shadow of crime

March 1, 17 am.

Lead clouds covered the sky, and it rained heavily.

The gate of the Public Security Bureau of Ning'an City was crowded with reporters. The heavy rain failed to extinguish the flames of the long, short, and long guns, and instead stretched straight to the mouth of the head of the criminal police team.

"Is it true that the intern police officers of the Municipal Bureau broke into and murdered people? Why did the murders happen while the suspect was in custody? The bureau is sure they didn't arrest the wrong person?"

"Five burglary and homicide cases have occurred since the beginning of winter, and the New Year is just around the corner. Does this bureau have any countermeasures for public security?"

"Do you really have a complete chain of evidence to prove that the person was killed by an intern from this bureau? If not, why didn't you hand over the case to the provincial bureau?"

……

The cannonball questioning was interrupted by a black off-road vehicle that broke through the rain, and stopped suddenly at the gate of the Municipal Bureau with an arrogant tail flick. Heat until freezing.

Lin An was still holding an umbrella, looked up and saw that the person had already entered the scene, and hurriedly chased after him: "Brother Jiang, wait for me!"

Jiang Bei kept walking, his facial features were so cold that they seemed to be chiseled out of ice, and the air conditioner failed to melt them.The subordinates who passed by did not dare to say hello, and stuck to the base of the wall to watch the deputy head of the criminal police team turn the corner.

"Where's the intern?" Jiang Bei patted the rain on the windbreaker, "I want to ask him personally."

According to the forensic analysis of the most recent murder case, the victim was murdered around three o'clock this morning, and the modus operandi was the same as the previous four cases.The person died in the living room, blood smeared all over the floor.The murderer was a lunatic, and he left the door wide open. The neighbor next door saw it when he was out walking his dog in the morning, and hurriedly called the police.

However, the intern who was identified as a suspect stayed at the bureau last night.

Lin An was called to the scene by his superiors before dawn. He was sleepy at first, but he was shocked by his brother's powerful aura, and hurriedly said: "The intern is in the interrogation room, I had someone bring him there a long time ago. But Brother Jiang, we currently only have surveillance video and witness evidence to prove that the intern went to the crime scene on the night of the crime, and the rest... including the motive of the crime, fingerprint comparison, etc., are indeed not enough to form a complete chain of evidence. besides……"

Bang!

Jiang Bei flashed into the interrogation room and closed the door. Lin An got a bad nose, closed his mouth angrily, and went back to the office with a wet umbrella.

-

"Cheng Ye, 23 years old, male, stayed in the Sun Welfare Institute before the age of 6, and was later adopted. He graduated from Ning'an Public Security University and entered the Municipal Bureau as an intern ten days ago."

Jiang Bei sat on a chair with his long legs raised.He was in a hurry to go out this morning, so he only put on a thin windbreaker. As he moved, the material outlined his lean muscles.After all, it is a policeman who has been working for ten years. Even though his hair is still disheveled, the eyes hidden under the black hair are still extremely aggressive.

"So?" Cheng Ye's gaze shifted from the handcuffs to Jiang Bei's face without any fear.

The lights in the interrogation room were not too bright, hanging over the heads of the two men.Cheng Ye moved his body, and the shadow crawled out from under the table, easily covering Jiang Bei.

"Can what you said prove anything?" He smiled, and the fox's eyes were full of slyness, "Sir, according to the regulations, you can't detain me for more than seven days, otherwise it is illegal detention. Today is the last day. I am willing to spend time with you, after today, I will still be your intern."

On the first day he joined the city bureau, he was assigned to the Jiang Bei team, Jiang Bei was his superior, but this relationship hadn't lasted for two days before he became a "suspect".

He is looking forward to working with Jiang Bei. This officer looks cold, but the second-year middle school youth is full of endless fire. He is a little hot and needs to cool down.

"Can you lower the temperature of the air conditioner?" He looked around, gave a soft "ah", and said in frustration, "There is no air conditioner here."

"The Municipal Bureau is not your home," Jiang Bei said indifferently, "I'm telling you this to tell you that the victims, like you, all came out of the Sun Welfare Institute."

"Oh." Cheng Ye tugged at the handcuffs, "Then the officer had better arrest all the people in the orphanage, they are also suspected of committing crimes."

Jiang Bei leaned forward, like a lion ready to attack, and broke the shadow covering his body: "Because of your personality, you were often bullied in the orphanage."

