Sun Renyi was furious at the death and injury of his subordinates, and immediately wanted to recruit people to find the murderer. If this revenge was not avenged, what would the people on the lake think of Wenrentang.
Brother Pao is just trying to save face. Losing face means telling others that he is easy to bully. Then cats and dogs will dare to attack Qiu Feng, which will cause trouble.
"Sun Zhangqi, wait."
Zuo Zhong suddenly raised his hand, stood up, looked at the other person and said calmly: "Don't worry, you can take us to see the corpses and the injured first. We are professionals in solving crimes, and maybe we can help Guitangkou find the murderer."
After speaking, he gave an order to Gu Qi: "Inform Gui Youguang, Doctor Ling and the surveyors to come over, and send someone to protect the injured. Shopkeeper Sun's business is our business. Tell the brothers to do their job carefully."
"Understood."
Gu Qi immediately walked out without any hesitation. He also felt that this matter was a bit too coincidental. These people would die sooner or later, but when the one they wanted to investigate died, there must be something weird among them.
Sun Renyi on the side couldn't help but feel suspicious. When did Agent Gou become so enthusiastic? This matter may have something to do with the military commander.
The man surnamed Zuo just said that if the Japanese knew that Wenrentang was assisting the government in the investigation, they would definitely send people to retaliate. Could this be the other party's warning?
Son of a turtle, these devils are also trash who bully the weak and fear the strong. They dare not deal with the military commander. Do the people who come to kill him really think that he is a soft persimmon who is at the mercy of others?
Thinking that he might have been harmed by Chi Yu, Sun Renyi's face became even more ugly. He ignored Zuo Zhong, turned around and left the teahouse with the tea waiter and walked towards the place of the incident.
At this time, the light rain gradually stopped, and the Haitangxi Pier was already in chaos. The streets were full of men armed with guns or cold weapons. They stopped pedestrians and passing vehicles to conduct searches.
The stalls of small vendors were also overturned to the ground. Faced with this situation, many people were so frightened that they trembled and huddled in corners and did not dare to move.
Zuo Zhong, who followed him out, frowned when he saw this scene. When will the elder brother be qualified to search? This kind of public power can and can only be held in the hands of the government.
If things were done like this, where would be the prestige of the government and where would the dignity of the law be? He immediately found Sun Renyi and reprimanded him unceremoniously.
"Sun Zhangqi, let your people go back. Since it is a criminal case, it should be handed over to the government. What's the point of embarrassing these people.
There are military police units nearby, and I will arrange for them to cordon off the surrounding area. What you have to do is to mobilize all the informants to see if anyone has seen the murderer. "
Perhaps realizing that it was inappropriate to do so, Sun Renyi did not refute after hearing this. He waved his men away with a dark face and came to the body angrily.
The incident occurred deep in an alley with a low flow of people. It was hidden and difficult for passers-by to see. If the waiter hadn't been searching carefully, the incident might not have been discovered until a long time later.
There were a total of five corpses at the scene, either lying on their backs or lying on the ground. There were many marks of slashing and stabbing on their bodies. The murderer's methods were very cruel.
One of the deceased had an expression of surprise and fear on his face, his eyes staring straight into the sky, as if he didn't believe that he would be buried here until his death.
The amount of bleeding at the scene was huge, the surrounding walls were covered with blood stains, the soil also showed a strange dark red color, and a pungent smell of blood rushed towards the face.
Even the corner a dozen steps away was stained with splashes of blood, which showed how powerful the murderer's movements were and how arrogant he was when killing people.
"It's a dog's day."
Sun Renyi cursed fiercely, and at the same time, he began to doubt his guess. It was obvious that a matter that could be solved with one knife had to be cut with so many knifes. This was a standard method of killing in Qiuhu.
There is only one purpose - to intimidate and threaten. In the past decades of Brother Pao's career, he has seen it many times, but how much hatred does the murderer have against Wen Ren Tang to do this?
He quickly thought of a dozen colleagues who had the ability to do such a thing, and evaluated the strength of these people, trying to find the murderer.
Zuo Zhong didn't care about what the other party thought. He walked around the alley with his hands in his pocket and picked up a few stones.
An area was fenced off on the ground and the tea server was told that no one was allowed to enter.
