I'm just a trainee police officer. I don't really want to solve the case.

Chapter 109 Similar Old Cases

Back at the criminal investigation team, Su Xiaoxiao reported the results of the investigation and their ideas to Qi Lei.

"You found out the cause of the case so quickly, that's great. How do you plan to investigate next?" Qi Lei asked.

"I think this criminal loves cats and has obsessive compulsive disorder. If cat abuse is the cause of his crime, he may have committed other crimes over the years. So, I want to look at the unsolved cases over the years to see if I can find something similar."

"Okay, I'll ask someone to bring it to you later."

"Captain, I want to see all the unsolved cases, not just assaults, and not just men and women, because it's impossible that only women abuse cats."

"Okay. You've all worked hard today. Go back and rest first, and we'll see tomorrow."

Su Xiaoxiao and the others were indeed very tired, but they had some clues about the case. Xiao Yu and Li Yan were a little excited. They did not want to go home immediately and wanted to continue talking about the case with Su Xiaoxiao.

"Okay, then I'll treat you to some fried noodles." Su Xiaoxiao couldn't bear to spoil their fun.

Aunt Su has had a much easier time running Su Ji Fried Noodle Shop since Li Xun came to the shop. Li Xun is not only hardworking, but also has a talent as a chef.

After learning from Aunt Su for a few days, I was able to make fried noodles quite well. I was only slightly worse than Aunt Su. With time, I might even be able to surpass her.

Because the weather was hot, Li Xun made a large pot of spicy crayfish and put it on the counter for sale. He was very good at making crayfish, because in their village, eating crayfish didn't cost money at all, they just caught a few frogs and fished in the rice fields.

There is plenty of this stuff in rice fields in summer, who knew it was so expensive in the city.

Li Yan and Xiao Yu ate with great praise. Xiao Yu whispered to Su Xiaoxiao, "Sister, what treasure did you find? You just randomly recruited a disciple and he's so amazing."

Su Xiaoxiao herself didn't expect this. She had been very busy recently and hadn't taken much care of Li Xun. She just taught him some basic skills and let him practice on his own first.

Li Yan's phone kept ringing. She looked at the name displayed on it and hung up without paying any attention.

"Why didn't you answer?" Su Xiaoxiao saw the name displayed on Li Yan's phone, it was Chen Nansheng.

"Don't bother with him, let's just talk about our own things."

During the day, Chen Nansheng had sent him several WeChat messages to explain what happened with the two girls yesterday. Li Yan told him that it was his business and he didn't need to explain it to her.

She has figured it out now. Someone like Chen Nansheng is not suitable for her. There is no need to get entangled with him. Her affection for him is limited to Su Ji Fried Noodle Shop. Outside of this place, their lives are completely different. They are not from the same world. It is better for them to forget each other.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't care about other people's business. She thought of the scene she saw last night and wondered how Xiangnan was doing. She sent him a WeChat message.

【Are you okay? 】

[I'm fine, I'm alive.] Xiangnan replied quickly.

【It’s good to be alive. 】

Xiangnan sent a happy emoticon package, which was actually made with a photo of a fat cat. It looked very silly and cute, so Su Xiaoxiao saved it.

She looked again at the fat cat held in Li Yan's arms. The fat cat shrank into Li Yan's arms and looked at her warily.

Su Xiaoxiao touched her face. Is she that scary?! This fat guy is cuter in the photo.

Su Xiaoxiao told them her idea and planned to check if there are any similar unsolved cases tomorrow. It would be best if they could find ones from recent years, as this would make it easier for them to investigate.

Unexpectedly, they actually found out two cases that may be related.

The victims in both cases were males. One occurred fifteen years ago and the other occurred two years ago.

The one two years ago was an assault case, and it was a rainy day when the incident happened.

The injured person was Liu Cheng, a man in his fifties. He was knocked unconscious from behind, and his organs were then cut off. There were scars on his neck that resembled cat claws.

The case fifteen years ago was a homicide. The victim was a 35-year-old man named Yu Ankang. It was also raining on the day of the accident.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at the photos of the crime scene. The man was killed with a knife. He was lying on the ground, his body covered in mud and water. There were several marks on his neck. He might have scratched himself with his hands before he died. It didn't look like a cat's claws.

It was Li Yan who discovered it. She removed a few marks that looked like finger marks, and it looked like a cat's paw.

After reading the on-site investigation report, Su Xiaoxiao felt that the murderer did not want to kill the victim at that time. He first hit the victim's head with a wooden stick, but he did not expect that the victim was so strong that he not only did not faint, but also resisted, so he had to use a knife.

According to the records, the police received a call from a man who said that someone had been beaten and asked them to go and rescue him. However, when the police arrived, Yu Ankang had already died from excessive blood loss.

Nothing was stolen from the deceased, so the police focused their attention on the vendetta. However, they spent a lot of effort investigating, and checked everyone who had a grudge against Yu Ankang. In the end, the suspects were cleared one by one, and the murderer was not found.

The original reporter called the police using a pay phone, but they were unable to contact them and were unable to provide them with any useful clues, so over time the case became an unsolved case.

Su Xiaoxiao thought that perhaps the person who reported the case was the murderer.

Perhaps the murderer's original plan was to knock Yu Ankang unconscious first and then carry out his revenge, just like the case two years ago. Unfortunately, an accident disrupted his plan.

Perhaps it was because of this accident that he did not commit crimes again for more than ten years.

The importance attached to homicide and injury cases is incomparable today. The police back then were unable to find any clues, so it would be even more difficult for them to investigate now.

Su Xiaoxiao decided to focus on the injury case two years ago.

Liu Cheng lives in an alley behind Chunfeng Road. He used to be a taxi driver, but after this incident, he was traumatized both physically and mentally and rarely drove anymore.

His house is on the first floor, facing the street. They opened a large window on the wall facing the street. The room is filled with daily necessities, making it a small convenience store.

When Su Xiaoxiao and the others found Liu Cheng, he was being scolded by his wife, and he lowered his head and dared not say a word.

He was afraid of his wife to begin with, and ever since that incident, he had lost all his dignity as a man. He could only allow his wife to scold him without daring to talk back, for fear that he would anger her and get her to divorce him one day.

Su Xiaoxiao and the others showed their IDs. When Liu Cheng's wife heard that they were here for that matter, she hurriedly asked, "Have you found the murderer?"

"Not yet. We are here in the hope of finding clues to the murderer."

"Police comrade, you must catch the murderer. My husband has become like this because of him. If you catch him, I will make him lose everything!"

Oh, it was for compensation. Su Xiaoxiao was a little helpless. "If you want compensation, you must cooperate with us to catch the murderer first."

"We will definitely cooperate!" Liu Cheng's wife patted her chest.

"Well, Liu Cheng, let me ask you, in the period before you were hurt, have you ever done anything to hurt a cat?"