Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 413 Don’t mess with King Luo!
"Are you here for the [7*18 case]?"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Xue and Fang Yonghui were immediately stunned. This was the second person who brought up this case today. Sun Zhihao remained tight-lipped and was unwilling to talk more.

Cao Yang, the captain of a brigade under the Qingyang City Criminal Police Detachment, also looked alert, with a threatening tone in his voice, staring at Luo Rui with sharp eyes.

Sun Zhihao's heart sank and he wanted to pull Cao Yang down.

But who would have thought that Luo Rui's eyes narrowed and he smiled slightly, "Yes, I came here for this case."

As soon as these words were spoken, Sun Zhihao's face changed, and Qiao Xue and Fang Yonghui were all stunned on the spot.

"This..." Sun Zhihao's heart was in turmoil, words were stuck in his throat but he couldn't utter them.

He thought of Director Luo's behavior in the car. He insisted on his answering who was excluding him and forced him to tell the name of that person. Moreover, Director Luo had no objection to Lai Laoba's request to come to Qingyang City for work and immediately brought people here.

Through all these manifestations, Sun Zhihao suddenly realized that Director Luo's trip might really be for the [718 case].

At this time, Cao Yang took a step forward. Since he was shorter than Luo Rui, he could only look up.

"Director Luo, [Case 718] is a cold case, it cannot be overturned!" He waved his hand and said, "At that time, I know who Kong Zhijie was, better than anyone else. He definitely killed someone, and the physical evidence and confession are complete. Besides, the case was led by our Director Sun, who is an old criminal policeman, and he will definitely not make mistakes!
Director Luo, I know that in the entire Haidong Province, you are the only one with the strongest case-handling ability and the fastest case-solving speed, but if you come here to frame Director Sun and our Qingyang City Bureau, I, Cao Yang..."

"What do you want?" Luo Rui smiled.

"I..." Cao Yang didn't dare to say the threatening words.

Sun Zhihao reacted and quickly advised: "Captain Cao, it's not what you think. Director Luo is not here for this case. Director Luo was specially invited by Director Sun to solve the [404 arson case]. Don't misunderstand."

Cao Yang looked at him suspiciously. Before he could speak, Luo Rui immediately said, "Kong Zhijie, the suspect in the [718 case], was executed three years ago. It has been so long since the case was filed, but the case files have never been made public in your Qingyang City Bureau, and even the provincial department can't find any files. Captain Cao, do you know anything about this?"

"What do you mean?" Cao Yang stared at him.

Luo Rui sneered, "You are the captain of the criminal police team of Qingyang City Bureau. You can try to check the files, and you will understand what I mean. Why don't you dare to make the case public if there is no problem?"

"you……"

Cao Yang wanted to argue, but at this moment, the glass door of the funeral home was pushed open. An elderly forensic doctor wearing a mask looked at the tense scene with a hint of impatience: "Captain Cao, if you have anything to say, don't argue here. This is a funeral home, a transit station for the souls of the dead. Don't disturb these poor people."

The two men knew each other for a long time. Cao Yang ignored his words and asked hurriedly, "Old Peng, has the cause of death been found? Was it suicide or homicide?"

The forensic doctor named Lao Peng looked at Luo Rui and others suspiciously. Sun Zhihao explained, "Uncle Peng, this is Luo Rui, Director Luo, who came from the provincial department to assist in the investigation of the [404 case]."

Forensic Doctor Peng raised his eyebrows, took a deep look at Luo Rui, took off his mask, and said, "Come in and talk."

Cao Yang held out his hand to hold the glass door, intending to rush in first, but after thinking it over, he stood aside and extended his hand to Luo Rui: "Director Luo, please go in first."

Luo Rui nodded slightly and walked into the autopsy room.

As soon as everyone stepped in, they smelled a faint meaty aroma in the air.

The exhaust fan on the ceiling was humming, and a huge iron pot was placed on the stove. The flames licked the bottom of the pot, and boiling hot water was bubbling in the pot.

In addition, there were four silver-white iron buckets placed under the stainless steel table against the wall. When Qiao Xue saw what was in the buckets, she quickly turned her head.

