Li Xiang and his team collected some information from the surrounding residents. At this moment, without being asked, some onlookers spontaneously provided clues.

"The girl just moved in recently, dressed flamboyantly, clearly not a decent person, and the men around her changed every few days."

A prostitute?

This is an important clue that can help the police confirm the victim's identity.

Since the deceased just moved in recently, everyone was not very familiar with her, and besides these, there were no other clues.

After asking around, no one knew her.

So, Li Xiang and his team had no choice but to check the surveillance footage.

Coincidentally, because this is an old employee dormitory, there were scarcely any surveillance cameras, and a large part of them were not even working.

They could only return without any results.

By this time, the entire crime scene had been thoroughly examined, and the deceased had also been taken back to the bureau by the forensics team for further autopsy.

Upon seeing Li Xiang and his team return, Cao Gang immediately gathered everyone for a meeting.

"Li Xiang, did your visit yield any information?"

"We have a clue; the deceased might be a prostitute, and we don't rule out the possibility of solicitation. Most of the nearby surveillance is broken, and after doing a round, there hasn't been any valuable clue."...

"It seems like we can only first confirm the identity of the deceased. Zhou Man, is there any lead from the missing persons side?"

"Captain Cao, we've checked. Within the past month, none of the missing women in the city match."

"The deceased has been dead for so long and no one reported it, there's a high chance she's an immigrant worker."

Cao Gang clenched his fist, placed it on the left side, bit his index finger, pondered for a moment, and said, "Here's what we'll do, Zhou Man, you continue to investigate missing persons, meanwhile, issue a reward citywide for clues related to the deceased. Also, keep an eye on the forensic side, as soon as the DNA results come out, match them immediately."

"Understood."

"Li Xiang, take the related photos of the deceased and visit all foot massage shops in the city; the deceased might have worked in one of them."

"Understood."

The investigation continued methodically.

The next day, after spending another night in the dormitory, Lin Feifei, in Li Xiang's reluctant embrace, left Jinghai and returned to Jinling.

With no comfort from tender arms, Li Xiang threw himself entirely into his work.

After starting work, he and Mao Ji drove a police car and shuttled through the city's foot massage shops, entering the shops and gathering detailed information from them.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they knew exactly how many foot massage shops were in the city and the quality of technicians in those shops.

Ahem, back to the point~

Li Xiang and his team visited all the city's foot massage shops, and they did find some clues.

This massage shop was called Aishang Foot Massage. When Li Xiang and his team showed the related photos of the deceased to them for confirmation, several technicians directly called out her name:

"She's called Xiaohui, she used to be a technician here."

"Later she got together with a Mercedes-driving boss, then she resigned and left."

When the Mercedes-driving boss was mentioned, the women's expressions were full of envy, but on second thought, Xiaohui was dead, and immediately their envy faded away.

"When did she quit?"

"Three months ago, it's been a while."

"Do you know that Mercedes-driving boss?"

Everyone shook their heads, indicating they didn't know this boss.

The surveillance equipment at the store's entrance only stored up to a month's worth of video data, so it was unrealistic to retrieve the surveillance to check that Mercedes' license plate number.

Fortunately, there was not entirely bad news. The owner of the massage shop had a photocopy of Xiaohui's ID card, left when she was processing her employment procedures, which he hadn't had time to destroy, so it remained preserved.

Xiaohui, full name: Miao Xiuhui, 34 years old, had a husband and a 9-year-old child. Her household registration was in Jiangchuan County, which is a relatively impoverished county.

With the victim's identity information, Li Xiang immediately sent this information back to the bureau. The bureau, through the household registration system, contacted the victim's parents and her husband far away in Jiangchuan County, asking them to come and identify the body, to further confirm if the victim was Miao Xiuhui.

Only if Miao Xiuhui's DNA information matched with her parents could it be confirmed that the victim was indeed Miao Xiuhui.

It would take some time for Miao Xiuhui's parents to come over, and also time for the DNA data comparison.

During this time, the criminal investigation team couldn't just wait here doing nothing.

Since it was confirmed that the deceased might be Miao Xiuhui, they started to look for breakthrough points from Miao Xiuhui herself.

Mao Ji obtained all of Miao Xiuhui's communication records from the telecom company. Her last call was made at 10 PM on April 25, lasting only a few seconds.

From this point, the time of death of the victim was likely after 10 PM on April 25, and this person must also have some relationship with the victim.

Therefore, Li Xiang and his team immediately found the owner of this phone number, named Gu Jian."Bring back all the communication records. If the murderer isn't him, then it must be among these numbers."

Subsequently, with the cooperation of the telecom company's staff, they printed all the call records of the deceased Miao Xiuhui for nearly a year, with as many as over three hundred different numbers, illustrating how complicated her social relationships were.

But no matter how complex, the investigation must continue.

Fortunately, there were still leads at present.

Firstly, that guy named Gu Jian had to be checked out, as the victim's last call was to him, so he must be related in some way.

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