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Someone is dead! Someone jumped into the well!

The victim was dumped into the well after being killed.

The victim is Xie Lijun, 61 years old.

He was single and lived alone. He has an older brother named Xie Liguo.

He indeed died of mechanical asphyxia from being smothered.

Covering the victim's face is just one aim of the murderer.

Other than that, there was a weight tied on the other end of the rope.

Inform Sergeant Lin to continue looking for the object used as a weight.

From the width, it must have been left by dragging the corpse. Both sides represent the victim's arms.

It means that the crime was done by one person. Who was Xie Lijun playing chess with that night?

Based on the DNA on the cigarette butt, it's Lao Zhao, the man that reported this case.

I curse him to have no offspring!

Lao Zhao is suspicious.

So I think that he was lying.

Section Chief Qin, look.

There are no more items inside the well.

There are a lot of small holes on this.

It must have been punctured by someone.

It's full of this kind of stones which are usually used in construction.

This stones are commonly seen when building roads or houses.

It will not just suddenly appear in a farm area.

Normally, murderers will use whatever is handy to sink a body.

Are any roads under construction or houses being renovated near Zhao's place?

There aren't any near Zhao's. But there's a new house being built 300 meters north of the victim's home.

We went past it when we went to the victim's place.

Which direction did you say?

300 meters north.

North?

Weird.

Say, are you guys cops or not?!

The real murderer is still outside living so happily!

Why did you arrest and drag me here?

I really had encountered extreme bad luck!

A corpse was dumped into my well!

But you guys, instead, arrested me!

We found your fingerprints and DNA in Xie Lijun's house.

So, please, cooperate with our investigation.

How am I going to cooperate?

A dead person was found in my well, so I've become the murderer?

You guys solve case like this?! Are you really cops?!

Can you calm down first?

We will never falsely accuse any good man,

but please calm down and cooperate with our investigation. Drink some water first.

I'm not drinking any water! I feel so wronged!

Based on Lao Zhao's reaction, he most likely isn't the murderer.

But we still can't find any evidence that will remove him as a suspect,

hence, we still can't release him.

He also admitted that he had a chess game with the victim on the night of the murder.

But around 10 pm, he already went home to sleep.

Based on our investigation, he indeed doesn't have any extreme actions lately.

We've overlooked one thing.

If it's really a crime due to intense emotions triggered by a chess game, the crime is usually done immediately.

But based on our autopsy, the victim died while sleeping.

The murderer quietly entered from outside and suddenly attacked him.

This doesn't fit a crime of passion.

Furthermore,

walking northward from Lao Zhao's well, which was the area where the corpse was dumped, to Xie Lijun's house,

it took us about ten minutes.

An adult can walk approximately 80 meters per minute.

So this path is around 800 meters.

And the rock pile is 300 meters north of the victim's house.

If Lao Zhao was the murder, he must first walk north for 800 meters

to kill the victim and then walk 300 meters north again

to get the items for the weight and then return to the well to dump the corpse.

This kind of path is a bit unreasonable.

This behavioral logic does seem weird.

Where is my room?

Over there.

Isn't it improper for men and women to sleep in one room?

Why improper? It's good enough that we get a place to sleep.

Aren't I just afraid that you two will be at a disadvantage?

You're not using a pillow?

The last time we were investigating in a village,

I used a pillow of a village that hadn't been used for years and I got lice.

I had to shave off all my hair.

- Didn't Lao Qin go? - He did.

He spent all night studying the spawning of lice but he didn't warn me.

It's you who didn't observe it meticulously.

Baby, no, I'm in a village doing a case.

The signal is weak. It isn't that I didn't want to answer your messages.

Let 's use WeChat to talk.

Dabao, we'll be in the tofu stand soon.

You're here to get some tofu, sir?

Dabao, which one do you like?

This one.

It's a container for tofu.

Hey! Quickly get up!

I have an idea and I need to prove it.

It's just 6 am. How come you wake up even earlier than my mom?!

Hey, where is Qin Ming?

How would I know?

Then, let's two go first. Hurry. Hurry.

Let's go. Hurry. We'll be late.

Hurry up. Wake up. Put on your clothes.

