Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 46
The case has not been solved for a day. For the investigators, sleeping and resting is a very luxurious thing, because they all know that maybe even a minute of delay in catching the murderer may cause the murderer to injure another life. In this case, the murderer has already grasped the target of the murder one step ahead of them. The only way to stop the murderer's crazy behavior is to search for any clues against time and try to catch him before the murderer strikes again.

However, in the next three days, the murderer seemed to calm down, he did not continue to commit crimes, and Meng Shaohui did not receive any reports similar to the previous murders, which also made Meng Shaohui doubt his previous guess.

"Could it be that the murderer didn't kill because he avenged Du Yuhan?" Meng Shaohui thought to himself, "But the murderer's method of attack is completely consistent with the script of "Repentance". It would be too far-fetched to explain it by coincidence. If Du Yuhan takes revenge, is it necessary to use the same method of murder as in the script? If the murderer has another purpose, not to avenge Du Yuhan, but uses the content of the script to mislead the police investigation. Reasonable, but actually there is a key question, how did the murderer know the content of the original script? Judging from the clues obtained so far, assuming that the script was created by Du Yuhan, then the people who know the original script content, except Du Yuhan and Except for the teacher in charge of the drama arrangement, there is no one else. Of course, it is not ruled out that she has shown it to her friends, but even a few friends who are very close to her at school only know about her writing the script after the fact. , and all they saw was the revised content, so who knew the original content of the script beforehand? Another assumption is that the script was not created by Du Yuhan at all, but by someone who had a relationship with Du Yuhan If someone with this kind of connection wrote it for Du Yuhan, then it can explain that besides Du Yuhan and the teacher who arranged the drama, someone else knew the content of the original manuscript. But no matter which of the above-mentioned possibilities, the murderer is connected with Du Yuhan. In other words, the possibility of the murderer using the content of the script for another purpose is very small. The murderer left very few clues at the scene in the three cases, and the identity of the murderer has been well hidden and has not been revealed so far. Obviously all the murderer's actions have been carefully planned, and it is not difficult to see from Song Wen's murder case that the murderer must have been able to grasp the situation of the target to be killed next through Song Wen, so why didn't he continue with his plan, Instead, do you want to stop? Is it because all the people to be killed have been killed? Or is there another reason? If his operation is over, it is very likely to use the vacuum period of these few days to abscond, but if His action is not over yet, so what is the reason for him to stop? Using the content of the script to commit the crime is undoubtedly a fatal loophole for the murderer, even if the police did not discover the motive of the murderer before, but three times The murders are all in line with the original script of the play, and the focus of the investigation will definitely be shifted in this direction. Stopping the action is undoubtedly handing over the initiative and increasing the possibility of revealing his identity. Isn't the murderer worried about being caught?"

A series of unanswered question marks made Meng Shaohui's mind suddenly confused. He closed his eyes and rearranged all his guesses about the murderer in his mind. He felt that there seemed to be some kind of problem in the murderer's psychology. , because if it is just a simple murder case, the murderer does not need to commit the crime according to the content of the drama script, which will only increase the difficulty of committing the crime and the probability of being discovered. Such a series of murders at personal risk.

In addition, after investigation, Du Yuhan did not have a boyfriend or had an emotional relationship with anyone, so this further shows that the murderer's crush on Du Yuhan is probably just wishful thinking, and if the murderer really regards himself as the male protagonist in the script , This is enough to prove that there is indeed a problem with his mentality. If it cannot be stopped in time, it is impossible to predict what his next behavior will develop.

At this moment, a knock on the door interrupted Meng Shaohui's thoughts, and the investigator brought a girl who looked like a student to Meng Shaohui's office.

"Meng team, this is Lin Meixue, Du Yuhan's classmate. She is also Du Yuhan's roommate. She said that she has something to report. I think it would be better for you to hear it yourself." The investigator said.

"What's the matter?" Meng Shaohui asked.

"Because you have asked me about Yuhan's situation before, but after all, Yuhan has been gone for so long, I can't remember some things for a while, and then I was watching a TV series last night, and a boy appeared in it. After the scene where the hero saves the beauty, I suddenly remembered something, but I don't know if it's an important situation." Lin Meixue hesitated.

"It's okay, just say whatever you think of, we will investigate." Meng Shaohui nodded.

