Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 93 The Case of Burning the Corpse 11
All previous investigations were overturned, and Wan Anliang was treated as the deceased, which made many clues make sense.

If Wan Anliang is the deceased, then why was Zhou Qiaoan's ID found among the bones?

— Zhou Qiaoan is the murderer of Wan Anliang, and he is still alive.

The murderer is Zhou Qiaoan, which is why the murderer knows so much about the Zhou family's affairs in the submission to the blogger "Mystery Case Pursuit" and even beautifies himself;
That's why he was so eager to expose the case and pin the blame on the driver who caused the accident. He knew that Yu Lan and the others had murderous intentions, and going back would only lead to their deaths. So he decided to use another person's corpse to impersonate himself and make Yu Lan and the others believe that he was really dead.

So Wan Anliang's personal cell phone was taken away, and his work phone was turned off near Guilingpo that night, because Zhou Qiaoan found the phone on the corpse, and he couldn't handle the messages on his work phone...

“But there’s something that doesn’t make sense—” Xiao Chen and Tan Ming expressed their doubts on the other end of the phone.

“Even if the identities of the murderer and the victim were switched, they would still be unrelated. Why did Zhou Qiaoan specifically choose to target Wan Anliang? Moreover, there is no evidence in the surveillance footage of Wan Anliang entering or leaving Guilingpo. For a victim to enter unnoticed, he would probably have to be taken in a car. But Zhou Qiaoan did enter Guilingpo and did not have any murder weapon in his hand. Could it be that the driver who caused the accident was also involved, and he lied?”

Zheng Yan: "It's not necessarily that he's lying. We didn't actually ask him who the person who was hit was. It's just that Zhou Qiaoan went into Guilingpo and didn't come out, and there was another murderer following her, so we naturally assumed that the deceased was Zhou Qiaoan, and incidentally we also assumed that the person he hit and burned was Zhou Qiaoan."

So we need to ask him again whether he noticed the deceased's clothing when he lit the fire.

"As for who took Wan Anliang into Guilingpo, it might be someone else. We need to continue watching the surveillance footage to see who is connected to Zhou Qiaoan and Wan Anliang. The most urgent task is to bring Zhou Qiaoan back."

Tan Jia is still making a clay sculpture of the crime scene. The protagonist, "Zhou Qiaoan in the dead," has been completed. Now, she is making the winding mountain road of Guilingpo as if rolling out dough. She placed a gray, rice-grain-sized shadow by the roadside as the number one murderer.

Looking at the tiny, rice-grain-sized murderer, she asked suspiciously, "Is the murderer really Zhou Qiaoan?"

She elaborated, "No matter what the reason for killing Wan Anliang was, how could a man in his fifties who indulged in drinking, gambling, and whoring beat a healthy man in his forties? Of course, it's another matter if Wan Anliang was very weak at the time, but if he was very weak at the time and was taken to Guilingpo by someone else, wouldn't that mean that the number one murderer was actually someone else?"

"Moreover, if this case is simplified to who killed Wan Anliang, it is actually easier to investigate. He had just had a conflict with the people of several delicatessens, and he also met with several people with motives on the day of the incident. The murderer was retaliating against him, so standing on Guilingpo and watching him being burned would have felt a sense of relief and satisfaction."

As she spoke, she pointed to the rice grain murderer in her masterpiece.

Zheng Yan's gaze fell on it, and with a fingernail, he flicked the rice grain murderer off course.

"You mean, this case is actually just about the murderer, the deceased Wan Anliang, and the driver Zhu Jun, and Zhou Qiaoan is someone who was just lying around and taking advantage of the situation?"

“It’s very likely that we won’t be able to find out their relationship, because they were never related in the first place.” She straightened the rice grain murderer.

Zheng Yan pondered for two seconds: "Then Zhou Qiaoan most likely witnessed the murderer's actions."

Xiao Chen listened intently on the other end of the phone, and when he finished, he exclaimed "Wow!"

