It was already five o'clock in the morning when the Criminal Division of the Municipal Bureau received the report from the police station. ※%, after receiving the report, the police station found it a bit unbelievable. In order to prevent false alarms, they first sent people to investigate around the scene: there was nothing at the scene.
No. Not to mention the body, not even a piece of cloth was left behind. The police station also complained about this, but the director saw that Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui swore that they had seen it with their own eyes, and felt that they could not be careless, so they sent
A correspondent went to the city bureau to report.
The only people in the Criminal Division of the Municipal Bureau who can barely be called criminal police officers are five naturalized criminal police officers transferred from Lingao. The chief of the Criminal Division is Wu Xiang. Although he is only in his early twenties, he is the oldest criminal police officer in the city.
His background is also very "prominent": he was in the first class of the police class at Fangcaodi National School. Moreover, he was a "student" who was personally taught by Mu Min.
Wu Xiang also felt strange after receiving the report. He followed Mu Min in Hainan, Jeju and Taiwan and saw various murder scenes. Even if no body was left behind, there must be physical evidence such as blood stains, bloody clothes, and murder weapons.
.This is the first time I have heard of a case like this where only two patrol policemen reported it.
Although there was no body, a murder was still a homicide. Since the two patrolmen insisted that there was indeed a body, they should still conduct an on-site investigation.
However, the Criminal Division is very busy at the moment. Due to its geographical location and large population and business, the public security situation in Guangzhou City is very chaotic. No city in the Senate's ruling area can compare with it. At the beginning of entering the city, when the old and new regimes were changing,
Cases are even more frequent. At most, there are hundreds of robberies and theft cases in the city in one day. If it were not for the heavy code used by the Military Control Commission in troubled times and the policy of arresting, trying and killing criminals in vicious cases, and adding the military
Uninterrupted day and night patrols stabilized the security situation in a short period of time.
Even so, the incidence of criminal cases in the city is still frequent. Thefts, robberies, and murders occur from time to time, and the Criminal Police Department is overwhelmed - Wu Xiang himself has five or six cases to deal with. Since there is no body in this case, how can he
It was hard to say that the case could not be formally filed, so Wu Xiang sent two criminal police officers to check out the scene and talk to the patrol officers.
Criminal police officer Corey, the only ones who have received formal criminal police training from Lingao are the few naturalized police officers transferred from Lingao. It is obviously not enough to deal with criminal cases in such a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands. Therefore, he is recruited locally.
A group of local police officers from Guangzhou were recruited.
The backbone of them are the escorts from Qiwei Escort Bureau who were engaged in the local business of "sit-in shop" and "house care". They are not many in number, but they are very familiar with the social conditions of Guangzhou. As the earliest traditional enterprise controlled by the Senate, Qiwei
, its personnel are naturally “politically reliable”.
The other part is the retained former fast-shift yamen officers, including the regular officers. After several rounds of purges of the detective team, those left behind are those with "minor historical crimes and no bloodshed". This group of people is considered unreliable by the Senate.
, but they are extremely familiar with the three religions and nine streams of Guangzhou, and the situation of urban foxes and social rats, which is very useful for police work. They also added the Criminal Division.
One of the two criminal policemen sent was Gao Chongjiu, a retained yamen officer from the express team, and the other was Li Zhenguo, the original bodyguard from the Qiwei Escort Bureau.
Li Zhenguo was a son of a landlord. He liked to dance with guns and sticks since he was a child. At the age of twelve, he could wield a single sword to great effect and could not even touch his ink. When he was sixteen, the Li family had a conflict with a wealthy man from a neighboring village over a real estate dispute.
The other party bribed bandits to assassinate Li Zhenguo's grandfather and father. Li Zhenguo killed many of the other party in a rage. Naturally, he couldn't stay in his hometown anymore. He took his family and changed their names and went to Guangdong to join his hometown. From then on, he became famous in Qiwei.
Got an escort.
Because of his family background, he couldn't stand the hard work of being a escort, but he was relatively eloquent. He "sited in a shop" in the city all year round, had contact with all kinds of people on the ground, and was very familiar with all kinds of evil tricks. So after entering the city,
, they listed him as a key training target for criminal police. Both Mu Min and Wu Xiang personally led him to handle some cases.
Although these two have not received formal criminal police training, their past work is somewhat similar to that of criminal police, and they have rich social experience. They have been interning with criminal police for more than a month, and they have also learned a lot about the ideas and techniques of criminal investigation.
There are only a few people in the Criminal Division, but there are many things to do, even if you work independently.
The two rushed to the police station where the incident occurred. Seeing that the General Bureau had really sent criminal police, the director did not dare to neglect and personally took them to the scene of the incident - Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were still guarding the place.
However, when they arrived at the scene of the incident, they really had no clue. There were no traces left on the ground. The two of them looked at the place where the body was said to be found for a long time, but saw no suspicious traces.
Gao Chongjiu was about his husband's business. He talked with Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui again and felt that they did not seem to be "possessed by evil spirits". It was unreasonable to say that it was dark and dazzled - the body was not a small stone on the ground. It took two people to do it at the same time.
It’s not easy to be blinded.
