Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 139

Chapter 139: Can I Trust You?

“What are you going to do?”

Qin Luo saw Shen Yiyi walking toward that house and rushed out of the car in shock. But there were police officers controlling the area, and she was stopped before she could take two steps.

The police officer held out his hand to block her. “The area ahead is restricted. You can’t enter.”

It was too quiet at night, and any slight movement seemed abrupt. Qin Luo didn’t dare to shout. She grabbed the clothes of the police officer beside her and watched the retreating back that was getting further and further away.

“Is that female police officer going in?”

The police officer ignored Qin Luo and just blocked her view with his body.

“Speak?!”

Qin Luo found it incredible. All day, her spirit had been as if it had been sentenced to death. A low, continuous buzzing of fear was in her head, and there was no sign of it ending. Watching Shen Yiyi approach that house like this was like watching her go to her death in the unknown. What was behind that door was a game. What was waiting for Shen Yiyi? What was she doing? Heroism?

“Shen Yiyi!!”

Qin Luo called her name with enough force, but she did not get a response.

What did that mean?

Even the special police officers who were on standby at the door had cast their gazes over. She didn’t believe that Shen Yiyi couldn’t hear her.

But the other had just ignored her and had walked forward firmly, not even saying a word of farewell before she had pushed open the wooden door. Shen Yiyi had left her with no other choice but to wait.

“There are no normal people around me.”

Qin Luo laughed in anger. Finally, she looked at the police officer who was blocking her. The two looked at each other. “She’s going to fight a pervert one-on-one. She’s so f*cking awesome.”

The curse did not threaten the police officer. The other opened the car door for Qin Luo. “Miss Qin, please get in the car first.”

Shen Yiyi had heard Qin Luo’s voice from outside the courtyard clearly.

But at this moment, she was on the arrow and had to be released.

She stood in the courtyard and turned around. The body camera on her chest was scanning the environment. The command center could draw a map at the fastest speed and hand it over to the special police.

The courtyard was not big and had been cleaned very well by Zhan Luo.

From the cleaning tools placed in the corner of the door, Zhan Luo had OCD just like her.

The special police captain in the Bluetooth headset spoke. “It’s best to have him come to the courtyard to communicate. It’ll be convenient for us to rescue him. We’ve already set up a sniper point on the second floor opposite.”

Shen Yiyi did not agree. She knew that Zhan Luo would not put himself in a dangerous place before he had finished his work.

“Are you really sure you can do it?” Piao Zheng, who had seen the door open first through the body camera, was very excited. He reminded her in the headset, “Hey, hey, hey, the room door is open.”

Shen Yiyi did not have a gun license, so she could not bring a gun in. But it only took three cuts to kill a man under 180cm. Shen Yiyi had simulated it countless times in the dark, and she had absolute confidence.

She said naturally, “Do you want me to go in?”

Zhan Luo did not answer and instead pulled the door open even wider.

Shen Yiyi looked into the entryway. The lights inside were shining, but there was no one in sight.

Old Geng had been a forensic pathologist for many years, but this kind of scene of catching someone on the spot still made him nervous. Seeing Shen Yiyi take a step, he couldn’t help but remind her, “Be careful.”

Life is always full of carelessness, but it is still full of mud pits.

Shen Yiyi was actually more relaxed than the leaders in the command center. She even felt a hint of excitement in her heart.

Excitement would make a person’s muscles tense, their pain threshold would temporarily rise, and their mind would become sharp. She could be alert to any movement.

For example, the two dehumidifiers placed at the door.

Shen Yiyi looked at them twice and reminded the command center, “Tell them to be careful of poison when they rescue him.”

With that, she pushed open the door.

What came into view were the renovated walls and ceiling, but there were no complete furniture in the room. A glance around, and it was all in view.

Shen Yiyi did not see anyone in front of her, and the body camera did not capture any figures.

Piao Zheng was anxious. “Where is he?”

If she didn’t see anyone in front of her, then he must be hiding behind her.

Shen Yiyi had her hands in her pockets and calmly turned her head.

