Forensics

The next morning, the Special Criminal Division held a meeting.

The meeting was still presided over by Gu Yanchen. Taking advantage of Baimeng installing the projection equipment, he secretly looked at Shen Junci.

Early this morning, Gu Yanchen specially helped him choose a medicine box with a timed reminder.Later, I didn't have time, so I called his mother to help him choose a good chair, and it would be delivered by courier from the same city.

Mother Gu expressed concern about this: "Son, your back hurts?"

Gu Yanchen explained: "My colleague is not in good health. The chair in our interrogation room is cold and hard. I want to buy one for him."

"Oh, I see. Don't worry, Mom is reliable in her work." Mother Gu understood.

Gu Yanchen looked at Shen Junci now, and found that Forensic Doctor Shen looked energetic today, with a fair complexion and ruddy lips, and he did not look sick at all yesterday.

Gu Yanchen confirmed that he was fine, then turned his head and focused on the case.

The work last night made some progress. The police have sorted out Jin Yuewen's social network and conducted a round of investigation.

Then they searched for Song Ran's information.

Song Ran's colleagues all said that he was left-handed, which added another point to his suspicion.

His phone hasn't been turned on much, but it doesn't look like he's going to throw it away.

In order to prevent theft, the security dormitory of Prince Qin's Mansion is equipped with cameras. Bai Meng received the surveillance video from the security team. He conducted research last night and is now reporting the results at the meeting.

"I watched the surveillance video for several hours yesterday, and I was almost blind when I saw it. So far, I haven't found anything suspicious about Song Ran. He basically spends most of his time in the dormitory. Other security guards smoke and drink, but he doesn't. Participated and didn’t chat with other people much.”

This is very consistent with the testimony of those security guards, and seeing is believing, more objective.

Qi Yi'an asked: "Then what does he usually do?"

"Eat, sleep, be on duty, patrol, when there is no night shift, I go to bed at eight o'clock every day, and the whole person is huddled under the quilt. I thought he was playing with his mobile phone or doing something bad, but when he turned over, I found that he was reading a book. "

"Reading?" Qi Yi'an repeated in surprise, "Why do you want to read under the quilt?"

Bai Meng nodded: "Yes!" Then she released an intercepted video, "Probably because she was afraid of affecting others or felt that it was inappropriate."

Lu Ying leaned forward and squinted her eyes: "This cover is New Concept English, right?"

Qi Yi'an frowned and confirmed: "It seems to be the fourth volume."

Being able to persist in studying in the security dormitory, if this person is not the number one suspect they have investigated so far, Qi Yi'an would almost have to sigh with emotion.

Gu Yanchen thought for a while, probably because of this, Song Ran would be regarded as a different kind by other security guards, right?

Then Bai Meng took out Song Ran's consumption list.He spends very little on shopping. He has no expenses such as tobacco, alcohol, and takeaway. He occasionally buys books. Most of his salary will be sent back to his hometown, and a small part will be saved by himself.

Lu Ying then reported the results of the investigation: "We asked a few of Song Ran's fellow villagers, but they didn't know where he had been recently, and the people in his hometown didn't know his whereabouts. They sent messages and didn't receive a reply."

Gu Yanchen looked at the number with the most communication with Song Ran, it was registered as Zhou Ru, he circled it, and asked Bai Meng: "Who is this Zhou Ru?"

Bai Meng said: "We have investigated this person. Zhou Ru is Song Ran's fellow villager and works in a massage shop. Song Ran has been taking good care of her for the past few years, but Zhou Ru denied that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and only said that Song Ran Treat her like a sister."

Gu Yanchen took a look at the communication between Song Ran and Zhou Ru, in which Song Ran was almost responsive to Zhou Ru's requests.

Gu Yanchen said: "Let's go meet Zhou Ru first. See if we can find Song Ran through her."

After the meeting, the criminal police continued to work, and the forensic doctors returned to the forensic center.

Shen Junci sat in the office and lit the Tibetan incense.

Qi Yi'an was a little restless, so he got up and went to the bathroom after a while.

Seeing him get up for the fourth time, Shen Junci finally couldn't bear it anymore.He felt that he should still care about this little apprentice: "Are you feeling unwell today?"

