Chapter 2: The Vanished Daughter

  The door was ajar, Zhang Qiang stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door, the old single-unit door creaked open slowly with a squeaking sound.

  "Isn't it locked?" Zhang Qiang looked at Wu Hui with some surprise. Had he known they were coming, so he left the door open and waited for them?

  "Excuse me, is anyone home?" Zhang Qiang looked inside through the gap in the door and thought it was better to ask first. If there were people at home, they would be breaking and entering if they just rushed in.

  Zhang Qiang asked a few times, but there was no movement inside. Zhang Qiang looked at Wu Hui and wondered if there really wasn't anyone there?

  Wu Hui suddenly had a bad feeling, it was a feeling of death, he was too sensitive to this kind of feeling, something was wrong here.

  Turning around to look, 501 should be uninhabited because its lock has rusted and there is no sign of opening. This house is the only resident in this building.

  Two people walked in, the entire room was only about sixty square meters. The living room had old-fashioned sofas and a glass coffee table piled high with snacks like potato chips, indicating that young people lived here.

  The TV was still the old-fashioned bulky type, very small, about 24 inches in size, with a line connected to it on the side, which was connected to the signal receiver, also known as the "big pot cover".

  A clock hung on the wall, and a pendulum swung back and forth making tick-tock sounds.

  There were still several plates of leftover dishes on the table, which seemed to have been left over from last night's dinner and not cleaned up. Zhang Qiang never thought that Lin City would have such a place.

  There are two bedrooms connected to the living room, one on each side, facing each other.

  Zhang Qiang opened one of the bedroom doors, and inside was a deep red wardrobe. He had seen such a wardrobe when he was young, and it seemed that his grandmother had one, which was her dowry. He didn't expect to see it in this place.

  There are some old men's clothes in the closet, and judging from the style, it should be a man, with no women's clothes. It seems to be an elderly widower or divorced man. On the dresser, there is a bottle of cheap hair dye, and it appears that this elderly man often dyes his hair black, not wanting to admit his age, and is still in love at dusk.

  Across from this bedroom was another one, Zhang Qiang reached out to open the door, but Wu Hui stopped him.

  Zhang Qiang's outstretched hand was tightly grasped by Wu Hui, this door cannot be opened.

  Although he didn't know what was inside, Zhang Qiang knew that Wu Hui wouldn't do this without a reason, so he withdrew his hand.

  Wu Hui took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wrapped it around the bedroom door handle, and gently twisted it, opening the door.

  Her body was leaning against the bed, with a pillow under her buttocks, back against the headboard, and her head slumped over to her right shoulder. Semen and fluid were dripping from her mouth onto her chest. Her legs were spread apart, with the handle of a broom inserted into her vagina. There was also semen on the quilt. A black stocking was wrapped around her neck. On the floor beside her left foot was a greeting card that read "MrryCriss".

  When Wu Hui saw that card, it was as if something in his brain had exploded. After a loud bang, he let out a sharp cry, which pierced his eardrums and made them ache.

  Looking at the swaying Wu Hui, Zhang Qiang hurriedly supported him and let him sit temporarily on the sofa in the living room. Zhang Qiang had never seen Wu Hui like this before, what was wrong with him?

  Wu Hui felt dizzy and disoriented, as if the sky was spinning and the earth was turning upside down. Zhang Qiang's face kept flashing before his eyes, and he saw him anxiously opening his mouth as if saying something, but Wu Hui couldn't hear anything, only a sharp noise that kept stimulating his nerves.

  "He's back...... He's back......" Wu Hui kept repeating these few words, no matter how Zhang Qiang asked him, he just wouldn't answer and kept saying those words, but who exactly was back.

  I recalled the female corpse I saw earlier with a greeting card placed beside her left foot, on which was written "Mrry Criss". Could it be that Wu Hui said he was that person?

  "Wu Hui, wake up, be clear-headed, if it's really him coming back, then we can rescue Jing Ran, finding him means finding Jing Ran, wake up, hurry and wake up, Jing Ran is still waiting for you to save her." Zhang Qiang desperately shook Wu Hui's shoulders, he couldn't take this anymore.

  "Jing Ran..." Wu Hui heard Jing Ran's name. Right, he had to save Jing Ran. He couldn't be defeated. He still had to save Jing Ran.

  Wu Hui's scattered eyes finally had a focus, and Zhang Qiang finally put his heart at ease.

  "Call Guo Yining." Wu Hui took a short rest, it's better to inform the police about this matter.

  Guo Yining received a call from Zhang Qiang and immediately arranged for personnel to rush to the scene. Wang Siting glanced at Wu Hui, somewhat puzzled, wondering how he ended up here, and his expression seemed to have changed into another person's.

  Wang Siting entered the scene of the case, which was a small bedroom filled with women's clothes. On the bedside table, there were several bottles of skincare products and simple makeup.

