City C is a prefecture-level city, a large city with a population of more than 5 million, and is now in a period of rapid economic development, with frequent criminal cases, new criminal methods emerging one after another, and criminals' methods becoming more and more advanced, resulting in cybercrime, high-tech crime, and so on.

In the context of the new era, the provincial department requires that homicide cases must be solved, which puts forward higher requirements for the comprehensive quality of criminal investigators.

When he arrived at the Municipal Bureau, Deputy Director Guo, who was in charge of criminal investigation, put forward higher requirements, and the murder case should not only be solved, but also solved within a limited time.

In 2005, the Internet has become more and more developed, and under the supervision of the media and the general public, the pressure on the police at all levels of the municipal bureau is also very great, and they are faced with a heavy burden on their shoulders and insufficient police force.

As the front-line criminal investigators, the five groups are still working step by step.

The five groups are a little different in the city bureau, the police force is a well-defined, disciplined team, focusing on orders and prohibitions, but the atmosphere of the five groups is very harmonious, thanks to Shao Dong's philosophy.

In this team, Shao Dong is a bit "different from ordinary people", there are some policemen who rack their brains in order to climb up, flatter their superiors, and do their best to get promoted and raised, of course, soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, but in the dead of night, they ask themselves whether they have forgotten the oath they took when they joined the police in the pursuit of fame and fortune.

Shao Dong occasionally faces strange eyes, and he will also reflect on himself: What am I doing as a policeman for? It is completely different from the perspective of treating a police officer as an official career, for the pursuit of fame and fortune, wearing a mask every day, and intriguing for the petty profits in front of him, all this seems to have little to do with Shao Dong.

Everyone is not willing to be mediocre, and Shao Dong is no exception, but his persistence and ability to solve cases are always met with jealous eyes, and Shao Dong just laughs at it.

At a young age, he became the leader of the fifth group, and the leader also attached great importance to him, and his top boss, Deputy Director Guo, once said that among the younger generation of investigators, Shao Dong's future is limitless.

When he first came to the city bureau, there were many people waiting to see his jokes, and through the cracking of several cases, Shao Dong's perseverance and perseverance and outstanding skills made these people obediently shut up.

Shao Dong's prestige in the five groups was gradually established, although the number of the five groups is not large, but Shao Dong has the right to speak, but Shao Dong does not abuse these rights to speak but pays attention to a degree, in the work, of course, to obey the command, but in daily life and getting along, it is the interaction and mutual assistance between brothers. Shao Dong here pays attention to democracy and harmony, and anyone who has opinions can put forward them in person, and everyone makes progress together. Because Shao Dong knows that in a silent environment, no one dares to tell the truth, and if a team does not have tacit cooperation, how can they work together to solve the case. Although the salary of the police job is not high, it will not give you food and clothing, but it can make you worry about food and clothing.

Only by living in harmony and being like brothers can we have a harmonious working environment and make people willing to be poor.

Every time a big case occurs, no matter how much pressure is put on by his superiors, Shao Dong bears it alone, because he knows that no matter whether he says it or not, as long as he has a clear conscience, the five groups of these people will continue to do their best to solve the case.

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When it comes to criminal cases, in the cities of the country, the places that are most prone to criminal cases are entertainment venues, song halls, nightclubs, karaoke, etc., where there are all kinds of people who are addicted to drugs, sell prostitutes, open casinos, fight bravely for profit, and so on, and big cases often occur in these places.

The second is rental housing, especially the rental housing in the suburbs or townships, the police regard this as the most serious place to hide dirt and dirt, in these places that are not easy to be noticed, hiding all kinds of unknown people, engaged in all kinds of unexpected activities that hurt nature and reason, at the same time, rental houses are also the most favorite places for fugitives, black households and other illegal and criminal personnel, often many rental houses do not need identity certificates, as long as a certain amount of rent is handed over to the landlord, the landlord will turn a blind eye.

No, in a small town rental house under City C, a bizarre case occurred.

When Shao Dong got the case file, the criminal police brigade under the criminal investigation detachment of the city bureau had already had a certain investigation result, which was later overturned, and the whole case had reached a deadlock, and he was in charge of the case

After repeated consideration, Qian Jun, the deputy head of the criminal police brigade, felt that he was no longer capable of making further breakthroughs, so he reported the case to the city bureau, so Deputy Director Guo reviewed the file and handed over the case to the fifth group.

Gumu Town is a small town, located on the outskirts of City C, and belongs to a very inconspicuous category in the geographical scope of City C.

