Shen Tuo's face sank. He wrinkled his brows and said, "Something happened again? "No, Old Zhao, someone just picked up a piece of human skin and rushed over to tell me what happened. I put down the case in my hands and went out to look for clues. I just got a little head, yet you told me about it again!"
It turns out that when I went out earlier, this' Old Zhao 'went to Shen Tuo's office to show him that face!
It seemed that a person really couldn't expect bad things from others, or else there would be retribution!
Old Zhao was a little embarrassed by what Shen Tuo said. He scratched his head and said, "I came here to take a look because I really don't have a clue!" As he said that, he grabbed Shen Tuo's arm and dragged him into the office. As they walked, he said, "Youngsters should have the quality of being willing to help others! Do you know that I respect my elders and love my children? "
I followed behind Shen Ta and giggled. The last time he came and went in the police station, it was all in a hurry. He did not know that the people's police officers who were so selfless when it came to handling cases would actually come and cause trouble.
Only now did Old Zhao look at me properly. He waved his hand towards me and said: "Little girl, come come come, quickly come in. Shen Tuo has been busy lately, please take care of him." Then he pushed us all towards the small office and said, "Let me tell you, the police business is very difficult. It's as difficult as ascending to the heavens to find a couple! Especially in our Criminal Investigation Department! "Little girl, this child Shen Tuo …"
Shen Tuo, who was behind him, suddenly pushed Old Zhao. With an embarrassed expression, he angrily said: "If you continue spouting nonsense, do you believe that I won't slap that face of yours against your face!? Let me tell you, that guy is so thick-skinned! "
Only now did Old Zhao realize that he had said the wrong thing. He looked at Shen Tuo awkwardly, then looked at me and smacked his lips: "Aiya, look at my crappy mouth. It's a misunderstanding!" "Sorry."
Old Zhao is not the first person to misunderstand my relationship with Shen Tuo. Do I look like I'm so easily misunderstood? It looks like I have to keep my distance from him properly. It's fine if others misunderstand, but if even he misunderstands, then things won't be easy!
I took a quiet step back.
At this time, Li Ke was no longer in the office. Shen Tuo was dragging Old Zhao around a photo and a test paper that Old Zhao had brought back, carefully studying them.
Suddenly, Shen Tuo made a gesture of wanting to catch something.
After a while, when nothing fell into his hands, Shen Tuo raised his head and looked at me. Blinking his eyes, he replied, "What are you doing there?"
"Weren't you the one who took me over? What do you mean I'm the only one here? "
Shen Tuo stared at me and said: "I'm saying what are you standing there for! "Come, sit here," he said, pointing to the chair across the table.
Shen Tuo's expression did not look good, as if he had seen something that was very hard to accept! To be able to make him show such an expression, it seemed like Old Zhao really wasn't making a big fuss just now.
I walked across the table and shifted my chair back a little, and Shen Ta turned the picture around in my direction.
With a single glance, my stomach churned, and I pushed the photo away. I leaned over the table and retched.
The photo was of a little child who had been skinned and frozen! He was covered in blood, and his eye sockets were completely exposed because there were no eyelids covering them. Moreover, two wooden handles had been inserted into his protruding eye sockets. Half of his head had been pierced into the sockets of his eye sockets. I felt my eyes begin to hurt when I looked at them.
Shen Tuo turned the photo back in his direction, faintly saying to me, "That face is this child's! And according to the results of the tests, the kid had a lot to do with the kid on the train. "
A buzz went off in my head. The arm that had been touched by the mask seemed to have been splashed with sulfuric acid. It was instantly set ablaze!
Shen Ta clenched his teeth and looked at me, saying: "It looks like there's no need to separate this case!"
Old Zhao picked up the photo and said: "This child is called Zhang Yang. He was seven years old this year, yet he had a single parent. His mother went missing during the year, and according to the medical examiner, this child has been dead for half a year. His house had a leak in the air-conditioning and flooded the building.
Propaganda?
I grabbed Old Zhao's hand. My eyes were filled with shock!
"Zhang Yang? Seven years old? " A very strong uneasiness rose in my heart, and I quickly comforted myself in my heart that this must have been a coincidence! Zhang Yang was a very popular name. It must have been a coincidence! Right, a coincidence!
Old Zhao jumped in shock and said, "What's wrong with you? Do you know the child? "
I didn't answer for a long time.
Shen Tuo didn't look at me. He took out the cigarette case from his pocket and emptied it a few times. When he realized that the cigarette was gone, he took out a cigarette from Old Zhao's jacket pocket and lit it up.
It seemed like it wasn't a coincidence!
I turned my head to look at Shen Ta, unable to react to the events of the day.
Shen Tuo could tell that I had something to say, so he asked me, "Do you want to say something?"
