deep white secret

Chapter 3 Two Umbrellas
After the applause, Xu Jie stretched out his hand to brighten the screen and said sternly to Ningxia:
"Turn around and look at the case."

The screen changed photos several times, and finally the photo of the deceased Xu Ling was fixed on the big screen.

Xu Jie said nothing, Zhang Lei handed the tablet to Ning Xia.

"Ningxia, take a look first. This is a murder that happened in Shanping Community three days ago. In the past two days, we have been investigating the deceased's surrounding relationships. My name is Zhang Lei, and I am the big brother of our team."

Ningxia thanked Weiwei.

Ma Mingjie winked at Ningxia. He was Li Xinyao's boyfriend who had joined the police station two years before Ningxia.

The most enthusiastic Shi Yihang was left in the room. He straightened the headset hanging around his neck and stretched out his hand to Ning Xia:

"I'm your senior student, but you entered college just when I graduated, so we just passed each other."

Ningxia nodded politely, Xu Jie kept staring at the big screen, and after adding another photo on the screen, Xu Jie said:
"Now let's talk about what these two cases have in common."

Ning Xia raised her head, and two photos appeared on the screen. The two girls had curved eyebrows. One was Xu Ling, and the girl in the other photo was also smiling.

Xu Jie dimmed the screen, and photos of the two girls after their deaths appeared on the screen.

Both photos were taken from the scene. The girl was lying on her back, soaked to the skin, her cheek was scratched, and the edges of the wound were rotten and ulcerated because it had been soaked by the rain.

The atmosphere at the scene was solemn.

"Continuing on from the discussion just now, do you have any new ideas?"

"Judging from the photos at the scene, it should be the same murderer."

Shi Yihang answered first.

"why?"

Xu Jie's voice was low, as if he was asking Zhang Lei, but also seemed to be asking himself:
"Lu Yuan's murder was widely reported by the media. Why didn't the murderer consider it as a copycat?"

Zhang Lei projected the data from his computer onto the big screen and actually said it carefully to Ning Xia:

"The girl on the left is named Xu Ling, and the girl on the right is called Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan was killed on May 21. We are still in the investigation and evidence collection stage, and the murderer took action again."

Ningxia heard about Lu Yuan's case, and when the provincial team was training, everyone was talking about this vicious case that happened in Jinghai City.

"The day Lu Yuan was killed was the second heavy rain in Jinghai City since the beginning of summer. This is also a common point between the two cases. The deceased were both killed on a heavy rain night."

"Due to the heavy rain, the deceased was discovered by passers-by only after the rain stopped on the second day."

Ningxia looked at Lu Yuan’s profile on the big screen:
Lu Yuan was 26 years old, unmarried, and worked as a cashier in a company. She was killed on her way home from get off work, which was exactly the same as Xu Ling.

Ma Mingjie continued:
"After we received the report, we investigated Lu Yuan's surrounding relationships in detail. They were very clean. Girls who graduated from college don't even have boyfriends, and there is no love affair. This is the same as Xu Ling, right? Head?"

Xu Jie finally spoke:
"All the deceased's belongings were on his body, and his mobile phone was also in his backpack. The girls' cheeks were scratched. Xu Ling was stabbed three times and Lu Yuan was stabbed twice."

"Let's look at the autopsy report again: Xu Ling has a 3cm long transverse laceration on the left side of her third thoracic vertebra, which reaches deep into the muscle layer. There is a 1cm long transverse laceration on the right side of her sixth thoracic vertebra, which reaches deep into the right chest cavity. There is also a transverse laceration on the right side of the posterior abdominal line. There was a 6cm long oblique wound, which pierced the spleen."

Xu Jie paused:
"Ningxia, you analyze it!"

What was more surprising than the sudden question was that Xu Jie's face sank and his eyes were deep. Unlike Xu Jie who had always had a soothing expression just now, Ning Xia felt that this was what Xu Jie really looked like.

Shi Yihang, Zhang Lei, and Ma Mingjie looked at Ningxia together. Ningxia stood up. Xu Jie gave her a month and now started counting down.

"The murderer has a perverted heart. He hates women just by scratching the victim's cheek. This is the most characteristic feature of the two cases."

