He Junchao's remarks made everyone take a breath of cold air.
You know, Hu Zhe's mysterious disappearance by the river is enough to make everyone's investigation unclear.
But now, the red-haired man who followed Hu Zhe also disappeared by the river.
This left Gu Chen a little confused.
"Are you sure? Are you sure that the place where the red-haired man disappeared last was by the river?" Gu Chen quickly asked.
"Of course." He Junchao on the phone also replied affirmatively:
"I checked the surveillance video of the red-haired man repeatedly and found that he, like Hu Zicic, disappeared after arriving at the riverside."
"Previously, the focus of our investigation was on Hu Zhe, but we did not find this red-haired man."
"Gu Chen, I think it's safer for you to return to the riverside and check the specific situation."
"Okay." Listening to He Junchao's words, Gu Chen now felt that many previous investigations seemed to be in vain.
Thinking that the focus of the investigation now should be back to the red-haired man, Gu Chen also drove to Binjiang Road in person after a brief communication with He Junchao.
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When we arrived at Binjiang Road, the area where Hu Zhe lost contact, it was already 10:40 in the morning.
At this moment, people were coming and going on Binjiang Road, which made Gu Chen feel confused.
After everyone got off the bus, they also came to the last monitoring area and looked around.
Lu Weiwei pointed in the direction of the surveillance camera and reminded: "Junior Brother Gu, this is the surveillance camera on Binjiang Road that last captured Hu Zhe and the red-haired man."
"This is the only scope covered, so it should be infallible."
"Yeah." Gu Chen responded softly, and then walked towards the riverside.
Looking at the buildings on the other side, I fell into deep thought.
Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also stood on Gu Chen's side.
Because Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came here to do on-the-spot investigation before, they also discovered that Hu Zhe had indeed swam from this area to the other side at night.
But there was no surveillance video of Hu Zhe coming ashore from the opposite side.
But the red-haired man also lost contact with the last surveillance.
This suddenly gave Gu Chen a terrible thought.
"Gu Chen, what are you thinking about?" Seeing Gu Chen staring blankly at the other side, Officer Wang asked him curiously.
Gu Chen said slowly: "Senior Brother Wang, if, I mean if, if, that night, it was not Hu Zhe who swam to the other side, but the red-haired man, what do you think is the possibility of this?"
"What did you say?" Officer Wang was stunned for a moment after hearing Gu Chen's bold assumption.
But after calming down, Officer Wang suddenly frowned and seemed to understand what Gu Chen meant:
"You're saying that Vujicic might not have swam to the other side, and that the swimmer the two old men saw that night might have been a red-haired man?"
"Yes, that's what I mean." Gu Chen also nodded and admitted, and continued to express his opinion:
"That's what I thought. Hu Zicic was not the only person who came to the river that night."
"And the two old men didn't see the swimmer clearly."
"Then, maybe it was the red-haired man who entered the water directly from the shore and swam to the other side. This scenario is not impossible."
"Moreover, according to the information provided by Zhang Ying before, Hu Zhe only swam in the hotel swimming pool and did not swim across the river."
"Anyone who knows how to swim knows that swimming in a swimming pool and swimming across a river are completely different things."
"Furthermore, swimming across a river is a great test for a swimmer's physical fitness. Ordinary swimmers would not dare to cross the river easily without any protective measures."
"I understand." Seeing that Gu Chen had spoken so clearly, Officer Wang suddenly realized:
"Gu Chen, what you mean is that although Hu Zhe can swim, he may not have the strength to swim across the river."
"And that red-haired man may happen to have this kind of strength, is that what you mean?"
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently and continued:
"So, I think we still need to evaluate the swimming level of the red-haired man and Vujicic."
"This is used to determine whether the person who swam across the other side that night was Vujicic or the red-haired man."
"Yes." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Yuan Shasha quickly agreed:
"If Vujicic discovers that the red-haired man has been following him, then he will definitely find a way to escape."
