Chapter 324: Chapter 324: Red High Heels

Chapter 324: Red High Heels

Xiao Yu never imagined how the culprit could evade the city’s Tianyan Surveillance Camera.

Nor how they abducted the victim and then committed the crime…

Remember, all three crime scenes where the victims disappeared were under surveillance.

In fact, one victim was even seen by the Tianyan Surveillance Camera.

Yet, from every camera’s perspective, they all vanished!

A question arises.

While the Tianyan Surveillance does have blind spots,

these gaps aren’t unlimited.

Sometimes they measure only a few meters wide, at most a dozen.

They’re the narrow no-man’s lands between the fields of view of two cameras.

So even if a victim slips into a blind spot, whatever happens,

the culprit must also leave that same dead zone, right?

No one can hide in a blind spot forever.

To injure, maim, or even repeatedly assault a victim…

Common sense suggests it was a man, doesn’t it?

That was the starting assumption for the investigation.

The police had already questioned every suspicious male who emerged from these blind spots.

It was nearly impossible—they had ruled out every suspect.

A ghost?

Or could it be a woman assaulting another woman?

The troubling fact is that, according to several autopsy reports, the assailant was indeed male.

Even though the victims showed no physical marks, the signs of assault were unmistakable.

So, what if it was a man in disguise as a woman?

No; the investigators had already considered that possibility long ago.

They even ruled out anyone likely to have cross-dressed.

Nothing!

There’s another crucial point.

At the time, the victims were probably abducted by some method

that left them utterly incapable of resistance.

And then came an even more baffling detail.

A full, living person.

What an audacious target.

How did the culprit manage to extract the victim from a surveillance dead zone?

Not a single trace was captured on cameras outside that blind spot.

Is it science?

Under these circumstances, you’d suspect the criminal operated within the blind spot.

Yet, three victims vanished from three different dead zones on camera.

A few days later, they were spotted in entirely different areas.

It was as if a living person had teleported out of thin air.

Then reappeared already in another region.

A teleportation portal?

Moreover, there was another major clue in the case.

All the victims from five years ago were wearing… red shoes!

From this, it was deduced that the culprit likely had a fetish for red shoes.

Recalling this, Xiao Yu remembered the ‘terrifying murder case story’ recounted by female prisoner Niu Xin.

In that account, the woman wore a pair of red high heels.

Following that logic, Feng Xiuyun had also noticed the connection.

She deliberately lured the culprit out, and then…

……

Criminal Investigation Team Interrogation Room.

“Tell me, what did you do back then?”

A mysterious expression flickered in Xiao Yu’s eyes.

“Three years ago…”

Feng Xiuyun stopped holding back and confessed everything.

She knew the young detective before her wouldn’t lie.

He would pursue the truth to the end.

And he was remarkably clever.

Clever—as if he were a demon in his own right.

Maybe he could actually help her uncover the real truth.

“I spent two long years tracking that bastard, following clues from two other victims,” she admitted.

“But… he was too cunning. Whenever he struck, he blindfolded his victims, giving them no chance to see his face.”

“He never uttered a word; he simply assaulted and tormented them…”

“With just that evidence, it was impossible to pin him down. The victims said they suddenly blacked out and, when they awoke, had no idea where they were. It wasn’t until after days of torment that they fainted again before finally being rescued!”

“That single clue was utterly insufficient, so I devised a plan… didn’t he love red shoes?”

“For six months, I wore a pair of red shoes every day—different styles, roaming the night, at midnight and even in the early hours…”

“Until that fateful night… he appeared. A middle-aged man, hunchbacked, cold, ruthless, and ferocious…”

Feng Xiuyun’s face twisted in agony. “Just like in the story I made up—I pretended to be scared, followed him to a residential area in an apartment building, and then he ordered me to undress. I cooperated because I was setting my own plan in motion…”

“You killed him?” Xiao Yu asked icily.

“Ha!”

Feng Xiuyun suddenly laughed and shook her head. “No. It was far worse than I imagined. I miscalculated the strength difference between a man and a woman… I failed!”

“Hmm?”

Taken aback by her unexpected words, Xiao Yu pressed, “What happened?”

“I intended to assassinate him, but…”

Feng Xiuyun closed her eyes in anguish. “I was knocked out!”

Xiao Yu: ……

That isn’t the usual pattern of your story, is it?

Wait a minute…

Recalling the ‘terrifying murder case story’ told by female prisoner Niu Xin…

Xiao Yu had long noted too many inconsistencies in the tale.

Yet he also felt that some parts of the narrative were chillingly real.

The genuine details lined up perfectly with the beginning of the story.

But the glaring loopholes were right in the section where the woman was the murderer.

“You were… hit by him?”

Xiao Yu looked at Feng Xiuyun with a complex expression.

“No!”

Feng Xiuyun shook her head.

“What?”

Xiao Yu wondered if he’d misheard, “How could that be?”

Impossible.

After all, Feng Xiuyun had been knocked out at that time.

Assuming the middle-aged man was the culprit,

how could he have done nothing to Feng Xiuyun?

“He vanished.”

Feng Xiuyun stated it with absolute certainty, her expression turning bizarre. “I saw a video.”

“What?”

Xiao Yu gasped, “A video?”

Where on earth did this apartment building go off the rails?

“Hmm.”

Feng Xiuyun nodded, “I had a brand-new tablet plugged in, paused on a video.”

“What was in it?” Xiao Yu frowned.

Feng Xiuyun replied, “I pressed play and saw a murder in progress.”

Her face turned instantly pale, terror and confusion flooding her. “In the video, the middle-aged man was brutally killed—and the murderer was a woman wearing a red dress and red high heels!”

Xiao Yu’s hair stood on end.

Another ghost story?!