Chapter 107
Section Chief Fang, watching the two whispering to each other, inevitably came forward out of curiosity: "Is there anything I can't bear to hear? Aren't we colleagues?"
Luo Jingyao pursed her lips and tactfully kept silent. Instead, she took a half step back and pushed the person next to her forward.
Lin Jiafan suddenly smiled and placed his hand on Section Chief Fang's shoulder in a familiar manner. "After the fire department checked the building this afternoon, did your men go inside?"
"My men went to the household on the second floor to check and confirmed that the damage to the building was caused by a gas explosion in the kitchen." The man was a little confused.
"As for the more specific tasks, we don't have time to do them. After all, we're short-staffed. We should focus on the spicy stir-fry restaurant at the initial crime scene."
"What's the problem?"
Seeing Section Chief Fang's cautious questioning, Lin Jiafan didn't respond directly. Instead, after a brief moment of thought, he patted his shoulder and said, "I've always felt that the damage to the building is suspicious. So, you send two people. I have nothing else to do, so I can go up and take a look."
Hearing this, Section Chief Fang looked at the building carefully, but for a moment he couldn't figure out what it was.
But since Lin Jiafan said so, he didn't dare to be careless. He could only return to the cordon and call two people over.
While the other person was turning around, Luo Jingyao moved her lips again: "Officer Lin, are you trying to trick others into doing work for you?"
Once the words came out of her mouth, she felt it was very normal. She was familiar with this trick. When they first met, she was fooled by this person again and again.
"Don't be so harsh, Coach Luo." Lin Jiafan said with a half-smile, "We're all from the same unit, there's no need to distinguish between you and me."
"Besides, the Special Case Investigation Team is truly short-staffed. Pan Chang was called back to the bureau hours ago to help deal with the media crew. Brother Guo is still fiddling with the three mangled bodies and the hand, and Pang Guang is further verifying the list of staff at the spicy stir-fry restaurant. Doesn't that also count as helping the Fire Department?"
Bullshit!
Luo Jingyao rolled her eyes implicitly and sneered at his excuse.
The reason why Pang Guang verified the list was to confirm as soon as possible who the owner of the hand that appeared out of thin air was.
Her slightly contemptuous look didn't bother Lin Jiafan at all.
At this time, Section Chief Fang also came back with two people: "Captain Lin, I want to go over and take a look too. If there is any problem, we can solve it in time!"
Lin Jiafan naturally would not refuse this. He was so happy that there was an extra person to help share the workload.
So a group of people went around the outer cordon and came to the gate of the community. After identifying themselves to the security guard in the booth, they entered the community smoothly.
The scene inside the park was not much better than the road outside. There was a lot of broken glass on the ground, which felt strange and made a crackling sound when stepped on.
The distance was not far. A few minutes later, Luo Jingyao saw the back of Jiangcheng Spicy Stir-fry Restaurant from afar. It was also dark and empty.
Compared to the front, the damage to the wall on this side is more serious, after all, the kitchen is in this direction.
etc!
Luo Jingyao seemed to have thought of something, and quickly raised her head to look at the residential building they were heading for. She seemed to understand why Lin Jiafan had noticed something unusual just based on her simple words.
Her guess was based on what she saw at the crime scene, while the man relied entirely on his excellent insight.
While admiring the scene, several people had already arrived at the road between the residential building and the spicy stir-fry restaurant.
"Don't keep us in suspense, Captain Lin. Just tell us." Section Chief Fang turned around and raised his chin urgingly at the person a few steps away.
"The wall of the second-floor apartment facing the spicy stir-fry restaurant is quite badly damaged." Lin Jiafan raised his arm and pointed.
Following the direction of his arm, everyone looked and saw that the second floor had the largest amount of damage. Through the hole, one could vaguely see the tragic scene of the room being ravaged by the gas explosion.
"Because the gas in the household on the second floor exploded twice..." At this point, Section Chief Fang seemed to have discovered something. He did not say the rest of the words, but instead walked back and forth under the building.
If it was due to a gas explosion, why didn't the wall in the kitchen break so completely, but instead the wall in the living room which was some distance away from the kitchen couldn't withstand it first?
But what if it was because they were directly exposed to the shockwave of the spicy stir-fry restaurant explosion? That doesn't seem to be the case. Compared with the second floor, the first floor should have suffered a greater aftermath.
"Go up and take a look."
Staring at the wall on the first floor that had only a few cracks, Section Chief Fang looked serious. After speaking in a deep voice, he walked into the corridor first.
