Chapter 706: Locked On

Wang Chuanxing ran up the mountain, carried two boxes from the assembly point, and then stumbled down the mountain.

Then, two more police officers ran up, each holding an investigation box and heading down.

Tao Lu, who was discussing manpower allocation with the Bureau Chief, couldn't help but stop talking. Seeing people constantly coming up to take things, he simply stopped one and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Team Leader Jiang discovered an area below, suspected to be a rest area where the murderer stayed. He asked us to take investigation equipment down and scan as much evidence as possible." The one called was Shen Yaowei, who explained it very clearly in two or three sentences.

Tao Lu and Bureau Chief Chu, who were already discussing the issue of allocating manpower, looked at each other and hurriedly said, "Let's go together."

"Yes." Shen Yaowei responded, called another young man, asked him to take the investigation box he was carrying down first, and then took Bureau Chief Chu, Tao Lu, and others to walk down together.

The mountain road of more than 200 meters wasn't far, but in the hearts of Bureau Chief Chu and Tao Lu, it felt like they had walked for a long time.

Because what Shen Yaowei said was too clear, it also filled the two people's hearts with expectations.

At the same time, the two were afraid that their expectations were wrong. After all, how much time had passed? You said that the dismemberment case had a major breakthrough—this wasn't realistic either. It was also because of the same reason that the two didn't ask again, because it was easy to appear ignorant.

This was like a factory leader asking a worker, "I heard you moved 800,000 bricks alone today"? What kind of normal person could hear such words.

It was precisely because their city-dwelling depth was deep enough that the two didn't keep urging.

Under the big cedar tree.

More than a dozen police officers had already turned this place into a lively place.

There were people taking photos, filming, taking soil, climbing slopes to pick up trash, kneeling on the ground to take traces—all kinds of people.

Jiang Yuan was also half-kneeling in front of a stump, lowering his head to take evidence. Liu Jinghui climbed onto a tree branch, three or four meters high, looking into the distance. The only one who was a bit normal was Xu Taining, holding his phone and making calls non-stop.

"What's the situation now?" Bureau Chief Chu and Detachment Leader Tao didn't enter the isolation zone, shouting from afar.

"Wait a moment, right away." Jiang Yuan looked up once, still putting the things he clamped in the tweezers into the evidence bag, rolled it, and then stood up and came out. "Detachment Leader Tao, you've come down too."

Tao Lu asked, "Any discoveries?"

"Yes." Jiang Yuan briefly stated the discussion of the three people before, and then said, "The motorcycle traces left here can basically be identified as the same as the motorcycle traces at the corpse abandonment site. Furthermore, based on the depth of the mud eating, it can be judged that the murderer stopped to rest here after abandoning the corpse."

The corpse abandonment site was a barren slope composed of secondary forests and bushes. Under normal circumstances, there was no need to stop and stay. Therefore, the motorcycle traces found on the side of the slope were very likely left by the murderer.

The same means of transportation naturally connected the two plots of land.

Tao Lu couldn't help but nod, and a smile appeared on his face. "So, you found the murderer's traces here?"

"The murderer was clearly relaxed here. Dozens of cigarette butts have already been collected. I hope there will be the murderer's among them. In addition, in the grass under the slope, there are a series of trash such as cigarette boxes, toilet paper, plastic bags, mineral water bottles, etc., which will also be taken to the laboratory to see what clues can be obtained." Jiang Yuan said this, and looking at the face of the detachment leader's official position, he specifically explained, "Even if we can't determine the murderer for the time being, we have previously assumed that the murderer should live nearby and be familiar with this place. Therefore, finding these people who often come to the mountain might also provide some clues."

Tao Lu nodded. This was very obvious, and there was a not-so-small probability.

One of the simplest ways for police to do things: take statements from all these people—maybe a total of eight or ten, not exceeding twenty or thirty—let them list all the information of people they know, know of, who will come and might come to the mountain, cross-compare, and then find out people with motorcycles, or people who often drive motorcycles...

Because these were relationships between acquaintances and relatively acquaintances, making a few phone calls and going door-to-door once, it was estimated that these people could be screened.

Further considering that this case might be a crime of passion, or an accidental murder, or a miskilling—because of the packaging materials, the murderer and the victim were also very likely acquaintances—screening out a suspect pool was still relatively simple.

