Gu Chen's work today was indeed not very smooth.

First of all, lurking in the forest did not wait for the man in black to appear, wasting a night in vain.

Secondly, the man in black changed his previous trajectory and hurt people in Xinghua Village for the first time, and this time the random target turned out to be the crew staff.

And just last night and this morning, Director Guo also specially comforted all the crew members, asking everyone to work hard and not have to worry about the man in black hurting people, and said that this was not an attack on the crew.

But these words are put to the present, and the rhythm of the slap in the face is appropriate.

The man in black not only appeared in Xinghua Village, but also cut a crew member.

At this time, the crew stopped doing it, and spontaneously came to the door of the village committee to discuss the explanation......

Director Guo is helpless now, and seeing Gu Chen is like seeing his own father.

In comparison, it was much easier to throw the burden to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen didn't think about what would become of the scene, and whether the crew would continue to shoot after the hurtful incident.

In addition to today's injured, there are two others who are being treated, and I feel that this murderer is sparing no effort to create panic.

"Comrade policeman. Director Guo didn't have the domineering attitude of last night, and asked for help directly: "Look at this murderer, he actually came to Xinghua Village and injured one of our photographers, this guy is like a ghost, he comes and goes without a trace, if we don't find him again, our crew may have to evacuate, but I can't explain this loss to the producer." ”

"Don't worry. Gu Chen comforted him briefly, and then asked, "What are the witnesses?"

"Witness?" Director Guo thought briefly for a few seconds, then looked up at the crowd and said, "When Xiao Liao was injured, who was there?" ”

In the crowd, several people chattered a few words before they broke away from the crowd and walked out.

"When Xiao Liao was injured, it was a few of us who heard the movement. A tall, thin man said.

Director Guo hurriedly introduced: "These are all from the eighth film crew, which is the same department as Xiao Liao, and they were the first to find Xiao Liao's injury tonight." ”

"Then have you seen what the man in black looks like?" Lu Weiwei, who came later, also turned on the law enforcement recorder and stepped forward to ask.

"Not really. Another witness also shook his head and said: "When we arrived, the man in black slashed Xiao Liao's chest, and when he saw a few of us appearing from the other end of the alley, the man in black directly ran away, stepping on a few dilapidated wooden boxes next to the alley, and escaped directly over the wall." ”

"Will you fly on the wall?"

After Xu Lang heard such words, a BGM picture with 'a laugh in the sea' began to appear in his mind.

"Comrade policeman, this man in black must still be in Xinghua Village, please be sure to find him. The old village chief looked at Gu Chen with a sad face.

After so many years of being the village chief, I have never encountered such a strange thing.

The people in the village have been attacked one after another, and now even the crew members are not spared.

The old village chief is now helpless and can only turn to the police for help......

Gu Chen smiled and said, "Can you let the witnesses take me to the scene to see?"

The people who came to ask for the explanation around were now silent one by one.

Looking at the young probationary police officer in front of him, many people were not convinced when he was directing everyone to do things.

But the bad guy is the police, and this kind of thing can only be turned to the police.

"I can lead the way. The tall, thin man raised his hand.

Gu Chen nodded: "Very good, let's leave now." ”

Several people did not stop for a moment, and left directly to the place of the incident.

While the others consciously gave way to a passage, they couldn't help but point at Gu Chen's back.

"This young man is a police officer?"

"Is he okay? Looks younger than me?"

"You don't know him at first glance, right? This person's name is Gu Chen, he is a probationary police officer who has just come to the Furong Police Station for a short time, and he has handled many cases. ”

"Yes, I've seen his reports on the news, even the old policemen have to give him a little thin face, did you see the older policemen just now, the ones who have been following him, those are his leaders. ”

"If he is really powerful, he will find out this hurtful man in black, so that we don't have to worry about it here every day. ”

"Anyway, don't go out when it's dark. ”

The more everyone talked, the more terrifying it became......

What the man in black brings to Xinghua Village and the crew is fear, a sense of unknown fear that doesn't know when disaster is coming.

Now I feel like when I go out to the toilet, I have to go in groups.

On the other side, Gu Chen followed several witnesses to the alley where the incident occurred.

The architectural layout of Xinghua Village is actually very standardized, and the alleys are also very neat, and every household has a small yard.

According to eyewitnesses, the photographer named Xiao Liao was attacked at the intersection when he returned to the house of the villager where he lived after saying goodbye to his companions.

"This place is really weird, there are street lights all around, but this section of the road is not. Gu Chen briefly looked at the surrounding environment.

Indeed, the killer was very particular about who was left alone and where to attack.

This section of the road is at the corner of the alley, and it is also a blind spot, although there is a street lamp, but it can be seen that the bulb has long been damaged.

"Everyone was saying goodbye at this intersection, but we heard the screams in front of us at the time, so we immediately turned back, and then we saw the murderer fleeing over the wall, and Xiao Liao was lying on the ground with several knives in his body. The tall and thin man simply restored the scene of the witness.

There was still a pool of blood on the ground......

On the wall, there are a few broken footprints of kicking legs, and the wooden box on the ground obviously has traces of moving.

