I thought about it and finally said, "Officer Liu, I’m sorry, I … I don’t understand what you mean?"
Officer Liu sighed, then got up and paced back and forth in front of me with his hands in his trouser pockets, and said with his head down, "I’m 22 years old and I’ve been a policeman for exactly 20 years this year." Then he paused and continued, "I’ve experienced many cases in the past 20 years, and many of them look very strange. I dare not say how smart I am. When I was young, I solved crimes by two things-courage and courage."
I listened stupefied and said, what is this officer Liu doing? Are you going to show me the glorious history of his whole police career?
Officer Liu ignored my surprise and continued, "But in the future, in addition to judging according to the existing clues and evidence, I gradually have a very sensitive intuition about some bizarre cases because of experience."
After listening to officer Liu’s words, I seem to have gradually lost his meaning and asked, "Officer Liu, do you mean … do you believe me?"
Officer Liu nodded and said, "Although the other party has physical evidence, I believe what you say based on my years of experience."
When officer Liu finished this sentence, I almost jumped out of my chair excitedly. Sure enough, I was not mistaken about this officer Liu. There is still something different about his current position.
However, I had some doubts in my heart and asked, "What do you believe me? The funeral home staff said that there is no one called a small security guard."
"I know this," officer Liu sat back at his desk and said to me. "Almost everything you said at the funeral home in the afternoon will be regarded as a lie, and my intuition is not entirely dependent on the so-called sixth sense to judge. I still have my own basis."
I raised my eyebrows and asked, "What is the basis?"
Officer Liu put up three fingers and said to me, "According to your account, the first point is that Zhang Hefang just said that you were dizzy for a moment. I was just responding casually. Because you told me like a movie, all the scenes were presented, including those candles. If it was a lie, it would not be so detailed. Of course, it is difficult for ordinary people to judge like this, but for an old criminal policeman like me, I believe what you said intuitively, but I am afraid there are also some who believe it."
"What about the second point?" I asked
"The second point is that Zhang Hefang reacted to him," police officer Liu said. "If a normal person heard that a dead body had appeared in the toilet of his company, he would be very surprised. However, I can see that Zhang Hefang’s surprise was fake."
As soon as I heard this, I cried and hitched my heart and said that this old criminal police officer was just unusual. Then Officer Liu went on to say, "That Zhang Hefang reacted as if he had expected what would happen and then made preparations and was waiting to see your jokes."
"Yes," I nodded. "I feel that too.
Chapter 15 Old Story (1)
Chapter 15 Old Story (1)
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I went on to look through the last few photos. The people in the last few photos were not Zhang Hefang, but several middle-aged men I had never seen before, and each of them had similar tattoos. Of course, these tattoos were located in different places, including necks, shoulders and back tattoos
I was a little surprised when I put away my photos. I never thought that there were so many people with the same tattoo in this world. Of course, it would not be surprising if these tattoos were a dragon or a common tattoo like koi fish. Obviously, that kind of tattoo is not just as simple as a figure. It is a secret rune. Although I don’t know what these runes represent, I have vaguely realized that these tattoos are definitely not simple.
Due to different cultures in China, many people think of tattoos and immediately think that tattooers are not good people, and even more extreme people think that tattoos are triad symbols.
I returned the photos to officer Liu and asked, "Officer Liu, you showed me these photos, which means …"
Officer Liu took the photo I handed him and replied, "You also noticed that these people have tattoos."
I nodded.
Officer Liu immediately said, "I have been investigating these people for many years, but I didn’t expect this Zhang Hefang to appear again just when I was about to give up."
Officer Liu said this, but now I have no interest in what happened in front of me. All my interests have been attracted by what Officer Liu said about the case twenty years ago. He asked, "Officer Liu, can you tell me about the case twenty years ago?"
Officer Liu looked at me with a firm and erratic look. I don’t know what his eyes mean to me.
After a while, police officer Liu lowered his voice and said to me, "I shouldn’t tell you these things by rights, but strangely enough, Mr. Fan, maybe it’s because of your father. I have had an unbelievable feeling of trust for you from the first moment I saw you. You know, I have never experienced this feeling of trust before."
I nodded and said that it was probably because I was honest.
