Night's Watch 2: Dark Potential

Chapter 10 Bloody Ashes

I wanted to do good, but because of my lack of knowledge, I actually harmed my own life, and I got this bad retribution.

--"Aesop's Fables"

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"A monkey with one leg." Ling Mo pondered. At this moment, countless knowledge points in his brain were constantly tumbling, as if the computer had finally locked the calculation conclusion. Ling Mo suddenly said, "I know, no It's a Sanxiao toothbrush, but a mandrill."

"What the hell is a mandrill?" Xiao Lang asked.

"Yes, mandrill is a kind of ghost." Ling Mo said, "Mandrill is a one-legged ghost in the mountains in myths and legends. It is mentioned in "Shan Hai Jing"[32]. Feet, human-faced monkey body, can change face."

"I'll go! This shows that she can really change her appearance!" Xiao Lang said, "Otherwise, she wouldn't have such a ghost tattooed on her body, and she's still called this name!"

"Yes, our previous inferences were all correct." Ling Mo said.

"Can you find some clues from the information database of drug-related personnel in the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security?" Cheng Zimo said.

Ling Mo shook his head and said, "No, I don't think she's taking drugs. Firstly, it's impossible for her to take drugs for a week without becoming addicted to them. Second, there's no need to use a triangular syringe. No matter what she's injecting, the triangular needle hole is The key to her connection to the murder of 'Ghost Rider' could be established."

"The result is out." Nie Zhixuan opened the door and walked in, saying, "The female DNA extracted from the ramen box brought back by Xiao Lang is the same as the female DNA we extracted at the scene of Zhao Yuan's murder."

"Okay! It's right to catch her!" Xiao Lang patted the table, "Our previous analysis is all correct. Not only does she change her appearance, she is not only related to the murder of the 'Ghost Knight', but also killed Zhao Yuan and other five people. Is it possible to apply for a warrant?"

"If it's a simple murder fugitive, it's no problem to issue a warrant." Ling Mo said, "However, since we've hooked up with 'Ghost Rider', I think we shouldn't startle the snake for the time being, but take a long line to catch big fish. .”

"She used a Nokia mobile phone, which seems to have the same origin as 'Ghost Rider', but why did she kill 'Ghost Rider' again?" Xiao Lang said.

"I listened to the recording you brought back." Ling Mo said, "Do you still remember? The girl said that at the end of October and the beginning of November, the mandrill suddenly felt bad and stabbed the bed with a needle?"

"Remember!" Xiao Lang said.

"Didn't that time just happen to be the time when 'Ghost Rider' was killed?" Ling Mo said.

"Ah! I understand! Organized crime! Silence!" Xiao Lang jumped three feet high again.

"From a psychological point of view, this possibility is the greatest." Ling Mo nodded.

"This should be her original appearance." Tang Dangdang pointed at the computer screen.The police station in the jurisdiction applied for the "Notice of Obtaining Physical Evidence" and extracted the video from the Mobil hair salon.According to Cheng Zimo's instructions, Tang Dangdang delineated the image of the mandrill, and used image processing technology to process a clearer frontal image of the mandrill.

This investigation can be said to be fruitful. Many suspicions have been confirmed, and the general relationship between the mandrill and the "Ghost Rider" has been clarified, and the original appearance of the mandrill has even been found.Although the current mandrill has nowhere to go, but in any case, this provides the necessary prerequisites for the next step to lay a net.

Nie Zhixuan looked left and right, everyone said one sentence after another, so that he couldn't even get in.Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, he added: "Well, the pinhole swab brought back by Zimo did not find human DNA, and the trace amount of physical evidence is really very small. Now it is considered that the trace amount of material may contain components similar to the Oka strain."

"What is that?" Xiao Lang asked.

"I'm just thinking about it now, I can't be sure. This is a kind of virus, that is, an inactivated virus." Nie Zhixuan said, "These are included in the chickenpox-shingles vaccine."

"Vaccine?" Ling Mo suddenly jumped up from the stool.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Lang was taken aback, "You're going to be in touch with the previous news report again, right? Didn't Sister Cui say that it has nothing to do with the vaccine? Otherwise, the relevant departments would have found out okay?"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Lang blinked his eyes and smiled badly.He secretly changed "Aunt Cui" to "Sister Cui" in order to take advantage of Ling Mo.

"Of course, it is definitely unreasonable to find the ingredients of the vaccine at this location. The trace evidence also emphasized that the amount of evidence is too small. They are just guessing and have not made a definite conclusion." Nie Zhixuan explained without knowing it.

Ling Mo didn't speak, but thought.

At this moment, Tang Jun opened the door and walked into the data laboratory.

"Look, who did I bring back for you?" Tang Jun said loudly.

Everyone turned around and looked around.Standing at the door was a thin, handsome and tall young man. He was wearing a neat uniform, with a golden night watchman badge pinned to his chest. He was holding a stack of files and looking at everyone with a smile on his face.

This is not Xiao Wang, who is it?
Tang Dangdang was the first to react. She jumped up from her seat and even knocked over the keyboard.Tang Dangdang's face was flushed red, biting his lip, tears welling in his eyes.Xiao Wang obviously noticed Tang Dangdang's mood changes, he put the file under his arm, touched the back of Tang Dangdang's head with his right hand, and said with a smile: "What's wrong, classmate Dangdang?"

Tang Dangdang finally couldn't control his emotions, tears rolled down instantly.

"Brother, you're back?" Xiao Lang, who was sitting at the foot of the table, jumped to the ground, also overwhelmed with joy, "Missy is crying with joy!"

"Idioms are used well." Nie Zhixuan smiled while crossing his arms.

"That must be!" Xiao Lang subconsciously straightened the Night Watchman badge on his chest.

Xiao Wang noticed Xiao Lang's little move, and said happily: "That's right, brat, I heard that you have improved the most here."

"Me? How can I have it?" Xiao Lang scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly, "Recently we are only looking forward to Ling Mo's head."

"It's just a case in time." Ling Mo said, "Teacher Tang has already introduced it to us. Judging from the arrangement and discovery of the baby theft case, the real mastermind is none other than your brother."

"Xiao Lang is actually humble!" Cheng Zimo grasped the point.

Xiao Lang chuckled twice.

Xiao Wang helped Tang Dangdang, handed her a tissue, and said: "Our young lady's ability can be regarded as finding a place to use it now. I heard from the team leader that the key points of several cases are in Dangdang's place." breakthrough."

"It's all under Ling Mo's control." Tang Dangdang sobbed.

Xiao Wang took a few steps forward and walked in front of Ling Mo.The two are about the same height and figure, standing like this, their eyes just meet each other.Xiao Wang said to Ling Mo with affirmative eyes: "I also heard from Teacher Tang that you have excellent memory, excellent logical analysis ability, equal emphasis on courage and wisdom, and mastered psychological analysis ability. These potentials are what a criminal policeman needs most. Potential, according to my criminal police academy teacher Remy, you are a good criminal policeman who can be encountered but not sought after, and I am proud of you."

"Brother Wang, I'm sorry, my previous mistake caused the night watchman to almost miss you." Ling Mo said with some guilt.

"What are you talking about, one family doesn't speak the same language." Xiao Wang patted Ling Mo's shoulder again.

"Brother, what did you just say? The most needed potential? Isn't the most needed potential loyalty?" Xiao Lang deliberately changed the subject, pretending to be serious and said, "Loyal to the party, loyal to the motherland, loyal to the people, and loyal to the law. "

"Not bad, I remember the oath very clearly." Xiao Wang looked at his younger brother with satisfaction, and said, "Then, are you loyal?"

"That must be!" Xiao Lang patted himself on the chest, but suddenly realized that his brother meant that he joined the team because of a bet, so he rubbed his hands awkwardly and said, "Actually, I thought What Old Xiao said is also true, with my physique, it would be a bit wasteful not to be a policeman, you know, I was most afraid of wasting things since I was a child."

"You can pull it down." Xiao Wang said with a smile.

