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Oh, my! Who lit that up?!

Damn it! It's a human!

Let's run!

His knees are almost flexed up to his chest. Burning won't be able to cause that.

That's why, the victim most likely had been restrained before he was burned.

The pull rods of a luggage?

After the murderer killed the victim, he transported him here via a luggage.

I don't think this place is the primary crime scene.

We found the cause of death. It's a ruptured aorta.

One stab into the heart.

What is this?

It is most likely the name of a brand.

There is a card here. I can only recognize Feng shop P...

Feng shop P?

Could this be a VIP card of Yinfeng Shopping Mall?

It might be.

I remember that on the 5th or 6th floor of Yinfeng Shopping Mall,

there is indeed a store of this brand.

I'll make a phone call to my Baby and ask.

Since the VIP card is still inside the luggage,

he might have applied for this card when he bought the luggage.

Could it be possible that this luggage was just bought recently?

I agree with what you said.

Xiao Jiang, send me the VIP information of Yinfeng Shopping Mall.

Regarding the corpse, what else did you two find out?

The main aortic arch above the heart ruptured

after getting punctured by a sharp object. He died from massive hemorrhage.

The stomach is empty, so we got one less clue to identify the corpse.

He didn't even eat on the day of a festival.

How tragic.

Also, we examined the pubis.

Based on observation, the victim is around 30 years old.

The most important is to determine the identity of the victim.

When you guys left, I sent my men to search the crime scene again.

They found no clues about the identity of the victim.

No clues?

This VIP card is probably from the victim.

Why can't this card be from the killer?

In order to kill, the murderer prepared a luggage beforehand.

Or, after killing the victim, he went home to get a luggage to put the victim inside it.

First, if you are the perpetrator who plan to kill someone

and you have to get a suitcase to pack the corpse in,

will you especially apply for a VIP card while buying this luggage?

Second, when we found the corpse, it was in a full curl-up position.

This means that he got put into the luggage not long after he was killed, before rigor mortis set in.

What you mean is that if a corpse has gone into rigor mortis,

- the corpse would have been too stiff to pack into the suitcase? - Yes.

Also, the skin in the victim's armpit is well preserved.

This must be a fresh corpse.

It couldn't have been preserved for long before being burned.

- I got it. The time between killing the victim, packing him into the suitcase and burning him must have been very short. - Correct.

Oh, right.

This piece of cloth was found at the victim's armpit.

There are two layers of the cloth. Because of the heat from the fire, they got stuck together.

Look. The one inside is made from mulberry silk.

This means that the victim paid attention to his appearance.

But weirdly, the external cloths is very rough

and very cheap. It's a white cloth.

Yesterday, the temperature rose during the day.

Who would wear two layers of clothes during Indian summer?

That's why, I think that this outside cloth

might be a job uniform.

It looks a lot like...

A white coat that doctors wear.

If it was a doctor and he was wearing a white coat before his death, it means

that he was still working when he was killed.

It would be hard to commit the murder in a huge hospital. He might work in a small clinic.

I'll go investigate now the private clinics registered in the city.

and look for male doctors around 30 years old who are missing.

Look.

Yinfeng Shopping Mall's VIP client information.

Sergeant Lin.

The victim's name is Li Kehua. When he was 27 years-old,

he resigned from the provincial government and opened his own clinic here.

His business isn't bad. His name is in the VIP list.

Yesterday morning, this clinic was still opened.

But around 2 pm, someone came to see the doctor but noticed that the clinic was closed.

And yesterday was mid-autumn festival. Everyone thought that Dr. Li just went home to celebrate the holiday.

It wasn't until six o'clock this morning when the police were investigating this area

that they broke in to find something amiss in the clinic.

Other than disinfectant, I can also smell some bone setting liquid.

There is one thing that I don't understand.

This place is quite far from that abandoned factory.

Why must the killer take the victim to a place that's more than 10 kilometers away to burn?

As for the reason for choosing the dumping site, we still can't be sure of it.

But based on the distance, 10 kilometers,

it means that he has a transport vehicle.

And the killer is very familiar with the area where he burned the victim.

There are rarely people going to that place at night.

It means that he possibly is a local.

The killer dumped the corpse at such a far place to hide the identity of the victim.

How come he wanted so much to hide it?

It's very possible that the killer and the victim is related.

It looks like the crime was done by acquaitance.

If it was a stranger, he totally can opt not to move the corpse.

That can fool people more.

The blood stains are concentrated on the chair, table, and the floor around them.

The victim might have been sitting on his own chair when he suddenly got stabbed on the chest.

The direction of the blood spurt is very disordered.

This means that before he died, he might have fiercely struggled.

Look. There is an area here devoid of dust.

A rectangular object was taken away.

This rectangular object...

Could it be that luggage?

The measurements match the suitcase we saw at the retail store.

