Hong Kong Film: Night Cop

Chapter 230: Brick Throwing Case
"Brother Fei, there's no elevator or air conditioning here. Wouldn't it be tiring for people living here to go up and down every day?"

Walking down the stairwell, Chen Sanyuan said.

"Didn't the neighbors just say that? It's been in disrepair for a long time. This building was obviously built a long time ago, and there was no elevator at that time."

As soon as Li Fei finished speaking, he noticed an old man sitting on the stairs in front.

"Old man, what are you doing here?" Li Fei asked.

The old man said, "I didn't have enough strength to climb the stairs after shopping, so I sat down to rest for a while. Sir, am I disturbing you?"

Seeing the old man stand up, Li Fei asked, "Do you live here?"

"Yes!" the old man nodded.

"I want to ask you if you have ever seen anyone throwing bricks? Or passing by with bricks?" Li Fei asked.

"No." The old man thought for a moment and said.

"It's okay. If you think of anything special, let us know."

The old man nodded after hearing this.

"Thank you."

Li Fei took Chen Sanyuan past the old man and walked towards the upper floor.

The building has a total of twenty-two floors, with three households on each floor.

After Li Fei and others had asked every household, more than an hour had passed.

Returning to the crime scene, Li Fei discovered that Gao Yanbo and others had also arrived at the scene.

Li Fei was stunned!
If Gao Yanbo and Liang Xiaorou are present, does it mean that this is a case from "Forensic Heroes"?

Li Fei recalled the plot of Forensic Heroes.

It really made him think about it.

There is indeed a case of throwing bricks from a high place in Forensic Heroes.

The culprits in the high-altitude brick-throwing case were two grooms.

The incident started when someone threw a brick from the Chi Ping Building in Yau Ma Tei, hitting a vendor selling dolls and killing him instantly.

A six-year-old girl was also injured.

Through testing and analysis, Gao Yanbo and Liang Xiaorou finally found out the location where the murderer committed the crime and discovered key evidence, cigarette butts and some broken bricks.

Through testing, cyanide, a substance emitted by the electroplating plant, was detected in the broken bricks. Moreover, the bricks were cement bricks used for paving roads. Therefore, Gao Yanbo believed that the focus of the search could be on the electroplating plants near the road project, which greatly narrowed the scope of the search.

Forensic pathologist Gu Zechen discovered a pattern in the crimes committed by brick-throwing thugs: every time the police carried out a crackdown on prostitution, there would be a case of brick-throwing from high places.

He guessed that the brick-throwing maniac must be from the porn industry, and because the police had ruined his job, he threw bricks to take revenge on society.

Liang Xiaorou agreed with his opinion and went to a pornographic place to look for clues.

While investigating, Liang Xiaorou was almost hit by a brick thrown from the roof.

The murderer is still committing crimes.

Forensic personnel found a piece of paper at the scene. After repairing it, they discovered words on it, including a word "金", a word "喻", and several "正" characters used for counting.

Liang Xiaorou speculated that the character "正" was used by grooms to calculate the workload of prostitutes, while the character "金" was used to refer to apartments starting with the character "金".

Liang Xiaorou found out that the owner of the note was He Yaoguang, a groom.

Due to the anti-prostitution campaign, the female prostitutes under Ho Yiu-kwong had no business, so it was very reasonable for them to hold a grudge against the police.

Afterwards, through a series of investigations, the police finally identified the murderer as He Yaoguang and his boss Lei Youquan.

With all the evidence, the two could no longer deny it.

They admitted that it was because the police crackdown on prostitution destroyed their jobs that they took revenge on the police and society, throwing bricks from high places to threaten passers-by.

After Li Fei figured out the whole case, he knew it very well in his mind.

It's a pity that he can't just repeat it right away, because it's hard to explain.

Li Fei suddenly remembered the old man he met before. If he remembered correctly, this old man seemed to be Gao Yanbo's father.

On the other side, Liu Jianhui had already given the investigation report to Liang Xiaorou.

Liang Xiaorou looked through the investigation report of Liu Jianhui and others and found nothing suspicious, which made her frown.

Gao Yanbo and others looked at the scene and began to conduct a series of tests based on the scene.

Liu Jianhui and others were helping to maintain public order and blocking citizens and reporters outside.

Li Fei said something to Chen Sanyuan, then went to a nearby newsstand, found a few newspapers, paid, and walked back with the newspapers.

"Madam, take a look at these newspapers. They might have the clues you're looking for."

After finding Liang Xiaorou, Li Fei handed her a few newspapers.

Liang Xiaorou looked confused, not knowing what Li Fei was up to.

However, she still took the newspaper and flipped through it.

"I think the murderer must be antisocial," said Li Fei.

"Anti-social consciousness?" Liang Xiaorou said.

"What it means is that during this period of time, this person will encounter something unhappy, and he will feel that the whole society owes him. If you want to solve the case, you must first find this person's behavior pattern." Li Fei explained.

"What do you mean?" Liang Xiaorou was very surprised. She didn't expect that Li Fei could find so many clues about the murderer in such a short time.

"Actually, when I heard that someone had killed someone by throwing bricks from a high place, I remembered the newspaper I read a few days ago. Madam, do you remember the dates of the first two cases of throwing bricks from a high place?" Li Fei said.

"The fifth and eleventh of this month." Liang Xiaorou blurted out.

Li Fei nodded and said, "Yes, take a look at the newspaper news these past two days, are there any similarities?"

Liang Xiaorou looked at the newspaper in her hand carefully again.

"Police crackdown on prostitution again, Operation Young Seeds, Operation Young Seeds in Yau Tsim Mong."

The newspapers were full of news about the police crackdown on prostitution. Liang Xiaorou suddenly realized something and said, "Every time there's a crackdown on prostitution in Yau Tsim Mong, there's always a brick-throwing incident."

"I said Madam is very smart and she found it right away."

Li Fei smiled and praised him, then added, "That brick-throwing idiot is most likely one of the victims of these anti-pornography campaigns, or perhaps he's working in the porn industry."

"Is it that easy? You can guess what the criminal does just by reading a few newspapers?" Liang Xiaorou asked doubtfully.

Li Fei smiled and said, "Madam, if you don't believe me, just check it out and you'll know."

Liang Xiaorou looked at Li Fei's serious expression and finally believed him. She picked up the phone and called the person in charge of the anti-pornography operation.

After the clues were given, Li Fei saw that there was nothing for him to do here, so he said goodbye to Liang Xiaorou and left.

"A Fei, I saw you chatting with Madam Liang just now. What were you talking about?" Roy asked curiously on the way back to the police station.

"Just some things related to the case." Li Fei said.

"Brick-throwing case?" Chen Sanyuan asked with his big eyes flashing.

"Ah."

"Brother Fei, did you discover something?" Chen Sanyuan asked.

“There are some discoveries.”

Li Fei told everyone what had just happened.

Liu Jianhui was very shocked. He didn't expect Li Fei to be so capable. He could come up with some clues about the murderer based on the news he had read.

"Brother Fei, you are so awesome." Chen Sanyuan gave him a thumbs up in admiration.

"Oh, people are really different. Others read the news for gossip, but Ah Fei can find clues about the murderer through the news." Roy sighed.

(End of this chapter)