Chapter 1211: Chapter 1141: Anything Goes
“Whoa, foie gras sushi?”
“What’s this white fish? Sea bream? That’s impressive!”
“I still prefer eel rice, beef rice is not bad either…”
In the command room, the officers were eating and comnting, as happy as if they had caught a trainload of thieves, which is equivalent to double happiness.
More than half of the people here hardly slept last night. Those who were lucky had a nap in the morning but were unlikely to find much food when they got up. The unlucky ones persevered till now, ate so canteen food or delivery, but had mostly spent their energy.
At this mont, the leaders were eating, and naturally, the regular officers had no qualms.
Wei Shikan was like hosting a party, watching everyone enjoy themselves and happily nodding his head.
Dai Mingsheng ate a few sushi pieces and unexpectedly found them quite tasty. He glanced at the wooden box containing the sushi, clicked his tongue, walked up to Wei Shikan, coughed twice, and said, “Shi Kan, it’s nice that you’re willing to treat everyone to so food, but don’t buy such expensive stuff. Also, you don’t have to treat so many people at once…”
“No worries, my buddy’s sushi store has average sales, so I just thought to help him out.” Wei Shikan casually waved his hand, saying, “Participating with everyone in such a big case makes happy, so I just wanted to celebrate a bit.”
Dai Mingsheng sighed, “Your celebration is costing one or two months of salary.”
Wei Shikan glanced at Dai Mingsheng without speaking.
Though Dai Mingsheng’s professional ability is average, it depends on whom he’s compared to. No matter what, he’s a senior detective with above-dian skills. His eagle-eyed perception is far better than regular detectives. He imdiately noticed Wei Shikan’s expression, furrowed his brows and said, “Two months of my salary aren’t enough?”
Wei Shikan chuckled, “I guess your performance bonus might not be that much either…”
Dai Mingsheng waved his hand, “Anyway, mind your influence.”
“I, Kshatriya, have laid it all out, so why pretend anymore.” Wei Shikan said indifferently.
Dai Mingsheng thought carefully for a mont and indeed, for soone like Wei Shikan, pretending to be poor or feigning equality and friendship is not only aningless but perhaps also complicates relationships.
When it cos to concealing identity, it depends on the organization. In a departnt like the Criminal Police Brigade, it’s really hard for Wei Shikan to hide. In the end, it’s more likely everyone is putting on an act for him, not that he is successfully concealing anything.
Seeing Dai Mingsheng run out of words, Wei Shikan lazily avoided his lecture and strolled over to Jiang Yuan.
What he likes most is watching Jiang Yuan solve cases, or rather, he has always wanted to beco soone like Jiang Yuan as a detective. By comparison, Dai Mingsheng’s working style is sothing he instinctively rejects because becoming the captain of the Criminal Police Brigade is not hard for him, but being in Dai Mingsheng’s position allows him to recruit easily, making life predictable and unexciting.
“What kind of sushi does Captain Jiang like?” Wei Shikan spoke to Jiang Yuan without any burden, feeling no discomfort in interrupting others’ work.
Jiang Yuan was focused on work and straightforwardly said, “I prefer rice bowls. The one I had last ti was good, tomato scramble over rice with braised pork sauce, paired with a bit of spicy stir-fried at, and a bit more braised pork or pork belly…”
Wei Shikan was taken aback, “Didn’t expect Captain Jiang’s tastes to be so… simple. By the way, I heard you like hotpot, Captain Jiang. I know a buddy who runs a seafood hotpot place, they can serve lobster and such. We can try it together soti.”
“Seafood hotpot?” Jiang Yuan hesitated for a mont, “I prefer to dip beef.”
Turning to Miao Ruixiang, Jiang Yuan said, “Arrange hotpot for tonight. Later, check how many people will join for the late-night snack, make arrangents, using the frozen at delivered by the ranch, shaved with the machine.”
Hand-sliced fresh beef is also very delicious, but this assembly thod is relatively more cumberso, especially when serving many people. You need a team of chefs to slice the at, and slicing too thick won’t taste good, neither would using inferior at parts.
By contrast, frozen at slices have a lower ceiling but a guaranteed minimum quality. If the at is good, shaved at slices are also very tasty, requiring less from guests—the at can be briefly boiled until its color changes, perfect for rough n.
Miao Ruixiang promptly agreed and noted down in his work log—Late-night snacks are combat power, dispute it if you dare!
Wei Shikan wanted to cozy up to Jiang Yuan, thought about it, and offered, “How about using my buddy’s beef? I have a friend who specializes in importing beef, I can bring so Wagyu over…”
“Lean ones are tasty for hotpot. Too fatty is no fun.” Jiang Yuan expressed his candid thoughts.
Miao Ruixiang helped ease the atmosphere, saying, “The captain is more accustod to his own ranch’s beef.”
“Captain Jiang’s own ranch?” Wei Shikan finally rembered and slapped his forehead.
anwhile, Jiang Yuan checked his watch, calculated for a while, and said, “Just right, I’m heading out to the scene, will be back for the al.”
