Chapter 312: The Army

Pan Hongjie was cheered up when he heard that there was a discovery.

"What's going on?"

Xia Yu opened the map and handed it to Pan Hongjie, then pointed to the location on the map and said, "I talked to the park ranger, and he said that the previous iron mesh fence at this location was damaged by poachers. It was never repaired, so they just used wire as a temporary fix. Then, around the 17th of last month, the ranger was on patrol and found that the broken wire had been broken again, so he patched it up again."

When Pan Hongjie heard this, he immediately said, "Let's go and take a look."

"Okay, I'll let the administrator guard over there."

Pan Hongjie said to Zhou Yi, "Come together."

"Okay, Captain Pan."

The three of them walked down the mountain road. The front of Xiaoqiushan Park close to the main road was made of concrete walls, but the sides were made of barbed wire, probably for cost considerations.

Occasionally you can see a wooden board hanging on the wire mesh with a few big words written in red paint on it: Electricity, Danger, Do Not Touch.

The three of them came to the location Xia Yu mentioned, and the administrator was already waiting there.

"This is our captain. Please tell us the situation in more detail." Xia Yu said to the administrator.

Zhou Yi walked over and took a look. There was indeed a gap on the iron net, about 1.4 meters high. The cut was quite smooth, and it was obviously cut with a professional tool such as pliers.

Now the gap is covered with wire, but the thickness and hardness of the wire are far less than the iron net itself. It is an operation that can only protect against gentlemen but not villains.

Zhou Yi found out the reason why it had not been changed after seeing it.

The structure of this iron net is to first erect an iron pillar at a certain distance, and then hang the entire iron net between the iron pillars and fix it. An iron net is at least ten meters long, and if it needs to be replaced, you can only replace the entire one, which is costly and difficult.

For the industrial park, instead of spending a high cost to replace the iron net, it would be better to let the administrators patrol more often and create some jobs.

"Are you sure it was discovered on March 17th?" Pan Hongjie asked the administrator.

"Boss, I'm sure. We're required to patrol every day, even if it rains. This place was fine when I patrolled on the 16th."

"Has this place been damaged before?"

The administrator shook his head and said it was nothing.

"Besides this gap, is there any other place we can get in at night?"

The administrator shook his head and said that the park gate is closed every night and there are people on duty. There is no other place except this place.

Zhou Yi looked at the height of the iron net, which was at least two and a half meters. It was impossible to flip over it with the corpse, and the top of the iron net was soft and had no support.

If you want to get the body in in the middle of the night, you can only destroy the original gap.

However, there was a wasteland outside. The fact that they could find this location meant that they had scouted the place beforehand and planned how to get in and bury the body.

Premeditated murder.

"Xiao Xia, have the technical department come over, especially the wasteland outside. Search carefully to see if they can find any footprints. If the murderer moved the body, they would definitely leave traces."

"Okay, Captain Pan, I'll go right away." Xia Yu ran away.

Zhou Yi, who was standing by, felt pessimistic. Although no one might come to the wasteland outside, all traces would surely be gone after such a heavy rain.

And yesterday, when I was chatting with Xia Yu on the road, I learned that Anyuan has a rainy and humid climate in spring and summer.

"Captain Pan, should we issue a body identification notice as soon as possible?" Zhou Yi asked.

Pan Hongjie's expression was serious: "Don't worry, I'll report this to my superiors first."

Okay, it’s not convenient for me to intervene in this matter, so I won’t say anything more.

Zhou Yi said that he would go outside to take a look first. If the two bodies were moved in, a car would be needed to see if there were any other clues.

Pan Hongjie nodded.

Zhou Yi asked the administrator how to get there, and then followed the route he gave and went out from the main entrance.

After walking around for a long time, he finally arrived at the wasteland outside. When he looked up, he saw several policemen already conducting an investigation in the wasteland. Xia Yu saw him and waved to him.

The iron net behind Xia Yu has been cut open.

Hey, if you had told me earlier I wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble.

However, although they went around in circles, they did not gain nothing. Zhou Yi looked at the road conditions closest to the wasteland and found that there was only a small dirt road passing by. If the murderer was driving a car to transport the body, he could only stop on this road.

Zhou Yi told Xia Yu that it would be better to expand the scope of the survey and check along this dirt road to see if it was possible to find tire marks.

And it turned out that Zhou Yi's suggestion was correct.

Although no tire marks were found, a small red mark was found on the tip of a thorn on a clump of thorn bushes by the roadside.

At first, I thought it was blood, but the police officer in charge of sampling carefully scraped the remaining red from the spike into the evidence bag and said, "It's probably not blood. It could be something like paint."

Zhou Yi immediately said: "Car paint, the murderer was driving a red car!"

Pan Hongjie nodded. "Yes, immediately check all registered red cars in the city, one by one, and investigate those with obvious scratches first."

Zhou Yi was about to add something when Pan Hongjie said, "Also, check all the repair shops. Check every one of them to see if there are any red cars that were sent in for repainting after March 17th."

