"Where is that person!" Jiang Yu said coldly.
"In... in the public restroom!"
Jiang Yu immediately let go.
Before the man could stand up, Officer Xiao Qin quickly pinned him down.
Zhao Yan hurried towards the public restroom.
Jiang Yu quickly followed.
"Hey, what are you doing, this is the men's restroom!"
Arriving at the men's restroom, Zhao Yan walked straight in, startling an uncle who was urinating.
"Police business, please cooperate!" Jiang Yu said.
Pushing open a stall in the restroom, at this hour, there was only an uncle urinating; there was no one else in the restroom.
Jiang Yu's first reaction was to look at the uncle.
Zhao Yan shook her head, "It's not him!"
"What time did you go to the restroom?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Just now, five seconds before you arrived." The uncle said nervously.
"Did you see anyone leave the restroom?" Jiang Yu said in a deep voice.
The uncle shook his head, "No."
Zhao Yan rubbed her eyebrows.
"Do you have any proof that you came here to use the restroom?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Ah, you need proof to use the restroom!" The uncle exclaimed in surprise, then quickly pointed outside, "I came with my two friends. They are waiting for me outside. If you don't believe me, you can ask them."
Li Mulan had said that this uncle did not have the man's aura.
Zhao Yan really wanted to use the Pursuit Talisman, but Li Mulan didn't even know what the murderer looked like, let alone how tall or thin they were, or their build. She was completely clueless.
But based on the aura Li Mulan mentioned, it was impossible to use.
With two witnesses to confirm, the uncle had indeed come to urinate.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Jiang Yu punched the poplar tree again and again, unwillingly.
"How could he have escaped!"
Zhang Yi walked over. The man from before was already restrained by Officer Xiao Qin.
Officer Xiao Qin was surprised by the arrival of Zhao Yan and the others. He had also learned the general situation from Zhang Yi.
Seeing that the "big danger" on Officer Xiao Qin's face had disappeared, Zhao Yan frowned.
"Why would the murderer ask someone to pat Officer Qin's shoulder?" Zhang Yi asked.
Zhao Yan said, "This murderer is very vigilant. He had someone pat the girl's shoulder not because he knew she was a police officer, but because the murderer wanted to observe the girl's reaction to this action."
"A girl who knows self-defense, just from the act of being patted on the shoulder by a strange man, would react differently from an ordinary person."
"An ordinary girl would first be startled, and her reaction would be to retreat."
"A girl who knows self-defense, even if startled, would immediately counterattack if something felt off, or check for pepper spray or something similar."
"The target he chooses must be someone he can subdue with his full strength."
"He would not allow any flaws in his plan."
Zhao Yan had walked through that alley. The murderer had attacked when Li Mulan was at the end of the alley.
The murderer had followed her for a while. There were several opportunities where he could have acted, but he didn't, he was waiting for something.
When Li Mulan said she first saw a black cat dart out, the murderer attacked her.
This black cat must have been the trigger for the murderer's attack.
The sudden appearance of the black cat had startled Li Mulan into shouting, and she hadn't produced anything from her hands.
If someone were walking alone at night, with their nerves completely on edge, and they had some self-defense item, a sudden scare would cause them to tightly grip their weapon.
In that situation, only a weapon would provide a unique sense of security.
From this, it was determined that Li Mulan was someone he could handle.
If that were the case, and Li Mulan had been with Wang Qinqin, given the murderer's vigilance, they shouldn't have been the murderer's targets.
Why did Wang Qinqin have the coffin tattoo appear?
Could it be that by saving Wang Qinqin, she had inadvertently harmed Li Mulan?
The more she thought about it, the more confused Zhao Yan became.
"No! No!" Zhao Yan thought of something and covered her head.
"That murderer must still be nearby. He must want to see us running around in circles, and then he'll be secretly laughing."
The serial killer of 1996 was very arrogant. From the reports and evidence she knew, the 1996 serial killer, after committing murder, had called the police using a public phone and revealed the murder location.
He deliberately left some clues for the police.
If he were truly a perfectionist, then the murderer's arrogance wouldn't be innate, but rather an imitation of the 1996 serial killer's personality.
A perfect imitation of the 1996 killer's details.
Zhao Yan looked up, suddenly thinking of something!
The public restroom, it wasn't just the men's room. They had fallen into a closed loop from the beginning.
They had consistently assumed the murderer was male.
Why couldn't the murderer be female!
The reason for such a test, besides vigilance, might be a lack of confidence in their own strength, a subconscious action.
"The murderer is very likely female."
Zhao Yan said in a deep voice.
"Huh?" Zhang Yi, Jiang Yu, and Officer Xiao Qin all looked at Zhao Yan.
"He's male! His voice was a man's voice." The captured man said.
"Some girls' voices do not have distinctly feminine characteristics."
"Zhang Yi, you go with Miss Zhao to the women's restroom. I'll guard the entrance. Hurry!"
"Ah, I'm going to the women's restroom?" Zhang Yi thought, why isn't it you.
Seeing Zhao Yan quickly run into the restroom, Zhang Yi could only brace himself and follow.
Arriving at the women's restroom, Zhao Yan quickly pushed open a stall.
"Someone's in this restroom."
When Zhao Yan reached the fourth stall, the door wouldn't open, and there was a voice from inside.
Zhao Yan quickly crouched down.
"You're shitting without pulling down your pants?" Zhao Yan said coldly.
She quickly stood up, preparing to punch.
The life-saving talisman in her pocket suddenly became hot.
Zhao Yan's heart tensed, a sense of crisis suddenly surged, and she quickly dodged to the right.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and a hole appeared in the stall door.
"My god, this beast has a gun!" Zhang Yi was startled.
Jiang Yu and Officer Xiao Qin outside the door were stunned for a moment, then immediately rushed in.
Zhao Yan's right arm hurt, and the life-saving talisman in her pocket instantly turned to ash.
Why was Officer Xiao Qin in danger when he encountered the murderer? This beast was actually armed.
"Miss Zhao, quickly retreat!"
Jiang Yu rushed over and shouted.
As he rushed over, he saw Zhao Yan suddenly leap, her hands gripping the top of the stall door.
"Don't be rash!"
"Bang!"
The gunshots rang out again. Zhao Yan gripped tightly with both hands and flipped herself into the restroom stall.
"Holy crap! Miss Zhao must be a beast! She can flip over such a high door top so easily!" Zhang Yi exclaimed.
They all held their breath, their hearts pounding with tension.