Chapter 1869
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For Gu Chen, the previous situation could only be regarded as a probability event.
When Zhang Muzhi came to the shore of Jiangnan Lake, he couldn't help but swim in the water, and accidents happened randomly.
To some extent, this can only be regarded as a probability event.
However, Gu Chen combined Zhang Muzhi's preference characteristics with the mysterious person he accidentally met last night, and it seems that there is a certain degree of overlap in the location.
Intuition told Gu Chen that Zhang Muzhi's accident did not seem to be that simple.
Especially last night, the mysterious man seemed to meet someone on the shore, and the two even used the flashlight to exchange code words.
To some extent, this has shown that the meeting between the two is not simple, and it seems that they don't want to be discovered by others at all.
But after the two met, the next night, Zhang Muzhi accidentally drowned in the relevant waters where the mysterious person met.
You know, Zhang Muzhi is a good swimmer, and why did the two mysterious people meet in this water area last night?
Or, did the two of them come here just to check out the spot in advance?
"If Zhang Muzhi was really dragged into the water by a murderer wearing a diving device, then this kind of silent death seems reasonable."
Gu Chen remembered all this, and remembered that he had asked He Junchao to investigate the white car yesterday, but He Junchao hadn't given himself a definite answer so far.
So Gu Chen picked up the phone again and dialed He Junchao's number.
Not long after, the phone was connected.
"Gu Chen, why are you looking for me this late at night?" He Junchao seemed to have forgotten Gu Chen's confession last night.
"Senior Brother He, where is the white car I asked you to investigate last night? Did you find it?" Gu Chen cut straight to the point.
On the other end of the phone, there was an apparent pause for a few seconds before He Junchao's reply came:
"Oh, it's this matter? I've investigated it, and I don't have a clue yet."
"What do you mean by not having a clue?" Gu Chen was puzzled.
He Junchao said again: "I have investigated the license plate, but there is no such car."
"What do you mean? Could it be a set car?" Gu Chen suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He Junchao replied: "It should be a set plate car. Anyway, there is no such license plate number in the normal registration information database."
"And I tracked the whereabouts of this car based on roadside monitoring, and found that this car often disappeared after entering the vicinity of the West Development Zone."
"You also know that the west side of the city has been undergoing major construction recently. Many nearby buildings are being demolished, and the lines have almost been demolished. There are many monitoring blind spots..."
"Then there is no other way to find that white car?" Gu Chen hurriedly asked without waiting for He Junchao to finish speaking.
He Junchao was a little confused: "Gu Chen, you also know that this area is very large, and it is very difficult to find that car."
"What about the driver?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao also sighed and said, "It's okay if you don't tell me. This driver has been unable to see his face clearly. He is wearing a peaked cap with the brim pressed down very low, and he is wearing a mask. It is difficult for me to identify the driver's real appearance through monitoring."
"Wait a minute." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Did you notice that I was following this car at the time I told you last night?"
"Yes, I have."
"Then what happened later? Who drove this car away?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao smiled and said, "It's still the same person from before."
"The driver in the white suit?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, isn't it?" He Junchao also felt baffled.
But at this moment, Gu Chen fell into deep thought again.
According to He Junchao, the driver who left in the white car was the mysterious man he had followed before.
Obviously, after this mysterious man came into contact with another mysterious person, he took another shortcut, returned to the previous roadside, and drove the car away.
In this way, it shows that the mysterious person has realized that he seems to be suspected of being followed.
That's why he used his familiarity with the terrain to take a shortcut and drive the vehicle away before he returned to the side of the road.
In this way, it can explain why when I returned to the roadside last night, the vehicle that was parked on the roadside suddenly disappeared.
It can be seen that the other party is also a very vigilant person. At least, the other party's whereabouts do not want to be discovered by anyone.
But the more this is the case, the more it shows that things are not so simple.
"Senior brother He, please continue to help me investigate this white car, especially help me investigate. White cars often drive into the main roads of the West City Development Zone, and conduct investigations on suspicious people entering and leaving these roads."
"I understand." He Junchao was quite helpless after hearing Gu Chen's words.
He understood that the investigation Gu Chen mentioned was actually investigating the driver.
But after all, if people really want to avoid you, they must change their attire.
investigation? That is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.
But knowing this was the case, He Junchao didn't dare to refute.
The task Gu Chen gave must be very difficult, so he could only bite the bullet and agree first.
After hanging up the phone, seeing that the vehicle from the Technical Division of the Municipal Bureau hadn't arrived, Gu Chen went directly to the side of the fishing boat just now and asked, "Whose boat is this?"
"It's mine, comrade policeman." A white-haired old man walked out from the crowd.
"Can you requisition your ship now?" Gu Chen asked.
"Of course." The white-haired old man did not refuse.
Now that someone has drowned and died, the white-haired old man seems to want to do his part to let the police figure out the situation as soon as possible.
You know, many of the nearby villages are running farmhouses.
But if there are rumors that there are drowning ghosts in the nearby waters, which is unlucky, it will definitely affect the income of several nearby villages.
So the white-haired old man came down immediately.
Gu Chen didn't care too much at the moment. After handing over the scene to Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha, Liu Jingru and the relevant staff of the organizer, he and Police Officer Wang boarded the villagers' fishing boat.
After chasing the white-haired old man, he started the motor hanging on the back of the fishing boat, and the propeller worked quickly, leading everyone to row towards the relevant waters.
Gu Chen first asked the white-haired old man to take himself and Police Officer Wang to circle around the relevant water area where the floating corpse was found.
Afterwards, Gu Chen positioned himself according to the phone map and asked the white-haired old man to send him to the relevant shore.
It was also the area where I found the mysterious person last night.
When the ship docked, Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang turned on the flashlights and quickly went ashore for inspection.
The white-haired old man parked the boat on one side, tied the boat rope to a willow tree on the bank, and followed Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang to land together.
It is also unclear what the purpose of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang came here. I saw Gu Chen and Officer Wang constantly searching for something with a bright flashlight, and the white-haired old man could only obediently follow behind.
The area that Gu Chen focused on checking was the last place where the mysterious man was found last night.
Obviously, due to the erosion of the lake, the soil on the shore is also very loose.
But even so, Gu Chen did not find any footprints just like last night.
The reason is simple. The shore is covered with thick vegetation. Even if you step on the soft shore, it is obviously unrealistic to leave obvious footprints.
But Gu Chen soon discovered that there was obviously a deep footprint in a shallow place.
To be precise, it doesn't look like footprints, but more like flipper-like traces.
And the direction of this trace is obviously gradually walking towards the shore from the direction of the lake.
Until these traces disappeared in a weed pile on the shore, they disappeared.
Gu Chen squatted down slowly, using the strong flashlight in his hand to shine light on it, and touched the dirt traces with his fingers, measuring the depth.
"Gu Chen, how's it going?" Officer Wang squatted beside Gu Chen and asked in a low voice.
Gu Chen also leaned into Officer Wang's ear and reminded in a low voice, "The traces are the latest, and they happened not long ago."
"That is to say?" Police Officer Wang was taken aback and shrank back involuntarily.
Seeing that the white-haired old man was far away from the two of them, he leaned into Gu Chen's ear and whispered back:
"That is to say, you guessed that the idea that someone used diving equipment to sneak into the lake and drag Zhang Muzhi into the water was not groundless?"
"En." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said involuntarily, "I wasn't sure before, but combined with what these people said just now, I feel that Zhang Muzhi's death is indeed too strange."
"If it is said that the drowning died for no reason, there are undoubtedly these points. First of all, the swimming level is not good, but this is obviously not true."
"Zhang Muzhi belongs to the level of a master swimmer, and he also served as a swimming coach for others during the summer vacation, so this can be ruled out."
"The other is being entangled in the legs by the algae plants in the lake, struggling to sink into the bottom of the water, but this is obviously not realistic."
"Because according to the nearby villagers, when the lake is dry, there are basically not many strange organisms in this water area."
"This also shows that the so-called entangled algae organisms do not exist."
Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also nodded frequently, and then said: "The water monster's words..."
"That's even more unreliable." Before Police Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen retorted directly: "If you encounter some giant organisms, and these giant organisms are aggressive, it will cause Zhang Muzhi to drown. .”
"Then Zhang Muzhi's body will inevitably have some wounds, such as the giant fish mentioned by the villagers just now."
"But when I checked the corpse, I didn't find the existence of these organisms, which shows that Zhang Muzhi's death has nothing to do with these giant organisms."
"Then according to what you say, it is possible that Zhang Muzhi was dragged into the water by the murderer?" Officer Wang suddenly felt terrified after thinking carefully, and felt that the idea that did not exist before, now under Gu Chen's rhetoric, suddenly become more and more clear.
But Gu Chen shook his head: "Of course, it is not ruled out that Zhang Muzhi has a certain disease problem, which caused him to suddenly fall ill during swimming and sink to the bottom of the water."
"But judging from Zhang Muzhi's body, it seems that there are not many clues. It can only be seen that he died of drowning."
"Also, Zhang Muzhi's expression is very painful, it is obvious that he had a strong struggle before his death."
"It still needs to bring Zhang Muzhi's body back to the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau, let Gao Chuanfeng and the others test it, and see if Zhang Muzhi really had some diseases before his death."
Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Police Officer Wang also nodded silently: "I think it's the only way to go first."
Gu Chen checked the drag marks on the shore left and right, and began to use the strong flashlight to spread the light source.
It has to be said that the lighting of police flashlights is really not comparable to ordinary civilian flashlights.
When switched to astigmatism mode, the entire surrounding area is illuminated with light.
Coupled with Officer Wang's auxiliary lighting, the two beams of light are enough to see the surrounding environment clearly.
Gu Chen followed the drag marks on the ground until he found a lawn.
Seeing this, Gu Chen suddenly activated his master-level imagination, and instantly constructed a virtual scene in his mind.
At this moment, time goes back to before the incident.
The mysterious man was lurking around at this moment, observing every move on the shore.
And Zhao Bo and Xu Yang, after entering the water, swam directly towards the bright area on the left.
And Zhang Muzhi swam towards the dark area on the right.
The two parties can be regarded as "parting ways" in the water.
It also indirectly reflects the estrangement between competitors, and there is not much magnanimity.
At this time, the mysterious person on the shore had already observed Zhang Muzhi's swimming trajectory.
Because the surroundings were too dark and the shore was covered by aquatic plants, the mysterious man quickly changed into the diving equipment, equipped with a professional oxygen mask, and began to slowly dive into the lake according to Zhang Muzhi's swimming track, approaching Zhang Muzhi's swimming area.
Gu Chen is now in the perspective of God, observing everything around him.
Just when Zhang Muzhi stopped in the lake, enjoying the rare comfort, and without knowing that a black shadow really approached slowly behind Zhang Muzhi.
At this time, Zhang Muzhi was lying on his back on the lake, enjoying the short relaxation after training.
But at this moment, Zhang Muzhi also seemed to hear a little movement nearby.
Zhang Muzhi adjusted his swimming posture and kept observing the movement around him.
However, at this moment, when Zhang Muzhi was defenseless, a black hand suddenly grabbed Zhang Muzhi's legs and pulled them hard.
