When they returned to the detachment after lunch, it was already past two in the afternoon. The hall was much emptier than when Xu Man came in the morning. It was obvious that most people were out on field investigations.
Qin Shen walked into the hall, but did not go up to the second floor. Instead, he went to the Intelligence Department on the first floor. Seeing that he did not let her go first, Xu Man followed him and entered the Intelligence Room.
The intelligence room was bustling with activity. Surveillance videos from different periods of time were displayed on everyone's computer screen. Four different viewing angles of different sizes were squeezed together at the same time. The clicking of the mouse and the typing of the keyboard could be heard almost every minute and every second. Li Shijie, who was pulled in by the intelligence team leader to do the hard labor, had two computer monitors in front of him. He stared at the eight surveillance screens on the screens and his eyes were almost blinded.
"How is it?" Qin Shen walked to the intelligence team leader's desk, "Did you find anything?"
Feng Xuanren took off his glasses and rubbed his Jingming acupoint. "Nothing has been found yet. We have retrieved surveillance videos from the roads around the shopping mall and office buildings, the roads near the victim's home, and the roads the victim often walked on, and are screening them one by one. However, the number is too large, so it may take a long time."
Qin Shen propped himself on the desk with one hand, glanced at his computer screen, then looked up at the people around him who were watching the surveillance camera, and asked, "How long will it take?"
Feng Xuanren: "At least ten hours. There will definitely be no results today."
"Alright." He breathed a sigh of relief and patted the intelligence team leader on the shoulder. "Work harder and do a good job. I'll give you a long vacation after you finish investigating this case."
Feng Xuanren sneered, "Come on, that's what you said in the last case, and what happened? After you investigate one case, another comes up, it's endless, there's no end. My daughter's birthday is today, I wanted to go home and celebrate her birthday, but now I have to work overtime again, my wife will scold me to death."
Qin Shen raised his eyebrows: "Then go back. Can't you spare an hour or two? If that doesn't work, let Xiao Li take your place. He doesn't have a girlfriend, so he has plenty of time."
Li Shijie was very sharp-eared. Hearing this, he screamed out: "What? Brother Qin, please let me go. It's bad enough that I don't have a girlfriend, and I have to cover for others. Even the White-haired Girl's father wasn't that miserable, right? And I worked all night yesterday. If I stay up all night longer, you will have to solve the case for me."
"You're the only one who talks too much." Qin Shen scolded softly, "Work hard!"
After leaving the Intelligence Department, Xu Man followed Qin Shen to the Technical Department. As soon as they entered the door, a female police officer spotted them and walked towards them with a report: "Captain Qin, you're just in time. This is the test report of the soil sample taken at the scene. We detected something in it. Take a look."
Qin Shen took the report, unfolded it and took a quick glance at it, then frowned: "Tell me the details."
"It's like this. We found red wool ends in the soil we sampled. The texture is relatively hard. It doesn't look like something from clothing, but more like something from household products such as carpet pads. Judging from the number of wool ends in the sample, it should be fabric from the carpet. We speculate that the murderer stepped on something like a red carpet, causing the soles of his shoes to be stained with wool ends, and then stepped into the soil when burying the body, and then we extracted and tested it."
"Are you sure?" Qin Shen glanced over the report, "It wasn't left by some other tourist while visiting the forest?"
"We collected dozens of soil samples from the scene. Most of the places where these woolen threads appeared were distributed around the burial site. More importantly, among the four sets of footprints we extracted, these woolen threads were found in the mud prints of one set. After analysis, they were found to be the same kind of objects."
This sentence made Qin Shen look up suddenly: "Which set of footprints?"
"One set of size 41 male shoe prints." The female police officer answered affirmatively, "After measurement, we determined that this set of shoe prints came from rain boots. The murderer should be a man wearing rain boots."
Qin Shen's eyes fixed, and he immediately ordered Xu Man: "Go to the Intelligence Department and tell Lao Feng to focus on checking men who wear rain boots in and out of the park."
Xu Man nodded and quickly went to the Intelligence Department to tell the head of the intelligence team the news. Upon hearing that the investigation scope had been narrowed down to a specific category, everyone was excited and their enthusiasm doubled.
When she returned to the technical department, Qin Shen had already asked about the rest of the situation and handed the report back to the female police officer.
"Captain, where are we going next?" After leaving the technical department, Xu Man saw Qin Shen walking up the stairs. She thought he had finished his inspection and was about to return to the office. But he did not stop after passing the second floor and continued to walk up the stairs. She couldn't help but ask in confusion.
Qin Shen did not answer but asked: "How is your psychological endurance? I saw that you did not vomit at the scene yesterday, and you did not feel uncomfortable staring at those autopsy pictures at the meeting at night. You should be OK, right?"
Thinking of the layout of each department that Li Shijie introduced to her last night, Xu Man vaguely guessed where he was going to take her. Her face turned a little pale, but she still nodded: "Not bad."
