I am a super cop

Chapter 2875 Floating Corpse
Of course, what Officer Wang said makes sense. A man with a strong sense of self-esteem, after losing all his savings, has to face the accusations of his family when he returns home.

At this time, choosing to escape may be the best option.

Fishing at the reservoir is of course a helpless choice, but the key is that fishing here requires tools, but obviously, Zhao Xiaochuan doesn't have them.

"Brother Wang, Zhao Xiaochuan needs tools to fish, but there are none here."

"Oh." Officer Wang reacted and looked around, smiling awkwardly.

"That's right. Without tools, he can't just put a bamboo pole in the water and fish like Jiang Taigong."

"But there are Zhao Xiaochuan's footprints here, which means Zhao Xiaochuan must be nearby. Let's look around to see if we can find any trace of Zhao Xiaochuan."

"Okay, then let's look for it separately." said Lu Weiwei.

So everyone quickly split up into groups of two, and Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha continued to search around the factory.

Zhao Xiaochuan's parents went to the right side of the reservoir, while Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei went to the left side of the reservoir.

Because there are a lot of weeds here, it is very difficult to walk.

However, footprints similar to those of Zhao Xiaochuan were found on the wall. This was a very good signal. At least it showed that Zhao Xiaochuan had been here and everyone was not looking in the wrong direction.

As they searched along the reservoir, Lu Weiwei kept complaining, "Junior Brother Gu, do you think Zhao Xiaochuan really came here just to be angry?"

"It's hard to say." Gu Chen shook his head and said:
"It seems that there is a certain gap between Zhao Xiaochuan and his parents. I think it should be difficult to understand the true relationship between them."

"I think so too." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Lu Weiwei also echoed:
"Zhao Xiaochuan looked like a troubled teenager, and his parents seemed a little strange. At least he didn't go home for the New Year and they couldn't get in touch with him. They should have been very worried, but they thought their son was spending the New Year away from home out of spite."

Shaking her head, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh: "Such a family is indeed quite sad. Perhaps it's because Zhao Xiaochuan has been spoiled since he was a child, so he does things his own way."

"Ugh!"

Just as Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen were talking, they suddenly heard shouting from afar.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei immediately stopped and listened carefully.

"It's Zhao Xiaochuan's mother." Gu Chen reacted immediately after hearing the call.

"They must have discovered something." said Lu Weiwei.

"Let's go and take a look." Gu Chen also quickly reminded.

Without much hesitation, the two of them immediately started running quickly in the direction of the shouting.

After everyone passed the previous location and ran forward for a while, they realized that Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha had also arrived there.

Zhao Xiaochuan's parents were also standing there anxiously.

"What's going on?" Gu Chen asked quickly.

Yuan Shasha pointed to a place not far away and said, "Brother Gu, there is a floating corpse in the water grass over there. It looks like a human foot, and the body seems to be blocked by the water grass."

Based on the clues provided by Yuan Shasha, Gu Chen quickly observed and indeed found a body floating in an area with aquatic plants in the distance.

"Oh, what should I do? Woo, what should I do?"

When seeing the floating corpse, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother had a mental breakdown, kept crying, and could not stand steadily.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiaochuan's father was there to support him.

But at this time, Zhao Xiaochuan's father's emotions began to become extremely complicated.

You can see that he was in a lot of pain, but he was holding it in.

"See if there are any boats around." Gu Chen reminded.

"It seems there is nothing here," said Officer Wang.

"Then make a phone call and ask the people in the town to find a solution," said Gu Chen.

Hearing this, Lu Weiwei immediately picked up her phone and said, "I have the phone number they got from the town. I'll contact them right away."

"Hurry up." Gu Chen urged.

Soon, Lu Weiwei found the contact information on her mobile phone and dialed it directly.

After getting through on the phone, Lu Weiwei quickly explained the situation to the other party and asked for support, hoping that the town could get a boat.

After repeated communication and coordination, Lu Weiwei hung up the phone and reported to Gu Chen:
"The town leaders said they would immediately find a way to get a boat and come to our place."

"Okay." Gu Chen took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and continued:

"We are still unsure whether that person is Zhao Xiaochuan. Please wait a moment."