Fang Yonghui also saw what was in the bucket. Although he was already accustomed to such scenes, he still couldn't help but dry-heaving.

There were piles of cooked, cut pieces of meat in the barrels, filling three barrels, and in another barrel was a removed lung.

The lungs are dark gray with slight bubbles on the surface.

"This is what the lungs look like after smoking for 20 years," Forensic Doctor Peng said nonchalantly, then walked to the stainless steel dissection table.

After removing the meat and bones, a human skeleton was placed on the table, with milky white fascia still remaining on the bones.

Luo Rui first looked at the pelvis, which was undoubtedly a male skeleton.

The male pelvis is smaller, while the female pelvis is larger. The most obvious feature is that the male pelvis is funnel-shaped, while the female pelvis is wide.

Forensic Doctor Peng said, "The body we recovered had burns covering 99% of its area, with the most serious injuries being the head and abdomen, and the entire body was shrunk to one-third. This means that conventional autopsy methods are not possible, so we can only boil it at high temperature, remove the bones, and then observe the changes in the bones."

While listening, Luo Rui looked at the bones of the deceased's right hand. The index finger, middle finger and little finger joints were dislocated and fractured, but there was no such phenomenon on the left hand.

Luo Rui raised his head and asked, "Where did the car catch fire?"

Cao Yang answered him: "From the extent of the burning of the car, the most serious part was near the fuel tank, but after investigation by the technical department, the fire first started in the cab."

"The body of Zhang Guanglu was found in the cab?"

Cao Yang nodded: "Based on the extent of the burns on the body, it must have been doused with a large amount of gasoline before death. The body was severely deformed, and mucus was stuck to the seat frame. It took a lot of effort to separate the body from the seat frame.

The crime scene was on a relatively remote dirt road in Xiahewan, and it was hard not to suspect that Zhang Guanglu was committing suicide when he drove to that place.

As soon as he said this, Forensic Doctor Peng shook his head and sneered, walked around to the front of the dissection table, reached out and pulled the suspended investigation light from the metal rack, and pointed the light at the deceased's head.

The head seemed to have just been cooked, with a slight heat rising from the surface.

Luo Rui walked over to take a look and immediately said, "He was severely attacked in the face."

Forensic Doctor Peng nodded. "The left eye bone and nose bone were both shattered, and the lower jaw was also hit hard. In fact, we had already determined that he was not burned to death before the high temperature bone removal. During the autopsy, we did not find any damage to his respiratory tract and lungs."

Cao Yang opened his eyes wide and complained, "Old Peng, why didn't you tell me earlier? I had to stay up all night with you guys."

Forensic Doctor Peng sneered: "You didn't ask. Besides, this doesn't directly prove that the deceased was murdered. What if the deceased wanted to hammer himself to death in order to relieve the pain of being burned?"

Sun Zhihao blinked: "Uncle Peng, the deceased was so cruel to himself? Is it true?"

Luo Rui glanced at him and said, "He lied to you. Look at the wound on the deceased's face. He was hit five or six times, obviously with the intent to kill someone. If the deceased did it himself, he wouldn't even have the strength to light a fire.

The left eye bone was hit the hardest, and the force-bearing area is smaller than other parts. The murder weapon should be..."

"What is it?" Cao Yang asked curiously.

"A weapon like a hammer, no larger than one foot in size," Luo Rui replied.

Forensic Doctor Peng raised his eyebrows: "How did you know that?"

"I guessed." Luo Rui shrugged.

Forensic Doctor Peng frowned. "You guessed so accurately? Captain Cao never guessed correctly once."

When Cao Yang heard this, he ignored him and looked at Luo Rui: "Director Luo, why did you say the murder weapon was no longer than one foot?"

Luo Rui glanced at him and said, "It seems that this thing was not found at the scene or in the car?"

Cao Yang's heart skipped a beat.

Qiao Xue, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly brightened up and said immediately, "If the murder weapon is not found, then it must be homicide!"

Luo Rui looked at her: "Have you seen the case file? Are there any photos of the crime scene in the case file?"

