Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 188 A sudden turn of events
Time and hope are slowly passing...

The hour hand of the clock on the wall pointed to one o'clock in the morning. If the candle was burned out between two and three o'clock in the morning, Song Fanghua would either be bitten to death by a poisonous snake or the snake would drill into her esophagus.

No matter what, she has no choice but to die!
Outside the Haijiang Division, special police, civilian police, and even police dogs are on standby!
Outside the hospital, ambulances and doctors were also waiting for news!
At Luo Rui's home in Huafeng International Community, the criminal police were so nervous that their hearts were in their throats.

Zhao Ming continued to analyze the video images; the police officers from the Traffic Information Department watched the road surveillance at various intersections intently, trying to find the murderer's trace.

Wei Qunshan paced back and forth in the empty living room.

Everyone held their breath, not daring to breathe!

Unlike the last time they rescued Qiao Jun, this time, they really felt powerless.

Watching an innocent person die would probably cast a huge shadow in the hearts of all criminal police officers, which would linger for the rest of their lives!
Song Changming and Mo Liguo stood outside the door, looking eagerly at the busy criminal police.

At this moment, it seemed that no one dared to look Song Changming in the eye.

Even though Song Changming had a bad character, as the father of the victim, the criminal police felt very guilty for not being able to rescue his daughter.

But at this moment, there is still someone who still has hope, and that is Cai Xiaojing.

She stared at Luo Rui without blinking, while the latter held the pen tightly and kept drawing lines on the paper.

Luo Rui seemed unaffected by time and was concentrating on screening fifty-three vegetable markets, looking for where the murderer might be hiding.

The time chimed at 1:15 in the morning, and Luo Rui suddenly raised his head and looked at Cai Xiaojing.

"Where is Qiao Jun?"

Cai Xiaojing blurted out immediately: "Beicheng Street!"

Luo Rui immediately stood up from his chair: "The North City Vegetable Market is one kilometer away from their home!"

He picked up the printed paper from the table and showed it to Wei Qunshan. There was a circle around "North City Vegetable Market".

“This place is the most suspicious!”

Wei Qunshan asked hurriedly: "Are you sure?"

Luo Rui shook his head: "I'm not 100% sure, but this place is closest to Qiao Jun's home. I suspect the murderer may also live near Beicheng Street, otherwise he wouldn't know Qiao Jun's home so well!
Qiao Jun is a homebody who only goes out once a month. The murderer must have been lurking near his home for a long time before finally finding an opportunity.

Qiao Jun weighs more than 300 pounds. It is impossible for the murderer to kidnap him from his home. The only correct option is to attack him on the roadside.

In this case, the probability that the murderer lives nearby is very high! "

If Cai Xiaojing believed in Luo Rui unconditionally, Wei Qunshan also believed in him 80%.

At this moment, everyone looked at Wei Qunshan with eager eyes, hoping that he would give orders immediately.

Even if you make a mistake, it's better than doing nothing.

Du Feng swallowed his saliva and shouted, "Director Wei, let's go! We can't wait any longer!"

Wei Qunshan gritted his teeth and glanced at the senior police chiefs sitting on the sofa. These people had blank expressions on their faces and had not said a word until now.

The power of investigation lies in Wei Qunshan's hands. No matter who comes, even the provincial and ministerial officials cannot interfere.

Wei Qunshan took a breath and said, "Everyone, get going! Search the North City Street thoroughly!"

Du Feng quickly took the order and left. Cai Xiaojing also ran outside. While running, she called the special police team and hospital of Haijiang Branch and asked them to take people and leave immediately.

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Under the black night, seven police cars, with red and blue lights flashing on their roofs, roared down the road.

In the car, technical police officers kept operating a laptop to retrieve maps of the North City streets.

The vegetable market is on the west side of Beicheng Street. There are low buildings within a radius of one kilometer, and there are no tall buildings such as elevator apartments.

