Just like before in Shanshu Village, when the village chief led Luo Fei and his team to find the second villager, it took them an entire hour to reach him because he lived in a remote area without road access, making the round trip two hours.
After questioning in Liuhe Village, Luo Fei and the other two returned to the county town.
When they rushed back to the county town, it was around seven o’clock.
The three of them had a meal, and it was almost seven fifty when they got back to the criminal police team.
In the office, Yang Su and Xia Zheng had already returned.
The two, naturally, also hadn’t gained anything today, and in terms of efficiency, they weren’t much better than Luo Fei and his team. Luo Fei’s team had investigated three people today, while Yang Su and Xia Zheng only managed to investigate four.
The reason is that they didn’t have the Eye of Sin like Luo Fei did. With the Eye of Sin, Luo Fei only needed one look to determine if someone was a suspect, and if not, he just asked a few random questions to fool Wang Lei and Zhong Jun and then left directly.
Yang Su and Xia Zheng were different. They had to interrogate meticulously and seriously to judge if someone was suspicious, or if they were the murderer, which meant each investigation took a lot of time, and naturally, their efficiency couldn’t be high. Furthermore, there was a certain risk that when encountering a suspect particularly good at disguise, they might let them pass unnoticed.
In the following week, Luo Fei, Wang Lei, and Zhong Jun were constantly traveling back and forth between the county town, Baihe Town, and Tianshi Town, basically leaving early and returning late every day.
After a week, Luo Fei got tanned, Wang Lei became thinner and darker, and Zhong Jun was fatter and darker.
Yet, there was no result.
Of the twenty-two files in Baihe Town, twenty had been investigated, but none turned out to be the murderer.
Yang Su and Xia Zheng were the same; they had completed investigations on thirty-five files without any gains.
Not just their team, even the entire criminal police team had no results; the second and third groups, as well as the technical team, hadn’t found any leads.
Today was Sunday, and Luo Fei’s team initially planned to go to Tianshi Town. From the twenty-two files, only two in Tianshi Town were left unchecked.
But just as Luo Fei and his team were driving out of the criminal police team, they received a call from Yang Su.
Yang Su’s message was concise, and he quickly hung up.
Just received a public report, behind the middle school in Wuping Town, a thirteen-year-old middle school student was found dead in the field, with the head struck by a heavy object and the genitalia removed.
Upon hearing Yang Su’s words, Luo Fei immediately instructed Zhong Jun, who was driving, to turn the car around and head straight to Wuping Town.
Arriving at the back of the middle school, from a distance, Luo Fei could see a large group of villagers gathered, talking in whispers, while police officers from the precinct were maintaining order.
Stopping the car, the three of them quickly walked over.
As they got closer, they saw Yang Su, Zhao Donglai, Yang Mei, Xia Zheng, and a forensic doctor from the technical team.
Yang Su, Zhao Donglai, and Xia Zheng were staring at the body with heavy expressions, while Yang Mei was collecting shoe prints next to the body, and the forensic doctor was examining the corpse.
"Captain Zhao, Team Leader." Upon reaching them, Luo Fei first greeted Zhao Donglai and Yang Su, then approached the body.
A child’s corpse, shrouded in a dark aura, lay spread-eagled in the cabbage field. A very tender face, full of collagen, showed a conspicuous indentation on the right back of the head. The pants and underwear had been pulled down to the knees, and the genitalia were missing, leaving only a bloody mess.
This scene was identical to the one at Zheng Bin’s death.