"Dangdang, I haven't seen Xiao Wang for several months, and I've been crying since I saw you? Nothing to say?" Tang Jun held his daughter in his arms distressedly.

Tang Dangdang didn't notice from the beginning that Xiao Wang was led in by his father. At this moment, he felt that he had really lost his composure, so he blushed, sobbed and shook his head.

"Xiao Wang, where have you been these past few months?" Nie Zhixuan asked the question everyone wanted to ask the most.

Xiao Wang looked up at Tang Jun, smiled, and said, "I really can't explain this matter in a sentence or two. If it is written as a novel, it will have to use a chapter for it. However, even if you want to say it, you have to say it." Wait until the next chapter, because now we are afraid that we have a more urgent task."

"Is there another mission? You came back because of this mission?" Xiao Lang said, "However, that three-smile smile who can disguise, ah no, mandrill, we haven't caught it yet."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy to catch." Ling Mo said.

"I didn't come back because of this mission." Xiao Wang glanced at Tang Jun, pointed to the stack of files he had brought in, and said, "It's just that my line can't go on for the time being, and there are also problems on my side. It was a small matter, so the team leader called me back out of various considerations. When I came back, I happened to meet this case."

"A long-standing case? It doesn't look like it." Xiao Lang flipped through the cover of the brand-new dossier and said.

"No, it was just published two days ago, the disappearance case." Xiao Wang patted the file and said.

"Oh, I see, is it the beautiful anchor?" Cheng Zimo pointed to Xiao Wang and said.

"Yes, it's not that there will be a lot of social impact, and it won't attract the attention of the team leader." Xiao Wang said.

"What beautiful anchor?" Xiao Lang obviously didn't know about it, "Grandpa noticed it himself? Grandpa still watches beautiful anchors?"

"Stinky boy, what are you talking about?" Xiao Wang patted the back of Xiao Lang's head and said, "This matter can only be handled temporarily as a disappearance case, and cannot be filed as a criminal case. But, after all, it has certain social influence , If you don’t figure it out, it’s hard to explain to netizens. Moreover, during the later on-site investigation, some abnormalities were also found, which made the team leader determined to take over.”

"This is a very popular anchor, so it was also a hot search on Weibo yesterday." Cheng Zimo said, "I also swiped Weibo when I was bored while watching the surveillance video. The live video was really scary. , and there are all kinds of brain holes in the comments, but I didn't see anything, and there was nothing unusual."

"I just like to watch horror." Xiao Lang said, "Then what are you waiting for? Tell us quickly!"

The picture shows a small bedroom with no other furnishings except a bed and a simple wardrobe. It can be speculated that the camera probe and computer should be installed on the table opposite the bed.Although the room is small, it is dressed in a ladylike style. The overall pink style and the embellishment of a few cartoon dolls make people feel that this is a girl's boudoir.

A beautiful girl with fair complexion and heavy makeup is sitting on the bed in pink pajamas, facing the camera.The deep V collar of the pajamas exposed almost half of her breasts, and a black cross-shaped pendant on her neck dangled on her snow-white chest, which made her look even more alluring.She curled up her legs from time to time, inadvertently revealing the briefs she was wearing on her lower body.After adjusting the angle of the camera in front of the table, she started humming a ditty and chatting with netizens watching the live broadcast in a non-standard Taiwanese accent.This kind of chat is like answering questions in fragments without any purpose.However, judging by the footage, there are virtual "gifts" popping up on the screen non-stop.Whenever a "big piece" comes out, the beautiful girl will make a look of obsession: "Wow, Lamborghini, thank you, Brother Dazhu, I will give you a hundred memes."

The extremely artificial voice made Xiao Lang vomit.

"When will we see the main topic?" Xiao Lang blocked his ears helplessly, "Zimo is right, it's really terrifying."

"It's almost there, I'm not talking about this kind of horror." Cheng Zimo waved his hand.

As soon as the words fell, the screen went black.

"Is it over? What is this?" Nie Zhixuan said inexplicably.

"They're talking about the shadow in the lower right corner, right?" Xiao Lang pointed nonchalantly at the screen that was playing the video backwards.

"Amazing, brat, I only found out after seeing screenshots and comments on the Internet." After Xiao Wang finished speaking, he played the last part of the video frame by frame again.

From the picture frame by frame, it seems that a shadow can be seen stretching out its hand from under the bed in the picture, reaching directly under the table, and then the picture is interrupted.

"You don't need to deal with it. It should be a person hiding under the bed and reaching out to turn off the power of the computer." Tang Dangdang said.

Xiao Wang nodded.

"That's it? Missy doesn't think it's scary, what do you think is scary?" Xiao Lang leaned towards Cheng Zimo and asked her.

"No, it's just a scary guess from the comments." Cheng Zimo glanced at Xiao Lang contemptuously, "I don't think anything scary is scary to you."

"It's over? What does this matter have to do with us?" Seeing that Xiao Wang didn't continue to show the material, Xiao Lang said disappointedly.

"The person on the screen is one of the most popular local live broadcast anchors." Xiao Wang said, "The net name is Tumeng, and the real name is Zhao Jinhua."

"The contrast is a bit big." Xiao Lang smiled while covering his face.

"After the live broadcast was interrupted, several people who often tipped her tried to contact her, but they were unable to contact her." Xiao Wang continued, "So, a loyal fan called the police."

"It's right to call the police." Nie Zhixuan folded his arms and nodded.

"Nan'an police quickly verified Zhao Jinhua's identity." Xiao Wang played a photo on the screen.

The photo shows a woman in her 30s, with sallow skin, triangular eyes, a flat nose, and even a few spots on her cheeks, wearing a black cross pendant.

"This...is the same person?" Xiao Lang was dumbfounded, "It's unlikely."

"The eyes are the same." Ling Mo spread his hands.

"With makeup on, the video also has beauty filters, so it's normal to have a little change." Cheng Zimo chewed his gum and said, "You guys are so rare."

"This, this, this is called a 'little' change?" Xiao Lang had an expression of disbelief on his face, "If those fools see her original appearance, will they still give a reward? They will definitely sue her for fraud!"

"Zhao Jinhua, female, 28 years old, a villager in the No. [-] Villager Group of Anshan Town, Anqiao County." Xiao Wang ignored Xiao Lang and continued to introduce the situation of the client, "Married, her husband is a villager in the same village, six years younger than her, two They have a daughter who is three years old this year. Two years ago, one year after Zhao Jinhua gave birth, she went to Nan'an City to work, leaving her husband and daughter to live alone in the village."

"Ten months ago, Zhao Jinhua started to use the live broadcast software to live broadcast, and used it to make a living." Xiao Wang said, "According to neighbors' reports, recently, Zhao Jinhua often brings strange men to the residence to hang out, and she doesn't shy away from it. The relationship is very chaotic. When the police went to investigate the village where her household registration is, they also heard rumors about Zhao Jinhua."

"You can't see the light without beauty. It seems that the skill of makeup is very high, not worse than that of a mandrill?" Xiao Lang complained about Zhao Jinhua's appearance persistently.

"After Zhao Jinhua was confirmed missing, the police investigated her husband and daughter." Xiao Wang said, "There was nothing unusual on the surface, but her husband still revealed that Zhao Jinhua filed for divorce a month ago and promised to divorce him." The house and children in her hometown belong to her husband, but she does not bear the maintenance fee. Her husband did not agree due to the relationship between husband and wife for many years, so this matter was temporarily put on hold. The police investigated her live account and found that she Apart from withdrawing a small amount of money for living every month, the other rewards are not withdrawn, and still exist in the form of virtual currency. The rewards in his account, if converted into RMB, amount to as much as 500 million yuan. "

"500 million!" Xiao Lang was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, "A monthly income of more than 50! There are really enough fools."

"I'm the same as Xiao Lang. I can't understand. This kind of live broadcast is just sitting there and chatting. How can I make so much money? How is this different from getting something for nothing? Is it because there are too many idlers in our country? Or is it because of society? Sick?" Nie Zhixuan said, "I can't understand how this kind of live broadcast can satisfy these tippers?"

