Chapter 11
Just as Xiao Yuncheng was about to say something, he was interrupted by the trace examination personnel who arrived: "Captain Xiao, we extracted two footprints of different sizes at 500 meters. We need to go back to the Municipal Bureau to do the modeling."
Xiao Yuncheng nodded and walked back to the tree. Beneath the tree, at the feet of the hanged man, lay a bloody fruit knife and a bouquet of three chrysanthemums. Most of the petals had wilted, suggesting the crime had been committed some time ago. But Xiao Yuncheng didn't understand the significance of these flowers being there. Why? To commemorate this person, or for what reason?
He was staring at a small patch of moist earth, thinking, when suddenly he felt his eyes flashed by something in the earth. He squinted towards the light source, and it turned out to be a lipstick half-stuck in the earth!
"Inspector, come here! Put this back too!"
The trace examination personnel quickly took out the evidence bag and put the lipstick in it. They gave up only when they knew that there was nothing more to investigate and returned to the municipal bureau together.
After returning to the city bureau, Xiao Yuncheng and his team went to a case review meeting. Wu Tong sat alone at Xiao Yuncheng's desk, lost in thought. A fruit knife, a hemp rope, a bouquet of camellia flowers—why were they there? Wu Tong shook her head, repeatedly refuting her nascent thoughts, finally settling on the bouquet of camellia flowers—this object, which in no way could be connected to the case, was displayed so openly before the police. What was the murderer trying to say?
No, let's re-examine it: the deceased had stab wounds on his body after death, and the fruit knife can almost be identified as the murder weapon. The blood was quite fresh, at least it didn't look like he had been dead for more than three days; then the person was hung on a tree trunk, such an obvious place, the murderer had no intention of hiding, and even hoped that others would see it and call the police.
The police couldn't even immediately determine the cause of death. This murderer's methods were truly daring and meticulous. Wu Tong closed his eyes in a headache. He had a nagging feeling that the bouquet of roses must be hiding some secret. The truth seemed to pop up in his mind intermittently, just not letting him see its true face.
"The deceased, Du Wenzhou, was a 35-year-old married man who was once an assistant at an entertainment company. He had taken over a small internet celebrity. We investigated Du Wenzhou's interpersonal relationships and found that the woman named Qin Xuanyu was the one he communicated with the most."
"In addition," Shi Qian raised his chin towards the evidence bag beside Xiao Yuncheng, "we discovered that the lipstick belonged to Qin Xuanyu."
"Arrest her immediately and I will interrogate her personally!"
Xiao Yuncheng had just opened the door to the conference room when he bumped into Xuan Li. Xuan Li handed the autopsy report to Xiao Yuncheng and said seriously, "The main cause of death of this person is definitely not trauma."
"What do you say?" Xiao Yuncheng opened the autopsy report.
"He had thirteen stab wounds, concentrated in the abdomen, but none of them were fatal. He lost a lot of blood. This is definitely not something an ordinary person could do."
Xiao Yuncheng saw the injury assessment printed on it and suddenly said, "The murderer is a person who is proficient in medicine and has a very high understanding of the human body." Xuan Li nodded in agreement.
"So this isn't just one person committing the crime, but multiple people, including a woman, right?"
Xuan Li said: "This is the preliminary investigation. What have you found?"
Xiao Yuncheng: "We found a lipstick at the scene. The owner was the internet celebrity that the deceased brought with her. I have already sent someone to find her, but..."
Xuan Li looked at him suspiciously. Xiao Yuncheng paused before asking, "What's going on with that bunch of roses?"
"I don't know. There aren't even any fingerprints on it. There's only Du Wenzhou's blood. It's hard to identify for now." Xuan Li heard someone calling her name at the other end of the corridor. She answered and left. Xiao Yuncheng was still standing in the corridor thinking. The bunch of roses gave Xiao Yuncheng an extremely weird feeling, but there was no clue at all.
"how's it going?"
Xiao Yuncheng just walked into the office when he heard Wu Tong asking him. He sighed and sat down next to Wu Tong, like a wilted flower: "We have only found a small internet celebrity who is related to the deceased, but we don't know if she is the murderer."
Wu Tong put down his phone and said calmly: "Don't be anxious. After all, solving a case is not like cooking instant noodles. The answer will be known in three minutes." Xiao Yuncheng could not deny it.
Wu Tong pondered for a moment, then reached out to Xiao Yuncheng, who immediately understood and placed the autopsy report in his hand. Wu Tong flipped through the report carefully, while Xiao Yuncheng stared at Wu Tong's profile in a daze.
"I don't think something is right here," Wu Tong reached out and touched Xiao Yuncheng, but seeing that he didn't react, he raised his head and slapped him directly: "Are you listening to me?!"
Xiao Yuncheng finally came back to his senses, covered his head in frustration and motioned Wu Tong to continue.
"If these injuries aren't fatal, the killer must have a profound understanding of the human body. Are you so sure it was that internet celebrity? That's illogical." Wu Tong continued, "I suggest you investigate Du Wenzhou's relationships and see if there are any doctors who have interacted with him recently."
