In the Baisui Peak Canteen, Gu Chen had lunch with Mayor Ma for the first time, and the location was just in a corner of the canteen.
Since there are not many staff here, the supply in the canteen is also very limited, which is equivalent to a big family gathering together for a meal.
And everyone seemed very casual.
"Director Gu, I heard that you guys ran all night long and only slept for a few hours. You must have been physically exhausted, right?" Mayor Ma knew Gu Chen's origins and felt that Gu Chen was a person, so he started talking.
Also polite.
Of course, Gu Chen was used to this kind of compliment, and he replied calmly: "Everyone has worked hard, but for now, we still focus on finding people. If we can't find people, all the previous efforts will be in vain."
"Then I heard that your search was fruitful." Seeing what Gu Chen said, Liu Yuan quickly asked.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "I found some clues, that is, the travelers who went up the mountain before were attacked by unknown people at night, and then they hurriedly fled and hid in the mountains."
"We were lost in the mountains and forests for a whole day and night, and we happened to bump into him."
"So that's it?" Listening to Gu Chen's brief introduction, Mayor Ma frowned and continued to ask:
"What happened next? Did you find anything else?"
"Later, we found several old wooden houses in the dense forest and met an old lady inside. The old lady's name was Liu Xiangmei. I wonder if Mayor Ma knows this person?"
"Liu Xiangmei?" Upon hearing Gu Chen's words, Mayor Ma was also stunned and couldn't help but say:
"I've never heard of this. What does this old lady do?"
"Her husband used to buy medicinal materials here, and later he went to open a pig farm." Lu Weiwei said.
"Is that so? Huh? That being said, I am somewhat impressed." It seemed that Mayor Ma was also somewhat impressed by Lu Weiwei's reminder.
After thinking for a few seconds, he slowly said:
"By the way, did Liu Xiangmei have a conflict with her husband before, and then she hid in the mountains alone? This seems to be the case, right? I remember hearing someone talk about it."
"That's true." As soon as Mayor Ma finished speaking, Liu Yuan, who was sitting next to him, quickly agreed.
"Right? I remember this." Seeing Liu Yuan also mentioning this, Mayor Ma couldn't help but said:
"I still remember that she seemed to have gotten together with someone during marriage. Then she got scared and hid in the mountains."
"Her husband was so angry that he left here and went to open a pig farm. Yes, this happened many years ago. We all heard about it at the time. Maybe everyone in Baisui Peak Town heard about it.
Said something."
"It seems that Liu Xiangmei's 'famous' is quite good?" Seeing that many people knew Liu Xiangmei, Officer Wang joked and quickly asked:
"Does Mayor Ma know why Liu Xiangmei has been living in that ravine? She was not originally from here."
"Moreover, the wooden house in the ravine was built by villagers from several previous villages to facilitate access to the mountains to collect medicine."
"I've heard of this." Seeing Officer Wang say this, Mayor Ma slowly replied:
"Anyway, why does Liu Xiangmei always live here? I haven't really investigated this."
"Because the place where she lives is said to be in a ravine. There is no electricity and no mobile phone signal."
"It's hard for most people to endure that kind of loneliness. Another thing is that a plague broke out there before."
"So, few people go there now, and I don't know why Liu Xiangmei stays there all the time?"
"However, someone has been delivering supplies to her. I heard from nearby villagers that they would use a motorcycle to deliver supplies to her every half a month or so."
"This has been going on for a long time, especially when we were going down the mountain, we passed by the wooden house where she was, and even the rice vat was full of rice."
"So, we want to investigate who is the person who helped her transport supplies? I wonder if we can provide help here?" Lu Weiwei said.
"Uh, let's do this." After a brief hesitation, Mayor Ma explained to Liu Yuan beside him:
"Director Liu, please help implement this matter."
"Okay, I'll do whatever you say." Mayor Ma opened his mouth, and Liu Yuan agreed readily.
