Wang Shuai, who basically eats a Roujiamo once a week, is very familiar with the taste of Tongguan Young Master's Roujiamo.

The thin and crispy bun, layer upon layer, is crisp and sweet.

The soft, juicy mix of fatty and lean meat, a bite brings a juicy burst in the mouth.

Even if there's an occasional piece of cartilage or sinew, Wang Shuai would bite and swallow it.

Not only does it supplement calcium, but it also exercises the teeth, which Wang Shuai quite enjoys.

However, today's taste...

Seems a bit off.

Could there be something unclean mixed in?

It shouldn't be, the shop has an old reputation, and they've always maintained strict hygiene standards.

Having eaten Roujiamo here for two or three years, Wang Shuai has never heard of any hygiene issues with the store.

Thinking this way, Wang Shuai still chewed and then spat out whatever it was in his mouth.

The result was, with just one glance, Wang Shuai felt a shiver down his spine and then...

"Everyone!"

"Stop eating, I'm a police officer, don't move!"

Huh?

A room full of diners, looking at the pale-faced, loudly shouting Wang Shuai, as if watching a monkey show.

"So what if you're a cop?"

"Yeah, does being a cop mean we can't eat?"

"Stop making a fuss!"

A burly bald man stood up and interrupted the dissatisfied crowd: "Everyone listen to what the officer has to say!"

Evidently, the fierce appearance of the bald man was more intimidating than Wang Shuai, who wasn't in uniform.

Wang Shuai glanced at the bald man, "Brother, help me manage the crowd, I'll make a call!"

While taking out his phone, Wang Shuai turned to the approaching waiter: "All the chefs, waiters in the restaurant, don't move."

"Officer..."

The waiter looked troubled: "We're doing business… you doing this…"

Wang Shuai's expression tightened, using chopsticks to point at what he spat out on the table, "Look at what this is!"

The waiter followed the chopsticks in Wang Shuai's hand with his gaze, paused for a moment, then exclaimed in astonishment: "This… is this a fingernail?"

A fingernail?

The waiter's words made the expressions of the many diners look quite unpleasant.

Finding a fingernail in Roujiamo is indeed disgusting.

"Look closely!"

Wang Shuai had already dialed the phone, "This is a whole fingernail with flesh attached!"

There's a big difference between fingernails.

Especially a whole fingernail with flesh still attached appearing in a Roujiamo, what that means, the waiter understood in just two seconds of thought.

Ugh!

The diners are not all fools.

Finding a fingernail in Roujiamo is one thing; at most, it's a hygiene issue, and the shop compensating and apologizing with a closure is the biggest penalty.

But what does a whole fingernail with flesh mean?

Twenty minutes later.

Dozens of detectives from the Criminal Investigation Team had taken over the Tongguan Young Master's Roujiamo shop.

Lu Chuan and Liu Guodong, along with two others, were inspecting the kitchen.

Other detectives examined Roujiamos at each table, and two more took turns questioning the diners.

Soon, more clues were found.

After all, there is a significant difference between parts of the pig and human body parts.

Even when cooked and cut into pieces, there's still a difference.

Qin Yong's face was as black as charcoal.

It was almost the New Year, and the Criminal Investigation Team hadn't been so busy for quite a while.

He thought they could have a peaceful and harmonious Spring Festival, but unexpectedly, something like this happened.

"Anything found in the kitchen?"

Liu Guodong, Lu Chuan, and Yang Sen along with Old Bai had combed through the kitchen thoroughly.

A lot was found.

Liu Guodong's face was grim as he held three sealed bags: "Found in the kitchen's drain."

Taking the sealed bags, there was a piece of skin, some raw meat, and half a finger.

The finger was down to the second phalange, with the tip and the third phalange missing.

"The skin..." Liu Guodong made a brief report: "Based on the texture, it should be human skin."

"The muscle texture of the raw meat is different from pork, but whether it's human... testing is required."

Qin Yong glanced at the raw meat in the sealed bag, his face turning darker.

Having experienced many homicides and seen many bodies, Qin Yong was quite familiar with the texture of human flesh.

"A dismemberment case!"

Qin Yong knew that having a peaceful New Year was out of the question.

"Take all staff from the Roujiamo shop back to the team."

Qin Yong began setting up the next steps.

"Sun Jun, your team will question the diners who just ate, register their contact information, and take fingerprints."

"Yes!"

The investigation of the case immediately started unexpectedly.

Lu Chuan also began more detailed reconnaissance of the kitchen.

Though fragments of a body were found in the Tongguan Young Master's Roujiamo shop's kitchen, it's currently hard to say if this is the primary crime scene.

"I don't think this is the primary scene."

In the kitchen, the four of them squatted by the drain discussing: "We just checked all the kitchen tools carefully."

Yang Sen pointed at the meat grinder to his right: "This meat grinder doesn't show signs of recent use."

"The residue color on the bone saw is noticeably different from human bones."

Although Yang Sen is not a forensic doctor, he has basic knowledge.

Human bone is different from other animal bones, especially the marrow color.

Compared to bone fragments of pigs and other animals, human bone color is much lighter.

And the color of human flesh after bleeding is also largely different from animal meat.

As long as it is not cooked, it is actually quite easy to distinguish.

Old Bai nodded, agreeing with Yang Sen's judgment: "This Roujiamo shop operates 24 hours, there's always someone in the kitchen, with at least two chefs on duty at any given time."

"If this is the primary crime scene, at least two people would have had to commit the crime, which is rather unlikely."

Most murders, except for brawls, are committed by a single person.

To commit a murder and dismembering with two people is very unlikely.

Lu Chuan also nodded: "The meat used in the Roujiamos is all frozen, so no live pig slaughtering occurs."

"Therefore, no extensive blood stains should appear on the kitchen floor."

"If this were the primary scene, blood splashes would have contaminated many areas."

"I took a preliminary look with a UV lamp, and no extensive blood stains were found."

Liu Guodong nodded, having no objection regarding the primary crime scene determination.

Since this isn't the primary crime scene, the next task, and the most important one, is to determine the victim's identity.

"Old Yang, Old Bai, go back to conduct DNA testing on the remains, Lu Chuan and I will stroll around Folk Street."

"Alright, we'll head back right away!"

Thanks to Lu Chuan's individual first-class merit.

The Qiangsheng Group donated a hundred million to the Criminal Investigation Team.

The biggest beneficiary is the Crime Scene Investigation Office.

In just over ten days, the Crime Scene Investigation Office has greatly improved its equipment.

Outdated devices have been replaced and new ones added.

As of now, the Crime Scene Investigation laboratory has several vendors tuning equipment.

Once this fund is fully utilized, in the future, Haizhou City's Criminal Investigation Team might even have its own trace evidence analysis capabilities.

The whole Criminal Investigation Team, like a precision machine, is functioning with division of labor and orderly operation.

By the folk street side, no one was around anymore.

After the dismemberment case in the Roujiamo store, who would dare eat here?

On the cold street, only the police lights flash, with only Lu Chuan and Liu Guodong walking on the road.

Meanwhile, various heads peeked out one by one from windows on the buildings above, their eyes filled with curiosity and fear.

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