Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 584 Your eyesight is still so good
His voice wasn't loud, but it sounded like thunder to everyone, leaving them all stunned.

We were investigating a kidnapping case when another murder case came along.
"Wasn't the search operation over?" Lü Zhongxin looked at him in confusion:
How did you discover it?

Although he's called a police officer, he's actually the deputy director of the local police station, and he was ordered to participate in the search mission.

The people brought by this deputy director are mainly responsible for searching the southern area.

After finding a taxi, they were supposed to head back home.

However, a police officer reported that only one unfinished building on the south side had not been checked, and that newly made footprints had been found on the outside, indicating that someone had been there.

Based on the principle that since they were already there, the deputy director decisively ordered the police officers in the station to split into two groups and start searching upwards from both sides simultaneously.

They didn't find anyone, but instead discovered a male corpse on the third floor.

After the deputy director explained the situation, Lü Zhongxin immediately led a team to the unfinished building, and his colleagues from the technical department followed closely behind to conduct an on-site investigation.

"Male, aged approximately 22 to 25."

A forensic officer examined the body while giving a report:
"The carotid artery was completely severed. The preliminary assessment is that excessive blood loss led to loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest."

He then examined the body from head to toe, carefully inspecting every part of it:
"The rigor mortis has spread throughout the body and there are no signs of it softening again. It is estimated that the time of death was between 10 p.m. last night and 1 a.m. this morning."

As he spoke, he beckoned to his colleague beside him, and two police officers walked to the body in perfect unison, gently lifted the upper body of the body, and lifted the clothes off its back.

"The lividity on the back indicates that the body has not been moved."

The officer pointed to the lividity on the corpse's back and said:
"Moreover, judging from the blood distribution at the scene, the deceased struggled for at least a minute after his throat was slit."

This is only a preliminary examination of the body; further confirmation is needed, but this is enough for Lü Zhongxin and his team.

First and foremost, it can be confirmed that the deceased died from homicide.

Secondly, judging from the lividity and blood distribution, this is the primary crime scene.

The time of death was last night, which suggests that the deceased was very likely to have spent the night in this unfinished building.

Could this person be one of the kidnappers?

Yu Dazhang observed the surrounding environment, then went to the edge of the building and looked into the distance, discovering that he could see the suburban highway from there.

The height of this floor is just right. The first and second floors are too low to see the road, while the third floor offers both a view of the road and the ability to evacuate quickly if necessary.

Yu Dazhang's heart skipped a beat as he recalled the tire tracks he had found at the abandoned house.

The tire tracks there disappear at the point where the road is.

If the kidnappers didn't escape directly from the highway, but instead came up the highway and then came down another side road, and then hid in this unfinished building...

Thinking of this, Yu Dazhang immediately began to slowly walk along the edge of the third floor, while searching downwards with his eyes.

He suddenly stopped when he was almost halfway there.

"Brother Qian, come quick."

Yu Dazhang shouted loudly to Qian Cheng, who was investigating the scene:
"Come here quickly."

Upon hearing this, Qian Cheng looked in his direction and saw him standing at the very edge of the building. After hesitating for a moment, he walked towards him.

At the same time, Lü Zhongxin realized that his apprentice might have discovered something, so he followed Qian Cheng over.

"Speak quickly, I'm busy." Qian Cheng stopped in his tracks as he approached.

Yu Dazhang waved to him:
"Come closer, you can only see it from here."

Qian Cheng really didn't want to go over there; he was a little afraid of heights. But considering he was at work, he could only grit his teeth and come to the edge of the building.

"Look at that mound of earth over there," Yu Dazhang said, pointing to a small mound of earth below.
"It's the one next to the pile of construction waste."

Qian Cheng looked in the direction he was pointing and quickly spotted a mound, but he could only make out its general outline. "What's wrong?" he asked, staring intently at the spot.
"I don't see anything special about it."

At this moment, Lü Zhongxin also stood by the building, looking in the direction Yu Dazhang had just pointed. He also couldn't see anything unusual.

"I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that mound of earth."

Yu Dazhang quickly explained:

“I showed you the tire tracks next to the mound of dirt. Look, those tracks are so strange. They didn’t come from the main road. They went around in circles before parking the car there.”

He gestured as he spoke, as if the car circling around was right in front of him:
"The loop we took just happened to avoid the main road. If we were below, we wouldn't have noticed that tire track at all."

I can't see it from up there either... Qian Cheng stared wide-eyed, trying hard to see the tire tracks next to the mound of earth, but after looking for a long time, his eyes were almost sore, and he still couldn't see anything.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Qian Cheng rubbed his eyes.

"This is a shady spot. Even if you have good eyesight, you wouldn't be able to see clearly in this light."

"Are you blind...?" Yu Dazhang thought to himself.
He could even see the pattern of the tire track below clearly; it was exactly the same as the tire track found near the residential area.

To be considerate of his colleague whose eyesight was worse than his, he refrained from speaking out.

Lu Zhongxin didn't see any tire tracks either, but he was more pragmatic.

"Go down and have a look."

As he spoke, he tugged at Qian Cheng's arm, gesturing for him to come with him.

Yu Dazhang hated going up and down stairs, but since his master had spoken, he had no choice but to go along with it.

Upon reaching the bottom, the three found the mound of earth.

"It really does!"

Qian Cheng looked at the tire tracks on the ground with excitement, as if he had discovered a new continent:

"Your eyesight is still so good. I really suspect that your eyes have a built-in telescope function. You can even tell that this is a tire track from this distance!"

"The shape and the pattern are exactly the same as the tire tracks found near the houses!"

While speaking, he also began to conduct a site survey of the surrounding area.

"There are footprints. You two, step back," Qian Cheng ordered them.
"Watch your step and don't disturb the scene."

Seeing him like this, Yu Dazhang knew that he had entered work mode again.

Then Yu Dazhang and Lü Zhongxin went back upstairs.

Looking at the corpse again, the master and apprentice both had their own judgments, and their judgments were basically the same.

“The one who died must have been one of the kidnappers,” Lü Zhongxin said, staring at the corpse.

Yu Dazhang nodded:

"It's a pity that everything on him that could prove his identity was taken away, otherwise we could have found out where they came from."

The deceased was wearing shoes, so by comparing the footprints, it will be possible to determine whether this person was one of the kidnappers.

"But there's also good news."

Yu Dazhang then turned his gaze to the incision on the corpse's neck:
"The other party didn't have a gun. If they had a gun, the person who made the move wouldn't have used throat-slitting to kill someone."

There's one more thing that neither the master nor the apprentice mentioned.

Why are they fighting amongst themselves?

(End of this chapter)