I thought that the holes in the plastic bag

wasn't intentionally punctured by the murderer.

Basing it on his actions of dumping the corpse into the well and then picking up so many tree branches to fill up the well,

he should be in a very anxious state at that time.

In a very anxious state, how could one person still think of details like boring holes on a plastic bag?

Isn't that Lao Qin?

Lao Qin, we found the source of the bag used for the weight.

It most likely a bag for tofu. The murderer must have bought tofu recently.

Xie Lijun doesn't cook so he surely don't have such a thing in his house.

Hence, the murderer must have prepared the plastic bag, rope, and vehicle in his own house

and then on his way to the victim's house, filled the bag with rocks.

The rock pile was 300 meters north of the victim's house.

Which also means that the murderer's house is also in the north.

Right. The murderer's house is north of the victim's house.

He did the crime alone. Recently bought tofu. Has a vehicle.

That's the only information we have now.

Look. These twigs are in such small pieces.

If this vehicle was a motorcycle or an electric mobile,

it would be hard to tie these small branches on it.

Only a tricycle can conveniently transport the branches from here to the well.

With this idea, I came to look again at the trails in the crime scene this morning.

The tire marks left by a tricycle is very unique.

The front wheel and the two back wheels will leave three tire marks that are at a similar distance from each other.

It becomes more obvious when turning.

And right here is a very classic tire mark left by a tricycle making a U-turn.

Can you go compare this tire marks now?

The tire marks left by the tricycle

and the source of the plastic bag that contained the weight have been determined. Can we now decrease the scope of our investigation?

That's right. I'll go and check it out right now.

We're now doing the inspections based on the conditions we currently have.

There are totally 27 households on the north of the victim's place.

And there are 32 people among these 27 households that fit the body build we are looking for.

We've also checked the tofu stands in the small town.

There are two that have the same plastic bags we found in the crime scene.

And these puncture marks were made by the shop owners themselves.

Because it's the villagers that bought tofu, their memories are very clear.

Out of 32 people,

these 11 people recently bought tofu.

Out of these 11 people, 7 families had a tricycle.

But comparing the tire tracks with their tricycle, all of them were ruled out.

Who are the remaining four households that don't have a tricycle?

These four are Xie Simiao, Xie Feng, Xie Liguo, and Li Chuqi.

We've been to see the yards of these four families.

We indeed didn't find any tricycle.

Then, in these four families, have they lost tricycle

or lent it to others?

This, we can't ask. If we do, it'll reveal what we're investigating.

But right now, we're comparing wheel tracks house by house, they should know something's up.

Do you have photos of the yards of these four families?

I do.

Next.

Stop.

Whose house is this?

This is Xie Liguo's house.

If his house doesn't have a tricycle, how can there be a new tricycle handle?

Officers, what's going on?

Uncle, where's your vehicle?

What vehicle?

Your tricycle.

We don't have a tricycle.

I picked this up somewhere.

Auntie, can I borrow your family's tricycle?

Sure.

Didn't you ride it out? How come you didn't ride it home?

Uncle, come with us.

- Is it here? - Yes.

That's the place he told me.

Hand me the shovel.

Tell me.

Twenty-some years ago, my younger brother and I were both at the age for marriage.

We were both bachelors in their 30's, who would dare to marry first?

We only had a small amount of money at home.

My parents decided to let me marry first.

To let my younger brother wait a while.

Bu-but after I got married, I felt something was really off.

They (my wife and my brother) interacted very frequently.

I'd be over it if she was just giving him some meals.

But when my wife had a difficult labor, he was even more anxious than me.

Say, my wife having a difficult labor, what does that have to do with him?

I kept thinking that Maomao wasn't my child.

Whether it's my child or not, I know it best.

That day, I found out that she was bringing meals to my younger brother again.

I couldn't trust her, so I followed her over.

Our Maomao has grown taller again.

In a few years, you can go to college.

Maomao, would you like to go to college in the future?

Yes.

Then, in the future, call me dad, okay?

I wouldn't dare.

Why?

I'm scared that my dad will hit me.

- Dad hit mom yesterday. - Maomao.

Don't talk nonsense.

He hit you?

Maomao, go and take this dish over to that table.

