Los Angeles is its own base.

Dean wouldn't delay his establishment for the sake of momentary pleasure.

After appeasing the reluctant Neil.

He disposed of his tens of thousands of dollars in weapons for emergencies, boarded the first flight, and rushed back to Los Angeles.

"Wow, Captain Mun, you actually came to pick up the plane in person, it seems that this case is very troublesome." , Dean looked at the enthusiastic Munn and teased.

"Haha, I just watched the recent news and knew that there was a big incident in New York recently, and I was a little worried about your safety."

Munn smiled at each other.

Because the Amonte blockade cleaned up Dean's traces on the plane and disposed of his travel records.

So he didn't know that Dean was on that plane at the time.

Seeing Mun's reaction, Dean felt more and more that the case might not be simple, so he rubbed his forehead: "It's okay, captain, let's talk about the case directly." ”

"Get in the car first, you came back in time, because of the special identity of the deceased, so we still maintain traces of the scene."

In the car.

Munn briefly recounted the circumstances of the case:

This morning.

A student was on a morning jog when he found a miserable dead body in the grove and called the police.

Because it is in the jurisdiction of the 4th squadron.

The case was transferred to Daisy's side.

Old Hunter rushed to the scene with everyone.

On the Forensic Identification Section, Holtz set off with someone along, and then recognized the identity of the deceased at a glance.

Munn said a little tiredly, "The deceased's name is Mike Smith, British, 38 years old.

He is a psychological crime expert in the Los Angeles Forensic Science Division and a professor of psychology emeritus at several prestigious universities, making him well-known in the academic community.

If that's all there is, it's not too much of a hassle.

But he also has an identity. ”

Dean lit a cigarette and asked curiously, "What identity?" ”

"Special Advisor to the Aston Family!"

Munn held his gold-rimmed glasses with one hand, and his tone was melancholy:

"Aren't you curious about who is behind me, a member of this family.

The Aston family is not as well-known in Los Angeles as the Carmen family in the past, but throughout California, many companies, guilds and gangs in food, clothing, housing and transportation are actually controlled by members of their family.

If the former Carmen family was the heaven of Los Angeles politics, then the Aston family, the king of the night in Los Angeles, is very prestigious in the whole of California.

That's why I said it was a big case, not a simple homicide. ”

Dean understands in seconds.

A well-known scholar will die if he dies, and at most he will put some pressure on public opinion on the police and detective bureau.

But when this scholar is a psychological advisor to a large family, his nature changes, because he may know a lot of secrets that are not known to outsiders.

Any family will instinctively want to find out the cause of each other's death.

His death became a big deal.

Dean was a little upset about that, though.

But life is not satisfactory in the world, nine times out of ten.

He's still a sapling.

Since you enjoy the protection of the other party, you should do something without trouble.

Dean let out a puff of smoke, "Okay, I'll do my best in this case, but, Captain, we don't seem to be on the route back to the detective station right now." ”

Munn smiled faintly, "Yes, we are now preparing to rush to the woods where the body was found. ”

"The scene of the crime that I found in the morning has not been transferred yet?"

Munn shrugged, "Because I think it might be more helpful for you to solve the case." ”

He has a kind of mysterious confidence in Dean.

Because the case is special.

Munn decisively asked Old Hunter and others to maintain the scene, and did not follow the process to bring the body back to the forensic department for autopsy.

Dean: "."

Munn told the people of the 4th Squadron and the Forensic Section nakedly: I only believe in Dean, not you!

This gives the whole thing.

Now.

Grove.

Under several searchlights, it looks like daylight.

A group of big men, squatting in a corner, spitting clouds and mist, playing cards with taste, without the slightest worry and unhappiness of waiting.

“FK！”

Harry, who was unlucky, threw away the cards in his hand and looked depressedly at Holtz, who was collecting money on the side: "Man, you have good luck today, speaking of which, what about your two little assistants?" ”

"I went back to school." , Holtz looked at Harry like a turtle: "They are just here for temporary internships, and they need to wait for them to graduate, and"

He took a sad puff on his cigarette and lay down, losing even the joy of winning.

"And what?" , Old Hunter, who was yawning, came to the spirit.

With his instincts as a police detective for many years, he felt that there was a tragic and touching story hidden in it.

Holtz glanced at the old fritter and said:

"And they've taken the shape of Dean, so don't think about what you don't have.

You'd never guess what they did when I asked them why they were willing to break up with Dean, a scumbag, and what they answered me! ”

"Tell me."

Harry and Old Hunter, as well as Robert, who had just returned from the water, said in unison.

Gossip eats melons.

Men and women are not discriminatory.

Holtz took a cigarette in his mouth, let the ash fall to his feet, and pointed at Harry:

"They said they didn't want to go to work for another day, so they took a day of sick leave!

FK, that's two women!

I absolutely don't believe that anyone is so fierce in combat!

Dean, this guy, definitely has a problem.

I even suspect that he is the reincarnation of a male donkey, or he has a donkey whip transplanted, and when he dies in the line of duty, I will definitely apply to dissect him myself. ”

Dean, who had just gotten out of the car and walked over: "."

