Listening to Gu Chen thinking about his thoughts here, Lu Weiwei seemed to be thinking of something?
I had been listening to witnesses' various reviews of the incident, and it was obvious that they were being led to a wrong rhythm.
In the eyes of witnesses, the murderer must be a bearded man wearing a peaked cap.
But the witnesses may not know it clearly, maybe the murderer deliberately let the witnesses see all this.
"I know." Lu Weiwei seemed to have followed Gu Chen's thoughts, and suddenly realized: "The murderer may be disguised as a bearded man, and the murderer probably swam from the water to the river bank, and then killed Zhang Qi
, fled to the woods."
"What else?" Gu Chen continued to ask like a teacher.
Lu Weiwei scratched her cheek: "Also...and if the murderer was disguised, he must have been seen by witnesses, but he could have jumped into the river to escape, so why did he run into the woods?
"
"Are you so nervous that you don't choose the right path? Or..."
After a brief hesitation for a few seconds, Lu Weiwei saw that Gu Chen had been staring at her, looking forward to her opinion. Suddenly her eyes lit up and she said:
"I understand. The murderer was deliberately acting it out for the witnesses. If he escaped towards the river, from the angle of this landscape stone, the witnesses would not be able to discover the murderer's specific appearance."
"But the murderer did not do this. Instead, he chose another escape route, which was to run into the woods."
"But in this way, my body shape and appearance will be completely exposed to the sight of witnesses."
"So since this murderer committed the murder with a purpose, it is impossible not to prepare a way out for himself. What will happen if someone discovers him?"
"So what does Senior Sister Lu think?" Gu Chen seemed to have figured out that Lu Weiwei had already guessed the result.
Lu Weiwei on the side also said slowly: "I think the murderer's appearance may be a disguise, and when he escaped, he deliberately let witnesses find him, just to confuse us later."
"Maybe." After hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Gu Chen didn't say anything too serious.
So he took out his mobile phone, took pictures of the special footprints on the ground, and said:
"From the current point of view, the new footprints are bare feet, and according to eyewitnesses, the only person swimming here tonight is Liao Jianbo."
"After all, in this cold weather, the water temperature in the river is also very low. No one would just go swimming on a whim. This requires enough courage."
"But the murderer may have come ashore barefoot and came through the water. This shows that at least two people were in the water at that time."
"In other words, the murderer may have sneaked into the river beach from the water, killed Zhang Qi, and then deliberately exposed his appearance to the witnesses to confuse everyone." Lu Weiwei said thoughtfully:
"Junior Brother Gu, can I think that this murderer is covering up for someone?"
"It seems that Senior Sister Lu has already guessed it, please tell me." Gu Chen said with a smile.
"He is covering for Liao Jianbo." Lu Weiwei blurted out.
This is also in line with Gu Chen's expectations, after all, the facts are here.
"If the murderer wanted to cover up deliberately, there would definitely be beneficiaries. And judging from the defense testimony given by witnesses to Liao Jianbo at the time, it seems that Liao Jianbo's suspicion has been directly ruled out."
"This obviously shows that during the entire incident, the vested interest was Liao Jianbo, and he was completely excluded."
After a pause, Gu Chen added: "Of course, this does not necessarily mean that Liao Jianbo must be related to the murderer, but at least judging from the current situation, Liao Jianbo's alibi can be explained."
"So, next, I think the murderer may pass through the woods and continue to dive into the water to escape."
"I think so too." Lu Weiwei seemed to be thinking along with Gu Chen.
The two of them joined together, continued to hold strong flashlights, and began to follow the footprints into the woods.
After passing the soft sand and gravel on the river beach, there is a small forest ahead.
The woods are surrounded by low lawns, which are landscape vegetation deliberately arranged by the developer.
And the new footprints also lost their mark around the lawn.
But if you look carefully, you can still see that there are signs of depressions on many green lawns.