Zhang Muzhi was caught off guard, and before he had time to adjust his breathing rhythm, he was pulled into the bottom of the lake by a sudden black shadow.
Afterwards, Heiying took advantage of the diving equipment and kept pulling Zhang Muzhi's legs, making Zhang Muzhi unable to show his swimming advantage in the water.
With the inability to breathe in the lake and the dim environment, Zhang Muzhi suddenly fell into fear.
Then, while Zhang Muzhi was struggling desperately, trying to surface to call for help, the black shadow began to interfere with Zhang Muzhi's ascent under the water.
Until Zhang Muzhi got water in his mouth and couldn't breathe, coupled with the struggle at the bottom of the water, his physical strength was gradually exhausted.
Zhang Muzhi looked desperately at the few lights on the lake, and slowly closed his eyes.
However, Hei Ying, who was wearing diving equipment, did not bring Zhang Muzhi to the surface of the water prematurely just in case.
It wasn't until it was confirmed that Zhang Muzhi under the water was completely motionless, then the black shadow gave up the entanglement, and gradually sneaked from the bottom of the water to the shore under the cover of night.
And what Gu Chen saw afterwards was a mysterious man wearing diving equipment, slowly climbing up to the shore, stepping on a mark similar to flippers in the mud on the shore.
And with drag marks, it came to the lawn open space on the shore.
Only then did he take off his equipment, and began to escape according to the previously established escape route.
"If this is the case, then the murderer may not be among the crowd." Gu Chen finished the screen simulation and returned to reality again.
Looking at the other professional pilots near Zhang Muzhi's body on the shore in the distance, Gu Chen felt that the murderer might not be able to change the equipment and rush back to the shore in such an extreme time.
Fighting Zhang Muzhi in the water will inevitably consume too much physical strength of the murderer. If he does not dispose of his diving equipment in time, once discovered, the murderer will also show his original shape.
Therefore, Gu Chen felt that if he was the murderer, he would follow the escape route deployed earlier and run away immediately.
"Could it be that shortcut?" Gu Chen thought of this, and suddenly remembered that he followed the mysterious man here yesterday, but the other party took a step ahead of him, returned to the side of the road, and drove the car away.
If the murderer came by car, then the diving equipment must have been put in the car and then taken away from the scene.
"It should be like this." Gu Chen couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, feeling that tonight, that white car might be parked by the side of the road last night.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen hurriedly picked up the phone again and contacted He Junchao from Furong Branch.
Not long after, the call was connected again.
He Junchao was also confused, and hurriedly asked, "Gu Chen, what's the matter?"
"Is the white car I asked you to check on the road near the Jiangnan Lake Stadium tonight?"
"White car? Tonight? You... you wait." As soon as Gu Chen reminded him, He Junchao immediately entered the search mode.
Gu Chen did not hang up the phone, but continued to wait on standby.
On the phone, He Junchao tapped the keyboard and clicked the mouse from time to time.
Not long after, He Junchao's response came again on the phone: "Gu Chen, I found it. Tonight, not long before you called, indeed, I found that white car, which happened to be out of the Jiangnan Lake competition venue." Nearby, heading towards the Xicheng Development Zone.”
"It's this car." Hearing He Junchao's remarks, Gu Chen was a little overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Senior brother He, you should immediately notify the patrol team on duty nearby, let them catch up and stop this car, hurry up."
"Understood, it's just..."
He Junchao on the phone half-spoken, but suddenly hesitated.
Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Just what?"
"It's just that a long time has passed since the time I checked. It is estimated that this car is approaching the area near the Xicheng Development Zone."
"Once the car is in the area, it's going to be a bit difficult to find the car."
"Then what are you waiting for? On the road that this white car must pass when entering the West City Development Zone, hurry up and let the colleagues in the patrol team intercept it. Be sure to stop this white car with a license plate, and don't let this white car get on the road." people ran away."
"I understand, I will do my best."
The two communicated in a hurry, and both hung up the phone.
Gu Chen also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, feeling that there should be a chance.
Seeing this, Police Officer Wang also said with concern: "Gu Chen, if the murderer is really the driver of the white car, then this guy is too cunning, maybe he has already thought of other ways to escape."
"I know." Gu Chen knew what Police Officer Wang meant, and said angrily, "But time is running out, and we must take immediate and decisive action."
"Regardless of whether this white car passed through the necessary passage yesterday, we must make full preparations."
Officer Wang nodded slightly: "I listen to you."
Gu Chen then looked at the white-haired villager behind him, hurried over and asked, "Master, how many ways are there to go from this place to the nearby road?"
"How many roads?" The white-haired old man was taken aback for a moment, and quickly looked at the surrounding environment, then pointed to the road that Gu Chen returned last night and said, "Go straight on this road, and you can walk to the side of the road."
"Then what else? Is there a shorter road?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Closer?" The white-haired old man looked at another location on the slope and said, "Then you can go this way, along the edge of the slope, and pass through the groove over there to come to the side of the road. "
"Thank you." Feeling the same as what he simulated on the map, Gu Chen hurriedly said to Police Officer Wang: "Senior Brother Wang, let's go over and have a look."
"Okay." Police officer Wang was about to take a step, and then asked, "What about the old man?"
"Don't worry about us, old man, you can row the boat back first." Gu Chen said.
The old man saw that the two policemen were mysterious, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he could only let out an "ah", and then quickly returned to the fishing boat and started rowing towards the shore.
On the other side, according to the guidance of the old man, Gu Chen began to walk all the way towards the side of the slope according to what he saw last night.
Indeed, I was on the left side of the slope last night, and the mysterious man indeed left to the right side of the slope after contacting another mysterious person.
Between the two groups of people, a sloping field blocked their view, which is why Gu Chen came to the shore to observe for a while last night, and when returning to the original road, the vehicles parked on the side of the road suddenly disappeared.
It can be seen that the mysterious man returned to the side of the road through another shortcut, and this shortcut is the path that Gu Chen is currently taking.
After a while, Gu Chen brought Police Officer Wang to the side of the road.
From the map on the mobile phone, this is indeed the nearest road, but if Gu Chen returned from a long way yesterday, he would have to cross a pond and there would be some winding paths.
It can be seen that the mysterious person is very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he came to check out the spot in advance. Obviously, he also knows that the second competition venue of the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv crossing machine racing competition is set up here.
The fact that the mysterious person knew about such a secret place in advance made Gu Chen doubtful. Was it revealed by someone inside the organizer?
You must know that almost all participating club members do not know where the next competition will be held.
This venue alone was temporarily built last night, and many infrastructures have not had time to deploy.
"But if this is the case, the mysterious person may be the murderer, and the timing of the murderer's visit is too coincidental, right? You actually know that Zhang Muzhi will appear in this area at night the next day."
"What's more, the murderer seems to know that Zhang Muzhi will swim in the water at night, and also knows that Zhang Muzhi will be alone. All this seems to be calculated in advance."
Listening to Gu Chen muttering here, Officer Wang, who was standing on the slope, couldn't help asking him curiously:
"You mean, this mysterious man might be the murderer?"
"At least there is a high probability." Although Gu Chen didn't say it too absolutely, he thought so in his heart.
Police Officer Wang also crossed his arms and murmured according to the train of thought provided by Gu Chen:
"If the mysterious person you met last night was the murderer, then the murderer must have come to check on you when he came yesterday."
"If this is the case, then the murderer obviously knows this location, which is one of the venues for the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv machine racing competition."
Turning his head to look at Gu Chen, Police Officer Wang said again: "But how did the murderer know? Even our professional players don't know. It was only when Liu Jingru reminded us early this morning that we were going to come here today."
"Could it be that the murderer has infiltrated the organizer, Jiangnan Television?"
Seeing that Gu Chen didn't react at all, Police Officer Wang immediately denied himself: "That's not true, the deceased is Zhang Muzhi, and Zhang Muzhi is the captain of the Hangzhou Shadow Club. He didn't seem to have any contact with him in Jiangnan City before, right?"
"But if that's the case, how did the murderer manage to kill Zhang Muzhi, a non-local contestant, knowing so much about the organizer's situation? This doesn't seem to be related?"
"I know there is no connection, so I need to focus on investigating this Zhang Muzhi to find out what the origin of this Zhang Muzhi is." Gu Chen is also very clear at this moment.
Zhang Muzhi's death may have been a well-planned murder case.
But the murderer carefully planned all of this, as if he had some kind of strong purpose, but at the current position, Gu Chen has not grasped any motive of the murderer.
Therefore, Gu Chen feels that the focus of the investigation can temporarily return to Zhang Muzhi, and focus on investigating Zhang Muzhi's origin.
In particular, it is necessary to investigate the acquaintances around Zhang Muzhi.
After all, if Zhang Muzhi's habits are not well understood, then tonight's so-called "accident" seems to be difficult to realize at all.
But all of this is real, and the murderer did it smoothly.
If Zhang Muzhi was really murdered, it can only be said that this well-planned murder seems to have been covered up seamlessly.
It made everyone feel that Zhang Muzhi might have accidentally drowned while swimming, leading to his death.
"Why is it night?" While thinking about it, Gu Chen also asked himself and answered, "Because at night, the cover of darkness can be used to prevent people on the shore from seeing clearly Zhang Muzhi's situation in the lake, and he can kill people quietly. .”
"But why can the murderer be sure that Zhang Muzhi will swim in this area at night?"
"What's more, the murderer came to check out the spot one day in advance, so obviously the murderer knows that everything that happened here today is in the murderer's plan."
"And the only thing that can do all of this is obviously that the murderer knows the training arrangements very well, and even has a well-thought-out plan."
"The one who can do this is undoubtedly the organizer or the organizing committee, and Liu Jingru once said that the various training arrangements have actually been finalized two days ago."
"In that case, the murderer may have infiltrated the organizers and knew about the training arrangements in advance. Only then can we be sure that Zhang Muzhi's training will be held at night."
"Then how can we guide Zhang Mu into the water? Is it because of Zhang Muzhi's preference?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously.
Gu Chen nodded silently, and said involuntarily: "That's right, the reason why Zhang Mu was able to guide Zhang Mu into the water is that the murderer is familiar with Zhang Muzhi's preferences."
"This is clear from the mouths of other members of their shadow club."
"Harmful!" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang couldn't help but sigh, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated.
A drowning accident, it seems that the underlying reason behind it is far from being as simple as I imagined.
Just as Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang were thinking, Gu Chen's cell phone rang suddenly.
Gu Chen picked it up and took a look. It was Lu Weiwei who was calling, so without saying a word, Gu Chen directly chose to press the answer button.
"Junior Brother Gu, where did you and Lao Wang go? Gao Chuanfeng and the others from the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau have arrived, how should we arrange it? Should they take the corpse away?"
On the phone, Lu Weiwei's tone was also anxious.
Gu Chen replied lightly: "That's right, ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the corpse away, and focus on checking it for me to see if there are any special diseases in Zhang Muzhi's body."
"Also, ask the members of the Shadow Club to help contact Zhang Muzhi's family members and ask them to come over quickly."
"If necessary, tell them that we need to conduct an autopsy on Zhang Muzhi's body."
"I understand, don't worry, Junior Brother Gu, leave this to me." Lu Weiwei replied quite straightforwardly, but suddenly asked: "Then... where are you now? Why have you disappeared after the boating old man returned to the shore? ?”
