Qi Feng squatted on a pile of construction waste that reeked of a pungent odor, clutching a black plastic bag with a hole in it.

In his mind, the suspect profiling skill was like a high-speed server, frantically piecing together scattered clues.

女性

kill.

Disembowelment to remove the corpse.

Take the body away.

Clean up the site.

Even though the bag was torn, they were willing to risk exposure to move and take the baby's body away.

Why?

Qi Feng stared at the bloodstains on the bag, his eyes gradually turning cold.

"Call Captain Zhao," Qi Feng suddenly said, his voice ringing out clearly in the empty construction site.

Xiao Liu was still standing under the trash can when he heard this. He hurriedly pulled out his phone and dialed Zhao Gang's number.

"Hey? Xiao Liu, what's going on?" Zhao Gang's slightly tired voice came from the other end of the phone.

Qi Feng jumped off the trash can, landed steadily, and casually grabbed Xiao Liu's phone.

"Team Leader Zhao, it's me." Qi Feng took off his dusty latex gloves and walked quickly toward the police car. "The investigation direction needs to be adjusted immediately."

"Advisor Qi?" Zhao Gang paused for a moment. "What have you discovered on your end?"

"We will focus on screening women of childbearing age in H City and its surrounding areas who have had a miscarriage or induced abortion within the past six months, or who have been diagnosed with severe infertility and whose mental state has recently shown obvious abnormalities." Qi Feng spoke very quickly and decisively.

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone: "What's the reason?"

"Motive." Qi Feng opened the passenger door and got in. "The murderer didn't kill for money or revenge; she did it for the 'child'."

"She took the fetus from the victim's womb. The plastic bag containing the body broke during her escape, but she chose to dispose of it on the roadside rather than leave the body behind. This shows that the fetus was not a byproduct of the crime, but the ultimate goal for her."

Qi Feng leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on the gloomy sky outside the windshield: "Also, in the first case, the victim's wound had multiple cut marks around the edges, indicating that she was very nervous and her technique was clumsy. But in the case of Haitang's attack, her knife strikes were extremely steady, and the wound on the victim's abdomen was much neater. This shows that her technique has improved significantly in a short period of time."

"What did she take the pregnant woman for? She took her for a vessel to obtain a 'child'." Qi Feng sneered. "A woman who desperately wanted a child but couldn't have a normal child, after experiencing some kind of trauma, became completely psychologically twisted and developed a morbid compensatory mentality. She felt that as long as she took someone else's child out, it would be hers."

All that could be heard on the other end of the phone was heavy breathing.

"Understood." Zhao Gang's voice held a hint of barely perceptible excitement. "I'll immediately arrange for the household registration department and the obstetrics and gynecology departments of major hospitals to cross-reference the data!"

"The sooner the better." Qi Feng hung up the phone and tossed it to Xiao Liu, who had just gotten into the driver's seat. "Back to the station. While you're at it, take this tattered bag to the forensic department and see if you can extract any DNA or skin flakes other than the deceased's."

Xiao Liu looked at Qi Feng with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.

From arriving at the scene to finding key physical evidence and completing an accurate criminal psychological profile, this provincial consultant, who looks a few years younger than her, only took less than half an hour.

Is this even human?

"What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a handsome guy before?" Qi Feng rolled his eyes, and patted the dust off his shoes with a pained expression. "These shoes are a limited edition. I lost a lot of money on this business trip. I'll have to ask Old Man Gong for reimbursement later."

Xiao Liu's lips twitched, and he stepped on the gas.

This guy can't be serious for more than three seconds.

H City Public Security Bureau, Criminal Investigation Detachment Main Office.

The sounds of keyboard typing and telephone ringing blended together.

Zhao Gang was extremely efficient; in less than two hours, a list of 2,124 women who met the profiling criteria was printed out and placed on the conference table.

"They're all here." Zhao Gang held a thermos, his eyes bloodshot. "Those who had miscarriages, stillbirths, or induced abortions within the last six months, all within their age range, are on the list. I've already had people check their recent whereabouts and mental state."

"We've thought about what you said before, and we've investigated it once, but we haven't found anything," Zhao Gang continued.

"Then let's investigate again. I think my profile of the suspect is correct. By the way, has Haitang woken up? Are there any clues?" Qi Feng asked.

"She's awake, which only confirms that the suspect is female; there are no other clues," Zhao Gang said with a sigh.

"Alright, give me a few people to help me check the people on these lists. We need to take two approaches, we can't just follow this one line," Qi Feng said after thinking for a moment.

"Okay, you investigate here first, and I'll send people over right away. We'll communicate any findings immediately." Zhao Gang also felt that Qi Feng's words made sense. They had investigated this approach before but had come up empty-handed, so he wanted to continue the investigation using the old method. After all, the suspect had already committed three crimes, and counting the attack on Lin Haitang, that made four. He didn't believe they couldn't catch this person.

Zhao Gang acted quickly. By the time Qi Feng saw the third person's personal information, three young police officers had already arrived. With Xiao Liu added to the group, there were five people. Without any unnecessary words, they began to look through the information and then handed over the ones they thought had problems to Qi Feng for final identification.

"This isn't it!"

"That's not it either!"

"This one is suspected... but the body shape is different."

Qi Feng kept looking at the information handed to him, but despite his analysis, he couldn't find anyone who matched his profile.

A whole night passed, and the group hadn't slept a wink, finally finishing reading all the materials.

Qi Feng looked at the 30 suspected documents in his hand. He had a premonition that the suspect was not among them.

However, in order not to miss any clues, after washing his face with cold water, he still had the group split into two to start investigating the 30 people, while he investigated the five most suspected murderers' files by himself.

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