Killer Nights

Chapter 79: The Case Heads in a New Direction

It rained all night, but it finally stopped the next morning.  Perhaps the weather gods were worried that this city’s residents might be late for work?  Jiang Zhengkai dropped A-Jiao off at the preschool and then hurried over to his own office.  Last night’s discovery proved to be a major milestone on the road to cracking this case.  A-Xiu, whom everyone had believed to be dead this entire time, wasn’t actually dead.  In fact, she had just become the number one suspect in these serial murders.

Jiang Zhengkai sat on the chair behind his desk.  He took out A-Jiao’s portraits and looked them over from top to bottom one more time.  Because they had now confirmed that A-Xiu wasn’t dead, there was no reason for Jiang Zhengkai to continue staring at A-Xiu’s portrait.  It was entire possible that this not-quite-dead woman was using some kind of advanced technology, like optoelectronics, to duplicate her likeness and then release that duplicate...