Chapter 181 Dereliction of Duty
Cai Xiaojing stood up quickly, feeling cold sweat all over her back.
She didn’t dare to neglect, and quickly took off the USB flash drive, and then ran to the case analysis conference room.
In the corridor, she met Tian Guanghan who had not yet gotten off work. This man used to be Yang Gan's subordinate and now serves as the captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Team.
Cai Xiaojing hurriedly grabbed him: "Old Tian, call Bureau Wei to the conference room quickly! There is a major criminal case!"
Tian Guanghan was startled and immediately replied: "Okay, I'll go right away!"
Wu Dahao was still standing in front of the clue board. When he saw Cai Xiaojing running towards him with a look of panic, he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong? Are you so anxious?"
Cai Xiaojing calmed down a little, walked to the computer at the bottom of the screen, and inserted the USB flash drive into the computer.
She was operating the desktop computer. After a while, Wei Qunshan and the criminal policeman who had not yet gotten off work arrived.
Seeing everyone gathered, Cai Xiaojing clicked on the video on the computer and put the picture on the big screen.
As soon as the video started playing, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Wei Qunshan frowned and put his hands on his hips.
Wu Dahao was stunned, with an expression of disbelief.
In an empty and old room, a man was restrained from head to toe, with a guillotine hanging over his head, and the rope tied to the guillotine was being burned with a special oil lamp.
The number on the timer is 12:00, which means that after 12 hours, the rope will be burned, the guillotine will fall, and the victim’s head will be moved?
Du Feng has never seen such a scene even though he has been a police officer for so many years.
For a moment, he was speechless.
The detective behind him was the same, his face was pale and his eyes were wide open.
From the beginning of the new year until now, there has been no murder case in Haijiang Branch, but today, two murder cases occurred in succession, which made their relaxed nerves tense instantly.
After the video was played, Wei Qunshan immediately asked: "Where did the video come from?"
"Report mailbox! I found the USB flash drive in the envelope when I was collecting the letters this evening."
In other cases, Wei Qunshan does not have to intervene or appear at the scene, but the murder case is different. As the director, he must figure it out. The whole story.
Without waiting for him to continue asking, Cai Xiaojing added: "I collect letters every three days, and today is the day to collect letters."
Du Feng regained his composure and analyzed: "So , this USB disk was put into the report mailbox within these three days?”
This question immediately grabbed everyone’s heart.
Three days? Even if the envelope was delivered yesterday, the man in the video must be dead!
In twelve hours, the rope will be burned!
Wei Qunshan took a breath and ordered: "The case is serious! This gangster is blatantly provoking the police! Xiaojing, go call and call all your colleagues back from get off work! Especially Zhao Mingzhao Director, ask him to extract the fingerprints on the envelope.
Du Feng. , you go to the security room now, find the guards, ask them if they have found any suspicious people wandering outside the police station in the past two days, and call the nearby road surveillance!"
Wei Qunshan cursed in a rare way, After saying that, he urged: "Quick, move fast!"
The detectives in the conference room took action immediately, but everyone was very nervous.
The guillotine, oil lamp, timer, and the man's desperate eyes are all deeply imprinted in their minds.
Everyone is highly nervous and dare not slack off!
Wei Qunshan returned to the office and dialed the municipal bureau without hesitation.
He understood that this case was of great importance and that the life of the victim was at stake. It could no longer be investigated by one branch alone.
The call was made directly to Cao Hua. Logically speaking, Cao Hua was Wei Qunshan's superior, but the latter had never given the former face.
After he explained the situation directly, he hung up the phone.
Then he hesitated for a moment and then dialed another number.
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Luo Rui was shirtless and sitting on the floor sweating profusely.
In the training room, there were about a dozen puppet models that he bought with money to serve as imaginary enemies during training.
He would practice knife skills for a long time every night.
The so-called knife skills are actually a kind of cold weapon confrontation in close combat.
