Chapter 18: Undercurrent

"Ridiculous......?"

Xia Liang asked:

"Why ridiculous?"

"Ice rink, KFC, cinema, subway...... All of these places have one thing in common, that is, the flow of people is huge, and even if you have the heart to call up the surveillance, trying to find someone is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. The alibi she provided to you was a payment receipt for the mobile phone, but this can only prove that the mobile phone did pay in that place, and it does not directly prove that the mother and daughter have indeed been to Tianhe......"

Xia Liang thought about it and sighed:

"That's true...... Even if it's a movie ticket stub, you can pick it up near the movie theater. It will take a long time to investigate the authenticity of these alibis. ”

Zhu Ansheng said:

"But we don't have time."

"Why?"

"The identity of the deceased has surfaced only a day later, but we still don't even understand the murderer's criminal intent."

Xia Liang pursed his lips, a little disapproving:

"At least, we now have a new direction of investigation, and the secret room has been cracked, which is equivalent to narrowing the scope of the investigation......"

Zhu Ansheng stopped writing, turned the chair to face him, and pinched his eyebrows:

"When did the Chamber of Secrets crack?"

Xia Liang was stunned: "Didn't you crack it yourself, brother-in-law?" ”

"I never said the Chamber of Secrets had been cracked." Zhu Ansheng shook his head.

"But, didn't you say that the murderer disguised himself as the deceased to stun Zhang Jianhong and Liu Zhongwei again, and after destroying the bodies, he and his accomplices outside Li Yingwai cracked the double secret room?"

Zhu Ansheng said: "In that case, it will take more than three people to push the shelf blocking the door." ”

"Is there anything wrong with the three of them? The murderer is likely to be a criminal gang, right? After all, Fu Sizhe's biggest suspicion at present is the foreign transfer record that he did not know where to go......"

"The murderer can't be a criminal gang, even if it's really not one person, at most there are only two people. If there are more than three perpetrators, there is absolutely no way to leave a footprint. Zhu Ansheng said categorically.

"Brother-in-law, are you still struggling with that set of footprints?"

Xia was a little unwilling in his conscience:

"Actually, I've thought about it, maybe you're overthinking. After the killer stunned the security guard and the manager of the fish store, he not only had to destroy the body, but also left the fingerprints of the deceased in the cold storage to make sure that we didn't find any clues, and he also had to spend time moving the shelves. It is likely that he miscalculated the snowmelt time of the cold storage, even with the help of his accomplices, he still left footprints as a last resort, and he was afraid of being seen as a flaw, so he deliberately walked out of the cold storage upside down, creating the illusion of going to the cold storage, misleading us......"

Zhu Ansheng turned his chair and said coldly:

"The snow melting time in the cold storage is two and a half hours. If there are more than three people in the criminal gang, after stuning the two of them, he can call his accomplices to come and push the door open together; Coupled with the fact that the corpse was carried and fingerprints were left, it was more than enough time. There is no way he could leave after the snow melts in the cold storage, and there is no possibility that he will have to leave footprints. The murderer can't be stupid enough to cocoon himself. ”

"If, as you said, there are only two murderers at most, how did the murderer complete the crime and leave that series of footprints? Besides, even if there are two people, it is impossible to move that shelf......"

"So, that's the 'blind spot' that I missed."

Zhu Ansheng's stubbornness seems to have reached the point of being a little neurotic.

Xia Liang couldn't resist him and sighed.

"Rest early, brother-in-law. It's easy for you to be overwhelmed. ”

Zhu Ansheng didn't answer him, turned sideways and stretched out his hand to him:

"What do I want?"

Xia Liang was stunned, and reacted that it was Fu Sizhe's autopsy report that Zhu Ansheng asked him to come.

"It's been delivered to my mailbox, and I'll forward it to you tonight."

Zhu Ansheng let out an "oh", withdrew his hand, and continued to fight with the problem in front of him.

Xia Liang was silent for a long time and retreated silently.

The brother-in-law has already gotten into the horns. He thought to himself.

- This case, he has to solve it on his own.

The next day, the interrogation of suspects Zhang Jianhong and Liu Zhongwei ushered in the final stage.

After the lie detector test, there was really no connection between the two and Fu Sizhe.

When they saw the pictures of the deceased, they even said that they had never seen the person.

After that, the task force adopted Xia Liang's suggestion:

Entrust the two to return to the cold storage of the Huangsha seafood market together to restore the criminal process.

The two put on down jackets and were put into cold storage again, accompanied by several criminal policemen.

To simulate a dark scenario, they turned off the cold storage lights from the inside.

In the darkness, the two of them really recalled some clues.

At that time, they woke up one after another and confirmed that there were two people in the cold storage besides themselves.

And the "deceased" behaved far more panicked than them, their voices were hoarse, they were startled, and they were always saying things like "someone is trying to harm me".

After that, they tried to open the cold storage door, and found that after the door was locked, it was Zhang Jianhong who proposed to put the shelf against the door.

There was an important detail during the period: Zhang Jianhong's original plan was to block the door with a shelf to prevent people from entering, but the "deceased" said that there might be more than one person who wanted to harm them, and the shelf was not safe enough, so he proposed a way to put a box on it and set a trap.

In this way, even if someone breaks in, they can wake up in time and find a way to defend themselves.

The criminal police asked about what happened after that, and the two confirmed each other's fragmentary memories, and really remembered that after pushing the shelf, the medicine did not subside, and the two of them returned to the cold storage to prepare for rest, while the deceased said that he was too tired and would rest for a while before going over.

After that, he was woken up by Chen Qiang's knocking on the door, rushed to the door, and knocked on the door for help.

These are all the useful clues extracted from the confessions of the two, which perfectly confirm Zhu Ansheng's conjecture.

If it weren't for the murderer disguised as the deceased and instigated them to put the box on the shelf, this double chamber would not have been established at all.

In this way, Zhang Jianhong and Liu Zhongwei have basically cleared the suspicion of being involved in the case, and the police have already determined that the murderer is someone else, and these two are just innocent scapegoats.

The detectives were in high spirits.

With a breakthrough in the case, the scope of suspects can be further narrowed.

The focus of the task force finally shifted completely from the scene of the secret room to Fu Sizhe's whereabouts before his death.

According to his company, Mr. Fu returned home from work at nearly 12 p.m. on Friday night and boarded the night bus through Huangsha as usual.

The police retrieved the bus records of the relevant time period and did see Fu Sizhe getting off at Huangsha Station. Due to incomplete monitoring equipment, it is not possible to continue tracking.

So they turned to studying Fu Sizhe's interpersonal relationships, looking for possible suspects.

On the other hand, another team led by Expert Jiang is also working overtime, trying their best to find out the whereabouts of the foreign transfer records.

Fu Sizhe's computer was formatted once two months ago, leaving no suspicious records.

And Xia Liang drove his white Accord and broke into Tianhe City Plaza.

No one realizes that they will get nothing.