Night.
In the Beijing Municipal Bureau, the office was brightly lit.
Chen Jingsheng was in the archives room, reviewing case files.
A police officer hurried over. "Captain, the detailed autopsy report from Lingcheng has been sent over."
Chen Jingsheng opened it, his brow furrowing deeper.
After a detailed examination of the remains by the forensic pathologist, the bodies had died fifty to sixty years ago.
Normally, bodies preserved for such a long time should have long since decomposed, leaving little diagnostic value.
The forensic pathologist's in-depth examination was mainly to determine the victim profile through the analysis of the skeletal remains, and to narrow down the methods of victimization.
However, this examination yielded results that exceeded everyone's expectations.
Firstly, there was the degree of decomposition. Even after fifty to sixty years, the bodies were still severely desiccated.
Apart from the gnawing of underground snakes and insects, there were no signs of normal flesh decomposition.
The forensic pathologist's initial estimate was that at least 90% of the body's moisture had evaporated to achieve such a state.
Chen Jingsheng's expression changed. He thought of the human experiments conducted by a certain country within the nation.
However, even those mad human desiccation experiments could only evaporate about 70% of the human body's moisture.
And this was just from one burial site of Lou Jusheng from fifty to sixty years ago.
If Lou Jusheng truly possessed such a method, and all the people abducted over the years were killed in such a brutal manner, then this case might truly blow up!
With a heavy heart, Chen Jingsheng continued reading.
According to the bone age estimation, all the deceased were under 30 years old.
One of them was over 24 years old, five were between 18 and 23 years old, and the remaining ten were all minors!
The youngest was only four years old!
Chen Jingsheng clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking.
How could they possibly dare to do this!
At this point, Chen Jingsheng no longer believed that Lou Jusheng could have accomplished this alone.
Among these victims, twelve were female and four were male. None of them had any fatal injuries.
It was as if their suspicions were correct: they had died from their bodily fluids being completely desiccated.
The more Chen Jingsheng read, the heavier his heart became.
And the more determined he became to find the other members of Lou Jusheng's criminal group.
Putting down the autopsy report, Chen Jingsheng was about to continue working when he suddenly discovered an important issue.
The bodies had existed for fifty to sixty years, and according to the bodies, they had clearly developed a complete killing system. The process of refining this killing method also took time.
However, how old was Lou Jusheng at that time? And from when did he begin researching how to kill?
Just thinking about it sent a chill down Chen Jingsheng's spine.
At that moment, another police officer walked in.
"Captain, the investigation into Lou Jusheng is complete. The other members of the first team are already waiting in the conference room."
Chen Jingsheng exhaled deeply and walked out of the archives room, carrying the autopsy report.
In the conference room, the other criminal investigators greeted Chen Jingsheng with simple nods. Then, someone began to report the organized information about Lou Jusheng to Chen Jingsheng.
As he listened to his subordinates' reports, Chen Jingsheng's expression slowly froze, and his eyebrows twitched fiercely.
He slammed the report in his hand onto the table and asked in a deep voice:
"In an entire afternoon, this is all you've managed to investigate?"
"Besides knowing that he worked as a feng shui master for a rich merchant, you haven't found anything else?"
"Forget detailed intelligence, you haven't even found his real age or name?"
"Even knowing he's called Lou Jusheng, you haven't found anything?"
Chen Jingsheng slammed the table in anger, his voice growing louder.
The others lowered their heads in shame.
The clues about Lou Jusheng had, at this point, completely run out.
Next, they could only try to investigate people Lou Jusheng had contacted, as well as Xu Jinshang and his son, and those they had contacted.
Chen Jingsheng rubbed his temples.
When it came to investigating people, a professional like Section Chief Xiao would be more suitable.
Section Chief Xiao had come to cooperate with this case in the first place.
Although Section Chief Xiao's authority was much higher than his, in name, Section Chief Xiao was here to assist them in their investigation.
However, now that Section Chief Xiao had been hoodwinked by that little child and had disappeared.
Even the only person he brought along had stayed with the child.
He couldn't find them for help now.
He really didn't know what kind of spell that girl had cast on Section Chief Xiao.
At this moment, a team member who had accompanied Chen Jingsheng to Dongle Village tentatively asked,
"Why don't we ask that little girl? Our own investigation results haven't yielded as many clues as what she provided."
Chen Jingsheng's face darkened.
Did he not want to ask directly?
But he had to consider what that little girl had said.
Knowing Lou Jusheng's name was one thing. Although he didn't know if it was his real name or an alias, it at least provided them with a direction for their investigation.
But what else did that child say?
She said he was over 130 years old!
Could someone who was actually over 130 years old still be so energetic, even participating in a kidnapping case and running around in multiple countries?
And then there were other things like cultivators and supernatural phenomena.
Because of what Jian Sheng had said, Chen Jingsheng was skeptical of other things Jian Sheng had said.
After all, one couldn't rule out the possibility that the little girl was talking nonsense like this, two, one couldn't rule out the possibility that Lou Jusheng and others had deliberately misled the little girl, and three, one couldn't rule out the possibility that the little girl had imagined it herself.
With these possibilities combined, Chen Jingsheng treated Jian Sheng's other testimony as reference, not as evidence.
Hearing the team member mention Jian Sheng, Chen Jingsheng waved his hand irritably.
He began to issue instructions for the next steps on his own.
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In a courtyard within Beijing.
Section Chief Xiao respectfully handed a report and a USB drive to the old man in front of him.
The old man took them and simply looked in silence.
Even when he saw the unbelievable, fabricated content in the report, his expression remained unchanged.
After the report was the USB drive.
He read the contents and finished watching.
The old man looked up at Section Chief Xiao.
"Xiao Qi, I trust your judgment. Now tell me, do you believe this?"
Believe, or not believe.
There were only these two choices.
Section Chief Xiao was silent for a moment. "I think it's better to believe it exists than not to believe it doesn't. Whether it's true or not, there will be plenty of opportunities to verify it later."
The old man nodded. "Then have you thought about how you are going to deal with her?"