The purpose of her coming here today was to test the waters and see Guo Chao's reaction before making her next move. After all, their previous suspicions were merely speculations, and there wasn't any actual evidence to prove that the man in front of them was the murderer.
Guo Chao thought for a moment and apologetically shook his head and smiled, ''It seems like I just graduated three years ago, and during that time, I lived in a lot of places for my job and was busy. I really can't recall when you suddenly mentioned this to me."
The flawless answer kicked the ball back to Fu Xueqing.
"Then let me go into a little more detail, according to our understanding, you rented a room in that old silo at No. 37 Changshou Street for a year. The landlord was an old lady surnamed Guan, does that ring a bell now?"
"Seems like it, I'm not too sure." Guo Chao added some sugar to the coffee cup, stirred it carefully with a silver spoon, and placed the spoon against the coffee cup, "I've been living at a fast pace for the past few years, and I can't remember much about all these little things. You might as well get right to the point, is there a reason you're looking for me to make sure about this?"
Fu Xueqing took a sip of her coffee and deliberately opened the Jiangzhou Evening Newspaper that was pressed on the table, just in time to reveal the Wu Fan's piece, the distinctive large headline reflecting in both of their eyes. Guo Chao subconsciously glanced at the newspaper, unable to hide his shock, he intentionally restrained himself, as if he wanted to take a closer look at the content, but felt it was not right.
"In the building you lived in back then, a strange case recently occurred, a resident found a dried corpse under her bedroom bed."
"A dried corpse?" Guo Chao repeated Fu Xueqing's words, pulling his gaze from the newspaper with difficulty.
"After our forensic identification, this corpse died three years ago, so we looked for the tenant who lived in that room at that time, and it turned out that this tenant was you, Mr. Guo."
Fu Xueqing said while gazing at Guo Chao without moving, those beautiful eyes carrying an invisible pressure.
Guo Chao's face stiffened as he picked up his coffee cup and slowly took a sip, gently placing it on the saucer, meeting Fu Xueqing's gaze as he looked at her and slowly said, "So, you think I killed that person and hid the body under the bed?"
"Before the murderer is finally caught, everything is just a routine investigation, I hope Mr. Guo will be honest and cooperate with us." Fu Xueqing's tone was still calm as usual, and there was no indication of anything like an immediate arrest.
Guo Chao's gaze fell on the newspaper again and was silent for a few seconds.
These few short seconds made the two people who were spying on them not far away anxious.
These two people's table happened to be blocked by a large pot of fake trees, and both of them used the dense foliage as a shield, straining their ears to listen to Fu Xueqing and Guo Chao's conversation.
One of them slowly plucked away the leaves, revealing a pair of large sunglasses. Immediately followed by a cowboy hat with a lowered brim sticking out from behind again, he quietly asked, "Daddy, is that man across from the policewoman the suspect?"
"That's him all right. This is my first-hand information, Jiangzhou Newspaper crime a brother is not for nothing. And don't call me daddy."
"Okay, daddy, but I heard you talking about crime profiling in the closet yesterday, wasn't the criminal you were talking about a skinny guy, very different from the one in front of me. There can't be a mistake, can there?"
"Where are you so much nonsense, if you don't like to follow me, go to school. This is a critical moment, Officer Fu seems to have picked his words apart."
"Is that so? Then is it about to arrest someone, so exciting, my heart is racing."
"Shh, keep it down, don't let them find out."
"Then when we arrest someone later, what if that policewoman can't fight, are you going to help her?"
"How would I have time to fight, I still have to write a report."
Guo Chao was also silent for just a moment before returning to normal. The words had already been said to this point, there was no way for him to escape Fu Xueqing's question.
"Hearing you say that, I do have a bit of an impression of that old house." As if he suddenly remembered, he said to Fu Xueqing in a sincere tone, "I'm willing to cooperate with you in solving the case, but I haven't killed anyone. I also didn't realize there was a body under the bed." His answer was unusually short and dry.