"Yes." Qiao Xue nodded, and immediately took out a brown leather bag from her briefcase and handed it to Luo Rui.

After Luo Rui took it, he walked to the metal counter and sat on the lift stool. He took out the document, glanced at it, raised his head and smiled at Cao Yang: "Captain Cao, I was just looking at it blindly. If you are busy, you don't have to stay here with me."

"Uh……"

This was an order to expel the guest, and Cao Yang knew it very well. He thought that maybe he had offended the other party before, so he didn't want to investigate with him now.

But Luo Rui's ability to solve cases has long been well-known. In the entire Haidong Province police system, who doesn't know him?

Whether they are students in the police academy or rookies who have just joined the police force, they all take him as a role model.

There are also many admirers of Luo Rui in Qingyang Municipal Bureau. Cao Yang can hear these rookies talking about this name almost every day. Now that he can partner with Luo Rui to solve cases, he naturally wants to see it for himself, but due to his previous confrontation with the other party, he is a little embarrassed.

Forensic Doctor Peng is an old hand who has worked in the system for decades and is almost an expert in the field. As soon as he saw Cao Yang's embarrassed expression, he immediately understood what was going on.

"Captain Cao, I still need to preserve the deceased's organs. If you're free, could you help me for a while?"

"Okay then." Cao Yang glanced at Luo Rui and saw that he was concentrating on the case file and didn't look at them. He laughed and said, "I'm more than happy to help you."

But Cao Yang miscalculated. Forensic Doctor Peng was an experienced man. How could he be so kind as to help him out?

Slicing is slicing, but that is the job of Forensic Doctor Peng and his apprentice.

The three buckets full of minced meat needed to be packaged and frozen, the large pot for cooking meat needed to be cleaned, the floor needed to be washed with water, and the dissecting table needed to be scrubbed clean.

Forensic doctors are somewhat mysophobic, and they are particularly strict about the cleanliness of the dissection table. Cao Yang and his apprentice washed it twice, but Forensic Doctor Peng asked them to continue washing it until it was qualified.

Cao Yang and his little apprentice, one was waving the mop vigorously, and the other was wiping the table top with a brush, both of them were panting and sweating profusely.

In contrast, Qiao Xue, Fang Yonghui and Sun Zhihao stood side by side, looking at Cao Yang who was working like a slave for forensic doctor Peng, and then looking at forensic doctor Peng who was busy in front of the microscope.

Fang Yonghui blinked and whispered to Sun Zhihao, "Um...do you Captain Cao have a grudge against this forensic doctor? I saw Captain Cao wiped the table three times."

Sun Zhihao sighed, "I don't know what he's thinking. He just wants to save face." Qiao Xue was still thinking about the [718 case] and asked, "Captain Cao has a good relationship with your father?"

"He is Director Sun's apprentice, the first apprentice." Sun Zhihao replied.

Qiao Xue stared at him and asked word by word: "What exactly is going on with the [718 case]?"

"This..." Sun Zhihao seemed very embarrassed.

Fang Yonghui said earnestly, "Xiao Sun, you have been with Director Luo for several months. You should know what kind of person he is. He will definitely investigate any case he wants to investigate. Moreover, you and we are both representing the provincial department and serving the people, not the officials."

"Let me put it this way." Sun Zhihao gritted his teeth and said, "Kong Zhijie was a police officer on duty. His case had a very bad impact on the reputation of the Qingyang City Bureau. Not only Director Sun, but other leaders have issued a death order that no one is allowed to access the files of the [718 case] at will. I participated in the investigation of the case at the time, and I can guarantee that this is definitely not an unjust case."

"Really?" Qiao Xue looked at him suspiciously.

Fang Yonghui smiled and said, "I thought you were going to take over Kong Zhijie's position, so Director Sun..."

Sun Zhihao quickly waved his hands: "No! It's absolutely not the case. I can guarantee it with my uniform."

"Okay, I believe you." Fang Yonghui patted his shoulder: "But I don't know whether Luo Daxin believes you or not."

