You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 207 The Bloody Crime Scene!

"Murder! We saw them kill people!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Jinwen's gaze sharpened: "Where did you see it?"

"The toilet, inside the women's toilet."

"Several people?"

"Four, four people..."

What did they do?

"They dragged a woman to the toilet, took off her clothes, covered her mouth, and two men held her hands down to prevent her from moving..."

"and then?"

"And then they were like wild dogs..."

"You watched the whole thing?"

"Yeah, I saw it."

"And then?"

"Afterwards, they stabbed my sister in the stomach several times, and chopped off her head..."

Do you know that woman?

"No...we don't know each other."

Do you know those four men?

“I don’t know him either.”

"Besides you, who else saw it?"

"Xiao Fei saw it too. He covered my mouth to stop me from shouting."

"From where did you see it?"

"We climbed up the slope behind the toilet, lay down in the snow, and saw it from the toilet window."

Why are you going over there?

"Because when we were building a snowman, we saw four men grabbing another man by the hair. They started arguing, and after a while, the man fell to the ground and didn't move."

The woman was dragged into the restroom by these four men. Xiao Fei, curious, took me to peek.

Where does Xiao Fei live?

Zhang Xiaodong's face turned from white to red, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.

Seeing his condition, his father said with heartache, "Officer, Xiao Fei also lives in the alley. He's two grades ahead of my Xiao Dong. I'll take you there."

Clearly, he didn't want his son to recall these things.

Yang Jinwen looked at Xu Guoliang, who immediately understood: "You and Maozi go first, I'll send someone to stay here and I'll inform the bureau."

Zhang Xiaodong's father, Zhang Qian, was a worker at a cannery and was known for his smooth-talking nature.

As he led the way, he said, “Officer, the child was not in good spirits when he came back. That night he had a fever and nightmares. We thought he was talking nonsense, so we didn’t call the police.”

Yang Jinwen nodded.

"This one……"

"Tell me what's wrong."

"Will my child face retaliation if they witness these thugs committing murder?"

Cat replied, "If I wanted revenge, I would have done it long ago. I wouldn't have waited until now."

"It's not like that. I'm really scared that they'd dare to chop someone's head off..."

After saying this, Zhang Qian couldn't help but shiver.

He could empathize with his own child experiencing something like this.

Yang Jinwen looked at him and said, "Don't worry, we will have people waiting at your house until we catch the person."

Zhang Qian nodded heavily and took out a cigarette.

Yang Jinwen waved his hand: "We don't smoke."

"Okay, I'll have one." Zhang Qian lit it, took a puff, and his emotions calmed down a little.

He continued, "Xiao Fei, we call him Xiao Fei. When he was a child, his father was in jail for robbing someone and breaking their leg. His mother ran away when he was two years old."

"Who's left in his family?"

“There’s only one grandfather. He often comes to our house to play with Xiaodong. He also ate lunch at our house the day before yesterday. After lunch, the two children went out to play.”

The two families lived not far apart, in a side alley.

Zhang Qian arrived at the door, knocked, and an old man opened the door.

"Uncle Xiao, where's your Xiaofei?"

The old man glanced at Yang Jinwen and Maozi, and Zhang Qian immediately introduced them: "These two are police officers from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. They've come to find out some information."

"What do you know? Are you going to add to my son's sentence again?"

Yang Jinwen took out his Zhonghua cigarette and offered one to the other party.

But the other person didn't answer; they just stared at him coldly.

"It's like this, sir, we're looking for Xiaofei, it has nothing to do with your son?"

The old man immediately became wary: "You want to arrest Xiaofei? He's just a child! You really won't let my family go!"

"No, do you know what happened at the sports park across the street?"

"So what if you know?"

“We’re here for this. Xiaofei has seen the murderer.”

The old man looked at Zhang Qian, who nodded seriously: "Xiao Dong saw it too, otherwise I wouldn't have brought two police officers here to find out what happened."

Uncle Xiao, if we don't catch these murderers soon, both our families will be in danger. These people have taken a woman's head..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Jinwen interrupted him: "Grandpa, this is a very important matter. We must ask your grandson about the situation."

"I told you that you looked really strange when you came back the night before last. Come in..."

Xiao Fei and Zhang Xiaodong were in the same situation, both lying motionless in bed.

Upon seeing several adults enter the room, he immediately jumped off the bed, barefoot, and hid in a corner.

This is a stress response; if you're not feeling anxious, you won't be so tense.

Yang Jinwen simply took out his ID and handed it to him.

"Xiao Fei, do you recognize the words on this?"

Xiao Fei blinked and nodded.

Do you know why we've come to find you?

He nodded again.

"Were you and Zhang Xiaodong playing in the snow at the sports park the day before yesterday afternoon?"

