The Devil is Lurking By Your Side

Although Leng Yu obtained important information about Hou Peiting's experience as a wine girl in Fenghua Nightclub, he still couldn't find out where she really stayed at the moment.

As the man in front of him said, Hou Peiting is a mysterious woman and a quiet woman, so no one has ever known her background, let alone where she lives.

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

The nightclub owner answered 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 of the operations in the nightclub, and has a certain interpersonal relationship, so as to plan to kill the dead.

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

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

From their words and deeds, Leng Yu discovered that the accompany women actually didn’t care about the murder case at all. They just secretly understood the whole case with a gossip mentality and treated them as their after-dinner topic. .

The nightclub boss took a quiet look at Leng Yu, and saw her cold eyes looking towards the accompaniment girl who was sitting by the side drinking with the client, and quickly asked: "Police officer, if you have anything else you need our help, How many escorts can I recruit here to have them talk to you?"

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

Leng Yu drove back to the Federal Bureau. After getting out of the car, she went straight to her office, took out some paper and pen, and began to scribble on it, writing down all the information she got today, hoping to find it out. Give some clues.

She made a character relationship diagram for the murder case, then looked down at her drawing carefully, and reorganized the whole case at the same time.

She frowned and looked at the names of the people on the relationship map, drew circles on it, and wrote some notes next to the names.

Both Hou Zhongyang and Hou Peiting are named Hou.

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

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

If this is 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 is it because they are in a father-daughter relationship, 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 immediately looked at the name of the other deceased He Risheng, and then wrote the words "teacher and student" without hesitation. He Risheng and Hou Peiting belong to a teacher-student relationship, which is a point that the school principal can prove.

When Leng Yu stared at Hou Peiting’s high school photo, somehow, a very vague and vague figure appeared in her mind. When she wanted to go deeper to call out this familiar figure, she found that the figure and herself Gradually, it disappeared without a trace until later.

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

Was it because I followed Hou Zhongyang's case every day, looking at Hou Zhongyang, I couldn't help but substitute Hou Peiting's appearance?

This is unlikely.

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

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

Her brain kept running until the phone rang to bring her back to reality from a distant place.

Leng Yu glanced down at the caller ID, then answered the call, only to hear a thick voice from the opposite side, he said: "Boss, we have found out!"

Listening to Xiao Cheng's voice, there was a hint of excitement, Leng Yu asked, "What color?"

"Red!" Xiao Cheng replied quickly.

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

It turned out to be red.

Then, why is it red?

What can red represent?

Can it represent red blood stains? Or does it mean bright colors?

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

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

There was a blank in her head.

And the voice of Xiao Cheng on the other side said: "Hello? Hello? Boss, are you listening?"

Leng Yu quickly recovered, and she said faintly: "Well, I see. Then, what about the other deceased? What color is the cut part of his shirt?"

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

Leng Yu gave an "um" and said, "If there is nothing else, we will meet with the Federal Bureau. 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 his back on the back of the chair.

She thought, after the murderer cut the red fabric from the deceased’s shirt, where did he want to use it? Moreover, what was her motivation for doing this?

Now, they found a little clue, even some information about Hou Peiting. The next thing they must do is to find the woman's residence.

It's just that there are thousands of Hou Peiting's names in the database, and there is a huge crowd. How do they look for them one by one?

Seeing the case is getting more and more difficult.

***

The night was low, and the sound of insects rang everywhere in the summer, accompanied by puffs of rain. Time continued to move forward, until midnight when the people were still at night, the clamor in every corner of Yang City gradually ceased.

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

"Go to hell! You go to death for me! If you lose money, you will repay the bill! Kill you! You dare not dare to see you in the future!" One of the men kicked the thin man's thigh heavily.

"Ah!!!" The thin man kept rolling on the ground, being beaten up and down in pain.

"Boss! He is not only squandering the bill, he also stole our money!" Another man said while beating.

"Really? Then hit me again!" The boss fisted and kicked the thin man's body, legs, back, and buttocks, but dodge his vitals.

Just after the thin man's yelling gradually turned into a faint moan, the boss stopped, and he shouted: "Stop! Search him and take all the money!"

The other men also took their hands. After they agreed, they bent down and searched the man's body. After taking out several hundred dollars, they kicked him again, and then they turned and left. , Leaving the man lying on the ground.

