Chapter 242: "Shop"

Zhao Hui and his companions searched for anyone in the small shop.

The engine of the flying disc rotates at a low speed, and the sound is low and subtle, and it is not easy to be noticed.

After a few minutes of searching, Zhao Hui and other members of the City Guard did not find anyone's shadow in the store, and the basement and hidden space they expected did not exist.

After searching again, they reluctantly reported the situation inside to the people outside: "Report, no trace of the shopkeeper was found, and there was no one in the shop." ”

"Roger, get out of the way. ”

The people of the Sixth District City Guard had long been mentally prepared for the suspect to disappear, and they were not surprised to hear the report of the people inside.

It is highly likely that the disappeared suspect will not return to the shop as if he was caught in the net, but they still have to arrange for some people to keep an eye on the carpenter's shop, and perhaps there is some unlikely surprise...... Although this is almost impossible to happen.

Zhao Hui, who received the order to withdraw from the shop, took one last look at the courtyard where the shopkeeper used his work place, where the wood chips on the workbench and the surrounding ground had not yet been cleared, and some leftover timber was also thrown aside.

Zhao Hui, who was just about to turn his head, had some thoughts flashing through his mind, and his expression was stunned, and he looked at the workbench in the courtyard again—it should be an open space next to the workbench to be exact.

That unfinished wooden cabinet...... It's gone?

Noticing the disappearance of the unfinished wooden cabinet, Zhao Hui, who was frowning, told the other companions about it, while searching the empty shop again.

The unfinished wooden cabinet that had been used to imprison the victim was literally gone.

Why did the second suspect (the shop owner) remove the unfinished wooden cabinet before leaving the store?

Zhao Hui was worried about his speculation.

......

While Zhao Hui and the others continued to squatting outside the store, the team in charge of monitoring the network noticed an unusual live broadcast.

Familiar background, familiar dark and narrow space...... It's the live feed of the fifth victim!

Jin Huidian watched the live broadcast of the fifth victim who had just appeared a few minutes ago without saying a word, and the identity of the fifth victim kept him silent.

According to the report of the subordinate who just submitted, the fifth victim is the owner of the shop who previously provided clues to the murderer and was then identified as the second suspect by their city guards!

Jin Huidian closed his eyes tiredly.

The probability that the first suspect is the murderer is very low, and the first suspect has been temporarily kept in the bureau by them for the past two days, and there is no chance to commit the crime at all, so it can basically be concluded that the first suspect is just an ordinary citizen.

The owner of the carpenter's shop became the fifth victim when they considered the second suspect......

If the second suspect was not the murderer, why did he lie and mislead them into mistaking Han Chengyan for the murderer? If he was the murderer, then why did he appear in the live broadcast as the fifth victim?

Could it be that the second suspect was threatened by the real killer and that is why he deliberately misled them with the City Guard?

Just as Jin Huidian was thinking about this, in the live broadcast of the fifth victim, the shopkeeper who had just woken up and realized his situation had a trace of despair on his face:

"How could it be...... Why, I've already done what you tell me, why...... Why don't you let me go?"

The shopkeeper slapped the thick wooden cabinets, his face was full of despair, these wooden cabinets were built by his own hands, he knew too well how strong the wooden cabinets were, with his strength, it was impossible to knock the wooden cabinets open even if he lost his strength.

The shopkeeper bowed his head as if he were dead.

Seeing the camera in front of him, the shopkeeper knew that the man might be silently watching him, and that someone from the City Guard might be doing the same...... But even if he knew this, the shopkeeper couldn't do it to communicate the clues he knew to the City Guards, for one simple reason - he didn't know the identity of the killer at all.

Even Jin Huidian, who was a little hopeful that the store owner would tell the murderer's clues at the beginning, also understood this, and did everything possible to cover up the clues he left behind, and it was impossible for the murderer behind the scenes not to take precautions at this point, and the store owner may not have even seen the murderer's appearance.

Damn, shouldn't he have chosen to mislead the City Guards for fear of that guy's threat?

The shopkeeper began to regret his choice.

More than a month ago, a stranger who came to his shop out of the blue threatened him to complete some sturdy wooden cabinets and sign for some items purchased online.

If the purpose of these wooden cabinets is normal, then why would that person threaten him to finish them?

At that time, the shopkeeper already had a bad premonition in his heart, and he wanted to call the police, but the pain and the threat that lingered in his ears at that time made him dare not act rashly, so he did as the man asked him with trepidation.

Yesterday, when the City Guard came to his shop to ask him something, the shopkeeper's uneasiness came true.

