I am a super cop

Chapter 298 Pollen 【Seeking Monthly Pass】

"Crack!"

A sound of using a key to open the door came from outside the door. Gu Chen, who was just about to leave, stopped again and stopped at the door.

The door was pushed open, and a middle-aged woman with glasses and a slightly out-of-shape figure walked in weakly: "Honey, have you cooked dinner yet? I..."

When the woman saw Gu Chen, she couldn't help blinking, and then saw Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang approaching, her heart skipped a beat, and she looked forward for no reason.

First impression: Am I in the wrong room?
But think back.

If it is someone else's house, why can this key be opened by myself?Do all the doors of the households have keys?
It has also happened before that a resident who went to the wrong house opened the door of another house with a key, and suddenly evolved into a key that can open the doors of all residents.

This kind of turmoil went on for a while, and it stopped after the lock was changed.

But it's not wrong to look at the furnishings at home.

"Wife." Just when the middle-aged woman was hesitating, Lu Benxiong walked to the gate and quickly explained to the middle-aged woman: "Home... There are guests at home."

"Oh." The middle-aged woman looked at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, as if they could feel an invisible pressure from the eyes of the three of them.

But what the pressure is, the middle-aged woman can't tell at all.

"Hello, I'm Gu Chen, a policeman from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch. These two are my partners."

"My name is Lu Weiwei, and his name is Lao Wang." Lu Weiwei directly helped Police Officer Wang report his family name.

"Oh." It was also the first time for the woman to meet the police at home, and she was not used to it for a while.

"Huan... welcome to my house, do you have anything to do with my husband?"

"Actually...he came to look for you too." Lu Weiwei said.

"Looking for me?" The middle-aged woman was stunned for a moment, looked at the few people with evasive eyes, and said, "What are you looking for me for? I don't seem to have done anything wrong, right?"

"We want to know more about Zhao Xiaomin from your company." Officer Wang also said directly: "Zhao Xiaomin has disappeared recently. I wonder if you know?"

"Ah? Zhao Xiaomin is missing?" The middle-aged woman put on a surprised face, blinked and said, "She...how did she disappear? Didn't she resign?"

Lu Benxiong sighed and said, "A Ping, don't stand at the door, come in and talk."

"Oh, good." The middle-aged woman nodded, then put the bag on the shoe cabinet, then took off her high heels, put on slippers and walked into the living room.

After everyone sat down again, Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei instinctively looked at Gu Chen.

But at this time, Gu Chen was half a beat slower than everyone else, dawdling at the door for a long time before coming over.

"Start?" Lu Weiwei looked at Gu Chen and asked.

Gu Chen nodded, turned on the body camera again, and held the notebook in his hand.

"Hello, please report your name, age and ID number." Gu Chen said.

"I...my name is Ding Ping, I am 36 years old, and my ID number is..."

After Ding Ping finished speaking, she asked another question: "Are you going to investigate me?"

"It's not an investigation." Gu Chen looked up at Ding Ping and asked, "Have you been anywhere after get off work?"

"I... Where did I not go? Hehe, where can I go?" Ding Ping seemed very nervous.

Gu Chen nodded, and asked again: "That is to say, you go home directly after get off work?"

"Yes." Ding Ping said.

"Then what is the means of transportation for you to go home?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Yes...it's an imported car. I usually drive home."

"That means you haven't been to any place outside the city after get off work, right?" Gu Chen's eyes were particularly sharp, and Ding Ping was at a loss.

"No... that's right, I drove home after get off work and didn't go anywhere."

"But why is there dirt on your leather shoes?" Gu Chen didn't like to mince words with her, and directly stated what he suspected.

This stunned Ding Ping for a while, and it took a long time to realize: "Oh, you mean the mud? That's... that was on the way home. I didn't go directly to the garage to pick up the car, but Walking across a lawn and dirt slope to go shopping, the dirt on the shoes may have been stained at that time, I swear, I really didn’t go anywhere.”

"Got it." Gu Chen wrote it down.

Lu Weiwei said: "Then can you tell us something about Zhao Xiaomin? Including her character."

"Zhao Xiaomin? What can I say about her? She is pretty and willful, and her job is not bad, but she doesn't like to work overtime and doesn't get disciplined very much."

"Then Zhao Xiaomin is about your husband's ex-girlfriend, do you know?" Gu Chen also asked directly.

Lu Benxiong on the side quickly coughed twice, turned his head to other places, and pretended not to hear.

Ding Ping glanced at Lu Benxiong, and his expression suddenly changed: "I only found out about it recently, but my husband never mentioned it to me."

"Then what's your attitude? Does Zhao Xiaomin's loss of contact this time have anything to do with you?" Gu Chen asked again.

"I'm wronged, why did Zhao Xiaomin's loss of contact have something to do with me? I didn't say anything, Zhao Xiaomin resigned by himself, probably because he saw me embarrassed at work in the company, so he left."

No matter how Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang asked, Ding Ping seemed to be impeccable and firmly held the moral high ground.

Just because she knew that Zhao Xiaomin and Lu Benxiong were ex-girlfriends, Ding Ping explained herself as a victim.

