Chapter Seventy-One: Regrouping
Xie Ju rushed to the office early in the morning and asked Officer Qin directly: "Where are the people?" β
Officer Qin led Bureau Xie to Guan Liu Haoran's room, Bureau Xie went in first, and Officer Qin followed behind and prepared to go in.
Xie Ju stopped him: "Don't come in, I'll talk to him." β
Officer Qin had no choice but to exit the door with an embarrassed face and close the door.
Hong Qifeng and Li Yunbai were also waiting at the door, wanting to see what Xie Ju could ask from Liu Haoran's mouth.
About half an hour later, Xie Ju opened the door and walked out.
As soon as he went out and saw Hong Qifeng, he shook his head and sighed and said: "This kid is a hard bone, it's not easy to deal with, my mouth has been dry for half a day, and he hasn't spit out a word." β
When Hong Qifeng heard this, he immediately made a gesture and was about to rush in.
Xie Ju stopped him and said, "What are you doing?" β
Hong Qifeng said hatefully: "I'll teach him a lesson and see if he is still hard." β
Xie Ju glared at him: "Are you preparing to torture the suspect?" β
Hong Qifeng shrugged his shoulders and didn't dare to speak.
"That's it," Xie Ju beckoned to Officer Qin and said, "Old Qin, you arrange for people to take turns to go in for interrogation, don't stop, ask for three days first." β
Officer Qin nodded yes again and again.
Xie Ju sighed, prepared to go to his office, thought for a while and then explained: "This matter, Qifeng boy, you are not allowed to interfere, let them go to the trial." β
"But Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"It's an order!" Before Hong Qifeng could say anything, he was stopped by Xie Ju.
Hong Qifeng had no choice but to nod helplessly.
Li Yunbai, who was on the side, hurriedly asked, "Xie Ju, can I participate?" β
Xie Ju glanced at him up and down, and said with a wry smile: "If you want to participate, I won't stop you, but I think that you and your Hong team, isn't the most urgent task at the moment to find out the truth about the Han Tongyue case in Bali as soon as possible?" β
Li Yunbai didn't dare to speak anymore.
Xie Ju looked at Hong Qifeng again and said: "I am also under a lot of pressure, the media and superior leaders have paid attention to this case many times, you didn't understand anything in this case, an important witness died, and there was a problem internally, you have to review yourself!" β
Xie Ju's voice was not loud, but his tone was very heavy, and he was probably a little disappointed in Hong Qifeng.
Hong Qifeng had no choice but to respond: "Yes, I will concentrate on continuing to investigate the Bali case." β
Xie Ju nodded, and said to Officer Qin again: "You inform the overall personnel that internal problems are strictly forbidden to spread outside, let me know who chews the tongue, and I will remove him!" β
"Yes!" Officer Qin straightened his chest and replied dryly.
Xie Ju glanced at the people present, nodded with satisfaction, and slowly walked back to his office.
There was a group of people who looked at each other there, and Officer Qin coughed dryly twice, and began to arrange personnel to interrogate Liu Haoran in turn.
Li Yunbai asked Hong Qifeng: "Team Hong, what should we do now?" β
Hong Qifeng thought for a while and said: "Since Bureau Xie let us concentrate on the Bali case, let's go back to the topic, let's go, go back and study it." β
After that, he took Li Yunbai back to his office.
After returning to the office, Hong Qifeng pushed over a whiteboard and wrote the case he sorted out last time, of course, there is no need to write about the content of the mole.
After writing, Hong Qifeng stood in front of the whiteboard, holding his cheeks and thinking carefully.
Li Yunbai leaned over and looked at Hong Qifeng's handwriting that filled half of the whiteboard, and said with a little surprise: "Team Hong, you have already listed all the questions clearly, you are really meticulous." β
Hong Qifeng shook his head: "It's not meticulous yet. Let's analyze them one by one. β
Li Yunbai nodded, pointed to the first one on the whiteboard and asked: "Han Tongyue committed suicide or did he kill this one, from the current point of view, it should be certain that he killed him, right?" β
Hong Qifeng sighed and said, "Before we find conclusive evidence, we can't easily draw conclusions. I think we should take a closer look at the evidence and clues that were found from the very beginning of the whole case, and there must be something that we didn't pay attention to. β
"Don't you take me with you to analyze the case now?" A voice rang out behind the two of them.
It's He Mo here.
