Chapter Thirteen: The Big Case

  "Stop, stop going, Xiao Jie, you jump down!"

  In a daze, Qin Feng seemed to have heard his sister's cry for help, but when he struggled to open his eyes, all he saw was a sea of blood red, and the sound of the train fading into the distance.

  Struggling to get up, he fell back down to the ground. Zhang Junlong's two blows were indeed not light, and if it weren't for Qin Feng's strong endurance, he would have fainted long ago.

  "Wooo..."

  The exhausted Qin Feng, who was trying to climb up, suddenly felt a cool breeze on his face. It turned out that the big yellow dog, which had fallen to the ground and was unknown whether it was dead or alive, woke up and shook its body, licking the wound on Qin Feng's head.

  "Dai Huang, go...go find Xiao Ji, she...she's on that train!"

  Qin Feng seemed to have grasped the last straw, using his last bit of strength to point in the direction the train was heading. Da Huang appeared to understand what he said and turned around, stumbling along the tracks as it chased after the train.

  Upon seeing Da Huang's actions, Qin Feng felt a sense of relief in his heart, and suddenly felt the sky spinning around him, everything went black in front of him, and he lost consciousness.

  Three hours later, in front of this small railway house where there are usually very few people, it was packed with people, including police officers in uniform and doctors in white coats, with more than 20 of them.

  There were many people, but the scene was so quiet that it felt suffocating. Everyone was shocked by what they saw, even a veteran detective with over 30 years of experience had his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

  "Ugh..."

  A female forensic doctor wearing a white coat finally couldn't help but vomit, even with a thick mask on, the smell emanating from the mangled body on the rail tracks made her throw up last night's undigested food all over the ground.

  The female forensic doctor's vomiting triggered a chain reaction, and those criminal detectives who usually claimed to be tough guys also ran far away one by one to vomit. When they returned to the scene, their faces were all pale.

  "Too cruel, too cruel! This... this is simply inhumane!"

  A middle-aged man with a national character face still had vomit residue at the corner of his mouth, and the half pig's trotter he ate at noon was in vain. His stomach kept churning out acid from time to time.

  "Little Li, you tell Director Song about the situation!"

  The middle-aged man is called Zhao Zhi Jian, who is the director of this branch. The old man with white hair is Song Deputy Director, in charge of criminal investigation at the municipal bureau.

  Although the people of Cangzhou are rough and untamed, they are also very simple-minded. The most common cases usually involve fatal fights and brawls. A case like this one, with five deaths, is extremely rare since liberation, and can be counted on one's fingers.

  Such a big case has been reported and apart from the public security bureau leaders going to the scene in person, the municipal leaders have also attached great importance to it.

  However, the deputy mayor who came over just now had obviously not withstood the test of blood and fire. After seeing the scene, he immediately vomited and became dizzy, following a suspect who was still breathing into an ambulance and sending him to the hospital together.

  "Yes, Director, I also received a report and came over."

  A man in his mid-to-late thirties wearing a police uniform walked over, looking somewhat tense.

  He was the deputy director of the town police station and, apart from that shepherd, the first to arrive at the scene. The shock he received then still hasn't worn off now.

  Originally, after the bloodshed occurred, a shepherd who often grazed sheep nearby was the first to see this bloody scene and was so frightened that he rolled and crawled to the police station in the small town to report the case.

  At that time, the police station sent a total of four people, and the team leader was this Deputy Director Li. He is also very experienced. After vomiting for a while, he immediately protected the scene and made a report to the superior department.

  "Director Song, I found this in the house..."

  While Deputy Director Li was making his report, a forensic doctor wearing gloves brought over a transparent plastic bag containing a handkerchief.

  "Director, this handkerchief contains a high concentration of ether. A bottle containing ether was found on the deceased's body, it should be what he brought with him." The forensic doctor reported the preliminary results of the investigation at the scene.

  Director Song nodded and turned to Deputy Director Li, asking: "Deputy Director Li, have you figured out the identities of the deceased and the injured?"

  "Reporting to the director, among the deceased, there are two people I know, and also the injured person I know."

  Deputy Director Li sighed and said, "The one who died outside, and the one inside whose throat was cut off, both of these two people are surnamed Sun, they are residents of this town, and they are a pair of biological brothers. As for the child who fainted, he wandered here five years ago, and he has a younger sister..."

