The Luogang Mountain puddle was surrounded by yellow warning tape, and the distance was filled with onlookers and reporters who had heard about it.
The Beitian District Bureau's trace inspection team is taking photos and collecting evidence, forensic doctors have removed the body, and field police are searching and collecting evidence within 200 meters of the crime scene.
The captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Beitian District Bureau is conducting a routine interview with Luo Jiajia, the first witness to the murder.
Luo Jiajia: "I often come here for morning jogs. I live nearby. I am very familiar with the mountain trails of Luogang Mountain. The security is always very good, and I am not afraid...I didn't expect there would be corpses. I, I was really scared."
Already."
Liao Huaiyi, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Beitian District Bureau, asked: "Do you come for a morning jog every day?"
"Yes - no, no, I haven't been here in the past two weeks. I went on a business trip last week, and it kept raining last week, so I ran on the treadmill at home. Today is the first time in half a month."
Liao Huaiyi: "No suspicious persons found?"
Luo Jiajia thought for a while and shook her head: "No."
Liao Huaiyi: "Thank you for your cooperation."
Luo Jiajia shook her head and said yes, and then was helped aside by the psychiatrist for some psychological counseling.
The comrade of the criminal police next to him came over and said: "The deceased was a female. The cause of death is unknown, and her age and identity are unknown. The body was burned, highly corrupted, and partially carbonized. The only evidence at the scene related to the murder was a white plastic gasoline barrel.
The gasoline barrels do not have any obvious markings and can be easily purchased online, leaving few clues."
"Except for the traces made by Luo Jiajia, there are no other traces at the scene."
"Police officers are evacuating the crowd and trying not to damage the scene. But——"
Liao Huaiyi knew what his unfinished words meant. He looked back at the pit where all the dead leaves had been scooped out and the water had been drained. Next to the pit was a white plastic gasoline barrel that was kept as evidence.
Thinking back to the past half month, it has rained almost every day in Guangdong City, and the rain has washed away all traces.
He couldn't help but have a headache.
This case is not easy to solve.
..
February 17th.
Tear it apart——
Li Zan tore off a page on the calendar with February 17 written on it, put on his coat and went out. He took the elevator to the parking lot and pressed the car key twice. Then he drove out of the parking lot and left the Chunbu Lao Community. He followed the police on the way.
I took a leave of absence.
Chen Jie asked: "Today is Monday! Boss, are you embarrassed to ask for leave?"
Li Zan: "This is a lifelong event. Are you sorry?"
Chen Jie was shocked: My cp——be!!
Lao Zeng took back the microphone and said to Li Zan: "Are you going on a blind date?"
Li Zan remembered Ms. Liang Mei's repeated urging and wanted the monkey that jumped out of nowhere to occupy half of his bachelor's apartment, so he felt that it was no different than a blind date.
He replied vaguely: "Absolutely."
Lao Zeng was very pleased: "At your age, it's time to consider getting married and having children."
Old Zeng, who is almost forty and still single, has the nerve to tell others? Li Zan thought, then hung up the phone and drove back to his parents' home.
As soon as Lao Zeng hung up the phone, he turned around and dialed to report the happy event to Bureau Tong. When Bureau Tong heard this, he was so happy that he even had the energy to iron his wife's bra.
Bureau Tong’s wife: “What are you so happy about?”
Bureau Tong said: "That boy Li Zan asked for leave to go on a blind date!"
Tong Ju’s wife: “What a happy event!”
She turned around and went to tell her old sister: "That kid Li Zan's blind date was successful."
They are all police wives, and they have known each other for about ten years in the same circle. The police wives are from the same country, and naturally their husbands are colleagues. They have fought side by side without looking up and down, and they are almost like old friends.
.
It happened that they had seen Li Zan since childhood, and his marriage was equivalent to their son's marriage.
Word spread from person to person, and by the time the director of the Municipal Bureau, Bureau Sun, who was retiring in half a month, the news came to his ears: Li Zan had made a big blind date and was about to get married!
Even the number of wine tables to be set and which hotel in which district to place them were discussed, which shows how terrifying the power of three people becomes a tiger.
Li Zan didn't know how big a tornado his vague words had stirred up, and he arrived at his parents' home.
When he opened the door and saw that the living room was filled with gifts, he guessed that the son of Ms. Liang Mei's old sister whom she had not seen for many years had arrived early. Li Zan casually put the car keys on the shoe cabinet, put on his slippers and went to lie down on the sofa in the living room.
I couldn't tell what was in the gift bag in front of me, but Li Zan happened to know several of the big names.
It seems that this friend is very rich.
About two months ago, Ms. Liang Mei asked him to go home to receive her old sister's son, but the old sister's son happened to catch a flight and left.
It had been two months since they left, right after the Lantern Festival. Li Zan breathed a sigh of relief and thought he didn't have to share an apartment.
Unexpectedly, people still try to find time to show courtesy.
Just as he was thinking about something, he heard a slightly familiar man's voice coming from the kitchen: "With my aunt's cooking skills, I can open a small shop by myself. I'm sure the shop is full, because normal people know what to buy."
