shadow of crime

At dawn, the city bureau became lively, and all posts were filled one after another.The big guys were either happy, sleepy, or wiped their eye poo and said good morning to each other.I don't know who started it, but when I passed by the deputy team's station, I saw Jiang Bei working, so I put a steamed stuffed bun, and it's been endless since then.

A bowl of porridge was handed in front of him, Jiang Bei raised his eyes and met Lao Wang's indescribable eyes.

Wang Zhipeng said: "What are you looking at? The big guy cares about the lonely middle-aged people, so I can't care anymore? This is the preserved egg and lean meat porridge cooked by my daughter-in-law. It smells delicious. Look how thin you have become. I didn't see you looking for a wife after keeping it so well. Are you drinking or not?"

The scent was so strong that Jiang Bei surrendered: "No spoon."

"What kind of spoon does a big man need to drink porridge!" Having said that, Wang Zhipeng went to the utility room to wash a spoon and washed it, and complained, "I never thought that I would make do with you when I was old, Lin An, Why didn't you come?"

Jiang Bei drank porridge: "I have something to do."

Wang Zhipeng sat on the table and looked around: "That intern of yours didn't come either, so you wouldn't fire him, would you?"

Jiang Bei followed the trend and saw that there was indeed no one at Cheng Ye's desk: "You're late."

"That's it," Wang Zhipeng pursed his lips, "That's right, with a leader like you, who beat you up and imprisoned him, I would have given up a long time ago, and I have persisted for a few days..."

Jiang Bei didn't have time to listen to his nonsense, so he grabbed his phone and went to the window to answer Lin An's call.

"Brother Jiang!" Lin An was howling, "I'm going blind! Let me tell you, I checked all the surveillance cameras and found no suspicious person, but..."

Jiang Bei raised his eyebrows.

Lin An seemed to be eating breakfast, and said after a while: "But there is something suspicious. During the period from 12:31 am to 10:11 am on December [-], the money transport van came and stayed for about half an hour. You know The road in front of the bank is a one-way street, so it’s not easy to park. The banknote truck drove directly to the door, blocking the surveillance. I suspect that kid slipped into the park at this time. I’ve already sent you the surveillance video. I can’t do it. Well, you always try to find a technical detective. I'm taking Wu Zichuan to the church now, and I'll contact you if I have anything to do."

"Wait a moment."

Lin An asked: "What's wrong?"

"I sent you an address, you go there."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Bei clicked on the video, and saw a black cash van parked in front of the bank. The surveillance camera that could have captured the road was blocked by the vehicle, and there were two tall men with guns standing beside them.

The festival is approaching, and on the eve of New Year's Day, in addition to purchasing new year's goods, every household has to prepare red envelopes for the elders and younger generations. It is normal that the bank does not have enough cash.The murderer was thoughtful, so he took this into account. After all, most people don't know or care how long the surveillance videos in different places are kept.

Jiang Bei took three steps at a time and walked quickly to the technical investigation department.In middle age, director Li, who will always be an eighteen-year-old boy, has not yet had time to compete with the famous commander in this game... The bachelor said hello, and Jiang Bei said: "Old Li, help me deal with it." Surveillance video."

As soon as Lao Li heard that he was ready for a job, the vice squad of the criminal police team asked him for help, and he had to go into battle himself if he said anything: "No problem! Brother will give you the whole set."

Everyone knows that Brother Li keeps his word, and he will never be in vain when he talks about a complete set. I saw him sitting in front of the computer, operating like a tiger, and he didn't forget to ask the "customer" opinion: "Is this clarity okay? "

The banknote transport vehicle was tall, and Jiang Bei knew that it was impossible to see the passers-by clearly through the double-layered windows. His focus was on the chassis of the vehicle.Footsteps can be seen under the chassis that is higher than ordinary cars. Except for those walking in the opposite direction and those wearing women's shoes, the rest are all targets.

"Can you be more clear?"

"Captain Jiang, you're testing me," Lao Li rolled up his sleeves and cheered. "Just wait, I'll try sharpening."

