A madman in France? How come he's always at crime scenes!

Cao Yang was dragged into an ambulance, and two special police officers held him down on either side.

Sun Jin squatted by the roadside, rinsing the blood off his hands with mineral water. He used half a bottle but still couldn't get it clean.

The blood included Cao Yang's and the blood Zhao Anmin had just put in his mouth.

"Old Zhao, your marksmanship hasn't gotten any worse."

Zhao Anmin was sealing the gun and ignored him.

Sun Jin handed the water bottle to the technician next to him and slowly added:

"You had an injection in your left shoulder at the hospital, and now you're getting one in your right arm. Wow, it's symmetrical now."

"Will you come next time?"

Sun Jin shook the water off his hands.

"I'll pass, I'm too old and my eyesight isn't good. If I crack his head open, I'll be in big trouble."

Several detectives nearby couldn't help but chuckle.

Meng Jiang came over and shook hands with Sun Jin.

"Old Sun, you've worked hard."

Sun Jin waved his hand.

"Don't be shy, just grab him. We're waiting for him to pay his debts back in Tongcheng."

……

Inside the command vehicle, Li Mu leaned slightly against the screen, his face growing increasingly pale.

She pressed her left hand against the edge of the bandage, her breathing became shallow, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

A glucose bottle was handed to her.

"Don't fall here. We've caught him; there will be plenty of opportunities to deal with him later."

Li Mu turned her head to the side, and Wu Liang inserted the straw into the bottle cap and handed her the glucose.

"Aren't you lawyers supposed to be the most procedural?"

"That's right, everything needs to be based on evidence."

Wu Liang sat back down in the folding chair.

"The suspect resisted arrest and assaulted the police. It's reasonable that the suspect suffered a fracture during the arrest."

"It's quite reasonable that the hospital accidentally broke two ribs during the CPR process while resuscitating the perpetrator."

"The body camera happened to run out of power during the interrogation, so it's quite reasonable that the perpetrator took advantage of the police's absence to smash his face and get bruised and battered."

"puff."

Li Mu had just taken a sip of glucose when he almost choked.

My shoulder was pulled, and the pain made me wince, but I couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Attorney Wu, do you always act like this when you're in court? Doesn't the judge kick you out?"

"I will ask the clerk not to record this, lest it ruin my lifelong reputation."

Li Mu lowered his head and finally chuckled.

Just then, Meng Jiang walked in and caught a glimpse of Li Mu's expression. His eyebrows twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.

"Attorney Wu, you didn't wander off tonight, that's good."

"Thank you for the organization's recognition."

Stop being sarcastic.

Meng Jiang took a briefing from the scene and flipped through two pages.

"As long as he's alive and the thunder hasn't sounded yet, we'll see how stubborn he is."

Wu Liang heard the sound of ambulances rushing past outside the command vehicle.

"He's definitely going to be stubborn."

"So you found out?"

"A person with a poison sac in their mouth and a hand grenade on their body. The first thing they'll say when they enter the interrogation room is water, and the second thing they'll say is lawyer."

Sun Jingang lifted the curtain and came in, and laughed when he heard this.

"He needs a lawyer? If he really wants a lawyer, will you take the case?"

Wu Liang looked righteous:

"Of course I won't take those cases; they'll lower my win rate."

Meng Jiang rolled his eyes at him, thinking that this guy would come up with some kind of righteous reason.

He slammed the briefing on the table.

"Now let's get serious."

Wu Liang stood up, took the briefing from Meng Jiang, and spoke before Meng Jiang could even speak.

"We definitely need to investigate someone like Cao Yang, but we can't rush it now."

Meng Jiang glanced down at him, not understanding what Wu Liang meant.

According to the usual logic of criminal police, once a person has been apprehended and their psychological defenses have not been stabilized, it is the perfect time for a surprise interrogation.

Wu Liang didn't look up.

"If the trial starts now, he won't say a word; he'll either pretend to be deaf or mute."

Meng Jiang: "Then tell me, what should we do first?"

Wu Liang spread out the on-site briefing, grabbed a pen from next to Li Mu's keyboard, and wrote three words on the paper.

