Chapter 14

"I suspect that this deceased is from Nanyue."

"Oh?" Gu Changzheng wondered.

"From the footprints found at the scene, the one belonging to the deceased was actually a pair of slipper prints, and it was the kind of flip-flops that Nanyue people like to wear. According to the truth, this cannot be determined that he is a Nanyue person..."

"What? Slippers!" Gu Changzheng interrupted Hu Jinquan's words. A thought suddenly flashed in his mind, although it was a bit incredible, he was like this, if he thought of it, he would verify it.

"What characteristics do the slipper prints you mentioned have?" Gu Changzheng asked.

Hu Jinquan looked at him, thought for a while and said: "It's just the ripple-like marks of ordinary flip-flops, and then, this deceased is quite short, because his feet are only size 36, which is about the same size as an ordinary woman!"

"What? You said his feet are size 36? Slipper prints?!" Gu Changzheng stood up with a "Whoosh"!

"Don't eat! Go! Go! Take me to see what that footprint looks like!" Gu Changzheng pulled Hu Jinquan, who was still stuffing dumplings into his mouth.

Hu Jinquan hurriedly stuffed two more dumplings into his mouth, swallowing while saying: "You let me eat one more, I just got half full!"

Gu Changzheng didn't allow him to continue, and had already pulled Hu Jinquan to the car, and took out 50 yuan and put it on the table: "Boss, if it's not enough, I'll make it up tomorrow!"

During the conversation, he had already pulled Hu Jinquan to the car. 20 minutes later, the car arrived at the Shadao Bureau. The two entered Hu Jinquan's office, and Hu Jinquan handed the case file of the 6.23 charred corpse case to Gu Changzheng.

When seeing the description of extracting the footprints at the scene: the footprint pattern is clear and thick, with edges around, but the edges are not clear, the forefoot sole is shallower, and there are obvious pigeon-toed marks... Conclusion: The footprint belongs to foam plastic slippers, the owner of the footprint is about 163 cm tall, weighs about 50 kg, male, shoe size 36, with obvious pigeon-toed marks.

Hehe! Is it such a coincidence? Although the pattern of the sole is different, the shoe size and gait, as well as the height and weight of the footprint owner inferred by Old Zheng, are extremely close! This is a bit interesting!

"Old Hu! The deceased in the charred corpse case is very likely related to the 6.21 case! Now I have a feeling that there must be some relationship between the 6.21 case and the 6.23 case! Perhaps, the key motive for committing the crime is found, and these two cases can be solved!"

"Are you saying that the two cases were done by the same person? Can they be investigated together?" Hu Jinquan said in surprise.

"Wait, wait, let me think about it carefully." Gu Changzheng leaned back on the chair opposite Hu Jinquan, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Hu Jinquan didn't know the situation of the 6.21 case, so he could only wait for Gu Changzheng to think.

"Two cases that seem to have no connection, the modus operandi is also different, and the two deceased seem to have no intersection. The only possibility is that the deceased may have appeared at the 6.21 case scene! Then what is a foreigner riding a stolen motorcycle doing in an abandoned sand mining plant he is not familiar with?" Gu Changzheng suddenly opened his eyes and said his inference quickly.

"Bold assumption, rigorous reasoning, cautious evidence collection! Old Gu, the words the master told us back then, you haven't forgotten at all!" Hu Jinquan remembered their master, the retired old criminal police captain—the former Zizhen City Public Security Bureau criminal police detachment captain Lu Haoxuan, when he saw him find a reasonable intersection point from two cases that seemed to have no connection!

Gu Changzheng heard him mention the master, his eyes lit up instantly, and he smiled at Hu Jinquan knowingly: "Old Hu, I want to take the case file to study, apply for joint investigation as soon as possible! I feel it, the day the truth is revealed is not far away!"

Hu Jinquan frowned. Gu Changzheng knew he had concerns, and directly grabbed the file bag: "Oh! You and I know, I didn't give it to you! Old Gu... just like this!" Saying this, amidst Hu Jinquan's hesitation, he picked up the file bag and was about to leave.

Hu Jinquan knew his temper, "Old Gu, you can't take it away! I didn't give it to you! Old Gu..."

Gu Changzheng hummed, walked out of the office quickly, came to his car, lit the fire and ran away!

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Everything was as Gu Changzheng expected. The footprints extracted from the 6.23 case scene were highly similar to the footprints left at the 6.21 case scene through technical means! Except for the different patterns on the soles, it can be confirmed that they belong to the same person!

Gu Changzheng can conclude that the deceased in the 6.23 case is the owner of the footprints!

He immediately reported this to Deputy Director Gao Jianjun, requesting the city bureau to investigate the two cases together...

July 1st, Gu Changzheng, who was participating in the activity at the city bureau, suddenly had his mobile phone vibrate "buzzing". He secretly glanced at the venue, seeing that everyone was focusing on the speech of Zhao Xiaodong, the deputy mayor of the municipal government and the head of the city bureau. He opened his mobile phone, seeing it was a message sent by Luo Fei. He had told Luo Fei before leaving that if there was any emergency, he should send him a message immediately.

At this time, seeing the content on the phone screen, he immediately bent over and got up and slowly exited the venue.

Outside, he hurriedly dialed Luo Fei's phone and asked: "Hello! What emergency is there?"

"Captain Gu!" Luo Fei's voice came from the other end of the phone "A family in Fenglin Garden complex was burglarized!"

Gu Changzheng didn't make a sound. He knew that although this Luo Fei was a newcomer, he wouldn't be so unable to distinguish between importance and urgency! Sure enough!

Luo Fei on the other end of the phone continued: "The burglarized family happened to be upstairs at 301. The police officer who received the report felt that the matter was a bit strange, so it was reported to our criminal brigade. Captain Gu, we are at the scene now, you'd better come over!"

Gu Changzheng hung up the phone, couldn't care about the city bureau activity, drove the car and ran to Fenglin Garden complex.

"What's the situation? Who reported the case?" Gu Changzheng put on shoe covers and stepped into 401, which was upstairs from Ge Manli's house, and asked directly after seeing Luo Fei.

"Captain Gu, the reporter is Aunt Zhang, a resident of 402 opposite." Luo Fei pointed to an old lady in her 60s who was short and fat outside the door and said.

Gu Changzheng glanced at Aunt Zhang and nodded. The old lady opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but saw Gu Changzheng turn his head away without wanting to chat with her. The words reached her lips and she swallowed them back, but her eyes rolled around, and her ears seemed to be pricked up high, feeling more concerned about this case than the police in the room!

Gu Changzheng saw Old Zheng, who was investigating the scene traces, and asked: "How is it? Old Zheng, is it not an ordinary burglary case?"

Old Zheng didn't even lift his head and replied: "The burglary case is an ordinary burglary case, but the person who was burglarized is a bit interesting!"

"What's interesting?" Gu Changzheng held the small bag with his hands behind his back and swayed to Old Zheng's side.

"Captain Gu, it's like this!" Luo Fei said behind him: "Aunt Zhang opposite went out to buy vegetables in the morning, and when she came back, she found that the door of Room 401, which was originally locked well, had a gap. She thought the room owner was at home, so she wanted to go and say hello. Who knew that after pushing the door open, she found the room in a mess. She thought it was burglarized, so she immediately called the police. After the police officer from the local station arrived, they found this at the scene!" Luo Fei pointed to a white object on the sofa in the living room.