Chapter 227 A Very Difficult Case
"Chief, are you listening?"
Jiang Yun's voice interrupted Su Ming's thoughts.
"Ah? A murder case, huh? I'm listening, keep talking."
Su Ming picked out a few fleeting key words from his memory to cover up the fact that he was distracted.
Now, the only is the one given to him by Jiang Yichuan.
It was a serial murder case, a serial murder case in the slums.
Jiang Yun is now reporting on this case.
"The bodies of all the victims have been processed into meat paste. No processing props have been found so far, and no traces of abnormal residues have been found. There is no eyewitness information from the surrounding residents." Jiang Yun ended his report.
The first half of her report was mostly about the destruction of the bodies, and other than that, there was no useful information.
"There are no clues at the moment. This is a very tricky serial murder case." Jiang Yun added.
Su Ming stroked his chin, his eyes fixed on the report in front of him. The report was very short and contained mostly extremely bloody murder scenes.
The reason why the report turned out like this was not because the person who wrote the report wanted to disgust him, but because apart from these on-site photos, there was really no other useful information.
Su Ming looked at a photo of meat sauce and recalled that before he traveled through time, his mother made pork patties that were almost like this, a puddle of broken pieces with a flat appearance.
The only difference between the two is that the pork patties are very clean and edible, while the latter are inedible and bloody, and if you look closely you can see hair mixed in the meat.
"Where are the bones? Where did their bones go?" Su Ming asked.
Jiang Yun: "It was also mixed in with the meat, crushed into crumbs and mixed in."
"How long would it take to treat a corpse like this without using supernatural powers?" Su Ming asked.
“If it were an ordinary person, they wouldn’t be able to do it to such a fine level even if they worked all day. To process a corpse like this, it must be thrown into a large meat grinder . But judging from the situation at the scene, the mincing was obviously done on the spot.
If a large processing machine is used, it is impossible that there would be no noise at all, so the props used must be small ones, such as a household meat grinder, which is more in line with the circumstances of this case.
But if this kind of small machine is used, large pieces of the body must be decomposed, which is also a big project.
Moreover, there are bones, and I personally cannot figure out how the bones are ground up and then evenly mixed into the meat."
"So, how is this handled now? Has anyone put forward any hypothesis?" Su Ming looked up at Jiang Yun.
"The conclusion of the people in the analysis department is that the criminal is probably not an ordinary person, but used some kind of special power." Jiang Yun said.
"Ah? Didn't you just say that there were no signs of abnormality left?" Su Ming was a little surprised.
"The existence of this residual trace can only prove that there is something strange or that the power of the superpower was not stable enough when using it. The absence of traces does not mean that it was not done by the superpower. As long as the power of the superpower is stable, there will be no abnormal residue when using superpowers."
Jiang Yun patiently explained, wondering how come the district chief didn't even know this.
Su Ming nodded as if he understood, and complained in his heart that the person who wrote the report was not practical. Since the conclusion was so simple, why didn't he just write it directly in the report? Instead, he used all these fancy professional adjectives to make it seem very complicated.
Su Ming raised his head slightly and glanced at Jiang Yun, and found that Jiang Yun was observing him with a suspicious and scrutinizing look.
As expected, what he just said must be very unprofessional in Jiang Yun's eyes.
The position of district chief is really difficult. It seems I have to stay up late these days to finish my online courses.
"Have the identities of these deceased been confirmed?" Su Ming asked.
"It's been confirmed that most of them were gang members, but the number of deaths was too large, and there were all kinds of samples, so we can't be sure of the pattern of the murderer's target selection. People in the analysis department think it was indiscriminate killing." Jiang Yun replied.
"I see." Su Ming nodded, thinking that his colleagues in the analysis department were really awesome.
When Su Ming first met his colleagues in the analysis department, he thought that people wearing white coats like them should be scientists.
They are exposed to theoretical knowledge in top fields and are obsessed with academic research, without having to do any real work. The best among them may even have some kind of genius disorder, unable to take care of themselves or something like that.
Later, Su Ming learned that the researchers in the Analysis Department not only studied superpowers, but also came into contact with extremely dangerous containment objects all day long, conducted interactive experiments with containment objects, and occasionally invented some weapons with extremely low practicality and extremely high danger.
And now, Su Ming has a new impression of them. This group of people can not only study superpowers and make weapons, but also perform autopsies!
In fact, it would be fine if they could just perform autopsies, but they could actually investigate cases... Su Ming could only say that these people were geniuses.
Su Ming was very curious about what they were thinking when they saw the bloody scene. Don’t they have any resistance?
"District Chief? District Chief, are you listening?"
"Ah? What did you just say?" Su Ming scratched his head embarrassedly. This was the second time he was distracted.
