Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 172 New clues
"It's here. I was there..."

Xiaojiu pointed to the entrance of the alley across the street and said, "I just came out from there and saw someone banging on the door with his fists. At first I didn't pay much attention and was about to ride away on my bike. Suddenly I felt that the man's back was very familiar, so I looked at him a few more times.

Just then, the man knocked on the wooden door a few times but no one answered, so he walked over to the window over there and knocked on that window. If you ignore his limping right leg, his back is almost exactly the same as the person I saw that morning.

Hearing this, Su Xiaotong nodded: "Okay, just stay in the car and don't get off."

"Ok"

"Let's go, Yancheng, Tiecheng, go call the people behind us."

"Yes"

This pharmacy is the sales office of the Dianhai District Medicinal Materials Company. It is a two-story building facing the street. Medicines are sold on the first floor, and there are offices and residences on the second floor. There is also a yard at the back, and there is a gate next to the building that allows direct access to the backyard.

It was already past one in the morning, and there was no way I could knock on the door and it would not open. Even if the people living upstairs heard it, they would not come down to open the door.

Finally, a member of the action team climbed in through the main door and dragged a salesperson down from upstairs.

Su Xiaotong, who is from the Public Security Bureau, showed his work ID and asked, "Was there a person who had a problem with his right leg who came here to buy medicine?"

Seeing so many ferocious-looking plainclothes officers, the salesperson panicked. After taking a few deep breaths, he finally calmed down a little.

"There is... there is a..."

"Have you ever seen him before?"

"I've seen him, but not often. His name is... called... Pan... I think his name is Pan Youzhi. I vaguely heard others call him that."

The salesperson knew very well that since the police came and asked about the lame man right away, that guy must have done something wrong, so he quickly told him the name he knew.

"Do you know where he is from?"

"I heard that he works in an instrument factory. I don't know the details, but I know it must be not far from our pharmacy."

"What did you say? He works in the instrument factory?" Su Xiaotong was going crazy. They had been searching for such a long time but couldn't find the suspect. It turned out that the suspect was hiding in the instrument factory.

"Uh……"

The salesperson was startled by Su Xiaotong's suddenly raised voice. He hesitated for a long time before carefully explaining, "Comrade, I'm not sure whether he works in the instrument factory or not. I've never seen him wearing work clothes.

I ran into him on the road when I went out to buy something. A man wearing the uniform of an instrument factory passed by on a bicycle and called out to him, "Youzhi, you are at work. Why don't you stay in the warehouse? Be careful, your boss may come to look for you later." I don't remember the details.

"Clap"

Su Xiaotong raised his hand and patted the salesperson on the shoulder: "Thank you, how many households live in this building, and how many people are there in total?"

"Three households, a total of... a total of... if you count the babies, a total of twelve people."

"Tiecheng, take your men with him and go upstairs to wake up all the people living upstairs and check every room."

"Yes"

Of course, Su Xiaotong would not easily believe the salesperson's one-sided statement. He had to first make sure that the person was not from here.

"Wait a moment"

At this moment, Li Yancheng spoke up. He looked at the salesperson and asked, "Did that person just come here to buy medicine?"

"Yes"

"What medicine did you buy? Did you register it?"

"Register, register. I'll get you the book."

The salesperson quickly walked to the table behind the counter, picked up a notebook and handed it to Li Yancheng.

"It was the last one. He only bought some forsythia and dandelion. I saw that he looked unhappy, so I told him that if he accidentally got an upset stomach, he'd better go to the hospital and not take any medicine on his own."

Seeing the name of the medicine registered on the notebook, Li Yancheng frowned slightly. Clearing away heat and detoxifying?

Then he thought of something and his face suddenly changed.

"Director Su, just leave two people here to check, and the others should go to the instrument factory to find Pan Youzhi. He may have been poisoned."

If you are poisoned, doesn't that mean you will be silenced?

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaotong hurriedly gave orders, leaving behind Liu Tiecheng and two other team members, while the others hurriedly ran out of the pharmacy, got in the car and rushed to the instrument factory.

