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Chapter 65 Unscrupulous
In a dark room, the only oil lamp flickered slightly.

A girl passed out on the ground, bleeding from the corner of her mouth, her face was pale, and her hands were tied behind her back.After a while, the girl slowly opened her eyes and woke up. She took a deep breath, then gasped for breath, and it took a while to calm down.

"Is there anyone?! Is there anyone?!"

The faint cry for help was so feeble, at this moment, except for the faint oil lamp that could prove that she was still in the world, all that remained was endless and dead darkness around her.
At the same time, Xiaoman was still dealing with the mysterious call.

"I still have a girl in my hand. Just like five years ago, as long as you let me go, I will let that girl go, and I won't kill anyone again." The voice said proudly.

"I'm sorry, I'm not a detective, I don't have the right to do this." Xiaoman said solemnly.

"Haha." The man on the phone smiled strangely for a while, and then said in a harsh tone, "You can definitely keep me from being caught."

"What do you mean?" Xiaoman frowned and asked.

"As long as you promise to help me, such as making key evidence disappear inexplicably and making the investigation confusing and directionless, I will let that girl go."

Qin Xiaoman clenched the receiver tightly, with a serious expression on her face. At this moment, she remembered what Ouyang Xun said before she died. Sure enough, the person she was talking to on the phone was the criminal who committed the murder back then!Xiaoman recalled Ouyang Xun's remorseful expression in his mind, looked at the photo of the two murdered girls on the photo at the moment, and said angrily: "No, I will never negotiate terms with you!"

"Please think carefully, everything you say now is related to the life and death of a girl, and even more people." The man sneered confidently.

"I won't compromise with you like Inspector Ouyang!" Xiaoman said firmly.

"You should listen to me." The man's sneer turned into a threat.

"My duty is to catch you with my own hands!" Xiaoman said loudly.

"You will regret it very much." The man hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Xiaoman put down the phone slowly, looked at the photo wall uneasily, her heart was beating violently in her chest.

At this moment, Luo Fei opened the door and walked in, seeing Xiaoman's bluish face, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei, his cold chest seemed to be on fire for an instant, and gradually warmed and calmed down.

In Sullivan's apartment, Qin Xiaoman sat by the window, frowning and looking outside.Luo Fei came over with a glass of wine and handed it to her.

"What wine to drink at night?" Xiaoman asked, but still reached out to take it and sniffed it.

"This is a wine that helps you sleep. I created it myself. Two-thirds of it is milk, so you can sleep soundly." Luo Fei said pouted, "Try it, I can give it a try. I have never been transferred to the second person before, and I made an exception today because I commend you for your determination to fight the murderer to the end."

Xiaoman took a sip, her eyes lit up, and she looked at Luo Fei: "Yes, it's delicious."

"It's not worse than your chicken soup." Luo Fei said while hugging his shoulders.

"Hmph, that's still far away." Xiaoman pouted.

Luo Fei looked at Xiaoman, and suddenly said seriously: "You did the right thing, we can't make a deal with the murderer."

"But." Xiaoman held the wine glass and said a little uneasy, "Will an innocent girl suffer because of my few words?"

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Wang Susu walked in immediately, holding a bowl of soup in her hand: "Xiaoman, I made you a bowl of longan water to soothe your nerves and invigorate your energy."

"Thank you, Sister Susu." Xiaoman got up and thanked her again and again, still holding the wine glass tightly, just motioned for Wang Susu to put the bowl on the table, "By the way, didn't you say that your niece is going to live with me? Why hasn't she come yet?" ?”

Wang Susu also looked puzzled: "Yes, it is reasonable to say that I should be there during the day today. Maybe I went to play with my classmates?"

In the early morning of the next day, sirens rang one after another at the entrance of an alley.

Luo Fei, Qin Xiaoman and Javert walked quickly into the alley, and Benjamin greeted them not far away.

"Or him?" Luo Fei asked nervously.

Benjamin nodded with a grim expression: "Yes, it's still the torture of laughing, resulting in death from suffocation."

At this time, Luo Fei saw Qin Xiaoman running to the corpse, kneeling aside, holding his head tightly with both hands, with a pained and annoyed expression on his face.

Luo Fei then walked over and squatted beside her: "Are you sad?"

"It's my fault, I killed her." Xiaoman said in a crying voice.

Luo Fei patted Xiaoman's shoulder lightly: "It's not your fault, it's the murderer, not you."

"But if I had promised the murderer last night, she would not have died last night."

Luo Fei immediately took Qin Xiaoman's shoulders and said solemnly: "Xiaoman, look at me and listen to me carefully. You will meet many such victims in your police career, but if you take their The murder is all on your own head, you won’t be able to bear it.” Luo Fei said as he took off his gloves, and gently wiped away Xiaoman’s tears, “Xiaoman, you have done your duty faithfully, you have done what a policeman can do. Do all the duties, but there will still be victims. It's not your fault, it's the murderer's fault, so you have to catch them, and you can't let them get away with it."

Qin Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei's gentle and encouraging expression, and nodded slowly. At that moment, Xiaoman suddenly remembered what Luo Fei said seriously about what I saw when he was driving last night.

