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10:40 p.m.

The scene of the murder in Yuxing apartment.

There are auxiliary police officers of the security team on duty nearby, especially the personnel who come and go to Yuxing Apartment, they have to conduct various investigations to determine whether they are residents of Yuxing Apartment.

Because the residents of the apartment where Zhao Mengmeng lived had committed suicide by jumping off the building, it was not groundless for everyone to contact the source of the problem as soon as Zhao Mengmeng was strangled to death.

After Gu Chen parked the car under the Yuxing apartment, he followed Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang to quickly go to the scene of the incident.

An auxiliary police officer on duty spotted several people and took the initiative to step forward and ask, "Why are you back again?"

"Has anyone been there at the scene?" asked Officer Wang.

"Nope. The auxiliary police said with great certainty: "All the scenes have been blocked by us, the key to the gate is temporarily kept by our police, and Han Xinyu temporarily arranged for her to live in a colleague's house." ”

"Good. Officer Wang said as he looked at Gu Chen from the corner of his eye.

Gu Chen originally came to inspect the site for the second time, and if he looked at his previous inspection, he might have done a good job.

But after cracking the suspicion of the hair in the hands of the deceased Zhao Mengmeng, Gu Chen targeted the housekeeping aunt.

So while contacting the patrol team, he went to the housekeeping aunt's residence to focus on monitoring this person who was likely to be the murderer.

On the other side, he followed Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei to the scene of the murder again, preparing to conduct a second search of the scene.

Although Officer Wang didn't know very well, why Gu Chen was in a hurry to come to Yuxing Apartment.

asked Gu Chen, and Gu Chen only revealed that he might have been negligent in some aspects.

However, according to his understanding of Gu Chen, it seems that Gu Chen returned to the scene of the murder in order to verify whether his previous reasoning was correct.

"Give me the key. Officer Wang stretched out his hand.

The auxiliary police dug out the mouth of the bag and handed it to Officer Wang: "Give!"

It didn't take long for the three of them to bypass the cordon and open the apartment where Zhao Mengmeng lived.

As with the previous inspections, the room was exceptionally quiet, and since it was now uninhabited, it gave it an eerie aura.

"Da!" Gu Chen casually turned on the light in the room and quickly came to the center of the living room.

Zhao Mengmeng's posture of falling to the ground was drawn out of a humanoid figure with chalk.

Gu Chen stood next to the humanoid figure, looked around for a week, and quickly lay on the ground.

"Senior Brother Gu. Seeing that Gu Chen's behavior was too strange, Lu Weiwei said inexplicably: "What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for a place to hide. Gu Chen said.

Lu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, and asked him weakly: "Hide?" do you mean...... Where can I hide the murderer?"

"Yes. Gu Chen did not deny it, he directly stuck to the ground and looked around, then stood up and trotted all the way to the room on the second floor of the duplex.

Gu Chen pushed open Zhao Mengmeng's door.

As with the previous inspection, there is not much furniture in the room, except for a three-dimensional wardrobe, which is a dressing table.

The rest of the items are packed in cardboard boxes and neatly stacked on wooden shelves. The wooden shelves are coupled with some green landscape plants, giving people a delicate visual experience.

Gu Chen turned around and looked at Zhao Mengmeng's bed, he didn't think much about it, he squatted down directly, lifted the sheets, and then turned on the strong flashlight and shone it under the bed.

"What are you looking at?" Officer Wang walked up to Gu Chen's side and asked him for some reason.

Gu Chen didn't answer, but went on the spot, and then rolled under the bed in an instant in a roller position.

At this time, Gu Chen found that under Zhao Mengmeng's bed, it seemed that there was just enough to hide a person.

Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang were also shocked by Gu Chen's actions, and both of them squatted outside to check Gu Chen's situation.

"Senior Brother Gu, what are you doing?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Shhhhhh

Lu Weiwei understood in seconds, so she stopped making a sound.

Officer Wang didn't understand it, so he stood up and searched the rest of the apartment.

At this moment, the time has reached 11 o'clock in the night.

The whole apartment is unusually quiet......

