Chapter 1151 Direction
The train whirred northward. In the dining car, Wang Xin looked at the receding scenery outside the window and said with a smile, "You know what, it's only been a few days since I last took the train, but it feels like we've been off the train for quite a while. When I took the train today, I really missed it a little."

Ma Kui glanced at him and said, "You are the one who wanted to be a criminal police, and you are the one who said you missed being a flight attendant. How about we transfer you back?"

"Look at you, can't I miss you?" Wang Xin counterattacked habitually.

At this time, a tall and thin woman opened the door of the dining car and walked in.

"Hello, hello, I'm the train conductor Li Aixia. I've heard of your great names for a long time."

Everyone was chatting and laughing as they met. The old police officer who was following Li Aixia shook hands with Wang Yan with a smile and said, "Comrade Wang Yan, we have all studied the book you wrote about catching thieves. It's a rare opportunity to meet the real person today. How about showing us your skills after we finish chatting so that we can see them?"

"I'm also lucky. What's the point of showing off one's skills? Let's communicate with each other." Wang Yan smiled gently, pulled the man to sit down, took out a cigarette and passed it around, and said, "Let's talk about the case first, old brother."

"Old brother? My son is ten years older than you." The old policeman shook his head with amusement.

"Don't even mention being ten years older, even if you're twenty years older, we're still comrades outside, and we can be friends on an equal footing, right, Uncle Zhou?"

The old policeman's surname is Zhou.

He pointed at Wang Yan and laughed: "You are a sly boy. I like to hear that, old brother."

"Okay, let's talk about the case."

Comrade Zhou said without hesitation: "You must have read the files several times. It was found that blood, human tissue and body parts were found in the sleeper car and the two freight cars towed behind. At that time, it was judged that a conflict occurred in the toilets of the two hard-seat cars near the sleeper cars, and then the murderer threw the deceased out of the toilet window, and was rolled under the car and crushed to death.

At that time, we tried our best to find the passengers in these two carriages, and the crew also carefully recalled the previous process, including after receiving your message today, we were also thinking about it, but still couldn't think of anything useful.

There were relatively few passengers that day, and it was afternoon, so no one noticed that a man and a woman entered the restroom. They were probably not there for long, and when only one man came out, no one paid attention. The murderer must have a good mental quality and a certain anti-detection awareness. Our crew did not expect these two people to exist. "

"To be remembered by someone, the girl must be good-looking, right?" Wang Xinqi asked.

"There are so many good-looking people on this train, can you remember them?" Comrade Lao Zhou replied with a smile, "This case cannot be investigated, there are no clues. I think you should stop investigating, it's a waste of energy. You guys have just been transferred to criminal police, let's be honest.

You have made contributions as flight attendants, and you should make achievements as criminal police. This case seems to be hanging there, and we can only wait until the technology is advanced in the future. There is no need to work hard on this case, it is really not worth it. "

Old Ma smiled and said, "Brother, what you said is indeed true, but we still have to check it again. That's how we solve cases. We just look at it again, no matter if there is anything wrong. You never know when we will find new clues and we can move forward."

"That's the truth, but most of the time it's all in vain."

"This is what we do. We have to do it whether it's useful or not, to be worthy of the people who have suffered." Ma Kui raised his head a little, and then asked some more detailed questions.

We were all on the train and were familiar with the work on the train, so it was not difficult to have a conversation.

As expected, there was no gain at all from the crew.

After understanding the situation, Wang Yan and his two companions helped to patrol the car. Wang Yan caught three thieves easily, which made Comrade Lao Zhou marvel.

It was already evening when they arrived in Chunlin. The trio rested in the guesthouse for one night and went out according to the address the next day.

In a factory's conference room, Wang Yan and two other people met a middle-aged male salesperson there.

After hearing the purpose of their visit, the salesperson asked, "Are you investigating this case again?"

Ma Kui said that the people's police serve the people and will do their best to check for clues. He smiled and asked, "This time, I came to you to understand the situation at that time and describe the man's appearance so that we can draw a portrait again. Comrade, do you still remember it?"

