Chapter 1107: Clover

"Fuck your mother, I'll fuck his ancestors for eighteen generations..."

The boss of the Binren Gang shook the interrogation chair violently, making the steel chair clatter like a music box.

The police officers in the interrogation room let him vent for a moment before saying gently, "Don't be anxious yet. Would you like a cigarette?"

"Yes!" The Binren Gang boss stopped immediately.

The interrogating officer stood up, placed a cigarette in his mouth, and lit it for him.

The Binren Gang boss inhaled greedily, finishing half of it in the first drag.

The few people present waited until he had smoked it down to the butt without saying a word.

Finally, the Binren Gang boss spoke slowly himself: "When did they get together?"

"We don't know the specific time yet." The interrogating officer's expression was solemn.

The photos he had shown the Binren Gang boss were only found after Jiang Yuan and the Image Reconnaissance Brigade had been busy for a long time, borrowing information provided by Technical Reconnaissance.

It had to be said that people having affairs were quite vigilant, but they couldn't compare to murderers. There was a certain gap between non-professionals and professionals.

This time, it was also a joint effort between Image Reconnaissance and Technical Reconnaissance; they first found the mobile phone locations for the time the two were together, then identified the hotel where they had checked into a room, and then retrieved surveillance footage from the entire route, as well as the hotel lobby footage.

If Zhang Lei had still been cautious while outside, once he entered the hotel, he was basically uninhibited.

The "Big Sister-in-law" was even less professional; there was even surveillance footage of her going to a convenience store to buy condoms herself.

Seeing this scene, the Binren Gang boss went completely insane.

Liu Jinghui, on the other hand, watched this scene calmly, guessing how much of it was genuine and how much was fake.

A few seconds later, the interrogating officer asked, "Zhang Lie, when did you find out they were together?"

"If I had known, I would have long since..." Halfway through his sentence, the Binren Gang boss, Zhang Lie, paused and said, "Do you suspect I killed Zhang Lei?"

The interrogating officer said, "As you said yourself, this kind of thing is something you wouldn't be able to tolerate, right?"

"That goes without saying. If he had messed with a woman I had on the side, or fucked someone else, that would be one thing. But can a wife be the same?" Zhang Lie stared, but his tone calmed down: "I didn't kill Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei deserved to die, but I didn't kill him."

The interrogating officer frowned slightly and said, "You have the motive to kill, and you have the ability to kill... Since we found you, we already have evidence... Don't count on anyone being able to fish you out. This involves a homicide case across two provinces; you can't escape."

"Zhang Lei died outside the province?" Zhang Lie was the head of the organization; after being arrested, he had been kept in solitary confinement and had received no news at all, knowing only that Zhang Lei was dead.

The interrogating officer glanced at Liu Jinghui and nodded slightly.

Zhang Lie spat, cursed, and thought for a moment before saying, "You also said it involves a homicide case across two provinces. I can't escape. Since that's the case, why would I kill someone outside the province? I would have done him in Luojin City and found a few underlings to dispose of him. You wouldn't even be able to find the body; there wouldn't be a damn homicide case!"

The interrogating officer stared at him for a long while without saying a word.

It had to be said that the logic in what Zhang Lie said was sound.

Liu Jinghui also began to ponder.

This Zhang Lie was a typical "rough on the outside, fine on the inside" type; he looked like a big thug, but in reality, his mind was very clear. For a person like this, there were many ways to kill Zhang Lei; let alone not needing to do it himself, even if he did do it himself, it was impossible he would send the body outside the province to be dumped. It purely increased the risk and wasted time, and it didn't have much meaning.

And for a person like Zhang Lie, it wouldn't be strange to say he had killed people before. As for things like dumping or burying bodies, whether he had done it or not, he had certainly heard of it. In fact, those who had been in the underworld in the early years—not to say they had definitely handled such things—at least had the experience.

No matter from which angle one analyzed it, Zhang Lie should have had his own pattern, or at least, not this current pattern.

The interrogating officer couldn't end it here, so he changed angles and continued to question Zhang Lie.

Liu Jinghui listened from the side until it ended, then returned to the office feeling listless.

