"I asked when he was alive, not now."
"Test me, that's not hard, when a dry corpse is dehydrated, it loses about seventy percent of its weight, and its height shortens as well. Extrapolating, this dead man weighed almost one hundred and thirty pounds when he was alive, and was about one meter seventy-five. There's no problem now, right?"
"I see." Wu Fan pondered for a while and said, "I think that room should be the first crime scene."
"Hey, blindfolding someone in passing doesn't count, you have to come up with a basis." Tian Penggang drummed his cheeks, said very seriously.
Fu Xueqing also looked at Wu Fan skeptically. Is this guy really capable, or is he just full of talk? Wu Fan looked at Tian Peng Gang and said, "You just said that the victim was strangled from behind and died, and the strangulation marks on her neck were very messy, with as many as seven or eight. From this, we can see that the murderer had a clear murderous purpose, and he sneaked up on the victim, it is likely that they knew each other before they could take advantage of it, but because his strength was not strong enough to suppress the victim, causing the victim to struggle for a long period of time, and only then did such messy strangulation marks appear. There's no objection to that, right?"
Tian Penggang coughed, "You continue. It's not even close to your answer."
"Then consider the height and weight of the deceased, one hundred and thirty pounds of weight, one meter seventy-five in height, can only be considered a moderate figure of the upper middle size, is not considered to be a stout and robust person, the murderer in the case of sneak attack and also took so much effort, indicating that his strength is not large. Human strength is directly proportional to weight, from which it is inferred that the murderer is a short or very thin person. It would not have been easy for him to move the body after the murder, and that too after he had exerted all his strength to strangle the victim. Therefore, I don't think the murderer would have taken the risk of moving a much heavier body up to the second floor when he was exhausted. If he really wanted to move the body, splitting it would have been the preferred method. After eliminating all possibilities, I think that the room where Chen Keying is now staying is the murder scene back then."
Tian Penggang stretched his thick neck and finally thought of a loophole, "What if the victim often worked out, or practiced sparring? The strength would be much greater than the average person, even if the murderer is a pugilist, he may not be able to easily subdue him, if that's the case, your reasoning won't hold water."
"I've thought about this issue as well. First of all, the type of people you mentioned are in the minority after all, in fact, on a psychological level, if you were the murderer, do you think you'd risk killing ~ someone who is all muscular, or knows martial arts, with this kind of jousting method of killing? As long as a normal person will have the psychological tendency to avoid harm, in the murderer is ready to kill, the brain must have done a clear judgment before they dare to do it. If it were me, I would have chosen to hit the victim in the back of the head with something, much less risky than strangulation, and I believe most people would have chosen this way. But the murderer did not do so, proving that the physical gap between the victim and him is not so big, as long as the sneak attack can be successful, in fact, he did get it. So, from all the signs combined, that room is the first crime scene."
Fu Xueqing secretly marveled, not expecting that the puzzle that had been troubling her all along would just be explained away by Wu Fan in a few words. She couldn't help but wonder in a new way how much power this guy was hiding.
Tian Peng Gang said reluctantly, "This time, even if you kid basically got it right, but there is a place I don't agree with you."
"What place?" Wu Fan asked.
"You said that the murderer and the victim might have known each other, that's not necessarily true. Because the murderer's strangulation technique is a bit special."
"Where is it special?" Wu Fan couldn't help but be curious.
"Usually in strangulation cases, the murderer will casually choose something around, like a rope, belt, cloth or something, the murder weapon chosen by this murderer, judging by the strangulation marks, should be a one to two millimeter wire, this kind of slim and tough wire is very easy to penetrate deep into the skin and flesh, and block the larynx and arteries. Moreover, the murderer's technique is even more special, for example ..."
Tian Peng Gang looked around, there is no fitting props, simply yanked down his pants belt, both ends in the right and left hand pulled a circle, smilingly said to Wu Fan: "You come over to cooperate with me, a simple demonstration on the line."
Wu Fan looked at him smiling, also did not pay much attention, walked to Tian Peng Gang near the front.
Tian Peng Gang said when the time is too late, pants belt to Wu Fan neck around a circle immediately tighten, and so Wu Fan realized that bad has been strangled speech.
Tian Peng Gang very relieved evil laugh: "We are not familiar, I do not also a set of you?"
"As long as the technique is skillful enough, taking advantage of the victim a little inattention can be set, and it is difficult to be broken free, unless the victim is strong enough to throw the murderer out, what do you think, am I right?"
