dark crossing

"Taomu" wiped his half-wet hair, and his eyes glanced at the surveillance camera on the side of the corridor facing the door.

"Help close the door."

Chen Cong paused for a few seconds, closed the door with his foot, and then followed Tao Mu who was on vacation, and strode into the room.

Taomu lives in a big suite.There is a reception room of about 40 square meters at the entrance.

After confirming that the door was closed, the young man who had just looked casual, immediately restrained his sloppiness and changed to a serious expression.

Chen Cong took out the ID, Taomu took it and glanced at the siren, handed it back to him together with a bottle of mineral water, and pointed to the soft sofa in the reception room: "Please sit down."

Chen Cong took the water and documents, put the briefcase containing the documents on the table, and couldn't help but secretly commented on "Peachwood"'s ability to manage expressions freely.

It took only a second for this person to go from sloppy to rigorous. He is more suitable to be an actor than Wendi, and indeed quite suitable to be an undercover agent.

"Director Sun and I talked on the phone. In the future, you will have to work hard to cooperate with local cases in Jianghu."

"Where, where, Director Sun has instructed us to 'full-force' cooperate with the captain." Chen Cong bit the word "full-force" in a very serious manner.

After a short exchange of pleasantries, he went straight to the point: "The leader attaches great importance to this special operations team. The participants are all top-notch elites from the city bureau. 'Captain' you have a special status, and it is inconvenient for you to return to the team for a meeting. Director Sun also told me. But I never thought that our 'Captain' would be so 'young and promising'! May I ask 'Captain', have you participated in the investigation of similar cases before?"

The deliberate emphasis on "captain" and the special emphasis on "young and promising" in this sentence sounds awkward no matter how they sound.

Just looking at his face, "Peachwood" must not have deep qualifications.Chen Cong, who had seen countless people, was very worried that the captain of the airborne team was inexperienced in handling vicious cases and would in turn drag them down.

Tao Mu didn't answer, his black and white eyes drooped slightly, his eyes fell on the briefcase he had just put down, and he asked softly, "Is this the case information?"

Chen Cong nodded.

Tao Mu stretched out his hand towards him: "Give me a copy of the information, and talk about the case directly." There was a thin smile in the eyes like lacquer.

The faint smile hidden in his eyes was the answer. ——This is a kind of arrogance born of absolute self-confidence, the arrogance of those who look down.

Chen Cong is also a little bit arrogant. He has been sympathetic since ancient times, and he appreciates this arrogance.So he spread out the information and introduced the case to "Taomu" in detail.

"Peachwood" listened very carefully. While listening, he carefully drew circles on the case files with the pencil he found in the desk drawer of the hotel.

Chen Cong looked at the young man in front of him holding a pen and frowning slightly.

For no reason, there was a feeling in my heart that "this person may be really a powerful character".

"The key physical evidence found in the pedestrian street includes: some body parts, a schoolbag, a note and three fingerprints. A 'zombie' was also found in the victim's home, right?"

Chen Cong nodded, and added: "In terms of fingerprints, apart from the one of Li Guangqiang, the other two have also been confirmed. They belong to the flash rider and Wang Jianan, who runs errands."

"Using errands and throwing corpses in the downtown area, the murderer should be a person with a fierce personality and strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. Li Guangqiang's fingerprints on the note were left on purpose by him."

"Yes, such obvious bloody handprints must have been intentional. The murderer was courageous but careful. The victim, Chen Feng, should have been attacked at home. We checked carefully and found that the windows of his house were sealed with tape It was broken only afterward. The technique is very professional. This is done to avoid the sound of the broken glass, which would alarm the victim. Moreover, the victim’s home was not the first scene of the killing and dismemberment. Although there were slight traces of fighting, they did not leave any traces. Bloodstains. But we still got a very obvious blood fingerprint on the window sill, which was consistent with the one on the corpse case note, and it belonged to Li Guangqiang. The note that said 'hell is empty, black police are in the world', It was measured with a ruler and written horizontally and vertically. This shows that the murderer knew how to evade handwriting identification and printer ink tracking. All the surveillance cameras around the victim’s house that could capture the murderer at that time were all broken. At the scene, The murderer did not leave any other valuable clues. This kind of meticulous veteran would not make the low-level mistake of "accidentally" leaving bloody handprints. Besides, Li Guangqiang died long ago. This fingerprint is the same as a note, more like It's a provocation."

Tao Mu didn't follow his words, but asked in a jump of thought: "Did you let go of that errand?"

Chen Cong was stunned, and said: "There is no evidence to prove that he is the murderer. After 12 hours of summons, he can only be released."

"Well, the possibility of him being the murderer is not high. Has the surveillance at the pick-up location been checked?"

Most of the case materials brought by Chen Cong are textual, and some contents have not had time to be supplemented and sorted out.What Taomu asked was exactly what was not mentioned in the materials.

Chen Cong replied patiently: "Yes, I checked. Although the monitoring of the shanty town is not clear, it can be seen that Wang Jianan did enter the community empty-handed. The security guard also testified that he was indeed on the phone the whole time he entered and exited the community. These details can be matched with his own statement. It is basically possible to rule out his suspicion of committing the crime. However, the surveillance in the shantytowns is too vague, and there are many dead spots. The client used the phone card of the deceased to call Wang Jianan. So now, it seems that the clues on the line of throwing the body are all broken..."

Chen Cong had been reading the case file last night. Although the line was broken, it was not that there was no new direction for investigation.Before he went out, he specifically asked to find out whether Li Guangqiang had any close relatives or friends before his death.