Qi Yi'an let out a long sigh: "Teacher, I found out that what you said is right. When you encounter a corpse with a strong smell, you should wear two layers of gloves. This is the truth."

Shen Jun said: "Didn't you bring it too?" He remembered reminding Qi Yi'an.

Qi Yi'an hugged his head in pain: "I cleaned the dissecting room at the end, and felt that it was not easy to work, and I took off a layer. Today I feel that my hands have been smelling."

Qi Yi'an didn't expect that the smell of the corpse would soak through that layer of gloves.

He washed his hands countless times last night, used various body washes and cleansers, and the skin on his hands peeled off, and the disgusting smell was still there.

If you want to talk about Qi Yian's current mood, you are very regretful, very regretful.

He has a very deep understanding of what it means to not listen to the old man's words, and to suffer in front of his eyes.

Shen Junci drank the tea and said: "It's okay, take your time, wait for about a week, and the smell will naturally go away."

"It will take a week?!" Qi Yi'an was on the verge of tears when he heard this, "Master, I made an appointment for the handshake meeting on the weekend, and I managed to make it!"

Not to mention that he spent one-third of his salary on the handshake voucher this time, he was lucky enough to get the chance to buy it. There is no such shop in this village.

Thinking about shaking hands with idols, his hands smelled like this, and his hands peeled off after washing. Qi Yi'an seemed to see the little idol holding his hand, and the smile on his face gradually froze.

He felt like he was going to die just by imagining it.

Shen Junci looked at him with some sympathy, and then pushed the pot of mint in front of him forward: "Washing alone is useless, then pick some mint leaves and rub it."

It was only then that Qi Yi'an knew that Shen Jun's resignation from raising Mint had this purpose.

Look at that pot of fresh and emerald green mint.

For a moment, as if a terminally ill patient had suddenly received a special medicine, he hurriedly picked a few mint leaves and rubbed them back and forth in the palm of his hand.After a while, the smell of mint covered it, and it really got better.

Qi Yi'an finally understood why Shen Junci was able to dissect so many corpses, yet still smell so good.

The mint flavor and the Tibetan fragrance are mixed together, like a high-quality aromatherapy, which dispels the smell of the corpse.

After a while, Qi Yi'an rubbed all the leaves into crumbs, and stretched out his hand to pick a few more.

Shen Junci pulled the mint back: "Don't be so anxious, there are not many leaves, and you will be bald later."

Qi Yian said aggrievedly: "Master, I only picked a few slices, and you are too stingy."

Shen Jun resigned: "I'm just providing you with a method. You go back to the vegetable market to buy a catty of coriander, rub it slowly, and it will lose its taste after rubbing."

Qi Yi'an said: "Master, I hate coriander the most."

Shen Junci continued to guide the way: "I remember that there is a flower shop at the south gate of the Municipal Bureau, you should go and have a look, remember not to buy incense, buy herbs."

Qi Yi'an would answer quickly: "I know, the scents are even more unpleasant when they are mixed together."

Shen Junci looked at him with more sympathy: "You tried it."

Qi Yi'an seemed to put on a mask of pain: "Yes..."

In desperation last night, he went outside to buy a small bottle of perfume and sprayed it on his hands. After spraying it, Qi Yi'an smelled his hands and almost vomited.

The smell of perfume and the smell of corpses are mixed together, and it has a wafting nature, and it is even more intense.With a deep sauce aroma, it feels like practicing the Five Poison Palm.

Xiaoqian's forensic doctor reported a field trip and ran downstairs. After 10 minutes, he came back with a small pot of basil.

"The boss said there is no more mint, only this is quite fragrant."

Shen Junci glanced at it and said, "Okay, you remember not to delay the autopsy report."

So this morning, while writing the autopsy report, Qi Yi'an rubbed his hands with basil leaves.

At noon, he smelled it, and the smell on his hand finally dissipated, and it also had a herbal fragrance, which seemed to be faintly green.But this is already tolerable for him.

After solving the problem, Qi Yi'an felt a sense of accomplishment, and even felt better.

It was almost noon, and Qi Yi'an went to the logistics department to pick up things.

Yu Shen from the criminal police team was right behind him, he leaned over and smelled it and said, "Forensic Qian, you smell so good."

Qi Yi'an knew that those grasses had played a role, so he was very happy.