"But you did live in that house three years ago, for a whole year. We have established that it was at that time that people were killed, and it was at that time that they were hidden under the bed. And you're saying that you didn't know about it, it doesn't make sense from a rational standpoint, does it, Mr. Guo?" Fu Xueqing pressed on step by step.
Guo Chao smiled disbelievingly, "It's true that I rented the house for a year, but I didn't actually live there for long. Most of the time, that house was empty."
"You mean, someone entered the house and killed someone while you were away?"
"It looks that way. Otherwise, how could I not have known about a death in the house?"
"Then I don't understand why you had a dormitory at the school in the first place, why you had to run away to a place far away from the school and pay to rent a house when you were still strapped for cash. I've met your former girlfriend, and she told me all about your situation at that time."
At the mention of his girlfriend, Guo Chao's complexion changed, but he quickly explained, "As I said earlier, I was looking for jobs everywhere during that time, and because I was short of money, I also did some part-time jobs. Living in that place is a bit more convenient for transportation. Plus the house was cheap, so I could barely manage. I just didn't expect that I didn't live there for long before I moved out."
"Then why didn't you take your luggage with you?"
"Because I was in a hurry to leave, and besides, those things weren't much use anymore, and it was too much trouble to move once, so I didn't want them all."
"You did leave in a hurry at that time, neither saying hello to the landlord nor contacting your girlfriend, completely evaporating as if you had broken off. Were you running away from something?"
"You're overthinking it, Officer Fu, I have nothing to run away from. I don't like that landlady old lady, waffling is too annoying. As for my girlfriend ... that's a matter between the two of us, I just don't want to continue to socialize with her anymore, might as well just break it off good, so as not to break the lotus root everyone is in trouble."
"You are really honest."
"I may not be a great guy, but I'm not a hypocrite and I'm not stupid enough to kill someone."
"Okay, I have another question. We found a notebook inside your luggage that was full of calculations made by your involvement in betting, and many of the sums were so large that we suspect you were involved in a great deal of illegal betting at the time. And all this money you bet added up to more than two hundred thousand dollars, please explain, where did you get that much money to gamble at that time?"
This question from Fu Xueqing caught Guo Chao off guard, his entire body froze in his seat, his gaze subconsciously looked at the Legal Evening Newspaper next to Fu Xueqing again, reaching out to pick up the cup of coffee that had already cooled down.
Fu Xueqing seemed to read his mind and pushed the newspaper in front of him, seemingly unintentionally touching the saucer, and the silver spoon that was set in the saucer fell on the table.
"What I just said is not in the newspaper, it belongs to our internal news." She said casually, but her eyes were secretly observing Guo Chao's reaction.
At this moment, Ouyang Shanshan, who was hiding behind the fake tree, couldn't help but say, "What is this policewoman doing? Why is she showing the newspaper to the other party when she's already asked about the key points? She's also going off topic, this is too unprofessional. No wonder she had to ask a reporter to help her. A police officer of this caliber might as well let me be her."
"What do you know, she was deliberately testing the other side." Wu Fan said, "The murderer suffers from OCD. Anyone with OCD often displays meaningless and deliberate behaviors and impulses in their daily behavior. The more nervous they are, the harder it is to hide such behavior. Before Fu Xueqing came to meet with him, she specifically discussed with me how to test whether the other person suffered from OCD. I happen to know the simplest way ....
"What way?"
"It's to suddenly break into the other person's psychological safety zone while mentally pressurizing them. The nature of OCD is caused by anxiety disorders, and anxious people are especially sensitive to psychological safe zones. And the murderer in the Yu corpse case had an extremely obsessive-compulsive concept about the placement of objects; when he was hiding the body, he spent a lot of time placing the body right in the center of the bed box before he would give up. Haven't you noticed that Guo Chao likes to drink coffee to relieve stress whenever he's nervous? That's why Fu Xueqing found a chance to deliberately break into his psychological safety zone and mess up his saucer and silver spoon; ordinary people might not care too much about it, but for an obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferer, it's as frightening as pushing him to the edge of a cliff, and he must place the spoon and saucer in the same way, without any deviation, for him to regain his sense of security."