"How could I forget that? How many murders can a person encounter in his lifetime? You showed me the girl's photo at that time. Oh my god, I was almost scared to death. I'm not lying at all. After seeing it, I didn't eat well or sleep well for half a month. I had to get up at night to urinate. My heart was pounding."

"Come on, comrade, have a cigarette, have a cigarette, talk while you smoke." Wang Xin sensibly lit a cigarette.

The salesman was just like the comrade from the police station. He first pinched his cigarette and hesitated for a while before speaking: "I didn't notice it before, but I remembered it when you came to me later to find out the situation. I was in car 15 at the time, and I left my seat to go to the aisle to smoke. Others don't pay attention, but we should pay attention. When I was about to reach the restroom, I saw a man coming out and greeted me.

The boy's clothes were a bit messy, and he looked a bit panicked when he saw me. I didn't pay much attention to him and just brushed past him. Later when you asked me, I remembered that this person was suspicious. That's all, I don't know anything else, and I can't guarantee this person. "

The trio all nodded. What this person said was basically the same as what was recorded in the files from a year ago.

The reason why Comrade Zhou didn't know about it before was, of course, because of the order of the investigation. It was the railway patrolman who found the body, and then the railway criminal police launched an investigation, checked the surrounding area, and confirmed that there were no missing people, and then determined the number of the passing train. Then they asked the crew for information, and then collected passenger information and visited each one. Moreover, Comrade Zhou was cooperating with the investigation, not an investigator.

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Okay, then tell me what it looks like, and I'll draw it again."

"Is this thing you draw accurate? Someone else drew it last year, and it seemed quite different."

Sketching portraits is of course a technical job. It is not easy to draw a person vividly, let alone draw it out of thin air based on someone's description. It is understandable that the skills are weak. After all, various systems and technologies are still developing. There are definitely some amazing people, but they are always a minority. It is not that the technology has been sinking later, and the quality of technical personnel has been continuously improved, which has raised the bottom line.

"No matter how bad it is, I still have to draw it. But my drawing skills are not bad, you can tell me."

"This guy is half a head shorter than me. I'm 1.82 meters tall, and he's probably 1.756 meters tall. He looks to be in his thirties. He's thin, with a thin face, a long, knife-like face, and a fair, clean-looking face. His eyes are long..."

As the salesman frowned and recalled, Wang Yan and Wang Xin both took pencils and paper and started drawing. Old Ma couldn't draw, so he sharpened his pencil with a knife.

After more than twenty minutes, under the constant guidance of the salesperson, the two of them continued to make fine adjustments and finally finished the painting.

The salesman stared at the painting in Wang Yan's hand with eyes wide open in surprise: "Your portrait is better than the one drawn by the comrade last year. This comrade's painting feels a bit similar to last year's. But yours is the most similar. It basically looks like this. I can recognize the person by looking at the picture."

"Let me see." Wang Xin came over, looked at his drawing again, and asked, "Is it really like it?"

"Tsk, why am I teasing you? That girl must be so miserable. How unworthy of me to lie to you about such a thing?"

"If you saw the real person, would you recognize him?"

"Yes!" the salesperson said with certainty, "I have a good memory, which I have learned from doing business over the years. I will definitely be able to recognize the person if I see him again."

Ma Kui nodded: "Okay, that's it, we won't bother you anymore. If we really find the person, we may have to trouble you again."

"That's no trouble at all. I couldn't ask for more."

"Let's go, comrade. Thank you."

The trio packed up their things and left the factory. Wang Xin still held the portrait in his hand for comparison: "How can I draw the same as last year?"

"I just watched it and subconsciously imitated the one from last year. It's a psychological factor. This is the difficulty of drawing a portrait out of thin air. If you don't pay attention, you will follow your subconscious."

"I've never seen you do this before?"

"Maybe this is what genius is." Wang Yan put his hands behind his back, looking like a lonely master, with a sighing tone, pretending to be so pretentious.

Wang Xin shook his head helplessly and said, "Look carefully, there are actually some similarities. Even though they are blurry, you can still make out some of them."

"A slight mistake can lead to a huge error." Lao Ma said, "Besides, we can't trust what the man said just now. It's hard to say whether he really looks like that or whether his memory is biased. The previous file did write it down, and his description of his appearance this time is still a little wrong. He said he remembered it more clearly, but we can't believe it."

