Chapter Twenty Tail

  Fang You and Yang Rong saw Wu Ma take a taxi and leave, so they hastily got in the car and followed from afar.

  Wu's mother's taxi kept circling in the city, Fang was worried about being discovered by Wu's mother, so she called Guo Yining, and Guo Yining informed Wu Hui. The two of them followed Wu's mother in shifts, divided into two teams.

  After driving around the city for a while, Wu Ma's taxi finally headed towards the suburbs.

  Wu Hui found that the direction Wu Ma went was exactly Liu Jianjun's former house, where Wu Hui had discovered Wang Ting's diary at that time, and it was also the place where Wang Ting committed suicide.

  Could Liu Huan be hiding there? This was something Wu Hui had really not expected.

  Wu's mother got off at the entrance of Liu Jianjun's old house, looked around and made sure no one was following before entering the old house.

  When Wu Hui arrived, he just saw the taxi carrying his mother leaving. He stopped the car far away and walked to the old house on foot.

  Wu Hui did not rush into the old house, but instead walked around it and came to the back door. He stood at the back door and looked inside. Previously, he had found footprints in this place and was curious about who had been standing there, looking inside, and what they were looking at.

  Just in the kitchen, what can be seen is just one corner of the kitchen, and other places cannot be seen.

  I think Wu's mother has already entered the house, Wu Hui is still standing outside looking in, but can't see anything.

  At this time, Guo Yining's phone call came, "Wu Hui, where are you?"

  "I'm at the back door." Wu Hui knew that Guo Yining and the others had also arrived at the old house, so he told them his location.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, before long, Guo Yining and the other two appeared in Wu Hui's line of sight.

  Guo Yining saw Wu Hui and said anxiously: "Someone else is missing."

  Wu Hui did not expect that Liu Hao would commit a crime as soon as he came out of the hospital. In such a short period of time, how did he do it? "Who?"

  "Liu Hua's classmate, literature and art committee member Li Na." Wu Ma arrived at this place, could it be to deliver lunch to Liu Hua? If Liu Hua is here, then Li Na might also be here.

  "Guo, we'll enter from the back door. Fang and Yang Rong will go in from the front. Be careful not to be discovered by Liu Hua." If Li Na was really caught here, according to Liu Hua's modus operandi, she would definitely be tortured as much as possible. Thinking of the extreme harm inflicted on the previous victims, Wu Hui felt that the most important thing now was to rescue Li Na as soon as possible.

  Guo Yining nodded, and Fang You and Yang Rong came to the front door. The door was not locked, and it opened with a light push.

  Wu Hui fiddled with the lock on the back door with a piece of wire for a few moments, and soon the lock was opened by him. He followed behind Guo Yining, carefully entering the house.

  When they walked into the living room, they found Wu's mother sitting in the living room, with the dishes she had brought placed on the table in front of her.

  Seeing Wu Hui and the others appear in front of her, Wu's mother didn't find it strange at all. "You're here?"

  Wu Hui and several others looked around, but did not see Liu Hao's figure. He suddenly had a bad feeling.

  Fang You saw Wu Ma seemingly waiting for them on purpose, and knew something was wrong. "Where's Liu Huan? Where is he? Let him come out."

  "Liu Hua? How could Liu Hua possibly be here?" Wu Ma smiled, not knowing why, but seeing the few of them with a deceived look on their faces made her want to laugh.

  Yang Rong had always thought that Wu Ma was just an ordinary little old lady, but now it seems that the old lady sitting in front of her is not simple at all. From her eyes, she can be seen as a very cunning person. "Why are you here?"

  "Why can't I be here? This sentence should be asked by me to you." Wu Ma didn't answer Yang Rong's words.

  Wu Hui finally knew what that bad feeling was, "Damn it!" he cursed himself and turned to run out of the house, running all the way to his car, turning the steering wheel and speeding towards the city.

  When Wu Hui found out it was wrong, Guo Yining also discovered it. He followed Wu Hui as he rushed out of the house, running while calling the bureau to apply for a search warrant for Liu Jianjun's current residence.

  Although Fang didn't know what was wrong, looking at Wu Ma's eyes, a sense of being ridiculed arose in his heart, so he called Yang Rong and ignored Wu Ma, heading to the city.

  "What's going on? What exactly happened? Are we not taking care of Wu Ma anymore?" Yang Rong still didn't understand, weren't they always following Wu Ma? Why aren't they taking care of her now?

