Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Chop off your fingers and blow them up? ...
"...Dad, why aren't you talking?"
Ji Jianguo leaned back on the sofa, took a deep breath, and recovered from his surprise. He replied, "Nothing. Your mother and I were watching the news. I just didn't expect this murderer to be so prey on both men and women. How evil!"
"Of course," Ji Yinhe muttered. "We're going to Gangyue Road to conduct an investigation this afternoon. We probably won't be back until very late tonight. I'll page you guys when I get to the dormitory."
"Okay, be safe."
Comrade Lao Ji paused. No matter what happened in the case, he believed in his daughter's ability.
She will definitely be able to sort out this complicated web of clues on her own and get to the truth of the case.
Thinking of this, Ji Jianguo gently warned, "Yinhe, don't worry. Trust your intuition and block out distracting thoughts... Don't you always find the real culprit? This time, it will be the same."
Officer Ji's eyes sparkled on the other end of the line, and he nodded vigorously, "Yes!"
*
In the afternoon, after the cordon was removed, Gangyue Road returned to its former bustle, as if nothing had happened.
Tan Li led the crackdown team to inquire with surrounding businesses.
The last store closed at 11pm, and after that, no one passed by on this street.
By the time the sanitation worker discovered the dog holding the person's hand, it was already 4:30 in the morning.
This shows that the perpetrator threw the body parts into the泔水袋 during these five and a half hours.
Zhao Zhuoqun and Ji Yinhe called the joint defense team member who was responsible for the midnight patrol. The other party said that there should have been two people patrolling together in the early morning, but his teammate's wife had given birth and he took a temporary leave. He had to wander back and forth on the streets alone, so naturally he didn't find anything.
As for the owner of the Western restaurant that Tan Li and Guan Ye questioned, he was quite frightened.
"...I'm just a chef who studied abroad for a few years and wanted to open a shop back home. How could I have any enemies?" He glared and trembled. "Think about it, Officer. Who would kill someone and hide the body in their own garbage bucket?"
What he said was indeed common sense. Tan Li had Lu Zheng collect some fingerprints in the kitchen and take away a few knives. She then sent Guan Ye to the police station to check his household registration background. Finally, she crossed her arms and asked:
"Have you noticed anyone unusual these past two days? Since the murderer chose to dump the body in your garbage bucket, they must have scouted the area beforehand."
The boss scratched his head and said, "My business is very good, people come and go, who would pay attention to this..."
He called a few receptionists and asked Tan Li the same question. Everyone nodded and said they didn't know.
Ji Yinhe, who happened to be strolling over, suddenly came up with a new idea.
She pointed to the large camera on the porch and asked, "Boss, does this work?"
At present, many large cities and individual traffic roads have begun to install closed-circuit television surveillance systems. Although they cannot be extended to every corner of the city and the transmission distance is not too far, they can only be used in a small area.
However, in the booming economic situation, businesses will install equipment on their doorsteps to keep up with the trend and to deter thieves and ensure safety.
However, this thing is quite troublesome to use. You need to install a video cable. Whether it really works or is just a sham, only the person who installed it knows.
Sure enough, the owner of the western restaurant scratched his head, pointed at the camera and asked the lobby manager.
The lobby manager slapped his head and took out a hard disk recorder from under the front desk drawer.
Everyone quickly gathered around.
The lobby manager fiddled with it for a few awkward moments before throwing up his hands and saying, "I've never used this thing since I installed it. I don't know how to use it!"
"Okay." Tan Li knocked on the table. "Leave the DVR to us. We have experts in information technology here."
The owner of the western restaurant agreed without hesitation.
Because they didn't get any more useful clues, Tan Li led the team back to the office.
Jiang Nian, who got the hard disk recorder, rushed into the computer room immediately and quickly retrieved all the surveillance videos.
Ji Yinhe watched from behind with great interest, and was extremely envious when he saw his fingers tapping on the keyboard quickly.
Reading journals and magazines during this period made her understand a truth - the future direction of criminal investigation and solving cases will no longer be simple interrogation and interviews, but scientific techniques and methods.
She wants to be a police officer that all bad guys are afraid of. Not only does she have to establish a scientific system for criminal profiling, but she also has to master advanced technology to make everything more efficient!
…
That night, everyone stayed behind to work overtime, sitting in front of their computers, staring intently at every suspicious figure on the screen.
Suddenly, Jiang Nian, holding his eyelids open, shouted, "Hey hey hey! I think I found it! Found it!"
“!!!”
Everyone put down their work and rushed over.
The quality of the surveillance video was very poor, with light snow falling and faces blurred, but one could make out a figure wearing a raincoat with a hood, carrying a heavy plastic bag, flashing across the street opposite the western restaurant.
The time displayed in the upper right corner was 3:25 a.m. when the incident occurred.
"The timing matches, and the size and weight of the plastic bag are similar," Tan Li said, squinting. "But I can't make out the face clearly; it's a black mass, and the clothes don't have any distinctive features... Is there any technology that can brighten and clear the image?"
Jiang Nian chewed the fruit leather and said, "Let me try."
He intercepted dozens of pictures and distributed them, asking everyone to take a look and see if they could find any clues.