"But since he had escaped from the ventilation duct of the toilet, why didn't he choose to leave from other areas? Instead, he chose to swim across the river? This is obviously against common sense."
"I feel like he doesn't have this need at all, and the person swimming across the river may be the red-haired man."
"Vujicic may have been found by him, but in order to deceive others, he needed to swim across the river to cover up Vujicic's true traces."
"Then why didn't anyone come ashore on the other side?" Lu Weiwei also raised her own doubts.
But Gu Chen quickly gave the answer: "If the water quality is good, he might swim to another area along the shore while quickly swimming to the other side."
"It is also possible to choose a secret place to go ashore to avoid surveillance."
"Yes." Officer Wang also affirmed: "There are a lot of surveillance over the Jiangnan Bank building. I'm afraid the swimmer must know this."
"So in front of the two witnesses, he pretended to swim to the Jiangnan Bank Building on the other side, but in fact, he was also acting for the two witnesses."
"If the two elderly people swimming are discovered by our police, then they can indirectly become witnesses of the swimmer and give our police misleading clues."
"But if our police don't find the two old witnesses, then he can also evade tracking."
"But in this case, we may focus our investigation on Hu Zicic swimming across the river."
After a pause, Officer Wang continued to express his opinion: "But one thing is that Hu Zhe's body was not found on the river, which means that there is no body on the river, which means that the swimmer is still alive."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "In addition, Vujicic may have been quietly transferred from another location."
"However, the surveillance on Binjiang Road could not capture Hu Zhe's missing figure, so how did he disappear?" Lu Weiwei also looked in disbelief.
But while everyone was arguing, Gu Chen's eyes were attracted by a garbage bin placed on Binjiang Road.
This is the garbage transfer station on Binjiang Road, a garbage bin with a stainless steel shell placed in the open air.
Generally, for this kind of garbage bin, at a certain time, there will be one or two garbage trucks, and the hooks on the vehicles are used to directly hook the rectangular garbage bin onto the vehicle and tow it away.
Of course, when the garbage truck picks up a long garbage bin full of garbage, it will also put down another empty long garbage bin.
Seeing this, Gu Chen's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "I seem to know how the red-haired man got Hu Zhe away."
"Ah?" After hearing what Gu Chen said, the eyes of everyone present instantly turned to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen didn't explain too much. He pointed to the long trash can not far away and said, "That's it."
"Trash can?" Everyone said in unison, looking confused.
Lu Weiwei, who reacted quickly, instantly understood what Gu Chen meant, and said hurriedly: "I understand, this Hu Zhe was thrown into this trash can after being attacked, and then the trash can was hooked up by a garbage truck. So we can see
There is no sign of Vujicic leaving."
"But in fact, Hu Zhe was hidden in the garbage bin and left with the garbage truck. Is that so? Junior Brother Gu?"
Looking at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei also looked expectant.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "Yes, if we can't explain how Hu Zhe disappeared, then I believe that Hu Zhe must have been on Binjiang Road at that time."
"But he was just hidden in a secret corner. This is the only place where people can be hidden without being discovered."
While talking, Gu Chen also hurriedly walked towards the trash can.
When everyone saw this, they followed closely.
“Because there are so many bars and restaurants on Binjiang Road, it has become a collection station for garbage. A lot of garbage will eventually be dumped into the long garbage bins here.”
"And there are two sliding doors on both sides of the long garbage bin."
"When the garbage is full, the garbage truck will close the garbage door, and then use the hook of the garbage truck to hook the long garbage bin directly onto the truck and take it away."
"That's it." Officer Wang tried to close the garbage door and suddenly realized:
"Could it be said that Vujicic was indeed attacked that night? And the attacker was the red-haired man?"
"It's hard to say, but at least it's possible." Although Gu Chen knew that this was just his own speculation.
However, Gu Chen's speculations were all reasonable inferences based on the items at the scene.
