Chapter 239 The feeling of suffocation

On Sunday, before Zhou Yi got up, he heard someone opening the door.

I got up and saw that it was my mother, carrying some vegetables in.

"Mom, why are you here so early?" Zhou Yi said in a daze.

"Get you some food so you don't have to go shopping alone."

Zhou Yi looked at the dishes on the table and said, "No, I'll just eat in the cafeteria at the bureau. Besides, I can't keep all these dishes anymore, so you can take them back. Just save some eggs for me. I can cook some noodles and make two fried eggs when I need them."

"Well, I've got everything. How about I cook you a meal today?"

"No, I have to go back to the bureau to work overtime." Zhou Yi went into the bathroom and started brushing his teeth.

"Didn't we just finish overtime? Why do we have to work overtime again?" Zhang Qiuxia said with concern.

"There's a case, and I need to go to the bureau to check some information. You can take the vegetables back. I don't have time to cook them if you leave them here, and they'll rot and be a waste."

"Okay, okay, I'll keep the eggs for you." Zhang Qiuxia said, and started to clean up the dishes.

When I turned around, I saw that there was a lock on the partition door of the living room.

I walked over to check and found it was locked tightly, so I asked, "Son, why is the room you originally stayed in locked up?"

Zhou Yi was washing his face, rubbing it with a towel before peeking in and saying, "There's some study materials in there, and some stuff from work. I locked it for safety reasons. It's okay, don't worry about it."

"Oh, then I'll make you some breakfast, you can eat it first."

"No, I'll just buy two steamed buns on the way." Zhou Yi changed his clothes and hurried out, shouting, "Mom, please help me close the door."

Zhang Qiuxia watched the figure walking away in the corridor and sighed, "If I had known being a police officer was so hard, I shouldn't have sent him to the police academy. He could have gone to university and then joined No. 2 Steel, where he could have become a reserve cadre or something. How much better."

Zhou Yi made an appointment with Qiao Jiali and Shi Tao yesterday to meet at the bureau this morning to discuss the Donghai Community incident.

Then, taking advantage of the fact that many people were still at home on Sunday, we quickly began to conduct a survey of the Donghai community, so as to avoid the survey being more difficult when we go to work on Monday.

After eating two buns and drinking a cup of soy milk on the way, Zhou Yi greeted his colleagues in the duty room at the gate.

As soon as I entered the office building, I saw Xu Nian's back in front of me.

"Xu Nian." Zhou Yi shouted.

Xu Nian turned around and didn't seem surprised by Zhou Yi's appearance.

"Isn't Mr. Qin from the provincial department coming tomorrow? Why are you here too?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Teacher Song came back yesterday. He didn't go home all night. He said he wanted to do another examination on the recovered body parts before Elder Qin arrived. If he hadn't called me because he couldn't find the information, I wouldn't have known about it." Xu Nian frowned and said, "So I came to see if I could be of any help."

The two talked as they walked, and Xu Nian's words surprised Zhou Yi very much.

Song Yiming's professionalism is amazing. The provincial department has already sent experts. He can just wait for the experts to arrive and provide assistance. There is no need to do it himself.

What’s even more admirable is that a person spent an entire night in an empty office building facing a pile of corpses.

Even though Zhou Yi has been a criminal police officer for two lifetimes, he still feels a chill down his spine when he thinks about such things.

"Did you find anything abnormal when you were doing the autopsy?" Zhou Yi asked.

Xu Nian shook his head. "The body parts recovered were extremely decayed and contaminated, and didn't have any obvious abnormalities, like two left ears. So, we really didn't find anything. If it were just me, it might be because I'm inexperienced and couldn't see the clues. But even Teacher Song, who is so experienced, didn't notice anything. I can only say that we really didn't find anything."

Xu Nian said horrifiedly, "Without DNA testing, we would have no way of knowing there was another person among these body parts."

After turning the corner, the two went their separate ways without any extra words.

Regardless of what happened in the previous life or this life, after all, one is a criminal police officer and the other is a forensic doctor. It is impossible for them to have any personal feelings when handling cases. This is the awareness of being a police officer.

When Zhou Yi pushed the door and walked into the office of the Third Brigade, he found that Qiao Jiali was already there.

"Sister Qiao? Why are you here so early? I thought I was here early enough."

"It's not that I'm early, it's that I live nearby, and my husband drove me there." Qiao Jiali smiled, picked up a bag of biscuits and said, "Have you had breakfast?"

"I ate on the way. Director Zhang is quite supportive of your work and personally drove you here to work overtime." Zhou Yi said with a smile.

"Where? He was going to Wu Guang's symposium next door and dropped me off."

Zhou Yi discovered that the piles of documents in front of Qiao Jiali were the missing persons information reported from various grassroots police stations after the launch of the Searchlight Project.

"Sister Qiao, have you found anything?" Zhou Yi sat down, picked up a stack of documents and began to check.

Qiao Jiali shook her head. "Not yet. I just arrived a short time ago. Zhou Yi, do you have any ideas?"

