I am a super cop

Chapter 2968 The Injured Murderer

In the car, Officer Wang also had a worried look on his face: "If this driver is the murderer of Liu Wenjie, then he is also likely the murderer of Zhao Xiaomin. We must be fully prepared."

Gu Chen, who was driving, nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Let everyone in the bureau stay alert and wait for our notification at any time."

"Once you discover the situation, send them to reinforce immediately."

"Understood." Officer Wang nodded silently, and then sent a message in the work group.

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An hour later, Gu Chen arrived at the location provided by He Junchao and parked the car on the side of the road.

After getting off the car, Gu Chen checked the surrounding situation and found that the surveillance camera on the roadside was the last one that captured the suspicious van.

So Gu Chen used the map on his mobile phone to check the surrounding situation and found that the area was in the wilderness and there were no villages nearby.

Lu Weiwei walked to Gu Chen's side and asked curiously, "Did you find anything?"

Gu Chen shook his head: "Not yet, but I have checked. There are no villages or processing plants nearby. The reason why this car came here is worthy of our attention."

"That means, the car came here and must have stayed nearby, but did not continue to move forward?" Lu Weiwei said.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Yes, this is the last surveillance capture point."

"Then where is it further down?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"Near the village, but a long distance from here." said Gu Chen.

Lu Weiwei thought about it and gave a suggestion: "If there is no village or processing plant here, there must be very few vehicles driving here."

"Plus, it has been raining lightly in Jiangnan these days, so the gravel on the roadside should be relatively soft. When vehicles drive over, they will definitely leave deep marks."

After a pause, Lu Weiwei continued, "We can drive forward, and when we see wheel tracks heading into the mud on the right, we can stop and check."

"Okay." After hearing Lu Weiwei's suggestion, Gu Chen felt it was feasible.

So everyone got in the car again and started driving forward along the road.

Everyone rolled down the windows and focused their attention on checking the area on the right side near the river.

I don’t know how long they had been driving, but the sharp-eyed Gu Chen soon discovered something unusual on the side of the road and stopped the car gratefully.

Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, also quickly reminded: "There is a wheel mark ahead."

"Get off the car and take a look." said Gu Chen.

So everyone got off the bus and started walking towards the front area.

Only then did I realize that there were indeed some wheel marks on the side of the road, which were directly from the highway to the grass on the side of the road.

Since there are drainage ditches on the road, and there happened to be a row of concrete slabs in this area, the vehicles just drove through here.

Gu Chen quickly took out his cell phone and opened the mobile map to check the situation.

"This is a wasteland, but the concrete slabs are laid here to ensure vehicles can pass through. There will be other things to come."

Although Gu Chen didn't know what the purpose of driving vehicles to this area was, since cement slabs could be laid, it meant that vehicles needed to enter and exit here.

Officer Wang also suggested: "Let's go ahead and take a look."

So everyone locked their vehicles, took their equipment, and started walking along the vehicle's traces.

Soon, everyone could hear the sound of the river.

Since Jiangnan City has been experiencing heavy rains recently, the river water has risen sharply, and the water flow is also very loud in areas with large drop in height.

When everyone followed the wheel marks and walked to the depths of the woods, they discovered that there seemed to be an old, silver-white van parked in the woods.

"Pay attention, target spotted." Gu Chen also reminded.

Everyone immediately became alert and started to form two groups, surrounding the vehicle from both sides.

But when everyone arrived in front of the vehicle, they found that there was no one there.

Everyone was very curious.

So Gu Chen started searching around with the vehicle as the center.

After searching around for a while, everyone turned back.

"How is it?" Gu Chen asked Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha's team.

Yuan Shasha quickly reported: "There are some footprints over there, leading to the river."

"It seems that we are heading to the river now. Let's check the vehicle first." After hearing the news, Gu Chen made a calm analysis.

So everyone started to check the condition of the van.

Since the vehicle was locked, no one could open the door and could only check the situation inside the car through the glass.

