Chapter 61 Hidden Rules 06 Worried
Chapter 6
Yue Fanglin acted as a peacemaker, "It's not his fault that he didn't ask. We found the problem through gradual reasoning."
Kou Lang's expression eased a lot. "Then our next investigation direction will be to dig deeper into Fang Yuanke's case. We will also check all the participants who were close to Li Sai and had contact with her to see if there is any suspicious person."
Lu Changfeng nodded, "I still want to work on the root of the case."
Kou Lang looked at Lu Changfeng: "Captain Lu, do you have any other ideas?"
"Theoretically, only the people who collected registration fees and arranged the event knew that Li Sai participated in the camping event. If we expand the scope a little bit, at most the people who participated in the event knew about it. After all, the registration form was filled out through a mobile phone online link. The murderer could not have tracked Li Sai in the online world."
Kou Lang felt that what Lu Changfeng said made sense. "So how does Captain Lu plan to investigate?"
Lu Changfeng thought for a moment and said, "The murderer has some knowledge of Li Sai. I want to investigate Li Sai's whereabouts in Fancheng for the past month. First, I want to restore his movement trajectory, and then cross-compare it with the whereabouts of the people who participated in the camping activities to see who has a high degree of consistency with Li Sai's whereabouts."
"This is not a small project. There must be more than a hundred people participating in the event."
Lu Changfeng: "I know what's going on. There's no need to investigate everyone. The murderer wanted to kill Li Sai, and chose to poison her in a relatively open space. There are a lot of variables. Li Sai might call the emergency number if she feels unwell. The murderer would at least make sure that Li Sai is really dead before leaving. According to the time of death inferred by the forensic doctor, we only need to investigate those who left after Li Sai's death."
Kou Lang reminded Lu Changfeng: "Many of them drank alcohol that night. Everyone came here to camp, and most of them left one after another the next day. The range is still very wide."
Lu Changfeng: "I know."
Seeing that he knew what was going on, Kou Lang said nothing more.
After the meeting, it was already past nine in the evening. Kou Lang said, "You have all worked hard to come here from Yancheng today. I will arrange for you to go to the guesthouse to rest. You are the main force in this case, so you must stay alert. There are still many things to spend energy on later, so you can't let yourself get tired now."
Yue Fanglin did not reject Kou Lang's kindness.
Kou Lang led them to the guesthouse next to the police station.
Two people per room makes it convenient for them to discuss the case at any time.
Lu Changfeng and Yue Fanglin lived in the same room, while Jing Jue and Zhou Yu lived together.
Each of them put away their luggage.
Kou Lang said: "This case is not simple. You may need to stay here for a while. If you need anything, just tell me directly and I will make arrangements for you."
"Okay, if we need anything, we will definitely trouble you."
"It's not a big deal. It's what we should do." Kou Lang put his hand back and said, "I'll go back to the bureau first. You guys have a good rest tonight."
After watching Kou Lang leave, the four members of the serious crime team gathered together.
Jing Jue leaned against the cabinet like a little bitter gourd.
Lu Changfeng opened the suitcase and took out the toiletries. "What's wrong? You look like an eggplant hit by frost."
Jing Jue said: "This case is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I can't find the direction and I'm very worried."
Yue Fanglin sat on the other bed, looking through his notes. After hearing what Jing Jue said, he looked up and glanced at him, comforting him, "It's not the end of the road yet, there's nothing to worry about. We are the serious crime team, and the cases we have to investigate are definitely not the simple ones that put the murderer out in the open."
Compared to Jing Jue who was always worried, Zhou Yu was much calmer.
"I tried to research Li Sai and Fang Yuanke online, but I didn't find any relevant information. It's actually the same question Captain Lu asked. There must be thousands of similar incidents. Why did Li Sai become the target of the judge? Is there anything special about him?"
Several people conducted a new round of thinking on this issue.
The only thing the victims in the three cases have in common is that they were all perpetrators.
The locations of the crimes were all over the country and the time of the crimes was not fixed.
How did he become the target of the judge?
Unable to figure it out, Lu Changfeng stopped his endless thinking and said, "Forget it, let's put this problem aside for now. If we keep getting stuck on this problem, the case will not be able to move forward. I believe that one day, we will find more common ground and follow the clues to figure out our current doubts."
Yue Fanglin also said: "Captain Lu is right. Let's go back and wash up and rest early. Once you have enough energy, we can continue investigating the case tomorrow."
Jing Jue and Zhou Yu got up and left.
There was only one bathroom in the room, so it was impossible for the two of them to take a shower together. Yue Fanglin asked Lu Changfeng, "Do you want to take a shower first or should I?"
"You go first, I'll wait for a while and pack my luggage."
"good."
Yue Fanglin had just taken his change of clothes and hadn't even walked into the bathroom when the door rang. He said to the outside, "The door is not locked, come in."
Jing Jue pushed the door open and handed the ointment to Lu Changfeng, "Apply it before going to bed to relieve back pain."
Yue Fanglin said: "You are really considerate."
Lu Changfeng took the ointment handed over by Jing Jue and said, "It doesn't hurt that much during this period. I also brought some medicine."
"It's different. Yours relieves pain, and this is soothing."
Lu Changfeng: "Okay, I'll apply it later, you go back and rest early."
Jing Jue hummed, turned and left.
