Xia Lan's car was parked in the parking lot of Yangbai County Maternal and Child Health Hospital.

It is now 8:25 in the morning, and pregnant women with big bellies are slowly walking towards the outpatient clinic building with the support of their husbands.

Seeing the happy smiles on the faces of those pregnant women, and touching her belly that made her figure deformed from time to time, Xia Lan couldn't help but smile. She even couldn't help but touch her own belly.

The envious gaze only existed for a few seconds, and a worried look appeared on Xia Lan's face. She suddenly remembered the purpose of coming here.

If Sun Yu's imagination is true, then according to the development of the story, the next important node after marriage is childbirth.

This is completely in line with the murderer's motive. In his imagination, he was constantly killing the male and female protagonists in the story. If he was really their child, would he want to kill him before he was born?

What about yourself?

Thinking that one of these pregnant women might become the target of the murderer, Xia Lan couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Why, are you envious?" Sun Yu's voice rang in Xia Lan's ears, "You also want to have one?"

Xia Lan rolled her eyes, pushed Sun Yu hard, and looked at the ground delicately.

"What are you talking about!" Xia Lan muttered softly.

Seeing that Xia Lan's nervousness had eased a lot, Sun Yu said nothing. He held Xia Lan's hand and carefully observed the environment in the maternal and child health hospital.

Before coming here, Sun Yu checked all the hospitals in Yangbai County that supported fertility ten years ago.

With the development of the county, health centers in towns and villages have basically become a thing of the past. Several people's hospitals have also moved to new development zones in the east in recent years. Only this maternal and child health hospital has not changed.

Compared with those emerging dedicated fertility hospitals and newly built public hospitals, the Maternal and Child Health Hospital looks very dilapidated. It is precisely because of this dilapidation that Sun Yu believes that only people from Laoyangbai County will choose this place.

The murderer was definitely a native of Yangbai County, and his targets were all people from Yangbai County.

Almost all people who come here are from Yangbai County. It is located in the old city and the streets have not changed much, which is convenient for murderers who are familiar with the environment of Yangbai County.

Therefore, Sun Yu believed that if the murderer's next target was a pregnant woman, he would definitely come here to look for prey.

He needs to find pregnant women who come alone for pregnancy tests, so how will he contact pregnant women?

There is another question here. Previously, he randomly selected a man and a woman to kill based on the target's occupation. If it is a pregnant woman this time, and the pregnant woman's husband has been identified, will he kill the pregnant woman's husband together?

Probably not! His criteria for selecting targets are most likely based on occupation. If there is a couple whose occupations all match, then it can only be said that they are unlucky.

Xia Lan and Sun Yu came to the office of the health center. Xia Lan just showed her ID and asked for the information of all expectant mothers without explaining the reason.

Unexpectedly, the office director here is extremely rigorous in his work. This old woman in her fifties has never seen the ID of the special case team and really cannot recognize Xia Lan.

So Director Liu directly called the Yangbai County Public Security Bureau, and Cao Qin there confirmed the information before providing the information.

What surprised Sun Yu was that Cao Qin didn't ask him why he wanted information about pregnant women. He just said that he had no new findings and hung up the phone.

Among the pregnant women expecting to give birth, there were no pregnant women engaged in medical-related work. Sun Yu's only bright light was extinguished.

There are many situations here. The heroine in the story may have quit her job and become a housewife after getting married, or she may have changed other jobs, etc.

This was originally a wild investigation with no basis. To Sun Yu's surprise, Xia Lan was very careful, as if Sun Yu's guess had been confirmed.

There are a total of 128 pregnant women expecting to give birth, all of whom are locals of Yangbai County. This is consistent with Sun Yu's guess. It seems that only locals would value such a dilapidated maternal and child health hospital.

In the memory palace, Sun Yu roughly divided these 128 people into two categories: those who were working and those who were not working. There were as many as 82 people who were working, and the remaining 46 were housewives.

It was already noon when the two left the Maternal and Child Health Hospital.

After getting in the car, Xia Lan thought: "We seem to have overlooked an issue. The murderer can find the target without coming here."

Sun Yu took a hard puff on the cigarette in his hand, and all the white mist he exhaled fell on the car window. "If that's the case, we can't investigate, and we can only admit that we are unlucky."

As Xia Lan thought, Sun Yu had indeed thought of this situation a long time ago.

The police have identified the murderer from the deceased found this time as a photographer. Nowadays, many pregnant women take maternity photos, so it is entirely possible that he does not need to go to the hospital to find the target.

Sun Yu was indeed betting. He was not betting on whether the next target would take wedding photos. He was betting on the murderer's target being pregnant women who planned to give birth in the maternal and child health hospital.

Sun Yu could only confirm that the murderer was between 28 and 40 years old. Inferring that the year he was born, only the First People's Hospital and the Maternal and Child Health Hospital in the county could give birth to children.

According to the story represented by the deceased in the third round, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have already gotten married in the county town, and the male protagonist is still a manager with some success in his career. They will definitely give birth to their child in the county town hospital.

If he was the murderer, at least he would choose a pregnant woman who planned to give birth here, so that it would seem like a memory.

"Where are we going next?" Xia Lan asked.

"Go to the crime scene! See if you can feel what the murderer was thinking at the time." Sun Yu put out the cigarette butt, looked at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital outside the car window, and then closed the car window.

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In the afternoon, Xia Lan and Sun Yu filled their stomachs at a roadside stall and then went to Beiyang Park first.

Beiyang Park is relatively close to the New Town Development Zone in Yangbai County. The park has been renovated in recent years. Now that it is spring, the green plants are full of life and the environment is pleasant.

There is no warning line on the lawn where the body was found. It is a public area after all, and Cao Qin's people have already conducted a detailed search for evidence, so there is really no value in sealing it off anymore.

Yangbai County is very large, but this is only compared to other counties in Sanjiang Province. In front of Mengshan City, it is only a small county.

One characteristic of small counties is that all news spreads very quickly.

Sun Yu didn't know what the flow of people in Beiyang Park was like in the past. Today there really weren't many people, and most of these people were carrying satchels or backpacks, much like tourists coming here for travel.

I met several old men on the road, and they almost always walked around the lawn where the crime occurred. It was obvious that the news of the death here had already spread around the area.

Under the shocked eyes of several old men, Sun Yu walked onto the lawn where the body was found. According to the location on the photo in his memory, Sun Yu found the approximate place where the body was found.
Chapter completed!