I replied in a daze, "I've seen this child before."
Shen Tuo and Old Zhao both stood up from their chairs and said, "You've seen them before? "When?"
I told Shen Ta about my encounter with Zhang Yang while I was looking for a part-time job. Shen Ta and Old Zhao were so shocked that their eyebrows were tightly knitted. They looked at me and looked at the photo in disbelief.
Not to mention the two of them, neither of them could believe it.
This child has been dead for half a year and his mother has been missing for a year, but I actually saw him for a few days and even gave him a math lesson. His mother also told me the way to the market …
Shen Ta held the cigarette in his mouth and moved it a little bit. He tilted his head and said to Old Zhao, "Old Zhao, it seems like this case is mine!"
Old Zhao took out a cigarette and lit it up as well, gritting his teeth. His cheeks puffed out twice as he sighed and said, "If there's anything you need help with, just tell me." Then he gave me a complicated look and walked out of the office.
The only two people left in the office were Shen Tuo and me. The air was so heavy that it felt like we could squeeze water out of it.
Shen Tuo took the photo and looked at it again and again. He asked me, "You said that Zhang Yang's mother was the one who gave you directions to the market. Then, you got lost and met Ye Qianqian who was being chased?"
I nodded and said, "At that time, I followed the route that Zhang Yang's mother pointed out to me and found that I had actually walked into a dead end. I thought I remembered wrongly, so I walked back and met Ye Qianqian at an intersection. She was already injured at that time."
Shen Tuo picked up a notebook from the corner of the table, tilted the cigarette in his mouth and began writing something down on the piece of paper.
"A few days ago, the dead baby on the train was related to Zhang Yang, who had been dead for half a year, and according to the inspection report, the two were brothers; you met Zhang Yang, who was already dead, and his mother, who was missing for a year; you were pointed out by his mother on the wrong path; you met Ye Qianqian, who was attacked; you saved Ye Qianqian, the evil ghost left a face on you, Zhang Yang!"
I pulled my chair forward, took the photo from Shen Ta, gritted my teeth, and summoned the courage to look at the skinned child in the photo.
I had always felt that after experiencing Zhao Xue's matter, I already had a lot of courage. I could look at some disgusting things, and as a medical student, I should have the awareness to look at anything related to the human body.
But when I looked at the picture again, I still felt pain all over my body and my scalp tingled as if I had seen the child being skinned.
"The important clue in this case is publicity?" I asked Shen Ta.
Shen Ta raised his head and looked straight at me. Suddenly, his eyes flashed.
He took out a few photos that were under a dozen notebooks at the corner of the table and unwrapped the bandages that he had just bandaged for me. He looked at the wounds that had been scratched by a cat and then looked at the photos and said, "Look, are these wounds similar to yours?"
In his hand was a photograph of the infant's body on the train, one of the close-ups of the marks on his neck.
I took the photo from Shen Ta and looked at it myself.
The first time he saw the corpse, he was so concerned with it that he did not pay any attention to the wound on the child's neck. The only thing he remembered was that the corpse was black, and the scar on the neck also looked black.
But now that he looked at it more carefully, the scar on his neck seemed to be a scratch left by a cat claw. As I thought about it, I kept getting the feeling that there was something wrong with the scar.
This child really wasn't strangled to death!
"But I was caught by a cat. You saw it, but there's no cat in this child's carriage! Moreover, this injury …" I said doubtfully.
Shen Tuo's eyes turned around and he said, "Right, it's impossible for a cat to appear on the train. As for this wound …" He paused for a moment and then continued, "After you were scratched by the cat, your hand was obviously scratched because the skin and flesh of a human is made of soft tissue. If you were to be hurt by something sharp, it would definitely leave this kind of scar, but this child's scar seems more like it was recovered from his body than the scratch of a cat!" Logically speaking, he was a baby, so his skin and flesh should be much more tender than an ordinary person's. However, once a cat scratched him, that shouldn't be a wound like this. Moreover, not to mention whether being caught by a cat will cause fatal injuries, after being caught by a cat, the child will definitely cry. Even if someone covered his mouth, there will definitely be a sound, but you said you didn't hear any child's voice at all! "
"But is the cat involved in this case?" I rewound the bandage around my arm. My mind felt like it was filled with lead, and I couldn't move.
Shen Tuo bitterly smiled and shook his head, "Yan Nuo, did you know? "I've come across a very troublesome case!"
"Which of your cases isn't tricky? But the clues this time are so miscellaneous, where do you plan on starting from? " I placed his photos on the table one by one. "Zhang Yang, the kid, the mother, Ye Qianqian and the ghost flower."
Shen Tuo spat out the cigarette butt and walked around me from behind the table. He looked at me condescendingly and said, "I'll start from you."