freenovelworld Chapter 104 Unsolved Mysteries
Chapter 104 Unsolved Mysteries
After stopping the medication and under the doctor's treatment, Zhou Xiaomei's memory improved greatly, but the doctor said that long-term use of the medication had damaged some nerves, and complete recovery was impossible.
Although her memory could not be fully restored, she still remembered some things. However, her memory was fragmentary. Some were very clear, while others were very vague. She could only remember some things that happened a long time ago.
She didn't know who her father was. She had only her mother since she was born. She once asked her mother, and her mother said that her father had gone to a very far place. Later she learned that that very far place might be called heaven.
She had never seen any of her father's relatives, but she knew that her mother had relatives. Her grandparents were still alive and lived in an alley near Hexi 2nd Road in the north city.
When she was little, her mother would sometimes take her there for a walk, but her grandparents never let them in. After a few times, her mother stopped taking her there.
She didn't know why her grandparents refused to acknowledge them, and her mother never told her.
In the first few years after my mother married Zhou Wen, they lived happily. Later, for some reason, they started quarreling, and the quarrel lasted for several years.
She was fifteen years old when her mother died, and she felt like the sky was falling.
Fortunately, Zhou Wen treated her well and provided her with food, clothing, and education.
Her grades were always good, and in order to repay Zhou Wen for raising her, she wanted to get into a good university and win honor for Zhou Wen. But unexpectedly, she got a stomachache on the day of the college entrance examination and missed the exam.
As expected, she failed the exam. She was very sad at the time, but Zhou Wen comforted her, saying that failing the exam was not a big deal, as her family ran a drugstore anyway, and she could help run the store if she didn't study. If she wanted to go to university, she could repeat a year. It was not a big deal, and told her not to take it to heart.
To comfort her, Zhou Wen cooked a large table of dishes for her and opened a bottle of red wine.
She was drunk that night and she didn't remember what happened afterwards. Her memories after that were very vague. Occasionally some fragments flashed through her mind, but she couldn't grasp them.
Su Xiaoxiao thought that not remembering some things might not be a bad thing for her.
When Qi Lei heard Zhou Xiaomei say that her mother's name was Jiang Minmin, he felt that the name seemed familiar. He must have seen it somewhere, so he looked it up.
Recently, his superiors have assigned a task to each city bureau to investigate unsolved cases over the years. He must have seen this name in a case file.
Sure enough, after checking, Jiang Minmin's name was found in the 815 case twenty-one years ago.
Jiang Minmin is a victim of the 815 case.
Like Zhou Xiaomei, Jiang Minmin had excellent academic performance and was admitted to a famous university in Kyoto. She was the only one in the school and was not surprisingly included in the school's honor roll.
On August 8th, the school held a celebration for several students who were admitted to prestigious universities. Afterwards, the teachers left first, but the students stayed up very late and even drank while the teachers were away.
They played until after ten o'clock in the evening. When they finally left, she was paired with another girl and a boy. Although these two were not in the same class as her, they were admitted to the same university in the same city as her, so they felt closer to each other and could walk together when they reported.
When they reached a fork in the road, she parted ways with them. The girl asked her if she wanted him to take her home, but she said no.
It was very close to her home. It would only take two or three minutes to get home by walking through the alley. Besides, it was not the first time she came back at night and nothing had ever happened to her before.
But something happened that night.
As soon as she entered the alley, she felt inexplicably uneasy. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she heard a woman sobbing. Although she was very scared, she still plucked up the courage to go over to check.
At the corner of the alley, she saw the back of a man pushing a girl against the wall.
She hid in the corner, picked up a stone and threw it, hitting the man. The man let go of the girl in pain and turned his gaze to her. She was so scared that she ran away, but before she could take a few steps, she was knocked unconscious from behind.
When she woke up, she found herself lying in the mud, her whole body aching and unable to move. Even if she was slow-witted, she knew what had happened. But she could do nothing but cry, not even making a sound.
Later, an early riser passed by, spotted her, and called the police.
It rained heavily that night, so there were not many traces left at the scene. Surveillance cameras were not yet popular at that time, and there were no surveillance cameras in the alley.
The light was dim at night. She only remembered that the man was very tall and had long hair, but she couldn't see his face clearly, so she couldn't provide any valuable clues.
After extensive investigation, the police could not find any clues about the suspect, including the girl she mentioned.
Over time, it became an unsolved case.
Now they were investigating some unsolved cases in the past, so Qi Lei decided to start with this one.
Although the incident happened many years ago and it is difficult to investigate, the technical means nowadays are incomparable to those in the past. As long as there is a crime, there will always be traces left. He doesn't believe that there will be no trace at all.
Qi Lei told everyone about the situation of the 815 case. He calculated Zhou Xiaomei's age. Jiang Minmin should have been pregnant with Zhou Xiaomei at that time. Zhou Xiaomei's father should be the criminal suspect in the 815 case who has not been arrested so far.
Crimes like this are usually not committed only once. Similar cases occurred a few years before and after the 815 case, some of which were solved and some were not.
The most convenient method now is to compare the DNA of the arrested criminal with Zhou Xiaomei's DNA to see if there is any connection.
The results came back quickly, no one could match Zhou Xiaomei's DNA. It seemed that this approach was not feasible. There was no easy way to go, so they had to start from the beginning.
At that time, the police handled Jiang Minmin's case together with two similar cases that had occurred before, because the criminals left the same scar on these victims, a scratch similar to a cat's claw, right on the waist.
As for whether there is any special meaning, they don't know because they haven't caught the suspect. There are even fewer clues left in those two cases. The victims were knocked unconscious directly, and no one has seen the suspect.
After the Jiang Minmin case came to light, the police thought that there would be a breakthrough because Jiang Minmin had seen the suspect. However, nothing was found in the end, and all three cases became unsolved.
Su Xiaoxiao read all three case files, but always felt that something was wrong. Could it be that they were going in the wrong direction from the beginning?