Surveillance is a time-consuming job, and people who are impatient will inevitably get impatient.
Xu Shaowei stepped out of Brother Yue's jeep to get some fresh air, while Jiayi sat in the driver's seat, still looking at the doorway.
She didn't know if she was competing with the murderer in patience, or if she had gone in the wrong direction and was just wasting time in vain.
Yesterday, she had also been to the Forensic Department and talked to Sir Xu again about the autopsy of the corpse. She had also been alone in the autopsy room, facing the corpse in the freezer for more than half an hour.
No new gains.
Special criminal cases such as strangers coming to the victim's home to commit crimes have always been the most troublesome type of cases for the serious crime unit.
The murderer came prepared and was not among the victim's social relations. The murder weapon was taken away and destroyed. There were no witnesses who could identify the murderer's identity or appearance, and even drawing a portrait of the murderer and publishing a wanted notice in the newspaper was impossible.
Hong Kong is so big, it's hard to find a needle in a haystack.
After checking the time, it was time to get off work.
Jiayi turned to Liang Shule and said, "Ah Le, you can go home now."
Since there have been frequent accidents involving patrol police and police officers who went out alone in the past two years, the Hong Kong Police Academy has begun to expand its recruitment. Starting this year, the police force has gradually implemented that at least two people will act at the same time whether they are on guard or on patrol.
Although there are still many positions that have not been filled in time, this dangerous hidden danger has begun to be taken seriously.
If Liang Shule leaves and Brother Yue is handling work at the police station, the only people left on the scene are Jiayi and Xu Shaowei, and there is no one to take turns. Once someone goes to the bathroom, there will be only one person left on the scene.
But Liang Shule was a uniformed police officer seconded here to help after all, and he had no obligation to work overtime with Team B.
Moreover, Liang Shule had been following for a whole day and was already very tired.
However, Jiayi did not hear Liang Shule's response after she spoke. She looked up at the rearview mirror and saw Liang Shule looking up at her.
"Yi Shazhan, I always think of Liu Lisheng's back." Liang Shule said slowly:
"I am willing to work overtime."
...
Xu Shaowei stretched his back behind a tree facing the wall, and then walked towards the door along the sidewalk.
He put his hands in his pockets, sometimes looking in a certain direction, sometimes looking down at his toes, stamping his feet, and then continuing to walk.
Like an ordinary passerby.
When he was about to reach the gate of the community, two people came towards him.
He was the sales manager of a real estate agency across the street from Weili Jinhui. Next to him walked a young woman in a popular khaki mid-length windbreaker.
The sales manager enthusiastically explained that the Real Estate Chamber of Commerce would invite the most powerful masters to perform rituals to exorcise evil spirits, and would also make many major changes to Feng Shui to avoid evil, such as rebuilding green belts, changing the layout of children's activity areas, etc.
The young woman walking next to him lowered her head, and there seemed to be hesitation on her face.
Xu Shaowei took two steps and passed them by. His eyes drooped slightly. He slowed down his pace unconsciously, then turned around the corner and stared at the woman in the khaki windbreaker.
His eyes sank and fell on the woman's sneakers.
The ordinary style matched the description of the murderer's shoes by the Forensic Department.
Thinking back to the time when they passed each other, the difference between his ears and his shoulders... should be about 159cm in height.
He turned on his toes and strode back.
...
Jiayi's baby call pinned on her waist started to beep, and she took it off and saw that it was a message from her eldest brother Yi Jiadong:
[What do you want to eat tonight? ]
Jiayi's lips curled up, and she turned to ask Liang Shule: "What do you want to eat?"
"Barbecued pork buns are fine, pineapple buns are fine, hamburger buns are fine, just eat whatever you want." Liang Shule was still a little polite.
Jiayi thought of the wolves in Group B who always ordered food like they were fighting for it, and couldn't help but think that Liang Shule was so well behaved.
"I know." She responded, but in her heart she was thinking about ordering a delicious lunch box from her brother, so she opened the car door, wrapped her scarf high, pulled it up to cover her ears, and got out of the car and closed the door when she felt warm, then strode towards the gate of the community.
There is a convenience store at the gate of the community where you can make a phone call.