In the instant she turned, she did indeed see a human figure. Zhan Luo was even wearing a ghost head mask.

Because he had made sufficient psychological preparations, the threatening posture that Zhan Luo had originally put on was suspended in mid-air. Seeing that the forensic pathologist was not scared by him, he was a little disappointed and took off his mask.

“I didn’t even scare you.”

But Shen Yiyi only asked him, “Where’s Yanli?”

“Why don’t you ask about Liu Jia first?”

Shen Yiyi’s hands were still in her pockets. She turned her head and continued to look around the room.

Zhan Luo was very surprised by Shen Yiyi’s calmness, and her expression was even indifferent.

Zhan Luo reacted, thought for a moment, and shrugged with a smile. “Ah~ you found her.”

Shen Yiyi was adept at handling criminals. She did not answer Zhan Luo’s words at all, and she did not even get entangled in the questions she wanted to know.

She chose to strike first to prevent a counterattack.

Shen Yiyi noticed a red light on the ceiling and pointed to a dark corner. “I guess there’s a camera here.”

Then, before Zhan Luo could speak, she spoke for him again. “Are you still trying to do that live stream thing?”

The woman’s tone was full of disdain, and Zhan Luo’s face stiffened.

He had been dismantled by Shen Yiyi three times in a row. The words he had originally wanted to say were stuck in his stomach, and even his little tricks were not hidden.

Although Zhan Luo was angry, he was not defeated. He took a few steps back and closed the door. “Don’t you want to be an internet celebrity forensic pathologist?”

Shen Yiyi still did not answer the other’s rhetorical question and instead asked him back.

“What about you? Do you really want to be a savior?”

The body camera could not see the criminal’s expression and could not analyze the situation. Piao Zheng was rubbing his hands nervously. He did not dare to make a sound to disturb Shen Yiyi’s train of thought and could only judge if Little Shen was in danger by observing her body language.

Zhan Luo stood where he was, and the room was strangely quiet.

Shen Yiyi’s aura was not inferior. She asked calmly, “I’ll ask you one more time. Where is Yanli?”

Zhan Luo finally showed a smile. “Why are you making the atmosphere so tense? Communication is not this kind of attitude.”

He reached out, and with a click, he locked the main door.

Shen Yiyi’s gaze followed him. Just now, she had been busy observing the environment and had not seen that in the umbrella stand not far from the door, there was an object that looked like a shotgun.

Just as she had confirmed that it was an old-fashioned bird hunting gun, Zhan Luo had already picked it up.

The rusty muzzle was pointed at her head, and in an instant, the leaders in the command room were in a mess.

“A gun! He has a gun!”
“Special police, get ready to move immediately!!”

The headset was in a mess, and the sparse footsteps at the door began to move toward the courtyard.

Shen Yiyi was just facing the window and could see the special police climbing the walls outside the window. It seemed that they had already occupied the courtyard wall, and their guns were aimed at Zhan Luo’s head.

But the sound of climbing the wall was too loud. Shen Yiyi could hear the footsteps, and Zhan Luo could naturally hear them too.

Zhan Luo chuckled twice.

Then he put away the gun and just held it with one hand. “As expected of someone who has seen big scenes since she was a child. This didn’t even scare you.”

Zhan Luo was teasing her with the past, but Shen Yiyi’s emotions were not affected. She took her hands out of her pockets and clenched them into fists.

This gesture was for the special police who were waiting outside the window.

Before she had entered, the action team leader had taught her the action code. Clenching her fists meant that the situation was stable and there was no need to attack for the time being. If she raised her hands above her head, it meant that the situation had turned, and they would immediately enter the house to rescue her.

Shen Yiyi was also waiting.

Before she had confirmed whether Liu Jia was dead or alive, she would not allow anyone to shoot Zhan Luo.

“I didn’t expect you to be so interesting.” Zhan Luo looked at the Shen Yiyi who was in control of the situation and swung the long gun in his hand. He had not expected to be defeated by a woman again and again. He admired and acknowledged the other’s excellence. “You’re really worth liking.”