Wu Fan held his face red and couldn't shout, his hands drew randomly and fluttered vigorously, he would have loved to throw out that careful big fat man behind him, but all he could do in front of him was to nod his head desperately. Never offend doctors, especially not forensic doctors.
Tian Penggang was satisfied, and only then did he unbuckle his pants, "That's why I think it's possible that the murderer has strangled people in this way, and it's not likely that he's a repeat offender."
Wu Fan rubbed his neck in pain, and Fu Xueqing was still gloating a bit.
Fu Xueqing said to him, "Your analysis just now is quite reasonable, so I'll take the room where this dried body was found as a murder scene for now. Then you might as well say more about what you think of the murderer." She was now in dire need of a detailed crime profiling.
Wu Fan said with difficulty, "The deceased have been dead for such a long time, there's just a dried human body left, I can't analyze it, what I thought of just now."
His words just fell, Tian Peng just threw him a pile of scene photos, "less useless, if you really have the ability to give me a say, no matter you are profiling or make up, can say to the point, after my place to visit how?"
Wu Fan had a reluctant face, this fat man's taste is really not normal, think this is some kind of good place, showing off everywhere.
He took the photo, Chen Ke Ying's room was not too expensive in rent at a glance, the room was old and small, the walls were yellowed and the furniture was old. But it was neatly and cleanly packed, with a small freshness unique to young girls. Just by a horrible big wooden bed spoiled the atmosphere of the room.
The bed boards in the photo were all lifted up, revealing the large bed box inside, which was the dry corpse.
The dry body in the photo was still wearing clothes, a set of half-sleeve T-shirt and denim half pants whose colors had gone black, loosely covering the already dried body, with its feet wearing leather sandals. This was consistent with summer.
The body lay flat in the center of the bed box, as if it were on display in an exhibition hall. In addition to the shriveled head looked a little scary, other parts are okay, the unlucky Chen Keying did not sleep in the middle of the night, had to pick the bedboard to look inside, which came to a confrontation with a skeleton.
"How about it, see enough, and then see can't see flowers, think of it said, can't think of it don't force." Careful Tian Peng Gang has not forgotten to fight with Wu Fan.
"Did you take these photos?" Wu Fan asked, "There isn't any angle problem, right?
"Just by the fact that you dare to question my ability, you can't find a more professional and authoritative one than me in the entire Jiangzhou!" Tian Peng Gang was struggling to put on his pants belt on his waist, after hearing Wu Fan's words, he yanked his pants belt down again, Wu Fan hurriedly stayed away from him, so as not to be poisoned again in a while.
Wu Fan hurriedly explained: "I just want to confirm, don't misunderstand, you can be sure. Please find me a ruler."
"Why are you so nosy?" Tian Penggang gave Wu Fan a dissatisfied look and carried his pants to bring Wu Fan a ruler.
Wu Fan took the ruler and measured left and right at the dried corpse on the photo, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Hey, I said you want to measure the corpse, I have a ready-made one here, what's the point of blindly comparing with a photo?"
Wu Fan didn't listen to him, he even changed several photos of the dry corpse, all of them were measured with a ruler before he said, "I don't know if you guys noticed, this dry corpse has a very unique feature."
"What characteristic?" Tian Penggang couldn't help but look towards the dissecting table, what characteristics should he know best ah.
"I mean the dry corpse in the photo." Wu Fan added.
"What the hell?" Tian Peng Gang looked at Wu Fan with a big grin of incomprehension, wondering if this kid was teasing him on purpose, his hand was on the belt of his pants again.
Wu Fan did not realize that his life was in danger at any time, he pointed to the photo with great interest and said, "I have just measured carefully, this dry body is completely lying in the middle of the bed box, the corresponding body parts on the left and right sides are amazingly the same distance from the bed box on both sides. The upper and lower sides are also the same, and the distance between the head and feet of the corpse and the ends of the bed box are also exactly the same. Not only that, if you look closely at the posture of the dry corpse, the arms are close to the body, the legs are together, and even the face is exactly facing upwards, which is why Chen Keying saw exactly the eyes of the corpse through the hole in the bedpan. And of course there were clothes, all extremely flat on the dry body. Don't you guys think it's strange to see all this?"
"But what does that tell us? Arranging the victim's body in a display?" Tian Penggang guessed casually.
"If the murderer really thought that way, who would be able to see it when it's displayed in a bed box?" Fu Xueqing questioned.
