Chapter 425: Chapter 401: Zhou Ning Gets Angry_2
"Director Zhou, have you found anything here?"
Zhou Ning nodded.
"...That’s the situation. We’ve located four vehicles of the same type, though we still need you to confirm them later. However, Zhang Hongwei was in the textile district on the morning of October 20th, and in the afternoon, it was him who picked up Fu Chunyu. So his suspicion has increased.
This case within a case should be quite straightforward to investigate. Feng Shujuan has been living alone for many years, and there might have been some emotional entanglement with Yang Liang. With a little diligent investigation, we should be able to uncover something, as people tend to pay more attention to a widow’s interactions.
What I can’t figure out now, according to the inspection report, is that Yang Liang’s car had Fu Chunyu’s bloodstains on it. Could Yang Liang have taken part in killing Fu Chunyu? Based on previous investigations, Zhang Hongwei went to Yang Liang’s house with Fu Chunyu. They weren’t that close, could they have cooperated?
But according to the current clues, the primary murder scene for killing Fu Chunyu should be the greenhouse. She was strangled to death and then dismembered. It involved killing in the greenhouse, transporting the body parts by tricycle to Menqiao Village to dump the body, and discarding the head, limbs, and weapons in the cesspool.
This series of actions is quite baffling. If we say that it was all done by Zhang Hongwei, how did he know the location of Yang Liang’s greenhouse? How did he manage to drive the tricycle without alerting Yang Liang? And to do all this without disturbing anyone, that doesn’t seem to make sense. Could it be that Yang Liang didn’t hear anything?"
After Zhou Ning finished speaking, the scene fell silent.
Indeed, everyone was baffled, and Huang Youdao squinted his eyes.
"To travel all the way from Shen City to rent a car and intentionally evade surveillance, to make such a disguise, all the evidence has already proven that he is lying. As for Yang Liang’s silence, I think it’s still because of Feng Shujuan’s death, but weren’t there any discoveries on those three weapons?"
Zhou Ning shook his head.
"The murderer is clever, throwing the weapons in the cesspool where the contamination is severe. We could extract the victim’s DNA because there were still remaining tissues, but if more time had passed, the extraction work would have been even more difficult.
However, our forensic lab is using the latest extraction methods to try, and we should have results soon. Of course, we can’t just wait for this. Mr. Huang, I’d like to visit the scene again. We’ll search around the greenhouse to see if we can find tire tracks.
In addition, since Zhang Hongwei is being monitored, has he made any moves? Where did he go after he was released yesterday? If we don’t have any other discoveries, we need to find clues on him. We also need to contact our colleagues in Shen City to thoroughly inspect the Passat that was rented."
Huang Youdao glanced at Wu Chunming, who hurriedly said.
"I’ve had someone following Zhang Hongwei. I just called, and after he was released yesterday, he went home, not his hometown, but a house he owns in Heping District. He went out to eat last night, drank quite a bit, and then went to sleep. He hasn’t come out today."
Liu Yongxin frowned slightly. He couldn’t even bear to listen to this level of surveillance and directly said:
"An apartment building? How was the surveillance conducted? Watching with binoculars from the building across? Or just waiting outside his unit? Wasn’t his phone tracked? You should at least know the call records, right? Who did he have dinner with last night, and did anyone overhear their conversation?"
Wu Chunming was stunned, starting to get angry as Huang Youdao pulled at him, but Wu Chunming shook off Huang Youdao’s grasp, glaring as he said.
"He lives in a high-rise; I can’t just let someone wait on their floor, right? That’s like peeking through the peephole; anyone could see that someone’s shadowing. I just had someone watch the entrance of the building. Plus, when he was released, we didn’t have any monitoring devices on him—after all, we hadn’t found him on any surveillance footage.
Geez, with all these questions, you’re making me question my abilities. If I knew he was the murderer, I wouldn’t have released him. Besides, how do you monitor a high-rise from across the street? Am I supposed to rent an apartment for that? Are you providing the funds?"
Huang Youdao was taken aback and slapped Wu Chunming’s arm.
"What the hell are you saying? Shut your mouth now!"
Zhou Ning’s temper flared. Ever since arriving here, he felt that Wu Chunming lacked competence and was psychologically fragile. Liu Yongxin’s words just robbed him of his dignity.
But why were they here?
Did they come to enjoy the chaos in Dayao City?
Or to argue with him?
They couldn’t even properly understand their own role. With such awareness and ability, Zhou Ning was truly infuriated.
Wu Chunming wanted to shake off Huang Youdao’s arm and say something, but Zhou Ning raised his hand, directly sweeping aside Wu Chunming’s hand that was about to point at Liu Yongxin, and pulled Liu Yongxin back a step. Cao Pingzhang approached, wanting to mediate.
However, Zhou Ning gave him a look, and Cao Pingzhang stopped in his tracks, not daring to come closer. Zhou Ning’s face darkened, and his voice rose.
"Sorry, Mr. Wu, we’re just forensic doctors. The team we brought only consists of forensic doctors, crime scene technicians, and network technicians. We don’t have the capability to help you analyze the case or execute arrests. Aside from autopsies and site inspections, we’ve also analyzed the nature of the body-dumping sites and even participated in excavations.
To say something you won’t like to hear, the searching of surveillance, testing of sample submissions, and many of the tasks we’ve done before, are your job. As far as I can tell, we haven’t done anything to hinder the investigation of the case.
Moreover, we’re standing here today not because of an invitation from Dayao City, nor because of your, Wu Chunming’s, grace, nor even that secondment notice from the province. It’s because Doctor Cao is my mentor Liu Yongxin’s classmate."
