None of the three of us could have been afraid, so we picked up the picture and when we saw the body on the screen, Shaggy White didn’t look too good then.
The body was barely put together, broken into pieces and burnt, so that if you didn’t look closely, you couldn’t tell it was a person. In order to put all the bodies together, the large intestine that had fallen out was also placed in the position of the abdomen, but the real abdomen was lost and not found.
Zhao Zichen lit a cigarette and he looked to Lao Wu, who said, “It’s okay, you smoke, give me one too, I like to smoke when I see a disgusting corpse.”
As a result of Zhao Zichen’s cigarette, Lao Wu said, “Guess how this man died?”
“Explosion, there were quite a few explosives, it took a lot of work for the crime solvers to put him together, I think.”
“There were a few pieces still hanging from the tree.” Old Wu pointed to the intestines and said, “Here.”
“Holy sh*t.” Xia Gehuai couldn’t hold back any longer and covered his mouth and went out. Although he was a criminal police officer, the impact of this image was too great.
Zhao Zichen and I were fine, I had seen a lot, Zhao Zichen was a doctor, what had he not seen?
“Yu Shen?” Zhao Zichen asked.
Old Wu couldn’t help but applaud, “Guess right, you have too high an IQ.”
“How did Yu Shen get so far away?”
Old Wu said, “Our investigation found that Yu Shen was killed by an explosive he carried with him, this explosive was tied to his waist and abdomen and detonated by a detonator. This arm, which was injured before Yu Shen was blown up.”
I took the photograph and looked at it; the wound was neat.
“It ran into a fight before he died.” Zhao Zichen said.
“That’s right.”
I had a rough outline of the incident in my mind, and I said, “It seems that Yu Shen was carrying explosives to try to negotiate with the person who gave him the money, and he probably thought that he wouldn’t get the money, so he carried the explosives to negotiate. But that person was very good and had high martial arts skills and killed Yu Shen instead.”
Old Wu said, “I don’t know what you mean by martial arts, it’s the 21st century now, there’s no such thing as martial arts novels, right?”
Zhao Zichen said, “Oh, Captain Wu, don’t forget that this Yu Shen is someone who can jump from an elevated height of several dozen metres without any damage. How terrifying should it be to be able to beat someone like that?”
There were quite a few masters in Tong City, as there were several Jianghu families living in that place.
But I still couldn’t even figure out that Lao Wu had come to me for this matter?
I said, “Team Wu, this is quite strange, but you should ask the police to look into it. Since the source of the corpse has been identified, spend more manpower to go in, check the surveillance, check people and visit the public, we can definitely find out who did it.”
Old Wu pursed his lips, a little nervous, rubbing his nose, which is a subconscious reaction of people who are nervous.
After a while, Old Wu said seriously, “Team Zhang, I know who you are and I trust you, so you must trust me in what I am going to say to you next.”
Zhao Zichen and I looked at each other, and I asked curiously, “You say.”
Old Wu said, “I suspect that our Ningcheng police force, there are black ones.”
After he finished, he sat a no-sound gesture, then out of the table that came a very small black box, I recognized it at once, it was a signal blocker, this thing can block all mobile phone signals or network signals, even if there is listening or surveillance nearby, it will also fail.
I was shocked, Lao Wu prepared this thing, could it be that he had already prepared for this?
Or was Lao Wu just acting? A bitter ploy?
Old Wu said, “This is something I didn’t want to tell you. Yang and I have long suspected that some of our comrades have gone dark. Because there was a case that we were going to intervene in to investigate, and then it was stiffly snatched away by Liu Hao.”
“What case?”
“Xu Changsheng’s case.”
Still not moving my voice, I said, “That’s normal, it’s their precinct, it’s only strange that you’re robbing it.”
“No, at the time Yang made sure to fight for the case because Yang seemed to have some concerns, he seemed to be suspecting Xu Changsheng’s identity.”
My eyes and Zhao Zichen’s glared for a moment, but we didn’t say anything about it.
I side-stepped the question, “How suspicious? Did you check IDs?”
“Of course I checked. This Xu Changsheng was a high achiever, but when we interrogated him after he was arrested, he was always inconsistent, and his fingerprints didn’t match. We were the ones who arrested him, but it was in Fengqi’s district, so the matter was supposed to be handed over to Fengqi for processing, and we could only be considered a joint investigation, cooperating with that party. But Yang Bureau was very suspicious of the person’s identity, so he proposed that the Serious Crime Unit should be allowed to investigate the case. But Liu Hao was very much against it, saying that he wanted this case back in Fengqi’s hands no matter what.”
I was shocked, if that was the case, then the fake Baldy and Liu Hao were sort of meeting.
But when I thought about it carefully, it didn’t feel right. Many times Liu Hao’s reaction was not faked, and he really seemed to know nothing about Baldy.
I got worried about this when Captain Wu said, “But I quickly ruled out Old Liu, I’ve known Old Liu for so long, he’s not that kind of person. He is a person, annoying is annoying, but a passionate, do you know how poor his family is? He’s a big captain and still can’t afford to buy his own house.”
We had been to Liu Hao’s house and knew that what Old Wu said was true.
I wondered a bit, so was Old Wu trying to dump the pot on Liu Hao, or was he really ignorant of everything and a clean innocent?
“So I think someone is instigating this Old Liu behind the scenes. Old Liu is a person who doesn’t have a good head on his shoulders and he is easily instigated. I suspect that there is blackness in Old Liu. That’s why Yang Bureau and I came up with this idea, to take down Fengqi first, and then I’ll slowly feel out who in Fengqi is actually in trouble.”
“What did you feel out?”
Captain Wu’s face turned even worse as he said, “Everything I tell you today, you must keep it a secret, and you must never tell anyone. Look at this, you guys.”
He pushed over a document to me, an inventory sheet of the detachment’s armoury.
Every criminal police detachment has a weapons depot, and when you need to use a weapon you have to go to the weapons depot to get it.
I looked at it for a while and realised that something was wrong, the number of outgoing and incoming weapons did not match.
“There were several times when the number of outgoing weapons was surprisingly much greater than the number of incoming weapons. Then I thought something was wrong and when I checked the past records, I found that on several occasions, in the middle of the night, there were out-of-town licence plates coming to the Fengqi branch office. This was checked at the front gate registry. And every time this plate came to the Fengqi detachment, immediately the number of weapons stores flattened out.”
When he said this, I already understood, and I asked with a feigned composure, “Someone borrowed your arsenal and hid guns?”
Old Wu nodded as if he had made up his mind, “Yes.”
I was stunned; this was a development I had in no way expected.
There was no need for him to lie to us, if he was the black one, then he would have recognised me, he didn’t need to test me.
I had originally thought that gun trafficking cases would only be in Tong, but I had never thought that they would be in Ning. God knows how far the claws of this crime syndicate have spread, and if they are not brought to an end, the consequences will be unthinkable.
When I was surprised, Zhao Zichen said, “Team Wu, this is too big, the three of us, retired soldiers, third-rate doctors and small police officers, we really can’t afford this. You called us here today to talk about Yu Shen’s case, right? You’d better talk about Yu Shen’s case.”
Old Wu said, “This is Yu Shen’s case.”
I was stunned: “What?”
“Every single entry slip was signed by Lao Shen, who was in charge of the weapons store. And we found some privately made guns in Lao Shen’s house, and then we traced his accounts and found that he had unexplained income every month. I thought that maybe Old Shen was involved in a case, a big through-and-through case related to Tong City. Three of you, this is no small matter, we need to join forces.”
