Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 182 Race against time
It was eerily quiet in the conference room.

Everyone was waiting in silence for the city bureau's feedback.

Wei Qunshan kept rubbing his eyebrows, but from time to time he glanced at Cao Hua out of the corner of his eye.

Wu Dahao had no strength left in his body. He slumped in the chair with his head buried low.

Cao Hua couldn't help it any longer, so he whispered to Wei Qunshan, "Old Wei, I'm going to leave for a while."

He walked quickly to the corridor, took out his cell phone and immediately dialed a number.

Even though it was late at night and might disturb the other person's rest, he still had to make the call.

If he doesn't inform the other party in time, the matter will be reported to the provincial department before dawn. He doesn't know whether Wu Dahao will be suspended, but he will definitely be in trouble!

Sure enough, the other party cursed for a while on the phone, then hung up the phone angrily.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Dahao's cell phone rang.

He glanced at the number and saw that the caller ID on the screen was his brother-in-law.

Wu Dahao held the phone, hesitated for a while, and then hung up the call decisively.

All of this was seen by Wei Qunshan.

Not long after, Cai Xiaojing, who was sitting in front of the computer, said loudly, "The Municipal Bureau has sent the video over!"

Upon hearing this, the criminal police in the conference room quickly perked up, especially those at the Haijiang Branch, where the spirits were particularly high. They had previously been suppressed by the people from the Municipal Bureau, but now they were in high spirits.

Originally, Director Cao Hua blamed himself for not doing his job well, but he didn't expect that their Municipal Bureau would make such a serious mistake and put the responsibility on himself. Now thinking about it, the criminal police on the Haijiang Branch felt that they had let out a sigh of relief.

Cai Xiaojing operated the computer and projected the video onto the big screen so that everyone could see it.

When you click the video with your mouse, the picture will appear immediately.

Luo Rui quickly raised his head from Zhao Ming's personal computer and stared at the big screen.

There is no specific time on the screen and the camera is shaking violently.

A woman in a red down jacket was stuffed into a cement pipe, her lips were sealed with tape and her limbs were tied. Because she couldn't make a sound, she whimpered and pleaded with despair at the camera.

The camera was pointing at a cement pipe, one end of which had been blocked.

Faced with the victim's desperate pleas, the filmer remained indifferent and did not say a word.

Then the camera turned outwards, and you could see white snow all around and snowflakes floating in the sky.

The wild dog appeared in the camera, and the photographer pushed the wild dog into the cement pipe. The wild dog did not resist and seemed to be very afraid of the photographer.

It was not until they started to seal the cement pipe that the wild dogs began to bark wildly, trying to escape.

But the person filming used a steel pipe to poke the wild dog's head hard.

The wild dog let out a whimpering sound of fear and quickly shrank into the concrete pipe, not daring to move forward.

Eventually, the cement pipe was completely blocked, trapping the woman and the wild dog inside.

The video ended at this point, a total of fifteen minutes.

It is longer than the second video, but the difference is that the murderer did not set a timer.

From beginning to end, the murderer never showed his face. Only his hands could be seen, but he was wearing black velvet gloves and his skin was not exposed.

After the video ended, everyone in the conference room gasped and felt their hair stand on end.

The murderer did not kill anyone directly, but indirectly killed the woman in an extremely cruel way.

The wild dog attacked the woman and bit her in extreme hunger...

The criminal police from Haijiang Branch all looked at Cao Hua, Wu Dahao, and the criminal police from the Municipal Bureau.

Unlike the second video, this video captured the external environment and the very important clue of the cement pipe.

If a large number of police forces are sent to search for it, this place can be easily found.

Everyone knows that if this video had been discovered earlier, it might have been possible to save this woman!
It was because the Municipal Bureau neglected to report the letters in the mailbox that the tragedy occurred!
The murderer is not only challenging the police, but also mocking them maliciously!
In the second case, the murderer changed his strategy and posted the second video to the reporting mailbox of the Haijiang Branch.

Cai Xiaojing receives letters every three days. If she doesn't discover it in time tonight, the second victim will also die tragically!
After watching the video, Cao Hua broke out in a cold sweat!
He wanted to say something but couldn't get the words out.

Wu Dahao, on the other hand, is still relatively calm. After he decided to tell the truth, he had already anticipated the worst outcome.