Based on the latest depression in the lawn, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei tracked it down, and finally rediscovered the missing barefoot mark in the gravel near the river bank.
"Junior Brother Gu, look quickly." Lu Weiwei pointed forward with her finger and said hurriedly: "It's a footprint, the barefoot footprint just now."
"I saw it." Gu Chen nodded silently to express his understanding.
"Judging from the direction of the footprints, it is indeed heading towards the river." Lu Weiwei said.
Gu Chen stood by the river and carefully observed the surrounding environment.
From the woods to the previous swimming area of Liao Jianbo, it seems that one is upstream and the other is downstream.
But this location is very secretive.
"If the murderer jumped into the water to escape here, it feels completely unnecessary." Gu Chen pointed to the side of the woods and said: "Go this way, through the woods, you can leave the scenic spot, and go down to the river from here, what is he trying to do?"
"Yes, what's the motive?" Lu Weiwei was also thinking, and couldn't help but murmured: "If you go down the river from here, you can either swim to the other side, swim downstream, or swim upstream."
"But if you go upstream, you are very likely to encounter Liao Jianbo swimming in the river. But if you go downstream, wouldn't it be better for him to walk?"
Looking at the direction of the other side, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but exclaim: "If we swim to the other side..."
"Unlikely." Before Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen interrupted directly and said:
"If you swim to the other side, there is a forest area on the other side, which is still in the undeveloped stage."
"When we were looking for people here during the day, I paid attention to the terrain distribution on the other side."
"It can be said that because the woods opposite are well protected, they have dense vegetation. Many of them are primitive vegetation, the kind with spiky stems and vines."
"If you were to escape over there, your whole body would be scratched by these thorny stems and vines, and the murderer might be barefoot, which makes it even more unlikely."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "The only way is to go downstream, but..." Lu Weiwei thought for a few seconds, turned to look at Gu Chen and said: "But Junior Brother Gu, we just did
It’s been analyzed.”
"If he went downstream, there was no need for him to swim. Since he had already passed through the woods under the observation of witnesses, couldn't he just run out of the woods? And he couldn't swim downstream."
After she finished speaking, Lu Weiwei took out her mobile phone, clicked on the picture of the scenic spot guide that she had taken at the entrance of the park with her mobile phone, and showed it in front of Gu Chen and said:
"You see, this section of the river is actually beautiful in scenery, but when it reaches the lower reaches, it is blocked by nylon nets."
"This place is planned to be developed into a rafting tourism project by the Yuan Group during the summer."
"It's the dry season now, so a small dam is currently under construction. Since it hasn't been built yet, it needs to intercept various garbage and debris upstream, so there are several nylon nets here to block it."
Taking a deep breath, Lu Weiwei also said angrily: "If the murderer swims to a place like this, then he is just looking for trouble and cannot swim there at all."
"Yes, Senior Sister Lu is right." I feel that Lu Weiwei's analysis based on the terrain is indeed very reasonable.
So Gu Chen followed Lu Weiwei's words and replied directly:
"So it is completely impossible for the murderer to go down the river from here and swim to the other side, because the primitive vegetation would have scratched him all over, and it is not conducive to crossing the jungle."
"If he swims downstream, the murderer will be blocked by the nylon net and cannot swim to a safe area."
"And the murderer could have walked through the jungle and escaped in other directions, but the murderer entered the water here."
After a pause, Gu Chen also reminded: "In this kind of weather, it is almost impossible for someone to go into the water here, so there is only the mark of the murderer's bare feet here."
"This can almost eliminate other irrelevant persons. In this way, there is only one swimming direction for the murderer..."
"That's upstream!"
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei said the last words in unison, both wanting to go together.
"But..." Lu Weiwei hesitated for a moment and then said thoughtfully: "But if the murderer swam upstream, wouldn't he run into Liao Jianbo?"
"But Liao Jianbo found no trace of the murderer during the inquiry just now. This is impossible."
