Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Another murderer and dismemberer appears...
Time is running out, and we must find the common points among the previous victims as soon as possible.
After meeting Situ Feng in the provincial prison, Ji Yinhe followed Lu Zheng back to the car, holding his chin and remaining silent all the way.
The night gradually swept over the city, the lights came on, and tireless men and women were still walking hand in hand on the street. The crisp and hearty laughter of children was brought in by the evening breeze.
The photos of the body parts in the file appeared in front of Ji Yinhe's eyes.
Thinking that behind this prosperous scene of the world, there was a pair of evil and gloomy eyes staring intently, eager to launch a bloody and brutal massacre, she felt an inexplicable sense of distress in her heart.
"I want to go to Forensic Doctor Lu to see the bodies," Ji Yinhe said with a stern face. "I just don't believe it. Besides being all male, there's nothing in common!"
“Gu——”
Before he finished speaking, clear bowel sounds were heard in the carriage.
Comrade Xiao Ji lowered his head: "..."
Lu Zheng chuckled and glanced at his watch. "It's already eight o'clock, but Forensic Doctor Lu usually works overtime until ten o'clock before going home. How about I take you to the Municipal Bureau first, then buy some food and bring it up."
Ji Yinhe blinked, "Is this too much trouble for you..."
Lu Zheng casually gripped the steering wheel. "I'm also a member of the crackdown team. I hope the case is solved soon."
Ji Yinhe thought about it and thought this arrangement was indeed very appropriate. He clapped his hands and said, "Great!"
Lu Zheng drove straight to the provincial department and dropped her off at the gate.
The autopsy room was indeed brightly lit, the door was open, and several people in white coats were still busy inside.
Ji Yinhe stood outside and looked out. Medical examiner Lü Xiaoyan was sitting at her desk, writing a report. So she knocked softly on the door and asked, "Director Lü, this is Ji Yinhe. Is it convenient for you now?"
Lu Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment, perhaps she didn't expect that she was still in the provincial department so late. She closed the notebook and stood up.
"Officer Xiao Ji." She was a female police officer who looked to be in her late 50s, with a stern expression. "What's going on?"
The other party showed no intention of inviting him in, nor did he move towards the door. Ji Yinhe took a deep breath and said loudly, "I want to see the bodies in the serial dismemberment case again."
Lu Xiaoyan frowned like the headmaster.
Ji Yinhe explained: "Director Lu, the case is very urgent now. Perhaps there are clues on the deceased that we haven't found yet—"
"Do you think my previous autopsy wasn't thorough enough?"
Lu Xiaoyan narrowed her eyes, and the autopsy room suddenly became quiet.
"I absolutely don't mean that." Ji Yinhe said sincerely, "I just have some guesses and want to verify them."
"..." Lu Xiaoyan silently withdrew her gaze and turned to look at someone else's work report. Comrade Xiao Ji was left there awkwardly.
At this time, footsteps were heard coming from the stairs, and Lu Zheng appeared in the dim corridor holding an aluminum lunch box.
Seeing Ji Yinhe still standing at the door of the autopsy room, he was a little surprised and said in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Ji Yinhe shook his head.
"...Our autopsy lab isn't a park, so you can come whenever you want!" Lu Xiaoyan's voice rang out. "If you want to see the body, you can. First, report to Tan Li, then come back to me to make an appointment."
Lu Zheng wanted to go in and explain to her directly, but Ji Yinhe pulled his arm and said loudly, "I understand. Thank you, Director Lu."
Lu Zheng looked at the hand that grabbed his sleeve, and his eyes moved slightly.
When he came to his senses again, he had been taken back to the crackdown team office upstairs.
The person holding his hand also took the lunch box away.
“—Wow, it’s a bun!”
Eat first to have the energy to work. Ji Yinhe didn't look depressed at all. He happily grabbed the plump steamed buns and took a big bite. He nodded and praised: "Hehe, fresh meat with chicken sauce!"
