Xu Lang and the others were extremely excited after learning that Shen Kaiwen had appeared. If Shen Kaiwen had been hiding somewhere, it would be obviously impossible for Xu Lang and the others to find him in a short time, and Shen Kevin chose to jump out on his own, which would save the police a lot of trouble. However, this excitement was completely shattered before it lasted long.
The rain became heavier and heavier, and fewer and fewer people stayed at the scene. Most of the people who saw the previous scene chose to leave in a hurry after the rain. After all, the dead people were unfamiliar to them and they did not know them. People, as long as they have nothing to do with them, their life and death are irrelevant to them. They are just a spectacle. Now it is raining, and they don't want to get their clothes wet, nor do they want to stand in the cold wind. Chuifu chose to leave. As for those who didn't leave, more than just wanting to know the truth, they also wanted to explore the secrets inside and maybe get a bigger piece of melon.
The police acted quickly. After the fire was extinguished, a cordon was immediately set up at the scene to protect the scene and maintain order.
With the assistance of nearby police comrades and comrades from the court, a temporary plastic shed was quickly erected at the scene to cover the damage caused by the rain. As for Shen Kaiwen's body, it was also taken away immediately. It was sent to CSY's forensic autopsy room for autopsy.
At the scene of the crime, apart from Shen Kaiwen himself, only a car he drove and an empty plastic jug lying quietly on the ground were found.
What exactly was in the plastic jug? After picking up the plastic jug and smelling it, I knew it contained nothing but gasoline.
Fan Yang and the others took the toolbox and conducted a careful survey at the scene, while Xu Lang and the others returned to CSY after handling the scene.
On the way back, Xu Lang's face was very ugly. He didn't say a word and just looked at the car silently. The same was true for everyone else.
Shen Kaiwen died. An important clue in the investigation of several current cases was interrupted because of Shen Kaiwen's death. I originally wanted to learn from him the whereabouts of Ji Xueling and others after arresting Shen Kaiwen. After the fire broke out, it was declared destroyed.
Shen Kaiwen's death did bring a lot of trouble to Xu Lang and his team's investigation of the case. However, this is not the biggest trouble now. The biggest trouble now is that the place where Shen Kaiwen chose to commit suicide was in front of the court. , and there were many people who witnessed this incident. Xu Lang didn't need to read the news to know that the news that Shen Kaiwen self-immolated in front of the Intermediate People's Court had already set himself on fire, and with these news Xu Lang didn't know what kind of discussions, public opinions, and speculations would follow the emergence of the police. However, it would definitely be detrimental to the police, which would bring greater trouble to the police in detecting the case.
After returning to CSY, Xu Lang and the others were all wet and still dripping. With every step they took, a water stain would be left on the clean ground. However, Now no one pays attention to water stains on the ground.
Very few things were found at the scene, an empty plastic jug that was once filled with gasoline, a car that was not that old, and Shen Kevin's body. Other than that, the scene was unusually clean, just like it is now covered by rain. After being washed repeatedly, the streets are horribly clean.
Shen Kaiwen's body is being dissected. The autopsy results cannot be obtained until the autopsy is completed. The investigation of the empty plastic bottles is also in progress. Now, what Xu Lang wants to know most is what Shen Kaiwen opened during his lifetime. What's going on with that car? Let's see if we can find some useful clues from the car.
At this time, the people from the traffic control department have already got off work. If they want to investigate the origin of the car based on the car's condition, they probably have to wait until tomorrow. However, Xu Lang can't wait. He can't wait for a moment now, so Lu Xing Under Xu Lang's arrangement, he directly used technology to enter the internal system of the traffic control department and directly retrieved the information. Although Xu Lang knew that what he did was illegal, but now that such a big thing has happened, Xu Lang has already I can't care about this anymore.
According to the car's information, Lu Xing soon found the owner of the car.
The car owner's name is Lu Dazhan, male, 37 years old, working in a state-owned enterprise. He has been working in this company since graduation and has no bad record.
According to what Lu Xing found out, Lu Dazhan went to the local police station to call the police a few days ago. The reason for calling the police was that he parked his car far away from the beach when he took his family to the beach during his vacation. At a stopping point, because it was Sunday, there were quite a few people going to the beach. There were no free parking spaces in the parking lot at the beach, so he had to park the car farther away and wait until they had finished playing at the beach. When they were about to go home, they found that their car was missing. After searching around, they couldn't find the car, so they went to the local police station to call the police. After calling the police, the police also arrived at the scene and conducted an investigation. However, Because there were no cameras where Lu Dazhan parked his car, and the beach here was just developed, the monitoring facilities were not so complete, so no suspicious traces were found at the scene.
