Police cadet Jian Ruochen transmigrated into a book set in 1990s Hong Kong. He became the universally loathed ‘true young master,’ a cannon fodder character destined only to make the universall...
Chapter 120: The Corpse Dismemberment Case at the Repulse Bay Wild Fishing Park
Repulse Bay Fishing Park is exactly where Professor Oliver Keith often went five years ago, and it is also the destination of their trip this time!
Repulse Bay belongs to Xiangjiang Island, not Kowloon.
In case the body parts were related to the "professor", the case was assigned to the Royal Hong Kong Police Station, which was backed by the British Hong Kong government.
It may not be easy to get the truth out.
Got to grab it.
Not only do we have to arrive before the police from the Royal Police Station.
We are still trying to find evidence in the case to see if the Repulse Bay body part case has any connection with the "Professor".
Jian Ruochen raised his eyes to look at Guan Yingjun, and tilted his head towards the direction of the Repulse Bay Wild Fishing Park.
Guan Yingjun nodded, turned sideways and said to Bi Qianqian: "Let's go protect the scene first. Jian Ruochen stays here to get the news."
Do both.
Bi Wanwan threw the wooden stick into the plastic bucket at the door of the fishing tackle shop, "OK."
The two of them took a few quick steps and then started running.
The figure quickly disappeared in the crowd.
Jian Ruochen withdrew his gaze and gently stroked the glass table used to display lures in the fishing tackle shop.
There are colorful and lifelike plastic fish lying inside.
In recent years, Oliver Keith's activities have revolved around schools, academic salons and scientific research foundations, and he has never been to other fishing grounds.
But five years ago, I used a pseudonym and went to the Repulse Bay Fishing Park to fish for a whole year.
Why?
What does he want?
"Do you like this green and yellow lure?" the boss asked with a somewhat aggressive tone.
Jian Ruochen came back to his senses, took out a wad of money and put it on the counter, "Yes. Pack it up for me. By the way, I also bought these fishing gears, please help me collect them."
The boss choked.
Although this young man has a bit of a stubborn temper, he is very generous and even remembered that he was here to buy something.
While he was putting the fishing gear he had sold into a suitcase, folding the fish guard and telescopic landing net, and putting them in the net pocket outside the suitcase, he said earnestly: "I see that you are young and you are here for tourism, so just listen to my advice. Your friend is too boastful, you must have been deceived by him, stay away from him when you go back."
Jian Ruochen: ...
It's not me who was deceived by him, it's you who was deceived by me.
His eyes drifted away, and he pursed his lips and said, "I don't believe it. Let's wait until the fish king comes."
The boss fell backwards in anger.
How could this stupid son of a rich family be so stubborn!
OK, OK.
I won't turn back until I hit the wall, and I won't give up until I reach the Yellow River.
We’ll talk about it later!
The man with a bald head was counting money, mumbling something to himself, and then he used a rusty key to unlock the counter drawer and took out change from it to make change.
Jian Ruochen smiled and said, "Don't bother looking for more. I'll give you the rest as hard work fee."
The boss was surprised: "So many?"
Jian Ruochen said meaningfully: "Thank you for finding the fish king."
If it weren't for this boss, they really didn't know how long it would take them to find the person associated with the pseudonym "Adelan".
Solving a case requires not only brains and means, but sometimes it really depends on a bit of luck.
The boss grumbled to himself.
Haha, when the person comes, you will know that your friend is just a boastful idiot!
By then, this naive boy from a rich family might cry with tears in his eyes and feel aggrieved, which is so pitiful!
In view of the customer's generosity, he could give him a bag of bait to comfort him and make friends with him.
Ten minutes later, the person arrived.
The man was only wearing a black vest and had his hair shaved very short, almost close to his scalp.
His skin was tanned to a wheat color, and there was a long scar on his shoulder. Before he even entered the door, he said generously: "I heard that a new fish king has appeared. There are anglers within a five-kilometer radius who are all my acquaintances. Where can I find -"
As soon as he stepped into the door with his left foot, his voice stopped, his eyes fell on Jian Ruochen, and he said in a bit of broken English: "Are you the person that Boss Wang was talking about?"
Jian Ruochen smiled at him.
The young man's ears suddenly turned red. "You, you caught a 88-centimeter fish?"
Jian Ruochen touched the side of his face and felt strange.
Due to his profession, he is very sensitive to emotions.
This guy looks fierce with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but is he actually a shy and honest person who only cares about his looks?
