Reborn in 1995, Criminal Investigation Records

"Brother Tao, it must be Brother Tao who came back!" Yuan Lili said excitedly, holding the cloth figure.

Zhou Yang immediately instructed Wang Chao to take the cloth figure back to the technical team and hand it over to Wang Zhenhai, so that he could carefully disassemble it and see if there were any other things hidden inside.

Then he went back to the courtyard and found Zhong Yue squatting in the corner.

Without Zhou Yang asking, Yuan Lili was already communicating with the other party, trying to find out if Zhong Tao had been here before, but Zhong Yue just stared blankly and didn't answer. No matter how much Yuan Lili pressed her for answers, she didn't get any results.

Zhou Yang also tried asking a few questions to see if Zhong Yue had any other people's memories, but he failed.

Seeing that it was almost time, Zhou Yang decided to leave first and then go back to the crime scene for a second inspection to see if he could make any other discoveries.

"Chang Le Yuan!" Just as Zhou Yang turned around, Zhong Yue spoke from the corner, her timid tone carrying a hint of longing.

Stopping in his tracks, Zhou Yang looked at Yuan Lili: "Have you heard her mention this before?"

Yuan Lili nodded, then shook her head: "I think I've heard of it, but I also think I haven't. I really can't remember!"

Who could have told him this?

He had previously asked Yao Fengshou and Yuan Lili, and they both said they had never mentioned this to her.

......

As soon as Zhou Yang arrived at Changleyuan Community, he saw a group of dogs tearing at something. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was a few bones, but they were already processed leftover pork bones.

He paused after walking past, took two steps back, and then asked a few people nearby. He eventually determined that some of the dogs were strays, while others were domesticated, and they often ate bones there.

"Grandpa, sunbathing?" Zhou Yang looked around and found an elderly man leisurely holding a palm-leaf fan.

"Sir, may I ask if you've seen who threw these bones here?"

"Who else could it be? It's that family on the roof, the butcher at the market. They make big bone stew every day. They're so lazy, they just throw the bones out the window. Aren't they afraid of hitting someone?" As soon as he was asked, the old man started complaining like a floodgate had opened.

"When you say 'rooftop,' do you mean the topmost unit, or the entire rooftop?" Zhou Yang felt he had asked a pointless question.

The old man who was asked the question was also taken aback, then grinned at Zhou Yang, his face showing undisguised disdain: "You live on the roof?"

Zhou Yang wasn't annoyed. He chuckled, said goodbye to the old man, and jogged upstairs.

It seems that my previous guesses were very likely wrong!

Upon reaching the top floor, Zhou Yang began banging on the door.

"Knock, knock, knock! What are you knocking for!" A middle-aged woman's voice came from inside the house, followed by the door opening a crack: "Who are you looking for?"

"City Criminal Investigation Team, I want to ask, did you throw the bones downstairs?" Wang Chao had gone back to deliver the cloth and the person hadn't returned yet, so there was no one to help Zhou Yang show his identification.

However, in those days, only a minority of people would ask to see identification.

The woman's expression changed: "No, we didn't throw away any pork bones!"

After saying that, he slammed the door shut.

Zhou Yang didn't mind; he considered it an admission from the other party.

He didn't knock on the door to confirm, but instead climbed the ladder to the roof. The police officers who were guarding the scene originally wanted to scold him, but when they saw that it was Zhou Yang, they relaxed. Just as they were about to greet him, Zhou Yang put his index finger to his lips and said "Shh".

Then he went up to the house he had just been looking at and peered out of its window.

Sure enough, less than two minutes later, with a click, the window downstairs opened, and a head poked out to look down.

"How many times have I told you to go downstairs and throw it? You kept doing it standing here. The police are coming now..."

"Who knows? He's so young, maybe he's just bluffing..."

With another noise, the downstairs window closed, completely shutting out the argument inside.

"You've worked hard!" Zhou Yang stood up, dusted himself off, and extended his hand to the other person.

"It's not hard work at all, much easier than what you guys do!" The policeman, who looked to be around 30 years old, handed Zhou Yang a cigarette.

Zhou Yang was initially reluctant to accept the offer, since this was the crime scene and smoking there could potentially cause contamination and affect his judgment.

The other person seemed to read his mind: "I didn't invite you to smoke here, we need to go down!"

Zhou Yang smiled and said, "Just a little while, I'll take a quick look around, it won't take up much time!"

He was actually speaking his true thoughts. After all, a cigarette and a conversation would take at least three or four minutes. But strictly speaking, he came here to find someone, and the scene was just a side thing, so it wouldn't take long.

It's not appropriate to climb down for three or four minutes, then climb back up for a quick look, and finally climb down again.

"Suit yourself!" the man said, and continued walking down the street.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Zhou Yang hurriedly called out to the other person, "You have to be there, otherwise it won't meet the requirements!"

"Alright!" The policeman sighed, took the cigarette out of his mouth, put it in the cigarette pack, and signaled to the other party that they could begin.

Zhou Yang smiled apologetically at the other party and then focused his attention on observing the surrounding environment.

Unlike last time when he mainly explored the rooftop, this time his attention was focused on the area around the water storage tank.

Previously, some in the team speculated that the murderer planned to bleed the person up there and dismember them... the reason being that someone claimed bones were thrown down from the roof.

Regardless of whether this conjecture is reasonable or feasible, now that we know this rooftop is not that rooftop, the possibility of this happening is even smaller.

"Comrade, is there a light?" Zhou Yang stood at the entrance of the water tank, craning his neck to observe inside. It wasn't dark yet, but it was still pitch black inside and he couldn't see anything.

"Here you go!" The policeman handed over a flashlight.

The water in the pool had been completely drained, exposing the entire bottom. Zhou Yang turned on his flashlight and examined it inch by inch, following the beam of light.

My only impression is that it was big and deep!

Unless the murderer intends to leave the body here to ferment and rot, and doesn't plan to remove it, once it's thrown in, it will be difficult to get it out.

So, is it possible that the body accidentally fell in, and the murderer didn't intend to throw the body in, or even had other ways to dispose of it?

After all, just like the previous idea, according to normal logic, no one kills in order to be discovered. All premeditations are also for the purpose of not being discovered and escaping legal punishment.

It's impossible for a corpse to go unnoticed if it's just being bled out, but that's a different story.

Even if an adult bleeds for more than ten hours, at most they will only have less than 4 kilograms of blood. Mixed in a 2.300 cubic meter pool, the blood will be so diluted that it will hardly be detected.

But if someone is thrown in, the weather in July and August, combined with the fermentation of the corpse and the nourishment of the warm water, will quickly expose the truth.

Why did the murderer kill Gong Xiaojun on the rooftop?

Wouldn't it be better to do what Zhong Tao did? Or even find a more remote place, wouldn't that be safer?

Gong Xiaojun isn't going?

There may be such factors.

But why bleed him? Losing that little bit of weight won't affect his ability to handle the body!

unless!

The killer had a specific purpose!

Firstly, it was to kill Gong Xiaojun.

Secondly, if the bleeding wasn't for disposing of the body, then there's only one explanation.

Simply out of revenge, to disgust the entire Changleyuan community!