The roads between the buildings are narrow and winding, with only a wider four-lane road on the north side.

There is little surveillance here and the personnel are complex, which is indeed very suitable for hiding.

Du Feng sat in the car, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand, looking at the map on the computer screen while giving orders to the search team composed of hundreds of special police and civilian police.

Luo Rui was studying seriously at the side. This was Du Feng's special session, and it was also what he was best at as the captain of the criminal police brigade, searching and deploying controls.

Du Feng was transferred from the city’s anti-drug team. When it comes to searching and hunting down suspects, no one is better than the people in the anti-drug team.

They are dealing with drug fans and are playing with their lives!
These vicious drug fans know that they will be shot for what they have done, so almost all of them carry weapons. As long as there is a mistake in the deployment, letting them slip away is a piece of cake. The biggest worry is that they will attack a checkpoint with lax security and cause casualties among police officers.

Luo Rui studied behind closed doors for several months, and his best performance was in the subject of Police Command and Tactics. However, it was all book knowledge, and what he learned was just theory.

Seeing Du Feng's stylish command, he suddenly felt that he still had a lot to learn.

Du Feng only took a few glances at the map and immediately knew where the various intersections of the North City Street were, where more manpower was needed, where the suspect might escape from, etc.

Du Feng kept giving orders, and everyone followed him as the hub. Dozens of police cars gathered towards the North City streets from different directions.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the North City Vegetable Market. The special police and civilian police had also arrived at the designated location and began to set up checkpoints and establish communications with the police officers from the Information Department.

Du Feng's art of command is inherited. The older generation commanded tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops on the battlefield, constantly breaking through and playing tricks on the enemy one after another. That was truly pleasing to the eye, a true philosophy, and even an art!

As soon as Du Feng got off the car, he received a call from Wei Qunshan.

The other party said on the phone that the Information Department tracked the murderer all the way from Huafeng International Community through road surveillance and finally found out where the murderer was!

After delivering the USB drive, the murderer left in the direction of Beicheng Street.

They also found the black Jetta driven by the murderer, with the license plate number: Guang 9927X.

In addition, Zhao Ming also found a clue that the room where Song Fanghua was trapped should be a slaughterhouse, because Zhao Ming found a suspected drainage ditch in the corner of the wall in the blurry background of the video.

Where there are drainage ditches, these are usually where large livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep are slaughtered.

This greatly narrows the scope of the search.

Du Feng told Luo Rui and Cai Xiaojing the news, and they both waved their fists.

Zhao Ming is awesome! He is indeed a master of technical investigation!
Du Feng told the clue to other police officers through the intercom. Then, he gave an order and hundreds of police officers immediately took action.

Each team was equipped with special police and police dogs. Under the light of flashlights, they continued to search forward and narrow the encirclement.

The residents around the vegetable market had already gone to bed, but the police woke them up. In addition to checking their ID cards, they also conducted a personnel check.

The place where Song Fanghua was trapped was in a suspected slaughterhouse, but there was no guarantee that the murderer would stay there.

The police have already grasped the murderer's body posture. Although his appearance is not very clear, there is no guarantee that they will encounter this person in a resident's home.

Ninety-nine percent of effort but one percent of negligence will lead to the murderer being missed.

Luo Rui looked at the time. It was almost two o'clock in the morning.

There were still snowflakes floating in the sky, landing on the tip of my nose, feeling icy cold.

He walked straight into the vegetable market. The row on the left was full of stalls selling fish, but they were closed. The ground was wet, and there was a drainage ditch over 30 meters long running in front of the fish stalls. Dirty water flowed down the ditch into the sewer.

At this time, all the fish stalls are closed, but the ground is wet and slippery, and there are uncleaned fish scales stuck to the ground.

The murderer delivered the USB flash drive at 9:30, so he might have passed by here before that!

Then his residence might be nearby.

In front of the fish stall is a row of pork stalls. Behind the pork stalls is the exit of the vegetable market, and outside the exit is a crossroads.