Yuan Shasha covered her nose and glanced into the trash can before she couldn't help but say:
"It's disgusting here. If you hide in a trash can, I don't think anyone can bear it."
"But if Vujicic was thrown into the trash can after being attacked, I think this is very likely."
"Moreover, perhaps the red-haired man swimming across the river was really just to create a cover-up for our police, so that we would believe that the person who swam across the river that night was Vujicic."
"Alas!" After hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Officer Wang said angrily:
"It's all the blame on He Junchao. Why did he only investigate Hu Zicic when he investigated Hu Zicic? If it had been discovered earlier that this red-haired man also appeared in the surveillance video, we wouldn't have had to worry so much."
"There's no need to blame Senior Brother He." Gu Chen held his mobile phone and repeatedly watched the surveillance video sent by He Junchao, and also reminded:
"From this point of view, the red-haired man actually has a cover-up move. It can easily make people think that he came out to get some air, smoke a cigarette or something."
"Moreover, his walking movements were obviously towards the bar."
"But in fact, he did not return to the bar in the end. But given the situation at that time, the focus of our investigation was on Vujicic, so we instinctively ignored the red-haired man."
"But now it seems that the red-haired man may have discovered the surveillance in front of him, so he needs to cover up his behavior, and then avoid the surveillance and catch up with Vujicic."
After taking two steps, Gu Chen roughly checked the surrounding terrain, and then said:
"Look here, the red-haired man can indeed come to the shore from the blind spot of the surveillance, and then find Vujicic."
"The two may have had a conflict, and then the red-haired man attacked Vujicic, and finally put Vujicic into a trash can and was taken away with the garbage truck."
"And he himself chose to swim across the river, leaving us a false clue."
"But Junior Brother Gu." After hearing Gu Chen's analysis, Lu Weiwei also said quickly:
"If Vujicic was dragged away by a garbage truck, he could be dragged to the garbage station and processed in various ways. He would definitely be discovered by the staff at the garbage station."
"But if this is the case, the staff at the garbage station will definitely call the police."
"But so far, we have not received relevant notifications. What does this mean?"
"It means that the red-haired man may have an inside job and has already taken care of the garbage station work in advance."
Gu Chen also answered the question.
Yuan Shasha nodded silently: "Yes, if the red-haired man wants to avoid being discovered, he will definitely contact his accomplices, and then have people drag the trash can away, and then find a way to get Hu Zhe away."
"In this way, you can do it without anyone noticing, making everything look reasonable, and the staff at the garbage station can't find it."
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded in agreement, and then added: "So, now we have a new direction of investigation, which is garbage trucks."
"We have to find the vehicle that took away the trash bin that day to figure out the specific problem."
"In addition, the traces of the red-haired man also need to be investigated on the spot. Where is the red-haired man now?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I think he must still be active in Jiangnan City, or he is hiding somewhere to avoid being discovered by us."
"This is easy to handle." After hearing what Gu Chen meant, Officer Wang quickly said:
"Let's go to the company where the red-haired man works now to investigate."
"No." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly retorted:
"We can't alert the snake yet, we must investigate secretly. Once these people are on guard, the investigation will be very difficult."
"We have to make these people paralyzed and then catch them by surprise."
"That's right." Listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Officer Wang felt that it meant the same thing.
Yuan Shasha quickly asked: "Brother Gu, should we investigate the garbage truck now?"
"Yes, let's go investigate the garbage truck now." After thinking about it, Gu Chen quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed He Junchao's phone number directly.
Not long after, He Junchao's cell phone was connected, and Gu Chen quickly explained to He Junchao:
"Brother He, investigate the first garbage truck that came to the Binjiang Road area to haul away the trash cans that morning, that is, after Hu Zhe disappeared."
"Look at this car from Binjiang Road to the middle of the garbage station. Is there anything abnormal?"
