The police car was speeding on the national highway, Ji Bai was sitting in the back seat, closing his eyes slightly. The sound of the engine in his ears and the sound of the wind gradually became blurred...

Suddenly, he felt a slight sank on his body. He opened his eyes and saw Yao Meng beside him, lowering his head and putting a pink shawl on his chest.

Ji Bai stood up and sat upright.

Yao Meng looked up at him: "Sleep a little longer? If you haven't slept all night, your body will not be able to withstand it. When I come, I'll call you."

"No need. Thank you." Ji Bai lifted up the shawl and handed it back to her.

Last night, they received an order from the director. The two drove onto the expressway overnight and arrived in Xiangchuan County early this morning.

The crime was in Mapu Township below. Ji Bai drove the car all night and then moved to the county public security bureau's car. He seized time on the road and slept for a while.

The morning was bright outside the window, and Ji Bai put his hand on the handrail of the car door, staring at the scenery passing by outside the car window, without saying a word. Yao Meng glanced at his tall and tall figure, his handsome and resolute side face, and his heart ached a little.

After a moment of silence, she handed him a stack of information: "The information you want has been sorted out."

"Thank you." Ji Bai took it and looked down.

Yao Meng didn't say anything anymore. Whenever he finished reading a part of it, she would take it over and organize it. When she needed other information, she quickly found it and handed it to him, and quietly cooperated with him.

The country roads were bumpy and the sorghum field was very green and lush in the sun. The group got out of the car and walked along the path beside the fields. There were a bunch of chattering farmers in front of them, and the local police were working hard to maintain order.

Ji Bai looked calm and picked up the blockade strip and strode in. Yao Meng followed him quickly.

On the open space next to the crops, there were small pieces of dried blood and messy footprints remaining. The body had been transported to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The county criminal investigation team leader is Su Mu, who is over thirty years old, explained: "The deceased is Ma Rongrong, sixteen years old, female, from Guangyi County, H Province."

Province H and Lin City crossed several provinces, and Yao Meng raised doubts: "Have you confirmed the identity of the deceased so quickly?"

Su Mu replied: "Ma Rongrong disappeared in the local area half a year ago and is suspected of being abducted and trafficked. Her parents reported to the local police that the DNA data was entered into the national anti-trafficking system. So after a comparison last night, there was a result."

He paused and said, "Ma Rongrong is a deaf and mute girl, and her parents are also deaf and mute. Since she disappeared, she has been looking for her all over the country. I heard that the financial conditions are not good, and after spending all the savings, she has been relying on begging for a living. We have contacted them this morning and we should be able to arrive tomorrow."

Neither Ji Bai nor Yao Meng spoke. Su Mu handed over another stack of photos of the scene.

The girl in the photo was curled up in the open space in front of them, wearing a T-shirt and washed white jeans, with a large piece of blood on her head, and her pretty and fair appearance could be vaguely seen.

Su Mu said: "We have asked locals that no one has seen the victim before. They should have been taken to the hometown yesterday. She was injured on her body, with traces of struggle and struggle on her arms and neck. She was messy and her belt was not tied. In addition, another man's footprint was found at the scene. We suspected that it was a human trafficker or a buyer who attempted rape and murder."

The sunlight became more and more fierce, and the local police were waiting quietly and anxiously on the periphery. The onlookers were even more curious and excited, looking at these two detectives who were said to have specially invited from the city, but were so young and beautiful.

As soon as he received the report, Su Mu immediately ordered the township police station to protect the scene. Because the crime was at night and it was remote, the suspect's footprints were kept clear and complete. Ji Bai squatted beside a string of footprints by the field, pondered for a moment, and spoke: "According to the length of the footprints, deep inference, the suspect was between 165cm and 175cm tall, and he wore a pair of leather shoes at the time of the incident."

Yao Meng squatted beside him, holding a recorder. Su Mu quickly recorded with paper and pen.

Ji Bai continued: "Ages 18-30 years old, they are fat, weigh more than 80 kilograms, and there was a package on their left shoulder at the time of the incident."

Yao Meng and Su Mu were both stunned, and Su Mu asked, "Why?"

Ji Bai's eyebrows were still, staring at the footprints and explained lightly: "The forefoot of the footprints was evenly and the pace was steady, which is the characteristic of young people's footprints. If you get older, the scratches left on the heel and the soil brought up will be more obvious; in addition, the man's steps were not large, but his steps were wider and had a larger angle, which was the characteristic of the fat man's pace. This can also be judged according to the length and depth of the footprints."

Yao Meng asked: "Where is the package?"

Ji Bai pointed to the left footprints: "Each left foot is slightly deeper than the right footprints. There are two possibilities: one is a lame man, and the other is a heavy object on the back. However, the clearness of the footprints on both feet means that the shoes are worn the same year round, so it is not a lame person, but a wrap on the back."

