Chapter 60 Xinfang Village
"Yes! This is it!"
Bai Ling's voice echoed in the project office, making Huamei, who was sitting next to her, excited.
At first, Huamei recognized Zhu Yangyang, but in order to avoid making a wasted trip, she pulled Bai Ling and helped her observe the environment of the place she mentioned from the street view map on the web. Surprisingly, the situation in the picture was exactly the same as what Bai Ling had imagined in her mind!
This also means that the task force's suspicion was not wrong. The scene where the murderer abandoned the deceased was definitely not the first scene that everyone saw. The real first scene was the seemingly narrow river in the computer picture, the Xinfang River.
"Let's go now!" Bai Ling urged. After her inference was confirmed, she seemed a little impatient.
Compared to Bai Ling's impatience, Hua Mei suddenly calmed down. She shook her head and said, "If we are sure that the first corpse dumping case was there, we may have to make a long-term plan. It may not be possible for the two of us to go alone."
"Why?" Bai Ling asked in confusion. She couldn't understand why they couldn't just go and collect evidence after finding the clues.
"Because that place is very special." Gu Xia shook his head and said, "Next to Xinfang River is Xinfang Village. Due to demolition, the original residents have basically moved out."
"That means there's no one there? Why can't we go?" Bai Ling became even more confused when she heard what Gu Xia said.
"Because it's not as safe as you think." Gu Xia frowned and said, "After the original residents of Xinfang Village moved out, the vacant houses were gradually occupied by some scavengers."
"That's right." Huamei nodded and added, "These people have some mental problems. I have come into contact with several of them. They are more or less aggressive. The sanitary conditions and environment there are also problems. It is inevitable that accidents will happen there."
"Isn't that right? Sister Huamei, just because there's a homeless person here, we can't handle the case?" Bai Ling said. After she finished speaking, she stood aside angrily, obviously unhappy that Huamei and Gu Xia had poured cold water on her.
Gu Xia and Hua Mei looked at each other and sighed helplessly. After a long silence , he began to explain, "Bai Ling, of course we have to handle the case, but our police have to follow various standards when enforcing the law. For example, if we want to search Xinfang Village, we must apply for a search warrant from our superiors."
"Humph!" Bai Ling looked at Gu Xia with dissatisfaction and continued, "Teacher Gu, when you invited me to join the special case team, you told me that special cases are handled specially and we have privileges that ordinary police don't have. So why do we need a search warrant?"
"Privileges don't mean you can enforce the law arbitrarily, right?" Gu Xia spread his hands, expressing some helplessness.
Bai Ling became even more dissatisfied when she heard this. After a "snort", she simply turned her head to the side without even looking at Gu Xia.
The most awkward person at the scene was Gao Feng, who was sitting between the two parties. Seeing the situation gradually becoming cold, he quickly tried to smooth things over and said, "How about this? Xinfang Village is definitely the one we need to search, but we are not eligible to apply for a search warrant right now. Why don't we check the surveillance?"
"What does a search warrant have to do with surveillance?" Bai Ling glanced at Gao Feng and said unhappily, "Don't bully me because I'm a forensic doctor. I also understand criminal investigation!"
"Sister, I'm not kidding!" Gao Feng wanted to die, and hurriedly explained: "Remember the commercial vehicle I saw on the surveillance camera at the scene? As long as we can confirm that it appeared near Xinfang Village, it proves that the murderer may be in Xinfang Village. Then, won't it be justified to apply for a search warrant?"
"Hmph! This is better!" Bai Ling said this and walked out angrily without even looking back.
When Gu Xia saw Bai Ling's appearance, he sighed subconsciously, then sat aside by himself without saying a word. The two people beside him also understood his helplessness, and finally they also sighed and fell silent.
In fact, except for Bai Ling, everyone in the entire task force basically has a certain understanding of Xinfang Village. Even Gao Feng, who is also an outsider, knows very well that Xinfang Village is not an ordinary place where only homeless people live.
"I'll go." Seeing the , Gao Feng thought for a while and then spoke.
"Are you sure?" Gu Xia looked at Gao Feng worriedly and asked, "Although our task force is investigating this case, we must ensure that it does not affect the local police."
"I understand." Gao Feng was silent for a while, then said, "I will try to sneak into Xinfang Village to search for evidence this time, but for the sake of the case, I probably won't contact you during this period. If necessary, I will contact you in a special way."
"Okay, go ahead and be careful." Gu Xia waved his hand.
After a long time, when Gao Feng left the project office, Gu Xia sat down heavily on the chair as if he had suddenly lost strength. His originally bright eyes were filled with worry after Gao Feng left. It was obvious that what he cared about most now was not the case, but the safety of his team members.
"I don't quite understand why you let Gao Feng go. In fact, you could have stopped him." Huamei looked at Gu Xia in confusion.
"Because what we want is the truth." Gu Xia silently picked up the water cup, put it down when it was close to his mouth, and said, "This case involves too many things. No one can say how far our special investigation team can go. You, me, including Wang Zheng and others, are now involved in this case."
"But you know, some things are often untrue." Huamei said coldly, "What kind of place is Xinfang Village? Is it just homeless people? If it's just some mentally homeless people, how could it be promoted to a key prevention and treatment area in just five years? Professor Gu, there are some things you should say clearly."
"It's useless." Gu Xia shook his head and sighed, "Don't you know Gao Feng and Bai Ling's personalities very well? Even if I try to stop them, they will find other ways to go secretly in the end. Instead of that, I might as well let them go together. But I didn't expect Gao Feng to protect Bai Ling so much."
"Yeah, I didn't expect that either." Huamei nodded, with a hint of sigh in her tone.
Gao Feng had always been seen by everyone as someone who disobeyed organizational discipline and often pushed cases in the wrong direction. However, this time, unexpectedly, Gao Feng found a reason that Bai Ling could not refuse at the critical moment and really allowed her to stay in the Municipal Bureau.
"But there is one very tricky thing." Huamei said worriedly, "Wang Zheng... has been out of contact for three whole days. I haven't been able to contact him in these three days. I'm afraid he may have discovered something and not told us to investigate the case himself."
"It's hard to say." Gu Xia shook his head, his expression becoming even more worried.
Wang Zheng has always been a trump card of the task force. Thanks to his special abilities, the task force has been able to handle so many cases smoothly. Even when a case has been pushed to a dead end, the task force can rely on his reasoning to get back on track step by step.
However, if something happens to Wang Zheng, what should the task force do next?
"Let's put this matter aside for now and wait for Gao Feng's news. I'm afraid we will be busy during this period. Wang Zheng and Bai Ling both need our attention." Gu Xia sighed and thought: "But Wang Zheng is fine. Since he is in the school building now, there shouldn't be any big problems. On the contrary, you need to pay more attention to Bai Ling."
"Professor Gu, what about you..." Huamei asked in confusion. It sounded like the other party had handed over the entire business to him, which seemed very wrong for Gu Xia's identity as the leader of the team.
"I have other cases to handle." Gu Xia sighed and said, "There was an armed robbery in G City. The department wants me to do the trace analysis at the scene. The incident happened suddenly and I don't have time to explain. Now the special case team can only be handed over to you."
"Ah?" When Huamei heard this, her expression suddenly became surprised.