Luo Fei continued: "Look at the many onlookers outside the alley, maybe the murderer is inside, looking at you. We can't become what they want to see."

Qin Xiaoman immediately looked towards the entrance of the alley, crowded with people, many of them were staring at him.

"Has the victim been identified?" Javert asked Benjamin at this time.

Benjamin shook his head: "The identity information of the deceased was not found at the scene, and we may have to slowly compare it from the database of missing persons."

"How long will it take for comparison?" Javert asked anxiously.

Benjamin showed embarrassment: "It depends on luck. If you are lucky, it may take about three days."

Javert sighed heavily: "If you're lucky, it will take three more days?"

At this time, Benjamin suddenly said: "Yes, if the deceased has relatives in the concession and the relatives report the case in time, it will take about three days. Because the deceased is not a child, but an adult, even if he is not contacted by his family within a short time, The family members may not report the crime immediately, but look around, which will delay a day or two."

"What if you're unlucky?" Javert asked sullenly.

Benjamin looked at Javert helplessly: "If the deceased is just a tourist or lives alone, and his family members are away from home, if no one reports the case in time, it may take three months or even half a year."

When Javert heard this, his eyes widened: "Three months? We can't even wait for three days now! The murderer's time interval between kidnapping and killing is getting shorter and shorter. Who knows how many people he will kill in three days? !"

"But we really don't have any clues now." Benjamin sighed slightly as he looked at the female corpse in front of him.

"No, if you want to know who the deceased is, there are still enough clues." Luo Fei reasoned while observing the corpse.

"Luo Fei, you already know the identity of the deceased?!" Benjamin said in disbelief.

Luo Fei touched the face and neck of the deceased, asked Benjamin to help him up, and looked at the back of the deceased's hands.

"The deceased was an international student who had just returned from abroad and was on a large cruise ship. However, the deceased's economic situation was average. The cost of the cruise should have been sponsored by relatives and friends. The deceased loved to drink strong alcohol and had a relatively open concept of sex. He had paid more than one Boyfriend. I suggest checking the large cruise ships that arrived in Shanghai in the last two days but with a voyage of more than half a month, check the passenger list, and quickly determine her identity."

When Luo Fei quickly said the above-mentioned reasoning, everyone present was stunned for ten seconds.

"How do you know so much?" Javert asked impatiently.

Luo Fei pointed to the dead man's face and said, "The dead man's face had some small red rashes, which were caused by the sea breeze for a long time. It usually takes about a week to recover. It means that the dead man just came back from abroad by sea. Then look at the dead man's forehead. The traces of peeling, this is the trace of being burned by strong sunlight when passing near the equator, indicating that the deceased’s journey should have passed near the equator, so the voyage should be at least half a month.”

"The dead man liked to drink strong wine, where did you see that?" Javert asked again.

"Isn't this obvious? You can't even see her teeth and her nose?" Luo Fei pointed at the reddened nose of the deceased.

"That……"

"I know you're going to ask how I know that the deceased had more than one boyfriend." Before Javert could ask again, Luo Fei said directly, and then pointed to the deceased's back to explain, "It's easier, I am It can be seen from her tattoo that she once tattooed a few letters, which was a man's English name, but then she may have broken up. She changed these letters and re-tattooed a new name, but it was also a man's name .But this information is to help us investigate the suspects. If you want to know the name of the deceased, you should check the cruise ship first."

"If it's a long-distance cruise just off, the list is still easy to check." Javert looked at it, nodded, and then turned to Ye Changqing who was smoking not far away, "Changqing! Come here!"

When the arrest team was withdrawn from the scene, Xiaoman was sent back to Sullivan's apartment by Luo Fei halfway, saying that he wanted her to have a good rest.

Qin Xiaoman walked to the door of the apartment and was looking for the keys when Wang Susu opened the door from the inside and walked out in a hurry.

"Xiaoman, shouldn't you be at work at this time?"

Xiaoman said sadly: "I'm not feeling well today, so I'll come back early to have a rest before going back to the patrol room."

Wang Susu touched Xiaoman's arm with concern: "Just in time, the longan and red date soup I made for you is still in the pot, you can drink whatever you want."

Xiaoman nodded: "Thank you sister Susu, where are you going?"

"West Bund Wharf, I have a niece who came back from England, the one who wants to share a room with you."

"Isn't she here yet?" Xiaoman's eyes froze.

Wang Susu sighed and shook her head: "That's right, I should have arrived at the port yesterday, why is there no news yet? I'm going to ask the steamship company."

Xiaoman quickly asked, "Which shipping company?"

Wang Susu thought for a while, and then said: "It's called the Anglia Far East Cruise Company, and the child's family background is also average. I paid for the cruise on her behalf."

Xiaoman's face turned pale with shock: "Could it be..."

Wang Susu looked at Xiaoman blankly: "Xiaoman, what's wrong with you?"

"Sister Susu, do you have a photo of your niece?" Xiaoman eagerly grabbed Wang Susu's arm.

(End of this chapter)