Cuihua, he hit you?

Let me see.

He did this to you?

Bastard! I'll go to him now.

Don't, brother Lijun.

Right now, he's getting more and more suspicious of us.

I'm worried that he'll find out about us soon.

I really can't stand this anymore. Take me and our child

to leave here.

Okay. We'll leave.

I heard them saying that they're going to take the child and elope.

This proved that my suspicion was right.

They've been together all this time, having an affair long ago.

If I had known it, why would I have married her?

That night, I couldn't sleep.

I went out for a walk and walked to Lijun's house.

I saw the door was open.

So I went in.

He was asleep. So I snuck in

and straddled him. He suddenly woke up.

I panicked so I covered his mouth.

In a bit, after I calmed down

and let go of my hand, I found...

found that he was already dead.

I went out and found a rope.

After I went back in, I saw him

glaring at me. I was really terrified.

So I found a shirt and wrapped it around his head.

I went home and rode the tricycle over.

I dragged him to the tricycle and dumped him in the well.

Why did you disassemble the tricycle afterward?

I found the villagers saying that you guys were looking for someone with a tricycle.

I was scared.

So I dissembled the tricycle and buried it in my land.

If my wife and child left me,

what would be the reason for me to live?

He's also a pitiful person.

A man being cheated on for over ten years. Whoever is in his shoes won't be able to handle it.

The woman's also pretty pitiful. She married a man that she didn't love and tolerated it for her entire life.

And that child. He lost two fathers at once.

All unfortunate lives have their own misfortunes.

Whether it's being an unfortunate denominator

Or an unfortunate numerator

The result is just as distraught. This is life.

Here. Try it. Try it.

- Thank you. - No problem.

Our hobbies are quite similar.

It's important to share the same interests.

- At least, we have topics in common. - Thanks.

- Taste it. - Do you usually wear suits?

I only wear them today because I'm seeing you.

I usually just wear casual clothes.

I prefer comfortable clothes too.

Because I feel that it's better to keep things simple. I usually don't wear make-up, either.

That's good. It's healthy. What's more, you're naturally beautiful.

You're so good at chatting.

I actually have a lot of flaws.

For example, I am a glutton.

I like to cook and I am really good at it.

- Really? - If given a chance, I must let you taste it.

Don't get scalded...

Okay. Thank you. With my profession,

my work time is not that regular. Can you accept that?

I am a novelist. My working time is very free.

I can work with your hours.

I really admire writers.

Because you can opt not to go out from home and you have very abundant knowledge.

- So great. - We write to earn money.

Do you have any opinion regarding my profession?

Being a doctor is great.

White angels. And you can save the dying and treat the injured.

What did my mom tell you?

Auntie said that you are a doctor.

What's wrong?

Sorry.

I don't think that my mom has explained it clearly.

I...

am a forensic investigator.

Forensic investigator?

Then in your daily work,

you get in contact with corpses?

Yes.

Did you wash your hands before eating?

Before eating, I indeed didn't wash my hands.

Say, with our line of work, when you've been doing it for a long time, sometimes,

you won't get any appetite if you don't smell any corpse.

Our usual work is actually very simple too.

It's just dealing with some body parts or some corpses.

Just like flattened heads,

and that... rotting flesh.

Do you know what's most adorable about it? The most adorable part is those maggots and microbes.

Such beautiful face, so lively, so white and tender.

It's true. Seeing them make me feel very blissful.

How about it? You can't accept it, right?

No... I feel that in terms of personality, you're great.

It's just that... Can you just change your job?

My personality isn't really that great.

Regarding my job...

I don't want to change it.

You... As a lady,

why must you be a forensic investigator

and deal with corpses every day?

A usual person probably don't like dealing with corpses.

But these work...

must be done by someone.

If we don't, who will?

Then, let's end it here.

Thank you for your invite.

Goodbye.

Waiter, check.

- Let me pay for it. - No, thanks.

Goodbye.

Let's go. Let's go.

How many times has this been?

Ninth.

Looks like it failed again.

Let's go back to the Bureau.

This picture is so blurred.

It was already written so casually. I can't see anything wrong with it.

Usually, we evaluate writings written on paper.