"You're right." Wu Fan nodded towards Fu Xueqing, "If the murderer was trying to express some kind of will of his by displaying the body, then he would definitely expose the body instead of hiding it, just like the murderer in the throat slitting case did. Hiding the body means that murder itself is the killer's ultimate goal, and that the person will have no meaning to him after death. He won't spend any unnecessary time on the body; one more minute is one more minute of danger of discovery ..."
"But this murderer has done so many seemingly unnecessary things, could it be that the dead have any special meaning to him?" Fu Xueqing asked as she looked at the dried corpse in the photo.
"There is no special significance, the problem lies with the murderer." Wu Fan pointed to his head, "Because when the murderer was hiding the body, there was no way to stuff the body haphazardly into the bed box, he had to arrange the body in such an impeccable manner as in the photo, he would feel comfortable psychologically."
"Impeccable?"
"Yes. It was an act that had to be accomplished for the killer, even if he knew it was unnecessary."
"How can there be such a person?"
"In reality, there are quite a few similar people, also known as obsessive-compulsive tendencies ..."
"You mean obsessive-compulsive disorder? This kind of disease I have ah." Tian Pengang interrupted Wu Fan, "Before I perform each autopsy, I have to place the anatomical equipment in a regular order from largest to smallest, otherwise I feel uncomfortable."
Wu Fan glanced at him, "Like I said, that can only be considered a compulsive tendency on your part, and it won't affect your sight life. If you kill someone, you definitely won't purposely arrange the body like this murderer, because the murderer's psychological problem is much more serious than yours. He is a typical obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, which is a type of neuropsychiatric disease with recurring obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors as its underlying characteristics."
"You still know about this? Go on." Tian Penggang had him hooked as well.
Wu Fan's brain was like pulling open a drawer with his hand, a lot of knowledge that felt fresh came with him, "Obsessive-compulsive disorder is mainly produced by long-term anxiety, but there are also genetic factors. Thoughts or impulses that are meaningless or even against one's will will will often appear in the patient's mind, making it difficult for the patient to get rid of them. They will have some repeated compulsive actions, all of which are stereotypical behaviors or ritualistic actions, which are the result of the patient succumbing to the obsessive-compulsive concepts in order to seek to alleviate their inner anxiety. Their obsessive-compulsive behavior also fluctuates with the level of internal anxiety. After the murderer killed the victim, he must have been in the midst of intense mental fluctuations, so he was disturbed by his compulsions when he hid the body."
"Did he just have to arrange the corpse in a regular manner like that, and couldn't he control himself?" Tian Penggang had trouble understanding.
"A true OCD sufferer has a hard time restraining himself, and if he doesn't follow the thoughts that arise from his OCD, he will fall into great fear."
Fu Xueqing said in deep thought, "You just said that the murderer was in a strong mental fluctuation after killing the victim, is it possible that he thought of the killing on the spur of the moment? If he had fully prepared for the killing, then the psychological state should have been smoother, right?"
"This I cannot conclude. But whether it's murder or hiding a body there is a risk, the murderer is bound to bear great psychological pressure in the process of carrying out the crime, there must be a big difference between pre-planning beforehand and killing out of the blue, and for a murderer with obsessive-compulsive disorder, I can only say that there is this possibility."
"Then I'll synthesize the analysis you guys just made." Fu Xueqing said, "The murderer is a male with a thin or small collar appearance, good at using wires to strangle the neck in this way, it's possible that he's a recidivist or has specialized in practicing. There is obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the motive for the murder is possibly due to a special reason for the sudden killing. It's like this."
Wu Fan and Tian Penggang nodded their heads, and the image of the criminal seemed to have a little bit of an eyebrow.
A thought inadvertently appeared in Wu Fan's mind - is this person the rabbit who predicted death, is it the Frank I'm looking for?
As soon as this thought jumped out, he wasn't too sure about his earlier speculation again.
Fu Xueqing's side seemed to be unwilling, and pressed Wu Fan: "Can you still take the criminal psychology profiling a step further, just like the cut-throat case, so that we can have a clearer direction."
Wu Fan was getting upset and said, "I'm sorry, I'm really limited in my ability, just give me a nameless dry body that's been dead for three years, I can't think of any more clues that will help you find the murderer ..."
"Okay, but I have another question. There are many ways to dispose of a body, why do you think the killer had to hide the victim under the bed?"