"Also, investigate the driver of the garbage truck and send me the specific identity information."
"Understood." He Junchao agreed on the phone, but then asked quickly:
"Gu Chen, you're such a good person, why are you investigating this?"
"Don't you know better?" Seeing that He Junchao hadn't turned the corner yet, Gu Chen asked back.
After a while, He Junchao on the phone suddenly realized: "Gu Chen, do you think this garbage truck may be the key to Hu Zhe's disappearance?"
"That's pretty much what it means. Please help me investigate quickly, right now."
"Okay, I'll help you investigate right away and contact you later."
After a simple communication, the two understood each other's meaning and hung up the phone.
After Gu Chen waited for five minutes, He Junchao called again.
Without saying anything, Gu Chen quickly opened the answer button and asked, "How?"
"Gu Chen, you are so amazing." He Junchao's incredible voice came over the phone.
After hearing what he said, Gu Chen probably understood that there might be something wrong with the garbage truck, so he quickly asked:
"what's the situation?"
"Gu Chen, the earliest garbage truck that came to haul the garbage that day was at 5 o'clock in the morning."
"The strange thing is that when this garbage truck drove to Wutong Road, it disappeared from the surveillance for a long time."
"Because on Wutong Road, only the two ends are monitored, not the middle section."
"But this car ended up on Zhongshan Road, dragging the garbage bin there for disposal."
"How long did it take for it to disappear?" Gu Chen asked quickly.
He Junchao immediately responded: "It took about fifteen or six minutes, and finally the car slowly appeared on the surveillance screen. There must be something fishy in it."
"Understood." Gu Chen was very satisfied with the answer and quickly asked He Junchao: "The driver's identity information and where he is currently? Do you know?"
"I have sent you the identity information. He should still be at the Zhongshan Road recycling station."
"Okay, I'll go find him now." After receiving the accurate information from He Junchao, Gu Chen quickly hung up the phone.
Seeing this, Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also hurried over.
"How?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.
"Sure enough, there was something wrong with the driver of the garbage truck. The vehicle disappeared into the surveillance blind spot for fifteen or six minutes."
"I estimate that if Vujicic was dead during this period, someone was moving the body."
"Is that so?" Listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Yuan Shasha frowned slightly and said slowly:
"Then let's go over now and ask the driver about the situation?"
"Let's go now." Gu Chen had no intention of staying here any longer and immediately went to look for the driver.
So everyone followed Gu Chen, got in the car again, and drove towards the garbage station on Zhongshan Road together.
On the road, Gu Chen deliberately chose to drive the vehicle to Wutong Road.
Wutong Road is not a main road, but a branch road.
According to the navigation tips, it is actually a shortcut from Wutong Road to Zhongshan Road Garbage Station.
There are many big trees on both sides of the road, blocking the road a bit weirdly.
Driving on this road, it feels like entering a green tunnel.
Stopping the vehicle in the middle area, Gu Chen got out of the car to check the situation.
Only then did I discover that there were several passages around, all leading to some old communities.
Even if a camera is installed here, it will be easily blocked by the dense leaves.
According to the clues provided by He Junchao, there are cameras at both ends of the road, but the area in the middle is a blind spot for surveillance.
"This location is really good." Gu Chen couldn't help but sigh.
"Ah?" Lu Weiwei was a little confused when she heard this: "Junior Brother Gu, what did you say?"
"I mean, this place is really nice. If I were that red-haired man, if I wanted to deal with Hu Zhe, I would definitely choose to move here." Gu Chen said.
According to Gu Chen's thoughts, Lu Weiwei also roughly observed the surrounding situation, then nodded silently, and said involuntarily:
"Yes, this place is connected in all directions, but it is still a blind spot for surveillance. In addition, in the early morning, there are few people on the road, so it is indeed very secretive to move here."
Turning to look at the houses on both sides, Lu Weiwei added: "On both sides of the road are residential walls, and the big trees on both sides isolate the buildings in the residential areas from the road."