Yue Fanglin poked his head out of the bathroom and asked Lu Changfeng, "How about I live with Zhou Yu and you live with Jing Jue?"
"No need." Lu Changfeng said, "We are here to investigate the case, not to go on a picnic. It will be more convenient for us to live together and discuss the case."
Yue Fanglin did not comment and did not mention it again.
When Lu Changfeng took off his coat, he thought of the eye drops that Jing Jue handed him and took them out of his pocket.
Although it was a small thing, Lu Changfeng still felt warm in his heart.
He placed the eye drops on the table, took out his notebook, and began to review the case from the beginning, checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.
A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. He wrote a lot of things in his notebook and went over them again in his mind as if he was skimming through them.
Yue Fanglin came out of the shower and saw Lu Changfeng holding a notebook and asked him, "Do you have any new ideas?"
"After thinking about it over and over again, it's just the same thing." Lu Changfeng sighed, "If you want to say that this case is a very clever murder method, that's not necessarily the case. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no inevitable hatred or conflict of interest between the murderer and the deceased. Anyone could be the murderer, and I really can't do anything about it."
"Do you regret coming to the Major Crimes Unit?"
"That's not the case." Lu Changfeng said, "There is no perfect murder case in this world. It's just that we haven't found the key to solving the case. I'm not a rookie like Jing Jue who is gloomy all day long because he can't solve the case. I have no regrets even though I tried my best and still couldn't solve the case."
Yue Fanglin thought of Jing Jue and said with a smile: "Everyone has gone through this. I don't believe that you, Lu Changfeng, are a veteran on your first day as a police officer. It takes a process of tempering for a rookie to grow into a veteran."
"I know you have a special relationship and you value him very much, but don't be too harsh on him," Yue Fanglin advised.
Lu Changfeng thought of Jing Jue's bitter face and nodded, "Don't worry, this is not the first time I have taken a disciple."
Several lines of inquiry were running in parallel, following a single clue, and the entire Criminal Investigation Brigade was brightly lit.
Finally, their hard work paid off and they found out some things.
Based on the surveillance at the camp exit, Lu Changfeng investigated the list of vehicles and personnel that left one after another after Li Sai's death.
While investigating Li Sai's movements over the past month, one of the cars caught Lu Changfeng's attention.
When Li Sai had no social engagements on Saturdays and weekends, he went fishing at the reservoir.
This car is also often seen at reservoirs.
Lu Changfeng asked someone to check the car owner's information. The owner was Feng Yi, 45 years old, and a self-employed person.
Through multiple video verifications, it was found that he had a lot of contact with Li Sai that night and was also present when they were playing games, but he didn't play for long before someone else took his place.
Lu Changfeng carefully investigated this person's movements and found that his movements were highly consistent with Li Sai's.
In order to obtain further verification, Lu Changfeng asked Zhou Yu to conduct a detailed investigation on Feng Yi's situation, while he took Jing Jue to find Li Sai's fishing friend Wang Chenhui.
Wang Chenhui also often fishes in the reservoir and has certain connections in the fishing circle.
Seeing the photo Lu Changfeng gave him, he carefully recalled in his mind: "I have some impression of him. I met him several times at the reservoir, but there were quite a lot of people fishing at the reservoir. We had nothing to do with each other, so we never talked."
"When do you remember him starting fishing in the reservoir?"
After thinking it over, Wang Chenhui said, "It's only been a month or two. I've run into him several times. As for whether Li Sai knows him, I'm not sure."
On the way back to the bureau, Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue received new news.
This person left on the morning of the second day after the camping ended, leaving along with most of the people who participated in the event.
Two hours after leaving the parking lot, he came back and ran to the campsite. He looked for something on the ground, but didn't seem to find what he wanted, so he drove away.
In the past few days, he passed through the parking lot outside the campground almost every day to go to the reservoir to fish.
After returning to the police station, Lu Changfeng checked the surveillance video.
"There are so many parking spaces in the parking lot, but he chose to park opposite Li Sai instead of anywhere else. He goes back and forth every day. It seems like a normal route, but it seems like he is confirming Li Sai's death. Is he still in Fancheng now?"
"Yes." Kou Lang said, "I asked someone to check on him, asking him to recall the details of that night. He didn't seem to think that we would find out about him. We couldn't see anything wrong with him."
Lu Changfeng nodded.
"I have someone follow him. If we find that he has any intention of absconding, we will immediately ask him to come to the police station for investigation."
Kou Lang added: "In fact, based on the existing clues, we can definitely invite him to come to the bureau for investigation."
"No hurry, first find out his situation. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."
"Okay, everything is up to you."
The two teams also spent a few days together, and Kou Lang basically figured out the positions of several people in the serious crime squad. Lu Changfeng had a very important say. Although he was only a deputy team leader, he was the one who made the final decisions most of the time.
A full-scale investigation into Feng Yi also officially began.
Feng Yi's son died at the end of the previous year due to gastric bleeding caused by excessive drinking. He died on the way to the hospital when the company sent him.
His wife could not accept such a blow and in a trance, she jumped from the roof of the hospital and ended her life.
Jing Jue: "His son also died of drinking, just like Fang Yuanke. This also conforms to the principle of the judge committing the crime. I suspect he is the judge's man."
Everyone echoed and agreed with Jing Jue's opinion.
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