1995, Starting as a Criminal Investigation Expert

The person has been found; they need to be arrested.

803 has been waiting for this day for a full fourteen years.

Zhang Shenghua and He Guangming each led their own teams, joined forces, and headed straight for Yingtan.

This Ai Hongguang is from Aijia Village, Xinjiatang, Bailu Town, a suburban area below Yingtan.

That's the name of this place.

Li Shu remained the same as always, seeing things through to the end, and followed Zhang Shenghua and the others to Yingtan.

Zhou Xuewen and the others followed, probably to search Ai Hongguang's house.

Upon arriving in Yingtan, he instructed the Yingtan Municipal Public Security Bureau to go to the countryside to investigate, while simultaneously holding a meeting at the Municipal Public Security Bureau to discuss the arrest plan.

Li Shu, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but say, "They're all surnamed Ai."

Looking at the map, the entire Bailu Town is located in the southwest of Xinjiang, with a terrain mainly consisting of hills. Looking out from here, there are several villages with the name "Ai" in their names.

For example, Aijia on the hill, Aijia at the old house, Aijia at the new house, and Aijia at the water pond.

As the name suggests, most of the people in this village are surnamed Ai, and they are all from the same family.

If we trace it back further, it's probably to an ancient ancestor.

Besides these, there are several other families in the town, including the Wang family, the Yan family, the Wu family, and the Huang family.

Upon hearing this, Chen Shijie, the director of the Yingtan City Bureau, nodded and said, "That's right. Of the 20,000 people in Bailu Town, one-third are surnamed Ai and one-third are surnamed Wang. How should I put it? You wouldn't say that this place is a poor and desolate place that breeds unruly people, since it's not that far from the city."

"But it's still the suburbs, the countryside, where clan power is strong. In recent years, the Ai and Wang families have fought countless times. So when we make arrests, we really need to find out the situation in advance and make contingency plans before entering the village."

He Guangming nodded in agreement.

Therefore, He Guangming prefers to arrest people in the city. Going down to the villages to arrest people might stir up a hornet's nest, and then a bunch of guns would pop out.

Their firepower might even be more intense than that of the police.

Zhang Shenghua crossed his arms and thought for a moment, then said, "If we deploy a large number of police officers, I'm afraid it will cause resentment in the village, and if we're not careful, it could lead to an accident."

"So I was thinking that first, I should find out what Ai Hongguang is doing now, and then see if I could find someone to impersonate him and lure him to town alone under the pretext of working, before making my move."

Li Shu was secretly astonished; they'd even resorted to scheming.

But considering the environment in rural areas, it's really not an exaggeration.

We're all family. If you arrest someone without evidence, everyone will respond, and emotions will run high. Who can control that?

And sometimes even if you have evidence, it's not enough; people simply won't listen.

He Guangming nodded, thinking it was feasible.

Chen Shijie hesitated for a moment and said, "The main thing is that we're harvesting the late rice right now, so we're very busy. I'm worried that people won't want to come out."

Today, October 13th, is the crucial time for harvesting the late rice, threshing and drying it, and delivering the grain to the government.

Chen Shenghua frowned and said, "Let's figure it out first."

Later that day, the people who had gone to the countryside to investigate returned.

After making inquiries, it was discovered that Ai Hongguang lived in the village with two sons and a daughter, and made a living by farming.

My eldest son is 26 years old and works in the city. Now that it's busy with farming, he stays home to help out.

Then, 80% of the villagers share the surname Ai, so Ai Hongguang has several cousins. He was a soldier, knows a bit about electricity, and can repair tractors; people like that are well-connected in the village.

He was also a good person; he was imprisoned in 83 because he was helping his friend's sister get revenge.

Therefore, after discussing it, everyone felt that forcibly taking people into the village would most likely result in resistance.

The safest way is to lure people out.

Coincidentally, during the off-season for farming, Ai Hongguang would also come out to do odd jobs such as construction.

The next day, the group headed straight for Bailu Town as planned.

They found a family in town, borrowed a place from them, and then tricked Ai Hongguang into coming there under the pretext of needing him to repair a tractor. They then took action and trapped him like a turtle in a jar.