"After all, the river is only so wide. Liao Jianbo was in the river at that time and there was no one else around."
"If someone swam past Liao Jianbo, it stands to reason that he would be able to find it, but he didn't."
"That's because no one swam past him at all." Gu Chen also put it bluntly and said calmly: "Because the murderer may be Liao Jianbo himself."
"Himself?" Lu Weiwei was surprised for a few seconds, then asked Gu Chen: "I heard from witnesses before that when Liao Jianbo swam to the upstream area, he was still saying hello to Zhang Qi on the shore, and the two were still interacting in the air
."
"But if that's the case, then all this was just a cover-up. Liao Jianbo's purpose was to confuse the witnesses on the shore, right?"
"Maybe." Gu Chen was also thinking and said, "But the two witnesses just now also repeatedly emphasized that the woman always said the same thing in the interaction between the two, and her voice was weird."
"But if the murderer is Liao Jianbo, it is obvious that this location was carefully chosen by him in order to create a murder in which he was not at the scene of the crime."
"The two witnesses near the pavilion obviously became Liao Jianbo's pawns in a daze."
"Are you saying the same thing over and over again?" Lu Weiwei folded her arms and held her chin up, thinking, "Junior brother Gu, if I am Zhang Qi now, and you are Liao Jianbo."
"You are swimming in the river, and I chatter the same words and say hello to you without listening. Don't you think it's weird?"
"Of course." Gu Chen also grinned and explained, "So this is also a doubtful point. Who in the right mind would keep repeating the same greeting to people swimming in the river?"
"This shows that Zhang Qi was not normal at that time. It is possible that Zhang Qi was already dead at that time."
"Already...dead?" Lu Weiwei also exclaimed in surprise when she heard this: "But if he is dead, then how could Zhang Qi say hello to Liao Jianbo in the river?"
"Senior Sister Lu." Gu Chen glanced at Lu Weiwei and said truthfully: "When I checked Zhang Qi's body before, I found some problems."
"That was Zhang Qi's time of death, which should be around 6:25 pm."
"But the noise we heard from the entrance of the scenic spot was at 5 after 7 p.m., but according to eyewitnesses, the time they saw the bearded man committing the murder was around 6:45."
"Liao Jianbo swam from the water to the shore and found that Zhang Qi was strangled to death between 6:58 and 7:00. We rushed to the scene after that."
"Based on time calculation, the time when witnesses discovered Liao Jianbo entering the water should have been around 6:25 p.m."
"6:25? Doesn't that coincide with the time of Zhang Qi's death?" After Lu Weiwei heard Gu Chen's words, she also asked Gu Chen:
"Junior Brother Gu, you knew clearly before that there was something fishy about the time of death, so why didn't you expose Liao Jianbo's lies face to face?"
"Because I didn't have any evidence at the time." Gu Chen told the truth and continued to explain:
"Think about it, Liao Jianbo has eyewitness testimony proving that the murderer was a bearded man, and before 6:45, Zhang Qi on the shore was still greeting and interacting with Liao Jianbo in the river."
"Judging from the time, Liao Jianbo had no time to commit the crime at all, because excluding various conditions and factors, Liao Jianbo had to swim from the water to the shore and then kill Zhang Qi, which is obviously too idealistic and unrealistic."
"In that case, there may be two murderers? But that's not right." Lu Weiwei still didn't understand.
It feels like there is a discrepancy in time.
Gu Chen grinned: "Yes, if the murderer is Liao Jianbo, then it will definitely give people the illusion that Liao Jianbo is committing the crime in disguise."
"Judging from various conditions at the scene, it is obvious that Liao Jianbo, who was in the water at the time, did not have such conditions."
"After all, Zhang Qi on the shore has been greeting him repeatedly. This factor alone can easily interfere with everyone's judgment."