With the cooperation of the security officer of the instrument factory, Su Xiaotong and his team finally found the place where Pan Youzhi worked at 2:20 in the morning.

The logistics database of the instrument factory.

This database is located in a corner of the instrument factory, belonging to an independent small courtyard. The iron gate leading to the factory is locked, and no one outside knows what the people inside are doing.

Outside the small courtyard is a logistics material warehouse. There is a warehouse manager in the logistics warehouse during the day when work is in progress. After get off work at night, the place is empty.

Except for Pan Youzhi who lives in the database and the security personnel who patrol here every two hours, there is no one within nearly a hundred meters of the factory area.

Outside the back wall of the small courtyard where the database is located is the back alley of the village. Normally, no one walks through this alley.

When the iron gate of the courtyard was opened, what came into everyone's sight was Pan Youzhi lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, naked.

Looking at this scene, Su Xiaotong and Li Yancheng sighed at the same time. After all, they were too late.

They asked the stunned comrades from the security department of the instrument factory to step back, and the two of them walked in first.

Li Yancheng first walked up to the corpse, squatted down and looked at it carefully. The joints of the corpse had become stiff.

"Yancheng, can you determine the time of death?"

"You can make a rough idea yourself, do you still need to ask me?"

"Uh..." Su Xiaotong was slightly stunned before he reacted.

Yes, I went to buy the medicine at around ten o'clock, and came back around eleven o'clock. Assuming he died as soon as he came back, the time was probably between eleven and a little after one in the morning.

"He didn't die as soon as he came back." Li Yancheng explained, as if he could guess what he was thinking.

“The medicine he bought was not with him, which means he was able to move around on his own after returning. I don’t know what drug he was poisoned with.

But he could feel that he was poisoned, but he could hold on for so long. Didn’t the guard on duty at the gate just now say that he had a conversation with them when he came back? They didn’t notice anything unusual. He can endure what ordinary people can’t endure. He is a ruthless person.”

While Li Yancheng and Su Xiaotong were squatting here looking at the corpse, the other team members had already started checking the courtyard and the only room they could enter.

The staff of the instrument factory's security department and the people assigned here by the Social Bureau's Security Department were standing at the gate of the courtyard whispering.

After looking at the body for a while, Li Yancheng breathed a sigh of relief and stood up. Nothing could be seen on the surface of the body, so he could only wait for the forensic doctor to come back and perform an autopsy to see if there were any additional discoveries.

However, after several months of observation, he no longer has any special expectations from the forensic doctor. He would be grateful if the cause of death could be determined.

Su Xiaotong also stood up. He turned his head and glanced at the other locked houses in the yard. After thinking about it, he waved at the gate of the yard.

"Director Su"

Seeing him waving, the security officer standing outside and the officer on duty at the security department of the bureau hurried over.

"Secretary Lu, these rooms are the logistics database, right?"

"That's right"

"Does your security department have the key?"

"We don't have this. The key is in the logistics department. Each door should have a lock. According to regulations, the two keys must be kept separately and passed on in a single line. One of the keys is passed in the hands of the chief and deputy chief of the logistics department, and the other is in the hands of the warehouse manager."

"The warehouse manager you're talking about is Pan Youzhi, right?"

“No, although Pan Youzhi lives here, his position is not a warehouse manager. He can only be regarded as someone arranged by the Logistics Department to look after the database.

Normally, if there is information that needs to be put in or taken out of the warehouse, not only must the department leader and the warehouse manager come together, but they also need the approval note from the leader in charge of our factory. After Pan Youzhi is responsible for checking and registering, they can open the warehouse door to put or take out the information. "

Hearing this, Su Xiaotong nodded, turned to look at the team member who was squatting at the door of the warehouse with a flashlight, looking at the keyhole, and asked: "Cunyi, did you see anything?"

"No, there are no fresh scratches on the keyhole. The door of the warehouse has not been opened for at least a week."

