Chapter 1 After Getting in the Car

After getting in the car, Zhou Ze sat in the back seat, Lao Zhang sat in the driver's seat, and Attorney An was in the passenger seat.

Lao Zhang started the car.

Ten minutes after the car drove out,

it was still very quiet inside.

Lao Zhang and Attorney An, sitting in front, occasionally glanced at their boss in the rearview mirror,

however, the boss just kept lighting cigarettes one after another, without saying a word.

You couldn't tell his joy or anger, nor could you tell his current mood.

Attorney An straightened up, wanting to say something to ease the current atmosphere, but felt that saying anything now didn't seem appropriate, so silence was the way to go.

Lao Zhang picked up his phone, sent a voice message to one of his subordinates asking for the specific location, and then put the phone down.

His palms were full of sweat, and his back against the seat felt like it was being pricked with needles.

The two people in the front knew clearly what kind of person the boss was. The boss had said it clearly before: everyone should stay put in the bookstore for a while,

until the storm passed before coming out to play again.

But after listening to Attorney An's explanation, he changed his clothes and came downstairs without saying a word.

Just one sentence:

"Let's go fuck them up."

Attorney An narrowed his eyes, and pretended to wipe the corner of his eye while lighting a cigarette.

Before, they just teased the boss for being salty,

teased the boss for being lazy, unenterprising, lacking ambition, and only thinking about lying there drinking coffee and reading the newspaper all day long,

but in reality, they didn't really dislike him that much,

and at this moment,

Attorney An couldn't help but admit that he was actually touched.

Especially when he said that sentence,

it was simply blindingly cool.

Huff...

Deep breath, deep breath,

like Cao Cao, a hero who would run out to welcome you barefoot;

like Liu Bei, who would throw A Dou to the ground in front of everyone;

Moved?

Well, actually the emotion is limited. The established image of such people has already reduced the real effect of their actions.

However, with their boss, it was suddenly the opposite.

It's like a woman who is willing to take all the money she saved from high school to college and a few years of work, about three hundred thousand, and use it with you as a down payment for a mortgage,

while another woman directly asks her parents to pay for the entire house and add your name to it,

which one can really touch you?

It's just that big men, talking about being moved, are too pretentious, and they're all dead people anyway, so they can't play that kind of genuinely emotional sentimentality.

Boss Zhou tossed his cigarette butt out of the window without any sense of public morality,

and stretched in the back seat.

Actually, he regretted it a bit.

Why did he come downstairs to pour this glass of water?

Was this considered being nosy?

If he hadn't come downstairs to pour this glass of water, he would probably still be holding Yingying and dozing off with his eyes closed.

But now that he knew about it,

if you were to say that he was really indifferent, Boss Zhou really couldn't do that.

In fact, the black girl who grew vegetables in the next garden had long figured out Boss Zhou's character.

He was indifferent, yes,

but he would definitely protect his own people,

the ones he truly saw as his own.

Later, the Deadpool repeatedly and foolishly sacrificed himself to help "Dad" heal, without asking for anything in return, and without any signs of rebellion. You can hardly say that it had nothing to do with the black girl's teachings.

But in fact, Deadpool also got benefits. The runes inherited from ancient times from Ying Gou were golden nuggets that you couldn't dig out even if you farmed the land for ten thousand years.

Boss Zhou reached out and opened a bottle of mineral water that was easy to grab,

and laughed as he drank.

This Attorney An was quite interesting,

his enemy who killed his "wife" had already arrived in Tong City,

but he could still endure not taking action,

and wanted to take a roundabout route through Lao Zhang.

Zhou Ze knew why Attorney An was enduring. He could have fabricated a more suitable reason, painted a bigger picture to move him, so that the people in the bookstore would help him risk their lives to take revenge, but he didn't do that.

And because of this,

Zhou Ze had even less reason to pretend he didn't hear anything.

Everything was mutual.

Finally,

the car stopped at the foot of Wolf Mountain,

and the silent atmosphere in the car for nearly half an hour finally came to an end.

Led by Lao Zhang, Zhou Ze and Attorney An crossed the police cordon together.

Because there were only a few high-end villa areas here and not many other densely populated areas, and it was the middle of the night, the always-present group of "onlookers" or "gossipers" was conspicuously absent.

The bodies had already been retrieved.

It was really "retrieved," not "carried," the difference being in the use of force.

In the tent,

an old and a young forensic doctor were squatting there.

After Zhou Ze and the others entered, the two forensic doctors greeted Lao Zhang, but they didn't pay much attention to Zhou Ze and Attorney An, whom Lao Zhang had brought.