"We're on the side of the road nearby." Gu Chen half-spoken, and quickly asked again: "Oh, by the way, Senior Sister Lu, have any colleagues from the patrol team rushed to the scene?"
"Yes, Gao Chuanfeng and the others almost arrived at the front and back." Lu Weiwei said.
"Then I know." Gu Chen took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Senior Sister Lu, leave the scene to them, and you can drive over to pick me up with Senior Brother Wang, we will be there when you return to the city Must be on the road."
"Understood, I'm here to pick you up." Lu Weiwei said.
The two exchanged a few simple greetings, and both hung up the phone.
Not long after, the bus arranged by the organizer picked up the training players from the Jiangnan lake one after another.
What stopped in front of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang was a police car from the Furong Branch of Jiangnan City.
Huang Zunlong lowered the car window, and also shouted at Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, get in the car quickly."
"So it's you?" Seeing that it was Huang Zunlong, Gu Chen opened the passenger door without thinking too much.
Only then did they realize that Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha were already sitting at the back, and Police Officer Wang also boarded the car through the back door on the other side.
Huang Zunlong immediately asked: "Then where are we going now?"
"Go back to the branch office." Gu Chen said.
"Understood." Huang Zunlong knew that Gu Chen must enter work mode if such a thing happened in the middle of the night, but he still asked curiously:
"But don't you want to train? Isn't it okay to leave this kind of thing to other people in your criminal investigation team?"
"No." As soon as Huang Zunlong finished speaking, Gu Chen directly denied it: "I know the specifics of this kind of thing best, and I don't feel relieved to leave it to other people."
"Okay." Seeing that Gu Chen insisted on his own opinion, Huang Zunlong also reminded:
"But Director Zhao asked you to represent the entire Jiangnan City Police Force and take charge of participating in the Jiangnan City sub-station of the fpv traversing machine racing competition."
"If you don't get some decent results, Director Zhao will probably be angry, so you don't think about it anymore?"
Huang Zunlong talked all kinds of things, but Gu Chen, who was sitting in the co-pilot, still had a firm gaze, and said calmly: "This matter involves all clubs in the fpv racing competition."
"If the matter is not checked, do you think the game can be held smoothly? At that time, everyone will be in danger, and this game will lose its meaning."
After a pause, Gu Chen said earnestly again: "So we must investigate this matter clearly. It doesn't matter if we investigate while training. The important thing is to restore the truth of the matter."
"Okay." Knowing that he couldn't screw Gu Chen, Huang Zunlong, who drove the car, had no choice but to compromise:
"I'll just say it casually, as long as you, Gu Chen, don't find it hard, then I have no objection."
After the words fell, Huang Zunlong continued to increase the accelerator, parted ways with the organizer's minibus convoy at an intersection, and drove quickly towards the Furong sub-bureau.
On the way, Gu Chen suddenly noticed that the fire sirens were blaring, and two fire trucks suddenly appeared behind his vehicle.
Gu Chen glanced at Huang Zunlong's chin who was driving, Huang Zunlong understood immediately, and quickly drove the car to one side, giving the central road to fire engines.
And many vehicles waiting for the traffic lights ahead, when they heard the fire sirens from behind, they all gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to the original road.
The firefighting vehicle blew its siren, and began to slowly drive out of the many vehicles, heading towards the front area quickly.
"Where is the fire again?" Lu Weiwei frowned, and said helplessly: "A few days ago, two residences in our Jiangnan City had fires one after another. Why didn't it take long before another place caught fire?"
"Who knows? Maybe someone's kid is playing with fire again?" Officer Wang didn't know the specific situation, so he could only say casually.
But at this moment, Gu Chen's phone rang suddenly, and it was He Junchao who called.
Due to the long waiting time at the traffic lights, Gu Chen also pressed the answer button and asked, "What's the matter, Senior Brother He? Have you found that white car?"
"Gu Chen, I seem to have found the approximate area of the car." On the phone, He Junchao's reply seemed a little hesitant.
Gu Chen frowned, and quickly asked, "Where is that?"
"On... on the way to the Xicheng Development Zone, it is the section of the road from the Jiangnan Lake Landscape Disc to the Xicheng Development Zone, but the last surveillance footage I was able to track was that this car drove past the Landscape Disc, and then One intersection and no trace."
As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, the red light at the intersection ahead suddenly turned into a green light. Huang Zunlong turned left and continued to drive towards the Furong sub-bureau.
At this time, Gu Chen suddenly became alert.
As the vehicle drove slowly to the left, Gu Chen listened to the fire siren on the right, and could vaguely see the sky in the distance, when suddenly a puff of thick black smoke rose.
Gu Chen said to the phone: "I see, I'll go over and check the situation, that's all."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Chen quickly patted Huang Zunlong on the shoulder and reminded: "Huang Zunlong, turn around quickly."
"Turn... U-turn? What is the U-turn for?" Huang Zunlong, who was driving the car, was also confused when he was suddenly reminded by Gu Chen.
But Gu Chen hurriedly said again: "Follow the two fire trucks just now, let's go over and see the situation."
"What's the situation?" Huang Zunlong was even more confused by Gu Chen's words, and said inexplicably, "Gu Chen, aren't we going back to the branch office? Why are we following the fire truck to join in the fun?"
"Even if it's to save lives, that's the job of the fire brigade. Are we not professional firefighters?"
"Don't make trouble, listen to me, and turn around quickly." Gu Chen didn't know how to explain it at the moment, but somehow, it seemed that the situation was not right.
Huang Zunlong knew Gu Chen's temper. Although Gu Chen didn't say it clearly, judging from Gu Chen's expression, he didn't seem to want to be joking.
So Huang Zunlong took a deep breath, and could only turn left on the road ahead, turn around, and began to drive quickly towards the landscape circle intersection.
Seeing another traffic light ahead, the traffic was congested.
Huang Zunlong directly sounded the siren and started to remind the vehicles in front to give way.
The vehicle in front also tactfully gave up the passage after finding the police car honking behind it.
Soon, Huang Zunlong flashed the police lights, sounded the siren, and without affecting the traffic safety, slowly drove across the landscape intersection, and quickly chased in the direction where the fire truck left just now.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei simply closed the car window.
As the vehicle continued to move forward, the black smoke in the distance began to become clear.
Even in the air, you can smell a burnt stench.
Lu Weiwei covered her mouth and nose, and said involuntarily, "Where is this fire? Why is there no residential area nearby?"
"Could it be that the factory building is on fire?" Yuan Shasha on the side also asked in confusion.
Officer Wang shook his head: "Let's see and talk."
Gu Chen looked at the flickering flames in the distance, which complemented the lights of the fire trucks.
And the scene of billowing black smoke, combined with the smell of burning in the air, immediately felt a kind of terrific thought.
When the police car drove into the intersection, everyone discovered that a raging fire was burning at the end of a trail on the right.
Many people stood around.
The fire truck had just arrived, and the firefighters were collecting water to put out the fire. The whole scene was in chaos, and many passers-by refused to leave.
Then, when the onlookers heard the sirens behind them, they slowly gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to a road.
After several people got out of the car, Police Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Huang Zunlong quickly began to maintain order and disperse the onlookers to avoid affecting the fire fighting operation.
However, Gu Chen walked towards the scene slowly, facing the scene of burning flames, Gu Chen froze on the spot.
The burning object in front of him was a white car.
The raging fire made Gu Chen's face red, while the firefighters coming and going in front were struggling to put out the fire ahead.
Everyone didn't pay attention, Gu Chen just stood there blankly.
It seemed that what was burning in front of him was not a white car, but evidence.
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For Gu Chen, the previous situation could only be regarded as a probability event.
When Zhang Muzhi came to the shore of Jiangnan Lake, he couldn't help but swim in the water, and accidents happened randomly.
To some extent, this can only be regarded as a probability event.
However, Gu Chen combined Zhang Muzhi's preference characteristics with the mysterious person he accidentally met last night, and it seems that there is a certain degree of overlap in the location.
Intuition told Gu Chen that Zhang Muzhi's accident did not seem to be that simple.
Especially last night, the mysterious man seemed to meet someone on the shore, and the two even used the flashlight to exchange code words.
To some extent, this has shown that the meeting between the two is not simple, and it seems that they don't want to be discovered by others at all.
But after the two met, the next night, Zhang Muzhi accidentally drowned in the relevant waters where the mysterious person met.
You know, Zhang Muzhi is a good swimmer, and why did the two mysterious people meet in this water area last night?
Or, did the two of them come here just to check out the spot in advance?
"If Zhang Muzhi was really dragged into the water by a murderer wearing a diving device, then this kind of silent death seems reasonable."
Gu Chen remembered all this, and remembered that he had asked He Junchao to investigate the white car yesterday, but He Junchao hadn't given himself a definite answer so far.
So Gu Chen picked up the phone again and dialed He Junchao's number.
Not long after, the phone was connected.
"Gu Chen, why are you looking for me this late at night?" He Junchao seemed to have forgotten Gu Chen's confession last night.
"Senior Brother He, where is the white car I asked you to investigate last night? Did you find it?" Gu Chen cut straight to the point.
On the other end of the phone, there was an apparent pause for a few seconds before He Junchao's reply came:
"Oh, it's this matter? I've investigated it, and I don't have a clue yet."
"What do you mean by not having a clue?" Gu Chen was puzzled.
He Junchao said again: "I have investigated the license plate, but there is no such car."
"What do you mean? Could it be a set car?" Gu Chen suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He Junchao replied: "It should be a set plate car. Anyway, there is no such license plate number in the normal registration information database."
"And I tracked the whereabouts of this car based on roadside monitoring, and found that this car often disappeared after entering the vicinity of the West Development Zone."
"You also know that the west side of the city has been undergoing major construction recently. Many nearby buildings are being demolished, and the lines have almost been demolished. There are many monitoring blind spots..."
"Then there is no other way to find that white car?" Gu Chen hurriedly asked without waiting for He Junchao to finish speaking.
He Junchao was a little confused: "Gu Chen, you also know that this area is very large, and it is very difficult to find that car."
"What about the driver?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao also sighed and said, "It's okay if you don't tell me. This driver has been unable to see his face clearly. He is wearing a peaked cap with the brim pressed down very low, and he is wearing a mask. It is difficult for me to identify the driver's real appearance through monitoring."
"Wait a minute." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Did you notice that I was following this car at the time I told you last night?"
"Yes, I have."
"Then what happened later? Who drove this car away?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao smiled and said, "It's still the same person from before."
"The driver in the white suit?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, isn't it?" He Junchao also felt baffled.
But at this moment, Gu Chen fell into deep thought again.
According to He Junchao, the driver who left in the white car was the mysterious man he had followed before.
Obviously, after this mysterious man came into contact with another mysterious person, he took another shortcut, returned to the previous roadside, and drove the car away.
In this way, it shows that the mysterious person has realized that he seems to be suspected of being followed.
That's why he used his familiarity with the terrain to take a shortcut and drive the vehicle away before he returned to the side of the road.
In this way, it can explain why when I returned to the roadside last night, the vehicle that was parked on the roadside suddenly disappeared.
It can be seen that the other party is also a very vigilant person. At least, the other party's whereabouts do not want to be discovered by anyone.