Yu Shen took another breath: "The smell of the nine-story pagoda! Did you secretly go to a Hong Kong-style tea restaurant to eat Three Cups of Chicken?"

Qi Yi'an's face turned greener than the palm of his hand, and he didn't want to speak at all.

Yu Shen was still there and asked him: "I have a good nose, which one? I'll order it later."

If this is a conversation group, Yu Shen can definitely see a line of words at this time: Your friend Xiaoqian forensic doctor has withdrawn from the conversation.

The criminal police team is still looking for Song Ran's whereabouts.

It was almost noon, and Gu Yanchen took a group of people out. They first went to the massage shop and chatted with the woman named Zhou Ru for a while.

She is more of a girl than a woman. She is very young, with fair skin and chubby baby fat on her face.He speaks with a little country accent.

In Zhou Ru's description, although Song Ran's family is poor, he is very honest and has never done anything out of the ordinary.

"Brother Song Ran studied well in the past and worked hard, but his family had no money, and he stopped studying after he entered high school. His mother was ill, so he came to the city to work in order to earn money. At first he went to other jobs , I also stayed at the construction site, and later found that the security guards were more stable, and the place to eat and rest was better, and I was given clothes, so I went to work as a security guard."

"He is very kind to me, but my family thinks that I am still young, and I have never been with him before, so I treat him as an older brother, but if I have any difficulties, he will come to help. Every time I move, it will be troublesome he."

Gu Yanchen looked at Zhou Ru's record sheet. This girl is just eighteen. If she is a child in the city, she must still be studying and going to school, but she has already gone out to work to earn money, and she still has to send money to her parents to support herself younger brother.

When Zhou Ru said this, she stopped and asked, "Can I ask Brother Song Ran... what did he do to be investigated?"

Gu Yanchen didn't go into too much detail: "He was involved in a case of intentional injury."

"Intentionally hurting people?" Zhou Ru widened her eyes in disbelief when she heard this, then lowered her head and said, "Brother Song Ran is usually a very nice person, when I was young, when children fought, he was always the one to fight. There are injured stray cats and dogs in the village, and he will hug them to see a doctor, how could he... how could he hurt people?"

"Did he tell you about his plans after resigning?"

"He told me that he wanted to take the exam..."

"What exam?"

"Adult college entrance examination." Zhou Ru pursed her lips, "He said that the job of the security guard is very stable, and he has free time when he is not on duty at night, so he can read and revise."

This testimony is completely different from those of other security guards, but after thinking about it carefully, it does not contradict their description.

Gu Yanchen felt that none of them were lying.

This is like the A and B sides of a tape. Different people see different things and have different understandings, but when they are put together, they are a complete person.

The police asked some more details, and finally got Zhou Ru's consent to let her try to ask Song Ran to meet.

For real-time monitoring, Bai Meng monitors Zhou Ru's software on the police computer.

Holding the phone, Zhou Ru asked in embarrassment, "Well, how do I make an appointment?"

Gu Yanchen said: "As you usually talk, you can ask him out, the more natural the better."

"I asked him to move twice because of changing jobs, so I'll ask him again." Zhou Ru lowered her head and whispered, "Am I helping him?"

Gu Yanchen: "I'm helping him. If he was wronged, we will find out the truth."

Zhou Ru made a voice call to Song Ran, but was quickly hung up.

But this time Song Ran reacted and sent a sentence: "It's not convenient to answer the phone."

This was Song Ran's first reply recently, and Bai Meng regained her spirits all of a sudden, and asked her to say a few more words with Song Ran.

Zhou Ru thought for a while, and sent a voice message to Song Ran: "Brother, I'm in a hurry here. The second landlord defaulted on the rent, and the landlord has kicked me out. I'm moving out again, can you help me?"

After waiting for 10 minutes, another text message came from Song Ran's mobile phone number. There was not much to say, only a few words: "Where do you want to move?"

Zhou Ru said: "When you go to the store, I will tell you to take you there in detail. Can you come at noon? I want to treat you to a meal."

Bai Meng reminded her from the side: "Tell him the address again. It implies that you can be alone."

Zhou Ru said: "I'm in the shop on Dongyuan Road, Dongyuan Road Guoshou Massage Shop. Everyone else in the shop has to go out to eat at noon, so I'll stay and look at the shop."

