With the progress of human society, the crime rate continues to rise every year, and as a member of the criminal police team, I haven't been home for three years.

This is still the case today, the day before the New Year, the police station in Cheng County received a report that a resident had eaten a human finger.

In order to allow the citizens to have a good year and not have to be afraid, we were urgently recalled on the same day to crack the case.

I was making dumplings with my mom when I got a call and rushed back to the police station to find that I was the last one to arrive.

There was a row of police officers sitting in the conference room, compared to my youngest official position, the director nodded at me, pointed at me and said, "This is the person in charge of this case, and the meeting is adjourned now." ”

This was not the first time I had encountered an emergency, so I immediately approached the director of the local police station to find out what happened.

It was found that the two old men were two old men, and the two daughters did not go home for the New Year, so they wanted to save trouble, so they bought quick-frozen dumplings at a small vendor and cooked them at home.

The dumplings didn't taste right, and the two old men just thought the meat had gone bad and didn't care.

As a result, when the third dumpling was eaten, the old woman spit out a bone from her mouth, and the meat on it was bitten with several tooth marks, which roughly looked like a person's fingers.

"This is the finger that was found, and the quick-frozen dumplings that the second elder bought." A policewoman at the police station handed me two evidence bags containing half a little finger and more than 20 cooked dumplings, which were still steaming.

The fingers were thin, the blood had been boiled, and they looked white, and there was no doubt that they were human fingers. I grabbed it and took a look, and there were a few tooth marks on it, which should have been bitten by the old woman.

I grabbed the bag of evidence containing dumplings again, and I couldn't see anything from the outside, and I frowned as a murder and mutilation case from two months ago came to mind.

"Call the forensic doctor to come over, and the others will follow me to the scene to have a look." I immediately gave an order and asked someone to take me to the second elder's house.

I pretended to be in trouble, and the head of the police station didn't hear anything clearly when I talked to me, and ten minutes later I arrived at the second elder's house. Because it is a small county town and is located in the suburbs, the second elder lives in an ordinary mud house.

The house was very ordinary, there was no friction, and it went straight into the house. The second elder was at home, accompanied by two policemen, the old woman's mood was obviously not very right, and her husband was also pale.

Indeed, such a bad case is really exciting for the old couple who are over half a hundred years old. I frowned, and the situation in front of me was obviously not suitable for inquiry, so I turned my head and asked the accompanying police: "Do you know where they bought the dumplings?" ”

"I know, there is a vegetable market more than 200 meters away, and Chen Lao said that in the evening, he bought it from a small vendor at the entrance of the vegetable market." The accompanying police replied.

"Is there surveillance nearby?"

"Yes, the director has already sent someone to get it."

I nodded again and turned to look at the second elder's table, which was not very large, but it was stained. The second elder's house was very clean, it was impossible to miss only the dining table, the only thing could be that they had lived here for many years.

However, there are a lot of knife marks on the table, the mark looks new, and the knife edge is very thick, which is not the same as an ordinary household kitchen knife.

"Team Shao, the surveillance has been sent to the police force, do you want to see it now?" There was a policeman outside the door, panting, wrapped in a cotton coat, the tip of his nose was red, and he was not lightly frozen.

"It's hard work, leave two policemen to take care of the elderly, protect the scene, let's go back first." I looked back from the table, and I always felt that there were strange marks on that table.

Back at the local police station, the surveillance was ready, and I asked them to put it from noon today, at eight times the speed.

The surveillance screen keeps flashing, and my mind is also running rapidly, and a quick glance is a must for every criminal policeman, looking for the slightest clues in the vast sea of people.

"Stop!" I shouted, "Three minutes back." ”

The picture is frozen, played at normal speed, and a small vendor on the surveillance video is pushing the car and walking slowly, and what is placed on the car is quick-frozen dumplings.

"Do you know this person?" I pointed to the vendor and asked the police officer next to me.

He was a little embarrassed and said, "Team Shao, I usually call for takeout, and I don't know." ”

"Go find someone, ask who is cooking at home, and ask him to come over immediately." I stared at the vendor, who had been walking back and forth three times, and his movements were particularly suspicious.

Soon found a policewoman to come over, she rented a house near the vegetable market, went to the vegetable market every day to buy vegetables, and cooked by herself.

The policewoman looked very ordinary, but her voice was very good, and she pointed to the vendor and said: "Team Shao, I know this person, he is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old, his wife ran away with someone in her early years, she has no children and no daughters, and she has been selling dumplings here for two years." ”

"Team Shao, the results of the forensic examination are out." There was another policewoman outside the door, it was my assistant, named Ouyang Qian, who was in the internship period.

"Read!" I said lightly.

"After the identification of Forensic Doctor Wang, it was determined that it was the little finger phalanx of the person, the gender was female, and the preliminary judgment was that the age was between 23 and 25 years old, and the time of phalange detachment should be three days ago. The fracture is smooth, it should be caused by a sharp weapon, and the murderer should be a man, otherwise he would not have so much strength. ”

"Wait!" Reading this, I turned my head sharply to stare at Ouyang Qian and asked her, "How do you think that the murderer must be the one who chopped off her little finger?" ”

Ouyang Qian was stunned for a moment, and was stopped by me, and stumbled to explain a few words without understanding.

I turned around and continued to stare at the vendor, the surveillance footage continued, I waved my hand and said lightly, "Go on." ”

"No ......"

"Gone?"

Ouyang Qian nodded and said, "According to the current situation, we can only judge these. ”

"Let's check again, what about the other twenty quick-frozen dumplings, whether there are human bones and flesh in them, let the people in the forensic department work overtime tonight, and give me an accurate answer no matter what."

"Yes!" Ouyang Qian stood upright, saluted, and went out again.

I put one hand on my waist, my fingers rhythmically pointed, my eyes closed, and I remembered the case two months ago.

I wasn't responsible for that case, but I also knew that the murderer was a teenager and the victim was his girlfriend, and the reason was just because his girlfriend split his legs. That case is similar to this one, it is also a murder and dismemberment, using cooking to dispose of the body, but the murderer in this case is more sophisticated.

When the police broke down the door, there was blood all over the walls and ceilings, and the stench of decomposing bodies was everywhere. The scene in the kitchen was even more terrifying, the corpse oil was spread on the floor, and there were pieces of meat in the refrigerator that had not had time to cook, and the head was placed on the top of the refrigeration layer, which frightened many criminal policemen at that time.

So this time, I judged that there must be a place where the murderer disposed of the body, and it must not be far from the vegetable market, it should be only two kilometers at most. It must be too late to rush over now, some traces are not so easy to deal with, even if it is just a drop of blood, in the eyes of the forensic department, it is the most obvious evidence.

So I immediately ordered: "Immediately check the community within two kilometers of the vegetable market, ask if there are any missing people, and pay special attention to outsiders!" ”

"Female!" Finally, I added.