When he dragged this object, would he have left some shoe prints?

The condition of this floor is too poor. Any shoe prints won't help at all.

This suit has just been pressed.

It means that the victim still has an appointment after work.

He might be going to a date.

(International Gym Club)

Gym card?

How come this floor mat is here?

From the distribution of the dust, its original location

should be below the chair. And then got moved to here.

Look at those shoes. Those must be Li Kehua's shoes.

No wonder, we didn't see any shoe remnants

among the burned ashes.

The victim indeed wasn't wearing any shoes.

There is a bone setting liquid here.

It's half-use. The victim might have hurt his leg.

He removed his shoes and applied some bone setting liquid.

And then he placed his feet on the floor mat to rest.

The floor mat was below the chair. And then, he got attacked.

He then kicked the floor mat up to this level.

There seems to be some objects on the floor mat, yellow and black objects.

The killer might also have stepped on this floor mat.

The texture of this floor mat is very rough.

If the shoes of the killer rubbed on it,

there might be trace evidences left on it.

Take it away.

Okay.

Later, we will inspect that garbage bin. Do you have any problem?

The lid is open.

Come on! Not everyone pays attention to details or has OCD, all right?

There is a gauze with blood inside the garbage bin.

There is also one on the table. But the treatment equipment doesn't seem to have been touched.

The garbage bins in treatment areas might be a source of infection.

Closing the bin all the time is a habit of all doctors.

This doctor has the habit of keep his work journal.

Based on his records, there was only one patient who consulted yesterday.

He only wrote 'reduce the inflammation.' He probably didn't have the time to fill the record in details.

That's weirder then.

The blood on this gauze is very fresh but the area is quite small.

An injured person coming to a clinic for bandaging can only be because of two possibilities.

One is an injury from long time ago and he just came back to have the bandage changed.

In occasions like that, the one flowing out from the wound is usually not blood

but serous fluid. It's usually dark yellow.

The other possibility is just having the injury and immediately came to have it bandaged.

But an injury that would require immediate consult wouldn't be so slight.

Based on the amount of blood on this gauze, the killer's injury didn't need bandaging.

There was only one gauze on the garbage bin and the lid wasn't closed.

Could this mean that he had just threw the gauze inside the waste bin when he got attacked?

From the looks of it,

the killer pretended to consult for wound redressing. And when the victim wasn't guarding, he took the chance and killed him.

The killer has a wound but it was just a minor wound. He chose to make his move

during the mid-autumn festival, where most hospital and clinics were closed.

At least he wouldn't incite other people's suspicion.

Looks like we've determined the nature of the case.

This is a well-planned murder.

What did he write here?

Are these words on this pink paper his handwriting?

Based on the strength of the pen tip and the center and distance of the words,

it was written by the same person.

It's just that he wrote this with more diligence.

Yearning even when we haven't met.

Passionate love may not last forever.

Our heart's voices connected us.

Forever confiding with each other, empathizing with each other.

Your usual three orders are here!

Enjoy yourself.

That poem was written so poorly. Is it a song lyrics?

Probably not. I think he wrote this on his own.

Maybe it's a cang tou poem. (hidden head/word poem)

He probably wrote the name of the person he liked in it.

But sounding so wretched, he probably didn't write it for his wife.

That's right. Li Kehua wasn't married and has always been single.

Look at this line.

“I have never touched your smile”. Could the lady he likes had cancer and have died?

Hurry and turn off your Korean soap opera mode first.

If that's not the case, then this is a one-sided love matter.

Look. “You cannot walk to my side”.

“I also can't control tomorrow. We can only follow the errands sent by fate.”

Errands sent by fate? We're not in ancient times.

Then it's a love triangle. He has fallen in love with someone's girlfriend.

And this someone is a person he knows.

But in love, everything is indeed possible.

I really can't control the strong power within my brain.

Let's eat first.

Say... How come when we talk about love topics,

our Master Qin becomes like a mascot.

Mascot? Have you seen such cold-faced mascot?

That's right too. Love is for the live and fresh.

It doesn't belong to a dead corpse.

Let's eat.

What you're eating now is a dead corpse of a fish.

I don't mind.

The gauze has been sent for testing. We will see if we can find any clues from the DNA.

- Xiao Hei. - Yes.

The chemical tests have come out too.

There is indeed a combustion accelerator among the ashes. It's gasoline.

Have you checked the source of the gasoline?

I already sent men to check the security cameras of different gas stations.

We will take note of any suspicious drivers.

But don't forget. The killer has a transportation device.

He can also get the gasoline from his car.

The small automobiles now have a curved fuel line to prevent stealing.

It is unlikely to be plausible.

For a truck, the gasoline tank is directly hanged. You actually can get gasoline from it.

But these vehicles are usually on diesel.

What about a motorcycle?

