"What did you say? No fire source or ignition device was found?" Lu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked: "So...how did this fire start? Isn't it a short circuit in the wire?"
"I'm also very surprised, because judging from the scene, there seems to be a lot of flammable materials in the room where the cat is kept." Gu Chen briefly analyzed the situation he had observed at the fire scene with everyone.
Upon hearing this, the firefighter leader also walked to Gu Chen and asked: "Comrade police, since you are the only person who entered the room, can you tell me how the fire started?"
Gu Chen shook his head and said calmly: "It's not easy to judge at the moment, but the fire came so suddenly, which makes me feel a little strange."
"Strange, what do you mean?" the driver asked.
"For example, there seem to be a lot of flammable items in the room. Are you the one who put them there?" Gu Chen asked the driver.
The driver frowned, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "The room has always been arranged like this. If no one goes in, isn't that normal?"
"Our family has gone out as a group before and locked the cat in the room, and I didn't feel anything was wrong."
"Wait a minute." Gu Chen suddenly interrupted: "Besides that cat, has anyone else been to your house?"
"Who has been here?" The driver was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No one has been to my house. After my wife and daughter left, I have been living in the city and have never come back."
"If someone comes to my house, they can only ask the property management company."
After saying this, everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Kaitian Property Manager.
The property manager couldn't help but feel a bit in his heart, and then he quickly waved his hand and said: "No... don't look at me like that. I don't know anything. If someone has been to his house, then the surveillance should be able to capture it."
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"Surveillance?" Yuan Shasha looked around. On one side of the intersection, there was indeed a surveillance camera that could capture the front door of a single-family villa.
So Yuan Shasha asked again: "Besides this road, is there any back door that can be captured?"
"Yes, the road behind is also monitored. We have surveillance on every road here to ensure that the front and rear doors of each villa are within the control range of the surveillance."
Gu Chen glanced at the fire brigade leader who was cleaning up the aftermath and said, "Please don't touch anything at the fire scene after you have cleaned up all the open flames."
"Haha." The firefighter leader understood what Gu Chen meant, but he still said with a smile: "Little brother, after the fire, everything that should be burned has been burned. Even if you suspect that someone has entered the villa, you saw it.
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Having said this, the firefighter leader pointed at the villa and said, "Did you see that there is only a skeleton left? This villa will have to be demolished and rebuilt before people can live in it. What can you find out?"
"It's okay." Gu Chen nodded and said calmly: "I can judge based on the burning situation. Generally, the place that burns first will be the darkest after burning."
"To judge based on the interior of the house and the degree of scorch, you must first use the scorch on the wall to determine which room it is in, and then search the room for the source of the fire."
"This... you know all this?" The firefighter leader was also stunned for a moment.
Unexpectedly, a policeman actually knew how firefighters looked for the source of fire.
The way he looked at Gu Chen now changed, he felt that this guy looked a bit powerful.
Lu Weiwei asked weakly: "Junior brother Gu, if the fire broke out and was caused by someone's deliberate sabotage, how should we investigate it?"
"This..." Gu Chen hesitated briefly, but then quickly said: "Actually, if someone deliberately caused a fire, then the scene after the fire should also be checked to see if there are any signs of intentional damage."
"But on this point, it also needs to be investigated."
Yuan Shasha frowned slightly, stepped forward and asked: "So, if it was damaged or if other people entered the scene immediately after the fire, the evidence might be destroyed or taken away by those people, right?"
"That's about it." Gu Chen also nodded, looked at the property manager and fire brigade, and then said: "But when the fire broke out, before I arrived, I didn't seem to find anyone entering the fire scene."
"In this way, I may be the first person to enter the fire scene, so if it is the case of entering the scene and damaging it after the fire, it is unlikely to happen. The focus should be on before the fire to see if anyone has entered here.
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"Yes, you are absolutely right." Xu Zhenggang walked to Gu Chen's side and said, "Gu Chen, this place is within the surveillance range. If you ask for the surveillance footage from their property, you should be able to figure out who started the fire.
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"yes."
"Yes, there must be video footage here at the property."
