A perfect crime? To me, it's full of flaws!

After the screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground, the police car stopped in front of a five-story building.

The car headlights shone on the mottled wall, revealing large patches of peeling cement.

"Where is this?" Qi Feng lowered the car window, his gaze sweeping over the rusted and deformed iron gate.

"An illegal building." Da Liu glanced through the car window, his brow furrowing slightly. "The owner illegally changed the land use designation and built it. He initially wanted to open a hotel to make money from passing truck drivers. But after a short time, someone reported him, and it's been abandoned ever since."

"How long has it been abandoned?" Qi Feng pressed.

"It's been five or six years. The boss was heavily in debt and went to work in another city a long time ago," Da Liu said after a brief recollection.

"Five or six years? Wasted?" Qi Feng narrowed his eyes.

He pushed open the car door and leaned half his body out. The night wind carried the earthy smell of the wasteland and rushed towards him. This place was in the middle of nowhere, without even a streetlamp, and was as dark as a bottomless pit.

But Qi Feng's gaze was fixed on a dilapidated trash can twenty meters away.

In this deserted place that's been uninhabited for five or six years, where does all this household garbage come from in the trash cans? Do the stray dogs in the neighborhood know how to sort garbage?

"Third Brother, give me the flashlight." Qi Feng reached out his hand.

Just as he was about to get out of the car to check...

"Sizzle..."

The police radio inside the car suddenly emitted a sharp static crackling sound, followed by the operator's urgent, distorted shouting:

"Police report! Important police report! The suspect in the 6-11 major homicide case has appeared in Xilin Village! Nearby police forces are requested to proceed to the scene immediately to provide support! Repeat! The suspect has appeared in Xilin Village!"

The carriage fell into a deathly silence.

Sanzi's hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, his knuckles turning white. Da Liu sat bolt upright, his eyes instantly sharpening like knives.

"Xilin Village? Where is that?" Qi Feng pulled back the leg that had stepped out of the car and turned to stare at Da Liu.

"North of the city! About fifteen kilometers from where we are! It's in our direction!" Big Liu spoke rapidly without hesitation.

"Then what about us?" Sanzi didn't start the car, but turned to look at Qi Feng.

Qi Feng glanced at the trash can not far away, a hint of struggle flashing in his eyes.

But the calls on the radio grew more urgent with each passing moment. If the suspect was indeed in Xilin Village, and they were lingering there, no one could bear the responsibility should something happen to the child.

Qi Feng sighed, glanced at Da Liu and Zhou Zhouguo, whose faces were filled with excitement, and gritted his teeth: "To Xilin Village!"

"Okay!"

The three men floored the accelerator and turned on the siren.

The police car shot through the darkness like an arrow, speeding towards Xilin Village.

Night once again engulfed the five-story building.

Little did they know that just as the three had left, a silver van with a dark reflective film on it, without even turning on its headlights, drove out from around the corner like a ghost.

The wheels rolled over the gravel and easily turned into the backyard of the abandoned building.

.......

The police car sped along National Highway 201. Its speed had already reached 120 miles per hour.

In the back seat, Da Liu kept checking the latest surveillance situation in Xilin Village via radio.

In the passenger seat, Qi Feng's brows were furrowed.

Qi Feng's mind was like a high-speed computer, frantically processing all the existing fragmented information.

Xilin Village is 15 kilometers north of the city, which does match my and my senior sister's data deduction, but why is my heart so impure!

"If I were her, how would I run away?" Qi Feng kept asking himself.

If she wanted to leave the city directly, why would she go to Xilin Village? He had just looked at the map; although Xilin Village was outside the city, it wasn't the best route out of the city!

Was it because the child was too young? Was she afraid to risk taking the child so far? Or was Xilin Village just a diversionary tactic?

Many thoughts popped into Qi Feng's mind, but he couldn't be sure of any of them. These fragmented logics only made his thinking more confused.

Qi Feng grew increasingly agitated, constantly trying to clear his thoughts.

The abandoned five-story building kept appearing in my mind, and the trash can filled with household garbage became increasingly clear.

An abandoned building that hasn't been occupied for five or six years. Fresh garbage. An extremely remote location, but with an excellent location right next to the national highway leading out of the city.

Qi Feng's mental state completely snapped.

"Stop the car! Go back!" Qi Feng suddenly sat up straight, his loud shout echoing through the carriage.

The three men were startled and instinctively slammed on the brakes. The tires left a long black trail on the asphalt.

"What's wrong? Where are you going?" Zhou Sanguo asked, looking puzzled.

"Go back to that five-story building!" Qi Feng's eyes shone with a frightening intensity, revealing a desperate, ruthless determination. "I won't give up until I see it once."

He always felt there was something wrong with that little building.

"Huh? Going back again?" Zhou Sanguo complained. "Advisor Qi, the radio said the suspect is in Xilin Village, and the main force has already gone there... We're so close..."

"Go back!"

Suddenly, Liu, sitting in the back seat, spoke up. His voice was steady, yet carried an undeniable authority.

The three were stunned.

"Sanzi, turn around." Da Liu leaned forward and patted Sanzi on the shoulder. "Many people have already gone to Xilin Village, so the three of us won't make a difference. But we can't give up on any clues until the suspect is found."

Da Liu gave Qi Feng a deep look. Having worked in criminal investigation for twenty years, he knew that sometimes you had to trust a policeman's intuition.

".....clear!"

The police car jerked the steering wheel. It made a U-turn on the narrow national highway, the tires emitting a pungent, acrid smell, and sped back the way it came.

The car quickly returned to the side of the small building.

Just as the police car was about to turn around and drive away, two faint red taillights suddenly lit up from the direction of the backyard of the small building.

Immediately afterwards, a silver van drove out from the backyard of the small building.

"There really is someone there," Zhou Sanguo said, puzzled, upon seeing the car.

The police car's headlights instantly illuminated the bread truck.

There were no license plates, and all the windows on the car were covered with extremely thick reflective film, making it impossible to see inside the car from the outside.

The moment the two cars passed each other.

"Stop him!" Qi Feng roared.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Sanguo stepped on the gas and drove after them.

"The vehicles in front, pull over immediately! Pull over immediately!" Da Liu grabbed the car's loudspeaker and shouted a warning.

Instead of slowing down, the silver van spewed out black smoke from its exhaust pipe and began to accelerate wildly as if it had gone mad.