Street Hustler and His Policewoman Wife-Chapter 74: The Sacrificial Murder Case

Chen Xiao answered Guo Qing’s call.

"Hello, Mr. Chen is up?"

On the other end, Guo Qing was still very polite.

"I’m up, President Guo is calling at this hour, could it be?"

"Yes, I’ve already informed the Provincial City side. I originally thought they wouldn’t be so fast, but it turns out they want us to visit today."

Chen Xiao paused briefly and replied, "We have to go sooner or later, since that’s the case, let’s go today."

"Alright, sorry to disturb you, Mr. Chen. I’ll come pick you up now."

"No need, there are some things to arrange at home, I’ll come to your company later."

"Okay."

Guo Qing said and hung up the phone. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Chen Xiao put down the phone, just about to say something to Lin Xi when she proactively said, "Go ahead, Yaoyao and I will accompany my parents."

Without saying more, after breakfast, Chen Xiao first drove to the detective team.

Zhang Xian walked out of the police team with a cigarette in his mouth and directly opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

Looking around the car, he smiled, "Not bad, you’ve bought a car already."

"Ah, that’s thanks to Captain Zhang and Sister Liang’s care!"

"Stop with that, what you have now is what you deserve. Hmm, you’re here to find me, are you about to go to the Provincial City?"

Chen Xiao nodded, Zhang Xian then took out two notebooks from his coat: "Take them, one is some things I recorded during my investigation recently, it might be useful to you. As for the other one, you’ve seen it before."

Taking the two notebooks that Zhang Xian handed over.

He certainly had seen one of them, it was the Killing Notes from Xiao Nian’s house!

Looking at that notebook, Chen Xiao asked puzzledly, "Captain Zhang, I feel like this notebook is a dangerous thing in anyone’s hands, you’re handing it over to me so assuredly?"

"It’s just different perspectives, this notebook is like the legendary Demon Technique from martial arts novels. Those with ill intentions will naturally unleash the power of evil, while those with a clear mind will only exert their strength."

Chen Xiao agreed with Zhang Xian’s viewpoint.

Just that the contents of the notebook indeed easily lead people to a dangerous realm.

In other words, once someone harbors murderous intent towards another person, it would be incrementally enticing them.

Zhang Xian didn’t say more, he had already opened the car door and got out.

Before leaving, he bade: "You’re a smart person, you should know from the first moment you enter that household, keep everything you see in mind. I don’t know if it’s right to make you so cautious, I even once thought that our task force might be too cautious, leading to no progress on the case."

"So that case will rely on your personal capability. If you truly accomplish it on your own, you will gain a lot more benefits beyond just money. I am waiting for your good news!"

After saying this, Zhang Xian turned and went back to the police team.

Watching his back, Chen Xiao also felt a deep sense of goodwill and called out to his back: "Thanks, Captain Zhang."

Zhang Xian waved his hand, and Chen Xiao didn’t dawdle, first drove back home, then headed to Qingtian Architecture after packing his luggage.

Only after getting in the car did Chen Xiao discover that this time Guo Qing was driving himself.

This made Chen Xiao unable to resist joking: "President Guo, such a big boss, driving himself?"

"Mr. Chen, don’t joke with me, usually the driver drives, but to meet my elder, I can’t show off."

While driving, Guo Qing also mentioned the person they were going to meet this time.

Yet, in Chen Xiao’s memory, there was no impression related to any Guo-named tycoon, much like suddenly asking someone about the top ten tycoons in their city.

Few people can answer comprehensively.

However, Chen Xiao must clarify who exactly they will meet later, particularly regarding information about that girl.

As the car got onto the highway, Chen Xiao slowly asked, "President Guo, you previously mentioned a case about a girl, is that girl your niece?"

Guo Qing nodded: "Her cousin, let me put it this way, if our Guo Family counts as a clan in Provincial City, my elder is the head of this clan. No matter how other branches fared, initially, it was all thanks to my elder’s efforts."

"But my elder’s branch is like being cursed; their family never flourished. My elder has only one son, who, along with his wife, encountered a plane crash abroad while negotiating business in his early years. And they only had one daughter, so my elder has always groomed his granddaughter as a successor."

"That girl is perfect, very intelligent, always polite to those elder relatives related by blood. But maybe because she’s too kind, that kind of thing happened. If she were more ruthless, she wouldn’t have gone with her classmates to visit an ill classmate. Had she not gone, nothing would have happened."

"After the incident, because they were found in the mountains, the police initially thought it was an accident. It wasn’t until people were found that it was confirmed as murder. Each was found in different locations, died differently."

Saying this, Guo Qing turned his head with a very solemn expression: "Each death looked like a sacrifice!"

Chen Xiao frowned immediately, began flipping through the notebook Zhang Xian gave him.

Sure enough, in the notebook, Zhang Xian not only recorded the method of death, but also vividly illustrated them.

One person was found in a kneeling posture, with three incense sticks already burned out on their body.

The second person was found in a big tree, head in the foliage, body buried under the branches.

The third found person was Guo Qing’s cousin-niece, found in a cave with a red veil on her head, collapsed on a stone platform.

She went with four classmates, but only three bodies were found.

That means, two people are still missing.

Guo Qing kept driving while explaining, "Because only three have been found to date and Guo Ning went with five, the two remaining classmates naturally became key suspects. Unfortunately, my elder practically exhausted all his connections, invited many elite detectives to investigate, yet they couldn’t find those two nor determine the culprit."

Chen Xiao frowned but didn’t respond.

At this moment, he was already seriously reviewing Zhang Xian’s notes.

It wasn’t until the car stopped at a service station that Chen Xiao closed the notebook.

He turned to gaze out the window, his mind filled with information about the Guo Family and the place Guo Ning went to.

But trying to sort through all the information in his mind, not even a slightly clearer case thread could be formed.

This trip, Chen Xiao already had a premonition, he would face many unforeseen difficulties!