"Have you found anything?"
"I just went to Old Chen's dorm. This place... sigh, it's a bit unsightly. You don't know until you come here. It turns out this Old Chen was quite perverted in his daily life. I won't say more. I'll bring the stuff back later for you to see yourself! If his actions were exposed back then, he probably would have lost his job immediately!!"
I told Liu Yuning not to get angry. Although I didn't see those "items," I could guess what they were.
Sure enough, after Liu Yuning and Gao Mingqiang returned, I saw the evidence bags containing, cough, sex toys, inflatable dolls, and the like...
Don't even mention Liu Yuning and the others; even I, seeing this scene before me, felt a headache coming on. It can be said that Old Chen really caught us off guard. However, that's not the main point. Gao Mingqiang said, "Old Chen seems to have developed this habit only after his divorce!"
"How did you figure that out?" I asked.
"Online shopping lists. I compared the timing with when I looked for He Xin. It was exactly the second month after his divorce."
"Sigh, Old Chen probably couldn't hold it in anymore. Actually, we can't blame him."
"But anyway, this is for... Alright, let's all go investigate the agate lead. I just received information that the forensics department has pointed us in a direction. Because this type of agate is a very good medium, it's not really available everywhere. Moreover, this kind of grape-like agate previously appeared at an auction in Guangming City's Heze. This place is near Heze Plaza."
"No way? We just got back, and we have to go out again?" Gao Mingqiang complained. I saw that his mobility was a bit inconvenient now, so I didn't press him. Liu Yuning seemed tired again, so I had to ask Xiahou and Xiao Yuande to go with me.
Additionally, we investigated the photo of the old lady at the crime scene. You don't know until you check. We found out that Chen Qiaoling was Old Chen's mother. I asked another group to investigate the relationship between the old lady and Old Chen. Perhaps this could provide a breakthrough.
After a journey, we finally found this Heze Plaza. After identifying ourselves, a receptionist led us to the person in charge of the previous auction, Mr. Ma. Mr. Ma knew we were police officers and said with some curiosity, "Everything we auction is legal, no national relics or anything, and certainly no counterfeit goods."
"Don't worry, we're not here to investigate that. We just want to consult you about who bought this agate back then!" I took out the agate dug from the victim's eyes and showed the photo to Mr. Ma.
As he stared at the photo, Mr. Ma seemed to quickly recognize that the treasure was something he had auctioned. He said with a critical look, "We sold this agate at a high price before. It was originally tens of thousands of yuan, but those people bid it up to over a hundred thousand yuan. That was beyond my expectations. Although the item is worth that price, but..."
"I'm not here to ask you about that. I want to know who bought this item," I emphasized. Mr. Ma nodded, turned around, and led us into an office. He rummaged through some files and then opened his computer. After a while, he said, "It was auctioned off at 10:23 AM. The name of the person who left their name at the time was... this one, right? Kuai Jingyi!"
Saying this, Mr. Ma showed us Kuai Jingyi's information. Xiahou, Xiao Yuande, and I leaned in to look at the screen. Kuai Jingyi looked very thin and scholarly, wearing heavy glasses. There were many wrinkles on his forehead, his complexion was slightly pale, and he looked somewhat malnourished. To put it mildly, he looked like a monkey. I guessed this man probably weighed less than 100 jin, and judging by his upper body photo, he was likely under 1.6 meters tall.
I asked Mr. Ma, "Are your records so comprehensive?"
"Yes, people who buy items have to leave their ID card records, photos, and so on. You know, we encountered some trouble in the past, so we later required guests to leave detailed information."
I thought that the killer was clearly cautious. How could they expose their identity when buying agate? I felt this person was likely using someone else's ID. I checked my police communication device and, sure enough, this person... sigh, I was speechless. He had been dead for several years.
He had died of cancer. The killer actually used the other person's ID. I looked at Mr. Ma and told him the situation. Mr. Ma might have misunderstood at the time and exclaimed, "This is ghostly!" Then, feeling a bit embarrassed, he said, "Could it be identity theft?"
"Exactly. Many such black market organizations exist now. Mr. Ma, did the person you saw in person look the same as in the photo?"
"I glanced at him a few times and made sure it was him before letting him leave."
Hearing Mr. Ma say this, I thought, could the killer have undergone plastic surgery? But it wouldn't be necessary. If he had plastic surgery, using such a fake identity would be useless. After all, no matter who he was, we would catch him based on the ID photo.
Unless this guy had committed other crimes before and didn't want the police to find out. Alright, no matter what, based on the current situation, we have to find this Kuai Jingyi first.
This time, since we had a photo, we didn't need a scanned image. I handed it directly to He Xin. After searching the facial recognition big database, we found that this guy was indeed the Kuai Jingyi who had died three years ago. We found his family information in the household registration system. We also found out that he had been treated at Guangming City Central Hospital at the time. I felt that investigating this person's family might not be effective, as his family probably didn't know that their relative's information had been stolen. However, I still sent an officer to inquire.
Then, I asked He Xin to use Kuai Jingyi's mobile phone signal and ID card records to find out that he was currently unemployed and his whereabouts were unknown.
"Unemployed? So much money? It seems this guy's source of income is highly questionable." He Xin tapped on the keyboard and began to check Kuai Jingyi's accounts. Within a few minutes, she said, "Over a million a month? He's making quite a lot, I wonder what kind of shady dealings this guy is involved in."
"He definitely has some illegal income. Otherwise, with no job, where would he get so much money? Perhaps we can find some clues by investigating this illegal income!" Liu Yuning suggested, and Yuan Hezhan also cooperated in the investigation. I looked at the time, and about two minutes later, he said, "The accounts for these transfers are heavily encrypted and not easy to trace."