In her feeling, it's fine if her husband deceives her, and even her direct female subordinates also hide it from her, feeling that she is a fool.

So when the police questioned Ding Ping, Lu Benxiong on the side just sat there blankly without saying a word.

"Comrade police, I'm a housewife." Ding Ping still answered positively, but it didn't help in solving the clues of the case.

"Thank you for your cooperation." Gu Chen closed the notebook and looked at Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei.

Lu Weiwei understood in seconds, and hurriedly said: "It's getting late, we should leave too."

"Why don't you stay for dinner? I'll ask Benxiong to cook some good dishes." Seeing that the three of them wanted to leave, Ding Ping also became polite.

"No, I'm bothering you two." Officer Wang also waved his hand and refused.

After the three left, they went straight back to the parking lot.

At this moment, Bai Xiaolan, who had been waiting in the car for a long time, immediately ran up to greet her and said:
"How? How? Did you find any clues?"

"Not yet. Judging from the dictation of Lu Benxiong and his wife, there seems to be no so-called suspicious point." Officer Wang paused, and said: "But we are not completely without clues. Gu Chen seems to have discovered something."

"Gu... Gu Chen, I know you have good observation skills, so did you find anything suspicious? Can you find my cousin?" When Bai Xiaolan talked to Gu Chen one-on-one, her voice was obviously more polite. .

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows and frowned, without saying a word, but took out a pack of pollen packed in a transparent forensic bag with some soil.

"This... what is this?" Bai Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, and after approaching and observing for a long time, she still didn't know what Gu Chen wanted to express.

"This is some soil I scraped from the sole of Ding Ping's, Lu Benxiong's wife. The pollen is hidden in the soil." Gu Chen took back the evidence collection bag in his hand.

"Could it be... this is also called a clue?" Bai Xiaolan was dubious.

It feels like some pollen, if this is called a clue, then to find this kind of pollen, wouldn't it be like looking for a needle in a haystack?

Lu Weiwei didn't think so, and said, "Since Junior Brother Gu can collect these pollen, it means that the place with this kind of pollen is probably where your cousin Zhao Xiaomin is."

"Yes, don't underestimate this clue." Officer Wang also explained to Gu Chen: "The distribution of plants can be traced. How high it is, we have to investigate before we can draw a conclusion.”

For an ordinary citizen like Bai Xiaolan, of course he didn't know what these limited clues could bring to the police's investigation.

After all, such small clues are basically negligible.

But for the police, finding clues should start small, use small clues as points, connect together, and finally find out the problem.

Seeing that Bai Xiaolan had doubts, Gu Chen said, "This kind of pollen is not common, so I'm sure that the distribution of this kind of plant in Jiangnan City will not be too much, as long as we know what kind of flowers these pollen come from, and according to this From the distribution of the flowers, you can find out where Ding Ping has been."

"Really?" Bai Xiaolan was powerless after listening to Police Officer Wang's explanation, but after hearing Gu Chen's explanation, she immediately regained her confidence. She was so excited that she quickly bowed and said, "Then please."

"What is this for?" Gu Chen helped her up and said, "You are my friend. If your cousin loses contact, we will definitely do our best. This is our duty, so there is no need to be so polite."

Lu Weiwei touched her growling stomach, and said involuntarily, "Junior Brother Gu Chen, Lao Wang, it's past meal time, why don't we fill our stomachs first?"

"Don't worry, there is dry food in the car, I bought it." Bai Xiaolan hurriedly said: "When you went up just now, I went to prepare dry food and water, I can handle it, if not, then I will invite you to a nearby restaurant to eat A meal?"

"In that case, let's stop wasting time. It's important to handle the case." Gu Chen directly chose to eat dry food, and said, "Zhao Xiaomin has been out of contact for two days now, and if we don't find her for one more minute, Zhao Xiaomin will be more dangerous, so , we have run out of time."

"I agree with Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei completely stood in Gu Chen's position and said, "We must find Zhao Xiaomin immediately."

"I know a famous biologist in our Jiangnan City. He has a lot of research on the various plants that grow in Jiangnan City, and he has also participated in the compilation of the famous plant encyclopedia in China. I think he should be able to help." Officer Wang It's also showing off your personal connections.

After all, having been in the police force for many years, such good contacts cannot be accumulated overnight.

Seeing Bai Xiaolan's anxious look, Gu Chen smiled easily and said, "Then let's go, go directly to that biologist and ask him to take a look."

With that said, several people also got into the car and drove directly to the door of the biologist's house.

Because of the greeting in advance, the knock on the door only rang three times before someone opened the door.

A white-haired old man was looking at them with a smile.

"Little Wang, are you here?"

"Professor He, I'm going to have to work this time." Officer Wang said.

"You're welcome, come in if you have something to say." Professor He brought several people into the room, and then shouted to the room: "Old woman, there are guests at home, come out and make a cup of tea."

"Okay." The old lady readily agreed and walked out with a smile on her face.

"Professor He, the situation is urgent, please help us to find out what is the composition of these pollen?" Gu Chen quickly took out the evidence collection bag and handed it to Professor He.