Even though the City Guard who asked the question was deliberately avoiding some of the descriptions, the shopkeeper could already vaguely guess what the wooden cabinet he had built was for......

If it weren't for human life, how could someone from the City Guard personally come to his door to ask for clues, and deliberately avoid some adjectives......

The shopkeeper tried to tell the truth to the two City Guards several times, but the eyes that stared at him outside the shop made him unable to speak.

He is an ordinary person, he will be afraid of death, and he will be lucky.

However, this fluke still hurt him, and not just him.

The frustrated shopkeeper was stunned as he thought back to what had happened in the past month, and he jerked up at the camera in front of him, maybe the City Guards were watching him, maybe he could provide them with a clue through this camera!

The shopkeeper remembered a clue that the City Guards were able to track.

"Are there enforcers like the City Guards watching this? Listen, I have a clue to the murderer!" the shopkeeper shouted in a hurry.

The shopkeeper's words made Jin Huidian immediately open his eyes, and he stared closely at the shopkeeper with a hurried face in the live broadcast screen.

"That man was—"

The shopkeeper's mouth is still opening and closing, but there is no sound on the screen - it is the murderer's operation, and he turned off the sound of the live broadcast!

Jin Huidian suddenly made a posture of leaning forward, and stared firmly at the shopkeeper in the picture: The clues that the shopkeeper wanted to provide actually made the murderer take the initiative to turn off the sound of the live broadcast screen! This shows that the clues provided by the shopkeeper can threaten the murderer's current misty identity!

So the murderer who noticed this immediately turned off the sound of the live broadcast screen!

The murderer's operation was a step faster, and he cut off the voice of the live broadcast before the store owner could tell the clue.

Looking at the opening and closing of the shopkeeper's mouth, all kinds of thoughts flashed quickly in Jin Huidian's mind, and his thumb and index finger rubbed vigorously: I wonder if the artificial intelligence in the bureau can deduce the original words based on the mouth shape of the shopkeeper......

Jin Huidian has limited knowledge of the artificial intelligence that is located in their bureau and has been silently assisting them in various important matters for a long time, and he is not sure if the artificial intelligence can deduce the original words based on the shape of the human mouth alone, but even if he can't, Jin Huidian will definitely try it.

Just when Jin Huidian was about to cut out this picture and hand it over to the artificial intelligence of the Sixth Branch for analysis and processing, the shopkeeper in the picture looked at the camera in front of him and seemed to think of something, frowned and gritted his teeth, put his index finger in his mouth and bit it, and then quickly wrote a word on the wooden cabinet in front of the camera.

After telling the clue he knew to the camera, the shopkeeper suddenly thought that even though there might be people from the City Guards watching him who was trapped, they might only receive a picture without sound, so it was not enough to just "say", it was necessary to let the City Guards "see" it exactly!

There was nothing in the wooden cabinet that could be used for writing, and the best "tool" was his blood.

Perhaps because he was stimulated to survive, the shopkeeper bit his finger for a moment, and his mind became extremely sharp.

He thought that the killer might be watching his every move from behind the scenes, and that any strange movement of his own might cause the killer to raise his guard and cut off his own image - in order to prevent the murderer from having this reaction time, the shopkeeper had to write the most important word in this clue as quickly as possible.

A word was written in the blood of the shopkeeper from the paint, but before the last few strokes could be dropped, the shopkeeper's live broadcast was cut off.

The live broadcast line of the five victims has been strictly guarded by the city guards of the sixth district, who have used technology to track down the clues of the murderer, but they have only found five controlled broiler computers along the way.

These five broiler computers are just the broadcast source of the victim's live broadcast, and the real source of the live broadcast is covered by a large number of broiler computers, and they are still cracking these numerous broiler computers one by one.

Finding the real source of live streaming requires less technology, more of a workload.

The victim's five live broadcast lines are strictly guarded by their city guards, and if there is an outside operation, it will definitely attract their attention, but it is not ruled out that the murderer's operation came from those broiler computers that have not yet been discovered by them.

But this operation is more troublesome, and with the cautious nature of the murderer, he probably won't have a second contact after completing the control of these broiler computers.

Therefore, the sudden shutdown of the fifth victim's live broadcast should be that the murderer did an operation on the source of the live broadcast - he cut off the power to the camera.

The shopkeeper's mind suddenly flashed through those thoughts that had successfully left clues for the City Guard, although the strokes of the characters were incomplete, but with most of the characters, they were enough to be recognized!

Jin Huidian's gaze was still on the live broadcast screen that had gone black, and he carefully recalled the word that had been automatically completed in his mind.

That's a "shop" word.