"I also feel very strange. How did the fire start?"
"It's so sudden. Fortunately, this is a single-family house. Otherwise, my family might be finished."
Many residents are discussing it, and everyone hopes that the police and fire fighters can find the cause of the fire.
The property manager also felt the strong pressure from the people around him, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go adjust the monitoring. Which of you will follow me?"
"I'll go." Yuan Shasha took the initiative to come out.
Gu Chen nodded: "Okay, then Xiao Yuan will go over and take a look first. If no one is found to have sneaked into the villa today, then move forward one day. If not, we must find the person who sneaked into the villa."
"I know Senior Brother Gu." Yuan Shasha has always been aware of Gu Chen's ideas for handling cases.
The reason is very simple. Yuan Shasha has to borrow all the files on Gu Chen's closed cases and read them carefully.
Therefore, Yuan Shasha could accurately get the key points of Gu Chen's meaning from the moment he said it. Like Lu Weiwei, she had a clear understanding of Gu Chen.
Soon, the property manager took Yuan Shasha and left.
On the other side, the owner driver was also restless and quickly asked Gu Chen: "Comrade police, you were the first person to rush into the fire just now. According to your judgment, where do you feel the source of the fire is?"
occurring?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "This..." Gu Chen did not respond directly, but asked: "Master, is your cat always locked in this airtight room?"
"Yes." The driver said.
"Then it should be the room where the cat is kept, because this room meets all the points I just mentioned. Compared with other rooms, the walls are the darkest, but I do want to say a few words to you."
"Wha...what?" The driver didn't realize it, so he quickly asked: "Is there any problem?"
"Of course there is a problem." Gu Chen then dug around in his pocket and found a piece of burned paper and said:
"This is what I found in the room with the pet cat. It's the wallpaper you decorated in that house. I found a very serious problem."
"What?" The driver was confused and asked hurriedly: "Is there anything wrong with this?"
"The problem is huge." Gu Chen took the remaining piece of wallpaper in his hand, looked around in front of everyone for a week, and then said: "According to my judgment of this kind of wallpaper, this wallpaper is not fireproof and is very flammable.
, many home decoration products on the market have long eliminated this product."
"And this kind of flammable wallpaper is only used by some stores for aesthetic design."
Looking at the driver, Gu Chen frowned and asked, "But I'm curious, why do you use this kind of wallpaper? Once a fire breaks out, such a fire will spread quickly."
"Show me." The fire brigade leader also took the wallpaper fragments from Gu Chen's hand, and then gently tore them open with his hands. He suddenly said in surprise: "The composition of this wallpaper is obviously a layer of paper on the surface plus foam, and
There seems to be some latex content.”
"This kind of wallpaper was from many years ago. It is not fireproof at all, and once it is ignited, it will basically spread quickly."
"Is...is it?" Listening to the explanations of Gu Chen and the fire brigade leader, the driver suddenly had mixed feelings and said helplessly: "I...I'm just trying to get an advantage."
"The police comrades know the situation of my family. Now I am heavily in debt. You want me to buy expensive fireproof wallpaper. To be honest, it is not financially feasible."
"As for these wallpapers, I also saw that the store was offering discounts. They were very cheap, and my daughter has always wanted to decorate her room, so...so I just tried to get a bargain. Who knew something like this would happen."
"I know." Gu Chen also nodded and said, "But you have to think clearly, putting this kind of wallpaper on the wall is equivalent to pouring oil on the walls of your home. It will burn even a little bit."
Gu Chen looked around and asked, "Who has a lighter?"
"I...I have it." The man who lived opposite the male driver quickly took out his lighter and handed it to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen did not hesitate and lit the flammable wallpaper in his hand directly in front of everyone.
Soon, the fire spread rapidly, and before long, the wallpaper was burnt to ashes.
When everyone saw it, they couldn't help but feel a little bit in their hearts. They thought that by putting up such wallpaper at home, they were really playing with fire and burning themselves.
Gu Chen said calmly: "Did you see it? This is what I found in the corner of a piece of furniture. And if you look at that room in your house, the entire wall is completely black. You can imagine what it was like at that time.