In the SWAT unit, some instructors are very powerful. They can knock down several people in tens of seconds with just a dagger.
Moreover, specially select the opponent’s vital parts to stab.
For example, neck, wrist, ankle, etc.
Luo Rui had seen Liao Kang's dagger fighting, and his movements were so fast that it was dizzying.
Fortunately, Luo Rui was a good boxer in his previous life, with good sensitivity and dodge. He learned dagger fighting and made rapid progress.
In the past few days, he has been holding a dagger in his hand, training like he used to turn a pen in class.
He wiped his sweat with a towel and then walked into the bathroom to rinse.
After taking a shower, Luo Rui stood in front of the mirror and looked at his other self.
His shoulders are straight, his body is getting stronger and stronger, and the muscles on his cheeks are angular. He no longer looks like a student just a few months ago.
His hair was also shaved into a short buzz cut, making him appear capable and refreshing.
As he walked out of the bathroom, his cell phone rang on the sofa.
After Luo Rui answered the call, he didn't even have time to dry his hair, put on his clothes and took the elevator downstairs.
At this time, it was already half past nine in the evening, and Mo Wanqiu was at home. An hour ago, he said he would come up and play for a while.
She has the key to Luo Rui's house, but it has been taken away by He Chunhua. She has been watched closely recently.
Luo Rui drove a BMW quickly to Haijiang District without notifying her.
Half an hour later, he came to the conference room and saw a large group of people already sitting inside.
In addition to Wei Qunshan, Cai Xiaojing and other police officers from Haijiang Branch, even the criminal police from the Municipal Bureau came.
Cao Hua and Wu Dahao sat at the top with solemn expressions.
They were all surprised to see Luo Rui.
Especially Wu Dahao, his life was saved by Luo Rui, and the relationship between the two is still good.
However, no one exchanged greetings with him, but looked at Wei Qunshan with furrowed brows.
Luo Rui sat next to Cai Xiaojing, who pushed the laptop in front of him, then clicked on the video for him to watch.
The video is only two minutes long. As soon as Wei Qunshan finished his opening remarks, Luo Rui had already finished watching it.
He looked at the leader with a solemn expression, and the latter stood up and stood in front of the big screen.
Wei Qunshan quickly introduced the source of the USB flash drive and explained: "The suspect who delivered the video was caught on surveillance."
As he spoke, a surveillance video appeared on the screen.
A man wearing a hat and scarf sneaked up to the mailbox. When no one was around, he took out the brown envelope in his arms, threw it into the mailbox, and then quietly Leave.
The time shown in the video was at 8:30 this evening, which was two hours ago.
Luo Rui's brain was working rapidly. He watched the video again and found that the light outside the window was very dim, and a row of white woven light tubes hung from the ceiling.
He speculated on the time of filming. As soon as he got the answer, Wei Qunshan said first: "The time is now 10:30 at night. If we extrapolate forward, this video may have been shot between 6 and 7:30 in the afternoon."
Wu Dahao immediately asked: "Plan The countdown on the timer is twelve hours, which means that if we can't find this room between six and seven thirty tomorrow morning, the rope will be burned and the victim's head will be guillotined... …”
As soon as this was said, everyone fell silent.
There are still eight or nine hours until dawn. It seems impossible to find the victim in such a short period of time!
Cao Hua, as the leader of the municipal bureau, has never spoken.
But he understood that since Wei Qunshan called him, he was sharing the risk. This case was too difficult. If the victim died unfortunately and the case went wrong, everyone would have a hard time.
At this time, Zhao Ming broke into the conference room. He was wearing blue latex gloves and said to Wei Qunshan: "Bureau Wei, no fingerprints were found on the envelope..."
No one was surprised, because the suspect captured by the surveillance camera was wearing gloves on his hands, so it was impossible for him to leave such obvious fingerprints.
But why would such a cunning murderer appear under surveillance again?
At this time, Du Feng is leading people to hunt down the suspect, hoping to catch him as soon as possible!