But the more this is the case, the more it shows that things are not so simple.
"Senior brother He, please continue to help me investigate this white car, especially help me investigate. White cars often drive into the main roads of the West City Development Zone, and conduct investigations on suspicious people entering and leaving these roads."
"I understand." He Junchao was quite helpless after hearing Gu Chen's words.
He understood that the investigation Gu Chen mentioned was actually investigating the driver.
But after all, if people really want to avoid you, they must change their attire.
investigation? That is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.
But knowing this was the case, He Junchao didn't dare to refute.
The task Gu Chen gave must be very difficult, so he could only bite the bullet and agree first.
After hanging up the phone, seeing that the vehicle from the Technical Division of the Municipal Bureau hadn't arrived, Gu Chen went directly to the side of the fishing boat just now and asked, "Whose boat is this?"
"It's mine, comrade policeman." A white-haired old man walked out from the crowd.
"Can you requisition your ship now?" Gu Chen asked.
"Of course." The white-haired old man did not refuse.
Now that someone has drowned and died, the white-haired old man seems to want to do his part to let the police figure out the situation as soon as possible.
You know, many of the nearby villages are running farmhouses.
But if there are rumors that there are drowning ghosts in the nearby waters, which is unlucky, it will definitely affect the income of several nearby villages.
So the white-haired old man came down immediately.
Gu Chen didn't care too much at the moment. After handing over the scene to Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha, Liu Jingru and the relevant staff of the organizer, he and Police Officer Wang boarded the villagers' fishing boat.
After chasing the white-haired old man, he started the motor hanging on the back of the fishing boat, and the propeller worked quickly, leading everyone to row towards the relevant waters.
Gu Chen first asked the white-haired old man to take himself and Police Officer Wang to circle around the relevant water area where the floating corpse was found.
Afterwards, Gu Chen positioned himself according to the phone map and asked the white-haired old man to send him to the relevant shore.
It was also the area where I found the mysterious person last night.
When the ship docked, Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang turned on the flashlights and quickly went ashore for inspection.
The white-haired old man parked the boat on one side, tied the boat rope to a willow tree on the bank, and followed Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang to land together.
It is also unclear what the purpose of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang came here. I saw Gu Chen and Officer Wang constantly searching for something with a bright flashlight, and the white-haired old man could only obediently follow behind.
The area that Gu Chen focused on checking was the last place where the mysterious man was found last night.
Obviously, due to the erosion of the lake, the soil on the shore is also very loose.
But even so, Gu Chen did not find any footprints just like last night.
The reason is simple. The shore is covered with thick vegetation. Even if you step on the soft shore, it is obviously unrealistic to leave obvious footprints.
But Gu Chen soon discovered that there was obviously a deep footprint in a shallow place.
To be precise, it doesn't look like footprints, but more like flipper-like traces.
And the direction of this trace is obviously gradually walking towards the shore from the direction of the lake.
Until these traces disappeared in a weed pile on the shore, they disappeared.
Gu Chen squatted down slowly, using the strong flashlight in his hand to shine light on it, and touched the dirt traces with his fingers, measuring the depth.
"Gu Chen, how's it going?" Officer Wang squatted beside Gu Chen and asked in a low voice.
Gu Chen also leaned into Officer Wang's ear and reminded in a low voice, "The traces are the latest, and they happened not long ago."
"That is to say?" Police Officer Wang was taken aback and shrank back involuntarily.
Seeing that the white-haired old man was far away from the two of them, he leaned into Gu Chen's ear and whispered back:
"That is to say, you guessed that the idea that someone used diving equipment to sneak into the lake and drag Zhang Muzhi into the water was not groundless?"
"En." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said involuntarily, "I wasn't sure before, but combined with what these people said just now, I feel that Zhang Muzhi's death is indeed too strange."
"If it is said that the drowning died for no reason, there are undoubtedly these points. First of all, the swimming level is not good, but this is obviously not true."
"Zhang Muzhi belongs to the level of a master swimmer, and he also served as a swimming coach for others during the summer vacation, so this can be ruled out."
"The other is being entangled in the legs by the algae plants in the lake, struggling to sink into the bottom of the water, but this is obviously not realistic."
"Because according to the nearby villagers, when the lake is dry, there are basically not many strange organisms in this water area."
"This also shows that the so-called entangled algae organisms do not exist."
Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also nodded frequently, and then said: "The water monster's words..."
"That's even more unreliable." Before Police Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen retorted directly: "If you encounter some giant organisms, and these giant organisms are aggressive, it will cause Zhang Muzhi to drown. .”
"Then Zhang Muzhi's body will inevitably have some wounds, such as the giant fish mentioned by the villagers just now."
"But when I checked the corpse, I didn't find the existence of these organisms, which shows that Zhang Muzhi's death has nothing to do with these giant organisms."
"Then according to what you say, it is possible that Zhang Muzhi was dragged into the water by the murderer?" Officer Wang suddenly felt terrified after thinking carefully, and felt that the idea that did not exist before, now under Gu Chen's rhetoric, suddenly become more and more clear.
But Gu Chen shook his head: "Of course, it is not ruled out that Zhang Muzhi has a certain disease problem, which caused him to suddenly fall ill during swimming and sink to the bottom of the water."
"But judging from Zhang Muzhi's body, it seems that there are not many clues. It can only be seen that he died of drowning."
"Also, Zhang Muzhi's expression is very painful, it is obvious that he had a strong struggle before his death."
"It still needs to bring Zhang Muzhi's body back to the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau, let Gao Chuanfeng and the others test it, and see if Zhang Muzhi really had some diseases before his death."
Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Police Officer Wang also nodded silently: "I think it's the only way to go first."
Gu Chen checked the drag marks on the shore left and right, and began to use the strong flashlight to spread the light source.
It has to be said that the lighting of police flashlights is really not comparable to ordinary civilian flashlights.
When switched to astigmatism mode, the entire surrounding area is illuminated with light.
Coupled with Officer Wang's auxiliary lighting, the two beams of light are enough to see the surrounding environment clearly.
Gu Chen followed the drag marks on the ground until he found a lawn.
Seeing this, Gu Chen suddenly activated his master-level imagination, and instantly constructed a virtual scene in his mind.
At this moment, time goes back to before the incident.
The mysterious man was lurking around at this moment, observing every move on the shore.
And Zhao Bo and Xu Yang, after entering the water, swam directly towards the bright area on the left.
And Zhang Muzhi swam towards the dark area on the right.
The two parties can be regarded as "parting ways" in the water.
It also indirectly reflects the estrangement between competitors, and there is not much magnanimity.
At this time, the mysterious person on the shore had already observed Zhang Muzhi's swimming trajectory.
Because the surroundings were too dark and the shore was covered by aquatic plants, the mysterious man quickly changed into the diving equipment, equipped with a professional oxygen mask, and began to slowly dive into the lake according to Zhang Muzhi's swimming track, approaching Zhang Muzhi's swimming area.
Gu Chen is now in the perspective of God, observing everything around him.
Just when Zhang Muzhi stopped in the lake, enjoying the rare comfort, and without knowing that a black shadow really approached slowly behind Zhang Muzhi.
At this time, Zhang Muzhi was lying on his back on the lake, enjoying the short relaxation after training.
But at this moment, Zhang Muzhi also seemed to hear a little movement nearby.
Zhang Muzhi adjusted his swimming posture and kept observing the movement around him.
However, at this moment, when Zhang Muzhi was defenseless, a black hand suddenly grabbed Zhang Muzhi's legs and pulled them hard.
Zhang Muzhi was caught off guard, and before he had time to adjust his breathing rhythm, he was pulled into the bottom of the lake by a sudden black shadow.
Afterwards, Heiying took advantage of the diving equipment and kept pulling Zhang Muzhi's legs, making Zhang Muzhi unable to show his swimming advantage in the water.
With the inability to breathe in the lake and the dim environment, Zhang Muzhi suddenly fell into fear.
Then, while Zhang Muzhi was struggling desperately, trying to surface to call for help, the black shadow began to interfere with Zhang Muzhi's ascent under the water.
Until Zhang Muzhi got water in his mouth and couldn't breathe, coupled with the struggle at the bottom of the water, his physical strength was gradually exhausted.
Zhang Muzhi looked desperately at the few lights on the lake, and slowly closed his eyes.
However, Hei Ying, who was wearing diving equipment, did not bring Zhang Muzhi to the surface of the water prematurely just in case.
It wasn't until it was confirmed that Zhang Muzhi under the water was completely motionless, then the black shadow gave up the entanglement, and gradually sneaked from the bottom of the water to the shore under the cover of night.
And what Gu Chen saw afterwards was a mysterious man wearing diving equipment, slowly climbing up to the shore, stepping on a mark similar to flippers in the mud on the shore.
And with drag marks, it came to the lawn open space on the shore.
Only then did he take off his equipment, and began to escape according to the previously established escape route.
"If this is the case, then the murderer may not be among the crowd." Gu Chen finished the screen simulation and returned to reality again.
Looking at the other professional pilots near Zhang Muzhi's body on the shore in the distance, Gu Chen felt that the murderer might not be able to change the equipment and rush back to the shore in such an extreme time.
Fighting Zhang Muzhi in the water will inevitably consume too much physical strength of the murderer. If he does not dispose of his diving equipment in time, once discovered, the murderer will also show his original shape.
Therefore, Gu Chen felt that if he was the murderer, he would follow the escape route deployed earlier and run away immediately.
"Could it be that shortcut?" Gu Chen thought of this, and suddenly remembered that he followed the mysterious man here yesterday, but the other party took a step ahead of him, returned to the side of the road, and drove the car away.
If the murderer came by car, then the diving equipment must have been put in the car and then taken away from the scene.
"It should be like this." Gu Chen couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, feeling that tonight, that white car might be parked by the side of the road last night.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen hurriedly picked up the phone again and contacted He Junchao from Furong Branch.
Not long after, the call was connected again.
He Junchao was also confused, and hurriedly asked, "Gu Chen, what's the matter?"
"Is the white car I asked you to check on the road near the Jiangnan Lake Stadium tonight?"
"White car? Tonight? You... you wait." As soon as Gu Chen reminded him, He Junchao immediately entered the search mode.
Gu Chen did not hang up the phone, but continued to wait on standby.
On the phone, He Junchao tapped the keyboard and clicked the mouse from time to time.
Not long after, He Junchao's response came again on the phone: "Gu Chen, I found it. Tonight, not long before you called, indeed, I found that white car, which happened to be out of the Jiangnan Lake competition venue." Nearby, heading towards the Xicheng Development Zone.”
"It's this car." Hearing He Junchao's remarks, Gu Chen was a little overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Senior brother He, you should immediately notify the patrol team on duty nearby, let them catch up and stop this car, hurry up."
"Understood, it's just..."
He Junchao on the phone half-spoken, but suddenly hesitated.
Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Just what?"
"It's just that a long time has passed since the time I checked. It is estimated that this car is approaching the area near the Xicheng Development Zone."
"Once the car is in the area, it's going to be a bit difficult to find the car."
"Then what are you waiting for? On the road that this white car must pass when entering the West City Development Zone, hurry up and let the colleagues in the patrol team intercept it. Be sure to stop this white car with a license plate, and don't let this white car get on the road." people ran away."