At this moment, a figure suddenly walked out of a certain alley on the corner of the street. He slowly supported the man on the ground, then dragged him to a car parked not far away, and quickly squeezed the man into the car. In the back seat, he drove away.

Along the way, the thin man in the back seat of the car groaned and moaned from time to time, until the car stopped, he felt that he was being supported again, and then dragged away for more than ten steps before being released. Fell in a hall.

"Water... Give me water..." The man trembling, enduring the pain from time to time, wanted to get up from the ground and beg for water, and by the way, he wanted to see the person who saved him. who is it.

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

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 his mouth cried out: "You... how come you came here!"

The man couldn't get any answer. He only saw the person squatting in front of him suddenly raised a right hand and slammed on his head.

He felt a sharp pain, and the knocks on the top of his head were knocking from time to time. He couldn't bear it anymore, and when his eyes went dark, he fell back again.

When the man lost the signs of his life, the shirt on his body was cut off by someone "cracking, croaking". It didn't take long for him to see holes 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, restoring the original tranquility.

***

A few days later, Leng Yu was still immersed in the case, and she finally found information and matches related to Hou Peiting in the database.

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

Although, as I guess, Hou Zhongyang and Hou Peiting are indeed father-daughter, the home address shown on the database is Hou Zhongyang's home address.

Therefore, instead of finding Hou Peiting's latest home address, Leng Yu wasted time searching for such a subtle clue, and the clue was broken here, preventing her from continuing to track it down.

Huang Lin, who was sitting next to her, took a bite of the instant noodles she was holding, and asked, "Boss, what do you say?"

Leng Yu sighed and said, "The clue is broken here, so we have to find another clue. Did you know that Hou Peiting once lied to the principal that her parents were dead, but today we found out that her father was not dead. Instead, he 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, but shook his head, then leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes. Huang Lin turned her head and looked over and saw a faint dark circle under her eyes. Knowing that Leng Yu had racked his brains for this case, and even lost time to sleep, she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

The murderer is really cunning, committing crimes frequently and without leaving a trace, and the police are all played around by her.

At this moment, Leng Yu, who was lying halfway, suddenly asked: "Huang Lin, what do the dead have in common?"

Huang Lin quickly replied: "Laughter, and Hou Peiting are acquaintances, and they will always find a lady for the night... What's wrong?"

Leng Yu nodded and said, "Yes, they all go to the overnight club. However, have you ever thought about it? Although they all went to the overnight club, they also met Hou Peiting by coincidence. Then, Hou Peiting only worked there. After more than 2 years, did she have other occupations before?" As she said, she straightened up and stared at Huang Lin closely.

Huang Lin suddenly realized: "Yes, what did she do before?"

Leng Yu sneered, and said: "The profession of accompany the wine girl is just Hou Peiting's pretence to attract the dead. She has planned for a long time, and put a lot of thought into it, only to find out that these two people are regulars in the nightclub. She is. She must be in another profession in Yang City, otherwise she would not be able to support herself for so many years."

While the two were discussing the case, Leng Yu’s cell phone rang again quickly on the table, she quickly pressed the answer button, and then the voice of Police Officer Chen on the other side came over. He said: "Officer Leng, in Yang Another body was found in the garbage dump in City XX. He was in the same condition as the other two dead, with multiple holes in his shirt."

"Okay, let's go over!" After closing the phone hastily, she said to Huang Lin: "Let's go!"

Another person died.

The murderer's repeated killing jabs are undoubtedly challenging the limits of the police, and it also shows the murderer's boldness.

When the two drove outside the garbage dump, looking at the mountains of garbage not far away, they smelled a foul smell from the garbage on their noses.

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

Leng Yu endured the stench and got out of the car. When she stood outside the garbage yard, the smell of garbage was even stronger, accompanied by the stench of rotting corpses.

Regardless of the constant smell, she walked straight forward. When she entered the security zone, she saw that the forensic doctor had already squatted in front of a corpse and was doing an examination.

Seeing that she had arrived, the forensic doctor pointed to the corpse lying in front of her and said: "It's still the same as the two dead before. The hole only appeared on the shirt, but the pants were intact."

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

The hole in the shirt was very conspicuous, and Leng Yu knew that it was the same murderer.

But who will the dead be?

What kind of relationship exists between him and Hou Peiting?