"I don't believe it." Qiao Xue curled her lips: "Unless you make the files public and show them to us. If you keep hiding things like this, it's hard not to get suspicious. We are criminal police, and everything is based on evidence. Without solid evidence, no one's words count."

"Uh..." Sun Zhihao sighed: "Well, when we get back to the Municipal Bureau, I'll go find Director Sun and see if he can let you take a look at the file."

Qiao Xue grinned and gave a thumbs up: "That's how it should be."

The three of them were chatting, and soon they heard Luo Rui stretching and standing up from the stool.

Then, Cao Yang, who was mopping the floor, immediately stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at Luo Rui eagerly, but was too embarrassed to ask.

Forensic Doctor Peng took off his glasses, turned the lifting stool, and asked curiously, "Director Luo, are you done?"

Luo Rui returned the case file to Qiao Xue and said, "Should we analyze it here or go to the Municipal Bureau meeting to discuss it?"

Qiao Xue was impatient, so of course she wanted to know what Luo Rui saw first. She was about to open her mouth when Fang Yonghui pulled her back: "I didn't ask you, why are you so excited?"

Forensic Doctor Peng looked at Cao Yang with a burning gaze, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's none of my business. This is the business of you frontline criminal police. If you are fine, I will close my stall here."

Luo Rui nodded: "Okay, then we won't bother you anymore."

Then, he looked at Fang Yonghui and the others: "What are you doing standing there? Are you not going to solve the case? Go to the Municipal Bureau."

"Okay." Fang Yonghui grinned.

Cao Yang threw the mop on the ground and blinked several times. Seeing Luo Rui and his group leaving, he wanted to say something but stopped himself. However, he just couldn't bring himself to put up a warm attitude.

He hurriedly pulled Sun Zhihao, who was walking at the end, and asked anxiously, "Haozi, what did he see?"

Sun Zhihao spread his hands and said, "Captain Cao, how would I know? If I knew, I would have taken his position a long time ago.

You, don't go against Luo, it's a thankless task. Didn't you see that when Luo first met you, he took the initiative to shake your hand, but you, as if you had eaten explosives, didn't give him a good look. "

"Aren't I just afraid that he will cause trouble for your father?" Cao Yang said anxiously.

"We have a clear conscience, so what are we afraid of?" Sun Zhihao sighed. "Besides, the procuratorate and the court had no objections at the time. Kong Zhijie pleaded guilty and accepted the punishment. It's a done deal. Can this case be overturned? It can't be overturned."

"Okay then." Cao Yang patted his shoulder and said, "You better take care of yourself. Be careful. This Luo Yanwang is not a good person. Don't let him use you as a gun."

"How could that be? Director Luo is not that kind of person." Sun Zhihao said in annoyance. His father also spoke in this tone, which made him feel uncomfortable. "Okay, I'm leaving first. If you want to know what clues Director Luo has found, go back to the Municipal Bureau for the meeting early, and don't miss it."

"Traitor, go away, go away." Cao Yang waved his hand.

After Sun Zhihao left, he saw his apprentice still wiping the dissection table, and he was having a lot of fun. He got angry and said, "Are you addicted to this? Put it down now!"

The young apprentice looked aggrieved and looked at forensic doctor Peng beside him.

Forensic Doctor Peng chuckled and said, "Labor is good for thinking. You are a good young man."

"Old Peng, you have a bad heart." Cao Yang glared at him: "You cheated everyone in your unit?"

Forensic Doctor Peng sneered, "Captain Cao, I advise you to learn more from Director Luo. He is a generation younger than you, but at such a young age he has already become a captain of the Criminal Investigation Corps. What about you? You have been working for most of your life and are still a captain. You are still expecting others to tell you clues. Where is your face?"

"You..." Cao Yang's eyes were blazing with anger, but he didn't dare to curse at the other party because of his age and experience.

Forensic Doctor Peng snorted again: "I advise you to be careful. Wherever this Luo Yanwang goes, people will be plundered. Don't let me not be able to call you 'Captain Cao' the next time I see you."

Upon hearing this, Cao Yang couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He was stunned for a moment, then said to his little apprentice, "Let's go."