Ningxia's voice is not loud, and has a gentle and clear voice. Different from her slightly stubborn and calm appearance, her voice makes Ningxia become much softer.

Ningxia faced the big screen, and the flickering light of the screen hit her face. She was wearing a black shirt and said calmly:

"The murderer has a cruel personality, has certain counter-detection capabilities, committed two crimes in a short period of time, and is bold and careful."

Ningxia lowered her head and projected the photos of the scene she had just been looking at on the big screen.

"When Xu Ling was found, she was in the corridor of a community surrounded by walls on both sides, only 200 meters away from the access control. When Lu Yuan was found, she was in the bushes in the green belt of the community, only 100 meters away from the nearest residential building."

Ningxia’s brief thoughts:
"I suspect that the murderer did not act on impulse. He had followed the two girls and was even familiar with their routes home. The two girls were stabbed to death before they had time to call for help. This shows that the murderer knew where he should strike."

"Xu Ling's backpack contains cosmetics, wallet, mobile phone, bus card, and half of a supermarket shopping receipt."

Ning Xia said, looking down at the clues on the computer:

"Lu Yuan is about the same. They are all the odds and ends that a girl carries with her. She also has a book on basic accounting. Other things they have in common..."

Ning Xia paused and asked Zhang Lei:

"Where's the surveillance? Officer Zhang didn't say just now that the surveillance didn't detect it?"

"No, the murder locations were all in blind spots, and the murderer successfully avoided city surveillance."

This was the first serious and non-emotional sentence Xu Jie said to Ningxia.

Ningxia lowered her head without noticing:
"The victims are still related in some ways, I will only analyze these for now."

"Ning Xia is right. These two girls must be inextricably linked. The murderer did not attack these two people without any purpose."

Shi Yihang projected the two people’s information on the big screen one by one:

"Don't worry, everyone, we'll come little by little."

"Look here, Lu Yuan has been in Jinghai City for two years. If we must talk about contact, both of them live in Shanping Street, one in the South District and the other in the North District."

With Ma Mingjie's words, everyone's eyes once again focused on the big screen.

Xu Jie said:
"This is definitely not a coincidence. They rented an apartment on Shanping Street. Officer Zhang went to find the landlord to ask about the situation."

Zhang Lei stood up and looked at Xu Jie and then at Ningxia:
"Captain Xu, who is Ningxia following? Do you want me to take her to run for clues?"

Xu Jie lowered his head and flipped through the files:

"With me!"

Zhang Lei unexpectedly looked at Ma Mingjie, and the meaning was self-evident. When he went out, he said that the criminal investigation team did not need female police officers, but in the blink of an eye, he accepted her as his apprentice.

At this time, Xu Jie's cell phone rang. After answering the phone, Xu Jie raised his head:
"Xu Ling's parents are here. Ning Xia and I go to the police station guest house together."

After walking out of the police station, the cool wind blew on her face. Ning Xia raised her hand to touch her face to cool down.

Xu Jie's voice suddenly sounded behind him:
"very nervous?"

Ning Xia wanted to shake her head, but finally nodded.

"What else did you want to say just now?"

Ning Xia looked at Xu Jie in surprise. His cold brows and sharp eyes swept over Ning Xia with a sense of oppression.

"What made you hesitate to speak?"

Ningxia hesitated for a moment:

"Umbrella, I noticed there is no umbrella in Xu Ling's photo."

Xu Jie's eyes flashed with approval:
"It has been confirmed that Xu Ling's umbrella is missing. Within the monitoring range, Xu Ling did hold an umbrella that night."

"Took it by the murderer?"

The two people walked to the parking lot, and Xu Jie calmly replied:

"Xu Ling held two umbrellas that night. When she walked out of the company, she had a small flower umbrella. The rain was not heavy at the time, and the company's camera captured the picture very clearly."

Ningxia stopped and raised her face:
"What about the other one?"

"In the last surveillance, it turned into another blurry umbrella. At that time, the rain became heavier and I couldn't see it clearly."

"Xu Ling had a stopover?"

Xu Jie stopped and asked Ningxia:

"What made you stop talking just now? I hope that from now on, you can tell everything as you did when you evaluated Song Bureau."

(End of this chapter)