Sutong is the only person with clear knowledge found in the investigation of Hassan's murder, and perhaps he is the only one who knows the true purpose of Hassan's trip to Victory Harbor, which is most likely the real reason for Hassan's murder - and of course, it may now be the reason for his murder. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although there is no conclusive evidence to combine the Sutong case with the Hassan case, the members of the task force subconsciously believe that there is a close connection between the two cases. However, there are obvious differences in the modus operandi of the two cases, which is the main reason why the task force cannot make a conclusion for the time being.

"Maybe it's because the murderer doesn't have enough time to slowly plan a way to kill people with fewer flaws this time. Fu Li put forward a relatively big possibility: "We posted a reward notice to collect clues, in fact, there is only one day, assuming that the murderer also saw this notice, he must know that Hassan is dead and the police have already found his body, our means of trying to cover up show that the police are stepping up the investigation of the cause of Hassan's death? He probably also knew that we would soon be able to find out about Shopkeeper Su, but it was impossible to go to the kind of crowded place in the business district to do it, so he rushed to Shopkeeper Su's house as soon as possible, and when he came back, he took advantage of his unpreparedness to do it directly. ”

On the one hand, it allows the task force to save the time and manpower required for large-scale investigation, and directly and accurately obtains key information, but on the other hand, it is also very likely that the murderer who is secretly observing the trend of the situation will be aware of the police's intentions, so as to rush in front of the police to attack the important insider Su Tong. Judging from the current results, it seems that this measure will ultimately do more harm than good, but instead bring the investigation of the case to an impasse.

Zhang Qianzhi said: "The cause of Su Tong's death will be discussed until tomorrow when we have the autopsy report, but there is something we have to do right now." ”

Fu Li said: "What's the matter?"

"There may be other employees in Nanyang Pavilion who know about Hassan, we must protect all of them now!" Zhang Qianzhi suggested: "Now go check the list of employees immediately, and then gather these people together overnight." ”

"I'll do the list. Lin Nan volunteered to take on this task.

Since Hassan went to Nanyang Pavilion to meet Su Tong, since there was more than one witness outside, it is likely that there were other employees in the shop at that time who also witnessed the events of the day, and if the mastermind behind the scenes wanted to completely cut off the clues, then everyone present at the time would probably become the target of his attack. Su Tong is already one step slower here, and it is impossible for the task force to let the mastermind behind the scenes continue to succeed.

However, Zhang Qianzhi did not directly explain one point, that is, the employees in the Nanyang Pavilion store were a blind spot in the previous detection process, not only knowing the purpose of Hassan to Nanyang Pavilion, but also accurately grasping Sutong's itinerary, which is simply a perfect character. But if the employees are arrested directly, there will inevitably be a risk of startling the snake again, so Zhang Qianzhi said that he still chose a more tactful statement, anyway, get everyone back first, and then slowly interrogate and verify.

When Lin Nan went to the Ministry of Commerce of Shengli Fort to retrieve the list of employees of Nanyang Pavilion, Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li began to investigate Su Tong's social relations on the spot. Although the task force basically believes that this matter is related to the Hassan case, it must first rule out other possibilities.

Su Tong is originally from Zhaoqing Mansion, Guangdong, he was originally a subordinate of a major shareholder of Qionglianfa, and after being transferred to Sanya, he did not join the Haihan nationality. And almost all of his family members are in their hometowns, except for an old slave, they did not come to Sanya, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are working alone outside. There are two main social relationships in the local area, one is Nanyang Court's colleagues and subordinate employees, and the other is some customers, such as Hassan, may be one of them. But Su Tong didn't have much contact with the neighbors where he lived, after all, the nature of his work was to leave early and return late, and the circle he contacted was very different from the workers here, so he really didn't have much common language.

The task force basically stayed up all night, and the three of them each led the team back and forth in various parts of Shengli Harbor. At dawn, the task force reconvened at the Shengli Port Police Station to hold a meeting to report on the progress of the case.