"Actually, it's like this. It should have happened about a year and a half ago. At that time, Yu Han and I were both freshmen. Because we both studied in the same class and were roommates, we got to know each other very quickly. Yes, Yuhan is very beautiful, and she is very talented in acting. Not long after she entered school, many classmates pursued her, and even some seniors wanted to know her through relationships, but Yuhan didn't accept it. Mainly because of the family relationship, she said that it was not easy for her mother to provide for her to go to school, she could not live up to her mother's expectations, she didn't want to fall in love so early, and worried that falling in love would affect her studies." Lin Meixue recalled carefully, "Later I remembered On a Friday night about a year ago, because it was the weekend, the rest of the girls went home. I stayed in the dormitory because the choir had to rehearse the next day. It was about 9 o’clock in the evening. I don’t remember, but I saw Du Yuhan running back to the dormitory panting, and then locked the door behind me. I was curious at the time, so I asked her what was wrong. It took her a long time to recover, and she told me that it was because of the rehearsal for a new year’s day. She was going to perform a show, so she left late. Originally, she wanted to come back and pack some things to take home, but when she passed by the canteen outside the school on the way back to the dormitory, she was stopped by three boys from the school. She said that the three boys were She was sitting outside the canteen drinking and insisted that she accompany them to have a drink. She disagreed, and those boys wanted to force her down. The three boys were stunned, and that person dragged her away. Originally, she wanted to thank that person, but the man ran away suddenly for some reason. She was worried that the three boys would catch up, so she ran quickly Back to the dormitory."

"Well, did Du Yuhan mention the identities of the three boys?"

"She said she didn't know each other. Yu Han is quite introverted. Except for a few of us girls who usually play well, she rarely makes friends. Besides, there are so many people in the school, and she couldn't possibly know everyone. I was She also asked her if she wanted to call the police. She said they were all from the same school, and they didn't do it on purpose. Maybe they did it when they were drunk. I know whether to say that she is weak or that she is always thinking of others."

"Then what about the man who saved her?"

"That's what I thought of. Yuhan didn't know who rescued her. She said that she seemed to be a senior, but because it happened so suddenly at that time, she didn't even remember the appearance of that person very clearly. But after that, Yuhan would often receive some unsigned love letters. Although some boys had written love letters to her before, most of the inscriptions were with names and surnames. We often joked about these love letters, saying In order to pursue her, the boys in the school are almost becoming masters of romance novels, but most of those boys didn’t write any more when Yu Han didn’t respond. But the unsigned love letter would be stuffed in every once in a while. In our dormitory, we wanted to find out who wrote it several times, but that person seemed to know what we were thinking, and always sneaked letters into our dormitory when we were not paying attention, and then we got used to it and didn’t pay attention anymore By the end of last year, the letter never appeared again."

"But why do you suspect that the anonymous love letter is related to the person who rescued Du Yuhan?"

"It's a guess too! Because it's really rare for boys to write anonymous love letters now! Especially in our school, those boys have thick skins! Especially chasing girls, for fear that others will not know they are chasing, Besides, after all, a love letter is a bridge. If you don’t write your name clearly, if someone agrees, where can you find someone? So usually in this case, you will write your name, even which major you are in, and which class you are in. It will be written very clearly, so it’s easy to find someone! Also, the anonymous love letter only appeared after Yuhan was rescued by that man, plus the sense of mystery when that man rescued Yuhan, so we thought It might have been written by that man, if it was those male heroes who usually wanted to chase after Yuhan to save the beauty, they would have talked about it every day, so it wouldn't be so mysterious!"

"Has Du Yuhan replied to the other party?"

"I'm not sure about this. After all, it belongs to her privacy. Although she has a good relationship with me, she rarely mentions private matters to me. She didn't even tell me the content of the letter. Like She read the love letters written by those boys before and threw them away, but she kept the anonymous love letters very carefully since the first one she received."

"Then do you know where those letters are kept?"

"Now I can't find it anymore. On the day Yuhan committed suicide, we all ran to the auditorium because of the sudden incident. The door of the dormitory was unlocked, but it was strange. When we went back, we found that nothing was missing, except Yuhan. The drawer of the desk that Han used was pried open, and the inside was turned into a mess, and the letters seemed to be locked in that drawer at ordinary times."

"En." Meng Shaohui nodded, followed by a short silence. He quickly sorted out what Lin Meixue said in his mind, and then he continued to ask, "By the way, you just said that since last year At the end of the year, the anonymous letter never appeared again, can you recall when the last letter was placed in your dormitory? Also, did anything special happen at that time?"

(End of this chapter)