Chapter 1 Wang Ke

Wang Ke pushed open the bedroom door.

The door opened.

He saw Zhou Ze lying on the bed, sound asleep, while Yingying and Lin Ke were lying on the mat next to the bed, covered with quilts, sleeping together obediently.

Wang Ke didn't go in to disturb them. He gently closed the door again and turned around to go downstairs.

As soon as Wang Ke left,

Lin Ke immediately opened her eyes, and Yingying beside her also opened her eyes.

The two girls lifted the quilts together, only to find that they were wearing very little clothing. Lifting Zhou Ze's quilt, they found their clothes hidden inside. They immediately took them out and put them on.

The sleeping Boss Zhou,

didn't notice anything.

Zhou Ze was indeed tired.

"Why didn't you lock the door?" Bai Yingying said with some dissatisfaction.

"Wouldn't locking the door make us look even more guilty?" Lin Ke retorted.

"That's still better than this."

"He's my father in this body."

"Your father-daughter relationship is really messed up."

After tidying up, Lin Ke got up, opened the door, and went downstairs.

Wang Ke was sitting downstairs reading a book.

Lawyer An and Lao Zhang were standing at the door discussing something. Lao Zhang was holding his mobile phone, probably because the police station had something to notify him about.

"Awake?"

Wang Ke put down the magazine in his hand and looked at his daughter coming down from upstairs.

"Yeah," Lin Ke responded.

"School's about to start. Had enough fun?" Wang Ke asked.

Lin Ke was stunned for a moment when she heard this, "Where's my mother?"

"I brought her back with me. Her condition has stabilized now, and there shouldn't be any more problems for the time being." Wang Ke looked around and said, "How are you finding living in the bookstore?"

"It's pretty good."

"Still want to keep living here?"

"I'll listen to you."

"I think it's better to go to school. Don't just focus on having fun."

"Okay, I'll move back in a couple of days and go to school."

Wang Ke smiled, got up, walked to Lin Ke's side, and wanted to reach out and pat his daughter's head, but Lin Ke took a step back, avoiding Wang Ke's hand, and said:

"I'm not a child anymore. You don't need to pat my head all the time."

Wang Ke nodded, "My daughter has grown up."

The conversation between father and daughter was simple. Wang Ke looked at the time and said, "I'll pick you up in a couple of days to go home?"

"Okay."

"Then I'll go first."

"Yeah."

Wang Ke left, driving away in his car.

Lao Zhang also left. It was said that the special task force from the province had called an internal meeting, and all relevant personnel had to attend. Originally, Lao Zhang didn't need to attend because he had been isolated from the task force due to his previous mistake, but perhaps because he had just provided new clues, he was also notified to come and listen.

Lawyer An stretched, he was ready to be an experienced defense lawyer. Based on the evidence he had on hand, he was quite confident.

"Yo, your dad left pretty quickly too?"

Lawyer An joked.

"He came to tell me that school is about to start."

"He misses his daughter."

The little loli raised her head, looked at Lawyer An, and said in a deep voice, "I know."

"Good that you know."

Saying that,

Lawyer An twisted open his large thermos cup,

found that the coffee in the jar was about to run out again,

scraped the rest,

then,

Lawyer An simply placed the card that he planned to donate to the boss this morning on the side.

"It must hurt to watch me drink your expensive coffee all the time, right?"

Unfortunately, Boss Zhou was fast asleep,

if he woke up and knew about this,

he would definitely be happy.

………………

Zhang Yanfeng returned to the bureau and went straight into the conference room. There were many people in the conference room. After all, this was a major case involving more than a dozen lives. Not to mention the province, even the ministry was paying close attention to it.

Every detail and progress of this case affected everyone's nerves.

Zhang Yanfeng found a seat in the back row,

took out his notebook,

and prepared to draw comics.

It wasn't that Zhang Yanfeng was deliberately slacking off, but the key was that he knew the ins and outs of this matter, and he wasn't very interested in listening to any more meetings.

In the extremely serious atmosphere of the entire conference room,

Lao Zhang felt like he was a breath of fresh air.

"The meeting will now begin. Officer Chen, please give everyone a briefing on the latest progress of the case."

Officer Chen?

Lao Zhang raised his head in surprise.

Walking forward was a female police officer. Lao Zhang glanced at the other party's rank, tsk...

Then looked at the other party's appearance,

tsk tsk...

Lao Zhang closed his notebook and prepared to listen attentively.

It wasn't that Lao Zhang was having any other thoughts. His son was getting married soon. Although he looked only thirty years old now, he was long past the age of being unable to move his legs when he saw a beautiful woman.

He had heard of this woman. She was very famous in the provincial department. She had solved many major cases in recent years and had risen to fame.

Gender inequality in the workplace is common, even in the police station. But it's not because of discrimination in the true sense, but because the nature of the work of a police officer is more biased towards men. Women who want to stand out here often need to be even more outstanding.

As for the fact that every special task force in police and gangster films or other TV dramas has a few female police officers, that's not very realistic either. It's a compromise to cater to the audience.