"This ah ..." Wu Fan cupped his chin and thought about it, letting Fu Xueqing remind him of this, he did generate some new ideas, "Hiding the body in a bed box is not really a good way for the murderer because the body will soon be would be discovered. The murderer couldn't have predicted that the body would turn into a dry corpse and hide for so many years, this can only be said to be a coincidence. Generally speaking, a murderer who prepares to kill has two aspects to consider - how to carry out the murder and how to cover it up. In both respects, the murderer did a sloppy job. He went to great lengths to strangle the victim, and afterward only hastily stuffed the victim into a bed box, not choosing to dispose of the body. Even if we consider that he may have been in a panic because he killed on the spur of the moment, the fact that he casually left the body and fled afterward shows that he is not usually good at using his brain. Based on the above analysis, I thought of two possibilities for the identity of the murderer. The first one, if the murderer used to live in that room and the victim was a person from outside, then the murderer's methods of killing and hiding the body are enough to show that he is an unorganized criminal with low intelligence, prone to impulsiveness, acting chaotically, and his social status won't be too high."
"What about the second possibility?"
"The second is just the opposite; the deceased was an occupant of the room and the murderer was an outsider. So the murderer didn't have to take the risk of moving the body after breaking into the house and strangling the victim to death. It was enough to hide the body and delay its discovery. He would think that even if the police intervene in the case, they may not be able to figure out that he killed him. If it's this kind of door-to-door murderer, it's hard to make accurate inferences with the pitifully little evidence at hand."
Fu Xueqing also had a thought, "If it's the second possibility you mentioned, and the occupant was the victim, if he had disappeared, at least the landlord would have found out a long time ago, right, so I'm leaning towards the first possibility you mentioned. The murderer is most likely the person who used to live in that house."
Wu Fan could see the smile in Fu Xueqing's eyes, and indeed, with the results of the subsequent analysis, the crime profiling was obviously more complete. However, Wu Fan was very unsettled in his heart.
Due to coincidence, he had been involved in the detection of two murder cases one after the other, and he was surprised to find that he had strong logical analytical skills, as well as rich knowledge of criminal psychology. What he is best at is combining the two to analyze a case and come to a conclusion, which Fu Xueqing fashionably calls "criminal profiling". Wu Fan didn't care what it was called, nor did he take his ability too seriously. As long as Fu Xueqing asked him to analyze, he just thought and said, sounds reasonable, until just now, he suddenly realized that his analysis seems to have inconsistencies, but he does not know where the problem lies, the more he thinks the more chaotic brain.
Fu Xueqing saw that Wu Fan did not look right and asked him, "What's wrong with you, what are you thinking?"
Wu Fan hesitated for a moment and said, "We think that the murderer fits the first possibility, but do you think that a person with low intelligence, prone to impulsiveness and acting chaotically could be the rabbit that predicted death?"
"And what do you think a death-predicting rabbit should look like?"
"Someone who can write to me in code, a guy who dares to play a super joke on me with a hidden corpse building shouldn't be too intellectually challenged, right? If he is the dryer killer, his modus operandi should be more iconic, and I don't think he would hide the body in a bed box and either dispose of it cleanly or lay it out with impunity like the cut-throat killer did. In short, this mysterious guy is so different from the murderer we profiled that I can't really find out what went wrong."
Fu Xueqing pondered for a while and said, "Criminal profiling is also based on rigorous logical analysis, I've carefully pondered over your analysis and there's nothing wrong with it. As for the contradictions, perhaps something was missed."
"Could it be because, the rabbit that predicted the death and the murderer are two people?" Wu Fan casually guessed.
Fu Xueqing thought for a moment and said, "I can only say that there is this possibility, but the question is, how was this dry body discovered by this rabbit when it hadn't been discovered by anyone for so many years?"
Wu Fan was instantly stumped by the question, this was something he hadn't thought about.
"They are accomplices." Tian Penggang had a bright idea and couldn't help but interject.
Wu Fan questioned, "Then by writing to me he is reporting his accomplices, isn't that the same as reporting himself?"
"Or maybe he knew the deceased and guessed who the murderer was and wanted to avenge the deceased?"
"Why are you so good at carrying on!" All those brain cells of Tian Peng Gang were wasted, he was furious and touched the belt of his pants that he had just fastened.
"Then why didn't he just call the police, besides, with his ability he could just take out the enemy, right?"
Wu Fan, who had been prepared for this, hurriedly hid behind Fu Xueqing.
