The two waited in the reception room for a few minutes, and then a policewoman in her early twenties, dressed in the uniform of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, walked in from outside.

Before Hou Jun could speak, Chang Kun stood up on his own initiative.

"Excuse me, we're here to participate in the case analysis. Could you take us to the analysis meeting?"

The policewoman covered her mouth and laughed, "Oh my, you have a sweet tongue, young comrade. But, I wouldn't dare take you there without the captain's instructions."

"What's your name, sister? I'm Chang Kun from the railway station police station, and this is my senior, Hou Jun."

The policewoman's eyes widened: "You...you're Chang Kun?! The Chang Kun who raided the entire Qianmen Railway Station Police Station?!"

"Uh!" Chang Kun gave a wry smile. "I didn't take them down; they were caught by the organization because they colluded with a theft gang!"

"Haha, I've heard about it. They caught over a hundred thieves in one day? Is it true?" The policewoman looked at Chang Kun with great curiosity. She hadn't expected to see the person she had just heard about yesterday.

"There were more than a hundred thieves, and many serious criminals! Didn't you see? The escort line stretched for more than a mile!" Hou Jun exaggeratedly gestured, still able to recall that exciting scene.

"Wow! I thought it was an exaggeration!" The policewoman leaned closer and poured them both a cup of tea. "Tell me more about it, a lot of my colleagues are really curious."

"Oh, by the way, my name is Zhuo Ying. Welcome to the Criminal Investigation Division to help out."

She reached out and gently shook hands with the two of them.

Chang Kun and Hou Jun exchanged a glance and smiled, "Sister Zhuo, it's fine to tell you, but we're here to help investigate the case, we can't just know nothing, can we? Could you tell us a little about the case?"

Zhuo Ying glanced back at the door of the reception room, and seeing that no one was coming in, she got up and closed the door: "I'm telling you, but don't tell anyone I told you."

"Of course, we can't betray our comrades!" Hou Jun thumped his chest loudly and began by talking about what happened at Qianmen Railway Station the day before yesterday.

He caught more than a hundred thieves in one day, and he told the story at least ten times when he got back to his unit.

Every time I run into a colleague, I ask them out of curiosity.

Back home, he patiently told his wife and daughter the story again.

Of course, he embellished the story he told his wife and daughter, adding many scenes of him personally catching thieves, making his image much more heroic.

Upon hearing that all the thieves at Qianmen Railway Station had been caught and the police who had committed crimes inside had also been brought to justice, Zhuo Ying clapped her hands and cheered repeatedly.

As a member of the criminal investigation team, she wouldn't participate in trivial matters like catching thieves, but her disgust for thieves was in no way diminished.

She knew that, compared to the serious criminals she dealt with, the thieves were the group that posed a greater threat to the public.

Knowing that Chang Kun and others had pulled out such a huge cancer, she admired them greatly.

She didn't hide anything and told the whole story about the case.

The incident occurred in the Commerce Department, where a female accountant was murdered, along with her husband and a five-year-old child.

They were murdered in their home; it was a typical case of family annihilation.

The house was ransacked, a lot of money and tickets were missing, but there were no signs that the door locks or anything else had been pried open.

If it were just a family of three who were murdered, this kind of case, which is suspected to be a break-in robbery, would not need to be solved within a limited time.

The key issue is that the female accountant lost her office key!

This is the key to the Commerce Bureau's office. At that time, the Commerce Bureau was in charge of the issuance, allocation, and supervision of various bills, similar to a department of the central bank in later generations.

Fortunately, the female accountant worked in a ticket management section under the Bureau of Commerce, which was in charge of issuing various tickets and certificates in the capital.

But even so, the situation is still very serious.

Two days have passed since the accountant and her family of three were found dead.

If someone deliberately took the key, there are so many things that can be done in these two days.

If they were spies, they could have destroyed all the ticket management department's issuance slips in the next two days, enough to throw the ticket issuance process in the capital into chaos.

If they were ruthless criminals, they might also use these two days to issue a lot of receipts to themselves.

You should know that these receipts are kept in the document management department, just like money is deposited in a bank; you can withdraw them simply by presenting the deposit slip.

Tsk tsk! Things are getting a bit complicated!

Chang Kun understood his superiors' meaning: solving the family annihilation case was important, but eliminating the potential risk of the ticket management department losing its key was even more important.

After explaining the case, Zhuo Ying didn't linger and went out to attend to other matters.

"Junior brother, tell me, what exactly is going on with this case? Was it a burglary by ruthless criminals, or was it a premeditated attempt to get the keys?" Hou Jun scratched his head, trying to analyze the case himself, but found that he wasn't cut out for it.

Chang Kun shook his head: "It's too early to talk about these things now. We've only just started working on the case, and we know too little information."

Hou Jun smiled sheepishly. He was used to how easily he could apprehend criminals when he was with Chang Kun.

I thought it would be the same this time, and that the two of them would soon shine in the criminal investigation team.

Unexpectedly, not only was he met with a cold reception, but his junior brother also failed to provide any clear analysis.

"Brother Monkey, you don't think I'm a god who can predict the location of criminals by divination, do you?"

"Hehe, isn't that right? Well, that's about right!" At work, many people privately said that Chang Kun was being fed by God, and criminals had nowhere to hide in his eyes.

The people in the unit were pretty much right; the system really is powerful and incredibly useful for catching criminals.

"Junior brother, what do you think would be the first thing someone would do if they got the key?"

"What can you do? Monkey Bro, you don't think you can just take the key and go into the office to stuff the receipts into a sack, do you?"

"Hey! Junior, you underestimate me!" Hou Jun rolled his eyes. "I know those receipts will definitely be in the safe, and the safe certainly won't be in the office. The person with the key definitely knows that too!"

"Brother Monkey, not bad! Your analysis is spot on!"

"Junior brother, hurry up and analyze this case so we can resolve it quickly, lest this so-called captain look down on us."

Chang Kun took out a cigarette and offered one to Hou Jun. The two of them slowly smoked and analyzed the case.

"These kinds of family annihilation cases are nothing more than a few types: revenge killings, crimes of passion, robbery-murders, and another possibility is that the key was deliberately stolen."

"If it's a revenge killing, then we need to consider what enemies the deceased couple had. We need to start from that point. The two of us can't do much."

If we need to investigate the deceased's social relationships, that would be a huge undertaking; the two of them couldn't finish it even if they ran themselves ragged.

"Hey, junior brother, there's a child too?"

"Children? What grudge could a child have that would lead to the annihilation of an entire family..." As soon as he said this, Chang Kun recalled a case he had seen in a short video in his later life.

Believe it or not, in later generations, even a dog can lead to a major murder case, let alone one involving a child!

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