Qin Shen glanced at her without saying anything, with a subtle curve at the corner of his lips, as if he was admiring her courage, and as if he saw through her stubbornness but didn't say anything.
They soon reached the third floor. Qin Shen walked to Forensic Room No. 2 on the west side and pushed open the door. Xu Man was standing outside. She did not go in immediately, but glanced inside carefully through his body. After not seeing any bloody scene, she followed him in with confidence.
There was no one else in the forensic room except Guan Shuiyun, who was standing by the dissection table writing a report with her long hair neatly tied up. When she heard the door open, she gave instructions without even raising her head.
"Close the door."
Qin Shen turned around, but Xu Man got there before him, reaching out and gently closing the door.
Guan Shuiyun noticed that the door was closed in a different style than usual, so she looked up. After seeing who the two people were, she smiled and said, "Hey, what brings you here, Captain Qin? Aren't you hanging out with your junior sister?"
Her words sounded like a teasing, but Xu Man found them a bit harsh, as if she was mocking someone.
"I just came back after investigating the case." Qin Shen didn't notice the special meaning in her words at all, and answered casually, "I came to your side to ask about the situation. How is it? Any new discoveries?"
Guan Shuiyun refused to let it go, still smiling as she continued the previous topic: "You came back right after checking? Are you sure you didn't come back after having a meal outside? This timing is really a coincidence."
Qin Shen frowned and became a little impatient. "I'm asking about your situation."
Seeing that he didn't take the joke, Guan Shuiyun immediately stopped and changed the subject back to business: "Alright, I just asked you a few questions, but you look sour as if someone owes you eight million. Young Master, your temper hasn't changed. What do you want to ask?"
"What else could it be? How did the autopsy go?"
"The autopsy report is out. It's a complete one. It has been jointly verified by me, Teacher Dong, and Sun Lang. It has complete legal effect." Guan Shuiyun walked to the desk, pulled out a document, and held it up to Qin Shen. "Do you want to see it?"
"Any new discoveries?"
“Not yet.”
"Then I won't watch it."
Guan Shuiyun smiled slightly and put the folder back to its place. "How's the case going?"
"Not bad, I have some clues." Qin Shen closed his eyes, "This case is not complicated. When Lao Liang returns with his team, we should be able to identify the suspect."
"So it looks like I have to work overtime again tonight?"
"If you don't have anything urgent to do, you can go back first. Since the autopsy report is out, there shouldn't be anything for you to do after this."
Guan Shuiyun put her hands in her white coat, leaned against the desk and smiled gently at Qin Shen, revealing a unique charm. "Teacher Dong and Sun Lang should be going back tonight. I have nothing to do, so I'll stay here to avoid any problems along the way. You won't be able to find them even if you want to."
"Whatever." Qin Shen replied indifferently, turned around, opened the door of the forensic room, called Xu Man and left.
During the entire conversation between the two, Xu Man did not say a word and stood aside as a background board. It was not until Qin Shen asked her to leave that she smiled and nodded to Guan Shuiyun, closed the door and left the forensic room.
As the door slowly closed, Guan Shuiyun smiled back at her.
Xu Man was stunned.
Is it her illusion? She always felt that forensic doctor Guan seemed to have something against her.
Did she offend her in any way? still……
"What are you thinking about? Look at the road." Qin Shen's faint voice sounded. Xu Man was startled and realized that she had reached the stairs. She would go downstairs in one more step.
She was startled and quickly looked at the road carefully. She took a steady step down the stairs, smiled embarrassedly at Qin Shen, and said thank you in a low voice.
Qin Shen walked downstairs without looking at her: "What were you thinking about so intently? You almost stepped on air and fell down the stairs, and you didn't even notice it?"
Of course Xu Man couldn't say that she was wondering why Guan Shuiyun was hostile to her, so she could only say: "I... was thinking about the case."
“Wondering who the murderer is?”
"……Um."
Qin Shen tilted his head to look at her, then turned back, turned out of the stairs on the second floor, and walked to the end of the corridor. "Who do you think the murderer is?"
Xu Man was stunned: "Aren't we still investigating? Now we only know that the murderer is a man wearing rain boots. As for who it is... we can't be sure yet, right?"
"The technical department's findings can only prove that the person who buried the body had this trait, but not necessarily the person who committed the crime." Qin Shen opened the door of his office. "And have you forgotten? According to the results of the autopsy, the murderer is most likely a minor. Didn't we just investigate a minor today?"
"Are you talking about Lu Yajun?" Xu Man was really surprised this time, "She is the murderer?"
"She is related to this case." Qin Shen walked a few steps inside. Seeing that she didn't follow him, he turned around and walked back two steps. He leaned against the door frame and talked to her, "She may not be the murderer, but she is definitely not telling the truth."
Xu Man was a little confused: "How...how can you be sure of this?"
Qin Shen smiled, his smile was cool and handsome.
"intuition."
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