Chapter 018: Audio

Bang!

Listening to the office door open with a series of breathless breathing, Fu Liangtao was not surprised to see Pang Jitong's embarrassed appearance. Pang Jitong's expression told Fu Liangtao that he probably understood what happened to Li Bingde.

I saw Pang Jitong spread out the folder in his hand on the desk, and put Xu Jingjia's frames of photos with missing edges and corners in front of Fu Liangtao, but he couldn't speak because he was still panting.

Seeing this, Fu Liangtao's eyes once again appeared with a sly smile that clashed with his elegant temperament, and he deliberately said slowly, "Don't worry! Let's talk about it first. We...... There's no hurry."

Hearing this, Pang Jitongqi had not yet straightened out, and his face turned red again in an instant. Fu Liangtao watched a large patch of pink spread from Pang Jitong's neck to his hairline at a speed visible to the naked eye, and decided to let Pang Jitong go, saying, "Your temperament is still too anxious, how to investigate the case?"

Seeing that Pang Jitong's face became a little redder, Fu Liangtao said, "These photos were found in the unassigned area when Li Bingde's laptop was being used for data acquisition."

Fu Liangtao knew that Pang Jitong had knowledge of electronic data forensics, but he did not explain more. Missing edges and corners mean that these image files are most likely to be obtained by restoring files that have already been deleted. This is also confirmed by finding the location of the file, the unassigned area. Because some of the fragments of the archives have been overwritten by other newly created archives, the overwritten fragments are like missing pieces of a puzzle, so these image archives will only become missing after restoration.

"Actually, there are far more than that, but that's the only one that can clearly identify the person's face." Fu Liangtao said again.

"So, this means that Xu Jingjia is lying? Or did Li Bingde secretly access these photos from Xu Jingjia's social media?" Pang Jitong was finally able to speak, so he asked with a slight gasp.

Fu Liangtao was noncommittal to Pang Jitong's question, and instead motioned for Pang Jitong to sit opposite him, saying, "I'll tell you about these things again, these were also rescued from Li Bingde's laptop." After that, Fu Liangtao handed the headphones to Pang Jitong.

Pang Jitongfu put on the headphones, and heard a female voice stammering, "Have you ever heard Su Shi's poem...... The title of the poem is very long, and I can't remember it clearly...... I only remember the first four lines of the poem: What is life like everywhere? It should be like Feihong stepping on slush; Occasionally, there are fingers and claws on the mud, and Hongfei counts things.

…… I like the mood of this poem very much, do you know what this poem means? …… It means that an eagle flew into the snow and left footprints...... I left the footprints behind, and after flying away... I won't care about the footprints anymore......" It sounded like the owner of the voice was clearly ignorant of the poem, but he wanted to be elegant.

Pang Jitong didn't have time to think about anything, Fu Liangtao said again, "Come, let's listen to this paragraph again!"

"I suspect that there is something unclean in the women's toilet on the first floor of the company...... Because I found that heater...... The heater...... The toilet will automatically start whenever there is only one person. I was the only one in the women's toilet just now, and the heater started automatically a few times, which scared me...... Alas, it's just this toilet, and I don't know what to do."

The sound of this audio message clearly belongs to the same person as the voice of the previous one.

After listening to this audio, Fu Liangtao did not speak again, but directly continued to play the next paragraph.

"You said you like to read, then you've read Milan. Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life?" This time, it was a male voice, and at the end of the day, the sound suddenly "clicked" and stopped.

Just as Pang Jitong thought that the content of this passage was over, he heard the male voice say, "The story quotes a philosophical concept called the Return of the Eternal Tribulation. At the moment when everything is happening, one can never go back to the point in time when a decision was made." Hearing this, the audio was interrupted with another "click".

At this time, Pang Jitong had already understood that this paragraph was what Fu Liangtao had just talked about when he talked about this book with Pang Jitong and Xu Jingjia.

Seeing that Fu Liangtao had no intention of speaking, Pang Jitong knew that the news might not be over yet, so he patiently waited for the follow-up parts.

In this way, Pang Jitong remembered Su Shi's poem mentioned in the first audio, and the explanation of the poem seemed to be the same as the content of the stage play that Fu Liangtao had talked about, but the poem mentioned should have been a wild goose, and Xu Jingjia and the female voice in the audio coincidentally thought that the poem was an eagle.

The second half of the audio is completely different from what Fu Liangtao talked about: "The lightness and heaviness of the story refers to the burden of life. The heavier the burden, the more grounded and real life becomes. On the contrary, the complete absence of burdens, while it is true that one becomes free, can also make life more and more detached from the ground, and everything becomes empty and irrelevant.

This kind of lightness is unbearable in life, and this is the case for people who have no burden and no pursuit in real life, so some of these people will lose interest in life because of this......" The voice stopped abruptly.

The headphones switched to a different audio message.

No one spoke in this recording, and until the end of the recording, there were only bursts of heavy breathing that made people think about it, coming from the earphones, and there was no distinction between men and women.

Fu Liangtao and Pang Jitong glanced at each other and said, "These audio files were also rescued from Li Bingde's laptop. The first and second audio clips are presumed to be the contents of the audio messages, and only these two audio clips have been completely restored in the audio files we have salvaged. As for the third and fourth paragraphs, they can only be partially repaired."

Pang Jitong said suspiciously, "The first and second passages sound like small talk, and the tone of the female voice seems to be speaking to someone she knows and is close to. And the third paragraph doesn't sound like the content of an audio message, is it a recording of a philosophy lesson?" As he spoke, Pang Jitong frowned unconsciously and put the index finger of his left hand to his lips.

"This is yet to be investigated." Fu Liangtao replied. The discussion between the two skipped the fourth audio clip, because they both knew that even the owner of the breath could not confirm the breathing sound with the sound of the breath alone.

After thinking about the content of the recording, Pang Jitong couldn't help but ask again, "You haven't seen Xu Jingjia before, let alone heard her voice. From the beginning, how did you determine that the female voice in the audio was Xu Jingjia? Only those photos?"

"No, actually, I wasn't sure until I met Xu Jingjia." Fu Liangtao replied indifferently, and then explained: "In the confession of Li Bingde's wife Luo Xiaowen, it was mentioned that she was sure that Li Bingde had other close friends of the opposite sex in private. If what Luo Xiaowen said is true, then these close friends of the opposite sex are also suspicious. When screening suspects, these people are naturally the subject of our investigation.

However, when conducting manual tests for Li Bingde's laptop and mobile phone, there was no discovery of the close friends of the opposite sex mentioned by Luo Xiaowen. It wasn't until Qin Xiangwen of Forensic A Team A completed the relevant electronic data analysis......" Fu Liangtao stopped at the point, expecting that Pang Jitong would be able to understand what he meant, so he didn't continue to say more.