Chapter 1052 Race Against Time

"Store manager, I've asked you everything I can think of. Take a look."

After leaving the building and breathing in the fresh air outside, most of the unpleasant smell finally dissipated.

Li Dahong handed the record book to Ji Li and began to report in a low voice.

"Tian Wenyong and his wife work in freight transportation. They travel all over the country all year round, and their work is very unstable.

It turns out that Honda Xiaolian was taken care of by Tian Wenyong's sister, her aunt.

But half a month ago, Tian Wenyong's sister's mother-in-law fell and was hospitalized, which meant that Tian Xiaolian was always at home alone during this time.

Tian Xiaolian's body was found two days ago, and the time of death has to be pushed forward again. "

Ji Li flipped through the record book and said while listening:

"That is to say, Tian Xiaolian was most likely killed shortly after contacting Tian Wenyong."

Li Dahong nodded in agreement, listened to the recording again, and continued:

"The back story about the Tian family is very simple, there are only these contents of little value.

As for Tian Xiaolian himself, according to Tian Wenyong, this first-grade primary school student is quite impressive.

Although he is young, he is very talented in learning. At the age of seven, he participated in the city's primary school students' Mathematical Olympiad competition and won first place.

There were even junior high school students among the contestants.

It can be said that Tian Xiaolian's family situation is poor, but she is a quite talented child. "

Ji Li stopped at the door of No. 302 Chengrong Port, took out his cigarette case and lit the lighter, and said quietly:

"A seven-year-old girl who never has to worry about her family and has outstanding talent for the Mathematical Olympiad.

She is so well-behaved and smart, but she took away nearly two thousand yuan in cash three days ago..."

Mei Sheng wrapped her windbreaker tightly, stood beside Ji Li, thought for a while and said:

"It seems we should go to school. After all, this child spends more time with the teacher than his parents."

…

In Unit 1, Building 3, Haoyue Community, Xue Tingtao held the mobile phone in his palm and paced back and forth slightly uneasily, as if he was thinking about something.

The four men and women behind them were whispering behind each other. After a while, a tall woman came forward and said:

"Manager Xue, I think we should contact the seventh branch as soon as possible. After all, the situation here seems to be very important."

Perhaps because of the high pressure of the task, Xue Tingtao, a store manager with a weak mentality, temporarily suppressed his obsession with Xue Tinghai.

He turned around in embarrassment, looked at the woman, pushed the phone forward, and whispered:

"Sister Shiman, why don't you make this call?"

Shi Man sighed helplessly, took the phone and glanced at Xue Tingtao with a complicated mood, then dialed the number on the screen.

She adjusted, hid in a corner sheltered from the wind, and put her phone on speakerphone.

"Is this store manager Ji?"

"Who are you?"

"I am Shiman, the clerk of the fourth branch. This joint reception requires our two branches to work together.

We have discovered a piece of important information here and are ready to share it with Manager Ji. "

What Shi Man said was neither humble nor arrogant, but he was sincere and sharing information was a sign of goodwill.

This mission clearly stated that the two branches must work closely together, especially in the form of investigating cases, which requires information sharing.

Among the people in the fourth branch, Xue Tingtao's four-time mission experience is no different from the decoration, so Shiman, a clerk with three-time experience, is pretty good.

In this situation, they must ensure that there is no gap between them and Ji Li and work together.

"You come to urban and rural primary schools to meet and talk."

When Shi Man received Ji Li's feedback, a flash of joy flashed between his brows, and he immediately nodded in agreement.

After hanging up the phone, looking at the people who were looking at her eagerly, she returned the phone to Xue Tingtao, smiled and said:

"No problem, let's go to Urban Rural Primary School to meet Ji Li and the others."

Xue Tingtao breathed a long sigh of relief, put away his cell phone, straightened his expression, tried to straighten his chest, and walked towards the car.

Shi Man and several others also followed, and Wei Guang was walking at the end of the team.

At this moment, Wei Guang has trimmed his messy hair, cut off most of his thick beard, and is wearing a thick fur coat.

He no longer looks like the homeless man he was before, but more like a tough-minded man.

However, since he had just entered the branch and was unfamiliar with everyone, he was left at the end of the line and had no time to interrupt.

However, he really heard a name in the phone call that he would never forget.

"Ji Li!"

Wei Guang's resolute face was full of complex expressions. After searching for a long time, he finally entered this strange hotel and finally found the person he was looking for.

soon.

Soon, he would meet Ji Li again and ask himself the question that had tortured him to this point.

…

Urban and rural primary schools, this school name sounds very old, and there are very few schools named this way now.

After six o'clock in the evening, the mission officially started, and the ten clerks from the fourth, seventh, and tenth positions also gathered here.

When Yuan Kuan parked his car in front of the school, it was already pitch black.

It's New Year's Day now, the school has long been on holiday, and even the school janitor's shadow is very rare.

In the school security office, where the lights were still on, a middle-aged man playing with his mobile phone was slumped on a chair with a toothpick in his mouth out of boredom.

At Ji Li's signal, Yuan Kuan walked towards the school security office.

Li Dahong took the opportunity to ask Ji Li:

"Store manager, the fourth branch said there is important information. Is this credible?"

In fact, Ji Li understood that he didn't see anyone from the fourth branch at Tian Xiaolian's house.

This mission, this case, is a serial murder...

If the deceased was Tian Xiaolian alone, then all the people from the two branches should come to the urban and rural port to meet up.

But the task was obviously not arranged this way.

The fourth branch probably went to the homes of other victims and received similar commission tasks, thus officially starting this task.

In this way, the general framework of this mission has been basically finalized.

In the seventh (tenth) branch, five people, led by Ji Li, carried out Tian Wenyong's commission mission to find the real murderer;

In the fourth branch, five other people, led by Xue Tingtao, performed another commission task issued by another employer.

But the goal of both branches should be exactly the same, which is to solve crimes.

In other words, this serial murder case has more than one victim, more than two, and it is far from even over.

Next, there will be victims.

At this point, Ji Li has almost analyzed the direction of action for this mission——

Find all the victims as quickly as possible, and find out the commonality of the killings from the list of the dead, so as to deduce the murderer's next killing target.

As long as the killing target is locked in advance, the real murderer can be found as quickly as possible and the mission can be completed.

The reason for using this method to solve the case is that there is no time limit for this mission.

This does not mean that the time left for them to investigate the case is unlimited, but it means that the murderer is very likely to give up and disappear after committing a certain number of crimes.

So Ji Li must solve the case before the murderer stops killing.

Time must be fast. The biggest difficulty in this mission is racing against time.