The two found a steamed bun shop, sat down, and ate breakfast while taking out their phones to send messages to Yu Hanjiang.
Old Mo said, " Captain Yu, we stayed at the farmers' market for half an hour and happened to spot a truck that was handling the morning market's garbage. Xiao Ye followed it and found the place where the farmers' market usually dumps its garbage."
Ye Qi sent me a photo.
This is a large trash can located at the back of the farmers' market. At this moment, the trash can is piled high with rotten vegetables and fruits. This is the amount of garbage from just one morning's market. It is evident that the city's garbage trucks must clean the farmers' market daily; otherwise, the trash can simply cannot hold it all.
The timeframe can be further narrowed down.
Yesterday, February 2nd, the elderly couple reported the incident to the police, and Yu Hanjiang led a team that discovered the body. Therefore, the garbage truck must have removed the garbage from the farmers' market two days prior, on February 1st.
According to the route on the map, if the garbage truck is to go to the garbage station in the suburbs, it should first go to the farmers' market to collect vegetable leaves and fruit waste, and then continue to collect garbage along the main roads of the city, collecting all the garbage from the roadside and residential areas, and transporting it to the city's garbage disposal station.
If an unlicensed clinic dumps a body in a residential garbage bin, it's easy to trace its origin if the cleaning lady finds it. Therefore, the best way for them to dispose of a body is to cremate it and then scatter the ashes discreetly. And if something goes wrong during the cremation process, the best place to dump the body is the huge garbage bin in a farmers' market.
The farmers' market is a mixed bag, generating a lot of garbage every day. If the body parts are buried under a lot of vegetable leaves and fruit, they won't easily attract the attention of the cleaners. The location of the garbage can that Ye Qi found is very important. Yu Hanjiang judged that the illegal clinic's hasty disposal of the body this time was due to an accident during the cremation process, and the charred marks all over the body also proved this point.
Ye Qi then sent a picture: "I found some black ash in a hidden corner next to the trash can. I don't know if it's ashes left from burning a body. I collected some and will send it to the Police Station for professional testing later."
Yu Hanjiang praised, "Well done. Are there any other clues?"
Old Mo and Ye Qi exchanged a glance and decided to tell Yu Hanjiang about the suspicious person they had encountered: "When Xiao Ye and I were searching for evidence near the trash cans, we ran into a man. He was about 185 cm tall, of average build, wearing sunglasses and a hat, and dressed in all black. He glanced at us but didn't say anything. We weren't sure if he was related to the case, but we just felt that he was a bit strange."
Ye Qi chimed in, "That's right. Most of the people going to the farmers' market early in the morning are local residents and some restaurant workers from the city who are delivering fresh vegetables. This man was dressed strangely, wearing a hat and sunglasses, and he didn't fit in with his surroundings. We didn't dare to talk to him, in case he really was a member of the organization and had a gun, Lao Mo and I might not be able to handle him."
Upon seeing the message, Xiao Lou immediately said, "You did the right thing. The members of this organization are ruthless. Captain Yu was shot and almost died. When encountering suspicious persons, try not to alert them." He paused and added, " Ye Qi is a child, and Lao Mo is over 60 years old. Even if that person is a member of the organization, they shouldn't suspect you."
Ye Qi replied: "Yes, he didn't follow us after we left."
Yu Hanjiang asked, " How is the situation with Liu Qiao?"
Liu Qiao replied, " Xu Fangfang kept vigil all night. She was so tired after getting up in the morning that she fell asleep. Her grandmother said that the funeral home was coming to take away her grandfather's body at noon. Also, from their conversation, I learned about the cause of her grandfather's death. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year and could not have surgery. His family was already mentally prepared. There should be no doubt about her grandfather's death."
Yu Hanjiang said, "Okay, I'm on my way to Xu Fangfang's house."
Someone was driving a car at the police station. Yu Hanjiang sat in the back seat, opened his laptop, and pulled up a map of the city.
