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

Chapter 338 Saw Lu Xian

The next day.

Su Miaoyi got up early to wait for Zhuang Yanzheng's message.

The case occurred 15 years ago; the victims were a family of five who worked at a brick factory.

My family owns a private brick factory.

The family of five—grandparents, parents, and child—usually live in a house behind the brick factory.

The crime scene was also inside the house.

Zhuang Yanzheng had already inquired about it early on; the brick factory was still there, but it had been abandoned for many years.

Upon receiving the news, Su Miaoyi rushed to the entrance of the residential area.

Zhuang Yanzheng picked her up and Chu Xingrou along the way.

Lu Zhishen and Yan Cheng also went directly to the brick factory.

The brick factory is located in the suburbs and is not very large.

The brick factory has been abandoned ever since the accident.

When they arrived, a man was waiting outside the brick factory; he was the deceased man's cousin.

"Is this Officer Zhuang?"

Zhuang Yanzheng shook hands with him: "Hello."

“After my cousin’s family had that accident, apart from taking away some bricks, nothing else was touched,” the cousin said. “The fact that the murderer hasn’t been found is a knot in my heart, and it’s also a knot in my mother’s heart. So this place has always been left like this. At that time, we were thinking that if the police came and wanted to investigate something, if they could find some clues, we wouldn’t dare to touch it. But too much time has passed, year after year, and this place has become unrecognizable.”

As they talked, they walked inside.

The surrounding area was full of weeds.

Even inside the factory, there was grass that was half a person tall, and there wasn't even a path to get in.

They could only lay down the grass as they walked.

There were still some bricks and some soil piled up in the factory. Morning glories were climbing on the bricks, and all sorts of grasses were growing on the soil. Some of the brick kilns had also collapsed.

Su Miaoyi touched all the bricks, soil, and kilns she passed by.

Finally, they arrived at the house where the deceased's family used to live.

It's a very simple bungalow.

My cousin took the key and tried to open the door, but the lock was completely rusted and the keyhole was blocked.

Zhuang Yanzheng picked up a stone and used it to break the lock.

Pushing open the door, dust billowed up from inside.

Although the room was covered with a thick layer of dust, it was still clear that it was the same as the photos in the case file.

There are three rooms in total. The grandparents live in one room, and the family of three lives in another.

There is another room used for cooking and eating. A square low table is still in the room, and three of the four small stools are overturned.

There was also a bench at the Municipal Public Security Bureau, which was taken away as evidence at the time.

The perpetrator hit the child on the head with a stool, and there was blood on the stool.

The murderer took all the tools he used to commit the crime from this house.

A small stool and a kitchen knife.

The kitchen knife killed four adults.

The two elderly people died in their room on their bed.

Judging from the photos, the two elderly people were murdered while they were still asleep.

The boy's father collapsed in the kitchen, and the boy's mother collapsed in their living room.

The little boy collapsed next to his mother.

After the murder, the killer ransacked the place, but there's no record of whether anything valuable was stolen.

The whole family is gone, and no one knows what's missing from the room.

The murderer threw the kitchen knife he used to kill outside the room.

No fingerprints were detected on the kitchen knife or the stool.

Only bloodstains and wrinkles on the gloves were detected.

Analysis suggests it was a plastic glove.

Chu Xingrou looked around and, following the location in the photo, wiped the dust off the ground with her foot, revealing black bloodstains.

Over the years, the bloodstains have turned black.

Su Miaoyi did not forget the purpose of their visit.

After all, fifteen years have passed. If another five years pass, the house is at risk of collapsing. It's unlikely they'll find any new clues here.

They were mainly there to show her the crime scene.

So Su Miaoyi touched and patted this and that, she was practically ready to clean the whole place with a rag.

But no matter what I did, I couldn't see the image.

When Su Miaoyi touched those areas a second time, she really wanted to kneel down and beg her special ability to work.

But a whole morning passed and she still couldn't see anything.

On the way back, Su Miaoyi leaned against the car window without saying a word.

Chu Xingrou held the wet wipe that Lu Zhishen had given her.

When she got in the car, Lu Zhishen gave her a pack of wet wipes and told her and Su Miaoyi to wipe themselves.

Both of them were covered in dust, their faces too, looking like little kittens.

But Su Miaoyi didn't speak, so she didn't disturb her.

After a while, Su Miaoyi said, "If I had known, I would have asked Brother Zheng to go to his dad's house last night to get that book of spells. I would have stayed up all night to familiarize myself with it, and I could have tried it today."

“People will think I’ve hired a shaman,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Chu Xingrou handed her a wet wipe so she could wipe her face.

Su Miaoyi took out her phone and looked at herself: "Wow, dusty makeup."

"Hurry up and wipe it off, or people will think I took you out begging," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi wiped the dust off her face: "Following Captain Zhuang, we go hungry three times a day."

Zhuang Yanzheng remained silent.

After returning to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Su Miaoyi looked at the photos.

Half the afternoon passed, and still nothing was seen.

Su Miaoyi felt a bit of a headache, so after get off work, she went to the convenience store across from the Municipal Bureau to buy an ice cream.

After crossing the street, I walked towards the convenience store.

She suddenly felt someone watching her again.

She walked forward, took out her phone, and opened the front-facing camera to take a look.

I saw someone behind a tree about fifty meters away.

I could only see clothes behind the tree, and it looked like a woman, but I wasn't sure.

Su Miaoyi immediately turned around to go and see.

But the scene before him changed the moment he turned around.

As Zhuang Yanzheng left the Municipal Bureau, he caught a glimpse of someone standing across the street.

He took another look, as was his habit.

They discovered that Su Miaoyi was standing there motionless.

He immediately crossed the road and, upon reaching her, confirmed that she had seen something and was motionless.

He stood beside her and waited for a while before Su Miaoyi suddenly woke up.

This time I didn't feel too bad, I just suddenly shivered.

She snapped out of her daze and looked around.

"What did you see?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Su Miaoyi looked at him, paused for a second, and immediately grabbed his arm, asking, "Did Lu Zhishen and Xing Rou leave?"

"not yet."

Su Miaoyi walked across the street.

Zhuang Yanzheng followed her.

“I saw Lu Xian,” Su Miaoyi said. “He’s in Jinghai right now.”

Zhuang Yanzheng thought she would see the brick factory case, but instead she saw Lu Xian: "Where?"

"I don't know, I only saw some buildings, I need to find them." Su Miaoyi said quickly, walked to the other side of the road, and then stopped.

"what happened?"

“There,” Su Miaoyi said, pointing into the distance, “about fifty meters away. Before I saw the image, I felt someone was watching me from there.”

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the screen she was pointing to and said, "Okay, I'll go check the surveillance footage."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)