  "Wu's mother deliberately led us here, Liu Hua must be at home. Now we're all here, it's very likely that Liu Hua is destroying some important evidence at home. We've been fooled by Liu Hua." Fang Yu stepped on the gas and sped away quickly.

  Yang Rong listened to Fang You's words and suddenly realized, without saying another word, took out the police light and put it on the roof of the car. Under the effect of the police siren, they drove smoothly and unimpeded all the way.

  When Guo Yining arrived at Liu Jianjun's home, his colleagues in the police station happened to bring over the search warrant. Seeing Guo Yining's dark face, the young man who delivered the warrant thought to himself, Fortunately, he didn't delay Guo Yining's business, or else he would have been in trouble.

  Guo Yining entered Liu Jianjun's home, without saying a word, and ran straight to the second floor to Liu Hao's room. Although they had arrived as quickly as possible, there was no sign of Liu Hao in the house.

  Looking at the messy room, Liu Huan seemed to be planning a long-term hideout.

  Wu Hui knew he had discovered it too late. From the time Liu Hao went missing to now, nearly ten hours had passed and they had missed the best time to capture him.

  All we can do now is take a closer look at this room and see what's missing, from which we can infer some clues.

  The wardrobe was in disarray, with several clothes hangers scattered on the bed. It seemed that someone had hastily grabbed a few pieces of clothing, leaving a large empty space at the bottom of the cabinet. Previously, there must have been a large bag here, which Liu Hua used to store his clothes. The mattress and bed frame were slightly separated by about one centimeter, indicating that the mattress had been moved. Wu Hui instructed several people from the law and politics department to lift up the mattress. Underneath, it was very clean, with nothing visible. But precisely because of its cleanliness, Wu Hui suspected that something must be hidden inside, possibly money or a thin object like a photograph.

  On the bedside table, there was a mobile phone and a charger. It seemed that he hadn't taken his phone with him. Wu Hui picked up the phone and took a look at the recent call records. The most recent one was a call to Wu's mom. It seemed that when Fang You and Yang Rong came to Liu Hao's house, Liu Hao might have been hiding at home.

  There is no record of his conversation with Li Na above, it should have been deleted.

  There is a vacant space in the bedside cabinet, where something used to be placed, but now it's gone. It must have been something important for Liu Huan.

  In Liu Hua's trash can, Wu Hui found a DV packaging box. He put the DV packaging box in the empty space of the bedside table drawer, and it fit perfectly, so it should be the DV.

  Liu Hao hastily left home with a DV. Was it because there was something important in the DV, or did he want to use the DV to capture something very important?

  At this time, Liu Huan suddenly remembered that several victims had suffered greatly before their deaths and were humiliated. Did Liu Huan take pictures of all these things and then lie on this bed every night to appreciate his own "works"?

  Wu Hui handed the DV box to Guo Yining, and as soon as Guo Yining saw the DV box, she immediately understood what was going on. She slammed the box to the ground in anger.

  Guo Yining is a very good-tempered person and rarely loses his temper, so this outburst of his also startled the people from the law department. Seeing that Guo Yining didn't say anything else, they hastily put the DV box into an evidence bag.

  "Guo team, look!" A colleague from the law and politics department found a mobile phone with a rabbit on its shell in a small safe hidden in Liu Hao's room.

  Wu Hui recognized the phone, which was the one used by Yang Liu at that time. The bow on the rabbit's ear was gone, and Wu Hui had picked it up at the scene where the body was abandoned.

  "What else?" Guo Yining had heard Wu Hui mention Yang Liu's mobile phone before, so he knew who the owner of this mobile phone was. If he hid Yang Liu's mobile phone, then the remaining victims should also have something left behind by him.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, there was a set of women's underwear in the small safe deposit box. The bra had very full cups and the people from the Department of Justice who were on the scene for investigation found milk stains on the bra.

  "She was the third victim, Li Yu, do you remember that she was a single mother with a child over 1 year old." Wu Hui clenched his fists, and he didn't expect that he would actually collect things from the victims' bodies as spoils of war.

  There was also a ring, Wu Hui had seen this ring in Wang Nu's photo, she wore it on her right index finger at the time, because the water drill on top shone brightly under the bar lights, very beautiful, so every time Wang Nu went to work, she would wear it.

