Chapter 182 Race against time
In the conference room, it was eerily quiet.
Everyone was waiting in silence for feedback from the Municipal Bureau.
Wei Qunshan kept rubbing his eyebrows, but from time to time he looked at Cao Hua out of the corner of his eye.
Wu Dahao had no strength at all. He slumped down on the chair and buried his head very low.
Cao Hua couldn't bear it any longer. He whispered to Wei Qunshan: "Old Wei, I'll go out first."
He quickly came to the corridor, then took out his mobile phone and immediately dialed a number .
Even if it is late at night and may disturb the other party's rest, he still has to make this call.
If he didn't inform the other party in time, he didn't know if Wu Dahao would be suspended if the matter was brought to the provincial department before dawn, but he would definitely be in trouble!
Sure enough, the other party cursed angrily on the phone for a while, and then hung up the phone angrily.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Dahao's cell phone rang.
He glanced at the number, and the caller ID on the screen was his brother-in-law.
Wu Dahao held the phone, hesitated for a while, and hung up the phone decisively.
All this was seen by Wei Qunshan.
Not long after, Cai Xiaojing in front of the computer said loudly: "The city bureau has sent the video over!"
Hearing this, the criminal police officers in the conference room quickly cheered up, especially those at the Haijiang Branch. Their emotions were particularly high. They were previously suppressed by the people from the Municipal Bureau, but now they are in high spirits.
Originally, Director Cao Hua and Cao blamed himself for not doing a good job. Unexpectedly, their municipal bureau made such a major mistake and put the blame on himself. Now that I think about it, Haijiang Branch The detectives on this end all felt a breath of bad breath.
Cai Xiaojing operates the computer and puts the video on the big screen so that everyone can see it.
After clicking the mouse on the video, the screen will appear immediately.
Luo Rui quickly raised his head from Zhao Ming's personal computer and stared at the big screen.
There is no specific time on the screen, and the camera shakes very much.
A woman wearing a red down jacket was stuffed into a cement pipe, her lips were sealed with tape, and her limbs were tied. Because she couldn't make a sound, she whimpered and looked at her desperately. the camera begged.
The camera is facing the cement pipe, and one end of the pipe has been blocked.
Faced with the victim’s pleading, the photographer remained indifferent and didn’t say a word.
Then the camera looks out, and you can see that there is white snow all around, and there are snowflakes in the sky.
The wild dog appeared in the shot, and the photographer pushed the wild dog into the cement pipe. The wild dog did not resist and seemed to be afraid of the photographer.
When the cement pipe started to be blocked, the wild dog started barking, trying to escape.
But the photographer used a steel pipe to stab the wild dog on the head.
The wild dog let out a whining scream and quickly retracted into the cement pipe, not daring to go any further.
In the end, the cement pipe was completely blocked, and the woman and wild dog were sealed inside.
The video also ended at this time, a total of fifteen minutes.
It is longer than the second video, but the difference is that the murderer did not set a timer.
From beginning to end, the murderer did not show his face, only the hands of the murderer were visible, but he wore black velvet gloves and did not expose his skin.
After the video ended, everyone in the conference room gasped and felt their hair standing on end.
The murderer did not kill directly, but indirectly killed the woman in an extremely cruel way.
In a state of extreme hunger, wild dogs attacked women and ate them...
The criminal policemen from Haijiang Branch looked at Cao Hua, Wu Dahao, and the criminal policemen from the city bureau.
Different from the second video, the video lens captured the external environment, as well as the very important clue of the cement pipe.
If a large number of police forces are sent to search, this place can be easily found.
Everyone knows that if this video had been discovered earlier, it would have been possible to save this woman!
It was because the city bureau neglected to report the letters in the mailbox that the tragedy occurred!
The murderer not only challenged the police, but also made malicious mockery!
In the second case, the murderer changed his strategy and posted the second video to the reporting mailbox of Haijiang Branch.
Cai Xiaojing receives letters every three days. If she does not discover it in time tonight, it will also cause the tragic death of the second victim!
After watching the video, Cao Hua was sweating profusely and broke into a cold sweat!
He hesitated to speak, but could not speak.
On the other hand, Wu Dahao is still calm now. After he decided to tell the truth, he had already anticipated the worst outcome.