He stood up and said to Cao Hua and Wei Qunshan: "Director Cao, Director Wei, I didn't do my job well! I'm sorry, I voluntarily suspend my duties and accept the investigation from above!"

After saying that, he handed his ID to Cao Hua's desk and left quickly.

Seeing him like this, Cao Hua cursed in his heart, thinking he was asking for death and dragging him into this!
If it weren't for Wu Dahao's special identity, he would definitely have taken the blame, but now he can only rely on his brother-in-law's skills.

He looked at Wei Qunshan and sighed: "Old Wei, this case is now handed over to you for investigation. Just like Captain Wu just said, we didn't do our job well, please forgive us!"

He then loudly ordered the criminal police from the Municipal Bureau: "All of you stay and do your best to assist the comrades from the Haijiang Branch in investigating this case!"

The criminal police in the Municipal Bureau actually wanted to leave, but they did not dare to go against their leader's wishes.

Those who had no shame left, and those who had dignity were left behind.

After Cao Hua left, Wei Qunshan did not feel relieved. If he could not find the second victim before dawn, he, Cao Hua and Wu Dahao would be investigated by the higher-ups.

Wei Qunshan pondered for a moment and looked at everyone in the conference room.

"The case is now very clear. Just as Luo Rui said, the murderer is cunning and cruel. He is challenging our police! We must find the second victim!
Xiaojing, take someone to investigate the letters of complaint from last year to this year! The murderer would not send a USB flash drive through the complaint mailbox for no reason. He may be dissatisfied with our police and wrote a letter of complaint before, but it was not accepted, so he committed such a heinous crime!

Comrades from the Municipal Bureau, go and investigate the background information of the two victims. You must find out their identities, as well as their social relations and commonalities!
Luo Rui, Zhao Ming and other technical detectives will immediately analyze the second video and find out where the second victim is trapped! "

Wei Qunshan looked at the time. It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.

"I will gather the personnel from all units and wait for the results of the investigation. After 2 a.m., all personnel will be dispatched!"

After the tasks were arranged, everyone took action without stopping and ran out of the meeting room.

Luo Rui also followed Zhao Ming to the forensic department's office.

In addition to Zhao Ming, there are his two apprentices.

The four people were divided into two groups, and the two groups analyzed the background information in the two videos.

Because the second video was the most important and was less than two minutes long, Zhao Ming cut the footage frame by frame and put them in a folder on his computer.

His movements were so fast and skillful that Luo Rui was dazzled.

A total of 155 pictures were cut from the two-minute video, an average of one picture per second.

Zhao Ming opened the folder and clicked on the first picture in chronological order.

This is the first shot of the video, a full-body image of the victim, who is naked and lying on a rectangular table.

Zhao Ming used his right hand to scroll the mouse to zoom in on the photo, then muttered, "The victim is estimated to be about 1.75 meters tall, with purple bruises on the inside of his thigh and left knee. He was attacked before being tied up. Apart from that, there are no other external injuries on his body.

Two tables were put together... There was a hole in each corner of the table, and the belts were passed through the holes to tie up the victim, making him unable to move..."

Luo Rui took over the conversation: "No, there are six..."

Zhao Ming glanced at him and didn't say anything. Instead, he turned to the second picture, which was a shot of the victim's face. His neck was also tied with a black leather belt, fixing his head in place.

Zhao Ming enlarged the photo and moved the mouse arrow to the left side of the victim's neck.

The six holes that Luo Rui mentioned just now should be the hole on each side of the victim's neck. But at this time, he looked at the point where the mouse arrow landed and found that there were no holes at all, and there were two rows of nails embedded in both ends of the belt.

Although the video camera moved very slowly, it was shaking violently and the light in the room was very dim. Luo Rui watched the video several times but did not notice this.

But Zhao Ming could tell at a glance that he was worthy of being the boss of the forensic department, as the saying goes, everyone has his own expertise.

Luo Rui clicked his tongue twice and gave him a thumbs up: "Brother Zhao, you are awesome!"

Zhao Ming shrugged his shoulders and replied nonchalantly: "Haijiang Branch, you are really awesome!"

Luo Rui's heart sank, he didn't know what he meant.

Zhao Ming was a calm and serious person, but he knew that unclear words could easily lead to misunderstandings, so he whispered, "If it weren't for you, our Haijiang Branch would have been bullied!"

