Chapter 2 Forensic Doctor Lin lives in a no-man’s land?
It was dusk, and the orange-red sunset glowed the sky red, and light also entered the house.
The victim was a female, approximately in her early twenties, with a neat ponytail. She was wearing a yellow shirt, an ankle-length skirt, and flat white shoes, and had a very literary temperament.
The pupils have dilated, there are some bleeding spots on the back of the eyelids and fingertips, and the cyanosis of the lips is quite obvious.
Lin Meiqi took the evidence bag and carefully used a clean cotton swab to take samples of the juice flowing on the ground. She took samples from more than five different spilled locations, and then put the entire juice cup into the evidence bag and handed it to the police officer Ah Hao next to her.
"Don't pour it to prevent the remaining juice from leaking out."
Ah Hao nodded: "Okay."
The police officers took photos and secured evidence at the scene.
Feng Charlie found a painting at the door, which showed the shape of a human hand.
However, it seemed that the teacher in the classroom was teaching how to draw hands that day, so the same hand works appeared in many paintings.
Feng Charlie carefully observed the painting, and Liang Yifeng came forward: "Isn't this name the victim's?"
After asking the studio teacher, I learned that the victim's name is Liang Mianqi, 23 years old, and she lives on the ground floor of Huanglu Garden next door. She currently shares the apartment with her friends. This painting is also marked with Liang Mianqi's name.
However, her paintings were now trampled, covered with footprints, and smeared with colorful paints from the soles of feet.
Feng Charlie frowned, walked forward and handed the painting to Lin Meiqi.
Lin Meiqi was using an instrument to pry open the victim's mouth, observing the inside of her mouth and taking samples with a cotton swab. She looked up when she heard the noise.
Feng Charlie nodded.
Lin Meiqi carefully took the painting with her gloved hands and compared it to the other paintings scattered on the ground. They looked exactly the same. After all, they were all copies of the same plaster statue.
The plaster statue is right in front of the studio.
Lin Meiqi stood up and compared the picture with the plaster hand. She had to say that the footprints on the picture were too annoying and messy, and could not completely restore the original appearance of the picture.
However, Lin Meiqi still felt something strange intuitively: "There seems to be something wrong with this painting."
Feng Charlie raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What did you see?"
Lin Meiqi shook her head: "I don't have any ideas yet, I just feel like something is wrong."
Feng Charlie asked her: "Can the cause of death be determined?"
Lin Meiqi pointed at the evidence bag in Ah Hao's hand, which still contained the glass of juice. "The victim died of poisoning. There was a half-centimeter scratch on his finger, which was an old wound. There were no other external injuries. There were mottled bleeding spots on his lips, and six bruises were visible under the skin. The time of death was around 9 am. He must have suddenly taken effect of the poison in the middle of painting. I need to go back to the laboratory for testing to confirm whether the source of the poison was the glass of juice."
Feng Charlie nodded: "Okay, you go back to the laboratory later."
After Lin Meiqi finished the on-site investigation, she got in the car and returned to the serious crime unit. Feng Charlie and several police officers stayed in Kimberly Road. They needed to visit people related to the victim and determine who had a motive for her as soon as possible.
When asked, it turned out that the painter and several students all had some impression of a person around the victim.
"I know the inside story. Liang Mianqi was brought back from an orphanage when she was little because her adoptive father couldn't have children. But he didn't take care of her like a daughter. Instead, he treated her like a cash cow and made her work early on. Liang Mianqi's only hobby is painting, but it costs money, and her father doesn't agree, so he came to stop her several times."
"Yes, yes. I heard them arguing. His father asked his daughter for money. The amount he asked for was not low, at least 20,000 yuan each time. Liang Mianqi is just an ordinary worker. When she is not painting, she sells sweet soup in the sweet soup shop. How much can she make in a day?"
The police officer next to me was recording.
Feng Charlie asked: "Does she have any other boyfriends or friends that she is close to?"
"I don't think she has a boyfriend. We've never heard her talk about him. As for her friends, they're probably her colleagues at the candy store. Although we're classmates, we all paint our own pictures. It has nothing to do with her."
Here, Lin Meiqi was taking samples of the victim's nails, hair, and some blood for poison identification.
When the results came out, Charlie Feng happened to bring the remaining police officers back to the serious crime team.
Lin Meiqi handed the printed report to Feng Charlie first: "Ingredients such as chloroacetamide were detected. They were found in the human body and the glass of juice. It can be confirmed that the death was caused by poisoning with a strong rodenticide."
Charlie Feng nodded.
Female police officer Ho Wan-yee suddenly asked, "Could it be her adoptive father who poisoned her?"
