The Serious Case Team of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Qingyuan Municipal Bureau has had three unsolved cases in the past six months, all of which were stuck in the blind spot of surveillance.
The chain of evidence is broken and continued, continued and broken, like walking into an alley with no exit.
Lu Yan has been working in criminal investigation for ten years and has seen all kinds of cases, but he has never learned how to face the eyes of family members. The victims of the last cold case were clutching a clue before they died, and if they had arrived two hours earlier, someone would have caught them. He never mentioned it to anyone, but it was always there, like a thorn.
Xu Ye carried a shiny old steel buckle in his pocket. It was cut off from his partner's coat when he went on a mission for the first time. He kept it for two years and never returned it, nor did he plan to return it. The old injury on his waist started to hurt in autumn, and the pain kept him awake all night, but he never mentioned it - because if he did, Lu Yan wouldn't let him go out alone.
Some pains cannot be shouted out, and some words cannot be spoken.
It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't dare.
The new case occurred in an old house in Linjiang. The deceased lived alone and had been dead for more than three days. There were traces of dragging at the scene, bloody gauze outside the door, and less than 30% of the surrounding surveillance coverage. All signs pointed to the shadow they had been chasing for half a year but failed to catch.
This is not the first, nor will it be the last.
But if they miss it again this time, the string between them will be broken.
Chai Xu talks a lot but shuts up when he gets there. Ge Qiao knelt until his knees were numb while surveying and said nothing. Gan Mancang dug out a cigarette butt from the crack in the wall, his hands shaking like chaff - not because of nervousness, but because of the cold. Li Zhou's cans of Red Bull were lined up in a row, Xi Zheng's half-eaten bread was thrown on the scene, Yan Zhen didn't sleep for three days in a row, and Luo Peng came with wet hair that was half washed.
Everyone in the serious crime team is carrying it out, but no one is talking about it.
Between Lu Yan and Xu Ye, there are three unsolved cases, an old steel buckle, and a sentence that they never dared to ask——
"How badly were you injured that time?"
Purpose: Some truths take time to emerge