Luo Rui raised his eyebrows, and when he looked over, he saw his two apprentices giving him a thumbs up.

"Team Leader Luo, you can say that you indirectly slapped the Municipal Bureau in the face. You just didn't see Director Cao's expression. Judging from your appearance, he wants to eat you alive."

Another disciple also agreed, "That's right, they still want to cause trouble for us. Thank you, Captain Cai, for being serious in your work, unlike them! There were fifty or sixty people in the Municipal Bureau branch just now, and everyone watched them make a mistake. They can't deny it even if they want to! It's really satisfying!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Ming said in a serious tone: "Shut up and work hard. Why are you talking so much nonsense? If we can't find the victim before dawn, we will be in trouble too!"

The two apprentices kept silent and quickly analyzed the video. What Zhao Ming said was right. Come to think of it, the biggest wish of those people in the Municipal Bureau is that the Haijiang Branch cannot find the person. In this way, the law cannot hold everyone responsible. They are all the same anyway. Let's see how you deal with it!

Therefore, at the Haijiang Branch, all the front-line criminal police and clerical staff were called back by Wei Qunshan.

The Municipal Bureau is unreliable, they can only rely on themselves!

What Luo Rui didn't expect was that Wu Dahao would take the initiative to take responsibility for this matter of right and wrong.

Luo Rui sighed, feeling that his rescue was not in vain, and focused his attention on the computer screen.

Zhao Ming continued to analyze: "The victim is not very old, between 160 and years old, and his weight is estimated to be around kilograms..."

After analyzing hundreds of pictures in succession, all of them were of the victims' physical characteristics, no useful clues were found.

Cai Xiaojing's group was looking for the identity information of the two victims, so Zhao Ming just glanced over the information casually.

He and Luo Rui were looking for this room, where on earth was it? !

In the second half of the video, the camera moves from the guillotine on the ceiling, along the trajectory of the rope to the rope end being burned by the oil lamp.

As long as the rope end is burned by the oil lamp below, the guillotine will fall from the ceiling!
The second half of the video is fifty seconds long, which means it is made up of more than fifty shots.

Luo Rui exhaled a breath of foul air and asked, "Brother Zhao, do you think the light of this oil lamp will go out automatically?"

Zhao Ming shook his head. "It's unlikely. This thing is specially made. And the timer is shown in the video. It seems that the murderer has done experiments. The thickness of the rope and the size of the flame have been precisely calculated."

Luo Rui smacked his lips: "This murderer really took great pains!"

Zhao Ming nodded: "He is a smart man!"

Next, the two of them analyzed and compared without blinking, hoping to find a clue.

These pictures show ceilings with spider webs on them…

The walls, windows, tables, oil lamps, timers, etc. were photographed...

What is certain is that this is an abandoned empty room.

Luo Rui's eyes were sore from watching so much, he stood up and rubbed his eyelids with his thumb and index finger.

But at this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Wei Qunshan and his men stood outside the door.

He immediately asked, "Director Zhao, Luo Rui, how is your investigation going? Have you determined the location?"

Luo Rui looked at the wall clock and found that it was already two o'clock in the morning.

Two o'clock, no matter what the result is, we must go out and find someone!
Zhao Ming stood up from his chair and replied, "Director Wei, we still need some time!"

"Do you need more time?" Wei Qunshan was anxious. He walked in and said angrily, "No, you must give me an approximate location!"

His eyes were fixed on Luo Rui, of course hoping that this kid could give him a great assist, just like before.

But Luo Rui shook his head, indicating that he could do nothing to help.

There are many types of police work, especially technical investigation, which is very detailed and requires a lot of time and money to support.

Luo Rui was not a god, so how could he find the key information and tell Wei Qunshan a detailed address in one go? Wei Qunshan pursed his lips tightly, not knowing what to do next.

In the first few hours, he walked up and down the building anxiously several times, hoping that some group could give him an accurate clue.

but……

Du Feng, Du Feng has not caught the suspect under surveillance yet!

Cai Xiaojing, Cai Xiaojing's team also did not find the identity information of the two victims.

The Municipal Bureau, these people in the Municipal Bureau are slacking off. There are a lot of complaint letters in the Municipal Bureau. While they are working carelessly, they also have to make some instant noodles and drink a cup of coffee from time to time.

Zhao Ming and Luo Rui also got no results!