Officer Wang quickly reminded: "Just to investigate, on the way to the village where you picked us up, who has been riding a motorcycle in the past few days?"
"This should be able to be found by surveillance through the road."
"Okay, leave it to me. Let's eat first, and we'll talk about the rest after dinner." Liu Yuan also had a smile on his face and hurriedly explained to everyone.
Everyone was already quite tired, so when they returned to the town, everyone's tense nerves were relieved.
So, everyone started to use chopsticks to solve the lunch problem.
During the lunch break, Mayor Ma asked Liu Yuan to arrange a rest area for the police officers. Many police officers chose to stay in offices and conference rooms to rest.
Gu Chen and others have their own dormitory, so they all rest in the dormitory.
At this moment, Gu Chen, Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were sitting in a room, discussing with each other the next task arrangements.
The two senior travelers were handed over to the police in Tai City for interrogation.
"Senior Brother Wang, see if we can get in touch with Senior Brother Lu Qiang. According to normal circumstances, they should be able to walk out of the forest and return to Hemu Village today."
"Yeah." Seeing that Gu Chen couldn't wait any longer, Officer Wang nodded slightly, picked up the phone again, and called again.
But this time, unlike the previous times, it was directly connected.
When Officer Wang saw this, he didn't say anything and quickly asked on the phone: "Brother Qiang, what's going on over there?"
"Oh, Brother Wang, I'm just about to report to you." Lu Qiang's hasty response came from the other end of the phone.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When Officer Wang heard this, he felt confused and quickly asked: "What's going on, Brother Qiang? Why are you so nervous when I listen to you?"
"Have you found the three outdoor friends I asked you to find?"
"A body was found." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Lu Qiang on the phone explained.
Officer Wang's eyes were stunned and he said in disbelief: "You... what did you say? Found a body?"
"Then this corpse is one of the three people we met last time?"
"That's right." On the phone, Lu Qiang also sighed heavily and said angrily:
"Last night, our team traveled all night and walked on the ridgeline in various ways."
"We were searching for traces of those three people along the way, and finally we found a camping spot."
After a pause, Lu Qiang continued to explain: "Oh, by the way, that camping spot was the place where the two outdoor hikers first pitched their tent when we met that day."
"I know there, you mean, in that place, you found the body of one of the people, right?"
"Yes." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Lu Qiang on the phone replied affirmatively:
"It's really surprising. We even checked the condition of the body and found that the man was strangled to death."
"Especially on the neck, there is a very obvious rope mark."
"Strangled to death with a rope? Is it so cruel?" When he heard this, Officer Wang felt more and more that things seemed to be developing out of control.
He glanced at Gu Chen beside him, picked up the phone, and quickly asked: "Then, Brother Qiang, where are you now? Have you checked all the roads?"
"It's been checked. It must be checked. I took the same path we took to the waterfall that day, and kept walking along the ridgeline."
"I didn't pay attention. Why did a guy die in the campground?"
"What about his tent?" Officer Wang thought of the two travelers he found camping near the waterfall, so he quickly asked.
Lu Qiang sighed and said: "The tents are all here. The most important thing is that all the tents on the top of the mountain are here."
"But the strange thing is that except for the deceased, the other two people are missing."
"We also tried to trace it at the scene, but found that there were very few traces found at the scene."
"In addition, the other two men wearing black jackets are currently missing. We mobilized manpower and tracked them nearby for a long time, but there were no clues."
"I don't think there is any signal on my mobile phone, so I might as well go back to the village for the time being and then make further plans."
When talking about this, Officer Wang could also feel the hard work of his old classmate on the phone.
So Officer Wang quickly comforted him and said, "Old classmates, it's hard for you this time. We also encountered many things during the big operation here."
"Oh? Really?" Listening to Officer Wang's story, Lu Qiang was also confused.
Officer Wang said unhurriedly: "Don't worry about this. Anyway, I will go to Hemu Village to find you next time, and then I will tell you what happened last night."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you in Hemu Village."