"I see, that's amazing." Ouyang Shanshan looked at Wu Fan in amazement, "I didn't see that you know a lot. I was beginning to think that you were a bit of an aggravation to be my daddy with your dull head. Now you passed the preliminary exam."
Wu Fan had a black line on his head. You are the one who is pestering me, why does it feel as if I have to be your father. If I really gave birth to a big girl back then, then how much of a no-gooder must I be?
I only saw Guo Chao put down his coffee cup and seemed to want to reach out for the silver spoon on the table, but his hand just lifted up and then put it down again.
He tried to pull the corners of his mouth to make a disbelieving smile, but it made his expression look even more fake, ''Gambling, naturally there are winners and losers. All that money was rolled back and forth, in fact, the only money I really took out was twenty thousand dollars."
Fu Xueqing's gaze swept over the silver spoon on the table and landed on Guo Chao's eyes, "That's just one possibility, but there's another possibility."
"Which possibility?"
"You really took out more than two hundred thousand dollars to gamble, but lost it all."
"And where could I have gotten that much money from?"
"Yeah, that's the problem, maybe ... "Fu Xueqing paused for a moment and picked up the tiny silver spoon from the table and placed it in Guo Chao's coffee cup and stirred it gently, as if stirring his mind, "Maybe, you knew Someone had that kind of money, so you secretly rented a house without even telling your own girlfriend You looked for an opportunity to lure that person to your own home ..."
"I killed him and took his money." Guo Chao wore a fake smile and finished Fu Xueqing's reasoning.
Fu Xueqing stared at him with a burning gaze, almost penetrating his heart.
Guo Chao slowly said, "Officer Fu, you've asked me so many questions, can I ask you a question?"
"What question?"
"If I really killed that person, why did I hide the body under the bed, have you thought about it?"
"Perhaps, you didn't think about it that much at that time, you just wanted to hide the body and escape with the money as soon as possible." Guo Chao while huffing, said word by word, "If I really killed someone, I would definitely find a way to transport the body first and throw it away where no one could find it."
After he finished speaking, he got up and left his seat, saying "Excuse me", no longer paying attention to Fu Xueqing, and turned around to leave the café.
Fu Xueqing sat there without moving.
Ouyang Shanshan, who was hiding behind the fake tree, had been holding her breath and listening intently for fear of missing a word, and then suddenly saw Guo Chao turn around and walk away, so scared that she stared at him with rounded eyes and almost fainted, "What's all this? What is this? Almost didn't suffocate me, just see this result, just let the criminal go, this policewoman is also too lame."
"Keep your voice down." Wu Fan reminded her, "What do you know, arresting someone is about evidence. Even if Fu Xue Mo captured this person and brought him back. Without evidence, the person will be released just the same. Don't look at your IQ of one hundred and seventeen, but you're not even close to us adults, so be humble."
Ouyang Shanshan looked at Wu Fan with a fine little face and a pair of big eyes.
"What, are you still not convinced?"
"No, daddy." Ouyang Shanshan suddenly couldn't help herself, "That face of yours is too funny."
"What's so funny?" Wu Fan touched the scratches across his face, indignant, "It's all because of you."
"I didn't do anything ah, it's your girlfriend's heart that's too small."
"You have a mouthful of a daddy, who can stand it? People young, suddenly want to become a fifteen-year-old girl's stepmother, who can not be anxious ah?"
"I've already explained everything for you."
"You said that you would treat people like your own mother in the future, and you call this an explanation? It caused me to be homeless now."
Ouyang Shanshan suddenly stuck out her tongue.
"You're still making faces?"
Ouyang Shanshan pointed outside the fake tree, and Wu Fan twisted his face to see that Fu Xueqing had already left her seat and was walking in their direction.