At this moment, police officers are setting up checkpoints at the intersection and surveying the surrounding areas.

There were two traffic surveillance cameras at the intersection. A police officer looked up at the surveillance camera and immediately contacted the information department police officer to retrieve the surveillance video.

After going out of the intersection, Luo Rui found that the community where Qiao Jun lived was on the left.

He and Cai Xiaojing came here yesterday afternoon.

At this time, someone from the street office was called in. After Du Feng explained the situation to him, he immediately replied: "As for the slaughterhouse, there are several places, but they are hard to find. So... do you have a pen and paper? I'll draw it for you!"

Cai Xiaojing handed him the tools, and he squatted down, put the paper on his knees, and drew a very simple route map while thinking.

"There are three slaughterhouses around the market, but two of them are small private workshops that only slaughter two or three pigs a day and supply them to butchers. As for the large slaughterhouse, it is huge. It not only supplies our North City Market, but other markets also get meat from this slaughterhouse company."

Du Feng took the route map he handed over. Although the map was drawn very sloppily, it was still somewhat understandable.

"Thank you for your cooperation!"

After saying that, Du Feng divided the two small slaughterhouses into Point B and Point C to facilitate issuing orders.

As for large slaughterhouses, they were not even within his consideration.

Du Feng picked up the walkie-talkie and gave the order. Then he and Luo Rui and others rushed to the nearest slaughterhouse at Point B.

They walked through several alleys and when they arrived at the door, the roller shutter was pulled down.

There are shops on both sides, and what is surprising is that there is a fish stall specializing in selling aquatic products on the left.

Luo Rui walked over and saw that there were still traces of blood and fish scales around the gutter in front of the door that had not been flushed clean.

Thinking about the slaughterhouse next door, everyone became nervous.

The fish scales on the murderer's feet might have been stuck from here, not in the vegetable market!

In addition to Luo Rui, Du Feng and Cai Xiaojing, there were three other criminal police officers at the scene, a total of five people.

Everyone looked at each other, their hearts in their throats.

If the search direction is correct, then the hostages are in this slaughterhouse!

Soon, another team of police officers arrived, and the number of people increased to twenty.

Du Feng immediately ordered four men to surround the enemy from behind to see if there was a back door, while he himself looked for a breakthrough at the main entrance.

Two minutes later, the police came back with a message that the slaughterhouse had no back door, but there was a wall more than three meters high, so one could go directly inside.

There are no windows at the main entrance except for the rolled-up door, which means that you either have to enter through the main entrance or climb over the wall.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Du Feng was thinking of a solution. He was unsure, afraid that the murderer had set up a trap like last time. If the hostage was killed, then it would be all over!
Luo Rui was only the criminal team leader, and the on-site command was in Du Feng's hands, so he could only choose to remain silent. Du Feng took a breath and shouted, "Climb over the wall! Be careful!"

He still didn't dare to destroy the rolling door and entered through the main door. God knew what was hidden behind the door.

Luo Rui and he ran to the back of the slaughterhouse, leaving five people to block the front door.

Two SWAT team members had already climbed up the red brick wall, and Luo Rui and Du Feng also climbed up with the assistance of other police officers.

Looking down from above, the slaughterhouse was pitch black, with no light at all.

Then, Du Feng made a gesture and everyone jumped off the wall together.

No matter how perfect and artistic the command is, the on-site arrest will be a mess.

Especially the criminal police who stayed up late all year round, they swarmed into the slaughterhouse.

As Du Feng walked inside, he shouted, "Be careful! Don't touch the trap!"

Luo Rui immediately reached behind the door and turned on the power on the wall. Then, all the lights in the slaughterhouse came on.

In the dazzling light, Luo Rui saw the same scene as in the video.

The gutter, the concrete wall, the chairs, the ropes, the glass dishes and glass tubes discarded on the ground, and the cobra hanging on the iron hook.