"It must be Xiaochuan, wow, it must be him, he is the only one who has been here, wow..."

At this moment, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother was sobbing and collapsed to the ground, crying.

No matter how Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha tried to persuade her, it was useless.

Half an hour later, a noise was heard in the distance.

Gu Chen looked back and saw a group of men wearing executive jackets. They were holding a small plastic boat in their hands and came up to Gu Chen.

"Is this Director Gu? I'm Zhao Qing, the deputy secretary of the town. We heard that you found a floating corpse here, so we came here right away."

"Hello, Secretary Zhao." After Gu Chen shook hands with Zhao Qing, he also looked at the thing in his hand.

It was a transparent little boat, and looked quite small, like a child's toy.

"Is this the boat?" Gu Chen asked.

Zhao Qing looked embarrassed and said with a wry smile: "I'm so sorry, you need it urgently, and we can't find a boat for you."

"I just happened to borrow a toy boat from the shop owner next door to us for his grandson."

"This can be placed in the water normally, and it shouldn't be a problem for one person to sit on it."

"As long as there is a boat." Seeing this situation, Gu Chen no longer hesitated. After all, as long as he could row to that water area, it would be fine.

Zhao Qing also nodded silently, and then asked Gu Chen: "Director Gu, where is the floating corpse you mentioned?"

"Over there, where the water plants are." Gu Chen quickly pointed out the direction to Zhao Qing.

After confirming the direction, Zhao Qing said to a middle-aged man beside him, "Lao Zhuang, you are good at swimming. You can take this small boat and row over there, and then bring the body over."

After he finished speaking, Zhao Qing handed the rope to the middle-aged man Lao Zhuang.

Lao Zhuang echoed, immediately threw the transparent toy boat into the water, and then tied a rope to the stern of the boat.

Just as he was about to row over, Gu Chen called him back, "Master Zhuang, let me go."

"You?" Upon hearing Gu Chen say this, Lao Zhuang glanced at Zhao Qing beside him.

Zhao Qing said quickly: "There's no need to bother you with this matter, let Lao Zhuang go."

"That's not what I meant." Seeing that Zhao Qing and Lao Zhuang didn't understand what he meant, Gu Chen quickly explained:
"I need to go over and get to know the first scene."

"Oh." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhao Qing suddenly realized and quickly nodded in agreement:

"Yes, yes, yes. You police officers need to be at the scene when investigating a case. Look at me."

Zhao Qing reacted and quickly called Lao Zhuang: "Lao Zhuang, come up."

"Okay." Lao Zhuang retreated back into the crowd, while Gu Chen carefully boarded the toy boat. Sitting on it, the water was very deep, just like sitting in a foot basin.

But fortunately, this is the structure of the boat, and the balance is still good.

After taking a piece of wood handed to him by Lao Zhuang, Gu Chen used it as a paddle and began to row towards the water plants.

Lu Weiwei also reminded from behind: "Junior Brother Gu, be careful."

"No problem." Gu Chen echoed and continued paddling forward.

When the boat gradually approached the target, Gu Chen discovered that there was indeed a corpse floating among the water plants.

At this time, the body was lying on its back with its head facing the water.

Gu Chen continued to move the boat closer, and the law enforcement recorder he carried with him recorded everything.

Gu Chen did not immediately go to retrieve the body, but instead observed the surrounding situation to see if there were any other abnormalities.

After making sure there was no problem, Gu Chen tied the corpse's left foot to the rope, then used the wooden board as a paddle and began rowing towards the shore.

As the boat slid, the body tied to the boat began to move towards the shore.

When Gu Chen rowed the boat to the shore, everyone walked into the water, pulled the rope tied to the stern of the boat, and dragged the corpse towards the shore.

The moment the body came ashore, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother rushed over immediately, heartbroken.

Fortunately, the people around her quickly grabbed her and dragged her back to the shore.

"Xiaochuan, Xiaochuan, how could you do this? How could you abandon us? How could you do this?"

Zhao Xiaochuan's mother kept crying, making the atmosphere at the scene extremely tense.

