Chapter 57: Annihilation
"On the evening of November 20, 2017, the police received a call and found a badly burned suitcase in an abandoned factory in Guanghua District. It is reported that the suitcase contained a burnt headless body. The medical examiner determined that the victim was a young woman, probably around 20 years old. The police preliminarily judged that this was a case of homicide and cremation. At present, the case is under further investigation. Our reporter will ...... this case"
At about nine o'clock in the evening on November 21, 2017, Tian Rui was nesting on the sofa and reading a suspense novel she had just bought. Hearing the evening news broadcast by the local TV station, she looked up at the TV and asked Gu Song curiously, "Is this case being investigated by them in the summer?" ”
"Oh, it seems to be......" Gu Song glanced at the TV absentmindedly and continued to lie on the floor doing push-ups.
"You don't seem to care much about this case, do you?"
"I don't care about that, it has nothing to do with me."
"Really?" Tian Rui muttered in a suspicious voice, and then asked, "Don't you have to go to the criminal police team to help recently?" ”
"I'm going to be at home with you!" Gu Song sat up on the floor and said to Tian Rui with a smile. "Besides, there are no difficult cases lately, and they don't need me."
"yes, I see that this case is quite tricky in the news, and it is quite bad in nature."
"Cases of a bad nature are not necessarily difficult to investigate, and it mainly depends on how many clues there are. If there is a need, Xia Shi will definitely call me, since he didn't ......" Before Gu Song's words were finished, the mobile phone on the sofa rang very cooperatively. Tian Rui picked up her phone and saw that the name of Xia Shi was displayed on the screen.
"Look, Cao Cao Cao is here, it seems that someone's vacation is coming to an end soon." Tian Rui handed the phone to Gu Song, with a slightly helpless expression on her face. She didn't want Gu Song to have more time to spend with her at home. But she knew very well in her heart that solving cases and catching bad people was what Gu Song liked the most and should do the most.
Gu Song took the phone and reluctantly pressed the answer button, "I said Captain Xia, you just came to me for the murder and cremation case, isn't it appropriate?" Without waiting for Xia Shi to speak, Gu Song said straight to the point.
"Murder and cremation?" Xia Shi was confused by the question, and paused for a few seconds before he reacted, "I have something else to do with you, not to solve the case." ”
"What else can you do with me, could it be that you invite me to dinner?"
"That's right, I'm inviting you to dinner. Can you come out tomorrow night? ”
"What's the situation?" Gu Song knew that Xia Shi would not suddenly invite him to dinner for no reason, and suddenly became vigilant.
"What are you nervous about, I won't do anything to you. Tomorrow Teacher Huo has his birthday, let's come out for dinner together. ”
"Teacher Xiao Huo's birthday?" Gu Song didn't know about this before, and after thinking about it, he teased Xia Shi and said, "Then you invite her to dinner and watch a movie alone, and by the way, open a room or something, what do you want me to do with this light bulb." ”
"Who is so obscene? I haven't talked to Mr. Huo yet, don't talk nonsense. Besides, I'm not just calling you alone, Ruonan and Meng Yu are going to go. ”
"Oh, that's it, then I'll go and have a good time."
Xia Shi sent the time and place of the meal to Gu Song's mobile phone, and then asked with concern, "How is Tian Rui doing?" Bring her with you tomorrow. ”
"Okay, you wait......" Gu Song glanced at Tian Rui secretly, walked into the bedroom and closed the door, lowered his voice and continued, "She is still the same, she goes to the hospital for dialysis twice a week, and she can only maintain it like this for now." ”
"Aren't you going to give her another transplant?"
"A second transplant is risky, right? And the kidney source is not so easy to wait, unless it ......" Gu Song smiled bitterly, remembering that he had personally caught a few organ traffickers a year ago. At that time, Tian Rui had already received a kidney donated by his younger brother and was gradually improving, and he certainly had the responsibility to stop the illegal organ trade from the police's standpoint.
But now, Tian Rui's body has problems again, and he is no longer a policeman, if he wants to restore Tian Rui's health in the fastest way, he may only have one way to choose.
Seeing that Gu Song didn't speak for a long time, Xia Shi guessed his thoughts. As the captain of the criminal police, it was impossible for Xia Shi to directly ask Gu Song to contact the organ trafficker, so he had to comfort him and said: "If you want to try a second transplant, then wait for the kidney source while doing dialysis." Tian Rui has already suffered so much, I believe that God will definitely help her. ”
"I hope so......" Gu Song didn't know what to say, every time he talked about Tian Rui's condition, his mood was very depressed, he couldn't wait to give his life to Tian Rui, if this could save Tian Rui's life.