"good."
…
After finishing the call with Lu Qiang, Officer Wang lay on his back on the bed and said listlessly:
"This Lu Qiang, he actually found a corpse. Compared with the two senior travel companions we found, those three people seem to be very suspicious."
"Especially, Lu Qiang discovered that there was a deep strangulation mark on the neck of the deceased."
"So, they don't know what the situation is at the moment. But they are currently stationed at Centennial Peak and are on standby at any time."
"Go to Hemu Village." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen said directly that he wanted to leave immediately.
Officer Wang's expression was stunned: "Now?"
"Yes, that's right now." Gu Chen didn't hesitate and explained the situation:
"Now in this situation, people have died. I think there will be more or less clues in these people."
With a heavy sigh, Gu Chen added: "I really need all kinds of clues now, so we have to set off immediately."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Officer Wang knew that Gu Chen's temper, especially with the current case handling, seemed to be developing more and more into an uncontrollable situation.
So he stood up decisively, picked up his coat and put it on his body, following Gu Chen's footsteps.
When Gu Chen arrived on the first floor, he also took the initiative to walk towards Liu Yuan's office.
When the office door was opened, Liu Yuanzheng was lying on the sofa chair, squinting and taking a rest.
He was also startled by Gu Chen's action of pushing the door open, and he looked around in confusion.
Seeing Gu Chen standing in front of him, Liu Yuan also stood up with a smile and asked: "Gu Bureau, aren't you going to take a break at noon?"
"There is no need to rest for the time being." Gu Chen agreed casually and quickly asked:
"By the way, Director Liu, we asked you to investigate the information about the motorcyclist. Can you find it?"
"Uh, let's put it this way." Seeing Gu Chen's urgency in asking, Liu Yuan quickly explained:
"Actually, we have also discovered through surveillance that the person riding the motorcycle could not see his face clearly, and the motorcycle also blocked the license plate."
"Currently we have no idea where the car was parked. We also don't know who the driver was."
"You mean, you can't catch me even if you see the surveillance camera?" Officer Wang asked.
Liu Yuan nodded silently: "Although I don't want to admit it, it is the fact."
"The man on the motorcycle was so cunning that we didn't even know how he evaded our tracking."
With a faint sigh, Liu Yuan added: "Besides, our surveillance in Baisui Peak Town is not very large to begin with."
"So, there is no way to capture the trace of the motorcycle, but I am sure that the car should be parked in our town of Baisui Peak."
"Are you so sure? Is it because the surveillance at the exit didn't capture the motorcycle?"
"No." Director Liu looked downcast. He seemed to have lost his previous vigor in speaking.
"That can be like this." Seeing this situation, Gu Chen also expressed his opinion:
"Although there is no news about the motorcycle, one thing that is good is that it is very likely that the motorcycle is still in the town."
"Now in Baisuifeng Town, the road out has been blocked, and there is no real-time monitoring and tracking."
"The other party wants to escape, but I guess I won't be able to escape."
"As long as we investigate, we can probably find it out, but it will take a little time."
"That's easy to say." Seeing Gu Chen say this, Liu Yuan also smiled and said:
"I will arrange for manpower to check it now, but it may take a little longer."
"As for my subordinates, we can communicate very smoothly with the local people. It is most appropriate to let them handle this matter."
After thinking about it, Liu Yuan quickly asked: "Oh, by the way, are you going to Hemu Village? I see that you have been staying here for a long time, and you seem to want to go out?"
"Looks like you guessed it right, haha." Seeing that Liu Yuan was quite good at observing people, Officer Wang couldn't help but tease him.
Afterwards, Liu Yuan took out the car key directly from his drawer, threw it directly to Officer Wang in front of him, and reminded him:
"This is my car. This is the only way I can help you."
"Thank you." After taking Liu Yuan's car keys, Officer Wang waved to Liu Yuan and followed closely behind Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei.
Everyone came to the parking space together and drove Liu Yuan's vehicle away.
