Chapter 1: Sniping

  Welcome to Jiupin Literature, search for "Jiupin Literature" in any search engine to quickly enter this site. This site permanently provides free downloads of high-quality and txt format services without pop-up windows! Gu Hanhao realized that the homicide case he took over was not an ordinary homicide case. Although it can be said that all homicides are not ordinary, they will all involve a series of internal secrets that make people angry or sigh. However, this homicide case is a bit unconventional because it involves the current urban legend that is very popular in the city - vampires.

  The reason for saying this is not only because of the testimony of the three eyewitnesses, but also because of the killer in the Ling Lan DV wearing a black long gown, with a pale big hand. More importantly, there are characteristics on the deceased: The fatal injury to the deceased was at the carotid artery in the neck, and the wound was two circular holes with a diameter of 1 cm and a distance of 3 cm. The cause of death is simple, it's just excessive blood loss.

  The crime scene was also unusually eerie, and the forensic personnel of the police found fingerprints on the black iron gate and the two-meter-high window's black iron railing at the crime scene. The distribution and direction of the fingerprints on the window showed that someone had made a gesture of grasping the iron railing with both hands, but it could not be concluded whether the completely deformed and exaggerated iron railings were bent by this pair of powerful hands.

  It must be someone who deliberately left fingerprints to create the illusion that vampires are all-powerful. Since it was deliberate, I'm afraid these fingerprints are probably not in the police database.

  Gu Hanhao opened the video recorded by Ling Lan's DV again. He had already copied this key video to his own computer and replayed it several times in slow motion. Unfortunately, at that time, the DV lens was separated by a relatively dense black iron mesh, and the light was not good, so it was unclear whether the grid on the window was damaged or not. However, the killer's height of about 185 cm is certain, but his figure was wrapped in loose robes, making it difficult to determine, but judging from those powerful big hands, he estimated that it was a muscular man.

  The murderer was intentionally disguised as a vampire to commit the crime, which is beyond doubt. The deceased and the murderer were acquainted with each other and had agreed to meet here. As for the murderer's disguise, the deceased did not show any fear or seek help, nor was he surprised; instead, he seemed satisfied! It was as if he were a director of vampire movies, who came to see how the actor's makeup looked, and the effect was very good, so the director smiled with satisfaction.

  Gu Hanhao shook his head and threw off these boring thoughts, but his mind lingered on the three words "vampire".

  When the vampire legend was prevalent in S city, Gu Hanhao had also conducted a simple online survey of the source of the S city vampire legend. Unexpectedly, he found that there was a group of very loyal "vampire fans" on various major forums in S city. They were tirelessly collecting and posting vampire information, even creating their own original vampire stories based on S city's legends. What was even more unthinkable was that among these people, there was a small portion who were organized, forming a group called the "Crimson Sacrifice Alliance". They even had their own homepage, with a striking red slogan prominently displayed: "Respected Vampire Lord, I am willing and honored to be your candidate sacrifice. May you feel my sincerity and grant me eternal life."

  Gu Hanhao remembered that the first time he entered this "Red Sacrifice Alliance" website was about two months ago, at which point he informed his colleagues responsible for internet supervision to investigate the site. They soon received feedback that the server was located in the United States and had not caused any actual harm, so they put it aside.

  At this moment, four hours after the murder case occurred, after sending away the three girls who witnessed the murder case, Gu Hanhao sat in front of his desk, wanting to open that website again, but found that the website had disappeared at this critical moment. What does this mean? Gu Hanhao snorted, it's indeed "this place has no silver, three hundred taels".

  A phone call interrupted Gu Hanhao's thoughts, it was the office landline. On the other end of the line was a calm and low-pitched female voice: "Hanhao, the autopsy has some preliminary results."

  Gu Hanhao didn't say a word, his friendship with Shi Rou didn't need any further explanation, he hung up the phone and got up.