How big the fire was.”
"Yes, yes." Listening to Gu Chen's words, the driver was also trembling with fear. Fortunately, he and his family were not in the house. Otherwise, if the fire spread, he would probably be the one who was burned to death.
After the heavy rain, the single-family villa still emitted weak white smoke.
Everyone had been waiting for a long time, and then Yuan Shasha came to everyone in small steps.
"How is it? Xiao Yuan." Gu Chen quickly asked her: "Has anyone sneaked into this villa in the past few days?"
Yuan Shasha shook her head: "No, I have seen all the surveillance footage these days, including the front door and back door passages. Almost no one has entered or left here."
"Yes." After listening to Yuan Shasha's words, the property manager who arrived later explained: "Our properties here are all professional and we will not allow strangers to enter casually."
"Then what if someone from inside Kaitian Villa entered?" Lu Weiwei said.
The property manager shook his head and said: "Absolutely impossible, because everyone inside Kaitian Villa knows that there is surveillance here around the clock. Who would be stupid enough to risk being caught by surveillance and sneak into other people's homes to do bad things?
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"We have also checked the gas, and there is no leakage." At this time, a firefighter who participated in the fire fighting said.
The firefighter leader nodded, looked at Gu Chen thoughtfully and said, "Just now you said that the source of the fire may have originated from the room where the cat was kept. I want to confirm your statement."
"Okay, we can go together." Gu Chen said.
With doubts, everyone walked into the burned villa together.
At this moment, everything inside the room was pitch black.
All kinds of wooden furniture had been burned down, and fragments of the chandelier were scattered on the ground.
There was still a strong smell everywhere in the house. Everyone covered their mouths and noses from time to time, stepping on the damaged and rotten floor, and walked cautiously inside.
When Gu Chen led everyone to a sealed room on the first floor, he pointed at the wall of the room and compared it with the outside and said, "Can you all take a look to see if the fire source spreads from here?"
The firefighter leader walked in first. After looking around for a week, his eyes stopped outside and nodded slightly: "Brother policeman, it seems you are right. The fire is indeed likely to spread from this room."
"But captain, there is no ignition device in here." A firefighter said.
The leader of the firefighters covered his mouth and nose and said calmly: "Don't worry, let's take a look before talking."
Yuan Shasha suddenly screamed and immediately focused everyone's attention.
"What's wrong?" Gu Chen asked.
Yuan Shasha covered her mouth and nose, pointed to a burnt object in the corner and said, "Senior Brother Gu, it's... it's that cat."
Lu Weiwei hurriedly stepped forward, picked up a burnt wooden stick, and punched the kitten's body. Then she turned around and said, "This is too badly burned. When Junior Brother Gu went in to look for someone just now, this
Is that what a cat is like?”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Gu Chen nodded slightly: "Yes, the fire was very strong at the time, and I saw that the kitten had suffocated to death, so I turned around and continued searching in other rooms.
It wasn't so burnt at that time."
"It's so pitiful." Lu Weiwei threw away the wooden stick, then stood up and said to the driver: "If no one in your family can take care of the cat, then it is better not to raise it. At least it will save a life."
"Now look at how it was burned. If there were people inside, they wouldn't be burned alive!"
"Yes, yes!" The driver also blamed himself and nodded vigorously: "It's our fault, we shouldn't have left the cat alone, but who would have thought that this house would suddenly catch fire, I'm also confused.
,How could this happen?”
While everyone was complaining to each other, Gu Chen suddenly squatted down, took out a tissue from his pocket, pinched the cat's tailbone, and suddenly lifted it into his hand.
Afterwards, Gu Chen looked at the burnt dead cat from side to side, frowning from time to time.
Xu Zhenggang, who was covering his mouth and nose, also took a step back: "I told Gu Chen, the smell of this dead cat is too unpleasant, throw it away quickly."
"Yes, brother police." The fireman leader also said with disdain: "This thing is burnt and inedible. Besides, who eats cat meat now?"
Gu Chen did not listen to the two people's advice, but carried the dead cat's body and searched around the room.