Song Ran replied after a while: "I'll go find you."

The plan went smoothly, Gu Yanchen seized the time to make a simple arrangement, and they mobilized staff from the nearby police station.

Police plainclothes were set up on half the street, just waiting for Song Ran to show up and arrest him.

Sitting in a police command car parked by the side of the road, Bai Meng felt like a hunter waiting on the sidelines.On the computer screen in front of her, real-time monitoring was displayed, and the signal of Song Ran's mobile phone was obviously moving towards Dongyuan Road.

Bai Meng happily said to Gu Yanchen who was sitting on the side: "Captain Gu, you're hooked."

Gu Yanchen frowned and shook his head: "I always feel that something is wrong."

Bai Meng wondered: "Why is it wrong?"

"It went very well." Gu Yanchen analyzed, "Song Ran should know that the police are looking for him. His mobile phone is not turned off, and he has been hiding and not answering the phone. This behavior is a bit strange." Even just now, he sent several texts in succession information.

Generally speaking, Song Ran didn't hide well in this state, and he couldn't find anyone.

Also, so far, apart from the relationship between the owner and the security guard, he has not found any other intersections between Song Ran and Jin Yuewen.He always felt that the motive for killing people for money was a bit untenable.

In the description of the security guard, Song Ran is a bit of a strange person who doesn't fit in with others, but in Zhou Ru's description, he doesn't look like a vicious murderer.

He went through Song Ran's recent communication records and chat software, but he didn't find the slightest sign of a crime.

After reading the screenshot of Baimeng this morning, the security guard's accommodation environment is not good, there are eight beds in a room, and there is not even a seat to sit on.Gu Yanchen always thinks about Song Ran reading New Concept English under the quilt.

Why would a person who lives in a rented house with a security team and has to study hard, thinking about taking the entrance exam, want to kill someone and get rich overnight?

Gu Yanchen lowered his head in thought, touching his fingers together, he had a bad premonition.

It is very likely that Song Ran has already...

Bai Meng was very optimistic: "Captain Gu, anyway, he has rushed over now, let's ask him later when we catch someone else."

Having just said this, Bai Meng turned to the screen: "It's almost there!"

He might have come here by car, and at the time of the conversation, the dot representing Song Ran had moved to the vicinity of Dongyuan Street on the screen.Gu Yanchen didn't care about other things, and hurriedly contacted the criminal police on duty through the headset: "The target has appeared, pay attention to search."

A reply came from the headset immediately.

Bai Meng cut the camera, and they could see the surveillance cameras installed on the police officers at the scene.

There were several police officers and police assistants. They were either pretending to be passers-by or roadside vendors, and some were sitting on the roadside to rest.

Before, everyone has seen Song Ran's photos and videos, and it is guaranteed that they will recognize him as soon as they see him.

They are like hunters, setting a trap and waiting for their prey to appear.

Everyone was searching earnestly, and Bai Meng was so nervous that her palms were sweating, her eyes were locked on the monitoring screen, but she suddenly let out a cry: "Stop it..."

I saw that light spot stopped on the screen and never moved forward.

Gu Yanchen asked: "Where is Zhou Ru? Have you received any information?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a message popped up on Baimeng's login software, with only one line of words on it.

"I suddenly have something to do, so I can't come here."

After that, the phone was turned off, and the tracking signal was suddenly lost on the screen.

Bai Meng frowned: "What's the situation? Has it been exposed?"

"His location has just arrived nearby..." Gu Yanchen suddenly thought of a possibility, "The person holding the phone may not be Song Ran at all."

He suddenly figured everything out, and said to Bai Meng: "Do you still have the video that was copied at the property yesterday?"

"Still..." Bai Meng cooperatively clicked on the folder, and she prepared a copy of all the materials from yesterday in the mobile hard drive.

Gu Yanchen clicked on the video of the raincoat man entering and exiting Jin Yuewen's villa, and the two videos were opened side by side on the screen.

One is to enter in a raincoat, and the other is to go out in a raincoat.

Even though he has watched this video several times, Gu Yanchen still watched it carefully frame by frame.

This time, he suddenly discovered the mystery: "The shoes are wrong!"

