Animal Detective

Chapter 242 - 227: Locking onto a Suspect in Just One Day, It’s Too Fast

Gradually, its gaze sharpened.

Its nose wrinkled, its lips curled back to bare its teeth, and a very low whimper rumbled in its throat.

But it only watched, making no further moves.

It just stared as the middle-aged man got into his car and drove away.

Its eyes followed the car until it disappeared from sight.

The dog relaxed its aggressive posture, but its gaze remained sharp. It stood there woodenly, as if in thought.

Then it turned its head and looked at Shen Xin.

Before, Shen Xin had seen a weary dimness in its eyes, a look that was murky and confused.

But at this moment, its gaze seemed clear, as if it had suddenly woken up.

Shen Xin wasn’t entirely sure what its expression was trying to convey.

But thanks to his talent, Shen Xin could sense that it seemed to want to tell him something.

The key was its reaction.

Shen Xin’s heart skipped a beat. ’Did I just hit the jackpot?’

The old dog’s reaction just now was clearly off.

Thinking of this, Shen Xin quickly handed the leash to Ding Yuwei and went over to greet the few people standing by the flowerbed.

"Sir, who was that man just now?"

Shen Xin asked the man who had been talking to the middle-aged man.

The man sized Shen Xin up and warily asked who he was.

Shen Xin thought for a moment and made something up, claiming to be a relative of one of the villagers.

For this trip to Pingyu, Shen Xin had driven his own car and was wearing plain clothes.

When Lai Yong came over today, he had also driven his own car and was also in plain clothes.

Besides, he hadn’t stayed for long before leaving.

So, it was unlikely anyone would have noticed them.

If the killer was a local, Shen Xin didn’t want to reveal that the police had reopened the case and were investigating in the village just yet.

The man grunted in acknowledgment but didn’t ask which family’s relative he was. "That’s Zhou Hui," he said. "He married well. Look at him, his business is getting bigger and bigger. He’s gone through several cars in just a few years."

Shen Xin then asked which ’Hui’ it was.

After confirming the name, he thanked the man and left.

"Our luck can’t be this good, can it?" Ding Yuwei asked in a low voice.

She had also noticed the old dog’s reaction.

Shen Xin shook his head. ’Who knows,’ he thought.

"We’ll investigate tomorrow and see."

’I’ll start with the rabies vaccine.’

Neither of them knew how to cook, so they just bought some braised dishes.

After eating at Luo Limei’s house, they saw the old dog was reluctant to leave, so they left it there.

The two of them still returned to the town to stay for the night.

The next morning, the pair went straight to the Qingyuan Central Health Center in town.

Yesterday, they’d asked Zhao Peizhu, who confirmed that this was the only hospital in town administering rabies vaccines back then.

When they inquired at the health center, they found that records had indeed been kept.

However, back in ’12, all the records were handwritten. The health center didn’t start widely using electronic medical records until ’13.

In the records room, the records were all filed and categorized by date, so they were easy to find.

"Here they are."

The director of the hospital’s administrative department pulled out a yellowed, dust-covered registration book.

Rabies vaccinations had to be reported, so they were recorded separately.

Han Xiaolong died on the night of July 11th.

If the killer knew about the 24-hour rule, they would have definitely come for a rabies vaccine the next day.

Ding Yuwei flipped through the pages quickly, soon reaching the section for July.

"Got it! Zhou Hui. Came in for a shot at ten in the morning on the 12th."

Ding Yuwei’s eyes lit up as she pointed at the record.

There was only one entry for that day: this Zhou Hui.

And the registered ID information showed that he was from Wuba Village.

Staring at the signature in the record book, Ding Yuwei was in disbelief.

’This is a little too lucky!’

’We only took over the case yesterday, and we’ve already locked onto the killer?’

Shen Xin said, "Don’t get too excited. He’s just a suspect for now. There’s still a lot we haven’t confirmed."

For example, why would Zhou Hui want to kill Han Xiaolong?

Besides, it might not have been him.

But the discovery was still exhilarating. After a moment’s thought, Shen Xin called Liu Jie directly.

A discovery like this definitely had to be reported immediately.

Liu Jie seemed to be in a meeting when he took Shen Xin’s call. When he heard that Shen Xin had a lead and believed Zhou Hui was a major suspect, Liu Jie gasped.

CLATTER! It sounded like a chair being pushed back.

"Xiaoshen, you wait for me. I’m coming over right now."

Liu Jie hastily said this one sentence and hung up the phone.