Who Made Him a Lawyer?-Chapter 53 - 49: Thirteen Pairs of Eyes!

"There’s a door under the pigsty!!!"

A voice resounded through the night like a thunderclap.

Nearby, Chen Changchun and Liu Jin were startled. The two exchanged glances and then quickly ran towards Xu Liang.

"What happened!?"

"Look."

At this moment, Xu Liang, standing near the pigsty covered in pig manure, looked extremely grave.

He had moved aside the original pig trough, and underneath it... there was a gap. Following the gap, he discovered it was actually a flat cellar door!

And in that gap, vomit was continuously seeping down, gradually disappearing.

How could there be a cellar entrance under the pigsty!?

Or perhaps...

"The lock’s been broken, the killer’s been inside..."

Chen Changchun touched the shattered lock that had been broken open and glanced at the bloodied scene behind him.

"There’s something inside!"

At this point.

Chen Changchun, Liu Jin, and Xu Liang exchanged a look, then simultaneously sprang into action.

"Click!"

A crisp sound rang out as the handgun, gleaming with a cold sheen, was cocked by Chen Changchun.

He stood aside, while Liu Jin stood on the other side, ready to open the door at any moment.

The two coordinated, and as Chen Changchun’s fingers counted down from three, in the next second...

"Creek!"

The cellar door opened instantly.

Pairs of eyes emerged from the darkness beneath the cellar, their gaze piercing through that narrow entrance, staring intently at the people outside!

What on earth is that thing!?

Piglets!?

Chen Changchun’s heart tightened, just as he was about to let Wang Chao drive whatever was inside out...

A sliver of moonlight suddenly shone into the cellar, illuminating those more than ten pairs of eyes.

A dozen or so children, around seven or eight years old, appeared before the crowd.

Feeling the gaze from the people outside, more than a dozen children curled up in the corner, squeezing deeper into it, their eyes filled with fear as they looked at everyone outside.

"Jingle~"

With a slight movement of their bodies, the shackles on their feet made a crisp sound.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

For a long while...

Chen Changchun raised his head, his shocked eyes meeting those of Liu Jin and Xu Liang. His lips moved for a moment.

Finally, a voice filled with anger echoed in everyone’s ears on site.

"Rescue them!!!"

...

...

August 15th.

8:30 in the morning.

"After an entire night’s rescue operation, the children in the cellar have been successfully brought out, with thirteen in total after counting, the oldest being thirteen and the youngest seven years old."

"Based on footprints at the scene and the children’s statements, the killer entered the cellar twice."

"The first time was before the murder when the perpetrator went into the cellar to find someone."

"The second time was after the victim’s death, when the perpetrator cleaned the cellar, provided water and food, and instructed them to leave through another door he had opened after they finished eating and call the police."

"Additionally, the surveillance inside the pig farm is off, with the cameras not pointing at the pigs but around the courtyard, as if to guard against the police. Preliminary judgment..."

"The victim is highly likely a human trafficker."

Hanhai City, Hongfu District Criminal Police Brigade.

In the office, Chen Changchun, with bloodshot eyes, smoked a cigarette as he listened to his subordinate’s report.

The intelligence squad leader, holding the documents in his hand, continued:

"According to the records, the victim’s name is Zhou Xu, 25 years old, with a blood relative brother and a 56-year-old mother."

"Before the incident, the family did not report it to the police."

Chen Changchun was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"What else?"

Captain Zhao continued:

"The pig farm surveillance did not capture the exact process of the victim being murdered, only the footage of the suspect dismembering the body."

"According to facial recognition, it has been confirmed that the suspect appearing in the market surveillance is the one who dismembered the body!"

"And the suspect’s movements..."

"Last seen, the suspect was riding a motorcycle with a sickle in hand, leaving at high speed... This vehicle was driven here by him and is not owned by the killer."

After these words fell.

The entire office fell silent.

A human trafficker...

The victim was seemingly running a pig farm on the surface, but in reality, he used it as a transit point for human trafficking in secret!

At the time of his death, there were as many as 13 hidden underground!!!

This case is no small matter, even anti-trafficking operations rarely save so many people at once!

