CHAPTER 586: CHAPTER 552: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO OPPOSE XIAO LIN?

"Oh! Hello." Director Zhao saw that it was the coroner from last night and stood up from the ground. "Sorry, let me take you somewhere else to look."

"No need, I’ve already checked here and I believe there’s nothing left to find. Wild dogs come and go here, it’s likely they’ve carried things off." Mu Rongyun spoke while staring at Wu Shuang, who naturally moved forward.

"Director Zhao, we’ll head back to the bureau first. Please notify us if you find any other clues here."

"Wait a moment, Captain Wu, I want to know why you are looking for Ah San."

"The perpetrator of a traffic accident accused Ah San of hiring someone for a hit."

"How could that be? Ah San may be a thug, but he’d never do something like that. What’s the name of this person?"

"Liu Wei, a truck driver. Are you familiar with him?"

"Liu Wei?" Director Zhao tried hard to recall, but among the people he knew, there wasn’t anyone by that name. "I know most of Ah San’s friends, and there’s no one by that name. However, Ah San spent some time downtown, so I wouldn’t know about that."

"Thank you. Since you mentioned seeing Ah San four days ago and a woman also died that day, maybe you could look into it. I’m sure you wouldn’t want Ah San’s death to go in vain, would you?"

"Captain Wu, Ah San didn’t kill anyone, nor would he hire someone to kill."

As they were seeing Wu Shuang and the others off, Director Zhao still insisted on exonerating Ah San. The person was already dead, and it was meaningless to talk about it further. The two people in the car remained silent on the way. Wu Shuang turned on the CD player, trying to avoid immersing in this journey.

"Last night..."

"The brick kiln is not the first crime scene." Wu Shuang deliberately changed the topic; she didn’t want to bring up anything about last night.

"I just wanted to say thank you, you’re too sensitive."

"What do you think of this case?"

"I’m just a forensic doctor, solving the case is up to you to deduce." Mu Rongyun rubbed his brow, stepping out from the various places where body parts were found, not feeling well. This method, to be honest, was something he was quite familiar with. What exactly drew Ah San, just a thug, into this?

"I just want to hear your opinion. You inspected the brick kiln, which isn’t the first crime scene, the body parts were hidden after being transported there." Wu Shuang turned the volume down. "This incident seems like a love murder triggered by a woman, but from my perspective, there should be something more hidden. Liu Wei mentioned Ah San’s name during the first accusation, it shouldn’t be a coincidence."

"Perhaps it is a coincidence, or maybe the Ah San you’re looking for isn’t the same one?" Mu Rongyun casually threw out this possibility, which also existed.

"Perhaps! Are the images of the two deceased reconstructed?" Wu Shuang didn’t want to admit the possibility Mu Rongyun suggested; she felt misled.

"Not yet! Due to Director Lin’s affairs, I can’t retrieve related content from the system to make comparisons; it may take a little longer."

The phone screen lit up, and Wu Shuang answered via the car’s Bluetooth, which she wasn’t too fond of but was convenient for driving.

"Captain Wu, how long until you arrive? We’ve made new progress here; we found the vehicle records from before the incident and are currently processing the images." Xiao Sun reported excitedly over the phone.

"We’re on our way back, roughly forty-five minutes away."

"Okay, good." Xiao Sun ended the call.

"The bureau has new clues."

"You can drop me at the intersection ahead." Mu Rongyun pointed to a corner just off the highway.

"The city center is still far from here."

"I have other matters to attend to."

Following the instructions, the car pulled over. Mu Rongyun hesitated before turning to Wu Shuang. "Out of gratitude for yesterday, I advise you that the perpetrator has already confessed. I think you could close the case, but if you probe further..."

"Why do you say that? Do you know something?"

"Haha, I don’t know anything." Preparing to open the car door, Mu Rongyun heard the lock click. He turned to Wu Shuang. "Captain Wu, what does this mean?"

"You know something, don’t you?" Wu Shuang turned off the ignition and faced Mu Rongyun. Her instincts weren’t wrong; when Mu Rongyun first appeared at the brick kiln, she might not have noticed his fingers, but Wu Shuang noticed dirt under his nails. "At the brick kiln, your fingers had dirt on them."

"Does that prove anything? I’m a forensic doctor, touching certain substances at the scene is normal."

"I’ve been to those places too, so I’m well aware you weren’t near the brick kiln, because there’s no soil of that color there."

"Oh!" Mu Rongyun raised his hands, indeed there was black soil under his nails. "Director Zhao mentioned that on the night Ah San died, a woman also died. Are you involved in this?"

"Captain Wu, you have quite an imagination. Why would you think it relates to me? I reminded you because, overall, there are many loopholes, so I kindly reminded you, but I didn’t expect you to become suspicious."

"Then where did the substance under your nails come from?"

"There’s no such soil color at the brick kiln, but haven’t you been to the edge? There’s a river at the outskirts of that factory."

"Is that so?" Wu Shuang honestly didn’t know; she confined her investigation to the brick kiln’s interior, not having the chance to go outside.

"If there are no other issues, may I leave?"

"Mu Rongyun, do you really intend to oppose Xiao Lin?"

"If that day ever comes, which side would you stand on, Captain Wu?" Wu Shuang didn’t expect Mu Rongyun to think this way; she was stunned there. The latter smiled faintly, leaned in, and unlocked the door.

The sound of the car door snapped Wu Shuang back to reality. When she tried to spot Mu Rongyun’s silhouette again, he was already gone.

In the enlarged image, two faint shadows emerged blocked by windshields, unclear. "Is this all there is?" Wu Shuang’s excitement immediately plummeted. She hoped to identify the person from the image but, with anticipation met disappointment.

"I’m sorry, Captain Wu." Xiao Sun hung his head, avoiding looking at Wu Shuang. "I didn’t expect this either."

"It’s okay, you all worked hard, go home early, I’ll take care of the rest." Wu Shuang comforted Xiao Sun, looking at their reddened eyes, feeling a pang of guilt.