when the moon whispers

Chapter 442: Accomplice - Similar (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty-six Similar (Part 2)
The suspect and his accomplices repeatedly concealed the truth, and Gu Xing, the old partner who was always thinking about the wrong judgment a few years ago, insisted on taking the risk alone. Who would have thought that as soon as the truth was revealed, Chen Rui suddenly died without any warning.

The tail end of Gu Xing's voice trembled a little, but his tone was still calm and steady. It was obvious that he had grasped some clues and held them between his fingers. He paused for two seconds and rubbed the lighter twice.

"Chen Rui was mainly worried that the kid would sneak up the mountain and run away, but he didn't expect that there was another matter with Tu Siyao waiting ahead... Old Zhu went with the car, and Chen Rui was probably hit by a wedge when he was exploring the mountain. But judging from the situation at the scene of the attack, he should be fine. Judging from the bloodstains and shoving marks at the scene, it's not a fatal injury. He struggled for a long time when he was pulled away, but the road conditions in the mountains are not easy to predict. Although it seems to be controllable for the time being, it's hard to say what the situation is."

"This Song Yike hiding in the mountains... is most likely Song Wanwan's ashes or corpse--" Jiang Mo raised his hand and pinched his brows, and asked in a hoarse voice: "If we look at the current situation, Tu Siyao's disappearance is very likely related to Song Yike? But this is a bit redundant... If the purpose is to silence the witnesses, Song Yike clearly had the opportunity to take advantage of the night when Tu Siyao saw Chai Qing being murdered, or when Tu Siyao's house was suspected of having an outsider break in. But now that he knows that Officer Chen is watching him, he would rather take the risk to get rid of the police's control and find another witness who is under surveillance to kill and silence him to eliminate future troubles. Isn't this... just planning to send the evidence of his crime right under our noses, unless--"

"Unless he intends to take this opportunity to throw the jar into the ground. After all, among those who want to take revenge, besides Tu Siyao, who is a potential threat, there is also Song Zhiwen, who can be regarded as the 'source of all evil' and who thinks he is insignificant and stays out of it."

"Lin Yu is with Huang Xingjun to find Chen Rui. That dog's nose is sometimes sharper than a police dog's. But there's one thing you have to go back with Xiao Letian to confirm." Gu Xing paused, and said a concise sentence in a heavy voice: "Tu Siyao's disappearance is closely related to her intentional escape from police protection. But whether it was a coincidence that she was forced to be abducted, or whether her disappearance was intentional - the possibility of Old Chen staying alive and well depends entirely on her."

Jiang Mo understood immediately. Tu Siyao's disappearance was a key point in thoroughly determining Song Yike's motive for committing the crime. If it was to divert the police's attention and take advantage of the chaos to cause trouble for Song Zhiwen, it would be fine. But if this security guard Song somehow found out some of Tu Siyao's father's past and was ready to settle old and new accounts at the same time, then Officer Chen would most likely be regarded as a mere obstacle by him - and would most likely be eliminated as soon as possible.

Jiang Mo responded dully, hung up the phone, turned around and raised his head, quietly looking at Shao Jie who was waiting nervously in front of the door of the treatment room, pursed his lips, and forced a tiny smile.

"I have to hurry back to Letian'er..."

"Just keep busy..."

Shao Jie looked helplessly at Jiang Mo's worried face, took two steps forward and straightened Jiang Mo's collar, which was crooked on the bed. "I'll be relieved if you come to the hospital to confirm that you're okay. You go about your business. I'll go directly to the dinner party later. Don't worry, Zhou Nanyi is with me—"

Shao Jie had just finished his words of persuasion when Jiang Mo's still hot phone, which was in his palm, interrupted him. Jiang Mo took a deep breath, lowered his head to check the caller ID, then looked up again to glance at Shao Jie apologetically. When the call was connected, he gently patted the palm of his hand, which was raised to indicate that Officer Jiang had business first, and said, "Letian'er, how is it?"

"Tu Siyao must have left school from Xiaodongmen by herself." Xiao Letian and Zhou You obviously didn't know about Chen Rui's situation yet. They chattered on the other end of the phone: "The time she left school was about the same time that Fu Yang mentioned that they talked on the phone. At that time, there were many street food stalls in Xiaodongmen, but we came a little early, so we only asked two stall owners sporadically. They probably had an impression of Tu Siyao..."

Before Xiao Letian finished his words, Zhou You came over with his phone in his hand, "Then we found the small shop that Fu Yang mentioned with the loud speaker that played music on loop. He had an anti-theft surveillance camera hung inside the house at the door. I didn't get a complete picture of the road, but I could see Tu Siyao just passing by the door. I guess she was on the phone and was startled by the loudspeaker hanging on the door handle. She turned around and took a look inside the house..."

Jiang Mo responded first, then said "hmm" in confusion, "She wasn't looking at the loudspeaker, but at the room? Where in the room?"

"...Where in the room? It seems to be in front of the bar?" Zhou You paused, and handed the phone back to Xiao Letian uncertainly. Xiao Letian raised his voice and hummed, and continued: "The store was full of students at the time. The boss and his wife can guarantee that there was not a single stranger in the store last night... If you ask what I was looking at in the room - it feels like... I was watching a surveillance camera?"

"They intentionally left a video of him leaving school to facilitate tracking. There were many people outside the school at the time, so it's unlikely that he used coercion. It would be too conspicuous..." Jiang Mo slightly bent his fingers and scratched his eyebrows. "Besides the store entrance, are there any other clues?"

"Yes, but not very much, and they only captured Tu Siyao walking from the school's small east gate to the main road. But once he got on the main road, he seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth, without even a hair left. We thought the clue ended there at first, but fortunately, senior sister, at the time when Tu Siyao was missing, there was a small supermarket at the intersection, where a small van would come every day to deliver goods to the supermarket. We found a dashcam video that probably captured the car that Tu Siyao got on."

"From the school gate to the subway station and into the city, there are either online-hailing taxis or illegal taxis... Did you take a picture of the license plate number?"

"I only took half of the photo, so it's not very clear, but I contacted a classmate who is a traffic policeman in the vehicle management department and reported the approximate model and license plate number of the car to him—" Xiao Letian made a "tsk" sound and said mysteriously, "Guess what happened?"

Jiang Mo thought for half a second, his eyebrows almost burning: "Another scrapped car?"

Xiao Letian failed to keep the secret, stuttering for two words, then nodded while rubbing the microphone: "... We have verified that it is a scrapped car with the original license plate. The original owner has been contacted, but as for where the broken car took the person, we probably have to wait for my brother's reply after checking the road surface."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Should have no place to live, but a heart."