"How was it?" Liu Wenkai brought a few people over to provide support every so often; if they could help solve a homicide case because of this, that would be too cool.

Liu Jinghui looked at Liu Wenkai for a few seconds, shook his head, and said, "He really was having an affair with the Big Sister-in-law..."

"Yeah!" Liu Wenkai clenched his fist, as if he had just scored a three-pointer.

Liu Jinghui sighed: "It has nothing to do with the homicide case. That boss of his is highly unlikely to be the murderer."

"Why? He didn't even take action? Is he even a man?" Liu Wenkai was unconvinced.

"Currently, the evidence doesn't support it." Liu Jinghui paused, then said seriously: "It doesn't look like it."

Interrogation can actually reveal a lot of things, especially question-and-answer interrogation.

This point can be tested when one's own boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating; often, through the other party's performance, one should be able to judge a lot of things.

Therefore, many police officers have many non-rational judgments regarding whether a criminal suspect has committed a crime.

Liu Jinghui himself was a deduction expert, and he had experienced more cases than he could count. To put it bluntly, he had seen more murderers than the Sea King had slept with partners. Most of the time, he could tell at a glance whether someone was capable of it or not.

Of course, from the stage of submitting for prosecution to appearing in court, evidence is needed, but during the investigation stage, especially for reasoners like Liu Jinghui, most of the time it is based on subjective conviction.

Liu Wenkai quickly realized this point, his expression became a bit more solemn, and he asked, "It really isn't his boss?"

Liu Jinghui changed angles and said, "This boss of the Binren Gang is definitely not clean underneath; we can continue to dig deeper, but for Zhang Lei's homicide case, we have to think of other routes..."

"Then let's look for pollen." Jiang Yuan stood over, holding a thick stack of printed paper, and said: "Oak, hazel, nettle, and plantain are all common wind-pollinated plants; just pay rough attention to them... I think the main energy can be placed on clover. I found quite a bit of clover pollen, plus a few other types of plants from the Poaceae family; I think we can prioritize parks."

"Zhang Lei, in a park?" Several scenes immediately appeared in Liu Jinghui's mind: "Could this kid have messed with another married woman? The boss didn't kill him, but another man took action?"

"Would a person like Zhang Lei go to a park to date? The efficiency is too low, right?" Liu Wenkai shook his head and said: "For a person like him, bars to hotels is normal; having a meal beforehand should count as being serious, and he wouldn't have the time anyway. I heard that every day, he can't even finish testing the 'clocks' for the new girls."

"Maybe it was true love?" Liu Jinghui was willing to believe in love, but his damn reasoning overturned it for him in an instant: "It's impossible to date without bringing a phone. Without GPS, you wouldn't be able to find anyone in a park."

Liu Wenkai chuckled: "It's more likely he was hacked to death in a park."

The few people looked at each other, all feeling that there was a lead.

The Luojin City Criminal Police Detachment mobilized two detachments of criminal police in one go and coordinated with multiple police stations.

It is a very difficult task to find a location within an entire city. Cities today are too big, especially the expanded suburbs; each area is bigger than the last. There might not be many bustling areas, but what decent person would commit murder in a bustling area?

Come to think of it, those vacant lots enclosed by walls are the places where plants grow in clusters, and they are also places extremely suitable for murder.

Fortunately, clover requires careful cultivation; the only places where it can be planted on a large scale are parks and a few other locations.

These things might be slightly difficult for police in other cities, but for the criminal police of Luojin City, it was completely within their grasp.

Ever since Captain Pang Jidong became Jiang Yuan's top disciple, the thing he has done the most is forensic botany. Moreover, he has consciously invited botanists from various places to perfect and create a plant distribution map of Luojin City.

At this moment, one only needed to follow the map to find large clover areas.

With the spore-pollen atlas provided by Jiang Yuan, Captain Pang Jidong didn't even need expert help; he locked onto a community park himself.

"It's at Song Xiang Park."

Captain Pang Jidong found the place, then pulled out the surveillance from the park's entrances and exits, and sure enough, he saw the footage of Zhang Lei entering. ===== CHAPTER 1108 =====