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

Chapter 279 Where did I see it?

A day has passed, and no relevant case has been found.

After get off work, they all stayed in Zhuang Yanzheng's office.

They talked about the places that had already been investigated and determined the next places to be investigated.

Su Miaoyi sat to the side watching them and listening to what they were saying.

She doesn't speak, but her presence is incredibly strong. Her aura is so powerful that she can't be ignored.

As they talked, they would glance at her every now and then, as if they were taking an exam and she was the kind of teacher who liked to watch students answer questions in the exam room.

Su Miaoyi leaned back on the sofa, her gaze half-lowered, barely moving.

Gradually, people stopped paying much attention to her.

So no one noticed that she was acting strangely for a few minutes.

“Okay, let’s continue the investigation,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

“Yanjing Village,” Su Miaoyi suddenly said.

Her voice wasn't loud, and it didn't have much variation, but all four of them were startled.

"What?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“Yanjing Village.” Su Miaoyi picked up a pen and wrote these three words on a piece of paper, “Nine Rows, Number Eleven.”

Zhuang Yanzheng took the paper, got up, and left the office to have someone investigate which Yanjing Village it was, where it was located, and whether there were any related cases.

"Did you see it?" Chu Xingrou asked.

“Hmm,” Su Miaoyi said, “In the footage I saw this morning, the man who was hit on the back of the head didn’t die at the time, but I don’t know whether he died later.”

"What I saw was already daylight. The man was being lifted into an ambulance, and many people were helping around him. When he was being lifted into the ambulance, he opened his eyes and looked around. He saw the house number on the door, which read 'No. 11, Row 9, Yanjing Village'."

“I saw it from a man’s perspective,” Su Miaoyi said. “It’s possible that someone from the same village discovered him during the day, called for an ambulance, and took him to the hospital.”

"Did you see a woman?" Yan Cheng asked.

“It’s not from a man’s perspective,” Su Miaoyi said.

“In this situation, we would definitely call the police,” Chu Xingrou said.

Su Miaoyi remained silent, waiting for Zhuang Yanzheng's message.

About ten minutes later, Zhuang Yanzheng returned.

"We found two places with the same name in the system, both within our identified investigation scope," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "We've already contacted their police stations, just wait a bit."

And this wait lasted for more than an hour.

Since the case involved another region, Zhuang Yanzheng also went to coordinate it.

I submitted a report and an application.

Only after going through the entire process did he see the relevant information about the case.

“The case is from three years ago, in Yanjing Village, Changshi.” Zhuang Yanzheng said, distributing the printed materials to them. “The couple at No. 11, Row 9, Yanjing Village, the man was named Tian De, 56 years old this year, and the woman was named Gao Hui, 54 years old when she died. The couple had a son, Tian Liang, who was 35 years old and worked in Changshi.”

“Tian De is still here,” Su Miaoyi said.

“But he’s mentally impaired,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “He injured his head and doesn’t know anything anymore. He’s in a sanatorium now.”

Su Miaoyi looked down at the documents in her hand. There was too much information, so she flipped through them.

"The case record states that on the morning of August 12th, three years ago, neighbor Tian Hai went to Tian De's house to borrow an electric scooter. After knocking on the door a few times, he opened it and went inside."

As soon as Tian Hai entered, he saw Tian De lying on the ground.

He immediately went over to check and found blood in the man's mouth and nose, as well as blood on the back of his head and on the ground, but the man was conscious.

Eyes can move and breathe.

But he doesn't respond when I call him.

Tian Hai was startled and quickly called out to Gao Hui inside the house, but no one responded.

He rushed home to call his wife and then immediately dialed the emergency number.

When the ambulance arrived, he called on his neighbors to come out and help.

Since they couldn't find Gao Hui, Tian Hai's wife and several neighbors called Gao Hui.

I thought she had gone out instead of staying home.

I made a call and found my phone ringing inside. A few people then went inside.

Gao Hui's body was discovered.

The group of people were quite frightened at the time.

Gao Hui lay on her side on the ground, her face covered in blood, her mouth sewn shut, her hands and feet bound, and there was blood on the ground as well.

There was also a tongue lying next to it.

Yan Cheng looked at the autopsy report from that time.

Zhuang Yanzheng showed them photos of the scene taken by the police at the time.

Looking at the photo, Chu Xingrou felt a pain in her mouth.

The murderer seemed to hate the victim intensely. Stitching is a form of torture and venting anger, but this method of stitching was even more cruel.

It kept piercing through the skin and flesh, again and again.

"What is this?" Su Miaoyi showed Zhuang Yanzheng the photo: "Numbers?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the "1" written in blood on the photo.

Gao Hui collapsed at the corner of the wall and the bed. On the wall, near the bed, there was a number that looked like the number "1".

"Yes." Zhuang Yanzheng showed her the photos of the second case.

The photo shows a well, a very large well, which looks very old.

From this perspective, she saw two cases that occurred in the same place, the same village.

There is a "2" that looks like it was written in chalk on the edge of the well.

"Are there any other cases?" Su Miaoyi flipped through the files to the end; there were no more.

"Just these two cases," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi did not speak.

Her premonition was not good. If there really were only two cases, there was no need to mark them as "1 and 2". There were likely more to come.

"When did the case of jumping into the well happen?" Lu Zhishen asked while flipping through the documents in his hand.

There was just too much information; he couldn't possibly go through it all.

Moreover, their recording methods are quite different from those in Jinghai.

He didn't seem used to it either.

"It took more than two months to get to Gao Hui's case," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi looked at the information about the person who jumped into the well and died.

Tian Dajiang, male, 55 years old, lives alone and has never married.

This age is a few years younger than she judged from his voice.

"Initially, the police wanted to close the case as a suicide by jumping into the well, but the number on the well caught their attention, so they later investigated it as a criminal case and performed an autopsy on the deceased."

“The case file doesn’t mention anything about the ghost face,” Chu Xingrou said.

“Hmm,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “Gao Huitian and Dajiang are both dead, and Tian De is mentally impaired. None of the three who saw the ghost face can provide this information. There’s no information about the surveillance footage, so the village’s surveillance facilities might not be adequate. People in the village go to bed early, and not many people come out at night.”

"Does what this says mean that Tian Hai and Tian De's families live next to each other?" Chu Xingrou asked.

"Yes."

"In the footage that Sister Miaomiao saw, Tian De's dog was barking very fiercely and for a long time. Tian Hai's family must have heard it, right? Didn't they come out to check?" Chu Xingrou said.

"No." Su Miaoyi happened to see the part of the document that she had asked about.

The above describes how Tian De's dog often barks at night.

They call out to anyone who makes any noise nearby.

Gao Hui has said several times that she wants to sell the dog.

Tian De couldn't bear to part with it, so he kept raising it.

He often calls out at night, and I can also hear Gao Hui cursing.

So the neighbors got used to it.

The message also stated that Tian De's dog had been poisoned.
(End of this chapter)