Chapter 382 Officer Yi, come on!

After searching for a long time, they still couldn't find any suspicious places with new footprints. Seeing that the rain was about to fall, Jiayi turned around anxiously and looked around. Her brain was working rapidly:

"If it were me, I would definitely choose a high place to see the scenery."

Jiayi temporarily abandoned Diane and others who were surveying inch by inch, and strode towards the high place.

What other information would affect the choice of the spectators?

Fire...

wind direction!

Jiayi turned around and saw that everyone was far away from her, so she had to call the command center to ask:

"Sir Wang, what kind of wind was it last night?"

"Southeast wind." Wang Jiewang replied, and just when he wanted to ask two more questions, the other party had hung up the phone.

Jiayi judged the direction. The left side of this high place is northwest, and the right side is northeast. If the wind blows from the southeast, the northwest side will definitely be affected by the flames. Sparks and other things will always float over with the wind, which will definitely affect the viewing. So the murderer must be in the northeast.

Jiayi then ran quickly to the other side, carefully looking at all the flat places where people can stand. From time to time, she looked down and simulated the thinking process of the murderer looking for a position.

The air was getting more and more humid. Jiayi was anxious and tired in the mountain wind, and she ran hard. Sweat.

Suddenly, behind a tree, she saw a cigarette butt that was trampled into the mud. Smoking is prohibited in the country park. It stands to reason that Taoist priests would never smoke here, and neither would the villagers, and even less would people who come here to burn incense.

Jiayi held her breath, bypassed the cigarette butt, and searched carefully around. Suddenly, she caught a few fresh footprints near a rock.

Her heartbeat was pounding, and she immediately turned her head and shouted to the distance:

"Sister Diane, here~"

But the distance was too far, and Diane did not respond.

The air was so humid that her clothes and bangs were all stuck to her body. Jiayi looked up at the sky and was worried about turning around and running away. There was no one watching this scene. What if it was destroyed... She had to pick up the mobile phone again to call the temporary command center.

8 minutes later, Wang Jiewang found Diane at Jiayi's request, and took them to run quickly towards the place Jiayi mentioned.

After passing the Taoist temple, they finally saw Yi Jiayi in a white shirt among the trees.

Wang Jiewang breathed a sigh of relief, carrying Diane's evidence box and heading towards Jiayi.

With the camera in hand, Diane took photos of all the footprints she could find around her, and carefully picked up the cigarette butts that were crushed into the soil. Then she carefully surveyed the area radiating outward from the stone where the footprints were left.

"…The shoe size is 5.5 (about 39), men's shoe style. She should be thin, about 170cm tall. Judging from the shoe size and the depth of the footprints, her weight is about 132 pounds (120 catties)." After speaking, Diane turned around and glanced at Wang Jiewang, and asked,

"Sir Wang, how much do you weigh?"

"145 pounds," Wang Jiewang said.

Diane walked to Wang Jiewang's side and took a picture of his footprints. Then she looked back at the footprints Jiayi found and nodded, saying,

"My judgment should be basically correct."

Wang Jiewang nodded. At this time, it finally started to rain.

Everyone wiped their sweat, stood up and turned to look in the direction of the Taoist temple. The walls and houses of the Taoist temple were burned down. Now standing here, you can almost see the situation inside very clearly.

Brother Da Guangming and Teresa from the Forensic Department of the Central Police Station led two teams and were fighting the rain in the Taoist temple to find the scene. Even though the rain was getting heavier, they were still busy looking for clues, using cameras to record the scene that was not washed away by the rain, the location and posture of the body, etc.

"Sister Diane, can I stand on this stone?" Jiayi looked up at the sky, wiped the rain off her face, and turned to ask Diane.

"Okay." Anyway, the heavy rain will wash away all traces.

Jiayi stepped onto the stone and was about to hold the tree next to her. Thinking of this, she withdrew her hand and turned to Diane and said, "Sister Diane, can you help me collect some more bark from this tree? The suspect may have held on here."

Diane immediately took the tools to cut the bark. Jiayi and Wang Jiewang helped to block the rain. Diane was very skillful and quickly cut off all the bark that a 170cm tall man might touch and put it into the evidence bag.

Jiayi then stood on the stone, holding the tree trunk next to her, and looked down at the Taoist temple below.

"As long as you step here, even if the temple's wall doesn't collapse, you can still see the fire clearly, and some of the Taoist priests in the temple are trying their best to escape but are powerless..." Jiayi rolled her eyes and suddenly took a step to run down the other side of the mountain.

