when the moon whispers

Chapter 505: Rose-Remains (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Fifteen Remains (Part 1)

The office operation room of the Municipal Bureau's Identification Center, which had been kept brightly lit all night for more than a month, was rarely shut down on time.

Jiang Mo, carrying the Cantonese snacks that he had packed from Wanfulou after running a long way, pushed Xiao Letian, who had been thinking about stealing snacks all the way, back to the side door of the main building. He bumped into forensic doctor Xiao Luo, who was holding a small handmade paper flag that read "Thank you Director Zhu for your gift" and was leading a group of interns to have a group meal after get off work with his fat bag on his shoulder.

"Let me introduce you to the second most beautiful girl in our Criminal Investigation Division, Officer Jiang Mojiang, who was raised by Captain Gu himself. The one who just ran away is Captain Gu's second son. I think you've seen him delivering reports and stuff, right? I'll introduce him to you formally some other day."

When the interns from several departments of the Identification Center reported for work, Jiang Mo was busy outside with the mess of the heart-digging case. This was the first time they met head-on. Xiao Luo, a forensic doctor, circled around Jiang Mo in an exaggerated manner, then moved closer to her, stuffed two beef cubes into her palm, and whispered to her to smile: "Smile, smile, many of these interns came here because of your reputation. There is a girl with outstanding grades and skills who has visited your team's competition. Please be kind and sell your body to her and try to keep her here..."

"How can you, the forensic medicine department, be attracted by my reputation? I've only been a criminal police officer for a few years... He must be my master..." Jiang Moxian curved his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth to wave at the group of young people who had gathered around him. Facing a few pairs of sparkling eyes, he whispered to Xiao Luo, the forensic doctor. Before he finished speaking, his voice suddenly rose: "Who is the most beautiful girl in criminal investigation?"

Medical examiner Xiao Luo blinked as a matter of course: "Old Gu."

"Indeed." Jiang Mo chuckled and glanced at the small paper flag in the hand of Xiao Luo, the forensic doctor. "You guys are having a meal together? My master asked me to bring food to Old Zhu... Isn't he going to join you guys later?"

Medical examiner Xiao Luo raised his eyebrows and took out a black card from his pocket: "The director was worried that the children would not have fun, and Captain Gu happened to come over to eat and drink for free, so he found some overtime work for Old Zhu--"

Xiao Luo, a forensic doctor, quietly expressed her indignation at Gu Xing's capitalist exploitation. She raised her eyes and secretly glanced at the half-open window of Zhu Silai's office. Before she could show her teeth, she was swept by Gu Xing's bored gaze while leaning on the windowsill, which made her mouth curl down. She pursed her lips awkwardly, smiled in a fake way, and ran away. Before leaving, she put her arm around Jiang Mo's shoulder and squeezed it to express her sincere concern for Comrade Xiao Jiang who was forced to "stay in court".

The real mastermind behind Zhu Silai's overtime incident raised her eyebrows a little guiltily, waved her hand and watched the nest of chicks chirping away, turned her head and looked at Gu Xing, held the "tribute" packing bag high above her head, and only after getting her master's sneer and "permission" did she grin and trot all the way to the door of Zhu Silai's office. As soon as her fingers touched the door panel, Gu Xing stepped forward, picked up the packing bag and put it on the coffee table that had been cleared long ago, opened the package and held the chopsticks in her hand first.

"Do you have any ambition at all... You are using my name to trick Xiaomo into buying the food you want to eat..."

Zhu Silai was still sitting at his desk, typing away. He only glanced at Jiang Mo distractedly, picked up the mint candy on the table that was prepared for Gu Xing, and threw it at Captain Gu's head. "Wait for me for two minutes. There's a lecture at the police academy tomorrow. I'll polish this manuscript."

"What's the difference between yours and mine?" Gu Xing quickly dodged, holding up his chopsticks and looking at Jiang Mo who was looking at him with disdain, "Here's a pair of chopsticks, have a bite?"

"Go back and pack up later. Shao Jie is waiting at home." Jiang Mo shrugged his shoulders, took a chair and sat down in front of the desk. He looked down at the handwritten report under the evidence bag, and his brows suddenly tightened: "This evidence... is not going to be registered in the warehouse, right?"

"The evidence left behind by the eyewitness of the Red Mansion case at the crime scene - this item is related to the suspected leak of internal police information. The situation inside is still unclear."

Gu Xing raised his eyelids and shook his head, chewing red rice sausage and looking at the key ring in the evidence bag: "The eyewitness has been hiding for several years without making any noise, and now he is suddenly caught up by the suspected murderer. We can't take this risk. Since the murderer sent this thing left at the crime scene back, it is very likely that he has already targeted you, the eyewitness... Do you really plan to take this opportunity to lure the murderer out?"

"If the murderer of the Red Mansion case wanted to threaten or provoke us, he wouldn't just send a keychain." Jiang Mo muttered without confirming or denying. His heart sank as he finished speaking. He raised his eyes to look at Gu Xing's eyebrows, which suddenly dodged awkwardly for a moment. He turned his head and bumped into Zhu Silai's worried but helpless eyes with some complexity. His voice was suppressed in his throat: "Can any valuable fingerprints be extracted from this keychain?"

"Shao Jie's fingerprints have been extracted."

Zhu Silai sighed, took out a handwritten report and handed it to Jiang Mo: "There are some scattered and incomplete fingerprints on the tape of the courier box, but it is not very meaningful to extract and compare them. Basically, they are all destroyed and contaminated. There is only something on the keychain that can be checked. However, the information such as fingerprints is only from Shao Jie, not from others."

"I don't know where this sinful fate came from."

Gu Xing bit the tip of his chopsticks with gritted teeth, squinting at the complicated expression on Jiang Mo's face, "He hid it for so many years, and finally he popped up in front of you... You've only known him for half a year, do you think his words are credible? Is there any evidence to prove that he really has nothing to do with the murderer? Did something this important really suddenly appear in front of him?"

Jiang Mo was stunned for a moment, then he blinked and nodded confidently: "I saved the person, I believe it."

"cut--"

Gu Xing curled his lips, with a slightly awkward expression of "sons are no longer under the control of their mothers" on his face, and rolled his eyes at Jiang Mo without disguising it. Zhu Silai watched from the side for a while, pushed the keyboard away with a bit of amusement, turned around and knocked on the table, signaling Jiang Mo to focus on the report: "But besides fingerprints, there is something else on the keychain."

Jiang Mo looked down at Zhu Silai's cursive handwriting, raised his eyes blankly and asked: "What kind of oil is this?"

Zhu Silai nodded, stretched out his arm and circled the mark on the report. "Although the keychain has been cleaned, a little oily substance was extracted from the gap of the ring. Terpene components were detected... From the smell, it should be turpentine or something like that."

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