Lin Meiqi brewed a cup of coffee and sat quietly beside him, listening.
She already knew the ins and outs of their visit, and was curious about who had murdered this young girl.
Poisoning someone is obviously not a passionate act, because it takes time to prepare the poison, and the poison must be poured into the juice and brought to the studio, so there is always time to regret on the way.
Just as he was thinking, Charlie Feng suddenly spoke up: "The adoptive father's motive is not clear. If he killed his adopted daughter just for money, wouldn't his source of income be cut off? It would not be good for him either."
Feng Charlie looked at Liang Yifeng: "How was the investigation of the source of the juice just now?"
Liang Yifeng had a confused expression on his face. "The shop that sold the juice was Huiyuan Dessert Shop. I checked his order and found that he made three identical cups of juice at the same time today. One of them took the three cups and sent them back to the studio. This was random. If the target was not Liang Mianqi, whoever drank it would die? But doing this is indiscriminate killing, which is difficult to deal with."
The case is more difficult than expected.
Feng Charlie looked at Lin Meiqi and said apologetically, "I owe you a welcoming dinner today. I'll make it up to you when I have time."
Lin Meiqi took a sip of coffee and said calmly, "It's okay."
"Let's split up. We need to find out the situation of the victim Liang Mianqi's adoptive father, the juice shop owner Uncle Fei, and the three students who took the same juice."
Lin Meiqi finished the last sip of her coffee and threw the paper cup accurately into the trash can, again with great accuracy.
Several men nearby couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, what a great shooter!"
"It's okay. I've been throwing bones to dogs since they were little. They're used to it."
The police officers went out on a mission. Lin Meiqi took out the file bag that Ah Hao gave him today and carefully checked the backlog of cases.
Nowadays, as a forensic doctor, she cannot participate much in visiting new cases and can only work hard in other areas.
It is also rewarding to be able to resolve several old backlog cases.
Soon, Lin Meiqi discovered that there was a problem in the identification of a wound, and the ownership of the four murder weapons could not be confirmed.
The wound in the picture is not very clear, but it seems that there should be a shallow scratch next to the wound. Only the machete can cause such an effect.
Lin Meiqi couldn't be completely sure, so she had to apply to retrieve the old case as soon as possible and see the body again.
For cases that have failed to be reopened or cases where the clues have been cut off, there must be a set of procedures to take over before they can be continued.
Lin Meiqi didn't know how long she had been flipping through the files. She tilted her head to look out the window. The sun had already set and became less bright, hanging low in a corner of the building.
She stretched and heard footsteps. Were they coming back?
Charlie Feng strode up the stairs, and the police officers followed quickly behind him.
Charlie Feng threw the records on the table with a "bang". "That adoptive father is simply a sex maniac. He was hanging around the studio just to spy on the female owner of the studio!"
Ah Hao also joined him: "The construction site of Jinmen Garden where he was working has also confirmed that Liang Junyi did not have time to go out today. He was moving bricks at the construction site at that time. Many workers witnessed it, so he can be cleared of suspicion. As for going to the studio after get off work, he was not going to pick up the victim's adopted daughter. No wonder he hesitated in front of his lover and only said it after taking his lover away."
Feng Charlie was so angry that he put his hands on his hips. When he saw Lin Meiqi next to him looking at him very calmly, he lowered his tone.
Did this disturb forensic doctor Lin’s work?
Feng Charlie has broad shoulders, a narrow waist and long legs. When he gets angry, his veins bulge out and the muscles on his forearms appear even stronger.
Lin Meiqi couldn't help but take another look, but still looked away coldly.
"Wow, Forensic Doctor Lin is worthy of being Forensic Doctor Lin. He sorted out so much content in the file in one afternoon and found that two old cases needed to be reopened. His efficiency is really high! It seems that the two cases can be pushed forward." Ah Hao was full of admiration when he saw Lin Meiqi's achievements on the desk.
[Receive praise, IQ +1]
The moment the system sound disappeared, Lin Meiqi blinked and felt that the thoughts in her mind became clearer.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Feng Charlie changed his mind: "The case is currently at a stalemate. Why not let the police officers on those lines finish their work and come over to Huajie's Pork Soup Restaurant. Even if we can't get together, there are only a few of us, so at least we have to have a sense of ceremony."
Everyone cheered, "Great! I've been dreaming about that beef brisket in clear soup for too long, but I'm always too busy to eat there. It takes time to go there, and sometimes we have to queue. Thanks to Forensic Doctor Lin, otherwise we wouldn't be able to have a party this month."
