"Boss" was how the investigators affectionately addressed the director, Huo Jiang.
Bureau Chief Huo Jiang was an old man with a scar on his face. He was very fat, but his fatness was not caused by excessive fat content. Instead, his entire body was filled with bulging muscles. It was hard to imagine that an old man with white hair and beard could still have such well-developed muscles.
Huo Jiang's face was dark. He was a mixed-blood of a native and Cang Yue Sheng. He had the characteristics of a mafia boss. He was loyal and protective of his people. His colleagues in the bureau were half afraid of him and half respected him.
At the scene where the bodies were dumped, Huo Jiang was the second-in-command of the bureau, Deputy Director Chu Chenfeng.
At this moment, Chu Chenfeng's face was darker than Huo Jiang's because the facts had proven that Xia Fan's judgment was correct.
Huo Jiang laughed when he saw Xia Fan. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are Xia Fan, right? Jerry's father used to be my superior. He told me about you. "
Huo Jiang was quite friendly to Xia Fan, but he didn't pay much attention to Fo You. As a commoner, he had always despised authority. He didn't appreciate Fo You, who came from a rich family. Instead, he liked people like Xia Fan, who had no background.
Huo Jiang said very generously, "Xia Fan, your previous judgment has been confirmed. The footprints left at the scene are not the murderer. Your deduction is completely correct."
Huo Jiang sighed and frowned. "The bureau is under a lot of pressure now. The families of the innocent victims have been coming to the bureau every day, crying and screaming that they will pay for the murder. The victims are all junior high school students, and it has a bad influence on society. All the junior high schools in the star region are on high alert. Everyone is panicking."
Xia Fan smiled. "Director, these victims are not as innocent as you said."
"What did you say?!" Chu Chenfeng was stunned. He questioned, "They are all innocent children of thirteen or fourteen years old! How can you say that about the victims? Has your conscience been eaten by dogs?! "
Xia Fan curled his lips. "Director Chu, you have a strong sense of justice, but unfortunately, the truth is the truth. So far, the twenty-four victims were all bullies in school."
"Look, this is Cang Yue's biggest video website, Flash Broadcast. I found a video from six months ago. The video shows a group of bad girls bullying a bespectacled girl. They beat her up in public and slapped her dozens of times. They even tore off her skirt and spat on her."
"Although the faces of these bad girls were censored, after decoding the video, we found that the culprit was the girl who was killed today, Qin Xiaoqin."
After listening to Xia Fan, the two directors' eyes widened. Xia Fan then turned on the screen and played the video.
After decoding the video, it could be clearly seen that the murdered Qin Xiaoqin had a cigarette in her mouth and a baseball cap crooked on her head. She was using extremely vicious profanities to hurl insults at the girl, stripping off the girl's clothes and burning her breasts with the cigarette butt.
Xia Fan continued, "According to the police report, after Qin Xiaoqin abused the girl wearing glasses, she was only punished with a scolding. This is because of the Alliance's Protection of Minors Law. The law protects honest minors, but it also protects these little bastards who bully their classmates. No matter how evil they are, there is no way to punish them."
Xia Fan continued, "According to the police report, after Qin Xiaoqin abused the girl wearing glasses, she was only punished with a scolding. This is because of the Alliance's Protection of Minors Law. The law protects honest minors, but it also protects these little bastards who bully classmates. No matter how evil they are, there is no way to punish them."
"There are many more videos here, enough to prove that all twenty-four victims had a criminal record of bullying classmates before they died."
Chu Chenfeng's face darkened. "What are you trying to prove? Even if they are bad kids, they have no reason to kill people! "
Xia Fan said calmly, "Director, I never said that bullying students deserved to be killed. I was just trying to figure out Wednesday's killer's motive."
"First of all, the bureau's judgment of Wednesday's killer's past is all wrong!"
"Wednesday's killer was not a psychopathic carnival killer. He was an avenger."
"An avenger?" Huo Jiang was surprised by Xia Fan's choice of words.
Xia Fan said, "That's right. He was a vengeful killer. He picked targets who fit the criteria and then carried out a brutal murder. Everything he did was for revenge."
"It could be that Wednesday's killer was bullied in junior high, but he was powerless to fight back. It could also be that his children were bullied, and the police's inaction caused the seeds of hatred to be planted in his heart."
"In short, everything in this world is connected by cause and effect. We just need to follow this clue and we will definitely be able to catch the killer."
Chu Chenfeng's expression was extremely ugly. Huo Jiang nodded seriously. "What you said is what we have overlooked. Wednesday's killer did not kill people aimlessly. On the contrary, his motive was very clear."
Xia Fan said calmly, "From the perspective of parents, no matter how bad their children are, they will only love them. They will never tell the Special Task Force about the bad things their children have done. The same goes for teachers and students. The dead are already dead, and if the living speak ill of the dead, they will be despised by the whole society. It will interfere with the Special Task Force's work of collecting clues."