In addition, because there were motorcycle tire marks, locking onto the car owner basically meant locking onto the murderer.

Plus the possible missing person report information, this case could basically be said to have seen the dawn.

Tao Lu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then looked at Bureau Chief Chu, his smile uncontrollable. "In this case, the dismemberment case can be considered to have a clue."

"Indeed." Bureau Chief Chu didn't skimp on his smile. If this accidental dismemberment case was solved, it would have no impact on his status, but if it couldn't be solved, it would be a huge blow to his personal prestige and the overall budget.

The slogan "homicide cases must be solved"—analyzing it with the cost-output set was a pure loss, but the proposal of this slogan was a great protection for ordinary Chinese people under the Chinese society. It was a great restriction on the infinite expansion of the power of the upper levels. It was a merit.

Turning his head, Bureau Chief Chu looked at Jiang Yuan, smiling as if he wanted to feed him deer blood to nourish him. He first praised him in a routine way, then asked, "I saw you were investigating that stump just now. Is there anything on it?"

"Someone picked their nose and wiped it on it, and there's suspected phlegm," Jiang Yuan said lightly. "The snot and phlegm on the ground have basically been decomposed. The one on the stump can still retain a part."

"Mm... thank you for your hard work." Bureau Chief Chu was the number one person in the Zheng-Guang Bureau, and he hadn't been in contact with the grassroots for a while.

"I'll continue the investigation. We need to finish this quickly; it'll be dark soon." Jiang Yuan looked at Bureau Chief Chu and Detachment Leader Tao.

"Go ahead and get busy. Don't work too hard." Bureau Chief Chu hurriedly said this, then looked at Jiang Yuan, who knelt on the stump again without hesitation, and couldn't help but feel touched.

Jiang Yuan's movements were far from elegant. Even in the wild, this place where people often rested would only appear dirty.

But Jiang Yuan just knelt there like that; despite being strong enough to make the police officers of the Zheng Guang Bureau look up to him, he still unhesitatingly cleaned up the nasal mucus and phlegm that had accumulated at some unknown time...

"We must assign some people to this child and give him a promotion or something." Bureau Chief Chu couldn't help but mutter.

Tao Lu was stunned and hurriedly said, "Jiang Yuan's establishment is in Ningtai County."

"Then are you willing to let him go back to Ningtai County? Besides, Huang Qiangmin is asking for too much; we can't just let him slaughter us like this." When Bureau Chief Chu spoke of Huang Qiangmin, his back teeth were biting.

He didn't say this before because he felt that secondment had the benefits of secondment. Like other police bureaus at all levels, the Zheng-Guang Bureau had been using borrowed people all year round and had experience in this regard. The best thing about borrowed people was the first few years. Whether they were willing or not, newcomers, in order to prove themselves, or to integrate into the team, or for the slim chance of staying, or even because of boredom, would work hard in the early stages.

But after a long time, people's laziness would come up, and only a few people could break through this emotion. Therefore, borrowed people were like other people's wives—just use them hard; don't think about long-term.

But this time, Bureau Chief Chu felt an unprecedented palpitation.

Bureau Chief Chu instinctively felt that he couldn't lose Jiang Yuan anymore, and the Zheng-Guang Bureau couldn't do without Jiang Yuan!

Tao Lu also felt that renting was not as good as buying. He frowned and said, "Then I'll think of a way and chat with Jiang Yuan later. Mainly, he is from Ningtai, and his family is rich..."

Tao Lu said some difficulties, then chatted about other things for a while, and saw Xu Taining receive a call and walk over.

"Got it. The cigarette butts sent down the mountain earlier were done with rapid DNA, and one person was matched in the database." Xu Taining reported, "Pei Yongsi, lives in the New Rural Village 3 kilometers away, a local, has been administratively detained twice. His wife has been missing for two months, reported missing two days later, and no one was found..."

"Pei Yongsi has experience as a chef. The two opened a flower shop in the city. Contacting the shop assistant, we learned that Pei Yongsi is usually responsible for packaging flower boxes and delivering them to the door..."

"Pei Yongsi has a car and a motorcycle under his name."

Xu Taining described them one by one, all consistent with the previous judgment.

Now, everyone was excited, and Xu Taining silently took a step back. He had already begun to consider the issue of expanding the dragnet next. ===== CHAPTER 707 =====