The triangle area identified by Long Sen and Qu Wanyue is significant, as it narrows down the scope of the investigation. The trash cans found by Lao Mo and Xiao Ye at the farmers' market further narrowed down the timeframe.
On January 31, in the Cheng Shaoyu dismemberment case, Criminal Police Detachment suspects Cheng Shaofeng. When Yu Hanjiang went to investigate at the villa (Jin Cui Villa) where his younger brother Cheng Shaofeng lived, he was shot and rushed to the hospital for treatment. This is also the starting point of the locked room timeline.
On the same day, someone ordered takeout from "Good Taste Congee Shop" and "Spicy Rice Noodles". After finishing the takeout, they threw the food containers into the trash can. The person who ordered the takeout lived or worked within the "triangle area" drawn by Longqu Couple.
That night, the organ transplant organization suddenly began processing bodies in large quantities. They burned body parts near the garbage dump behind the farmers' market, but for some unknown reason, an accident occurred and the bodies were not completely burned. They had to hurriedly throw the body parts into the trash can, mixing them with vegetable leaves and fruit peels.
On the morning of February 1st, the garbage truck emptied all the garbage from the garbage bins in the farmers' market, traveled through several streets, collected all the garbage in this area (including takeout containers from porridge shops and rice noodle shops), and transported the entire truckload of garbage to a garbage recycling station on the outskirts of the city.
On February 2nd, yesterday morning, an elderly couple was sorting and organizing garbage at a garbage station when they unexpectedly discovered a human hand among vegetable leaves. In a panic, they called the police. Yu Hanjiang led a team to the scene. After searching the garbage station, they took the body parts back for testing and found the DNA of five people. The identities of four people could not be confirmed, but only one fingerprint was complete. After checking the fingerprint database, it was confirmed that it belonged to Wang Wei, a food delivery worker.
While organizing his thoughts, Yu Hanjiang drew a 3D simulation on his computer.
There are several residential compounds near the farmers' market, located in the triangular area drawn by the Long Qu couple, and meeting the three conditions of "low population density, lax security management, and secluded location." Moreover, the compound closest to the farmers' market's garbage station is...
Antai Garden.
This residential complex consists of old buildings that are decades old. The tallest building is only seven stories high and there are no elevators. There are no entertainment venues or shopping malls nearby, such as cinemas or KTVs, which are suitable for young people. However, there is a farmers' market nearby, which is convenient for buying groceries.
Because of the poor environment and bad security in this area, most of the residents are elderly. Some of these elderly people with better financial means have their children buy houses in the city and then take them away, leaving a large number of rooms in the community vacant.
These older residential areas, lacking security cameras at entrances and exits and without elevators, have low property prices and low rents.
Many people who run small businesses like to rent rooms here, so the whole community is a mixed bag and is also the most likely place for criminals to appear.
Yu Hanjiang searched online and found that there were a lot of rental ads for Antai Garden, with nearly half of the houses already rented out. There were even basements being rented out at extremely low prices, which shows how diverse the tenants were.
— January 31, evening, Antai Garden.
Thanks to everyone's efforts, Yu Hanjiang pinpointed the exact time and location. He immediately called his colleagues at the Police Station: "Ask the traffic police to retrieve surveillance footage from all intersections in the Chengxi Farmers Market area between 24:00 on January 31st and 9:00 on February 1st; also, find the garbage trucks, freight trucks, and luxury private cars that passed through during this period, and identify their license plate numbers. I will check them one by one!"
Unsurprisingly, the people who injured Yu Hanjiang were from this mysterious organization. They knew the police were investigating Cheng Shaoyu's dismemberment case and were worried about being implicated, so they rushed to dispose of the body.
The members of the mysterious organization have definitely already fled; they won't be waiting for Yu Hanjiang to wipe them all out.
But Yu Hanjiang believes that justice will prevail and no criminal will escape its reach. Even the most cunning criminal will leave a trace.