Yao Meng and Su Mu both became vaguely excited as they listened. When Su Mu got a clue, he immediately notified his colleagues on the walkie-talkie and implemented the ongoing search work. So other police officers were amazed.

Ji Bai walked along the edge of the field for a short period and said, "The victim walked to the crime point with the suspect. The two of them had their footprints side by side, clear and evenly, without any signs of running or struggling." After saying that, he pointed to the two protected footprints on the right and asked, "Whose footprints are they?"

Su Mu replied: "He is the reporter. He is Zhang Zhuangzhi, 45 years old, a local."

Ji Bai walked over, stared at the footprints with his hands behind his back for a while, and looked up at Su Mu: "Finding him immediately. He is not only the reporter, but also the buyer of the deceased. He is likely to have seen the murderer."

When the clue was spread, the police were all excited, while the villagers were instantly in an uproar.

The lights were bright, Ji Bai, Su Mu and Yao Meng sat in the interrogation room of the county public security bureau. Soon, Zhang Zhuangzhi was taken there.

This is a short, thin and honest farmer. Su Mu only scolded and asked a few questions, and then his face turned red and his whole body was in panic.

"My co-client has been dead for many years, and I heard that I can introduce me to a young and beautiful wife. The price is 30,000."

Su Mu said coldly: "Your financial conditions are OK."

Zhang Zhuangzhi was a little embarrassed: "My daughter has been graduating from college for a few years and works in Shenzhen. She sends me 1,000 a month. Now the government's policies to rural areas are good, and 30,000 can still be obtained. And she said it was an introduction, but she did not say it was a trafficking. I think young women are like that now, and they are willing to follow me for a few years for 30,000 yuan."

Zhang Zhuangzhi explained the incident process.

The other party's name is Chen Yong, not a local, and his appearance is exactly the same as Ji Bai's description. He looks like he is in his early twenties and is carrying a black shoulder bag. The two of them meet at the crime scene at 9 o'clock last night.

"But when I saw that girl, I couldn't do it." Zhang Zhuangzhi's expression was also a little excited. "Chen Yong said he was 22 years old. When I saw that he was a teenage girl. He was still a deaf and mute person. He kept crying and even knelt down to me and shook his head desperately. Chen Yong slapped them. Comrade policeman, this baby is younger than my daughter, I think it was abducted and trafficked. I can't do such an immoral thing."

"So you still have a conscience? What happened later?"

"I have a conscience... Later I left. When I left, I heard Chen Yong scolding, saying that the mute had not made any money for several months. Later, I heard that he was beating her, and he beat her very fiercely. I thought not to die, so I didn't go far and hid behind the sorghum. After a while, I saw Chen Yong running on the road and driving his car. I walked over and saw that the girl was no longer moving. I called 110..."

Before the interrogation was concluded, Su Mu asked Zhang Zhuangzhi: "Why did the deceased's clothes be messy and the belt was not fastened."

Zhang Zhuangzhi's eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't say anything.

Yao Meng captured his expression and shouted with a calm face: "To be honest, any concealment is illegal. This is a murder case, and the consequences are very serious."

"I did nothing," Zhang Zhuangzhi waved his hand in a hurry, "I... said I didn't like it, Chen Yong said he asked me to inspect the goods first, and then took off all the girl's clothes and let her kneel in the field..."

Ji Bai had a calm face, and Su Mu's face became more and more ugly. Yao Meng's eyes surged and she cursed: "Beasts"

After taking Zhang Zhuangzhi down, Su Mu immediately notified the front-line police officers according to the clues he provided and carried out a targeted search. After a while, he brought two young criminal police back to the interrogation room, looking at Ji Bai expectantly and solemnly.

"May Team Ji, how did you know that Zhang Zhuangzhi is the buyer?" asked a young detective.

Ji Bai replied lightly: "The location of the crime site is hidden, but not far from the road is convenient for transportation. Judging from the footprints, the suspect and the deceased arrived at the crime site at night. It is very likely that the traffickers chose this location and traded with the buyer."

Su Mu suddenly realized: "Apart from their footprints, there were only Zhang Zhuangzhi's footprints, so you suspect he was the buyer."

Ji Bai nodded: "Not only that, he left two rows of footprints, indicating that he was at the scene twice. One of them was even and steady; the other was relatively messy, and he was wandering in the spot more than ten meters away from the corpse point for a while."

Yao Meng interjected: "So the first time is to meet with human traffickers; the second time is to see the corpse, hesitate and panic before reporting the case."

Su Mu and others felt enlightened and quietly recalled for a moment. Su Mu said to the other two: "We have learned a move from Team Ji today."

Ji Bai stood up and patted Su Mu on the shoulder and walked out the house with them. Yao Meng was about to follow him, but when she looked up, she saw his quiet and solemn face, and looked at the admiring eyes of everyone looking at him, she suddenly became stunned. She felt that her heart seemed to be gently pulled by something, slightly sweet and strong astringent. As long as she looked at one of his side faces, she felt a sense of heartache and pride that could not be said to be known to outsiders.