Xiao Yuncheng nodded and left the office without saying a word. Wu Tong was still organizing his thoughts when the office door was opened again a short while later.
"Brother Xiao?... Hey Wu Tong? Why are you here? Where is Captain Xiao?" Shi Qian leaned half of his body in and said to Wu Tong who was inside. Wu Tong waved for him to come in and told him that Xiao Yuncheng had just left not long ago.
Shi Qian saw the information on his desk and thought Xiao Yuncheng had shown it to him, so he asked tentatively, "Wu Tong, did you...see anything?"
Wu Tong was about to reach for the water cup on the table, but when he heard this, he paused and looked at Shi Qian: "If you want to hear it, I can tell you."
Shi Qian said that his small stool has been moved~
"This is just my immature inference. It may not be as logical as your analysis. You can just listen to it for fun." Wu Tong added lightly to Shi Qian. Shi Qian thought it was nothing. Wu Tong then pointed to the picture of the deceased's injuries on the paper and said, "The forensic analysis shows that the cause of death was not strangulation, but rather the stab wounds. However, these injuries are not fatal. Could the deceased have died from taking some drugs?"
"Medicine?" Shi Qian looked puzzled. "No, what's wrong..."
"Go have the forensic doctor check the deceased's body for any needle marks or other injuries, and do another blood test."
Shi Qian agreed without hesitation, and ran out in a hurry grabbing his phone. Wu Tong pressed his aching temple, and his eyes swept across the page of on-site investigation records spread out on the table, stopping just on the bouquet of camellia flowers. Wu Tong's pupils suddenly shrank!
"This way of tying the rope..." He brushed the photo with trembling fingers. Xu Ze from twenty years ago appeared in front of him, holding the same bouquet of camellia flowers. A childish voice sounded in Wu Tong's mind without warning: "Tongtong, the flowers won't fall apart if you tie them like this!"
"Captain Xiao has a clue!" Xiao Yuncheng could hear Shi Qian's loud voice outside the conference room. He calmly asked, "What new clue?"
"Fuck you, Brother Xiao! The forensic doctor found an injection hole in Du Wenzhou's left hand vein, and a small amount of carbonic acid crystals remain on the surrounding skin!"
"Carbonate crystals?" Xiao Yuncheng looked up in confusion, took the file, and asked, "How could there be carbonate crystals? What kind of potion is this?"
"The forensic doctor is looking for accurate information about this potion. Damn, if Wu Tong hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known I'd missed this detail!"
Shi Qian was passionately recounting what Wu Tong had said, how clever and intelligent he was, when he was suddenly interrupted by a detective standing beside him, asking, "Who is Wu Tong?"
Xiao Yuncheng: “…”
Shi Qian: “…”
"Ahaha...that's the consultant we invited! Yes, consultant..." Xiao Yuncheng threatened Shi Qian with his eyes not to say anything nonsense. Shi Qian's mind was spinning rapidly, and he gave Wu Tong an identity to deceive his colleagues.
"If you keep saying nonsense, I'll ask Director Jiang to punish you and make you reflect on your actions. Believe it or not?!" Xiao Yuncheng quickly pulled Shi Qian out of the meeting room and scolded him in a low voice. Shi Qian was so sad that he had no tears to cry and had to nod.
"Get out of here and do your work!" Xiao Yuncheng drove the man away, turned around and ran back to his office.
Xiao Yuncheng opened the office door like a thief and slipped in. Before closing the door, he stuck his head out and looked left and right. Only after making sure that no one was "following" him did he close the door with peace of mind.
Wu Tong sat in his seat and expressed his incomprehension and disrespect for his inexplicable behavior. When Xiao Yuncheng saw Wu Tong, he started at 0 frames and was scolded. He smiled wickedly and ran to sit next to Wu Tong.
"What are you doing? Get out of here if you have nothing to do." Wu Tong said coldly.
Xiao Yuncheng pulled his short hair and said with a smile: "Aren't I here to discuss the case with you? I told you that Shi Qian almost sold him out! And then, with my extreme reaction and quick rescue..."
Wu Tong kicked him and said, "Speak human language."
"······We have assigned you a status as a consultant."
"And then? Is this why you came back to find me?" Wu Tong leisurely scrolled down the video. Xiao Yuncheng grabbed his hand and pressed it down, forcing him to listen to him carefully.
"······That's about right. Apart from me, Shi Qian and Lin Chen, no one else knows about you. Shi Qian just told others about you. You might have to..." Xiao Yuncheng paused and looked at Wu Tong nervously.
Wu Tong pinched his brows with a headache and said, "So you want me to help solve the case?"
Xiao Yuncheng nodded. Wu Tong sat up, rolled up his sleeves and asked Xiao Yuncheng where Shi Qian was. Xiao Yuncheng sold out his teammates without hesitation.
“Ah————Sneezy————!!!” Although it was a hot summer day, Shi Qian sneezed loudly and felt a chill on his back.
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