Huo Jiang sighed, shook his head, and touched his chin. "So what do we do now?"
Xia Fan said in a low voice, "It's simple. We start with how Wednesday's killer chose his targets. Just looking at the video won't be enough to find the perpetrator of the bullying unless we see the internal police report."
"Are you suspecting a brother of the police?" Huo Jiang asked in surprise.
Xia Fan smiled and said, "Director, to be honest, I'm not only suspecting the police, but also the courts, the Office for the Protection of Minors, the prosecutor's office, and all other institutions that have access to juvenile delinquency reports. Even the Special Task Force itself."
The two directors were completely shocked by Xia Fan's bold assumption. He was actually suspecting a colleague of the Special Task Force? This young man with a smile on his face, who seemed harmless to both humans and animals, was truly ruthless.
Xia Fan continued, "Due to the restrictions of the Law for the Protection of Minors, all the files on juvenile delinquency are encrypted, but that doesn't mean that no one can see them.
"I used my authority as a junior investigator to easily open the encrypted files and found all the information of the perpetrator of the bullying, from the phone number, address, and school. Everything was recorded.
"I'm guessing that Wednesday's killer must have had access to this information as well."
Chu Chenfeng questioned, "Nonsense! We've also searched the database for information on the victims, but we found nothing. "
Xia Fan smiled. "That's because you used names to search. The Law for the Protection of Minors stipulates that cases involving minors must all use aliases."
"Director, what do you think I've been doing for the past ten hours? I've been searching through the juvenile delinquency database one by one, using my hands and eyes to pick out the victims one by one! You've only seen the results of my work, but not the process. "
The two directors were stunned. No wonder Xia Fan's eyes were red. It turned out that he had spent more than ten hours searching through the juvenile delinquency database! What a horrifying amount of work!
Behind the precise reasoning was Xia Fan's great effort and hard work!
"Hahahaha!"
Huo Jiang was shocked at first, but then he laughed out loud.
"Sure enough, Old Jerry wouldn't lie to me. You're really something!" Huo Jiang's eyes lit up. He pointed at the scene and said, "Do you still want to investigate here?"
Xia Fan shook his head and said with some regret, "There's no need. This is a large public stadium, and there are investigators going in and out all day. If I had been allowed to investigate the scene earlier, I might have had a chance. But now, there's no need."
This case was indeed strange. Xia Fan asked the rats living in the corner of the stadium, but they couldn't provide any valuable information. As for Xia Fan's sense of smell, it couldn't be used in such a crowded public place. So, Xia Fan focused all his attention on finding the motive of the killer.
"It's a bit late. I should've let you take over earlier." Huo Jiang smacked his lips, a little upset.
Take over?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something.
Huo Jiang looked at Xia Fan seriously and asked, "If I give you the task of hunting down Wednesday's killer, are you confident you can complete it?"
Xia Fan thought for a moment. "I can't guarantee anything. After all, Wednesday's killer is very unique. There are many questions that I still don't understand. I can only say that I'll do my best."
.....
Outside the stadium, Dylan and his partner, Ma Zheng, were waiting in boredom. Dylan looked at the stadium, which had been lit up with countless spotlights and said, "Xia Fan offended Director Chu on his first day here. He must have been scolded badly by now."
Ma Zheng frowned. "Didn't Liang Jian say that Xia Fan's reasoning was correct?"
Pfft!
Dylan waved his hand. "That's even more troublesome. If Xia Fan's judgment was wrong, Chief Chu would at most mock him. But if Xia Fan was right and humiliated Chief Chu in public, it would be strange if Chief Chu didn't hate Xia Fan."
Ma Zheng sighed. He felt that Dylan's words made sense. It seemed that Xia Fan was doomed this time.
"Holy sh * t, what's going on?" Dylan's eyes suddenly widened.
Ma Zheng followed Dylan's gaze and saw that Xia Fan and Fu You had come out. The two chiefs of the Special Task Force also left the stadium with Xia Fan. Chu Chenfeng had a long face, while Huo Jiang and Xia Fan were talking and laughing. Xia Fan seemed to have said something, and Huo Jiang kept nodding.
"That's good. I'll wait for your good news!" Huo Jiang solemnly shook Xia Fan's hand and said loudly.
"Rest assured, Chief. We'll do our best," Xia Fan replied.
Turning around, Xia Fan walked toward Fo You. Fo You stretched his back.
"What did the chief say to you?" Dylan put his hands in his trouser pockets and asked Xia Fan curiously.
"Nothing much. Chief Chu is no longer in charge of Wednesday's killer case. From now on, the case will be taken over by our logistics department," Xia Fan replied in a low voice.
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