"That happened when I was a child," Cheng Ye wrinkled his nose, showing a disgusted expression, "Sir, you won't think that my childhood shadow is too big, so you will start retaliatory killings, that's what crazy people do. My mother... my adoptive mother treated me Very good, I have been trained as a policeman, my childhood was not too bad. If you hadn't tied me here, maybe I would have helped you catch the real suspect."

In the past few days, Cheng Ye has always been in this cynical attitude when questioning, he does not absolutely deny or affirm, but only speaks a bunch of useless nonsense in his unique upward tone.

Jiang Bei changed his posture, leaning his broad back against the back of the chair, and the light hit his tall nose, casting a sharp shadow.He said: "The surveillance camera at the fourth victim's home captured the whole process of your crime."

The murderer's modus operandi was cruel. He liked to put a plastic bag on the victim's head, cut the jugular vein with a knife, and sat silently watching to see whether the victim died of suffocation or excessive blood loss.Then lay the body flat on the sofa, and put his hands in a prayer position.

He never cleaned up the scene, or even closed the door, as if waiting for someone to discover his "masterpiece".

Cheng Ye had seen the surveillance video. In fact, the lights in the room were turned off, so he couldn't see clearly. Only when the murderer opened the door and left, the light leaking in from the corridor lit up for a moment.And the reason why Jiang Bei thinks he is the suspect is because the clothes of that person are the same as his.

Of course, there's that damn witness.

Jiang Bei said coldly: "On the night of January 1, I saw you in the unit building of the community where the crime occurred."

Cheng Ye asked back: "Are you following me?"

The temperature in the airtight interrogation room was getting higher and higher, and the lingering heat became sticky. Cheng Ye was sweating, it was hot.He lazily leaned on the table, deliberately pulling the handcuffs to make them jingle.

"I told you, my friend lives in that neighborhood. We were drinking that night. During that time, I went downstairs to buy wine. You probably met me at that time."

"But your friend said that you didn't go back after you went downstairs."

"Ah," Cheng Ye raised his eyelids and looked at Jiang Bei, "I'm drunk. To be honest, I don't even remember whether I've met you. What do you want a drunk to tell you?"

Jiang Bei stood up abruptly and picked up Cheng Ye, who slid down as if he had no bones.Jiang Bei strenuously across the table, the veins on the back of his hand popped up, he rubbed his back teeth and said, "I saw you the other day, and you were still stained with the victim's blood, do you need to show you the test results?"

Cheng Ye blew into the big hand holding his collar, then looked up at Jiang Bei's jawline, and said slowly, "But my clothes are clean."

He wanted to open his arms and show off his clean white down jacket in all directions, but the handcuffs restricted his movements.

"Do you need to check it? Inside and out."

The other party's eyes with unknown meanings were like ants crawling all over his body, and there was an unbearable feeling of biting. Jiang Bei didn't want to do it himself, so he called Lin An.

Lin An was still eating buns in the office.

There was no housekeeper in the bureau, and the water dispenser didn't know how to call when it was out of water. Lin An choked half his life on the steamed stuffed bun, and was beating his chest to call for water.

"The water is coming, the water is coming."

Everyone wants to make a cup of hot tea in winter, and now they are rushing to fetch water.Lin An was angry, and shouted: "When there is no water, everyone doesn't know how to call. They are reluctant to pay the [-] cents for the phone call, aren't they? Next time you ask me for reimbursement, go away, and I will pick it up first."

Before the cup reached the water outlet, the person who delivered the water said: "Two buckets of water, 32 yuan, water ticket or cash?"

"Cash." Lin An touched his trouser pocket. He was in a hurry in the morning and forgot to bring his wallet. It happened that our assistant came online in time. "Old Wang, lend me 32 yuan."

Wang Zhipeng, the head of the trace inspection department, took a stack of documents and slapped Lin An on the head: "Old Wang is also what you, a brat, can call you? How did your boss teach you? The trace inspection results of the fifth victim came out." Alright, call your boss here, it depends on today whether the intern can get out alive. Why do you say your boss is always staring at the intern?"

"I don't know, a man has a needle in his heart, don't guess."

"So there's a reason why your eldest brother hasn't married in his thirties, he's a stickler."

-

"The fifth victim, Li Zhenzhen, female, 21 years old, lives in Xingyuan Community," Wang Zhipeng sat on the sofa in the office, glancing at Jiang Bei from time to time.This person is relying on an iceberg expression that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and has repeatedly fought and failed in the blind date field.