Gu Yanchen remembered what the security guard said before, Song Ran only had a pair of old white sneakers, the color on them had been washed off, and in the video of leaving, even though it was raining heavily, the person under surveillance had his back to the camera. There is no color infrared surveillance at night, but it can still be seen that the shoes on the man's feet do not seem to be white, but dark.

Gu Yanchen's screenshot was enlarged, and the man in the raincoat was wearing a pair of sneakers.

If you look closely, the two people's strides and the way they walk and shake hands are also slightly different.

It was only because it was dark and rainy, and the surveillance was short and vague, that they got used to thinking that it was Song Ran who entered and he was the one who went out.

But in fact, the person in the raincoat has changed long ago. The one who walked in was Song Ran, and the one who walked out is probably the real murderer.

Gu Yanchen hurriedly said into the headset: "Change the target, the other party is a young man, his height and build are close to Song Ran, he is not Song Ran, he is holding Song Ran's cell phone."

The cameras on the police officers were spinning, and everyone was trying their best to find them, but with so many pedestrians and vehicles on the road, they couldn't identify the target.

After a few minutes, everyone still got nothing.

Bai Meng turned around and asked, "Captain Gu, do you want to continue looking?"

Gu Yanchen already knew that he would return without success this time, so he gave up doing futile work: "The operation is over, return to the team."

Bai Meng still has not accepted this fact: "If the person holding Song Ran's cell phone is the murderer, is this person an accomplice? There is only one way to enter the villa, how did he enter the villa? Where will Song Ran be now? ?”

Gu Yanchen said: "Let's go to Qinwangfu Community again."

Just after noon, Gu Yanchen led a group of people back to the community where the homicide occurred.

The community was sunny in the afternoon, and Captain Chen, who was still in charge of security, accompanied them.

One day later, the Qinwang Mansion community was much quieter, there were not so many media and mourners, and the front of Jin Yuewen's villa was deserted.

Lu Ying was a little thankful and said, "Fortunately, there are not many people today."

"That's right." The security captain wiped off his sweat. "Four houses were moved overnight yesterday, and now there are still several houses that are listed for sale. But they can't be sold at all."

Yesterday's murder was still exposed by the media.

Overnight, this community has become a famous ghost area.Rich people don't want to continue to live here and start to move out.

There were some scattered flowers and candle paper money on the ground, but those people who put on a show all disappeared without a trace.

This morning, a star broke out a gossip, so people's eyes also turned away, and no one paid attention to how this good man passed away.

For the police, this is a good thing. Only without interference can they fully handle the case.

Gu Yanchen asked Captain Chen for the building map of the community.He ordered two more police dogs to go around the villa carefully, trying to find more clues.

Jin Yuewen's villa is in the corner of the whole community.

There is only one road leading here, and the camera is on the side of this road.The perimeter of the courtyard is covered with three-meter-high thorny shrubs, and there is no way to pass through.

Not far behind the villa is a fence of more than four meters, and the fence is electrified.

This time, the search area was extended to the entire community.

Gu Yanchen walked to the center of the community and looked at the pond sketched in the drawing. This is a landscape made in the yard. The whole small pond has winding paths and secluded paths. There are some lotuses planted in it, and there are some looming rocks. The water is not clear and cannot be seen. in the end.

He suddenly discovered that this pond was not just a simple pool, but a source of running water.

Gu Yanchen suddenly thought, if you can't pass people on the road, is it possible to pass by water?

He walked along the waterway. At the section where he entered the yard of Jin Yuewen's house, the waterway was covered and paved with blue stone slabs. It looked the same as other roads, but there should be a canal with flowing water under the road.

Gu Yanchen asked Captain Chen: "Where does this waterway lead to?

Captain Chen said: "It leads to the outside of the community, leading to a stream of running water."

This is a high-end community. It was originally designed to be a small bridge and flowing water, so a river channel was specially made to enter.

"How deep?"

"It's more than two meters."

"Is there protection?"

Captain Chen said: "There must be. Iron nets were installed when the waterway was built, and it is impossible to get in from the outside."

Gu Yanchen couldn't believe him. He walked along the stone road in the yard of Jin Yuewen's house, turning one by one, and suddenly found that one of them was loose.Gu Yanchen lifted the stone slab, and there is a water flow below, which is connected with the water outside.