Last night, after Chen Changchun reported the situation, the city bureau chief Du Tao was so shocked that he scrambled out of bed in the night and rushed to the scene in a hurry, personally handling the thirteen children now!!!

No wonder...

"No wonder the murderer hated the victim so much, no wonder they dismembered him and then took him to the market for sale..."

Chen Changchun murmured.

It all made sense now.

At this moment, everything Xu Liang said before made sense!

The victim is a projection effect; selling the victim equally means the victim did something similar to him, which the police could not understand.

But if we replace the pig farm with the word ’human trafficker’... it makes sense instantly!

In the office.

Xu Liang, Yang Ruoxi, Liu Jin, and others didn’t say a word.

"Did the murderer... have their child trafficked by Zhou Xu!?"

Chen Changchun reached out, touched his forehead, and sighed deeply.

As a frontline police officer, he naturally understood how terrifying these people were.

Let’s put it this way: if a human trafficker’s identity is exposed, and he can run either towards the trafficked children’s families or the police, he will definitely choose to run towards the police.

The families dare to beat and kill the trafficker right in the street!

But regardless of the reason... the criminal case still needs to be investigated!

Thinking of this, Chen Changchun’s heart hardened, and his eyes tightened.

"Are there any specific clues about the murderer!?"

The last time he appeared on surveillance was after selling the meat, when he rode back on a shabby motorcycle and left with a sickle.

What is he leaving to do?

Unknown, but since he didn’t let the children in the basement call the police directly, instead waited some time to avoid exposing his identity...

He must be doing something during this period!

"No, the other surveillance didn’t catch the scene."

Captain Zhao shook his head.

Upon hearing this, Chen Changchun frowned.

"Could it be that he’s gone to kill other traffickers?"

Xu Liang pondered for a while, then suddenly spoke:

"There are signs of searching at the crime scene; the murderer must have found information about the children after killing."

If you let a family member choose between killing traffickers and finding their child, which do you think they’d choose?

Ninety-nine percent would choose the latter!

The more the murderer hates, the more they want to find the trafficked people!

Before the child is found, the trafficker often won’t be killed, just tortured at most!

Yet the victim was dismembered, which can only indicate two situations.

"One, the murderer got the clue and directly killed, but the trafficked person is not found, the information might be false, most wouldn’t urgently kill the trafficker."

"Two, accidental death of the deceased!"

The scene doesn’t quite match the former; surveillance shows the suspect didn’t find people.

Then it’s the latter?

If it’s the latter, and the suspect still wants to find children instead of killing, it only represents...

"Is there a clue at the scene that provides accurate information!?"

Xu Liang suddenly spoke, and everyone present suddenly paused.

"If you put it that way."

"Then the case is, on August 12, the murderer went to the pig farm to find his child; during which the deceased died and didn’t provide clues, leading to the murderer’s rage..."

Chen Changchun thoughtfully, orderly narrated the process.

"Subsequently, the victim’s body was brutally dismembered and sold on August 13."

"That is, on the 13th, the murderer, unwilling, investigates the scene again and finds the child’s clue, only then does the scene captured by surveillance occur, namely driving away..."

Just...

"What is this clue!?"

Chen Changchun suddenly asked, frowning deeply.

Currently, to catch the murderer, we must find clues, which is finding the whereabouts of the trafficked person.

The murderer is highly likely to be there!

But where is the clue?

The police investigated the entire scene but didn’t find anything; if it was taken away by the suspect... how can it be traced!?

The most crucial is...

"The murderer’s identity is not locked in yet."

Chen Changchun suddenly sighed, frowned, and said:

"The police do not know the information of the trafficked person, otherwise even if a clue is found, it is difficult to determine which one is the target of the murderer..."

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly fell silent.

Until...

"He’s not looking for a child, he’s looking for a sister..."

Yang Ruoxi, who hadn’t spoken, suddenly spoke.

At the sound, everyone paused, then looked up and stared at her intently. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"What did you say?" Chen Changchun’s voice was high.

He looked at the counterpart in surprise.

"How do you know!?"

"This person I seem to..."

Yang Ruoxi whispered:

"Have some impression."