"This means that this is not only a blind spot for surveillance, but also a visual blind spot for the community."
"There is action here, and there are no witnesses around to see the situation. It is indeed a good place."
"That's right." Officer Wang observed from the other side and pointed at one of the roads and said:
"There is an open space here. It is a temporary open space for purchasing scraps. It is full of junk stuff."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "From here, there are many paths leading to other areas."
"It can be said that this place is connected in all directions, but there is very little monitoring."
"If Vujicic was moved here, it would be really difficult to trace."
"In other words, it can be tracked, but it takes a lot of energy."
"Then leave it to He Junchao, he is good at this." Lu Weiwei also told the truth.
After all, it has always been everyone's requirement for He Junchao to maximize the strength of the tool man.
Gu Chen nodded silently and agreed, "Yes, leave this to Senior Brother He. What we have to do now is to find the driver quickly."
Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen reminded again: "Get in the car, let's go to Zhongshan Road Garbage Transfer Station."
After the words fell, everyone immediately returned to the vehicle.
After driving again for nearly 18 minutes, everyone finally arrived at their destination.
Zhongshan Road, garbage recycling station, a small transfer station.
Here, the garbage loaded from the garbage truck is dumped into a garbage pit.
Then a hydraulic device is used to compress all the garbage here.
In this way, the garbage will be compressed into a very small cube.
Other larger vehicles will then pull the compressed garbage to another garbage dump for secondary processing.
The garbage station on Zhongshan Road mainly deals with the problem of secondary treatment of garbage, that is, compression volume.
When Gu Chen came here, he found several small garbage trucks parked around him.
In the operation room, an operator is operating the instrument and using the hydraulic device to compress garbage.
Several men in work clothes stood aside smoking and chatting.
Gu Chen took out his phone, checked again the driver's information sent by He Junchao, and shared it with his colleagues:
"This man's name is Zhao Bo. Please pay attention."
"That's the one smoking over there." Lu Weiwei recognized Zhao Bo who was smoking at a glance.
Officer Wang nodded silently: "Don't say anything. Go over to him and ask him clearly."
After the words fell, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha hurriedly walked towards the men in work clothes.
Not long after, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha and took Zhao Bo out of the crowd and directly to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen didn't hesitate and reminded him directly: "Get in the car."
"Go up." Yuan Shasha also reminded.
Later, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei sat in the front row.
Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha were sitting on either side of the back seat of the vehicle, and Zhao Bo was caught in the middle.
Looking at the strange atmosphere in the car, Zhao Bo was also very nervous and quickly asked: "Comrade police, you said you wanted to find out about the situation from me, what exactly do you want to know?"
"Are you responsible for the garbage truck transportation operations at the Binjiang Road Bar Street these days?" Officer Wang didn't follow him and asked straight to the point.
Zhao Bo scratched his cheek and nodded silently: "Yes, I am indeed responsible for consigning the garbage on the Binjiang Road Bar Street."
"Then do you still remember that one morning, you towed the garbage truck to Wutong Road and parked it there? Is this the case?"
"Ah?" Zhao Bo, who seemed a little guilty after being asked this question by Yuan Shasha, was also stunned.
Officer Wang frowned and said, "Tsk, just tell me whether you have it or not?"
"Uh, this..." After thinking about it, Zhao Bo also asked cautiously:
"By the way, what are you asking about?"
"Hey!" Officer Wang was not very happy when he saw that Zhao Bo didn't answer the question and said directly:
"I'm asking you now, you just need to answer yes or no."
"Okay." I feel that the reason why the police can find me is that they may be able to investigate various situations about me that day.
Zhao Bo is also a smart man and replied directly: "Yes, my garbage truck was indeed parked on Wutong Road that day for a long time."
"Why stop there?" Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the front row, asked.
"Because...because..."
