Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 148 Criminal Investigation Team Arrives
A female corpse is present.

About 1.5 meters tall, on the thin side, long hair, no face.

Chen Shu swallowed hard again, trying to calm himself down, and decided to do something.

Recalling his criminal investigation courses in college, he stretched out his left hand and pressed his fingers against the exposed skin of the female corpse, gently squeezing in.

The body was stiff like a normal person, and the time of death was estimated to be three days ago.

He shone the flashlight at the sole of the woman's shoe, reached out and touched it, ran his hand over it, and brought it to his eyes.

There were only a few wood chips from the abandoned house floor stuck to the soles of the shoes, and not much dust. However, there were some black particles, black powder, and leaf scraps stuck to them.

It's highly likely that the woman was dragged into the house by the murderer while she was either dead or unconscious, which explains why her shoes didn't touch the ground.

Chen Shu straightened up, took a flashlight and shone it around the female corpse, searching for suspicious items, or rather, the murder weapon, or the object used to smash her face.

Without thinking, the flashlight swept across the room again, involuntarily stopping at the faceless head of the female corpse. The scene was too horrifying, like witnessing a scene from a horror movie, as if the female corpse would stagger to her feet at any moment.

Chen Shu controlled his emotions and backed away towards the door. As he retreated, he continued to scan the long-abandoned house with his flashlight.

The dusty ground was covered with messy footprints.

Besides Wang Daluo and Wang Chong, the murderer's footprints should also be among them!

He continued to slowly back away until his back pressed against the half-closed door, which he didn't know had closed again. He paused for two seconds, then turned and left the house.

"Director Chen, we meet again."

Chen Shu stood on the steps in front of the house and saw Xu Chaofan, whom he had just met at the police security section of the branch office that afternoon. Xu Chaofan was standing on the cement ground of the courtyard with a smile, smoking a cigarette and nodding to Chen Shu.

Chen Shu walked down the steps: "Brother Xu, what brings you here? Is this mountain area also under your jurisdiction?"

Xu Chaofan spat the cigarette out of his mouth onto the ground and stomped it out. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Chen Shu, and lit another for himself: "What else? It's pitch black here, who would want to come here? So, what's the situation inside?"

Chen Shu took the cigarette, lowered his head, and lit it: "A woman died. The time of death should have been three days ago. I suspect it was murder."

"Okay, then let's wait here for Xing Da to come over." Xu Chaofan frowned, feeling a little annoyed.

Although such serious cases do not fall under the jurisdiction of the local police station, a murder did occur here after all, and as the station leader, I still felt a bit guilty.

But that's all.

At this moment, Xu Chaofan was just smoking as usual, waiting for Xing Da to send people. After all, Chen Shu had completed the outer perimeter security and the initial investigation, so he had nothing to do.

Clearly, he had absolutely no intention of going inside to check.

"Brother Xu, did the men I left at the foot of the mountain bring you up?" Chen Shu asked deliberately. He didn't point it out, but he was worried that if everyone went up the mountain, who would guide the police when they arrived?

Xu Chaofan, a seasoned veteran, immediately understood what Chen Shu meant: "Your men haven't moved. When I came over, I brought along the auxiliary police officers from the station who are familiar with this place. He can talk to the people you left behind and they'll know where the location is."

Chen Shu nodded, relieved.

He actually wanted to go inside and take a closer look, but the stench that filled the room, like that of dead rats, made him hesitate. He took a few deep drags on his cigarette, glanced up at the smoke rings, and realized that the rain had stopped sometime earlier.

The rain stopped as soon as the police arrived. Could it be that this woman was crying out for justice in the world?
Chen Shu suddenly thought of it.

He shook his head, dismissing these useless thoughts, and focused his attention on the case.

He felt that the cause of death of the woman was still uncertain, but based on the facial injuries, the tool the murderer used to smash her face should, without a doubt, be one of the stones that could be found anywhere in the yard.

With nothing to do, he called Zhu Chaoran, who was peeking out from outside the courtyard gate, in and told him about the situation inside the house and his own thoughts. Then the two of them took flashlights and searched the courtyard for suspicious items.

Xu Chaofan observed all of this. Perhaps it was because he had worked in the police force for over a decade and seen too many cases or dead bodies. He didn't join Chen Shu and the others in the investigation, but out of boredom, he went outside to get a chair and a flashlight, sat on the steps, and helped provide illumination.

Chen Shu, who was lying on the ground, turned around and smiled at the sight.

It was too dark, and there were plenty of usable stones in the yard, so no murder weapon was found. However, Zhu Chaoran did find a faint, dark purple bloodstain on the cement ground.

The trail of blood led crookedly to the house where the crime occurred.

Chen Shu squatted down where the bloodstains started, touched the bloodstains on the cement floor, glanced at the small circle of blue bricks and charcoal blocks next to him, and then turned his gaze to the abandoned house with the wooden door half open.

The perpetrator likely knocked the victim unconscious or killed them on the concrete ground in the yard, then dragged them into the house. Considering the bloodstains on the concrete and the victim's head injury inside the house, the perpetrator probably dragged the victim by lifting their feet and keeping their head on the ground.

Such behavior is consistent with the traces left on the soles of the victim's shoes inside the house, namely carbon powder and broken leaves from the yard.

Of course, the ground was damp, and the dark purple bloodstains mixed with the water, making it easy to mistake one for another. Chen Shu's deduction may not be correct.

He beckoned Zhu Chaoran over, and shone two flashlights repeatedly on the suspected starting point of the bloodstains, but no radial marks appeared on the ground.

If nothing unexpected happens, the culprit should have smashed his face inside the house. However, he was still a little reluctant to go in; he would wait until Inspector Xing arrived before going in together. Chen Shu straightened up and bent over to rub his aching lower back a few times.

Xu Chaofan, who had been sitting on the steps observing coldly, suddenly interjected: "Chief Chen, the criminal investigation team and forensic experts from the Criminal Investigation Division will be here soon. What are you still investigating? They won't listen anyway, and you won't be handling the case."

"Why are you worrying about this?" Xu Chaofan thought to himself.

Chen Shu shone his flashlight on the abandoned house where the corpse lay, about to say something.

Just then, the large iron gate of the courtyard creaked as it turned.

The two turned their heads and saw a young man wearing glasses and casual clothes step into the yard.

The other person stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking straight at the three abandoned houses in front of him, and adjusted the frame of his glasses: "He's just destined to worry."

As soon as the words were spoken, a young man dressed in plain clothes quietly opened the automatically closing iron gate, stood at the door and held it down, letting a woman in a white doctor's coat carrying a long plastic box enter the yard first.

The woman walked into the courtyard, glanced around, seemingly looking for someone. However, it was already dark, and the abandoned house was naturally dark, so she couldn't see anyone clearly.

She took out her phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it on Chen Shu first. There was no reaction. She then turned to shine it on Xu Chaofan, who was standing on the steps in front of the main house. After looking at him for a while, she smiled and said, "Old Xu, we're here. You can leave now."

His tone was full of mockery.

(End of this chapter)