The suspect had only confessed a short while ago, so he had not yet been transferred to the procuratorate and was still being held in the detention center.
This was a serious matter that forced Ma Houde and Zhou Yusheng to put the dismemberment case aside and rush over immediately.
Inside the detention center—at least in the cell where the dead ride-hailing driver had been held—the silence was terrifying. The victim's body was being examined on the spot.
Afterward, everyone was ordered to keep their mouths shut. This absolutely could not be allowed to reach the public.
For a suspect to be murdered inside a heavily guarded detention center—if word got out, it would be another devastating blow to the system's credibility.
"What's going on? How did the examination go?" Officer Ma paced anxiously outside the cell, glancing inside from time to time.
At that moment, an examiner came out with a strange look on his face. He seemed to be thinking about something, his expression hesitant.
"Just tell us what you found." Zhou Yusheng had grown impatient waiting and spoke up.
The examiner finally frowned and said, "The only thing we can confirm is that this was indeed a gunshot wound. A frontal gunshot wound that shot straight through the forehead. But..."
"But what?"
The examiner said incredulously, "We didn't find the bullet..."
Zhou Yusheng and Officer Ma were both stunned. Zhou Yusheng instinctively asked, "What do you mean?"
The examiner slowly explained, "I only found a bullet hole in the forehead. In other words, the bullet definitely didn't pass through... but it disappeared inside his brain. We really can't find it."
"What happened?" Ma Houde opened and closed his mouth. Since the bullet hadn't passed through, it should naturally have remained inside the body. But the bullet that