"Wait a moment." Professor He walked into the room and turned on the electric light and desk lamp one by one.

Then he put on a pair of white gloves and began to pour the pollen with dirt in the evidence collection bag on a piece of white paper, put on reading glasses, held a magnifying glass, and began to observe seriously.

"Your pollen...is very rare in Jiangnan City."

"Professor He knows this kind of flower?" Gu Chen was overjoyed.

Professor He took out a tweezers from the drawer, held the pollen and asked, "Where did you get it?"

"It was taken from the sole of a suspect's shoe." Lu Weiwei smiled happily.

"Has this suspect been to the suburbs?" Professor He tried to ask.

Gu Chen's eyes lit up, he gave a vague "hmm", and said, "We think she has been there, but the suspect doesn't admit it."

"This is easy to handle. If you find the whereabouts of the missing person, everything else is fine. I'm afraid it will be embarrassing if you don't find the person." Professor He scratched his head again.

"Don't think about it for now. Trial and error also requires cost, but now we must know how the distribution of this plant is." Gu Chen couldn't help urging, and then moved closer.

After a busy day, I finally found something tricky under Ding Ping's shoes. If the case can't be broken through, it will be deadlocked.

The main reason is to consider Zhao Xiaomin's survival.

Bai Xiaolan's eyelids twitched: "Professor He, just take a look."

"Don't worry, it will take time." Professor He picked up the pollen in the tweezers and carefully identified it with a magnifying glass, his eyes suddenly froze.

"How is it?" Officer Wang asked.

"Don't worry, it's not so fast, I have to take another look with the microscope." After putting down the magnifying glass, Professor He went to the bookshelf and brought out a microscope wrapped in a foam bag.

"You still need to use a microscope to observe this thing?" Officer Wang thought it would be easy, but now it seems that he was wrong.

"Because according to the information in the pollen, the pollen itself is very small, so you need a microscope to see its structure." Gu Chen also added on the side.

Professor He raised his eyebrows and said, "You know this too?"

"I understand a little bit." Gu Chen said, "I learned about it in the library."

"Hehe, so you policemen have to be proficient in everything." Seeing Lu Weiwei and Bai Xiaolan helping to unpack the outer packaging, Professor He couldn't help but smiled and said: "What you said just now is also true, but different plants have different pollen shapes. different."

"Professor He is right." Gu Chen did not stay idle, and continued: "According to the shape, size, symmetry and polarity of the pollen, the structure of the pollen wall and the surface carvings, etc., the family, genus and family of plants can be identified. kind."

"I have never seen this kind of pollen before, so I have to ask professionals to help identify it, but Brother Wang said that in the entire Jiangnan City, you are the only one with high morals, so I must find you, Professor He."

"Haha, Xiao Wang is flattering me, do you believe that?" Professor He was delighted to hear that, and said again: "The pollen of most plants is easy to collect, and it can be preserved for a long time without losing its vitality."

"And some specific plants will grow in different areas. If the flower species information on the suspect matches the plants at the crime scene, it can be concluded that the suspect has appeared at the crime scene."

Professor He thought that it was a wise choice for Gu Chen to find the suspect or the whereabouts of the missing person in this way, so he couldn't help but smiled excitedly: "You're already doing well, at least you can tell us something about our biology. The expertise in this area shows that you have also dabbled in this area."

After adjusting the microscope, Professor He glanced at Police Officer Wang next to him and asked, "Xiao Wang, you policemen need to have knowledge of biology now? Not bad, not bad, obviously better than before!"

"Hey." Officer Wang scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "Keep up with the times, keep up with the times, as long as all the knowledge that is helpful to the case, we police should learn a lot."

Seeing Professor He enter the working state, Police Officer Wang said again: "For example, in biology, Professor He will need a lot of help in the future."

"It's easy to say." Professor He used a microscope to observe the pollen structure, and at the same time picked up a pencil and began to draw on the manuscript paper.

After repeated comparison and research, Professor He suddenly smiled: "Haha, congratulations, I already know the species of this flower.

"Really?" Lu Weiwei and Bai Xiaolan spoke in unison.

Professor He nodded, and said, "Not only do I know the species of the flower, but I also know that there is only one place where this kind of flower is distributed in Jiangnan City."

"There's only one location?" Police Officer Wang was quite pleasantly surprised when he heard that, "That's easy. Bring our people and you can find it in minutes."

Bai Xiaolan was bounced back nervously, and said even more nervously: "Professor He, tell us quickly, where is this place?"

"In the north of Jiangnan City, there is a road leading to the temple. I don't know if you know it?" Professor He asked.

"I know, I've been to that place before." Gu Chen said.

"Very good." Professor He nodded, and said again: "Fifteen miles to the east, there is a lake over there, and this kind of flowers are distributed around the lake."

"I'll go." Officer Wang said just now that it would be easy to handle. Now that he thinks about it, he regrets it a bit. He wants to take back what he said just now.

"Professor He, you don't mean... this kind of flowers are distributed around the lake?" Officer Wang asked.

"Then what do you think?" Professor He said.

Officer Wang frowned slightly, wondering if he should speak up to refute?

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(End of this chapter)