However, Chen Cong intended to test this young captain who had just arrived, so he did not reveal the existing investigation plan.

"Taomu" lowered his eyes, unable to see any emotion, and flipped through the thick stack of materials page after page.

Suddenly asked: "The police didn't release the news about the murderer's fingerprints, so how did the media know about it?"

This time, Chen Cong couldn't keep up with his jumping thinking, and he paused for a few seconds before answering: "It should be that some colleagues are not high-minded, and their tongues are not tight. In addition, the media is stalking. Oh, yes, there are a few people who are suspected." , I have already trained them alone. Although, I haven't found out who the big mouth is, but I will definitely find out about this matter. When I find out who it is, see if I don't kill him!"

Talking loudly is not a glorious thing, there is no direct evidence pointing to it, and even if they are interviewed one by one, it is unlikely that anyone will take the initiative to admit their mistakes.

Moreover, this matter itself has little to do with the progress of the case. Even if it is found out who is a bitch and broke the news to the media, it will not be of any practical benefit to the Criminal Investigation Detachment, which has a tight police force.On the contrary, the team members may be punished for leaking secrets and lose combat effectiveness.

Chen Cong has lost his temper several times.He didn't think that anyone in the team would dare to make the same mistake again.Therefore, it is not too late to settle the account after the case is solved after the case is investigated and dealt with.

Tao Mu let out a "hmm" and asked again: "Have you read all the popular case analysis posts on the Internet before?"

"I've seen it, it's all nonsense! The logic of the reasoning is irrational, and the motive for the murder is untenable! The case back then has long been closed. The murderer rushed to the street to kill people randomly because he had hallucinations from taking drugs. Besides, If Chu Zhentang really hired murderers to kill people, the police who handled the case were not stupid! How could they not find out!"

Taomu nodded.His reading speed was very fast, and he had already flipped through all the written materials related to the case while speaking.After being silent for a while, I cleared my mind before opening my mouth and said, "Although the line of investigating and dumping the corpse is not going to work, it's not that there are other directions."

It took Chen Cong a whole night to come up with some new ideas. Seeing that Taomu only pondered for a moment, he said that he had another direction, and his eyes lit up: "So, you have new ideas?"

"Well, there are roughly a few directions of investigation. First, where did those inexplicable analysis posts come from? Second, which media first released the news about fingerprints, and where did the news come from? Three, did Li Guangqiang have close relatives or friends before his death? Fourth..."

There was an elusive strangeness flashing across Taomu's face, but he concealed it very well.Even Chen Cong, who was sitting very close to him, didn't notice.

"We can start to investigate the social relationship of the victim, Chen Feng, to see if there is any intersection between the victim and Li Guangqiang. And where did the zombie-containing stamps found from the victim's home come from? This has nothing to do with the victim's death. Is there any connection? In addition, as far as the current clues are concerned, it is not clear what the murderer's motive is. Although there is a very provocative keyword like 'black police' left on the note at the corpse dumping site, it is hard to say , Could it be that the murderer is just taking advantage of the victim's occupation to divert the focus and cover up his real motive for killing?"

Just when Chen Cong was about to express his opinion on the idea of ​​"Peachwood", his cell phone rang suddenly.

The 48 hours after the incident is the prime time for the police to investigate and sort out the case.Chen Cong, as the main person in charge of the case investigation, has received countless calls from yesterday morning to today.

For a few minutes after answering the phone, he kept furrowing his brow.

It can be seen that there is a high probability that the news delivered by this phone call is not good news.

After talking with his subordinates on the phone, Chen Cong, who had concealed the progress of the investigation, grinned at Taomu falsely: "Last night, we conducted another case review based on the existing evidence. This case is similar to that of 15 years ago. There are overlaps in time, place, and occupation of the victim. In addition, the murderer left Li Guangqiang’s fingerprints when throwing the body. Therefore, it can be basically judged that the murderer is related to Li Guangqiang.”

A murderer who has been dead for 15 years has left a bloody fingerprint in a recent case.This kind of plot that only appears in thriller and suspense movies has unsurprisingly sparked heated discussions across the country.

Among the different opinions, there are also absurd hypotheses that the murderer is not dead or the ghost kills.

But as policemen, both Chen Cong and Taomu were convinced that Li Guangqiang had died 15 years ago.In the police data retrieval system, there is still a complete autopsy report from that year.

As for the conjecture that ghosts kill people, it is even more nonsense.

When they first learned that there were rumors of "violent ghosts killing people" on the Internet, the "feudal remnants" of the Criminal Investigation Detachment used to have fun in their pains.

Wendi, who is the best at adjusting the tension, took the lead and said with a smile: "Hey, if this is really ghost killing, what's the use of asking us? It's a waste of national police resources! Why don't you find a Feng Shui master as soon as possible!"

Pan Xiaozhu, who was on the side, raised his head from the complicated and complicated case materials, with an expression of "I don't read enough, don't lie to me", sneered and said: "Don't talk nonsense! Mr. Feng Shui is a fortune teller. You have to find a Taoist priest to catch ghosts." !"

But whether it is Mr. Feng Shui or the Taoist priest of Maoshan Mountain, they are just a joke while taking time out of their busy schedules.

Chen Cong and Tao Mu, who have been in and out of countless murder scenes, are staunch atheists.

After experiencing countless unjust deaths and hearing about thousands of motives for committing crimes, they knew better than anyone that ghosts would never kill.

In this world, the human heart is often more dangerous than ghosts.