It wasn't a good time to exchange pleasantries or make friends.

The two forensic doctors, one was an old man nearly sixty years old, and the other was a woman under thirty.

Zhou Ze's gaze lingered on the female forensic doctor for a while.

The female forensic doctor was quite good-looking, with a beauty mark at the corner of her mouth. She was a very elegant woman. Of course, Zhou Ze was looking at her not because of her looks.

But a while ago, when he was taking a plane from Rong City back to Tong City, Attorney An had chatted with him about uniforms. Attorney An said that he had liked white since he was a child, and always felt that white symbolized purity and flawlessness, with a kind of indescribable attraction.

Therefore, he really liked dating nurses or female doctors.

Uniform temptation... the irresistible magic for men!

Zhou Ze remembered saying at the time:

"Female forensic doctors also meet your criteria."

Attorney An was choked at the time.

At this moment,

Zhou Ze noticed that Attorney An was also making eye contact with him,

and both of them showed a knowing look in their eyes.

The female forensic doctor glanced at them a few more times because she felt that the two people the captain brought didn't look like police officers, but if they were people of other professions, it was really strange that they could be so relaxed when facing three corpses in such bizarre states.

In fact, they had seen too many storms, so this was really just a drop in the bucket for Boss Zhou and Attorney An.

Attorney An squatted down by the corpse and began to examine it. The female forensic doctor handed him gloves, but he shook his head, not wanting them, and didn't reach out to touch the corpse.

He squatted down just to smell the scent.

Hmm,

Confirmed,

that was the smell!

"The deceased are three women, aged between twenty-five and thirty-five," the old forensic doctor said. "The most complete corpse only has half of its upper body left, and the other two have only their chests and heads left."

"The daytime occupations of the three deceased are temporarily unclear, but they are likely engaged in part-time work like escort services at night," said the female forensic doctor.

"You can tell all that? There's nothing left below."

Attorney An asked in surprise.

The female forensic doctor ignored Attorney An and continued to report to Lao Zhang:

"Their bodies have suffered extremely severe damage. We now suspect that some corrosive substances may have been used, but their handbags and clothing are with them. My speculation is based on the clues provided by the items in their bags."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Zhou Ze and Attorney An walked out of the tent first.

Attorney An licked his lips and said:

"Boss, they should still be nearby, and very, very close."

Zhou Ze nodded and said, "Same feeling."

"Boss is brilliant!" Attorney An.

Zhou Ze shook his head helplessly at Attorney An and said, "Can you be serious at a time like this?"

"I dare not be too serious, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself."

"Let's start by searching the villa area closest to here," Zhou Ze said.

At this time, Lao Zhang also came out of the tent, bending over, and heard Zhou Ze's last sentence, and asked with some confusion: "Is it that simple?"

"Lao Zhang, you are a ghost messenger now, not a living person, so you have to switch your perspective. If ordinary people did this kind of thing, they would definitely be scared and run as far as possible.

But they are different. They are not afraid of the police, nor are they afraid of any laws. Sometimes, those people even dare to ignore some of the rules of the underworld.

So,

why should they run?

Not only will they not run, but they will not have the psychology that other criminals have of not fouling their own nest. If I were them..."

Attorney An pointed to the villa area to the west of the foot of Wolf Mountain, which was the closest to everyone,

"If I were them, I wouldn't even bother to run far to find prey. It's too much trouble."

"Check the surveillance of that villa area to see if there are any suspicious people. In addition, you can also check the delivery records of food delivery drivers. This place is so remote, and there are not many residents in the villa area, so there should be very few food deliveries. Also, pay attention to the amount of food. It shouldn't be small, at least for three people."

After Attorney An finished speaking, he looked at Lao Zhang, "Of course, you can also look for clues from these three victims to see where they have been, but I don't think you will find anything valuable from them."

"Why?"

Lao Zhang felt that his previous twenty years of police experience were now feeding the dogs.

The previous ideas about solving cases had to be overturned.

Zhou Ze continued:

"Because if these three women are really engaged in that kind of profession,

the people from the enforcement team should not be sleeping in the open, they probably found a more comfortable place to stay.

If these three women were ordered or booked by them,

whether they want to obtain physical pleasure and vent,

or simply want to obtain the stimulation of absorbing blood,

there is one thing,

that should be certain."

"Uh, what is it?"

Lao Zhang really wanted to take out his notebook to take notes.

"Because..."

Zhou Ze turned around and looked at the ditch where the bodies were found earlier,

and continued:

"Because, they probably don't bother to throw away the trash."