"Everyone, I'm a few days late and didn't participate in the early investigation and evidence collection with you. After I came to Tongcheng, I spent two days integrating the physical evidence and various clues. In the morning, the Tongcheng City Bureau submitted another valuable piece of evidence."

Officer Chen, with her ponytail, stood on the stage with a heroic bearing. The projection screen behind her was slowly being pulled open.

"One thing I want to say is that I later took the time to look at the crime scene. It was artificially destroyed beyond recognition. I hope to hold those responsible for this accountable."

Everyone was silent. She came up and immediately held people accountable. What a temper.

Lao Zhang smiled inwardly. The destruction of the crime scene was because the boss and the maid went there to have a fight.

"The message I received after I arrived was that everyone had basically accepted the fact that the suspect, Lu, was the murderer in this series of homicides. The suspect also confessed after being arrested, but in the past few days, the suspect has recanted.

I'm not surprised that the suspect would recant. In fact, it would be really strange if he kept insisting that he was the one who killed the people."

"Please look at the pictures behind you. These are the wound pictures on the deceased, Luo. The deceased died from excessive blood loss, but I have personally identified these wounds on the buttocks, calves, and arms as being caused by the kitchen knife used at home.

That is, the kitchen knife that the suspect, Lu, was holding when he was caught at the crime scene.

Please pay attention to the details of the wounds. I have done a 3D simulation here. Please pay attention to the cutting method of these wounds."

Many of those present were experienced criminal police officers. At first, they may not have thought much of it, but when the simulation diagram came out, everyone's faces changed.

"Don't you think the position of the cuts and the direction of the cuts are strange?"

Officer Chen made a cutting motion.

"Everyone can do a simulation. Take your palm as the blade and cut a piece of tendon on your calf. Then simulate cutting a piece of meat from someone else with a knife. The direction of the blade and the habit of applying force are different.

If there is only one place like this, it may just be a coincidence. However, if there are many places like this, it cannot be described as a coincidence."

"Officer Chen, are you suggesting?"

"Yes, I believe that the person who cut the pieces of meat from the deceased was not the suspect, Lu, but the deceased, Luo himself."

For a moment, the faces of the police officers present showed shock.

The deceased cut off his own meat?

"It's also possible that it was under the coercion of the murderer..." A police officer offered an opinion, but stopped talking as he spoke.

The murderer gave the victim a knife and told him to cut his own meat?

Wouldn't the victim resist?

"There are no traces of binding on the victim's body. Note that there are no traces at all. This means that there is a high probability that the victim was in a state of personal freedom before death.

In addition, in the physical evidence brought back, the deceased's blood stains and fingerprints appeared on the seasoning jars in the kitchen and on the gas stove.

It is normal for the deceased's fingerprints to appear on things in the deceased's home. However, except for the knife that the suspect, Lu, was holding when the police arrived at the scene, Lu's fingerprints did not appear on any other utensils in the kitchen.

Lu was already holding the knife waiting for the police to arrive, and he also admitted to the murder at first, so here, Lu didn't need to clean up the fingerprints. He didn't have the motive, and how did he do it, simply removing his own fingerprints while preserving the victim's fingerprints?

So, I believe that the victim cut off his own meat and personally cooked it.

Finally, according to the fingerprint detection on the freezer, it was found that there were very clear fingerprints of the victim on the inner sides of both sides of the freezer. Everyone can look at this picture. I tried my best to do further processing according to the direction and details of the fingerprints, in order to infer the victim's actions at that time.

Based on my inference, the victim voluntarily entered the inside of the freezer. Moreover, although we extracted the suspect Lu's fingerprints on the outside of the freezer, we did not find them inside.

This morning, colleagues from the criminal police team of Tongcheng City sent a new piece of evidence, which initially confirmed that the deceased Xia Chunhua, serial number f in the unidentified corpses, was killed by the victim Luo in this case in 2016.

In summary, my conclusion is that the victim Luo is the real murderer in this series of homicides, and the current suspect Lu does not have the motive to kill.

Lu is old. It may be that when he returned to the crime scene from the prostitute's place to look for his mobile phone, he discovered the victim's body and suffered a mental shock, causing hallucinations."

"You want us to announce to the public that the deceased cut off his own meat, then used his own meat to cook, then ate and chatted with Lu, and after Lu left, the deceased lay down in the freezer and died?

Officer Chen, do you think the public will believe such an announcement? Will the public opinion believe it? How should our police explain it to the society?"

"We are police officers, not the managers at the entrance of a club.

We only need to answer to the national emblem above our heads, and to the truth we have discovered!"

Officer Chen turned off the projector and continued:

"Now, I suggest that the prosecution of the suspect Lu be dropped due to insufficient evidence. In this case, Lu is likely a victim. What was the serial killer doing luring him to his home? No need to explain too much, right?

But we,

have imprisoned the real victim in the detention center for so long. Lu has already suffered one mental injury. If our detention leads to the deterioration of Lu's condition,

that is what our police should be thinking about explaining!"