The Disowned Young Lady Married a Homicide Detective - Chapter 40

Just as Shen Chen was about to leave work, Hua Ming rushed to the criminal investigation team.

Shen Chen was still complaining to Sang Ning about wanting a private office and a high-spec computer.

Sang Ning was tired of hearing this, wondering where Gu Yezhou had gone, as he hadn’t been to the bureau all day.

“Shen Chen, hurry up and help me investigate. I can’t wait to find out the details of the deceased.”

Hua Ming held a stack of drawings that was as thick as a dime standing upright.

“So many? Did you plan to make me work overtime all along?” Shen Chen’s eyes widened.

Hua Ming still carried his bulging schoolbag.

Sang Ning glanced at it and it seemed much flatter than when she arrived in the morning.

Did this person eat potato chips while drawing?

“I prepared a midnight snack for you.” Hua Ming said, opening her schoolbag. “Forensic Doctor Sang is here too, so we can eat together. I’ve already put the skull back; it’s definitely not damaged.”

Sang Ning discovered that this person had become much more lively, because he had recreated the deceased’s appearance before death, so… he felt carefree?

Just like her, after completing an autopsy, she likes to run to the criminal investigation team to analyze why the suspect treated the deceased that way and what deep hatred they had for the deceased.

Gu Yao and Lu Lin were both away that afternoon; she was still chatting with Shen Chen about the eccentric family of their landlady.

“Okay, you guys go ahead and check, I’ll go back and take a look.”

The deceased must be respected; not a single part of their body can be missing. Otherwise, how can we explain it to their family?

The round trip took no more than ten minutes. When they returned to the criminal investigation team, they saw Hua Ming and Shen Chen standing close together.

Shen Chen’s face was excessively beautiful, and when paired with Hua Ming’s well-behaved teenage boy appearance, Sang Ning felt a strange sensation.

They’re both guys, so why does she inexplicably feel like they’re a good match?

“You’ve drawn too many, how am I supposed to find them?” Shen Chen said unhappily, reaching out to snatch the potato chips from Hua Ming’s arms.

Hua Ming, protecting the potato chips in her arms, immediately slid her chair away from Shen Chen when she saw Sang Ning approaching.

“Forensic doctor Sang, would you like something to eat?”

Sang Ning wanted to refuse, but seeing Hua Ming’s uncomfortable expression and Shen Chen’s still complaining look, she had a bad idea.

He said with a smile, “Okay.”

With that one reach, he simply snatched the entire bag of potato chips from Hua Ming.

For the next half hour, I kept moving my hands in and out of the packaging paper while watching Shen Chen busily typing on the keyboard.

Those uncanny faces appeared on the screen again and again.

Sang Ning’s eyes were getting tired from looking at it.

It wasn’t until 7 p.m. that Gu Yezhou returned to the police station. Shen Chen slammed his fist on the keyboard and said, “Mission accomplished. After screening and checking the missing persons list from the past ten years, these twenty people all look very similar to the portraits.”

Sang Ning glanced at each portrait, and at first glance, they were all of the same person.

However, the absence of teeth alters the position of the masseter muscle and lip shape, making the diagnosis more difficult.

“Too many, narrow it down.”

Gu Yezhou’s voice came from outside the door.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Hua Ming jumped to her feet and strode towards Gu Yezhou.

Surprise!

He opened his arms as if to hug Gu Yezhou, “Surprised? Unexpected?”

Sang Ning looked at Gu Yezhou with such a bright and innocent expression, who had originally been a young and handsome man, and it was as if he had met his lover.

Because Gu Yezhou had a cold face, Hua Ming opened her arms but didn’t dare to hug him at all.

“Well, I arrived last night but didn’t see you, so I just stayed here for the night. Did you prepare a place for me to stay?” Hua Ming’s winking and eye-rolling made Sang Ning’s scalp tingle.

This person… is he perhaps not sexually active?

Noticing Sang Ning’s complicated expression, Gu Yezhou only gave him a cold look. He came to Sang Ning’s side, his voice becoming gentle: “Why haven’t you gone back yet? We’re here to help.”

go back?

Yesterday, Sang Ning went back and still shared a bed with Gu Yao. Who knows if Gu Yezhou’s room has a bed?

“It’s okay, I’m fine here, maybe I can be of some help.”

Gu Yezhou nodded, picked up a few portraits of the deceased from the table and glanced at them, “Narrow the scope to Yancheng.”

“Boss, this area is too small.” Shen Chen shrank the area as requested by Gu Yezhou, and suddenly there were only three people left. “Two are already dead, and the other is currently working in the education industry as a kindergarten teacher.”

Gu Yezhou walked behind Sang Ning and placed his hands on the back of her chair. “Check the information of the two who died before their deaths.”

“Could you print out the kindergarten teacher’s information for me to see?” Sang Ning asked curiously. Judging from the man in the portrait, who looked somewhat like him, wouldn’t a kindergarten teacher be frightening to the children?

It wasn’t that she judged people by their appearance, but rather that the prevailing impression was that kindergarten teachers were all people with a strong sense of approachability.

“Okay, I’ve sent it to your phone.” Amidst his busy schedule, Shen Chen manipulated the mouse, looking at the information about the other two people before their deaths.

“One of them was born in Yancheng in 1979, which doesn’t quite fit the age range, right? I remember you said the age range was 30 to 34 years old, boss.”

Sang Ning didn’t even look up, intently looking at the photos she had received on her phone and the other party’s background information.

To be able to obtain the other party’s specific information in such a short time, he truly deserves to be called a genius hacker.

Of course, the reason that the deceased was able to be identified at this age is because of the ossification nodules and the degeneration of the ventral edge, which indicates that the deceased was in this age range and that the murder occurred ten years ago. In other words, the deceased was killed in such a cruel way when he was in the prime of his youth.

“Yes, there’s one more,” Gu Yezhou said in a deep voice.

Shen Chen looked at the other one and felt something was off. “The age matched, but the cause of death was an accident while climbing a mountain, and the funeral was held eight years ago.”

Gu Yezhou: “Let’s look at the specific time of the death while climbing the mountain.”

After some investigation, Shen Chen located the place where the deceased had climbed the mountain and the time of the incident.

Since no body was found at the foot of the mountain, the search and rescue team searched for three days and three nights without success, and the case is currently being treated as a missing person.

Two years later, he disappeared due to an accident. His family applied for a certificate of no possibility of survival and arranged his funeral.

“We haven’t found him for two years. The area below the mountain is shrouded in fog. Even if he didn’t fall to the bottom, he might be stuck in a tree in the middle. By the time he woke up and called for help, he might not even have the strength.” Shen Chen didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. However, like Sang Ning, he became suspicious of the kindergarten teacher who looked very much like the deceased.

So he moved the mouse and looked up the kindergarten teacher’s information.

Before they could even take a second look, Sang Ning said, “This kindergarten teacher has an older brother who also went missing while hiking. Could it be the same person?”