Could it be that the kitchen on the second floor wasn't the first to explode? Time was extremely tight during the day, and after the fire department safely evacuated the injured from the building, they only went in to confirm the situation at the scene and indeed did not conduct a more detailed investigation.
After passing through the messy corridor, everyone went up to the second floor. What they saw was the security door of the house on the right, which was dented and crooked due to the explosion.
The whole nose was filled with the smell of burning. The night wind blew in through the broken walls, stirring up gusts of smoke and dust.
To Luo Jingyao's surprise, the room was extremely empty. Apart from some basic decorations and built-in cabinets, the room was deserted. In the huge living room, there were only a few chairs that were tilted by the weight of cement and bricks.
Section Chief Fang walked around the living room, and then carefully inspected the wall structure of the house with two of his men, and finally came to a conclusion.
"This wall has been modified, so it's particularly fragile. It was breached by the aftermath of the spicy stir-fry restaurant explosion. The walls of the commercial network are concrete, which is inherently much stronger than brick and concrete structures like residential buildings."
Section Chief Fang pointed to a large concrete wall in the living room that held two chairs down. "This must be the culprit that broke through the wall."
As he was explaining, two firefighters who were still exploring the wall suddenly exclaimed, "Chief, there seems to be something inside the wall!"
Luo Jingyao and Lin Jiafan both frowned, looked at each other, and then both of them looked at the wall.
When Section Chief Fang heard this, he was shocked. He quickly turned around and went back to the gap in the wall. He and his two subordinates discussed how to quickly clean up the rubble and cement blocks that were piled up in the broken part of the wall.
In order to speed up the progress, Section Chief Fang turned around and transferred a few more people, who were carrying equipment that looked quite professional.
After a fierce operation, the dust and smoke in the room became even thicker. Lin Jiafan pulled out two breathing masks from the tool box carried by the fire department and handed one of them to Luo Jingyao.
Two people wearing masks stood in the corner of the living room, watching the people in front of them carefully cleaning the wall.
Finally, an uncertain voice rang out: "Section...Section Chief, there seems to be... seems to be a person in this wall?!"
When Section Chief Fang heard this, the hairs on his neck stood up instantly. He was thinking of moving closer to take a closer look, but was unexpectedly pushed aside by someone.
After barely gaining a firm foothold on a pile of "construction waste", he looked closely and saw Lin Jiafan clinging to the broken part of the wall, shining a flashlight inside.
"The deceased was a male, his right hand was missing, and the wound on his wrist was basically the same as the severed hand found in the stir-fry restaurant." After a quick look, Lin Jiafan quickly made a judgment.
It is estimated that the huge piece of concrete that exploded from the spicy stir-fry restaurant first broke through the wall, just tearing the hand off the body. Then the gas in the kitchen also exploded, and the generated air pressure happened to push the broken hand back into the spicy stir-fry restaurant through the big hole in the wall.
"Coach Luo, call Brother Guo up."
Luo Jingyao was stunned at first when she heard the order, then she hurriedly took out the phone from her pocket and called Guo Zhen.
Only then did Section Chief Fang barely grasp the difference in meaning. His face flushed red, and he put his hands on his hips in anger: "Well, you, Lin Jiafan, tricked me into doing free work for you, right?!"
After working so hard for a long time, there was no progress in the explosion case. Instead, I helped the special case investigation team to dig the body out of the wall.
"We're all family, so we shouldn't talk behind each other's backs." Lin Jiafan's expression was unclear beneath his mask. "As the saying goes, every profession has its own specializations. How could we have discovered the structural issues with this wall so quickly?"
He threw a compliment, and taking advantage of Section Chief Fang's calming mood, he pressed on: "Now that it has come to this, I'll trouble the Fire Department to help us open this wall."
"After all, both your people and equipment are very professional."
When Guo Zhen came upstairs panting, the first thing he saw as he entered the door was the lively scene of all the fire department members busying themselves in front of the wall with their butts sticking out.
In the dust, he squinted his eyes and reluctantly came to Luo Jingyao's side: "Coach Luo, where is Captain Lin?"
Luo Jingyao pointed at the figure standing next to Section Chief Fang, and heard the man's intermittent and almost different praises in her ears.
"I feel...the people in the Fire Department are like cattle and horses, and you, Team Lin, are the supervisors who hold the whip and are responsible for beating the cattle and horses." She said helplessly.
After observing quietly for a while, Guo Zhen nodded in agreement.
Just as the two were talking, accompanied by a loud crashing sound, the outermost cement sealing layer of the wall finally peeled off.
After the fire department broke the wooden board inside, a somewhat decayed corpse suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
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