Chapter 124 Chapter 124 The Fastest Case Ever
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Ji Yinhe raised his head, looked at the mirror on the sink in front of him, and took a deep breath.
The blush on her cheeks finally faded away under the rinse of clean water. She turned on the faucet, casually brushed off the water droplets on her face, tucked the wet hair around her ears, and finally checked herself in the mirror before straightening her clothes and walking out with her back straight.
To use Comrade Lao Ji’s words, at this moment, smart IQ has finally regained the high ground!
In the office, everyone had already sat in front of the big whiteboard, and Lu Zheng was left alone at the back. Everyone was staring at her intently.
Ji Yinhe calmly ignored his gaze, holding the police notification and clearing his throat——
"This is a case of burial. It happened in a building under construction in the Wuqian Development Zone." She tapped the photos of the scene sent by the police station onto a whiteboard and said, "The report was made at 8:30 this morning. The reporter is the leader of the building's construction team. The photos provided by the police station are black and white, and they are very blurry. We can't clearly see the scene or the extent of the body's decomposition. So we must go to the scene as soon as possible."
Everyone was flipping through the documents, and Ji Yinhe had already made up his mind.
"Guan Ye and Qiu Peng need to go to the procuratorate to handle follow-up procedures for the Zhang San and Gong Xie case. Sun Gaoge and Jiang Nian will stay in the office for tactical purposes. Cheng Mo, Ye Qing... and Teacher Lu, please call the technical investigators and forensic doctors to go out on the field. Meet downstairs in five minutes!"
The police: “Okay!”
*
Half an hour later, we arrived at Wuhu Development Zone.
The Grand Cherokee and two police cars stopped outside the construction site fence. Ji Yinhe jumped out of the driver's seat and showed his work ID to the police officers from the police station waiting at the door.
"Great! Fantastic!" The usually arrogant police officer's eyes widened, as if he had just seen his idol. "I didn't expect it was you, Team Leader Ji, who was handling this case. I heard you were the one who personally apprehended the suspect in last month's Golden Ring Hotel explosion. You're incredible!"
The passionate speech made the surrounding security guards and workers exclaim in delight.
Looking across the entire Handong, who doesn’t know about the three sensational explosions this summer?
The title of Team Leader Ji of the Provincial Department's Special Criminal Case Investigation Team is well-known throughout Jingzhou. No one would have thought that the real person is such a female police officer who wears no makeup but is more beautiful and dashing than a female star!
However, amidst the shock, the famous man simply nodded politely to the onlookers, then lowered his head and hurried inside, asking as he walked, "Which building is the crime scene?"
"This way, this way!" The policeman jumped on the spot and stretched out his arms attentively to lead the way for the idol.
"...Look, right here!" The detectives were led to the top floor of the residential complex. Pointing to a large hole in a concrete pillar, they said, "Team Leader Ji, that's where the body was found! Work started at 8 a.m. this morning, and workers noticed the cement in this area was the wrong color. They were about to dig it up and re-pave it, but unexpectedly, a woman fell out with one shovelful! The workers immediately notified the team leader, who called the police. We arrived and immediately reported the incident and secured the scene... So, we did a pretty good job, didn't we?"
Ji Yinhe said "very good", raised his head in the smug look of the policeman, and looked around at the half-built steel forest.
While cases of bodies buried in buildings are rare, they are not uncommon, especially in the rapidly developing economies of Europe and the United States. So when she first saw the police report, she thought it was a renovation of an old building, and a body had been found buried for a long time in the existing structure.
I didn't expect that a new building was being built here on wasteland. The concrete pillars looked like they had just been poured two days ago, and some places were not even dry yet.
The body had been moved out and placed flat on the open space nearby. Ye Qing and two forensic assistants immediately began to examine it.
Ji Yinhe also put on gloves and squatted over.
"The deceased is a female, approximately 24 or 25 years old. Based on the degree of livor mortis and rigor mortis, we presume she died two to three days ago." Ye Qing slowly moved the corpse's arms and examined the eyelids, mouth, and skin. "There are erosive ulcers in the mouth. The cause of death is likely poisoning. I suspect paraquat may have been ingested. There are no external injuries to the exposed skin. We'll need to take the body back for further examination."
"Okay." Ji Yinhe nodded, glanced at the pretty face of the female corpse, and flipped through her clothes twice.
She was wearing a white tennis dress with a lapel and black stripes. The fabric was fine and the pattern was fashionable. Her hair was permed into big waves, her nails were painted wine-colored, and her lips were stained with a little bright red lipstick.
——This is a young woman with good financial conditions and a passion for dressing up.
"Nothing that could prove our identity was found." Ye Qing instructed her assistant to come over and take pictures.
Ji Yinhe turned around and asked the workers and police officers who were watching: "Do you know him? Do you have any impression of him?"
Everyone looked at it carefully for a while, and then shook their heads.
