Chapter 1010

"Welcome, welcome, thank you for your hard work."

Shen Yaowei, wearing his cleanest police uniform with a clean smile on his face, extended a clean and fair palm toward his colleagues stepping off the bus.

"Old Shen, you really stink!" Miao Liyuan, the colleague in the cold case task force most familiar with Shen Yaowei, slapped his hand away upon seeing him, then gave his shoulder a hard slap, saying earnestly: "Thanks to you, we can stink together for the next few days."

"Finding the clue is my fault." Shen Yaowei maintained his clean smile; because of his discovery, half the members of the cold case task force were sent to the landfill. Being beaten for such a thing didn't seem particularly unreasonable.

"You dug for two days without finding anything, which is the reason we had to come over." Miao Liyuan sighed and said: "I'm originally specialized in viewing footage and finding surveillance."

Shen Yaowei chuckled, looked at Miao Liyuan with a disdainful gaze, and said: "If I were you, I'd say from now on that I came to the Jiang Yuan Cold Case Task Force specifically to learn from the God of Jiang about surveillance and image analysis techniques..."

"Say it like that..."

"This is the secret to securing favor; I don't tell just anyone." Shen Yaowei smiled with his head held high, then used his washed-clean but still-stinking hand to pat Miao Liyuan's shoulder.

Miao Liyuan looked at Shen Yaowei with some suspicion. He wasn't entirely sure if what Shen Yaowei said was correct, but it was also hard to disprove.

The key is that Shen Yaowei has indeed become a rising star in the Jiang Yuan Cold Case Task Force.

Everyone was seconded from the Changyang City police to the Jiang Yuan Cold Case Task Force. After such a long time, Shen Yaowei's gains have been the greatest. Although his background is the strongest among the group, everyone has also seen the things he has done.

To summarize in one sentence: Shen Yaowei is getting promoted, and Miao Liyuan isn't jealous!

If this is a strategy, then Shen Yaowei certainly has some substance to him.

"Sigh..." Meng Chengbiao stepped off the bus and happened to hear the latter half of their conversation, unable to help but let out a long sigh.

Shen Yaowei felt a bit embarrassed, coughed twice, and said: "Does Captain Meng feel that public morals are declining? There's no help for it; everyone is competing in every way now."

Meng Chengbiao waved his hand in front of his nose and said: "It's not about declining morals; in fact, you young people today are much more sincere than those of our generation."

"Not necessarily, not necessarily." Shen Yaowei laughed twice: "It's mainly because everyone says sincerity is the ultimate killer move."

"A suicide move?" Meng Chengbiao seemed to have misheard and nodded slowly: "That also makes sense."

Successive buses of police officers were transported over, and after a brief baptism by the stench, they began long-term work amidst the odor.

Jiang Yuan and the others still approved of Shen Yaowei's judgment.

That Prada women's top was not only soft in texture and unable to withstand the transport and erosion of the garbage mountain, but it was also a current season's new arrival; even if the original owner wanted to "declutter," they shouldn't have decluttered this piece of clothing.

Furthermore, this piece of clothing was discarded in the same hole as several pieces of clothing belonging to missing children, and this vertical garbage hole showed clear signs of excavation.

In short, the possibility that the clothing was discarded by the criminal suspect is extremely high.

However, regarding the issue of this Prada women's top, all the criminal suspects remained tight-lipped.

To Jiang Yuan and the others, this was easy to understand, yet very unwilling to understand—even if they kidnapped 5 children and it was a group crime, the probability of the members of the Wu Yang gang being sentenced to death is not high.

But if a homicide case were added, the risk of a death sentence would be very high.

Therefore, refusing to confess is what best serves the interests of these criminals.

Jiang Yuan could only send more people to conduct more searches.

This is also a manifestation of his immense authority.

If it were someone else, even if a new clue were discovered, the original team would just continue searching the garbage mountain. If they found something, they would then solve the case based on that.