It had been ripped open and blood was dripping out of its abdominal cavity!
But Song Fanghua is not here!

The murderer is nowhere to be found!
Du Feng held a gun in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, cursing, "Damn it, are we too late?"

Luo Rui walked up to the cobra, looked at the blood dripping down, and replied: "The murderer just left not long ago!"

Du Feng exhaled a breath and kicked the wall hard.

After consuming so much police resources and spending the entire evening, they were still fooled by the murderer. Anyone would be angry!

Du Feng had no other choice. It was obvious that the murderer had predicted their actions in advance.

Luo Rui looked at him: "Motive!"

"what?"

"What was the murderer's motive? What did he want to do?"

Du Feng cursed again: "Who cares about his motives? Our job is to send him to jail. Let the prosecutors figure out the motives!"

Luo Rui shook his head secretly. It had only been three days since the discovery of Peng Li's murder on February 24. During these three days, the police had been led by the murderer. They had not conducted any necessary investigations, and had never thought deeply about the murderer's motives and emotions.

A person will not kill for no reason. There will always be some kind of motivation, whether it is money, hatred, or psychopathy, it is all a motive.

Moreover, the murderer in this case is obviously different from ordinary cases. Digging deeper into his behavior patterns may be the breakthrough in the investigation.

The rolling door was already opened. Cai Xiaojing brought people in. After seeing the scene, she hurriedly looked at Luo Rui.

"The person is not here. The hostage was moved away by the murderer."

Cai Xiaojing looked at Du Feng: "What should we do now? Continue investigating?"

Du Feng gritted his teeth and said, "Investigate! We must investigate! I will take people to investigate now. I don't believe he can escape our pursuit!"

After saying that, he strode away. Except for a few criminal police officers who were left to guard the scene, he took everyone away.

Luo Rui shrugged. He also felt powerless. The murderer was more cunning than he had imagined!
The search continued until almost dawn, but nothing was found.

Luo Rui and Cai Xiaojing did not return to the Haijiang Branch, but investigated the owner of the slaughterhouse with the assistance of the local police station.

But the situation is not optimistic. The owner of the slaughterhouse is surnamed Jiang. Besides him, there are two other workers working here.

It was not until the police from the police station found Boss Jiang’s family that they realized Boss Jiang had been missing for two days.

Two days ago in the evening, he sent a text message to his family, saying that he was going out of town to purchase a batch of live pigs and would not be back for a few days. At the same time, his two workers also received similar text messages, saying that the store was temporarily closed and he was on a business trip, and would reopen after he returned.

Moreover, there is a "Closed" sign on the rolling door to inform customers who come to get the meat.

It is not difficult to guess that the murderer must have kidnapped or killed Boss Jiang, and used his mobile phone to send text messages to his family and workers.

After dawn, Luo Rui and Cai Xiaojing returned to the slaughterhouse. At this time, the water plant store next door had already opened.

The boss is an honest middle-aged man. From what he said, the slaughterhouse was indeed closed two nights ago and has not been open since then.

There is only a front door to enter and exit the slaughterhouse, and there is no door at the back.

The murderer could only bring Song Fanghua in after the surrounding shops closed.

The seafood store closes at around 6:30 every day because there are not many customers at this time.

The murderer must have entered the slaughterhouse after 6:30 last night.

Without more clues, we can only desperately retrieve the surrounding surveillance footage and extract physical evidence such as fingerprints.

Although the murderer is extremely cunning, the case is becoming clearer and clearer. It is only a matter of time before the murderer is caught. However, the safety of the hostages is of concern to all the criminal police.

When Luo Rui and Cai Xiaojing returned to the Haijiang Branch, they were so tired that they could not open their eyes.

After making a brief report to Wei Qunshan, Luo Rui returned home. The criminal police who stayed behind in his home had already left. The house was cleaned up and all the garbage had been taken away.

