I am a super cop

"What aspect are you talking about that is wrong?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked when she heard Zhao Zhuowen say this.

Zhao Zhuowen held his chin with one hand, and seemed to be thinking about something: "Every time I see Zhao Xiaochuan coming over from Gao Cheng, his face looks particularly ugly."

"I started talking to him and he started to become indifferent."

"Anyway, I feel like I've become a completely different person. I can't really put my finger on it."

"You don't know the reason?" asked Officer Wang.

"I don't know, but I feel that the relationship between him and Gao Cheng is very subtle. Maybe they are having a conflict? Oh, that's not right."

As if he remembered something? Zhao Zhuowen was stunned for a moment, then immediately clarified:

"I remember one time, after school, Gao Cheng stopped Zhao Xiaochuan on the way home and dragged him into an alley."

"I was very surprised at the time, but later on, I didn't take it seriously. I felt that Gao Cheng must have something to ask him."

"When I came to school the next day, I found that Zhao Xiaochuan looked very bad and was limping."

"Did you get beaten?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Maybe. I asked him the same question at that time, but he just kept shaking his head and told me not to worry about it."

"But Zhao Xiaochuan and I are good brothers after all. How can I just ignore a good brother being bullied? I'll tell Zhao Xiaochuan, is it that Gao Cheng who bullied you?"

"If so, even if I can't beat him, I will get a group of people to teach him a lesson."

"If that doesn't work, I'll tell the teacher. But when I said I'll tell the teacher, he immediately stopped me and told me to leave it alone."

"Anyway, I was quite angry at the time, and I thought to myself, I was helping you vent your anger, so why did you take it out on me?"

Shaking his head, Zhao Zhuowen also looked helpless: "Anyway, at that time, I always felt that Zhao Xiaochuan was weird."

"It was during that period that Zhao Xiaochuan's grades plummeted. He seemed to be distracted in class and absent-minded during exams."

"It was because of this that the teacher had a special talk with him. He felt that he had a good foundation, but he just didn't study hard."

"He went from being an excellent student to a poor student, which made the teacher very anxious."

"I really don't understand." Yuan Shasha also shook her head after hearing this: "What's going on with this Zhao Xiaochuan? He's so secretive. If he has a conflict or is bullied, he can just tell the teacher. What's the point of hiding it?"

"Isn't it?" Zhao Zhuowen spread his hands and said indignantly:

"I asked him to tell the teacher, but he wouldn't let me tell anyone. It seemed like he was worried and Gao Cheng had something on him."

"So every time he was bullied, he didn't dare tell the teacher and always endured it alone in silence."

"Later, I remember one time, during physical education class, when we were free time, I found that Gao Cheng's class was also having physical education class."

"And Gao Cheng also saw Zhao Xiaochuan, so he walked to the vicinity of our playground."

"When Zhao Xiaochuan saw him, he felt like a mouse seeing a cat and wanted to hide."

"But the more he hid, the more Gao Cheng came over. He even walked up to Zhao Xiaochuan and said something to him. He wanted to pull him away."

"I was playing basketball with other students at the time, and I felt something was wrong, so I told other students that Zhao Xiaochuan might be bullied by that senior student."

Taking a deep breath and trying to calm down, Zhao Zhuowen slowly said, "At that time, we were quite united as classmates. When we heard that our classmates were being bullied, we all stopped playing basketball."

"As soon as I threw the basketball away, I went to find Gao Cheng and asked him about it."

"As a result, Gao Cheng saw that we were outnumbered and said a few words to Zhao Xiaochuan before leaving."

"What happened next? Did you ask Zhao Xiaochuan about the situation?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Of course I asked." Zhao Zhuowen nodded silently and said without hesitation:

"Let's ask him what's going on? Why does Gao Cheng always come to you and ask if he's been bullied or something like that?"

"I had good intentions, but Zhao Xiaochuan got angry and told us to mind our own business in the future."

"Ah? Did he really say that?" Yuan Shasha was also confused when she heard it.

Zhao Zhuowen nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Yes, that's what he said. You didn't know it at the time, but it made us very angry. We all felt bad."

