Chapter 688 - 631 Proactively Offering Help
"We stopped the ambulance right here."
Two paramedics from the ambulance stood at the crime scene, beginning to point things out.
The two individuals, one a part-time driver, the other strictly a paramedic for the rear compartment, both had certifications and were temporary workers. Summoned by the police for questioning numerous times, they felt a bit annoyed as well as uneasy.
Jiang Yuan, along with several others, looked around the parking space for a while before asking, "Did you check the surroundings? How far out did you go?"
"We’ve swept the area within a hundred meters that has a view of this parking spot. There’s no obvious sign of someone keeping watch." Xiao Liu understood what Jiang Yuan meant and immediately responded, eager to demonstrate his professionalism.
If someone had been waiting nearby for the victim, Yue Ling, to get in the car, they would likely have left some traces behind. Common signs included an abundance of cigarette butts, scuff marks from leather shoes, and sometimes a lot of snack wrappers, mineral water bottles, and even bottles of liquor.
In short, if a person spent the whole night awake, waiting here for the victim to drive to work, even if they only stood watch for one or two hours, they would need some kind of diversion. Human beings, after all, cannot truly sit still and stare at a scene without movement. The only people who can are the truly idle and dull-minded.
Therefore, when criminal investigators encounter cases with clear signs of someone lying in wait, they often search the surroundings. There’s no need to doubt the extent of some human’s boredom – from the top down: twirling hair, picking at dandruff, rubbing eyebrows, cleaning teeth, spitting, smoking, dusting off neck hair, picking at fingers, scratching walls with fingers, scratching the groin, scratching feet...
In short, when a person is idle, they really might do anything.
Xiao Liu and the team were seasoned detectives, and they had brought along several people to conduct the search. Even in Jiang Yuan’s view, their standard of work was passable.