Chapter 5

Guo Hao and Li Hai, with 4 team members, stared at the computer screen, watching the video footage frame by frame. They copied the video from the two main gates and the underground garage entrance and exit of Fenglin Garden complex for a week, as well as the public security surveillance video of the 4 roads that can reach the complex: Qingjiang Road, Mingjing Lane, Changjin Road, and Yinxing Road for the past week. Several people had been watching continuously for 4 hours!

Gu Changzheng quietly came behind them and stood there watching silently.

"This person!" Gu Changzheng suddenly spoke. Guo Hao blinked his bloodshot eyes and turned his head to see it was Gu Changzheng, hurriedly wanting to stand up, but was pressed down by Gu Changzheng: "Little Guo, have you noticed this person?"

He said, pointing his finger at a man wearing a baseball cap in the picture. Among a group of people eating noodles early, he was the only one wearing a hat, and the brim was pulled a bit low.

Guo Hao said: "Captain Gu, we also found this person a bit strange just now, and are currently checking the frequency of his appearance in the video, because there is a breakfast shop opposite Fenglin Garden complex, and we have found that Ge Manli and her husband basically go to this shop to eat noodles every morning. This hat man has also appeared in this shop every morning since the morning of the 17th. We are looking for the traces of the hat man around the only way to Fenglin Garden, and I estimate there will be discoveries soon!"

"Good! Continue to check along this line!" Gu Changzheng already had a plan in his heart. The fingerprint comparison already had results, and the next step was to find the suspicious person who appeared near Fenglin Garden recently. Then, would the truth be revealed?

Gu Changzheng always felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say what was wrong for a while! The investigation direction was no problem, the reporter had no time and motive to commit the crime, the deceased's husband was far away more than 200 kilometers away, and a large group of people could prove that he had no time to commit the crime. The deceased had a gentle personality, good popularity, no enemies, no economic problems. Then, there was only one possibility—passion killing or being discovered while burglarizing!

But that time point was too coincidental, and there was also the suspect's strange sexual hobby. Could it be an incompetent person or a fetishist? Otherwise, why didn't he implement infringement when facing Ge Manli, who had a good appearance and figure?

Then why did he want to kill the other party? Normally, he should have withdrawn from the scene after succeeding (obtaining property, satisfying desires). Why did he risk entering the bathroom to kill the hostess who hadn't discovered him?

A series of unsolved mysteries troubled him, making him a bit unable to understand the murderer's purpose!

Find him and bring him to justice first! Maybe everything will have an answer!

June 22nd, 4:00 AM, starting from 7:30 AM on the 17th, until the afternoon of the day of the incident, the hat man appeared 5 times in the breakfast shop opposite the main gate of the complex, appeared 10 times in the surveillance at the intersection of Qingjiang Road and Mingjing Lane heading west from the complex. On the day of the incident, at 3:40 PM, he appeared at the main gate of Fenglin Garden, entered the complex, and was filmed leaving the complex at 4:15 PM, losing his traces after passing the Mingjing Lane intersection heading west.

Guo Hao rubbed his blood-red eyes and said: "Captain Gu, take a look at the video of the breakfast shop filmed on the morning of the 21st."

Saying this, he fast-forwarded the video. The time came to 7:40 AM on the 21st, Ge Manli appeared in the picture. This is not strange because at 5:30 AM that day, the surveillance at the complex gate had filmed Ren Jiahe dragging a suitcase and leaving by taxi. The point is, Ge Manli appeared in the breakfast shop alone, seemingly saying a few words to the boss, obviously more than usual, and at this time, the hat man was queuing behind Ge Manli!

No need to investigate, Gu Changzheng had already guessed the content of the conversation between Ge Manli and the shop boss, and it was this conversation that let the hat man know that Ren Jiahe was on a business trip!

Plus the video on the afternoon of the 21st, everything matched!

"Gao Ye! Go to this shop in a while, ask the boss, what did Ge Manli say to him when she bought breakfast on the morning of the 21st? Not a word can be missing! Haozi, check the gait and physique of the hat man again, there must be absolutely no mistakes, it must be determined to be one person! Print out the image of this hat man and take it together with this photo to let the shop boss recognize it. He ate noodles at his house for 5 consecutive days, he shouldn't not recognize him, right!"