Lu Weiwei sat beside Gu Chen, yawned and said a little sleepy: "Senior Brother Gu, then Lao Wang and I, let's go to other rooms to have a look." ”

"Yes. Gu Chen slept under the bed and replied lightly.

Lu Weiwei felt that Gu Chen was a little weird, but she didn't ask too much, she stretched out directly, and prepared to leave the room.

But at this moment, Gu Chen suddenly stopped her: "Senior Sister Lu." ”

Lu Weiwei immediately turned around, quickly squatted on the side of the bed and asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Chen shook his head: "I want you to help me turn off the lights, thank you." ”

"Turn off the lights?" Lu Weiwei felt incredible, and said in her heart, what kind of operation is this? Could it be that Senior Brother Gu is going to sleep under the bed tonight?

But after thinking about it, Lu Weiwei still did as she was told, and when she walked out of the room, she caught up with the light in the room, and then closed the door.

At this moment, Gu Chen was lying under Zhao Mengmeng's bed, and the surroundings seemed unusually quiet.

Gu Chen closed his eyes and opened the newly upgraded specialization-level imagination.

When he opened his eyes again, he was still lying under Zhao Mengmeng's bed.

But when Gu Chen turned on the bright flashlight in his hand, he obviously felt that another black shadow was moving around him.

When Gu Chen turned his head around, the black shadow seemed to have noticed the movement, and looked at Gu Chen at the same time.

Gu Chen couldn't see the face of the black shadow clearly, but he could only see that the head of the black shadow had a pair of eyes, which were staring at him at the moment.

"Are you the murderer?" asked Gu Chen.

The black shadow was a little startled, and couldn't help but shrink back to the corner, and then asked in a mechanical voice, "Who are you?"

"I'm a police officer. Gu Chen said directly.

"Policeman, you...... How did you end up here? No...... Shouldn't it?"

The black shadow looked at Gu Chen, as if he was a little restless.

At this moment, the black shadow found that the direction of his escape was completely blocked by Gu Chen.

The two of them just lay under the bed, and in the dark environment, the atmosphere seemed extremely strange.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should be the housekeeping aunt, right? And after you finished cleaning in the morning, you didn't leave the apartment, but waited for the opportunity to hide under Zhao Mengmeng's bed. ”

"Huh. The dark shadow sneered twice, but did not respond.

Gu Chen turned around directly, rolled out of the bed, and then stood up.

At the same time, a black shadow rolled out from under the bed.

The two suddenly stood face to face in a dark room.

Gu Chen directly snapped his fingers, and soon, from the top of the heads of the two, a beam of light suddenly lit up, enveloping the figures of the two of them.

Gu Chen could still only see the other party's black shadow and that pair of hideous eyes.

"You recommended yourself to come to Wang Dahu's house to do cleaning, it should be considered a deliberate plan, right? In fact, your ultimate goal is to find a way to enter Zhao Mengmeng's apartment, and you want to find a place to hide. ”

"Later, you found out that it was most appropriate to hide under Zhao Mengmeng's bed, so you found the right time to pretend to go home while Zhao Mengmeng went to the toilet after cleaning the apartment in the morning. ”

"You deliberately made the movement of closing the door very loud, so that Zhao Mengmeng believed that you had left at that time. ”

Then, you secretly hid in Zhao Mengmeng's room and hid under her bed. ”

"In the afternoon, when Han Xinyu and Wang Dahu left one after another, you took advantage of Zhao Mengmeng's unpreparedness and strangled her with a rope from behind. ”

"But after that, you need to use a means to get rid of the police's suspicion of you, so you choose to put the hair that you prepared in advance, that is, the hair stolen from Wang Dahu's comb when cleaning his room, in the hands of the deceased Zhao Mengmeng. ”

"Do you think that with these clues, the police will definitely focus their investigation on Wang Dahu, so that the golden cicada can be shelled and all the spearheads will be directed to Wang Dahu. ”

"It can be said that your tricks and your carefully planned plan, if it weren't for the obvious hair clues in Zhao Mengmeng's hand, I might have been deceived by you. ”

"Huh. The black shadow looked at Gu Chen's explanation, and the whole person was also admired: "I didn't expect that there were so many plans, and you still found out that you were tired, so what do you want to do?"

