Chapter 17: Cold Storage
My intuition told me that this was a murder case of a small workshop using the trademark brand of Baiyun Food Company, and that the corpse water red wine and quick-frozen body pieces came from this unknown small workshop.
Moreover, this small workshop must have a very close connection with Baiyun Food Company, and we still have to start investigating this case from Baiyun Food Company.
It's just that why does this small workshop have to use the packaging of Baiyun Food Company? If the murderer is not the boss and employees of Baiyun Food Company, then it is the industry's revenge. But isn't it too "costly" to retaliate in the form of homicide?
This small workshop can completely produce some unhygienic fake and shoddy products to counterfeit, so that consumers will be upset, and it can also use public opinion to bring down Baiyun Food Company. And now that the murder is involved, the people of Ningzhou City are panicking, according to this trend, within a week, no one will buy fried chicken food. This is not only an impact on Baiyun Food Company, but also an impact on other chicken food brands, and the impact on the entire industry will be huge.
1,000 wounds to the enemy, 800 self-losses, the gains outweigh the losses.
And this influence cannot be eliminated for a long time, the thinking that chicken food contains human flesh will produce a stereotype in the thinking of ordinary people, and in the long run, many companies will go bankrupt, and the impact on business is no less than the impact of the case itself.
After I took a bald sip, I suddenly asked Li Meng, "Aren't you curious, except for a palm, where did the other parts of the corpse go?" ”
Li dreamed for a moment and muttered, "The current corpse parts are all in the quick-frozen food, is it ......?"
As she spoke, a terrifying thought suddenly came to her mind - cannibalism.
Other parts of the corpse were mixed with other kinds of food and eaten......
"If the murderer really made other parts of the deceased's body into different foods, then we are busy, the food in the entire Ningzhou City needs to be investigated, and with such a large workload, we can't find it out within the seventy-two hour period." Li Meng put down his chopsticks, and his mood was very depressed.
But I quickly corrected her mind and explained: "Our task is to catch the killer, not to investigate food safety, and when the killer is caught, we can trace the origin of the food made from the corpse based on the testimony provided by the murderer." At that point, there will be no 72-hour deadline, and some of the workload will be shared after the Food Authority intervenes. ”
After Li Meng heard what I said, he suddenly realized: "Yes, you are right! But how do we lock down a suspect with a single palm? ”
Looking at Li Meng's contemplative appearance, I couldn't help but laugh a few times, this girl must have been carried away by anger because the deceased was a seventeen-year-old girl, so that she couldn't make the most basic judgment.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Meng took a bite of noodles, raised his head and suddenly saw me snickering, very puzzled.
"I'm laughing at your little head, you must be dizzy from heat, and you need to go to the cold storage to calm down." Instead of answering her question, I laughed louder.
"You need to go to the cold storage to cool down!" Seeing that I was teasing her, she subconsciously retorted, but as soon as she finished speaking, she was suddenly stunned
"Cold storage...... Refrigeratory...... Refrigeratory! She slapped her face so hard that the guests at the next table startled.
The Nanshi fried chicken restaurant where the fingers were found, and the Renmin Street fried chicken restaurant where the palm was found, the quick-frozen chicken nuggets of the two were taken from the cold storage of the Changhong District factory.
So we need to investigate the situation of cold storage again, the first time we went to focus on the red wine production workshop, the second time we focused on the chicken nugget production workshop, but completely ignored the cold storage.
"Then let's go again tomorrow?" Li Meng asked me.
"Xue Hang has been investigating near the factory, and leave the matter of cold storage to him. Lu You already knows us, and we won't find anything if we go again. After speaking, I sent a message to Xue Hang, asking him to focus on investigating the situation of the cold storage in the factory after dawn.
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At five o'clock the next morning, just after dawn, I was resting on my desk, and I received a call from Xue Hang, it seemed that there had been a new discovery in the factory.
Xue Hang said on the phone: "Now there are hotel staff in the city who have come to the factory to buy goods, they are all scattered personnel, and they go directly to the cold storage to pick up the goods, and the goods are all chicken nuggets in transparent packaging bags, and more than a dozen hotel staff have come at present."
At the same time, the staff in the factory are picking up the goods from the cold storage and loading them into large trucks, the license plates of large trucks are not local, they are all from nearby cities, and it seems that these loaded chicken nuggets are supplied to nearby cities.
There are also a few vans that directly bypass the cold storage and drive into the factory, which should all come to buy. ”
I rubbed my face vigorously to clear my head, and asked him again, "What's going on with the cold storage?" ”
"This cold storage is very large, it seems to be specially used for quick-frozen chicken nuggets, and it looks like there are tens of thousands of bags of chicken nuggets in the cold storage. The chicken nuggets in the cold storage are put in and sold every day, and they are stored for no more than two days. Xue Hang said in a deep voice.
According to Xue Hang's investigation results, there is not much difference from the clues we have. In this factory area of Changhong District, poultry food is a complete industrial chain, from farms to slaughterhouses, to factories, and finally to supermarkets. The main sales direction is the nearby urban area, and local merchants in need can also go to the cold storage to pick up the goods.
I don't know the situation in the city, but as far as the city is concerned, there are no middlemen between the factory and the supermarket, and the merchants buy directly.
Then the role of this cold storage has become very critical, responsible for the preservation of quick-frozen goods, the poultry output of the factory is very huge, and the direction of sales is also extensive. However, the quick-frozen chicken nuggets in the cold storage are sold almost at any time, and they will not stay in the cold storage for too long, not more than two days at most.
This made us very embarrassed, there was no production date on the packaging bag, the flow of goods was very huge, and the manufacturer could not record them one by one, and we could not trace the fingers and palms of the frozen chicken nuggets that were sold from the cold storage on that day.
What can I do if I can't trace the source?
If we can find more body parts, we may be able to find the cause of death and the exact time of death, which is undoubtedly the key clue in this case.
It's just that until now, I still haven't figured out one thing, since the owner of the fried chicken restaurant is going to the cold storage to pick up the goods, why do the fake and shoddy products produced by the small workshop also appear in the cold storage?
Could it be that the fried chicken restaurant owner has two purchase channels? Not only go to the cold storage to buy, but also go to the small workshop to buy?