Gu Yanchen calculated that this place is about seven or eight meters away from the courtyard wall.He went forward and tried to lift the other stone slabs, but none of them could be lifted, and only this one could be used as an entrance.

In any case, this is a new and important discovery. If someone is good at water, it is very likely that they can bypass the monitoring and enter from here.

Gu Yanchen said: "Do you have swimming goggles? Those of you who are good at swimming, go down and have a look."

Lu Ying took the initiative: "Don't be so troublesome. I have swum in even muddier wild lakes in the past. Just go back and put some eye drops on it. I'll go down and have a look."

Gu Yanchen thought for a while and then stopped him and said, "No, this place is covered with stone slabs, and the waterway is narrow. If this end is dead, you will easily be trapped in it."

Lu Ying also wanted to be lazy: "I am good at water, I can turn around and turn around underwater, and diving for more than ten meters is a trivial matter."

Gu Yanchen said: "You'd better go around outside the yard to see if you can get in through the water. Also, tie a rope around your body, pay attention to safety, and get out as soon as possible if you find something wrong."

Only then did Lu Ying respond, and led two police officers around.

The stream outside entered the courtyard wall, and Lu Ying's water quality was quite good, and when he reached the edge, he dived into it.

After a while, Lu Ying came up from the open bluestone gap and wiped the water on her face: "Fuck, someone made a hole in the iron net below, and the bottom is open!"

Captain Chen saw more and more problems, his face froze, and he muttered there: "How is it possible?"

Bai Meng reached out and pulled Lu Ying ashore.

"I swam closer and found out that there is a hole below, which looks like it was cut off with pliers, enough for people to come and go." Lu Ying wiped her face and added, "But it's a bit deep below, and I need to sneak seven or eight meters, sure. It has to be a person with good water quality."

Gu Yanchen asked, "How big is the hole?"

Lu Ying shook her head: "One meter or so, only one person can pass, not even fat people."

Finally found a way in.

Gu Yanchen sorted out his thoughts again. That night, the murderer might have entered this place through water, and Song Ran came to this villa wearing a raincoat. Which of them came first?What happened the next night?

Why did the murderer replace Song Ran and leave in a raincoat?

Gu Yanchen looked in the direction of the villa again, it was only this big.

Yesterday, their search area was near the villa, but today it expanded to the entire community.Every unsurveilled place was scoured.

The trash cans were sorted, they were not big enough, they definitely couldn't hold a person, there were only two corpses in the villa... Gu Yanchen took a few steps, and smelled a bad smell wafting over.

The smell of corpses in the villa that day was so pungent that they ignored the smell here.

Gu Yanchen found an iron manhole cover on the open space in the backyard of the villa, and turned to Captain Chen, "Is this the sewer? Where does it lead?"

Captain Chen hurried over: "It's not the sewer, it's used by the community itself. It leads to the septic tank in the community behind. It's a maintenance and dredging opening. It's been a long time since no one opened it." At this point he squeezed Nose, "This place has a strong smell every day, and it seems to smell even worse now, isn't it blocked from below?"

Gu Yanchen said: "Let's lift it up and have a look."

As he spoke, he began to pull the ring on the well cover, and Lu Ying also came to help.

The iron cover is not big, and there are two pull tabs on it, which can be opened with the strength of an adult.

As soon as it was opened, a pungent smell came to the face.

Gu Yanchen squatted down and looked inside. With the light of the flashlight, he could vaguely see the short hair of some men.

Captain Chen also followed the probe to look, and there was a squatting dead man in the well.

He was taken aback and sat down on the ground.

That night, not only two people died, but three people.

The murderer was so vicious that Song Ran never walked out of the yard.

It was also the murderer who took away Song Ran's cell phone, and put on his raincoat. The recent cell phone turned on and replied, it was just a play, in order to make them think that Song Ran was still alive.

Gu Yanchen took out his mobile phone and called Shen Junci: "Forensic Shen, we finally found Song Ran."

Shen Junci didn't know much about the situation here, and thought that their wait-and-see had an effect: "Have you asked him? Do you have any clues?"

"He's already dead, as for what clues he can provide..." Gu Yanchen looked at the half-rotten male body stuffed in the sewer, "I'm afraid you have to come and ask him."