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Although I had already guessed that this Front Four, Rear Eight belonged to Zhao Qi's team and that this person was likely a member of that team, I never expected that the person with a split upper and lower body would actually be Zhao Qi. I immediately took out the identification card to compare it with the barely recognizable face of the corpse, and indeed confirmed that this person was Zhao Qi.
I rubbed my temples with my fingers while staring at the corpse, pondering what had happened. There was no doubt that this person was Zhao Qi, but why did he die here? Who was driving this Front Four, Rear Eight that lay across the middle of the road? After hitting Zhao Qi, where did the driver of this Front Four, Rear Eight go?
Under the direction of the forensic team from the Police Department, technicians were transporting the dismembered body back to the Police Department. Meanwhile, I climbed into the driver's cabin of the Front Four, Rear Eight with Dezi to see if we could find any useful clues. The driver's seat was in disarray, as if the driver had panicked and fled after hitting someone.
On the passenger seat, there was a half-eaten sandwich and a half-drunk bottle of mineral water. It seemed that this driver had been in the car for quite some time. A scene flashed in my mind: Zhao Qi standing nearby, actually waiting for this person.
Perhaps after rescuing Guo Guoqing, Zhao Qi had already made contact with the driver of this vehicle, which should have been meant to help him escape. However, under certain conditions, this Front Four, Rear Eight did not stop but instead drove straight towards Zhao Qi.
Suddenly, a phrase came to mind: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind." We could follow this logic further; if the Front Four, Rear Eight had distracted us from seeing the police car, allowing the SUV carrying Guo Guoqing to slip from our view, then from the moment we lost contact with the SUV, Zhao Qi's mission would have already been accomplished.
And what use would there be for Zhao Qi, who had completed his mission? He had directly contacted Angel, even having seen their true face. To be honest, Zhao Qi was just an ordinary person, much like those four individuals we had already captured. Faced with police questioning, I believed he would soon divulge some information.
The best way to silence someone is to ensure they can never speak again. If that were the case, then killing this person would be the best choice. This meant that from the very beginning, Guo Guoqing was merely using Zhao Qi, intending all along to eliminate him.
Now that Zhao Qi was dead, our chance to trace back to Angel through him had been severed. My mind raced chaotically as I examined everything inside the car. After a thorough inspection, I realized that everything had been meticulously planned.
Aside from the leftover food on the passenger seat and the disheveled driver's seat cushion filled with cigarette butts, we found nothing particularly useful. We searched everywhere but saw no items that could prove the driver's identity.
The cigarette butts and leftover food should yield some DNA evidence; however, if this person had no prior criminal record and wasn't in the DNA database, then even obtaining DNA wouldn't provide us with significant leads. Still, any lead is better than none; if we could match it with a DNA database, we might directly obtain information about this individual—though realistically, that possibility seemed slim.
We got out of the car and let the technicians conduct some routine monitoring. At that moment, the forensic expert approached us and said, "The body needs to be sent to the morgue for a thorough examination to determine if he had been drinking or poisoned before death..."
Having spent so much time with Juan Juan, I knew that a systematic autopsy was necessary before reaching any conclusions. I nodded and watched as personnel from the technical department busily worked. Due to how fragmented the body was—with internal organs falling out while still attached to parts of his chest—everyone had to use two stretchers to transport both halves of Zhao Qi.
If a person's final appearance is like this, it truly is a tragic sight. However, the silver lining in this misfortune is that, despite the gruesome state, they died almost instantly, without enduring much suffering. As I watched the forensic team cover the two sections of the body with a white cloth, preparing to transport them, something caught my eye.
Zhao Qi was wearing synthetic leather shoes. During the impact, one shoe was flung off while the other remained on his foot. At that moment, I noticed the bottom of the shoe that was still on him. Embedded in the shoe's tread was a slightly purplish object. Although there were streetlights, it was still hard to see clearly.
I immediately stopped the two personnel from the Police Department who were carrying the stretcher and signaled for them to lower the lower half of the body first. They were puzzled but complied slowly with my request. I quickly asked Dezi to bring me a pair of tweezers used by forensic experts and gently extracted the object lodged in the shoe's tread.