"This shabby box was supposed to be at this end. Officer Wang also quickly found a clue according to Gu Chen's gaze.

"Yes. Lu Weiwei shone the flashlight over, squatted down and took a closer look: "According to the position after moving, the murderer can ensure that he can climb over the wall from this side." ”

As soon as the words fell, Gu Chen jumped onto the wooden box with a brisk step, and then jumped onto the fence with a light kick, and after looking at the situation in the courtyard, he showed that it was really like this.

"Senior Brother Gu, what did you see?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked, wanting to flip over and take a look.

"I already know why he moved the wooden box to this position. ”

"Why?" asked Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang in unison.

"Because the original location of the wooden box was full of cacti under the corresponding wall, the man in black wanted to avoid these things, so he moved the wooden box under the wall without cacti. Gu Chen held his chin and pondered.

"Does that mean that this man in black is very familiar with this alley, and he has already arranged an escape route after committing the crime?" Xu Lang also threw out his opinion.

"Senior Brother Xu is right. Gu Chen nodded in agreement.

In Gu Chen's opinion, after being able to hurt someone, he immediately escaped over the wall and accurately avoided the cactus, which was obviously the route that he had come here to investigate before.

And if the murderer is from this village, then there is no need to investigate, he can know the corner of this alley, the street lamp has long been damaged, and the cactus is under the wall.

As for whether the murderer is a crew member, in fact, Gu Chen can already rule it out.

The early stage of the crew, that is, a group of people, including Hu Mengyao, came to Xinghua Village a week ago to prepare for the work.

In a very short period of time, it is generally impossible to have an absolute understanding of every location and alley in Xinghua Village.

What's more, in the walls of people's houses, the existence of cacti cannot be seen from the door at all.

It can't be said that the crew has to turn over everyone's yards in order to do preliminary work?

And even if it is a normal filming these days, the crew is all on duty, and there are no idle people at all, and those who wander around the village have long been noticed.

But I asked many people in the village during the day, and the vast majority of local residents did not find such a suspicious person.

In this way, it seems that the search scope has been greatly narrowed, and the murderer must be from Xinghua Village.

And he is agile and good at using knives.

According to the elimination method, the elderly in the village can be excluded, the children can be excluded, the women are also unlikely, and then according to some characteristics, and the only villagers who may be murderers are only about 20 people.

"If you want to find that murderer from more than two dozen people, it shouldn't be difficult, right?" Gu Chen asked himself.

Lu Weiwei was puzzled: "Could it be that Senior Brother Gu already knows who the murderer is?"

"I'm not sure yet, so let's just see. Gu Chen didn't have so much to say, he only felt that he was one step closer to this murderer.

If there had been no previous contact with the man in black, then what I knew about him could only be limited to the dictation of other witnesses.

Through the basic layout of this alley, Gu Chen can basically lock the murderer, who must be from this village.

There were not so many twists and turns, and the next day Gu Chen went to the old village chief, asked for the village roster, and asked the village chief about the personality traits of the more than 20 suspicious people in the village.

So seven or eight more ...... were excluded

Of the remaining fifteen people, the similarity is relatively high and is not easy to eliminate.

"Are you sure it's one of these people?" asked Officer Wang, who was sitting in the office of the village committee.

"I just suspected, but there was no evidence. Gu Chen held his cheeks thoughtfully.

If you don't find this man in black as soon as possible, then when night comes, anyone who is left alone is likely to become the target of the man in black again.

Just as he was thinking about it, a middle-aged man with a Chinese face walked in, holding a large watermelon in his hand.

"Fortunately, the village chief asked me to bring some watermelons to quench my thirst for the police officers. ”

"There is the head of the village of Lao worried. When Lu Weiwei saw the watermelon, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly stood up and came to the table of the Eight Immortals.

The man took out a watermelon knife from the kitchen of the village committee hut and held it in his hand.

Then holding the melon in one hand and the knife in the other, he completed a series of operations in his hand, cut the watermelon into a tooth shape from the middle, and then put it on the table and gently pulled it, and suddenly the two halves of the watermelon were like two blooming flowers.

The man casually pulled off a piece from the fangs and handed it to Lu Weiwei: "Give." ”

"Thank you. Lu Weiwei took the melon, took a small sip slowly, and suddenly said, "It's so sweet." ”

"There's something special about this way of cutting melons. Officer Wang also walked over and couldn't help but sigh as he watched the man cut the watermelon into a piece of art.

The man waved his hand: "What is this? I also learned from others, and there are still a few in our village that can be cut to this level." ”

"That is, the person who has mastered this knife technique...... You're not the only one?" Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, staring at the blade in the man's hand.

The middle-aged man was obviously startled by Gu Chen's gaze......

This kind of look seems to be able to see through the little secrets in his heart.

The man just looked at Gu Chen for two seconds, and he already had a chilling feeling.

"Police...... Comrade policeman, do you have any questions?" the man hesitated, but took the initiative to ask.

"There's no problem, I know your name is Liu San, you are the village accountant, and you used to kill pigs......"