"I thought to myself that we all helped you, but you didn't even thank us, and you even accused us of meddling in your affairs."

"Anyway, we never cared about him after that, and I stopped paying attention to Zhao Xiaochuan, and my relationship with him became distant from that moment on."

"What happened next? Did anything happen to Zhao Xiaochuan?" Gu Chen asked.

"What happened afterwards? I'm not too sure, but I know there must have been a conflict between him and Gao Cheng. Every time Gao Cheng came to see him, it was always bad news."

"I feel like Gao Cheng has some leverage over Zhao Xiaochuan. Whenever I see Zhao Xiaochuan limping to class, I know it must have been Gao Cheng who did it."

"I don't know how many times I've been beaten, but I managed to endure it every time."

"Sometimes I really wanted to help him, but he didn't appreciate it. We were just being sentimental, so I didn't really care about him."

With a faint sigh, Zhao Zhuowen continued, "After Gao Cheng graduated from high school, this kind of thing never happened again, so we just let it go."

"So until graduation, Zhao Xiaochuan never told you anything about Gao Cheng?" Gu Chen asked.

Zhao Zhuowen shook his head: "No, I never said it, but in those two years, I felt that Zhao Xiaochuan was particularly twisted and depressed."

"I thought to myself, this guy is really patient. Of course, without Gao Cheng, Zhao Xiaochuan is no different from usual."

Shaking his head, Zhao Zhuowen also chuckled and said, "So, this matter has always been quite strange. Of course, we didn't take it seriously. We just let it go on as it should."

"What secrets they have are their own business. I have no right to interfere, and I don't want to interfere."

"If you hadn't come here and asked about Zhao Xiaochuan and took out Gao Cheng's photo, I would have almost forgotten about this matter. It's been so many years."

At this point, Zhao Zhuowen asked curiously, "Hey? Why do you want to ask me about the matter between Zhao Xiaochuan and Gao Cheng?" "Because Gao Cheng is dead." Gu Chen said.

"What?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Zhao Zhuowen was stunned and stammered in response: "You...you said, that...that what? Gao Cheng, Gao Cheng is dead?"

"Yes." Gu Chen didn't want to hide anything, and said straight to the point: "Gao Cheng is dead. He drowned in the reservoir nearby."

"And around the time he drowned, Zhao Xiaochuan might have been around the reservoir."

"What a coincidence?" Zhao Zhuowen sighed when he heard Gu Chen say this, but suddenly he remembered something and quickly looked up at Gu Chen:

"So... So, Officer Gu, you mean that Zhao Xiaochuan was nearby when Gao Cheng drowned? Do you suspect that this incident has something to do with Zhao Xiaochuan?"

"Yes." Seeing that Zhao Zhuowen already knew what he meant, Gu Chen simply got straight to the point:
"We suspect that Gao Cheng's death is related to Zhao Xiaochuan. After all, the two knew each other and studied in the same school."

"That's why we really want to know what the relationship is between Zhao Xiaochuan and Gao Cheng?"

"But after listening to what you just said, we now feel that Zhao Xiaochuan was bullied by Gao Cheng when he was in school, so he always wanted to kill Gao Cheng."

"But it just so happened that at that time, Gao Cheng was working as a business investigator, or in simple terms, a business spy, but he was mainly investigating the actual business conditions of the mining area."

"But unfortunately, he was discovered by people in the mining area and electrocuted to death with an electric baton. To be more precise, he faked his death."

"People in the mining area thought he had committed murder, so they dumped his body into the reservoir. But he was probably faking his death, untying the ropes that tied the stone underwater, and then hiding in the nearby water plants."

"But at this time, Zhao Xiaochuan might have seen all of this. After the people from the mining area left, I think the person Gao Cheng was most likely to meet by the reservoir was Zhao Xiaochuan."

"Then Zhao Xiaochuan drowned Gao Cheng?" Based on Gu Chen's information, Zhao Zhuowen blurted out.

Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation: "We currently believe this is the case."

"Oh my God, Zhao Xiaochuan, Gao Cheng was actually drowned?" It seemed like this was a terrible thing, and Zhao Zhuowen felt uncomfortable in an instant.