Lu Zheng sat down across from her. "Well, there's also rose bean paste and stir-fried beef... They can't compare to Aunt Lian's, but you might want to try the Jingzhou specialty. This is the place I've been eating at since I was a child. The dough is really fluffy and tender."
"Delicious! I like it very much!" Comrade Xiao Ji gave a thumbs up and strongly affirmed Teacher Lu's taste.
Lu Zheng brought over a cup of tea and asked, "What are you going to do about Director Lu?"
Ji Yinhe swallowed the bulging bun in his mouth. "I'll go report to Captain Tan tomorrow... But I think that even though Director Lu doesn't have a good impression of me, his level of expertise is definitely not a problem. His entire team is working overtime and meticulously! And when I think back to the autopsy reports of the three deceased, they were indeed very thorough, and they checked almost everything that could be checked."
"Then what else do you want to verify?"
Ji Yinhe held his chin and sighed softly.
"...I think the commonality we're looking for in the crimes must be found in the missing torso."
*
Four hours later.
The night was as cool as water, and Gangyue Road, Jingzhou's most famous food street, was also closing time.
After the last bright light went out, the pedestrians on the street dispersed. In the alley at the corner, a man put on his hood and dragged a heavy plastic bag out of the refrigerated truck.
He panted and walked a few steps on the deserted street, looking around vigilantly.
Then he opened the bag, hurriedly took out the remaining limbs, and threw them all into the泔水袋 in front of him.
"Woof! Woof! Woof!"
Someone's dog suddenly started barking, and the man fled in panic, his figure disappearing into the darkness.
Only the stars and the moon hanging high above our heads bear witness to everything.
The same moonlight also shone on Ji Yinhe's face as he was sleeping soundly in the dormitory.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The phone on the bedside table suddenly rang, waking Ji Yinhe abruptly from his sweet dream of eating and drinking.
The call at this time must be urgent, so she quickly picked up the receiver.
"Ji Yinhe, I'll give you five minutes. Hurry and get downstairs." Tan Li's steady voice rang out, "Someone called the police. A bag of body parts was found on Gangyue Road!"
"yes!"
Ji Yinhe was startled. While his brain was still thinking, his body had already quickly washed and changed clothes. He grabbed his bag and rushed downstairs.
The entire crackdown team came out in full force and jumped into the back seat of the police car. Tan Li briefly explained the known details of the case.
"—A call from the Hongyun Precinct. The incident occurred at a western-style restaurant on Gangyue Road. An early-rising sanitation worker spotted several dogs fighting over a piece of meat," Team Leader Tan said calmly. "The person who reported the incident didn't think much of it, but the dogs continued to rummage through the garbage bucket and finally pulled out a hand. It scared them pretty badly."
Amid the loud hissing sounds from the crowd, Ji Yinhe pressed the seat cushion under him, his heart pounding.
...The thing I was worried about yesterday happened so quickly!
Moreover, the whole city is arresting people now, and the criminal's bold attack is more like a provocation to the police.
This means that the burden borne by the crackdown team has become heavier.
No one spoke. In the silence, the police car drove quietly through the streets of Jingzhou.
A new day gradually begins in the dawn light.
*
"Captain Tan, look, this is the garbage bucket the criminal chose to dump his body into."
The police officer in charge of protecting the scene grabbed the cordon with one hand, pinched his nose with the other, and led the group to an overturned plastic barrel under the wall.
The mixture of slop and corpse stench created a disgusting smell that drove away passers-by who came to watch the fun.
Fortunately, everyone is a seasoned criminal police officer and is not afraid of this small scene.
"Make way!" Lu Xiaoyan chewed the unfinished pancake, squatted down beside her without changing her expression, and opened the toolbox she carried with her.
Lu Zheng and the trace detection team also started working, and Ji Yinhe stood behind and watched quietly.
I have to say that although Director Lu has a bad temper, his professional level is really impeccable.
As the head of the forensic team, he personally searched through the slops for body parts gnawed by dogs. He was much more capable than the old comrades from the Jiangtan Municipal Bureau.