Hearing him say this, Su Xiaotong turned his head and looked at the security officer.

Seeing this, the security officer hurriedly shook his head and said, "Director Su, we really don't know when the logistics department will access the materials."

"I know..." Before he finished speaking, Li Yancheng, who had just walked into the room after looking at the corpse, came out with a notebook in his hand.

"This is the warehouse entry and exit register. If there is nothing missing here, the last time the warehouse door was opened was ten days ago, when something was put in."

After listening to this, Su Xiaotong continued to say to Officer Lu: "Have you asked someone to notify the head of the logistics department?"

"We have already arranged for someone to notify them, and the on-duty leader of our factory will also..."

Before Secretary Lu could finish his words, the leader on duty at the instrument factory today had already rushed over from the administrative building.

Someone died in the factory, and it was an unnatural death. Such a big thing has happened. All the leaders of the instrument factory, big and small, will not be able to sleep tonight.

Dealing with the leaders was Su Xiaotong's job. Li Yancheng turned around and walked back into the house.

The forsythia and dandelion that Pan Youzhi bought at that time were both placed on the table. According to the sales registration he had just seen in the pharmacy, he picked up the two packets of medicine and shook them twice in his hands. Then, based on the way the hemp ropes on the medicine packets were packed, he knew that the medicine had not been opened at all after he bought it.

Why isn't it open?

Is it because he himself knows that the medicine he bought can't cure the poison he was poisoned with?
When and how did he get poisoned?

Li Yancheng stood in the room thinking carefully until he was awakened from his thoughts by a loud noise outside. He turned around and saw that it was the forensic doctor from the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The Social Affairs Bureau does not have its own forensic doctor, so when autopsies are required, they are handed over to the forensic doctors of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

When he saw the forensic doctor conducting a simple external examination and then directing people to pack the body and take it back for a detailed examination, he suddenly realized something.

This naked body was exactly the same as the female corpse found in Taifeng in January. The only difference was that Pan Youzhi's face and fingerprints were not damaged.

If you look at it this way, then it is very likely that the murderer who killed the unnamed woman and Pan Youzhi was the same murderer. Why did he kill them?

Infighting?

Or... hide your identity.

The unnamed woman and Pan Youzhi probably knew the murderer's true identity, and the murderer committed the crime in order to better hide himself.

The murderer stripped the two men naked after killing them, probably for the purpose of checking them to prevent them from leaving any information on their bodies that would expose him.

"Doctor Li..."

"Ok?"

"The murderer was too meticulous. He searched in this room, wearing gloves the whole time, and had something on his feet, probably wrapped with cloth, so there was no useful trace left.

In addition, Pan Youzhi once hid something in the bed, but it is gone now. The dust is fresh, so it must have been taken away not long ago. It is unknown whether he took it away by himself and moved it to another place, or whether it was taken away by the murderer.

Ugh……

Li Yancheng sighed silently in his heart. This murderer was too cautious. He was definitely a veteran and did things calmly. Maybe when they came in from the front door just now, the murderer had just climbed over the backyard wall and was eavesdropping behind the wall for a while.

……

The on-site inspection at the instrument factory's logistics database lasted until after six in the morning. It cannot be said that there was no gain, but it can only be said that there was nothing gained.

It is even impossible to confirm whether Pan Youzhi is Qin Xiang, who is supposed to have been dead for three years.

To be precise, no one dares to make this judgment.

The first one is that the change in appearance is indeed quite big. With a height of 1.66 meters and a weight of over 110 kilograms, he is neither fat nor thin. Now Pan Youzhi weighs 150 kilograms and his face has become rounder.

Although their facial features are indeed quite similar, the resurrection of a dead person involves so many things that even Director Shen and Director Zhong dare not easily draw a conclusion.

Another very important point is that Pan Youzhi did exist. According to the photos taken a few years ago in the archives, he looked very similar to the person who is now dead.

Whether it is Qin Xiang or Pan Youzhi, both are real people. It is not impossible that the same person played two roles. However, there is almost no overlap in their resumes, and they each have their own witnesses. It is impossible to split one person into two halves, with half on each side.

