Team Yan's canary has become a fine bird

Yan Tuo, who had been running all day, had just returned to the office when Cao Yiman knocked on the door and entered.

"Captain Yan, Xiao Li and the others have sifted through the previous infringement cases, but failed to find any useful information. This kind of cases usually pay attention to protecting the privacy of the victims, and those who leave video data are basically not suitable. Gay bar Wang’s brothers haven’t found anything yet, what about Jinbei? Is there any progress?”

It was expected, Yan Tuo pinched his brows.

"The car has been found, but it has been abandoned, cleaned up very cleanly, and no biological samples have been taken. The owner of the car has not yet been contacted, and is still following up. Judging from the range of the vehicle's travel shown on the surveillance, it is likely that the first scene In the lower urban area, we need to focus on sorting out. I will send the surveillance video to your email in a while, and you can take a look to see if there are any new discoveries."

"Yes."

Cao Yiman answered, hesitated for a while, and asked in a low voice: "Captain Yan, is the provincial department going to take over this case?"

Yan Tuo cast a glance at his subordinates, "Where did you hear the news?"

Cao Yiman was a little careless, and said, "Do you still need someone to tell you? The 709 case of the little star has caused such a big impact on public opinion. The bureau and Team Li have taken you to approve it several times. It is a routine operation. This peach picker coming soon?"

Yan Tuo was not used to his bad temper, so he criticized him bluntly: "Why did you pick peaches? Where did you come from such a small family? If it weren't for us not being able to stand up, the 521 case has not been resolved for two months. Does the bureau need foreign aid?"

After the approval, he was afraid of dampening the enthusiasm of his confidant general, so he said with relief: "Since the case is going to be merged and filed, this involves cross-departmental cooperation between two provinces and three cities, and it is reasonable for the provincial department to set up a task force to take the lead. Those who are involved, don't think too much, if you should investigate the case, if you should cooperate, you should actively cooperate, and it is only reasonable to strive to catch the murderer as soon as possible."

Cao Yi was not ashamed to complain anymore, his eyes turned, and he shouted in surprise: "Hey, Captain Yan, why is your birdcage door open, and your pet escaped?"

Yan Tuo followed his eyes to look over, the cage was indeed empty, and he looked around the office, but he couldn't see any movement of the white dumpling.

"sweet dumpling?"

A watermelon head suddenly popped out from the space in the middle of the bookshelf, and responded with two "Jiujiu", as if hesitating for a moment, then spread its wings and flew over, obediently landing on the right shoulder.

"Tsk tsk, isn't this bird really smart? It can also understand people's calls." After Cao Yi praised it, he stretched out his hand and wanted to tease it.

Tangyuan dodged and turned around quickly, as if she was too lazy to answer her back.

Yan Tuo explained for the pet: "It doesn't like to see strangers, last night it was frightened by people who wandered around the door, and it hides in the nest and refuses to come out, so don't tease it."

Cao Yiman didn't care, and muttered: "The little one is quite proud, okay, then I'll be busy."

Yan Tuo saw that the person had left the office and closed the door, so he lightly poked the little guy's tail feathers and said: "I'm ashamed to make people lose face. The stack of sketches on the table is scattered like this. Is it a good thing you did?"

With a sound of "chirp", Bai Tuanzi's tail feathers flicked, and then his wings stretched a little to cover the tail, and he turned his head and looked with his small eyes, looking completely ashamed and angry.

This action of covering the buttocks was super humane, Yan Tuo felt a little nervous, poked his fingers instead of rubbing, and teased, "Why, it's wrong to criticize you? You didn't mess it up?"

Bai Yiyi couldn't stand it any longer, rubbing his butt or something was too exciting for a female single Xiao Ling, even though he was just a bird now.

After flapping his wings two or three times, he got back into the coconut shell, Bai Yiyi didn't want to talk to that straight man who had no intention of disturbing the spring water, he just wanted to be quiet now.