Zhao Ming quickly walked to the big screen, picked up the remote control and started playing the video.
When the transparent tape covering the victim's lips appeared on the screen, he quickly freeze the picture.
Everyone looked at him strangely. Zhao Ming quickly enlarged the picture and explained: "Look, everyone, there is a string of letters on this transparent tape..."
Cai Xiaojing suddenly realized and blurted out: "Isn't this the same tape that was on the mouth of the female victim in the cement pipe?!"
As soon as this statement came out, the conference room immediately became noisy.
Wei Qunshan was also startled. His eyes widened and he was speechless for a moment.
With Du Feng absent, Cai Xiaojing had no choice but to stand up and recount the murder case discovered last night in detail.
Luo Rui just arrived and didn’t know anything else except watching the video and hearing about the case for a while.
Now, hearing Cai Xiaojing talk about another case, he was also shocked.
The female victim’s limbs were tied and her lips were sealed with tape. The murderer sealed her and a wild dog in a cement pipe, where they were eaten by the wild dog.
In this way, it can be proven that the two cases were committed by the same murderer. The identity of the female victim is unknown. The crime occurred on February 9th. The police discovered the murder scene yesterday, February 24th.
Half a month! The female victim was eaten by wild dogs for half a month!
Today is February 25th. If the two cases are related, then this is the second one?
Everyone in the conference room was silent, and no one dared to say anything.
This case is too difficult and serious in nature, and no one dares to analyze it with conventional characterization of a murder.
Cao Hua was sweating profusely, wiping his forehead with a tissue, thinking that he should really find an excuse not to come here, so as not to get into trouble afterwards.
Wu Dahao came to Haijiang Branch in the afternoon and wanted to take the 224 case to the Municipal Bureau for investigation. Now that something like this happened, he began to back down.
But the municipal bureau is the municipal bureau. If it shirks its responsibility and responsibility, when the time comes to investigate, inaction will be more serious than failure to solve the case.
In the past few years, criminal cases were generally left to the local branch bureaus to handle themselves. The municipal bureau only provided technical training and professional support, but now it is different. The municipal bureau also has to assume the function of solving crimes.
If we really can't handle it, we will dispatch police officers from various counties and cities to form a joint task force, just like the previous times.
At this time, Cao Hua had this idea. While the second victim was still alive, he quickly reported it to the provincial department and set up a task force. This would put him under relatively less pressure.
But at this time, in a silence that could hear a pin drop, a hand was raised.
Cao Hua, Wei Qunshan and Wu Dahao all looked at Luo Rui.
Wei Qunshan wanted to speak, but Cao Hua said first: "Now the time is urgent and the task is heavy. I think we should report it to the provincial department immediately and form a joint investigation team!"
He ignored it at all. Luo Rui, this young man, he didn’t like very much!
Because he has repeatedly robbed the city bureau's division, whether it was the kidnapping incident in Luming Mountain, the rescue of Wu Dahao from the city bureau, or the subsequent jewelry store and escort vehicle robbery cases, the city bureau cannot take any credit. Not caught!
As a member of the Municipal Bureau detachment, Wu Dahao has a special status, but he is quite cheerful. He has no ill feelings towards Luo Rui, but he has the same idea as Cao Hua. He takes the credit of the Municipal Bureau and robs him. medal of merit.
But at the same time, these two people did not want to take responsibility, so Wu Dahao immediately echoed: "I agree with Bureau Cao's opinion!"
Hearing this, Wei Qunshan looked at them coldly.
"Bureau Cao, Detachment 5, set up a task force. It will take time and manpower!"
He tapped the watch dial on his left wrist with his right index finger.
"There are only seven or eight hours left. If the second victim cannot be found before dawn, his life will be in danger!"
Wei Qunshan said it very tactfully. How could he not know what these two people were thinking after so many years of ups and downs in the officialdom!
If the victim is already dead, let you do whatever you want, and you won’t bother to worry about it.
