177: It's really hers. We have the search warrant.

As for whose fingernail it was, they could only take it back for testing. It could be Chen Bin's wife's, or someone else's, but if it was Zheng Xiao's, that would be interesting.

Ye Lin continued to thoroughly inspect the wardrobe, but found nothing else. There were no bloodstains, only a few more scratches at the bottom, which made it hard to say what had caused them.

However, Ye Lin also noticed one thing: despite the large amount of dust, there wasn't a single strand of hair in such a large wardrobe. It's well-known that wardrobes are places where hair brought in on clothes is easily found. Its absence could only mean it had been cleaned.

Ye Lin continued searching for a while but found no other clues.

He returned to the refrigerator, opened the frozen meat, carefully broke off a piece, and packaged it separately from the fingernail in an evidence bag. Then, he climbed out the bathroom window. Everything went relatively smoothly.

Early the next morning, Ye Lin delivered the found fingernail and frozen meat to forensics for comparison with the DNA left by Zheng Xiao's parents previously.

The results came out quickly. The frozen meat was a piece of pig's jowl, frozen for several years. It was barely good for a snack with drinks, but useless for solving a case.

However, that fingernail truly belonged to Zheng Xiao. One could only say that Heaven still had eyes.

Excited, Ye Lin immediately took this latest discovery to see Yu Haifeng.

Actually, Yu Haifeng and Old Zhao never expected Ye Lin to actually find anything. Now, with the fresh test report in front of them, both were a bit dumbfounded.

"He really found a clue, after three years," Old Zhao mumbled.

Yu Haifeng carefully read the test report once, not looking particularly happy. With a solemn expression, he looked at Ye Lin and said, "Lin Zi, I don't know if the court will accept this evidence. You collected it privately, and it cannot prove it was collected in Chen Bin's house."

Currently, courts have high requirements for evidence collection. Often, evidence collected by a single person, like Ye Lin, might not be accepted by the court if the opposing lawyer is skilled enough. The Criminal Police Team had suffered many such losses.

"I know, but at least it shows that Zheng Xiao was there and something happened. I think we can apply to the court for a search warrant to collect evidence once. There should be clues," Ye Lin said.

"Alright, I'll apply for a search warrant. Once it arrives, we'll go," Yu Haifeng readily agreed. Director Gao was very supportive of them now, so a search warrant shouldn't be a big problem.

Based on Ye Lin's clandestine visit, Zheng Xiao definitely went there. If that truly was the crime scene, no matter how Chen Bin cleaned, there would definitely be clues left behind.

This is called the net of Heaven, wide-meshed yet letting nothing through.

"Also, Lin Zi, last time you said Zheng Xiao was taken to another place and assaulted, but we did an initial investigation of that location and found that the information provided might have issues."

Yu Haifeng and Old Zhao had separately investigated much of the information Ye Lin brought back last time.

"What do you mean?"

"Look." Yu Haifeng gestured for Old Zhao to hang up the map of Yuezhou City, then pointed to the map and began to explain.

"According to the clue you gave, Zheng Xiao said she was knocked unconscious at Qiang Teng Group, then got into a car, and arrived at a rural area about half an hour later."

"But, look, this is the location of Qiang Teng Group." Yu Haifeng pointed to a spot in the central area of the map, which was the Qiang Teng Group building.

"Half an hour, on City roads, if we calculate at 40 kilometers per hour, that's 20 kilometers. Drawing a circle, it doesn't even reach the nearby rural areas."

Ye Lin looked at the map. Indeed, Qiang Teng Group was essentially in the CBD of the City center. Although Yuezhou City wasn't large, drawing a 20-kilometer radius circle wouldn't reach the countryside at all, at most it would reach the urban-rural fringe.

It seemed there must be some problem there.

"Team Leader Yu, I think there are two possibilities. Either Zheng Xiao was drugged and couldn't remember the time clearly, or the place she went was a quiet spot in the City, a place with a patch of woods or a pond. We've been to such places when handling cases before, a clubhouse decorated like the countryside, where you could even hear frogs croaking in the summer. They said big leaders liked that kind of place," Old Zhao said from the side.

"Hmm, I've been there too. If we go by this standard, there should be three clubhouses within a 20-kilometer radius that meet these conditions."

Yu Haifeng drew three circles on the map, representing Yuezhou No. 1 Clubhouse, Xiangcheng Clubhouse, and Zhuyuan Mountain Villa. All three were in the City, utilizing natural resources like urban lakes, forests, and wetlands. They bought land to allow guests to be close to nature within the City.

Of course, being in the City and close to nature meant the prices were not cheap.

"These three are all member-exclusive clubhouses, and they are all protected by big shots in the City. If we are not very confident, we cannot act rashly," Yu Haifeng said.

He was mainly reminding Ye Lin, fearing he might secretly investigate.

Ye Lin's mouth twitched. There was no need to climb walls to enter places where one could get in by paying and pulling strings, but it was inconvenient to tell Yu Haifeng directly.

Three clubhouses. If Zheng Xiao's feeling was correct, she was probably assaulted in one of these three places.

Ye Lin silently closed his eyes. "Girls, please bless us from the heavens, so we can break this den of iniquity as soon as possible and prevent more girls from being assaulted."

At noon, the search warrant was approved. It would have taken some time, but with Director Gao Dawen's vigorous efforts, Ye Lin and his team obtained the search warrant at the fastest speed.

Upon receiving the search warrant, Yu Haifeng immediately gathered everyone because he needed to control Chen Bin and bring him to the scene. As soon as evidence was found, he would be arrested immediately.

According to Ye Lin, it was highly likely that Zheng Xiao was murdered there.

During this period, mainly Yu Haifeng and his two colleagues were investigating the case. In fact, the other members of the Criminal Police Team had no idea what was happening and were a bit confused when Yu Haifeng called for a gathering.

"Team Leader Yu, is there an operation?" Wang Longxin looked at Yu Haifeng with anticipation.

"Yes, Comrades, this is a search warrant for Room 601, Unit 2, Building 5 of Blue Garden Community. This house belongs to Chen Bin, the director of Chengguan Police Station. We now suspect that he murdered a female student named Zheng Xiao here in September three years ago. We are now going to search for evidence according to the law," Yu Haifeng said with a serious expression.

Hiss.

A collective gasp of cold air filled the scene.

Suspecting a Police Station Director of murder was like turning the knife inwards. If it was confirmed, it would be fine, but if they wrongly accused him, they would be cursed to death.