"That's right." Wang Xin nodded. "Lao Ma, I am here to express my affirmation on behalf of the organization. You have to be an old comrade." "Get lost, who do you think you are? You are just a representative."

The trio chatted and laughed as they rushed to the train station and boarded an afternoon train to Harbin. Another person who had seen the murderer was in Harbin.

This person is also an employee of the unit, but he went to Tianjin to visit relatives.

He said: "I was on car 14 at the time. I don't remember which stop it was, but I remember that it was some time after I passed Jincheng. I went to the toilet and heard a man and a woman arguing in the aisle. They were both very emotional, but I could tell they were keeping their voices down. They seemed quite civic-minded, so I went over to take a look.

Because the girl was pretty, I gave her some advice. Then I didn't take it seriously. It's normal for men and women to quarrel. My wife and I quarrel every day, but we live a good life.

Oh, yes, and the accent, I really can't tell. I don't travel much, but I can tell it's a northern accent. You asked me about it last year.

When I came out after peeing, I saw the back of the man who had been arguing, and he was walking towards the back car. Then, after waiting for more than a month, you came to find me. Two people came over at that time, and they were also in this room. "

Then this person talked about the characteristics of men and women and began to draw their portraits.

But this time Wang Yan didn't draw a man, only Wang Xin was drawing. Wang Yan listened to the description, which was basically the same as what the previous salesman said. Finally, he took out the one he had drawn before, and sure enough, this person insisted that it was him.

When they saw the portrait of the victim drawn by Wang Yan, they also said that the painting looked like...

But as Ma Kui said, none of these counts, even though Wang Yan is confident in his portrait skills.

After visiting the man who had seen the murderer and the victim, the trio did not go to a restaurant in Harbin. After all, the case funds and salaries were limited, so they could not afford to be so extravagant. Instead, they went directly to Harbin Station, where the crew was provided with dinner. They used to eat there, and only went out to restaurants occasionally to satisfy their cravings.

Moreover, Harbin Station also provides accommodation. Even though the three have been transferred to criminal police, they should pay to stay in a guesthouse, but Harbin Station is always wealthy. Who can say anything if they are shameless enough to go and stay there? They are all friends. Besides, they are not going to stay there forever. There is nothing wrong with staying there occasionally.

After the three of them had their meal, they came to the dormitory. They saw Lao Cai, Lao Wu, Lao Lu and others playing poker, and they were all surprised to see Wang Yan and others coming over.

"Hey, why are you here?" asked Old Lu.

"Investigating a case." Lao Ma replied with a smile.

Cai Xiaonian asked curiously, "What case?"

"That guy just crushed that last year."

"Can it be broken?"

"Good fellow, you think you are at home sleeping on the bed? You can break it just like that? The three of us have been running for two days without stopping, but in the end, we don't have any useful clues. It's basically a wasted trip."

"It's not a wasted trip. Isn't your wife here?" Cai Xiaonian said with a smile, "Xiao Yaoer said something about you this afternoon. You're a criminal policeman but you can't see people. You're dissatisfied. Go find your wife quickly and stop talking nonsense here."

"We don't have time to hold a small meeting to discuss the case. Anyway, we can see each other when we take the bus back tomorrow."

Lao Lu said, "Well, that's great. Go back and catch some thieves. I'm not saying that the train police can't catch thieves now, it's just that you catch more thieves faster."

After chatting and laughing for a while, the trio found an empty room, closed the door and started talking about the case.

“Tell me, what should we do next?” Ma Kui poured hot water and drank it with slurps.

Wang Yan and the other person both lit up cigarettes, as if discussing the case would be a little boring without smoking.

"We know a limited amount of information at the moment. What we can confirm with a high probability is that the portrait we drew this time is correct. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the latter one is just a way of dealing with things and thinks everything he says is correct. Also, after listening to what this person said today, I am not sure. I just have a feeling."

"Why can I scold you if I said something wrong? You just need to think divergently. Besides, feeling is so important. We catch thieves by feeling." Wang Yan smiled.

