At noon the next day.
Gongzhou.
There were circles of cordons around the open space, but they couldn't stop the middle-aged ladies and uncles from peeking their heads and whispering. In the apartment building, the doors and windows of every household were closed. The residents stood in the corridor and pointed downstairs. Some of the more irritable ones had already begun to curse.
"Oh my God, they're seeking death and committing suicide here. Have they thought about other people? Do you think it's easy for us to buy a house if we live frugally?!"
"I'm telling you, the western woman in the southern part of the city is the most effective in fortune-telling. Hurry up and ask her to come over. Otherwise, what if she makes a scene at night?"
…
"Make way, make way." Yan Ji walked through the crowd and showed his ID to the policeman guarding the cordons. The latter immediately lifted the cordons and let him pass.
"Yan Ge!" Ma Xiang greeted him and handed him gloves and shoes. "You're finally here. The forensic doctor is cleaning up here!"
Yan Ji took off his sunglasses. The flesh and blood on the ground had been washed away by the heavy rain last night, but the soil still emitted a strong smell of blood. The flies were buzzing around. The minced flesh stuck to the cement ground had already dried. White broken bones and unknown traces of solidification could be vaguely seen. That should be the brain matter from the fall.
There were three or four forensic doctors from Gongzhou at the scene. They were almost done cleaning up the body.
"F * ck, you really know how to pick the time to die." Yan Xun tightened his gloves and showed Ma Xiang a gap of half a centimeter with his two fingers. "When I received a call from the Municipal Bureau this morning, I was only a little bit away from forcing myself on you, Consultant Lu."
Ma Xiang said, "No way, with your beauty and body, you still forced yourself on me? Isn't it half pushing and half accepting, coquettishly, mandarin ducks … mandarin ducks crossing necks and entering the red tent? "
"Hey, although the actual situation is like this, I have to leave some face for you, Consultant Lu. I'll take the blame." Yan Ji raised his chin. "Can you confirm where he fell from? What's the preliminary conclusion of the forensic doctor?"
The two of them climbed up the stairs to the rooftop. Ma Xiang quickly took out his notebook to record the case. "We can basically confirm that he fell from the rooftop. The footprints and fingerprints of the deceased, Wang Xingye, have been extracted from the guardrails around the rooftop and the stairs along the way. Because the heavy rain caused a lot of damage to the crime scene, there is currently no valid evidence that anyone other than the deceased was on the rooftop. Therefore, the initial conclusion of the Gongzhou branch and the medical examiner is that the deceased committed suicide. "
"He committed suicide to escape punishment." Yan Xuan snorted, but his smile sent chills down people's spines. "The Municipal Bureau said the same thing this morning."
Ma Xiang looked around and asked carefully, "What do you think?"
"To be able to escape the moment the police started to arrest him, and to ride a bicycle out of Jianning under everyone's eyes, such a person with remarkable abilities actually used all his skills just to rush out of the city and commit suicide overnight?" Yan Ji said lightly, "If you tell me that his first love or only son of eight generations lived in this building, then I'll believe this stupid conclusion out of courtesy."
They happened to pass by the Gongzhou police who were taking notes in the corridor. Ma Xiang thought for a while and decided not to respond for the time being. After all, a strong dragon does not fight a local snake. It would be bad if they were stopped and beaten up.
"This is the door." Yan Ji pushed open the iron door that led to the rooftop and said coldly, "Only Wang Xingye's fingerprints were found? Do you really think we're stupid and easy to fool? "
As soon as the iron door opened, the musty air accompanied by the unique salty smell after the rain hit their faces.
The on-site trace inspection personnel of Gongzhou were finishing the final work on the rooftop. The Gao Panqing who arrived at the scene with Ma Xiang in the morning was facing them from the side. He was talking to a man in his forties who was wearing a dark blue police uniform jacket. He was of medium height and was talking to him. Probably he had been paying attention to the movement here. As soon as Yan Ji pushed open the door and showed his head, the Gao Panqing immediately greeted him, "Captain Yan, you're here!"
"Come, come, come, this is the leader of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Jianning Municipal Bureau, Captain Yan." The Gao Panqing turned to the man and smiled at Yan Ji, "This is Captain Qi of the First Criminal Investigation Detachment of Gongzhou. We're discussing the case here."
Yan Ji's eyes flashed slightly. He heard the clues from the Gao Panqing's heavy tone in the first half of the sentence, but he didn't say anything. He smiled and shook hands with Captain Qi.
However, as soon as he shook hands, he felt something unusual.
Captain Qi's hand was cold and weak. His palm was soft and smooth. Coupled with his uniform, he looked very imposing on the surface. He didn't look like a mature and experienced field criminal police. At least, field criminals didn't wear uniforms all day.
"Deputy Yan's name is well known in Province S. How could I not know of him? I've heard so much about you. " Captain Qi's voice was not very strong, but his smile was very sincere, "We've met face to face during the joint operation in Gongzhou and Jianning. It's only been a few years, but things have changed. Deputy Yan, you're not what you used to be. You're getting more and more majestic!"
The meaning of these words seemed to be vaguely saying that Yan Ji was just a small fry back then.
In a split second, Yan Xun understood why Old Gao had emphasized that he was "currently in charge of the work of the detachment." He could not help but smile. He did not loosen his grip on Captain Qi's hand. "Indeed, things remain the same, but people have changed. That joint operation was carried out by the Second Anti-drug Detachment of Gongzhou, right? At that time, your detachment leader was … "
"Ah, yes, Jiang Stops! Look at my memory. " Yan Ji looked at Captain Qi's smile that suddenly faded and slapped his forehead, "You were also under the leadership of Captain Jiang, right? Oh, your Captain Jiang was very impressive. He was promoted to a supervisor at a young age. Unfortunately, he later sacrificed himself on the frontline of anti-drug operations. Captain Qi was transferred from the Second Anti-drug Detachment to the Criminal Investigation Department at that time, and then rose step by step to where you are now?"
Captain Qi's smile was so faint that it almost disappeared, "Let's not talk about the past. Let's not talk about the past." As he spoke, he pulled his hand out forcefully, "Come, let me show Deputy Yan the crime scene."
In fact, there was nothing to see at the crime scene. Indeed, a large number of traces had been destroyed by the heavy rain. There were no footprints on the soaked felt, asphalt, and cement ground. A few trace examiners tried to extract hair, fingerprints, and other evidence around the guardrail. Captain Qi pointed at them and said, "This is the place where the victim jumped. The first batch of evidence has been sent back to the station. After the results are out, I'll inform Jianning."
Yan Ji didn't comment and asked, "Jumped?"
Captain Qi didn't say anything.
"This guardrail is about 1.34 meters tall. Wang Xingye is about 1.75 meters tall and weighs at least 200 kilograms. Can he climb up?"
Captain Qi said slowly, "In theory, it can be done. If the desire to die is particularly strong … Deputy Yan, what are you doing?"
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