At this time, the phone in Jiang Bei's pocket vibrated, it was a message from Wang Zhipeng.

[The interns in your group haven't come to work yet. 】

Jiang Bei didn't want to go back, and then the news came again.

【He resigned?Impossible, you asked me something yesterday, don't you care about it as a leader?Didn't he say that he fully meets the murderer's selection requirements? 】

Jiang Bei's indifferent face has always shown an expression of impatience recently.After closing the dialog box, he sent a text message to Cheng Ye, just two words - go to work.

Lao Li drank the whole cup of tea, exhausted all his life skills, and processed the surveillance video to the best: "I have tried my best, do you think it will work? If not, I can only zoom in."

The clarity of surveillance video is mainly affected by the resolution of the camera. It is already very good to be able to resolve it to this level, but it is still not clear.

Jiang Bei said: "You can just zoom in on your moves."

"No problem!" Lao Li flexed his muscles and bones, snapped his knuckles, straightened his chair, and began to zoom in on the move—screenshots.

"..." Jiang Bei took a deep breath, "Is this okay?"

"Otherwise, is it possible that you want to analyze it to the same clarity as a small movie? That's impossible, and only I can analyze your blinding video to this level," Lao Li said with nimble fingers. The processed video does not take a screenshot of one frame. "The screenshot is very good. It can be zoomed in and zoomed out, and the contrast and brightness can also be adjusted. Sometimes the most stupid method may be the most effective."

He demonstrated the zoom in and out to Jiang Bei, and Jiang Bei gave him a helpless look of "That's it".

-

East Third Ring Church.

White doves flew low under the cloudy sky, and the cross on the top of the church soared into the clouds, piercing the lead curtain like a sharp sword.The sculpted faces on the square are benevolent, peacefully spreading their hands, forgiving all sins.

"Here we are, let's go down." Lin An yawned long and rubbed his reddened eyes, "This weekend, your mother must be here, and the priest is here too. Do you know how to ask?"

Wu Zichuan sipped soy milk: "Brother Lin, won't you come with me?"

"No, I'm going somewhere else. Write down Brother Jiang's phone number, and call him no matter if you find any clues or not."

Wu Zichuan nodded, pushed the door to get out of the car, and told Lin An before leaving: "Then I'm leaving, you drive carefully."

The long and dull bell sounded, startling the white doves again, Lin An whispered "Amen" and drove away with a bang of the accelerator.

There are a large area of ​​resettlement houses on the edge of the South Second Ring Road in Ning’an City. With the expansion of the city, this place is now very expensive. Many demolition households have sold their small houses for larger ones, and some have stayed here to wait for the house prices to rise again. There are waves, and the female director is one of them.

The car is parked at the entrance of an old community. This kind of community is not managed, and vehicles can enter and exit at will.The old man at the door gestured for Lin An to drive in quickly, so as not to block the cars behind him.

After finally finding a ground parking space, Lin An parked the car, turned around and entered the unit building, walked upstairs quickly, and knocked on the iron gate.

About half a minute later, the sound of procrastinating footsteps came from inside.With a click, the door opened, and a woman stared vigilantly at the visitor with one eye.

Lin An explained his purpose of coming, and showed his ID. The woman was extremely reluctant, but she still opened the door and let him in.

"I said you policemen, why are you still investigating this matter?"

Lin An was sitting at the greasy dining table, the woman didn't seem to want to see him, whether she smoked tea or not, she just sat across from him and stared at him.

"Auntie, I came here to ask you something. Why, did someone come to you before?" Lin An caught the word "return" that the woman said, and immediately tensed up.

"That's not it," the woman said impatiently, "after that woman drowned, a little policeman came to guard my door every day and asked me about the woman's son. Chewing to death at the door of your house, are you happy instead?"

Lin An slapped the table: "It must be unhappy, it's unlucky, the policeman is too ignorant!" He followed the woman's words, and then turned a corner, "But there are still a few days before the Chinese New Year. I take the liberty of visiting, and I would also like to ask you about that child."

