Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 276 doesn't feel like it's in Jinghai.
Su Miaoyi, who was sleeping, suddenly woke up with a start. She opened her eyes, gasped for breath, and looked around at everything.

That's her bedroom.

She sat up, beads of sweat sliding down her neck.

She touched her mouth and looked out the window again.

It's already daybreak.

She was thinking about the scenes in her dreams.

It wasn't a dream; I saw something.

Although she saw it in her sleep, she could distinguish whether it was a dream, a memory, or a scene she saw.

It's a very subtle feeling, but she can distinguish these things very clearly.

The alarm on my phone went off; it was my usual wake-up time.

She turned off the alarm and got out of bed to wash up.

Then I went out and went straight to the Municipal Bureau.

On her way to the Municipal Bureau, she made a phone call to Zhuang Yanzheng, telling him that she had seen some things and would go to the Municipal Bureau to explain in detail.

After finishing, he gave Lu Zhishen another call.

When she arrived at the Municipal Bureau, they were all there and went straight to Zhuang Yanzheng's office.

Lu Zhishen brought paper and pen.

Su Miaoyi first told him about the house and the surrounding environment she saw.

"What I saw was at night. It was very dark, the stars were very bright, and the surroundings were very open. In the distance were low mountains, but I couldn't see what kind of plants were on them."

Lu Zhishen drew the mountains as she saw them from her perspective, based on her description.

Su Miaoyi gestured on the drawing paper: "It's going this way, high here, low here."

It was dark, and far away.

She could only make out a rough outline of the undulations.

"Then down the mountain to the village, there's a large open space here. There should be crops there. It was a bit windy at night, and I saw them swaying, but I couldn't see exactly what they were."

Lu Zhishen is drawing.

“These locations are all houses, all with tiled roofs. Under the streetlights, I saw wooden houses. The house of the family where the murder occurred was also wooden.”

"All wood?" Lu Zhishen asked.

Su Miaoyi nodded, describing the house she saw.

The wooden house has a small courtyard.

There were some farm tools, some branches, and other things piled up in the yard.

Lu Zhishen quickly drew the house and the things in the yard that she described.

“Yes, that’s right,” Su Miaoyi said.

Chu Xingrou looked at the house and the unclear surroundings: "It doesn't feel like a house in Jinghai. There are very few houses made entirely of wood here; if there are, they only look like wood on the outside. And this house in the painting looks quite old."

Su Miaoyi looked at her.

"These things piled up in the yard, these are tree branches, and what's leaning against this wall?" Chu Xingrou asked.

It is a type of crop.

It's some kind of harvested crop, dried and yellowed, leaning against the wall.

“It’s definitely not wheat, rice, or corn; I recognize all three,” Su Miaoyi said.

“It’s not soybeans either,” Yan Cheng said. “I’ve seen soybeans before.”

“I’ve seen peanuts,” Lu Zhishen said. “These can be ruled out.”

We've ruled out possibilities, but we still don't know what it is.

"These are usually collected and taken home to be used as firewood, right?" Yan Cheng said.

"I think so," Lu Zhishen said.

"Doesn't it look very similar?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Su Miaoyi nodded.

There were lights in the yard, so it was quite clear. Zhuang Yanzheng took out his phone to identify it.

Because they were already dry and yellowed, and piled together, and were drawn on, there were quite a few things that could be identified.

Check and search one by one.

Finally, we determined what it was, and then we searched for the main planting areas.

More common in the south.

However, it can also be grown in the north.

There aren't many in the yard; if it's just a little planted at home, some might be planted elsewhere.

“I don’t think this location is in Jinghai,” Chu Xingrou said. “The architecture and the surrounding environment don’t seem quite right.”

She knows every corner of Jinghai very well.

During her school years, she spent all her free time researching various places in Jinghai.

So every time she's asked to find a spot, she finds it very quickly.

“I also agree with Xingrou’s point of view,” Yan Cheng said.

“The cities where this stuff is grown on a large scale are indeed located southwest of Beijing,” Lu Zhishen said.

Zhuang Yanzheng was silent for a while, then looked at Su Miaoyi and said, "Do you think it's possible that the crime scene is too far away and difficult to get there, which is why you were always looking in that direction?"

Su Miaoyi and he exchanged a glance: "Very likely."

She paused for a moment after speaking, then said, "But it's still difficult to pinpoint the exact location; we haven't seen much."

"Tell me what you saw first," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

“At first, it was seen from a man's perspective.” Su Miaoyi looked at Lu Zhishen's painting. “I was standing here in the yard, and the dog kept barking this way. I grabbed a stick and shouted at it, and even hit this branch a few times. Then there was some noise at the door, and as I walked towards the door, I got hit on the back of the head.”

Because she was standing in the courtyard, she could see the layout of the courtyard and the mountains in the distance.

After being hit, before she fell down and closed her eyes, she saw a red ghost mask.

Then the scene changed.

She was covered in the mouth from behind and dragged into the house.

As she was being dragged into the house, she saw the man lying in the yard.

But she didn't see the man's face.

After being dragged into the house, she fainted due to being strangled and having her mouth and nose covered.

When I woke up again, the room was pitch black.

The scene was the same as what she saw at the entrance of the Weiyang Palace apartment building.

The person wearing the mask is sewing her mouth shut.

I explained the whole process to them in detail.

They studied the murder process, with Su Miaoyi and Lu Zhishen discussing the killer's mask and clothing.

“She wore a black robe, much like the robe of the Grim Reaper,” Su Miaoyi said. “The robe dragged on the ground, it was so big and baggy that it covered her feet. She was about 1.72 or 1.73 meters tall and weighed between 60 and 65 kilograms.”

His body was covered by a black robe, and his face was covered by a mask, so his weight could only be estimated roughly.

Lu Zhishen nodded.

"The mask is mainly red with a little black," Su Miaoyi said. "It's quite scary. There are two horns on top, a bit like ram horns. The eyes are this big and bulge out, with a lot of white in the pupils and just a tiny bit of black.

"His mouth is somewhat square, with his teeth bared, and his two lower teeth are so long that they press down on his upper lip."

Lu Zhishen drew it according to her description: "Like this?"

Su Miaoyi remained silent.

Not hearing her response, Lu Zhishen looked up at her.

Su Miaoyi froze again, completely still.

“She saw something again,” Lu Zhishen said.

Zhuang Yanzheng and the others looked at her, then at Chu Xingrou, and nodded to her.

Chu Xingrou understood and immediately went to Su Miaoyi's side, watching over her and ready to provide her with support whenever she woke up.

(End of this chapter)