First of all, Fu Li reported the preliminary conclusion of the autopsy, he had been staring at the morgue in the second half of last night for an autopsy, and at this time, both eyes were also congested with blood due to excessive fatigue, and they became red and a little scary. The results of the examination were basically consistent with what they saw at the scene, and the fatal injuries of the deceased were caused by a blow to the back of the head, and based on the injuries, the murder weapon was probably a hard object such as a hammer hammer. According to Su Tong's servant, there is no such tool in the house, and it seems that it is likely to be a murder weapon brought by the murderer himself, in other words, this is a premeditated murder incident.

Then there was the summons investigation of other employees of Nanyang Pavilion that Zhang Qianzhi and Lin Nan were responsible for, and the case finally took a turn for the better in this link - in addition to Su Tong, there was also an employee named Li Qin who was in the store when Hassan went to Nanyang Pavilion, but the task force failed to find him at his residence last night. The other employees belonging to Nanyang Pavilion have all been summoned to the case, and they are still being interrogated separately so far.

"I have a hunch that this person was either killed like Hassan and Su Tong, or it was related to the death of these two people, and he had escaped overnight!" Zhang Qianzhi made a bold speculation: "I don't believe that there will be so many coincidences in the same case, and the sudden disappearance of this Li Qin may allow us to find out the truth of the case." ”

At this time, someone whispered a few words next to Lin Nan, and after Lin Nan listened, he raised his hand to signal, and then took over Zhang Qianzhi's words: "The employees of Nanyang Pavilion reported that Li Qin knew how to carpentry, and he was usually responsible for some tinkering things inside and outside the store. In addition, our people found a toolbox in the Nanyang Pavilion shop, with axes, chisels, and saws, except for a hammer. ”

"I went to kill someone with an iron hammer, and since I have decided to escape, I probably won't make a special trip to return the iron hammer. Fu Li immediately added: "I think I can give an order to arrest this person, these are two lives!"

"He wasn't necessarily the one who killed Hassan. Lin Nan shook his head and did not agree with Fu Li's speculation: "The difference between the murder methods used in the two cases is too great. And we also investigated Li Qin's working schedule, on the day of Hassan's murder, Li Qin worked in the store until after the street lights were on, and at that time Hassan and the mysterious person had already met in Zuixian Building. ”

"So the person Hassan met in the Drunken Immortal Tower wasn't this Li Qin?" This turn of events was a little beyond Fu Li's expectations.

"Judging from the evidence we have so far, it shouldn't be him. But the facts of the two cases are very coherent, and I think there may be more than one murderer. Zhang Qianzhi agreed with Lin Nan's speculation: "But if the person Hassan met in the Zuixian Building is an accomplice to this Li Qin, then everything can be explained." ”

"As long as you catch someone, everything will be revealed. Fu Li got up and said, "Let's start the blockade of the port area first!"

It seems that there is only one step away from the truth, and in order to prevent the suspects from fleeing, the Minato area must first set up a card. No ships left the port last night and this morning, and the railway line between the port and Sanya port was also suspended. The next thing the task force will do is to use the forces at hand to investigate this area.

At the same time, the case was also reported to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Security, and this kind of serial homicide case with unclear motives is still quite rare in Sanya in the past two years.

As a result, for a time, the Shengli Port area fell into a rare rumor in recent times, and even the militia was mobilized to set up cards at various intersections to check the personnel entering and leaving the port area. Nanyang Pavilion was also temporarily closed, waiting for Qiong Lianfa's internal rectification.

On 1 February, after two days of large-scale investigation and arrest operations, we finally achieved something. In the passage of the canyon between the Tiandu Industrial Zone and the Iron Furnace Port, the militia belonging to Fu Shan Tong captured a suspicious person who tried to escape to the direction of the Iron Furnace Port. Because of the relationship between the salt farms, there are often foreign salt ships in and out of the port area, and the local prevention of outsiders will not be like the Shengli Port side to carry out an inventory one by one, which is indeed an escape route. But Li Qin probably didn't expect that Fu Shantong, who had moved into this canyon passage from the inland a few years ago, would actually become a stumbling block for him, blocking the escape passage from Sanya at the last moment.

