Chapter 150: When It Comes to Offending People, I

What a ridiculous idea… Yu Dazhang heard it and let out a bitter laugh.

Even if the case remains unsolved and becomes a cold case, it could never be classified as a supernatural event.

That deputy director has a bit of cleverness, but his thinking is far too naive.

This case has been mishandled to the point of being riddled with flaws.

They even hoped to fool the police into believing it was a haunting.

If the police believed that, they'd truly have seen a ghost!

"The deputy director has been found."

A police officer from the branch walked in and said to Yu Dazhang:

"He's among the people we brought back—he's already been taken to the interrogation room."

Now it's one confession leading to another arrest.

Yu Dazhang estimated that none of the staff brought in for assistance would walk out alive.

Interrogations were still ongoing.

"If the funeral home lost a corpse, wouldn't the family notice?" asked the interrogating officer.

The Hongkou District funeral home and crematorium are located together.

Usually, after someone dies, the family holds a farewell ceremony at the funeral home, then directly moves the body to the adjacent crematorium for incineration.

If a burial plot isn't yet secured, the funeral home also offers ash storage.

This is a bundled service.

From the memorial service onward, the body remains within the family's line of sight until it enters the cremation chamber.

During this process, it's simply impossible to transfer the body away.

Moreover, after cremation, the family must inspect the ashes.

Some meticulous people even send the ashes for laboratory testing.

Even Yu Dazhang couldn't help but wonder how they managed to steal the corpses.

"It's not what you think," the woman shook her head and replied:

"Only unclaimed bodies and corpses whose families don't want the ashes are transported away."

"But even these corpses are recorded in official logs, so we must prepare ashes to match them."

"If no one claims them within three years, the funeral home may dispose of the ashes."

Yu Dazhang quickly spotted the key point in the woman's words.

He immediately picked up the microphone and instructed:

"Ask her where those bodies were taken, and what they were used for."

The interrogating officer heard this and immediately repeated his words.

The woman didn't even pause—she answered directly:

"I don't know what those bodies were used for, and I have no idea where they were taken."

Don't know? Yu Dazhang froze.

How could that be!

How could these actual participants not know the purpose or destination of the corpses?

The interrogating officer also sensed the absurdity and frowned:

"If you know nothing, why did you collude with them?"

"For the money," the woman answered bluntly:

"I receive a bonus every month—several times my regular salary."

"At first, I felt guilty and worried the truth would come out and I'd be held accountable."

"But everyone else was doing it too, and over time, I stopped caring."

"As for the final destination and use of those corpses, none of us cared."

"From what I understand, only the deputy director knows—while the director turns a blind eye, just like us, collecting his monthly pay."

Hearing this, Yu Dazhang gave a signal to the officer beside him.

The officer immediately stood up and walked out.

Now two more had been exposed.

Both the director and deputy director were involved—the funeral home was rotten to the core.

At this moment, other interrogation rooms began to yield confessions one after another.

The number of implicated individuals kept growing.

Eventually, the branch's interrogation rooms were no longer sufficient.

Every single staff member at the funeral home, without exception, was tied to this case.

Now there was no need for assistance—everyone simply had to confess.

In the end, Li Jun still chose to report upward. With concrete evidence and confessions from the suspects, the case was now airtight.

Upon hearing this, Director Wu did not dare delay a moment—he immediately submitted a detailed report to the municipal bureau.

The municipal bureau acted without hesitation, making an immediate decision.

They swiftly deployed large numbers of police to impose strict, comprehensive control over the funeral home.

Even contract workers and temporary staff were not spared—all were taken back to the municipal bureau for investigation.

At the same time, they contacted other districts' funeral homes to send personnel to maintain operations.

Over the past few months, the municipal bureau had grown accustomed to such large-scale operations.

Shutting down a funeral home was now just a minor affair for the municipal bureau's criminal investigation team.

Previously, they had also participated in the investigation of the Hongkou District Funeral Home, but found no issues, which undoubtedly became a major oversight in their work.

So this time, everyone in the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Team was holding back a surge of determination to regain face.

Please... collect... 6... 9... Book... now....!

Dig, dig deep!

We cannot let any single clue slip away.

And Li Jun was tough enough; he exposed everyone who called him to beg for leniency.

After Yu Dazhang learned of this, he went out of his way to advise him:

"Captain Li, you've offended a huge number of people this time; aren't you afraid someone will sabotage you behind your back?"

If anyone else had said this, Li Jun wouldn't have cared, taking it merely as concern between colleagues.

But this fat man in front of him was different.

As for offending people, compared to him, I am far behind.

Li Jun stared at him and said in a bad mood:

"From Fenglin Town in the distance to the Songhai city center nearby, almost the entire Songhai police force has been purged in recent months."

"I think the person who truly needs to be careful is you."

"Having joined only a few months ago, the number of people you've offended must be too many to count, right?"

"Even the deputy captain of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Team was scared away by you and hasn't been brought to justice yet."

"I've heard that everyone in the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Team thinks you made them lose face."

Yu Dazhang knew Captain Li was joking with him, but still couldn't help sighing:

"We can't just not solve cases because we're afraid of offending people."

By all rights, a small detective like Yu Dazhang shouldn't have access to major and critical cases.

But his luck was simply heaven-defying.

Investigating the case of the scapegoat was to save his master; that goes without saying.

However, the initial intention behind solving that human trafficking case was to track down the missing officer and police gun.

If Zhang Sen hadn't acted on his own initiative, he wouldn't have risked going up the mountain and killing so many people.

That time was purely forced.

And the case at the Sanjia Hospital was initially because he went to investigate an abandonment case.

Later, when he discovered problems at the hospital, he couldn't just pretend nothing happened.

Speaking of which, only this case was directly handled by Yu Dazhang, who served as the deputy leader of the special task force.

He originally thought it was a case of stealing corpses disguised as ghostly antics.

But the result...

Was another major case!

The next morning, in the Municipal Bureau's conference room.

Director Liu looked at the stacks of confession materials on the table, his expression serious.

"It's actually another gang case!"

Why did I say 'another'? Director Liu couldn't help but frown.

At the same time, a chubby figure popped into his mind.

Recently, two special cases occurred consecutively in Songhai, both solved by that fat man; it was hard not to remember him.

"Director Liu, you haven't read the case file yet, have you?" asked the Criminal Investigation Team Captain sitting by the conference table.

Director Liu nodded:

"I haven't had time to read it yet, but I've grasped the general situation; just orally summarize the key points."

"Okay." The Criminal Investigation Team Captain's expression was somewhat strange; after clearing his throat, he opened the case file on the table:

"On August 19, assigned by the Municipal Bureau, Yu Dazhang from the Hongkou Branch was transferred to the Qingpu Branch to investigate the August 17th running corpse case..."

"Wait!!" Director Liu suddenly interrupted him:

"Are you saying this case wasn't solved by the Hongkou Branch itself, but was transferred back from the Qingpu Branch?"

(End of this chapter)