After taking two steps, she saw two people coming towards her. When Jiayi saw the other person's face, she lowered her head subconsciously.
She could never forget that ordinary but calm face. She had already imprinted it in her mind by watching the flow image over and over again. She could see the other person's cold expression when he killed someone with her eyes closed.
The sales manager next to the murderer had seen her before. Jiayi buried her face in the scarf and frowned slightly.
When they were about to pass by the murderer, Jiayi suddenly pulled out her police ID from her pocket, then held it up in front of the murderer and shouted, "Police, we suspect you are involved in a murder." Just as
Jiayi finished speaking, Xu Shaowei ran over from the other end of the walkway.
Seeing that Jiayi was also staring at the woman, Xu Shaowei blocked her way.
On the other side, Liang Shule saw Yi Jiayi with one hand on the gun at her waist and the other hand took out her police ID, so he also jumped out of the car and blocked her way.
Wu Xiaoyu's eyes scanned the three people quietly, and the hand hidden in his sleeves clenched into a fist. Then he turned his head and looked at the sales manager, made a confused expression, and looked at Yi Jiayi innocently and panicked.
"You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say from now on will become evidence in court." Liang Shule rushed to say this, and then stepped forward to handcuff Wu Xiaoyu.
"Madam, I am a good citizen, I just come to buy a house..." Wu Xiaoyu looked down at her handcuffed hands in fear, and when she looked up again, her face was already wet with tears.
"What's going on, madam? Are you happy because we have no business at all?" The real estate salesman finally convinced Wu Xiaoyu to buy the haunted house, why did these policemen want to block his way to wealth?
The real estate salesman stamped his feet in anger and reached out to pull Yi Jiayi.
Xu Shaowei frowned and stepped in between the sales manager and Yi Jiayi. He lowered his head and glared at the sales manager, clenched his fists, and threatened in a low voice:
"Are you going to attack the police?"
The sales manager met Xu Shaowei's eyes, and his heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't say a word.
"Take him too." Yi Jiayi turned her head, her eyes were like torches, forcing the sales manager to lose all his arrogance.
Liang Shule took Wu Xiaoyu, and Xu Shaowei took the sales manager, and they stuffed the two into the trunk, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiching them in the middle.
"Bang! Bang!" Two times, the back door closed tightly, Jiayi sat in the driver's seat, started the car, stepped on the accelerator and drove out of the Weili Jinhui community, and rushed straight to the police station.
...
An hour and a half later, Yi Jiayi stood outside the interrogation room with a sullen face.
The sales manager confessed that Wu Xiaoyu did come to buy Unit A opposite Unit B on the 12th floor where the murder occurred, and he had brought Wu Xiaoyu to see the house several times in the past year.
But he brought more than just Wu Xiaoyu to see that house, and he had also seen several houses upstairs and downstairs.
He had no idea whether Wu Xiaoyu killed the whole family of Unit B in order to turn the lucky house into a haunted house.
The sales manager did not know whether Wu Xiaoyu knew when Liu Lisheng, the male owner of Unit B, was on a business trip.
In his confession, Wu Xiaoyu was just an ordinary customer, and not very rich. He could not even afford to buy the house.
This confession is somewhat useful, but it can only prove that Wu Xiaoyu is suspected of being the murderer. If there is direct evidence, this confession can prove the murderer's motive. But if there is no direct evidence, this confession is useless.
On the other hand, Wu Xiaoyu said that she had time to be a witness.
After work, she went home and helped her grandmother, who was over 70 years old, to bring a clay pot home to cook soup. During this period, her colleagues in the company could prove that she was there, and her grandmother could also prove that she was there.
After being transferred back, Sanfu immediately took Liu Jiaming to the home of Wu Xiaoyu's colleague in the company to record a statement. The colleague named by Wu Xiaoyu said that he sat at an angle to Wu Xiaoyu. Wu Xiaoyu's workstation was very remote, behind a supporting pillar, and his colleagues could only see Wu Xiaoyu's shoulders every day.
He seemed to have seen Wu Xiaoyu sitting there that day, and he seemed to be wearing a yellow sweater. He had some impression of him.
But he was not sure whether he was there or not.
It was a small company, and there was not even a card swipe machine. Everyone just had to sign in and out of work.
