Chapter 215: The Real Killer Appears?

The phone rang a few times before Gao Ye answered. Gu Changzheng said: "Gao Ye, check all the call records of Lou Zhen around 5:30 PM yesterday again!"

He suddenly remembered that he might have made a stupid mistake, only investigating Lou Zhen's last call, but ignoring that Lou Zhen might have received or made other calls during the same period.

Of course, it was also possible that the child's words in front of him were not credible, but this process had to be gone through.

Not long after, the results of Gao Ye's investigation came back. Indeed, a call was received at 5:26 PM yesterday, with a duration of 3 minutes and 26 seconds. After this call ended, Zhang Zhiyuan's call came in immediately.

Then Gao Ye continued to say that he checked the number and found that the frequency of calls with Lou Zhen was extremely high, and each time the duration was not short! However, the owner of this number was a person named Mei Ling, from Taogu County under Zizhen. The specific identity of this person was still under investigation.

After finishing the call with Gao Ye, Gu Changzheng returned to Xiao Hai's side and said: "Xiao Hai, are you sure you haven't seen that person before yesterday?"

Xiao Hai blinked and thought for a while: "I haven't seen him!"

"Good, thank you for cooperating with us. Later, I will invite a police officer who can draw to come and find you. Can you describe the appearance of that person yesterday in detail to him again?"

Xiao Hai nodded and said: "Yes."

Gu Changzheng chose to let the sketch artist come over also out of consideration for Xiao Hai. This child was too pitiful, and Gu Changzheng really didn't want him to bear too much.

Leaving Xiao Hai, the two returned to the branch bureau. Gu Changzheng immediately convened a case analysis meeting for the special task force. According to the clues sorted out, the deceased Lou Zhen received a call from a man yesterday, September 12th, at 5:26 PM, and the two agreed to meet at the Tianyang Hotel. The identity of this person was temporarily unknown, but it was certain that it was not Zhang Zhiyuan. This could be confirmed by the clues provided by Xiao Hai, but the contact with Lou Zhen was extremely frequent, and it might be a lover relationship.

As for Zhang Zhiyuan, who was found after Lou Zhen fell, he was also at the Tianyang Hotel that night, but according to his statement and subsequent investigation, it was confirmed that he was indeed having a party with a group of friends at the Tianyang Hotel, and many people could testify. The keys lost by the room service staff, Huang Li, were also confirmed to be a lie she told for the convenience of her lover, Zhang Zhiyuan.

Now various signs already pointed to the man who contacted Lou Zhen many times. Gu Changzheng was waiting for the comparison results of the DNA of Zhang Zhiyuan they collected and the bodily fluid in Lou Zhen's body, which would also completely rule out Zhang Zhiyuan's suspicion.

According to the existing clues, Gu Changzheng re-arranged the investigation tasks: Jiang Fan would take the municipal bureau's sketch artist to meet Xiao Hai immediately to draw the portrait of the suspect first; Liu Han would continue to lead people to screen the surveillance footage of that night to find all male guests who left their rooms after Lou Zhen appeared at the hotel until Lou Zhen fell; Gao Ye would follow the owner of that phone number to check if it was possible that the owner knew the suspect.

And at this time, he was still anxiously waiting for the DNA comparison results from Old Zheng's side. Now, let's assume that the person who left the bodily fluid in Lou Zhen's body was not Zhang Zhiyuan, then would the owner of this bodily fluid be in the DNA database? This possibility was not non-existent. In short, he could not ignore any possibility now.

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Just when Gu Changzheng was leading a group of well-trained and experienced investigators to tirelessly pursue the truth behind this matter, not far from Zizhen, there was a place called Taogu County. Although this county was not big, it also had its own unique style and stories.

Beside a somewhat remote street in Taogu County, there was a small hotel that looked quite old and simple. At this very moment, in a room in this hotel, a young man with a handsome appearance and extraordinary temperament was sitting alone on the edge of the bed. He was holding a can of cold beer tightly in his hand, then tilted his head back and poured the liquid in the can into his mouth in large gulps.

Because he was drinking too fast, a lot of the beer couldn't be swallowed in time and flowed down the corners of his mouth. These beer liquids slid down and finally soaked the front of his shirt, but he didn't seem to care at all.

Soon, a can of beer was finished by him. Then, he squeezed the empty aluminum can hard with his hand until it was completely crushed and deformed. Then, he waved his arm and threw the discarded aluminum can far away. After doing these actions, he panted heavily a few times, as if he had just experienced a fierce battle.

After calming his breathing slightly, the young man reached out to the small table, picked up a cigarette, and lit it skillfully. With the flickering of the flame, wisps of blue smoke rose. Looking closely, one could find that the cigarette butt of this cigarette actually had three striking Arabic numerals printed on it—"5".

If Xiao Hai were here at this moment, he would definitely be surprised to find that the young man who was smoking in front of him was the very person who had bought cigarettes at the supermarket he managed and had also talked to Lou Zhen on the phone!

After Lou Zhen fell, he panicked for a while, not knowing what to do. In the end, he still chose to leave this place of right and wrong. He didn't know if anyone else had seen him meeting Lou Zhen here. Thinking of the two of them lingering for a long time, and he didn't like to use those tools, he was afraid that he would leave traces on her body. However, thinking that he had never had a criminal record and in the vast sea of people, the police probably wouldn't be able to find him.

It was just that he couldn't accept for a while that a woman he had just been intimate with had turned into a corpse in the blink of an eye. This really made him feel uncomfortable, and he was worried that because of Lou Zhen's death, if he were exposed, then, then his marriage with Qiao Li would definitely be ruined! All his hard work and forbearance for so many years would be in vain!

At that time, he also considered these things and chose to leave in a hurry. However, what he had to be glad about was that the police couldn't find him at all with the ID card he used to open the room!

He was just regretting now why he had fallen for that old woman! If he could do it all over again, he would definitely control himself and not be seduced by that demon!

"Sigh!" He sighed long and hard. He still had to go to the company normally tomorrow. He couldn't leave for too long, otherwise, if Qiao Li's cousin found out, he would definitely look for trouble with him again!

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In Xiao Hai's small supermarket, Jiang Fan, with the sketch artist invited from the municipal bureau, was drawing slowly on the sketch paper according to his description. Half an hour later, a portrait of a handsome young man in his thirties appeared in front of everyone. Xiao Hai only took one look and called out: "Yes, that's this person! You drew it so much like him!" ===== CHAPTER 216 =====