Genius Detective - Chapter 366

Chapter 366: 366


Chen Shi suggested that they go and see where the dregs were dumped and drove along with the truck .

When they got to the temple of the fire god, Lin Dongxue was stunned when she saw the dumping ground . "This is too big, right? It will take several days even if we called the entire second team to come over and dig . "

"Don’t dig then . This kind of laborious work should be left to the third team! It doesn't hold much value in finding the corpse anyway . The key is on Mr Li's side of things . "

"I don’t mean to splash cold water on you, but are you sure that the killer is an acquaintance?"

"It's an acquaintance . Otherwise, how could they find the victim's house and hang her head on the door?"

"That’s true!"

Xu Xiaodong had been looking down at his phone the whole time . Chen Shi asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Li Mengran's Weibo . Everyone heard that she had an accident and wrote messages of their condolences on her Weibo . I also left a message . "

"Let me have a look!" Chen Shi took a look . "Is Li Mengran very popular? How are there over 20,000 followers?"

"Wouldn’t she have bought them? No matter how popular a middle school student is, there wouldn't be so much attention . "

Chen Shi glanced over . Li Mengran usually only posted photos of her daily life . Although she lived under the high pressure of taking tests, she still frequently posted some photos of kittens, wildflowers, or things she ate while she was outside .

Chen Shi looked at the posts and asked, "Xiaodong, do you think Li Mengran is a girl who loves to show off everything online?"

"She doesn’t seem like that . Her family has a car and a house, and she wears branded clothes, but she rarely shows these off . "

Chen Shi quickly looked at the people who followed Li Mengran . These were not zombie fans . He was wondering why she was famous when Li Mengran hadn’t even posted any particularly compelling content?

Chen Shi said, "I'll talk to Mr . Li again . "

Lin Dongxue said, "I’ll head back to the bureau and see what progress has been made, starting from Li Mengran's interpersonal relationships . "

"No, investigate Mr . Li’s relationships . The murderer's intentions seem more like they’re taking revenge on him . "

"Okay!"

Back in the city, the three separated . Chen Shi didn’t immediately go to Li Mengran's house . He walked around the area, drawing lines on a hand-drawn map around him . Judging by these lines, if Li Mengran did intend to spend the night at an Internet cafe, the route she followed would overlap that of the truck carrying the muck .

The entire third team was currently investigating Li Mengran's relationships at school . They heard that Gao Xiang, who had tried to sexually assault Li Mengran, was also invited to the office to "drink tea . " Chen Shi’s investigative direction made it seem like he was solo investigating the case . However, years of investigative work gave him a keen intuition . He felt the killer was based near the neighborhood .




It may even be someone who he brushed past in these past two days!

When he went to Li Mengran's house, Mr . Li still didn't go to work today . He wasn’t sure if it was hallucinating, but Chen Shi felt that the hair around his temples had more gray hairs than the last time he saw him .

Mr . Li was looking at Li Mengran's photos from childhood with tears rolling out of his eyes . He looked up to see Chen Shi and asked, "Officer, how is the case progressing?"

"It's still under investigation, but there hasn’t been any breakthrough progress . " Chen Shi told him the truth .

"Haii!"

"I came to see you to know more about Li Mengran’s situation . "

"The police have already come here six times . I’ve told you everything that I know . Why do you police investigate cases so slowly?" Mr . Li grumbled .

"May I look at this album?"

"Go ahead!"



Chen Shi flipped through the photos as Mr . Li introduced them . “This was when Ranran turned one . This one was when she just learned to walk . ” He smiled as he remembered, but began crying after he smiled .

When he looked at the photos of when Li Mengran was around ten years old, Chen Shi noticed that in a photo, Li Mengran was standing in front of a big hill with a short, dark-skinned boy standing next to her . Chen Shi asked, "Is this your relative?"

"No, a child we met in the countryside . "

Chen Shi found that the photo was a bit thick . He touched it with his hand and pulled out a letter from the back that said, "Feifei, is your father okay? Long’an has been raining this past month and it’s boring to stay at home during the summer vacation . I want to go to your place and catch the crickets . . . "

Chen Shi asked, "What's the meaning behind this letter?"

"Let me see!" Mr . Li put on his glasses and looked at it for a while . "Oh," he said, "I remember! I remember now! Ranran participated in a variety show when she was a child and went to experience life in the countryside . Then, a rural child came to our place to experience life here . "

"So an exchange of families?"

"It’s a bit like that . It took them three days to film here . At that time, a TV station friend said that the show was very popular and that my family’s Ranran had the temperament to be a star, so they persuaded me to participate . The filming wasn’t the same as I expected . They all had scripts . It counts as a small episode in Ranran’s growing experience!”

Chen Shi took the letter and said, "Li Mengran wrote to the child? It seems they have a good relationship . Do you know his name?"

Mr . Li smiled bitterly, "You wouldn't suspect that he was the murderer, right? Impossible . We’ve never contacted them since then . Although Ranran wrote to him, I was afraid it would affect her studies, so I threw all the letters away . I’m not sure why this letter was kept . ”



Chen Shi was interested . "Is there a recording of that show?"

"You can view it online . "

Mr . Li took out his laptop and found the show . When he saw the cute ten-year-old Ranran on camera, he cried sadly again . When the rural child appeared, he began to fast forward, but Chen Shi said, "Don't . Don't . Let me watch from beginning to end . "

"These are all acting!" Mr . Li said, "How could Ranran be so spoiled? She was very obedient at that time . The crew said that they wanted her to act to create an effect in the show . They made her drop the bowl and run away from the countryside, but it was all fake!”

At the beginning of the program, two families and two children were introduced . It turned out that the rural child Little Fei was the same age as Li Mengran . However, it looked like he was smaller than Li Mengran because of the nutritional difference .

Behind the lens, Li Mengran was obviously a spoiled little princess while Little Fei was a hard-working and obedient poor child .

The program was divided into two episodes . The first episode was Li Mengran's life in the countryside, suddenly going from the comfortable and convenient city lifestyle into the desolate countryside . Li Mengran had a huge psychological gap, and soon began to cry as she tried to go home .

"Is this true?" Chen Shi asked .

Mr . Li said, "These shots are all scripted . In the evening, it looks like she stayed at the dormitory of the elementary school . In fact, after she finished filming, she slept in the crew’s car . In the morning, they would film her waking up at the elementary school’s dorm again . But the village was indeed very poor . I followed along at the time . It was the poorest village out of all the villages in the surrounding area . The child's home was the poorest in the whole village . The crew sought it out on purpose . The surrounding villages got developed early on . "

The two watched the program silently . Mr . Li watched the program and thought about his daughter . He sighed and watched with tears in his eyes . Then, he couldn't control his sadness any longer and went to the bathroom to cry .

Chen Shi thought to himself . No wonder Li Mengran had so many Weibo fans . It turns out she was a little online influencer .