Gu Chen said all kinds of things about Liu San at once, which made Liu San quite surprised: "It turns out that you know so many things about me?"

"Yes. Gu Chen nodded and continued to ask, "But I want to know now, who are the people who can have your sword technique, can you help me identify it?"

Liu San smiled at that time: "I know, Comrade Police want to see who among these people may be a man in black, right?"

Gu Chen nodded and didn't speak.

"Okay, but, let me start by, I'm certainly not the man in black. Liu San also hurriedly put out the exemption clause, as if he would also be included in the list of suspicions: "I heard that the man in black is strong, but my whole body is trembling with fat even when I take a step, I am not so powerful." ”

"I didn't say it was you. Gu Chen actually didn't suspect Liu San, and it could be ruled out from his pot-bellied figure.

At the same time, Lu Weiwei happened to take out the village roster and asked accountant Liu San to help screen it.

"This, this, and this ......"

Liu San selected a total of six people, except for two who were too obese, the other four were on Gu Chen's suspicion list.

"These people are very good at knives, two of them are chefs, and those two are fat. ”

Seeing that Gu Chen lowered his head and pondered, but did not respond, Liu San continued to smile and said, "Hehe, these two are impossible, fatter than me, do you have anything else to ask?"

"Thank you for your cooperation. Lu Weiwei clasped her hands to her chest and said: "Don't talk about today's matter, it is the greatest support for our police to handle the case." ”

"I understand this, I must not talk nonsense. Liu San also hurriedly expressed his position.

After all, there are people injured in the village one after another, and now everyone is looking forward to the police being able to find the murderer, after all, this is a person who dares to commit crimes under the nose of the police, which can be said to be very arrogant.

Now the crew and the village committee have issued a notice: Don't go out when it's dark.

After all the shooting, you must return to the room and lock the door to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

But after all, this situation cannot be maintained forever.

If the murderer is not found for a day, the villagers and crew will not be at peace for a day, and everyone will begin to question the police's ability to handle the case.

"You can go back first. Officer Wang walked up to Liu San's side, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your cooperation." ”

looked at the watermelon on the table: "By the way, there are also your melons." ”

"You're welcome, as it should be. Liu San nodded, very polite: "If you need anything, just go to the financial office of the village committee to find me, I will be there during the day." ”

After a few simple greetings, Liu San left tremblingly.

Xu Lang and Lu Weiwei immediately walked to Officer Wang and Gu Chen's side.

Everyone made eye contact and seemed to know what each other was thinking.

"Now there are four people targeted. Gu Chen pointed out the four people who were checked and continued: "Judging from various characteristics, they are very much in line with the characteristics of the people in black, and they are all good at using knives skillfully. ”

"In other words, if you keep an eye on these four people, it is very possible to find out the real man in black?" Xu Lang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but smile on his lips.

"There are four of us, one person staring at one at night, is there a problem?" Officer Wang couldn't wait to arrange the task.

He knows that this is also the common sentiment of everyone......

From two different groups of people, to the four people in front of him, it can be said that there is finally some hope for a needle in a haystack.

Everyone also nodded silently and maintained a tacit understanding with each other.

It was fast into night......

After dinner, for the sake of safety, the crew worked with the village committee to carry out the order not to go out after dark.

At around 7 o'clock, except for three film crews to shoot some outdoor footage, the other film crews did not work at night.

Everyone went back to the room, and the bored could play cards, watch TV, and play chess.

However, Gu Chen and his colleagues watched the four suspects walk into their homes according to the terrain they investigated during the day.

After that, they were kept under surveillance near the door until late at night.

The suspect Gu Chen is targeting, his name is Liu Tiangui, he is a carpenter, eats by hand, loves to smoke, is nearly forty years old, but he is still a bachelor.

The overall impression of Gu Chen is that he doesn't like to talk, rarely greets people when he meets, and is a little autistic.

When others get together to play cards, he always just stands on the sidelines, does not participate, and can be said to be a marginal figure.

Minutes and seconds passed......

9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m.

Several film crews also began to call it a day, and everyone began to travel together and rush to their respective residences.

At the intersection of alleys, the sound of conversation can be heard everywhere, and flashlights also illuminate every road.

12 a.m.

The road began to become quiet......

After Gu Chen and three other colleagues confirmed the situation with a text message, they took out a bottle of energy drink and drank it with a gulp.

The tiredness and anxiety just now began to subside instantly.

Keeping enough energy to keep an eye on at night is very necessary for the current situation.

Gu Chen has greeted Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Officer Xu, and if any of them has any suspicious movements and a warning is issued, the others must first go to the suspect's room to confirm their identity.

After making sure that it is not the man in black, he immediately goes to the suspicious direction to support.

To this end, Lu Weiwei also set up a temporary group, once there is a situation, everyone must immediately send a message to the group, and the dialog box is first set to voice input mode.

The bright moonlight shone on Gu Chen's body, like a stone statue, lonely waiting for the appearance of its prey.

However, it was soon one o'clock in the morning.

In Gu Chen's ears, there began to be "rustling" and "rustling" movements, as if something was approaching......