Hearing him say this, Zhou Yi immediately felt relieved.

Pan Hongjie directed the on-site investigation and did it very carefully, almost turning over the soil at the scene of the crime.

It’s a pity that the monkeys in the trees can’t speak, otherwise they would definitely be taken back for questioning.

On the way back, Xia Yu was driving, Pan Hongjie sat in the passenger seat, and Zhou Yi was in the back seat.

Pan Hongjie remembered Tang Wenli's words and asked, "Zhou Yi, have you met our Forensic Doctor Tang before?"

"I don't know him. This is the first time I've met him. Oh, but Forensic Doctor Tang knows Forensic Doctor Song from Hongcheng. She said they were classmates."

"Oh..." Pan Hongjie seemed to be lost in thought. "By the way, how many criminal cases have you participated in investigating in Hongcheng?"

"Not many, just four or five." Zhou Yi answered casually.

"Four or five? Oh, that's not a lot. Xiao Xia, you've been here for a year, right?"

Xia Yu replied: "I came here during my internship in my senior year. If you count the internship, it's just been a year."

"How many criminal cases have you been involved in since you arrived?"

"Captain Pan, are you talking about a murder case?" Xia Yu asked.

"How can all criminal cases be considered homicides? They all count."

"That's quite a lot. I've probably been involved in more than ten."

"Oh, not bad, not bad." Pan Hongjie nodded affirmatively. "Well, Anyuan is a small place, and we don't have that many cases. You have quite a bit of experience."

Xia Yu, who didn't understand what was going on, said naively, "Oh, thank you Captain Pan for your affirmation. I will work hard."

The car drove forward for a while, and Pan Hongjie asked casually: "Zhou Yi, when did you join the Municipal Bureau?"

Zhou Yizheng looked out the car window and replied, "About mid-March."

"Huh?" Pan Hongjie was stunned. "Last March?"

"This year."

"This...this year?" Pan Hongjie was shocked and thought he had heard it wrong. Wouldn't that be last month?

Just as he was about to ask more, Zhou Yi's phone rang.

Zhou Yi picked it up and saw that it was the landline of the Third Brigade office, so he answered it immediately.

"Zhou Yi." It was Wu Yongcheng's voice on the other end of the phone.

"Captain Wu, did you find anything?"

"We found the man named Dajun. He knows the purpose of Fu Daqing's trip to Anyuan."

…

In Hongcheng, after Zhou Yi went on a business trip, the Third Brigade did not dare to relax for a moment and kept an eye on several clues to investigate.

One of them is to find this person named Da Jun.

In an era without surveillance, finding people could only be done using the most primitive methods.

Near Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing's homes, he asked them one by one with photos in hand.

However, even if it is the same question, there is a skill to it. Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing are both middle-aged people who are not doing their jobs properly.

Based on the daily behavioral characteristics of this type of people, we focus on checking chess and card rooms, video halls, dance halls, foot massage parlors, and low-end entertainment venues.

After two days of investigation, the clue was finally found in a dance hall near Fu Daqing's home.

The proprietress of the nightclub recognized Fu Daqing in the photo and said he used to come here often, but had come less frequently in the past two years. She said he danced well and was particularly charming, so she remembered him.

He also asked the boss lady if she knew that he had a friend named Da Jun?

The proprietress immediately replied that she knew him. It was Zheng Xiaojun, a hairdresser. She said she opened a barber shop and was a frequent visitor to the dance hall.

Wu Yongcheng found out the location of Zheng Xiaojun's barber shop and immediately drove there with Chen Yan.

It's called a barber shop, but Zheng Xiaojun is the only one there. It's small, plainly decorated, and located outside a residential complex. Most of the people who come to get their hair cut are middle-aged or older, presumably regular customers from the neighborhood.

An old man sitting at the door saw Wu Yongcheng walking straight in and stopped him, saying, "Young man, get in line."

The barber who was cutting hair glanced at the two of them and said, "I'm sorry, but I got here first. How about you sit down for a while?"

"Are you Zheng Xiaojun?"

The barber nodded.

"We are from the Criminal Investigation Division of the Municipal Bureau. This is my ID. I need to consult you about something."

As soon as Wu Yongcheng finished speaking, Zheng Xiaojun's face suddenly changed.

"How about...how about I wait until I finish cutting my hair?"

Wu Yongcheng nodded.

Zheng Xiaojun said to the old man at the door, "Uncle, I'm sorry, why don't you take a walk and come back later?"

The old man looked at Wu Yongcheng and stood up shakily with the help of his cane. "Then I'll go watch Old Huang and the others play chess first and then come back."

Before leaving, the old man said to Wu Yongcheng earnestly, "Xiaojun is an honest boy. He would never do anything bad. Please don't wrongly accuse him."

Wu Yongcheng smiled helplessly, "Don't worry, uncle. The police won't wrongly accuse a good person. Of course, they won't let a bad person go either."

After a few minutes, Zheng Xiaojun finished cutting the hair and sent the customer away. He asked, "Are you here for Fu Daqing?"