Chapter 39: So Our Detachment Has Changed This Much?

Vehicle Management Office, abbreviated as the Vehicle Office.

Lu Zhongxin and another team member were here checking vehicle information.

Why not go to the traffic police department to check?

Because the data held by each department is different.

The traffic police department only has basic vehicle information, such as the vehicle owner, brand, model, and nature of use.

For ordinary people handling everyday matters, going to the traffic police squad is enough.

To consult the Vehicle Office, the methods and procedures are relatively cumbersome, but you can obtain the most accurate and comprehensive vehicle information.

As a criminal police officer, Lu Zhongxin could naturally skip the step of inquiry procedures.

The departments cooperate with each other, after all.

Just as he was concentrating on the spreadsheet on the screen, his phone suddenly rang.

He didn't even look at the caller ID and pressed the answer key directly.

"Hello, this is Lu Zhongxin."

"It's me, Li Jun. Where are you?"

"Captain Li, I'm at the Vehicle Office checking vehicle information."

"I'm coming to find you now."

"If there's something, just say it over the phone. Even if it has to be discussed in person, it should be me going over."

He's actually being considerate of me… Li Jun on the other end of the line for a moment thought he had the wrong number.

If a phone call could solve it, he wouldn't have been scolded by the bureau chief today.

It couldn't be that he forgot about the last time he made me lose face, could it?

Very likely!

"Cut the sweet talk. Wait for me there."

This guy's a stubborn mule… Precisely because Li Jun knew this, he insisted on meeting Lu Zhongxin in person.

Only by laying things out face-to-face was there a chance to make this stubborn mule back down.

A quarter of an hour later.

Li Jun saw Lu Zhongxin in an office.

"Old Lu, put aside what you're working on, grab the case file, and come with me."

He tried once more to use his authority as detachment captain to order Lu Zhongxin around.

"Where to?"

Lu Zhongxin turned his head to look at Li Jun, but his body didn't move, his hand still resting on the mouse, showing not the slightest intention of getting up.

Actually, there was a bit of technique in Li Jun's words.

He didn't ask to see the case file, only told Lu Zhongxin to bring it along.

This time you don't even have to refuse—the case file is in your hands, just come along.

When the time comes, someone will naturally come asking you for it. If you've got the guts, then see it through to the end.

Without some skill at handling people, you wouldn't have made it to the position of detachment captain.

Li Jun believed Lu Zhongxin was a man who knew when to advance and when to retreat—stubborn for the sake of the case, but knowing when to bow his head.

As the saying goes… Xi Xi Wu Zhe Wei Junjie~

Let me give you a little shock first.

"Big Cat sent me to find you," Li Jun said in a low voice.

Number one! Lu Zhongxin's scalp went numb.

He dared to refuse Li Jun for the sake of work, because they were all on the same detachment—if the case was handled well, everyone got to share the glory.

The detachment captain would surely understand, and Lu Zhongxin also knew one thing… Li Jun was the type to protect his own people; he'd never made anyone wear the tight shoe.

"The leadership wants to see the case file, right?"

He still wanted to confirm.

Although the number one's orders were not to be questioned, if it violated principles, then that was another matter…

Li Jun saw at a glance that Lu Zhongxin was about to act up, and immediately said:

"Old Lu, I think you've gone mad!! Big Cat is looking for you, and you still want to question it? One case has you this obsessed?!"

Seeing the detachment captain angry, Lu Zhongxin immediately shut his mouth—he could tell Li Jun meant well.

You really force my hand… Seeing the stubborn mule soften, Li Jun's tone eased as well:

"Let's go, take my car."

"Hold on." Lu Zhongxin took out his phone: "Let me ask."

"No need to ask the team leader," Li Jun said confidently. "I'll talk to him later."

"Not asking him." Lu Zhongxin didn't even raise his head, swiping quickly on his phone screen.

Li Jun:????

Not asking the team leader…

Then who else could he be asking?

