Pristine Darkness

Chapter 6

Translated by tranzgeek

TL Checked and edited by Clue

Edited by Libramuse

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Fang Qing was very worried.

On the surface, it seemed like huge progress had been made with this case, but at the same time, no headway had been made at all.

Even though the murderer had been extremely cautious, the Forensics Identification Bureau had still found a indistinct fingerprint of blood on the elementary school door handle, and the blood was from the victim, Fu Wei. With this fingerprint, they had enough evidence to convict the murderer.

However, they could not find the murderer.

When they compared this fingerprint to the fingerprints that the police had on record, they could not match it up. After all, China's fingerprint coverage records were currently still limited.

Furthermore, they could not discover the murderer's motive or his relationship with Fu Wei at all.

Frankly, Fang Qing had had a gut feeling before, that this case would very likely become a cold case. Even if they had found a fingerprint in this case, there were many unresolved cases sitting in the Ministry of Public Security with DNA and fingerprint evidence.

But with Bo Jinyan's criminal psychological analysis and his profile, the circumstances seemed quite different. Fang Qing decided he would rather try and take his chances with the seemingly obscure solution, than let the case go cold*a live horse doctor!

*TLN: Originally was "Fang Qing decided he would rather resurrect this dead horse, and get it alive and kicking", to emphasize the extent to which he will go to solve this case.

According to the statistics, after Fu Wei came to the ancient city, he had directly came in touch with 128 people in total. Among these, about half of them had an alibi for that night. Then, according to the other factors in the profiling process, they had eliminated half of those people that obviously did not match those characteristics. In the end, they still had about 30 people left. These included: the boss of a small restaurant, the waiters, a few customers from the bar, the taxi driver, the attendants at the inn, and a few other guests at the inn ...

Fang Qing told his subordinates to call these people over to the police station for questioning again. To prevent tipping anyone off, he did not explain the circumstances of their questioning, and found an opportunity to take each of their fingerprints. Then, they checked them one by one.

"How is comparing all the fingerprints coming along?" Fang Qing asked.

An investigator shook his head, "We're almost finished comparing all the fingerprints, but none of them match."

"Have you heard anything from Bo Jinyan?" Fang Qing asked again.

Everyone was silent. One investigator spoke up and said, "Jian Yao called us previously. She asked for information on the Yao family of the inn."

Fang Qing asked, "The Yao family inn?"

The investigator nodded, "Besides the owner, Yao Yuange, the only people at home are a few women. His wife, his sister-in-law, his younger female cousin, and two women who manage the restaurant."

Fang Qing heard this and was caught up in contemplation.

An old officer next to him snorted. "I used to be in charge of that section of town. Actually, there are some rumors about this Yao family ..."

A few police officers gave condescending and judgemental laughs. Evidently, they had all heard this rumor before.

Fang Qing lifted his head, "The victim, Fu Wei stayed in the inn. As for the people he came into contact with, we have only counted the workers at the reception desk, the waiters, and some guests in the surrounding rooms ... Do you think he would have met someone from the Yao family?"