He stood up and said to Cao Hua and Wei Qunshan: "Bureau Cao, Bureau Wei, I didn't do my job well! I'm sorry, I am voluntarily suspended and will accept the investigation from above!"
Finished , he handed his ID to Cao Hua's desk, and then left quickly.
Seeing him like this, Cao Hua cursed in his heart, seeking death, and dragging him into the water!
If it weren't for Wu Dahao's special status, he would definitely blame the other party, but now he can only rely on his brother-in-law's skills.
He looked at Wei Qunshan and sighed: "Old Wei, this case is now handed over to you for investigation. As the Wu detachment just said, we didn't do our job well, please forgive me!"
< br>He loudly ordered the criminal policemen from the Municipal Bureau: "You all stay and do your best to assist the comrades in Haijiang Branch in investigating this case!"
In fact, the criminal policemen from the Municipal Bureau wanted to leave, but they didn't want to. Dare to disobey the leader.
The shameless ones left, but the shameless ones stayed.
After Cao Hua left, Wei Qunshan did not feel relaxed. If he could not find the second victim before dawn, he, like Cao Hua and Wu Dahao, would be investigated by the above.
Wei Qunshan pondered for a moment and looked at everyone in the conference room.
"The case is now very clear. As Luo Rui said, the murderer is cunning and cruel. He is challenging our police! We must find the second victim!
Xiaojing , you lead people to investigate the reporting letters from last year to this year! The murderer will not deliver U through the reporting mailbox for no reason! Pan, he may be dissatisfied with our police. He has written a report letter before, but it was not accepted, so he came up with such a bad case!
Comrades from the Municipal Bureau, let’s investigate the background information of the two victims! , be sure to find out their identities, as well as their social relationships and commonalities
Luo Rui, Zhao Ming and other technical detectives immediately went to analyze the second video and find out where the second victim was trapped! "
Wei Qunshan checked the time, and it was now close to eleven o'clock in the night.
"I will gather people from various units and wait for the results of the investigation. After two o'clock in the morning, all personnel will Move out! ”
After the task was arranged, everyone acted non-stop and ran out of the conference room.
Luo Rui also followed Zhao Ming to the office of the forensic department.
In addition to Zhao Ming, there are also his two apprentices.
The four people were divided into two groups, and the two groups analyzed the background information in the two videos.
Because the second video was the most important and lasted less than two minutes, Zhao Ming cut it out frame by frame and put it in a folder on his computer.
His movements were very fast and very skillful, which made Luo Rui dazzled.
The two-minute video has a total of 155 pictures cut out, with an average of one picture per second.
Zhao Ming clicked on the folder and clicked on the first picture in chronological order.
This is the first shot of the video, a full-body image of the victim. He is naked and lying on a rectangular table.
Zhao Ming scrolled the mouse with his right hand, enlarged the photo, and then muttered: "Visually the victim is close to 1.75 meters tall. There are purple bruises on the inner thigh and left knee. Before he was tied, he suffered Attack. Apart from that, there were no other external injuries. .
The two tables were assembled together... There was a hole in each corner of the table, and the belt was passed through the hole to tie the victim so that he could not move..."
Luo Rui took over the conversation. : "No, there are six..."
Zhao Ming glanced at him and did not speak. Instead, he turned to the second picture. This picture was a shot of the victim's face. A black belt was also tied around his neck to fix his head.
Zhao Ming enlarged the photo and moved the mouse arrow to the left side of the victim's neck.
The six holes Luo Rui mentioned just now should mean that there is one hole on each side of the victim's neck. But at this time, he saw where the mouse arrow landed and found that there were no holes at all. Embedded at both ends are two rows of nails.
Although the camera of the video moved very slowly, the camera shook violently and the light in the room was also very dim. Luo Rui watched the video several times but did not notice this.
But Zhao Ming can tell at a glance that he is worthy of being the boss of the forensic department. This is the so-called specialization in the art.
Luo Rui clicked his tongue twice and gave him a thumbs up: "Brother Zhao, you are really awesome!"
Zhao Ming shrugged his shoulders and replied casually: "Haijiang Branch, you are really awesome!" !”
Luo Rui’s heart sank, not knowing what he meant.
Zhao Ming is a calm and unsmiling person, but he knows that unclear words can easily cause misunderstandings, so he whispered: "If it weren't for you, our Haijiang Branch would have been bullied!"
< br>Luo Rui raised his eyebrows, and in a blink of an eye, he saw his two apprentices making thumbs up.