The scene has been trampled many times by the deceased, the murderer, the tea waiter, and Brother Pao who came after hearing the news. Many physical evidences have been contaminated, and now they can only be protected as much as possible.
The tea waiter asked Sun Renyi for instructions and stood guard at both ends of the alley with several tall and round men, blocking the entrance and exit to prevent onlookers from damaging the scene.
Dozens of minutes later, Gu Qi came with Gui Youguang, Ling Sanping and the surveyors. Everyone saluted Zuo Zhong, put on their shoe covers and gloves and started surveying.
First, the investigators found 6 pairs of suspicious footprints around the body and at the two exits of the alley through the footprints of Brother Pao who had entered the scene and the footprints of the deceased.
These footprints most likely belonged to the murderer. Eye-catching red flags were placed next to the footprints, and several action tracks were immediately recovered.
According to the direction of Xiaoqi, it can be seen that six people led Brother Pao from Wenrentang to the scene from the entrance of the alley, and then a moderately violent fight broke out between the two parties.
I say this because most of the footprints are clear, strong, and have very normal strides, and no one would attack from a walking stance during a fight.
After hearing this conclusion, Zuo Zhong looked at the corpses lying in a mess, nodded thoughtfully, and motioned them to continue the investigation without saying anything.
On the other side, Ling Sanping confirmed that the five victims all died of massive hemorrhage due to damage to their internal organs, and there were multiple fatal stab wounds on the chest and back.
Judging from the scars, the murder weapon was a sharp, long-edged dagger. The murderer used it to stab the body and then spun it around half a circle. He was completely rushing to kill.
In addition to the cause of death, he also used liver temperature to detect the approximate time of death of the deceased. The result was that it was less than two hours, which corroborated the tea server's confession.
Compared with the conventional judgment of rigor mortis, this detection method is more accurate because the liver is inside the human body and is not easily affected by external temperature changes, and the body temperature drops regularly after death.
The only inconvenient thing is that measuring liver temperature requires preliminary dissection. A small opening must be made in the liver for the thermometer to enter, which may damage the body.
Looking at the handsome agent whose gloves were stained with blood, and the fellow who had his abdomen disemboweled open on the ground, the brothers felt a slight chill in their hearts and took two steps back unconsciously.
As the flag bearer, Sun Renyi almost vomited out his words, not wanting to lose face in front of his subordinates, so he pinched his slightly trembling thigh and stood there pretending to be calm.
Of course he had seen dead people before, and he had even seen a lot of them, but seeing a person being "cut into pieces" like a grilled fish in a mountain city with his own eyes did challenge his bottom line.
His Adam's apple twitched a few times, and Sun Renyi made a request to Zuo Zhong in a low voice: "Sir Zuo, I know that we must do an autopsy to find out when they died.
Could you please let this gentleman...sew it up? If the corpse is not intact, my brother will not be able to go to the underworld, and he will not be able to be reincarnated as a human being. "
This was a very reasonable request. Zuo Zhong had no reason to refuse. He agreed with a tap of his head, and then shouted to Gui Youguang to ask about the situation.
"Have you finished reading?"
Following the shouting, Gui Youguang, who was originally squatting on the ground, stood up, came to his side with a serious expression, and lowered his voice to tell his speculation.
"Deputy Officer, this is definitely not a vendetta in Qiaohu, and the murderer and the deceased must have known each other, and were even from the same sect."
"impossible!"
Sun Renyi, who was eavesdropping on the side, couldn't help it anymore and retorted loudly: "Sir, Sun has been working hard on Qihu Lake for decades, so we can still tell whether it is a vendetta or not.
There were so many scars on the body and there were multiple fatal wounds. It was obvious that the murderer wanted to vent his anger, otherwise there would be no need to do this and there would be blood everywhere.
It is even more impossible for my men to kill their own people. Killing fellow sect members and betraying their ancestors are taboos for Brother Pao. Anyone who dares to do so has only one result, and that is to wait for three swords and six holes. "
Three knives and six holes is a gang rule. If someone does something irreparable, he must use a sharp blade to punch three holes in his body as a punishment.
For serious crimes, stabbing in the chest will result in death or life after three stabs.
If it is not serious, we will choose non-vital locations to attack, such as thighs or hands.