"Yinhe, judging by the dryness of the cement seal, the deceased was buried at the scene in the middle of the night." Lu Zheng led the technical investigators over. "The hiding place has been cleaned. There are no remaining items or fingerprints. No footprints were found at the scene either."
Before Ji Yinhe could answer, the police officer next to him raised a question, "The concrete pillar is so hidden, and it won't collapse after it's covered. Did the murderer intend to bury her for thirty or fifty years? After more than two years, she'll be considered a missing person. How can they just leave such a young girl unsolved?"
"No." Lu Zheng shook his head.
"If the murderer shared your idea, he wouldn't have chosen this location to hide the body," Ji Yinhe explained. "The location of the building and the contrast between the old and new cement were too conspicuous, immediately alerting the construction team to the anomaly... The perpetrator likely wanted us to find her as soon as possible."
"Ah!?" the police officer was very surprised. "That makes sense! But why? What murderer wants to be exposed as soon as possible?"
——Yes, why?
Ji Yinhe was silent for a moment, then looked around.
There weren't enough clues right now, so the question of motive could only be discussed later. She was actually more concerned about another point—
There are no high-rise buildings or residential areas nearby, so it is not a place where modern girls like this often go.
To bring a body to such a remote construction site in the development zone, one must drive.
This area is still sandy, dusty and covered with various tire tracks.
But among the many truck wheel marks, she found two unusual marks. Compared with other tire patterns, they were different and led all the way to the simple gate built by the construction team.
Lu Zheng followed her gaze and discovered a clue, so he quickly called on the technical detective to follow and collect information.
"Construction trucks typically have radial tires with thick tread patterns to enhance grip. Passenger car tires, on the other hand, are mostly bias-ply tires with finer tread patterns to reduce noise and rolling resistance, making passengers more comfortable." Ji Yinhe pointed at the two tire tracks and said, "Check the wheel marks and wheelbase; you might be able to tell the model of the car."
The technical investigators quickly worked according to the instructions of Team Leader Xiao Ji. Then Lu Zheng and Ye Qing went back to the provincial department first with the collected evidence and the body.
Ji Yinhe and Cheng Mo, along with the police officers from the police station, began the tedious work of visiting.
First, we need to find out the identity of the deceased.
"Hello, have any young lesbians gone missing recently?"
“…I haven’t heard of it.”
"……have no idea."
"...How would I know! Officer, this woman is so beautiful and loves to dress up. Maybe she was murdered by her lover?"
Although it is an urban area, this area has just been developed. There are factories and suburban villages and towns around the construction site, and there is a natural hostility towards beautiful girls in the city.
Three hours later, Ji Yinhe sighed helplessly under the scorching sun, put the photo into his notebook, and leaned over to ask an old man eating watermelon in the store, "Did you see any cars on this street last night? They might be the more expensive ones."
"Who noticed it then..." The old man said nonchalantly, "I think I've seen the car before, but not last night—"
Ji Yinhe was about to continue asking when the cell phone on his waist rang.
"The tire marks have been found," Lu Zheng said quickly. "They're from an Audi A6, a new model this year. There shouldn't be more than ten of them in Handong."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work!" Ji Yinhe put the mobile phone back and asked with his neck stretched out, "Give me a red bean popsicle... Have you seen an Audi A6?"
The old man stood up, moved the thermal blanket on the freezer, and nodded, "I've seen it!"
Ji Yinhe's eyes lit up. She had just asked casually without holding out any hope, but she didn't expect the answer to come out so quickly!
"Where did you meet?"
"Right over there!" The old man handed over the red bean popsicle and pointed. "Two stops ahead, there's another new building complex. Construction just started two days ago. I drove four circles all the way there. There's a logo on the back of the car. My grandson said it's an A6!"
"Thank you very much!" Ji Yinhe put the coin on the glass table, and hurriedly got into the car with a popsicle in his mouth.
She swore that this was the fastest case she had ever handled since joining the public security system.
Before I finished eating the popsicle and the Grand Cherokee drove into the construction site indicated by the old man, I saw the brand new Audi A6 halfway, parked quietly on the side of the road with its taillights still on.
"The person is in the car!"
Ji Yinhe immediately raised his hand to pull the handbrake, jumped out of the driver's seat handsomely, and knocked on the car window with the knuckle of his index finger.
Cheng Mo and several criminal police officers immediately surrounded the rear of the car.
"..." A surprised face appeared behind the lowered car window. A middle-aged man with a slicked-back hair and a floral shirt slowly opened his mouth and showed his big gold teeth towards the police officer's ID.
"Hello, comrade, this is the Provincial Department's Special Criminal Case Team." Team Leader Xiao Ji said with a cold expression, his hands behind his back reaching for the handcuffs hanging from his belt. "We suspect you are involved in a murder and burial case. Please step out of the car and come with us for questioning."
"No, no need to go to all that trouble..." the middle-aged man muttered softly, opened the car door, and got out of the Audi with his neck clamped. "The murderer you're looking for is me."
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