Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 73 - 46: Who Is the Killer

The eyes of the other four people all turned towards him simultaneously.

"As a police officer, is Captain Zhou now leading the charge in promoting feudal superstitions?"

His voice was gentle and warm, yet the words he spoke were like slaps in the face of Zhou Zhicheng.

"Why not just close the police station and hire some daoists to solve cases instead?"

After working with him for many years, they already knew Wen Xu’s character. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

But normally, he just seemed aloof and unapproachable; today, they unexpectedly sensed a lot of ’harshness’ from him.

They couldn’t help but wonder why he reacted so strongly to these words.

Hu Chi was so nervous that his toes clenched the ground.

Even though he wasn’t the one who spoke, he didn’t dare to lift his head at that moment.

When will he ever get over this issue of feeling embarrassed on behalf of others?

And just as Wen Xu was about to say something, his pupils suddenly shrank.

A shadow behind Zhou Zhicheng flashed by.

He blinked instinctively, yet nothing unusual appeared before his eyes.

Was it a hallucination?

He closed his mouth and did not comment further on the matter of finding Mu Yunchu.

He lowered his head, frowning, with a faint feeling that what he had just seen was not an illusion.

Could it be that the things from his dreams would gradually appear in his real life?

Seeing that he didn’t say anything more, Hu Chi quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but the awkward atmosphere lingered in the air until the end of the meeting.

...

Watching Wen Xu’s somewhat thin figure gradually disappear down the corridor, Chu Xiaolin stood with her hands in her pockets beside Zhou Zhicheng.

They both felt that something was off with Wen Xu recently.

"Could it be that the pressure is too much for him?"

Though Wen Xu didn’t say it, they actually knew that when a case couldn’t be solved, his mood wouldn’t be any better than theirs.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t spend day and night locked in the morgue.

One can’t help but wonder how he managed to stay there regardless of the cold temperatures, whether spring, summer, autumn, or winter.

Zhou Zhicheng nodded thoughtfully. "Once this case is solved, we’ll force him to take a few days off."

...

Although Wen Xu said those things at the meeting, it wasn’t enough to change Zhou Zhicheng’s mind.

He indeed had to admit it.

In a way, he could definitely be described as an ’old stubborn’.

Whether others called him ’superstitious’ or ’opportunistic’,

as long as it could bring justice to the deceased, what did it matter?

So he drove to Mu Yunchu’s shop once again.

Seeing the latter tending the fields in the yard, Zhou Zhicheng was not in the least surprised.

Clearing his throat, he looked for a topic and spoke first, "What are you growing?"

"Flowers? Or fruits and vegetables?"

After all, he had ten years of experience growing flowers and thought he might be able to offer some advice to Mu Yunchu.

Or perhaps they could exchange experiences.

However, Mu Yunchu deftly evaded his question.

"Captain Zhou’s case has hit a bottleneck, hasn’t it?"

She raised her head for a glance, put down the watering can, and then carefully stepped across the tiled ground beside the yard.

Having known Mu Yunchu for some time and witnessed her skills several times, Zhou Zhicheng was no longer startled at having his thoughts seen through.

So he merely frowned deeply and sat down across from her.

"Then you should also know something about this case, more or less."

Recently, rumors were spreading like wildfire in Qinghe, saying a pervert had appeared here.

Several children under the age of ten had been discovered, their bodies dumped in remote areas.

Ordinary murder cases mostly targeted adult women, with fewer involving adult men. The reasons were mainly love killings or revenge.

But to harm a group of children for no reason, one can imagine the killer’s perversion and savagery.

Zhou Zhicheng said solemnly, "Qinghe has entered its rainy season, and several heavy rains have fallen recently. This has left us with very few clues at the dumping sites."

"So far, we can only confirm that the killer is an adult male who isn’t robust, perhaps even short in stature."

They guessed that the killer must have had an extraordinary shadow cast over his childhood.

This shadow persisted throughout his adult life and into society, not relenting in the slightest.

Gradually, his personality became severely warped.

But due to his physical limitations, he could only find that ’sense of power’ through small animals or young children.

This profile of the killer was the result of their police team’s analysis.

After recounting this, Zhou Zhicheng took out a few photographs from inside his coat.

Upon seeing those faces, Mu Yunchu uttered a puzzled ’Hm?’.

"These children..."

Seeing her reaction, Zhou Zhicheng instantly straightened up and nervously asked, "What is it?"

"Have you seen something?"

Mu Yunchu’s expression became somewhat heavy.

She remained silent.

Although these children differed in age, gender, and birth charts, there was one very similar aspect among them.

"They are all orphans?"

"Yes."

Zhou Zhicheng nodded heavily.

"We can’t find any family information about them, and strangely, they don’t belong to any orphanage either."

Mu Yunchu sunk into contemplation for a while longer.

She stretched out her right hand to make calculations, and as time passed, some images gradually formed in her mind, yet her facial expression grew increasingly peculiar.

After a moment, she finally released her hand.

Zhou Zhicheng, unable to contain his urgency, asked, "Well? Any clues?"

Mu Yunchu: "..."

"I know who the killer is."

Zhou Zhicheng: !!!

"Who is it?"

...

After Mu Yunchu gave him the address, Zhou Zhicheng didn’t forget to pay the divination fee.

Then he made a call to the police station to start gathering personnel.

However, while heading to their destination, Zhou Zhicheng felt uneasy because of what Mu Yunchu said at the end.

The others didn’t know, and Hu Chi continued to immerse himself in his own excitement.

"Captain Zhou, did the master directly tell you the identity of the killer?"

"That’s incredible!"

"Great, the case is finally about to be solved, so my second uncle won’t have to be on tenterhooks every day anymore."

...

With a deviant like this on the loose, no household dared to let their children out for long.

The car had nearly reached the outskirts of Qinghe City.

The cornstalks on either side blurred as they sped by, until no houses could be seen, just the expressway bridge and fields remaining.

The car finally came to a halt.

The driver turned around and shouted, "Captain Zhou! There’s mud ahead, the car can’t get through."

This meant they had to disembark and walk the rest of the way.

Zhou Zhicheng nodded, expressionless, as he opened the car door.

He took a step forward into the muddy ground ahead.

After walking for a few minutes, they came upon a barely noticeable self-built house under the expressway bridge.

As they approached, Mu Yunchu’s words resonated more clearly in his mind.

Unlike his teammates, Zhou Zhicheng’s face remained grim throughout.

And when they opened the house, they understood why Zhou Zhicheng had been reacting that way on their way there.