Seeing Wei Qunshan's disappointed expression, the usually calm Zhao Ming suddenly said, "Director Wei, can you give me another hour?"

"Well, three o'clock, three in the morning, we have to leave!"

After saying that, Wei Qunshan walked out of the office quickly, but immediately retreated back through the corridor, reached out and gently closed the door of the forensic department's office to prevent outsiders from disturbing them.

Zhao Ming started working without saying a word.

He took out two laptops and operated one with each hand, looking at the left screen and glancing at the right screen from time to time.

Luo Rui was stunned. Zhao Ming was indeed the big boss of the forensic department.

He quickly sat in front of a desktop computer, which was connected to the intranet, and the pictures and videos were all in a shared folder.

But the video recording is not clear, and the cut pictures are also blurry when enlarged.

He looked through more than a hundred pictures but didn't find anything strange. He turned around and saw Zhao Ming was already screening them for the second time.

So he started over from the beginning.

Time passed slowly, until the hour hand on the wall clock was about to point to three o'clock in the morning, Luo Rui finally found a tiny clue.

He enlarged the last shot and saw several things appearing in the picture.

Table legs, stools, rope knots, and oil lamps covered with glass.

The stools and table legs were both new, but he was not looking at those, but at the wall behind the legs.

Judging from the visual, it should be three to five meters away from the table leg where the rope is tied, out of the camera.

A line of tiny words seemed to appear on the wall, but the picture could not be enlarged any further!
At this time, Wei Qunshan pushed open the door again.

Luo Rui ignored him and pushed Zhao Ming: "Look at this!"

Zhao Ming quickly turned his head, and Luo Rui pointed the mouse arrow at that tiny spot.

Zhao Ming adjusted the frame of his glasses, then pushed Luo Rui away and sat in the chair himself.

Wei Qunshan looked anxious and wanted to speak, but when he saw their actions, he had to shut his mouth and look at the suspicious points discovered by Luo Rui.

Zhao Ming worked on the computer for a while and used some software to enlarge the picture again.

The picture has become even more blurry, and the handwriting looks like ghost scribbles, and it is impossible to see clearly!
The two of them looked at it intently for a while and felt dizzy.

Wei Qunshan also leaned his head closer, but still couldn't figure out what was going on.

But one of Zhao Ming's apprentices read out these words at once: "I like Li XX, but I'm about to graduate from junior high school. How should I ask him?!"

"what?"

Zhao Ming and Luo Rui looked at him in confusion and asked at the same time: "Are you sure?" "How can you see clearly?"

The apprentice scratched the back of his head: "When I was in school, I used to sit by the wall and carve similar words on the wall with the tip of a pen."

Hearing this, Zhao Ming asked again: "Are you sure this is the sentence? Did you read it correctly?"

The apprentice nodded: "I will write it down for you, you will understand it if you read it."

He picked up a pen and a piece of A4 paper, wrote down this passage, and handed it to Zhao Ming.

After comparing word by word, several people found that although the words on the picture were blurry and missing some parts, they were 60% correct.

Luo Rui pondered: "Then the place where the victim was trapped is an abandoned junior high school?"

Zhao Ming quickly searched on the computer, and soon a news headline appeared on the screen: Haihui Middle School, abandoned ten years ago, the old campus has never been demolished.

Wei Qunshan patted Zhao Ming's apprentice on the shoulder and said, "Boy, if you find the person, you will have made a great contribution!"

After he finished speaking, Wei Qunshan called Luo Rui, and then mobilized all the police officers to drive there. The reason for such a large-scale deployment was that they were afraid that if they found the wrong place, they would have to search somewhere else.

Zhao Ming continued to compare the pictures. He did not feel relieved after finding the clues. Technical investigation work is like this, endless. You may find important clues from some minor doubts.

The criminal police from the Municipal Bureau who stayed in the branch office, upon seeing Wei Qunshan dispatching his men, immediately called Cao Hua to report.

The latter was waiting for her brother-in-law to come in a secret villa.

Half an hour later, Wei Qunshan and his team arrived at the place.

Haihui Middle School is located in the south of Haijiang District, in the urban-rural fringe area, far away from the road, and the surrounding area seems very desolate.

Most schools are built on graves, and Haihui Middle School is no exception.

The two iron gates at the school gate were closed. The first policeman who got off the car walked forward with hydraulic pliers, but the iron chains had been cut.