After running a few steps, she found another pile of traces in a place. Although it was wet by the rain, fortunately, the rain had just started and there was no water accumulation.

"Sister Diane, there is a pile of vomit here, and a pair of particularly clear footprints."

Jiayi turned around and called for help. Diane hurriedly ran down and took photos and collected information about excrement, bark, etc.

"I'll go down and have a look." Seeing that there were still clues to be found along the way, Diane didn't dare to stop. She simply continued to follow the direction of the footprints before the rain got heavier to see if she could find any more clues.

"Together." Jiayi followed Diane and turned back to Wang Jiewang as they walked:

"The suspect might have killed someone for the first time."

"He started the fire in passion, but he didn't really think about killing so many people. So when he stood here to admire the fire, he unexpectedly saw a scene of people being burned to death like hell. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he ran down and stood there vomiting." Wang Jiewang analyzed the clues Jiayi found one by one.

"Yes, most people will have an instinctive psychological and physiological reaction when they see a murder for the first time, or when they see the murderer themselves." Jiayi finished speaking and said,

"There are some grounds to believe that this man is a first-time offender. First of all, he left too many clues. Even if it is difficult for the police to obtain clues of outdoor crimes, this is a Taoist temple where few people come after all. The villagers all live below the temple, and the wind blows from the southeast below. Whether it is the villagers putting out the fire or the firefighters putting out the fire, they will all stand below. This side of the hillside is actually less likely to be damaged. The murderer is not the kind of smart person who seriously planned the crime. He is likely a young man who committed a crime of passion."

Wang Jiewang took out a pen, bent down to block the rain, and wrote down Yi Jiayi's words in a notebook.

"But unfortunately, there was no smell of alcohol in the vomit. If there was, he must have committed the crime after drinking. If a person drinks in other places, it is almost impossible for him to go into the mountains to set fire, unless he has a car, but drunk driving is also very likely to cause accidents, and he will be checked on the road. If he walked, he would probably be too drunk to walk halfway. Then the murderer must have drunk in the village. We can basically determine that the murderer is from Wuwu Village below..."

Jiayi took a deep breath, turned to ask Wang Jiewang:

"I want to find a place to organize my thoughts."

"I rented a small house in Wuwu Village. I sent someone to guard it and moved the whiteboard over. We can go there now." Wang Jiewang said.

"Ok." Jiayi turned to look at Tannen who was still helping Diane with the investigation and asked, "Tannen, let's go and sort out the clues together?"

"No problem."

Jiayi nodded, and after going around the Taoist temple, she called Sanfu and other detectives from Team B, put on Hugo and turned to the temporary office in Wuwu Village.

...

...

Superintendent Huang sat in the office, and from time to time he received a call or an email - the status of the case was gradually outlined by these pieced-together information.

Yi Jiayi had never experienced an arson case before, and didn't know if she could handle it well.

Thinking of this, he picked up the phone and called Sister Yan:

"Get the arson case files from 1982 and 1979, and fax some of them to Yi Jiayi for her reference."

After hanging up the phone, he was thinking about whether to ask an old detective who had experienced arson cases to go over and help Jiayi, when the phone suddenly rang.

It was Ou Zhuhao from the New Territories North Serious Crime Unit.

Sir Ou complained to Huang Zhongcheng that it was raining at the wrong time, and then he became worried about the case:

"The Taoist temple welcomes and sends people, and it comes into contact with countless people every day. Without a clear hostile relationship, it will be very difficult to investigate."

"I heard that the villagers and firefighters who put out the fire caused serious damage to the scene." Huang Zhongcheng said.

"Yes, there are 17 dead this time, and everyone has their own social connections. Who provoked whom, or is it a conflict of collective interests? This is too difficult to investigate." Ou Zhuhao's voice was full of bitterness. Why did he always encounter such a big case in the past two years? He clearly went to burn incense every year...

"I heard that among the 17 dead, there is an unknown woman. We must first confirm her identity, and then we have to follow her social connections to investigate..." "

It will take half a year or a year just to investigate, and we have to find the real connection with the murderer in this huge amount of information..."

"Maybe the information can fill a thousand-foot mansion." Huang Zhongcheng sighed, thinking that Jiayi was urgently transferred to such a case just after being promoted to inspector... I wonder if it will become the most difficult case she has encountered since she became a detective.

"Officer Yi might also find it difficult." Ou Zhuhao was actually a little worried about Yi Jiayi. He had approved Wang Jiewang's application for assistance before, and now he was increasingly confused about whether he should transfer a more experienced detective.