"It can't be killed with a single stick." Cheng Zimo said, "Some live broadcasts are still very nutritious and positive. Talented and knowledgeable people promote their three views and knowledge through live broadcasts and get corresponding rewards. Very good. But it is true that there are many live broadcasts that are boring, and some are trying to gain attention, posturing, and even breaking the law. In the field of live broadcasting, there are mixed fish and dragons. Of course, there are more fish and fewer dragons.”

"We're not saying that live streaming is bad, but we're just confused about the boring, pathological live streaming and such a huge market. With that time, wouldn't it be good to read more?" Nie Zhixuan shook his head.

"I think her behavior of not withdrawing the cash is more interesting." Ling Mo said, "In my analysis, she has made a firm stand on the divorce, so that the 500 million will not get involved in the divorce lawsuit, so she has not withdrawn the cash. After all, virtual currency has its concealment, and legally, it is not easy to define the division and ownership of virtual currency.”

"You mean that her husband might do illegal things to her?" Xiao Lang said.

"It can't be ruled out." Ling Mo spread his hands.

"The motivation of Ling Mo's analysis is also what we are worried about. In fact, there are some abnormalities in the on-site investigation." Xiao Wang was silent when everyone was discussing the live broadcast. I found Zhao Jinhua's temporary residence in Nan'an City. It is a one-bedroom apartment I rented. What we saw in the video is the bedroom. It can be seen that Zhao Jinhua still pays attention to hygiene, so when the police conducted an on-site inspection of Zhao Jinhua's home , except for the contents of the wastebasket, no valuable traces and physical evidence were found."

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"What's in the wastebasket?" Xiao Lang asked.

"There are toilet paper and condoms, and the DNA of six different men was detected." Xiao Wang spread his hands and said, "However, this doesn't explain anything. As we said before, her private life is messy."

"Doesn't that mean there is no abnormality?" Xiao Lang asked puzzled.

"Don't worry. Because the police have confirmed the entrance and exit, the only entrance is the gate." Xiao Wang said, "The lock of the gate is intact without any signs of prying, but the safety chain on the inside of the gate is broken."

"When the suspect enters the door, Zhao Jinhua must be at home to lock the security chain." Ling Mo said, "The suspect is very familiar with Zhao Jinhua's activities, so he entered the room while she was taking a shower and putting on makeup, and sneaked under the bed. I want to catch him off guard. Because I didn’t expect Zhao Jinhua to turn on the video when he entered the bedroom, so he has to turn off the video before committing a crime?”

"Probably that's what it means." Xiao Wang nodded approvingly.

"Could it be that the insurance chain was broken in the first place? Maybe someone came in?" Xiao Lang said, "The one in the video is just a flickering shadow. It's all guesswork by netizens. The evidence is not solid."

"The insurance chain has traces of being cut off." Xiao Wang said, "The trace inspection department has researched and studied, but it has not been clear about the tool to cut off the insurance chain. The final tendentious opinion is teeth."

"Teeth?" Several people said in unison.

"Why do you want to investigate Zhao Jinhua's husband, Ruan Feng, because after investigation, it is impossible for others to have the key to Zhao Jinhua's residence, but Ruan Feng does." Xiao Wang did not continue the topic of teeth, and continued, "Since the door lock is not damaged, It is very likely that the suspect has the key. It is a pity that the police cannot grasp the movement of Ruan Feng at the time of the incident."

"Her husband has good teeth?" Nie Zhixuan still couldn't shake his doubts.

"It's unreliable. No matter how good the teeth are, it's a metal chain after all. It doesn't make sense if it can bite through a metal chain." Ling Mo said.

"There are people who use teeth to pull the plane!" Xiao Lang had a different opinion.

"However, there is no evidence to support whether the chain is broken due to the teeth, whether the teeth can cut metal, whether Ruan Feng's teeth are good or not." Xiao Wang said, "However, there is obviously an 'abnormality' Yes, since the establishment of our Night Watchers organization, we have specialized in dealing with some abnormal cases, so there are many abnormal cases solved. There must be a reason for things to happen. Since there are abnormalities, it will naturally attract the attention of our organization. The above sentence That's what the team leader said."

"Old rules, if there is something unusual, just go around it." Ling Mo said.

"Is there surveillance around there?" Tang Dangdang asked.

"The monitoring is very vague, and it is impossible to confirm the identity." Xiao Wang said, "Besides, there is no criminal fact found in this case, so the case cannot be filed."

"Well, there are criminal facts, criminal responsibility needs to be investigated, and jurisdiction is required. These are the conditions for filing a case, as I remember." Xiao Lang said.

"From the moment the case is filed, the spirit of the rule of law must be emphasized." Xiao Wang nodded approvingly, "So it is also necessary for our Night Watch organization to obtain relevant monitoring authority to find problems."

"It doesn't matter if it's blurry, they will look at the gait, and look at the psychology from the gait." Xiao Lang pointed to Ling Mo and Cheng Zimo.

"I heard that your previous analysis and judgment are great, so now I need you to watch the video materials of this case." Xiao Wang took out a document from his bag, which was to allow the Night Watchers to call up the surveillance around the scene. data command.

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up." Xiao Lang grabbed the file and looked at it, and pressed Tang Dangdang and Cheng Zimo on the wheel chair in front of the computer one by one.

"I want to watch the video again, I'm blind." Cheng Zimo rubbed his eyes and said.

The community Zhao Jinhua rents is a dilapidated old community.It is hard to see that in such an old community, there is actually a millionaire living in millions of dollars.

Because it is an old community, the community property has not installed video surveillance in the community.Tang Dangdang used the digital certificate to open the database of the police station in the jurisdiction, and retrieved the road monitoring before and after the incident.From the monitoring position on the road, although the gate of the community cannot be seen, fortunately, there are surveillance cameras at both ends of the road. pass by.

The difficulty lies in the fact that there are many residents and a large population between the two monitors. It is very difficult to find Zhao Jinhua herself from the bustling crowd, and it is even more difficult to find the so-called suspicious person.

However, in the vast crowd, Cheng Zimo still found something strange.

"Wait, look at this man." Cheng Zimo pointed to a dark figure in the corner of the surveillance field of view.

Because the figure was walking against the wall, it was far away from the surveillance camera probe.In addition, at night, the color changed drastically, and it was impossible to see the face clearly, so it can only be said to be a black shadow wearing clothes of an unknown color.The black shadow dragged a large suitcase and walked towards the location of the community.

"People who walk against the wall are either withdrawn, insecure, or have ghosts in their hearts." Ling Mo added.

"I just think he is a bit similar to the video of Ruan Feng's walking that the police secretly took before." Cheng Zimo said.

"Fast forward and see if he comes out." Xiao Lang grabbed the mouse and clicked the fast forward button.

Fast forward about an hour and a half, and I did see a similar black figure walking out of the video dragging a large box.

"How can someone drag a box in and out again?" Xiao Lang said, "It's suspicious at first sight."

"It wasn't Zimo who discovered it, but you can?" Nie Zhixuan grinned at Xiao Lang.

Xiao Lang scratched the back of his head and said embarrassingly, "It's true that I can't find it, there are too many people here."

"I checked the monitoring time. This person went in half an hour before the incident happened, and came out an hour after the incident. The timing can also be matched." Tang Dangdang also nodded in approval.

"It's very interesting." Xiao Wang, who had been standing behind a few people and watching the video silently, said, "Have you noticed that this man is dragging a box and walking on the uneven sidewalk, and when he goes in, the box will bounce every bump? Get up, but when you go out, you can't play it."

"Enter empty boxes, pack people out!" Xiao Lang realized what his brother meant, "Good guy, it's him!"

"Unfortunately, even so, there is still no real hammer." Ling Mo said, "The police still don't have the conditions to file a case."

"Then let's continue to look for the track." Xiao Wang signaled Tang Dangdang to call the next road monitoring according to the walking direction of the shadow.However, under the monitoring of all the roads that the black shadow might pass by, the black shadow dragging the suitcase was never seen again.