Yan Tuo couldn't hold back a low laugh, shook his head, and tidied up his pet.

Before the stack of sketches was completely put together, the red dots in the blank space in the middle of a sheet attracted attention. Yan Tuo pulled it out to take a look, and was taken aback for a moment.

Is this a picture specially repainted by Dr. Zhao?Or was it randomly graffitied at some unknown link?

Like a portrait of a celebrity that was brutally altered in an elementary school textbook, a sketch of a suspect with short hair was changed beyond recognition by dense red dots and tiny short lines. What is presented now is clearly a soft and beautiful woman with big waves and long hair .

Looking carefully, the shape of the face and the proportion of the facial features have hardly changed. It is nothing more than adding long hair, eyeliner and red lips, just like putting on a beauty filter, but there is no sense of disobedience in the facelift.

As if a certain inspiration flashed through his mind, Yan Tuo unconsciously raised his phone to scan, and hurriedly called Cao Yiman in again.

The captain of the first team was also a little surprised at this time: "This...Dr. Zhao drew it? I haven't seen this picture before."

Yan Tuo wasn't too sure, "Maybe it's caught in the middle of a stack, maybe it's a product of uncertainty, a temporary accident?"

Cao Yi's face turned serious: "If this conjecture is true, our previous direction was completely wrong. The murderer was a woman, not a man?"

After finishing speaking, he fell into doubt again: "But the victim was violated... There is also conclusive evidence, how to explain it? Could it be that there were two murderers?"

There are many variables involved in this new deduction. It is possible that there are two people, or that the infringement was done with tools, or that the murderer is a big guy dressed in women's clothes, and he usually shows himself in women's clothes. Everything is possible.

Due to the fact that the victim of the case was sexually assaulted before his death, since the case was filed, the detection direction has been pointing to the fact that the murderer is a male.

Especially gay men, a special group, invested a lot of police force and screened them several times.

Unexpectedly, an inexplicable graffiti showed another possibility.

Years of experience in handling cases told Yan Tuo that if there is even the slightest bit of doubt, even if there is no complete chain of evidence to support it, the possibility of pursuing it cannot be given up. These unexpected inspirations can often become the key nodes in solving the case.

Immediately ordered: "Select some people to change the line, focus on the downtown areas in key areas, women, hospitals, beauty salons, fitness centers and so on."

Cao Yiman quickly took the order and left, while Yan Tuo stared at the graffiti for a long time. After sending out the scanned copy on WeChat, he waited for a reply from Zhao Tao, explaining that he didn't draw it and he didn't know about it. Very curious and shocked and agree with Yunyun.

Who else could that be?

Zhao Tao's students or children?Having access to that stack of photocopies of sketches, just for fun?

Or someone from the Municipal Bureau?

No, no one in the bureau would have the guts to scribble in his office.

Yan Tuo couldn't figure it out, so just in case, he called Sun Lei who was at the station at the door to inquire.

Sun Lei also asked three questions. She has never seen anyone else enter this office all day long today except Aunt Cleaning. Even Aunt Cleaning stayed there for two or three minutes. gone.

So this painting... came out of nowhere?

Yan Tuo scrutinized the dots and lines above again, and then glanced at the open box of ink pads by the table.

Really hammered, this red is clearly the color of inkpad.

This painting was modified in this office, on his desk.

The surface of the ink pad has been smoothed, and no traces can be seen. The trash can under the table is now clean. Even if there may be paper towels or other evidence, it has been taken away by cleaning and lying in the garbage truck.

I don't know what was going on in my mind, Yan Tuo stood up and walked to the birdcage by accident.

"Tangyuan, come out."

Quickly reaching out to hold the white ball that had just popped out, Yan Tuo took a closer look at its paws, they were pink and tender, without any trace of red marks.

Yan Tuo let out a long breath, and was amused by his inexplicable brain hole.