The streets of Hong Kong in the 1990s were narrow, but full of urban atmosphere.
The neon signs have been turned on, colorful and hanging high and low, and the whole street looks quite atmospheric.
The police car stopped in front of Hua Jie's Clear Soup Pork Belly Shop. Lin Meiqi got out of the car and looked up to see the big sign of Hua Jie's Clear Soup Pork Belly Shop. The blue sign had a gradient color and was very eye-catching.
Looking through the glass, it was packed with people.
There is white steam coming out of the sizzling pot on the table, which is the first step of the stew.
In front of the door is a curtain with a picture of a fresh cow on it, and the location of the beef brisket is specially marked: "Sister Hua's clear soup beef brisket, the best beef brisket in Hong Kong."
The slogan is clearly written on the sign, and it seems that the chef is quite confident in his cooking skills.
Lin Meiqi got to eat the delicious beef brisket hotpot as she wished. As expected, after taking a sip of the clear soup, she couldn't help but sigh at the rich and fragrant soup base, which was a taste she had never had in any beef brisket she had eaten before.
While she was tasting the food, Liang Yifeng came out and bought some strawberry yogurt from the ice cream parlor next door.
Lin Meiqi has no resistance to anything pink or strawberry-shaped and flavored, but she didn't expect Liang Yifeng to still remember her after-meal dessert.
In addition to bringing her a cup of strawberry yogurt drink, the female police officer next to her also received a cup of milk tea.
"Awan is a crazy lover of milk tea."
However, the moment the straw pierced the seal of the milk tea, everyone remembered the case again.
"Three cups of identical milk tea, how do you know for sure the poison was put into the victim's cup? I think the boss of the candy store is suspicious."
"The owner of the dessert shop is not a suspect. More than one witness saw him making the entire process of juice. All three cups were made exactly the same. There is no possibility of adding poisons. And didn't Forensic Doctor Lin say that no poisons were detected in those two cups?"
"Tsk, that's really weird."
"Okay, it will be more efficient to talk about it at the meeting tomorrow. Today we are mainly here to welcome you to join us, the great forensic doctor Lin Meiqi!"
Feng Charlie raised his glass, and the glasses of wine, yogurt and milk tea collided. Others responded, "Welcome, Forensic Doctor Lin!"
"Where does Forensic Doctor Lin live?"
"I live at Ningyuan No. 1."
Everyone was shocked: "The security in that place is very bad, do you want to change places?"
Lin Meiqi waved her hand: "I'm used to living here."
"As expected of 'Yan Yidao', he is so fierce!"
It’s not that Lin Meiqi didn’t want to move, but she smiled and avoided the topic.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they went home.
Lin Meiqi stopped a Crown taxi on the street. After getting in, the vehicle went further and further away until it stopped at Ningyuan No. 1.
She lived in a building near Kowloon Walled City, too close to that dark place.
Jiulongzhai is the source of evil. Even the taxi driver couldn't help but ask: "Do you really want to get off here?"
"Yes, my home is here."
The driver stopped by the roadside and after Lin Meiqi got out, he looked at her and couldn't help but feel a chill in his teeth: "How come this little girl is so fearless?"
When we got near Kowloon Walled City, the lights dimmed, making this dark place look even more terrifying.
There were noisy sounds coming from nearby, which has become a major feature of the area.
People of all kinds live in this Kowloon Walled City, and crime continues unabated. Black-hearted dentists, refugees seeking asylum, and scavengers live here, and all kinds of disputes over money and emotions may arise at any time.
The taxi driver didn't dare to stay. He stepped on the accelerator and drove away with a "boom".
The reason why this place is so difficult to deal with is that it is a lawless area, with rampant crime and a dense population.
In the small village, when you walk in, you will see debris, garbage and sewage everywhere.
In fact, Maggie Lam did not live inside the Kowloon Walled City, but lived outside it. However, as a single woman, it was terrifying for her to dare to approach the Kowloon Walled City. After all, she could easily be mistaken for a piece of fresh fat meat.
Lin Meiqi quickly found her building, as the original owner rented a place like this.
The contract has not expired yet, and it is not appropriate to give up several months' salary; on the other hand, she needs to truly become the original owner, the cold-hearted "Yan Yidao".
Lin Meiqi climbed the stairs, walked to the door under the dim light, took out the key and opened it.
With a creaky sound, it seemed that this door had been open for who knows how long, and it made a sharp noise every time it was opened and closed.
"Lin, you're back?" The neighbor's grandmother poked her head out and took out half a pig's leg. "We found this on the roadside in Kowloon Walled City today. We picked up an extra portion. Can you take it home and eat it?"
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