"Team Leader Luo, it can be said that you slapped the Municipal Bureau indirectly. You just didn't see Bureau Cao's expression. Looking at you, you want to eat you alive."
Another apprentice also agreed. Said: "Yes, I still want to It’s hard work for Team Cai to cause trouble for us, unlike them! There were fifty or sixty people in the municipal bureau just now. Everyone watched them make mistakes, and they couldn’t help but feel sorry for them!”< br>Unexpectedly, Zhao Ming said with a serious face: "Shut up and work hard. Why is there so much nonsense? If we can't find the victim before dawn, we will be in trouble too!"
Two The apprentice shut up and quickly analyzed the video. Zhao Ming's words were correct, and it was true when he thought about it. The biggest wish of the people in the Municipal Bureau now is that Haijiang Branch cannot find anyone. In this case, the law will not blame everyone, anyway A hanging sample, let me see how you handle it!
So, in the Haijiang Branch, both front-line criminal police and back-office staff were all called back by Wei Qunshan.
The city bureau cannot be relied on, they can only rely on themselves!
What Luo Rui didn't expect was that Wu Dahao would take the initiative to take responsibility for this matter of great right and wrong.
It was not in vain that he saved him. Luo Rui sighed and focused on the computer screen.
Zhao Ming continued his analysis: "The victim was young, between twenty-five and thirty years old, and his weight was initially estimated to be 160 kilograms..."
Hundreds of people were analyzed continuously. The pictures showed the physical characteristics of the victim, but no useful clues were found.
Cai Xiaojing's group was looking for the identity information of the two victims, so Zhao Ming just scanned the information casually.
What he and Luo Rui are looking for is where is this room? !
In the second half of the video, the camera follows the path of the rope from the guillotine on the ceiling to the end of the rope being burned by the oil lamp.
As long as the rope end is burned by the oil lamp below, the guillotine will fall from the ceiling!
The second half of the video lasts for fifty seconds, which is more than fifty shots and pictures.
Luo Rui exhaled a breath and asked: "Brother Zhao, do you think the light of this oil lamp will go out automatically?",
Zhao Ming shook his head: "Unlikely, this thing is specially made, and A timer was shown in the video, and it looked like the murderer had experimented with the thickness of the rope and the size of the flame. It's all done with precise calculations."
Luo Rui smacked his lips: "This murderer really worked hard!"
Zhao Ming nodded: "He is a smart man!"
< br>Next, the two analyzed and compared without blinking, hoping to find clues.
The ceiling appears in these pictures, and there are cobwebs on the ceiling...
The walls, windows, tables, oil lamps, timers, etc. were photographed...
What is certain is that this is an abandoned room. Empty room.
Luo Rui's eyes were sore. He stood up and rubbed his eyelids with his thumb and index finger.
But at this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Wei Qunshan stood outside the door with someone.
He immediately asked: "Director Zhao, Luo Rui, how did your investigation go? Have you determined the location?"
Luo Rui looked at the clock on the wall and found that the time had reached two o'clock in the morning.
Two points, no matter what the result is, we must go out to find someone!
Zhao Ming stood up from his chair and replied: "Wei Bureau, it still needs time!"
"It still needs time?" Wei Qunshan was anxious, he walked in and said almost angrily : "No, you must give me an approximate location!"
His eyes were fixed on Luo Rui, of course hoping that this kid could make a divine assist, just like before.
But Luo Rui shook his head and said that he was helpless.
There are many types of police work, especially the technical investigation, which requires a lot of time and money to support.
Luo Rui is not a god, how could he find the key information at once and tell Wei Qunshan a detailed address. Wei Qunshan pursed his lips tightly, not knowing what to do next.
In the past few hours, he walked up and down the building several times anxiously, hoping which group could give him an accurate clue.
But...
Du Feng, Du Feng hasn’t caught the suspect under surveillance yet!
Cai Xiaojing, Cai Xiaojing's group also did not find the identity information of the two victims.
The Municipal Bureau, the people in the Municipal Bureau are even more fishing. There are a lot of complaint letters from the Municipal Bureau. While they work carelessly, they still have to make instant noodles and drink a cup of coffee from time to time.
Zhao Ming and Luo Rui also had no results!
Seeing Wei Qunshan's disappointed expression, Zhao Ming, who had always been calm, suddenly said: "Director Wei, give me another hour?"