Officer Wang leaned over the car window to observe for himself and said slowly: "The car was empty and nothing was found. The last row of seats was removed, probably to facilitate loading and unloading of goods."

Gu Chen walked to the driver's seat and also stuck to the window to observe the internal situation. He said: "The driver's seat is also very hurried. It should have been cleaned by someone. They are afraid of being discovered."

Pointing to the front of the steering wheel, Gu Chen said, "The front has been wiped with a cloth. There must have been a lot of dust before."

“Plus the position of the seats, there are also some traces of dust being wiped off, which is very obvious.”

"It was obvious that this was a van that had not been driven for a long time and had only recently been started, so someone wiped the area around the seat with a rag."

"Such a broken car should be scrapped, right?" Lu Weiwei said.

Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation: "According to the owner's information, this car should have reached the age of scrapping."

"But where is the driver? Could it be that these footprints were left by the driver?" Lu Weiwei said.

Officer Wang nodded silently and said without hesitation: "From the footprints we saw just now, it is not difficult to tell that two people passed by this side."

"Also, the footprints seemed a bit messy. From the pace of walking, it is not difficult to tell that one of them must have had his hands tied behind his back and was being pushed forward by another person."

As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Wang called Yuan Shasha over and said, "Xiao Yuan, come here. Let's demonstrate it to see if it's right."

"Okay." Upon hearing that, Yuan Shasha also walked over very cooperatively.

So Officer Wang asked Yuan Shasha to put her hands behind her back, and he held Yuan Shasha hostage and began to demonstrate the walking pace according to the footprints.

But when he saw that the pace of the two people walking was close to that of the people on the dirt road, Gu Chen quickly said, "That's it. One of them was held hostage, and this person is most likely Liu Wenjie."

After a pause, Gu Chen asked Lu Weiwei again: "What shoes was Liu Wenjie wearing at the Photography House before he disappeared?" "He was wearing a pair of white sneakers, but when we found the body, his shoes were gone." Lu Weiwei said.

Gu Chen looked at the messy footprints on the ground and said without hesitation:

"Yes, from the messy footprints on the ground, it is not difficult to tell that the person being held hostage is the one with sneakers on. This should most likely be Liu Wenjie."

When he saw this scene, Gu Chen was also delighted.

At least it can be confirmed with a high probability that the address where Liu Wenjie was killed might be here.

Officer Wang also said quickly: "What are you waiting for? Let's find it quickly."

Everyone immediately took action and started walking in the direction of the footprints.

The footprints passed through the woods and came to the riverside, where there was a small path leading to the mountains.

So everyone walked along the path by the river. After walking for an unknown amount of time, they realized that they had arrived at a cliff.

And here there is a flat area, but if you go further, it seems to be a road.

"It should be here. The place where Liu Wenjie was killed should be here."

Seeing the footprints disappear, Officer Wang also spoke quickly.

But Gu Chen frowned: "It is true that the footprints disappeared here, but we didn't see any footprints returning along the way."

After he finished speaking, Gu Chenyou walked forward and said, "There is no road ahead, so where did these two people go?"

"If Liu Wenjie was strangled to death and thrown into the river, then where is the other person? Where is the murderer who strangled Liu Wenjie? Where are his footprints?"

Gu Chen's words made the atmosphere tense again.

Everyone looked around, seemingly looking for the answer.

But it is obvious that the footprints did not turn back.

Yuan Shasha couldn't help asking, "Could it be that the person who strangled Liu Wenjie also fell into the river?"

Gu Chen took a deep breath, walked to the edge of the rock, looked at the rolling river below, and couldn't help but sigh:

"If there are no footprints, then there is only one possibility: the murderer strangled Liu Wenjie and then fell into the river together."

"Perhaps, the two fell into the river together during the fight, otherwise there would be no need for the murderer to jump into the river."

"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei also agreed:
"There was no need for the murderer to jump into the river because it had been raining in recent days and the amount of water upstream had increased dramatically, increasing the risk of uncertainty."