The woman glanced at him: "If the little policeman back then had half the attitude of yours, maybe I would have told him about it. After all, he was really annoying. He stayed with me until I moved, and I probably won't be able to find him later." When I got there, I was clean."

Lin An recognized that the "ignorant" little policeman was Jiang Bei when he was young.He listened to the woman talking about Jiang Ge in secret, and couldn't help but stop talking:

"Auntie, do you remember what the child looked like? What was his name?"

The high-spirited talk was interrupted, the woman seemed to be choking, and did not speak for a long time.

Lin An was anxious, and said seriously: "The bureau said that those who provide effective clues will be rewarded."

"It's been too long, let me think about it first,"

The woman wanted to make tea, but Lin An signaled her not to bother, and just sat here and thought.

"That little doll..." The woman seemed to be thinking, her little eyes were full of philistines.

Lin An felt a rope wrapped around his neck, and the woman was the one who pulled the rope, and he was about to hang him to death. "How about that little doll?"

"Looks like..." The woman pressed it like squeezing toothpaste, "It looks...very..."

-

12月31号10点半到11点之间，一共有54人朝公园方向走，除去32位女性，还剩22人。

Jiang Bei looked at the screenshots one by one, while making notes in his notebook, with a high degree of concentration, ignoring the vibrating mobile phone on the table.

Old Li reminded him: "You have called."

The caller ID was an unfamiliar number, Jiang Bei pressed the recording and speakerphone.

"Brother Jiang." It was Wu Zichuan.

Jiang Bei stared at the screen: "How is it?"

Wu Zichuan said: "The priest here said that the woman would occasionally go to the church to pray for her son more than ten years ago, but the church is not a place to pray, so the priest has a deep impression of her."

"Pray for her son?"

"Yes, that's what the priest said."

Jiang Bei tapped the mouse with his fingers, lost in thought.He clearly remembered that he heard the sound of falling into the water that night before seeing the woman jumping from a high place, so he always thought it was the woman who jumped into the river with her son because of her poor mental state.The child fell into the water first, and the woman fell into the water last.

But according to what the priest said, a woman would pray for her son, so how could she be willing to take her son to die?The process and the result are contradictory, what went wrong?

Jiang Bei flicked the middle mouse button, and the picture on the screen suddenly enlarged.Old Li behind him paused, and said in surprise: "Damn, isn't this Aj's latest model?"

Jiang Bei came back to his senses, took a look, and felt familiar, but he was not sure, after all, the picture quality was too blurry.He asked: "What is Aj?"

Single so far, Jiang Bei is only interested in work, and has no interest in fair-skinned, long-legged beauties, and he has no research on young people's shoes.

Lao Li was enthusiastic about spreading the word, and he lifted his trouser legs to show Jiang Bei the pair of shoes on his feet that did not match his age, and the red long johns were tied into the parallel bar socks. "That's it. The young people these days are so cute. They snap up new styles as soon as they come out. The pair on my feet is still out of season. Team Jiang, you are too out."

Jiang Bei's focus is not on shoes, he has already found suppliers and online and offline sales channels in his mind.He searched on a certain treasure, and there were a lot of products with the latest models of Aj, with prices ranging from tens of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan.Adhering to the traditional concept that you get what you pay for, Jiang Bei looked at the most expensive pair, and the familiar feeling in his heart was relieved.

He had seen this pair of shoes before, at the door of room 2304, the soles were still stained with vegetable leaves.

After comparison, the shoes on the screenshots are exactly the same as the ones on the official website except for the details.

"Ah, you got me."

"I've seen you a long time ago."

"Catch me, or you won't have a chance next time."

The words Cheng Ye once said lingered in his ears for a long time, and the memories flooded in like a tide, so that Jiang Bei felt like he was drowning, and every pore was blocked.

Is that "bad seed" really a bad seed?

buzz-

The phone rang at the right time, it was a message from Lin An, Jiang Bei only glanced at it, his pupils trembled, he got up quickly, stepped on Lao Li's Aj and broke through the door.

Lao Li hugged his feet and shouted in pain: "Where did your eyes go?! You stepped on me!"

