[Rat and Cat] Serious Crime Team

The place where the fire with casualties occurred this time was different from the previous ones, and it did not belong to the streets where the suspects used to commit crimes.When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed to the scene together, he realized why Bai Yutang was so anxious after receiving Bao Zheng's call.

This street is the "Red Light Street" that Bai Yutang jokingly called. There are many dirty places on this street, but not all of them are delicate businesses that walk on the edge of the law.But for Bai Yutang, the most important thing is that there is a hot spring hotel called Qikong Hotel.Its operator is Lu Fang, Bai Yutang's sworn brother.

"Didn't the accident happen in Brother Lu's hotel?"

"Yeah." Bai Yutang nodded coldly, "But the distance is very close. You scum! I called my elder brother just now, and he said that today is a holiday and the whole family is at home. The fire started early in the morning. If If it’s not the next door but the hollow that burns, it’s hard to say who will die.”

"Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?" Zhan Zhao asked with a frown.

"Two women and one man. The woman is definitely the lady of the hotel. The identity of the man is unknown. All the belongings around him have been burned, so it is hard to be sure."

At this time, Bao Zheng came over and heard the conversation between the two people. He said, "This is not urgent. Qin Jian's preliminary autopsy can conclude that the two people were burned to death after suffocation, and there was no sign of struggle. I have never wrestled with anyone before. It is certain that the arsonist’s goal is not to murder them, and there is no grievance against them. According to the previous thinking, these three people are affected rather than the target of the murderer.”

Bai Yutang nodded in agreement, "Someone should be reported missing in a day's time, and we can make sure by comparing them at that time."

Bai Yutang discussed the case with Bao Zheng, but Zhan Zhao was attracted by Qin Jian's figure.He stepped over the ground blackened by the flames and walked to Qin Jian's side, and bent down to observe a charred corpse lying on the bed.

"This is a female corpse." Qin Jian seemed to have eyes behind his back, and his hands kept moving, but at the same time, he explained his work to Zhan Zhao, "It only takes 5 minutes to burn to this degree. I don’t even recognize her for what she really is.”

Zhan Zhao hummed solemnly. He watched Qin Jian carefully collect some attachments from the corpse. Suddenly, he thought of a question and immediately asked, "Is she not wearing any clothes?"

"Yes, sleeping naked. Same with the other two bodies."

"They slept naked in the same room?" Zhan Zhao's tone was a little surprised.

"Is there something wrong?" Qin Jian turned his head and glanced at Zhan Zhao expressionlessly.

Zhan Zhao remembered that Bai Yutang had mentioned to him how many filthy places there are on this street known as the red light district.Obviously, the reason why the two burned women and the man stayed in the guest room of this hotel must be because of some ulterior reasons.

"Zhan Zhao?" Qin Jian still looked at Zhan Zhao, apparently wanting to hear some high-level talk about sleeping naked.

Zhan Zhao coughed in embarrassment, and shook his head, "It's nothing. Qin Jian, I heard the firefighters mentioned that the fire started in the corridor, and it took a while to burn from the corridor to here. Why did the three die without any struggle? "

Qin Jian frowned, looked up at Zhan Zhao for five seconds, and kept the frown on his face.Then, he shook his head with a straight face, "I don't know."

Well, Zhan Zhao raised his forehead, he shouldn’t expect this one-cell guy to have any idea about the case. If you ask him how these three people died, he can tell you clearly. You have to ask them why they would If you die like this, he will give you a lot of face if he is willing to look at you and answer that he doesn't know.

"Actually, you can just ask the firefighters this question." At some point, Bai Yutang also walked over.

So, Zhan Zhao noticed that when Bai Yutang spoke, Qin Jian quickly turned his head and ignored them.Sure enough, these two people are typical of two people who hate each other.

Zhan Zhao shrugged helplessly, turned to face Bai Yutang, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Bai Yutang glared at Qin Jian's back before answering Zhan Zhao's question, "According to normal circumstances, the fire would not burn so fast. But just now the firefighters got new clues, they said this time The murderer used accelerants."

"A combustion aid?" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang in surprise, "You mean he used gasoline?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "Gasoline accelerates the spread of the fire, and the decoration of this hotel is cumbersome, and all the flammable materials are used, so a lot of poisonous smoke was produced very quickly. In the early morning, all three of them were asleep. It was very ripe, and it was suffocated by the smoke before it was burned by the fire, and it was burned like this in less than 10 minutes."

Water and fire are ruthless, and everything in front of them is terrifying, but what makes people shudder is the madness of the arsonist.Zhan Zhao looked at the charred fire scene thoughtfully, and after a while, he suddenly raised his head and said to Bai Yutang, "Yutang, have you ever thought that this arson case is a little different from the previous ones?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "I've thought about it. Location, accelerant, casualties."

"There is still a time gap."

"Yes, what do these signs indicate? Could it be that this time it wasn't the crimes committed by the previous criminals? Was it someone who consciously imitated the crime after reading the news and the alarm?"

"No." Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It can't be judged that way. It's because the pattern has changed that I don't think it's possible to commit crimes by imitation. If you think about it this way, why would the criminal change the pattern?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "That makes sense. So this lunatic simply wants to make a name for himself."

Zhan Zhao responded fiercely, "He must be very proud now, damn it!"

"Don't worry." Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder reassuringly, "Wouldn't it make him more proud if you messed up?"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang's resolute expression, and nodded in agreement, "Okay, let's keep working hard! Do more interviews on the spot, I don't believe that no witnesses saw that guy appear!"

