Six. The whirlpool of public opinion

The case has now come to a standstill, and every suspect involved in this case seems to have no conclusive evidence or a set of justifications. The most unfortunate thing was that the forensic team did not find a single useful fingerprint at the scene of the crime.

During this time, I didn't close my eyes almost every day, and I only took an average of three hours off a day. I'm starting to miss the days of working with nothing to do, and it's really tiring. Every morning, I feel a little ray of hope to solve the case, but when I go to the police station to verify the evidence, I will be disappointed.

On the fifth day after this case, I woke up early in the morning. My body was as stiff as a machine. Along with the stiffness and pain, I no longer had the strength to wash my face and brush my teeth. I sat down on the couch and subconsciously turned on the TV. It happened to be the morning news, and I was in a daze there.

"On Saturday, September 22, 2018, on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a bad incident in our city. A woman named Xu Jingjing died in a rental house, the details of which are not yet known. The Public Security Bureau is investigating. ”

This was the preface to the report at the time, and I began to listen carefully because I was tired when I heard it, and maybe the media would give us some inspiration to solve the case.

The host invited a well-known expert, who is said to be a professor of criminal psychology, and I can't remember the exact name for a long time. Because it doesn't have much to do with the case. What follows is the results of his analysis.

"In my opinion, the public security bureau may have already mastered the murderer, but they dare not make her public, as far as I know, the deceased was a sex worker, and the murderer is her boss, and she is about to be tried for organizing prostitution, and the murderer used his connections to get the criminal team to cancel the prosecution against him, and he will be sentenced anyway. I don't have any conspiracy theories, I just think it's so simple, but it's been a week since the case happened, and it hasn't been solved yet. ”

When I heard this, I was instantly furious, and if I hadn't paid for that TV, I would have smashed it. This is completely out of nowhere, blood spurting people, can a professor say such subjective things at the scene of a crime without being on it once? I looked up a few more reports on the Internet, and he answered them all. I took a screenshot of Ma Shan, put on my clothes and went to work.

The more I thought about it on the way back, the more angry I became, so I called Liu Xiaoyu. As soon as he answered, I heard a loud voice on the other end of the phone, and I asked him what was wrong, but he never heard. Maybe it's because my signal is not good, that's all I can think of.

Less than 100 meters from the police station, the taxi suddenly stopped, and the master told me that there seemed to be a traffic jam ahead. I wondered if it shouldn't be, but I looked up. There are large and small cars parked densely in front of you, and if you look closely, you can see people standing on the inside and outside of the three floors. Maybe it was another unlucky traffic accident, and my colleagues from the traffic team didn't come. I walked to the crowd in wonder, the outside layer was undoubtedly watching the lively crowd, that is, the uncles and aunts who had just finished exercising nearby, I pushed aside the crowd, there were several media people in the crowd who used the microphone to shout: "The masses need the truth, and the masses have the right to know!" ”

In my eyes, the microphone is like a spear against foreigners in the late Qing Dynasty, which is not only a means for people of insight to be unwilling to fall, but also a weapon for ignorant people to resist and do not know progress. On the other end of the spear was my colleague Liu Xiaoyu, who explained the questions they asked while saying that we didn't know. But those reporters didn't care about these and kept asking questions, ignorant questions. Suddenly, in the crowd, I don't know who was there shouting to catch the deceased's boss, he was the murderer. It didn't matter, and the rest of the people shouted along. "Catch the murderer, catch the murderer." Just shouted. I knew I couldn't get involved so blindly, and I was glad I didn't wear a police uniform to work, so I slipped around and squeezed and finally came in. I don't know how they ended up, maybe they were tired and needed to go home for dinner. The reality is like this, they don't know the truth, they dare to make fun here, but when they are tired, we can't punish them, and they immediately leave it behind to complete their boring lives.

The first thing I did when I entered the office was that I was going to have a meeting chaired by the director at 8 o'clock, and I knew that it must have a lot to do with the case. Maybe I had already guessed the outcome at that time, but no one dared to believe it, and the truth might have been forced to cover up.

Our director's name is Lei "**", born in 1966 is when "**" began, he is not tall, fat, his face is very kind, his personality has not lived up to his face, and he is also very friendly to his subordinates. His surname was Ray, and when I saw him I thought of the squantient Scottish Yard cop in Sherlock Holmes, but he was better than Lestrade in that he wasn't a crappy cop.