When Sun Renyi thought about it, no one in Wenrentang would dare to make such a big mistake. Not only would he die, but his family would also be affected, and he would never be able to hold his head high in the local area.
But Zuo Zhong did not believe that a single punishment could prevent cannibalism or betrayal of the country. National law and military discipline were stricter, and the Guo army had not yet surrendered the entire division and regiment.
It is difficult for human nature to withstand the test. Money, status, and beauty will all make a person give up the things he used to stick to, so he just asked two words.
"evidence?"
"Of course, deputy seat please."
Gui Youguang led Zuo Zhong to a corpse, pointed at the wounds and said, "These wounds look messy, but in fact the location chosen by the murderer is very accurate.
Every fatal wound hits the internal organs just right, without any deviation. This requires extremely professional training, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to do this.
Even if someone in the gang can do it, killing a few low-level robe brothers and dispatching 6 such masters at once, the possibility is very slim and basically impossible.
I believe that the murderers are operational masters with an intelligence background. They created unnecessary wounds in order to conceal their actions, but they forgot to cover up their actions. "
After explaining the first point, he pointed to the rows of small flags on the ground: "As for why I said the murderer knew the deceased, the answer lies in these action tracks.
It can be seen from the footprints that the two parties walked very close to each other, breaking the safe distance in normal interpersonal communication, which shows that the relationship between them is very close.
In addition, the scene was so remote that unless someone could be trusted, a group of robed men who had been licking blood from the knife edge all year round would not be able to safely follow the murderer into the alley.
At the same time, because they were unprepared, the deceased had no time to resist when they were attacked so close. Therefore, there were very few signs of fighting and the bodies were all together.
It can be seen from this that even if the murderer is not a member of Bunrentang, he must have some connection with Bunrentang. Through this and the testimony of witnesses, the murderer can be found. "
Gui Youguang ended the conversation with confidence and waited for praise with his chest raised. It was indeed not easy to deduce so many clues from traces.
After hearing this, Sun Renyi's mouth opened wide. He felt that he had been killed by the Japanese as a warning to the monkeys, but who was the murderer? His mind was a little confused for a while.
If the Japanese spy is really hiding in Wenrentang, it means that the members of the hall may be stabbed several times at any time, including him, the leader.
Thinking of this, Lao Jianghu Sun Renyi became uneasy and turned his attention to Zuo Zhong for help. This trouble was caused by the military commander, and he must be held responsible.
Zuo Zhong glanced at the other party and nodded to Gui Youguang to express his satisfaction. In fact, he had a similar speculation when he saw the scene for the first time.
But it was hard to say whether that living person could really help them find the spy. He was silent for a while, and then comforted the panicked Sun Renyi with gentle words.
"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Sun. The military commander will protect you and your family. You will be safe. The most important thing now is to let the living witness speak.
In this way, after the on-site investigation is over, I will ask my best doctors to go to the hospital to take charge of treatment. Once the witnesses wake up, we will know the identity of the murderer.
But you have to pay attention to one thing. You cannot tell anyone what you found at the scene, and you are not allowed to communicate with witnesses. Leave everything to us. Do you understand? "
"clear."
Sun Renyi looked at the stern Zuo Zhong and quickly promised that he would keep it a secret. He had no choice but to take care of this matter. Regardless of whether the murderer could be found or not, he would have to pay a penny for the settlement fee to the family of the deceased.
After receiving a positive reply, Zuo Zhong ordered the small agents to watch the scene and called Gu Qi, Gui Youguang, and Ling Sanping to walk to Haitangxi Pier.
Watching the water rolling eastward, Zuo Zhong folded his arms and frowned, thinking carefully about what happened today. He always felt a strange feeling.
what is it then?
He fell into deep thought and saw that the deputy director did not speak, and the other three stood not far away without saying anything, waiting until night fell.
Zuo Zhong, who noticed that his surroundings were getting darker, came back to his senses.
I decided to go back to the headquarters to make plans, but when I raised my feet, I suddenly smelled a strange smell.
Out of curiosity, he lowered his head and smelled it for a long time, and finally determined that the smell came from his clothes. The moment he raised his head, a flash of light flashed in his mind.
I see……
Looking at the black tunic suit on his body, Zuo Zhong seemed to have figured out something. He strode up to his men and started whispering to Gu Qi and the other three amidst the rushing water.