…
…
After going through various twists and turns on mountain roads, we finally arrived at Hemu Village again.
But this time, Lu Qiang has led the team back, and everyone is still living in the vacant old house, and there seems to be a heated debate.
"This guy is delivering goods again." After hearing the movements of his old classmate Liu Qiang, Officer Wang straightened his back and coughed twice.
Obviously, Lu Qiang heard the noise very quickly. When he turned around, Officer Wang was already standing in front of him.
"Old classmate, thank you for your hard work." Officer Wang smiled slightly and hurried forward.
Lu Qiang quickly stepped forward, pulled Officer Wang, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to a corner, and whispered:
"We found a body on the mountain and left it there. After preliminary trace identification, we found that the deceased was strangled to death with a rope."
"Then who do you think the murderer is?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.
"The murderer?" Lu Qiang waved his hand and continued to explain:
"There are very few traces that can be investigated at the scene. We have deployed manpower to go to the scene to check repeatedly, but there are no traces around."
After a pause, Lu Qiang also sighed and said again:
"Now, the body is placed there. If you want to go and have a look, you can go now."
"Go now." As soon as Lu Qiang finished speaking, Gu Chen echoed.
Later, Gu Chen took Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and Lu Qiang to the morgue.
At this moment, a middle-aged man was lying on the ground, his whole body bloodless.
"This is the body. I remember that we met him on the ridgeline before. I even chatted with him."
"But I didn't expect that when we met again, he was no longer here."
Sighing heavily, Lu Qiang shook his head helplessly: "I just don't know, I don't know why this is the case."
Here, Lu Qiang was still nagging over and over again, while on the other side, Gu Chen had already put on white gloves and checked the condition of the body.
In particular, he focused on checking the marks of strangulation on the deceased. When he saw bruises on the neck, Gu Chen also sighed and shook his head helplessly:
"It seems that the group of people who attacked the other end of the waterfall also attacked these three people."
"You mean, you also encountered an unexpected situation?" Listening to Gu Chen's story, especially since Lu Qiang had just come down from the mountain, he knew basically nothing about the situation on Gu Chen's side.
Gu Chen didn't hide it, he immediately glanced at Lu Weiwei beside him and reminded him:
"Senior Sister Lu, please help me tell my senior brother what happened to us last night."
"Okay." Lu Weiwei didn't care. As soon as Gu Chen said it, she hurriedly said it all.
After listening to Lu Weiwei's explanation, Lu Qiang's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but say:
"In this case, will those guys still be active nearby?"
"It's very possible." As soon as Lu Qiang finished speaking, Gu Chen reminded him:
"Another point is that we must strictly guard against it and do not leave the roadblock without taking advantage of bad weather conditions."
Having said this, Gu Chen also reminded again: "These murderers will most likely use the cover of night to leave Hemu Village secretly."
"Once this situation exists, it means that those gangsters can leave easily."
"I understand." Lu Qiang knew very well what Gu Chen meant.
Especially now, it seems like every step is wrong and every step is wrong.
Therefore, when faced with this situation, Lu Qiang agreed quite readily:
"I have already informed everyone that they must strictly guard the intersections entering the village. Once someone is found sneaking away from both sides of the road, they must be arrested as soon as possible."
"We also need to prevent these people from making small moves. After all, we have already found the body on the top of the mountain, and these people have been exposed."
"Moreover, you also confirmed on another road that someone was maliciously killing people in the mountains and forests."
"Perhaps, this has something to do with Lao Mumu's injury, but it is unlikely that he is from the village."
"How do you say it?" After hearing what Lu Qiang said, Lu Weiwei immediately became interested.
Lu Qiang smiled and said: "Yesterday our large army left Hemu Village collectively and went to the village. I specially arranged personnel to closely monitor this group of people."
"Once there is any disturbance, you must pay more attention to see those people behaving very strangely."
"What about the result?" Lu Weiwei always likes to see the results when looking at problems, so she asked one more question.