The atmosphere in the office area suddenly became tense because of Jiang Bei's arrival, and everyone looked at the frost-covered face, sweating silently.

"Where's Cheng Ye?" Jiang Beihuang glanced at the empty desk, "Isn't Cheng Ye here yet?"

"Report! The intern didn't come today. The little policeman called him, but no one answered."

Jiang Bei opened the text message box, but he still hasn't received a reply to the message he sent in the morning.He flicked off the phone, clenched his hands tightly under his sleeves, nails digging into his flesh.

"I found a major suspect in the serial murder case, and the second group will follow me, Xiao Zhang, go and call the people who are involved in graphic investigation, technical investigation, and trace inspection."

A group of old men are usually lazy and lazy, but they are very active at critical moments.The office was like boiling oil, and after a while, the staff of each group set off one after another.

Jiang Bei walked out of the office, and there were heavy and light footsteps in the long corridor.

"Little Ginger."

After just one night, Xu Zhengyuan has aged a lot.Jiang Bei didn't expect that he was still in the bureau, so he was a little surprised: "Aren't you going to the hospital for reexamination today?"

Xu Zhengyuan stood still in front of Jiang Bei, and patted him on the shoulder: "Is it okay for me, the leader, to leave my post at a critical moment? You go, call me if you have anything to do. It's almost Chinese New Year, and this case is closed, everyone." It's all easy, and the souls of the dead can go home."

Innocent people should not be victims of this revenge, even if they were abandoned from childhood, they still have the right to enjoy life.

Jiang Bei said "hmm", turned around and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Several police cars cut the traffic with precision like knives and roared towards the target community.Jiang Bei was sitting in the back row, and Wang Zhipeng insisted on squeezing into a car with Jiang Bei, and he never stopped talking along the way.

"Cheng Ye is a major suspect? How could he be a major suspect? Is there any evidence? My god, if he is really a murderer and dares to come to work in the bureau, what does he think? Don't make a mistake again! No! Ah, Cheng Ye was adopted 17 years ago, and the drowning case happened 13 years ago, so the time is wrong. Could it be that his mother found him later, repented, and took someone to jump into the river if he didn’t get it right? Is it? This is too ridiculous!"

Jiang Bei showed Wang Zhipeng the message from Lin An, and Wang Zhipeng grabbed the phone and finally shut up.

The police car rushed through the intersection, Jiang Bei pinched the distance, pressed the headset and said: "One group guards the main entrance of the community, and the second group enters through the back door with me. The technical investigation team went to watch the surveillance of the community. The suspect has obvious characteristics, so it should be easy to find him." Difficult. Focus on people and vehicles leaving the community from 9 o'clock last night until now, pay attention to gunpowder and vehicles with stickers, and immediately track the location of suspicious vehicles."

Several police cars detoured to the community from different roads to reduce unnecessary commotion.After Wang Zhipeng read the news, he couldn't get back to his senses for a long time.

Jiang Bei opened the door and got off the car, took a few plainclothes men into the community, found the target apartment building and took the elevator upstairs.The moment before the elevator doors closed, Pharaoh forced his way in, his expression must have been greatly shocked.

"So, so... So, the murderer really came to work at the Municipal Bureau?"

Jiang Bei's eyes locked on the number of floors he was jumping on, and his heartbeat would imperceptibly miss a beat every time he went up a floor.

Ding--

The elevator door opened, and everyone stood ready, scattered everywhere. Only Jiang Bei and Wang Zhipeng walked quietly to the door of Room 2304.

Surprisingly, the door was not closed, it was half-hidden, and the morning light shone through a crack. On the shoe rack next to it were the cotton slippers that Jiang Bei had worn last time and a pair of the latest Ajs.

Jiang Bei exhaled foul breath, gripped the loaded gun tightly, and kicked open the door...

"Oh my god!" Wang Zhipeng yelled immediately, and stepped back a few steps to reach the cold wall.

Jiang Bei's hand holding the gun trembled violently, cold sweat broke out and soaked his underwear...