demons lurk beside you

Although Leng Yu obtained the important information that Hou Peiting had worked as a hostess in "Fenghua Nightclub", she still couldn't find out where she was really staying at the moment.

As the man in front of me said, Hou Peiting is a mysterious woman and a woman of few words, so no one knows her background, let alone where she lives.

Leng Yu asked, "How long has Hou Peiting been working here?"

The nightclub owner replied truthfully: "About two and a half years."

Two and a half years is neither long nor short.In the past two and a half years, Hou Peiting has at least mastered some operations in the nightclub and has a certain relationship with others, so she plans to kill the deceased.

Before Leng Yu found other suspects, she included Hou Peiting in the list of prime suspects.

She looked around the nightclub and saw several hostesses drinking and chatting with customers.Several of them looked in Leng Yu's direction while chatting, but they were all frightened away by her cold eyes.

From their words and deeds, Leng Yu found that the girls who accompanied the wine didn't really care about the murder case at all. They just secretly learned about the whole case with a gossip mentality and made it their after-dinner topic. .

The owner of the nightclub quietly glanced at Leng Yu, seeing her cold eyes looking towards the bartender who was drinking with customers, and quickly asked: "Officer, if you need any help from us, Can I invite a few hostesses to have a talk with you?"

"No need." Leng Yu responded briefly, then turned and walked towards the gate.

Leng Yu drove back to the Federal Bureau. After getting off the car, she went straight to her office, took out some pens and paper, and began to scribble on it, writing down the information she got today, hoping to find it from it. Come up with some clues.

She made a character diagram of the murder, then looked down at what she had drawn, and reorganized the whole case.

She frowned at the names on the relationship map, drew circles on them, and wrote some notes next to the names.

Hou Zhongyang and Hou Peiting are both surnamed Hou.

According to logic, these two people may have some kind of blood relationship.When Leng Yu thought of this, he took out his mobile phone, and at the same time called out Hou Peiting's high school photo and Hou Zhongyang's ID photo, wanting to see if their facial features were similar.

After staring at the two photos for a long time, she found that the facial features of the two of them were indeed somewhat similar.

That being the case, can it be judged that Hou Zhongyang and Hou Peiting do have a very close relationship?Is it possible that the two of them are uncles and nephews?Or maybe they are father and daughter, and Hou Peiting is Hou Zhongyang's biological daughter who has been away from home for many years?

When she thought of this, she picked up a pen and marked the word "father and daughter" on the character relationship diagram.

Leng Yu then looked at the name of the other deceased, He Risheng, and wrote down the words "teacher and student" without hesitation.He Risheng and Hou Peiting belonged to a teacher-student relationship, which was something the school principal could prove.

When Leng Yu stared at Hou Peiting's high school photo, for some reason, a very blurred figure appeared in her mind. When she wanted to call out this familiar figure, she found that the figure was different from her own. Gradually, it gradually disappeared without a trace until later.

She kept staring at the photo, and always felt that Hou Peiting's appearance made her look more and more familiar. She didn't understand why she had such hallucinations, since she had never seen this woman before.

Could it be that because I follow up on Hou Zhongyang's case every day, can't help but substitute Hou Peiting's appearance when I look at Hou Zhongyang?

This is unlikely.

Leng Yu is a rational person, she will never have hallucinations easily, she thinks she must have seen this woman somewhere.

In the silent office, apart from the ticking ticking of the wall clock on the wall, only the sound of Leng Yu's slow breathing remained.

Her brain was constantly running, until the phone rang, which brought her back to reality from a distant place.

Leng Yu looked down at the caller ID, then answered the call, only to hear a deep voice from the other side, he said: "Boss, we have found something!"

Hearing the excitement in Xiao Cheng's voice, Leng Yu asked, "What color?"

"Red!" Xiao Cheng replied quickly.

When the word "red" entered Leng Yu's ears, it immediately exploded in her head.