There was a light breeze-like smile in his voice, and the tone and words of praise were both objective and true, without any false or exaggerated compliments. It was enough to make any woman smile and become attracted to him.
closeness and appreciation.
Sure enough, the next moment Ms. Liang Mei couldn't suppress her joyful tone: "How can my cooking skills be so good? Don't be too honest. You kid is handsome, has good conduct, and the key is that you are so sincere! You are young!
This is how you should be. Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Not yet. Having a girlfriend is a lifelong event, so you need to be careful."
Ms. Liang Mei’s admiration overflowed. She said: “Good boy, responsible!”
Li Zan almost spit out the cold liquid in his mouth. He thought that this person was too thick-skinned.
As soon as I heard that reply, I knew that he was a well-dressed beast who was accustomed to wearing skins. Poor Ms. Liang Mei was so confused that she almost recognized her son.
When Ms. Liang Mei saw the head popping up from the sofa, she immediately said: "My son is back. Jiang Heng, come here quickly. I'll introduce you two to each other."
Jiang Heng stepped out of the kitchen and raised his head to meet Li Zan, who was smiling but not smiling. He smiled: "No, we know each other."
Li Zan: "The son of an old sister?"
Jiang Heng: "Coincidence."
Li Zan felt that this was a strange coincidence.
Ms. Liang Mei was surprised: "Are you friends?"
Jiang Heng: "It's a friend." He looked at Li Zan: "Right? A friend."
Li Zan responded casually, and Ms. Liang Mei learned that Jiang Heng met Li Zan on his first day in Yuejiang City. After that, they hit it off, had similar interests, and became friends.
Li Zan snorted in his heart and listened to his nonsense.
Ms. Liang Mei suddenly clasped her hands together, her eyes shining brightly: "Fate! It's fate!! Jiang Heng came to Yuejiang City in a hurry and doesn't have a place to live? Our little Zan lives in a single apartment, so you can go and live with him!"
"I object!" Li Zan said immediately: "He has a place to live. If not, there is a hotel. At worst, I will pay for it."
Jiang Heng found Li Zan, who was very resistant, quite interesting. When he returned home, he seemed to have taken off his adult armor and became relaxed and lively, especially when he glanced at him with his sword undisguised.
He just felt...
More vivid.
Jiang Heng: "Auntie, forget it if Li Zan doesn't agree. It doesn't matter to me. Although the hotel is cold and doesn't have the warmth of home, I'm used to it."
Hearing this, Ms. Liang Mei, who was a little shaken at first, immediately decided: "You can go and stay at Li Zan's place tonight!"
Li Zan couldn't believe it: "Since he wants the warmth of home, he might as well live with you."
Ms. Liang Mei: "In two days, your father and I will go to Hong Kong to meet up with my old sister. Xiaocheng is the one at home——"
"No need to say more, I agree."
After the family dinner, Li Xiancheng invited Li Zan to her school to attend the honorary alumni association, and said that she had been awarded the Outstanding Young Student Association to receive the award on stage.
Li Zan: "You just want to find a reason to let Zhong Xueru go."
Li Xiancheng chuckled: "Brother, please."
Li Zan put his hands in his pockets and walked away without looking back. Behind him, Li Xiancheng was still shouting thanks. When he arrived at the parking lot and opened the door, he found Jiang Heng getting into the passenger seat.
Li Zan examined Jiang Heng: "Have you checked in advance?"
"I checked." Jiang Heng admitted generously: "But I didn't find you. The information said that Aunt Liang only has one daughter. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence."
Li Zan held the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator: "Just don't cause trouble." He did not want to explain Jiang Heng's doubts, but started another topic and said: "The bachelor apartment I live in has one bedroom and one living room. There is a folding bed in the living room.
You can sleep on the sofa and the bathroom. You can also sleep on the bathroom, toilet and balcony, but you are not allowed to enter the bedroom."
Jiang Heng: "I accept."
Hearing this, Li Zan raised his head and glanced at Jiang Heng in the rearview mirror. He didn't quite understand why he would rather share a single apartment with him than go to a hotel since he was rich.
Li Zan asked about his doubts. He suspected that Jiang Heng was deliberately approaching.
Jiang Heng looked out the car window and was silent for a long time before he said, "Because the way you resist is so beautiful."
Li Zan: "??"
Jiang Heng: "The more Captain Li resists, the more excited I am, so I especially want to go against you." He looked into Li Zan's eyes in the rearview mirror and said gently: "If you are unhappy, I will be happy.
"
Li Zan: "..."
Dog bitch!!!
Li Zan's single apartment on the 15th floor of Building F in Chunbulao Community.
Jiang Heng was mentally prepared before going in. He thought he would see a cold and chaotic apartment, but he didn't expect that the room was quite clean and tidy.
The living room is equipped with a coffee table and sofa, and the kitchen is opened up to an open plan. There is also a relatively large office area next to it. In addition, a navy blue straight police uniform hangs on the wall.