  The population of the town is not large, especially for brothers like Sun who have been sentenced and are registered at the police station as key targets for education.

  As for Qin Feng and his sister, Deputy Director Li is not unfamiliar with them either. A few months ago, Qin Feng had approached him to ask how he could help himself and his sister get a household registration here. In Deputy Director Li's impression, this was a very steady child.

  After hearing Deputy Director Li's words, Director Song fell into thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "The case is basically clear. These people who died should have come here with some purpose in mind. Who knows what their goal was, but they didn't achieve it and instead were killed by that child...this matter..."

  Entering the early 1990s, cases of trafficking in women and children suddenly increased. Through on-site discoveries of handkerchiefs containing ether and reports from Deputy Director Li, experienced Director Song could already determine the nature of the case.

  It's just that Director Song can't imagine how such a brutal scene could be done by that seemingly weak child, what kind of hatred would it take to make such a ruthless move?

  While analyzing the case, a person quickly walked up to Director Song and whispered in his ear: "Director, there's news from the hospital. The child has woken up."

  "Xiao Zhao, let's go to the hospital first and have someone investigate the identities of those other people."

  As he walked halfway to the police car parked by the railroad tracks, Director Song stopped in his tracks and instructed, "This case may involve minors, so for now, let's not expand on it and avoid causing a bad influence in the town."

  Just recently, the old man had just finished his southern tour and delivered a series of important speeches on economic development. Director Song did not dare to let this kind of malicious case destroy the city's good situation.

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  "Where... where am I? Xiao Ji, where's Xiao Ji?"

  Qin Feng only felt that he had a long and terrible nightmare, in which he saw his parents and some people who looked like evil spirits, but before the dream was over, he woke up.

  Looking at the white in front of him and smelling the disinfectant, Qin Feng knew he must have been sent to the hospital. As soon as he woke up, he shouted out Qin Jia's name.

  "Hey kid, don't move around, your injury isn't light, you might end up with aftereffects of a concussion."

  A doctor in a white coat held down Qin Feng's body, he was the most famous neurosurgeon in this hospital, and all of Qin Feng's diagnoses were made by him.

  However, this doctor did not go to the scene of the crime and had no idea what Qin Feng had done. Otherwise, when treating him, his hands would probably be shaking too.

  "Sister, where is my sister?"

  Qin Feng didn't care about his own injuries at all, and at this moment, there was only his sister in his heart. Because when his father hid him in the closet that year, he had told him to take good care of his sister.

  "What's your name? The case by the railroad is yours, isn't it?"

  Just as Qin Feng was about to grab the doctor, he found that his hands were handcuffed to both sides of the hospital bed. Behind the doctor stood two police officers in uniform.

  "What about my sister? What did he do to my sister?"

  Qin Feng did not respond to the public security inquiry, but instead kept asking about his sister's whereabouts. In that last moment, his consciousness was completely blurred, and he didn't even know that the gun he threw out had stabbed Hao Lao Da, causing him to fall off the train and die.

  "Who is your sister? First answer our questions, then talk about your sister. Do you know how serious a case you have committed?"

  The two young police officers in the ward had only been on the force for just over two years, and if they were to make a breakthrough in such a big case, it would definitely add glory to their own police career.

  "I don't know, I just want to know, where is my sister?"

  As for the police's question, Qin Feng pretended not to hear it. He was eager to know his sister's whereabouts and became somewhat emotional, pulling the hospital bed with both hands, making a "creaking" sound.

  "What do you want to do?"

  The two policemen in front of the hospital bed were startled, and only now did they think that this seemingly weak big boy was not a good guy. The bloody scene in the house made them feel nauseous again.

  "What do you want to do? Do you need to draw a gun to deal with a child?"

  Just then, the door of the ward was pushed open from outside, and Director Song with a head full of white hair walked in. He glared at the two police officers with an air of displeasure, waved his hand, "Alright, you can go out first."

  After driving the two men away, Director Song looked at Qin Feng and said softly: "Young man, I also want to help you find your sister, but... you have to tell me first, what happened, where did your sister go?"

  Director Song had been there for a while, and he saw everything that happened in the ward. He could tell that the boy was very concerned about his sister, and the breakthrough of the case should be on that missing little girl.

  "Xiao Lai was taken away by that person on a train, yes, a train. Every afternoon, that train would pass by our house!"

  Song's gentle and soft words slowly stabilized Qin Feng's emotions.