"Look at the map, isn't there any other way in or out?" Xiao Wang opened the electronic map.From the map, the road surface monitoring should cover all possible necessary roads.

"Can you really fly?" Xiao Lang was dumbfounded.

"How could it be?" Xiao Wang smiled and said, "He took a car or drove it. However, he doesn't have a private car himself, so it's very possible to take a taxi."

"What should we do next?" Xiao Lang asked, "This guy dragged the box in, it's obviously a premeditated crime!"

"Knowing that the crime was premeditated is not very useful." Ling Mo said, "We can't be sure that this black shadow is Ruan Feng, and even if we can be sure that it is Ruan Feng, we can't be sure that the person in the box is Zhao Jinhua."

"In the box, can you still struggle?" Tang Dangdang asked weakly.

"Miss, since it was planned so carefully, it must be done before packing." Xiao Lang said.

"Murder case?" Tang Dangdang said.

"This is how we think about it now." Xiao Wang supports his younger brother's point of view, "but there is no basis. Therefore, the best way for us to do next is to find out all the taxis passing between the two monitoring points at a specific time, and then Go visit."

"Yes, it's not easy for the taxi driver to remember a person's face, but there is still hope for him to remember that he is dragging a large suitcase." Ling Mo said, "After all, it only happened two days ago."

"Dangdang, in two hours, can you give us the license plate numbers of all the taxis that appear in a specific area at a specific time?"

"One and a half hours, one and a half hours! How did Missy do it?" Xiao Lang held a piece of paper with 73 vehicle number plates printed on it, and said, "Such vague monitoring can process so many in such a short time. ! Our young lady is really awesome!"

"Whose eldest lady? She doesn't belong to our family." Xiao Wang drove towards the taxi company with a jack with a smile on his face.

"I see, sooner or later." Nie Zhixuan sat in the back row, holding two photos of broken metal chains, and looked at them carefully.

"I like to hear that." Xiao Lang crossed his legs happily, but after thinking about it, Nie Zhixuan's meaning seemed to be different from his, and he became depressed instantly.

When I arrived at the taxi company, it happened to be the time for the taxi to shift.Xiao Wang distributed the taxi number plates to a few people, and asked everyone to contact the taxi driver separately. After finding clues, they must meet the driver himself and ask about the specific situation.

This job seems simple, but it is not so easy to do in practice.First of all, everyone's memory ability is different, and it is not necessarily 100% possible for the taxi driver to recall the situation two days ago.Secondly, taxi drivers are not interested in the police. It is almost impossible to get a high degree of cooperation and even return to the taxi company for inquiries during the coming evening rush hour.

Several people split up and asked around, but they couldn't find any clues, so they had to meet up at the parking place of the jack.They waited and waited, but they couldn't wait for Xiao Lang.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that Xiao Lang was seen in the distance dragging a thin figure over.The figure twisted continuously under Xiao Lang's armpit, but he couldn't break free from Xiao Lang's shackles.

"Old Wang, I don't want to come, I was dragged here by force." Xiao Lang pressed Lao Wang on the jack seat.

"Are you a policeman like you? This is kidnapping!" Lao Wang whispered aggrievedly.

"You are violating discipline." Nie Zhixuan reminded Xiao Lang in a low voice.

"He said that he seems to have pulled someone with a big suitcase, the suitcase is very heavy, and the two of them carried the suitcase to the trunk together." Xiao Lang winked at Nie Zhixuan and said, "Is this considered an accomplice? "

"I'm wronged! I don't know what's in that box!" Old Wang jumped up and shouted.

"Then how do I know if you know? If it's not an accomplice, why are you helping him hide it?" Xiao Lang took out a pair of handcuffs and threw them on the small table of the jack.

"No concealment, you ask, I will tell you if I remember!" Lao Wang was startled by the bang.

"Is it him?" Xiao Wang showed Lao Wang Ruan Feng's photo.

Lao Wang squinted his eyes for a long time and said, "I'm not sure, it's a bit like it."

"You dragged him from near the Sanyuan community, where did he go?" Xiao Wang asked.

"A place in Anqiao County, in the wilderness, I don't know. He pointed the way, and I navigated back." Old Wang said.

"Mobile phone." Xiao Wang stretched out his hand, Lao Wang obediently handed the phone to Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang checked it, handed it back to Lao Wang, and said: "Thank you for your cooperation, cooperate with the police in handling cases, punish evil and promote good , is the duty of every citizen.”

Lao Wang looked at Xiao Wang and Xiao Lang in fear, took the phone and nodded, got out of the car and left in despair.

"Amazing, brother." Xiao Lang smiled and watched Lao Wang leave, and said, "I'm using physical strength to force him, you are using momentum."

Xiao Wang ignored Xiao Lang, unfolded a map of Anqiao County, marked a red dot on the map with a red pen, and said, "Indeed, this place is between two villages, and it's all fields. What is the suspect doing here?"

"That goes without saying, let's bury the corpse." Xiao Lang said.

Xiao Wang shook his head and said: "The suspect probably didn't carry tools with him. Even if he did, the weather has been dry recently and the soil is difficult to dig. It is very difficult to bury a corpse. Digging a hole easily on TV is actually not the case. It's not realistic."

Ling Mo nodded in agreement, and said, "From the map, the area around the red dot is all fields, not wasteland. It makes no sense to choose owned fields instead of unowned wastelands."

"There are no buses or taxis nearby, and his house is not nearby. This behavior is quite strange." Nie Zhixuan nodded.

After discussing and discussing outside the taxi company, they couldn't come up with any ideas, and a few people drove the jack back to the Night Watch organization.

Not reconciled, Xiao Wang turned on the satellite map, trying to find some clues from the satellite map.As the map is gradually enlarged, although the pixels are also decreasing, it still seems to see a place with a large roof near the red dot. The roof is a red logo, which looks like a gas station.

"No, on the electronic map, there is no gas station here." Xiao Lang turned on the phone's navigation and looked for it on the map.

"That's right! This is where the suspect is going." Xiao Wang confidently pointed to the gas station.

"Burning corpse?" Ling Mo quickly understood Xiao Wang's meaning.

Xiao Wang nodded, and said: "There are only a few ways to deal with the corpse. Since it cannot be broken, thrown, or buried, then burning the corpse is the best possibility. The purpose of going to the gas station is to buy combustion accelerant. Without a police station certificate, it is impossible to dispense gasoline in bulk, so what he is going to is this kind of self-operated gas station in the countryside.”

"Understood." Xiao Lang said, "Go to the gas station to investigate."

"The gas station won't cooperate." Xiao Wang pondered and shook his head.

"Why can't you cooperate? Didn't the taxi driver not cooperate? Didn't he be taught to be honest by me?" Xiao Lang said unconvinced.

"First, the taxi driver is an outsider, but he doesn't cause trouble because he is afraid of trouble. Since you have troubled him, he naturally has no need to hide it. Second, you violated discipline, and you still want to And repeat it again and again?" Xiao Wang patted his younger brother on the back of the head again.

"It's illegal to sell bulk gasoline without permission," Ling Mo said, "so the gas station will never admit it."

"You said that he bought gasoline and poured it on the box to burn?" Nie Zhixuan lowered his head in thought.

"It's hard to say. After all, the suspect's entire action was premeditated." Xiao Wang said, "Maybe there is some place nearby or a tool for burning corpses that won't attract the attention of others. However, it must be nearby. The environment here, if there is no transportation, walking on foot, dragging such a large suitcase, and carrying gasoline, it will not be far away.”

"You can go and have a look there during the day tomorrow, maybe you will find something." Xiao Lang said.

"Brother Nie, there is another question." Ling Mo suddenly spoke at this moment, "After the gasoline is burned, can all people be burned to ashes?"