"That's not necessarily true." Wang Xin glanced at Lao Ma.

The latter cursed directly: "Get lost, let's talk about serious matters, hurry up and say it, stop dilly-dallying."

"I feel that the murderer might be from Ningyang, or at least from the area south of Ningyang."

Seeing the two people looking at him, Wang Xin took a puff of cigarette and continued, "The body of the deceased was found in the section between Liaozhong and Ningyang. I felt something was wrong. If there was a grudge, they would have killed him long ago. There was no need to waste time, and there was no need to do it on the train. I think the girl must be going to Ningyang, and when she arrived at the station, it would have had some influence on the murderer. The murderer didn't want to be influenced by this, so he became more daring and killed people."

Ma Kui stared: "Is it over?"

"It's over. Look, let me tell you what I said, and you're still glaring at me after I finished."

"Why don't you say more? If you have a feeling, you should analyze it. Just assume that this is the answer and work backwards. Second in the police academy? Humph." Ma Kui said sarcastically, "Come on, tell us what's going on with the first in the police academy."

"He feels right, and I feel the same way."

Wang Yan said with a smile, "We asked all the comrades last year, and the passengers we found were scattered in various carriages, but they all said they didn't see a man and a woman together. The girl was not bad looking, and we even looked at the man's wife today, and pointed out some female workers in the factory for his evaluation, which confirmed his aesthetic taste. What he said was really exciting.

After the train passed Jincheng, the man saw them quarreling. This shows that the murderer was most likely on the train after the woman. It doesn't matter if the guess is wrong, anyway, no matter which station he got on the train, the murderer never met the woman.

If they were not familiar with each other, they would have kept their voices down when arguing. If they were familiar with each other, the murderer did not go over to talk to her earlier. If it was because of love, stalking, etc., the girl was chaste and the forensic examination showed that she was a virgin. It was certain that there was some emotional dispute, and the matter was not settled yet, so it was not to the point of murder. Instead, he should have gone over to talk to her earlier to build relationships.

Anyway, I feel that the murderer was probably observing in the previous part. He was afraid of something, so he didn't talk to the deceased. After passing Jincheng, his pressure became greater. He had to go, but the girl was resistant, which is why the two sides quarreled. But the murderer also knew something, so the girl didn't dare to shout loudly.

Then, the two of them broke down in their conversation. Just like you said, this girl has some leverage over the murderer. The closer she is to Ning Yang, the more pressure he feels and the more he wants to kill her. "

Ma Kui nodded: "That makes sense."

"Then what?" Wang Xin asked.

"What then?"

"Then what should we do? It's useless for us to know all this now. There are so many people in Ningyang. We can't just go and ask everyone one by one with the portrait, right?"

Wang Yan said: "We can check the train tickets. At present, we have a consensus that this girl went to Ningyang, and it is also certain that she came from the interior. So we will start from the departure station, including those who bought tickets along the way, and screen all the passengers whose destination is Ningyang.

On the other hand, we can also check the trains from Ningyang to Liaozhong and Shanhaiguan a few days before the incident to determine the names of people within five days, and then determine whether there is any corresponding personnel information at the stations along the way for the train where the incident occurred. "

You need a letter of introduction to buy a train ticket these days, and your identity can be checked. Of course, there are people who evade the fare, but that's another story.

"What are you talking about, big brother?" Wang Xin's eyes widened. "Do you know how many people there are? Thousands, even tens of thousands. How can we find them? People sometimes make mistakes and miss them by accident. How can we find them? Guess why the comrades didn't do this last year?"

Wang Yan shook his head with amusement: "But last year, our comrades did not conclude that the deceased's destination was Ningyang, nor did they speculate that the murderer was from Ningyang. After confirming these two points, the workload was greatly reduced.

The number of people investigating the murderer is really large, and the three of us cannot handle it. Let's investigate the deceased first. Starting from the departure station, there must be not many people who bought tickets to Ningyang directly, at most 100 to 80 people. As long as the girl did not evade the ticket, there is a high probability that she can be found. Lao Ma, what do you think?"

"We'll do as you say. When we get back to Ningyang, we'll contact various places to get the records." Old Ma smiled and nodded, following suit...

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