Liu Qiang smiled and said: "The result is that everything in the village is normal."
"Everyone has gone back to their houses to sleep very early, and we have set up a tent at the entrance to the village. Everyone is guarding the tent and not allowing anyone to leave easily."
"Several colleagues have caught colds, but everyone is still working."
"Send my regards to them." After hearing what Lu Qiang said, Gu Chen also expressed his gratitude, but then fell into deep thought.
Lu Weiwei looked at Gu Chen's sad face and sighed and said:
"We have now investigated and found that no one in the village went out at night. So, this means that the people who attacked these two groups of travel companions may not be from the village."
"It may also be the two people with relatively amateur equipment." Officer Wang expressed his opinion and said slowly:
"Those two people are closer to the disappearance of Xiao Yuan and Yan Zi. Not long after they entered Hemu Village, Xiao Yuan and Yan Zi disappeared."
"Especially since they themselves have lost their traces now, it's very strange."
"After all, there are only a few groups of people playing outdoors in the mountains, but no one is suspected."
A heavy slap on the forehead made Officer Wang feel very tired.
At this moment, when everyone turned their attention to Gu Chen again, Gu Chen discovered that there were some fibers in the gaps between the man's nails.
Gu Chen raised the deceased's hands and carefully inspected the other person's nails.
It was found that there were related fibers in the gaps between the two nails.
Gu Chen sighed softly and explained: "The deceased may have fought with the other person before his death, and the fibers remaining in the nails seemed to be from the other person's clothes."
"I'll extract it." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei had already prepared the transparent evidence collection bag.
Then, he took out his hairpin and began to put the fibers in the gaps between the man's fingers into a transparent evidence bag.
Although the method is a bit crude, it is very effective.
Gu Chen walked back and forth in front of the corpse, looking at it from time to time, and he said in a bad mood:
"Although this person has had conflicts with others, judging from the situation, he should have been attacked from behind."
"The deceased had no ability to resist for a while, so he could only scratch with both hands, and finally grabbed some fiber products from the other party's clothes into his fingernails."
With a sigh, Gu Chen added: "But his other two companions are wearing assault jackets, and these fibers do not exist, so there is only one possibility."
"That's what the murderer was wearing."
"Who could it be?" Officer Wang looked around, also lost in thought.
Lu Weiwei was stunned for a moment. She was about to say something, but suddenly froze.
Seeing this, Gu Chen asked out of curiosity: "Senior Sister Lu, do you have any questions?"
"Uh... no, maybe I'm overthinking, it's okay." Lu Weiwei shook her head.
Officer Wang complained: "Don't always be surprised. A lot of clues are coming now, aren't they?"
"Before, we didn't know who the two people who were chasing the two travelers who set up tents at the waterfall were. Now it's clear that they were at least wearing fiber clothes."
"It's not a professional jacket. What does that mean? It means that I'm not from the outdoor community at all."
"You can't say that. After all, this is just a preliminary inference. It can only prove that the murderer was wearing fiber clothes."
Lu Weiwei hesitated for a few seconds, then looked at Gu Chen and said, "Junior Brother Gu, none of the old people in the village seem to be wearing clothes made of this type of fiber."
"And I found that the material of this fiber seems to be unusual. The quality should be okay."
"Sister Lu, do you understand this?" Gu Chen asked with raised eyebrows.
Lu Weiwei on the side smiled and said: "We have encountered this kind of problem before when we were investigating some cases."
"Later I asked Gao Chuanfeng, and Gao Chuanfeng said that the price of fiber-made clothes can actually be determined by the material."
"I told you to just blow it? Even though I said so, I still asked him for permission."
After finishing her words, Lu Weiwei looked at the small fibers in the transparent evidence bag and said thoughtfully: "I always feel like I have seen this kind of material somewhere before?"
"Haha." Listening to Lu Weiwei's complaints, Officer Wang said angrily: "You can just brag, but if you really know this material, you'd better tell us quickly."
