My 'Healing' Game-Chapter 45 Goodwill Meets Goodwill

45: Chapter 45 Goodwill Meets Goodwill

45 -45 Goodwill Meets Goodwill

“Based on the information we currently have,” Wei Youfu might go to the Ecological Protection Forest in the far suburbs of Xinhu, and this is very likely because he obtained some information from Jiang Jiang.

That ecological protection forest could even be the black forest depicted in Jiang Jiang’s paintings.”

“Victim number eight lived his entire life without leaving any trace online, completely detached from the technological world, as if he were reared in a secluded place, disconnected from society.

Perhaps victim number eight’s home, or rather, the killer’s home, is located within that ecological protection forest!”

Upon hearing Li Xue’s words, Han Fei also felt a surge of excitement.

The case had now taken a definitive direction.

“That ecological forest is connected to Xinhu Yan Tomb Mountain and it’s quite difficult to enter for a search.

We need to find more compelling evidence to persuade the higher-ups.

Fortunately, during our subsequent investigation, my teacher and I made an even more crucial discovery,” Li Xue said with some excitement in her voice.

“What did you find?”

“The killer underestimated Wei Youfu and Jiang Jiang!” Li Xue spoke with confidence, “The ecological forest is vast, and trying to find a black house within it is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

You must know the exact location.”

“If Jiang Jiang could paint the black forest, the black house, and the large group of headless people, it’s highly likely he knows the location of the black house.

I reckon the killer, in order to torment him, even deliberately took this kind-hearted vagrant to see the ‘human meat factory,’ constantly provoking him, making him even more mad.

Wei Youfu was just an ordinary office worker, without any experience in jungle exploration.

But it was these two who created a miracle.”

“Jiang Jiang, who’s barely able to utter coherent sentences due to his low intellect, successfully passed the black house location information to Wei Youfu, and Wei Youfu actually believed the words of a roadside ‘madman’ and went to investigate twice.”

“Kindness met with kindness, fulfilling each other’s good intentions and bringing us the most crucial clue for cracking the case!”

“Wei Youfu didn’t find anything on his first visit to the ecological forest, but the day before he died, he went there again.

This time, he might have been very close to the black house!

It was also for this reason that the killer, who had always been toying with things, took direct action!” Li Xue’s voice slowed down, “Han Fei, is there anyone else around you?”

Looking around, Han Fei replied, “No, I’m the only one here.”

“That’s good.” Li Xue took a deep breath, “The following words I’m about to say must not be told to anyone before we catch the killer.”

“Okay.”

“We reviewed the case file, and when Wei Youfu was killed, everything on his computer and phone had been wiped.

Since the electronics of other victims had all been cleared as well, the police didn’t find it unusual at the time, just that the killer was being cautious.

They had the tech department recover the information from the phone and computer but found nothing.”

“However, when the police later sorted through Wei Youfu’s belongings, they found a piece of cloth covered in mud in his second-hand car.”

“The police didn’t pay attention to it at the time and simply took it back as a suspicious item.”

“My teacher and I pulled up the evidence photos from that time, enlarged and restored the incomplete pattern on the fabric using a computer, then used the latest data instruments to filter and compare with patterns in the online library.

Eventually, we discovered that the pattern was from the children’s clothing of a certain brand from ten years ago.”

“This is what it looked like when it was whole.” Li Xue sent Han Fei a photo, in which was the children’s clothing from a knockoff brand.

“Are you telling me that this piece of children’s clothing will convince your leaders to reinvestigate the Human-body Puzzle case?

To mobilize a large police force to search Xinhu Ecological Forest?” Han Fei asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Now, look at this next picture, which is the last time the missing child from the Welfare Home appeared on surveillance.” Li Xue sent another photo to Han Fei. frёeωebɳovel.com

After looking at it, he drew in a sharp breath.

The child who always said he could see ghosts at night was wearing the clothing from the photo on the day he disappeared!

“The cloth found on the missing child from the Welfare Home turned up in Wei Youfu’s car, and Wei Youfu had just returned from the ecological forest.

That dirt-stained fabric fragment must have been brought back from the forest by him.

Right after that, within a day, he was brutally murdered by the killer.”

“All this forms a closed loop, that fabric fragment found in Wei Youfu’s car is substantial evidence!

We have reason to believe that there is some connection between the killer and that ecological forest.”

Mere reasoning isn’t enough to reopen an investigation; Li Xue and her teacher needed a tangible reason to convince those above: “I won’t tell you the specific time for action.

What you need to do now is to ensure your safety and just wait at home for good news.”

“Li Xue, I have a small question for you.” After listening to Li Xue, Han Fei thought about some things, “Let’s assume the killer of the Human-body Puzzle case is living in the Ecological Protection Forest.

Then the death of the missing children from the Welfare Home should also be related to him, especially since Wei Youfu found the clothing fragment in the ecological forest.”

“That makes sense, go on,” she encouraged.

“So do you think, the missing child from the Welfare Home, the one who always said he saw ghosts at night, could have actually seen the killer?” Han Fei stood in the shadows, his brain racing, “Considering the killer of the Human-body Puzzle case had adopted victim number eight, and Jiang Jiang’s painting also showed many headless little people in the black forest, if all those little people are indeed children, who do you think has the ability to get their hands on so many orphans and abandoned babies?”

“The Welfare Home…

The Director?” Li Xue, upon hearing Han Fei’s words, felt startled.

In fact, Han Fei also thought of the short song that victim number eight had sung—brothers and sisters were sent far away, and the number of younger brothers and sisters dwindled—realizing that there must have been more than one child living at the location where victim number eight resided, and that taking care of these children was very troublesome, requiring certain experience.

“Besides, Jiang Jiang was employed because he picked up the Director’s wallet.

As you said before, the killer enjoys the thrill of goodwill being betrayed, opposed, despised.

The Director of the Welfare Home just happened to know that Jiang Jiang was an extremely kind-hearted person.” Han Fei’s thoughts sped up, “Do you think the Director might have thought that Jiang Jiang looked exactly like his own image of goodwill—ugly, mentally challenged, and smelly—so he had Jiang Jiang work at the Welfare Home?

He wanted to use Jiang Jiang as his own toy?”

“It’s possible.

I’m going to call my teacher right away and check some things.”

Li Xue hung up the phone in a hurry, while Han Fei still stood in the shadow of the street, with related case information flashing through his mind.