Luo Rui held a flashlight in his hand and shone the light. The broken end of the chain was smooth and had no trace of rust. It must have been cut by someone and then hung up and locked on the gate to prevent outsiders from entering.

Wei Qunshan and Luo Rui looked at each other. They both understood that there was a 90% chance that the victim was inside, otherwise no one would be so cautious.

Then, the big iron gate was pushed open, and the special police and criminal police got out of the car, ran across the playground overgrown with weeds, and rushed towards the teaching building.

The reason why the special police were called in was because we were afraid that the murderer would also be here.

If we can catch this guy in the act, the case will be closed!

It was nearly four in the morning, the darkest time of the night, and the halos of light from dozens of flashlights kept moving forward.

The teaching building is on the left side of the playground.

When they approached the teaching building, the two teams immediately surrounded it from the left and right sides. After searching the first floor without success, they searched up from the stairs on both sides.

When they reached the first floor, two of them were assigned to search the second floor, while the others continued to go upstairs.

In less than five minutes, the light of flashlights could be seen moving on each of the seven floors of the teaching building.

Luo Rui and Wei Qunshan stood in the corridor on the third floor, and police officers' voices came from the intercom in their hands: "Second floor, no one!"

"No one on the third floor!"

"No one on the fourth floor!"

"Fifth floor, the third classroom on the fifth floor is locked!"

Hearing this, Luo Rui hurried up. Wei Qunshan hadn't exercised for a long time and was already panting from exhaustion.

The two men came to the fifth floor, and Luo Rui saw armed special police standing outside the door. He shone his flashlight upwards and found a nameplate nailed above the door lintel.

The nameplate reads: Class 1, Grade 9.

The special police did not break the door, but guarded the door.

The door was locked with a newly purchased lock.

The criminal policeman who was holding the hydraulic pliers walked forward and cut off the lock arm of the copper lock.

Then, everyone looked at each other and no one dared to push the door.

We have all seen the scenes in the video. The murderer carefully set up a killing mechanism. If the door was pushed open casually, triggering some mechanism and killing the victim, then it would be really over!
The two windows of the classroom were blocked by newspapers from the inside, so it was impossible to see what was going on inside.

However, if the window is broken, there is a fear of accidents.

When they were in a dilemma, Wei Qunshan ordered: "Break the window, don't enter through the main door!"

So the special police brought a hammer.

"Bang! Bang!"

The window was smashed, and broken glass fell on the windowsill and the ground, knocking off the jagged fragments on the edge, revealing a gap through which one could crawl inside.

The special police immediately climbed onto the windowsill and jumped in.

Afterwards, the back door of the classroom was opened, but no mechanism was found.

Luo Rui and Wei Qunshan walked into the classroom and saw the flickering light of the oil lamp at a glance.

The scene in the video has now appeared before their eyes.

The light was dim, but the halos of light from countless flashlights shone on the man.

There was no one else in the classroom except the victim.

Luo Rui looked at the rope on the oil lamp and found that there was only one strand left. If he had arrived an hour later, the guillotine on the ceiling would have fallen.

He took a breath and stepped forward. There was a latch under the oil lamp. As long as he turned it off, the light would go out.

A criminal police officer stepped forward and pulled the rope that was about to break hard to prevent the guillotine from falling.

Another detective walked over to the table and checked on the victim.

Luo Rui had just turned off the oil lamp when the cell phone in his pocket rang.

He took out his cell phone and saw that it was Zhao Ming calling.

He quickly answered the phone, and just as he put it to his ear, he heard Zhao Ming's anxious voice: "There is a bump on the floor below the left side of the table, don't step on it."

Luo Rui was stunned for a moment, then he looked at where the victim was lying, only to see several detectives surrounding him. One of them lowered his head, as if he felt something stepped on the sole of his shoe.

Luo Rui quickly shouted, "Don't go forward! Stop! Everyone stop!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud tearing sound suddenly rang out in the empty classroom.

At this moment, everyone felt something was wrong and their scalp felt tingling.

As everyone was looking for the source of the sound...

In the blink of an eye, a gear saw blade cut out of the victim's abdominal cavity, making a heart-wrenching, piercing sound.

"Zizi..."

The saw blade tumbled and spun, bringing up a cloud of blood and flesh.

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