"I said it's time to eat. Do you want to eat together?" Jiang Yun said, "If you don't want to go, can I eat first? The cafeteria will be out of food in a while."
"Go ahead. Thank you for your hard work. I'm going to stay here for a while."
"Okay, I'll be right back after dinner!"
"Wait a minute!" Su Ming called to Jiang Yun who had just turned around, "One last question, how often does this case happen?"
"It's very high. Four incidents occurred in three days, with a total of 37 deaths."
Su Ming nodded to indicate that he understood the situation. He rested his chin on his hand and thought for a few seconds before saying, "I'm going to the crime scene this afternoon."
Jiang Yun was stunned when he heard this.
"Are you sure you want to go? I don't think we can get any useful clues by going again." Jiang Yun confessed.
She originally thought that Su Ming's next order would be to send people to stake out the slums and wait for the murderer to make his next move, but Su Ming actually wanted to revisit the scene.
To be honest, she thought it was unnecessary.
The analysis department sent many people to investigate the scene inside and out several times, but they didn't find any results. Even if Su Ming went there again, there would probably be no breakthrough clues.
Jiang Yun thought again of the letter that Sylvie wrote to her half a month ago.
At that time, she was about to graduate, and she wanted to come to Sylvie's side to help her.
But Sylvie said in her reply that she did not lack an assistant and could handle all the matters by herself, but she had a very outstanding specialist who might become the district chief, so she invited her to come here to be the secretary assistant of this potential newcomer.
Jiang Yun couldn't refuse her idol's request, so she came to Dongyang Island and became Su Ming's secretary.
She believed in Sylvie's judgment, so she was sure that Su Ming must be a very special person. However, from her observations over the past two days, this district chief seemed to be nothing special except for his great age advantage.
Just like just now, his attention on this case was focused on unimportant things.
"I always feel like I'll miss something if I don't go to the scene. I still want to go and take a look." Su Ming lowered his head and turned his gaze back to the report in front of him.
Jiang Yun nodded and said, "I'll go with you after that."
"Okay, I'll wait for you here."
After Jiang Yun left, Su Ming reread the report, which was mostly composed of pictures, trying to understand the murderer's intentions from these pictures.
He felt that these crime scenes were very unusual, but he couldn't tell exactly what was unusual about them.
Su Ming felt that if he wanted to know what was unusual about the scene, perhaps he could only find out by going to the crime scene in person.
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After finishing their meal, Su Ming and Jiang Yun set out together to see the crime scene. Accompanying them were professionals from the Analysis Department who specialized in investigating such matters, as well as their team.
The first crime scene was a self-built apartment in the slums. When Su Ming arrived, the minced meat at the crime scene had been shoveled away, but the lingering smell of corruption in the air had not yet completely dissipated.
Su Ming covered his nose and walked into the scene. He looked around and walked around the room by himself.
The two people following behind Su Ming, one was slightly fat, with a red and swollen nose and heavy bags under his eyes, and the other was tall and slender, wearing glasses and looked very gentle, but his overly pale face made him look a little sick and unhealthy.
Both of them are experts in analyzing this kind of abnormal events. They were responsible for this bizarre murder case from beginning to end, and the report submitted to Su Ming was written jointly by the two of them.
"Lao Bi, you should have checked carefully last time, right?" Zhu Hualong rubbed his red and swollen nose, took out a tissue and wiped his nose hard. The weather was dry in winter, and his nose was always itchy in winter.
"Everything was done according to procedures. We must have collected all the obvious traces, but it is impossible to check all the traces. Everything in this world leaves traces, and murders are no exception. Now we have no clues, which proves that the key information has not been collected."
Bi Changlin pushed up his glasses on his tall nose and quietly inspected the scene.
The few investigators following behind them also spread out across the room, and they could be heard whispering as they made their rounds.
"You said you've seen this place seven or eight times. What else can you see?"
"I have definitely found all the clues I could find, and I won't be able to find the ones I can't find even if I look at them a few more times."
The investigators talked in low voices, their eyes scanning the details of the scene one by one, which they had seen countless times. Jiang Yun stood by, silent.
She could tell that these people were somewhat dissatisfied with Su Ming. Their dissatisfaction was not directed at Su Ming himself, but at Su Ming's behavior of going to the scene in person to watch it again.
This kind of emotion is easy to understand. After all, they are all professionals in investigating abnormal events. Although Su Ming has strong combat ability, he can only be regarded as a novice in this field.
Now a novice wants to find the missing key clues in the crime scene that has been studied and analyzed several times by experts. This is undoubtedly a lack of trust in their professional level.
Even Jiang Yun herself thought so. She felt that Su Ming's move was a complete waste of time.