"Both of you actually have a point." Fu Xueqing said, "We can't completely rule out the possibility that the rabbit who predicted the death is someone else, but right now we don't have the slightest clue to surmise the identity of this guy, nor can we understand why he wrote the coded letter to Wu Fan. On the flip side, if he and the murderer were really the same person it would be just as easy to explain the contradiction between the two modus operandi in Wu Fan's profiling."
"How do you explain it?" Wu Fan asked busily.
"Time."
"Don't forget that this murder case happened three years ago, and you profiled the murderer from three years ago, not the current one. How do you know what he actually went through and how he changed during those three years? Three years may be short for some people, while for others it's enough to change a lifetime. We don't really need to dwell on that letter of yours now, we just need to follow the right train of thought to find out the murderer of the murder case step by step, and I believe that even the rabbit who is playing a trick can also be uncovered together."
Fu Xueqing's words had enlightened Wu Fan.
Through a nameless dry body, after some intense discussion and analysis, a complete image of the criminal has been profiled, and the direction of the investigation has been determined. Wu Fan from this also more personal experience Fu Xueqing that kind of strong sense of detection and leadership ability, young as the vice captain of the criminal police team is not in vain. However, from another point of view, with such a person together is indeed very unsafe, a thought of Fu Xueqing last "Hongmen Banquet", Wu Fan is still palpitating, can not help but be more wary of this woman.
With this complete crime profiling, Fu Xueqing is like finding the key to solving the case, immediately ordered the discovery of the body of the whole building Jane Zi building tenants information collated. Then hold a meeting and draw a part of the backbone to participate.
Now Lu Guangtong went to the province for a meeting, the police force Fu Xueqing is rightly a hand, those who are usually for Lu Guangtong's head of the police are also more rules.
Fu Xueqing let Zhao Nan, who is responsible for summarizing the information, to do the explanation, Zhao Nan with a little nervous, whispered: "The head of this silo is only one person, that is, the landlord, called Guan Liping, sixty-three years old this year. Her husband was in the garment business in the early years, and the city's Textile Factory Six had business cooperation. Later, the textile factory closed down, in order to repay the debt, a planned demolition of the family building compensation to Guan Liping's husband, is the case of this building Jane Zi building. This is ten years ago, due to various reasons, this building has not been demolished into, seven years ago Guan Liping's husband died, Guan Liping rely on rental housing for a living, when the landlord. She now has a son and a daughter are living abroad. There are now eleven tenants in the building and seventeen tenants, and we have now summarized the tenant movement records for the past three years, and there are currently thirty eight registered tenants ..."
Fu Xueqing added, "According to the autopsy results from Dr. Tian's forensic examiner, the victim's time of death was three years ago. Based on the multiple clues so far, it's proven that the room where the dried body was found was the murder scene, therefore, the tenant who lived in that room three years ago is highly suspected. Zhao Nan you continue ..."
"Yes. From the landlord's rental records we found out that three years ago, the tenant of that room was called Guo Chao. It was a man, twenty-six years old at the time, and his rental period was one year. The time of the victim's murder happened to be during his rental period ..."
Fu Xueqing said, "But Guo Chao didn't report it. You should know that the victim was not only killed in his room, but also hidden in the bed box. As a tenant it's impossible that he didn't notice it at all. But this Guo Chao acted as if nothing had happened, it's very unusual."
A criminal police officer named Ma Peng suddenly ventured, "If the murderer is really this Guo Chao, then he killed someone and then hid it under his own bed, lying on the corpse every night can he sleep?"
The forensic pathologist Tian Penggang, who sat in the corner and occupied two chairs with one butt, interjected, "What's so sleepless about it, when I work overtime at night, don't I also stay with the corpse?"
The crowd was dumbfounded.
How many guys like him were there under the sky?
If the murderer's mental qualities were like those of a forensic pathologist, then the police would be facing an absolute monster this time.
Fu Xueqing asked Zhao Nan, "How much information do you have now about this Guo Chao?"
"He left his ID number at the landlord's place, I've checked in detail, this person has no criminal priors or bad records. He was a master's degree holder from the Jiangzhou Economic Management Institute back then and graduated three years ago, which happened to be when he rented this house."
Hou Xiaoliang interjected, "Jiangzhou Institute of Economics and Management I remember is in the suburbs ah, take the bus to the city has to be more than a dozen stops it. Guo Chao how to run so far away to rent a house?"
This was indeed a doubtful point, and no one could figure out why for the time being.
Fu Xueqing asked Zhao Nan to write down this point of doubt and prepare for further investigation.
