reason for taking leave, as well as her family's contact information."

Zhou Yi nodded, and Qiao Jiali stood up and went to the kitchen to make a phone call.

"Youyou, who in your dorm is this girl named Xu Liu closest to?"

“Our dorm? I don’t think anyone in our dorm is particularly close to her. But there used to be a girl in the dorm next door who was quite close to her; I’ve seen them eating together in the cafeteria several times.” Then Youyou provided the dorm number and the girl’s name.

"There's another question, does Xu Liu have a boyfriend?"

Youyou thought for a moment and shook her head: "Anyway, I've never heard of it. There are few boys in our major, so there aren't many cases of dating. If there were, it would definitely spread very quickly."

"Okay, I understand. Thank you for providing this information."

Mo Youyou asked nervously, "Officer Zhou... has something happened to Xiaoshuang?"

(End of this chapter)