"The victim was killed at around 1 a.m. on January 17. The cause of death was suffocation. In addition, the jugular vein was cut. The method was the same as in the previous four cases. It is inferred that it was done by the same person."

"Speak the key."

Wang Zhipeng choked for a moment, and silently greeted Jiang Bei one hundred and eight times in his heart. "As far as the previous four cases are concerned, the murderer is skillful and never leaves any traces, but Li Zhenzhen..." He paused, and then said, "The murderer cleaned her up."

"Through the unremitting efforts of our trace inspection department and the forensic doctor, a high concentration of ethanol was found on the victim's body, mainly concentrated in the lips, genitals, and hands. The nails were carefully cleaned. There was also ethanol on the surface of the skin. Preliminary Judgment was sprayed on."

Jiang Bei fell silent.

Lin An gasped: "So the murderer stripped Li Zhenzhen naked for disinfection, and then put the clothes on for others after the work was done, and placed them neatly on the sofa. Is this what people do?"

"A needle in the heart of a man, don't guess." Wang Zhipeng returned the words to Lin An, and then said, "The cleanup is to erase DNA. We also detected ethanol in the victim's mouth and stomach. That little bastard put Li Zhenzhen was given alcohol, tsk, what a crime! But as far as the cleaning is concerned, everyone knows what the victim did before he died..."

According to the video teaching of Japanese actresses, Lin An immediately understood.

There will be a kiss before the unspeakable movement begins, the victim's lips will be stained with the murderer's saliva, and there is no need to explain another unspeakable part.As for the nails, it is likely that the victim scratched the murderer while exercising, or resisted fiercely when he was killed and dug the murderer's claws.

Jiang Bei's eyes were heavy, staring at the photos of the crime scene, the strong colors were challenging his nerves.This was the fifth homicide, and the five doors seemed to be saying to him:

——Come play the game, come and catch me, don't give up, you will catch me soon.

He took a deep breath and asked, "What about the semen, have you detected the semen?"

"No," Wang Zhipeng took a sip of tea, "I guess he killed the person before he went in. Except for ethanol, Li Zhenzhen didn't find any other foreign matter left."

"That's not right," Lin An rubbed his chin. "It wasn't the same person who did it. The first four were all done neatly. Why did Li Zhenzhen have to clean it up? Could it be her boyfriend did it?"

Wang Zhipeng shrugged: "I'm not a detective. If I knew, what would I need you for?"

"It's not a boyfriend." Jiang Bei stood up and pasted the photos on the glass wall. "Most of the murders are committed by acquaintances. Of course, there are exceptions."

"The first four victims all live in an old community. This kind of community lacks management, and takeaways and express delivery can come in and out at will. Only Xingyuan Community is a high-end community, and there is a special reception point at the door. Outsiders need to come to the owner to pick them up. Li Zhenzhen is very likely. Volunteering to bring the murderer home."

Jiang Bei thought of Cheng Ye's face. He had been working for many years, and he was extremely sensitive to everything. He had to admit that Cheng Ye was indeed very beautiful. He hid all the attractive things in those fox eyes. A young girl like Li Zhenzhen I will like Cheng Ye's pretty face.

"Old Wang, did you just say nails? Have Li Zhenzhen's nails been cleaned?"

Wang Zhipeng finally knew from whom Lin An liked to call him Old Wang, and threw down his teacup in dissatisfaction: "You didn't listen carefully to what I just said about feelings? I'm talking for nothing, Old Jiang, you can't do this!"

Jiang Bei ignored him, grabbed the trace inspection report in a hurry, and said, "Lin An, follow me to the interrogation room, I want to investigate the intern."

"Why is he an intern again?" Wang Zhipeng felt that this person was hopeless, "He stayed in the police station last night, where did he have the time to commit the crime? If you don't let him go, be careful that he will sue you for illegal detention!"

However, Jiang Bei had already gone out, leaving only a handsome back.

Wang Zhipeng had no choice but to arrest Lin An: "Does your boss have any trouble with that intern? Why do you keep catching him? Don't you trust the skills of the director of the trace inspection department?"

"No, no," Lin An wanted to cry, "The boss said that he saw the intern in the community where the fourth victim was murdered. Didn't the victim have a dog at home? It was slaughtered, it is estimated that the boss suspected that the dog caught the murderer when he committed the crime, and the dog was slaughtered because of the epithelial tissue in the claws."

"Oh, let's not talk about it, I'm going to save the interns, or I'll die running errands for the boss alone."