Subsequently, people from the police station contacted the traffic control department and asked them to check the nearby surveillance video. After some investigation, they found that at an intersection far away from the beach, the surveillance camera captured
This car had appeared before, but due to surveillance equipment, the driver's face was not photographed, and the two cars never appeared in the surveillance again after passing that intersection.
Obviously, the car driven by Kevin Shen was stolen. It is still unclear whether the person who stole the car was Kevin Shen. However, one thing can be proved, that is, Kevin Shen tonight The act of self-immolation in front of the court had been planned long ago, otherwise, he would not have stolen the vehicle in advance.
To be sure, Xu Lang still had people contact Lu Dazhan and ask him to come to CSY to identify whether the car found at the scene was the one he lost.
Soon, Lu Dazhan braved the rain and took a taxi to CSY.
When Xu Lang handed him the photo of the car, he only took one glance and recognized that the car driven by Shen Kaiwen was the one he lost. The reason why Lu Dazhan recognized it so quickly was mainly because Because there were some very cute cartoon stickers on his parking space, and these stickers were posted by his seven-year-old son. In addition, the rear of his car scratched a tree while parking the car on the day the car was stolen. It left traces. He originally wanted to go to the 4S shop for repairs in a few days, but before he could repair it, the car was stolen.
After determining the origin of the car, Xu Lang asked some questions about Lu Dazhan's experience on the day the car was stolen.
However, after some inquiries, Xu Lang and the others regretfully discovered that everything Lu Dazhan experienced that day was normal and looked ordinary. There was nothing suspicious about it. The person who stole his vehicle should have committed the crime randomly.
Of course, after the police learned that the owner of the car was Lu Dazhan, they would naturally wonder whether he had anything to do with Shen Kaiwen. However, after some inquiries, they found that Lu Dazhan did not know Shen Kaiwen at all, and he had never heard of Shen Kaiwen. Kevin, Lu Dazhan works in a state-owned enterprise. He has a stable job and a stable income. As long as he does not make mistakes at work and the company does not close down, he will have an iron rice bowl. Lu Dazhan is not burdened with debts, and his relationship with his wife is also very good. There is no such thing. A dispute arose due to emotional or financial issues, so after some questioning, he was allowed to go home.
When Lu Dazhan left, he hesitated. He asked if he could drive the car away now that he had found it. Naturally, it turned out that he couldn't. After all, there were many things left at the scene of Shen Kaiwen's death. There are many, and the car is the biggest physical evidence. Naturally, it is impossible to let him drive away.
After receiving this answer from the police, Lu Dazhan had no choice but to leave in disappointment.
After Lu Dazhan left, Fan Yang and others, who were responsible for surveying the site, also returned to CSY.
According to Fan Yang's report, the environment at the scene was very poor. In addition, when Xu Lang and others took rescue operations, the scene suffered a lot of damage and nothing of value was extracted.
After listening to Fan Yang's report, Xu Lang was not surprised. In fact, Xu Lang was aware of this problem when Shen Kaiwen died.
The results of the inspection of empty plastic bottles were soon obtained. The empty plastic bottles were very ordinary in terms of style and material. They can be bought in supermarkets. The contents once contained in the plastic bottles were definitely 92 gasoline. , 92 gasoline is also the gasoline that Lu Dazhan’s car often fills. It is very likely that Shen Kaiwen added extra fuel from the gas station when refueling the car. It is not unusual for the car owner to put spare gasoline in the trunk. things.
Fan Yang found fingerprints and shoe prints on the driver's seat and steering wheel of the car. She had already taken samples and was about to do a fingerprint comparison to determine whether these fingerprints were left by Shen Kevin.
At present, these are the only useful clues that the police have found in their investigation.
Because the incident happened suddenly, Xu Lang and the others can only temporarily conduct investigations based on what was found at the scene.
Everyone knew what to do next, and Xu Lang didn't need to arrange it. They all got busy on their own, and Xu Lang returned to the office and looked through Shen Kaiwen's files again.
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Xu Lang returned to the office and sat down. He did not rush to read the files about Shen Kaiwen. Instead, he closed his eyes and thought about his first and last conversation with Shen Kaiwen.
When Xu Lang asked him if he was the Punisher, Shen Kaiwen gave a vague answer. However, Xu Lang was still certain that he was the Punisher, after the first Punisher, Lu Jianwei, appeared eight years ago. , the second Punisher, and Shen Kai also revealed this information between the lines.
When Xu Lang thought of the pronoun "Punisher", he thought of Lu Jianwei, and when he thought of Lu Jianwei, Xu Lang thought of the relationship between Lu Jianwei and Shen Kaiwen. They are good brothers, good friends, and good buddies. Before they embarked on the road of crime, they both
They are people with conscience and justice in their hearts, but they have all embarked on the path of crime.