"I understand, I will do my best."
The two communicated in a hurry, and both hung up the phone.
Gu Chen also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, feeling that there should be a chance.
Seeing this, Police Officer Wang also said with concern: "Gu Chen, if the murderer is really the driver of the white car, then this guy is too cunning, maybe he has already thought of other ways to escape."
"I know." Gu Chen knew what Police Officer Wang meant, and said angrily, "But time is running out, and we must take immediate and decisive action."
"Regardless of whether this white car passed through the necessary passage yesterday, we must make full preparations."
Officer Wang nodded slightly: "I listen to you."
Gu Chen then looked at the white-haired villager behind him, hurried over and asked, "Master, how many ways are there to go from this place to the nearby road?"
"How many roads?" The white-haired old man was taken aback for a moment, and quickly looked at the surrounding environment, then pointed to the road that Gu Chen returned last night and said, "Go straight on this road, and you can walk to the side of the road."
"Then what else? Is there a shorter road?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Closer?" The white-haired old man looked at another location on the slope and said, "Then you can go this way, along the edge of the slope, and pass through the groove over there to come to the side of the road. "
"Thank you." Feeling the same as what he simulated on the map, Gu Chen hurriedly said to Police Officer Wang: "Senior Brother Wang, let's go over and have a look."
"Okay." Police officer Wang was about to take a step, and then asked, "What about the old man?"
"Don't worry about us, old man, you can row the boat back first." Gu Chen said.
The old man saw that the two policemen were mysterious, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he could only let out an "ah", and then quickly returned to the fishing boat and started rowing towards the shore.
On the other side, according to the guidance of the old man, Gu Chen began to walk all the way towards the side of the slope according to what he saw last night.
Indeed, I was on the left side of the slope last night, and the mysterious man indeed left to the right side of the slope after contacting another mysterious person.
Between the two groups of people, a sloping field blocked their view, which is why Gu Chen came to the shore to observe for a while last night, and when returning to the original road, the vehicles parked on the side of the road suddenly disappeared.
It can be seen that the mysterious man returned to the side of the road through another shortcut, and this shortcut is the path that Gu Chen is currently taking.
After a while, Gu Chen brought Police Officer Wang to the side of the road.
From the map on the mobile phone, this is indeed the nearest road, but if Gu Chen returned from a long way yesterday, he would have to cross a pond and there would be some winding paths.
It can be seen that the mysterious person is very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he came to check out the spot in advance. Obviously, he also knows that the second competition venue of the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv crossing machine racing competition is set up here.
The fact that the mysterious person knew about such a secret place in advance made Gu Chen doubtful. Was it revealed by someone inside the organizer?
You must know that almost all participating club members do not know where the next competition will be held.
This venue alone was temporarily built last night, and many infrastructures have not had time to deploy.
"But if this is the case, the mysterious person may be the murderer, and the timing of the murderer's visit is too coincidental, right? You actually know that Zhang Muzhi will appear in this area at night the next day."
"What's more, the murderer seems to know that Zhang Muzhi will swim in the water at night, and also knows that Zhang Muzhi will be alone. All this seems to be calculated in advance."
Listening to Gu Chen muttering here, Officer Wang, who was standing on the slope, couldn't help asking him curiously:
"You mean, this mysterious man might be the murderer?"
"At least there is a high probability." Although Gu Chen didn't say it too absolutely, he thought so in his heart.
Police Officer Wang also crossed his arms and murmured according to the train of thought provided by Gu Chen:
"If the mysterious person you met last night was the murderer, then the murderer must have come to check on you when he came yesterday."
"If this is the case, then the murderer obviously knows this location, which is one of the venues for the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv machine racing competition."
Turning his head to look at Gu Chen, Police Officer Wang said again: "But how did the murderer know? Even our professional players don't know. It was only when Liu Jingru reminded us early this morning that we were going to come here today."
"Could it be that the murderer has infiltrated the organizer, Jiangnan Television?"
Seeing that Gu Chen didn't react at all, Police Officer Wang immediately denied himself: "That's not true, the deceased is Zhang Muzhi, and Zhang Muzhi is the captain of the Hangzhou Shadow Club. He didn't seem to have any contact with him in Jiangnan City before, right?"
"But if that's the case, how did the murderer manage to kill Zhang Muzhi, a non-local contestant, knowing so much about the organizer's situation? This doesn't seem to be related?"
"I know there is no connection, so I need to focus on investigating this Zhang Muzhi to find out what the origin of this Zhang Muzhi is." Gu Chen is also very clear at this moment.
Zhang Muzhi's death may have been a well-planned murder case.
But the murderer carefully planned all of this, as if he had some kind of strong purpose, but at the current position, Gu Chen has not grasped any motive of the murderer.
Therefore, Gu Chen feels that the focus of the investigation can temporarily return to Zhang Muzhi, and focus on investigating Zhang Muzhi's origin.
In particular, it is necessary to investigate the acquaintances around Zhang Muzhi.
After all, if Zhang Muzhi's habits are not well understood, then tonight's so-called "accident" seems to be difficult to realize at all.
But all of this is real, and the murderer did it smoothly.
If Zhang Muzhi was really murdered, it can only be said that this well-planned murder seems to have been covered up seamlessly.
It made everyone feel that Zhang Muzhi might have accidentally drowned while swimming, leading to his death.
"Why is it night?" While thinking about it, Gu Chen also asked himself and answered, "Because at night, the cover of darkness can be used to prevent people on the shore from seeing clearly Zhang Muzhi's situation in the lake, and he can kill people quietly. .”
"But why can the murderer be sure that Zhang Muzhi will swim in this area at night?"
"What's more, the murderer came to check out the spot one day in advance, so obviously the murderer knows that everything that happened here today is in the murderer's plan."
"And the only thing that can do all of this is obviously that the murderer knows the training arrangements very well, and even has a well-thought-out plan."
"The one who can do this is undoubtedly the organizer or the organizing committee, and Liu Jingru once said that the various training arrangements have actually been finalized two days ago."
"In that case, the murderer may have infiltrated the organizers and knew about the training arrangements in advance. Only then can we be sure that Zhang Muzhi's training will be held at night."
"Then how can we guide Zhang Mu into the water? Is it because of Zhang Muzhi's preference?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously.
Gu Chen nodded silently, and said involuntarily: "That's right, the reason why Zhang Mu was able to guide Zhang Mu into the water is that the murderer is familiar with Zhang Muzhi's preferences."
"This is clear from the mouths of other members of their shadow club."
"Harmful!" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang couldn't help but sigh, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated.
A drowning accident, it seems that the underlying reason behind it is far from being as simple as I imagined.
Just as Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang were thinking, Gu Chen's cell phone rang suddenly.
Gu Chen picked it up and took a look. It was Lu Weiwei who was calling, so without saying a word, Gu Chen directly chose to press the answer button.
"Junior Brother Gu, where did you and Lao Wang go? Gao Chuanfeng and the others from the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau have arrived, how should we arrange it? Should they take the corpse away?"
On the phone, Lu Weiwei's tone was also anxious.
Gu Chen replied lightly: "That's right, ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the corpse away, and focus on checking it for me to see if there are any special diseases in Zhang Muzhi's body."
"Also, ask the members of the Shadow Club to help contact Zhang Muzhi's family members and ask them to come over quickly."
"If necessary, tell them that we need to conduct an autopsy on Zhang Muzhi's body."
"I understand, don't worry, Junior Brother Gu, leave this to me." Lu Weiwei replied quite straightforwardly, but suddenly asked: "Then... where are you now? Why have you disappeared after the boating old man returned to the shore? ?”
"We're on the side of the road nearby." Gu Chen half-spoken, and quickly asked again: "Oh, by the way, Senior Sister Lu, have any colleagues from the patrol team rushed to the scene?"
"Yes, Gao Chuanfeng and the others almost arrived at the front and back." Lu Weiwei said.
"Then I know." Gu Chen took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Senior Sister Lu, leave the scene to them, and you can drive over to pick me up with Senior Brother Wang, we will be there when you return to the city Must be on the road."
"Understood, I'm here to pick you up." Lu Weiwei said.
The two exchanged a few simple greetings, and both hung up the phone.
Not long after, the bus arranged by the organizer picked up the training players from the Jiangnan lake one after another.
What stopped in front of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang was a police car from the Furong Branch of Jiangnan City.
Huang Zunlong lowered the car window, and also shouted at Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, get in the car quickly."
"So it's you?" Seeing that it was Huang Zunlong, Gu Chen opened the passenger door without thinking too much.
Only then did they realize that Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha were already sitting at the back, and Police Officer Wang also boarded the car through the back door on the other side.
Huang Zunlong immediately asked: "Then where are we going now?"
"Go back to the branch office." Gu Chen said.
"Understood." Huang Zunlong knew that Gu Chen must enter work mode if such a thing happened in the middle of the night, but he still asked curiously:
"But don't you want to train? Isn't it okay to leave this kind of thing to other people in your criminal investigation team?"
"No." As soon as Huang Zunlong finished speaking, Gu Chen directly denied it: "I know the specifics of this kind of thing best, and I don't feel relieved to leave it to other people."
"Okay." Seeing that Gu Chen insisted on his own opinion, Huang Zunlong also reminded:
"But Director Zhao asked you to represent the entire Jiangnan City Police Force and take charge of participating in the Jiangnan City sub-station of the fpv traversing machine racing competition."
"If you don't get some decent results, Director Zhao will probably be angry, so you don't think about it anymore?"
Huang Zunlong talked all kinds of things, but Gu Chen, who was sitting in the co-pilot, still had a firm gaze, and said calmly: "This matter involves all clubs in the fpv racing competition."
"If the matter is not checked, do you think the game can be held smoothly? At that time, everyone will be in danger, and this game will lose its meaning."
After a pause, Gu Chen said earnestly again: "So we must investigate this matter clearly. It doesn't matter if we investigate while training. The important thing is to restore the truth of the matter."
"Okay." Knowing that he couldn't screw Gu Chen, Huang Zunlong, who drove the car, had no choice but to compromise:
"I'll just say it casually, as long as you, Gu Chen, don't find it hard, then I have no objection."
After the words fell, Huang Zunlong continued to increase the accelerator, parted ways with the organizer's minibus convoy at an intersection, and drove quickly towards the Furong sub-bureau.
On the way, Gu Chen suddenly noticed that the fire sirens were blaring, and two fire trucks suddenly appeared behind his vehicle.
Gu Chen glanced at Huang Zunlong's chin who was driving, Huang Zunlong understood immediately, and quickly drove the car to one side, giving the central road to fire engines.
And many vehicles waiting for the traffic lights ahead, when they heard the fire sirens from behind, they all gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to the original road.
The firefighting vehicle blew its siren, and began to slowly drive out of the many vehicles, heading towards the front area quickly.
"Where is the fire again?" Lu Weiwei frowned, and said helplessly: "A few days ago, two residences in our Jiangnan City had fires one after another. Why didn't it take long before another place caught fire?"
"Who knows? Maybe someone's kid is playing with fire again?" Officer Wang didn't know the specific situation, so he could only say casually.
But at this moment, Gu Chen's phone rang suddenly, and it was He Junchao who called.