Motorcycle, hybrid bicycles...

It does seem easy to get gasoline from double-wheeled vehicles like those.

It's also possible to stabilize

such a huge luggage at the back of a motorbike.

The location where the corpse was dumped.

DNA. Has injuries. The transport vehicle.

We probably are not far away from the killer.

We found it. Do you guys still remember that gym card?

I went to that gym and asked that trainer there.

He said that since Li Kehua injured his foot from running, he hasn't returned.

But when he was exercising there, he met a girl.

He and that woman would talk and laugh while in the gym. It's obvious that their relationship was special.

That lady's husband is the director of a construction company called Wu Lixue.

- Wu Lixue? - It seems like that

the plot is progressing in the most cliche way.

Li Kehua fell in love with a married woman.

A rich wife had an affair with a handsome young man

because of unendurable loneliness.

What's the name of the woman?

Ruan Fang.

A fragrant grass yearns and looks at the bright moon.

The bright moon foolishly shines on the fragrant garden. This is indeed a 'cang tou' poem.

There is indeed a 'fang' word in the poem.

Then, could the murderer be the husband of this disloyal woman?

That Wu Lixue, whose wife had an affair, wanted to take revenge.

We still are not sure.

But we must quickly find evidences of their affairs.

For matters like this, it's consensual. Why do you still need evidences?

You'll know by looking at their gazes.

The above are my personal opinions.

It has nothing to do with the bureau.

Come. The one running over there is Ms. Ruan.

Ms. Ruan, excuse me.

Hello, Ms. Ruan.

We are cops. Please cooperate with our investigation.

I thought you felt pity on me for running for too long and might be too tired.

So, it's not?

Tell us your relationship with Li Kehua.

That young man? We have no relationship.

Did you two meet here in the gym?

I have met a lot of people in this gym.

But your house is nine kilometers away from this gym.

Why did you choose to exercise in this gym?

Because the trainers in this gym are very professional.

I think it's because this gym is near Li Kehua's house.

Officer, you're overthinking. We are just friends.

We sometimes go out to eat, chat, or drink tea after exercising.

I don't have feelings for him.

But what about him?

He did have feelings for me. But I rejected him.

Why?

Because he wanted too much.

As a woman, I think you should understand.

When was the last time you saw each other?

I have forgotten. It was quite a long time ago.

Why then did you stop seeing each other?

Because he went over the line.

What line did he go over?

If just as friends, it was fine.

But it was clear that he wanted more.

What did he want?

What is it that you wanted to ask?

You and Li Kehua's relationship is more than good feelings, right?

Based on what we learned,

the hotel room that Li Kehua frequently checked into isn't that far from here.

So?

That's why, Sergeant Lin,

should we check the security cameras of the hotel?

Wu Lixue is Ruan Fang's husband.

He's 35 years old. After graduating from a famous university, he inherited his father's business.

He became the chairman of a famous business in our city,

Xingyue Construction Corporation.

Half a month ago, Xingyue Corporation spent the highest price recorded for the past five years

in buying Longfan City's most expensive land,

No. 1 Chiye Road.

Presently, he is busy with the development of this project.

Before he came here to cooperate with the investigation, he was in a board meeting about the project.

Open your mouth.

Based on our investigation, this person has no past criminal history.

His past records have always been good.

Hey, officer, how long must I wait here?

I will immediately inform you once the DNA comparison result comes out.

Please wait patiently.

Sergeant Lin, based Wu Lixue's testimony,

on the day of the crime, he was having a meeting in his office.

Also, based on our investigation, all the people in that meeting

can vouch for him.

Let's wait for the DNA result first.

We still have to wait for the DNA result, but Wu Lixue has an alibi.

Ruan Fang

was shopping that day. These are her shopping receipts.

On the floor mat from the crime scene, we found two objects.

Based on chemical analysis, the yellow item is bird food.

The black one is coal cinder, the one used in honeycomb briquet.

Does Wu Lixue breed birds?

Other than a golden canary like Ruan Fang...

He doesn't breed birds.

- We had it wrong. - We had it wrong?

Weird.

The victim Li Kehua doesn't have a pet bird nor use coal burner.

Then, the living environment of the killer must have birds and coal burner.

But in the living environment of Wu Lixue, these two items

don't exist.

The DNA result is out.

Wu Lixue's DNA isn't compatible with the one on the gauze at the crime scene.

- Xiao Su. - Yes!

- Let him go. - Yes.

If it's not Wu Lixue,

who else can it be?

Say, could the murderer be Ruan Fang?

When I was interrogating her, she kept avoiding the questions.

But she can't really hide her adultery with Li Kehua.

Oh, that young man, we don't have any relationship.

Let's make a hypothesis.

The victim wanted to clarify his close relationship with Ruan Fang,

while Ruan Fang was worried that he will threaten her superior materialistic life.