!

Four big men, huddled together, don't talk about women, talk about their own.. Big brother?

When is the 4th squadron, so Kiriki is angry!

Holtz said vigorously, but he didn't see the three Harry, and the eyes that looked at him were full of pity.

He just wanted to continue to vent his dissatisfaction, but there was a strong and powerful hand that covered his rather barren 'Bigu'.

Holtz's legs shrank and his body stiffened.

Dean stood behind him and said with a smile: "Say, Holtz, the environment here is so good, do you want to try the next step to the happiness of the stomach?" ”

Simply noisy.

Dean looked serious: "The captain is on the way, he has already told me what happened, now start investigating the scene, solve this case as soon as possible, and then I invite everyone to the best striptease bar in Los Angeles!" ”

A few hard-pressed patrol officers on the side dared to shout, "Inspector Dean, including us?" ”

"Of course." , Dean habitually buys people's hearts and says, "Haven't you heard a word? When you stand with Inspector Dean, congratulations, you're going to get money, credit, and women! Because there is no case that can resist his eyes! ”

Anyway, it doesn't matter if anyone has heard of it or not.

From today, there is.

This is why Harry and the others did not complain about Dean because of Captain Mun's arrangement.

In the previous subtle understanding, in their hearts, they had recognized Dean's ability and status, and subconsciously regarded him as the leader.

And this subtle has begun to spread to the surrounding sub-bureaus.

Because Holz recognized the identity of the deceased at the first time.

Therefore, the scene of the crime was blocked in a timely manner.

With the crowd.

Dean changed into his gear and went into the encircled crime scene, not approaching the body for the first time, but observing the surroundings.

From far to near, from left to right, all the information around him, as if digitized, was presented in Dean's mind, divided and categorized.

Seeing him standing still, Holz asked curiously, "Dean, what are you looking at?" ”

"I'm listening to the feedback that nature gives me."

Dean pointed to the different shades of fallen leaves around him: "Do you see those traces, it means that this area is usually frequented by people, especially under the big tree where the deceased was, there are more than five people of different heights, standing in place for a long time for three days. ”

Everyone looked at the trail that Dean pointed at, and turned their heads in confusion.

Even Holtz, a senior forensic doctor, shrugged his shoulders and said weakly: "I'm sorry, I can only see that there are a lot of footprints here, but I can't see the time left, and I can't deduce what they are doing here." ”

Dean rolled his eyes: "Didn't you notice the small umbrella around the footprints, and then look at the footprints that obviously exceed the normal length of the soles of the feet, it is clear that someone is holding a big tree and being exported from behind"

When he said this, everyone was stunned.

Harry, in particular, looked obscene: "By the way, there is a university nearby, and the person who found the body is the student who came out of the school for a morning jog. ”

Dean ignored Harry, who was playing the treasure, and after collecting information about the surroundings, he walked quickly to the corpse and looked at it.

The deceased's name was Mike Smith.

He was supposed to be a psychology expert and professor who would be looked at with respect wherever he went, but now he looks quite miserable.

He lowered his head, and his whole body was covered with hemp rope similar to the performance art of a certain country, and he was professionally tied, and the whole showed a stiff posture of kneeling.

At the end of the rope is a large tree overhead.

Someone used a pulley to hang him here, and then tied him to his current shape and threw him on the ground.

The surface of the corpse, covered with scars, and the calves that clung to the ground were pierced by two slender steel bars, connected to the ropes on the tree, and fixed him to his current appearance.

Dean took a closer look at Mike Smith's scars.

There are more than fifty large and small marks, all of which are small wounds that are deep enough to see the bones, and there are traces of treatment to stop bleeding around them.

And underneath these scars, there are countless old scars, large and small.

This kind of trace, Dean has only seen in some of the hard bones who are often interrogated.

Besides.

Mike Smith's body surface has large patches of flaky bruises.

This is the blood caused by the rope being tied for too long.

This symptom will only appear in the living and will leave such traces after death.

This means that the deceased was posed in this way when he was alive.

Dean touched his chin.

No wonder Munn treats this murder as a big one.

Because the first thing anyone who sees a corpse will react is that someone tortured Mike Smith to confess.

It is estimated that Munn regarded the murderer as an enemy of the Aston family.

But Dean has a different view.

He felt the smell of hatred from the death gesture of the deceased.

It's a vendetta murder!

But what is the situation, more information is needed.

Dean completed his basic visual inspection, crouched down, and began to examine Mike Smith's limbs.

The ten fingers of both hands are bent, and the knuckles are indented, which is equivalent to saying that this guy's knuckles are only connected by the epidermis, and the inside has become an independent existence.

Such a neat indentation is like a blunt instrument, which is difficult to do by human labor alone.

The lower legs of both feet are pierced by steel bars.

There are not many muscles in the lower leg, and most of them are made up of epithelia and bones.

You don't have to look to know that the steel bar is directly through the muscles and bones of Mike Smith's calf, pinning him to the ground.

At the top of the steel bar, there is a diffusion indentation, which is caused by mechanical forging.

This kind of machine is generally very heavy.

