Chapter 042: Motivation

Fu Liangtao took out the manuscript and asked, "Is there anything else worth noting in this analysis report?" While speaking, begin to gracefully take notes on the manuscript.

Luo Mengning flipped through the notebook in his hand and replied, "Yes, I think there is a little bit of discrepancy with the evidence we have.

According to our investigation, Xu Jingjia's Fangtu account is still updated from time to time, and most of them publish photos of scenery and food as life records, and rarely post personal photos. Observing Xu Jingjia's posting habits, Xu Jingjia doesn't like to post selfies, and she won't add text to her photos.

It is worth noting that Xu Jingjia has several personal photos posted on the Fangtu account, and their release dates are after the end of 2017, but we have all found them in the electronic devices of Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing. According to the evidence in hand, Xu Jingjia had no contact with Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing at that time."

After Luo Mengning finished speaking, he couldn't help but feel that this discovery was too insignificant, and the results of this analysis report were not proportional to the number of hours he worked.

After a while, Luo Mengning saw that Fu Liangtao still didn't say a word, only wrote and drew on the manuscript, and then asked again, "Will the case of Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing have nothing to do with Xu Jingjia?" There was a slight hesitation in his tone.

"Nope." Fu Liangtao said categorically. "Xu Jingjia is inseparable from these two cases."

Everyone is familiar with Fu Liangtao, who is rarely affected by the case, so when they heard Fu Liangtao's categorical tone, they knew that Fu Liangtao must know it. Therefore, everyone present stopped talking, waiting for Fu Liangtao to open his mouth to solve their doubts.

"Do you still remember that on the night I went to Xu's house to collect evidence, I left beforehand?" Fu Liangtao asked, put down the pen in his hand and looked at everyone again. Seeing that everyone nodded, Fu Liangtao replied, "That night, I went to Zhou Muqing's house and went through Zhou Muqing's diary for several years."

While speaking, Fu Liangtao picked up the tablet and asked the other three for approval to synchronize the tablet's screen. After the synchronization screen was completed, Fu Liangtao clicked on the folder containing the files related to Xu Jingjia, and briefly explained: "According to the pattern of the date of establishment of this file and the background of its photographs, it can be determined that these files are from an investigation record, and since the start and end dates of the files overlap with the dates of Zhou Muqing's two changes of mobile phones, I think this is not the whole of the investigation records.

So, I went to the door to search for Chow's diary before 2019, hoping to ascertain the exact date and reason why Chow Muqing commissioned detectives to investigate Hui Ching-jia."

Fu Liangtao paused, picked up Zhou Muqing's diary that he put aside, and asked Luo Mengning, Qin Xiangwen and Pang Jitong to circulate it, and continued: "This is Zhou Muqing's diary from 2011 to 2018. I started with the diary in 2018 and went through it year by year, but I have never been able to determine the reason why Zhou Muqing commissioned detectives to investigate Xu Jingjia.

However, in the process of looking through Zhou Muqing's diary, I noticed that Zhou Muqing has always been very concerned about Xu Jingjia's affairs, and from time to time he will mention things about Xu Jingjia in his diary.

Even during the two periods when Xu Jingjia and Zhou Muqing broke off contact, that is, between mid-2012 and mid-2016, and between the end of 2017 and Zhou Muqing's death, Zhou Muqing still mentioned Xu Jingjia's recent situation in his diary from time to time.

During the first period of time, we can still understand that Zhou Muqing was able to understand her movements through Xu Jingjia's social account. However, Xu Jingjia once mentioned that she had stopped all social media accounts with friends in mid-2017......" Fu Liangtao stopped here, giving Pang Ji and them space to think, but between the words, he kept things that Zhou Maoxing already knew in advance.

As the investigation progresses, things are becoming more and more intriguing.

"You mean, Zhou Muqing has been investigating Xu Jingjia since Xu Jingjia deactivated his social account?" Pang Jitong unconsciously raised his voice and asked in surprise.

Fu Liangtao shook his head, not quite agreeing with Pang Jitong's opinion, and explained: "The events described in the diary are not as accurate as the investigation records restored from the backup files of the mobile phone, and it is not certain for the time being when Zhou Muqing found someone to investigate Xu Jingjia.

What I'm trying to say is that we may have gotten the order wrong before. Zhou Muqing's investigation of Xu Jingjia probably began before Zhou Muqing was harassed."

"If it weren't for the reason of being harassed, why would Zhou Muqing find someone to investigate Xu Jingjia?" Pang Jitong asked suspiciously, and then said to himself, "If it's just because of your attention to your friends, this is a bit too crazy, right?"

As Pang Jitong's words fell, everyone in the conference room seemed to be at a loss for the confusing clues of these two cases, and their morale suddenly became a little low.

"Don't be discouraged, we haven't learned anything in this electronic data forensics." Fu Liangtao seemed to appease everyone present, but these words were more to Luo Mengning and Pang Jitong.

Fu Liangtao believes that in a sense, Luo Mengning and Pang Jitong are actually the same kind of people. Otherwise, how can we explain that after his words fell, the two of them looked at him with crystal clear eyes, wanting to ask for an understanding?

At first glance, Fu Liangtao only felt that the two of them looked a bit like simple and innocent deer. Fu Liangtao's lips unconsciously hooked, and said, "At least, we found another thing that Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing have in common—that is, they are also quite concerned about Xu Jingjia's affairs.

This can be seen from the fact that Ah Ning mentioned just now that Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing both have photos posted by Xu Jingjia in their private accounts. In addition to Zhou Muqing's diary and mobile phone backup files, the files about Xu Jingjia that Li Bingde deleted before his death also point to this fact."

After hearing this, Luo Mengning asked, "Does that mean that what we need to be sure about now is whether Xu Jingjia knows about things that have been so concerned all along?"

"Xu Jingjia, she knows." Fu Liangtao said firmly. "Anyway, she knew that Li Bingde and Zhou Muqing were in some way controlling her movements, and I speculate that it was for this reason that Xu Jingjia deactivated all social media accounts."

"So, Xu Jingjia's motive is revenge? Does she want to treat others the way she does?" Pang Jitong asked again.

Fu Liangtao was noncommittal to Pang Jitong's question, and only said, "Until now, Xu Jingjia is the only one who has the motivation to do so."