Chapter 79

The heinous murder case that occurred on a rainy night in Mingzhu City has caused a terrible impact, leaving a group of government officials with a massive headache. It has been many years since such a heinous case has occurred, and it happened in quick succession within a few hours. Apart from one injured person who is currently in the intensive care unit of the hospital, all other victims died tragically. Even more bizarrely, the bodies of many victims have vanished without a trace, as if they had disappeared into thin air.

The Mingzhu City Committee and Municipal Government have taken this matter very seriously. Tang Lei, a member of the Huazheng Bureau and the Party Secretary of Mingzhu City, personally gave instructions, ordering the Municipal Public Security Bureau to form a special task force and solve the case within a set time limit.

The entire Mingzhu public security system is now on high alert, not only because Secretary Tang personally issued a deadline but also because the identities of the victims are highly unusual. Most of the deceased were public servants in law enforcement agencies, while the bodies of those who could not be found were mostly migrant workers working on construction sites. This stark contrast has given the police in the special task force a massive headache. Even more troublesome is the fact that the injured person in the rain night serial murder case, who is said to have been poisoned by an unknown potent toxin, has a very complex identity, with significant influence in both the business and political circles. This person is Gu Zhengyang, the chairman of Zhengyang Group and the richest man in Mingzhu.

The news of Gu Zhengyang being severely injured will certainly be known by journalists overnight, and within a day, it will shock the entire city of Mingzhu.

What further complicates the case for the special task force's experts and police is that, after preliminary investigations, there is not a single surveillance video left from the entire series of murders. All the surveillance cameras around the crime scenes have been destroyed, leaving the police baffled. According to the testimonies of witnesses and the families of the deceased, the murderer's methods were extremely brutal and swift. By the time they fully realized what was happening, the people were already dead, and the suspects had vanished without a trace. Based on the distance and time of the crime, it is impossible for the suspects to have had enough time to destroy the surveillance equipment while committing the murders.

The last images captured by the surveillance cameras coincided with the time of the murders, but the crucial few seconds of footage are missing, as if the surveillance equipment automatically malfunctioned as soon as the suspects arrived at the crime scenes.

In summary, the rain night serial murder case is the most brutal, bloody, heinous, bizarre, and inexplicable case in the history of the Mingzhu police. The identities and appearances of the suspects are unknown, the bodies of several migrant workers have vanished, and the families of the deceased and the witnesses are unable to provide specific descriptions of the suspects' appearances and characteristics. They can only say that the suspects looked inhuman, more like ghosts.

This case is extremely difficult to solve. Roadblocks have been set up, and the important entry and exit points around the city have been placed under strict control, but the police still have no clue where to start. The only information they have is that there were five suspects, the crime was committed in an extremely short time, no weapons were used, the methods were cruel and decisive, and the suspects' appearances are unclear. It is speculated that all five are male Chinese citizens. There is no surveillance footage, no useful physical evidence at the crime scenes, and the suspects disappeared after the murders.

In desperation, the Mingzhu police sought help from the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing, requesting that senior experts be dispatched to assist in solving the case.

On the other hand, the most favorable point for the Mingzhu police is that, after focusing on the fugitive Liu Yong, who was in custody, they discovered to their great shock that most of the victims in the rain night serial murder case were related to Liu Yong. The deceased in the court were the judge and staff responsible for Liu Yong's case, the deceased in the police station were the detectives handling Liu Yong's case, and the migrant workers were the coworkers of Ye Feng, the former plaintiff who was falsely accused by Liu Yong before he became the defendant. These workers had once visited Ye Feng at the Changjiang Public Security Bureau, and at that time, Liu Yong, who was the captain of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Changjiang District Public Security Bureau, violated procedures by allowing their meeting and later attended the trial of the original plaintiff, Ye Feng.

Ye Feng has been acquitted. According to the surviving migrant workers, Ye Feng had been to the crime scene at the villa construction site but soon disappeared. After that, four of the suspects suddenly turned into pools of water, and then the last suspect and the bodies of the deceased workers also vanished. Finally, a young and beautiful woman also arrived at the scene by taxi but then disappeared as well. The surviving workers could not recall the specific details of the fight and its outcome, but they could confirm that Ye Feng and the young woman arrived at the scene after the murders and were not involved in the killings. The descriptions from the witnesses left the police with a massive headache, as it seemed more like a bizarre and eerie movie than a murder case.

However, the police deduced that, regardless of whether the witnesses' descriptions were real or hallucinations caused by shock, Ye Feng had definitely been to the scene, as many of the workers on site had seen him. Even if he was not a suspect, he and the unidentified young woman were likely connected to the serial murder case in some way. Perhaps Ye Feng knew the identities of the suspects.

The five suspects, Liu Yong, Ye Feng, and the unidentified young woman, and the relationships between them will be the key to unraveling this extremely heinous case.

Therefore, the members of the special task force of the Mingzhu police unanimously decided to find Ye Feng immediately to gather more information about the case.

After a sleepless night, the Mingzhu police were still struggling, and Ye Feng was also up all night, rushing back while carefully avoiding pedestrians and surveillance cameras along the way. Unlike Gui Lang, who could destroy surveillance cameras with ghostly energy, Ye Feng did not have that ability. He could only use the "Full Sky Stars" technique to destroy the cameras with hidden weapons, but he did not want to go through the trouble. Instead, he used his divine sense to carefully avoid the cameras.

After this long journey, Ye Feng was quite exhausted. He brought Gu Nian and her niece out of the space and sent them back to check on Gu Zhengyang. Then, he took out his phone and called Qin Yan.

After a few rings, the call was finally answered, but it was not Qin Yan; it was Wu Xinghua.

"Ye Feng, is that you? Where are you now? What happened to Qin Yan? She's still unconscious. If it weren't for her steady breathing and normal complexion, I would have rushed her to the hospital. What exactly happened? Why did your date end up like this? Why did you leave Qin Yan here and run away? What's going on?"

Wu Xinghua fired off a series of questions, her urgent and worried tone evident even through the phone.

"Xinghua, can I not answer your questions right now? I'm very tired and want to rest and get some sleep. It's almost dawn. I'll come to your place downstairs. I want to see Qin Yan and try your breakfast. We can talk about everything then, okay?"

Ye Feng was indeed exhausted, more mentally than physically. He did not want to return to the space to rest and recover. He just wanted to have a real meal and a good sleep in a soft bed. Everything else could wait until he woke up.

After all that had happened, Ye Feng's heart had become much stronger. Although he knew that returning to Mingzhu might bring many troubles, such as answering Qin Yan and Wu Xinghua's questions and facing police inquiries, these real-life troubles no longer seemed significant to him. He could explain things to Qin Yan and Wu Xinghua, and as for the police investigation, he would let them do their job. If they became too bothersome, he could use the soul-capturing technique to deal with them.

What was most important to Ye Feng at the moment was to have breakfast, get some sleep, and clear his mind and calm his emotions.

With this in mind, Ye Feng quickened his pace and headed toward the neighborhood where Wu Xinghua lived.

At this early hour, there were fewer people and vehicles in Mingzhu City. Ye Feng ran all the way, not even bothering to take a bus. After more than forty minutes, he arrived at the neighborhood where Wu Xinghua lived.

However, as soon as he reached the entrance of the neighborhood, he saw a familiar figure looking out for him. The temperature was still low in the early morning, and the figure was shivering in the cold wind, waiting for him at the entrance.

Seeing him arrive, the figure hurriedly came forward.

Who else could it be but Wu Xinghua?