After looking around for a week, Gu Chen found some dirt and some broken glass shards on the ground.
After searching carefully, Gu Chen suddenly frowned.
After discovering Gu Chen's abnormality, Lu Weiwei quickly asked him: "Junior brother Gu, did you discover something?"
Gu Chen did not answer immediately, but looked around the environment and checked every corner.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were suddenly focused on Gu Chen.
"I said, brother police, what are you looking for?" the fire brigade leader asked.
"Cat food." Gu Chen's answer was concise and to the point.
The firefighter leader frowned: "Cat food? What are you looking for?"
Gu Chen didn't say much, raised the dead cat body in front of everyone, and asked, "Have you noticed anything special about this cat?"
"What's special?" Everyone looked at each other, feeling a little confused.
So, everyone stepped forward and fixed their eyes on the burnt dead cat.
Lu Weiwei even took a sip of her saliva, feeling that it might taste better if she added some seasoning...
Yuan Shasha was suddenly stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Brother Gu, this cat seems to be quite thin."
"Aren't you talking nonsense? This is not an orange cat." The firefighter leader also said with a smile.
Yuan Shasha shook her head: "That's not what I meant."
"Then what do you mean?" the firefighter leader asked again.
So, Yuan Shasha pointed to the belly of the dead cat and said: "Look, this cat's skin and bones are all out. It must have been hungry for a long time, but didn't we prepare enough cat food?"
After being reminded by Yuan Shasha, everyone lowered their heads and carefully observed the body of the dead cat.
After a while, Lu Weiwei said: "Yes, this cat is so skinny and skinny. It must be because it hasn't eaten for a long time, right?"
She glanced at Gu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, this is the question you want to tell us, right?"
"That's right." Gu Chen nodded calmly and said, "When I entered this room before, the cat suffocated to death because the room was very airtight and there was not much oxygen in the room due to the fire.
Already."
"When I rushed in, I was just looking for anyone trapped, so I didn't pay much attention."
"But now it seems that the cat's hair has been completely burnt, so I can clearly see the original form of this pet cat."
Having said this, Gu Chen picked up the body of the pet cat, pointed at its belly and said, "This cat has obviously been hungry for a long time, but the driver said that the family had prepared enough cat food. There seems to be some discrepancy in this statement."
The driver was also called out by Gu Chen in public, and the driver couldn't help but froze. Then he quickly waved his hands and explained: "I don't know much about this, because I was no longer at home before my wife and daughter left."
"My wife said she had prepared enough cat food, saying it was enough for about ten days, because she did the same thing when she took her two children back to her hometown before, so I feel that the cat food should be enough."
"Is it enough?" Gu Chen carried the dead cat body and showed it in front of the driver: "But since you have the experience last time and prepared cat food for about ten days, why did it only take about a week to do this?
Is a cat so hungry?"
"And I just checked the room, and there was no cat food left at all, and there was almost no grain left in the remnants of the cat food poured in. Don't you think it's strange?"
"This..." The driver was suddenly silenced by Gu Chen and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Lu Weiwei said thoughtfully: "Could it be that... this cat starved to death?"
"No." Gu Chen shook his head and said, "A cat's life is very hard. Even if it is deprived of food for a few days, it will not starve to death. Otherwise, how can we say that a cat has nine lives?"
"And judging from various circumstances, this cat should have died of suffocation before being burned to such a degree."
"There's no cat food? Did your family forget it?" The fire brigade leader looked at the driver and couldn't help but wonder:
"It doesn't make sense. Your pet cat should be expensive. Since you have kept it for so long, even if your spouse is careless and doesn't remember to put the cat food, your two daughters should know about it, right?"
"Well... I really don't know what's going on." The driver was also anxious and couldn't help but said: "I run Didi outside every day, and I also help my brothers with odd jobs during the day."
"I'm so busy every day. How do I know there are so many miscellaneous things at home?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Besides, I'm not at home either. How do I know what's going on at home? And isn't this just a fire? What do you ask these things for?"
"I ask these things because your fire is very strange." Gu Chen directly gave the key points that the driver was concerned about.
