Who Made Him a Lawyer?

Chapter 493: Chapter 359: Twenty-Three Missing Persons Cases!

"Where’s Xiaoyu, how’s the process going?"

Yang Ruoxi was about to shake her head to indicate she didn’t know when a voice interrupted her from nearby.

"Come with me, the process is complete."

She turned her head to look.

It was Chen Changchun who appeared in front of her, waving her over.

Seeing this, Xu Liang and another person followed along.

In no time.

The three of them stopped at the door of the ’archive room’, and Chen Changchun placed his hand on the door, gently pushing it open.

"Creak~"

The archive room door opened.

Inside, a figure paused slightly, then turned around and nodded at Xu Liang.

"Senior Brother."

This person was Su Yu, who after completing the process, had been investigating inside the archive room while waiting for others.

"How’s the investigation going?" Xu Liang stepped forward, walked into the archive room, and asked while examining the surroundings.

The archive room resembled an old library in a school, with several iron shelves in front. Many files were on the shelves, along with some cardboard boxes filled with documents.

Xu Liang reached out and pulled out a dossier, its pages yellowed with age, appearing quite ancient.

"We’re still compiling, there aren’t any accurate numbers yet," Su Yu shook his head and said.

The main reason for their visit to the police station...

Was to investigate the recent disappearances in Sanma Village!

From the previous discussions, there were many ’natural death’ cases in Sanma Village, like those mentioned by Lv Xiong and the village chief about people being killed by wolves.

But there lies the problem.

Are there really that many wolves!?

It’s known that wolves are intelligent beasts and were almost wiped out by hunters in the last century, and they do not attack humans recklessly unless their lives are threatened.

Let alone causing frequent deaths!

Combining this with the possibility that Lv Xiong might not have committed murder and was instead framed...

Xu Liang boldly speculated that perhaps the dead were not killed by wolves but framed to be blamed on wolves instead!?

If so...how many such cases were framed?

It’s unknown, but to find out, it’s necessary to understand the total number of disappearances.

"Check the number of disappearances within the last ten years,"

Xu Liang suggested.

Hearing this, Su Yu and Yang Ruoxi nodded and started looking through various records.

Seeing this, Chen Changchun hesitated to speak but finally couldn’t hold it and asked:

"Why are you investigating Sanma Village?"

"Do you suspect something fishy about the case? The police got it wrong!?"

Chen Changchun was puzzled. Considering Xu Liang had taken on Lv Xiong’s case, he should be searching for information to defend him.

He couldn’t figure out why they were investigating the deaths in Sanma Village over the past ten years unless...there was an issue with the case!

"I have a suspicion, but there’s no substantial evidence proving there’s a problem at the moment,"

Xu Liang shook his head. His logical reasoning currently was very shaky, ready to be picked apart by Chen Changchun.

Overall...

"The person might not have been killed by Lv Xiong," Xu Liang said.

As soon as he said that.

Chen Changchun immediately turned serious.

If Lv Xiong didn’t do it...that means the police caught the wrong guy!

This was no small matter, considering Lv Xiong could very well be sentenced to death – at best, perhaps life imprisonment or the death penalty with reprieve!

More importantly....

"Is there a second gun in Sanma Village!?"

Chen Changchun’s mind was quick, immediately catching on to something.

The victim, Hu Hua, indeed died from a gunshot. If it wasn’t Lv Xiong who killed...it could only mean someone either stole the gun.

Or there was a second gun!

"Hard to say," Xu Liang replied.

"Any supporting evidence!?" Chen Changchun asked anxiously.

Xu Liang chuckled helplessly at him, saying, "If I had any clues, would I be here in the archive room..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Changchun realized he was being impatient and calmed down.

But the growing tension was only fueling his urgency more.

"Do you need police cooperation?" he asked.

The case was being jointly investigated with the Yang City police, so if Chen Changchun suddenly re-investigated the case, the Yang City police would surely express dissatisfaction.

Besides, they didn’t have any evidence.

"Let’s first see the disappeared personnel from Sanma Village in recent years,"

Xu Liang suggested.

Upon finishing, Chen Changchun hesitated again, finally sighing deeply, yet he too solemnly began to check the records with them.

After a long while....

"From 1995 to now, in 2005, Sanma Village has recorded a total of twenty-three wolf-related deaths,"

"However, during searches, police only found wolves during four instances, and in all twenty-three death cases, no bodies were found!"

"Besides, there are the normal elderly deaths...there are so many, they’re uncountable."

About two-thirty in the afternoon.

The four organized the clues and suddenly were filled with suspicion.

Over ten years, there were twenty-three accidental death cases....

What kind of wolves are so bold!?

And what kind of wolves can survive the police’s eradication attempts and not become extinct!?

"Captain Chen, hasn’t the police eradicated wolves? That’s an average of two per year!" Xu Liang looked at Chen Changchun with an odd expression.

To which he responded immediately, "All of these are accidental deaths, not attributed to wolf attacks."

"Sanma Village is rugged and built into the mountains; there are many causes of death, like falling off a cliff or slipping, resulting in a deadly coma, which theoretically is the most common cause of death."

"Over time, the police have responded to call-outs and killed a few wolves, but they cannot ascertain how people died."

How to determine the cause of a person’s death?

Generally, criminal police deduce from two aspects.

One, the crime scene, reconstructing the murder process through traces found at the site.

Two...the body!

The traces on a body can lead to determining exactly what caused their immediate death!

But unfortunately,

"The police haven’t found the crime scene, nor the body,"

Chen Changchun stated helplessly.

The wilderness was too vast, and half of the forests of Sanma Village were in Yang City.

They simply couldn’t investigate the entire area, so they could only classify it as a missing case, eliminate the household registration after several years if the missing person wasn’t found, and categorize it into a death status.

"So... the bodies disappeared?"

Xu Liang furrowed his brow.

"Not disappeared, just not found," Chen Changchun interjected to remind.

"No, they disappeared,"

Xu Liang refuted him, and before he could respond, he continued:

"Hypothetically, another person now dies in Sanma Village, the exact location unknown, and the police conduct a blanket search of the entire forest to find a body, which is indeed arduous."

"However...."

"There are twenty-three bodies in the forest!"

"If none are found, the bodies must still be in their original places, meaning....."

"When the twenty-third person goes missing, the police aren’t just looking for that single person."

"They’re simultaneously searching for twenty-three distinct locations!"

For example.

If a room has one gold bar hidden, you might not find it, but what if it had a thousand, ten thousand?

You could almost step on one with every step!

The case is similar; the number of deceased is incredibly high.

Under such circumstances, you should be able to find at least one body even if you were searching randomly!

Yet there is only one answer.

There’s no news!

"This...."

Chen Changchun furrowed his brow, sinking into deep thought.

The geographical location of Sanma Village is extraordinarily awkward.

With two cities entangled in jurisdiction, and the previous criminal investigation leader hadn’t encountered particularly peculiar cases in Sanma Village, it wasn’t until now that the high number of deaths was discovered....

"When Hu Hua died, did you find any other bodies!?"

Xu Liang suddenly asked.

Chen Changchun pondered for a moment, ultimately shaking his head.

"No... and the Yang City police didn’t find any either."

That’s strange indeed.

Where could those who died early in the woods be!?

Flesh decays, but bones wouldn’t degrade to dust even over ten years!

"Something’s not right."

In a flash.

Xu Liang’s eyes suddenly narrowed, as if realizing something, his brow furrowing tighter.

"When was Hu Hua discovered!?"

"I mean, how long after Hu Hua’s death did the police find the body!?"

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