I'm just a trainee police officer. I don't really want to solve the case.

Chapter 426 Weird Corpse

Liu Yan's body was found in a rockery near North Point Park.

After receiving the alarm, Qi Lei quickly led people to the scene.

The victim's face was cut several times, but the fatal one was the one on the neck. The cut was extremely clean and neat, and was fatal.

The body was laid out in the shape of a large character, except that the dot in the middle of the character was missing, having been stuffed into his mouth.

His eyes were filled with disbelief.

He seemed unable to believe that this would be the end of him.

The body was discovered by a passerby who was exercising early in the morning.

A parent took his child for a run near the park. The child was playful and would run into the rockery for a spin every time.

The child was frightened and the parents were also in shock. They didn't expect to encounter such a thing today.

Colleagues from the technical team were conducting an on-site investigation, and Su Xiaoxiao and others were looking around.

Judging from the bloodstains under the body, this is the first scene.

There were traces of wheels dragging on the ground. Liu Yan was not wearing shoes, but there were footprints around him.

Judging from the fact that the footprints are deep in the middle and light around, it seems that the person had small feet wearing big shoes, so the shoes that left the footprints should actually be the deceased's.

Someone pulled the deceased over in a suitcase, but he was not dead yet. There were signs of being tied up with ropes on his body, but the ropes had been taken away.

The murderer dragged him here, threw him on the ground, and then stabbed him to death, and laid him out in a big shape.

There were a lot of people watching the fun outside the rockery, including some grandpas and grandmas who got up early to exercise or buy groceries, and they were sticking their heads out to look inside.

There was also a pretty girl who seemed to be passing by. She was eating a fried cake and asking questions to the people around her.

"Grandma, there are so many police officers. What happened?"

"Little girl, don't be afraid to tell me. I heard someone died in there, and it was a very disgusting one."

"What kind?"

"Oh, I told you that you won't be able to eat it. I heard that men's thingies were cut off and stuffed into their mouths." The old lady gestured as she spoke. There was no fear in her voice, but rather a hint of excitement. After all, the person who died was not her family member.

As if frightened by the old lady's words, the girl lost her appetite immediately when looking at the fried pancake in her hand.

The old lady's voice was a bit noisy, and Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but look over. She happened to meet the girl's gaze, and the girl smiled awkwardly.

This location is actually the place where Xiao Yu and his friends lost Liu Yan that day.

There is no surveillance here. There used to be one, but it broke a few days ago and hasn’t been repaired yet.

Su Xiaoxiao thought, how could there be so many coincidences? It must have been human sabotage. It couldn't be that several surveillance cameras were broken at the same time.

Liu Yan must have scouted the place in advance, planned his escape route, and disabled the surveillance here in advance.

This place is well connected, and he can go anywhere by just changing his clothes and headgear.

As long as he doesn't take public transportation, it will be difficult for them to track him down.

Although Liu Yan's death was expected, Xiao Yu still felt depressed. If he had not been lost that day, perhaps they had caught him.

Su Xiaoxiao comforted him, saying that it was not his fault, it was just that the bad guys were too cunning.

In the Criminal Investigation Team's meeting room, Qi Lei pasted photos of the on-site investigation on the whiteboard.

Liu Yan's death was expected. Because of his death, the clues were cut off and they could not investigate further. There was a high possibility that the case would become an unsolved case, so they had to catch the murderer.

Qi Lei felt that there were still many clues left in this case.

"Su Xiaoxiao, tell me, why did the murderer choose this place to dump the body? To be more precise, why did he kill someone?"

"Okay, let me start by saying that I think the murderer chose this place to kill and dump the body because it was convenient.

When Xiao Yu and his team went to track down Liu Yan, his last trace disappeared nearby because several cameras here were broken.

I guess it was human sabotage. Liu Yan is a cautious person. He had scouted the area beforehand and planned his escape route.

This location is interconnected in all directions. If we don't catch him at that time, it will be difficult to investigate further.

If his body hadn't appeared nearby, I would not have thought where he would escape to.

But it was precisely because his body appeared there that I had an idea.

That is, Liu Yan did not flee, but found a place to hide near North Point Park.

The murderer knew him and even knew where he was hiding. It is very likely that he was found where he was hiding.

The murderer also knew that there was no surveillance nearby, so he chose to dump the body here for convenience, proximity, and because people generally think the farther away from the crime scene the better. So, we probably wouldn’t have thought that he was hiding nearby.”

"What Xiaoxiao said is right. As long as we find Liu Yan's whereabouts, we may be able to find clues about the murderer. The footprints left by the murderer here are disguised. When the technical team's on-site investigation report comes out, we may be able to find more clues about the murderer. Let's check the rental houses nearby first to see if Liu Yan has rented a house there beforehand and see if anyone has seen him that night.

He was hiding in a place. He needed food and drink, so he had to come out to buy something. Someone must have seen him; but it was not certain. Maybe he bought it in advance. However, even if he bought it in advance and put it there, someone might still see him.

So, we have a lot of things to do next, and since there are no directional clues, let's just get started."

Qi Lei assigned tasks to everyone and was about to let them act on their own when he saw Su Xiaoxiao raise her hand.

"Xiao Xiao, do you have anything else to say?"

"Captain Qi, do you think Liu Yan's death was a little strange? The murderer killed him with one blow, and the move was clean and neat, but why did they cut off the man's organs and stuffed them into his mouth? Is this a ritual? Are there any similar cases?"

"It's not that there aren't any. We've encountered many murderers with strange habits. Some have cut off men's organs. Some murderers vent their anger on others because they are not good enough. Some murderers do this for revenge because the deceased has done something wrong to them. It's not common to stuff organs in the mouth. You can check if there are similar cases.

Let's go check it out first. Li Yan, you don't have to go. Just check the database to see if there are any similar cases in other places."

There is no need to check the local cases, because Qi Lei knows whether they exist or not. He basically knows all the unsolved cases or solved cases in recent years, especially those with such special methods. If there is any, he will definitely remember it.

Everyone went out to investigate separately, and only Li Yan stayed in the office.

Unexpectedly, after half a day, she actually found a similar case, and it was an unsolved cold case.