The driver was stunned: "Something strange?"
"That's right." Gu Chen walked around the room before returning to him and said, "I can see from the traces in every corner of the room that the fire did spread from this room.
Come."
"But I'm very surprised. In addition to the flammable wallpaper, your room also has many books and other flammable objects."
"It can be said that in this house, only a small fire source is needed to ignite the entire room."
And along these cheap wallpapers in your home, the fire can spread quickly, but the question is, how did the fire originate in this room? "
"This..." The driver was stunned for a moment and couldn't speak for a long time.
Gu Chen nodded, threw the dead cat body back on the ground, and said, "And the most bizarre thing is that this cat is the only living thing in this whole room. Could it be that the cat lit the fire?"
"Haha." Listening to Gu Chen's words, the firefighter leader on the side couldn't help laughing twice, and said with a smile: "Brother policeman, you have a rich imagination, can a cat cause such a big fire?
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"Of course not." Gu Chen suddenly denied himself.
"Then what do you mean..." The firefighter leader was confused.
Gu Chen said: "Of course cats can't light fires, but what if it's caused by human factors?"
"Human factors?" The firefighter on the side smiled, looked at Yuan Shasha next to Gu Chen and said: "Didn't your colleague watch the surveillance just now? No one has sneaked into the villa at all, so how can it be said that it is man-made?
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"That's right, this policewoman and I just watched the surveillance, and it's true that no one has sneaked into this place." The property manager of Kaitian Villa also patted his chest and assured.
Gu Chen shook his head and said, "If I hadn't seen the cat's body, maybe I would have agreed with you at first."
"Indeed, it is impossible to cause a fire in such a closed room without any fire source, but this is obviously the source of the fire. This is the first doubt."
"As for the second doubtful point, I obviously prepared cat food for about ten days, but just one week later, the pet cat was starved to the skin and bones. This is the second doubtful point."
Seeing everyone thinking seriously, Gu Chen added: "You must know that when there is enough cat food, pet cats will eat freely and will never let themselves go hungry."
"And this situation now only shows that there is no ten days' supply of cat food, not even one week's supply."
"So... this is the second doubt?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gu Chen nodded and said, "Isn't it enough to have two doubts in this small room? If not, then I have another doubt here."
As he finished speaking, Gu Chen suddenly picked up a few pieces of broken glass on the ground, took a few larger pieces of glass in his hands, put them together and said, "Everyone, look at this, what do you think it looks like?"
"Fish... fish tank?" Lu Weiwei said first.
Yuan Shasha also nodded quickly: "It looks a bit like a fish tank. I saw it from a senior sister in the second group office. It seems to be somewhat similar to this broken glassware."
"Yes, my daughter uses this kind of fish tank to raise goldfish," the firefighter leader also said.
At this time, Gu Chen turned his attention to the driver and asked him: "Master, I want to know if this is your fish tank?"
"This..." The driver was stunned, hesitating or panicking, but after thinking about it, he still shook his head and said: "I really don't know what kind of things are raised at home.
All I know is that I have had this cat for more than a year."
Gu Chen smiled: "Then I can understand that this is the goldfish raised by my sister-in-law, right?"
The driver didn't know what to say, so he just nodded and said, "You can understand it this way."
"Very good." Gu Chen turned around again, walked back and forth in front of everyone, picked up the broken glassware with one hand, pointed to the dead cat body on the ground with the other, and said: "Have you ever thought about what cats like to eat most?
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"Cat food." Lu Weiwei said.
"What else?" Gu Chen asked again.
"And...and dried small fish." Thinking of this, Lu Weiwei seemed to realize something, and suddenly realized: "By the way, cats like to eat fish, is this a goldfish?"
"This...this goldfish is for cats?" Xu Zhenggang on the side was also stunned for a moment, feeling a little confused: "But it's not right. Since we have prepared enough cat food, why do we put goldfish and cats together?"
In the same room?"
"So this is the third doubt." Gu Chen followed Xu Zhenggang's words and directly raised a new question: "There are so many doubts in a room with a suspected fire source. Haven't everyone thought about why?"
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