Syringe. Car. Thunder.

"What we need now is to present the evidence to him step by step, to investigate before we try it."

The pen tip touches the first line.

"That amber choline in the pipe is unavailable through normal channels."

Meng Jiang's face darkened slightly.

"Inside the hospital?"

"possible."

Wu Liang didn't give a definitive answer, "It could also be from outside. But no matter which way it came from, someone needs to understand dosages, medical records, and when the nurses' station is busiest."

Sun Jin threw the tissue into the trash bag.

"This job doesn't seem like something a roughneck like Cao Yang would do."

Li Mu suddenly spoke up: "I can trace the flow of the drugs."

Meng Jiang looked over and frowned. "You should go back to the hospital first."

Li Mu retorted without backing down.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Wu Liang stepped in to smooth things over.

"Captain Meng, if you force her to go back, she might actually dare to wear her hospital gown over her bulletproof vest."

Sun Jin suppressed a laugh; this girl was just as stubborn as his own.

Meng Jiang pointed at the screen, looking annoyed.

"You can be examined, but you can be examined while seated. If you dare to stand up, I'll have someone carry you back to the provincial hospital, chair and all."

Li Mu remained silent this time, which was taken as an agreement.

Wu Liang's pen tip moved to the next line.

"car."

He posted a photo of the gray van.

Meng Jiang nodded: "The car owner, Zhang Haitian, has already sent people to take control of the vehicle."

"You can control him, but don't rush to scare him."

Wu Liang said, "These kinds of transport workers probably don't know who they're helping. They only know where to park the car on which day, where to put the keys, who gave them the gas card, and who reimbursed them for repairs."

Sun Jin nodded.

"However, the people are small and the tent is small, so apart from taking a bit of effort, it's not too difficult."

"That's right, gas receipts, expense reports—having direction gives you a goal, but the most important thing is this."

Wu Liang pointed the pen tip to the last character "雷" (thunder), and the atmosphere in the carriage immediately fell silent.

After the dark green grenade was moved away by the explosion-proof container, everyone felt a heavy weight on their hearts.

After all, it looks too much like a standard hand grenade.

Wu Liang said, "This kind of thing, Cao Yang, a local thug, can't get his hands on himself."

Sun Jin snorted.

"If he were truly capable, would he need to be an assassin?"

"So don't keep asking Cao Yang where the grenade came from."

Wu Liang said, "He probably only knows that someone gave him one and told him how to pull it out and when to use it."

Li Mu's voice came from in front of the screen.

"You suspect it changed hands several times?"

"affim."

Wu Liang didn't hesitate. "Once this kind of thing gets into Cao Yang's hands, there are at least two layers of people in front of it. The first layer is responsible for receiving the goods, the second layer is responsible for safekeeping them, and the third layer is when it is handed over to Cao Yang."

Meng Jiang put the cigarette back in the cigarette case.

"You continue."

Wu Liang looked down and drew three lines on the paper.

"First, check whether Cao Yang has had contact with people from other places in the past three months, especially those who are long-term transporters, secondhand dealers, or collectors."

"Second, investigate the warehouses, scrap yards, and old equipment storage sites under Tianyue Group."

"Third, investigate the grenade itself."

"Wear of the outer shell, storage condition, where it was stored and for how long, and what it was transported in are more useful than its origin."

Li Mu tapped a few keys on the keyboard.

"The explosion-proof department can conduct the initial inspection."

Meng Jiang nodded.

"Have them focus on residue and packaging marks."

Sun Jin suddenly remembered something.

"When the grenade rolled out just now, it didn't seem to be in its original packaging."

"right."

Wu Liang turned to look at him.

"That's the problem."

Sun Jin frowned.

"What's the problem?"

"If Cao Yang carries it with him all the time, the risk is too high. He's running through underground channels, climbing ventilation shafts, scaling walls; wouldn't he be worried about carrying something like that around?"

Wu Liang pointed to the route map on the table.

"I'm more inclined to believe that the grenade was handed to him by the person in the culvert."