"If you do hide under the bed, I must have a way to find you. Gu Chen said.

"Good luck then, I'll be waiting for you all the time. After the black shadow finished speaking, it suddenly turned into countless particles and floated into the air.

At this moment, in the entire claustrophobic space, only Gu Chen was standing alone under the light.

And opposite Gu Chen was Zhao Mengmeng's bed.

Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers, and soon, a rainbow flashed in his eyes.

When Gu Chen opened his eyes again, he was still lying under Zhao Mengmeng's bed.

And the surrounding environment is still dark......

Gu Chen turned his head and looked at the strong flashlight beside him.

At this moment, the light was hitting the wall at his feet.

Gu Chen vaguely saw that a shadowy pattern was coming into view at this moment.

Adjusting the orientation of his body, Gu Chen suddenly moved to the lines on the side of the wall, and when he shone the flashlight on the wall, Gu Chen was pleasantly surprised.

On the white wall, there were two obvious footprints.

Judging from the pattern of the footprints, it seems to be a martin boot with a plum blossom shape.

"I see. Gu Chen suddenly realized, and the whole person couldn't help but rejoice in his heart: "That's right, this is the trace that the murderer inadvertently left when he hid under Zhao Mengmeng's bed." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the killer would have had a pair of martin boots with plum blossom soles. ”

Thinking of this, Gu Chen suddenly took out his mobile phone and took pictures of the clues under the bed.

And just as Gu Chen was about to turn around and roll out of the bed again, his arm was obviously scratched by the groove of the wooden plank under the bed.

When Gu Chen adjusted his position again, he found that the wooden board under Zhao Mengmeng's bed was obviously uneven.

On these grooves, there are obviously some gray fibers hanging on the top.

Gu Chen gently removed it with his hand, only to find that it was mostly some fiber materials such as gray lines.

"Could it be scraped off your clothes?" Gu Chen glanced at his arm.

A deep trace clearly appeared on the part that was hung just now.

Gu Chen instantly understood, couldn't help but smile, and turned on the light in the room.

And Lu Weiwei, who was outside the door at this time, also happened to push open the door of the room and meet Gu Chen.

"Senior Brother Gu. ”

"Senior Sister Lu, let's go, let's go find that housekeeping aunt now. ”

"Now?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help but be stunned.

Officer Wang also walked over and asked the two, "What's the situation on your side?"

"Senior Brother Wang, we can close the net now. Gu Chen said.

Officer Wang smiled: "Did you Gu Chen find a clue?"

"It's hard to say for the time being, I'll tell you the answer when I get to the housekeeping aunt's house. What Gu Chen said was mysterious, but this hooked Officer Wang's curiosity.

Officer Wang nodded slightly: "Okay, let's go now." ”

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Tossing back and forth for one night.

To be honest, Comrade Wang was a little depressed.

Not to mention the on-site testing room and the interrogation room of the Seremban Branch running back and forth, this investigation and interrogation is enough to make people tired.

What could have been done the next day basically didn't work here in Gu Chen.

When he found clues, Gu Chen always followed up as soon as possible, striving to solve the case as quickly as possible.

From discovering the case in the afternoon to now locking the target, Gu Chen only took less than seven hours.

And now, it seems, he's going to uncover what he thinks is the answer.

Coming to an old community, on the periphery of a building, two plainclothes police officers were patiently observing.

When they saw Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang rushing to the scene, the two of them also hurriedly informed the three of them of the information they had.

"So, that housekeeper is in room 302 of this building, right?" asked Gu Chen.

The tall and thin security policeman nodded: "It's basically certain, and it makes me feel very strange, she actually lives here alone, she is in Jiangnan City, and she doesn't seem to have any relatives." ”

"Living alone?" Lu Weiwei was a little surprised, and then remembered the situation that came out of the previous interrogation of Wang Dahu.

It seems that this is a housekeeping aunt who came to Jiangnan City to match alone, and it is also a scheming aunt who approaches Wang Dahu with a certain mentality.

After learning this, Gu Chen couldn't take too much care of it, and directly led everyone to the door of room 302.