But now, it is a critical moment, and a qualified criminal police officer should bear the responsibility of rescuing the victim!
Luo Rui's hand was still raised and did not put it down.
Everyone in the conference room looked at the leader sitting at the head for a while, and then looked at Luo Rui.
There were two factions among them. The people from the city bureau had mocking eyes, but the people from the branch bureau had sullen faces! Tian Guanghan, Chu Yang, and Su Mingyuan all looked ugly. After all, Luo Rui was the criminal team leader of the branch.
Cao Hua still ignored Luo Rui, but said: "Old Wei, it is because the case is important that I have to report it!"
He didn't make his words very clear, but the meaning was very clear. clear.
Wei Qunshan was about to speak, but Luo Rui's hands were tired, so he simply stood up.
Everyone thought he was going to say something to the leader, but he looked directly at Cai Xiaojing and asked: "Captain Cai, Qian just said that the video was found from the report mailbox, and the two cases are now The same murderer, what about the first video? ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the conference room instantly became silent and stunned.
Yes, where is the first video?
Everyone was frightened and anxious by the scenes in the video. They knew that they were unable to rescue the victim in a short period of time, so their brains stopped thinking.
It's like your boss is talking to you, he talks a lot, and you nod frequently, following his lead.
Afterwards, I suddenly thought that this guy was completely wrong, and I almost fainted.
To be more serious, there have been many incidents in history where flight errors resulted in plane crashes.
The first officer predicted the risk, but did not dare to tell the captain. Anyway, the captain was the biggest and most capable, so he would not even notice this risk.
Exactly this caused an irreparable tragedy.
The order of superiority and inferiority leads to collective dementia.
Now, the situation of these criminal policemen is exactly the same.
When Cao Hua, Wu Dahao and Wei Qunshan were talking about the special task force, Luo Rui was too lazy to pay attention to these two people. His thinking never stopped, so he asked this question.
Cai Xiaojing was stunned and opened her eyes wide. Seeing everyone looking at her, she hurriedly replied: "I just found this video!"
In order to express clearly, she explained: "I collect the letters in the report mailbox every three days, and today is not the third day. But I also went to get it. And as I said just now, the suspect who was captured by the surveillance camera delivered the USB flash drive at 8:30 tonight. Before that, I didn’t find any other USB flash drives. There was no second appearance of him in the surveillance video!”
The conference room fell into silence again.
Cao Hua did not speak, and Wu Dahao did not dare to speak.
Only Wei Qunshan muttered: "Because the transparent tape that sealed the mouths of the two victims is of the same model, we can be sure that the murderer is the same person! We have received the video of the second victim, so there must be a video of the first female victim as well. !"
At this time, Cao Hua said deceptively: "What if there is no one?"
Luo Rui turned around on behalf of Wei Qunshan: "There must be!"< br>
After finishing speaking, he looked at the detective in the conference room: "No one wants to say it, but for me, this is a serial murder case! Judging from the murderer's behavior pattern, it seems that he is teasing and challenging the police!
Not only did he send the video to the police, but he also instructed the police to rescue the victim within the specified time. If the police did not act, the victim would definitely die tragically!
The murderer has regarded this as a game. If the police don't play with him, he will continue to play in different ways!
Of course, we do not rule out the possibility of revenge killings. We should immediately investigate the social relations of the two victims to see if there is anything in common. Starting from this aspect, we may be able to find clues to the murderer!
But time does not allow, the only thing we can do now is to find the house where the victim is trapped! ”
Luo Rui spoke eloquently, and he has already determined the nature of the murder.
To solve the case, you need to have the intuition of a beast!
The detectives in the conference room couldn't be said to be shocked. After all, they could express these analyses, but Luo Rui's words were very inspiring.
The leaders did not dare to make a conclusion, so he did!
The leaders were arguing, but he pointed to the analysis of the case!
