Super Time Detective

When Ye Huairui rushed home, it was almost eight o'clock.

He ran all the way into the basement and reached out to open the desk drawer.

Because he was too nervous, Ye Huairui's hands were shaking all the time, and he couldn't hold the handle firmly the first time.

Ye Huairui took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

For the second time, he opened the drawer.

A dictionary was neatly placed in the drawer. It was a Portuguese dictionary in the 80s that he had never seen before. There was also a lipstick advertisement folded in half on the dictionary.

——Boom.

Ye Huairui really felt what it means to have a big stone in his heart.

He first took out the advertising paper, opened it, and found that there was a message written to him by Yin Jiaming on the back.

In the message, Young Master Yin briefly explained the two things he found in Dai Junfeng's house - paper ashes and gravel.He also told Forensic Ye that they were sandwiched between the first and last pages of the dictionary cover.As for the specific details, I will elaborate on them when I can speak.

Ye Huairui took the dictionary out of the drawer.

For Ye Huairui, the conversation between him and Yin Jiaming happened yesterday.

But for this dictionary, it and its contents sat in a drawer for 39 years.

Ye Huairui put on his gloves, opened the cover carefully, and looked at the paper ashes inside through the backing paper. He felt that they were too fragile to withstand tossing.

In order not to destroy these hard-won physical evidence, he decided not to mess around with it, but to bring the dictionary back to the office, and then take them out in a more professional environment with more complete tools.

It has been very sweltering since the afternoon, and it seems that it will rain at any time.

But this thunderstorm lasted from noon to late at night, and it was almost eleven o'clock that Ye Huairui heard a deep thunder.

He hurried downstairs and went straight to the basement.

"Hey, Yin Jiaming!"

With the sound of raindrops hitting the window, Ye Huairui called Yin Jiaming's name.

[A Rui. 】

Immediately, he heard the other party's response.

Ye Huairui suddenly felt relieved.

"What the hell did you do last night?"

He asked Yin Jiaming:

"Why did it take so long?"

【Oh, it's a long story...】

Yin Jiaming's voice revealed a sense of exhaustion, 【I almost won't be able to come back today. 】

Then he broke into the rental house where Dai Junfeng lived at night, and was delayed until dawn because he searched for evidence too carefully. He was discovered by neighbors when he went out, and the experience of attracting the police to chase him was briefly told to Ye Huairui.

Ye Huairui was terrified when he heard it.

Indeed, Yin Jiaming was about to be caught by the police just a little bit.

The butterfly originally wanted to flap its wings to see if it could find out the truth about the murder case back then, but it didn't expect that it just flapped its wings and almost killed the person involved.

"you……"

Ye Huairui pursed his lips, feeling a little hesitant in his heart.

Yin Jiaming had already opened his mouth and asked: [Huh?What do you want to say? 】

"I want to say, you'd better be careful."

Forensic Ye thought about it, and decided to persuade Yin Jiaming:

"After this time, the police's defense will definitely be stricter, especially the people around you, Director Zhao and Ah Hu..."

He thought about the wording:

"I think it's better for you to try not to leave the secret room."

[It depends on whether you can clear up my grievances, Doctor Ye. 】

Yin Jiaming laughed loudly:

【Also, what if you need me to go out and collect evidence for you? 】

Ye Huairui wanted to ask back, "Do you still dare to go out?"

But I also thought that there might be such a day, so it's not good to talk too much now.

So Ye Huairui could only think that if there is such a day, he must tell this guy to be more careful, while clearing his throat, "Let's get to the point first."

He said seriously:

"What did you find at Dai Junfeng's house?"

…………

……

"I see."

Ye Huairui nodded after listening to Yin Jiaming's explanation:

"Your idea is indeed very reasonable. Maybe those paper dusts are really important documents."

Yin Jiaming found three other letters including the divorce agreement among Dai Junfeng's belongings, which showed that Dai Junfeng didn't usually have the habit of destroying documents—or in other words, he didn't have the habit of destroying all documents.

And a cookie jar that serves as an ashtray is not a qualified fire vessel.Its internal space is too long and too narrow, and the paper is easy to burn insufficiently inside.

Combining these two points, Yin Jiaming's suspicion became very reliable—either it was a different document that Dai Junfeng felt he had to burn; or someone broke into Manager Dai's rental. house, and hastily burned any evidence against him.

Moreover, Yin Jiaming also recognized the letters "y, 21s" on the scraps of unburned paper, which indeed resembled "July, 21st", that is, July 7st.

And that day happened to be the day when the robbery happened.

On the same day, Dai Junfeng was found hanged in his home.

[Speaking of this...]

Yin Jiaming asked:

[Do you know the exact time when Dai Junfeng hanged himself? 】

"I can only find out the time when the landlord called the police after discovering Dai Junfeng's body, and the time when the police arrived on the scene."