It was a small purple item. I examined it closely under the streetlight and realized it was a petal. We all have this experience: you can throw a small stone far away, but you cannot throw a piece of white paper very far due to air resistance; at some critical point, lighter objects tend to fly farther.
The same applied to this petal. Although delicate, it lay nestled within the shoe's tread. Tianlan City had not seen rain recently, so this petal appeared shriveled but not completely crushed, indicating that it must have embedded itself in the shoe no more than a day ago.
This means that this tiny petal could potentially tell us something significant about where Zhao Qi had been today. I carefully placed the petal into an Evidence Bag. From this small petal, I could only discern that its edges were somewhat curled; I am not a floral expert and did not recognize what type of petal it was.
However, during our drive here, I had looked around and noticed that the flowerbeds along the roadside were bare, and there were no flowers of this color in the green belts either. It seemed like these flowers were cultivated rather than commonly found by the roadside. Therefore, if we could find flowers of this purple hue in Tianlan City, we might discover where Zhao Qi had gone today and also track down this so-called Angel.
I thought about how rare such purple flowers are and recalled that a driver from Front Four, Rear Eight had mentioned that Zhao Qi had met someone in the southern part of town previously. So, how many places in southern Tianlan City could have such special flowers? This indeed seemed like a breakthrough opportunity.
At that moment, the forensic expert had come down from the vehicle and saw us gathered around an Evidence Bag without moving the body. He approached and asked, "What's going on? Is something wrong?"
I held up the Evidence Bag and said to him, "We found a petal on the sole of the body’s shoe; it's purple. But there shouldn't be any petals of this color around here. This indicates that it must have been stepped on elsewhere. Since he has been waiting in Front Four, Rear Eight's vehicle since this morning, it's likely that he stepped on this petal yesterday afternoon or evening, and it stuck to his shoe."
The forensic expert examined the petal inside the Evidence Bag and noted its curled edges before saying, "I have a classmate who specializes in this area; he should be able to identify what kind of flower this is."
I nodded and followed everyone back to the Police Department. In the conference room, the forensic expert took high-resolution photos of the petal and sent them to his classmate. Before long, we received information back from his classmate at impressive speed. We looked over it to finally understand what kind of flower this purple petal belonged to.
This is a type of chrysanthemum called Azure Chrysanthemum, and the petal we see here is the purple petal of the Azure Chrysanthemum. This type of chrysanthemum generally blooms in summer and autumn, but if it is cultivated at home and the temperature in the city during winter is not too low, it can live for a long time.
However, that is not our main concern. We need to know the name of this petal, and more importantly, we want to find out where this purple flower can be found in Tianlan City. The forensic expert has already clarified this over the phone. Additionally, this classmate is also from Tianlan City, so he is quite familiar with this matter.
We narrowed down our locations to the southern part of the city, and soon enough, this person provided us with several spots. Of course, there are vendors selling Azure Chrysanthemums at the Flower Market in the south of the city, but there are also other places that have these flowers. For example, there is Flower Park in the south, and there is also a well-known Flower Tea House that features this plant. This place is quite famous, so whenever Tianlan City is mentioned, people often think of this tea house first.
The name Flower Tea House conjures up an image of people sitting upstairs sipping tea while gazing out at a sea of vibrant flowers, creating a visually stunning experience. However, it is already past ten o'clock at night; even the Flower Market has closed, and it is unlikely that anyone would still be visiting the tea house at this hour.
If we want to investigate thoroughly, we will have to wait until tomorrow. With that thought in mind, we marked these locations and decided to investigate them one by one the next day. Aware that we still had tasks ahead of us, we prepared to get some rest. At that moment, Juan Juan and Mary were still sound asleep, likely planning to sleep until dawn. However, they should be able to join us for our mission tomorrow.
Just then, Yuzelin walked in with a weary expression on her face.
Seeing us in the conference room, Yuzelin said, "I just finished up that matter."
"That's good," I nodded in response.
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