Reborn As Lucky Star
Chapter 437: Suspect

Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Suspect

"By all accounts," Zhuancheng could be considered a rather decent city.

Keeping pace with the era’s development, the city’s planning was continuously being improved, and road maintenance was quite well done.

However, just like many other cities in China right now,

the modern urbanization construction led to a massive influx of people into the city, and the supporting development couldn’t keep up in such a short period.

Consequently, due to a lack of manpower, there was no effective way to deal with the escalating security problems; the police force was even short of vehicles.

Sometimes they even had to ride bicycles or walk to check out a situation.

By the time they arrived at the location, the suspects had fled without a trace.

It was the same in the area they were currently in.

Quite remote, there were only a few public phone booths nearby; if someone called to report a crime, it would take the police a good while to arrive.

Many delinquent youths, having watched various action-packed martial arts and cop movies, were keen on becoming gangsters and forming cliques to acknowledge a leader.

A few groups would even carve out their territories and were quick to gather a crowd for a brawl if they were displeased with someone.

In this secluded place, it wasn’t rare for people to scatter like birds and beasts before the police could arrive in response to a call, making it impossible to catch anyone.

Over time, unless a serious crime occurred, the often fruitless police visits made them somewhat reluctant to come to this area.

Ai Peng pointed to a garbage pile not far away that emitted a foul stench, pinching his nose, "We put in a lot of effort initially to search for the victim’s head and the murder weapon. After sorting through the trash for several hours, we found nothing."

The murder weapon often retained many clues, such as the suspect’s bloody fingerprints or palm prints.

The wear and tear on the tool could reveal the user’s habits.

If the weapon was somewhat unique, they could even trace its sale channels, thus narrowing down the purchase information and locating the killer.

However, the garbage pile contained only stinky rubbish.

Si Xi’s sense of smell was much sharper than that of an average cultivator, and she dryly said while suppressing the urge to vomit, "Senior Yan, the scents here are too mixed, making it hard for me to find any clues."

She carefully watched Yan Sinian, fearing that his penchant for cleanliness would make him turn around and leave.

But Yan Sinian silently walked up to the side of the pile of garbage and donned a pair of gloves he took from who knows where.

To her surprise, he began to search through the trash.

This made Si Xi pause for a moment, before quickly regarding him with deep respect.

Even more unexpected was the fact that Yan Senior’s younger apprentice sister also ran over, showing no change in expression as she helped her senior brother search.

This triggered a meaningful glance between the two police officers, who were quite touched.

They had thought that these high-level figures capable of summoning wind and rain in the legends were all temperamental.

But to their surprise, they were so dedicated to their work.

Yue Qingqing swept her gaze over the garbage heap and said, "Senior brother, there’s no knife here."

The police had already searched, which Yan Sinian obviously knew.

"I’m not looking for a knife. The victim wasn’t beheaded with a knife."

Ai Peng was stunned for a moment before he said incredulously, "Isn’t it? But we checked the victim’s body; the cut was very clean, which would indicate a sharp instrument."

Yan Sinian stood up straight and countered, "Although the weapon wasn’t found, doesn’t the police have any suspects?"

Ai Peng and Zhang Leshan exchanged a look, realizing they had nothing to hide in front of him, decided to tell the truth.

"Yes, we hadn’t found any leads before, but then your side provided information that before dying, the victim heard the sound of a motorcycle. Our colleagues did some digging and found a gang."

Zhang Leshan continued, "This gang mostly consists of youths in their twenties who are idle and don’t have proper jobs; they cluster around a man known as ’Scar Brother’ and often extort protection money from nearby businesses."

"The police have been watching them for a long time, but the leader Scar Brother knows a bit of law; every time, he pushes the crimes onto a few underage members of the gang, and they get their stories straight before the police arrive."

The two officers sighed as they spoke, feeling somewhat helpless against this somewhat educated thug.

Yan Sinian said indifferently, "Get to the point."

Ai Peng hastened back to the main topic, "We found that someone from the Scar Brother gang was here on the night of the murder."