Chapter 819: The Killer Has Been Caught
On this flight, there were two people Jiang Ran couldn't see through at all. One was that Long-Legged Blonde Girl, and the other was Xu Yang.
The Long-Legged Blonde Girl had quietly appeared behind him. If it weren't for her gently rubbing his back, just like on the plane, he wouldn't have noticed her at all.
After being discovered, this Long-Legged Blonde Girl went even further. Her right hand actually reached straight for his crotch.
"Damn!"
With a sudden curse, Jiang Ran quickly pulled her soft right hand out of his pants and dodged to the side.
Then, he asked in shock, "What the hell are you doing?!"
The Long-Legged Blonde Girl grinned playfully and said, "I'm helping you relieve stress!"
"Look at what you've been through. That whole thing on the plane must've put a huge mental strain on you, so I'm trying to help. Why can't you just appreciate it?"
"No thanks, I'm good."
Jiang Ran took a step back. He felt like this Long-Legged Blonde Girl might have some kind of contagious disease she was trying to pass on to him.
Why was she being so forward with him?
Seeing him back away, the Long-Legged Blonde Girl kept her cheerful smile and said, "You should see a psychological doctor when you get back."
Jiang Ran asked, puzzled, "Why?"
The Long-Legged Blonde Girl replied, "After that incident on the plane, a lot of people probably have some mental issues. If they don't see a psychological doctor to adjust, serious problems could easily develop."
Jiang Ran thought to himself, he was already a mental case to begin with. And as for that plane incident, even though it was thrilling and unexpected, he had been through way too many storms in his life for this to count as anything major.
He asked, "What about you? Do you need to see a psychological doctor?"
The Long-Legged Blonde Girl didn't answer. She just kept grinning.
The two of them stood side by side at the deck railing, leaning against it, silently savoring the beauty of the sea.
After spending nearly twenty-plus hours on the ship, it finally arrived in Hua Country, docking at a pier in a coastal city.
Once docked, Jiang Ran and the others grabbed their luggage and disembarked.
After getting off the ship and feeling solid ground beneath their feet at the pier, everyone took just over half an hour to catch their breath.
Then they went their separate ways.
A single flight journey, all because of a real-life game run by someone calling themselves Captain Tom.
Had changed the fate of two to three hundred people.
Jiang Ran left the pier. Xu Yang had already hailed a rideshare and left.
That Long-Legged Blonde Girl walked with Jiang Ran out of the pier, to the roadside, where she also got into the rideshare she had ordered.
Before leaving, she used her right hand to make a fist, leaving a hollow gap in the middle.
Then she moved it up and down.
Seeing that gesture, Jiang Ran felt utterly speechless.
What the hell was this girl always thinking about?
Soon, Jiang Ran's rideshare arrived as well.
He got into the car, and half an hour later, he arrived at a hotel near the train station.
He checked into the hotel first.
After settling in, he pulled out his phone and bought a ticket for tomorrow's train back to Nancheng City.
After buying the ticket, he lay down on the single bed in the hotel room.
Closing his eyes, he rested.
He hadn't been resting long.
He was woken up by the ding sound of a text message on his phone.
He grabbed his phone and opened the message.
It was a bank account deposit alert.
The sender was still You Sha Qi Comics.
The deposit amount was 560,000 yuan.
Jiang Ran stared at that 560,000 yuan deposit notification for a full minute.
Then he tossed the phone aside. It bounced twice on the soft bed before lying still.
He continued lying there in bed.
He stayed there until around two in the afternoon.
His stomach growled with hunger.
Only then did he leave the hotel.
After leaving the hotel, Jiang Ran went looking for food near this unfamiliar city and unfamiliar hotel.
He first went to Snow King Milk Tea Shop and ordered a two-yuan ice cream cone.
After finishing the cone, he went into a small supermarket and bought a bottle of fruit-flavored nutrition drink.
Then, with the drink in hand, he went to a Sha County eatery.
He ordered a duck leg rice bowl.
While eating his duck leg rice, Jiang Ran started scrolling through his phone.
He looked up updates on the serial rape-murder case in Nancheng City that had happened after he went abroad.
The update was this.
That killer had committed a total of seven crimes in Nancheng City.
The first five victims were all young female patrons of nightclubs or young female employees working at nightclubs.
The sixth victim was a young male worker heading home after his night shift.
The seventh victim was a middle-aged woman coming off her night shift.
The seventh victim was also the case that had occurred before Jiang Ran went abroad. At the same time, that killer used this seventh case involving the middle-aged woman coming off her night shift to provoke society as a whole.
He had recorded an audio clip of the dying woman's pleas before her death, which spread across the internet.
Finally, while Jiang Ran was flying to Germany and during his time there, this serial rapist-murderer didn't strike again. It was as if he had vanished into thin air.
And that audio of the seventh victim was the killer's final swan song for this series of crimes, a perfect grand finale.
Of course, the police weren't about to say, "You call it an ending, so it's an ending. We won't pursue you."
During Jiang Ran's time in Germany, the Nancheng City police received assistance from the provincial police force.
The two sides joined forces to start investigating this series of cases.
Finally, they made a breakthrough!
From the sixth victim, that dead young male who had been coming off his night shift, they found a decisive lead!
At last, heaven rewards the diligent, and they caught the killer!
At this, the Nancheng City police and the provincial police were overjoyed!
Finally!
This case was about to be solved!
No one knew!
The immense pressure the Nancheng City police had been under during this time!
Only they themselves knew!
As long as the case remained unsolved, the nationwide attention was enough to crush their spirits!
But then, the twist that followed caught them completely off guard.
After they caught the killer, they immediately launched a round-the-clock interrogation.
The killer was a young man, ordinary-looking, about 1.7 meters tall.
He had a technical secondary school education.
At first, when he was caught, this killer kept his mouth shut tight, completely refusing to admit he had killed anyone.
When he couldn't withstand the barrage of interrogation tactics anymore, he spilled everything.
But after spilling everything.
The police were dumbfounded.
Because this killer only admitted to killing that young male who had been coming off his night shift.
As for the other six female victims, he hadn't done those.
Here's how it went down.
This killer also lived in Nancheng City and had heard about the serial rapist-murderer terrorizing the city.
At first, he didn't pay it any mind, just treating it as a hot topic to gawk at for entertainment. Even though he shared the same city as the murderer, since the killer only targeted women and not men, he didn't care.
But then, something happened that pushed him to kill that young male coming off his night shift.
It turned out that this killer and the young male he killed both worked at the same factory.
The two had always had bad blood, with tons of conflicts.
They often escalated from verbal arguments to physical fights.
Especially since they both had a crush on a female coworker at the factory.
Both of them were aggressively pursuing that female coworker, but she ended up choosing the young male coming off his night shift instead of him.