Who exactly is leading this case? Does he have a superior?

This stubborn mule wouldn't even give face to his own detachment captain, and now he's actually going to ask someone for instructions!

Has a sixth man shown up in the detachment?

That can't be—even if someone was sent down from above, he wouldn't know, but the bureau chief, as number one, would definitely be notified. Under Li Jun's gaze, full of question marks, Lu Zhongxin placed the phone to his ear:

"Dazhang, the leadership wants to see the case file. What do you think about this…"

"Mm, got it."

"I understand, okay, okay."

After ending the call, Lu Zhongxin said to Li Jun:

"The case file is in the car below. Let's go."

Li Jun blinked twice:

"Wait a moment. Who did you just call?"

"Someone from our task force." Lu Zhongxin didn't expect the team leader to be so gossipy. Since he asked, he simply answered truthfully:

"His full name is Yu Dazhang. He's a newcomer who just arrived, my apprentice."

When he said the three words "my apprentice," Lu Zhongxin unconsciously puffed out his chest.

His proud and delighted look was as if his own child had finally been admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University.

Please... collect... 6... 9... book.... now....!

A newcomer? Li Jun was even more confused.

You, an old detective and deputy head of the task force, going to report to a newcomer before acting?

Judging by that look, if that newcomer on the other end disagreed, the bureau chief wouldn't see this case file today either.

How amazing~

The master listens to the apprentice...

Has our team changed so much now?

A newcomer apprentice who just reported in not long ago is leading his master on a case.

I can't adapt!

Twenty minutes later, the bureau chief's office.

"Chief Wu, here is the case file."

Lu Zhongxin placed the case file on the desk in front of him.

"Sit. Both of you sit. Let me look at the case situation first."

Li Jun quickly pulled Lu Zhongxin, who was staring at the bureau chief, signaling him to sit down.

He noticed Old Lu's gaze was off; it felt like he was staring at a thief.

Could it be he was too nervous?

No, he was staring at the case file!

His apprentice must have told him something. Probably... go together, the case file must not leave his sight.

Chief Wu didn't notice the two men's strangeness; his attention was entirely on the case file.

The first page contained the basic information of the case.

It mainly recorded the time and place of the incident, as well as the personal data of the reporter and the victim.

When he turned to the second page, he paused.

The content on it was like magic, firmly captivating his gaze.

The suspect took the blame for someone else?

Deliberately setting a trap for the police, luring the interrogators into the trap to achieve his goal of taking the fall.

How was it discovered?

Turning the page again...

The rental apartment was not the primary crime scene!

No footprints of the victim, no signs of struggle.

Using the strong adsorption properties of activated carbon to preserve the body and delay the time of death.

Turning the page again...

Using new clues to expose the suspect's lies, thereby proving he was indeed not the real killer.

Found the local police station, and through previous missing person cases, learned the detailed situation of the day the victim went missing.

And inferred the true primary crime scene through surveillance video.

Turning the page once more...

Confirmed the victim's room was the scene of the crime; the Technical Section compared and verified, reconstructing the scene.

Seeing this, Chief Wu felt his brain "buzzing."

A sense of suffocation made his breathing somewhat difficult, and his heartbeat accelerated significantly.

The reason he hadn't paid much attention to this case was because everyone knew it was just a murder case with simple logic.

He also knew some departments had stuffed people qualified for promotion into the task force.

Gilding the lily, understandable.

But the current situation...

This is clearly undergoing tribulation!

Is there someone so powerful in the task force?

To investigate a case this complex to its current state.

No, should I say, is there such a person in the entire branch bureau?

Even if an expert from the provincial department came, they wouldn't necessarily be able to investigate this case to this extent in such a short time.

Who is it?!!

Change your brain; writing about solving cases all the time makes you lose hair.

If you have tickets, please cast them. I'll take one first, bang bang bang~

Seems like I've been bumping into things too much~~

(End of this chapter)