But strangely, there are no traces of machine dragging around.

Dean took the doubt to heart and lifted Mike Smith's head lowered.

A face that seems to be smiling but not smiling is presented in everyone's eyes.

Harry had a strange look in his eyes and muttered, "This guy has been treated so miserably, and he can still laugh, is he a masochist?" ”

Holtz on the side gave him a blank look: "Do you see the little dot on his face?" It was a paper clip, and someone used a paper clip to fix his expression like this! ”

Dean nodded in agreement: "Holtz is right, this kind of technique is not easy, the person who started it is definitely proficient in human body structure, maybe he also has a certain degree of attainment in plastic surgery." ”

Mike Smith's eyes widened, and with a smiling expression, he gave people a strange sense of fanaticism.

Dean looked down to take a closer look.

Around the eyelids of the deceased, there are traces of solidified glue.

In order to force him to see something he didn't want to see, the murderer kept the deceased in a state of keeping his eyes open.

This made it easier for Dean to observe.

The time of the other party's death is more than 12 hours away from now, and the crystals have been cloudy and spreading, and the whites of the eyes are almost gone, all of which are occupied by the kernels of the eyes.

Under long-term vision, people have a sense of fear and evil for no reason.

But for a pervert like Dean, who has been sleeping in a corpse heap since he was a child, this is not even an appetizer.

He noticed that Mike Smith had burns on his cornea.

This is damage to the cornea caused by ultraviolet rays and is usually seen in people with snow blindness.

But Los Angeles is now in the cold season of January, with short hours of sunlight and mostly gloomy weather, so even if the deceased's eyelids were set with glue, there should not be such severe burn marks.

Unless, he's been exposed to bright light for a long time!

This method is generally used to extract confessions by torture.

Dean stood up and looked at the deceased's professional knots, painful but not fatal wounds, and professionally fixed facial expressions in deep thought.

Judging by the clues.

The murderer was a professional torturer who was very familiar with human tissue, familiar with punishment methods, and had a grudge against the deceased, so he spent a lot of effort to torture the deceased.

But there was one thing Dean couldn't figure out.

Why did the other party put the deceased in a half-kneeling position?

A lot of things to do, a lot of things to be wrong!

Professionals, in general, rarely do superfluous actions, as it means that they are more likely to leave leads.

If you can figure out this doubt, maybe the case will find the right idea!

Robert, who was playing soy sauce on the side, kicked the fallen leaves under his feet in boredom.

He actually wanted to learn something from Dean.

But he stared at it for a long time, but he didn't see what Dean was observing.

Robert had to admit that some things are just like math, and if they won't, they won't, and they won't look at it in the end.

The same goes for Old Hunter.

In the past, these things were handed over to the forensic department to investigate.

At most, they collect some traces, and then focus on investigating the identity of the deceased, surrounding relationships, conflicts, and so on.

Dean directly robbed Holtz of his job and is undoubtedly a freak detective.

He was about to pull Robert outside for a cigarette, when his lowered head suddenly shrank and pulled Robert away: "Hey, there seems to be something down here!" ”

I saw that the fallen leaves kicked away by Robert, and the color of the soil was obviously different from the surroundings.

Old Hunter, no matter how stupid he is, knows that there's something buried underneath.

His exclamation attracted the attention of Dean and the others.

Dean saw the soil under Robert's feet, and then looked in the direction where the corpse was kneeling, and his eyes lit up: "Take the tools, dig!" ”

Not much.

A half-decomposed and mutilated dog corpse appeared in front of everyone.

Holz endured the stench, put his fingers into the jelly-like dog corpse and pulled it twice, and affirmed: "This is an Akita dog, according to the texture, I can only determine the time of the dog's death, more than half a month, because of the temperature, the corpse is not completely decomposed." ”

Dean added: "It was tortured to death, and you can see some of the marks on it, like the marks on Mike Smith!" ”

Old Hunter licked his somewhat flaky lips and hesitated, "Dean, you mean that Mike Smith was killed in the same way because he killed a dog?" ”

Dean nodded: "Combined with the fact that Mike Smith is fixed to kneel in this direction, it is very likely, don't forget, he is an expert in psychology, and people who have generally studied to this extent are somewhat wrong with their own psychology." ”

What is Psychology?

The study of psychology.

When I study this subject, I will always unconsciously think about it.

Therefore, the more perverted you are, the easier it is to make outstanding achievements in this discipline, and the higher your achievements, the easier it is to be perverted.

Complement one another.

When Harry heard this, he was a little regretful: "It's a pity that Lawrence is not here, otherwise he has the most right to speak, after all, he has an ex-wife who is a psychiatrist." ”

"Isn't that good, at least it protects your poor little Pp."

Dean laughed, clapped his hands, and asked Holtz to take his colleagues to pack up all the traces that could be found such as corpses and pulley sets on trees, and prepare to bring them back for good study.

There aren't many people who have Akita dogs here.

Then consider that the killer may know Mike Smith.

The basic direction of exploration is also there.

Today I finally recovered 10,000 words.

Work hard tomorrow and get back on the ground as soon as possible!

Good night!

(End of chapter)