Genius Detective - Chapter 377

Chapter 377

Chapter 377: Pursuing the Murderer on a Rainy Night

The alley wasn’t far from Kang Li's residence . The police had tried to arrest the rapist in this area two years ago, so he had stopped living here for a long time .

Lin Dongxue looked at the house which now housed a small family of three and said, "Well, we came for nothing . "

"Let’s go and find a place nearby to have a meal!"

Lin Dongxue looked up at the sky, "It seems like it’s going to rain soon . Let’s head back!"

"Will you go to my place tonight?"

Lin Dongxue pointed upwards . "It depends on the will of the heavens!"

The alleyways were intricately connected in a complicated way . They had gone in hoping to take a shortcut, but they ended up walking further and further away . A small bookstore appeared in front of them . The interior was simple but inviting .

Chen Shi went in to ask for directions and noticed a girl on a ladder organizing some magazines . There were several rows of magazines on the shelf with paper clips of different sizes clipped onto the covers .

He asked, "Excuse me, how do I get out of these alleys?"

The girl was startled, and the magazine in her hand almost fell . She caught it just in time and put it back into place . She said, "Go right and then turn left when you see a barber shop . "

"Thank you . "

When Chen Shi came out, Sun Zhen called him . He said, "I have a blind female from the internet asking me to come out and meet her at eight o'clock tonight . Should we meet her?"

"Where are you right now? I'll come over later . "

"Let's meet there . I'll send you an address over WeChat . "

Lin Dongxue asked what had happened, and Chen Shi said, "I have news from my external help . "

"Could it be the murderer?"

"She has just killed someone . It doesn't match her cooling-off period, but we’ll take a look anyway!"

Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue went out . The skies were already getting dark . Chen Shi noticed that the other shops had turned their lights on . He wondered why the bookstore just now hadn’t turned on the lights as well and why there were paper clips on the magazines .

"Go! We need to go back!" Chen Shi said .

Lin Dongxue didn't know what was going on and followed him back . When he returned to the bookstore, he found that the girl was gone, but the store’s door was still open .

"Where did the person go?"

"She’s blind!" Chen Shi picked up a braille book on the counter . "Magazines of the same thickness on the shelf but with different prices… She used paper clips to distinguish between them . Why did I not think of that?!"

"A blind girl who runs a bookstore by herself?"

There was a staircase at the back of the bookstore . The two walked up the stairs . There weren’t any lights installed in the attic . Chen Shi used his mobile phone to light up the area and saw a bed with a broken guide stick beside the bed .

Chen Shi opened the refrigerator, which had a box of hawthorn berries inside, each individually wrapped in plastic .

"Surely it’s not . . . " Lin Dongxue said in shock .

At that moment, there was a rattle downstairs, and Chen Shi rushed down to see that the roller shutter had been pulled down . It seemed like someone was locking the shutter outside .

This blind woman was most probably the murderer . By this time, Chen Shi couldn't care less about putting up an act . He took out a lockpick and got ready to unlock the shutter but found that the keyhole on the inside of the roller shutter had already been blocked .

Lin Dongxue ran down . Chen Shi hid away the lockpick and said, "We’re trapped! This blind girl is problematic!"

"I’ll call my brother . "

Chen Shi found the switch and turned on the lights . He went through the cabinets and found a household registration booklet . The store owner's name was Tu Yunmeng .

When Lin Qiupu answered the call, Lin Dongxue exclaimed, "Brother, we found the suspect . We’re now in Guyi Lane on Caoshi Street, and trapped in a bookstore . "

"You’re so careless! I’ll bring someone over right away . "

Chen Shi said, "Look at this!" He held up four movie tickets, all from the same theater nearby . "The times are close to the times of the four murders . Blind people won’t go to watch movies . "

"So you have guessed it correctly? Every time she kills someone, she'll recover briefly?"

"Then she’ll go and watch a movie . . . What’s that sound?"

Lin Dongxue put her ear against the roller shutter and listened, "It's raining! This is good news! She won’t get very far . "

Chen Shi gritted his teeth . "I'm afraid it's not good news!"

After waiting anxiously for half an hour, the sound of the shutter being pried open finally came from outside, and the shutter opened up . Lin Qiupu and others stood outside, wearing raincoats . Lin Qiupu handed them two raincoats, saying, "Where did she go? Hurry up and go after her! "

"I don't know," Chen Shi responded .

"Haii, how did you guys handle things? Let’s split up and look for her!”

The two of them put on their raincoats and inquired everywhere within the alley . Several neighbors had just seen Tu Yunmeng leave . They got to the road, and Chen Shi said, "She didn’t bring her guide stick, so it would be impossible for her to cross the road . . . Unless she can see right now . "

"What are you talking about?" Lin Qiupu asked in confusion .

Chen Shi showed him the movie tickets . "Tu Yunmeng is only blind due to psychological reasons, and every time she kills someone, she will briefly regain her eyesight . This is her motive for killing people . "

Lin Qiupu was shocked . At that moment, his cell phone rang . After answering, he frowned . "There was a murder close by! It just happened . "

"She did it!" Chen Shi looked at the heavy rain . "Her hearing isn’t good right now, so she has to recover her eyesight again . . . This rain really came at the wrong time . "

Lin Qiupu rushed over with some people and Lin Dongxue was ready to follow him . However, Chen Shi pulled her back . He said, "She went to this theater every time after she committed the murders . It must be of great significance to her . Let's go there and check . Let your brother handle the murder case . "

The murder had taken place in an alley about a street away from them . The victim was an old lady . Witnesses said that the person who killed her was a girl . The two went into the alley arm in arm and then the girl ran out . They couldn’t make out her face clearly .

The old lady who collapsed onto the ground had also been stabbed several times . It was most likely her that did it .

Lin Qiupu murmured in disbelief . "Could there really be such a thing?!"

At the same time, Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue were rushing to the theater . Sun Zhen called to ask, "Why aren't you here yet, Brother Chen?"

"Just have a casual meal with her and have a chat!"

"Fuck, what if she is the murderer?"

"No, the killer has already been found, bye!"

They got to the theater braving the heavy rain . It was a small theater . There weren’t many people at all, especially due to the weather that day .

When Chen Shi was going up the stairs, he noticed a detail . He pointed it out to Lin Dongxue . There were a few drops of blood on the ground .

The two went further inside to ask around . Chen Shi's mobile phone had captured Tu Yunmeng's household registration booklet’s photo earlier . The front desk replied, "I’ve seen her . She came here to watch the night screening of a movie two days ago and said a few words to Little Zhou back then . . . She was the only one in that cinema hall, so she left an impression on me . "

"Who is Little Zhou?"

"The person who projects the movie . But he’s working right now . "

"I want to meet him . "

The two went to the projector room and Chen Shi noticed a wet coat hanging on the wall . Little Zhou stood up and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Lin Dongxue showed her credentials to him . "Do you know Tu Yunmeng?"

"Tu Yunmeng?"

"This is her!" Chen Shi showed him the photo .

"Yeah, she's been here to watch a few movies . . . We’ve talked, but we’re not that familiar with each other . "