"After all, our investigation circle is shrinking now."
"Basically, start an investigation in Baisui Peak Town. If anyone is wearing clothes made of this kind of fiber, you'd better..."
"Wait a minute." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Lu Weiwei's eyes suddenly widened and she said in disbelief: "What did I suddenly think of?"
"What do you remember?" Officer Wang asked.
"I think about it, who is wearing this kind of fiber? I really think about it, why does it look so familiar, but, but..."
Halfway through her words, Lu Weiwei suddenly hesitated.
Officer Wang was extremely anxious and said angrily: "I said Lu Weiwei, when is it? Can't you remember better?"
"Wait, don't make any noise." Seeing Officer Wang chattering, Lu Weiwei reached out to interrupt him.
"Senior Brother Wang." Gu Chen also pointed it out with his eyes and made a hissing gesture.
Officer Wang sighed softly and shook his head helplessly.
Lu Qiang on the side was also stunned, quietly waiting for Lu Weiwei's results.
"Who could it be? It looks so familiar." Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and walked back and forth in front of everyone.
I don’t know how long it took before Lu Weiwei snapped her fingers and said loudly to everyone:
"I know, that person was sitting next to me during lunch today."
"Sitting next to you? During lunch?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Officer Wang was stunned and thoughtful:
"Didn't you sit next to Gu Chen when you had lunch? No, you didn't sit next to Gu Chen. Mayor Ma sat next to Gu Chen. You were next to... next to..."
Thinking of this, Officer Wang suddenly realized: "By the way, it's Liu Yuan. It's Liu Yuan sitting next to you."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Yes." After hearing what Officer Wang said, Lu Weiwei also snapped her fingers and said:
"It's Liu Yuan. Why do you think it looks so familiar? Liu Yuan's clothes are very close to this fiber. Moreover, I paid special attention to it and found that it is made of this kind of material."
"The reason why I didn't say anything just now is because the impression was here, but suddenly I couldn't remember it."
"Because Liu Yuan is at the bottom of the mountain, how could he run up the mountain?"
With a heavy sigh, Lu Weiwei also held her head in her hands, feeling like her head was going to explode.
After Gu Chen thought for a moment, he also stepped forward and asked: "Senior Sister Lu, is this the case? Is there someone wearing the same clothes as Liu Yuan?"
"Eh?" Gu Chen's words instantly awakened Lu Weiwei again, and Lu Weiwei also said thoughtfully:
"Perhaps this is the case. Someone is wearing the same clothes as Liu Yuan. If we investigate and find that there are people wearing such clothes nearby, maybe we can know who the murderer is?"
After thinking about it, Lu Weiwei also sighed and said, "But if many people are wearing that kind of clothes, wouldn't it be difficult to investigate?"
"There's no rush." Gu Chen paused and said thoughtfully:
"I've seen the kind of clothes Director Liu wears. The price should be quite high."
"And there should be very few people wearing this kind of clothes in the town."
"Or, we can ask Director Liu where he bought these clothes? If you know the brand, maybe we can go to the store and ask, and then we can track it down."
"It's okay." Lu Qiang heard this and sighed: "Now we are short of time and have heavy tasks, so we have no choice but to do this."
"In addition, we cannot tell Liu Yuan about this matter from now on. After all, does this matter have anything to do with Liu Yuan? It is still unclear."
"If the murderer is really Liu Yuan, or if Liu Yuan is a group of murderers, then we will be in trouble."
"That's right." When Officer Wang heard this, he couldn't help but said: "From now on, everyone must keep it secret and are not allowed to disclose this matter to anyone."
"As for Liu Yuan, we will investigate it carefully. We sincerely hope that Liu Yuan has nothing to do with this matter."
"If he is the murderer, it would be a real disaster for us because he knows all our case handling procedures."
"Furthermore, he knows all our investigations very well, which will definitely cause us a lot of trouble."