"Well, it's hard to say." Nie Zhixuan added, "The cremation furnaces in the funeral parlor are nearly a thousand degrees Celsius, and because they burn in a confined space, the heat utilization rate is very high. Even so, cremating a corpse, It also takes four to 10 minutes. If it is in an open environment and does not use an external flame to burn the corpse, it may be difficult to burn the corpse to ashes with a barrel of gasoline."

"Although burning corpses will have a wick effect[33], and the spontaneous combustion time will be very long, but because the temperature cannot be reached and the heat utilization rate is very low, it is indeed difficult to burn all the corpses into ashes." Xiao Wang said, "And the suspects are the most It can also carry twenty liters of gasoline, and how long can it burn?"

"What is Ruan Feng's education?" Ling Mo asked.

Cheng Zimo flipped through the file while biting a lollipop, and said, "I didn't graduate from junior high school."

"With such a level of education, could it be that he didn't think about the result of burning?" Ling Mo turned to look at Xiao Wang.

Xiao Wang crossed his arms and thought for a while, then said, "That's really good news for us."

"It's a pity that the conditions for filing a case are still not enough." Ling Mo said, "After all, the reality is not to write novels. If you write novels, you should be arrested in this situation."

"Procedural justice is the premise." Xiao Wang said, "We still need more evidence."

"Children, I just heard from you outside that it is difficult to be burned to ashes, right?" Fu Yuanman suddenly opened the door and walked in, and said with a smile on his face, "This reminds me of an incident decades ago. It’s an old case, I think about people when I see things, let me talk to you.”

3
In 1983, the 34th anniversary of the establishment of the Night Watcher Organization, it was also a year in which the Night Watcher Organization had made many achievements and was most favored by the leaders of the Ministry.This year, Fu Yuanman, who was preparing to take over as the head of the Night Watch organization, was 39 years old, and his most capable assistant, Dong Lianhe, was 37 years old.

This year, because Fu Yuanman was busy cooperating with the police in large-scale crime-fighting operations, the protagonist of this case was Dong Lianhe.Dong Lianhe, who has always been a "peacemaker" among the members of the organization, also proved his strength because of this case, and came into people's field of vision from Fu Yuanman's huge back.

While the police were busy dealing with various criminal cases, a report in the "Nan'an Evening News" caused an uproar in Nan'an City.In that era, there was no new media, no self-media, and television was a luxury, so people relied almost entirely on newspapers to obtain social information, and that was also the era when paper media had the most influence and appeal.Affected by the police's crackdown on crime, the society at that time could almost be described as "do not pick up lost items on the road, and do not close the house at night".Therefore, an eye-catching piece of information reported by the largest paper media in Nan'an City quickly became the talk of people in the streets and alleys of Nan'an City after dinner.

This incident happened to a reporter from the social information section of Nan'an Evening News.

The reporter's name is He Laosan. Although the name has a very rustic flavor, he is an out-and-out old scholar and a senior reporter of "Nan'an Evening News".It was Qingming, and He Laosan took his family to the funeral parlor to pay homage to his father who had passed away for several years, but found an abnormality in the urn storage wall.

Although the country has carried out funeral reforms since 1956, hoping to change burial into cremation, it was not until 1985 that the State Council promulgated regulations, which stipulated for the first time that cremation should be carried out in areas with dense population, less arable land, and convenient transportation. Mandatory terms.However, in 1983, the awareness of cremation had already taken root in Nan'an City.Because there is no current centralized cemetery management model, some urban population who do not own private plots will store their urns in funeral parlors after cremation.Although the Chinese are very particular about urns, but under the constraints of the economic conditions at that time, the urns of most common people were nothing more than wooden boxes.The box is worthless, and the ashes are even more avoided, so since it is not a baby bump, it is impossible for the funeral home to arrange a safe to store the ashes.

The actual situation is that the funeral home has built a concrete wall, and dozens or hundreds of niches for placing urns are densely arranged on the wall.Family members who store the urn can pay to rent a niche, engrave the name of the deceased on the top of the niche, and place the urn on the niche, which is both solemn and convenient for festival worship.

The storage wall itself is dressed up in a spooky way, coupled with thousands of years of feudal superstition, naturally no one will be too busy to find trouble with the storage wall.

However, the careful He Laosan discovered an abnormality in his father's urn on the storage wall.

What first caught He Laosan's attention was that around the niche where his father's urn was located, there were obvious traces of dust being wiped off, and the urn seemed to be placed crookedly.In fact, this is nothing, and He Laosan will not be so superstitious that he thinks that his old father is restless in the sky, because when other people are laying the ashes, it is indeed possible to touch He's father's urn.But because of this abnormal phenomenon, He Laosan stood on tiptoe and took a second look at his father's urn.It didn't matter what he saw, it really shocked He Laosan, because the sealing cover of the urn seemed to have been opened, and a trace of blood red was leaking from the gap in the cover.

Of course, He Laosan is an intellectual after all, and it is impossible to think that his father's ashes are bleeding.He was soberly aware that the trace of red should be a red plastic bag showing the seam of the cover, but who would use a plastic bag to store ashes?Wouldn't that be disrespectful?Obviously, this is a remarkable anomaly.

Shocked, He Laosan resolutely opened the urn regardless of whether his old father's spirit in heaven was angry or not.Sure enough, there was indeed a red plastic bag placed on top of the gray-white ashes in the box, and the bag was not empty. It contained a bag full of white fragments, which seemed to be ashes too.

Who couldn't afford an urn, so they simply used the free space in He's urn?This obviously cannot reasonably explain this unreasonable phenomenon.

After all, it was Ching Ming Festival, and He Laosan's family must not be the only ones who came to the funeral home to worship their ancestors.After He Laosan discovered this abnormal phenomenon, many people feared that their ancestors would also be offended, so they opened the box to check.Indeed, the box is not big in the first place, if there are two people squeezed together, it would be too wronged to the ancestors, maybe the ancestors got angry and would come to trouble the descendants.This is the traditional thinking of the Chinese.

This inspection really turned out to be troublesome. Five families found plastic bags full of suspected ashes in the urns of their ancestors.

This person really dared to do it, and placed his family's ashes in five families. Is this to grab the territory in the underworld and collect protection fees?

He Laosan immediately called the police.However, in the absence of technical means back then, it was impossible to determine what was in these plastic bags through inspection.Since he couldn't be sure, he didn't know what name to use for the investigation.Therefore, He Laosan took advantage of his status to publish a piece of social news on the second edition of "Nan'an Evening News".It didn't matter, people went to the funeral home to inspect their own ashes, so a strange scene appeared in the funeral home: Hundreds of people lined up to inspect their own ashes one by one in front of the storage wall.

"Amitabha, my house is good."

"Huh? I don't remember it being so full back then."

"Dad, rest in peace, no one is squeezing you."

"I'll go, who is so wicked! There are really plastic bags!"

……

In this way, two more families found plastic bags.

The police don't have time to devote a lot of police force to investigate this matter, but for cases with huge social impact, the Night Watch organization, which specializes in difficult and strange cases, cannot sit idly by.Therefore, under the instruction of Fu Yuanman, Dong Lian, the wind catcher, and his investigation team invested in the investigation of this case.

At that time, there was no surveillance tool to solve the case, and the funeral home was in the middle of an inaccessible barren hill. It seemed impossible to obtain direct video or verbal evidence.Therefore, the breakthrough point of the investigation team's work is the seven bags of suspicious powder and debris.

If it is difficult to put together corpses, it is even more impossible to put together ashes.Facing the seven plastic bags in front of him, Old Dong had nothing to do.So, Lao Dong called Zhu Lishan, a tracer who is proficient in forensic science, to help.At that time, Zhu Lishan was not suffering from Parkinson's disease, so he was unable to study the case in depth. At that time, Zhu Lishan was still a young man in his early thirties, full of energy.

Zhu Lishan accepted the task, and together with Lao Dong, spread the ashes and debris in seven plastic bags on the laboratory table.Then start searching and distinguishing from the large fragments, hoping to find some clues from these fragments.During the rummaging process, there was a burst of faint dust, which was inevitably sucked into the lungs by Lao Dong and Zhu Lishan. Thinking that it might really be human ashes, Lao Dong even felt a little nauseous.

