At five in the afternoon, the sun was still high in the sky. Two individuals walked one behind the other in the mountain stream valley, where the path had been worn clearly through the abundant weeds.
After walking for half an hour, they finally arrived at their destination. Under a willow tree by the riverbank, a group of police officers in uniform had gathered, roughly ten or more of them, and among them, he imdiately spotted Du Qiang.
"Sister Li, Xiao Su is here, haha, I knew Sister Li would call you!" Du Qiang greeted as the two approached.
"Qiangzi, it seems you’re not taking a break even on a Saturday, quite the dedication!" Su Qing laughed.
"Oh, it was Sister Li who suddenly reported the situation. As police officers dedicated to serving and protecting love and justice, serving the people is our unshirkable duty!"
Upon hearing this, Su Qing sneered. Today it was this brat’s duty shift, while Sister Jun and he were the ones forced to work overti.
But to be fair, it was really his cheap elder brother’s fault; couldn’t he just report a cri properly? Why did he have to call his daughter?
If he had reported it through the proper channels, this case definitely wouldn’t have been assigned to them. With so many people in the Criminal Investigation Departnt, he didn’t believe his team would be so unlucky.
This kind of case surely wouldn’t be handled by the street police station. Clearly, it required criminal investigation, especially since his dad said there were body fragnts involved, making this no ordinary case.
Turning his head around, he noticed that most of the surrounding people were unrecognizable. They were probably from the nearby police stations. Considering the Criminal Investigation Departnt of the police bureau, even if he hadn’t spoken to many, he had at least seen them.
"What, is it just the three of us again this ti?" Su Qing asked. Even though they were a team from the Criminal Investigation Departnt, they couldn’t be used like this every ti, with won treated like n and n like workhorses.
He hadn’t been with the police bureau for long, but the cases just kept coming, non-stop, one after another—was there no end to it?
He wasn’t sure about the workload of other teams, but he certainly felt quite busy.
"How could that be? Let tell you, this ti I..."
Before Du Qiang could finish his sentence, a familiar voice erged from the crowd, "Qiangzi, where have you been? Has Xiao Li returned?"
As they spoke, a familiar figure stepped out.
"Uncle Zhao?" Su Qing was taken aback, then exclaid with surprise.
The person was indeed Zhao Minghui, the old Zhao who had been stabbed and was recovering until now.
Seeing him standing alongside Li Zijun, Zhao Minghui nodded in satisfaction, "Call Captain Zhao. I’ve heard you three handled several cases on your own recently. Well done, keep it up!"
As for this verbal praise, he didn’t care in the slightest—either give money or comndation with money; without either, what was the point?
"Captain Zhao, why are you here? How’s your injury?" Su Qing asked with so excitent.
Although he didn’t know what kind of person old Zhao was, being an official, naturally, he had so abilities. At least he couldn’t be worse than Lin Chengcai. With him around, they only needed to do the legwork for cases.
"It’s been so long, it’s nothing now. I wanted to return at the beginning of the month, but my family wouldn’t allow it, forcing to recuperate for another half month. I was practically rusted from staying still. But my luck isn’t bad at all; today is my first day back, and I run into a case like this. How could I not co?" Zhao Minghui chuckled.
Hearing this, Du Qiang promptly served up so flattery, "Master, just guide us from the side, think it through, and leave the hands-on work to the three of us."
His master finally returned, and he was no longer a child without supervision. Thinking back to the days without his master, he felt grievance and even wanted to cry, glad that it was all over now.
But just as he finished speaking, Su Qing imdiately stood beside Zhao Minghui, saying, "Count out. I have thin arms and legs, can’t carry or move anything. You two are the real policen, let the capable do more. I’ll just give so ideas with Captain Zhao!"
Du Qiang: ...
Speechless, he turned his head to look at Li Zijun, who was also looking at him with an unfriendly expression, her mouth opened slightly, whispering, "What, you expect to charge for you? The dirty and tiring work is yours!"
Du Qiang: ...
"Fine, I’ll do it!" Du Qiang sulkily bit his back teeth.
Seeing this, Li Zijun chuckled coldly, "Wise choice, kid," then asked, "Captain Zhao, what’s the current situation? Have you found anything?"
"Forensic Doctor Xiao Zhou only stated that it’s a female corpse, deceased for at least over two months, extrely decomposed, making it impossible to identify the deceased’s features for information retrieval. The body needs to be sent back for DNA comparison. Moreover, the deceased was found inside a woven bag, tied with wire, with a stone attached to the other end. Clearly, it’s a murder case, and this isn’t the primary cri scene; the body was dumped here," Zhao Minghui explained while leading the three in the direction of the crowd.
As soon as they got closer, Su Qing was imdiately hit by a highly pungent odor, which was quite nauseating.
As they approached, they saw a man in protective gear exploring the highly decomposed body with gloves on.
When Su Qing saw the body, he was instantly stunned, then quickly turned around and bent over, "Ugh~ Ugh~~ Ugh~~"
The entire action was completed in one swift motion.
anwhile, Zhao Minghui, Du Qiang, and Li Zijun were all watching this scene with keen interest. Old Zhao even pointed at Du Qiang, saying, "There you go, you’re finally not the wimp now. What’s with young n today, one by one, not even as good as a girl?"
Du Qiang was sowhat pleased when he heard the first half since he had also thrown up a lot the first ti he had seen such a body. Even later, during his ti as a sergeant, his old colleagues would tease him about it. But generally speaking, he did fare better than Su Qing.
But the latter part of the sentence imdiately made him show a bitter expression. Looking at the composed Li Zijun beside him, he sighed. There was no comparison!
Luckily, your junior brother is a weakling; otherwise, I’d have no face to save.
In contrast, Li Zijun rely rolled her eyes at the two of them. Newcors were bound to have a first ti; she simply couldn’t tolerate the morbid humor of this master-disciple duo.
Earlier, she hadn’t thought of it. By the ti she wanted to remind him, Su Qing had already started vomiting.
However, what people didn’t know was that while Su Qing was gagging, an internal narration was exploding in his mind.
[Deceased: Liu Xiaojuan, Female, 31 years old, Fendong Village, Ning County, Cause of death: Carotid artery slashed, with a stab wound in the abdon damaging internal organs, Body status: Disembodied by an individual, Ti of death: 93 days, 4 hours]
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