"Why are you here?" Hong Qifeng asked, "Isn't the forensic identification center very busy recently?" β
"There are so many experts and scholars in the appraisal center, and there are not many more than me." He Mo walked over, "Besides, I feel bored and panicked in white overalls and masks every day, so it's better to come out here and be lazy." β
As she spoke, she pulled a chair and put her bag down.
"I can't see that Director He, who has always been known for his dedication, also has times when he is lazy and skips work." Hong Qifeng smiled.
"I can't say that, I've also been involved in the whole process of this case, and now I don't care about it, wouldn't it be halfway?"
In fact, He Mo came over today because he had just dug up Liu Haoran, a traitor, yesterday, and was afraid that Hong Qifeng and Li Yunbai's emotions would be hit and they would not be able to resume work normally.
But seeing that the two of them had already begun to study the case, she was relieved.
He Mo walked to the whiteboard, looked at the content on it, and asked, "How is it, where have you discussed?" β
Li Yunbai saw He Mo asking, and hurriedly replied: "Team Hong and I have just started, and we are talking about the secret room case at the beginning of the case. β
He Mo nodded and said: "Later, I went to the scene of Bali Lane to check it once or twice, if it was he killed, it would indeed be a perfect case in the closed room." β
"Oh? Have you been to see it again? Hong Qifeng asked.
"Well, I mainly checked the door lock to see if there was any other way to open it after it was locked. And to see if you can get in and out from the window, and finally if you can get in and out of the roofΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"Is there a catch?"
He Mo shook his head and explained: "It is determined that the door lock cannot be locked from the outside, which means that no one can enter and exit from the gate in the end." β
"That's what I thought about."
"Then there's the window, and unless the killer is a cat or something lighter, there's no way to get through that thin layer of sunlight."
"Will someone use a steel cable or something to climb through the window to the opposite floor?" Li Yunbai used his imagination.
"I've had that thought before, but I checked the walls on the opposite side and inside the house, and I didn't find any holes or ties to the ropes." He Mo once again dismissed this idea.
"Where's the roof?" Li Yunbai continued to ask.
"It's even more impossible, there is a layer of insulation on it, and people can't pass through."
"So," Hong Qifeng touched his chin, he found that he hadn't shaved for many days, "In this confined space, there are only two exits to the window and the cat hole under the door?" β
"I'm afraid so." He Mo replied a little helplessly.
"Alas, this is really incomprehensible," Hong Qifeng stretched out his hand and scratched his chin a few times, and couldn't help but sigh, "Actually, we didn't solve this puzzle in the first place." β
"It's better to jump away from this puzzle, let's analyze the second one, is there a connection between Han Tongyue's death and Ye Qiufeng's death back then." He Mo suggested.
Before Hong Qifeng could speak, Li Yunbai rushed to speak.
"Of course there is a connection, Uncle Cao confirmed that the modus operandi of these two cases is almost the same, and Xiao Haiyan also explained that the rope knots used in the two cases are the same, aren't these all strong evidence?"
Hong Qifeng was a little hesitant, he still stroked the stubble growing on his chin repeatedly, and muttered to himself: "The same knot, the same way of death, the same Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
Suddenly, his whole body shook as if he had been electrocuted, and he pointed to the second one and said, "No, it's not right here!" β
"What's wrong?" Li Yunbai looked at Hong Qifeng's reaction and asked a little confused.
"We have always believed that the two cases are related because they are almost the same with each other, the knots are the same, the shape of the deceased is the same, and even the basis we use to determine whether or not to commit suicide is the same."
"What is the basis for determining whether or not it is a suicide?" He Mo tilted his head and thought for a while and said, "Are you saying that the distance between the deceased's feet and the cushion below does not meet the suspicion of regular self-hanging death?" β
"It's this same suspicion that is the biggest problem."
"I don't understand very well," Li Yunbai was confused, "Since they are all the same doubts, what's the problem?" β
"Let me ask you," Hong Qifeng's eyes seemed to be shining, and his tone was no longer calm, "How long has it been since these two cases?" β
"Well, Ye Qiufeng's case is in 1992, the difference is Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Exactly 25 years! β
"25 years! If the two cases were the same murderer, even if he was a young man when he committed the Ye case, I am afraid that he is already dying of old age today, and he still has the ability to replicate the evil deeds of the past? β
"Oh, it seems strange to say that." Li Yunbai also bowed his head and pondered.
"Also, there's the biggest problem, have you noticed?"