Wei Qunshan couldn't stop nodding, but Cao Hua's face was ugly. He pointed at Cai Xiaojing: "Your Haijiang branch actually received the video of the second victim, so there must be the first one. Now Your bureau should check it quickly to see if there are any omissions!"
This statement seems to imply self-blame, Wei Qunshan said with a cold face.
Cai Xiaojing also felt a little guilty. She was afraid that the murderer was not delivered through the reporting mailbox.
The daily collection of letters is given to the trainee police officers. If there is any omission, it will be tragic!
At this moment, the trainee police officers have already got off work. It will take time to ask them to come.
Cai Xiaojing, Chu Yang and Su Mingyuan stood up quickly, planning to look for letters immediately.
But Luo Rui said at this time: "The murderer posted it through the report mailbox. What did he want to explain in this way? If it is really a revenge serial murder case, then we'd better not limit ourselves to Haijiang Report mailbox of the branch!
The city bureau and each branch have a reporting mailbox. It is best to send someone to collect it now to see if there is a video of the first victim! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Dahao’s head immediately shut down.
His face was pale, his throat seemed to be blocked, and he was speechless.
Wu Dahao cleared his throat and asked Wei Qunshan: "Bureau Wei, um... when was the first case? "
Wei Qunshan saw his flustered face and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still replied: "Half a month ago, on February 9th. ”
February 9th?
Wuda's body froze, February 9th!
Although his mind was a mess, he still recalled in a corner that one night after get off work, he drove out of the city bureau parking lot and saw a stranger through the rearview mirror. Submit the letter to the municipal bureau's report mailbox.
And this stranger is the man captured by the surveillance camera outside the Haijiang Branch Building!
The hat on his head and the scarf around his neck were exactly the same as what he saw.
But he didn't care at the time!
The back of Wu Dahao's head was covered in cold sweat, and he was in a war between heaven and man in his heart!
Say? Or not?
To put it bluntly, all the police officers in the municipal bureau have committed dereliction of duty. Not only will he and Cao Hua be criticized by the provincial department, but if serious, they will be suspended for inspection!
If you don’t say anything, hiding this matter will have a great impact on the case and is unfair to the victim! And he is also breaking the law!
When Cao Hua heard what Luo Rui just said, his face immediately sank.
"Luo Rui, why did the murder that happened in your Haijiang branch involve the city bureau?"
Just as Luo Rui was about to speak, Wu Dahao stood up tremblingly.
Facing everyone's gaze, he plucked up the courage and spoke: "Well... the city bureau has received such a letter. If I remember correctly, late at night before February 9th, I When I got off work, I saw a strange man delivering a letter to the city bureau’s reporting mailbox. This man was the same person you captured on surveillance! But I was in a rush to get off work and didn’t pay attention!
I was negligent in my duty!”
As soon as this statement came out, the conference room immediately became noisy!
Wu Dahao sat back in his chair sweating profusely. Wei Qunshan reached out and patted his trembling shoulders twice.
Cao Hua's face was ashen. He didn't expect Wu Dahao to tell the story without his permission, but he never thought about the reason for this situation.
The criminal policemen from the city bureau couldn't sit still. They were arrogant at first, but now they lowered their heads and tried their best to hide themselves.
This matter will definitely be reported to the provincial department, and what awaits them will be a full review!
Wu Dahao can make such a decision, which shows that although he is not a qualified criminal policeman, he is still brave enough to take responsibility!
Cao Hua is still dazed and has no plans for the next step.
The matter was of great importance and time was limited. Wei Qunshan ignored him and directly called the city bureau and asked a technical detective police officer he knew to quickly go to the mailbox to get the letter.
After that, the conference room was silent and no one spoke.
Only Luo Rui and Zhao Ming leaned towards the laptop, watching the video of the second victim being trapped and communicating in low voices.
I have a cold and fever. I originally wanted to take a day off, but after thinking about it, I decided to bite the bullet and finish today's task
(End of this chapter)
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