After lunch, the clue came to Lin County. Some people saw men suspected of Chen Yong appearing. Su Mu led the team and guided Ji Bai to Lin County together. Ma Rongrong's death made everyone suppress a heavy feeling of resentment. The criminal police would not have thought that Ji Bai had not slept for a day and a night. Instead, because the famous detective also joined the search, he felt excited and determined to win.

Only Yao Meng took advantage of the fact that there was no one and pulled Ji Bai's sleeves: "Boss, do you want to take a long rest first?"

Ji Bai said no, arrest people first.

In the first two days after Ji Bai left, Xu Xu did not think of him much, nor did he have the idea of ​​making phone calls and sending text messages. When there was a case, everything was left aside. This was the unshakable basic professional ethics of the criminal police, and it was deeply engraved in Xu Xu's personal consciousness and code of conduct.

She thought more about how to help his case. So she took the initiative to check, analyzed a lot of relevant case information, and then sorted and summarized it for Zhao Han. Ji Bai could use it at any time when needed.

But during lunch break, I accidentally caught a glimpse of the encrypted folder stored in the murder photo by her. I subconsciously clicked and stared at his face, looked at him for a few seconds, and turned it off.

After a while, I opened it again and looked at it for a few seconds.

At this time, Zhao Han walked in with a stack of information and said to Lao Wu: "The report from the appraisal department has come out. I will scan it first and fax it to the boss."

Xu Xu was silent for a moment, picked up a stack of documents, and followed Zhao Han into the photocopying room next door.

What needs to be identified is the powder granules extracted from the suspect's footprints. They were sent to the municipal bureau by Xiangchuan County police overnight. Zhao Han stood in front of the scanner and carefully inspected them page by page. Xu Xu said: "You go and notify Xiangchuan County Public Security Bureau and I will help you scan, so it will be faster."

Xu Xu has always been meticulous and agile in his work. Zhao Han nodded and handed it to her, saying, "I'll send it to you and call the boss."

Listening to the sound of the phone signal being connected, Xu Xu felt a faint joy in his heart.

With just a sound, Ji Bai answered: "What's the matter?"

Xu Xu: "The appraisal report has been released and faxed to Xiangchuan Public Security Bureau. I will also send the electronic version to your mobile phone."

"good."

His voice was slightly hoarse and seemed to be deeper than usual. Xu Xu paused for a moment and said, "Goodbye."

"Wait a minute." He whispered to stop.

Xu Xu remained silent.

She clearly felt her heart, as if she was gently lifted up with his words.

At the entrance of a small alley in Xiangchuan County, Ji Bai was sitting in the back of an inconspicuous car.

He led a team and had been waiting for a night outside a small hotel that was suspected to be infested by Chen Yong, but he had no results. Perhaps Yao Meng and Su Mu raised it, and Su Mu insisted that he sleep in the car behind for a few hours, ensuring that he would wake him up immediately when there was any sign. Yao Meng and Su Mu stayed in the car ahead.

Ji Bai didn't refuse. He just took a nap and was woken up by Xu Xu's phone call.

"I'm fine in the city these days?" he asked gently.

"Everything is normal." Xu Xu replied, "Where is your side?"

"It's still waiting, it's almost done."

Both of them were silent for a while, and Xu Xu directly raised the question she was concerned about: "I heard that you have a little hoarse voice, is it okay?"

Ji Bai held his cell phone and looked at the colorful lights on the streets of the county town. Passersby were passing by, and a smile slowly rose from the corners of his lips: "I feel a little uncomfortable. I drove the car overnight and didn't sleep for about fifty hours. I was about to rest for a while."

Xu Xu was stunned and didn't say anything.

In fact, this is nothing to Ji Bai at all. It is far more difficult than this. Moreover, with his habits, he never complains to others. But to Xu Xu... Is it okay to make her feel sorry for her?

Xu Xu could almost imagine his tired but resolute face in his mind when he heard his calm tone. This made her feel a little uncomfortable and her brows frowned unconsciously.

"Then you rest immediately, I won't disturb you." She said quickly, "In addition, try to ensure sleep and eat on time. Contact us anytime if you have any questions. Goodbye."

Before Ji Bai could speak, she said again: "Master, go to bed quickly." The phone had already hung up.

Ji Bai looked at the darkened mobile phone screen and laughed slightly. At this time, the local police in the front row heard the clue and asked with a smile: "Captain Ji, is it because my sister-in-law is concerned about the phone?"

Ji Bai did not deny it directly or admit it. He leaned his tired body against the back seat, closed his eyes, and smiled at the corner of his lips: "Women like to worry... Then I'll sleep for a while, and call me if there is any problem."
Chapter completed!