Given Zhao Ming's profession, I wonder if he would wipe all his fingerprints clean.

Thinking so, Luo Rui fell on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep without even taking a shower.

When I woke up, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Fortunately, he is still young, and he feels refreshed after a nap. The old hands in the branch were the same in the past. They would stay up late for several nights and just need a nap. However, as they get older, their bodies are deteriorating. Even after a week's rest, they may not be as energetic as before.

Luo Rui had just finished taking a shower when Mo Liguo opened the door and came in.

"I thought you weren't back yet. How's the situation? Has Deputy Director Song's daughter been rescued?"

Luo Rui shook his head.

Mo Liguo was shocked: "What? Is he really dead?"

Luo Rui rolled his eyes: "The situation is still unclear, Uncle Mo, I can't tell you anything else, don't ask."

"Okay, okay, I know the rules! I just want to see if you're back. Our stocks are going up again." Mo Liguo raised his index finger.

"One hundred million?"

Mo Liguo nodded: "How is it? Have you made enough money? Can you stop now?"

"Keep adding more! If you want to make money, then make a small goal!"

"What? Not enough?" Mo Liguo was shocked. This son-in-law's appetite was too big.

"Small goal? What's your goal?"

Luo Rui held up five fingers: "At least this amount, Uncle Mo, I want to be a policeman in the future and I can't do business. Wanqiu and I will rely on this money for the rest of our lives. You decide."

Mo Liguo stood in a daze, watching Luo Rui put on his shoes and walk out the door.

For the first time, he realized that his vision was still too narrow.

After realizing what was happening, he shouted to Luo Rui's back, "You've taken too much, the risk is too great, and we'll be investigated."

But Luo Rui had already walked into the elevator and didn't answer him.

After returning to the Haijiang Branch, Luo Rui clearly felt that morale was very low and everyone was in a bad mood.

At the case analysis meeting in the afternoon, people from the provincial department were no longer there. When he asked around, he found out that these people were preparing to report to their higher-ups and rebuild a special task force. They would also be drawing police officers from various cities and counties, with the criminal police from the municipal bureau as the main investigative force.

After two consecutive unsuccessful attempts, the detectives lost all their energy.

After listening to last night's action report, Wei Qunshan ordered each team to continue investigating and not be affected by the failure.

Du Feng had only slept for two hours. At this moment, he was yawning while leading his men out for reconnaissance.

He no longer had any hope of catching the murderer and only hoped to find Boss Jiang and Song Fanghua.

Whether dead or alive, we must find them.

Chu Yang and Su Mingyuan have also returned. They rushed back overnight, but did not find any useful clues.

At that time, the person beaten by Peng Li was a girl who had already married and had children and had a happy family. Moreover, she did not leave the town during the Chinese New Year, so it was impossible for her to be the murderer of Peng Li.

Luo Rui sighed. His and Cai Xiaojing’s task today was to continue visiting Qiao Jun’s social relations.

His intuition told him that the murderer must have a deep connection with Qiao Jun and Qiao Dahai!

Four people just walked out of the police station building and were about to head towards the parking lot.

But at this time, Luo Rui saw the security guard scolding a stranger outside the door, and his voice was getting louder and louder.

Generally speaking, the police station will not allow outsiders to enter, and even if you want to enter, you must register your identity information.

The security guard was a young man, very angry. He pointed at the young man outside the door and cursed: "Get out of here, or I will be rude to you!"

But the young man outside the door was not afraid and looked at the security guard with a smile on his face.

Luo Rui felt strange and walked towards the door.

As the distance got closer, Luo Rui saw the man's clothes and appearance.

He was startled and felt the blood rushing back into his body.

The man was wearing a black hoodie and a black baseball cap. When he looked at Luo Rui, a big smile broke out on his face.

He pointed to his chest, then held out his hands and brought them together, meaning he was about to be handcuffed.

Luo Rui understood what he meant: "I want to surrender myself!"

(End of this chapter)