"Shu Jiaqing!" Gu Changzheng held the suspect information in his hand, a burglary criminal who had just been released for half a year! Did he kill the person?

June 22nd, 7:00 AM, the group led by Gao Ye had results from visiting the breakfast shop. On the morning of the 21st, Ge Manli came to buy breakfast alone. The shop boss asked her casually why he didn't see Boss Ren. Ge Manli said Ren Jiahe went to Yiling on a business trip today and wouldn't be back for a few days. Then the boss and Ge Manli joked a few times. And the hat man he took to let the shop boss identify, the boss indeed remembered, but he didn't say anything except ordering food every time, and the brim of his hat was also pressed very low, and he didn't have any impression of his appearance.

Shu Jiaqing had committed crimes and been in prison, and it was normal to have a certain anti-reconnaissance ability. Gu Changzheng thought for a while and felt that the entire evidence chain was no problem. He dialed Gao Jianjun's phone to report the situation of the case and proposed to immediately formulate a plan to capture Shu Jiaqing!

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June 22nd, 7:30 AM, Fenglin Garden complex, Room 401, Unit 2, Building 3, the thin bald man picked up his phone and dialed a number: "Boss He, I have already handled the matter, when will the remaining money arrive? I can't stay here for long!"

After a while, I don't know what was said on the other end of the phone, the bald man said coldly: "How did I know that a small thief would appear at that time? My matter has already been completed! I must see the money today! Otherwise, think about whether you can afford the consequences yourself!"

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

Ten minutes later, the bald man's phone made a buzzing vibration sound. He glanced at the number displayed on the screen, grabbed the phone and said: "Why? Have you thought it through?"

Perhaps the other party's words made him feel a little more comfortable, he laughed: "Teacher He is the one who does big things! If you are not at ease, I will also handle that small thief for you, the price can be discounted, hahaha!"

The other side should have rejected his proposal, he continued: "We are professionals, you said to make it an accident, I didn't move such a beautiful girl, can't it show my professionalism? Hahaha!" The bald man laughed lecherously.

8:10 AM, Fenglin Garden complex, a short woman wearing a wide dress, with a head of fluffy curly hair, kicked her slippers and walked out of Building 3, passed the back door and walked along Yinxing Road toward Ginza Plaza.

10:00 AM, in an abandoned sand mining plant in the new area of Zizhen City—Shadao District, the bald man was hiding in a pit formed by mining sand, a pair of fierce eyes staring at the cement road leading to the sand plant. There was also a pedal motorcycle thrown in the pit.

After a while, a black Toyota car drove over, and a tall man wearing a baseball cap and a mask got out of the car.

He looked around and took out his phone to dial a number.

At this time, the phone on the bald man hiding in the pit vibrated. The bald man answered the phone and said in a low voice: "Boss He, have you arrived?" After getting the other party's affirmation, he said: "Good, I'm on the road, I'll be there in 10 minutes."

After hanging up the phone, he still observed the masked man cautiously. Seeing him get into the car again, the bald man cursed in a low voice, quickly took out a monocular telescope from the pedal, observed carefully for a while, and then smiled with satisfaction.

Seeing that ten minutes were up, the man in the Toyota pushed open the car door, took a blue bag from the trunk, and was about to call, but the bald man jumped up from the pit and shouted: "Boss He! No need to call, I'm here!"

The two were about 100 meters apart. The bald man stood by the pit and waved to the man: "Bring the bag over, walk over, don't drive!"

The man remained silent and followed the instructions to pick up the bag and walk toward the bald man.

Seeing that the two were less than 10 meters apart, the bald man suddenly made a pause gesture: "Okay, Boss He, open the bag and let me see the banknotes!"

The man stopped, slowly opened the bag, and casually took out a stack of hundred-yuan bills from it and threw it to the bald man. The bald man was caught off guard, instinctively staring at the banknotes in the air, stretching out his hands to grab it. At this time, the man suddenly arched his body and rushed toward the bald man at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. When the bald man discovered the man's movement, the man had already rushed more than 5 meters!

Seeing the man suddenly rush toward him, the bald man immediately turned around, but forgot that there was a big pit behind him, and his body tilted and fell backward!

The man had already rushed to the place where the bald man was originally standing. Seeing the bald man fall into the pit, he took out a large wrench half a meter long from the bag, waving it and jumping into the pit!