Ye Huairui has read the file many times, and he has memorized the details of the whole case by heart, and he can answer without even needing to recall.

"The landlord called the police at 7:21 am on July 54, and the police arrived at the scene about 10 minutes later."

【Oh, even if Dai Junfeng committed suicide before [-]:[-]. 】

Yin Jiaming looked down at the notes he had copied:

[The little bastard who was shot woke up at 52:[-], and it was only two hours since he woke up to Dai Junfeng's death...]

"Yes, too soon."

Ye Huairui said:

"You didn't have mobile phones, internet, or Weibo back then, and the news is not as well-informed as it is now..."

Yin Jiaming: [What is a mobile phone?What is a network?What is Weibo? 】

"It does not matter!"

Ye Huairui interrupted him decisively:

"The point is, even if Manager Dai is planning to commit suicide due to ineffective work, he shouldn't have acted so early, right?"

Yin Jiaming is actually very curious about the future after 39 years, but due to the time limit for talking only during rainstorms, he can only hold back his curiosity.

【Yes. 】

He brings the focus back to the point:

[Even the "Morning News", which was the first to report on the robbery, didn't start broadcasting until seven o'clock, and it ended at eight o'clock.Dai Junfeng's will to die is so decisive, before the news is over, he has already written a suicide note and hanged himself? 】

"Yes, this is indeed unreasonable."

Ye Huairui agreed with Yin Jiaming's idea:

"unless……"

Yin Jiaming asked: [Unless what? 】

Ye Huairui said:

"Unless he knew early on that someone would rob the bank on the 21st."

【Right! ? 】

Yin Jiaming's eyes lit up immediately:

[Then do you think that piece of paper—I mean, the ashes in the cookie jar—will hold any clues? 】

He came up with a very whimsical idea:

[Using your technology at that time, it should be possible to restore the text on the paper dust, right? 】

Ye Huairui didn't dare to deal with those fragile paper ashes at home, so he just glanced through the backing paper, not sure about the degree of carbonization and preservation of the paper ashes, so he could only answer: "I will try my best."

Yin Jiaming couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he couldn't get a positive answer.

After all, Citigroup has been able to land on the moon in 69 years. Young Master Yin thinks that in another 40 years, human beings should build a city on Mars. There must be a magical tool that can restore damaged files with a single sweep.

But disappointment is disappointment, Yin Jiaming is not naive enough to think that a few pieces of paper ashes can really clear his innocence.

"By the way, what's with that scotch tape?"

Ye Huairui asked:

"What did you glue it to?"

[Oh, that's right! 】

Yin Jiaming immediately regained his spirits.

This was a clue that he found at the risk of almost never coming back, so naturally he couldn't help but want to show off in front of his family, A Rui.

[I suspect that it is the gravel brought from [that] private port! 】

Ye Huairui understood immediately.

"You mean, Fulonggang, where the robbers planned to escape?"

According to the records in the dossier, the gangsters originally planned to escape from Fulonggang, and the destination was speculated to be a country in Southeast Asia.

"Fulong Port" has a domineering name, but it is actually a small private port with only more than 30 berths.

It is located in the southeast of Jincheng. It is said that the owner has a somewhat dirty gray background. He used to work part-time as a "smuggler" back then, often doing some smuggling and smuggling business.It wasn't until after the firefight in which five people were killed and one injured happened that under repeated pressure from the police and occasional "sweeping the field", they reluctantly accepted those shady businesses.

Ye Huairui opened the map to check the location of this "Fulong Port", and found that the port has long since ceased to exist.

A brand new apartment complex has been built on its original site, and even the shape of the coastline is completely different from the old map 39 years ago.

"Oh?"

Ye Huairui asked Yin Jiaming:

"Could it be that there are some characteristics of the sand and stones on that beach?"

Yin Jiaming replied:

[The sand on that beach is relatively thick, about the size of a grain of rice, and it hurts to step on it with bare feet. 】

He paused for a while, and added the most important clue:

[Moreover, there is a private coal factory not far from Fulong Port, which sells honeycomb coal, coke, slag, etc. When loading and unloading goods, the coal slag often falls on the road, and pedestrians walk by, and they will naturally bring it to the beach up.In the crushed sand I found at Dai Mingfeng's house, there was some black powder that looked like cinders. 】

In Jincheng in the 80s, residents already used bottled liquefied petroleum gas for cooking.

But many poor people can't afford canned gas, so they can only burn firewood and charcoal balls.

Young Master Yin was also poor back then. In order to save a few stove fires, when he was a teenager, he and his friends went to the coal factory to pick up the fallen coal slag.

The reason why he has an impression of the beach in Fulonggang is that the gravel there is thick and thick. Every time Young Master Yin ran away with cinders in his arms, he would be screamed by the broken sand rolled into his sandals.

The author has something to say:

Young Master Yin: I was poor, so I have a lot of knowledge =_=