traces of all things

Time was limited, even if the two of them were a little emotional in the early morning, they could only taste it at this moment, got up as appointed, cleaned up and washed, and hurried to the city bureau to handle the case.

Compared to Lu Zheng, Tang Shaoyuan looked a little more satisfied. After the kiss, he sat up, his whole face glowing, as if he had eaten some elixir, and he even hummed a song.

"Why are you so happy?" Lu Zheng laughed, and dug out the clothes from the closet.

Just as he was about to take off his pajamas, he suddenly noticed Tang Shaoyuan beside the bed, and his movements froze.

A sense of shyness that I had never felt before surfaced in my heart.

Ah, really, I obviously changed clothes in front of Shao Yuan before!

It may be that the relationship has changed, and Lu Zheng feels that something is wrong with him.

Tang Shaoyuan saw that he was clutching the clothes in his hands, but he didn't change them, and his face was flushed with happiness for a moment.

However, he was very persistent and did not move.

Just kidding, it's all turned positive now!I can just peek at it!

Not only that, but he also bravely took off the short sleeves of his pajamas by himself!

Lu Zheng: ...I was a little caught off guard by the rapid development.

Although Tang Shaoyuan said that compared with him, he seemed a bit lacking in sportsmanship, but he was still a criminal policeman, and he also liked to be beautiful, and he went to the gym when he was free, and his figure looked good.

Lu Zheng glanced at him and wanted to move away embarrassedly, but suddenly noticed something on his body.

"Shao Yuan, this is..." Lu Zheng looked at his chest in surprise. It turned out that Tang Shaoyuan had an ornament hanging around his neck since when, and he kept it in his clothes on weekdays, but he didn't notice it. Pass.

The decoration is a round metal sheet with a hole punched on the top and a red string hanging from it, it looks familiar no matter how you look at it.

Lu Zheng frowned and thought about it for a while, and then suddenly realized - wasn't this the locator that Captain Cha Qing sent to them when they were in Yuanbao City, when they reached Qiushan?

Later, he was eliminated because he couldn't communicate backwards. Captain Cha Qing even gave this thing to Lu Zheng as a souvenir. After all, Lu Zheng used this thing to get to the lair of Brother Yan and his criminal gang...

Later, it seemed that he gave it to Tang Shaoyuan casually by himself.

Why did he hang this thing up?

Just as he was thinking, Lu Zheng had already asked his doubts.

Tang Shaoyuan looked down at the metal plate on his chest, blushed, and touched it cherishingly.

"Brother told me at the time that if you give it to me, it will be a testimony of our shared adversity." His expression was a little dreamy: "This is the first gift that senior brother gave me on his own initiative, and I have always kept it close to me. "

Lu Zheng: ...Suddenly feel so sorry for him.

Hey, this child is so easy to satisfy.

Save more money in the future and buy him something nice as a gift.

**

After tidying up, the two hurried out of Lu Zheng's apartment, and bumped into the staff of the community property.

The man waved his hand excitedly when he saw Lu Zheng: "Officer Lu, we have received your suggestion and will pay attention to those small advertisements."

Lu Zheng nodded to thank him, turned around and explained to Tang Shaoyuan: "I don't know if the person who sent the news will show up again, I told the property owner to ask them to pay attention. After all, the corridor is a public space. You can’t install surveillance without authorization.”

Tang Shaoyuan nodded knowingly, seeing that Lu Zheng reported everything to him in every detail, he couldn't help but feel happy.

Is this what it feels like to be a regular?

Even lighting up the car is a bit more vigorous than yesterday!

When they drove all the way to the city bureau, Xue Yiwei and Wei Xiongfeng were staring at each other with distressed faces, not knowing what they were thinking.

Seeing Lu Zheng and Tang Shaoyuan arriving side by side, Xue Yiwei's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Leader Lu, Medical Doctor Tang, the case has made great progress today."

"How do you say it?" Lu Zheng asked as he dragged a chair.

"First of all, we received news this morning that a travel bag containing body parts was found in the Shanghe River. After the bag was opened, there were two arms inside. After inspection, the two arms belonged to the same person. DNA testing proved that the two arms belonged to the same person. The arm was cut from the first male body - and we found the head of the second body, which was found in a dumpster along the Shang River, and after the cleaners saw the strange bag, they thought After reading what was reported in the media, I opened my eyes and looked at it carefully, and then called the police.”

Speaking of this, Xue Yiwei seemed to have a rare smile: "These reporters have done a good job."

"Is the face of the deceased still clear?" Lu Zheng asked with concern.