Officer Liu added, "I can tell you everything about 20 years ago, but there is one precondition."
"You said," I replied.
"Information exchange" Officer Liu said lightly, "I told you everything I knew twenty years ago, but you should also give me the corresponding information."
"What information?" I asked.
"You don’t care if you need to ensure that you can tell the truth about everything you know." After that, Officer Liu paused to look at me again and then said, "Mr. Fan, I can give you all the real information, but I also hope that you will live up to my trust in you."
I nodded my head. Information exchange is a tactic used by the police, but I said that I was at a loss myself and there was nothing to exchange with him. But since he said so, I agreed that there was nothing to lose.
Officer Liu sat back in the chair behind his desk and remained silent for a while as if looking for a proper starting point to tell what he was going to say next.
However, after thinking for a long time, he didn’t seem to know where to tell it. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly asked me, "Mr. Fan, do you know a man named Jiang?"
"who?" I was surprised.
"Jiang Daolin" officer Liu said slowly.
As soon as officer Liu’s voice fell, I felt a sigh of relief. Isn’t that the man whom Zhang Hefang sent me a note? Maybe this man also appeared in the case twenty years ago?
I nodded and said, "I don’t know this person, but I have heard of it, and it’s only these days."
"Oh?" Officer Liu’s eyebrows seem a little surprised.
I went on to say, "Officer Liu, you’re not surprised. To tell the truth, I’m more surprised than you now because you said that Jiang Daolin was Zhang Hefang who asked me to find someone."
I didn’t expect police officer Liu to sneer at my words and say, "That Zhang Hefang is really a ghost."
"How do you say?"
"Because of the so-called Jiang Daolin, this person has evaporated." Officer Liu said.
"People evaporate? You mean Jiang Dao is dying? " I asked.
Officer Liu shook his head and said, "I dare not say whether it is dead or not, because legally speaking, you can’t be sure that a person is dead until you find his body, otherwise it can be considered as missing."
I nodded and said, "Please go on."
Officer Liu went on to say, "Twenty years ago, I was a rookie criminal police officer and my immediate manager was Jiang Daolin."
"Ah?" Although I don’t want to interrupt officer Liu’s narrative, I can’t help but say, "Is that Jiang Daolin a policeman?"
"That’s right. What’s so surprising?" Officer Liu asked
I thought that Zhang Hefang had shown me the monitoring video of my mother’s corpse the day before and told me at that time that if I really couldn’t find my mother’s body, I would go to this place called Jiang Daolin. I almost thought that Jiang Daolin should be a Taoist priest or a mysterious and malicious character like Liang Zan, but I never expected that Jiang Daolin was a policeman.
I fobbed off a police officer Liu to tell him the story in one breath, and then I’ll explain it to him.
Officer Liu nodded and continued, "Jiang Daolin is a senior in the police field. Although he is very old, everyone in the bureau calls him Jiang Ge. The police field can be said to be a strange figure. Compared with him, my criminal police career is much worse. Even if I say that I will not finish all his stories for a day and a night, I will not repeat them. You need to know that Jiang Ge is a strange policeman."
I promised a police officer Liu to continue, "I’ve been hanging out with Brother Jiang for a while, and I never said anything about what Brother Jiang asked me to do. This is not to say that my personality is naturally resigned, but I sincerely admire those who have real stories, and Brother Jiang has always been very optimistic about me. I can feel that he seems to be interested in training me as a successor in some sense."
"successor?" I asked, "What does that mean?"
Officer Liu said, "The so-called successor is to take over Jiang Ge’s investigation, but he has never solved the case and I have not let him down. Although I was an executor rather than a planner in the criminal investigation process for a while, I was able to give a lot of constructive opinions in many cases, so Jiang Ge paid more and more attention to me.
"As far as I’m concerned, I have been fighting with Jiang Ge and learned a lot from it. One day, Jiang Ge suddenly called me to his office. Jiang Ge has always been very busy and rarely called me into the office alone. I also asked Jiang Ge to assign me some alone, but I was shocked when I walked into the office.
"I saw Jiang Ge sitting behind a desk.
Chapter 16 Old Story (2)
Chapter 16 Old Story (2)
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