Outside the back door of the house, there was still a vast expanse of wheat fields, now completely hidden in the pitch-black night. Wang Shen stepped out of the back door and into the rain.
Wang Shen suddenly stopped walking, slowly closed his eyes, and then said, "Zichen, did you hear anything?"
Hearing Wang Shen's words, Liang Zichen, standing behind him, slowly closed his eyes, listening quietly to the sounds outside. The sound of wind, the sound of rain, and then… the sound of raindrops hitting the glass?
Liang Zichen took a few steps back and shone his phone light on the windows of the house. Strangely, all the windows were broken, leaving only the frames, and there was no sound of raindrops hitting them. What was the source of the sound?
Just as Liang Zichen was still searching for the source of the sound, Wang Shen took a few more steps outside the house.
Wang Shen stopped, turned on his phone's flashlight again, and shone it on the wheat field in front of him. As a beam of white light appeared, the vanished car came into view in front of Wang Shen and Liang Zichen.
The raindrops weren't making a sound hitting the glass, but rather a crisp sound hitting the car's surface. Using the light of his flashlight, Wang Shen walked to the car and circled it.
This is a black sedan, a high-end model from a certain car brand. The car is very well maintained; it even shines brightly under the flashlight.
Wang Shen checked his phone's battery level, immediately sent a text message to his colleagues at the bureau, and shared his location in their group chat of six people. Afterward, Wang Shen continued to shine his phone's flashlight on the black sedan in front of him.
Liang Zichen stood beside Wang Shen, his gaze fixed on the car, intently observing every detail. Suddenly, Liang Zichen took a large step towards the back door of the car and then crouched down.
"Captain Wang, look here," Liang Zichen said, pointing to the lower edge of the car door.
Wang Shen had also noticed the unusual appearance of the lower edge of the car door. Although it had been raining for quite some time, the color of the rainwater was still slightly different along the lower edge of the door. Wang Shen took the gloves he had been wearing out of his pocket and put them back on before opening the car door.
The moment the flashlight beam shone into the car door, even Liang Zichen couldn't help but feel a chill. In the pitch-black rainy night, apart from the sound of the rain, everything was deathly silent. At this moment, in the back seat area illuminated by the light, there were patches of bloodstains scattered about. The bloodstains seemed to have dried, now clinging to the leather seats and the car floor like scabs.
Suddenly, Liang Zichen was startled again. The bright light vanished in an instant, and he and Wang Shen were once again plunged into endless darkness. Finally, Wang Shen's phone ran out of battery and shut down automatically.
Liang Zichen took out his phone, turned on the flashlight, and continued to illuminate the interior of the car. "Captain Wang, it seems our guess was correct. After killing the person in the house, the murderer used the car to dump the body in the fishpond, and then abandoned the car here."
“That’s right, but the murderer was clearly in a panic; he didn’t even have time to clean up the bloodstains. And something as big as a car would be discovered sooner or later.” Wang Shen shifted his gaze from the bloodstains on the back seat, then suddenly looked back at the back seat.
"Zichen, look what's new in the back seat of the car?"
Upon hearing Wang Shen's words, Liang Zichen scanned the back seat of the car again. "There's a baby seat here," Liang Zichen replied with a slightly surprised expression.
Wang Shen nodded. "A person who would put a baby seat in the back of the car must have a child. This child is either the car owner's child or Han Lin's child. Therefore, there must be an unusual relationship between the car owner and Han Lin." After saying that, Wang Shen looked away from the back seat and then opened the front door of the car.
Liang Zichen followed Wang Shen's movements, moving the flashlight beam to the front door of the car. "Captain Wang, look what's on the passenger seat?" Liang Zichen pointed to a box on the passenger seat.
Wang Shen moved to the passenger side, opened the car door, took out the box, and saw that it was a set of model toys that children like.
"The car owner must have come to visit Dean Fu Ju and the children, and brought gifts for the children. Then he witnessed the murderer's actions. The car owner was unfortunately killed by the murderer while trying to stop him." Liang Zichen made a reasonable deduction by looking at the toy in Wang Shen's hand.
“That should be the case. Right now, what we need to know most is the identity of the car owner.” As Wang Shen said this, he heard some movement behind him, which meant that the other police officers had come looking for him.
Wang Shen noticed the car key was still inserted under the steering wheel, so he started the car, turned on the headlights, and honked the horn twice.
Within two minutes, several police officers, guided by the sound and lights, ran to Wang Shen's side. The lead officer saluted Wang Shen first.
"Why is it you guys?" Wang Shen asked in surprise. Standing before him were his colleagues from the police station.
"As soon as the bureau received your message, they immediately dispatched officers to this location. When we arrived, we encountered officers from the local jurisdiction, who sent us their location, so we rushed over," the lead officer explained.
Wang Shen nodded, pointed to the car, and said, "Immediately trace the owner of this license plate number. I need the owner's detailed file information. Also, there is blood in the car. You need to take samples of the blood and then take samples of the fingerprints in the car for analysis. Once you confirm that there are no more clues to collect, drive the car back to the station for now."
"Yes," the lead police officer replied.
"By the way, are there any of our people near the body and the house?" Wang Shen looked into the distance and asked the police officer standing in front of him.
"Yes, we sent quite a few people this time."
"You guys deal with this car first, I'll go check out the other scenes." After saying that, the lead police officer handed the flashlight to Wang Shen and went about his work.
"Captain Wang, this has been quite an eventful day," Liang Zichen remarked as he walked behind Wang Shen.
Wang Shen just smiled wryly, then shook his head and hurriedly returned towards the fishpond.
The rain finally subsided, but the wheat field had become unusually muddy. Wang Shen had just returned to the wheat field near the fishpond and was about to walk in when he saw a few rays of light shining through the wheat field. Wang Shen and Liang Zichen stood at the edge of the wheat field and waited for a while. Then, several people carried the deceased's body out of the wheat field.
The deputy captain of the local police station was still among the group. Wang Shen walked up to the deputy captain, patted him on the shoulder again, and said, "Thank you so much for your help. You've worked hard."
The vice-captain waved to Wang Shen, "Captain Wang, please don't stand on ceremony. Now that everyone has arrived, I'll take my leave."
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