Xiao Fei nodded. "Did you see four men arguing with a man and a woman?"

Xiao Fei continued to nod.

"You and Zhang Xiaodong witnessed these four people committing murder?"

nod.

"Are you afraid?"

"I'm scared!" This was the first time Xiao Fei had spoken.

"So you're afraid to go out?"

"I'm afraid to go out."

Are you still afraid now?

"I'm also afraid."

"Are you scared with us here?"

“I’m afraid of you. My dad was taken away by you.”

Yang Jinwen rubbed his nose: "That's different, we won't talk about that. Can you tell us what happened back then?"

Xiao Fei looked at his grandfather, and seeing the latter nod, he nodded as well: "I can talk to him, but can you release my father? He's been in prison for ten years."

"If you're willing to talk, and if your dad behaves well in prison, I can take you to see him."

"Really?"

"Really, I assure your grandfather."

"Then I can tell you."

Yang Jinwen patted the bedside: "Come here, sit down and talk."

Xiao Fei pursed his lips, walked barefoot, and slowly sat down on the edge of the bed.

Yang Jinwen brought over a stool and sat down opposite him.

What was the situation at the time?

Xiao Fei looked at Zhang Qian standing to the side: "Uncle Zhang, how is Xiao Dong?"

"I'm sick."

"He was even more scared than I was."

Yang Jinwen interjected, "You are braver than Xiao Dong."

This was a compliment, and Xiao Fei nodded emphatically, immediately winning his favor.

"Think back carefully and start from the beginning."

Xiao Fei nodded and said, "The day before yesterday afternoon, the four of us were building a snowman and having a snowball fight on the basketball court. In the afternoon, I saw two people walking on the other side of the barbed wire fence."

"What do these two people look like? Did you get a good look at them?"

"I didn't see clearly. I just know what colors they were wearing. The man was wearing a black coat, and the woman was wearing a red coat."

"Can you see the face?"

"Didn't see clearly."

"You go on."

"I just glanced at them and then continued building the snowman. Half an hour later, I heard a few shouts from the other side of the barbed wire fence."

When I looked up, I saw a man being surrounded by two other men, and he immediately fell to the ground.

The other two men dragged the woman towards the toilet.

The remaining two men looked around, and Xiao Dong and I immediately lay down in the snow.

Then, out of curiosity, I asked Xiaodong to come and take a look.

Xiao Dong agreed, so the two of us went to the back of the basketball court. Isn't there a slope there?

We had climbed the bluestone slabs that covered it before; although they were difficult to climb, we were still able to get up.

We climbed up along the public toilet side, but it wasn't high enough, so we kept climbing. Above us were trees, grass, and snow.

When we got to the back of the public restroom, we saw through the window that the four men had stripped the woman of her clothes…

At this point, Xiao Fei took a breath and continued, "They told the woman not to move, saying they would release her once they were done."

The woman dared not struggle anymore, but two people were still holding her hands and head down.

These four men... they just..."

Yang Jinwen raised his hand: "Don't say that."

Xiao Fei nodded: "Then, then, a man squatted behind her head and covered her mouth with both hands..."

Xiao Fei clasped his hands together and pressed them down on his body.

"Another man took out an axe and chopped at the woman's neck several times."

I dared not make a sound, afraid Xiao Dong would scream, so I covered his mouth. We dared not move, and remained hidden in the snowdrift.

Hearing a thirteen-year-old describe such a scene, Maozi felt suffocated, as if something was blocking her chest.

Yang Jinwen asked with a serious expression, "And then?"

"Later, the four men left."

What did they take with them?

"Boss, they took that woman's head, they even cut it off..."

"What was it wrapped in?"

"That woman's clothes, that red coat."

Do you know what those four men look like?

"I saw the faces of two of them."

Do you remember clearly?

Xiao Fei nodded heavily: "My mind is filled with the faces of those two people."

Do you remember what the man and woman they killed looked like?

"I was too far away to see the man's face clearly, but I remember what the woman looked like very clearly!"

Yang Jinwen opened his notebook and took out a pen: "Tell me what they look like."

"One of the men had a round face, a beard on his chin, and was the one holding the axe. He had short hair and was a bit overweight."

The other one was a skinny guy, who rinsed the woman's head with water from the tap.

Before he left, he urinated in the toilet, facing us, so I remember it very clearly. His hair was messy, and his chin was very pointed…”

Nearly four hours later, Yang Jinwen finished the sketch. To ensure its authenticity, he hadn't shown it to Zhang Xiaodong yet. The boy only glanced at it, nodded with a look of fear in his eyes, and dared not look at it any longer.

Yang Jinwen said to Xu Guoliang, "Print out these three sketches and distribute them to all the branch bureaus and police stations in the city. Use their appearances to conduct investigations!"

(End of this chapter)