Ji Yinhe tilted his head, wishing he could lie on the computer screen.
It rained a little last night and there was a thin layer of water on the ground.
After the brightness of the picture is increased, you can see a hazy reflection on the water surface.
It wasn't a face, but a slightly dark red color with yellow patterns on it, like the fabric of a dress...
Ji Yinhe narrowed his pupils and stared at the small reflection.
——Why does it look familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before?
Guan Ye, who was standing next to him, rubbed his eyes in frustration. "Tsk, how can I find him? I can't even see what he looks like!"
Tan Li said calmly, "Don't worry. How about asking Teacher Lu to come over and calculate the suspect's height based on the proportions—"
"I remember now." Ji Yinhe stood up suddenly and said excitedly, "Did you see the red reflection on the water?"
"I saw it, what's wrong?"
"It's an apron!" Ji Yinhe pounded the table. "Captain Tan asked me to look around the area this morning, and I saw a shop across the street selling fried chicken racks. Behind the glass case hung a red apron with a yellow chicken wing pattern on it!"
Zhao Zhuoqun frowned: "Are you sure?"
"Yes." Ji Yinhe said firmly.
"In case you're mistaken—"
"Alright, regardless of whether we're right or wrong, we have to go check it out." Tan Li stood up and gave an order with a serious face, "Gangyue Road should be open yet, everyone, get out!"
"yes!!"
*
"...You can go in through the main entrance later and pretend to be a customer to get close to him. It would be best if you can find out if he has an alibi for last night."
In the police car, Tan Li solemnly instructed Guan Ye, then took out a walkie-talkie and put it in his jacket pocket, "Notify us immediately if there is any danger."
Guan Ye frowned, "This thing is a bit loud."
"It's okay. Captain Zhao and I are upstairs at the western restaurant across the street." Ji Yinhe gestured to the distance, "I'll be watching you through the telescope the whole time."
"Okay!" Guan Ye took a deep breath, "Then I'll go out."
"come on!"
Guan Ye got out of the car. Ji Yinhe and Zhao Zhuoqun waited for a while, then pretended to be a father and daughter who came to eat, and walked into the Western restaurant talking and laughing.
They had already called the boss in advance, and a waiter led them to a booth by the window.
Zhao Zhuoqun pretended to hold up the menu, and Comrade Xiao Ji quickly picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of the chicken rack shop.
In his narrow field of vision, Guan Ye greeted the man behind the counter with a smile, then spoke a few words with gestures.
The man nodded and pointed to the dark passage that Ji Yinhe saw in the morning.
Guan Ye stood there hesitating for two seconds, then followed the man to the back.
Ji Yinhe's brows suddenly frowned.
Zhao Zhuoqun muttered, "What is he doing in the back? Will he come out later?"
"...I don't know." Ji Yinhe lowered his head and typed a string of code into the pager. "I told Team Leader Tan."
Tan Li’s reply popped up immediately, asking them to stay in the western restaurant and wait.
But five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, fifteen minutes passed...
Guan Ye’s figure never appeared again!
Ji Yinhe was a little anxious, "Captain Zhao, should we go over and take a look?"
Zhao Zhuoqun pondered for a moment, "Maybe they're negotiating. Xiaoguan is a pretty good fighter. Don't worry, just wait a little longer."
Ji Yinhe sat there anxiously looking at the opposite side, only to hear the pager in his pocket beep twice.
She quickly took it out and took a look, "Captain Tan asked us to go into the chicken rack shop now!"
Zhao Zhuoqun did not refute anymore. The two of them immediately went downstairs and rushed to the opposite side. Tan Li and Sun Gaoge also arrived.
However, the store was empty, and there was a glaring pool of blood on the floor of the corridor.
Ji Yinhe suddenly felt the blood run cold throughout his body.
Tan Li looked around calmly, and when she saw the stairs going up in the corner, she said softly, "Don't panic. Lao Zhao and Xiao Ji, go check in the kitchen. Gao Ge, come upstairs with me."
Everyone dispersed, and Ji Yinhe felt his heart beating faster.
The pool of blood was very fresh, it must have been Guan Ye’s - the other party actually dared to attack the police!
This is her first time to arrest such a brutal criminal... It's so thrilling and exciting!
Comrade Xiao Ji walked around the kitchen holding his breath. Zhao Zhuoqun, who was standing in front of the stove, whispered, "Come and take a look."
She ran over and saw a long, burnt object floating in the frying pan. It looked like—
"Fingers?" Zhao Zhuoqun's face turned pale. "He chopped off Guan Ye's fingers and blew them up?"
Ji Yinhe's scalp tingled, "This, this too..."
"Old Zhao, there's no one upstairs. I've already contacted Mr. Lu and Director Lu to come over and investigate." Tan Li's footsteps stopped outside the door. Seeing the two people standing in front of the stove looking a little uneasy, she frowned. "What did you find?"
Ji Yinhe didn't say anything. Zhao Zhuoqun took a pair of big chopsticks and fished out the food from the pot.
"……finger?"
Tan Li's pupils dilated rapidly. She suddenly pulled out the gun she had been holding behind her and shouted, "Everyone, move out! Arrest him!"
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