Due to the long waiting time at the traffic lights, Gu Chen also pressed the answer button and asked, "What's the matter, Senior Brother He? Have you found that white car?"
"Gu Chen, I seem to have found the approximate area of the car." On the phone, He Junchao's reply seemed a little hesitant.
Gu Chen frowned, and quickly asked, "Where is that?"
"On... on the way to the Xicheng Development Zone, it is the section of the road from the Jiangnan Lake Landscape Disc to the Xicheng Development Zone, but the last surveillance footage I was able to track was that this car drove past the Landscape Disc, and then One intersection and no trace."
As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, the red light at the intersection ahead suddenly turned into a green light. Huang Zunlong turned left and continued to drive towards the Furong sub-bureau.
At this time, Gu Chen suddenly became alert.
As the vehicle drove slowly to the left, Gu Chen listened to the fire siren on the right, and could vaguely see the sky in the distance, when suddenly a puff of thick black smoke rose.
Gu Chen said to the phone: "I see, I'll go over and check the situation, that's all."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Chen quickly patted Huang Zunlong on the shoulder and reminded: "Huang Zunlong, turn around quickly."
"Turn... U-turn? What is the U-turn for?" Huang Zunlong, who was driving the car, was also confused when he was suddenly reminded by Gu Chen.
But Gu Chen hurriedly said again: "Follow the two fire trucks just now, let's go over and see the situation."
"What's the situation?" Huang Zunlong was even more confused by Gu Chen's words, and said inexplicably, "Gu Chen, aren't we going back to the branch office? Why are we following the fire truck to join in the fun?"
"Even if it's to save lives, that's the job of the fire brigade. Are we not professional firefighters?"
"Don't make trouble, listen to me, and turn around quickly." Gu Chen didn't know how to explain it at the moment, but somehow, it seemed that the situation was not right.
Huang Zunlong knew Gu Chen's temper. Although Gu Chen didn't say it clearly, judging from Gu Chen's expression, he didn't seem to want to be joking.
So Huang Zunlong took a deep breath, and could only turn left on the road ahead, turn around, and began to drive quickly towards the landscape circle intersection.
Seeing another traffic light ahead, the traffic was congested.
Huang Zunlong directly sounded the siren and started to remind the vehicles in front to give way.
The vehicle in front also tactfully gave up the passage after finding the police car honking behind it.
Soon, Huang Zunlong flashed the police lights, sounded the siren, and without affecting the traffic safety, slowly drove across the landscape intersection, and quickly chased in the direction where the fire truck left just now.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei simply closed the car window.
As the vehicle continued to move forward, the black smoke in the distance began to become clear.
Even in the air, you can smell a burnt stench.
Lu Weiwei covered her mouth and nose, and said involuntarily, "Where is this fire? Why is there no residential area nearby?"
"Could it be that the factory building is on fire?" Yuan Shasha on the side also asked in confusion.
Officer Wang shook his head: "Let's see and talk."
Gu Chen looked at the flickering flames in the distance, which complemented the lights of the fire trucks.
And the scene of billowing black smoke, combined with the smell of burning in the air, immediately felt a kind of terrific thought.
When the police car drove into the intersection, everyone discovered that a raging fire was burning at the end of a trail on the right.
Many people stood around.
The fire truck had just arrived, and the firefighters were collecting water to put out the fire. The whole scene was in chaos, and many passers-by refused to leave.
Then, when the onlookers heard the sirens behind them, they slowly gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to a road.
After several people got out of the car, Police Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Huang Zunlong quickly began to maintain order and disperse the onlookers to avoid affecting the fire fighting operation.
However, Gu Chen walked towards the scene slowly, facing the scene of burning flames, Gu Chen froze on the spot.
The burning object in front of him was a white car.
The raging fire made Gu Chen's face red, while the firefighters coming and going in front were struggling to put out the fire ahead.
Everyone didn't pay attention, Gu Chen just stood there blankly.
It seemed that what was burning in front of him was not a white car, but evidence.
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For Gu Chen, the previous situation could only be regarded as a probability event. When Zhang Muzhi came to the shore of Jiangnan Lake, he couldn't help but swim in the water, and accidents happened randomly. To some extent, this can only be regarded as a probability event. However, Gu Chen combined Zhang Muzhi's preference characteristics with the mysterious person he accidentally met last night, and it seems that there is a certain degree of overlap in the location. Intuition told Gu Chen that Zhang Muzhi's accident did not seem to be that simple. Especially last night, the mysterious man seemed to meet someone on the shore, and the two even used the flashlight to exchange code words. To some extent, this has shown that the meeting between the two is not simple, and it seems that they don't want to be discovered by others at all. But after the two met, the next night, Zhang Muzhi accidentally drowned in the relevant waters where the mysterious person met. You know, Zhang Muzhi is a good swimmer, and why did the two mysterious people meet in this water area last night? Or, did the two of them come here just to check out the spot in advance? "If Zhang Muzhi was really dragged into the water by a murderer wearing a diving device, then this kind of silent death seems reasonable." Gu Chen remembered all this, and remembered that he had asked He Junchao to investigate the white car yesterday, but He Junchao hadn't given himself a definite answer so far. So Gu Chen picked up the phone again and dialed He Junchao's number. Not long after, the phone was connected. "Gu Chen, why are you looking for me this late at night?" He Junchao seemed to have forgotten Gu Chen's confession last night. "Senior Brother He, where is the white car I asked you to investigate last night? Did you find it?" Gu Chen cut straight to the point. On the other end of the phone, there was an apparent pause for a few seconds before He Junchao's reply came: "Oh, it's this matter? I've investigated it, and I don't have a clue yet." "What do you mean by not having a clue?" Gu Chen was puzzled. He Junchao said again: "I have investigated the license plate, but there is no such car." "What do you mean? Could it be a set car?" Gu Chen suddenly realized that something was wrong. He Junchao replied: "It should be a set plate car. Anyway, there is no such license plate number in the normal registration information database." "And I tracked the whereabouts of this car based on roadside monitoring, and found that this car often disappeared after entering the vicinity of the West Development Zone." "You also know that the west side of the city has been undergoing major construction recently. Many nearby buildings are being demolished, and the lines have almost been demolished. There are many monitoring blind spots..." "Then there is no other way to find that white car?" Gu Chen hurriedly asked without waiting for He Junchao to finish speaking. He Junchao was a little confused: "Gu Chen, you also know that this area is very large, and it is very difficult to find that car." "What about the driver?" Gu Chen asked again. He Junchao also sighed and said, "It's okay if you don't tell me. This driver has been unable to see his face clearly. He is wearing a peaked cap with the brim pressed down very low, and he is wearing a mask. It is difficult for me to identify the driver's real appearance through monitoring." "Wait a minute." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Did you notice that I was following this car at the time I told you last night?" "Yes, I have." "Then what happened later? Who drove this car away?" Gu Chen asked again. He Junchao smiled and said, "It's still the same person from before." "The driver in the white suit?" Gu Chen asked. "Yes, isn't it?" He Junchao also felt baffled. But at this moment, Gu Chen fell into deep thought again. According to He Junchao, the driver who left in the white car was the mysterious man he had followed before. Obviously, after this mysterious man came into contact with another mysterious person, he took another shortcut, returned to the previous roadside, and drove the car away. In this way, it shows that the mysterious person has realized that he seems to be suspected of being followed. That's why he used his familiarity with the terrain to take a shortcut and drive the vehicle away before he returned to the side of the road. In this way, it can explain why when I returned to the roadside last night, the vehicle that was parked on the roadside suddenly disappeared. It can be seen that the other party is also a very vigilant person. At least, the other party's whereabouts do not want to be discovered by anyone. But the more this is the case, the more it shows that things are not so simple. "Senior brother He, please continue to help me investigate this white car, especially help me investigate. White cars often drive into the main roads of the West City Development Zone, and conduct investigations on suspicious people entering and leaving these roads." "I understand." He Junchao was quite helpless after hearing Gu Chen's words. He understood that the investigation Gu Chen mentioned was actually investigating the driver. But after all, if people really want to avoid you, they must change their attire. investigation? That is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack. But knowing this was the case, He Junchao didn't dare to refute. The task Gu Chen gave must be very difficult, so he could only bite the bullet and agree first. After hanging up the phone, seeing that the vehicle from the Technical Division of the Municipal Bureau hadn't arrived, Gu Chen went directly to the side of the fishing boat just now and asked, "Whose boat is this?" "It's mine, comrade policeman." A white-haired old man walked out from the crowd. "Can you requisition your ship now?" Gu Chen asked. "Of course." The white-haired old man did not refuse. Now that someone has drowned and died, the white-haired old man seems to want to do his part to let the police figure out the situation as soon as possible. You know, many of the nearby villages are running farmhouses. But if there are rumors that there are drowning ghosts in the nearby waters, which is unlucky, it will definitely affect the income of several nearby villages. So the white-haired old man came down immediately. Gu Chen didn't care too much at the moment. After handing over the scene to Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha, Liu Jingru and the relevant staff of the organizer, he and Police Officer Wang boarded the villagers' fishing boat. After chasing the white-haired old man, he started the motor hanging on the back of the fishing boat, and the propeller worked quickly, leading everyone to row towards the relevant waters. Gu Chen first asked the white-haired old man to take himself and Police Officer Wang to circle around the relevant water area where the floating corpse was found. Afterwards, Gu Chen positioned himself according to the phone map and asked the white-haired old man to send him to the relevant shore. It was also the area where I found the mysterious person last night. When the ship docked, Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang turned on the flashlights and quickly went ashore for inspection. The white-haired old man parked the boat on one side, tied the boat rope to a willow tree on the bank, and followed Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang to land together. It is also unclear what the purpose of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang came here. I saw Gu Chen and Officer Wang constantly searching for something with a bright flashlight, and the white-haired old man could only obediently follow behind. The area that Gu Chen focused on checking was the last place where the mysterious man was found last night. Obviously, due to the erosion of the lake, the soil on the shore is also very loose. But even so, Gu Chen did not find any footprints just like last night. The reason is simple. The shore is covered with thick vegetation. Even if you step on the soft shore, it is obviously unrealistic to leave obvious footprints. But Gu Chen soon discovered that there was obviously a deep footprint in a shallow place. To be precise, it doesn't look like footprints, but more like flipper-like traces. And the direction of this trace is obviously gradually walking towards the shore from the direction of the lake. Until these traces disappeared in a weed pile on the shore, they disappeared. Gu Chen squatted down slowly, using the strong flashlight in his hand to shine light on it, and touched the dirt traces with his fingers, measuring the depth. "Gu Chen, how's it going?" Officer Wang squatted beside Gu Chen and asked in a low voice. Gu Chen also leaned into Officer Wang's ear and reminded in a low voice, "The traces are the latest, and they happened not long ago." "That is to say?" Police Officer Wang was taken aback and shrank back involuntarily. Seeing that the white-haired old man was far away from the two of them, he leaned into Gu Chen's ear and whispered back: "That is to say, you guessed that the idea that someone used diving equipment to sneak into the lake and drag Zhang Muzhi into the water was not groundless?" "En." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said involuntarily, "I wasn't sure before, but combined with what these people said just now, I feel that Zhang Muzhi's death is indeed too strange." "If it is said that the drowning died for no reason, there are undoubtedly these points. First of all, the swimming level is not good, but this is obviously not true." "Zhang Muzhi belongs to the level of a master swimmer, and he also served as a swimming coach for others during the summer vacation, so this can be ruled out." "The other is being entangled in the legs by the algae plants in the lake, struggling to sink into the bottom of the water, but this is obviously not realistic." "Because according to the nearby villagers, when the lake is dry, there are basically not many strange organisms in this water area." "This also shows that the so-called entangled algae organisms do not exist." Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also nodded frequently, and then said: "The water monster's words..." "That's even more unreliable." Before Police Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen retorted directly: "If you encounter some giant organisms, and these giant organisms are aggressive, it will cause Zhang Muzhi to drown. . "Then Zhang Muzhi's body will inevitably have some wounds, such as the giant fish mentioned by the villagers just now." "But when I checked the corpse, I didn't find the existence of these organisms, which shows that Zhang Muzhi's death has nothing to do with these giant organisms." "Then according to what you say, it is possible that Zhang Muzhi was dragged into the water by the murderer?" Officer Wang suddenly felt terrified after thinking carefully, and felt that the idea that did not exist before, now under Gu Chen's rhetoric, suddenly become more and more clear. But Gu Chen shook his head: "Of course, it is not ruled out that Zhang Muzhi has a certain disease problem, which caused him to suddenly fall ill during swimming and sink to the bottom of the water." "But judging from Zhang Muzhi's body, it seems that there are not many clues. It can only be seen that he died of drowning." "Also, Zhang Muzhi's expression is very painful, it is obvious that he had a strong struggle before his death." "It still needs to bring Zhang Muzhi's body back to the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau, let Gao Chuanfeng and the others test it, and see if Zhang Muzhi really had some diseases before his death." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Police Officer Wang also nodded silently: "I think it's the only way to go first." Gu Chen checked the drag marks on the shore left and right, and began to use the strong flashlight to spread the light source. It has to be said that the lighting of police flashlights is really not comparable to ordinary civilian flashlights. When switched to astigmatism mode, the entire surrounding area is illuminated with light. Coupled with Officer Wang's auxiliary lighting, the two beams of light are enough to see the surrounding environment clearly. Gu Chen followed the drag marks on the ground until he found a lawn. Seeing this, Gu Chen suddenly activated his master-level imagination, and instantly constructed a virtual scene in his mind. At this moment, time goes back to before the incident. The mysterious man was lurking around at this moment, observing every move on the shore. And Zhao Bo and Xu Yang, after entering the water, swam directly towards the bright area on the left. And Zhang Muzhi swam towards the dark area on the right. The two parties can be regarded as "parting ways" in the water. It also indirectly reflects the estrangement between competitors, and there is not much magnanimity. At this time, the mysterious person on the shore had already observed Zhang Muzhi's swimming trajectory. Because the surroundings were too dark and the shore was covered by aquatic plants, the mysterious man quickly changed into the diving equipment, equipped with a professional oxygen mask, and began to slowly dive into the lake according to Zhang Muzhi's swimming track, approaching Zhang Muzhi's swimming area. Gu Chen is now in the perspective of God, observing everything around him. Just when Zhang Muzhi stopped in the lake, enjoying the rare comfort, and without knowing that a black shadow really approached slowly behind Zhang Muzhi. At this time, Zhang Muzhi was lying on his back on the lake, enjoying the short relaxation after training. But at this moment, Zhang Muzhi also seemed to hear a little movement nearby. Zhang Muzhi adjusted his swimming posture and kept observing the movement around him. However, at this moment, when Zhang Muzhi was defenseless, a black hand suddenly grabbed Zhang Muzhi's legs and pulled them hard. Zhang Muzhi was caught off guard, and before he had time to adjust his breathing rhythm, he was pulled into the bottom of the lake by a sudden black shadow. Afterwards, Heiying took advantage of the diving equipment and kept pulling Zhang Muzhi's legs, making Zhang Muzhi unable to show his swimming advantage in the water. With the inability to breathe in the lake and the dim environment, Zhang Muzhi suddenly fell into fear. Then, while Zhang Muzhi was struggling desperately, trying to surface to call for help, the black shadow began to interfere with Zhang Muzhi's ascent under the water. Until Zhang Muzhi got water in his mouth and couldn't breathe, coupled with the struggle at the bottom of the water, his physical strength was gradually exhausted. Zhang Muzhi looked desperately at the few lights on the lake, and slowly closed his eyes. However, Hei Ying, who was wearing diving equipment, did not bring Zhang Muzhi to the surface of the water prematurely just in case. It wasn't until it was confirmed that Zhang Muzhi under the water was completely motionless, then the black shadow gave up the entanglement, and gradually sneaked from the bottom of the water to the shore under the cover of night. And what Gu Chen saw afterwards was a mysterious man wearing diving equipment, slowly climbing up to the shore, stepping on a mark similar to flippers in the mud on the shore. And with drag marks, it came to the lawn open space on the shore. Only then did he take off his equipment, and began to escape according to the previously established escape route. "If this is the case, then the murderer may not be among the crowd." Gu Chen finished the screen simulation and returned to reality again. Looking at the other professional pilots near Zhang Muzhi's body on the shore in the distance, Gu Chen felt that the murderer might not be able to change the equipment and rush back to the shore in such an extreme time. Fighting Zhang Muzhi in the water will inevitably consume too much physical strength of the murderer. If he does not dispose of his diving equipment in time, once discovered, the murderer will also show his original shape. Therefore, Gu Chen felt that if he was the murderer, he would follow the escape route deployed earlier and run away immediately. "Could it be that shortcut?" Gu Chen thought of this, and suddenly remembered that he followed the mysterious man here yesterday, but the other party took a step ahead of him, returned to the side of the road, and drove the car away. If the murderer came by car, then the diving equipment must have been put in the car and then taken away from the scene. "It should be like this." Gu Chen couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, feeling that tonight, that white car might be parked by the side of the road last night. Thinking of this, Gu Chen hurriedly picked up the phone again and contacted He Junchao from Furong Branch. Not long after, the call was connected again. He Junchao was also confused, and hurriedly asked, "Gu Chen, what's the matter?" "Is the white car I asked you to check on the road near the Jiangnan Lake Stadium tonight?" "White car? Tonight? You... you wait." As soon as Gu Chen reminded him, He Junchao immediately entered the search mode. Gu Chen did not hang up the phone, but continued to wait on standby. On the phone, He Junchao tapped the keyboard and clicked the mouse from time to time. Not long after, He Junchao's response came again on the phone: "Gu Chen, I found it. Tonight, not long before you called, indeed, I found that white car, which happened to be out of the Jiangnan Lake competition venue." Nearby, heading towards the Xicheng Development Zone. "It's this car." Hearing He Junchao's remarks, Gu Chen was a little overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Senior brother He, you should immediately notify the patrol team on duty nearby, let them catch up and stop this car, hurry up." "Understood, it's just..." He Junchao on the phone half-spoken, but suddenly hesitated. Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Just what?" "It's just that a long time has passed since the time I checked. It is estimated that this car is approaching the area near the Xicheng Development Zone." "Once the car is in the area, it's going to be a bit difficult to find the car." "Then what are you waiting for? On the road that this white car must pass when entering the West City Development Zone, hurry up and let the colleagues in the patrol team intercept it. Be sure to stop this white car with a license plate, and don't let this white car get on the road." people ran away." "I understand, I will do my best." The two communicated in a hurry, and both hung up the phone. Gu Chen also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, feeling that there should be a chance. Seeing this, Police Officer Wang also said with concern: "Gu Chen, if the murderer is really the driver of the white car, then this guy is too cunning, maybe he has already thought of other ways to escape." "I know." Gu Chen knew what Police Officer Wang meant, and said angrily, "But time is running out, and we must take immediate and decisive action." "Regardless of whether this white car passed through the necessary passage yesterday, we must make full preparations." Officer Wang nodded slightly: "I listen to you." Gu Chen then looked at the white-haired villager behind him, hurried over and asked, "Master, how many ways are there to go from this place to the nearby road?" "How many roads?" The white-haired old man was taken aback for a moment, and quickly looked at the surrounding environment, then pointed to the road that Gu Chen returned last night and said, "Go straight on this road, and you can walk to the side of the road." "Then what else? Is there a shorter road?" Gu Chen asked again. "Closer?" The white-haired old man looked at another location on the slope and said, "Then you can go this way, along the edge of the slope, and pass through the groove over there to come to the side of the road. " "Thank you." Feeling the same as what he simulated on the map, Gu Chen hurriedly said to Police Officer Wang: "Senior Brother Wang, let's go over and have a look." "Okay." Police officer Wang was about to take a step, and then asked, "What about the old man?" "Don't worry about us, old man, you can row the boat back first." Gu Chen said. The old man saw that the two policemen were mysterious, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he could only let out an "ah", and then quickly returned to the fishing boat and started rowing towards the shore. On the other side, according to the guidance of the old man, Gu Chen began to walk all the way towards the side of the slope according to what he saw last night. Indeed, I was on the left side of the slope last night, and the mysterious man indeed left to the right side of the slope after contacting another mysterious person. Between the two groups of people, a sloping field blocked their view, which is why Gu Chen came to the shore to observe for a while last night, and when returning to the original road, the vehicles parked on the side of the road suddenly disappeared. It can be seen that the mysterious man returned to the side of the road through another shortcut, and this shortcut is the path that Gu Chen is currently taking. After a while, Gu Chen brought Police Officer Wang to the side of the road. From the map on the mobile phone, this is indeed the nearest road, but if Gu Chen returned from a long way yesterday, he would have to cross a pond and there would be some winding paths. It can be seen that the mysterious person is very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he came to check out the spot in advance. Obviously, he also knows that the second competition venue of the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv crossing machine racing competition is set up here. The fact that the mysterious person knew about such a secret place in advance made Gu Chen doubtful. Was it revealed by someone inside the organizer? You must know that almost all participating club members do not know where the next competition will be held. This venue alone was temporarily built last night, and many infrastructures have not had time to deploy. "But if this is the case, the mysterious person may be the murderer, and the timing of the murderer's visit is too coincidental, right? You actually know that Zhang Muzhi will appear in this area at night the next day." "What's more, the murderer seems to know that Zhang Muzhi will swim in the water at night, and also knows that Zhang Muzhi will be alone. All this seems to be calculated in advance." Listening to Gu Chen muttering here, Officer Wang, who was standing on the slope, couldn't help asking him curiously: "You mean, this mysterious man might be the murderer?" "At least there is a high probability." Although Gu Chen didn't say it too absolutely, he thought so in his heart. Police Officer Wang also crossed his arms and murmured according to the train of thought provided by Gu Chen: "If the mysterious person you met last night was the murderer, then the murderer must have come