On the day of the murder, the boss who was watching everyone's attendance was not there, and the others had no time to pay attention to whether their colleagues were late or left early. Several people left early that day.
The girl at the front desk only said that Wu Xiaoyu signed the registration form that day, and the time of leaving work marked on the back was on time, but the girl was not sure when he signed it. There were too many things and she had forgotten it a long time ago.
In this way, Wu Xiaoyu seemed to have a witness at the time, but also seemed not to have one.
Although such vague testimony may not be beneficial to Wu Xiaoyu, it is not a good thing for the police.
Without definite evidence, it is equivalent to the party who presents evidence having no evidence.
If you want to sue Wu Xiaoyu, a bunch of vague "maybes" will not work.
Gary and Uncle Jiu brought the old man who was watching the night watch to identify people. Several senior sisters of similar height and hairstyle stood together with Wu Xiaoyu. The old man stared at them for a long time, but could not point out Wu Xiaoyu clearly.
The old man always felt that this one looked similar, and that one seemed a little similar.
Before sending the old man out of the police station, Sanfu stood at the door and punched the door frame, causing the civilian police officers sitting on the first floor of the police station to look up and sideways.
Uncle Jiu reluctantly pulled Sanfu back to the serious crime team, and everyone gathered together with dark faces and gloomy eyes.
The suspect was caught, and everything fits the police's current profile of the murderer
. The shoe size is OK, the hand size is OK, and the motive for committing the crime can basically be justified. However, the murderer wore rubber gloves and shoe covers that day, and there are no definite fingerprints, footprints, etc. The existing evidence cannot be used as evidence in court.
Fang Zhenyue made 8 calls and applied for an expedited search warrant. Jiayi took her colleagues from the forensic department to Wu Xiaoyu's house to search for evidence.
The result was as everyone guessed, nothing was found -
after so many days, the rubber gloves, shoe covers, etc. must have been burned long ago, and there were no blood-stained clothes in the closet. The yellow sweater that the murderer wore to work on the day of the murder was hung in the closet. The colleagues in the forensic department checked it and found no blood stains.
"On the day of the murder, the coat that Wu Xiaoyu wore was the same windbreaker he wore today, and there were no blood stains or blood reactions." Diane took off her gloves, stood at the door of Wu Xiaoyu's room, and shook her head at Yi Jiayi.
Of course there was no blood reaction. Wu Xiaoyu was wearing a raincoat when he killed someone that day. The plastic raincoat and rubber gloves could be burned together, leaving no traces.
Jiayi stood outside the tenement building, scanning the complex undemolished buildings and illegal structures in Kowloon Walled City.
Even if the murderer hid the murder weapon here, such a complex building, a knife can be hidden anywhere. Even if the police force is really willing to send hundreds of people to search this place thoroughly, I am afraid they may not find it.
I am afraid that everything still has to start with Wu Xiaoyu. How to make her confess?
How to make her confess where the murder weapon is...
Jiayi frowned all the way back to the police station, thinking about the next plan.
...
When a team got out of the car and walked out of the garage, they saw Liu Lisheng hunched over at the door of the police station.
This widower who had met with misfortune was like a wandering soul who had lost his soul. He swayed slightly, sometimes looking down at his shoes, and sometimes looking up.
The overhead light from the door of the police station made the depressions on his face and the shadows under his eyes more prominent... He was completely a lonely soul guarding the door.
Jiayi stared at him for a while, then suddenly sped up and trotted up the stairs.
When Liu Lisheng saw her, his gray eyes regained some vitality, and he immediately stepped forward to greet her, "Yi Shazhan."
Yi Jiayi raised her arm and grabbed his shoulders, then raised her head and looked at him sternly.
Her palms were very hot, and he trembled slightly, so he opened his mouth again: "Yi Shazhan..."
Jiayi opened her lips to make a promise, but after hesitating for a few seconds, she finally said nothing.
Turning back, she said to Gary:
"Brother Gary, take Mr. Liu to drink some hot water. Ask my eldest brother to bring some midnight snacks so that you and Mr. Liu can fill their stomachs."
After saying that, Jiayi withdrew her hand, brushed past Liu Lisheng like a gust of wind, and was swept into the police station and went straight to the interrogation room -