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. Not to mention the body, not even a scrap of cloth was left behind. This caused the police station to murmur. However, seeing that Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui swore they had seen it with their own eyes, the director felt that he could not be careless, so he sent a correspondent to the city bureau to report.
In the Criminal Division of the Municipal Bureau, the only people who can barely be called criminal policemen are five naturalized criminal policemen who were transferred from Lingao. The chief of the criminal department is Wu Xiang. Even though he is only in his early twenties, he is the oldest criminal police officer in the department. His background is also very "prominent": the first batch of the police class of Fangcaodi National School. Moreover, it was the "teacher" 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 that only two patrol policemen reported.
Although there was no body, a murder was a homicide after all. 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 businesses, the public security situation in Guangzhou City is very chaotic. No city in the Senate's territory could compare with it. At the beginning of entering the city, when the old and new regimes were changing, cases occurred more frequently. At most, hundreds of robberies and thefts occurred throughout the city in one day. If it weren't for the Military Control Commission's use of heavy codes in troubled times and the policy of arresting, trying and killing criminals in vicious cases, as well as the army's uninterrupted day and night patrols, the security situation would have been stabilized in a short period of time.
Even so, the incidence rate 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 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 regular criminal police training from Lingao are the few naturalized police officers transferred from Lingao, which is obviously not enough to deal with criminal cases in such a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands. Therefore, a group of local police officers in Guangzhou were recruited on the spot.
The backbone of them are the escorts from Qiwei Escort Agency who were engaged in the local business of "staying in shops" and "nursing homes". There are not many of them, but they are very familiar with the social conditions of Guangzhou. As the earliest traditional enterprise controlled by the Senate, Qiwei's personnel are naturally "politically reliable."
The other part is composed of the original fast-class yamen servants who were retained, as well as the regular servants. After several rounds of purges of the detective team, those left behind were those with "minor historical crimes and no bloodshed". The Senate considered this group of people unreliable, but they were extremely familiar with the three religions and nine streams in Guangzhou, and the situation of the city's foxes and rats. Police work is useful. That’s why I added him to the Criminal Division.
One of the two criminal policemen sent was Gao Chongjiu, a retained yamen officer from the Kuaiban, 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. When he was twelve years old, he could wield a single sword to great effect without even scratching the mark. When he was sixteen years old, 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 his opponents in a rage. Naturally, he could no longer stay in his hometown, so he took his family and changed their names and fled to Guangdong to join his fellow villagers. From then on, he became a bodyguard in Qiwei.
Because of his family background, he can't stand the hard work of being a escort, but he is relatively eloquent. He "sits in a shop" in the city all year round, has contact with all kinds of people on the ground, and is very familiar with all kinds of evil tricks. So after entering the city, he was listed as a key training target for criminal police officers. Both Mu Min and Wu Xiang personally took 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 not many people in the criminal department, but there are many things to do, even if you are on duty.
The two rushed to the police station where the incident occurred. Seeing that the General Administration had 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 them.
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 spent a long time looking at the place where the body was said to be found, but saw no suspicious traces.
Gao Chongjiu's husband's business was over, and 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, and 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 there was no way he could be mistaken, where did the corpse or something resembling a corpse go? It was obvious that regardless of 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 moved it while Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui left to look for someone.
Since it was moved, it meant that it was not intended to be left on the street. It was probably because he saw the light of the patrolman's lantern during the move and abandoned the body in a hurry and ran away. Later, I found that the police had left again, so I returned to move it.
The question is where to move? Where did it originally move from?
After the person who carried the body abandoned the body, he must have been hiding nearby. He saw Li Ziyu and the others leaving the scene and then returning. Where could they hide?
Li Zhenguo looked at the surrounding environment. The alley that the patrol patrolled was a long north-south street called Jianzi Lane. Next to it was an unnamed branch alley. This alley had no name. In the previous stage of the public security inspection of nailing street signs and house numbers, a number was compiled, called "Seventh Alley of the East Branch of Jianzi Lane", which means the seventh branch alley to the east of Jianzi Lane. This alley is not deep. When you stand at the entrance of the alley, you can tell that it is a typical back alley of a wealthy family or a temple. It is actually a river port.
Opposite the entrance of this branch lane is another branch lane, "Alley 11, West Branch of Jianzi Lane". Although the two alleys are opposite each other, they are not criss-crossing. In fact, West Branch 11th Alley is about 20 steps further 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 hide. If someone was nearby, it was impossible for Li Ziyu and the others not to notice it. And Li Ziyu has been to Lane 7, the east branch of Jianzi Lane.
The key now is where did this "corpse" go? Without corpses, their work would be useless and 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" case, 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 quite determined! As expected, people are stupid and generous.
In addition to grabbing his crotch, Zhao Gui also waved his hands from time to time to drive away flies.
The 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 turned out that there were many flies gathering on the ground in several places at the entrance of the alley, buzzing around. But if you look closely, you will see that there is neither garbage nor feces where they gather. There is either dirt or gravel underneath. Nothing to attract flies.
But for an old catcher like Gao Chongjiu, this was enough: there was no dirt, but there were swarms of flies gathering, indicating that there had been blood stains on it, and the amount was not too small, even though it had already been stained after one night. Penetrating into the soil, it 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 area of black blood seeped 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 a yellow paper stick with "Big Food Number" written on it from his canvas bag. After waving his hands to drive away the flies, he first used paper sticks to mark the places where the flies had gathered one by one, and then used bamboo sticks to start digging. After a while, he dug out some black soil and put it against his nose. After sniffing it, he showed an expression of "Sure enough". Although Gao 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 didn't give up and continued digging. 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 looking at it. They don't even know what they are doing - if they want to dig up the body, they should use a shovel, but what can they dig out with a bamboo stick? Although he was puzzled, he still watched with interest. After watching him dig several inches deep, he took out a ruler from his bag to measure, recorded a few entries in his notebook, and then dug in another place. He repeated the same routine before finally standing up after muttering to Gao Chongjiu.
Gao Chongjiu nodded to Li Ziyu and said with a smile: "Good boy, there really is a corpse! You two silly boys are really crazy!" (To be continued.)
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