She asked Zhao Nan, "Where is Guo Chao now, did you find out?"
"He's currently the sales director of the South China branch of Bao Yi Dairy Group."
"The income shouldn't be low, right?" Hou Xiaoliang interjected.
"The monthly salary is about two hundred thousand dollars."
"My god, that annual salary must not be more than two million dollars." Hou Xiaoliang was so surprised that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, "Three years ago you were living in a cheap house, and three years later you're a millionaire. I was in the police academy three years ago when my parents gave me fifteen thousand per month, now the monthly salary of four thousand, I'm quite satisfied. Compared with others, I can not live."
Character straight Ma Peng said: "Since we have found the murderer what are we waiting for, immediately bring him not on the line?"
The others also rubbed their fists and were eager to try.
Fu Xueqing, however, was very calm, "Our suspicion of this person is only based on reasoning, after all, it was a case three years ago, the vast majority of the evidence can not be found, so far, there is no direct evidence to prove that he is the murderer. This person should also have some social background now, we hastily rush to arrest someone in case the other side catches a loophole, it may make us very passive. I think we should first have a deeper understanding of this person, and make our move when we are well prepared."
"Then let's split up and go to his company, go to his neighborhood, and look for his friends and neighbors to ask him out properly." Hou Xiaoliang said, "But he is now a real life winner, I guess it's not too easy to catch the obvious breaks, right?"
"Who said I want to understand his present? What I want to understand is what he was like when he was at his most down and out." Fu Xueqing already had her own train of thought.
The first person Fu Xueqing met was Guo Chao's former landlord, Guan Liping, a broad old lady who didn't look like she owned a building on the outside.
Speaking of Guo Chao, the old lady still had a deep impression of him, remembering that he was a college student.
"This kid is quiet, except when signing the contract, we did not say a few words, I do not have much contact with him. But he had something to do that made me quite angry." Guan Liping said, "He signed a contract with me at that time is to rent for one year, only paid half a year's rent, and when the rent expired, he could not find anyone. I gave him two calls he did not answer, I was quite angry it! Relying on the house not to pay, I this rent was not expensive, he also wanted to rely on my money not to give ... "The old lady a mention of the original matter on the residual anger, chattering butterflies.
"Then after this matter how to solve, he has never contacted you?" Fu Xue Mo asked.
"I later sent him a text message, saying that if he did not want to rent it, I was going to rent it to someone else, so that he could take those things of his as soon as possible. He texted me back, said he temporarily had an emergency can't come back, let me look into the limit of two months. But two months later, he still did not show up, this time no matter how I contacted him, he did not return me, I also counted on his benevolence and justice, the things in his house are all empty, the house was rented to someone else, since then, he did not show up."
"Then he didn't tell you that he met something urgent?"
Guan Liping could not stop shaking her head, "No, sometimes I have thought about it, maybe this child really encountered something urgent, if that's the case, I feel a little better, but he never told me. But I this person also did not put things are done, he those things I still keep some, in addition to some daily necessities are let me throw away, but also some books and other personal items I still keep, thinking in case he will want to come back one day to take it."
Fu Xueqing's heart stirred, "Where did you put all those things, take me to see."
There was a room on the first floor of that old building that was Guan Liping's own, sometimes she came over to stay for two days, usually storing some groceries or something. She rummaged around for half a day, moving everything down against the wall, and finally thwarted out an already flattened cardboard box from the corner, carrying a moldy smell.
"He put all his stuff here." Guan Liping said.
Fu Xueqing opened the cardboard shell box and rummaged around for a bit, most of them were reference books, drafts of papers and whatnot, and after a couple of casual glances, none of them were what she wanted.
She continued to rummage down, and at the bottom of the box, she found a beautiful pink envelope, but it had been a long time and looked a little old.
She opened the envelope, inside was a greeting card with two cartoon characters kissing, inside the card was written in a concise phrase "Happy birthday, Qiqi, I hope I can always be by your side.
Fu Xueqing asked Guan Liping, "Does Guo Chao have a girlfriend?"
"I'm not sure about that."
"Have you ever seen a woman going in and out of his room?"
"It seems like he's the only one living in that room, and I've never seen a woman come to him."
"Is that so?" Fu Xueqing was suspicious in her heart.
According to common sense, falling in love during college is basically a hot relationship, and it's not uncommon for male and female students to occasionally cohabitate. This Guo Chao, however, ran to a place far away from campus and rented a humble house to live alone, why did he do this? It couldn't be that he had planned to kill someone from the start, could it?
