Solving the case: Wu Song travels back 97 years and becomes a detective

Chapter 79 Director Qi's Curiosity

"Is this the only man I remember visiting? Has anyone else, male or female, been to her house?"

"I really don't remember him." The middle-aged woman being asked shook her head. "Anyway, I've only ever seen him once. Maybe there were others, but I've never run into them."

Speaking of which, the person on the other end is a weirdo too.

The middle-aged woman peeked down the stairs, raised her hand to cover her mouth, and glanced at the stairs every now and then, looking quite gossipy.

"He's almost forty years old, a boss with money, and not bad-looking, yet he's still single."

I even tried to find out about her marital status indirectly, thinking of introducing her to my relative who is a minor leader in a state-owned enterprise. But she rejected me without even hearing about my relative's background.

You said if you weren't satisfied with my introduction, you could just refuse, but they wouldn't even listen to the conditions. And if it's for the sake of the children, well, she's been here for so many years, and I've never seen her family have any children.

"Hmm! Anything else?" Wu Song nodded and asked.

"That's all." The middle-aged woman shook her head. "I'm not the kind of person who's particularly interested in other people's business. The neighbors across the hall have always seemed unwilling to have much contact with me, so I didn't bother them. Officer, is this woman related to yesterday's bank armored truck robbery?"

"Don't ask questions you shouldn't! We're investigating a different case." Wu Song took out his notebook, tore off a piece of paper with the Third Squadron's phone number written on it, handed it over, and then said with a serious expression.

"Thank you for the clue. You can call this number if you remember anything in the future. You are not allowed to tell anyone about what happened today. Remember, no one, not even your parents or husband."

The middle-aged woman in front of me seemed to be quite gossipy.

The kind of intelligence station that operates in villages or residential areas.

Wu Song had to intimidate him a bit, otherwise he was really afraid that before he even reported it, the whole neighborhood would know that he had checked the neighbor across the hall.

We finally caught this suspect; it wouldn't be good if we caused a commotion.

"Oh! I understand, I promise it won't get out of my hands!"

"Hmm! Sorry to bother you." Wu Song then walked down with Liu Shutong.

Once downstairs, Liu Shutong couldn't hold back any longer. "Brother Song, do you suspect the hot pot restaurant owner?"

"Her cashier position overlooks the bank branch. She applied to open the shop five months ago and has been open for three months. It seems like she came here to pave the way. The most crucial thing is..."

"She killed someone?" Wu Song was just trying to keep him in suspense, but Liu Shutong blurted out what Wu Song wanted to say first.

"Um!"

"That's definitely suspicious!" Liu Shutong's eyes widened. "Each of these individual facts might not necessarily prove that she's involved in the armored truck robbery, but considering all these factors, she's quite a suspect."

"Brother Song, if we can really catch the ringleader by following this lead, I think you'll easily get a first-class merit award. My dad said that if this group is the same one from the south, once they're successfully captured, several first-class merit awards are possible."

"Whether it's merit or not is not important! Let's go back to the municipal bureau and report this news to our superiors as soon as possible."

……

Wu Song and Liu Shutong rode their motorcycle toward the Municipal Bureau.

The reason he didn't go back to the branch office was because Cao Dahua had already said when he left in the morning that he would go directly to the municipal bureau's special task force's residence at noon to report the situation.

With the task force's base now available, new members joining the task force will no longer need to return to their original work units; they will all work together at the task force's base.

Wu Song will only return to his original unit if the case is solved, or if there is no breakthrough for a long time, or if a major incident occurs in Gotham City that requires the Major Crimes Unit to be involved.

With Liu Shutong as their partner, they easily found their way to the third floor of the municipal bureau's administrative building.

As soon as they stepped off the stairs, the two were stopped by a uniformed man. "Wait a minute, are you members of the task force? If so, please show your passes."

"We've been out investigating all this time, we haven't gotten it yet!" Wu Song took out his police ID, and Liu Shutong also took out his ID.

"Hold on!"

The man led the two to an office, checked the list, and handed them two passes with their names and badge numbers written on them.

"Chengbei Branch Bureau, you are in the fifth group of the basic work team. The group leader in charge of you is Li Xiang, the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation, and the deputy group leader is Wen Zheng'an, the captain of the criminal investigation team. You all know him, right?"

"Yes, we know. We'll get back to work now."

"You two have worked hard."

……

Wearing their passes around their necks, Wu Song and Liu Shutong arrived at the large conference room that had been cleared out.

After looking around, they found Li Xiang, the deputy director of the Chengbei Branch in charge of criminal investigation, who was also the team leader of the two in the special task force, in the large conference room, and then the two walked straight over.

"What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Upon seeing that the newcomer was Wu Song, and recalling Wu Song's previous achievements, especially his mysterious ability to accurately identify murderers in a crowd, he was struck by Wu Song's extraordinary skill.

Li Xiang's level of concern quickly rose to the maximum, and he asked aloud.

"We did find something during our investigation. There's a hot pot restaurant called Fangjie right across from the bank branch that was robbed. The owner is a woman from Chongqing. It's only been open for three months. From the cashier's position, you can see the entire situation at the bank branch entrance."

Also, she rented an apartment in the steel factory's residential compound, according to her neighbors...

Wu Song reported the entire investigation findings in detail.

"Why are you targeting her? Is it because you feel she's killed someone?" Li Xiang pointed to his eyes.

"Yes!" Wu Song nodded.

"Understood. You two stay here. I'll go report."

Li Xiang strode out of the main conference room and went to another office on the same floor that served as a temporary command center.

The entire command structure of the task force is located here.

Li Xiang wasn't qualified to report to the director of the department, who was the team leader, so he went to Liu Zhengyi, the director of the Gaotan City Public Security Bureau and the executive deputy leader of the special task force, and said, "Director Liu, there's a situation."

"What's going on?"

"My subordinates Wu Song and Liu Shutong discovered an important detail during their investigation: there's a Fangjie Hot Pot restaurant nearby..."

"Wu Song?" Liu Zhengyi raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? Lao Liu, it seems like you've heard this name before?" Qi Dagong, the head of the task force and director of the provincial department, was listening to the report from the side. After listening, he looked at Liu Zhengyi with curiosity.

"Yes, Director Qi, this Wu Song joined the force last July. He was promoted to a full-fledged employee after only three months, and within six months he received a second-class merit and a third-class merit, breaking the record of our entire city's criminal police. He is an outstanding criminal investigation talent."

This person also has a special ability: his intuition is incredibly accurate; he can tell whether a person has committed murder.

"How could that be? There's absolutely no scientific basis for it." Qi Dagong chuckled. "Old Liu, are you telling me a story?"

"I don't believe it either, but it's true. He once noticed that a chef had killed someone during a meal, and eventually managed to uncover that the chef was a fugitive murderer from Wenzhou."

"Oh? Is that so? I'm curious now." Qi Dagong became interested and gave Li Xiang a look. "Call him over here so I can take a look."