  After collecting evidence from the surrounding area, she began to collect evidence from the body, hoping to get useful information from the body and find the killer, so that the deceased could rest in peace.

  Wu Hui handed the card in his hand to Guo Yining, and Guo Yining sealed it with an evidence bag. "It seems that this case is aimed at you. Is it...?" Guo Yining suddenly remembered the person Wu Hui mentioned before, had he appeared?

  Seeing the expression on Wu Hui's face, Guo Yining knew he had guessed correctly. If that person really appeared, then Wu Hui would be in danger and he must protect him well.

  Some people looked at Guo Yining with some surprise, not understanding what he meant. Had he already known who the murderer was? "Guo, do you know who the murderer is?"

  "Who are you and why are you in my house?" At this time, a man over fifty years old stood at the door, looking around the room full of people in surprise. What was going on here?

  "Are you the owner of this house?" Guo Yining walked towards the old man, showing her badge, "We are police."

  "That's right, this house is rented by me, has been renting for three years." The old man named Chen Qitai is an outsider, because the house is cheap, so he has been living here all the time.

  "Who else lives in this house besides you?" Guo Yining asked again.

  "And what about my two daughters, where are they? Have something happened to them?" Thinking of his own daughters, Chen Qitai felt uneasy because he didn't see their figures, so he rushed towards the girls' bedroom.

  Guo Yining had wanted to stop him, but was still a step too late. When Chen Qitai ran to the door of his daughter's bedroom, he saw the look on his eldest daughter's face and suddenly fainted.

  Wang Si Ting glared at Guo Yi Ning, blaming him for not taking good care of Chen Qi Tai. What parent could bear to see their child in such a state?

  With Wang Si-ting's help, Chen Qi-tai finally woke up. As soon as he woke up, he burst into loud crying. He was alone, his partner had died early, and it was he who had worked hard to raise two daughters to adulthood. Now that the daughters were grown up and old enough to get married, how could such a thing happen?

  "You said you had two daughters, where's the other one?" Zhang Qiang discovered the problem, why he only saw one person's corpse.

  "Right, where's my little daughter?" Chen Qitai only felt that the sky was going to fall after seeing his eldest daughter in trouble, and forgot that his youngest daughter was also missing.

  "This place is so unsafe, how could Chen Qitai be at ease letting his two daughters live alone here? 'Where did you go yesterday? Why are you just coming back now?'"

  "Hmm... hmm..." When asked where he was last night, Chen Qitai hesitated for a moment. Thinking of the trouble his two daughters had gotten into because of him, he finally spoke up, "Someone introduced me to a woman, I thought my kids were grown up and I needed a partner too, so I agreed. But both kids didn't like her, so I could only go to her place at night when the kids were asleep... I'm doomed, I really am..."

  If he knew his daughter would be in trouble, he would rather spend the rest of his life alone than find a partner.

  "When you left last night, both daughters were sleeping at home, are you sure about that?" Wu Hui's tone was somewhat strange. There were no signs of a struggle in this room, how could the murderer kill one person and then take another away?

  "I'm sure, I even took a look at them when I left, they were both asleep before I left. Police comrades, you must find my little daughter, you must catch the murderer." Chen Qitai thought of his little daughter who was still unknown whether she was alive or dead, he knelt on the ground and begged the police to help him find his daughter.

  "Hurry up, we'll definitely find it." Fang You saw Chen Qitai kneeling on the ground and quickly pulled him up.

  The house was too small and it was impossible to hide a person, Guo Yining decided to let people go outside to search again. "Wang Hua, take people to search around and see if there are any clues."

  "Yes!" Wang Hua took a few people out and carefully searched around the neighborhood. This place was really too remote, and it was unknown whether there were any witnesses. Wang Hua decided to ask the people who still lived here if they had seen any suspicious people or heard any suspicious sounds.

  After Wang Si Ting finished collecting evidence, she had someone bring the body back to the forensic department. She needed to perform an autopsy in order to obtain more information.

  As people went downstairs and were about to leave, they heard the two police officers following Wang Hua come to report that another body was found in an abandoned building in the community.

  When Wang Si-ting arrived, Wang Hua was already guarding the scene. The body was leaning against the wall with her hands tied behind her back and a black stocking wrapped around her neck. Her pink pajamas had been ripped open, exposing her chest, and her legs were spread apart with her feet placed on a chair. A pillow had been placed under her buttocks, positioning her body to face the door so that people could see her lower body as soon as they entered.

  After Chen Qitai's identification, it turned out to be his missing little daughter.

  The murderer was too bold, and he actually left DNA at the scene of the crime. Why did he do this? Wu Hui couldn't understand it. If it were that person, he definitely wouldn't make such a low-level mistake.

  Wasn't it him? If it wasn't his, then whose card was sent?