Chapter 54: Hidden Route
The law enforcement officers in Cuizhu City received a strange and tricky case, and they are currently racking their brains over it.
Huang Cheng, captain of the second team of law enforcement officers in Cuizhu City responsible for investigating this case, is now standing in the darkroom of the interrogation room, scrutinizing Zhang Xiaoxiao, who is at a loss while being questioned by the law enforcement officer.
This case is bizarre; to sum it up in one sentence, a woman killed everyone in the same carriage as her on the last train using some unknown method, and then inexplicably jumped onto the tracks and committed suicide the next morning.
Regarding the identity of the woman in black, Huang Cheng already has relatively clear investigation results.
The woman in black is named Xie Li, and her profession is a senior hairdresser. Her workplace reputation is that she is cold and indifferent with few friends around, but her skills are exceptional.
As such a hairdresser, it is normal to carry some hairdressing tools with her, but when the law enforcement officers later searched Xie Li’s items, they found at the bottom inside the luggage bag full of human heads not only hairdressing tools but also weapons such as an axe, a hammer, and a boning knife.
The law enforcement officers found bloodstains on those weapons, as well as fingerprints left by Xie Li from long-term use, all of which indicate that Xie Li was a pervert murderer who disguised herself as a hairdresser on a daily basis.
However, everyone is also puzzled; regardless of whether it was the axe, hammer, or boning knife, none of them are very lightweight items. Xie Li, the deceased, weighed less than 100 jin, yet she could use these things freely and effortlessly, which is simply unbelievable.
Moreover, judging from the smooth and even cut surfaces on those human heads, it can almost be confirmed that these people’s heads were directly chopped off with a single stroke, which is neither practical nor scientific. If Xie Li were a normal human, with her “tonnage,” she simply couldn’t have done these things.
Therefore, the law enforcement officers suspect that Xie Li had accomplices, but when they wanted to investigate the surveillance cameras on that last train, they found that the cameras on that train were all malfunctioning that day, so the real-time scene of that trip that night could not be retrieved.
Thus, the law enforcement officers could only judge through the surveillance at various entrances and exits when the last train arrived at the station how many people boarded that last train that night and how many got off it, then combine it with the approximate time of death from the autopsy of the human heads for comprehensive analysis and inference.
All of this ultimately locked onto Zhang Xiaoxiao, who survived the bloody night last night, because Zhang Xiaoxiao got off that death train midway and got off before Xie Li made her move, perfectly escaping the disaster.
This might be a coincidence for Zhang Xiaoxiao, but in the eyes of the law enforcement officers, this little girl seems a bit suspicious.
Now the law enforcement officers have reason to suspect that Zhang Xiaoxiao likely knew about Xie Li’s murder plan in advance and was Xie Li’s accomplice, so on that death last train, she helped Xie Li and then got off early to clear her suspicion.
In response, Zhang Xiaoxiao repeatedly cried that she was wronged; yesterday, she clearly did not leave the station alone, and there should have been a youth with her.
However, even stranger than the surveillance on yesterday’s death last train all being broken is that no one’s cameras at any station could find a youth matching the description.
Zhang Xiaoxiao was depressed to the point of tears; her mental fortitude was such that she hadn’t even had time to feel fear, so how could she have colluded with a criminal to commit murder? And against a group of complete strangers at that.
But the law enforcement officers do not think so; instead, they feel that Zhang Xiaoxiao’s suspicion is growing heavier.
Because anyone who can collaborate with a pervert killer is generally also a pervert.
Of course Zhang Xiaoxiao would not admit it, because she really isn’t, but the law enforcement officers do not believe what she says, so she could only give up helplessly.
The law enforcement officers think it doesn’t matter that Zhang Xiaoxiao is not confessing now, because they will continue to follow up the investigation. As long as they find traces in the carriage of that death train where Zhang Xiaoxiao injured someone, the law enforcement officers can convict her.
At the same time, what the law enforcement officers are most concerned about is that if these corpses’ human heads are in the bag, then where are these people’s corpses?
Strangely, they did not find any place in the subway where the corpses were hidden, with no clue and nowhere to investigate. Plus, most of the evidence in the carriage was eliminated by the subway’s daily cleaning and maintenance with disinfectants and other cleaning items, leaving almost no clues.
The law enforcement officers began to have other guesses; they suspected whether the corpses might have been directly disposed of somewhere along the subway line, so their investigation team began searching along the subway line.
And it was this investigation that directly made Huang Cheng realize the seriousness of the matter.
In the report Huang Cheng received from the investigation team, it said that midway through the underground subway passage, they discovered a hidden track that is usually covered by optical illusions, but in reality, that hidden track is right there, leading straight underground.
The law enforcement investigation team members collectively entered the hidden track area to begin the next phase of in-depth investigation.
At first, Huang Cheng could still receive messages from the investigation team, but after ten minutes, Huang Cheng found that he could no longer contact the investigation team members by phone. He only knew that after the investigation team group leader sent him a blurry photo of a humanoid creature, he completely lost contact with the investigation team members.
Seeing this, Huang Cheng felt inwardly anxious; he could not figure out what thing could make a group of well-trained law enforcement officers fearful to the point of their lives hanging in the balance. Then, as if he thought of some possibility, his expression changed drastically, and he quickly made a phone call.
In just a moment, several mysterious people wearing black uniforms arrived at the Law Enforcement Security Bureau. They replaced the original law enforcement officers interrogating Zhang Xiaoxiao and took over questioning her.
And after the switch, Zhang Xiaoxiao did not expect the conversation to go unusually smoothly. No one repeatedly asked the same questions in different ways to verify the truth of her words, nor did anyone use the oppressive environment to pressure her. She merely truthfully confessed to those mysterious people the strange things she encountered and her uneasy guesses, after which the men in black ordered the law enforcement officers to let her leave.
Finally regaining her freedom, Zhang Xiaoxiao felt indescribably happy inside.
Huang Cheng’s apprentice, who had been interrogating Zhang Xiaoxiao before, saw an important witness being let go like this and began flipping through the case information they had collected so far. In a displeased mood, he asked his master: “Master, is this okay? The interrogation was very unprofessional, and they were rummaging through everything like thieves.”
Huang Cheng replied: “You don’t need to worry about these things. As for who they are and where they come from, I won’t tell you; it’s not time yet.”
“In short, based on current inferences, the corpses of those victims are most likely in that hidden underground railway route, and the only one who could enter that underground railway route at the time was the driver,” Huang Cheng said. “We’ll leave things here to them for now; let’s go catch that driver.”
So sleepy, coding up to here for now, begging for collections, votes, etc.~~~~