Zhou Yi shared some of his thoughts from yesterday. After listening, Qiao Jiali nodded in agreement: "You're right, this incident must have happened before Zhang Hui was murdered. Team 2 will arrive soon. Let's divide the work and then go to Donghai Community to conduct an investigation."

"Well, I think there are a few key areas. First, single men or women are the most likely suspects, because dismemberment requires environmental support. Also, single men and women may have a partner who comes to their home, and their partner's household registration and residence are not in the Donghai community. This could explain why there are no matching missing persons."

"Second, similar to Zhang Hui and Xu Jiaguang, there are serious conflicts within the family. But this possibility is relatively small, because the possibility of not being reported missing is very small, especially when such a major case occurs in the community."

"Third, migrant tenants, especially those who moved out suddenly within the last three months before their rent was due, are the most suspicious. Donghai Community is an old community with poor management, and the neighborhood committee probably doesn't attach much importance to tenant registration."

This kind of thing is actually very normal in Hongcheng at this time. It cannot be said that these neighborhood committees and property management companies are just sitting there doing nothing, but simply that their concepts and management are backward and they feel that there is no need to do these things.

This also makes it more difficult for them to carry out their work.

Zhou Yi had seen the mascot security guard of Donghai Community.

Qiao Jiali agreed with his analysis and expressed her opinion first. She would go and chat with the aunties in the community and find out what gossip there was before Zhang Hui.

Zhou Yi knew that this was Qiao Jiali's strength and also the advantage of being a plainclothes policewoman.

Almost half an hour later, Shi Tao came and apologized for oversleeping.

Zhou Yi looked at his messy hair and knew that he was not lying.

Zhou Yi was also very considerate and said that they came early and were waiting for Captain Shi to preside over the meeting.

Shi Tao was not a bureaucratic captain. He waved his hand and said, "Why should I be in charge? You come. When it comes to criminal investigation, your Third Brigade is the best."

Then he shouted outside the door: "Lao Gu, Lao Gu, ask them to come to Zhou Yi's place for a meeting."

Next to it is the second team's office.

Shi Tao turned his head and saw the biscuits on the table.

"Oh, I just happened to have missed breakfast." Without asking who it belonged to, he just picked it up and ate it.

Zhou Yixin said, yes, it’s that casual Captain Shi.

So Zhou Yi explained to the second team about the DNA test that found the second person's genes, which shocked everyone.

After all, they were involved in the salvage and large-scale search for corpses. Who would have thought that there was another dead person among them.

"Is this thing accurate? Could there be a mistake? For example, the body parts are severely decayed or contaminated, so the results of the examination are different." Shi Tao asked while chewing a biscuit.

In 1997, criminal police officers had heard of this technology, but in practice, no one had ever seen it, so they didn't know the specific principles.

"No, theoretically speaking, DNA doesn't change due to decay or contamination. Even decades later, the DNA sequence can still be detected from the bones," Zhou Yi said. "If DNA really does change, there seems to be only one possibility: exposure to nuclear radiation. But that's something that ordinary people like us will never be exposed to in our lifetime."

Shi Tao nodded and said, "That's right, we are not Japanese."

Everyone in Team Two burst into laughter.

Shi Tao added, "Zhou Yi, you really know a lot. Please teach me someday."

"I saw it on TV." Zhou Yi said with a smile.

Then, Zhou Yi talked about his analysis of the case and the targets that needed to be investigated.

"Zhou Yi, how many households are there in Donghai Community?" Gu Changhai asked.

Qiao Jiali said, "We have this information. Let me look for it. We did a statistics on it during the Zhang Hui case."

Qiao Jiali pulled out previous investigative materials and said, "Donghai Community has a total of 38 buildings, with a total of 496 households. Over 1,900 people have registered household registration and residency, and the number of floating residents, such as tenants, is unknown."

Shi Tao looked at the people in the room and grinned. There were nearly 500 households, with each person covering at least 40 households on average. He also had to investigate the floating population and tenants who had moved out, which was another strenuous task.

But you have to do the hard work anyway.

Shi Tao took the initiative to take charge of the survey of residents, and asked Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali to concentrate on investigating the tenants who had moved out and any unusual occurrences in the community.

After everything was arranged, everyone set off without wasting a moment. Three cars headed straight for the Donghai Residential Area.

When he arrived at Donghai Community again, Zhou Yi felt a little emotional, but more of it was an inexplicable panic.

Because he discovered that in addition to the unsolved cases, there were so many murders that were unknown to the public.

Last night, he sat in the secret archive room of his home and searched through all the files and memories about Hongcheng in his mind, but he couldn't find any case that matched this one.

In other words, this case, like the Zhang Hui case, was also a murder case that had never been discovered in the previous life.

But what is even more terrifying than the Zhang Hui case is that at least in her previous life, Zhang Hui was a missing person.

But this other person is not even a missing person.

When he thought of this, Zhou Yi felt as if something was strangling his neck, and he felt powerless and suffocated.