It turned out to be red.

Then, why red?

What can red represent?

Could it represent red bloodstains?Or does it represent bright colors?

Or is red a symbolic representation, for example, it could represent a red rose flower?

In fact, there are too many things that can be associated with red.Although Leng Yu got the news, she still couldn't figure out why the murderer cut off the red part of the deceased's clothes.

There was a blank in her mind.

On the other side, Xiao Cheng's voice said, "Hello? Hello? Boss, are you listening?"

Leng Yu quickly came back to her senses, and she said lightly: "Yes, I see. Then, what about the other deceased? What color is the cut part of his shirt?"

Xiao Cheng immediately replied: "Boss, that's also red!"

Leng Yu gave a "hmm" and said, "If there is nothing else, we will meet with the Federal Bureau, and I have other news to tell you."

After Xiao Cheng agreed, the two immediately closed the phone.

Leng Yu threw the phone aside and leaned back against the back of the chair.

She thought, after the murderer cut off the red fabric from the shirt of the deceased, what exactly did he want to use it for?And, what was her motive for doing so?

Now, they found some clues, including some information about Hou Peiting. The next thing they had to do was to find out where this woman lived.

It's just that there are tens of thousands of Hou Peiting's names in the database, and the sea of ​​people is vast, how can they find them one by one?

Seeing that the case is getting more and more difficult.

***

The night is low, and in summer, the sound of insects can be heard everywhere, accompanied by bursts of rain.Time continued to move forward, until midnight, when the night was quiet, and the hustle and bustle in every corner of Yang City gradually stopped.

On a certain street corner in Yang City, bursts of cursing came out, and four or five men were seen punching and kicking around a thin man lying on the ground, swear words kept coming out of their mouths .

"Go to hell! Go to hell with me! If you lose money, you still renege on it! I'll beat you to death! Let's see if you dare!" One of the men kicked the emaciated man's thigh heavily.

"Ah!!!" The skinny man kept rolling on the ground, his whole body being beaten in unbearable pain.

"Boss! He's not only reneging on his bills, he also stole our money!" Another man said while beating.

"Really? Then hit me again!" The big boss kicked and kicked the skinny man's body, legs, back, and buttocks, but avoided his vital parts.

It was only after the thin man's yelling gradually turned into a weak groan that the boss stopped, and he shouted: "Stop! Search him and take all the money away!"

The other men also stopped. After they agreed, they bent down and searched the man's body, took out a few hundred dollars, and then kicked him again. Then they turned and left , leaving the man lying on the ground.

At this moment, a figure suddenly came out from an alley at the corner of the street. He slowly helped the man on the ground up, then dragged him to a car parked not far away, and quickly stuffed the man into the car In the back seat, he drove away.

Along the way, the thin man in the backseat of the car groaned and groaned from time to time. When the car stopped, he felt that he was being helped by someone again, and was dragged away for more than ten steps before being released. down in a hall.

"Water...Give me water..." The man trembled, endured the pain that came from his body from time to time, wanted to get up from the ground, begged for water, and also wanted to see who saved him. who is it.

When the man struggled to open his eyes, he saw that the light shining on him was very weak, and then a figure was looking at him with the light behind him.

There was no expression on this man's face, and his eyes were piercingly cold. When the man looked at him intently, his eyes widened in vain, and he shouted, "You...how did you come here!"

The man didn't get any answer, he only saw the person squatting in front of him suddenly raised his right hand and hit him on the top of his head.

He felt a sharp pain, and the beating on the top of his head was beating up and down from time to time. He couldn't bear it anymore, his eyes went dark, and he fell backward again.

When the man lost the signs of life, the shirt on his body was cut off by "click, click".It didn't take long for holes to appear in the shirt on his body.

After a long time, the sound of scissors in the house gradually stopped, and then the lights in the hall were extinguished again, and the original tranquility was restored.