"Zhou Qiaoan went from being the victim to the murderer, and then from the murderer to an eyewitness?"

Tan Ming also joined the discussion: "It's very likely that Wan Anliang's two cell phones were taken away by the murderer and Zhou Qiaoan respectively."

The murderer took the work phone; he probably didn't take out his personal phone when they met, so the murderer didn't notice it. Later, Zhou Qiaoan took it when she searched the body.

"So the most important thing now is to bring Zhou Qiaoan back. The murderer may already know he is a witness and could kill him at any time." Zheng Yan became serious and immediately arranged for Tan Ming to lead a team to assist the Yuncheng police in arresting Zhou Qiaoan.

Xiao Chen led his team to continue investigating Wan Anliang's social connections, and this time they had a greater chance of finding the real murderer.

Those remaining at the police station will have to interrogate the driver, Zhu Jun, again, and have Wan Anliang's family members come to do DNA comparison.

Zhu Jun had been in a daze for two days, and his mind was not very clear when he sat down in the interrogation room again. "Is there anything I haven't explained? I've explained everything. I was blinded by greed... I wish I had been the one who got hit by the car."

It's better to die than to face a tragic end.

Zheng Yan placed the photos of Zhou Qiaoan and Wan Anliang taken by the surveillance cameras in front of him.

"Take a close look and see what kind of clothes he was wearing and what his hairstyle was when you went back to check on the deceased."

Zhu Jun picked up the two photos and looked at them. Although he was puzzled, he still cooperated obediently.

Actually, these two people are easy to distinguish because there are several obvious differences: Zhou Qiaoan has a buzz cut and is a bit thinner, while Wan Anliang has a normal cadre's hairstyle with thicker hair, and he is wearing a white shirt with a belt around his waist.

So Zhu Jun recognized it in no time: "It's this one."

He pointed at Wan Anliang and said, "I was very nervous when I went back to see him. I didn't turn on the headlights, and it was pitch black everywhere, so I couldn't see anything clearly. But I touched his belt, and his hair caught fire very quickly when I started the fire."

The person who died was indeed Wan Anliang.

Zheng Yan exhaled heavily.

“No…” Zhu Jun suddenly spoke up again, looking back and forth between the two photos, and hesitantly looked at Zhou Qiaoan’s photo.

“When I hit him, my headlights were on. I was very sleepy, but I still looked at the road. There was no one in front of me… His clothes were not very brightly colored and had no reflective material, so he was probably thinner. At first, I thought I had hit him down a slope because of the sound. When I stopped about a hundred meters ahead and looked back, I still couldn’t see if the person was lying on the ground…”

What does that mean? Could it be that Zhou Qiaoan was the one who hit him at first, and Wan Anliang was the one lying on the ground when he returned?

Zheng Yan was stunned for a moment, then his brows furrowed again.

"Think about it carefully again. Is the person you hit at the beginning the same person who pushed you down the mountain later?"

Zhu Jun was a little nervous. He rolled his eyes and tried hard to recall, but finally shook his head: "It doesn't seem to be the same one."

It wasn't the same one. Was Zhou Qiaoan hit first and then knocked down the hillside?

Perhaps he fainted, and when he woke up he found a burning corpse next to him, so he came up with the idea of ​​switching identities.

If that's the case, Zhou Qiaoan probably didn't see the murderer. Instead, when the murderer discovered that the driver had returned to destroy the evidence, he might have guessed that there was a third person who had been hit by the car at the scene.

Moreover, Zhou Qiaoan was knocked down the hillside and was injured.

He is in danger now.

Zheng Yan went out and had someone re-examine the bloodstains on the front of Zhu Jun's van. Although it had been washed, he hoped there would still be some residue to prove who the person he hit was.

When the test results came out, the team that was making arrests in Yuncheng also sent back the news.

“Zhou Qiaoan was pinned down, but he was seriously injured these past few days and didn’t have the money to go to the hospital. He’s barely breathing right now.”

(End of this chapter)