"Okay, three o'clock, three in the morning "Point, we have to go!"
After saying that, Wei Qunshan walked out of the office quickly, but immediately stepped back from the corridor, reached out and gently closed the door of the forensic department's office to avoid being disturbed by outsiders.
Zhao Ming started working immediately without saying anything.
He brought two laptops and operated one with each hand. He looked at the screen on the left and glanced at the screen on the right.
Luo Rui was dumbfounded. Zhao Ming was indeed the boss of the forensic department.
He himself quickly sat down in front of a desktop computer. The computers were connected to the intranet, and the pictures and videos were in shared folders.
However, the video recording is not clear, and the picture after the cut is also very blurry when enlarged.
He looked through more than a hundred pictures and found nothing strange. When he turned around, Zhao Ming was already screening them for the second time.
So, he also started from the beginning.
Time passed slowly until the hour hand on the wall clock was about to point to three o'clock in the morning. Luo Rui finally discovered a small clue.
He zoomed in on the last shot, and several things appeared in this picture.
Table legs, stools, rope knots, oil lamps covered with glass.
Both the stool and the table legs are new, but he is not looking at this, but at the wall behind the table legs.
By visual inspection, it should be three to five meters away from the table legs tied with ropes, out of the lens.
There seems to be a line of small writing on the wall, but the picture cannot be enlarged anymore!
At this time, Wei Qunshan opened the door again.
Luo Rui ignored him, but pushed Zhao Ming: "Look at this!"
Zhao Ming quickly turned his head, and Luo Rui clicked the mouse arrow on the small location.
Zhao Ming adjusted his glasses frames, then pushed Luo Rui away and sat in the chair.
Wei Qunshan looked anxious and wanted to speak, but when he saw their actions, he had to close his mouth and follow them to look at the suspicious points discovered by Luo Rui.
Zhao Ming worked on the computer for a while, and he used a certain software to enlarge the picture again.
The picture is even blurrier and the handwriting looks like ghost drawings, I can’t see clearly at all!
The two of them looked at it hard for a while, only to feel dizzy.
Wei Qunshan also leaned his head closer and didn't see why.
But one of Zhao Ming's apprentices read this line at once: "I like Li XX, but I am about to graduate from junior high school. How should I say anything?!"
"Huh? ”
Zhao Ming and Luo Rui looked at it in confusion He asked him invariably: "Are you sure?" "How can you see clearly?"
The apprentice scratched the back of his head: "When I was studying, I used to sit by the wall and write the tip of my pen on the wall. Engraved similar words ”
Hearing this, Zhao Ming asked again: "Are you sure this is the sentence? You read it correctly?"
The apprentice nodded: "I will write it down for you, and you will understand after you read it."
He picked up a pen and a piece of A4 paper. After writing this paragraph, he handed it to Zhao Ming.
After several people compared it word by word, they found that although the handwriting on the picture was blurred and there were missing arms and legs, 60% of it was correct.
Luo Rui pondered: "The place where the victim was trapped is an abandoned junior high school?"
Zhao Ming hurriedly searched for it on the computer. After a while, a news headline appeared on the screen, Haihui Middle School was abandoned ten years ago, and the old campus has never been demolished.
Wei Qunshan patted apprentice Zhao Ming on the shoulder hard: "Boy, if you find this person, you will have made a great contribution!"
After speaking, Wei Qunshan called Luo Rui and mobilized all the people. The police officers drove there. The reason for such a large formation was because they were afraid that if they found the wrong place, they would have to search elsewhere.
Zhao Ming continued to compare the pictures. He did not feel relieved because he found clues. The work of technical detectives is like this. It is endless. Maybe major clues can be found from some subtle doubts. .
The city bureau criminal police who stayed in the branch saw Wei Qunshan dispatching troops and immediately called and reported to Cao Hua.
The latter is waiting for his brother-in-law to arrive in a secret villa.
Half an hour later, Wei Qunshan and the others arrived at the place.
Haihui Middle School is located in the south of Haijiang District, in a suburban-urban area, and far away from the road, making the surrounding area very deserted.
Most schools are built on graveyards, and Haihui Middle School is no exception.
The two iron doors at the school gate were closed. The policeman who got out of the car first came forward with hydraulic pliers, but the iron chain had been cut.
