Genius Detective - Chapter 468

Chapter 468

Chapter 468: The Gun is Found

Early in the morning, Chen Shi brought a bulging plastic bag to the forensic department . Everyone was very happy and asked, "Wow, is Brother Chen treating us to breakfast again?"

"Excuse me . . . " Chen Shi opened the bag, which turned out to be a bag of household garbage . "Help me do some tests! I’ll treat you guys to a meal later on . "

Everyone was speechless for a while . Peng Sijue furrowed his brows . "You didn’t go through any procedures, picked up a bag of rubbish and want us to run some tests? Do you think this is your home?"

Chen Shi clasped his palms together and smiled . "Old Peng, please help me!"

Looking at his dark eye-circles, Peng Sijue knew that he might have stayed up all night again . He sighed helplessly and instructed his subordinates to screen the garbage and run the appropriate tests .

Chen Shi looked at them from the side . An unusual thing had actually appeared in the trash . It was a New Year decoration and it was still new . He took out this decoration thoughtfully and gave it to Peng Sijue, "Old Peng, check this . "

"It’s difficult to extract fingerprints from this kind of material . "

"It's difficult, but it's not impossible . "

"I find that you, like many police officers, feel that the forensics department has an omnipotent button . As long as you press it, there will be results immediately or something . You never consider the process and the hard work we have to do . "

"Don't complain . I’ll treat you to some food . What do you want to eat?"

Peng Sijue sighed helplessly and took the decoration from him . "Nothing too greasy . "

"Roger that!"

Chen Shi went out and bought a large bag of breakfast food . Some results had already come out . Two sets of fingerprints were extracted from some smooth objects . One of them matched the fingerprints left on the teacup[1] at the scene of the murder .

The fingerprint was most probably left by Ms . Song . Her suspiciousness rose a little, but the fingerprints on the teacup[2] were not decisive evidence .

It would take a while before the appraisal results came out . Chen Shi went to look for Lin Dongxue first . Lin Dongxue looked at Chen Shi who had a haggard expression and said, "Did you stay up all night again?"

"This is normal for me . Anyway, I'm still young and can withstand the suffering . " Chen Shi smiled indifferently .

"I can’t believe you . I don't want to be widowed in the future!"

"Okay, I promise you that this will be the only time . I'll go to bed after we’re finished in the morning . "

Everyone arrived one after another and reported their findings . First was Ms . Song’s family’s financial expenditure . Around April and May last year, their family spent a large amount of their savings . The recipient was a cancer hospital . The expenditure amounted to about 400,000 yuan . It was verified by the hospital that it was used to pay for an operation fee, but Mr . Shi's follow-up treatments cost over  a hundred thousand as well . The money had been borrowed by Ms . Song from her relatives and friends .

Hearing this, everyone in the room was a little surprised . Lin Dongxue said, "This family looks very poor, but they still had 400,000 in savings . How unbelievable!"

Xu Xiaodong said, "They’re probably pretending to be poor!"

Chen Shi said, "They shouldn’t be pretending to be poor . After all, this money wasn’t enough to cure his sickness . I think the money was originally meant for other purposes . "

Others also successively spoke about what they found out about the family . Old Zhang found that in the communication records of Ms . Song and Mr . Shi, there wasn't much contact with their daughter’s mobile phone . It could even be said that there wasn’t any . On the other hand, the deceased and his family  had more communication records with Shi Wanjun .

The situation had become a little weird . Everyone looked at Chen Shi with astonished eyes, hoping to hear some brilliant deductions from him, but Chen Shi just yawned . "I understand . Let’s stop here for the day . I’m too tired today . Tomorrow is the funeral of the deceased . His relatives and friends will all go . So will we . ”

"Are we arresting them on the spot?" Lin Dongxue asked .

"No, there are some things that I want to clarify when the two families are present . Let me keep you in suspense, I’ll talk about what I think when the time comes . ”

"So you already have an answer in your heart?! You’re not being very kind!"

Chen Shi yawned again . "It’s no good . I’m very sleepy . I'll go back to sleep for a while . "

Old Zhang said, "It’s too dangerous to drive after staying up all night . Why not go to the police dormitory and get some rest first? I’ll let my disciple know . "

"In that case, thank you . " Chen Shi was so sleepy that he was about to collapse on the spot .

After taking a nap in the police dormitory, he was able to regain some energy . It was just that a  place where a bunch of young guys lived stunk quite a bit . Chen Shi had just woken up in the afternoon and was thinking about what to eat when Peng Sijue called him . “Are the results out?”

"No, it's a new discovery . Dongxue and the rest have already gone over . Would you like to go with me in my car?"

"What's the new discovery?"

"We found the gun!"

Chen Shi's eyes widened in surprise . It turned out that after investigating Shi Wanjun's ID card, they found that she had rented a house somewhere . The police went to the house and naturally, she wasn’t there . However, they found a gun with a silencer on the table .

This news was very important . Even Lin Qiupu had gone over . Everyone squeezed into the house of less than 20 square meters . Lin Qiupu held the gun with both hands and said with excitement . "Yes, it’s a Russian-made Makarov pistol . This is the missing sixteenth gun . "

Chen Shi said, "But it was also the murder weapon in this case . We can’t give it to you for the time being . "

"I know . I'm just here to confirm it . You keep it for now, I’ll go back and report to the bureau chief . "

The room was very messy and there was a lot of dust inside . The forensics squad found a lot of skin flakes and hair on the bed and on the floor . On the way back, Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue visited Ms . Song’s family again and asked them for their fingerprints and DNA . The husband and wife were quite cooperative .

Fearing that he would say something wrong the more they conversed, Chen Shi didn’t say much before they left .

Back at the bureau, it was verified that the DNA found in that room did have a direct blood relationship with the couple . Chen Shi was slightly surprised when he saw the report and asked, "What about the fingerprints?"

"There were no fingerprints in the house . "

"In a house full of skin flakes and hair, there weren’t fingerprints?"

"Yes, the gun was also wiped clean . . . In addition, some blood was found around the silencer . It was the deceased’s . This gun is confirmed to be the murder weapon, but it’s not yet certain who had fired it . "

"Some people want us to think that the owner of this house fired the gun . "

"Want us to think . . . "

"Let’s not talk about this yet . What about the results of the tests this morning?"

Peng Sijue handed another report to Chen Shi . There were three sets of fingerprints on the “Fu”[3] character on the decoration . Although they hadn’t been compared yet, experience told him that two of the sets belonged to the couple .

Hearing this result, Chen Shi smiled instead . "Covering things up makes it even more obvious . Thinking of remedying things, they’ve actually revealed more instead… Everything will be exposed tomorrow . "

"I can't go to the funeral, so tell me the truth!"

"No, I have to wait until tomorrow, so that it's more dramatic . " Chen Shi winked at him .

"A face like that of a dishonest businessman . " Peng Sijue sneered at this kind of behavior .

Chen Shi patted him on the shoulder . "Don't furrow your brows . I’ll do a live broadcast of everything over my mobile phone tomorrow to let you know the truth . ”

1 . It was mentioned that the teacup had fingerprints wiped clean, but that the doorbell had a small fingerprint left behind . Although I’ve left this as is, I believe the author may have made a mistake .  

2 . See note above .  

3 . “Fu” means “blessing”, “good fortune” and the like .