Gene Fusion System: Crime Hunter

Even though Ding Shaojun said that.

Very soon, however, Luo Fei received an anonymous tip-off text message.

"Officer, I want to report Ding Shaojun. There’s something wrong with him."

"Because not long ago, in the village where he lives, two elderly people in their seventies or eighties were murdered. The way they died was extremely miserable."

"I even suspect it was done by Ding Shaojun. That punk definitely has a twisted mind!"

Hearing this kind of news,

Luo Fei couldn’t help but frown.

"Old Han, look at this."

After he read the text,

Lan Mengzhou, standing to the side, also spoke up.

"Mr. Luo, speaking of which, in the past two days while you were out of town, there really were a few vicious cases. It’s just that at the time we were in charge of another investigation, so we never mentioned it to you."

Lan Mengzhou’s words piqued Luo Fei’s curiosity.

"Really? So that means this case is real, and quite serious?"

Noticing that Luo Fei sounded somewhat surprised,

Lan Mengzhou neither confirmed nor denied it.

"Yes, Mr. Luo, but so far we still haven’t found the killer."

"Because our attention had always been on the other case. And both elderly victims lived alone, so by the time their bodies were found, they had already been dead for a day or two. Not to mention, the killer’s methods were extremely vile."

"The officers at the village police station wanted to handle it internally at first. So they waited a few days before reporting it to us. That’s why I suspect the killer may already have left the village and gone somewhere else."

Yet even though Lan Mengzhou said this,

Luo Fei shook his head.

"No. My view is actually the complete opposite of yours."

In Luo Fei’s opinion, if the police had gone this long without solving the case,

there was a real chance the killer was still at large.

Combined with the offender’s perverse methods,

he was very likely to stay in the village, watching the police’s every move.

He was far too intoxicated with what he had done,

so it was entirely possible he would do something like that.

Upon hearing this, though she was a bit hesitant, Lan Mengzhou was still willing to trust Luo Fei.

So she suggested,

"Mr. Luo, if that’s the case, I think we might as well go to the village right now and do a thorough sweep again, see if we can find any clues."

"Who knows, the killer might actually be Ding Shaojun."

After all, Lan Mengzhou knew the two old men had died in a horrific way.

But they were both adult males, and at a critical moment the survival instinct would have driven them to put up a desperate struggle.

If it had been just an ordinary young woman, it would have been impossible for her to use that kind of brute force to brutalize two elderly men.

First beating them to death, then doing unspeakable things to their corpses.

That was clearly the work of an adult man.

And that matched Ding Shaojun’s basic profile.

"Of course, we can’t rule out the possibility that the killer is someone else."

After a while,

once Luo Fei, Lan Mengzhou, and the others arrived at their destination,

Old Han suddenly couldn’t help but curse out loud.

"Motherfucker, that little bastard actually did something like this!"

Seeing Old Han’s face flush red with anger,

Lan Mengzhou still hadn’t figured out why he suddenly started swearing.

Luo Fei, on the other hand, remained fairly calm.

He only asked evenly,

"How much money?"

Hearing Luo Fei’s question,

Old Han gestured with his hand.

"Seven million?"

"Seventy million!"

When Old Han said that, Lan Mengzhou finally understood.

It turned out this number was the total amount embezzled by Zhang Yujie.

This revelation left all of them staring at each other in disbelief.

And almost at the same time,

they arrived at the township police station in the village on the outskirts of Shenchuan.

"Officer, I never expected you to come in person. This really is a great honor for us."

Seeing the station chief looking rather excited,

Luo Fei said,

"Sir, I’ve already gotten a general idea of the situation regarding that case just now."

"What we need to do now is conduct an in-depth investigation into it."

As Luo Fei spoke, he was all business.

That made the station chief a bit embarrassed.

"Officer, I’m truly sorry. I never imagined we’d need you to personally come investigate this case. Clearly we didn’t do our job well enough. Our investigation was inadequate, which forced you to step in. It’s really embarrassing."

Seeing the chief so ill at ease,

a fine sheen of sweat on his forehead and his face full of confusion,

Luo Fei only smiled it off.

"Chief, you’re overthinking it. There’s no need for that."

"I just happen to be working another case, and it appears to overlap with this one, so we made a special trip."

Luo Fei spoke in a calm, unhurried tone.

The chief still felt ashamed after hearing this.

"Officer, I understand what you mean. But I still feel somewhat guilty."

"If we had been able to get to the truth sooner, you wouldn’t have had to come all this way yourself, right?"

Seeing the other man so uncomfortable,

Luo Fei said,

"Chief, based on my review and close examination of the autopsy reports for the two bodies just now, I can basically confirm this: the killer is an adult male, about one meter eighty to one eighty-five in height, and physically strong—right in his prime."