"I understand." Lu Weiwei nodded silently and agreed: "In other words, if Zhang Qi had not been greeting Liao Jianbo in the river at that time, then it can be proved that Liao Jianbo swam to the shore after entering the water.
, strangled Zhang Qi to death."
"But if Zhang Qi's death was around 6:25 pm, which is when Liao Jianbo entered the water, then it means that the 'Zhang Qi' who had been greeting Liao Jianbo on the shore after he entered the water was actually someone else?
Doesn't this mean that Zhang Qi has a clone?"
Gu Chen shook his head: "The dead will not make any noise unless..."
"Unless what?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gu Chen said calmly: "Unless the movements of Zhang Qi heard by the witnesses at that time were just pre-recorded sounds to confuse the two witnesses and make them think that Zhang Qi was still alive at the time and had been following the water.
Liao Jianbo’s interaction.”
"Only in this way can the witnesses believe that the murderer is someone else, and the murderer appears with a bearded image at this time, which can deepen the impression of the two witnesses. He really has ulterior motives."
"So that's it?" Lu Weiwei heard this and said with relief after considering the previous environment:
"Then I understand, so the key clue is the sound Liao Jianbo made after swimming in the river. This sound may have been recorded before, so where the equipment is is very important."
"That's right." Seeing that Lu Weiwei finally understood, Gu Chen sighed and said, "If you want to complete this murder, you have to get rid of your own suspicion."
"This obviously shows that Liao Jianbo has made careful arrangements before, and there will be no situation where he comes to Ludao Scenic Area and others follow him all the way."
"The only reasonable explanation is that it must be a sound-like device used to play the sounds Zhang Qi had recorded before, in order to confuse witnesses."
"Where will the equipment be?" Lu Weiwei looked at the river in front of her and said thoughtfully:
"Could it have been abandoned in the river by the murderer? If so, you have to search for it in the river."
"But even if it is found, will the things inside still be useful?"
"This..." Gu Chen wasn't sure about this either. After all, the various structures developed here were managed by the Yuan Group.
It can be thought that the Yuan Group was building a small dam downstream of the river to store water and improve the landscape water level.
So if the water is drained, can these devices be found?
Gu Chen thought of this and suddenly had a new idea.
"Senior Sister Lu, let's go quickly and find the leaders of the tourist park." Gu Chen said.
"Ah?" Lu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, but quickly followed Gu Chen's pace.
The two of them walked all the way to the park management office.
At this moment, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha happened to be meeting with the leaders of the tourist attraction and discussing the specific situation.
I saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei finally arriving late, and their noses were red from the cold wind.
Officer Wang grinned and quickly reminded: "Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, it's cold outside, right? Come over quickly and have a cup of hot tea. I don't know where you two went."
"Yes, Senior Brother Gu, Senior Sister Lu, come over quickly and drink some hot tea." Yuan Shasha also held the hot tea in her hands to keep warm.
Not to mention, this Ludao Island is a mountainous area, but the temperature in the mountainous area is very low at night. It is no wonder that the Ludao Island tourist attraction has to clear out tourists at 8 pm during the trial operation period.
It can be seen that before the hotel was officially opened, the staff here were also very cold.
In this case, if there are no measures to keep warm, the tourist experience will obviously be greatly compromised.
Just after Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei sat down, a middle-aged man in a suit from the tourist area immediately made two cups of hot tea, brought it to them with his own hands, and said politely: "Comrade policemen, drink some hot tea.
Warm yourself up."
"Thank you." Lu Weiwei thanked her, quickly covered the cup with her cold hands, then put it to her mouth and took a sip.
But Gu Chen asked him directly: "Are you the leader here?"
"That's right." The middle-aged man in a suit nodded silently: "I am the person in charge of the Ludao Scenic Area."
"That's great, you're the one I'm looking for." Gu Chen said with a smile.
But after hearing what Gu Chen said, the middle-aged man in a suit frowned and became a little uneasy for a moment.
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