Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 160 Return of the Criminal Investigation Department
An old, six-story building.

A faint smell of urine permeated the air.

Despite the unpleasant smell, Chen Shu bent down and approached Li Xiaohui, who was almost slumped on the ground. He rummaged through her pockets for a long time without finding her phone.

He winked at Xiao Yang and Zhang Liyun.

After recovering from their shock, the two men grabbed Li Xiaohui from either side and dragged her downstairs, pushing aside the onlookers.

Li Xiaohui hung her head, still muttering random thoughts. Perhaps in those few short minutes, she had already gone through life and death in her mind.

Killing for life is justified.

Chen Shu walked into room 402, which had the door open, and slammed it shut behind him.

This is a house with the same layout as the deceased Zhang Yan's. The small room at the entrance is also used as a kitchen and dining room. Judging from the tableware on the counter and the shoe rack by the door, Li Xiaohui should have lived alone.

The small room was very tidy, and the utensils were arranged in an extremely orderly manner.

Wearing gloves, I picked up each shoe by the door, took pictures of the soles, and sent them to Xu Chaofan.

Stepping into the bedroom, the small room was filled with all sorts of photos, including solo shots and group photos; there were framed photos hanging on the wall and small shelves on the table; photos were also scattered on the headboard and wardrobe.

Upon closer inspection, all these photos only show two people: Li Xiaohui and a three- or four-year-old child.

Presumably, this child was born to Li Xiaohui. Based on the information gathered at the scene, it is very likely that the family is from a single-parent household.
The room and the balcony outside were filled with adult clothes, except for two carefully placed bags of brand-new children's clothes in a corner of the wardrobe, with the tags still on.

Beside the large bed at the far end of the room, on a bedside table, sat a cell phone that was charging, playing a TV series on its screen, and making a constant, intermittent noise.

Chen Shu walked over, picked up his phone, exited the video interface, found the WeChat app, and opened it. He scrolled for a long time but couldn't find the deceased Zhang Yan's WeChat profile picture.

He deleted her best friend in just a few days; his guilty conscience was too obvious. But that didn't matter; data on an Android phone could be recovered at any time. Chen Shu continued tapping on his phone, and unexpectedly found Zhang Yan's profile picture in the "blacklist" section.

Click "Remove" to restore all chat history between the two parties.

A week ago, the day before the forensic examination determined the time of death, Zhang Yan was upset because her husband Zhang Fei discovered her affair. So she invited her best friend Li Xiaohui to go to a reservoir near the crime scene the next day to relax.

Little did I know it would be a journey to my death.

"Dingle bell! Dingle bell!"

He was holding the murderer's phone, thinking about the dead. Suddenly, the phone rang in his pocket.
Chen Shu answered the phone in a bad mood.

"Ashu!!!"

"XJDKNWEUFK!LDFJGFHJSL!!!"

!!!

A tremendous sound burst from the phone's earpiece.

Chen Shu was immediately deafened by the noise, so he quickly put his phone away and waited for Xu Chaofan to calm down before turning on speakerphone.

"Brother Xu, the signal was bad just now, could you please repeat it?"

"Ah Shu, where did you get this shoe sole? Quickly send it to the forensic department; this shoe sole looks very similar to several shoe prints found at the scene!"

"Okay, I'll be there in a bit. By the way, did you collect the fingerprints we mentioned earlier behind the main house door?"

"There are a few fresh ones, but I couldn't find any match in the database. I'll just have to save them for now."

"Okay, I'll bring someone back later so you can compare them."

"!!!XKLSLKJFGLKN!!;LSXJFV;LJ!"

!!!

The phone was so noisy today!
Chen Shu looked up, listlessly filling a small cup in the empty room. Late at night, in the conference room of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Zhengming District Public Security Bureau.

Inside, there was a slurping sound of people eating noodles. Each person had a large bowl of pork rib noodles or beef noodles in front of them, topped with an egg.

Although they had to work overtime on a case and couldn't have dinner, they could only order takeout noodles in the middle of the night, but no one was dissatisfied.

Perhaps because of his excitement, Zhang Liyun blushed and, taking advantage of the moment while swallowing his noodles, waved his chopsticks and said loudly, "Brothers, eat as much as you want. I specially ordered a few extra portions of beef and ribs."

This time, the entire Criminal Investigation Division mobilized to another province but found nothing. As a result, he, who was originally just staying at the base camp to kill time, became the only hero in the Criminal Investigation Division to capture the murderer and solve the case.

Xu Chaofan and Chen Shu are both from the police station; Zhu Li, although from the Criminal Investigation Division, is not an investigator, but merely someone to make up the numbers.

In name only, Zhang Liyun is the police officer in charge of solving this murder case that has been weighing heavily on the bureau!

Well deserved!

After more than a decade of stagnation, the secondary stock finally showed a tiny sign of movement. How could he not be excited!
"Director Chen, eat more! Don't be shy!" Zhang Liyun saw that everyone was eating noodles with their heads down and didn't find it boring, so he warmly invited them to eat.

The title changed from Chen Shu to Chen Suo. Tsk tsk. Chen Shu thought to himself, but still smiled and replied on the surface.

"Zhang Zhi, you should send one to Li Xiaohui too."

"Huh?" Zhang Liyun didn't react. "Give her one?"

Zhang Liyun, who initially felt it was completely unnecessary to waste food on a murderer, nodded in agreement out of consideration for Chen Shu.

Chen Shu, however, didn't seem to care and continued to eat his noodles heartily.

Julie and Xiao Yang looked at each other, feeling a bit strange. Xu Chaofan, who usually loved to joke around, seemed not to hear them and continued eating his noodles, saying, "Eat up, it won't taste good if it gets cold."

As he spoke, he picked up the bowl of noodles and took a sip of the thick soup.

As everyone was eating noodles, a loud thud of shoes hitting the floor suddenly came from outside.

With a loud bang, the conference room door was shoved in from the outside.

With bloodshot eyes, Li Meng led a large group of people into the conference room.

They worked continuously for two days and one night, traveling long distances across two provinces.

They traveled day and night;

They were weary from their journey;

They looked exhausted.

The process is extremely arduous, but the result is not necessarily better because of the hardship. That's a lie in fairy tales.

In fact, they came up empty-handed!
On the way back, they heard that it was the police from that police station who stole the show again. A group of people got angry and sped back with their eyes red.

Several cars were haphazardly left on the roadside at the entrance when they arrived downstairs. This group of men, who had barely slept since receiving the mission, rushed upstairs to the conference room without hesitation.

It was as if the person sitting inside was the target they had been searching for.

Once inside the house, everyone unconsciously calmed down and looked at their leader.

Li Meng walked breathlessly to the conference table and raised her hand to stop Zhang Liyun, who was all smiles and about to say something.

He grabbed Chen Shu's forearm, which was holding chopsticks and eating noodles, and asked incredulously in a trembling voice, "Chen Shu, are you sure this is the murderer?"

Chen Shu raised his head and looked directly at Li Meng.

(End of this chapter)