"The black ones are traces of smoke, and the white ones are overdone [34]." Zhu Lishan explained to Old Dong while looking for the fragments.

"Judging from the cross-sections of these two large fragments, this one is not completely burned." Old Dong held up the two fragments. Judging from the edge of the fragments, this was originally one piece, "You can see the bone structure in the middle, saying Maybe it’s really a human bone.”

"Is it burnt through?" Zhu Lishan took the two fragments and looked at them carefully. Sure enough, a clear thin beam-shaped bone structure can be seen on the section of the broken end. "Using our forensic terminology, this is the plate of the skull Obstacle!"

"Is it only the human skull that has barriers?" Old Dong asked immediately.

Zhu Lishan shook his head.In fact, they are not sure whether this is a prank made by someone who burned the dead animal.

"But at least we can see that these ashes are bone ashes." Old Dong pondered, "Moreover, these two fragments can at least explain one problem."

"What's the problem?" Zhu Lishan also seemed to have found a valuable bone fragment, holding it in his hand and looking left and right.

"Bone will become brittle after being overheated, so it is easy to break." Old Dong said, "But since this large piece of skull has not been overheated, it is not brittle, so how did it break?"

"That's right. The skull is the hardest bone in the skeleton. I'm afraid it's not so easy to break." Zhu Lishan put down the fragments in his hand, picked up the barrier, and carefully tried to break one of the fragments, but failed. do it.

"This shows that after the body was burned, someone carried out a second step on the large pieces of ashes." Old Dong said, "If you can't do it with bare hands, you must have used tools." .Then, finding tools is our next step.”

"By the way, where did you find these two bones?" Zhu Lishan asked again.

"Here." Old Dong pointed to a pile of ashes.

"The bones near the skull are the most specific." Zhu Lishan said still holding the piece of fragment, "Look carefully in this area again, maybe there will be new discoveries."

"What's yours?" Old Dong continued to clean up the ashes in that area with a small iron rake.

"This piece should also be a bone." Zhu Lishan said, "It has a curvature and is very hard. If it is a human bone, it is the part of the olecranon. But some animals also have the olecranon."

"That's still useless." Old Dong shrugged.

"However, this is very interesting. There is a callus formed on the olecranon, which means that there was a fracture here, and then it healed again." Zhu Lishan said, "If it is a human, the fracture will be treated and the healing will be better. If It is an animal, it is impossible to perform reduction and immobilization treatment, so it will definitely be malunion. This bone is obviously healed better. Therefore, I think it should be a human bone."

At that time, it was impossible for someone to spend a lot of money to take their pets to get a plaster cast, so this inference is valid.

"I have long confirmed in my heart that it is a human bone." Old Dong said, "Old Zhu, what is this?"

Old Dong found a fragment the size of an egg from the ashes.The mass looked like burnt and contracted tissue, but it was lighter than expected.Zhu Lishan took the fragment, gently broke it, and with a snap, it broke into two halves.

"Honeycomb?" Old Dong looked at the lump, then looked up at Zhu Lishan, hoping he could give an explanation. After all, no matter how much human bones are burned, it is difficult to burn out a lump of honeycomb.

"Sinus cavities." For Zhu Lishan, this was considered a bonus question.

"Oh." Old Dong suddenly realized, took out tweezers from his side, and scraped the sinus cavity, "But this cavity seems to be filled with a lot of things, it must not be sinusitis."

"Of course not." Zhu Lishan took the fragments and powder and looked under the microscope, "Hey, the powder scraped from the sinus cavity is also whiter than the ashes."

"The sinus cavity is a closed space, right? Why is there something inside?" Old Dong was puzzled.

Zhu Lishan didn't understand this question either, so he took the fragments of the sinus cavity and the powder that filled the sinus cavity to the next door for component testing.The most basic chemical composition inspection technology was already available in that era and could be mastered proficiently.

Therefore, it didn't take long for Zhu Lishan to bring back the test results from the laboratory: they were all calcium compounds.

"Human bones are also calcium compounds. Is this result meaningful?" Old Dong asked.

"Yes." Zhu Lishan said, "The sinus cavity is sealed, and I opened it just now, so it means that the burning did not fully destroy the sinus cavity. The calcium compound in the sinus cavity is obviously not the remaining component of the bone after burning."

"what is that?"

"lime."

"Lime?" Old Dong sat on the swivel chair and thought for a while, then said, "Lime pond? Is this the way to kill?"

"Drowning in the lime pond is entirely possible," Zhu Lishan said.

"Then I understand." With a well-thought-out plan, Old Dong put on his pistol and rushed to the funeral home again.

The scope of the search has already been matured in the old Dong's chest.In that era when there were no private cars or taxis, the location of the funeral parlor was too remote.If citizens want to go to the funeral home, they must take a bus.If villagers from other suburbs want to go to the funeral home, it will be more troublesome. First, they have to take an agricultural tricycle to the edge of the city, then walk to the bus station, and take several buses before arriving.

Since the idea of ​​going to a funeral parlor to store the ashes instead of simply throwing the ashes requires at least two conditions: First, the murderer is an immediate family member of the deceased, and he still has feelings for the murderer, so he is unwilling to throw the ashes at will, but chooses to distribute the ashes A storage wall in a funeral home.Second, no matter where the murderer and the deceased were, the place where the murder and cremation were committed must not be far from the funeral parlor.The funeral parlor is on duty during the day, and the murderer chooses to hide the ashes at night, and there is no public transportation at night, so if you analyze boldly, the range on foot is so large, it should not be a big problem to lock in the funeral parlor within a radius of [-] kilometers.

In addition, why did the murderer use seven plastic bags to hold the ashes?Carrying a large number of plastic bags is obviously much more complicated than using a large package, and it is easy to attract the attention of passers-by.Since the murderer chose this way, it also shows two points: First, the murderer is not afraid of being discovered by passers-by, which means that the possibility of walking at night is relatively high.The second is that the murderer knew the storage wall of the funeral home very well, and knew that one urn could not hold all the ashes. If the ashes were dumped on the spot, they would be scattered and quickly discovered.Therefore, he chose this method of packaging, which is convenient to carry and place.It's just that I didn't expect that an urn was not covered properly, which led to it being discovered.Now that he knew about the funeral home, it meant that he lived not far away and had common sense of life.

If you only locked in a radius of ten kilometers, after all, you don't know any information about the deceased, so you can't find it at all, but now that you know the key clue of the lime pond, the scope of your search will be much smaller.

Taking the funeral parlor as the center, Lao Dong visited the surrounding villages one by one.Old Dong is an excellent wind catcher. Apart from having a photographic memory of the terrain, he disguised himself as a rag collector to visit the surrounding area without arousing the slightest suspicion.It didn't take too long, and Old Dong found a lime pond in Ximen Village.

At that time, if a house was to be built, a lime pond would be dug around it to turn the quicklime into slaked lime for the convenience of building decoration. However, after use, the lime pond would be filled, and there was not much left.After all, Old Dong visited the surrounding area and found no lime pond, so the lime pond found at this time is very suspicious.What's more, there is still a lot of sticky lime in this abandoned lime pond, and there are fresh trample marks around it.

The only thing that made Old Dong unsure was that the depth of the lime pond was not enough, to put it bluntly, it was only [-] centimeters.It is almost impossible to drown a person here.But Old Dong still insisted that if a person's head is pressed into a lime pond, he can still drown.

Now that he found the lime pond, Old Dong, who was a wind catcher, started to move around the village.In order not to startle the enemy, Lao Dong used various opportunities to talk to the villagers, hoping to find clues.The reasoning with high probability has a high success rate of confirmed results. Old Dong quickly found the clue.