There are no large enterprises or scenic spot resources in the town, the source of life of the residents of Mugu Town has always been only relying on the fields that have been divided, in recent years, China's economic development has been rapid, and the living conditions of farmers have been greatly improved, most of the young people in the town have gone out to work, and the basic ones left behind are the elderly and children.

The young people in the family all went out to work and did not return home all year round, and many houses were vacant, so many people sublet the vacated houses so that they could have more income, which caused many residents in Gumu Town to not be locals, but renters.

On September 12, the police station in the jurisdiction where Gumu Town is located received an order from the higher authorities that due to the frequent criminal cases recently, the police station was required to conduct a one-by-one investigation of the rental houses in the jurisdiction to identify the identities of the tenants in order to eliminate hidden dangers.

Officers from the police station found out about the situation in a rental house.

Generally speaking, most of the residents have jobs and are generally not at home during the day, while at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, except for a few who are out for entertainment, most of them are at home watching TV.

Four police officers from the police station were going door-to-door to register tenants, and came to the door of a bungalow, which was also occupied by tenants.

The door was closed, but all four of them could smell a strong smell wafting from the house, which was very fragrant, like the smell of boiling a large pot of broth and lifting the lid.

One of the policemen also chatted casually, it's so fragrant, this house must be cooked meat to eat, and I'm hungry when I smell it.

While speaking, the police pushed the door in, and a man in his forties was cooking with the lid of the pot in one hand and a big spoon in the other, "Hello, we are from the police station, and we routinely do a registration ......" Before the words were finished, the policeman's eyes stayed in the pot.

The policeman was surprised: "My good man!" Everyone looked at the policeman's gaze, and it was a human head tossing up and down in the boiling cauldron!

"Hold him down!" the leading policeman yelled, and all the policemen rushed up and threw the man to the ground, and after subduing the man, there was a new policeman in his early twenties among the four policemen, and the young policeman reached out to serve the pot, "Don't move!" said the leading policeman. "Call, call the criminal police team!"

The smell of meat in the house was permeaty, and the more the four of them thought about it, the more disgusting they became, and the young policeman pinched his nose and vomited. Holding back the nausea, I dialed the phone number of the city bureau to call for support.

"Turn off the fire, quick!" commanded the lead policeman. "The smell is too big. ”

Twenty minutes later, Qian Jun, deputy captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of the City Bureau, arrived with people, and after confirmation, the boiling water in the pot was indeed a human head, Qian Jun ordered his subordinates to bring the suspect back, and then conducted a detailed search of the room.

The suspect is a person who lives here, and the items in the house are messy, and it can be seen from the habits of using the items that this person is relatively sloppy and does not pay attention to hygiene, and is a lazy "otaku" in popular Internet terms.

What caught Qian Jun's attention in the house was a large number of plasters and drawing boards, all kinds of paints spilled everywhere, and many unknown molds.

Qian Jun wanted to find the rest of the body or some clues about the human head, such as a murder weapon, but he found no clues about the human head except for the mess.

After Qian Jun sealed the scene, he went back to conduct a surprise interrogation of the suspect.

The suspect's name is Seinfeld, but he calls himself Soong Baishi and is an artist.

Seinfeld came to City C from a small southern town five years ago, and the reason why he came here was because he thought that the countryside of City C had a sense of art both in terms of scenery and residents, and he wanted to collect style and create art in City C.

Qian Jun checked Seinfeld's resume and media reports, and found that as Seinfeld himself said, he had made certain achievements in the field of art ten years ago, with two paintings winning awards in art exhibitions, and Seinfeld was also recognized by his peers as one of the most promising artists of the younger generation and the most promising person to become a famous painter, and Seinfeld himself was full of confidence in this.

However, what happened later made Seinfeld miserable, and this kind of artistic thing was not easy to be accepted by the public, and then Seinfeld's successive paintings were not recognized, and Seinfeld began to suspect that it was his own reason.

In order to get rid of distractions and get inspiration, he changed his name to Song Baishi five years ago and started his career as a wandering artist.

Seinfeld has little contact with the outside world, is usually silent, and does not communicate with his neighbors in the town, and the people around him think that he is a weird person, and even a little "neurotic", Qian Jun sighed: Maybe it is difficult for ordinary people to understand the artist.

At first, Seinfeld admired the pristine beauty of the countryside while observing the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the surrounding residents, and after getting inspiration, he began to create very solemnly.

This incident hit Seinfeld very hard, and after crying, he threw away all the materials for painting, got a mess of raw materials, and began to piece together all kinds of shapes, which Seinfeld named "Heaven", and no longer called himself an artist, but added a few words: "avant-garde artist".