"Master Li, even if it's not a corpse, it only makes sense that it's something of similar size and appearance." Gao Chongjiu said after walking around the scene for a long time.
Li Zhenguo nodded. Although the escort was a martial artist, he was very careful and experienced in human affairs. He also felt that Li Ziyu could not be wrong.
Since it is impossible to see wrongly, where did the corpse or something similar to the corpse go? It is obvious that no matter whether what Li Ziyu and the others saw was a corpse, it was not a living thing and could not walk on its own. The only possibility was that someone took advantage of it.
Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui moved away while looking for someone.
Since it was moved, it meant that it was not originally intended to be left on the street. It was probably because they saw the light of the patrolman's lantern while carrying it that they abandoned the body in a hurry and ran away. Later, they found that the police had left again, so they returned to carry it.
The question is where did it move to? Where did it originally move from?
After the person who carried the body abandoned the body, he must have been hiding nearby. When he saw Li Ziyu and the others leaving the scene, they turned back. Where could they hide?
Li Zhenguo looked at the surrounding environment. The alley patrolled by the patrol was a long north-south street called Jianzi Lane. Next to it was an unnamed branch alley. This small alley had no name. In the previous stage of the security inspection with road signs and house signs,
I made up a number in the book called "Seventh Alley of the East Branch of Jianzi Alley", which means the seventh branch alley to the east of Jianzi Alley. This alley is not deep, and when you stand at the entrance of the alley, you can tell that it is a typical wealthy family or
The back alley of the temple is actually a river port.
Opposite the entrance of this branch alley is another branch alley, "Alley 11, West Branch of Jianzi Lane". Although the two alleys are opposite, they are not criss-crossing, in fact, Alley 11, West Branch.
We still have to walk about twenty steps south.
Li Zhenguo estimated that the person who carried the body was hiding in "Alley 11, West Branch of Scissor Lane". First, although it was dark when the incident occurred, the road section where the incident occurred was very straight and there was no place for people to take shelter. If someone was there,
It was impossible for Li Ziyu and the others not to notice it at this close distance. And Li Ziyu had gone in from Lane 7, East Branch of Jianzi Lane.
The key now is where did this "corpse" go? Without the corpse, their work would be a tree without roots, and it would be a complete waste of time.
Li Ziyu stood aside and watched them milling around in this small area, feeling very nervous. If there was a "false report", he would not be able to afford it - and he might not even be able to do his errands.
Lost it.
Thinking of this, Li Ziyu couldn't help but secretly regret why she didn't listen to Kanjie's advice and just pretended that she didn't know.
Zhao Gui stood stupidly, grabbing his crotch from time to time. Li Ziyu didn't know whether he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid. He thought to himself: This guy is sure! He is indeed a stupid person with a forgiving heart.
In addition to grabbing his crotch, Zhao Gui also waved his hands from time to time to drive away flies.
The environmental sanitation in the streets and alleys is very poor, with garbage and puddles everywhere. When the weather gets hotter, there will naturally be more flies.
But these flies saved Li Ziyu, and Gao Zhong suddenly said: "Master Li, look at the ground!"
It turns out that there are quite a few flies gathering on the ground at the entrance of the alley, buzzing around. But if you look closely, you can see that there is no garbage or feces in the places where they gather. There is either dirt or paved gravel underneath. There is nothing to attract flies.
thing.
But for an old catcher like Gao Chongjiu, this is enough: there is no dirt, but there are swarms of flies gathering, indicating that there have been blood stains on it, and the amount is not too small, even though it has been stained one night
It seeps into the soil and is difficult to detect with the human eye, but cannot be hidden from flies. This is also consistent with Li Ziyu's statement that "a large black stain oozed out on the white cloth."
Although it rained last night, it was not heavy enough to completely wash away and dilute the blood in the soil.
Without saying anything, Li Zhenguo knelt down and took out a pair of gloves, a few bamboo sticks and yellow paper sticks with "Big Food Number" written on them from his canvas bag. After waving his hands to drive away the flies, he inserted the paper sticks one by one into the
He marked the place where flies gathered just now, and then started digging with bamboo sticks. After a while, he dug out some black soil, put it to his nose and smelled it, and showed an expression of "Sure enough," Gao.
Although Chongjiu felt that this was unnecessary, Li Zhenguo was "the leader's man" after all, so he quickly took it and smelled it: there was a smell of blood.
Li Zhenguo did not give up and continued to dig deeper. After digging a few times and sniffing, he put the bamboo sticks stuck with soil into a small oil paper bag, wrote the label, and replaced it with a new bamboo stick.
Li Ziyu only felt fresh when he saw it. He didn't even know what they were doing - if he wanted to dig up the body, he should use a shovel, but what could he dig out with a bamboo stick? Although he was puzzled, he still watched with interest.
He dug several inches deep, then took out a ruler from his bag to measure, recorded a few entries in a notebook, and then dug in another place. He repeated the same routine before finally murmuring to Gao Chongjiu.
Get up.
Gao Chongjiu nodded at Li Ziyu and said with a smile: "Good boy, there really is a corpse! You two silly boys are really crazy!" (To be continued.)