The intensity of the pen touching the paper can be used as an evidence.

On these words, we can't see that.

But the words were written gracefully. It means that the writer is quite educated.

From the attitude of how the words were written,

the murderer was very calm.

He didn't even panic after killing. It means that his mental toughness is quite good.

It also means that the murderer wasn't squatting or bending his waist.

This deduction is good.

We more or less can determine the height of the killer.

You can. Because when a person writes at eye level while standing,

The center of the characters will usually fall in the area between the nose and lips.

Based on our data, these words are around 1.5 meters high.

Adding 20 centimeters, she must be 170 centimeters.

This means that this woman is quite tall.

Woman?

No, a height of 170 cm

is indeed short for a man.

But for a woman, it's quite tall. We can't conclude that it's a woman, right?

Look here.

Carefully looking at it, there are traces of nail polish left on this part.

Because it's of the same color, hence, it's easy to be overlooked.

This is a very important point.

Brother Bao, your knowledge in inspecting marks really helps me a lot.

I'll leave the rest to you.

Hello.

Murder?

It's my first time in a film production base.

Don't they use empty bullets in filming? How come someone died?

They may use real guns for the props, but there indeed shouldn't be any bullet.

Looks like we don't need to wear any shoe cover anymore.

The crime scene is a bit messy. Shoe print comparisons most likely won't be useful anymore.

Smell of alcohol.

You sure?

I'm sure.

I'll check his blood alcohol level later.

The victim must have been shot here

and then walked over there before collapsing on the floor and dying.

That's why, there is a track of blood here. This must be from the victim.

Are there any blood traces from other people?

Basing on the patter of the bloody shoe print, it must be from just one shoe.

It's that one on the victim's foot.

You guys come look at this gun.

This is a self-made hunting rifle,

single-barreled. The gun barrel length is about 40 centimeters.

Adding the gun's frame and stock, the total length is about 60 centimeters.

And whether this gun is new or old, it must have been just made.

This location is a closed location and is not a good location to kill.

It's because if there is just one person standing inside this movie set,

it would be very easy for him to see the entire course of the crime.

Usual shooting murders are premeditated.

It's rarely suddenly conceived.

Killing in an enclosed space like this, could the murderer been plotting this for a long time?

That's possible. But the evidences we have now is not enough for us to make such a conclusion.

We have to do the autopsy first.

Sergeant Lin!

- Hello. - Hello.

Section Chief Qin, hello.

It's inconvenient for him for he's wearing gloves.

Come, let me introduce it. This way please.

This is what we got in our initial investigation.

The victim is Hu Qi, 37 years old, from a farming village.

He worked in the props division here as a props maker.

Does he usually drink alcohol?

He indeed loves drinking alcohol and playing cards.

His luck in cards isn't good so he usually cheat.

But, overall, he can be said to be honest. Quite timid.

Did you check that gun?

We did. It's his own gun.

More than a month ago, he got a seamless steel pipe from somewhere.

He started making a gun in his house about two weeks ago.

- Have you confirmed it? - We've asked around.

Hu Qi's wife Zhang Yue and his mother Zhao Xiulian can prove it.

Our initial conclusion is that the victim left the house with his gun in the middle of the night.

Carelessly, he mishandled the gun and hurt himself. He died from excessive hemorrhage.

Of course, all these can only be confirmed after the autopsy.

Are there still remaining raw materials for the gun left?

We'd like to make comparisons between the gun and the gun parts.

It's in the storage room in his house. There are still raw materials for making guns there and some self-made bullets.

We already sent people to get them.

Who reported the case?

The witness has already arrived.

I'll look for the witness to understand the situation.

Okay. Let's go then.

- Came to report the crime? - Yes, I reported the crime.

Tell us about what happened.

That is, yesterday...

Hello. I want to know the situation on the night of the crime.

You say it.

Last night, it was like this.

The four of us drank a little alcohol and were playing mahjong.

- We were playing mahjong. - Right.

Around 10 pm...

- I have seven pairs. - Six Character. - Seven pairs?

That great?!

- Hurry! Hurry! - I have seven pairs already.

Hurry! Hurry!

Don't move! I win!

- Here's your money! - Okay.

From which film crew was that?

