In the future chat group, I'll become the richest man by just eating gossip.

Chapter 14 Breaking Point

Feng Nan will carefully review every message in the chat group, especially those photos of old newspapers and news links.

When Feng Nan comes across information that she thinks might be useful, she writes it down in her notebook and then organizes it together when summarizing the information later.

Time slipped away quietly as Feng Nan diligently took notes. When Feng Nan came to her senses again, it was already evening.

Looking at the sparse stars outside the window, Feng Nan wearily pinched the bridge of her nose.

"It's difficult!"

"This case will not be solved in the future."

Feng Nan put down her phone, looking somewhat dejected.

Feng Nan looked at the information she had copied down in her notebook. The latest report about the case was a news article from four years later. A blogger named Nan Ge had claimed on a short video platform that he had discovered the murderer of the Nine Corpses and Thirteen Heads case and had obtained evidence, and was preparing to report the murderer to the police station.

But since then, Nango has disappeared from short video platforms.

Nan Ge's sudden disappearance has once again brought the "Nine Corpses and Thirteen Heads" case to the forefront of public attention, drawing the attention of many netizens.

People are speculating about Nango's whereabouts.

Some say that Nan Ge successfully reported the crime and received a reward of up to one million yuan. Fearing retaliation from the murderer's family, he stopped making short videos and moved to another city.

Some speculate that Nango was silenced by the killer.

Some people say that Nango is a fraudster who fabricated fake news to gain traffic and has been detained by the police.

As public opinion continued to escalate, it attracted the attention of reporters and the serious crime squad.

Li Biao, then head of the Major Crimes Unit, believed that it was better to be safe than sorry, so he began to issue notices to the police stations in various jurisdictions, asking if anyone had provided any clues about the Nine Bodies and Thirteen Heads case, and if anyone in the jurisdiction had received a missing security guard or if a murder had occurred.

At the same time, Li Biao personally went to the short video platform where Nan Ge was located, retrieved Nan Ge's personal information, and tried to find Nan Ge.

But by this time, Nango had already disappeared.

The surveillance video outside Nan Ge's house shows that about ten minutes after he posted the short video of going to the police station to report the murderer, he left. However, the surveillance cameras in the elevator of his building, at the entrance of his apartment building, and at the entrance of the community did not show Nan Ge leaving. It was as if Nan Ge suddenly vanished into thin air.

Li Biao, who has extensive experience in handling cases, immediately realized that Nan Ge's disappearance was likely related to the real culprit in the Nine Corpses and Thirteen Heads case from years ago, and immediately dispatched more police forces to search for Nan Ge.

Finally, a week later, the city police issued a statement confirming that Nango was dead.

Nan Ge's body was discovered by an elderly scavenger in an abandoned brick kiln on the outskirts of Tang City. Along with Nan Ge, three other bodies that had been missing for a long time were also found.

From then on, the case changed from the case of nine corpses and thirteen heads to the case of fourteen corpses and murders.

Li Biao also led the Major Crimes Unit to reopen this long-sealed cold case.

However, even when Feng Nan inquired about related news in the group, the case was still unsolved. The difficulty lay in the fact that it was impossible to determine how Nan Ge disappeared in the apartment building, how he was transported out of the community, and how his body was dumped in an abandoned brick kiln in the suburbs.

Looking at these scattered clues and related reports about the murder of blogger Nan Ge, Feng Nan felt that something seemed wrong.

But Feng Nan wasn't a professionally trained criminal investigator, so he couldn't immediately figure out where the problem lay.

Feng Nan shook her head in distress and opened the case-related materials sent by Yueyang.

The information provided by the Major Crimes Unit was quite comprehensive, with many details far more detailed than what Feng Nan had pieced together in the future chat group. When Feng Nan saw the autopsy report sent by Yue Yang, a sudden inspiration struck him.

She finally realized where the problem lay.

It's a method for disposing of corpses!

The previous thirteen people, regardless of the cause of death, were all beheaded and dismembered by the murderer, and their bodies were dumped in the wilderness and buried.

Although Nango's body was disposed of after his death, he was not beheaded.

That's the biggest difference!
Feng Nan picked up her phone, found Yueyang's WeChat profile picture, and sent him a message.

[Feng Nan: Team Leader Yue, if the same murderer disposes of the body differently on each occasion, what would be the reason in your experience?]

Yueyang quickly replied to the message.

[Yueyang: Did you discover something? Or has another case occurred somewhere?]

[Feng Nan: No, I'm just about to become an advisor to your Major Crimes Unit, so of course I need to brush up on my criminal investigation skills beforehand. You're a veteran criminal investigator, so could you help me out?]

[Yueyang: If this kind of problem occurs, it's either a copycat crime, meaning the perpetrator wasn't the same person, or the situation was so urgent that the perpetrator didn't have time to dispose of the body. If the two cases are separated by a long period and copycat crimes are ruled out, we can also consider that the perpetrator had health problems that prevented him from independently handling the body disposal process. For example, the perpetrator might have been a healthy middle-aged man when he committed the first crime, but by the time he committed the last crime, he was old, or his physical condition had declined due to illness or accidents, resulting in disability, etc.]

[Yueyang: So you disappeared for half a day, did you discover something?]

[Feng Nan: Not yet, but it might be soon.]

After reading Yueyang's explanation, Feng Nan's eyes lit up. She immediately clicked on Leisure Town, entered the Future Chat Group, found the news link about the Nan Ge case in the group, and read it carefully from beginning to end.

After reading the news, Feng Nan exited the news link and started typing.

[Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Mustard Greens: @Everyone, does anyone have more news or information about the Nango case? The more detailed the better!]

At the same time, Feng Nan sent a special red envelope to each of the people who had previously provided clues in the future chat group.

As Feng Nan sent out red envelopes, more group members were motivated by the financial incentive.

Soon, Feng Nan got what she wanted in the future chat group.

That was a summary of the investigation transcripts for the Nango case.

Looking at the investigation record, Feng Nan quickly identified several people he found suspicious.

These individuals all fit Feng Nan's image of the murderer, and also conform to the possible scenarios of the murderer that Yue Yang just explained.

"perhaps……"

"I really can solve this case!"

Feng Nan copied all the information about these people into her notebook.

While sorting out the relationships between the suspects and Nan Ge, Feng Nan was also thinking about how to reasonably reveal the clues she obtained from the future to Yue Yang.

How should we guide Yueyang and his group to first dig out the three headless skeletons from the abandoned brick kiln?

(End of this chapter)