  "I never thought that Liu Huan would be the murderer of the serial killing case." Previously, Guo Yining had only suspected Liu Huan, but now with evidence in front of him, he could be certain. "Now there are only three personal belongings of the victims, where is the first one? The personal belonging of the first victim is missing?"

  Wu Hui analyzed the killer's psychological state at the time of the murder from a criminal psychology perspective, "The first victim, Tian Ning, was found naked with no identification on her. She had been missing for only three hours before she was killed. At that time, the killer should have been afraid, it being his first time killing someone, so he didn't enjoy it, only felt fear."

  He recalled that when he was reviewing the case files, he had thought the same way. "The 32 stab wounds inflicted before death were clearly very disorganized and lacked force, suggesting that it was his first time killing someone, and due to fear and panic in his heart, he hastily killed the victim and then drove her body to the mountains, indicating that he was still afraid of being discovered."

  Wu Hui nodded, "That's right, the murderer took off the victim's clothes at the time and should have destroyed them. After killing for the first time, his inner fear lingered and couldn't be shaken off, so it wasn't until a year later that he committed another crime for some reason."

  Yang Rong listened to the three of them, each saying one sentence, and she couldn't get a word in edgewise. However, they had also discussed the reason for his recurrence after a year at the police station, but nothing came of it. "What was the reason that made him commit another crime?"

  Wu Hui had been puzzled before, but this time when he was following Wu's mother, he suddenly remembered something, "Wang Ting's birthday!"

  "What? Wang Ting's birthday?" everyone exclaimed in surprise.

  Serial killers always have a certain trigger for their murders, and this trigger will prompt the murderer to continue committing crimes. "That's right, Wang Ting's birthday is September 25th, the first victim went missing five days before Wang Ting's birthday, and the second victim went missing on Wang Ting's birthday itself. In my opinion, this should be Liu Hao's birthday gift to Wang Ting."

  "If Liu Huan is so particular about his mother Wang Ting's birthday, then the place where Liu Huan is hiding now must have something to do with Wang Ting." Guo Yining finally realized that there must be a place that holds special meaning for Liu Huan and his mother.

  Wu Hui had thought of this long ago. "Remember those photos we saw in Liu Jianjun's old house? I believe there must be the place we're looking for."

  I heard that there were clues in those photos, so I quickly took out my phone from my pocket. "The photos are on my phone. At the time, I thought they might be helpful, so I took pictures of all of them."

  Guo Yining saw Fang take out his phone, which was also a way of making up for his mistake. He used his hand to heavily knock on Fang's head and said, "Alright, kid, it's rare that you did something useful."

  Fang touched the place where Guo Yining had hit him and chuckled a few times. These days, he kept making mistakes, but fortunately, he did one thing right.

  Four people bowed their heads and looked at their mobile phones. Guo Yining flipped through them one by one, hoping to find clues from them and locate where Liu Hao was hiding.

  As the four of them were lowering their heads to study the photos, Liu Hua's phone suddenly rang out loud, startling everyone. Guo Yining picked up Liu Hua's phone, which displayed an unfamiliar number. After hesitating for a moment, Guo Yining pressed the answer button.

  The phone was connected, and Guo Yining didn't say a word. The other party spoke up instead, "I think you should be Captain Guo, right?"

  Guo Yining recognized the other person's voice, "Are you Liu Hao?"

  When they heard Guo Yining's words, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Guo Yining, not expecting Liu Huan to call Guo Yining voluntarily.

  "Guo Yining took a deep breath, 'Liu Huan, where are you? Is Li Na with you?'"

  "Want to know? If you want to know, just open the computer in my room. At that time, you will understand everything." Liu Hao said this and hung up the phone.

  "What's wrong? What did Liu Huan say?" Wu Hui saw Guo Yining put down the phone, her face looked extremely bad, and she didn't know what Liu Huan had said on the phone.

  Guo Yining didn't respond to Wu Hui's words, but instead walked to Liu Hao's room and stood in front of the computer desk. He opened the computer and a live video popped up on the screen. The people inside were none other than Liu Hao and Li Na.

  "It's so lively, my room has never had so many people before, it's really my honor." Liu Huan could also see everything in the room from the computer video, and he was delighted to have so many police officers accompanying him.

  Yang Rong saw a girl tied to a chair behind Liu Huan, with a cloth stuffed in her mouth and a face full of fear, struggling desperately. "Liu Huan, what do you want to do? Let Li Na go quickly."