Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 93

The next morning, at seven o'clock.

Jianning Municipal Public Security Bureau.

-Snap!

The curtains were not drawn in the Chief's office, and the sky was dim and hazy, but the desk lamp that had not been turned off all night was still on, reflecting the two transparent evidence bags that were thrown on the table.

Yan Xie was wearing a standard light blue shirt with third-class inspector insignia on his shoulder, dark blue police uniform pants, and leather shoes. With a rare serious temperament, he reached out, picked up the two evidence bags, and frowned.

It was a slightly rusted cartridge case and a twisted bullet.

"Do you recognize it?" Chief Lu stood behind the desk with his hands behind his back and asked in a low voice.

In an instant, countless memories swept through Yan Xie's mind. As if the computer CPU instantly filtered a large amount of data, and the final picture was late at night in the village under Jiangyang County a few months ago when Fan Wu and other outlaws were about to pounce and Jing Ting's index finger resolutely pulled the trigger.

"...I can't recognize it," Yan Xie raised his head and looked back at Chief Lu, and calmly spat out these words.

The space that the lamp could illuminate was limited. So when Chief Lu stood up, his upper body was almost shrouded in darkness, but the eyes on his round face were extraordinarily bright, fixed in the depths of Yan Xie's pupils: "Even you can't recognize it? Then let me remind you of the location, Jiangyang County - do you have an impression?"

Yan Xie put down the evidence bag and smiled apologetically: "To tell you the truth, Chief Lu, I really don't understand what you are trying to say. It may be because my grades in the police academy were average, and my theoretical knowledge of firearms and bullets have been returned to the teacher in the past two years, which is really..."

"I thought that even if there was only one person in the world who could recognize this bullet, that person would definitely be you." Chief Lu interrupted him, and finally laughed heartily, returning to the smiling Maitreya appearance of the past: " On the 619 serial kidnapping case, you went to Jiangyang County to interrogate Li Yuxin, and on the way back, you encountered Fan Wu's group who attacked the police with guns. You, Xiao Zhang, and Li Yuxin were all shot. Afterward, Lao Wei personally took Huang Xing and the others to the scene to investigate. This 9mm Luger cartridge case was one of the pieces of physical evidence brought back at that time, and it was among the eight cartridge cases found at the scene, but - both the primer and firing pin traces on it were completely different from other cartridge cases."

Yan Xie's expression changed slightly.

"The bullet was found in the gap in the back seat of the police car after the police from the Jiangyang County Police Station retrieved the police car from the bottom of the river. Preliminary ballistic analysis showed that the bullet plunged into the water after hitting the target, and just happened to burrow into the broken car window, and got stuck in the back seat - if it hadn't penetrated into the interior of the car, maybe the police would've never have been able to salvage this bullet from the mud at the bottom of the river, but because of this coincidence, it was found by us. It can be said that Heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing can escape from it1

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"...Does this bullet have any characteristics?" Yan Xie asked cautiously.

"There are two." Chief Lu paused and said, "First, it has rifling."

Rifling?

The manufacture of professional gun barrels required high-end equipment controlled by the state. Therefore, whether the bullet had rifling was one of the key criteria for distinguishing between local guns and service guns. The local guns and bullets used by Fan Zhengyuan and Fan Wu's group were all unrifled, but now the bullet in the evidence bag had rifling. What did this mean?