Fu Xueqing continued to rummage and found another palm-sized gift box next to the greeting card, which appeared to be in a color that matched the card.
She opened the gift box and it was a pair of silver colored earrings. They still looked brand new and didn't seem to have been worn yet. Fu Xueqing secretly thought that the greeting card and jewelry should have been Guo Chao's birthday gift to his girlfriend, but this gift was not delivered in time. It looks like there was an accident, and in his haste, he left without even taking his girlfriend's birthday gift with him.
She summoned a male police officer beside her, "Gao Yang, take everything in this cardboard box back, and let's all scrutinize it carefully."
She also said to Zhao Nan, "You go and contact the Jiangzhou Economic Management Institute to find out about Guo Chao's situation, and it's best to find out about his girlfriend, whose name has the word 'Qi' in it."
A day later, Zhao Nan's side reported the situation to Fu Xueqing. Guo Chao's impression on his teachers was quite good when he was studying at the university, he was honest and steady, didn't like to be in the limelight too much, had excellent grades, and got along well with his classmates. It can be said that it is a person without any stains.
Fu Xueqing asked, "Then the year he graduated from graduate school, did anything unusual happen?"
"I specifically asked Guo Chao's tutor, in fact, he also had a dormitory at the school and stayed at the school most of the time, but for some reason he also rented a house outside, a matter that Guo Chao's teacher wasn't sure about either. Overall, Guo Chao's behavior at school is all normal, he's the type of person who consistently performs well."
"Still really a person without a stain." Fu Xueqing muttered to herself, "But he secretly rented a house far away from the school, and left without a word half a year later, and right around that time, there was an additional nameless male corpse under his bed. How do you think this can be explained?"
Zhao Nan wrinkled her tiny nose and thought for half a day, then shook her head, "It looks like Guo Chao is highly suspected, but we don't know who the dead person is right now, and we don't know what kind of relationship this person had with Guo Chao. All suspicions are also just assumptions ..."
"You're right." Fu Xueqing nodded, "I need to find someone who knows Guo Chao better. Did you find his girlfriend?"
"Found it. Her name is Ye Ziqi, she also graduated from the School of Economics and Management. Now working at a study abroad agency."
Dressed in a professional dress, Ye Ziqi almost every day at 8:00 in the morning stepped into the "Times SOHO" building with high heels and took the elevator to the agency on the 23rd floor.
"It's Ms. Ye, please stay."
Ye Ziqi was about to get on the elevator when she was stopped by a woman about her age.
"Who are you, do you want to do an exit abroad?" Ye Zi Qi looked at the unfamiliar beauty in front of her suspiciously and guessed professionally.
"My name is Fu Xueqing, I'm the vice-captain of the criminal police team in Jiangzhou City." Fu Xueqing looked at Ye Ziqi's surprised expression, paused and then said, "I want to find you to talk about your boyfriend."
"I don't have a boyfriend, I think you are mistaken."
"The person I'm talking about is Guo Chao. You should know him, right?"
Upon hearing this name, Ye Ziqi's expression changed abruptly.
Fu Xueqing could tell that Ye Ziqi was reluctant to be questioned.
Ye Zi Qi brought Fu Xueqing to the café next to her and found a secluded corner to sit down, she kept her face cold, her eyes staring at the tabletop, and coldly threw out a sentence, "Guo Chao and I broke up a long time ago, I don't know why he alarmed the police, but why don't you just go to him, and what's the use of looking for me?"
"You guys broke up? When was this?" Fu Xueqing was a bit surprised, but then she seemed to have guessed something.
"Split up three years ago."
"Three years ago ...," Fu Xueqing's mind immediately flashed to Guo Chao's birthday gift that he didn't send out, "Did you just have a birthday at that time?"
Ye Ziqi exuded a surprised expression, "How do you know?"
Fu Xueqing did not explain, "Was there any conflict between you at that time?"
Ye Ziqi was very reluctant to recall that experience, she looked away with a taut face, anger growing on her face, "I've never seen such a jerk of a man, really, I've never seen it."
"What did he do to you?"
"He dumped me, without a word. Even had a big fight with me, even gave me a reason. He just dumped me so casually. I have a shadow now, I do not dare to deepen the relationship with men, as long as it involves talking about feelings, I can not help but think of Guo Chao. As a result, I realized that all men are impervious, you don't know, they are sweet to you one moment, will they turn around and leave the next moment ..."