He turned his head and asked the boss, "Why does the best fisherman here not look like a good person?"
This sentence is said in Cantonese.
The boss hadn't reacted yet and subconsciously argued: "How is that possible? How can he not be a good person? He got that scar when he was a child and went to sea with his father!"
The man walked into the store, his eyes still frozen, "I don't fight."
The boss thought he was weird, "Du Luoxin, you got a stiff neck? Come on, this guy always thinks his friend is the fish king, come and see if you can recognize him. I think he must have been cheated."
Du Luoxin came back to his senses, said "Oh", then looked away and dared not look at him again.
Jian Ruochen smiled.
This person seems to be quite honest. If I continue to act in accordance with his words, people might misunderstand me. It is better to make a quick decision.
He pulled out his makeshift ID, "Just be a good guy. Working for the CID Major Crimes Unit."
He took out the photo and handed it to Du Luoxin, "See if you recognize him? He came here to fish five years ago and lived here on and off for a year."
The boss was stunned.
What?
police?
So...then their conversation just now was actually just this policeman trying to trick people?
Are the police so good at tricking people nowadays?
He had no idea he was being duped!
Oh my God, he was the one who was deceived!
Du Luoxin raised his eyes to glance at Jian Ruochen, took the photo, and tried to concentrate to see the old man in it clearly, "Edlan?"
He accurately said Olivier Conant's pseudonym at the time!
Jian Ruochen's eyes lit up: "As expected of the fish king! I knew that the best fisherman must know the most people!"
It was worth the performance he just put on.
Jian Ruochen took out a workbook, took out a visit record sheet folded into a square, and unfolded it, "Tell me about your impression of Edlan."
This business-like and neither-too-close-nor-distant attitude gradually stabilized Du Luoxin's heartbeat.
Although his expression did not return to its original state, it no longer had any expression that would affect the observation of micro-expressions.
Jian Ruochen encouraged him, "Anything is fine, you can recall it slowly. For example... when was the first time you met him?"
Du Luoxin casually pulled over a chair from the store, sat down with the photo in his hand, and recalled: "I remember... the first time I saw him was in winter."
"Is he alone? Is there anyone traveling with him?" Jian Ruochen turned on the recorder and asked while writing and drawing on paper, sitting opposite Du Luoxin.
"It was just one person at the beginning." Du Luoxin said.
The boss brought two glasses of water in silence, looking dazed.
He also thought that this naive boy from a rich family would cry with tears in his eyes and feel aggrieved and pitiful because he was cheated.
As a result, he was the one who was deceived!
He is so... so pitiful!
Jian Ruochen took the water, thanked him, and asked, "What happened next?"
"He later met some friends here, and they had a good chat." Du Luoxin's eyes drooped slightly, and he pursed his lips, with a flash of disappointment. "A year later, neither of them came here again."
Jian Ruochen: "What's the name of Edlan's friend? Do you have his contact information?"
"His name is Feng Ye." Du Luoxin twitched his lips. "It's his contribution to the establishment of the wild fishing park. We are both from the fishing village, but I haven't contacted him for more than four years."
At this point, Du Luoxin didn't need any guidance and spoke more and more fluently.
Jian Ruochen gradually restored the trajectory of Oliver Keith's actions here.
In the winter five years ago, the professor, using the pseudonym Mr. Edlan, came to the wild fishing park to fish, and met a young man with excellent fishing skills, Feng Ye.
Feng Ye is very famous in Qingshui Bay because he is known for his warm heart. He is also the first college student in the fishing village to receive a full scholarship to study abroad for a master's degree.
Even the wild fishing park was proposed by him. With one family contributing some money and another contributing some effort, it was established just like that.
After meeting Edlan, the two had a great time talking to each other and soon became close friends regardless of age difference.
Du Luoxin pinched the photo and sneered, "How could Edlan catch an 88cm fish? His fishing skills are very poor. He didn't know anything when he first came here. He was obviously a novice. Even Feng Ye taught him how to set up the fish guard."
"Feng Ye is always happy when chatting with Edlan. He told me... after returning to Hong Kong, no one discussed stars with him for a long time."
Jian Ruochen was stunned: "Feng Ye studied astrophysics?"
Du Luoxin was stunned for a moment, "Yes, that's what it's called."
It's just that the people in the fishing village are not very educated, and Feng Ye is considerate, so whenever the villagers asked him about it, he would say that he went abroad to learn how to look at the stars.
Jian Ruochen's expression darkened.
Not good.
It turns out that I am studying the same major as Professor Keith.
