I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 335 - 213: So Green It Shines

"Hello, Captain, feel free to ask any questions. I’ll cooperate fully."

The landlord got this house from a demolition deal. Their family had a total of three units demolished, the elderly couple lives in one, their son and daughter-in-law in another, and the third was rented out.

This isn’t a prime location, the house isn’t worth much, and the young couple didn’t ask for rent, which conveniently serves as a pension for the elderly.

"Thank you, Mr. Li. Police and community cooperation is like family. Do you have the lease contract for the last tenant?"

"I do, the officer just now asked me to bring it over. Let me show you."

Mr. Li took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Li Xiang. It was wrinkled and yellow, clearly aged.

Li Xiang opened it to find it was indeed a five-year lease that hadn’t fully expired yet, which explains why the elderly hadn’t rushed to rent it out again.

The person is Wang Hongbin, and his ID shows he’s actually local.

Li Xiang immediately sent this ID to Zhou Man, asking her to check the public security registry for this person’s file information.

Soon, Zhou Man called back.

"Captain Li, I found it. Wang Hongbin’s hometown is astonishingly close to the crime scene, just in the nearby village. His family still has an elderly father. Fifteen years ago, he served three years for theft and behaved well in prison, earning a six-month reduction."

His hometown is actually that village?

What a coincidence!

These coincidences make Li Xiang realize they are getting closer to the truth.

However, there’s still a doubt, which is that his initial judgment was that the killer is familiar with the area and should be local. But now, it seems the deceased is the local one.

Yet, Dai Qiaoling and Wang Hongbin had a romantic relationship, so it’s not ruled out that they’ve been here before.

Then Zhou Man sent Wang Hongbin’s old home address and his father’s details to Li Xiang’s phone.

"Mr. Li, could you please open the house? We’d like to go in and have a look."

"Alright, I’ll open it now."

Mr. Li took out the key and opened the room previously rented to Wang Hongbin.

Suddenly, a mix of mold and a slight stench wafted out.

Li Xiang and the technical police put on protective gear and walked inside.

There were signs the room hadn’t been lived in for a long time, aligning with Wang Hongbin’s disappearance over a month ago. Most of the odds and ends and clothes were still there, but anything valuable had already gone, with traces of someone having packed up.

The forensic police quickly started their work, using advanced equipment to meticulously examine the scene.

Soon, one officer shouted: "Captain Li, we found something."

Li Xiang approached at hearing this, discovering a few tiny bloodstains on the sink edge in the bathroom.

Other locations also had traces where blood had been cleaned but not completely washed away.

Seeing this, Li Xiang was almost certain this was the first crime scene.

However, to confirm everything, these bloodstains must undergo DNA verification.

The forensic police immediately sampled these bloodstains and collected material from around the drain for testing afterwards.

Mao Ji saw this and gave Li Xiang a thumbs-up, quietly saying, "Captain Li, impressive! It only took two days to achieve a major breakthrough."

Their criminal investigation team has had little pressure since Li Xiang joined. They consistently complete cases early within the designated time frame. It’s only when Li Xiang is absent that they feel even a tad of pressure, because they have to think for themselves, which is obviously challenging.

"Just ordinary, this should be the first crime scene. I’ll leave this area to you for now; I’m heading to Wang Hongbin’s home." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Li Xiang called Sun Zhidong. For now, all other leads can be set aside to focus primarily on this line. Sun Zhidong was called back to accompany him to Wang Hongbin’s home.

Wang Hongbin’s home was in a village just near the body dumping site.

Li Xiang and Sun Zhidong followed the address provided by Zhou Man and quickly found Wang Hongbin’s house, meeting his eighty-year-old father.

After expressing their intentions to Wang Hongbin’s father, his response left Li Xiang and his team astonished once more.

"Are you saying Wang Hongbin ran away from home twenty years ago?"

This Wang Hongbin really is something!

Upon learning more, it turned out Wang Hongbin had poor grades as a child and was extremely mischievous in the village. He’d steal chickens from one house today and beat dogs in another tomorrow, being the village bully. If anyone dared say even a word against him, he’d immediately retaliate, even burning their piles of firewood. The villagers were indignant yet silent.

As he got older, he became more brazen. Wang Hongbin’s father reached his breaking point, severed the father-son relationship, and chased him out. This departure lasted twenty years.

Until Li Xiang’s team arrived, Wang Hongbin’s father had no idea that Wang Hongbin had been imprisoned and released, living around twenty kilometers away in the neighboring town.

Now he’s even thrown into the wilderness nearby. Since the body lacked a head when it was recovered, even if he had seen it, he wouldn’t have recognized it as his son.

No one would have thought that merely being a bystander could hit so close to home.

Learning Li Xi and his team’s intentions, Wang Hongbin’s father felt deeply saddened. Over the years, he had regretted driving his son out, leading to his son being brutally dismembered.