The next interrogation work is also the link that Haihan's security agency is best at, Li Qin insisted for two hours, but was still pried open by the interrogators, admitted that he killed Su Tong, and successively recruited the inside story that shocked the task force.

Li Qin came to Sanya from Guangdong as an immigrant in 1632 and became a naturalized Haihan at the end of that year. But before that, he was not a genuine Guangdong native, but a second-generation Chinese born in Manila. He was recruited and trained by the Manila authorities, then secretly traveled to Guangdong, where he defected to the Haihan migrant camp as a refugee, and then came to Sanya on an undercover mission. After obtaining naturalized citizenship, he quickly got the opportunity to work in Nanyang Pavilion, and gradually turned it into an information exchange station.

"So the shopkeeper Su Tong is also your accomplice?"

"No, he's just a money-hungry businessman. ”

"What is Hassan's purpose in coming to Nanyang Pavilion?"

"Pass the news through the Nanyang Pavilion and make an appointment to meet Duda. ”

"Who is Duda?"

"It's my boss. Hassan was the one he killed. ”

"What is this Duda's local identity?"

"I don't know...... I've only seen him in Nanyang Pavilion......"

As the interrogation deepened, the truth of the case was unearthed little by little. Hassan, a Persian merchant who was a messenger who secretly transmitted information to the Spaniards, also brought a secret message from the Manila authorities to Sanya, and met with Duda, an intelligence agent embedded in the area, through the Nanyang Pavilion. But for some reason, Duda took measures to kill Hassan and tried to evade the pursuit by disguising himself as an accident. Of course, this trick didn't work, and in the end, it was discovered by the Haihan police because of the clues left.

When Duda found out that the police were using a bounty notice to investigate Hassan's murder, the first thing that came to mind was Nanyang Pavilion, which might expose his hidden danger. As long as the police find Nanyang Pavilion and inquire, it is not difficult to know that Hassan came here to contact him. So he immediately notified Li Qin and asked him to solve the hidden danger of Sutong as soon as possible. This Li Qin didn't have as many routines as Duda, but he knew the situation at Su Tong's house, so he moved into the courtyard before Su Tong arrived at home, and then killed him from behind with an iron hammer while he was unprepared.

After Li Qin did this, he also knew that he was likely to be suspected, and he had planned to escape by boat after dawn, as long as he left Sanya, he could go somewhere else. But he couldn't have imagined that he had just killed Su Tong on the front foot and left, and the task force investigating the case arrived at the scene of the incident on the back foot, and also deployed measures to search for the murderer overnight. In this way, Li Qin's original escape plan became a burst soap bubble, and he had to find another way to leave Sanya.

In the end, Li Qin thought of a way to cross the canyon from Tiandu to Tielu Harbor to see if he could take a salt ship to leave here. Although Li Qin knew that there was a shortcut between Tiandu and Tielu Port, he didn't know that this passage did not allow ordinary people to pass through, and only a special material transportation team could pass here unimpeded with their documents, and the Li people of Fushan Mountain, who lived in the canyon, were tasked with guarding this place. People like Li Qin, who tried to pass through the local area for unknown reasons, were naturally blocked, and in a panic, the Li militia soon noticed that something was wrong, so they detained him and reported him to the Tiandu police.

But Li Qin didn't know much about his immediate boss, the man codenamed Duda. In addition to his general appearance, he didn't even know what the other party's public identity was in Sanya, let alone where he settled. And the past contact between them was that the other party took the initiative to come to Nanyang Pavilion according to a certain time arrangement, and it was always Duda who gave instructions to him, but he didn't know Duda's daily movements.

"Find someone to draw a picture first, and then notify all units to assist in the investigation. After receiving the briefing, Ren Liang gave instructions to the task force: "As long as this person is still in Sanya, we must turn him out!" )