At the gate of a dilapidated courtyard not far from the lime pond, Old Dong found dripping traces of dried lime. There was a lot of lime stuck to the traces, extending all the way into the courtyard. However, this courtyard seemed to be empty of people.Old Dong, who was pretending to collect waste, did not knock on the gate of the courtyard, but simply kept on doing nothing, using his own lockpicking technology to unlock the door without anyone noticing it, and entered the courtyard.If you can find something, go back and make up the formalities.

As imagined, this is not an idle house, but the owner is not at home.Judging from the thickness of the ash that fell on the door lock, no one came home for at least half a month.

There are three houses in the yard, facing the gate of the yard is a row of bungalows with locked doors.On the left is the bathroom and kitchen, and on the right is the warehouse.Although the warehouse was also locked, it was useless to Old Dong.

Old Dong who opened the warehouse door stood there blankly. There was no goods in this warehouse. In one corner, there were several stacks of bricks. Between the bricks, there were a lot of ashes of plants and trees, and the entire wall and roof had been destroyed. Severely smoky, jet-black.

Old Dong picked up the ashes with a stick, and found that besides a small amount of lime traces, there were a lot of gray-white ashes mixed in the ashes, which were exactly the same as those in the plastic bag.

Most importantly, there was a hammer next to the brick, and ashes were also stuck to the hammer head.

At this point, the scene of the murder and the burning of the corpse was unfolded in front of Old Dong.

4
"I understand what grandpa means." Xiao Lang said, "You mean, let alone gasoline, even in the era when there was no gasoline in bulk, even with firewood, corpses could be burned to ashes."

"Then you understand what I mean." Fu Yuanman laughed loudly, "According to the criminal's later explanation, they actually used a combustion aid, kerosene. At that time, it was normal to use kerosene lamps."

"The team leader means that the result of the combustion depends on the state of the combustion, and the combustion aid is only an auxiliary." Xiao Wang said, "The temperature of kerosene combustion is not much different from that of gasoline."

"The trick is in those piles of bricks." Ling Mo said.

"In a house, it is considered a relatively confined space. The corpse is placed on the bricks, and the fire is ignited under the corpse to support the combustion," Xiao Wang said. To achieve a better burning effect. The part that is attached to the brick cannot be fully burned, so it must be smashed with a hammer."

"Indeed." Fu Yuanman said, "It's what you said, the problem of heat utilization. After the case was solved, the criminal confessed that it took a total of two days and one night to burn all the bodies to ashes. Including what Xiao Wang said just now The "wick effect" was also confirmed in the criminal's confession. According to the criminal, after using kerosene to support the combustion, the corpse began to burn and burned for up to five hours without adding kerosene. This is because human fat has a combustion-supporting effect , which is the 'wick effect' that Xiao Wang said."

"I have to talk about the terrain first." Ling Mo pointed to the satellite image on the screen, and said, "A radius of more than ten kilometers from the gas station is cultivated land. These cultivated lands are all owned and owned by families. That is to say, No matter where he burns in any corner within this walking range, it is impossible for him to have such a long time as two days and one night, because the cultivated land is worked by people during the day."

"The murderer kills people at night and goes to the gas station at night, that is to say, he only has one night to dispose of the corpse." Xiao Wang nodded and said, "So, unless he can guarantee a very high heat utilization rate, the corpse must be incinerated." Endless."

"Maybe there is also a hammer." Xiao Wang interjected.

"Whether the burning is clean means that there is a closed space nearby, or the burning is not clean means that there are still bones and remains, this is good for us." Xiao Wang said, "From the beginning of this case, all the conclusions we have drawn, It is all based on our reasoning; there is no real evidence in front of us."

"Yes, all our law enforcement actions must be done after seeing the evidence. Otherwise, it can only be an investigation under legal constraints." Fu Yuanman touched the stubble on his chin and said, " The 'Return of the Dead' type of unjust case is a bloody lesson! Even the 1983 case I mentioned just now almost had the story of 'Return of the Dead'."

Most of the stories of "The Return of the Dead" happened in the 90s and [-]s. At that time, DNA technology had not been promoted in the domestic public security department, and most people would not leave fingerprint files in the public security department, so the identity of the deceased identification, there may be deviations.

When the public security department finds a dead body, and the dead body is highly corrupted and does not meet the conditions for identification, the family members may misidentify the dead body, which eventually leads to a completely wrong direction in handling the case.At this time, the so-called "dead" suddenly reappeared. It was quite a scary thing to think about.

As mentioned before, the old Dong identified the murderer who pressed the victim's head into the lime pond, causing the victim to inhale a large amount of lime, which blocked the respiratory tract and suffocated to death.Old Dong believes that this requires a condition, that is, there is a huge gap in physical strength between the murderer and the victim.If the body is cremated in one's own home, and the ashes are sent to the funeral parlor instead of being hidden directly, then this is obviously a self-produced and self-sold family murder.Since it is a murder case, if there is a huge difference in physical strength, the greatest possibility is that the husband killed his wife.

Subsequent investigations also strengthened Lao Dong's confidence.After interviewing the neighbors, Lao Dong learned that this is a family of three surnamed Du.The owner, Du Qiang, is unemployed. He is a full-fledged alcoholic and gambler.Gambling when he wakes up, and drinking when he loses, has become part of Du Qiang's daily life.The source of his gambling and drinking funds all came from his wife Ye Fengyuan.This is a hardworking and down-to-earth wife. In addition to normal farming work, she also does various chores in the town to subsidize the family.In fact, the subsidy is not much, because under Du Qiang's beating, the hard-earned money was quickly taken away by Du Qiang, and then lost at the gambling table.

Almost all the neighbors visited by Lao Dong reported that Ye Fengyuan often continued to work to earn money without saying a word, with injuries on her face.From the primary school teacher of Du Qiang's only son Du She, Lao Dong also learned that Du She would often go to school with injuries all over his body after being beaten by his father.And this eight-year-old child is exceptionally strong, and never takes the initiative to speak out about his family's ugliness. This makes his head teacher even more heartbroken.

Just when old Dong was about to report to his superiors and apply for an arrest warrant for Du Qiang, a sudden clue made old Dong really jump.

During the visit, Lao Dong used his salary to invite several villagers to eat out of the restaurant several times.In those days, eating out was a very luxurious thing, so in the process, Lao Dong established a strong friendship with the villagers.On this day, Old Dong received a report from a villager, saying that he saw Ye Fengyuan hurrying home and leaving in a hurry last night.

In Old Dong's consciousness, Ye Fengyuan was a "dead person". The ashes of Ye Fengyuan he searched carefully a few days ago, but at this time, Ye Fengyuan's pile of ashes turned into a living person.

Old Dong, who has experienced ups and downs on the criminal investigation front for more than ten years, quickly got out of his horns. He knew that the only explanation for this situation was that his wife killed her husband.Although it is still uncertain what method the wife used to drown her husband, in the mind of Lao Dong, the case has undergone earth-shaking changes: the deceased has changed from Ye Fengyuan to Du Qiang, and the suspect has changed from Du Qiang to Ye Fengyuan. It laid the most necessary foundation for the subsequent search and arrest work.

"It seems that DNA testing is really a milestone contribution to our criminal investigation work." Xiao Lang sighed, "It can also know the gender and confirm the identity."

"Not absolutely." Ling Mo waved his hand.He was referring to the previous "chimera" case. At that time, Nie Zhixuan pointed out that many people are superstitious about DNA. In fact, DNA cannot be used as the only evidence in a certain case.

"Team leader, what happened next?" Tang Dangdang held his chin and listened intently, "Why don't we know this Grandpa Dong?"

A sad look crossed Fu Yuanman's face, he patted Tang Dangdang's head, and said, "Children, your most important task now is to sleep. I look forward to your search tomorrow to find clues."

Early the next morning, the members rushed to the suspected gas station with jacks.This is not only a private gas station run by villagers, but also a large-scale living supermarket.It is said that the small shops in the two surrounding villages sell a limited variety of products, so although it is four miles away from the two villages, the villagers often come to this living supermarket to buy items.

Xiao Wang looked around in the supermarket, took a shovel and handed it to the boss.

"Buy a shovel." Xiao Wang said.