What are you thinking, it’s just a little white dumpling, could it be that if it’s really mature, it can still draw?And the painting is so professional, with both highlights and shadows?

The reality didn't give Yan Tuo much time to think about this matter. Before he found the soul painter, more than an hour later, he was eating dinner in the cafeteria when he received Cao Yiman's emergency call for help.

Yan Tuo held a piece of corn that had been half-gnawed, and gave an order, and the ten or so members of the criminal investigation detachment left in the bureau moved out. Three police cars, with their bright blue lights flashing, roared towards the South Gate Pedestrian Street in the Xiacheng District. go.

It can only be said to be a coincidence. After Cao Yiman received the order, he and his partner Liu Bin arrived in Xiacheng District. When they visited the first beauty salon, they bumped into the needle in the haystack.

This is a well-known large beauty salon on Nanmen Pedestrian Street. It's called Tina's Flower. In addition to regular beauty and body care, it also does some simple medical beauty programs.

As soon as Cao Yiman showed the photo of the sketch after the graffiti, the girl at the front desk recognized it immediately, and told the two that it looked like Zhang Liling, the proprietress of the house, and that she and the cashier sister Wang went to the bank next door to do business.

As soon as the two stood at the front desk and turned their heads, before they started to walk out, they met a fashionable woman with long curly hair outside the glass door.

Maybe it was due to the temperament of the two people who have been in the police force for more than ten years, or maybe it was the other party's guilty conscience. The woman's face changed obviously, but she didn't come in when she reached the door. She hurriedly pulled a middle-aged woman in her 40s by her side and ran away. .

Naturally, Cao Yiman and Liu Bin quickly chased after her. Together with two other colleagues who were not far away, the four finally blocked Zhang Liling at the end of a dead-end alley.

This person didn't just catch him, he took out a military dagger from his handbag, pressed it against the middle-aged woman's throat as a hostage, and began to resist.

Due to the threat to the lives of the hostages, the four did not dare to act rashly, so they had to ask for help.

In the police car, Fang Ping reported to Yan Tuohui based on the information he had just received: "Zhang Liling, 169cm in height, used to be named Zhang Yansheng, and her household registration address is a certain village in a certain town in C city in a neighboring province. She underwent sex reassignment surgery seven years ago Later, he applied to change his gender and name, moved to this city 7 years ago, and opened Tina's Flower on the pedestrian street in Xiacheng District. There is no criminal record."

Yan Tuo lowered his head and pondered for a while, "It does match Dr. Zhao's profile."

Sitting next to him was the instructor Zhao Ge, who also joined the action as a negotiator expert. At this time, he asked with concern: "She took the hostage, what request did she make?"

Yan Tuo shook his head, "It's said that he hasn't said a word. At this moment, I don't know if Lao Cao and the others have made any progress."

After finishing speaking, he asked the driver in the front seat, "How long will it take?"

Sun Lei, who helped drive the navigation, replied: "It's about 10 minutes. It's not the evening rush hour yet, so it's a bit congested."

No matter how anxious he was, there was no other way for the time being. After Yan Tuo checked his gun, he went through various emergency plans in his mind, took out the walkie-talkie and told the two snipers in the car behind:

"After arriving at the scene, be in position within 10 minutes, waiting for the order to kill."

At 7:15 p.m., the South Gate Pedestrian Street in Xiacheng District, J City was crowded with people. There were long queues at several famous food stalls, chattering, laughing and shouting together, creating a lively picture of people's livelihood on Midsummer Night.

In a side alley not far away, the scene is completely different. At the entrance of the alley, the police from the district police station have pulled up a long cordon.

Inside the line, a flightless desperado took hostages and confronted several police officers. Outside the line, a large crowd of onlookers gathered curiously to eat melons.

Yan Tuo and Zhao Ge passed through the cordon and approached slowly. After a while, they had a clear view of the scene amidst the bright lights of the surrounding businesses.