NFBE Chapter 463 Searching
Chapter 463 Searching
As soon as Kelly saw Xiang Yuntian, she quickly walked over and sat down in an empty seat. She said anxiously to Xiang Yuntian, "I saw Jiang Shuai being arrested with my own eyes. I tried to stop them, but I ended up injuring my arm!"
As she spoke, she slowly rolled up her sleeve, revealing a shocking, unhealed scar on her fair arm.
"How could this happen?" Xiang Yuntian was full of worry. On the one hand, he was worried about Jiang Shuai's safety, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the other party would resort to desperate measures and harm Bai Mengfei.
Bai Mengfei gently grabbed Kelly's arm, examined it carefully, and then analyzed, "Your wound looks like it was cut by a military dagger!"
“That’s right!” Kelly then began to recount the events of that day, “That day, Jiang Shuai encountered a technical problem and asked me to come and help him. After I helped him solve the problem, I was about to leave. But as soon as I opened the door, a burly man wearing sunglasses and a military green T-shirt barged in!”
After the man entered the house, he casually pushed Kelly aside, clearly indicating that Kelly was not his target. He rushed into the room, knocked Jiang Shuai unconscious, and then picked him up, preparing to leave.
Seeing this, Kelly rushed forward to stop him, but the man dragged her into the bathroom and pressed her directly into the water tank. Kelly, quick-witted, held her breath and pretended to be dead, making the man believe she was no longer breathing.
While the man wasn't looking, Kelly tried to strangle him with the metal pipe of a lotus seedpod, but he noticed and slashed her arm before pushing her out of the window. Luckily, someone was moving that day, and a large truck was parked downstairs with blankets and other items on it, which saved Kelly's life, but she ended up in the hospital.
After escaping danger, Kelly rushed over immediately and told Jiang Shuai's friend Xiang Yuntian the news.
Thus, this meeting took place.
After listening to Kelly's story, Xiang Yuntian turned to look at Bai Mengfei, his eyes full of anticipation, wanting to hear her opinion.
Bai Mengfei gently gripped the soup spoon in her hand, lost in thought.
After a while, Bai Mengfei raised her head and said to Xiang Yuntian with certainty, "It seems that the murderer who kidnapped Jiang Shuai is indeed not the same person as the murderer in the previous serial murder case."
“This person must have gotten involved later. But why would he help the murderer commit the crime? There must be something going on behind the scenes,” Xiang Yuntian said.
Kelly interrupted anxiously, "Now is not the time to analyze their relationship, is it? The most important thing is to find a way to rescue Jiang Shuai!"
Xiang Yuntian naturally agreed with Kelly's idea and quickly nodded, saying, "Yes, we must save Jiang Shuai, and we need to hurry. Those two murderers are ruthless, and if we are too late, something unexpected might happen!" After saying that, he couldn't think of a solution for the moment, so he could only bite his lower lip and fall into silence.
Seeing Xiang Yuntian's worried expression, Bai Mengfei, who was sitting next to him, comforted him, "Don't worry too much. Captain Zhao has already gone to deal with this matter. Maybe we'll hear good news soon."
Kelly, however, said pessimistically, "I'll be thankful if we don't get any bad news."
At this moment, Xiang Yuntian suddenly raised his head and looked at Kelly. Kelly was startled and looked back at him nervously.
After exchanging glances for a few seconds, Xiang Yuntian said, "Let's go, let's go take a look at that place you mentioned. There was such a fierce fight that day, maybe they left some clues."
Kelly thought Xiang Yuntian's words made sense, so she took Xiang Yuntian and Bai Mengfei to the apartment where Jiang Shuai had lived.
Upon entering the room, one finds it in complete disarray, clearly untouched since that day. This implies that a relatively intact crime scene has been preserved.
“I’ve already told you what happened that day,” Kelly said as she slowly walked to the door. “Look, there’s a footprint on this door; it must have been left by that person.”
“Having footprints makes things much easier,” Bai Mengfei said, immediately taking out her phone and using the shoe rack next to her as a reference before taking several clear photos of the footprints.
Next, she found a ruler and carefully measured the size and shape of the footprints. She also found cotton twigs and other tools at the scene and carefully extracted the soil and other components from the footprints.
Seeing Bai Mengfei busy over there, Xiang Yuntian followed Kelly into the bathroom.
The bathtub was overflowing with water, and although the faucet was still on, the water flow had become very weak.
Xiang Yuntian turned to Kelly and asked, "Did the murderer touch this faucet back then?"
"You mean the guy who kidnapped Jiang Shuai?" Kelly looked up, thought for a moment, and nodded, saying with certainty, "He touched me, he definitely touched me! He was the one who turned on the faucet, trying to drown me in this bathtub!"
Upon hearing this information, Xiang Yuntian immediately took out a UV pen and carefully examined the faucet. Sure enough, he found two incomplete fingerprints on the faucet, one of which belonged to Kelly, and the other was very likely the murderer's.
After obtaining the fingerprints, Xiang Yuntian returned to Bai Mengfei's side and excitedly said, "With these fingerprints, we should be able to identify the person who kidnapped Jiang Shuai!"
Bai Mengfei didn't rush to conclusions. She looked around the scene, took a deep breath, and said, "Don't rush, there might be other important evidence at this scene."
Xiang Yuntian looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Bai Mengfei closed her eyes, quietly contemplated for a moment, then turned to look towards the living room window. She walked over unhurriedly, drew back the curtains, and went to the windowsill.
There was a cigarette butt on the windowsill.
Xiang Yuntian also came over, and upon seeing the cigarette butt, he exclaimed in surprise, "I didn't expect there to be a cigarette butt here. Jiang Shuai and Kelly don't smoke, and judging from the marks on the windowsill, this cigarette butt was left two days ago. It's very likely left by the murderer!"
“That’s right!” Bai Mengfei nodded. “So this cigarette butt is also important evidence. By testing the DNA in the saliva inside, we can more accurately identify the murderer.”
As she spoke, Bai Mengfei turned to look at the door and said, "I suspect the murderer went to a swamp before. Look, the mud and other mixture on that footprint are distributed very evenly."
Xiang Yuntian thought for a moment and said, "But there shouldn't be any swamps within a hundred miles of this area, and it hasn't rained recently either."
“Factory areas, especially those near factories with a lot of drainage operations, may develop into swamp-like environments.” Bai Mengfei’s eyes lit up, as if she had thought of a certain place, “Or places near water sources.”
Kelly suddenly remembered a place and hurried over, saying, "Could it be that riverbank? Last time I went there alone, I saw an illegally built tin shack, completely enclosed. I was curious at the time, thinking the person who built it was incompetent, not even opening a window. Didn't they feel stuffy living in there? And right next to the tin shack, there's a swamp. Maybe the murderer came from there!"
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