"How did you find out he dumped you? Did he find someone else?"
"Hmph, I don't know if he's got his eye on someone else, anyway, we haven't seen each other since he left without saying goodbye."
"When was the last time you saw each other?"
"Three years ago on June 2nd, it was still the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, I remember it clearly. The two of us stayed in a hotel near the school for two days, he spends a lot of money, and often runs out of money, even staying in the hotel is my money! In those two days he was with me all day long, so good. He also said mysteriously that he wanted to give me a surprise. I know he is referring to my birthday, must be prepared what gifts, I was quite happy. The next day I went back to school, and then did not see him, at first, he also know to call me, send a text message. I said to meet, he said he was not in school; I asked him where he was, he also stammered and refused to say. Then he didn't even bother to text back. I was feeling a bit out of sorts, so I called him, and he all looked impatient and hung up without saying two sentences. I got angry too and went cold turkey with him for a few days, purposely ignoring him. I thought he would take the initiative to apologize to me, but one day he suddenly sent me a text message saying let's break up, he really doesn't want to live this cheater's life anymore, and asked me to give him freedom and let me forgive him. I was all broken down, kill his heart have, he is my first love, I gave him everything, but he threw me like garbage said throw away, take me as what?"
Ye Ziqi's eyes turned red when she spoke of her sadness, and she even dropped a few tears, pulling out the napkin on the table and blowing her nose.
Ye Ziqi shook her head and looked at Fu Xueqing with a bit of doubt again, "Don't you know? Why else would you have come to me?"
"Then have you inquired about his whereabouts since then, and do you know what his current situation is?" Fu Xueqing asked.
This woman was not stupid.
Fu Xueqing said tentatively, "Actually, he is now in Jiangzhou City ..."
Ye Ziqi's eyes trembled slightly, and the nails of her left hand unconsciously dug into her right arm, as if she was restraining her emotions.
"Do you want to know how he's doing now?"
Ye Zi Qi looked up at Fu Xueqing, moved her lips, finally exhaled a breath, and smiled miserably, "Forget it, what's in the past is in the past, such a jerk is not worth my attention. I don't know what exactly your search for me has to do with him, in any case, it's all in the past between me and him, whether he broke the law or what, it's none of my business." Fu Xueqing originally intended to get a sideways look at Guo Chao as a person from Ye Ziqi, but she didn't expect that even she was unceremoniously abandoned by Guo Chao. This man was really determined in his actions.
However, Fu Xueqing noticed one thing.
Guo Chao's abandonment of his girlfriend and the time point of the murder of the corpse almost coincided, what is the connection between the two? If it was because Guo Chao had killed someone and wanted to abandon everything and run away, but he didn't flee far away, instead, he established himself in Jiangzhou, so that hypothesis couldn't be valid. Then, how could this contradiction be explained?
Fu Xueqing looked at the spiteful Ye Ziqi, her thoughts had already run elsewhere.
Her cell phone suddenly rang, breaking the silence of the two women.
Fu Xueqing answered her cell phone, it was Hou Xiaoliang from the police force.
Hou Xiaoliang told her that when they were rummaging through Guo Chao's belongings, they found a strange notebook filled with numbers and calculation formulas. They thought it was his exercise book at first, but after mulling it over they were surprised that no one recognized the formulas. They these criminal police are also police academy and public security university out, high mathematics is considered a basic course, there are also people who have taken economic management, but no one can read these formulas, do not know Guo Chao in the end in the calculation of what. So he called and told Fu Xueqing about the situation.
Fu Xueqing should ask Ye Ziqi's also finished, before parting urged her not to spread today's conversation, Ye Ziqi nodded yes.
Back to the criminal police, Fu Xueqing saw the thick notebook.
Every page was scribbled with numbers and calculations. Those formulas were not so complicated, but they were messy, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, and occasionally one or two unseen formulas would come out. The results of the calculations ranged from hundreds to thousands, and there were also several numbers after the decimal point. It felt like Guo Chao was performing very complicated calculations, but it had nothing to do with economic management. As Fu Xueqing flipped through the pages, she pondered whether these numbers and formulas had anything to do with the murder case or not, and if they didn't, then why would they waste their efforts.
Turning to the last few pages, Fu Xueqing suddenly realized that the numbers and formulas were all gone. The whole page was densely packed with only a strange symbol, shaped as if two tangent circles passed through a vertical line in the middle.
She flipped back again, and this strange symbol was all over the page.