The Case of Love

Chapter 35 Shocking Discovery

Just as they were analyzing the situation carefully, Zhou Yifeng's cell phone rang. It was Xia Chunhong calling. She told him that in addition to some of her valuables being lost, she had just discovered that the large suitcase she had placed in the utility room was also missing.

Zhou Yifeng asked Ma Nan to freeze the surveillance footage and described the color and style of the suitcase in the footage to Xia Chunhong. Xia Chunhong was sure that he was talking about the suitcase she had lost.

Zhou Yifeng was puzzled. If Feng Xiaoxue was a thief, why did she take Xia Chunhong's valuables, but why did she take a suitcase? There weren't many stolen items, so there was no need to put them in such a suitcase.

"Ma Nan, you and Zhisong should take a good look at the surveillance footage of Feng Xiaoxue leaving. Tell me immediately if you find anything. Xiaohan and I will go to Xia Chunhong's house to check again!" Zhou Yifeng felt that they might have missed something, and this was the key to finding Feng Xiaoxue.

Seeing the police come back, Xia Chunhong thought they had found Feng Xiaoxue. Zhou Yifeng walked around the house again and asked, "Ms. Xia, take a closer look. Apart from a few valuables, cash, and suitcases, are there any other differences in your house? For example, the furnishings in the living room, bedroom, or kitchen." Zhou Yifeng guided patiently.

Hearing his question, Xia Chunhong cooperated and walked around the place Zhou Yifeng mentioned again. She made a new discovery: a kitchen knife she had used before had been moved, and she was not sure whether it was used by Feng Xiaoxue.

"kitchen knife!"

Such a sensitive thing gave Zhou Yifeng a new idea. Su Xiaohan understood, put on gloves, and put the kitchen knife into the evidence bag.

After bidding farewell to Xia Chunhong, Zhou Yifeng and Su Xiaohan returned to the monitoring room. There was also new progress on Ma Nan's side.

"Boss, I carefully compared the surveillance photos of Feng Xiaoxue before and after, and I always feel that they are not the same person. Although the people in the two pictures are very similar in height and body shape, the one wearing a mask has broader shoulders, and look at his hands!" Ma Nan said to Zhou Yifeng, pointing at the surveillance screen.

"This hand looks like a man's hand!" Su Xiaohan looked at Zhou Yifeng.

Zhou Yifeng nodded, "Yes, the two hands are obviously different! The person wearing the mask deliberately put on Feng Xiaoxue's clothes, why do you think that is?"

"He wants people to think that the person who left is Feng Xiaoxue!" Su Xiaohan quickly reacted, "Then where is the real Feng Xiaoxue?"

"Ma Nan, continue checking the surveillance to see if you can find the real Feng Xiaoxue!"

"Yes, boss!"

Zhou Yifeng had a bad feeling. If the person who went out was not Feng Xiaoxue, why did he dress up as her? What was in the big suitcase? Could it be that Feng Xiaoxue was killed by this man and put in the suitcase?
"Captain Zhou, do you want to check if there is any bloodstain in Xia Chunhong's house?" Su Xiaohan asked, looking up. She and Zhou Yifeng had the same idea.

While the two were talking, Zhu Xiaofeng and Xu Jun had just returned from outside. Zhou Yifeng didn't want to delay for a minute and took them to Xia Chunhong's house to start the second round of investigation. During this time, Ma Nan called and told Zhou Yifeng that until Xia Chunhong returned home, Feng Xiaoxue was not seen in the surveillance.

This made Zhou Yifeng more convinced of his guess that Feng Xiaoxue might have met with an accident, otherwise the masked man would not have disguised himself as her to go out. He did this just to create the illusion that Feng Xiaoxue had left the community.

"Boss, this guy's anti-reconnaissance awareness is too strong. There are absolutely no shoe prints of anyone other than us on the ground." Li Zhisong sighed while investigating the scene.

"Look at this, can you extract fingerprints from it?" Zhou Yifeng handed the evidence bag containing the kitchen knife to Li Zhisong.

Li Zhisong took the evidence bag, looked at it carefully for a while, frowned and said, "Boss, there is a gap on this knife."

Following his gaze, Zhou Yifeng also saw the tiny gap. "Ms. Xia, do you usually use this knife to chop hard objects like bones?" He turned around and asked Xia Chunhong who was standing at the door.

"No, Xiao Xue and I seldom cook. We've only used this knife a few times since we bought it." Xia Chunhong responded quickly.

"So, it's abnormal that this knife has a notch!" Su Xiaohan had an idea in her mind, and then she thought of the suitcase in the surveillance video and the man's difficulty in pulling the suitcase, and she couldn't help but shudder.

"Boss, there seems to be blood here!"

In the bathroom, Zhu Xiaofeng's voice made Su Xiaohan's heart sink. It seemed that the thing she was most worried about had happened.

Zhou Yifeng hurried over to take a look, and Li Zhisong followed. In Xia Chunhong's bathroom, they found a very fine bloodstain.

"Zhisong, extract the bloodstains and take them back for testing! See if this place has been cleaned and if there are other bloodstains." After Zhou Yifeng finished the arrangements, he walked out of the bathroom with a very bad look on his face.

Li Zhisong has found a hair on Feng Xiaoxue's bed. By comparing it with the bloodstain, he can confirm whether the bloodstain is Feng Xiaoxue's.

Zhou Yifeng has been a criminal police officer for more than ten years and has experienced all kinds of storms and seen all kinds of scenes. But he still hopes that every missing person can be found alive, rather than being killed. Now it seems that Feng Xiaoxue has little hope of survival.

Li Zhisong took the luminol reagent and sprayed it on the floor and walls of the bathroom to see if there were any other clues. Suddenly, he shouted out the door: "Boss, come and see, there is a reaction on the wall!"

Zhou Yifeng hurried over, and Su Xiaohan followed closely behind him. There was a fluorescent light on one of the walls of the bathroom.

"Look at the ground again!" Zhou Yifeng was anxious.

Li Zhisong agreed and continued to spray the ground with luminol reagent. After a while, something shocking happened. The floor was also glowing with fluorescence. Even in the daytime, the fluorescence was a bit dazzling.

Although it was Su Xiaohan's first time to be at such a scene, she knew that luminol reagent was specifically used to detect blood, and a fluorescent reaction indicated the presence of blood.

Now it seems that Feng Xiaoxue was murdered.

She couldn't see a drop of blood, but the bloody scene made her heart beat faster.

Judging from the fluorescent reaction, the blood on the wall appeared to be splashed and scattered. Generally, this situation only occurs when the aorta is cut.

Zhou Yifeng walked to the wall, sniffed it closely, but could not smell anything. There was a strong smell of perfume in the bathroom. He speculated that the murderer must have used water to clean the bloodstains, and then sprayed a lot of perfume to cover up the remaining bloody smell.

In the living room, Xia Chunhong was already scared silly. Su Xiaohan came forward to support her and asked, "Ms. Xia, do you have any relatives or friends in Beijing? Go out and stay for a few days."

"I'm going to my colleague's house. Police comrade, if there is any result, you must tell me! I think Xiao Xue is okay, I think she is still alive!" Xia Chunhong broke down and cried.