dognovel Chapter 25 Bloodstains at the Scene
Chapter 25 Bloodstains at the Scene
"Master, can I go with Captain Cao and the others to take a look?" Liu Shutong raised her hand. "I want to participate in more cases to hone my skills."
"Um?"
Xu Bin thought for a second, then his gaze fell on Cao Dahua.
"Come on." Cao Dahua stopped, turned around and smiled, "My apprentice is actually ready to graduate, so it doesn't matter whether I take him on or not. Just treat it as taking on a new apprentice."
"Go."
"Oh, thank you, Master! Thank you, Captain Cao!"
Liu Shutong immediately followed, beaming with joy.
"Brother Song, from now on you're practically my senior brother, please guide me!"
"You're too kind. I wouldn't dare to offer guidance, but let's learn together and improve together." Wu Song nodded slightly.
"Hey, hey, what about me? Was I just a half-master for nothing?"
"Please teach me more."
"Don't worry, we criminal investigators aren't factory workers who have to worry about teaching their apprentices and then starving themselves. There's nothing we need to hide. As long as you're willing to learn, everything will be fine."
The three of them separated on two motorcycles.
Wu Song rode a bicycle, and Liu Shutong sat in the back of Wu Song's bicycle, chattering away with questions all the way.
"Hey, Song-ge, why did you become a criminal investigator?"
"To protect lives and property," Wu Song chose the most straightforward answer, chuckled, and said, "Of course, it's also to reinstate my father's siren. They sacrificed their lives on this post, and I must continue their mission. What about you?"
"I just feel that being a detective is cool. I could sit in an office, but I just think it's more interesting to be out and about. Hey, do you think this missing person case today could be a murder case?"
"The possibility is not small."
Wu Song believed that if his fate was unknown, then he was dead.
It's always good to assume the worst.
……
Yunyang Town Police Station.
As the car pulled up in front, a middle-aged police officer in a green uniform walked towards it. "Captain Cao! You've finally arrived!"
"Comrade Wei!" Cao Dahua got out of the car, smiled, shook hands with the other man, and then introduced themselves.
"Wei Suo, my apprentice Wu Song, Liu Shutong."
"Oh! This is Wu Song, the one who caught a fugitive murderer over a meal?"
"Have you heard of my apprentice?" Cao Dahua asked.
"Of course! How could I not have heard of something so amazing? And the name is so unique, I can't forget it once I've heard it."
As he spoke, Wei Suo then took a closer look at Wu Song.
He is 1.7 meters tall, while Wu Song is nearly 2 meters tall. Upon close observation, he needs to tilt his head slightly to see Wu Song's face.
The gaze shifted downwards, landing on Wu Song's broad and robust physique, which was also explosive and agile, along with his overall demeanor.
For some reason, two sentences suddenly appeared in his mind.
Like a lion shaking the heavens descending from the clouds, or a mythical beast shaking the earth appearing on the throne.
"What a magnificent Wu Song!" Wei Su clicked his tongue. "His name is well-deserved! He exudes an imposing aura."
"Old Wei, let's get down to business. What exactly happened?"
"Hey, yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a couple from Xia Rongshu Village went to Shang Rongshu Village to look for their daughter. They found that their daughter was not at her husband's house. Her husband said that his wife had been gone for more than a month. He thought she had gone back to her parents' home, but obviously she hadn't. So the husband and the missing woman's parents reported the case to the police together."
We sent police officers to his home to investigate. They found a black spot on an old sofa in his house, took a sample and sent it for testing. The test result was that it was type O human blood.
"When we learned that the husband hadn't reported his wife missing for over a month, we realized this might not be a simple missing person case. We know we can't handle these kinds of cases here, so we reported it to our superiors. We never expected you to come down with your team."
"Then this husband definitely has a problem!" Cao Dahua nodded, then turned to Wu Song and Liu Shutong and said.
"Let me tell you a piece of advice: if the husband dies, focus your investigation on the wife; if the wife dies, focus your investigation on the husband. Six or seven times out of ten, you won't make a mistake! Except for a small number of random killings, most murders have a motive!"
"Sigh..." Wu Song suddenly sighed.
"Brother Song, what's wrong?" Liu Shutong asked.
"Why can't we just get a divorce? Why does it have to involve murder? Wouldn't it be better if we just parted ways and lived our own lives peacefully?"
"What if they can't get a divorce?" Cao Dahua said. "Sometimes, it's precisely because of the need for divorce that murder occurs. In such cases, the woman is more likely to be the victim, since it's easier for a woman to find someone else after a divorce, while it's much more difficult for a man."
"Yes, we thought so too. Our local police officer asked around among the neighbors and found out that because this couple has been married for five years and still doesn't have children, the man drinks frequently and beats his wife when he's drunk—he beats her every few days!"
"The suspicion is even stronger now!" Cao Dahua's expression grew increasingly grave. "Old Wei, could you please send someone to take us there?"
"Alright! I have other things to do here, so I'll arrange for Old Li, who came to our door before, to take you there."
Led by two local police officers in a tricycle, Wu Song and his colleagues, along with the technical investigation team, arrived at Shangrongshu Village, which was twelve miles from the town.
A small village with three or four hundred people.
"This is it!"
Old Li from the police station pointed to a courtyard not far away. The gate was open, so everyone went straight in.
"Liu Jianshe, is Liu Jianshe there?"
"Yes!" a drunken voice came from inside the house. "What is it?"
"I've come to help you find a wife!"
"Come in!" A man in his twenties with a stubble beard, who looked slightly drunk, came out.
Wu Song glanced at the other party first.
My heart skipped a beat.
No black fog?
Is it because this wasn't a murder case at all?
Or is it because this case isn't as simple as it seems?
For the past month and a half, Wu Song hadn't been idle either. He had been testing the limits of the black mist and had his master, Cao Dahua, take him to see many murderers who had been imprisoned and whose evidence was solid enough.
It was eventually discovered that the black mist only appeared on people who personally committed murder.
If he hired someone to kill someone and didn't do it himself, then there wouldn't be black mist on his body.
In short, if there is black mist, someone must have taken a life.
Even if there is no black mist, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone has taken a life.
Therefore, even though the man did not have the black mist on him, Wu Song did not immediately conclude that the husband was not a suspect in the murder.
"Walk!"
Cao Dahua and Wu Song went in first.
After the technical investigation team entered, they went straight to the sofa, drew the curtains, and then used luminol reagent.
Luminol reagent, also known as luminol, can reveal the morphology of extremely small amounts of blood.
A short while later, Cao Dahua and Wu Song were called in. "Look!"
There was a bright blue light on the coffee table near the sofa, covering an area of about three or four hundred square centimeters.
Within a one-meter radius of this pool of blue light, there is also blue light, but it is much weaker than the pool of light.