Because he went over the line.

If it's just being friends, it was fine.

But clearly, he wanted more.

That's why, she has no choice but to kill Li Kehua.

Ruan Fang indeed puts too much importance on material things.

But this can't serve as an evidence that she's the murderer.

It's just that I don't understand, other than a love-related motive,

what else would be a strong enough motive

for Li Kehua's corpse to be burned?

Could it be about wealth?

Why would you burn a corpse if it's for money?

How about we look at the crime scene again?

Okay.

Tell me, what could be the killer's motive?

It's not for love nor wealth.

There is one more possibility.

The murderer killed because of a certain item here in the clinic.

But Li Kehua's social relations aren't that complicated too.

Could it be...

Weird. The drugs in other cabinets are arranged very orderly.

Only the drugs on this layer is in disarray.

Also, it most likely wasn't done by Li Kehua.

The drugs are not placed in their labeled area. If this was your clinic,

how inconvenient would it be for you to look for a drug.

It must be because the killer was looking for a certain drug, hence, he messed them up.

- Let's arrange them first. - Okay.

Methadone hydrochloride.

Methadone hydrochloride?

μ-opioid receptor agonist, which works similar to morphine.

It has the effect of calmness, analgesia,

miosis and inhibition of respiration.

A lot of drug addicts will use it as a replacement

when they are unable to obtain any illegal drugs.

A drug addict

kill a doctor because his addiction was acting up.

Drug addiction is indeed quite scary.

But a drug addict surely has a past crime record.

Let's investigate among the drug addicts then.

We can put the finding of the trace evidences as our main thread.

Investigate first the people in the vicinity of the first crime scene.

He must fulfill four conditions.

Owns a bird, has a coal burner, has a small wound,

and a drug addict.

If we add DNA comparison, our investigation scope will get smaller.

Drug addict...

Sergeant Lin, these are the files you asked for.

Qin Ming, we discovered that there are traces of methadone hydrochloride being stolen from Li Kehua's clinic.

The nature of the crime might be robbery.

We're now starting to run through the list of drug addicts.

Okay.

The case is close.

Little girl, go and pour me some water.

You, hurry and submit to me the medical examiner report.

You hear me?

You, please have some tea.

The case is close?

You have worked hard, our two forensic pathologists.

Just leave the rest to me.

Your efficiency is quite high.

Of course. Being able to rapidly solve this problem given such a huge scope of suspects,

we do have a method.

What method?

Is it my turn to explain things now?!

It's like this.

Crime mapping theory.

When a case has happened more than four times

and has the same suspect, it's called a case series.

Draw a circle connecting each of the crime scene.

The center of the circle surely will be the location of the suspect.

Go to hell.

That is indeed what happened. Before we started going through our list, we made a general assessment.

We contacted several clinics whose methadone had previously been stolen.

And then, designated a scope where the suspect might be.

And then using the information that you have provided, we did some screening and searching.

Let's go back to work.

I must recopy that report again.

So busy.

I'll go catch the criminal now.

Totally... You totally hurt him a lot!

♫ My old home is located at this station

♫ I am a person that was born and raised in this station

Sergeant Lin, it's here.

- Prepare to move! - Yes!

Sergeant Lin, there are no one inside the house.

This guy ran away quite fast.

- Search the place carefully! - Yes!

Search there.

Is that motorbike Chen Biao's?

Yes, Sergeant Lin. We've investigated that.

Chen Biao hit and killed a person with his vehicle a few years ago.

Afterwards, he tried to escape prison and got locked up for a few years.

That motorbike was indeed his.

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Sergeant Lin, I found something.

I found a blood stained gauze on the bed.

And a knife.

Gauze. Bird's food.

And honeycomb briquet. I think it's him.

Keep these.

Looks like we've straightened out the case now.

This guy is a drug addict but has no money. Just for some methadone, he pretended to consult for wound redressing.

And then, when Li Kehua was caught off-guard, he stabbed him.

And then put the corpse inside the luggage he found inside the clinic.

He used his motorbike to transport the corpse to the site where he would burn it. He then took gasoline from his motorbike and burned the corpse.

Once the DNA comparison result comes out, issue the arrest warrant.

Yes.

It's really so weird.

How come Chen Biao just disappeared into thin air?

The request for investigation assistance and arrest warrant have been issued for three days.

There are also no signs that he has left the province.

The force of the inspection being done in the city is already massive.

We just can't find this person.

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If we count this as a murder due to crime of passion, the blood-stained gauze was a bit unnecessary.

If it's for robbery, his act of dumping the corpse is a bit excessive.

Could it be that both crimes are connected?

If we want to know what the point of the additional clues,

there is only one way. We must sort out the case from the start.

We must return to the starting point of this case,

- crime of passion.

- is interesting because

the deeper we get,

the more questions we discover.