"It has begun to rot." Xue Yiwei was a little regretful when he said this: "But I heard that Tang Forensic Doctor can do skull restoration. If there is a simulated portrait, it should be of great help to the investigation of the source of the corpse."

Now that there are new body parts, the forensic doctor will be the first to play.Wei Xiongfeng and Xue Yiwei were assigned to investigate the video near the trash can where the corpse was thrown, while Lu Zheng followed Tang Shaoyuan to the dissection room.

A black travel bag stood alone in the middle of the dissecting room, with a small silver-gray body bag beside it.

There was a strange smell in the air.

As soon as Lu Zheng frowned, Tang Shaoyuan took off a new mask and put it on for him with his face in his hands: "This is a new model, and the function of blocking odor is better."

Lu Zheng adjusted the mask on his face, and was surprised to find that it didn't stink at all, so he couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

After helping him put on the whole outfit, Tang Shaoyuan took care of himself quickly and opened the body bag.

There were only two arms in the bag, which looked empty. The two arms were already white and swollen due to being soaked in water for a long time, and the wounds had already begun to rot. The arms were strange, with many black lumps scars.

Tang Shaoyuan first checked carefully whether there were steel nails and other foreign objects that could identify the identity left in the corpse, and then his eyes rested on the hands of the corpse.

"Brother, look." Tang Shaoyuan frowned, and opened the palm of the corpse with his hand.

Lu Zheng leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help being surprised.

On the palm of the corpse, there were strange scars on the pads of ten fingers, which looked as if they had been burned by something.

As a trace inspector, Lu Zheng keenly thought of a possibility: "This is to burn fingerprints? Is the murderer afraid of revealing the identity of the deceased?"

The scars on the ten fingers did not look like they were caused by accidents. Each scar covered the entire belly of the finger without leaving any trace, which seemed to be a deliberate effect.

Tang Shaoyuan checked carefully, shook his head and said: "Probably not, these scars are old scars, it seems that they are at least ten years old, and they should be put on by the deceased himself before he was alive."

Who would remove all their fingerprints before they were alive?Lu Zheng was a little puzzled for a moment.If it is a swimmer or some type of work in a factory that is exposed to corrosive products, there is indeed a possibility that the fingerprints will be rubbed off during years of exercise and work, but the damage of the deceased is obviously man-made, and it should be related to work or exercise It doesn't matter.

"Then what about the scars on this side? Are they also caused by the victim himself?" Lu Zheng asked, pointing to the black scar on one of the arms of the corpse.These marks are distributed on one forearm, and they look like black spots, but if you look closely, you can see the burn marks clearly.

These scars are not very regular, the distribution is relatively loose, and the size is also inconsistent.

Tang Shaoyuan bent down and pondered for a while, then stood up with a puzzled face: "It's strange, there is no reflection of life on these scars. It should be caused by the murderer after death."

"To vent your anger?" Tang Shaoyuan put forward a possible hypothesis.

Lu Zheng nodded: "There is such a possibility."

With only two arms, the autopsy was carried out a little faster than the usual routine autopsy, and it was almost all over just after lunch.After finishing the two arms, Tang Shaoyuan made persistent efforts to put them on the head of another corpse, and Lu Zheng also returned to the physical evidence examination room with the travel bag containing the arms.

This bag looked no different from the previous two travel bags. Similarly, Lu Zheng did not find any biological information or fingerprints on the zipper and the surface of the bag. Even if there were, they probably disappeared in the river water immersion.

Sighing, Lu Zheng opened the zipper with some regret.

The inside of the bag was empty, there was nothing there, only the smell of dead bodies still lingered in the nose.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have asked Shao Yuan to bring that mask back." Lu Zheng shook his head regretfully, holding his breath and continuing to search.The hard work paid off, and this time the carpet search actually allowed him to find something.

In the gap of the zipper, there is a wet, soaked and already soft shredded paper ball.

Lu Zheng's heart beat rapidly in an instant.

The ball of paper is very small and looks very thin. Under the immersion in the river water, it has become a small fiber ball that cannot be seen. After finishing the skull restoration, he printed the portrait of the simulated figure on the corpse notice and resent it. He just removed the thing that was entangled on the zipper teeth.

"Don't wait for me, it will take me a long time to get it done here." Seeing Tang Shaoyuan dozing off in the evidence room with a folder in his arms, Lu Zheng said distressedly.

Skull recovery and autopsy were tiring work, and Tang Shaoyuan looked exhausted after a day of stressful work.

Hearing his voice, Tang Shaoyuan woke up suddenly, a little embarrassed: "Fortunately, I'm not very sleepy, wait for you for a while, I'll take you back."