Wei Shikan hurriedly said, “Captain Jiang, I’ll go with you, whatever you need.”
Jiang Yuan hesitated, “Anything?”
Wei Shikan hesitated for a mont, the desire to improve outweighing everything, he said, “Anything is fine!”
“Then let’s go,” Jiang Yuan replied and casually handed his notebook to Miao Ruixiang.
Wei Shikan cheered and snatched the laptop, saying, “Let do it, Brother Miao can take a rest.”
“No need. I can handle it,” Miao Ruixiang’s enthusiasm for work had only increased since becoming a senior uncle.
Jiang Yuan spoke again to Dai Mingsheng, saying, “The pollen retrieved from the three suspects has been fully identified, and the pollen spectrum confirms they were in the sa location as the victim, Zhang Lei, at least once. Combined with the weapon identification, it should be enough for submission.”
Jiang Yuan obtained the matching pollen spectrum from the clothes used by the third suspect.
The third suspect was the one who had spent three days and nights with a nightclub girlfriend, leaving him too fatigued to dig a grave. His clothes hadn’t been processed in ti and were hidden with the weapon in the props room, initially intended to be incinerated, but his exhaustion delayed the process.
Dai Mingsheng wasn’t as concerned about the fate of these three suspects anymore, but the solid evidence still brought pleasure, he smiled and said, “Good. All three have given consistent accounts, so this case is considered closed, uh… I an Zhang Lei’s murder case.”
In criminal cases, the effectiveness of a single testimony is always questionable, especially in certain cases. In contrast, multiple testimonies hold more value, and testimony from multiple people against one person is particularly compelling.
“I’m going to the scene again. The one at the newly built film city. Wei Shikan wants to co along,” Jiang Yuan said to Dai Mingsheng.
Dai Mingsheng nodded first and then quickly said, “Xiao Wei isn’t very sensible, if you don’t want to bring him along, I’ll talk to him.”
Jiang Yuan said indifferently, “It’s okay. I happen to need a helper.”
Half an hour later.
Jiang Yuan led a group back into the film city’s office building.
Although after several days of investigation, Lanying Group was in disarray, the office workers hadn’t been inford of any leave, so regardless of the presence or absence of aningful work, those scheduled to work still showed up.
However, everyone had developed so degree of immunity, and now seeing the police no longer sparked much interest in gathering around.
Jiang Yuan led the group straight to the top floor.
Wei Shikan was a little surprised, asking, “Are you looking for Yue Hongxu? At the scene you left… Yue Hongxu isn’t dead, right?”
“Not him. Confird already.” Jiang Yuan stepped out of the elevator and gestured with his mouth, saying, “The rooftop.”
The group proceeded through the ergency exit, up to the rooftop, and as they walked a few steps toward the western corner, they began to catch a faint whiff of decay.
Simultaneously, police officers who arrived earlier ca to report.
“A corpse was discovered an hour ago. After calling 110, the command center redirected it to us,” the officer reported: “The person who found it is an accountant from Lanyue Company, seemingly planning to commit suicide, as they had already written a will. But during contemplation before jumping, caught the scent of the decaying body and found it.”
Jiang Yuan nodded: “Talk while walking.”
The officer quickly followed up, saying, “The body is already decaying, but from the ID card and mobile phone on it, the deceased is identified as a financial director of Lanying Group, nad Song Zhao. The body was clutching a handgun, for safety, after taking photos, we took the gun away.”
“The accountant wanted to commit suicide, but upon seeing the financial director dead, decided against it?” Liu Jinghui, who had co along, had already conjured up an entire cri drama upon hearing this.
The officer hesitated, saying, “The caller, this lady intending to commit suicide, claid that the financial director’s death was too grueso to accept at the mont, and combined with the impulse to report it, she decided against suicide.”
As he spoke, they reached the corpse.
The body was dressed in a suit, wearing an ID tag, leaning against the exterior wall of the rooftop’s central water tank, sitting. The eyes of the corpse were swollen and decaying, protruding outward, but most striking was the wide-open mouth.
It doesn’t require much forensic experience to imagine that the deceased likely adopted the thod often seen in films, placing a handgun in their mouth and pulling the trigger as a ans of suicide.
However, unlike the typical portrayal in films, when one widely opens their mouth and fires a bullet, the rapidly gushing blood, brain fluid, lymph, mixed with other bodily fluids, quickly fills and saturates this cavity, soaking the torn flesh around the cavity, turning it into a haven for insect breeding.
At this mont, the mouth of the corpse showed not a trace of red, only an abundance of writhing white maggots.
They clustered densely in the corpse’s mouth, resembling a white chrysanthemum stuffed within, except each petal and stan of the little chrysanthemums kept surging endlessly.
“Shi Kan.” After inspecting the body once more, Jiang Yuan donned gloves and slightly shifted it, summoning Wei Shikan, he said, “Remove all the maggots from the oral cavity of the corpse, don’t disturb the maggots in other areas.”
Wei Shikan wore a “black hat monkey” expression.
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