Bai Song did not go to Unit 3, but went directly to Unit 2.

"Do you want to go to the roof?" Wang Xu asked.

"Well, I want to go up and take a look." Bai Song said: "Brother Xu, if you don't want to go up, I will go and take a look by myself."

"It's okay. I'll go up and take a look. I've never been up there before."

The two climbed to the sixth floor together. Bai Song helped Wang Xu go up first, and then he followed.

The cold wind today is even more biting than the last time he climbed up. Standing on the roof, Bai Song was not in a hurry this time. Last time, because of the sudden murder, he had a lot of things on his mind. I guess except for Hao Zhenyu who was able to investigate the scene steadily, Captain Ma and Bai Song also had a lot of things on their minds at that time.

Bai Song carefully searched around and then walked to the place where Ma Zhenyu had inspected the last time. After weathering over this period of time, the marks had disappeared a lot. If Bai Song had not known that there were marks here before, he might not have found them at all.

"Is it right here?" Wang Xu also walked closer: "Which window does this correspond to?"

"Balcony." Bai Song said.

"But there seems to be no evidence of footprints on the balcony?" Wang Xu pondered.

"We found the deceased's own footprints. There were a few more footprints, but they were very shallow and we were not able to extract them."

"Okay, let's go down. There's no guardrail here. It looks scary."

"Okay." Bai Song touched the stone brick next to the mark. This was an old house that was thirty years old. With a little force, Bai Song left a mark on the cement layer. However, the wind was strong here, so it would probably not take long for the mark to weather away.

…

After returning to the unit, Bai Song did not expect that after the on-site investigation, he would continue to carry out various detailed work and verifications. As the case was busy, ten days passed in a flash.

As expected, a special task force was set up for this murder case.

Team Ma and others were under great psychological pressure. The person had been dead for more than half a month, and the case had not been solved. This was simply unbearable. Director Tian was not in a good mood either. There was only a week left until New Year's Day 2012. All the homicide cases before 2011 had been solved, including the murder of Li. Director Tian had gained fame in the Municipal Bureau, but if this murder case was not solved, the 100% homicide clearance rate would be gone. The reputation he had shown before and the boasting he had made to his old colleagues would all be gone.

Normally, this kind of sudden murder case can be solved within 24 hours. After all, so many people are busy with the case, and one or two suspects can never fight against the entire public security bureau. But now this is the reality in front of everyone.

Today is December 24th, and tonight is Christmas Eve. The task force was officially established this morning.

The members of this task force are all composed of personnel from the Criminal Police Detachment, and no one was drawn from the police station with heavy work pressure. However, only six people were selected this time, after all, the previous fraud case involved too many people.

Previously, the branch issued a strict order that all 95 fraud suspects must be arrested and not a single one must be released on bail. Faced with the list of evidence that needed to be checked handed over by the legal department, the task force of dozens of people was always on high alert.

Chief Wei and Chief Wang were also under a lot of pressure. They had made good promises to Chief Sun at the beginning, but the reality was that until now, they couldn't even find any trace of the suspect, let alone solve the case.

Not to mention the two buildings that Bai Song pointed out, the entire Daguangli community was checked, but no suspicious tenants were found, which confused Bai Song.

The police officers at the police station are very hard-working. Tonight they have to provide security for Christmas Eve, and then for New Year's Day. Except for the night shift, Bai Song and the other four have been basically busy during this period. The leader can only arrange for the case-handling team to rest for a while.

On Saturday, Christmas Eve, the case handling team held a meeting and took a break. The task force was under the greatest pressure, so Wei arranged a break for them.

The four police officers in the case handling team rested for the other three days except for the time they were on duty.

Work one day and rest for three days, rotating between two shifts, and then continue working on the case after New Year's Day.

Simply put, the station no longer has high hopes of solving the case before the Gregorian calendar year.

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Bai Song and Wang Liang went out to look at the house.

Bai Song felt that it was really inconvenient to read books in the institute. He had bought a lot of books recently, and there was no good place to put them in the institute. Wang Liang felt that it was really inconvenient to play games in the institute. He used the 30,000 yuan he got some time ago to buy a laptop, but he was not satisfied with it and wanted to buy a desktop computer, which was definitely not available in the institute.

The two single guys hit it off and rented a house together.

There is about a kilometer of road between the two institutes. The best place to rent a house is in the middle of the two institutes. There are many residential areas nearby, the better ones include Aihe Garden, and there are many inferior ones. In addition, there are many dilapidated bungalows for rent.

The two visited two real estate agencies and looked at four or five houses. The best one was in Aihe Garden, with three bedrooms and a living room, 140 square meters, and a monthly rent of more than 2,000 yuan, which was almost Bai Song's monthly salary. The cheapest one was on the sixth floor of an old house, with two bedrooms, no living room, more than 40 square meters, and a monthly rent of 400 yuan.

After careful consideration, the two chose the second floor of a new residential complex.

This community is called Sanlin Home, located within the jurisdiction of Sanlin Road Police Station. It is a resettlement housing complex with two elevators on each floor and eight households. The area of ​​each household ranges from 40 to 70 square meters, and the highest floor is the 32nd floor.

The disadvantages of this type of building are obvious: there are too many people, it is quite mixed, the community environment is poor, there are people of all qualities, and it takes a long time to wait for the elevator on the upper floors.

The advantages are also obvious, cheap.

It's over 60 square meters, with two bedrooms and a living room, and the monthly rent is 650 yuan. It's fully decorated and ready for move-in. It has good network coverage, and most importantly, it's on the second floor, which means you don't have to wait for the elevator and can just take the stairs.

After finding a house, the two paid a total of half a year's rent, deposit, and agency fees. Each of them paid more than 2,000 yuan, and spent another 150 yuan to arrange for someone to disinfect and clean the entire house.

The first thing to do when renting a new house is to change the locks. Bai Song has some safety awareness. Fortunately, the policemen in the police station know a lot of lock changers. Bai Song called Ma Xi to help him contact a reliable one. While the cleaning was going on, the locks were changed to a Class B lock core.

After changing the locks and cleaning the house, Bai Song accompanied Wang Liang to buy a computer. Wang Liang was a spendthrift and spent several thousand yuan on the computer. That night, Bai Song moved his things in and he and Wang Liang each had a room.

Finally, I have my own room to read. I have bought so many books without realizing it. Bai Song feels very relieved.