This was even more disgusting to Shen Yiyi than the previous teasing.

She looked at him with a cold gaze. “Do you need my evaluation?”

Zhan Luo swayed his body and asked curiously, “What? Is Liu Jia still alive?”

***

Lu Shimao, who had been speeding all the way, had accidentally run a red light.

Getting a ticket was a small matter. Saving a life was the most important thing right now.

But the sports car still stopped outside the complex, and the security guard blocked her path.

The security guard was watching a short video. His phone was playing the latest update on the murder live stream. He had seen the woman who had been kidnapped. She was always cold to him. Now, there was still an hour left before the live stream ended. He didn’t know what would happen to her.

He just felt a sense of pity.

The security guard’s eyes were attracted by the scene in the video. He did not look up and just waved his hand at the woman in the sports car, indicating that parking was not allowed in the complex.

The passenger side window was rolled down.

The police officer in the passenger seat showed his ID and shouted at him to open the gate.

The sound was deafening, and the security guard was so scared he trembled and immediately raised the barrier.

Lu Shimao stepped on the gas and rushed straight to the reading group.

The reading group was not far from Cloud Top. The technical police officer arranged by the central control room had not yet arrived. The police officer beside her was a community police officer from Cloud Top.

She had just come out of the police station before the live stream and had finished giving a statement for Qin Luo and Liu Jia. She was leisurely preparing to go home to study. But just as it was past eight, Xue Tong had called her and had asked if she needed to expedite the processing of the surveillance video. The live stream trial had caused such a stir that not only was it all over the country, but the Chinese communities in various places were also gossiping. It was only after Xue Tong had seen the news that she had realized that the surveillance that Lu Shimao had asked her to check that day might be a breakthrough.

Lu Shimao knew very well that it was too slow for the technical department to obtain a private camera through formal channels, so after Shen Yiyi had gone to Beijing, she had shared this matter with Xue Tong and had asked her female leader, who had many illegal means, to help.

It would be best if they could catch the criminal. If they couldn’t, they could at least have a backup plan.

And now, this backup plan had finally come in handy.

Now that technology crimes were so advanced, the police not only had to keep up with the times, but they also had to have a few underground helpers, especially since Xue Tong was about to be promoted to the investigation department, and she was not short of such talent.

Xue Tong had found a security engineer she was very familiar with.

A former network security department technician who had been dismissed for leaking secrets and was now a defense consultant for an enterprise, who was well-versed in both black and white, and was very famous in East Asia, with the code name A Mian.

A Mian couldn’t do anything with these nameless nodes, so he had remotely directed Lu Shimao to dismantle the machine step by step.

“The manufacturer is Yinfeike, a small factory in Guangdong that makes money by OEM for micro-businesses and home security platforms.” A Mian was typing on the keyboard. “The security is a mess, but it’s small and flexible.”

A Mian was very efficient and had broken into the account in a short time.

She had flipped through all the real-time streams and historical storage content of the camera devices that were bound to the account.

The video storage period was seven days. Fortunately, it had not yet expired. But it would take a long time to pull the content with a batch script, and she couldn’t tell what they needed.

“This person has bound many cameras.” A Mian pulled up the backend. “The naming is chaotic. There’s a string of default numbers, and two have been renamed…”

Lu Shimao asked him what the names were.

“It’s so strange. One of them is called ‘Trial Room.'”

A Mian paused, her expression subtle. “Do you want to see it? Someone manually formatted the video cache five days ago. This was not a scheduled cleaning. It was a conscious deletion.”

“Let’s see.” Just as Lu Shimao had finished speaking, Shen Yiyi’s call had come in at that moment.

Lu Shimao was just about to tell Shen Yiyi about this, but she heard the other speak first:

“Little Lu, can you help me confirm the situation?” Sister Shen’s tone was very cautious. She had to have someone on site to confirm. “I can’t trust the other colleagues for the time being.”

A Mian was still downloading the video on this side.

Lu Shimao said, “Just say it.”

Shen Yiyi said bluntly, “I think Liu Jia is probably locked in the reading group.”