Lu Weiwei also quickly persuaded: "Don't worry, we haven't confirmed who he is yet. What if he is not Xiaochuan?"

"He is not Xiaochuan." Just as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Zhao Xiaochuan's father, who had been holding his wife, also hurriedly said:

"Ogawa has a scar on the back of his right hand, but this person doesn't have one."

After hearing what her husband said, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother, who had been crying just now, immediately stopped crying and looked at the corpse.

When everyone checked the back of the corpse's hands and found that there were indeed no scars, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's not Xiaochuan, he's not Xiaochuan." Seeing this scene, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother also hugged her husband and said excitedly: "He is not Xiaochuan, he is not Xiaochuan."

"Wife, calm down." Zhao Xiaochuan's father felt mixed emotions at this moment.

At Zhao Qing's request, everyone carried the body to a lawn on the shore.

Everyone then turned the body over and found that the man was indeed not Zhao Xiaochuan.

"Isn't this your son?" After seeing clearly, Zhao Qing also looked at the couple.

"No, no." Zhao Xiaochuan's father quickly waved his hands: "He is not my son."

"I'm so scared, who is this person?" Zhao Qing was also confused, so he looked at the people around him and asked hurriedly:

"Do you know who this person is?"

"do not know."

"never seen it."

"Is this person from our place?"

"Who knows?"

……

Everyone was talking about it at this moment, but no one seemed to know the identity of the deceased.

At this time, Gu Chen asked everyone to move aside, and he squatted in front of the body and began to conduct preliminary inspections on the body. He also asked Officer Wang to call Gao Chuanfeng from the Technical Department of the Municipal Bureau.

After a moment, Gu Chen determined the approximate time of death of the deceased, stood up and said:

"The deceased should have died a few days before the Chinese New Year."

"Moreover, the body had been in the water for a long time, and there were no injuries on the body. It was obvious that he had drowned, or that he did not know how to swim."

"Drowned? A few days before the New Year?"

After hearing Gu Chen's preliminary judgment, everyone looked at each other and began to become nervous.

"How could he drown for no reason?" Lao Zhuang also looked confused.

Deputy Secretary Zhao Qing also crossed his arms and thought, "Could it be that he was so depressed that he jumped into the water and drowned?"

"This depends on the opinions of the police comrades." Lao Zhuang continued.

So everyone turned their eyes to Gu Chen and the others.

Officer Wang said calmly: "There is no rush. We need to confirm the identity of the deceased first."

After he finished speaking, Officer Wang asked again: "Look carefully, is this someone from your side?"

"It's possible, but I'm not sure," said Lao Zhuang.

Zhao Qing also shook his head: "He is definitely not from our town. If he is from our town, I should be familiar with him."

"But this person looks unfamiliar."

"Isn't it from your town?" After hearing everyone say this, Gu Chen also began to hesitate.

I thought, if he is not from your town, then why did he die in the reservoir here?

What’s strange is that the time of this person’s death coincides with the days when Zhao Xiaochuan was defrauded of his money.

Moreover, according to the clues, Zhao Xiaochuan had been here, but this man died here.

Could it be that this person’s death is related to Zhao Xiaochuan?

The more Gu Chen thought about it, the more he felt something was not right, so he looked at Zhao Xiaochuan's parents.

At this moment, the couple was still depressed by the shock just now. Seeing Gu Chen approaching, the middle-aged woman asked curiously:

"Officer Gu, what's going on?"

"Have you seen this person?" Gu Chen asked.

"No." Zhao Xiaochuan's father shook his head.

Gu Chen continued to remind them: "Think about it carefully. Has this person ever had any contact with your son Zhao Xiaochuan?"

After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhao Xiaochuan's father looked at the corpse again.

After observing carefully for a while, he still shook his head: "I have definitely not seen him. My son probably hasn't seen him either."

"Yes, this person definitely has nothing to do with my son." After Zhao Xiaochuan's father finished speaking, Zhao Xiaochuan's mother also began to agree.

Gu Chen said slowly: "From the current situation, Zhao Xiaochuan has been here."

"However, we didn't find any trace of Zhao Xiaochuan here. Instead, we found a stranger. But I think this person has some connection with Zhao Xiaochuan."

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