56: Chapter 55: There’s Only One Way to Huashan Since Ancient Tis 56: Chapter 55: There’s Only One Way to Huashan Since Ancient Tis Evening.
The western sky was aglow with a reddish light; the iron trees by the road were swaying their green branches; the wall-climbing green ivy was undulating its green leaves.
Inside the garage.
Underneath several vehicles that had been gutted, people in coveralls squird.
Du Lei brought Jiang Yuan straight to the traffic unit.
Changyang City’s traffic unit was also not lacking funds.
A few years ago, they had purchased four standard sets of traffic accident scene investigation equipnt and two enhanced sets.
Compared to the pieceal equipnt bought by the criminal investigation brigade’s scene investigation team, the equipnt in the traffic unit’s kit was much more comprehensive.
Just for extracting physical evidence, they had portable multi-spectral light sources, biological detection devices, ultraviolet digital caras, portable microscopes, chassis inspection instrunts, vehicle EDR data readers, and so forth.
Comprehensive professional equipnt is the basis for a thorough professional investigation, but, these devices also demand comprehensive professionalism from the scene investigators.
Du Lei had brought Jiang Yuan over also to show him around, hoping he would realize the difficulty and retreat.
Next, he took Jiang Yuan for a tour around the traffic unit’s garage and said, “What do you think?
If you really want to dismantle cars, you’ll have to use professional equipnt and instrunts.
To be honest, there are so devices here that I’m not very familiar with.
I have to learn as I go.
In the traffic unit, those who can handle the full set of equipnt are all old masters.
Unless you ask Brigade Chief to personally request soone, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get anyone.”
Jiang Yuan, having understood Du Lei’s aning and after scanning his surroundings, felt confident and replied, “I don’t have anything else to do anyway, so I might as well stay here and work on the cars.”
“Do you know how to use these devices?” Du Lei asked.
“Most of them, yes.
Like this portable multi-spectral light source device, it’s used to find bodily fluids, hair, fibers, glass fragnts, dust fingerprints and footprints—the sa kind as what we use in scene investigations, with xenon lights, 13 wavelengths…” Jiang Yuan said while demonstrating its use.
The traffic team had been notified in advance and remained silent as they watched Jiang Yuan operate the equipnt smoothly.
Jiang Yuan casually demonstrated two more devices before stopping and saying, “I’ll also need a micro-evidence investigation kit.
It should have surgical instrunts, a ray detector, and a micro-vacuum cleaner would be ideal…”
Watching and listening, Du Lei gradually relaxed, straightened up, and said, “You don’t have anything in your county, but you know everything?”
Jiang Yuan smiled and responded, “Learned a bit before.”
“Alright then.
I’ll have the captain find a set for you,” sighed Du Lei, then chuckled, “If you really find a clue through this car, that would be impressive.”
Du Lei pulled out his phone and made a call back, requesting Tan Yong’s Pajero to be towed directly to the traffic unit.
At the sa ti, he asked soone to find a micro-evidence investigation kit…
“Given the situation from three years ago, we can only search for clues in this car now,” Jiang Yuan casually remarked.
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“Now, we can only search for clues through elimination and reasoning,” declared Liu Jinghui in front of everyone.
Hundreds of criminal police officers and auxiliary police, including Wei Zhenguo and Mu Zhiyang, loudly acknowledged the order and went on to investigate hundreds of companies, units, and construction projects related to Luqiao Group in the vicinity.
According to Liu Jinghui’s theory, to develop an effective body dumping plan, or rather, to have a stable body dumping route, one first needs a stable route.
Therefore, short-term construction projects were not the focus of this investigation.
However, what truly mattered remained unclear to Liu Jinghui.
He sat in his office, poring over information gathered from various sources, especially the investigation notes, and thought it over carefully.
After a while, Liu Jinghui stood up, took a pen, and started circling areas on the wall map.
There was no one in the office.
Liu Jinghui was pondering and muttered to himself:
“For a stable body-dumping channel, the traffic can’t be too bad…
No, that’s not right, after all, the frequency of visits isn’t too high.
Yeah, it definitely can’t be too bumpy; no matter how you package a body, you can’t risk any exposure.
So, that rules out the really remote mountain roads…”
“An operational unit that’s unstable, prone to shutting down production…
that might actually be useful.
But if they have caras year-round, he’d probably have to think twice…”
“Access to the highway is best, preferably without a toll booth, let alone a checkpoint, or there’s always a chance of getting caught.
But it’s not absolutely certain.
If I were to dispose of a body, where would I bury it?
Hmm…
If it’s not water, it’s got to be a pit; there needs to be sothing ready-made.
Digging on the spot is too exhausting.
Digging a three-ter pit, you would almost wish the corpse could dig itself…”
“Right, he had to go back there repeatedly; he’d likely even go during non-business hours.
He must be driving his own car…”
Liu Jinghui was drawing on the map and regained his energy, then he started looking through piles of interview records.
Outside his office, the detectives were coming and going, their numbers dwindling over ti.
By the early morning, the outside offices were empty, yet Liu Jinghui remained spirited.
Especially as he felt he was getting closer to the truth, his spirits soared even more.
Tired as he was, he was still excited.
Excited as he was, he was still tired.
The next day, the detectives continued to gather evidence and interrogate Tan Yong.
Liu Jinghui was still tirelessly engaged in mobilizing his brain, thinking and analyzing possible body-dumping sites.
The places first suspected of being body-dumping grounds were once again asured by the detectives’ footsteps.
Although there were no results yet, Liu Jinghui believed that he was getting closer to the truth, step by step.
The busy work of investigation went on for almost a week.
Liu Jinghui’s ticulous shirt also started to look neglected.
Exhaustion began to show on everyone’s faces.
As the main axis, Liu Jinghui was marinated in the taste of coffee and tea, with hollow cheeks, swollen eyes, but he still managed to hold on.
For detectives investigating current murder cases, it was common for the team to work through a week, and it was even more understandable for a case as important as a backlog that may be a serial murder case.
Although the Chinese police system does not highlight serial murder cases and create various profiles for serial killers like foreign countries do, when they do occur, it’s only appropriate for them to be afforded a high level of attention.
The increasing number of people assigned to the special task force for the 326 kidnapping and murder case indicated that the superiors were continually deploying more resources as the case progressed.
Monday.
Once again, it was ti for the all-hands eting, which was now taking place in the large conference room.
Liu Jinghui walked into the conference room with confidence, holding a stack of docunts.
He saw that in the front row, seven or eight people had ford a group and were discussing sothing heatedly.
Without haste to start the eting, he approached with an affable look and smiled, “What are you discussing so enthusiastically?
Any progress on the case?”
“Jiang Yuan found a potential hidden spot for the corpse using trace evidence.
It’s quite compelling!” Brigade Chief Yu Wenshu said, unable to contain his excitent as he held a report.
Liu Jinghui smiled again, maintained his smile, and approached, “Let have a look.”
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