Chapter 456 (1/2)
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Volume 30: Ghost Gun
On July 26th, Chen s.h.i.+ arrived at the bureau early in the morning. A few days had pa.s.sed since the gun mailing case. The last gun with a silencer was still missing. The task force was temporarily disbanded. The work that had acc.u.mulated before was piled up like mountains. The police who were working non-stop the past few days all envied Chen s.h.i.+ who didn't have to do anything once the case was over.
Chen s.h.i.+ went to Lin Qiupu's office and asked, ”Did you check what I've asked you to check?”
Lin Qiupu, who was on the phone, made a gesture to indicate that Chen s.h.i.+ should wait. After ending the call with a few simple sentences, he crossed his arms. ”You're getting more and more arrogant. Do you know how busy I have been these two days?”
”Who cares about that? Did you check it or not?”
”I have. Zhou Tiannan's private a.s.sets haven't increased. Ji Xingyao isn't in the city anymore. The interrogation will be carried out by the public security bureaus of the other cities. I read the fax sent over in the morning. She didn't know the background details of the person she hired, and she isn't clear what they look like either. The two parties made the transaction in a dark alley.”
Chen s.h.i.+ was disappointed. In fact, he had already expected this result. If Zhou Tiannan wasn't cautious, his ident.i.ty would have been exposed long ago.
It seems that it would be a long journey before they could arrest him and his people and bring them to justice.
Chen s.h.i.+ turned to leave, and Lin Qiupu asked, ”Where are you going?”
”Going home to rest. I've been exhausted over the past two days and I'm both physically and mentally drained right now.”
”You should help me with some of the work. When we were tracing the missing guns, there were several more murders in the city. You must be interested in them.”
”No. Let me rest on such a hot day!”
When Chen s.h.i.+ turned around and left, Lin Qiupu received another call. He suddenly stood up and chased after him. ”Hey, stop there. There's been a shooting!”
Chen s.h.i.+ turned around in surprise. Has the last gun appeared?!
Lin Qiupu didn't have a lot of staff available at the moment, so he asked Chen s.h.i.+, Lin Dongxue, Xu Xiaodong and Peng Sijue to go over together. The crime had occurred in a high-end residential area. In the morning, an old man who was doing his morning exercises found that a household had left their lights on. When he looked inside, a man was laying in a pool of blood. He frantically ran to his local police station who then called it in.
Seeing the criminal police show up, the local police officers who were at the scene breathed a sigh of relief. They could finally hand over the case. Chen s.h.i.+ asked, ”What is the ident.i.ty of the deceased?”
”I just checked the ID card with the station. This man is called Song Yuwen. He's 30 years old and a local. His occupation is a dentist and his family background should be pretty decent...” The police looked around the house. To be able to buy such a big house at a young age, they could tell that his income must be quite high.
Chen s.h.i.+ pondered, ”Would a dentist have conflicts with anyone?”
The deceased was lying on the wooden floor, with three bloodstains on his body. His head was facing the door. Peng Sijue put down the toolbox and used tweezers to pry open the wound of the deceased for examination. The wound was a round hole outlined with blackened burns. “He was shot to death.”
”Three shots were fired. If it was a normal gun, it would have alarmed the neighbors last night. It must have been a gun with a silencer. Maybe it was the missing gun.”
”We'll have to wait until we see the bullet before we can confirm it.”
”Xiaodong and Dongxue, you two should interview the nearby residents to understand the situation.”
The local police also left as well. Chen s.h.i.+ and Peng Sijue were the only ones left in the room. Chen s.h.i.+ checked the pupils of the body and asked, ”The time of death was about six hours ago?”
”No.” Peng Sijue took a look at the remote control of the air conditioner on the table. ”The air conditioner is set on a timer. The air conditioner should have been on when the victim died. The indoor temperature was 20 degrees. The time must be pushed back two to three hours.”
”That's around eleven then.”
”We have to wait and test the liver and a.n.a.l temperatures to determine it properly.”
”The owner set the timer on the air conditioner, indicating that he was ready to go to bed. Seeing that he was wearing pajamas, the time seems about right?” Chen s.h.i.+ took out his cell phone and told Lin Dongxue the time of death. He told her to question the property managers as well.