At that time, Lu Jianwei embarked on the road of crime, mainly because he felt that the police could not punish all criminals. Obviously some people did things that made people angry, but the law could not punish them and allowed them to continue to live in society.
This made Lu Jianwei feel deeply unfair. Since the police and the law could not punish them, then he would become a punisher and punish them. And what punishment is the most memorable? Except
There is nothing more punitive than death, so Lu Jianwei chose to be the first punisher.
After Lu Jianwei's case was over, Xu Lang took a week's leave. In addition to being physically exhausted from solving the case, Xu Lang was also more because Lu Jianwei was once a policeman he was very optimistic about. However, he became a policeman.
It was impossible not to be disappointed, but Xu Lang could also understand why Lu Jianwei did what he did at that time.
The law is something that is constantly being improved and modified. Nothing is static. Xu Lang himself is a policeman. It is his responsibility to crack down on and punish criminals. However, Xu Lang also has to admit that although the law has now
It is very perfect, but there are still some crimes and tragedies that the law wants to punish but cannot. People have no choice but to condemn each other morally.
For example, the first person Lu Jianwei killed was his neighbor's son.
The first person Lu Jianwei killed, was he a good person? The answer is no. He fought, broke into doors, picked locks, raped, raped, and was unfilial to his biological father. It can be said that he was a scum of society.
He should not have been allowed to come into this world, but looking at what he did, morally and ethically, it was an unforgivable sin, but it did not lead to death.
Whether it was a fight, a sliding door to pick a lock, or a rape, he was punished by the law. However, this punishment did not make him a new man, but made it worse. The law and the police
Don’t you want to punish such a person? Of course you do, but how should you punish him? Fights, sliding doors and picking locks, it’s just detention, fines, and compensation. For people like him, it’s not painful or itchy.
And when he committed rape, he only served seven years in prison. After he was released from prison, instead of sincerely repenting, he learned to take drugs. In order to take drugs, he often abused his elderly father. Regarding the abuse of the elderly, he
The police and the law cannot punish him. They cannot give him a warning or detain him or send him to a drug rehabilitation center for detoxification. Other than that, there is no better way.
And things like this happen every day in S City, even the entire province, the country, and the world. Don’t the police know about such things? Don’t Xu Lang know? Don’t those who study justice and engage in the judicial profession know?
?They know, but what can they do? What can they do?
Working in the police industry, especially criminal police officers, they face death and criminal cases every day. When every criminal commits a crime, they have their own reasons, and behind the truth, there is often one, or even several.
It’s a story that makes people feel sad and helpless. Maybe when they committed the crime, they knew that what they were doing was wrong and illegal, but they still chose to do it. Why? Because when the law cannot punish some people
When people are human, they can only choose their own way to punish them. This is the tragedy of the law, their tragedy, and this is also the tragedy of human nature.
When Lu Jianwei was a police officer, he was engaged in grassroots work. He dealt with people like this the most every day. If he saw too many people, he would inevitably have some psychological changes. Most police officers would use various methods to vent their helplessness.
and depression, but Lu Jianwei chose an extreme way. In his opinion, these people had committed heinous crimes and should all die. By killing them, he was just punishing them and making them pay for what they had done.
The most memorable price is death.
When they first solved Lu Jianwei's case, why did Xu Lang and the others spend several months to solve it?
Because in the eyes of many people, the people Lu Jianwei killed were all people who deserved to die. Although what they did did not constitute the death penalty from a legal perspective, from a moral perspective, they did not deserve death.
It's too much. When Xu Lang and the others were investigating the truth, they were under a lot of pressure. The voices of public opinion were rising one after another. However, those who were familiar with the victims were not very cooperative during the police investigation, and even resisted the police.
investigation, which brought great resistance to Xu Lang and his team's original investigation.
In the months after Lu Jianwei's death, some murder cases occurred one after another, and these murder cases were all extreme people imitating Lu Jianwei to commit crimes. Their methods of committing crimes were extremely crude, even childish, and in
After the incident, when they were arrested, they still believed that they had done nothing wrong and that they were serving justice. This made the police both funny and helpless.
However, as time goes by, no one is imitating the Punisher to commit crimes, and the name Punisher has once again disappeared from people's sight.
Eight years have passed, too many things have happened, and the Punisher has appeared in front of people again, first in the sight of the police, and now, with Shen Kaiwen's self-immolation, everyone in S City knows
I believe that soon, those who have memories of Lu Jianwei’s case eight years ago will soon be awakened to long-forgotten memories. If Xu Lang and the others cannot find Ji Xueling and the others as soon as possible, what will happen next, Xu Lang
Lang himself didn't know, nor could he predict, whether similar copycat crimes would appear after the Lu Jianwei case was over. Xu Lang didn't dare to think about it. This was the last thing he wanted to see.