After making the phone call and returning to the living room, Tian Rui had already turned off the TV and concentrated on reading the suspense novel called "Annihilation" that she had just bought yesterday. Gu Song walked up to her and sat down, gently put his arm around her shoulder, stared at the words on the book with interest and asked, "Is this book good?" What case is written? ”
"It's pretty good, I've seen the penultimate chapter." Tian Rui said and put the bookmark in the book, tilting her head and leaning on Gu Song's shoulder. "The book is about a robbery and murder that took place in a small hotel in the winter of 1995 and is said to be based on a real case. The perpetrators were supposed to be the two guests who had stayed at the hotel the day before. The two men brutally murdered the innkeeper, his wife, the owner's mother, and the owner's daughter, who was less than a year old, and a guest staying at the inn was killed. Due to the limited conditions for handling cases at that time, the police spent a lot of time, and even traveled all over China to find the two suspects, but ......"
"But what?" Gu Songzheng listened with relish, and couldn't help but ask eagerly.
"I accidentally read the spoilers, and until the book was written, the two murderers were not caught."
"It turned out to be an unsolved case. In real life, the murderer of the case should not have been caught, right? ”
"I don't know. I tried searching online and didn't find any information about it. It may be that the author's changes are relatively large, and the content of the novel is somewhat different from the real case; It may also be that the case has passed for too long and there is no information about this on the Internet......"
Tian Rui was silent for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look at Gu Song and asked, "By the way, didn't Xia Shi call you to find you to solve the case?" ”
"No, it's not." Gu Song shook his head and said, "Tomorrow a colleague has a birthday, and he called us to dinner in the summer." ”
"Is it Summer Time's girlfriend?"
"Not yet. Let me explain to you like this, Mr. Xiao Huo is the blind date introduced by Xia Jinyu to Xia Shi, and he is also Xia Jinyu's teacher, specializing in criminal psychology. Some time ago, I didn't go back to the criminal police team to help Xia Shi, and Mr. Xiao Huo, as a criminal profiler, joined the task force with me. Originally, the three of us were quite confident in solving the case, but who knew that the damn case still hasn't been sorted out. ”
About a month ago, Meng Yu provided an important piece of information at a task force meeting: Officer Chen Tao, who had personally investigated the disappearance of Zhang Guoer, received a strange phone call in mid-October. The caller told him that Zhang Guoer's body had been found and was well buried, and thanked him for his dedication to the case and for years of thinking about it.
Based on this information, the police speculated that the person who made the anonymous call to Chen Tao was likely to be a close relative of Zhang Guoer. However, after a thorough investigation, the police ruled out the possibility of these people committing the crime, so Gu Song naturally thought of a person, that is, Zhang Guoer's father who had "committed suicide by jumping into the river", Zhang Anjian.
On January 9, 2014, 1,399 days after Zhang Guoer's disappearance, Zhang Anjian left a suicide note at home and has not been heard from since. In his suicide note, he expressed his thoughts about his wife and daughter, and made it clear that he would commit suicide by jumping into the river, hoping that his family would understand and forgive him.
Afterwards, Zhang Anjian's body was naturally not found, but some people did witness Zhang Anjian walking alone in the direction of the cross-river bridge late at night on January 9. If it weren't for that anonymous phone call, no one would have thought that Zhang Anjian might still be alive in this world. But the question is, how can all this be explained if a person leaves a suicide note and disappears without a trace, and he is not dead?
There are only two answers: one is that Zhang Anjian originally planned to commit suicide encountered an unexpected situation on the night that he did not succeed in committing suicide, and he didn't want to continue to live the kind of life he had before, so he took the opportunity to leave the country; Either he had a premeditated plan to hide his identity by faking his death.
Gu Song's speculation seemed to have a little truth, but Huo Yan did not agree with Gu Song's point of view this time. She believes that the anonymous phone call received by Officer Chen is a deliberate trick used by the killer to divert the police's investigation to a person who has died, and to consume the police's time.
Despite this, Summer Time has made a more long-term plan. He investigated Zhang Anjian's life history in detail, and sent someone to Zhang Anjian's hometown, found Zhang Anjian's father, and collected the old man's DNA for comparison when new clues were found in the future.
At this point, it seems that the case has progressed and it is impossible to move forward. The work of the criminal police team is very busy, and there are large and small cases every day, and it is impossible for them to just keep an eye on the clownfish case.
There were no new clues, the task force had to be temporarily disbanded, Gu Song left the criminal police team, and Huo Yan returned to school to continue teaching, and more than 20 days passed in a flash.