Chapter 4: The Murderer on the Run
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the various establishments on Lang Street are already lit up with attractive lights.
Even though the time is a little early, there are already many passers-by and consumers on the streets.
Ruofang got out of the car at Lang Street, where her residence was in an old apartment not far away.
The streets were a bit noisy, and in the past, this area was also a place where Ruofang and her friends frequented, and it was for this reason that she wanted to move out of here with Duan Qianqian. Reside.
Ruofang shook her head, took her clothes and walked back to the apartment, without looking back.
Wakafang's old apartment is a bit remote, close to the local Shiratori Lake.
In the past, Shiratori Lake was as horizontal as a mirror, crystal clear, and there were many tourists, but after five years of urban transformation, only a lake of sewage and the untouched white bridge were left here, and there are no tourists and Shiratori who often came to play in the water a few years ago.
The houses near Lake Shiratori also have a lot less people, and it will be rebuilt soon, and Ruofang chose to live here because the rent is cheaper.
The path leading to the old apartment feels a little gloomy, but fortunately, the street lights have not been turned off, which is still a little scary for Ruofang as a girl.
Ruofang was just about to speed up her pace when she noticed that a lot of passers-by had gathered by Shiratori Lake, and several police cars honked their horns to pass her and stopped next to the crowd.
There was a large group of people around the lake, and the conversation was a little noisy, and Ruofang walked over curiously.
"This Mr. Guo, what time did you find the victim?"
Just arrived at the police. Cha began to question the witnesses, holding a notebook and preparing to take notes.
"I'll see, uh... It should be more than 9:40. ”
Policed. The man he was questioning appeared to be in his twenties, wearing a dirty cap, with a lot of dirt on his body and a strong smell of engine oil, and he looked like a repair shop worker from the sign on his pocket.
"Did anyone else find it at the time?"
"No, I was about to go home shortly after work, and I immediately called the police when I found this person, alas, it's really unlucky."
Guo tried not to look directly at the corpse, obviously he was frightened.
"You look like you're repairing cars, but why did you come home so late?"
"Officer, I didn't kill him, I don't know him at all."
Hearing this, Guo waved his hand again and again, he didn't want to have anything to do with this case.
"Mr. Guo, I didn't say that you killed the person, and everyone here is suspected when the real culprit is not found, please cooperate."
"That's right, the repair shop where I work is opened by my uncle, and I work late every day, so I often stay a little longer in order to help, basically every day is this time to go home, if you don't believe it, you can call my uncle."
During the interrogation, Ruofang slowly squeezed into the crowd standing outside the cordon.
"Huh?"
Ruofang was so shocked when she saw the corpse that she was so frightened that she dropped all the clothes she was carrying on the ground.
I saw a young man with glasses lying on the ground, this person Ruofang was very familiar, it was her friend Zhang Heng.
"The deceased was probably in his twenties, had no other injuries on his body, was fatally stabbed in the heart by a knife, and then... Gouged out his eyes, his body was still warm, and it was preliminarily concluded that he should have died half an hour ago. ”
"Half an hour ago? Isn't that when witnesses found out he called the police? ”
As soon as the forensic doctor finished speaking, a criminal policeman next to her showed a hint of surprise.
"Zhang... Zhang heng. ”
At this time, Ruofang's face turned pale, and she swallowed. Spit out and said.
"This young lady, you... Do you know him? The criminal police officer looked at Ruofang suspiciously.
"Really... It's really him. ”
Ruofang approached and looked at it again.
Zhang Heng had a knife stuck in his chest, and most of his entire white shirt had been stained red with blood.
Although she was wearing glasses, her eyes were bleeding, and the forensic doctor's action of turning her eyelids made Ruofang feel a chill in her back, because there were no eyeballs inside, they were hollow, and the eyelids were sunken without support, making it difficult for people to look directly.
Ruofang looked at Zhang Heng's dead hand and began to tremble a little, she couldn't believe what she saw at all.
"Hello, I am Xu Qinghua, the captain of the Municipal Criminal Police Team, may I ask your surname?"
The criminal policeman turned to Ruofang on the side and asked.
"Surname... Surname Ruo. ”
"Oh Miss Ruo, do you know this deceased?"
"Recognize... Acquaintance, he... He used to be my friend. ”
Ruofang didn't dare to look directly at Zhang Heng's corpse and turned her face to the side.
"But he was fine two days ago, why is it today..."
Hearing this, Xu Qinghua asked, "You mean you met two days ago, right?" ”
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"Miss Ruo??"
Ruofang didn't speak, and she began to squat on the ground in a daze.
"Ask her later, she must be frightened."
Forensic doctor Liu Junting interrupted Xu Qinghua's questioning and covered the head of the corpse with a white cloth, which made her feel infiltrated, let alone Ruofang.
Then Xu Qinghua personally went to interrogate the eyewitness Guo Chen, but Guo Chen only said everything he saw, and knew nothing else.
A ring was found in Zhang Heng's trouser pocket, but there was nothing but this.
The knife on the body was newly bought, and there were no fingerprints on the handle, so it was initially judged that he was wearing gloves to commit the crime.
More passers-by slowly gathered outside the cordon by Bainiao Lake, and several police officers by the lake were holding flashlights looking for the two things Xu Qinghua said, gloves and eyeballs.
"He must have struggled, and there are still scratches on the dirt on the ground, but it doesn't look too deep, and I think he must have been dying by then."
Liu Junting looked at Zhang Heng's hand and said.
"That must be an acquaintance who committed the crime, there are few people in this place, and it's at night, so there must be an appointment with the murderer at this point in time." Xu Qinghua stood up and took a look at the surrounding environment.
While Xu Qinghua was pushing the case, a police car drove slowly on this small road.
The police car stopped not far from the scene of the crime, and at this time, police officers Ye Mushan and Chen Fei walked out of the car.
After hesitating and having a stomachache, Yemushan knew that there had been a murder here, and hurried to the scene.
He slowly squeezed into the crowd.
After the preliminary investigation of the scene, Xu Qinghua walked to Ruofang's side and was about to ask her something, because from the current situation, only she might know more.
Ruofang eased her mind and told Xu Qinghua everything she knew, including the events of that night.
Ruofang doesn't know much, the two met at a wine table last year, because Ruofang had contact with many men in the first two years, and she didn't know Zhang Heng too well, she only knew his age and name.
She and Zhang Heng haven't seen each other for nearly a year. The night of Ren's Day was also made to create an atmosphere.
The clues provided by Ruofang made Xu Qinghua feel a little headache, because there were no things such as ID cards and mobile phones on Zhang Heng's body, so his family would not be able to be contacted.
After more than ten minutes of careful searching, police officer Chen Fei found the gloves in the stone crevice under the bridge, which were stained with a lot of blood, and it was obvious that the murderer was hiding underneath.
However, the other police officers did not find the detained eyeballs nearby, perhaps they were taken away by the killer or thrown farther away.
Although the gloves were found, this made it more difficult for the police, because the murderer deliberately made it impossible for them to find out.
However, there was something that made Xu Qinghua feel very puzzled, and he suddenly remembered what Liu Junting said before: (Zhang Heng's death time was half an hour ago, that is, Guo Chen said about 9:40.) )
From this point of view, he had to shift his suspicion to the eyewitness Guo Chen, because Guo Chen reported the case about half an hour ago, which was almost the time period when Zhang Heng was killed.