"Master, where are you going?"

"Keep your eyes on King Luo Yan."

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As soon as they got in the car, Qiao Xue couldn't wait to ask, "Director Luo, what did you see?"

Luo Rui was originally looking out the window. At this time, he turned around and answered: "From the photos taken at the scene, the car glass was not shattered by the explosion, but was damaged by human beings. Combined with the fact that the deceased's face was hit multiple times, especially the left eye bone was the most severely bruised, the eyeball should have exploded. The heavy blows here are not the same as the heavy blows to other parts of the face. It is speculated that the murder weapon was a claw hammer less than one foot long.

No physical evidence such as a hammer was found on the physical evidence list, so it must have been taken away by the murderer. This means that the murderer premeditated the murder and was well prepared.

He brought a hammer instead of using daggers, axes, kitchen knives or other tools that are easy to kill people. He probably came here to break the windows."

Qiao Xue followed the train of thought: "Then the deceased was found in the cab, which means the murderer killed the deceased immediately after breaking the window."

"No." Luo Rui shook his head.

Qiao Xue blinked: "What's wrong?"

"There was more than one person at the scene."

"how to say?"

Luo Rui frowned and said, "If the deceased had never left the car, then the direction of the blow to the deceased was in the passenger seat, not outside the car."

"Director Luo, how do you judge this?"

Luo Rui looked at the driver's seat, and Fang Yonghui quickly stopped the car on the side of the road.

Luo Rui opened the car door, got out, picked up a foot-long branch from the ground, walked around the front of the car, knocked on Fang Yonghui's door, and raised the branch in his right hand.

Seeing this, Fang Yonghui raised his left hand and quickly went to the co-pilot's seat: "Master Luo..."

"See? He's hiding."

Qiao Xue also got out of the car and stood behind him, asking, "Do you mean that the deceased should have defensive injuries?"

Sun Zhihao pushed Fang Yonghui away and said, "The deceased's finger bones were broken. I saw it clearly. It was a self-defense injury."

Luo Rui asked: "Which hand was injured in defense?"

Qiao Xue opened her eyes wide: "Right hand!"

Luo Rui nodded: "Yes, the conclusion drawn from the on-site investigation is that the ground on the left side of the driver's seat has the most broken glass, but on the right side, which is the co-pilot side, there is no broken glass. What does this mean?
This means that the murderer broke the glass on the left side, but the attack on the victim came from the passenger seat!

When the person in the co-pilot seat attacked the deceased, he stretched out his right hand to block him, and his middle finger, index finger and small finger on his palm were broken and dislocated.

Not only that, if I were to hit the deceased from my position, the amplitude of the hammer would be hindered by the space, and the deceased was the only person in the car, so it was impossible for him not to struggle and escape to the passenger seat. "

As he spoke, Luo Rui walked around the front of the car, and Sun Zhihao hurriedly opened the passenger door and jumped out.

Luo Rui got into the car, raised the branch in his hand and hit Fang Yonghui in the face.

Fang Yonghui naturally stretched out his right hand to block it, and the raising range of the one-foot-long branch was not hindered by space.

"Did you see it?" Luo Rui threw the branch outside.

Qiao Xue swallowed her saliva and said, "In other words, besides the deceased, there was someone else sitting in the passenger seat?"

Luo Rui snapped his fingers and said, "This man is the murderer who killed Zhang Guanglu."

Qiao Xue's eyes lit up: "That's someone Zhang Guanglu knows. He should be a close friend. Otherwise, why would two people drive to Xiahewan in the rain at night? What could they do?"

Luo Rui got out of the car and replied, "Let's check in this direction."

Qiao Xue nodded quickly: "Director Luo, if I had to say it, it would have to be you. Captain Cai and I spent a long time in the car looking at the case files, but our analysis was not as accurate as yours."

Sun Zhihao was also shocked by Luo Rui's statement. He simply took a look at the case file and figured out the details of the case. Is this a human being?

He swallowed his saliva and wanted to flatter him, but he saw a familiar car parked behind him, and Cao Yang was looking at him eagerly...

(End of this chapter)