In view of this, the question of whether this person is Qin Xiang or Pan Youzhi can only be put on hold temporarily.

The case had come to a dead end at this point, and the mastermind behind the scenes had once again perfectly hidden himself.

And there is a high possibility that it will remain hidden forever.

After returning to the office, Li Yancheng squatted alone at the door of the clinic, smoking, and recalling everything he had just seen at the scene.

He firmly believed what the police said in the crime movies he saw on TV in his previous life: there could be no perfect crime, and there must be some clues at the scene that they had missed.

"Doctor Li, what are you doing squatting here?"

"Ah? Oh, Chief Guo, you're here. I'm fine."

"I heard you were busy all night last night?"

"Yes, I came back around six o'clock." Li Yancheng had been squatting for a long time, and when he stood up, he felt stars in front of his eyes.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"It's work."

"Thank you, Doctor Li. The acupuncture you gave me that day was really effective."

Old Guo turned his head and looked around, then lowered his voice to thank Li Yancheng.

"You're welcome. It's my duty, Chief Guo. You must take the medicine on time."

"Don't worry, remember to clean up. Have you had breakfast?"

"I've eaten. Chief Guo, please go quickly."

"Okay, let's talk later."

……

Watching Lao Guo walking towards the cafeteria, Li Yancheng suddenly realized what he had missed.

woman!

According to what Sun Yide confessed that day, Qin Xiang probably had too strong sexual desires and couldn't find a suitable woman, so he committed that crime three years ago. It is a pity that he died.

If the current Pan Youzhi is Qin Xiang, then his illness should not have been cured yet, and he must have a stable partner.

The easiest and most convenient way for this partner is to find a secret door.

Previously, Lao Xu had suggested to search all the secret doors in the whole city, but later Jin Zhihai said that it was not realistic to do so, as those who managed the secret doors might not dare to confess.

Now that Pan Youzhi is dead, if we investigate the secret door again, I think she should have confessed.

And if she is Pan Youzhi's regular partner, then maybe she might have some clues.

not good!

Thinking of this, Li Yancheng suddenly realized something. He could think of looking for clues through the woman who he didn't know whether she existed or not, so what about the murderer?
The murderer is more familiar with Pan Youzhi. If Pan really has this hobby, that guy would definitely know it, and he would definitely think of silencing this woman, no matter whether she has any clues or not. It is better to strike first.

shuh...

Li Yancheng ran towards the central courtyard.

While running, he thought of a more important clue, which was that when he searched the room where Pan Youzhi lived just now, he found several packets of medicine that had been captured but not taken yet.

At that time, he took a rough look and found that it was Huanglian Qingxin Drink, which was used to regulate excessive heart fire and disharmony between the heart and kidney. He didn't pay much attention to it at that time and just thought that Pan Youzhi was suffering from internal heat. Now he thinks that it should not be the case. He was drinking this medicine to regulate the excessiveness in that aspect of his body.

Judging from this, this Pan Youzhi is most likely the Qin Xiang.

"Xiaotong, hurry up, do everything you can to find all the secret doors on the Dianhai side as quickly as possible. Don't waste a moment. I'm worried that there will be another murder."

In the office of Su Xiaotong of the Intermediate Court, Director Zhong, Lao Xu and Chief Tian Linjun of the Investigation Section were also here at this time. The four of them were discussing how to carry out the next step of the investigation.

Li Yancheng pushed the door open without even knocking, and then started talking a lot, which made the four of them a little stunned.

Director Zhong reacted the fastest. He frowned and asked, "Doctor Li, what do you mean by looking for the secret door in Dianhai?"

"Leader, it's like this..."

Without waiting for Li Yancheng to reply, Lao Xu told him about the judgment he had made before but had not executed it.

As he spoke, the eyes of the other people gradually became brighter and brighter. Everyone understood the importance of finding the secret door that no one knew whether it existed or not.

(End of this chapter)