"Why?" Seeing Zhao Bo's hesitation in speaking, Lu Weiwei asked impatiently.
Zhao Bo, who was wearing work clothes, also scratched his cheeks habitually, then lowered his head and said:
"Because that day a friend said that one of his valuable watches might have been thrown into this trash can by his girlfriend."
"So, they asked me to do a favor and park the garbage truck on Wutong Road after towing it out."
"Then let him search it again, right?" Before Zhao Bo could finish speaking, Gu Chen answered for him.
Zhao Bo nodded silently: "Yes."
"Then when did they tell you?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Just before I tow the garbage truck."
"No, you are lying." Seeing Zhao Bo's answer, Gu Chen also got straight to the point:
"If they tell you this, then you will definitely search for it yourself when towing away the garbage truck. Your statement is obviously difficult to believe."
Gu Chen turned around and glanced at Zhao Bo, who was sitting in the middle of the back row, and continued:
"Actually, they may have told you to tow the garbage truck directly to Wutong Road, and you actually knew their intention."
"Because what's in the trash bin may not be the watch, but a person."
"ah?"
After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhao Bo in the back row couldn't help but tremble, as if he was being stimulated.
"Am I right?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Ah?" Zhao Bo frowned and slowly lowered his head: "No... no."
"You're talking nonsense." Seeing that Zhao Bo didn't seem to know how to lie, Yuan Shasha, who was sitting next to him, retorted directly:
"Tell me, how much benefit did they give you before they asked you to help park the vehicle on Wutong Road for them to rummage through?"
"I...I don't know."
"Zhao Bo." After seeing what happened so far, Zhao Bo seemed to be lucky. Officer Wang couldn't stand it anymore and responded in a stern tone:
"I'm telling you, there might be a person hiding in that box of garbage you dragged."
"And this group of people may be involved in a murder case, and that person may be a corpse."
"You helped them move the body, but you said you didn't know. Do you think we are stupid? Or are you smart enough? You think you can fool us, huh?"
Also startled by Officer Wang's stern tone, Zhao Bo suddenly trembled and spoke with trepidation:
"I...I really don't know anything. That day my friend asked me to do a favor and said that he and his girlfriend had a conflict. In the end, my girlfriend threw the expensive watch directly into the trash can."
"He asked me to help him park the car on Wutong Road and leave the rest to them."
"How many people were waiting for you on Wutong Road that early morning?" Gu Chen asked.
"Two." Zhao Bo stretched out two fingers and said:
"One of them gave me a pack of cigarettes, then pulled me aside and chatted with me."
"Because he took me to a corner, I couldn't see how the other person was rummaging."
"Be more specific." Officer Wang was a little impatient and reminded again: "He pulled you to a corner and didn't let you watch the rummaging process. Didn't you notice anything unusual?"
"Yes, I feel like they are not looking for watches." Zhao Bo took a deep breath and tried to calm down, and then said:
"However, I feel like they are not easy to mess with, so I don't want to worry about it."
"They promised to give me benefits, so I can just take them. They won't let me take care of anything else."
"Are you still lying?" Seeing Zhao Bo speak with great emotion, Gu Chen, who was sitting in the driver's seat, also said coldly:
"Actually, you already knew what was in the trash can? But in order to clear the air, you just said you didn't know?"
Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen said helplessly: "Zhao Bo, there is a body hidden in your trash can. I think you should have known about it beforehand."
"You're not stupid enough not to check it out. Do you think this is logical?"
"I……"
"You should tell the truth. We don't have the patience to listen to you make up stories." Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was also speechless.
I feel that Zhao Bo’s rhetoric is full of loopholes.
Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, who were sitting on either side of Zhao Bo, also stared at Zhao Bo with sharp eyes.
Zhao Bo seemed to be on pins and needles. After struggling with his inner thoughts for a long time, he sighed heavily and said helplessly:
"Okay, I'll do it all. Yes, I'm lying. In fact, I know everything."