***

After a few days, Leng Yu was still immersed in the case, and she finally found the information and matching with Hou Peiting in the database.

I thought I should be happy to find her information, but Leng Yu's eyes dimmed again as the information in the database showed.

Although, as I guessed, Hou Zhongyang and Hou Peiting are indeed father and daughter, but for the address shown on the database, it is the address of Hou Zhongyang's hometown.

Therefore, not only did Leng Yu fail to find Hou Peiting's latest home address, but she wasted time looking for such a subtle clue, and the clue was broken here, making it impossible for her to continue to pursue it.

Huang Lin, who was sitting beside her, took a bite of the instant noodles in her hand and asked, "Boss, what do you think?"

Leng Yu sighed and said: "The clue is broken here, we have to find another clue. Do you know that Hou Peiting once lied to the principal that her parents had already died, but today we found out that her father is not dead. Instead, they came to the nightclub to play with women, so it can be judged that the relationship between the two of them broke up a long time ago."

Huang Lin nodded and asked again: "So, what should we do next?"

Leng Yu didn't answer, just shook her head, then leaned back on the chair, and closed her eyes.Huang Lin turned her head and looked over, and saw that there was a faint layer of dark circles under her eyes. Knowing that Leng Yu had racked her brains for this case, and even lost the time to sleep, she couldn't help but sighed secretly.

The murderer is really cunning, committing crimes repeatedly without leaving any traces, the police are played around by her.

At this time, Leng Yu, who was half lying down, suddenly asked, "Huang Lin, what do the dead have in common?"

Huang Lin quickly answered her: "Lust, I know Hou Peiting, and I have been to nightclubs to find girls. What's wrong?"

Leng Yu nodded and said: "Yes, they have all been to nightclubs. However, have you thought about it? Although they have all been to nightclubs, they also met Hou Peiting by coincidence. Then, Hou Peiting only worked there Has she worked for more than 2 years, so did she have other occupations before?" Then she sat up straight and stared at Huang Lin closely.

Huang Lin suddenly realized: "Yes, what has she done before?"

Leng Yu sneered, and said: "The job of the wine girl is just a cover used by Hou Peiting to lure the deceased. She planned for a long time and put a lot of thought into it before she found out that these two were regulars at the nightclub. She She must have another job in Yang City, otherwise, she would not be able to support herself for so many years."

When the two were discussing the case, Leng Yu's mobile phone on the table rang again, and she quickly pressed the answer button, and then the voice of Officer Chen came from the opposite side, and he said: "Officer Leng, in Yangyang Another body was found in the garbage dump in the city of XX in the same condition as the other two deceased, with multiple holes in his shirt."

"Okay, let's go there now!" After she hastily closed the phone, she said to Huang Lin, "Let's go!"

Another person died.

The murderer's repeated killings are undoubtedly challenging the limits of the police, and at the same time it shows the murderer's boldness.

When the two drove to the garbage dump, they looked at the pile of garbage not far away, and smelled the stench of garbage from the tip of their noses.

"It stinks!" Huang Lin couldn't help covering her nose and complained.

Enduring the stench, Leng Yu got out of the car.When she stood outside the garbage dump, the smell of garbage became stronger, accompanied by the stench of rotting corpses.

Regardless of the constant stench, she walked straight forward.When she entered the cordon, she saw that the forensic doctor had already squatted in front of a corpse, doing an examination.

When the forensic doctor saw her arriving, he pointed to the corpse lying in front of him and said, "It's still the same as the two deceased before. The hole only appeared on the shirt, but the pants were intact."

Leng Yu looked down at the swollen and decomposed corpse, and saw that the upper body of the deceased was wearing a fancy white shirt. Although the corpse had been covered with garbage, the shirt was still bright in color.

The hole on the shirt is very conspicuous, and Leng Yu knew that it was done by the same murderer.

But, who would the dead be?

What kind of relationship existed between him and Hou Peiting?