Chapter 70

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A few people did not enter the crime scene and instead conducted a simple case analysis at Lu Hailong's front door. At this moment, Shao Wei seemed to see them gathered under the tree by the door from upstairs and ran down to join them.

"Shao Wei, you came just in time. I'm out of cigarettes. Go to the village store and buy two packs for me."

Seeing Shao Wei run over, Wei Zhengming simply said this to exclude him from the case analysis. Shao Wei's face immediately turned extremely awkward, but he gritted his teeth, said nothing more, and ran straight to the village store.

"Hmph! This bastard, if it weren't for him, the people from Team One wouldn't have been able to enter the scene so easily. Now that Team One has entered, it's impossible to find anything valuable on the third floor."

Old Xie glared at Shao Wei's back and said angrily. An Jianing looked at Li Xiangdong, wanting to know what had just happened, but Li Xiangdong quietly shook his head, signaling to talk later.

Wei Zhengming, however, continued discussing the case as if nothing had happened. This move alone made Li Xiangdong look at him with newfound respect. Don't be fooled by Old Wei's rough appearance; his ability to reach his current position is no coincidence.

"Right now, we need to find a breakthrough from another direction and determine the direction of our investigation. The information we have is that Lu Hailong has a complex background, making it difficult to determine the motive for the crime. Moreover, the most important crime scene has been disrupted by Team One. Old Xie, Xiao Li, you two think about it and see where we can find a breakthrough."

Wei Zhengming deliberately asked, and Li Xiangdong looked up to see Old Xie's smiling eyes. Clearly, the captain was intentionally testing him.

"I think we should focus on the route the criminals used to enter and exit the scene. Look at the location of the Lu family's house, near the entrance of the city's expressway. There are no other villagers' homes around here. Three hundred meters ahead is the expressway, and all around are rice fields, cornfields, and vegetable plots. If the criminals wanted to sneak into their house, someone might have seen them. Even if no one saw them enter the village, they would definitely leave some traces when they escaped from the Lu family's house. I previously deduced that the two killers might have been injured during the struggle with Lu Hailong, so it's impossible for them to escape without leaving any traces."

As Li Xiangdong finished speaking, Captain Wei couldn't help but exclaim.

"Good job, you didn't disappoint me. Great, let's follow this lead and try to find more solid evidence. Since you came up with this idea, you'll be in charge."

Wei Zhengming clearly wanted to give Li Xiangdong more responsibility, and Li Xiangdong didn't hesitate.

"Yes, Captain!"

"Alright, go ahead. Xiao An, you follow Xiao Li. You two investigate this lead and try to find clues as soon as possible."

"Yes, Captain."

An Jianing stood at attention. Li Xiangdong's performance had greatly surprised her. In school, he was quiet and almost invisible, but during this period before graduation, he had undergone a complete transformation.

Now, on his first case, he was performing so outstandingly that An Jianing felt a bit envious. In school, she had always been a top student in criminal investigation theory and criminal psychology, but when it came to actual case work, her mind went blank, and she was always outperformed by Li Xiangdong. How could she not feel不服气 (unconvinced)?

Now, with the captain assigning her to work with him, An Jianing was determined to compete with him.

Old Xie had nothing to do, so he followed Li Xiangdong and An Jianing back to the crime scene. Li Xiangdong walked around the yard and then went up to the crime scene on the upper floor.

However, before going to the third floor, he noticed some bloodstains on the wall at a corner of the stairs and called over a member of Team Two to scrape the bloodstains off the wall.

"There are so many bloodstains in the room. Why are you scraping the ones on the wall?"

An Jianing asked, puzzled. Li Xiangdong smiled.

"The scene inside the room has been mostly destroyed. It's hard to find what I need. The bloodstains here are perfect because I think they belong to the killers. We might be able to extract the killers' DNA from these bloodstains!"

Li Xiangdong, of course, wouldn't tell An Jianing that he relied on his wolf's supernatural sense of smell. The blood on the wall smelled different from the blood of Lu Hailong and his wife, and also different from the blood of his in-laws. Therefore, it must belong to the killers.

During the struggle with Lu Hailong, the killers were injured and must have bled.

The bloodstains scraped from the wall were placed in an evidence bag and handed over to the evidence collection personnel. Li Xiangdong then led An Jianing down the stairs, following the trail of blood.

"Two killers, after killing Lu Hailong and his wife, had no one left in the house. Their task was complete, so they must have gone down. However, they didn't dare to use the front door because, according to the forensic doctor, the victims died around 4 a.m., when it was just starting to get light. The killers wouldn't dare to use the front door because the expressway is nearby, and Lu Hailong's house faces an exit with high-definition cameras. If the killers were well-prepared, they definitely wouldn't use the front door."

Li Xiangdong explained as he walked, and An Jianing followed, finding his reasoning very logical.

Previously, they had checked the front door and the surrounding area and found no signs of climbing over the wall. The killers had even taken Lu Hailong's knife, indicating a strong anti-investigation awareness and extreme caution, so they didn't use the front door.

"Look, there's something wrong with this window."

An Jianing looked up and saw that the window at the corner of the stairs between the second and third floors was not fully closed and not locked from the inside. She had noticed that all the other windows and doors in the house, except for the front door they used to enter, were locked. The unlocked window here was clearly abnormal.