Chapter 60

Seize a weakness and exploit it repeatedly—extortion and the like—or perhaps open various safes.

Chen Fan even wondered if he could open a machine himself.

He just hadn't tried.

The officer carried rain on his clothes; Old Liu looked up and said, "A case?"

"Yeah, you need to come with me. We found a body, not yet retrieved. With you here, things will be steadier."

Old Liu called the group of new recruits and said, "Put on raincoats. If that's inconvenient, get soaked. Those with strong constitutions, take care—not to catch a cold later."

In a rush, everyone drove toward the destination.

The atmosphere in the live stream grew Solemn.

It was past nine at night; at this hour, many people were already thinking about resting.

But these people had to stay alert.

The officer handed out Red Bulls to everyone, then gnawed on bread inside the car.

Here, Xiang Qinqin took out several buns, handed them to the officer, and said, "Um, I got these at the cafeteria. I brought a lot."

Seeing the steaming hot meat buns, the officer instantly brightened up.

He distributed them to the other officers.

"Thanks. You're thoughtful."

"Uh, no problem, no problem. Everyone's working hard."

Everyone arrived at the destination. The officer stood under a shelter there, lighting a cigarette.

"There's a shelter in a place like this?"

The officer in charge, Old Song, said, "What shelter? Just some fishing guys."

Chen Fan asked, "What's wrong? So angry?"

The accompanying officer said, "Old Captain, today's his daughter's tenth birthday, her coming-of-age ceremony. He was supposed to go back to celebrate, but ran into this case."

Ah, that makes sense.

No wonder Old Song's temper is so explosive.

The body in the river was currently hanging on a fishing line.

Then, two fishing guys walked out from beside the car. The ground was littered with cigarette butts; clearly, both were very scared.

"Can you even fish on a rainy day like this?"

One big brother said, "Even if it were hailing, I'd still come. I just asked my wife for leave. I planned to fish today this month. Who would have thought we'd run into something like this?"

At that moment, everyone in the live stream was amused by this fishing big brother.

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. The stubbornness of fishing guys."

"No, fishing big brother, it's really tough."

"I'm curious: is fishing big brother actually fishing or not?"

"By the way, big brother, how's today's catch?"

"An old man in our neighborhood caught over ten jin of fish and parades around the neighborhood all day."

Here, under Old Liu's command, the officers pulled the body over and prepared to lift it up.

"Don't touch it. I'm afraid it'll break apart."

?????

Bai Lu felt her stomach turn.

Chen Fan looked awkward and said, "Old Liu, no need, no need."

"Sigh, you'll know in a moment. It depends on luck."

"If we don't lift it, what do we do?"

Old Liu said, "That cloth. Wrap it from underneath, then lift it up."

Several people looked at each other. Who would go down?

Old Liu and Old Zhou couldn't; they were too old.

The new recruits here hesitated.

Xiang Qinqin directly started to take off her clothes, but Chen Fan stopped her.

Splash! Chen Fan jumped straight into the water.

"Hand me the cloth."

Everyone stared in shock at Chen Fan.

"What are you all staring at?"

With someone leading, others followed. Old Song tossed off his jacket and jumped in, pulling the cloth together with Chen Fan.

Then, they lifted the entire body up.

Old Liu, speechless, said, "Good news: we found the body."

People in the live stream didn't quite get what kind of opening that was.

"Bad news: it's only half a body..."

Yuck.

Suddenly, someone couldn't take it anymore and started vomiting.

Old Song frowned, reached out, lit a cigarette, and said, "You really can't handle such trivial matters. Write self-criticisms when you get back. You didn't want to go in the water, right? Write a three-thousand-character self-criticism. No half-hearted work allowed."

After speaking, he handed Chen Fan a cigarette.

Chen Fan lit it and said, "Not bad..."

"No choice. Little kids afraid to get in the water is normal. But you surprised me. My daughter used to be your fan. I often told her not to like those oily-haired, pale-faced boys. Now I see my perspective was too narrow. You, kid, are different from those little fresh meats."

"Is your daughter good-looking?"

"I take back the compliment I gave you earlier."

At this moment, the livestream chat was unusually silent, because everyone was stunned by the scene.

Damn it.

"No, Old Liu, that's really not necessary, no need to describe it so vividly."

'I'm completely done for — I was just worrying about what to eat tonight, and you serve me this?'

"I feel like if I keep watching for a few more days, I'll lose ten jin. How wonderful."

"No way, Chen Fan, you're a fresh-faced pretty boy — how are you carrying a corpse? Is that something a fresh-faced pretty boy would do?"

The corpse was placed inside the vehicle; the rest depended on the police and others to look for clues at the scene.

Take samples, then collect the surrounding soil and any other relevant useful clues.

The two who reported the case also needed to be investigated.

Qu Yiling said, 'Why do they have to be taken away too?'

Old Song said, "Generally, when handling a case, the first person suspected is the one who reported it. A lot of people think they're very clever — they call the police themselves, trying to make people think they didn't commit the crime. This kind of helplessness can't escape our eyes."

'My eyes are the ruler — I can measure out exactly what any person looks like.'

Chen Fan pointed and said, "Then tell me this person's height and weight."

"Get lost, how would I know."

"Height one meter seventy, weight fifty-six kilograms, age roughly twenty-two to twenty-five."

Old Liu was startled and said, "You didn't do any long-bone measurement — how do you know all this?"

"Just, I know, that's all."

"This person wasn't killed by you, was he."

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