Considering the other party had served in the military, a number of people were lying in ambush in the courtyard.

Li Shuzhou and Xuewen naturally wouldn't risk going to the scene, so they stayed in the opposite room with Zhang Shenghua and several other leaders, keeping an eye on things.

Upon observing Ai Hongguang enter the courtyard, they immediately ordered his arrest.

"Why aren't they here yet?" Zhang Shenghua glanced at his watch, his brows furrowed.

Judging by the time, they should have arrived long ago.

He Guangming said, "Old Zhang, calm down, the person is right here, he can't escape."

Li Shu thought so too. They'd already locked onto him; how could they let him escape again?

The reason they didn't go directly into the village to bring people was simply because they were concerned about the risks.

If they really put up a stubborn resistance, there are still plenty of ways to deal with it.

Just as I was watching, someone suddenly ran in.

A phone call from the city.

"Who is it?" Chen Shijie was also there, and said impatiently.

The caller was from the town's police station. He quickly said, "It seems they paged you, but you didn't reply, so they called the station. It was transferred from the provincial department, and then it seems to be a call from Nanjiang, looking for someone or something."

Chen Shijie was taken aback. Looking for someone?

Who is it? Who has such great connections that they even managed to call the arrest site?

Li Shu realized what was happening.

Nanjiang, looking for someone, that's yourself.

Zhang Shenghua's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly said, "Li Shu, is something wrong with your municipal bureau? Go and return the call right away."

After going around in circles, they've finally arrived here, so it's clear they have something urgent to attend to.

As he spoke, he beckoned Zhou Xuewen to accompany him.

Li Shu dared not delay and immediately ran to the town's police station.

The call has already ended.

I decided to call the police station directly.

Li Shu was puzzled. They had just reported the situation over the phone the day before yesterday, so why was he suddenly in such a hurry to make a phone call?

It took a while to get through, and Zhao Yong answered.

Upon confirming it was Li Shu, he hurriedly said, "Li Shu, there was a taxi robbery last night, and the driver is dead. The car has been cleaned, but we didn't find any useful fingerprints. However, we analyzed that there might be fingerprints on the inside of the door handle, but that's black and won't show up. Do you have any ideas?"

Li Shu thought to himself that there really was a case.

And it must be very tricky, otherwise the team wouldn't have gone to such lengths to contact them.

I quickly thought about it.

Zhao Yong spoke hastily, but he basically explained the situation.

Because taxi robberies usually involve posing as passengers, deliberately taking a taxi to a secluded place, and waiting for an opportunity to strike.

Unless the driver resists, it generally won't turn into murder.

Because the suspect was only after money.

Zhao Yong said that the car was cleaned, perhaps just wiped with clothes, but that was enough to destroy the traces.

"Brother Yong, was there a lot of bleeding at the scene? Did the person die inside or outside the car? What's your analysis: was it latent bleeding from sweat or blood?" Li Shu asked a crucial question.

There are different methods for detecting latent pathogens through sweating, while there are different methods for detecting them through blood.

Zhou Xuewen, who was standing nearby, felt a jolt of fear and realized there was a case at play.

And one can't help but wonder, does this person really consider Li Shu an expert? He's out of town, yet he still made a special phone call to ask him questions.

Zhao Yong hesitated for a moment, then said, "Han and I have analyzed it, and it should be blood latent, but it's very faint. We haven't extracted it yet, so we thought we'd ask you first before making a decision."

Li Shu then understood the situation.

The black door handle can be rendered useless by optical methods.

Using the more stable TMB, namely tetramethylbenzidine, to reveal blood fingerprints is effective, but the same problem remains: the hand is black, so the effect is not visible and the photo cannot be taken.

Meanwhile, this is the door handle of a taxi, which is usually made of plastic with a textured surface, making it difficult to remove directly using conventional methods.

Knowing this, Han Jianjun didn't even try it, fearing that Li Shu might have some other way to destroy the fingerprints.

"Brother Yong, I have a way, but you'll have to wait until I get back to do it."

The system actually has quite a few solutions for handling fingerprints on dark-colored surfaces.