"Visiting?" Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with raised eyebrows, "You mean looking for someone in the red light district to ask about the situation from last night to this morning?"

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Is there any problem?"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Of course there are problems. You don't know that these people don't like dealing with the police the most. If you ask them directly, in order to avoid getting into trouble, they won't tell you anything."

"Then—" Zhan Zhao frowned, hesitated for a while, and suddenly seemed to have made up his mind, looked at Bai Yutang seriously, and said, "I'm not a policeman, let me ask you!"

"You?" Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao with some distrust.

Zhan Zhao knew that Bai Yutang looked down on him, so he wasn't angry, he just explained to Bai Yutang seriously, "I just think this place is very important, think about it, the suspects choose a similar place every time they set fire, this time they set fire here , then the next fire is likely to be near a hotel. In short, it is on this street. So I suggest that it is best to deploy surveillance here, and to keep up with the visits. The schedules of these ladies and prostitutes are different from ordinary people , maybe they'll see something."

Bai Yutang smiled slightly, and the serious and hardworking expression on Zhan Zhao's face warmed his heart.Well, he felt that ever since he fell in love with Zhan Zhao, he had a tendency to become a dick, and every time he was mad at him, he still thought this kid was cute.Thinking of this, Bai Yutang silently despised himself, and then remembered the topic about homosexuality.Thinking of this topic, combined with the current environment, Bai Yutang suddenly had a somewhat nasty thought.

He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Zhan Zhao, then said suddenly, "If you want to find out the truth, you have to get inside them. Zhan Zhao, how about this, let's stay here tonight."

"Tonight?" Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, "What are you and I doing here?"

Bai Yutang smiled slightly, "Pretending to be a slut looking for fun is the only way to catch those young ladies' words. Believe me, if they really see something, it will definitely be more effective than threatening them as a policeman."

Bai Yutang's words made Zhan Zhao's face a little feverish, but his desire to solve the case made him eager to try again.In this situation, Bai Yutang decisively used the aggressive method, "What, are you scared?"

"Of course not!" Zhan Zhao replied decisively.

"Well, it's a deal, don't run away at night!"

Of course Zhan Zhao can't run, if he wants to run, he will run with the members of the serious crime team.Today they were busy together all day, although the arsonist seemed to have changed his pace of crimes. After setting a fire in the early morning and killing three people, he did not set fire again throughout the day.However, the work of the serious crime team is still extremely heavy. They determined the identities of the three deceased, and determined that they were two prostitutes and a client. The three people were burned to death during the client.

According to Zhan Zhao's profile, the next fire is likely to occur near the hotel.Bao Zheng dispatched the district police and police officers from other departments to help control, and agreed to use Bai Yutang's proposal to let some police officers disguise themselves as prostitutes and go deep into the red light district to extract confessions from girls and hotel employees.Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were assigned to inquire about news in a nightclub not far from where the fire broke out.As soon as it was dark, Bai Yutang brought Zhan Zhao to that street.Both of them changed into casual clothes, Bai Yutang was dressed in expensive and exquisite men's clothing, Zhan Zhao was also well-groomed, and when they stood together, they both had the same elegant demeanor, but each had its own strengths, which were eye-catching and complemented each other.

As soon as the two entered the lobby of the hotel called "Red Shore Nightclub", they immediately attracted everyone's attention.The ladies seemed to have discovered a new world, and stared at Bai Zhan and the other with bright eyes.Even some clients who were picking girls couldn't help but cast a few glances at the two of them, the eyes were ambiguous and explicit.

Zhan Zhao suddenly felt uncomfortable all over his body. He frowned and glanced at Bai Yutang, only to find that the other party was looking at him with a gentle smile on his face.Zhan Zhao frowned, and said to Bai Yutang in a low voice, "Why do we dress so strangely, they are all looking at us, so how can we get news like this?"

Bai Yutang smiled slightly, lowered his head and leaned closer to Zhan Zhao's ear, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, you can only attract the attention of ladies if you wear a little burnt bun. In their line of work, the rarest thing they see is handsome men, and the thing they like most is money. Those like us are their favorite. Let those ladies relax their vigilance before they can tell us the truth. Don’t worry, with our current attire, they will never see that we are policemen.”

As he said that, Bai Yutang waved to the manager of the lobby, asked him for a private room, and asked him to arrange a few ladies to accompany him.Of course, the manager responded enthusiastically. In addition to arranging private rooms and girls for them, he also specially declared that he would present a special performance to the two of them.

Bai Yutang looked at the manager's ambiguous smile, even a little disgusted, and originally planned to reject this so-called "good intention".But at this moment, Zhan Zhao tugged at the corner of his clothes.Bai Yutang tilted his head and noticed Zhan Zhao's questioning gaze.Bai Yutang, who is well versed in the unspoken rules of these romantic places, suddenly realized an interesting question. He raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at Zhan Zhao with a smile, and nodded in agreement with the manager's kind arrangement.

When the manager walked away happily, Zhan Zhao asked in a low voice, "What special performance did he mention just now, what is that?"

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao with a smile, "You'll know when you go in."

After finishing speaking, Bai Yutang took a step forward and entered the private room.

Zhan Zhao stood there looking at the door for a few seconds. During these few seconds, he kept recalling the smile on Bai Yutang's face just now. For some reason, he suddenly had a feeling.Inside that door, there seemed to be something that he regretted.

However, it is not in Zhan Zhao's character to turn around and run away.So, he gritted his teeth and walked into the private room.