Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 151 The Hand of God 4
The person they suspect is now actively seeking to find the whereabouts of the deceased?

Is he truly innocent, or is he just putting on an act to deceive them?

Xiao Chen asked a few more questions, and Huang Yilin said he would go out with him to look for the person, and he kept his phone in his hand, trying to call the deceased.

After they came downstairs together, Zheng Yan and the others came out of the stairwell and looked at each other.

"Do you think he's the murderer?" Zheng Yan asked.

Tan Jia: "It's hard to say. I could sense from the dream that the murderer was a person without a big belly and with strong arms, but without any other obvious characteristics. He was very angry at the time, and his whole attention was on the victim. Even when he was stepping on the victim's pregnant belly and running over her, his eyes were still fixed on the victim's face, as if he really wanted to see the victim's pitiful expression of begging for mercy."

Zheng Yan said thoughtfully, "Then we also need to consider the possibility that Huang Yilin is not the murderer."

"Furthermore, the fact that the murderer hated the victim so much that he lost his mind suggests that he may have just discovered that the victim's child was not his, or that he had been suppressing his feelings until last night. People who have had arguments or disputes beforehand are less likely to act extremely."

"Could it be a lover?" Tan Ming said from the side.

“We handled a case before where a couple who were only superficially together each had their own lovers. The woman and her lover agreed to get divorced and then be together openly. However, she later had a relationship with her husband and became pregnant. When her lover found out, he felt that she had desecrated their relationship, so he killed both of them. What I mean is, we need to investigate the relationship between the deceased and her husband first. There might be an unexpected story.”

Zheng Yan: "We need to investigate, including the lover. If Huang Yilin is telling the truth, and the deceased left after returning to her parents' home yesterday but didn't go home, then where did she go? Who did she see? Where exactly is the crime scene? We need to figure out the deceased's route last night."

Speaking of the crime scene, they contacted the people investigating hotels and guesthouses and learned that no hotels or guesthouses had reported any abnormalities or had any information about the deceased checking in.

Tan Jia squeezed the dough figurine in her hand and analyzed, "If the crime scene wasn't in a hotel or guesthouse, it was very likely at the home of the person she wanted to meet last night. But no one has called the police yet. Doesn't that mean the murderer was actually the person who met the deceased? Otherwise, it doesn't make sense."

Assuming the murderer is Huang Yilin, he found the place where his wife and lover met, caught them in the act, and was so angry that he wanted to kill them. But with a third person present, how could he bring himself to do it?
Even if there was a time difference, and the lover arrived after the murderer left, he should have discovered the victim's body and then called the police.

Zheng Yan rubbed his eyebrows in thought and said, "If the murderer isn't Huang Yilin, then he's probably dealing with clues at the crime scene right now. We still need to investigate that place in the dream. Has anyone replied to your post yet?"

Tan Jia took out his phone and looked at it: "Yes, but it says that there don't seem to be any hotels in the area with this kind of decoration."

“Then you keep an eye on it, and I’ll have the technical team continue investigating. Let’s go, first investigate the deceased’s whereabouts last night.”

Following the clues Xiao Chen obtained, they found the family home of the deceased Zou Yuxuan, which was not far from the city center and could be reached in an hour.

Mr. and Mrs. Zou had already learned from their son-in-law that their daughter was missing. They were so anxious that their faces turned pale. At this moment, they were contacting people everywhere to inquire about their daughter's whereabouts while crying anxiously.

When they asked Zou Yuxuan about her whereabouts last night, the couple eagerly cooperated in giving their accounts.

"She arrived around 2 or 3 pm, took a nap at home, and said she wanted to go back after dinner. We didn't stop her, since she drives herself and often makes this round trip. Who knew this would happen! I should have stopped her, my Yuxuan!"

Zou's mother collapsed into tears on Zou's father's body.

Zheng Yan asked, "What time did she leave last night? Didn't you call to ask if she got home safely?"

"She left around 7 PM, before it got dark. Did she call? No, but we sent her a message, and she said she'd be there soon." Soon she'd be there, but she never went home.

Tan Jia looked at them, holding the dough figurine whose species was still uncertain in her hand, and thought to herself: Do Zou Yuxuan's parents know that she has a lover? Do they know that she is pregnant with someone else's child?

While crying, Zou's mother cautiously asked, "Did something happen to her on the way? We have to take the highway to get back to Peninsula Garden from here. Did...did she have a car accident on the highway?"

All she could think of were these everyday guesses.

Zheng Yan shook his head, saying that the investigation was still ongoing, and then asked, "When Zou Yuxuan came back, was there anything wrong with her? For example, was she unhappy, spacing out, or pale?"

"When she came back... when she came back, something seemed off."

Ms. Zou hesitated and said, "She didn't look well, and she didn't have much of an appetite. I thought she was just feeling unwell during her pregnancy. She has insulin resistance, and the doctor told her to control her diet... Is something wrong with her? But I thought, I thought it was just like when she was first pregnant, she would vomit after eating, and even the smell of dust would make her feel suffocated..."

He started to get anxious as he spoke.

You can tell he's genuinely worried about his daughter.

But they still didn't, or rather, dared not, consider anything more terrible. Pregnancy discomfort was possible, but it was more likely that something had happened to Zou Yuxuan that led to her disappearance.

For example, being murdered.

Zheng Yan softened his voice and asked, "We don't know how she disappeared yet, so we have to investigate from all sides. Think back, has anyone recently had a falling out with Zou Yuxuan? What's her relationship with her husband like? Does she get along well with her friends? What about her colleagues?"

“Xuanxuan has many friends,” said Mr. Zou. “She has a good personality and can be friends with anyone. She doesn’t like to hold grudges, so everyone likes to play with her. She still keeps in close contact with her junior and senior high school classmates. Her relationship with her husband is even better. They started dating after graduating from high school and got married after graduating from university. They have never quarreled in all these years.”

It sounds like Zou Yuxuan is a lively and cheerful person with a wide circle of friends; no one seems to hate or dislike her.

Huang Yilin and Zou Yuxuan dated for eleven years and were married for seven. Their relationship was very good. Although she only became pregnant this year, Huang Yilin never complained. When his family pressured him, he would even help Zou Yuxuan fend off the pressure.

Zheng Yan wanted to ask Zou Yuxuan about her pregnancy, but Huang Yilin suddenly showed up.

He could only swallow his questions and watch as the Zou couple pulled their son-in-law along, crying and asking questions—they were ostensibly investigating the disappearance of Zou Yuxuan after she was suspected of being involved in a fraud and money laundering case, but they didn't know about her death, so they couldn't alert Huang Yilin for the time being.

After asking Huang Yilin a few more questions, the criminal investigation team left the Zou family home.

After they went outside, Tan Jia suddenly said, "There are all sorts of family photos hanging on their walls, including photos of the three of them and even photos of them with her classmates. It's clear that Zou Yuxuan is an only child and that her family relationship must be very good. They must communicate a lot. So, do her parents really not know that she's going out to meet someone?"

She had barely finished speaking, and before she could get a reply from anyone else, her phone chimed; someone had replied to her post asking about the crime scene.

This looks a lot like my colleague's house, but his house burned down this morning...

(End of this chapter)