After a brief thought, Zhao Zhuowen quickly asked Gu Chen: "So Officer Gu, what else do you want to know?"

"We can't find Zhao Xiaochuan at the moment. He went to the ruins of the processing plant next to the reservoir, but we lost track of him there. I wonder where he is now?"

With a faint sigh, Gu Chen said helplessly: "So, while we are investigating Zhao Xiaochuan's whereabouts, we have to figure out the relationship between Zhao Xiaochuan and Gao Cheng."

"But from your perspective, we can basically confirm that Zhao Xiaochuan and the deceased Gao Cheng knew each other, and they had a grudge against each other since their school days."

"So Zhao Xiaochuan did have a motive for killing Gao Cheng, which was revenge. But now we have another important question, which is where Zhao Xiaochuan is going."

"He returned to town a few days before the New Year, but was cheated out of all his money by an acquaintance in the town through cheating at cards."

"Later, he didn't want to go home, so he looked for a place to stay nearby and went to the warehouse next to the reservoir. It was there that he, perhaps by accident, ran into the group of people from the mining area who were killing people and dumping bodies."

"In the end, he met Gao Cheng, who was in a weak body. New hatred and old grudges came together, so Zhao Xiaochuan probably drowned Gao Cheng in the reservoir when he was most helpless."

Gu Chen also expressed his thoughts in full based on the results of his own investigation.

This made Zhao Zhuowen, who was sitting at the head of the bed, completely confused.

He was stunned for a moment, and said without hesitation: "Hearing you say that, it feels like that's true."

"If Zhao Xiaochuan met the weak Gao Cheng by the reservoir, given his character..."

Having said this, Zhao Zhuowen also paused.

So Officer Wang quickly asked, "What's wrong with his personality?"

"Given his personality, he will definitely not miss this opportunity. Although he was relatively introverted and weak and easy to bully when he was studying, it is quite surprising that he can resist."

"So I feel that if he were to encounter this kind of situation, he would definitely add insult to injury."

"You are still trying to add insult to injury." Hearing what Zhao Zhuowen said, Gu Chen also said slowly:

"Given Zhao Xiaochuan's situation at the time, there was a high possibility that he would take advantage of your misfortune and kill you."

"Yes." Zhao Zhuowen also nodded in agreement: "So he really could have drowned Gao Cheng."

"Now the question is, where do you think he will hide after drowning Gao Cheng?" Gu Chen asked again.

But this time Zhao Zhuowen was silent. After a long while, he slowly said:

"I know there is a cave near the reservoir. He might be hiding there."

"A cave? Beside the reservoir?" When Officer Wang heard this location, he was stunned for a moment and said:

“Why is there a cave next to the reservoir?”

"You don't believe it? Actually, I don't believe it either. Before, when I was in school, I heard Zhao Xiaochuan talk about it. He said that he found a very secret cave near the reservoir."

"He even joked with me at the time that if I lived there for a while, I would be free from worries."

"And he also likes to watch wilderness survival shows, so he would share some of his plans with me, such as what to do on rainy days or snowy days?"

"Then he would use the stones from the cave and add the soil to make a bed for sleeping, and then dig a fireplace structure in another small vent at the entrance of the cave to exhaust smoke and so on."

"Anyway, what he said was very immersive. I was fascinated by it at the time. But I don't know whether he finished it in the end. After all, this matter was discussed when we were in school."

“As for whether there is such a cave nearby, I have never been there, so I naturally don’t know.”

Listening to Zhao Zhuowen's explanation, Gu Chen quickly opened the map on his mobile phone and began to check according to the topographic map.

"There is only a small hill near the reservoir. Could the cave be located here? It's quite remote here." Gu Chen analyzed while looking at the map on his mobile phone.

Zhao Zhuowen came over to take a look and said slowly, "It might be at this location. When Zhao Xiaochuan told me about it, he seemed to have said that it was on a small hill nearby."

"But that place is quite remote, and it seems that few people go there. I didn't know how Zhao Xiaochuan found this place. It felt like a refuge."

...(End of chapter)