Ever since he attended a public lecture organized by Oliver Keith, he had begun to doubt the professor's academic achievements.
To be honest, he really didn't believe that a professor who made messy and vulgar jokes in lectures could produce research results that matched the title of "tenured professor."
Oliver Keith is at best at the graduate level in his professional field. Compared with Mr. Li, who is an expert at lecturing fluently and effortlessly, he is simply a fool.
Because of this suspicion, Group A assigned people to read the papers he had written over the years to see if there were any discoveries.
Now, Du Luoxin can't contact Feng Ye and Edlan.
Edlan is a fake identity, so it's normal that he can't be contacted.
But Feng Ye is a real person and a warm-hearted fisherman. He even organized the wild fishing park, so he must like it here very much.
I can’t get in touch with him and he hasn’t appeared for many years…
I'm afraid something has happened.
"You seem to have a good relationship with Feng Ye?" Jian Ruochen asked.
"It was pretty good before. After all, we were brothers who grew up together and always played together on the fishing boat when we were young."
Du Luoxin couldn't help but complain, "But suddenly one day I couldn't get in touch with him for no apparent reason. Although he used to study abroad, he would return to the fishing village every Chinese New Year. Feng Ye likes to eat sashimi the most and he eats it every year."
He slammed his fist on the table and said, "Now I am even in charge of the wild fishing park for him."
Jian Ruochen opened his mouth.
He couldn't say anything to comfort Du Luoxin.
Because there is a great possibility that Feng Ye will never be able to go back to the fishing village to eat lao sheng with his relatives and friends in this life.
Du Luoxin sighed, "I have nothing more to say. Are you a police officer from the Royal Hong Kong Police Station? If I remember anything else, I can come to you again."
Jian Ruochen handed over the interview statement, "I'm from the West Kowloon Regional Police Station. Please take a look at this, and then sign on the back, saying that I have read the above transcript and it is consistent with what I said."
Du Luoxin looked at the iron-like and silver-like handwriting on the paper, and suddenly regretted not studying seriously when he was a child.
He used to think that fishermen only needed to know how to fish, and there was no point in reading so many books.
But now I feel a little ashamed to leave my name behind.
He hasn't written for a long time, so his handwriting doesn't look very good.
Du Luoxin took the pen, wrote his name carefully, and finished writing the sentence as required.
Jian Ruochen took it, looked at it, folded it into a square and put it in the workbook, "Thank you for your cooperation."
He reached out to pick up the fishing gear he had just bought. The boss choked up and said, "How about I return your money, sir? This fishing gear... you bought it to get some information, right?"
"Maybe I'll need it." Jian Ruochen smiled, "Don't worry, this is my personal money. It has nothing to do with the police station. No one will ask you to return it."
"Hey, hey." The boss responded twice, not knowing what to say.
Why are the police officers from the West Kowloon Regional Police Station so... so kind?
They are totally different from the policemen in the Royal Police. If it were the British people today, they would definitely take things from his store as a matter of course.
"You speak Cantonese without any accent." Du Luoxin said.
Actually, there is still a little bit. Some expressions and speaking habits are more like those in Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
"I'm from Hong Kong, of course I can speak it." Jian Ruochen said.
His brows were solemn.
Du Luoxin's heart twitched, and he suddenly had a bad feeling, "Did Edlan get into trouble? Where's Feng Ye? How is he now?"
Jian Ruo said solemnly, "Someone fished up a body in the wild fishing park. We need some time to salvage it. You know a lot of people... Once the body is pieced together, I'm afraid you will need to identify the body shape."
Du Luoxin's head buzzed, and he felt dizzy for a moment, and even knocked over the water cup at hand, "Impossible."
It can’t be Feng Ye…
He was stunned for a moment, then stood up suddenly, his tall body swaying on the spot, "You are going to the wild fishing park to do some work now, right? I can help you borrow a water pump. I will go with you. I can ride a motorcycle and take you there faster."
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A cordon has been set up around the wild fishing park.
Guan Yingjun wore rubber gloves and untied the black plastic bag hanging on the angler's fish hook and spread out the contents.
All that can be seen are the ears, two thumbs, the tongue, and the feet.
It had been too long, the plastic bag was full of water, and the organs were rotten, with not much meat left to be seen.
There were bits of rotten flesh hanging in the gaps between the leg bones, emitting a foul stench.
Even Bi Xianxian, who had seen a lot of the world, vomited while leaning against a tree trunk.
How could it be divided into so many pieces!