No wonder he can be the director of a provincial department!
But then again, several of the leaders she met in Jingzhou were female police officers... Comrade Xiao Ji couldn't help but secretly set a goal in her heart, to become a criminal police officer as powerful as them in the future!
"Xiao Ji." Zhao Zhuoqun called her and brought her back from her ambitions.
"Director Lu and Teacher Lu are going to do a preliminary inspection. Don't just stand there and watch. Go take a look around."
"Okay!"
Ji Yinhe put his hands in his pockets and strolled around Gangyue Road twice.
As a famous food street in Handong Province, there are dozens of shops on both sides, big and small, high-end and down-to-earth, serving all kinds of flavors from all over the world.
For example, the restaurant where the crime occurred was the same Western restaurant where Cheng Mo treated Ye Qing to dinner when the Jiangtan Serious Crime Squad came to participate in the competition a few years ago. Even though the door was closed, one could still see the luxurious decoration inside, similar to the big hotels on Huanghe Road in Shanghai.
Diagonally opposite the Western restaurant, there is a shop selling fried chicken racks. It has a small storefront with only a counter and a dark, narrow aisle behind it, and no one knows where it leads to.
Ji Yinhe paused for a moment, and then she heard Tan Li calling her, "Xiao Ji, come here quickly."
She had no time to think and trotted back to the泔水袋.
Lu Xiaoyan had already cleaned out all the body parts and placed them neatly on a clean plastic sheet.
"This time is very different from the previous three times." Tan Li raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Ji, tell me."
Zhao Zhuoqun handed over a pair of gloves.
Ji Yinhe squatted down, pressed twice on the body, and looked up in surprise, "There's no head... Was it frozen?"
"Yeah." Lu Xiaoyan nodded. "Anything else?"
Ji Yinhe narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the joints of the remaining limbs.
"Why do I feel... like a woman?"
Tan Li nodded. "I think so too, but our dear Director Lu wants to take it back for a closer examination."
Lu Xiaoyan retorted as she collected the body parts, "I'm just trying to confirm your suspicions! What if it's just a thin, short man?"
"Okay..." Tan Li rubbed her brows and turned to look at the others. "But no matter what, the body wasn't cooked or burned, but frozen and then dismembered. This doesn't match the methods used in the previous three cases."
Zhao Zhuoqun said: "Perhaps the murderer couldn't find a suitable place to burn the body and had to freeze it. And the dismemberment is too obvious, it must be a serial crime!"
“…” Tan Li touched her chin and said nothing.
Ji Yinhe, who was standing aside, felt even more strange.
The modus operandi did not match and the gender of the deceased was also very different.
...Could it be that another murderer who kills and dismembers people has appeared in Jingzhou?
After returning to the provincial department, everyone's mood was a bit low.
The autopsy takes time. Because they got up too early in the morning, Tan Li arranged for Sun Gaoge to record the statement of the sanitation worker who reported the case. The rest of the people went out in groups after lunch to visit surrounding businesses.
Ji Yinhe returned to the dormitory absent-mindedly, unable to eat. He lay on the bed for a while, then received a call from Old Ji and Ms. Lian.
"Your mother made Artemisia cakes, a seasonal dish in spring, with wild Artemisia picked from the mountains. She has sent them to the provincial department. Remember to sign for them. If you can't finish them, share them with your colleagues!" Ji Jianguo reminded on the other end of the phone.
"oh--"
Ji Jianguo could tell something was wrong with his daughter. "What's wrong? Is work not going well?"
"Hmm..." Ji Yinhe listlessly took a bite of the inedible braised pork pancake from the cafeteria, "It's that serial murder and dismemberment case. New body parts were found today, and it's a female."
"......?" Ji Jianguo was a little surprised. He remembered that this major case was mentioned in "Jiangcheng Fengyun: Industry is King", but it was stated very clearly in it - all the dead were men, but there were no female victims!
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