If they couldn't find anything in a short time, theoretically, a single piece of clothing would not be enough to open a case.

It is only because of Jiang Yuan's status today and the existence of the current special task force that he has the strength and necessity to directly expand the search team. If this were elsewhere, it would be one thing, but having so many people on the garbage mountain would put great pressure on the leadership.

Complaining about leadership is a feature unique to every profession.

A criminal police captain from Yuwan City took over on-site command, designated areas for everyone, and then proceeded to work without a word.

Since police from out of town had come to help with the search, the local leadership couldn't very well not show their faces.

This digging lasted for another day and more.

After everyone had been thoroughly marinated in the stench, finally, a human thigh bone was unearthed from beneath the garbage.

Afterward, more bones began to appear on Jiang Yuan's desk.

"Female, 21 years old, height 172 cm. Looking at the skull, she should have been quite good-looking. There are traces of medical aesthetics, and she had even had her chin pushed; it was a major surgery. Given this age and height, it should be possible to find her."

Jiang Yuan had originally been prepared to use other bones for forensic anthropology, but he felt relieved upon seeing the skull.

It's not rare for a 21-year-old to have undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, but it's definitely not common. Combined with a height that is a low percentage of the population, if she is a local, it will be very easy to screen her out.

His junior fellow apprentice Miao Ruixiang, who had come as reinforcements from Ningtai County, registered the information while saying: "If this woman was good-looking, wouldn't it be more profitable to sell her than to kill her?"

"Crime control is also a skill." Liu Jinghui was also standing nearby and said casually: "This Wu Yang gang only basically formed when they started kidnapping children. Before that, it wasn't even clear who listened to whom among the seven of them. This woman cannot be entirely determined to be a simple victim; it's also possible she was the mistress of someone in the gang, or perhaps a mistress shared by multiple people."

Miao Ruixiang, a pure newcomer who only started working this year, was greatly shocked upon hearing this: "A mistress can be shared by multiple people?"

Liu Jinghui looked at Miao Ruixiang with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, "They've already sunk to the level of a landfill; they still have to save where they can and spend where they must."

"Would the woman be willing?"

"If there were no aftereffects, of course the woman would be willing, just like one man finding several women." Liu Jinghui curled his lip at this point and said to Miao Ruixiang: "You're still young and don't understand. By the time you reach my age, you'll realize one woman finding several men is rational consumption, while one man finding several women is purely conspicuous consumption."

Miao Ruixiang realized: "So, this woman..."

"Female victim!" Liu Jinghui corrected.

"Female victim." Miao Ruixiang nodded: "So this female victim was very likely a member of the gang?"

"Impossible!" Liu Jinghui's answer left Miao Ruixiang confused.

Miao Ruixiang: "You just said..."

"I just mentioned a possibility; you're just too curious about this topic." Liu Jinghui shook his head: "A girl who wears luxury clothing and is pretty, even if she wanted to find a mistress, wouldn't find her way to a landfill. These suspects don't have much money either, so the possibility that this woman was forced to come here, or even that her body was moved here, is very high."

Liu Jinghui looked at Jiang Yuan and said: "However, I think the main problem now is whether to show the situation of this corpse to the members of the Wu Yang gang. I believe that at least until we find those five kidnapped children, we still have to give them a little hope, at least to some of them, a little hope."

"Are confessions that hard to get?" Jiang Yuan also knew that finding the children was currently stuck on the confessions; the seven of them tacitly refused to disclose the whereabouts of the children, which made the investigation very difficult.

Liu Jinghui just smiled: "It's just a matter of grinding them down. You're used to using technology to make direct breakthroughs. The criminal suspects in this kind of case are often resisting unconsciously and are unwilling to accept the reality of being caught and punished. Wait a few days, and once this emotion passes, they'll confess faster than anyone."

"It's already been several days."

"Yes, this group of people may not be good at anything else, but they are truly capable of enduring hardship."