Chapter 10: Two Homicides? No, This is a Serial Killing!

"Bodies?"

"Another body has been fished out!"

Watching the livestream, Sun Zhaopeng immediately stood up from his chair.

He felt he should go to the scene right away.

He was not very far from Baisa Reservoir, and if he set off now, he could get there in just over an hour.

News—this was big news.

And it had fallen into his lap.

He had been watching Fang Hao's livestream for news.

Now that news had come his way, how could he, as a reporter, possibly miss out?

"I can't delay any longer."

"I have to rush to the scene."

Securing first-hand materials at the scene was the essential spirit of a journalist.

Sun Zhaopeng immediately grabbed his equipment and drove out.

...

In the office.

Lin Wendong had been searching through the list of missing persons reported in the city over the last two to three months, all night long.

But after searching around, there didn't seem to be anyone who matched the characteristics of the body.

"Strange."

"How can there be none?"

"Is it because no one reported it? Or is the timing not right?"

Lin Wendong furrowed his brows in thought; he first needed to establish the identity of the corpse.

How could they solve the case if they couldn't even confirm the identity of the body?

Only by confirming the body's identity could they hope to find clues and solve the case better.

Bang.

A police officer pushed open the door hastily and reported to Lin Wendong the news of the report just received.

"Officer Lin, there's new information."

"Another body has been fished out at Baisa Reservoir."

"What? Another body?"

Lin Wendong stood up abruptly from his seat, his face expressing disbelief.

Another body had been found.

Pulling multiple bodies from Baisa Reservoir was somewhat abnormal.

The autopsy report for the previous body hadn't even come out yet, and now there was a second one.

He realized the severity of the situation.

Perhaps, there were more than two bodies in Baisa Reservoir.

This night was destined to be sleepless.

"Tell me the details."

"The person who fished up the body was still that fishing streamer, Fang Hao. He continued fishing after recording his statement, and then... he caught another one... I don't know whether to say he's unlucky or it's just too coincidental."

"But this time, the body was bagged up..."

After hearing the officer's description, Lin Wendong's face turned from surprise to puzzlement.

How could it be him again?

Catching bodies twice in one night, that was remarkably bad luck.

Chen Lin, standing beside him, was also dumbfounded.

"Let's go to the scene."

"And notify the salvage team, too."

...

Half an hour later.

Lin Wendong looked Fang Hao up and down with an odd gaze.

His unmasked stare made Fang Hao break out in goosebumps.

He definitely didn't have that kind of fetish.

He immediately raised both his hands.

"Officer... Officer Lin, I'm a law-abiding citizen!"

Pfft.

Chen Lin next to him couldn't help but laugh.

But after laughing out loud, she felt it was a bit inappropriate and immediately covered her mouth with her hand.

Lin Wendong also couldn't help but smile, a look of amusement crossing his usually serious face.

"Tell me, how did you fish up another body this time?"

Actually, in Lin Wendong's mind, he too suspected Fang Hao.

Although Fang Hao had fished up the bodies during his livestreams, in front of a live audience of online viewers.

Everything seemed accidental, seemingly excluding him from the list of suspects.

After all, no one would be so foolish as to expose a hidden body in front of so many people.

But the more it seemed so, the less he could completely dismiss the possibility.

Just as many suspects would create alibis.

As an experienced detective, he would not overlook any possibility.

Of course, while he had his suspicions, he showed nothing.

"I wasn't satisfied after fishing up a body earlier because I didn't catch any fish, so I came back to continue fishing."

"Then I wasn't having any luck with the fish, so I decided to switch to another fishing rod."

"I didn't expect that not long after changing rods, I'd fish up another body."

"Everyone in my livestream audience knows this; they watched as I pulled it out."

Fang Hao carefully explained the whole situation to Lin Wendong, even holding up his phone to show he wasn't lying.

But by then, he had ended his livestream.

He had turned it off when the police arrived.

From Fang Hao's description, there truly seemed to be no connection between him and the murder case.

Lin Wendong did not say anything more for the time being.

Instead, he walked over to view another body that had been salvaged.

This body was put into a bag, the kind of woven sack commonly seen in rural areas.

The person in the sack was a woman, who had also suffered significant decay.

It looked like she had been deceased for some time.

But since this body was in a sack, its preservation was much better than the previously found male body; the face was not completely destroyed.

Perhaps through facial comparison, they might be able to identify this female corpse.

"This female corpse also died between two and three months ago, and like the other, she was struck by a blunt object."

After an examination, the forensic doctor provided a cause of death.

"However, whether it was with the same weapon as the previous male victim needs detailed examination."

The conditions on site were basic, permitting only a basic examination.

But after hearing the forensic doctor's words, Lin Wendong fell into deep thought, speculating in his mind.

These two cases had something in common.

Both were deaths occurring two to three months earlier, and... both were caused by blunt force trauma.

It was very possible that these cases were actually connected... a serial murder case!

Further details had to await the forensic doctor's autopsy results.

But the most pressing issue was to identify these two bodies.

The female corpse's face, although somewhat decayed, was comparatively intact and had not been gnawed on by fish.

This could be a breakthrough.

"Sorry, you can't come any closer."

A policeman prevented a bespectacled man from approaching the scene.

This man was Sun Zhaopeng, the reporter who had hurried over after watching the bodies get fished out during the livestream.

"Hello, I'm Sun Zhaopeng, a reporter from Binjiang News, and I would like to..."

"Sorry, but it's not convenient to disclose details now, we will issue a statement later."

Seeing that the man was a reporter, the policeman was a little less vigilant, but still didn't allow him through.

Sun Zhaopeng knew it was difficult to get the information he wanted from the police at this time, but he had come here specifically for Fang Hao.

Fang Hao, who had fished up two bodies consecutively, was his interview target.

As the first discoverer of both bodies, Fang Hao certainly knew quite a bit.

He felt that he could dig deeper with Fang Hao and possibly get the information he wanted.