"Twenty." The ruffian boss sat in front of his computer, concentrating on playing League of Legends.

"Hey, buddy, did you configure this computer yourself? Why does this game feel so smooth?" Xiao Wang paid the money, leaned over the counter, and looked at the screen.

The boss sized Xiao Wang up, thinking how could a handsome young man be so old-fashioned?

"Yeah." The boss replied absent-mindedly.

"Can you sell it to me? I also want to play League of Legends." Xiao Wang said.

"Not for sale." The boss beautifully completed a triple kill.

"Fantastic, this computer is really fast." Xiao Wang reached into his inner pocket of his suit, took out a wad of money, and said, "1 yuan, can you sell it?"

This sentence made the boss startled, and he didn't care about the fierce team battle, so he turned his head to look at Xiao Wang, wanting to see if he was joking.Although the configuration is good, he only spent more than 3000 when assembling this assembly machine.

"Are you telling the truth?" the boss asked in surprise.

"You pay some money first." Xiao Wang knew that the boss had agreed, so he began to disassemble the display screen, "I want your host computer, but I don't want the display screen."

The boss put the banknotes into the banknote counter with trembling hands, and after counting one hundred banknotes, he remained dumbfounded.

"Thank you, maybe I can be a teammate in the future." Xiao Wang hugged the computer mainframe contentedly, and went out, leaving the boss who was still dumbfounded, and said silently: "Is this the legendary local tyrant?"

"1 yuan, it's worth it." Ling Mo took the computer from Xiao Wang and handed it to Tang Dangdang, "Let's find Ruan Feng."

"Ah, so you are buying surveillance cameras!" Xiao Lang, who was also dumbfounded, suddenly realized at this moment.

"The three monitors are all connected to this computer." Xiao Wang said with a smile.

"Why didn't you ask the police to bring the procedures?" Nie Zhixuan asked.

"Since he's doing illegal things, he won't hand over the real surveillance so easily." Xiao Wang said, "When the time comes, he will hand over the surveillance cameras in the two supermarkets, but not the surveillance cameras outside the supermarket facing the gas station." Surveillance, we can't watch it live, we will ask him for it when we find out, I'm afraid it will be destroyed by him."

"Understood." Nie Zhixuan nodded and said, "Take it first, and then make up the formalities."

"Now Dangdang's task is to watch the surveillance, and our task is to find the traces of burning." Xiao Wang waved his hand and asked everyone to get out of the car, "Let's go!"

The members first investigated the two nearby villages.Referring to the cremation case in 1983, if you want to ensure the utilization rate of heat, the vast fields are definitely not enough, and the most likely choice is a house.However, the previous survey of all the residents of these two villages showed that Ruan Feng did not have any relatives or friends with the people in these two villages.Moreover, even if there are strong buddies living here, it is impossible for anyone to lend their house to others to burn their bodies.Therefore, the biggest possibility is that there are deserted or temporarily uninhabited houses in the village.

However, it only took an hour for the two groups of members to eliminate all the houses in the two villages.After all, it takes a long time to burn to achieve the effect, so if it is inside the house, there must be very obvious traces of smoke on the walls and roof.Xiao Wang's instruction was to simply observe the house, and if there were no obvious traces of smoke, immediately rule it out.

Excluding all the houses, what is left is only the vast expanse of fields.

Xiao Wang took the shovel, hit the ground a few times with the head of the shovel, handed the shovel to Xiao Lang, and said, "Boy, come and try digging."

"This is my strong point!" Xiao Lang took the shovel, spit on his hands twice, and dug down hard.

With a bang, there was a violent collision between the shovel head and the ground, but the continuous drought and the frozen ground did not change at all.

"My God, this can't be shoveled at all!" Xiao Lang tried to stomp on the shovel again, and a small hole one centimeter deep appeared in the ground.

"That's right, it's impossible to dig a hole in this kind of weather." Xiao Wang smiled and said, "This area is so big, I'm afraid it will make everyone suffer. If we can't bury it, we will definitely find a way to hide it." , let’s mobilize our wisdom and physical strength, and search separately. If you find anything, call in the intercom.”

The endless fields are full of rape seedlings.On the premise of not destroying the farmers' crops, progress is bound to be slow in finding a burn mark that may not be large.Last autumn, many farmers burned straw in the fields, which also left burn marks, and there were even thousands of these marks.Therefore, the members not only need to look for, but also distinguish whether the burn marks are old traces of burning straw or fresh traces of burning corpses.

As the end of the year approaches, the climate is very cold, and everyone is shivering from the cold.When everyone was progressing slowly and trembling, Xiao Lang was an exception.For Xiao Lang, this season is a good one.Because the crops don't grow very high, the advantage of his superior eyesight is also brought into full play.He ran left and right, and his progress was extremely fast.

Coincidentally, clues really appeared within Xiao Lang's search range.

Around afternoon, Xiao Lang's voice came from the intercom.

"I sent you the location on WeChat." Xiao Lang said, "Come on, come on, this time I'm the first!"

Obviously, Xiao Lang found a very crucial clue.The confidence that everyone slowly lost was rekindled, and everyone moved closer to Xiao Lang's position from all directions.

From a distance, the members saw Xiao Lang naked, wearing only a pair of shorts, standing by a big tree and wiping himself with a towel.

"Which song are you singing?" Cheng Zimo was taken aback.

"What are you looking at, haven't you seen the muscles?" Xiao Lang saw that Cheng Zimo arrived first, and he looked carefree, so he felt embarrassed first, grabbed his pants and put them on.

"Hey, sorry, I really don't have much interest in your body." Cheng Zimo looked contemptuous.

Xiao Wang arrived later, looked at the large pond behind Xiao Lang, and said, "Have you entered the water? It's the middle of winter!"

"It's time for winter swimming." Xiao Lang didn't take it seriously, "Here, I fished a big iron basin from the bottom of the pond. I was surprised at the time, did you see the burn marks? The ashes on the ground feel old , but the smoky traces on the trunk are very fresh. I thought it was strange, but then I thought, this is a pond, the best place to dump corpses, so I went into the water to have a look, and I found a basin, you guys Look at this pot, it's brand new, but there are serious burn marks inside, who is so extravagant?"

This is a stainless steel bathtub, and the trademarks on the edge of the basin are still very new, but the bottom of the basin has been completely burnt black, and there are still many sticky yellow-white objects stuck to it.

"Burn it in a basin and then throw it into the water?" Nie Zhixuan said while taking out a miniature microscope from his box.

"The corpse will float up and be burned to ashes. Hey, even if it is not burned to ashes, it will not float up if it is burned to bones or meat." Xiao Lang explained.

"Xiao Lang's analysis is good." Nie Zhixuan looked away from the eyepiece of the microscope and said, "The things here are indeed human body fat!"

"And this basin was also bought from the supermarket just now." Ling Mo arrived last, and saw the trademark on the side of the basin at a glance.

"Hey, you don't remember the trademarks of all the items in the supermarket just now, do you?" Cheng Zimo looked at Ling Mo in surprise.

"Almost." Ling Mo replied.

Just as Xiao Wang was about to say something, the phone rang, and it was Tang Dangdang calling.After Tang Dangdang deciphered the password of the supermarket's monitoring storage hard drive, he obtained all the monitoring of the supermarket in the past few days.Although the monitoring can only keep five days, it is more than enough.Tang Dangdang quickly found Ruan Feng's image from a specific point in time.According to Tang Dangdang's narration, Ruan Feng not only filled a barrel of gasoline at the gas station, but also bought a large iron basin and a hammer in the supermarket.

"He's also ready to smash the bone fragments." Xiao Wang smiled slightly, "It's impossible to burn it fully in a basin. The heat utilization rate is very low, and the time is limited. I think most of the corpse The wreckage has not been burned. So, boy, I have wronged you, and I have to go into the water again."

"Understood, the wreckage, and the hammer. That, you, turn around." Xiao Lang pointed to Cheng Zimo and said.

(End of this chapter)