"Once you fall into the water, even if you are a good swimmer, you may still be in danger."

"I don't think the murderer is stupid enough to do such a stupid thing, so there is only one possibility, that is, the murderer accidentally fell into the river."

"Yes." After hearing this explanation, Officer Wang also stepped forward and said:
"That makes sense. There are only two possible outcomes. One is that the murderer strangled Liu Wenjie during the fight, but because the two of them were entangled, they fell into the river together."

"In this case, Liu Wenjie had drowned, and the murderer might have also drowned."

"Another possibility is that Liu Wenjie drowned and the murderer also fell into the river but escaped death and is currently hiding somewhere, perhaps closely following the developments of the incident."

"Yeah." Listening to Officer Wang's analysis, Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation:
"Now we have to figure out how the murderer got hold of this car."

After a pause, Gu Chen looked at Officer Wang and said, "Brother Wang, ask Brother He to investigate and see what the situation is with the car owner."

"Okay, I'll call and ask." Upon hearing this, Officer Wang immediately took out his cell phone and started contacting He Junchao.

Gu Chen continued to squat beside the rock and began to analyze the situation based on the footprints.

Closing his eyes, Gu Chen quickly used his master-level imagination to enter the virtual space.

In this virtual space, there were two people standing next to Gu Chen, one of whom was Liu Wenjie, who had his hands tied behind his back and was taken to the edge of the rock by a man in black.

The two had a heated argument here and finally started fighting.

However, since Liu Wenjie's hands were tied behind his back, he could only face the enemy passively.

So the man in black took advantage of Liu Wenjie's inability to move, put a rope around Liu Wenjie's neck from behind, and then pulled it hard.

Liu Wenjie's neck was strangled and he had difficulty breathing for a while, and he almost went into shock.

But just when the other party thought that Liu Wenjie had stopped breathing and relaxed his vigilance, Liu Wenjie suddenly hit the murderer with all his strength and knocked him off the cliff.

However, due to the powerful impact of his body, Liu Wenjie accidentally fell into the river. In the river, Liu Wenjie tried hard to open the rope, but due to excessive fatigue, he gradually lost consciousness and was drowned in the rolling river water.

It was not until the body floated near the stadium that it was caught on a branch floating on the shore and was eventually discovered by the fisherman.

This is also why, when Gu Chen discovered Liu Wenjie's body, there were some bruises and marks on Liu Wenjie's neck and wrists.

This was obviously caused by being tied up with ropes, but because the body had been soaked in water for a long time, the scars did not look very obvious.

But the murderer gradually disappeared after falling into the river.

Gu Chen opened his eyes and returned to reality.

The fight between the murderer and Liu Wenjie also passed through Gu Chen's mind.

At this moment, Gu Chen also sighed and said helplessly: "The murderer must be injured. Go to major hospitals and clinics to check if there are any such injured people recently."

"Is it just falling into the water or getting scratched or something like that?" Yuan Shasha asked.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Yes, all hospitals and clinics should not be spared. Whenever there are such injured people, they must be investigated in detail."

"If anyone has been here, come and ask."

After the words fell, Gu Chen looked at the rolling river water under the cliff again, and couldn't help but sigh:

"If you fall from here, you'll probably get hurt pretty badly."

"Yes, and he fell down during the fight." Yuan Shasha said.

Lu Weiwei picked up a big stone and threw it directly into the river.

When everyone saw the stone fall into the river, they became more convinced that the murderer must have been seriously injured.

Originally, he wanted to bring Liu Wenjie here to kill him, but the moment he let his guard down, Liu Wenjie attacked him fiercely.

As a result, both of them fell into the river. Liu Wenjie was unlucky and drowned in the river, but the other murderer disappeared without a trace.

But with such a serious injury, he must go to the hospital for treatment, so Gu Chen concluded that as long as he checked all the hospitals and clinics in the city, he would be able to find the injured person who had been here.

The injured person is most likely the murderer of Liu Wenjie.

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