to check on you when he came yesterday." "If this is the case, then the murderer obviously knows this location, which is one of the venues for the Jiangnan sub-station of the fpv machine racing competition." Turning his head to look at Gu Chen, Police Officer Wang said again: "But how did the murderer know? Even our professional players don't know. It was only when Liu Jingru reminded us early this morning that we were going to come here today." "Could it be that the murderer has infiltrated the organizer, Jiangnan Television?" Seeing that Gu Chen didn't react at all, Police Officer Wang immediately denied himself: "That's not true, the deceased is Zhang Muzhi, and Zhang Muzhi is the captain of the Hangzhou Shadow Club. He didn't seem to have any contact with him in Jiangnan City before, right?" "But if that's the case, how did the murderer manage to kill Zhang Muzhi, a non-local contestant, knowing so much about the organizer's situation? This doesn't seem to be related?" "I know there is no connection, so I need to focus on investigating this Zhang Muzhi to find out what the origin of this Zhang Muzhi is." Gu Chen is also very clear at this moment. Zhang Muzhi's death may have been a well-planned murder case. But the murderer carefully planned all of this, as if he had some kind of strong purpose, but at the current position, Gu Chen has not grasped any motive of the murderer. Therefore, Gu Chen feels that the focus of the investigation can temporarily return to Zhang Muzhi, and focus on investigating Zhang Muzhi's origin. In particular, it is necessary to investigate the acquaintances around Zhang Muzhi. After all, if Zhang Muzhi's habits are not well understood, then tonight's so-called "accident" seems to be difficult to realize at all. But all of this is real, and the murderer did it smoothly. If Zhang Muzhi was really murdered, it can only be said that this well-planned murder seems to have been covered up seamlessly. It made everyone feel that Zhang Muzhi might have accidentally drowned while swimming, leading to his death. "Why is it night?" While thinking about it, Gu Chen also asked himself and answered, "Because at night, the cover of darkness can be used to prevent people on the shore from seeing clearly Zhang Muzhi's situation in the lake, and he can kill people quietly. . "But why can the murderer be sure that Zhang Muzhi will swim in this area at night?" "What's more, the murderer came to check out the spot one day in advance, so obviously the murderer knows that everything that happened here today is in the murderer's plan." "And the only thing that can do all of this is obviously that the murderer knows the training arrangements very well, and even has a well-thought-out plan." "The one who can do this is undoubtedly the organizer or the organizing committee, and Liu Jingru once said that the various training arrangements have actually been finalized two days ago." "In that case, the murderer may have infiltrated the organizers and knew about the training arrangements in advance. Only then can we be sure that Zhang Muzhi's training will be held at night." "Then how can we guide Zhang Mu into the water? Is it because of Zhang Muzhi's preference?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously. Gu Chen nodded silently, and said involuntarily: "That's right, the reason why Zhang Mu was able to guide Zhang Mu into the water is that the murderer is familiar with Zhang Muzhi's preferences." "This is clear from the mouths of other members of their shadow club." "Harmful!" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang couldn't help but sigh, feeling that things were getting more and more complicated. A drowning accident, it seems that the underlying reason behind it is far from being as simple as I imagined. Just as Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang were thinking, Gu Chen's cell phone rang suddenly. Gu Chen picked it up and took a look. It was Lu Weiwei who was calling, so without saying a word, Gu Chen directly chose to press the answer button. "Junior Brother Gu, where did you and Lao Wang go? Gao Chuanfeng and the others from the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau have arrived, how should we arrange it? Should they take the corpse away?" On the phone, Lu Weiwei's tone was also anxious. Gu Chen replied lightly: "That's right, ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the corpse away, and focus on checking it for me to see if there are any special diseases in Zhang Muzhi's body." "Also, ask the members of the Shadow Club to help contact Zhang Muzhi's family members and ask them to come over quickly." "If necessary, tell them that we need to conduct an autopsy on Zhang Muzhi's body." "I understand, don't worry, Junior Brother Gu, leave this to me." Lu Weiwei replied quite straightforwardly, but suddenly asked: "Then... where are you now? Why have you disappeared after the boating old man returned to the shore? ? "We're on the side of the road nearby." Gu Chen half-spoken, and quickly asked again: "Oh, by the way, Senior Sister Lu, have any colleagues from the patrol team rushed to the scene?" "Yes, Gao Chuanfeng and the others almost arrived at the front and back." Lu Weiwei said. "Then I know." Gu Chen took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Senior Sister Lu, leave the scene to them, and you can drive over to pick me up with Senior Brother Wang, we will be there when you return to the city Must be on the road." "Understood, I'm here to pick you up." Lu Weiwei said. The two exchanged a few simple greetings, and both hung up the phone. Not long after, the bus arranged by the organizer picked up the training players from the Jiangnan lake one after another. What stopped in front of Gu Chen and Police Officer Wang was a police car from the Furong Branch of Jiangnan City. Huang Zunlong lowered the car window, and also shouted at Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, get in the car quickly." "So it's you?" Seeing that it was Huang Zunlong, Gu Chen opened the passenger door without thinking too much. Only then did they realize that Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha were already sitting at the back, and Police Officer Wang also boarded the car through the back door on the other side. Huang Zunlong immediately asked: "Then where are we going now?" "Go back to the branch office." Gu Chen said. "Understood." Huang Zunlong knew that Gu Chen must enter work mode if such a thing happened in the middle of the night, but he still asked curiously: "But don't you want to train? Isn't it okay to leave this kind of thing to other people in your criminal investigation team?" "No." As soon as Huang Zunlong finished speaking, Gu Chen directly denied it: "I know the specifics of this kind of thing best, and I don't feel relieved to leave it to other people." "Okay." Seeing that Gu Chen insisted on his own opinion, Huang Zunlong also reminded: "But Director Zhao asked you to represent the entire Jiangnan City Police Force and take charge of participating in the Jiangnan City sub-station of the fpv traversing machine racing competition." "If you don't get some decent results, Director Zhao will probably be angry, so you don't think about it anymore?" Huang Zunlong talked all kinds of things, but Gu Chen, who was sitting in the co-pilot, still had a firm gaze, and said calmly: "This matter involves all clubs in the fpv racing competition." "If the matter is not checked, do you think the game can be held smoothly? At that time, everyone will be in danger, and this game will lose its meaning." After a pause, Gu Chen said earnestly again: "So we must investigate this matter clearly. It doesn't matter if we investigate while training. The important thing is to restore the truth of the matter." "Okay." Knowing that he couldn't screw Gu Chen, Huang Zunlong, who drove the car, had no choice but to compromise: "I'll just say it casually, as long as you, Gu Chen, don't find it hard, then I have no objection." After the words fell, Huang Zunlong continued to increase the accelerator, parted ways with the organizer's minibus convoy at an intersection, and drove quickly towards the Furong sub-bureau. On the way, Gu Chen suddenly noticed that the fire sirens were blaring, and two fire trucks suddenly appeared behind his vehicle. Gu Chen glanced at Huang Zunlong's chin who was driving, Huang Zunlong understood immediately, and quickly drove the car to one side, giving the central road to fire engines. And many vehicles waiting for the traffic lights ahead, when they heard the fire sirens from behind, they all gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to the original road. The firefighting vehicle blew its siren, and began to slowly drive out of the many vehicles, heading towards the front area quickly. "Where is the fire again?" Lu Weiwei frowned, and said helplessly: "A few days ago, two residences in our Jiangnan City had fires one after another. Why didn't it take long before another place caught fire?" "Who knows? Maybe someone's kid is playing with fire again?" Officer Wang didn't know the specific situation, so he could only say casually. But at this moment, Gu Chen's phone rang suddenly, and it was He Junchao who called. Due to the long waiting time at the traffic lights, Gu Chen also pressed the answer button and asked, "What's the matter, Senior Brother He? Have you found that white car?" "Gu Chen, I seem to have found the approximate area of the car." On the phone, He Junchao's reply seemed a little hesitant. Gu Chen frowned, and quickly asked, "Where is that?" "On... on the way to the Xicheng Development Zone, it is the section of the road from the Jiangnan Lake Landscape Disc to the Xicheng Development Zone, but the last surveillance footage I was able to track was that this car drove past the Landscape Disc, and then One intersection and no trace." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, the red light at the intersection ahead suddenly turned into a green light. Huang Zunlong turned left and continued to drive towards the Furong sub-bureau. At this time, Gu Chen suddenly became alert. As the vehicle drove slowly to the left, Gu Chen listened to the fire siren on the right, and could vaguely see the sky in the distance, when suddenly a puff of thick black smoke rose. Gu Chen said to the phone: "I see, I'll go over and check the situation, that's all." After hanging up the phone, Gu Chen quickly patted Huang Zunlong on the shoulder and reminded: "Huang Zunlong, turn around quickly." "Turn... U-turn? What is the U-turn for?" Huang Zunlong, who was driving the car, was also confused when he was suddenly reminded by Gu Chen. But Gu Chen hurriedly said again: "Follow the two fire trucks just now, let's go over and see the situation." "What's the situation?" Huang Zunlong was even more confused by Gu Chen's words, and said inexplicably, "Gu Chen, aren't we going back to the branch office? Why are we following the fire truck to join in the fun?" "Even if it's to save lives, that's the job of the fire brigade. Are we not professional firefighters?" "Don't make trouble, listen to me, and turn around quickly." Gu Chen didn't know how to explain it at the moment, but somehow, it seemed that the situation was not right. Huang Zunlong knew Gu Chen's temper. Although Gu Chen didn't say it clearly, judging from Gu Chen's expression, he didn't seem to want to be joking. So Huang Zunlong took a deep breath, and could only turn left on the road ahead, turn around, and began to drive quickly towards the landscape circle intersection. Seeing another traffic light ahead, the traffic was congested. Huang Zunlong directly sounded the siren and started to remind the vehicles in front to give way. The vehicle in front also tactfully gave up the passage after finding the police car honking behind it. Soon, Huang Zunlong flashed the police lights, sounded the siren, and without affecting the traffic safety, slowly drove across the landscape intersection, and quickly chased in the direction where the fire truck left just now. At this moment, Lu Weiwei simply closed the car window. As the vehicle continued to move forward, the black smoke in the distance began to become clear. Even in the air, you can smell a burnt stench. Lu Weiwei covered her mouth and nose, and said involuntarily, "Where is this fire? Why is there no residential area nearby?" "Could it be that the factory building is on fire?" Yuan Shasha on the side also asked in confusion. Officer Wang shook his head: "Let's see and talk." Gu Chen looked at the flickering flames in the distance, which complemented the lights of the fire trucks. And the scene of billowing black smoke, combined with the smell of burning in the air, immediately felt a kind of terrific thought. When the police car drove into the intersection, everyone discovered that a raging fire was burning at the end of a trail on the right. Many people stood around. The fire truck had just arrived, and the firefighters were collecting water to put out the fire. The whole scene was in chaos, and many passers-by refused to leave. Then, when the onlookers heard the sirens behind them, they slowly gave way to both sides of the road, giving way to a road. After several people got out of the car, Police Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Huang Zunlong quickly began to maintain order and disperse the onlookers to avoid affecting the fire fighting operation. However, Gu Chen walked towards the scene slowly, facing the scene of burning flames, Gu Chen froze on the spot. The burning object in front of him was a white car. The raging fire made Gu Chen's face red, while the firefighters coming and going in front were struggling to put out the fire ahead. Everyone didn't pay attention, Gu Chen just stood there blankly. It seemed that what was burning in front of him was not a white car, but evidence. ... Off Topic In the new week, ask for votes, with a sincere face.
