At 1: 30 in the afternoon, in a private room of a hotpot restaurant in Gao Lanqi.
"You're injured, so don't eat too much mutton!" Miao Ying advised Zhao Yu as she held a stack of documents from the forensics department.
"Are you kidding me? It would be a waste not to come to Gao Lanqi for mutton hotpot!" Zhao Yu helped Miao Ying set the table and laughed. "It's just a small injury. When I was in Yao Ming for surgery, I ate mutton hotpot all the time!"
"Alright, do as you wish!" Miao Ying said without lifting her head. "Zhao Yu, about that mound … Forensics Gao has hired his best footprint analyst, but … the situation is a little complicated!"
"Oh?" Zhao Yu listened attentively as Miao Ying got to the point.
"It's the New Year now, so that mound is the playground for the children. They often ride their bikes there and set off firecrackers and firecrackers. So the tracks are very messy. If only we had noticed it a day earlier!"
"Oh …" Zhao Yu was a little regretful. If it hadn't been for the fire that day, he might have noticed it. With night vision and binoculars, he might have been able to capture the arsonist alive.
"But … they did find some fresh footprints," Miao Ying said. "They've already brought them back to the forensics department for analysis! But don't get your hopes up! "
"Then … what about the surveillance cameras nearby?" Zhao Yu asked.
"It's even worse …" Miao Ying shook her head helplessly. "Other than the central area of the town, there are no surveillance cameras anywhere else, or they've been in disrepair for years! Especially the road near the cattle farm, there's a large area of blind spots. Also, outside the cattle farm, there are many small roads that can lead to any nearby village, so there's no way to trace the arsonist. "
"Zhao Yu, Yu Fusheng and the other notorious criminals chose this place as their base of operations because they had a strategic purpose!" Miao Ying pointed at the documents and sighed. "This location is remote and developed. Close by, you can go to Gao Lanqi or even the Central Plains, and far away, you can go to any part of Meng Village!"
"So …" Zhao Yu shook his head in disappointment. "There's no hope of finding the arsonist?"
"Anyway, it's not very optimistic!" Miao Ying nodded. "Just as you predicted, if they wanted to transport something, they could just use a big ox truck to transport it all! Tu Lekai has a whole set of legal procedures, even the highway is free! "
"Tsk tsk …" Zhao Yu knew this very well.
"Now, there's another unfavorable thing. The fire is burning too fiercely!" "Besides Yu Fusheng, Yu Sunfeng, and Tu Lekai, who you saw with your own eyes, we don't know if there were any other victims at the crime scene. For example, we found He Yubing, Liu Guangxing, Yao Wenming, and Yang Zebiao … "
"If I could see it clearly …" Zhao Yu picked up a piece of lamb and put it in Miao Ying's bowl. "It would have turned into ashes by now!"
"Yeah!" Miao Ying sighed. "These people are all vicious criminals. Rather than running away, it would be better to be burned to death! However, there was one exception …
"Zhao Yu …" Miao Ying raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you think that Yang Zebiao is the arsonist? What kind of conflict did he have with Yu Fusheng that led him to kill him? "
"Well, I thought about that last night," Zhao Yu said, shaking his head. "But the fire was so delicate … I don't think so! According to the records, Yang Zebiao is an honest man … "
"Thirteen years have passed, who knows what Yang Zebiao has become? Han Kuan is also an honest man, he could have become a demon! " Miao Ying picked up a piece of lamb for Zhao Yu. "I just talked to the Gao Lanqi police. Other than hoping that Forensics Gao will find something, we can only follow the usual procedure and conduct a large-scale search!"
"Tsk tsk …" Zhao Yu frowned. "Miao Miao, look, the arsonist wanted to burn everything down. Did he want to make it look like a normal fire? If I hadn't experienced it myself, no one would have known that the people who were burned to death here were all high-ranking people. If we escalate the investigation … "
"That's true!" Miao Ying shook her head. "But you can see the situation now. The Central Criminal Division has sent a new special investigation team, Forensics Gao's team, and the experts from the provincial office are here! How does this look like a normal fire? If the arsonist had paid any attention, he would have known that his plan had been exposed, right? "
"That's true!" Zhao Yu nodded. "Actually, this is a good thing. If the arsonist found out that his carefully planned fire didn't cover up the truth about Yu Fusheng and the others, he would be quite upset, right?"
"Plus, if it was a large group of people who set the fire, it could easily cause internal conflict!" Miao Ying said confidently. "So, our police's fire must be bigger than theirs, so that we can force them to reveal themselves! But … these things … are no longer within our team's responsibility. Our mission is still to solve Wu Fangfang's case! The fire has been handed over to team 063! "
"Actually, this is a good thing," Zhao Yu said seriously. "Let them put pressure on the arsonist, and we can focus on investigating from the beginning! I don't know what you're thinking, but I always feel that the truth has been right beside us all along! We're just short of finding it! "
"That's easy for you to say, but …" Miao Ying said worriedly. "After all, the fire destroyed so much evidence. Although there seemed to be a lot of clues, we've tried all of them, and there's no way! Um … "
Just then, Miao Ying's cell phone suddenly rang.
"It's Forensics Gao …"
Miao Ying informed Zhao Yu, then pressed the answer button. However, after listening to a few words, Miao Ying's face changed.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Yu asked after hanging up the phone. "Did something big happen again?"
"No!" Miao Ying said helplessly. "Forensics Gao just told me that last night, they found a burnt skull in the ashes of the fire scene, and there was a bullet embedded in the skull!"
"Last night … The bullet …" Zhao Yu thought for a moment, then suddenly had hope in his eyes. "So …"
"That's right. We've extracted valid DNA and compared it …" Miao Ying paused and said, "The burnt skull belongs to Cao Sifen!"
"Ah!?" Zhao Yu was shocked and his eyes widened. "Cao Sifen!?"
"Because the skull was glued to a metal plate, it was not burned to ashes!" Miao Ying said. "The bullet in the skull shows that Cao Sifen was not burned to death!"
"No wonder the police couldn't catch him after searching for so long!" Zhao Yu exclaimed. "I didn't expect him to die in the house of thieves. Cao Sifen, Yu Fusheng, Yu Sunfeng, and the mute … That's already four?"
"Not only that …" Miao Ying said. "Forensics Gao told me that they also extracted some incomplete DNA tissue and are using a new technology to extract it. Not only will it take some time, but it may also fail!
Also, they found the remains of two pistols, but because they were too badly burned, they couldn't do a ballistic comparison! "
Zhao Yu remembered that Yu Sunfeng had one on him, as well as the other in the flower pot. It seemed that the pistols were made of metal, so they had not been completely burned.
Wait …
Pistols … Bullets … Skull …
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