when the moon whispers

Chapter 444: Accomplice - Restlessness (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty-seven restlessness (Part 2)
"He stole a car to scout the area, killed someone, and then drove the car back, throwing it away as if it had nothing to do with the bloody incident—"

Xiao Letian shuddered in amazement, raised his hands and rubbed the goose bumps all over his arms, and sucked his teeth in fear, "Brother Guo is really generous. If it wasn't for the fact that his family was in urgent need of money, he wouldn't have known when the vehicle he was using to help with the case was seized by us..."

"It was originally intended to divert attention. Song Yike is so vigilant that if this car was seized or targeted, he would most likely withdraw his hands and quietly find another way."

Jiang Mo leaned against the window with a cup of tea and drank half of it. He glanced at the half of his face reflected in the glass. He subconsciously scratched the edge of the medical tape that was curled up at the corner of his forehead. He was thinking about tearing it off because it was a bit of a hindrance, but his eyes wandered and he suddenly remembered Shao Jie's warning to her not to casually throw away the gauze before the next dressing change when he waved goodbye. His fingers trembled and curled up, then hooked his fingertips and stroked his hair twice: "Although Brother Lao Guo is not sure when his car was stolen for the first time, but from the first time he found someone coming to his house to pry the car and return it on time... it is at least 80% related to the time when Song Yike was released from prison and the time when the recent murders occurred."

"And, Master, look - the time when Brother Guo found the strange stains in the car basically coincides with the date Qian An was killed... My sister and I just looked up the date of the crematorium that was closed down in the suburbs for fun - before the crematorium was investigated because that rich second-generation paid them to deal with the body of a car accident, the date of the last opening of the furnace was the day before Brother Guo found that the car smelled wrong and there were traces of scrubbing... That means that either the murderer used Brother Guo's car to pull a dead person, or after killing Qian An, he drove away from the crime scene in Brother Guo's car... Xiaomi Lu is sorting it out. The road surveillance around the recent heart-digging cases has been retrieved. But you said... If he borrowed Brother Guo's car to pull Song Wanwan, the date would not match the time when Song Wanwan was discharged from the hospital for some reason-"

Xiao Letian, holding the file, stepped on the ground and dragged the wheelchair to Gu Xing's side. He handed the paper in his hand to his master and rubbed his stubble-free jawline in a mature manner: "If Song Wanwan died somewhere and was not cremated, and Song Yike found a place to hide her first, there must be a freezer or something, right? Otherwise, it would have rotted a long time ago? But we have checked the shabby house where Song Yike lived and Xue Yilian's residence. There is no place to hide..."

Xiao Letian's mouth grew in front of his brain, and every word he said fell to the ground. Then he remembered to look back at Gu Xing's face who was puffing on a cigarette. His head turned around belatedly, and he suddenly remembered that there was another police officer Chen whose whereabouts were unknown and was hidden by Song Yike in some corner. He raised his eyelids and looked at Jiang Mo's frowning eyebrows. He quickly closed his mouth and pursed it into a straight line. He was thinking about how to turn over this chapter. He hesitated and hummed, and then he heard a series of footsteps running in the corridor of the conference room. He turned his head to look over and saw Xiaomi Lu holding a computer and clinging to the door frame. He carefully poked his head in and nodded to the three people in the room: "Captain Gu, there is a discovery."

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"This was at 1:30 a.m. two days before the Qian An case occurred—outside Dianye Nanli Community, on the road heading toward Ninghe Street."

"This is three days before the Chen Zuoyi case, at 3 a.m., when Song Yike got off work at the bar. It was on the newly renovated motorway section near the subway station, in the direction of the Masanjia Pump Factory from the Shanqian Bar." "And here... at the time of the Chai Qing case, the road surveillance camera captured the scene of vehicles driving in and out of the commercial office building across the street from Qingyun Yaju."

Xiaomi Lu was crouching in front of the loosely connected projector, holding it with his arm to support the data cable that would break if he moved a little, while carefully moving the mouse to circle the screen. His face was wrinkled in annoyance. "But it was limited to the situation where the car with the fake license plate was captured. The people in the car were very cautious and parked as far as possible to avoid the position that the surveillance camera could directly capture. In addition, the murderer at the time had more obvious clothing characteristics, so... although I roughly checked the surveillance cameras around the crime scene, I really didn't notice the existence of this car."

"The scope of the investigation near the crime scene is too large. If we suspect all the people and vehicles that are not directly or indirectly related, we won't be able to find this car by this time next year." Gu Xing put his arm around Xiaomi Lu's shoulder in relief, stared at the screen for a long time, and smacked his tongue slightly: "Have you figured out the movement route of this car before and after Tu Siyao disappeared?"

"Almost. The car came from--uh... Thank you, Senior Sister Jiang..."

Xiaomi Lu nodded solemnly at first, and just as his wrist shook awkwardly, an arm stretched out from the other side of the conference table to lend a hand. Xiaomi Lu suddenly looked up, blinked, and with red ears, he thanked Jiang Mo, who leaned against the conference table to help stabilize the HDMI connector. He stumbled in the middle of a sentence and coughed dryly, "According to the current road surveillance, the car came from the suburbs. The approximate time was confirmed to be after Officer Chen talked to Captain Gu on the phone and said that he planned to follow Song Yike up the mountain to investigate. It's just that the road conditions over there are not very controllable. At this point in time, there is even a possibility of witnesses..."

"Let's not talk about how Song Wanwan's body was placed--" Xiao Letian raised his head and stared at the blurry images that passed by quickly and paused on the screen. He put his hands on his waist and suddenly took a breath. He raised his finger and tapped the screen lightly: "After Officer Chen lost contact, we still couldn't find a clear search direction. Is it possible that he was not hidden in the mountains by Song Yike at all, but... held him hostage in this car?"

"The problem is..." Jiang Mo frowned, and pointed to Xiaomi's surveillance footage of other roads: "This car drove from the dirt road in the suburbs all the way to the vicinity of the University of Finance and Economics in the city. It passed two intersections with 24-hour guard booths. If Officer Chen was controlled in the car or the trunk, he would never find a suitable opportunity to warn——"

Jiang Mo's scalp suddenly went numb, and her hand holding the wiring port shook unconsciously. She didn't finish her words, but raised her hand and slapped her lips hard, raised her eyes to look at Gu Xing, who seemed to have suppressed his emotions and took a deep breath, raised her eyebrows, slowly shook off the mess twice, and saw Xiao Letian and Xiao Mi Lu looking at each other with bitter faces, and asked hoarsely: "...Yes, the license plate of this car is so obviously fake, and it was the time to check a few cars at night, and he just... drove by openly?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
“The highest mountains always have paths for travelers, and the deepest waters always have boatmen to ferry people across them.”