Notes From A Criminal Investigation 7 Chapter 8

Owen stopped when he turned to the seventh page of the album. There was an award ceremony photo on the seventh page. A dozen children who participated in the performance and won awards stood in a row, holding their certificates together. Liam must be in the center on the stage. She was wearing a performance costume, and she looked like a little star. The fourth person on Liam’s left was Zhang Xiaoshu. When Owen looked at this photo before, his eyes were always focused on Liam in the center, and he didn’t notice that there was a girl named Zhang Xiaoshu. Today, after reading Zhang Zhili’s transcript carefully, he suddenly got an inspiration. He actually found Zhang Xiaoshu in the same frame with Liam in the photo.

When Owen saw the photo of the two people standing together, he felt as if he was standing in a dream that would last forever.

At six in the morning, Owen got up early as usual. When he walked out of the room, he threw the sundries into the trash can at the entrance of the corridor. There were fruit peels and other sundries in the trash can, as well as a plastic bag with a knot at the mouth, and a few flies hovering in the air. Owen took out the trash bag from the trash can, went to the first floor, threw the trash bag into the big trash can in the yard, and went to the gym to exercise again.

There is a trash can on the corridor of the dormitory area on the fourth floor. Owen, Yi Sihua and Zhou Tao are used to throwing their scattered garbage into this trash can. Whoever is free will take out the garbage. Generally speaking, Owen takes out the garbage most diligently, followed by Yi Sihua, and Zhou Tao is relatively lazy and rarely takes out the garbage.

At seven o'clock in the morning on July 19, a cleaner came to the old criminal police building to clean and emptied the garbage in the trash cans in the yard.

At half past seven, Zhang Xiaoshu came to the gym.

Owen took the initiative to greet him and said, "You can drink quite a lot. I drank two glasses yesterday."

Zhang Xiaoshu's mood had slowly recovered from the lowest point. Thinking of his loss of composure last night, he felt a little shy and said, "I didn't drink much, only one glass. Most of the last glass was spilled. Can you teach me the art of grappling in the future? Lao Ke said your grappling skills are first-rate."

Owen tried to lighten the atmosphere between the two men and said, "That's not what Lao Ke said. He mocked my grappling skills as being a hooligan, using my strength on the weak points of others, and being sneaky. We are policemen, not gangsters. What we pursue is to subdue the enemy, not to be elegant in martial arts."

Zhang Xiaoshu said: "I agree with you, especially for us girls, when we are not strong enough, we should use the joint reverse technique."

"Then I will teach you the first move. Grab the opponent's fingers and twist the joints. The move is simple, but the key is to be decisive and use strong force. In a life-and-death battle, you must have the ruthlessness to break the opponent's joints." Owen has always spared no effort in teaching martial arts, and has never had any private behavior or thoughts. He is not afraid of god-like opponents, but he is afraid of pig-like teammates. This is particularly evident in actual combat.

Owen stretched out his hand to grab Zhang Xiaoshu's neck. Zhang Xiaoshu pretended to be scared and grabbed Owen's fingers while retreating. During the movement of both parties, this seemingly simple action was actually not simple. Zhang Xiaoshu repeatedly experienced the extent of retreating and the angle and speed of the shot during practice.

At the end of the practice, Owen felt that several of his fingers were sprained and painful.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Feifei got up from the bed after receiving a call. She had just walked to the street when a gray van suddenly drove up to her. The door opened and three people jumped out. The three people were all wearing hats and big sunglasses. After getting out of the car, they surrounded Chen Feifei without saying a word. They cooperated tacitly. One of them put a hood on Chen Feifei, one held her feet, and another held her waist, and quickly got Chen Feifei into the car. From the time the van drove in front of Chen Feifei to the time Chen Feifei was put into the car, it took less than half a minute. The three people acted unnoticed and extremely quickly.

Chen Feifei struggled desperately in the car and heard someone inside the car say, "Team Leader Hou, Chen Feifei is such a b!tch." Another person said, "You'll die if you don't speak up!"

Then, Chen Feifei's nose was pinched and she was forced to breathe deeply. As she breathed, a stream of water poured into her mouth and she began to cough violently. Soon, she lost consciousness.

When she woke up, Chen Feifei had a splitting headache and found that she was surrounded by reeds. She felt pain in her chest and raised her head to see that she was naked. There were seven or eight burn wounds on her breasts, and she felt severe pain. Chen Feifei burst into tears, partly because of the pain, and partly because she felt that her beautiful breasts would definitely leave ugly scars after being burned. She turned over and tried to stand up, but she felt unbearable pain in her lower body. She looked down at her lower body and couldn't help but screaming.

When Chen Haodang heard the phone ring, he subconsciously thought: "Oh my God, the dismemberment case just happened, don't let another case come. It's really unbearable."

"I was exercising by the river, near the third bridge, and there was a girl calling for help in the reeds by the river. The girl had no clothes on, so I threw her a coat." An elderly man who was exercising by the river called the police station to report the incident. He was a public security activist and had the phone number of the Xicheng Police Station. Instead of calling 110, he called the station directly.

Chen Haodang said, "Please stay with the girl. Don't move. I'll be there soon, and the ambulance will follow."

The Third Bridge is about a ten-minute drive from the police station. Chen Haodang and the police officers of the case enforcement team rushed to the scene as soon as possible. Chen Feifei wore the old man's coat and hid in the reeds. It was a remote place with few pedestrians. The old man was holding a sword for fitness and guarding the girl.

Chen Feifei put on the windbreaker handed to her by the police and cried loudly.

Chen Haodang comforted her, "Don't cry, the ambulance will be here soon. Don't move, there may be traces of those bad guys left at the scene. Were you violated?"

Chen Feifei cried and complained: "Those ba5tards are so bad. I must have been violated and my private parts were injured."

Chen Haodang said gently: "I will send you to the hospital later. Do not rinse it, otherwise there will be no way to extract evidence. The hospital can only give you treatment after the evidence is extracted. This is very important. I hope you can cooperate."

Chen Feifei said, "I understand. Officer, if you catch the bad guys, you should sentence them to death."

The police began to set up a cordon, and Chen Haodang squatted beside Chen Feifei and asked about the details.