Luo Rui held a flashlight in his hand and shined the light on it. The broken end of the iron chain was smooth and without rust. It must have been cut manually. Then he hung up the iron chain and locked the door to prevent outsiders from entering.
Wei Qunshan and Luo Rui looked at each other. They both understood that 90% of the victims were inside, otherwise no one would be so cautious.
Then, the big iron door was pushed open, the special police and criminal police got out of the car, ran across the grassy playground, and ran towards the teaching building.
The reason why the special police were called was because they were afraid that the murderer would be here.
If this man could be caught on the spot, the case would be closed!
It was almost four o'clock in the morning, the darkest hour of the night, and the halo of dozens of flashlights kept moving forward.
The teaching building is on the left side of the playground.
Approaching the front of the teaching building, two teams of people immediately surrounded him from the left and right sides. After searching on the first floor to no avail, they then searched up the stairs on the left and right sides.
When we got to the first floor, we separated two people and searched on the second floor while the others continued to go up.
In less than five minutes, the teaching building has seven floors, and the halo of the flashlight is moving on each floor.
Luo Rui and Wei Qunshan stood in the corridor on the third floor, and the police officers' voices came from the intercoms in their hands: "No one on the second floor!"
"No one on the third floor!"< br>
"Fourth floor, no one!"
"Fifth floor, the third classroom on the fifth floor is locked!"
Hearing this, Luo Rui hurried to Running up, Wei Qunshan was out of breath from exhaustion after not exercising for a long time.
The two arrived at the fifth floor. Luo Rui saw a special policeman with a gun standing outside the door. He looked up with a flashlight and found a nameplate nailed above the door lintel.
The nameplate reads: Class 1, Grade 3.
The special police did not break down the door, but guarded the door.
The door is locked with a lock that I just bought.
The criminal policeman holding the hydraulic pliers just stepped forward and cut off the lock arm of the copper lock.
Then, everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to push the door.
Everyone has seen the scene in the video. The murderer carefully arranged the murder mechanism. If he pushed the door open at will, triggered some kind of mechanism, and killed the victim, it would be really over!
The two windows in the classroom were blocked from the inside by newspapers, making it impossible to see what was going on inside.
However, if you break the window, you are afraid of any accidents.
When faced with a dilemma, Wei Qunshan ordered: "Broken window, don't enter through the front door!"
So, the SWAT officers brought a hammer.
"Bang! Bang!"
The window was smashed open, broken glass fell on the window sill and the ground, and the jagged fragments on the edge were knocked off, revealing a gap that could be drilled into.
The SWAT officers immediately climbed onto the window sill and jumped in.
Subsequently, the back door of the classroom was opened, but no mechanism was found.
Luo Rui and Wei Qunshan walked into the classroom and saw the flickering light of oil lamps.
The scene in the video, at this moment, has truly appeared before their eyes.
The light was dim, but the halo of countless flashlights shone on the man.
There is no one else in the classroom except the victim.
Luo Rui looked at the rope on the oil lamp and found that there was only the last strand of thread left in the rope. If he had come an hour later, the guillotine on the ceiling would have fallen.
He took a breath and stepped forward. There was a latch under the oil lamp. As long as it was turned off, the lamp would go out.
A criminal policeman stepped forward and pulled the rope that was about to break to prevent the guillotine from falling.
Another detective came to the table to check on the victim.
Luo Rui just turned out the oil lamp, but at this moment, the cell phone in his pocket rang.
He took out his cell phone and looked at it, and found that it was Zhao Ming.
He quickly answered the phone, and as soon as he held it to his ear, he heard Zhao Ming's anxious voice: "There is a bump on the floor at the bottom left of the table. Don't step on it."
Luo Rui was stunned for a moment. He stopped, then looked at the place where the victim was lying, and saw that several detectives had surrounded him. One of the detectives lowered his head, as if he felt something had been stepped on with the sole of his shoe.
Luo Rui quickly shouted: "Don't go forward! Stop! Stop everyone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden loud tearing sound in the empty classroom. rang out.
At this moment, everyone felt something was wrong and their scalps felt numb.
While everyone was looking for the source of the sound...
In the blink of an eye, a gear saw blade was cut out of the victim's abdominal cavity, making a heart-stopping and harsh sound.
"Zizi..."
The saw blade rolled and rotated, bringing up a cloud of blood mist and flesh.
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