Hearing that he was being brave again, Lu Zheng pretended to be angry and raised his face: "Are you disobedient?"

Tang Shaoyuan didn't know what he had imagined, so he blushed immediately.

Under Lu Zheng's repeated emphasis, Tang Shaoyuan finally made a concession, but before he left, he still refused to let him go. He looked away shyly for a while, then turned around and said, "Senior brother, can you kiss me?" I will."

As he said that, he blushed and added a threat that had no deterrent effect: "If you don't kiss, I won't obey you."

Lu Zheng: ...

You are awesome.

**

The betrayal of color sent Tang Shaoyuan away, and Lu Zheng continued to sit in the laboratory and work overtime. Finally, the ball of paper was flattened under his tweezers. It seemed that there were some writings on it, and the damage was serious. You can't see anything until you do it.

But it looks...a bit like a newspaper.

Thinking of this, Lu Zheng couldn't help being a little excited—the newspaper can explain a lot, such as the location of the murderer, the time of throwing the body, and so on.It's a pity that the paper is too fragile to use drying equipment, and it's too late to dry it naturally.

He raised his hand and looked at the watch on his hand. It was almost nine o'clock, so he decided to put this piece of paper in the laboratory to dry naturally, and talk about it tomorrow.

**

When I got home and finished packing, it was almost time for bed.Lu Zheng raised his phone, wondering whether he should call Tang Shaoyuan or not.

At this moment, a heart-piercing cry suddenly came from the small TV in the living room.

Lu Zheng was taken aback, and looked back. At this time, a Hong Kong underworld movie was randomly playing on TV. The protagonist in the movie was about to join a certain criminal gang. sulfuric acid in a small dish.

The protagonist's face was full of tears, and when he raised his hand, his ten fingers were all black.

Seeing this scene, Lu Zheng felt an inspiration flash through his mind for an instant.

The black burn marks on the fingertips of both hands of the first corpse are said to have been caused in the early years. Does this mean that the deceased may be involved in illegal and criminal activities?

After all, who on earth would go through such a painful method of covering fingerprints?

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. At this moment, Lu Zheng suddenly thought of many details deep in his memory.

Back then in Yuanbao, Brother Yan had tattoos in the shape of a group of swallows on his arm—thinking about it this way, the distribution and shape of the burn marks on the arm of the corpse were very similar!

Could it be that the first corpse belonged to Brother Yan?It can't be such a coincidence, can it?

Thinking of Brother Yan, Lu Zheng instantly recalled Yu Haiyan who took the blame for him at that time. The weird behavior when he saw himself in the interrogation room for the first time, he just thought he was a drug addict. Thinking about it, it seems a bit like admitting the wrong person!

Who does he look like?From Haiyan's tone, it seemed that he was quite familiar with him.

People who knew Haiyan... At that time, the three main characters of the criminal gang were the old lady Pao Haiyan, the little boy, and Brother Yan. If the dead body was Brother Yan, Haiyan had committed suicide...

Where did that little boy go?

Thinking of this, Lu Zheng suddenly felt a stream of cold sweat rolling down his cheeks.

The words of Jia Kaijie, a primary school student involved in the murder of Teacher Jiang Yixiang in Xiaocangshan, sounded in his ears: "He is wearing a hat... I think he looks a bit like this uncle policeman..."

Wearing a hat, yes, he noticed that the little white face was wearing a fisherman's hat when he was in Yuanbao, and in the description of Jia Kaijie and other students, the suspect who dumped the body on the mountain also wore a fisherman's hat!

So, the one who killed these two men turned out to be the "little boy" who had met before?

Lu Zheng felt that his brain couldn't stop at all. After pacing the living room for a while trying to calm down, he suddenly thought of a piece of information that might be useful.

That day, after he buried his biological parents, he received a call from Qin Han, saying that he saw a person who looked a bit like him, and turned away after seeing him, very suspicious...

Could it be that what Qin Han accidentally saw was that little boy?

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, Lu Zheng quickly picked up his cell phone and dialed Qin Han's cell phone number.

After a few beeps, Qin Han answered the phone.

"Hello? Qin Han? Are you free now? I have something to ask you..."

Suddenly there was a deafening booing from the other side of the phone.

"Hello?" Lu Zheng asked a few more questions with a puzzled face.

Qin Han didn't respond to him, the phone seemed very noisy, it sounded like he was in some kind of entertainment venue, the music was very loud through the airwaves.

Lu Zheng yelled twice more, but still no one answered him, so he put down his phone.

"Maybe they were playing outside?" He said to himself, guessing that Qin Han probably accidentally touched the answer button, and felt Qin Han's vigorous energy: "Forget it, let's call tomorrow."