under the vortex

Chapter 155 Clue Three

Zhang Lin was about to leave the shipyard when his cell phone rang, and he answered the call when he saw that it was a colleague from the police station.

"Captain, we found some clues on a fishing forum that Jia Wenjun often uses. There is a special group in the forum that discusses illegal fishing in the sea under cages. Those people basically have a small wooden boat built by themselves. I heard that they still have a stronghold, but they don’t disclose the location, I’m comparing the background of the pictures they sent online, and it’s estimated that it will be analyzed soon.”

"Okay, find the location as soon as possible, and we will meet them."

The next day, Zhang Lin came to a tidal flat on the back of the peninsula mountain according to the clues that colleagues from the technical department finally found.

He and the policewoman Xiaoxia dressed up as a couple of tourists and came down with a camera to take pictures of the scenery.

After all, this place is hidden, because it made a bend and was blocked by a peninsula, but if you look carefully here, you can also see the yachts parked on the dock in the distance, and Anna's yacht is on that dock.

At this time, the tide has ebbed, and wooden boats of all sizes are stranded on the shore. Some of the hulls of the boats have turned black and rotted. At first glance, they are repaired from decommissioned abandoned boats. Several fishermen are sitting on the bow with nothing to do. Smoke and chat.Zhang Lin took a camera and pretended to take pictures of Xiao Xia, and slowly approached the boats.

The fishermen didn't know what to take pictures of these broken boats. Zhang Lin walked slowly past those boats, and when he encountered a boat that matched his characteristics, he would stop and take pictures of the details.Just as he walked to the next boat, a scratch on the body of the boat made Zhang Lin's heart skip a beat. He took a camera and leaned over to take a closer look. The scratch was very new, and there were traces of white paint on it.

The fishermen just looked at him like this, Zhang Lin greeted them with a smile: "Brothers, are you going fishing with this boat?"

"That's right, you guys are from out of town, right? What's so good about this boat?" Hearing Zhang Lin's Mandarin, the boatman subconsciously thought he was from out of town.

"We came to travel. These boats have a sense of vicissitudes of life, and the photos are beautiful." Xiaoxia said.

The fishermen laughed, they didn't know the vicissitudes of life, they just thought there was something wrong with the two of them.

"The view of the yachts in the port is better, you go and have a look over there." Someone told them.

Zhang Lin looked at the fishermen's boat and said, "Brother, can this boat take us around the sea?"

One of the fishermen who was tidying up the cabin said with a smile: "How many circles, our boats can't go far, without a certificate."

"If you want to take a boat, go to the wharf over there. There are special yachts." Another fisherman threw away his cigarette and boarded the boat to clean up his fishing nets.

The man had just walked to the ship where Zhang Lin found the collision mark just now, and immediately cursed: "Damn it, which bastard is frustrated by me."

When the other fishermen heard it, they also complained.

A younger one pointed to the boat behind: "My boat was also rowed, it's so sick, even these broken boats are not spared, if I find out who did it, see if I don't mess with him .”

Zhang Lin walked over quickly to have a look, and there were indeed many new scratches on the boat, and even the traces of impact and wear were quite different from the location of the boat he saw just now.

Another fisherman said: "It's not just your two boats, there are several other boats that have also been bullied."

Hearing the fishermen's cursing, Xiao Xia approached Zhang Lin and said softly, "Brother Lin, do you think this is because someone wanted to cover up the boat that was going on, so they did it on purpose?"

Zhang Lin looked at the boats with scratches one by one. The shape and size of those boats were similar to the wooden boats he guessed, and the meaning of this cover-up was obvious.

Although the opponent wanted to make it difficult for them to distinguish, but also because of the opponent's move, Zhang Lin was sure that the ship should be among these ships.

The other party obviously expected that they would investigate the wooden boat, so they made these preparations in advance.

It seems that it is not easy to deal with such a thoughtful person.

Who is the person behind this boat, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Di being pushed into the water?

At this time, Zhang Lin felt more and more strange about this matter. Thinking that Jia Wenjun refused to admit that she was the one who pushed Zhao Di in the video, Zhang Lin frowned. Perhaps things were not as clear as they seemed on the surface.

Zhang Lin and Xiao Xia walked slowly towards the beach, beside them were wooden boats lined up in disorder.

The two carefully took pictures and wrote down the evidence.These boats are uneven, each boat is basically a wooden hull, and the scratches on the hull are located in various places, some are on the side, some are on the tail and head, Zhang Lin squatted down to check the similar songs. boats, and found that every scratch on these boats was sprayed with white paint.

This made Zhang Lin even more sure that the person who had been on the Shell did it, because only that person knew that after the wooden boat hit the Shell, the white paint of the Shell would be left on the wooden ship's hull.

He carefully looked at the waterlines on the sides of the hulls of these ships. The height from the waterline to the point of impact should be the same as the height from the white position on these ships to the waterline, and the suspect ships should be at least about the same height.When inspecting the Shell, Zhang Lin took a photo, and Xiao Xia was also standing in the photo. The height from the waterline to the impact point in the photo was almost the length of her arm.

Zhang Lin signaled Xiaoxia to compare them in the past, and through general observation, it is obvious that two of them can be ruled out.For the remaining three ships, Zhang Lin asked her female colleague to spread the wings of an airplane at the scars of each ship, and put her arms as close to the white paint on the hull as possible, and keep them upright.

Seeing that they hadn't left yet, the fishermen looked at them frequently.

Xiao Xia gave Zhang Lin a wink and smiled and made gestures.

"Oh, okay, one, two, three, eggplant." Zhang Lin said loudly on purpose, and pressed the shutter.

"Take two pictures for me." Zhang Lin wanted to observe more closely.

When handing over the camera, Xiao Xia whispered to him, "Look at the bow of this ship."

Zhang Lin stood on the boat, and the moment he stood on the boat and glanced at the berth at the bow, he instantly understood what Xiao Xia meant.

There is a nylon rope in the bow compartment, and what excites Zhang Lin most is that a section of this rope has been sanded.

Zhang Lin got off the boat and said to the fishermen not far away, "Brother, does this boat belong to you?"

Several fishermen shook their heads: "No, what's the matter?"

"This boat is relatively new. We want to ask the owner to take it with us and go fishing together, can we do it?"

Someone said: "That person is not here, if you want to fish my boat, you can."

"My wife likes this one." Zhang Lin smiled, and whispered to the one who wanted to snatch the business: "I'm just pregnant and has a big temper, so just follow her whatever she says."

"Oh, I understand." The fisherman also laughed and said, "It depends on your luck. This person doesn't come often, and we haven't seen him before."

Zhang Lin asked: "Has anyone seen it? Is there a phone number for the owner?"

One of them said: "Lao Jiangtou seems to have seen it before. I don't know if he has the owner's phone number."

Zhang Lin had a look of pity, but he also made an appearance of wanting to work harder: "Isn't Lao Jiangtou coming today? Do you have his phone number?"

"Lao Jiangtou has gone to sea. That old man is very strange. He doesn't bring a mobile phone when he goes to sea. If you want to find him, you can meet him here at five or six tomorrow morning."

Zhang Linxin said Lao Jiangtou, you can give me some strength, but she kept her face calm and said with a smile: "Okay, thank you brother, I will come over early tomorrow, and I can buy some fresh seafood by the way."

(End of this chapter)