  In just five minutes, Gu Hanhao arrived at the work area of forensic expert Shi Rou. In the autopsy room, Shi Rou, who had already removed her gloves and mask, waved her hand to let her assistant leave, then she casually sat down in the chair beside the operating table, rubbing her temples with both hands, "It's very strange, I mean, the deceased is very strange."

  Gu Hanhao pulled over a chair and sat down beside her, placing his hand on the empty operating table. He recalled that several years ago, when he was still a rookie, he had done the same with Shi Rou here, guarding a corpse just a few meters away while drinking milk tea and chatting intimately. Now, the corpse was still there, but Gu Hanhao had long since quit that sweet and greasy drink, and those intimate words were now like a distant memory.

  "How strange?" Gu Hanhao listened with a curious expression.

  "The victim's body had almost all the blood drained, and it was done in a very short time by external force. It's like there was a pump," Shi Rou said, using her left thumb and index finger to mimic the action on her own neck artery, "draining the blood in a short time."

  Gu Hanhao felt a chill run down his spine. What was the purpose of this killing method, was it just to disguise it as a vampire?

  "The amount of blood left in the body plus the blood at the scene is not even enough for one person's normal blood volume, which means that the deceased had a portion of their blood lost and taken away from the scene by the murderer."

  "Could it be porphyria?" When it comes to people who need blood, Gu Hanhao first thought of patients with this disease.

  "It's not impossible." Shi Rou stood up and walked towards the door, "It's already dawn, you should also go back and rest for a while."

  Gu Hanhao really needed to rest, but he didn't go home. He just boiled a package of instant noodles in the office and ate them before falling asleep on his desk. He planned to rest while waiting for Yuan Jun's reply. In the morning, he had assigned tasks to Yuan Jun, investigating the identity and background of the deceased. Gu Hanhao knew this shouldn't be difficult. Although the deceased didn't have any identification or documents on him except for a small amount of cash, the limited edition "Jiu Pin Literature" wallet was a useful clue. From this, it could be inferred that the deceased was a wealthy person.

  At 5 pm, Yuan Jun and another female police officer named Liu Fan brought back the deceased's identity background information. Gu Hanhao presided over an emergency meeting again to listen to Yuan Jun's investigation results, ask about the progress of another group of people searching for Meng Yusi, and so on. When the meeting ended, Gu Hanhao's phone rang, showing that it was Ling Lan calling.

  "Yuan Jun, go to the university immediately and bring those three girls back to me," after hanging up the phone, Gu Hanhao calmly instructed, "Wait a minute, just bring Yue Tong and Feng Jia, last time they didn't say anything probably because Ling Lan was present."

  Yuan Jun led the way out. Gu Hanhao, however, was somewhat uncertain - did Ling Lan really see something with those two girls, or was this just a revenge game between young girls? If it was the latter, Gu Hanhao thought to himself, then he must teach Ling Lan a lesson. Just the videos in the DV alone could be used to charge her with the crime of invading others' privacy.

  Half an hour later, in Gu Hanhao's office, the high-decibel testimony of two female students confirmed Gu Hanhao's second guess. Yue Tong and Feng Jialuo listed a bunch of past grievances they had with Ling Lan, insisting that she was talking nonsense on purpose to cause trouble for them. In fact, they hadn't even seen the killer's face. They also solemnly told Gu Hanhao how he had been fooled by Ling Lan.

  Gu Hanhao really couldn't bear these two noisy girls, originally he still wanted to use some tactics to get some real talk out of them, but the two of them were simply coming with anger and resentment, like hard stone, leaving him no way to start.

  Helpless, Gu Hanhao had no choice but to temporarily give up on this lead and decided to start from the victim's background relationships.

  At this time, Gu Hanhao still did not know that his original plan would be postponed due to some crucial accidents, and he could not imagine that these crucial accidents would make him deviate from the normal life track and take another uncertain and dangerous path.