"I'll talk to Yi Jiayi in a day or two." Huang Zhongcheng understood what Ou Zhuhao meant.

"Thank you, Mr. Huang, for your hard work."

After hanging up the phone, Huang Zhongcheng couldn't help but feel a little confused. If he called Yi Jiayi at this time and told her "If you need support, feel free to apply for it." Although it was caring, it would also seem that he was worried about her.

He took a deep breath and decided to wait and see for the time being. He called Fang Zhenyue in the evening to ask Fang Zhenyue what he thought.

…

On the other hand, the media were also very worried about this case, and likewise, they were worried about Yi Jiayi.

As the news about the Formosa Funicular Railway was reported back to the TV stations and newspapers one after another, people who had been following social news for a long time could hear how difficult it was.

The super-major case with 17 deaths might now be washed away by a heavy rain, and the only remaining clues. How are they going to find the people in the future? Formosa

Funicular Railway is not like the city, where people come and go. Anyone walking on the street may be seen by countless eyes. There are

few people in Formosa Funicular Railway. If the murderer bypassed Wuwu Village and went directly up the mountain without being encountered by anyone, and left after burning the body, even if God knew or the ghost saw it, there would be no way for the police to understand the situation and catch the murderer.

Aren’t the detectives completely in the dark?

Now the whole Taoist temple has been destroyed. No one knows who the conflict was with, who the conflict was with, or whose financial resources the conflict was with. How can we find out? Can

we ask the gods for help?

"Officer Yi has hit a wall now. In fact, when the New Territories North asked her to go there for assistance, she could have refused. Why did she agree to it? Isn't this jumping into a trap?" After following the news about Officer Yi Jiayi for a long time, many media people have gradually developed different feelings towards Yi Jiayi. Her honor and disgrace seem to affect their mood.

Who hasn't been moved by Yi Jiayi? Who hasn't eaten the delicious food at Yi Ji? If Yi Jiayi is unlucky, how can they not sigh?

"It was good to maintain the status of solving every case, but now that we have encountered a case that we cannot solve, the myth has been shattered, and it will be difficult to establish such public trust in the future."

"He solves cases for the sake of solving them, not for reputation. If you think like that, you don't understand Officer Yi." "

Ah... How can we solve this case? Forget it, I'll go burn some incense."

"What incense? Think about how to write tomorrow's manuscript."

There are also some people who take pleasure in misfortune. They have been waiting for people with good reputations to fall. When they finally encounter such a thing, they are ready to write a story about a person who "seeks fame" and finally falls.

In the past, no one believed the rumors she made up about Officer Yi. Now that she has a loophole, it may not be that difficult to discredit Officer Yi's image and character.

It would be better if there was controversy, because controversy would be a topic, and everyone would read his manuscript, and he would become famous...

While the media people were thinking about it, Guo Yongyao from the Public Relations Department suddenly accepted an interview.

He stood outside the cordon of the Eight Immortals Taoist Temple, holding an umbrella and braving the rain. With the busy figures of firefighters, detectives from the serious crime team, uniformed police, forensic experts, and forensic officers working in the rain as the background, he held a simple but particularly vivid press conference.

When everyone was worried about such a vicious incident and was terrified that the murderer was hard to catch and might still be active in Hong Kong, in response to the reporter Nie Weiyan's question, Mr. Guo answered loudly:

"Officer Yi Jiayi and Director Diane of the Forensic Department have found several clear traces of the suspect and collected the murderer's DNA vector.

"Detectives are now meeting with the most cutting-edge criminal psychologists. Based on all the current clues, we will deduce and draw a profile of the suspect as quickly as possible and arrest him.

"In the previous New Territories North serial murder case, Officer Yi Jiayi and other outstanding Hong Kong detectives worked together to miraculously profile the murderer's height, the means of transportation he used, the drinking utensils he carried, his age, his weight and many other characteristics. As a result, we brought the murderer to justice at a speed beyond the imagination of the public.

"I hope everyone can continue to maintain their confidence in the Hong Kong Police Force. We assure all citizens that we will do our best to catch the murderer as soon as possible and protect everyone's safety!"

As soon as Mr. Guo finished speaking, everyone at the scene who jointly delayed the live broadcast of the program couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Really? Madam Yi and the experts from the Forensic Department have found the murderer's footprints?"

"Great! She is worthy of being the West Kowloon girl Zhu Ge!"

"Go Hong Kong Police Force!"

"Officer Yi, Jiayi wow..."

The idea of ​​some people to take advantage of the fire was still in the cradle, and it was broken without attack.