Gun firing is not allowed in this area. Let's go take a look.

Last night, we're standing here when we saw him.

In what position was Hu Qi then?

Exactly in front.

Who shot that gun? Which film crew?!

Don't they know that it's not allowed here?

Was it the sound of a gunfire?

I heard a gunshot. It must be a gun.

Who is that?

Isn't that the bastard Hu Qi?

- Didn't we just play mahjong with him earlier? - Right. Right.

He's drunk again.

Are you guys sure that the person you saw was Hu Qi?

We are sure. It surely is him. We know him very well.

Other than him, is there anybody else?

None. We didn't see anyone.

Did you hear any shouting for help?

We didn't hear that.

If one's gun accidentally gets discharged

plus the fact that he was drunk, he probably hadn't shouted.

Look. The right side of his pants and right leg are totally soaked in blood.

But all other parts have not much blood stain.

Look. There is an obvious contact mark on his leg.

Marks may usually reflect the distance of the gun from the victim.

This is your expertise.

Tell me your opinion.

This is a musket, also commonly called shotgun.

If it was fired on close-range, it should produce a small wound on the knee.

It it was fired at a farther distance, it would then produce a small wounds area.

This gun can only be fired at a limited distance.

That's why, the closer the distance, the larger the effect.

With a wound like that of the victim, it can only be made by a close range shot.

Sergeant Lin, the result of the comparison of the raw materials with the gun has come out.

- Please come and look. - Okay.

Sergeant Lin, these were the raw materials for producing a gun and gunpowder we found in Hu Qi's house.

They are of the same material.

This gun is indeed a gun personally made by the victim.

Are we then confirming this as the murder weapon?

For further confirmation, we must do it in the autopsy room.

But just basing on the contact mark that this gun creates, that gun that injured the victim is this one.

There are black areas around the wound pertaining to the injuries from burned gunpowder.

His wound wound keep bleeding by being slightly moved.

This is the cavity effect produced in gunshot wounds.

Rifles usually only make one wound. But this one is not.

This is caused by a shotgun.

A shotgun usually makes several trajectory injuries and it's hard to find them.

Actually, the power of this shot isn't that strong.

Look at the victim's leg. It didn't get deformed. From that, you'll know that his bone didn't get damaged.

Why then did he bleed a lot?

This shot severed his main femoral artery.

Severe bleeding easily causes one to be in a shock state.

If you don't apply pressure on time, you would die.

In alcohol intoxication, one's blood vessels are dilated.

This increase his blood circulation and hastened the victim's death.

Have we found the lethal wound?

Since this shot has the possibility of severing his femoral artery,

If we want to know the direction of the wound tunnel, we have to rely on a probe.

I found it.

That fast?

The wound tunnel is deep, so the difficulty level is not high.

- Take a picture. - Okay. - This way, we can clearly see the direction of the wound tunnel.

- Can we do the autopsy now? - Let's immediately do it.

Immediately do the autopsy?

What if the victim's family are against it?

Force the autopsy. This is not an accidental firing. This is murder.

What's your evidence?

Let me demonstrate it to you.

This is the angle of the probe through the wound tunnel.

I'll put it on my leg.

Now, I'll stand up.

You said that this gun is 60 centimeters in length,

which means the position of the trigger is here.

It's impossible for the victim himself to have touched this trigger.

The only possibility is that there is someone else who fired towards his knee from below.

Okay.

Immediately prepare for autopsy.

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There are indeed other external injuries.

It looks like particle from a brick.

This brick has blood and hair on it.

How come a shooter must first use a brick to hit the victim and make him fall?

On this side, there's a fingerprint. It's from a thumb.

On the other side, there are three fingerprints left by the index, middle, and ring fingers.

All are less than half a finger pad.

Using one's finger tips to hold the brick?

That's so inconvenient.

The victim was severely intoxicated with alcohol.

Those four people playing mahjong still hasn't been ruled out as a suspect.

These four people might have covered up for each other.

I've checked the skin on the victim's hand. There are no gunpowder residues.

But the murderer surely has it.

This is clue and an evidence.

Where is Li Dabao?

Oh, my! Who lit the fire?!

- No way! It's a human! - Quickly run!