Chapter 18 (1/1)
Chapter 18: Enlightened
Zhang Chi sat in the office all day Others smoked; he questioned witnesses Others ate out; he put his head down and sketched Atthat he was like a hen laying eggs, sitting in “closed door meditation”
He drew a lot of sketches His next witness was especially conscientious and good at describing details at length, so hies to the portrait Others would have different descriptions, so that he’d have to sketch up to five rough drafts His sketching speed was getting slower and slower He was up to his ears in work Moreover, there would always be so his
At any rate, the first step was to ree on Even one small difference in detail, accue deviation Now the witnesses had their advantages and disadvantages, but he could only do his best to cull, restore, concentrate, elirate, until he positively locked down the true appearance of thea fa one step closer
It was already the afternoon of the next day Zhang Chi wiped the fine drops of sweat frolected to turn on the air conditioning He saw off a group of witnesses aving big fans, then stood there, stretching His back ached fro
He looked up at the wall clock It was already after lunch ti desire to catch the suspect had overwhelry
He once again picked up the witness list and checked another one off The only ones left to talk to were the two policeh each of their naht sketches he had just made and spread them out on the conference table and paced back and forth, staring at the carefully
Every one of them had clearly been approved by the witnesses He studied their expressions every time he showed them a final draft Fear, surprise, astonish look, every expression without exception conveyed the sketch’s accuracy He didn’t need to listen to the fulso
But when he laid the portraits out together it would be going a bit far to say they were blood brothers At best they looked to have the sa like that Just where did the problem lie?
Zhang Chi looked out theOverhead, the usual unending haze, where you couldn’t tell if it was day or not, had been swept away fro a rare, endless blue sky and white clouds Nice weather like this was a pity for one working overtiet those awful photographs out of his arettes and lighter, when he noticed out of the corner of his eye Gu shi+ a ways off, co toward him down the hallway She would frown every time she smelled smoke
He quietly withdrew his hand and folded his arms over his chest and continued to look at the scenery In a public housing building diagonally opposite, a person was cleaning aabout seven or eight floors up, the lared off the , dazzling hi him to squint Another scene flashed before his eyes:
A large pool of blood on the ground To one side fragments of a plastic bucket The dirty water and fresh blood insideout over the cracks and seae, turbid bloodwith a staff member, strained to carry a body covered with a white cloth toward a car The surrounding bystanderes unconsciously stepped backward, keeping their distance, endlessly discussing and sobbing Police sirens screaot out of the car and intercepted the carriers, stopping them
That day at nightfall a wo straight down onto theinstantly Witnesses immediately called the police The inconsolable husband told the police on the scene that his wife had been cleaning the hen she slipped, lost her balance, and fell to her death The police expressed their condolences, but had to order hi to national laws and regulations, all unnatural deaths had to be subjected to a public security office investigation Only after confir the nature of the death would the body be turned over to the family to conduct funeral rites
The scene had already been disturbed, and the forensic detective discovered upon examination that the fatal injury was a fractured teround first The police had then went upstairs and continued the investigation inside the hoe confirmed the deceased lady’s husband’s story
However, just as the police were getting ready to leave, an attentive trace analyst discovered traces of blood on the leaves of a tree near where the woman had fallen If the woman’s death had been caused by the impact, how could there have been blood before she hit?
On his insistence the police went back up to the hoation The husband was flustered when he opened the door, adding more evidence to the analyst’s suspicions With the help of criation instruments they discovered bloodstains that were difficult to detect with the naked eye Authentification of a sa, and it matched the deceased’s blood type Moreover, the blood had been spilled less than twenty-four hours before
With such strong evidence the husband’sThey had been fighting over sory, he struck his wife in the head with an exercise dumbbell from the balcony, then faked the fall Just like that his hopes of getting aith murder were dashed
Zhang Chi had thought of that example case from the police academy many tiht it up they had always lamented about human nature andhis in a neay He neatly packed up his sketches and hurried to see Mr Gu
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