After repeated knocks on the door, there was finally movement in the house.

It didn't take long for a middle-aged woman in a coat to slowly open the door.

She rubbed her eyes, looked carefully at the people at the door, and asked in surprise, "You...... Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

Gu Chen first showed his people's police in front of her, and then said: "We are the police of the Furong Branch, and there is a case that needs your cooperation. ”

"Police...... Police?" The middle-aged woman squinted, and then she saw the police uniform on Gu Chen's body, and the whole person couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: "You...... What are you looking for from me? What kind of case?"

Gu Chen looked behind the woman and asked her, "Can you go in and talk?"

"Uh, when...... Of course, then you can come in. The middle-aged woman also gave up her position and let the police into the house.

Afterwards, everyone went to the living room and checked the room, toilet and balcony roughly.

The middle-aged woman was in a hurry, and said a little apologetically: "It's not good to be conscious, there is hot water in the thermos at home, but I don't have disposable cups at home, so I ......"

"You're welcome. Gu Chen knew her consciousness and said lightly: "We are here to investigate the case, not to drink water." ”

"Oh, that'...... That's good, that's good. The middle-aged woman clasped her hands together and shrunk into the corner.

Gu Chen looked left and right, looked around for a week, and then asked her, "You live here alone?"

"Yes, I rented this house. The middle-aged woman said.

"What about your family?" Lu Weiwei asked after checking the room.

The middle-aged woman shook her head and said regretfully: "I am alone at home, and I live alone." ”

Gu Chen didn't care about her, but walked to the shoe cabinet and took a few pairs of leather shoes from the middle-aged woman in his hands.

Soon, Gu Chen found a pair of Martin boots, and after flipping the soles, he was surprised to find that the plum blossom pattern soles were almost exactly the same as the traces found on the wall under Zhao Mengmeng's bed.

After discovering Gu Chen's search behavior, the middle-aged woman suddenly looked startled, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen: "Comrade policeman, what ......is this?" Any questions?"

"These shoes are yours?" asked Gu Chen, holding his Martin boots.

"I didn't ...... That's right. The woman just said that she lived alone, and Gu Chen asked her like this, obviously to determine the ownership of the shoes.

Therefore, the woman's answer is also reasonable.

Gu Chen didn't answer, but took out a large forensic bag and put the Martin boots directly inside.

Subsequently, Gu Chen came to the woman's bedroom again, and soon found a gray coat, which was hanging on the handle of the old cabinet at the moment.

Gu Chen took off his coat and spread it out on the bed to look through it.

As I imagined, there were obviously multiple scratches on the gray coat.

Gu Chen took it directly to the living room, pointed the law enforcement recorder at the woman and asked, "This coat is also yours, right?"

"Right...... Right. The middle-aged woman seemed to feel a kind of ominous omen, and the whole person was also sluggish.

"So, you've been wearing this dress for work today, am I right?" Gu Chen asked again.

The woman's whole face stiffened, and she weakly admitted: "No...... That's right, how...... What's wrong?"

"Zhao Mengmeng, do you know this person?" With the previous confirmations, Gu Chen now seemed to be more and more confident in his control of the clues.

The middle-aged woman was also sluggish for a moment, but she quickly calmed down and said indifferently: "I know, I worked part-time with her." ”

"Including today, right?" asked Lu Weiwei on the side.

The woman nodded in acknowledgement.

Then, Gu Chen took out the transcript and asked, "What's your name?"

Liu ...... Liu Xiaojuan. ”

"Identification number. ”

"Body...... The ID number is ......"

After entering some identity information, Gu Chen was shocked to find that this middle-aged woman named Liu Xiaojuan was from Rongcheng, just like the deceased Zhao Mengmeng.

But he came all the way from Rongcheng to Jiangnan City, a helpless person here, Gu Chen didn't understand, what is this Liu Xiaojuan?

Liu Xiaojuan also seemed to see Gu Chen's thoughts, so she hurriedly asked Gu Chen: "Comrade policeman, there is ...... Any questions?"

"Zhao Mengmeng was strangled to death this afternoon. Gu Chen said.

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