Having said that, it seems that he has never seen Li Zan wearing a police uniform.
Li Zan threw a bunch of keys to Jiang Heng: "Buy your own personal items. I don't have double portions here."
Jiang Heng took the key and walked around the apartment, finding that it was fully equipped with a sense of life.
There are also a lot of succulent plants planted on the balcony, and there is a cabinet in the office area. The cabinet is full of certificates, trophies and medals, basically the honors obtained after becoming a criminal police officer.
As small as a district, as large as a city, or a province, there is also a title of the top 100 criminal police officers in the country and other honorary badges.
The badges and trophies in the cabinet quietly emit a faint golden light, silent and heavy, seeming to silently state the glorious glory that their owners have had.
That was Li Zan's past.
Li Zan took out two bottles of ice water, gave one to Jiang Heng, and opened the other bottle to drink. While drinking, he glanced at the glass cabinet and said without emotion: "Not all of them are mine."
He stopped by the sofa and asked, "How long will you stay?"
Jiang Heng thought for a while and answered honestly: "I haven't thought about it." Seeing Li Zan's cold eyes, he added: "But I won't stay for long. There are some small problems that need to be solved in the past, so it won't take too long."
Li Zan threw the empty bottle into the specially separated reusable bag, picked up the car keys and said as he walked: "Two weeks at most. When the time is up, take the initiative to make friends. I will go back to the bureau and you can do it yourself."
After saying that, the door closed and his figure disappeared.
Seeing this, Jiang Heng in the room just smiled and put down the mineral water in his hand. His fingers were loosely clasped together, as if he was in his own territory.
He was thinking about what kind of person Li Zan was, and he always felt that this person seemed to be becoming more and more vivid and interesting.
..
It was already around two o'clock in the afternoon when Li Zan arrived at the bureau to report. Chen Jie and Ji Chengling had a heated argument about an old case. Wang Junjuan was bored playing code, and Lao Zeng was drinking tea and listening to a show and working slowly.
Anyway, as soon as the complicated murder case ended, the rhythm of the branch quickly returned to a retirement state.
It’s no wonder that even if they are cleansed, their peers still can’t completely change their negative impression of them.
As soon as Lao Zeng saw Li Zan coming in, he wanted to turn off the radio and return it to him, but it turned out so smoothly that he switched to the "People's Livelihood First" column group. He didn't have time to change the channel, and the radio first made one or two coughs to stabilize the frequency, and then the reporter came
A well-spoken report.
"...At 7:30 this morning, a female body was found charred in a puddle deep in Luogang Mountain, Beitian District. The police are currently involved in the investigation."
The murder report immediately attracted everyone's attention. Even Chen Jie and Ji Chengling stopped arguing and looked up.
Ji Chengling: "Women's charred corpse?"
"Jobs in Beitian District." Chen Jie's focus quickly changed: "I heard that the reporter of the People's Livelihood First column seems to have changed someone, isn't it Zhao Yanli?"
With that said, the report is over. The reporter's name reported after the report is indeed not Zhao Yanli.
Ji Chengling: "Last time in the dismemberment case, she followed and took secret photos, directly grasping the front-line news. Later, even the People's Daily online media forwarded her report. Then Feng Guangming must have been promoted."
Chen Jie: "Many of her reports were random speculations. If the boss hadn't asked me to guide her deliberately in time, I don't know what would have been said."
"Don't worry." Lao Zeng said at this time: "If she is promoted to a print media or a TV station, her subjective color and distorted reporting will definitely cause trouble."
"If you tune into the online media, you will be like a fish in water." Li Zan used his mobile phone to search for news about the Luogangshan murder case in Beitian District and read it several times: "This murder case is difficult."
Chen Jie was curious: "How to say?"
Ji Chengling: "What did you see?"
Li Zan: "Luogang Mountain is undeveloped, sparsely populated, and has no surveillance. There are many paths up the mountain, and one of the intersections connects to a highway, and the traffic flow is usually very large. Exclusion alone is unrealistic. The key is that the intersections that connect to the highway are not monitored.
"
"Also, it has been raining for half a month in Guangdong City. The weather forecast has the highest rainfall in the Luogang Mountain area of Beitian District. All evidence has been washed away by the rain. The murderer will definitely destroy the body after throwing it away.
There are no traces of her, so the charred corpse that was discovered should not have anything to prove her identity."
"The charred corpses were burned and their faces were difficult to identify, doubling the difficulty of confirming the identity of the deceased."
Ji Chengling: "The identity of the deceased can be determined by investigating missing persons records."
"It would be that simple." Li Zan stretched and said, "None of us can be sure that the crime scene is in Beitian District. If the crime scene is in other districts, just checking the suspicious missing persons records in the entire Yuejiang City would be enough.
It’s a big project. Here’s another hypothesis——”
“What should I do if the deceased was not registered as missing?”
The author has something to say: Jiang Heng, a ‘blind date’ who got pregnant.
The reporter will not appear in this case. She will be somewhat involved in a certain case.