When I walked into the conference room, I felt the atmosphere as if I had a familiar experience, yes, it was the captain's meeting. I felt even more nervous than I had last time, and I did not dare to sit too close to the Director this time, and my position did not allow me to sit there. I took a place at the very end, thinking that I would not be able to speak at this meeting.

The meeting began, and by coincidence, our captain was sitting next to me, and I guess he was also avoiding the director's questioning. The question at the beginning was very exciting, directly asking who is the murderer of our criminal team? Of course, we'll answer tactfully, saying that we haven't found any evidence to identify the killer, but we've already locked up a few people. But this answer seemed to annoy the director, and I have recorded all of his next questions. All the questions were asked by the director, and the answers were all answered by the captain.

"Is the biggest suspect the woman named Fei Yan?"

"Yes, he's very suspicious right now."

"If there is no definite evidence, what punishment will he be sentenced to now?"

"According to Article 358 of the Criminal Law, whoever organizes others or forces others to engage in prostitution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life. Based on her current situation, the odds of being in a life sentence are higher. ”

"Then let's charge her with murder, life imprisonment is not much different from the death penalty."

After saying this, I was so scared that I couldn't believe it, I looked at Cao Yang who was sitting opposite me, and he looked at Xiao Yu next to him, and he didn't dare to squeak. This is not the truth, although she has the most suspicions, but we can't betray people without definite evidence, and now is not the era when murder cases must be solved.

The Director seemed to see what we were thinking, and he tried to raise his voice a little to show his determination. He was righteous and stern, oh no, it should be described as shameless, and I don't think the director would be angry when he saw this, because he knew how ugly he was at that time.

"The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in more than a week it will be the National Day. We can't control the mouths of reporters and ordinary people, so we have to do it first, and wait for the limelight to pass before acquitting him. The compensation for her was changed from the death penalty to a fixed-term prison sentence. This is a win-win situation, I have already decided this case, and I will immediately prosecute her, and I have already contacted the procuratorate and court, so I don't have to worry about you here. ”

After saying that, the captain next to me suddenly got up, and I saw that his face was very ugly, and he pushed open the door and left. I'm very timid, I've only been working for less than 3 months, and if I just do this to my boss, I can imagine the consequences. My dignity told me I had to stand up, but my desire was holding me back. In the end, I still didn't have the courage, and now I think I was so ridiculous at the time, but if I was going through it now, I might still choose to sit down.

After the director said something innocuous and the meeting ended, and I remember that after each meeting there would be a long discussion, which could be in the office, in the cafeteria, or even in the toilet. But this time there was no discussion, only silently waiting for the result, maybe everyone except the captain knew that this discussion was meaningless, justice in the hands of politicians is often not so justice.

When we returned to the office, we were soon informed that Fei Yan had been formally indicted for organizing or forcing others into prostitution and murder. When I heard the news, I already knew that we were powerless to return to heaven, and we did not deserve the titles of police and people's public security. After repeated mental struggles, I plan to go to the captain to theorize and see if there is any hope of turning the tables. I searched everywhere but the mysterious room and couldn't find the captain.

This mysterious room was locked when I first joined, and although it was on the same floor as us, it was located at the end of the corridor, and almost no one had ever been there, even when the cleaning aunt was cleaning, sometimes she didn't clean it to save trouble. I plucked up the courage to go to the secret room, which was no different from the rest of the room, and the badge on it had been removed. When I looked closer, I saw that the lock on the room had been opened. Could it be that the captain was in this, although I didn't know what this room was for, but I thought it must be hiding a huge secret.

I cautiously pushed the door open, and the smell of the room made me cough as soon as I pushed it open. The house has been dusted for a long time, and the curtains in the house have been drawn tightly. Just as I was about to enter the house, a voice stopped me from behind.

"Who told you to go there?"

I looked back in surprise to see that it was our captain, and he was smiling and walking towards me. I'm sure his smile was faked, and behind the laugh was a great sadness. The captain told me that my level couldn't enter the room yet, so he locked the room.

It turned out that the captain really came to this room, but I don't know what kind of secret this room hides.