He hurriedly pulled Ouyang Shanshan to sit down, picked up the large cup of Coke on the table and pretended to drink it, while reminding in a low voice, "Act a little more natural, don't look at her ah, that woman is very refined ..."
Ouyang Shanshan followed Wu Fan's example, also holding a straw in her mouth and pretending to drink, looking at Wu Fan's big sunglasses and the paw prints all over her face without slanting her eyes.
She tried to be fine, fine, and suddenly laughed, spraying a mouthful of coke all over Wu Fan's face.
Now not only Fu Xueqing, all the people around them were looking at them in unison.
"You ..." Fu Xueqing suddenly realized that these two people looked familiar, especially the guy wearing sunglasses. Seeing that he couldn't hide anymore, Wu Fan pretended to show surprise and took off his glasses, greeting Fu Xueqing, "Why are you here too, Captain Fu, what a coincidence."
Fu Xueqing looked at him suspiciously and then looked at Ouyang Shanshan, "Why are you two together?" This pairing was quite surprising.
"This is a long story ...," Wu Fan quickly opened his mind, thinking of how to make up a harmonious set of blind words to fool him.
Fu Xueqing's face suddenly sank, "Reporter Wu, you're not following me, are you?"
"How could it be, haha, how could I have the guts to follow the chief of the criminal police?" Wu Fan forced a smile, seeing Fu Xueqing's face sinking, he thought to himself that it was going to be bad.
Fu Xueqing was about to say, Ouyang Shanshan put her arm around Wu Fan, "Daddy, didn't you say you would take me out to play today? I didn't say that this police sister also came, is she your new girlfriend?"
Fu Xueqing was so embarrassed that she couldn't care less about questioning Wu Fan, "She called you daddy? What's this?"
"Yes, he is my daddy." Ouyang Shanshan snaps, "The first time I met Mr. Wu, I had an inexplicable affectionate feeling. Later on, he and I were both kidnapped by that big bunny face, and only after talking to each other did we realize that he was my long lost daddy, this is really a blessing in disguise."
"Is that so?" Fu Xueqing asked Wu Fan with a sarcastic tone, "Reporter Wu, this daughter of yours is fifteen years old isn't it hard to see that you are really young and talented."
"No such thing. Don't you listen to her nonsense." Wu Fan shook his hand repeatedly to explain.
Ouyang Shanshan was gloomy, "It's true that it's because of the world's eyes that daddy has never dared to recognize me. I really envy those children who have moms and dads who care about them, they can go home happily after school, I can only stay in school forever and be a lonely child."
Fu Xueqing saw that the girl was speaking with sincerity, she also couldn't help but be a little shaken, vaguely recalling that when she suspected that Ouyang Shanshan had been killed, she had once learned some of her personal information, it seemed that she only had a mother and was a single child, could she really be Wu Fan's illegitimate daughter?
"Good thing we have recognized each other now." Ouyang Shanshan tugged on Wu Fan's arm, not giving him a chance to argue at all, "Daddy is still a bit shy right now, the more you ask him, the more he dares not admit."
Wu Fan collapsed infinitely, completely letting this little bastard dig a hole to go around.
"Then how did you get this face?" Village Xueqing looked at Wu Fan's big flowery face.
"I got this from a cat scratch." Wu Fan said.
"Cat?" Fu Xueqing suddenly remembered that yesterday when he went to Wu Fan's house, he kicked into the unlucky cat under the bed, at that time it looked like Wu Fan was very dominant ah, how did he let the cat clean up instead.
Ouyang Shanshan gave a bad smile and added: "In fact, how can the cat beat daddy, mainly because the tigress is too fierce."
"Mother tiger?"
Wu Fan hurriedly covered Ouyang Shanshan's mouth, "That cat in my house is called a tigress, it's a female cat." While showing his teeth to scare Ouyang Shanshan.
"Alright, I know." Fu Xueqing was a bit impatient, just now she was calm and peaceful, her face changed at the drop of a hat, "How many daughters you have, how many cats you have, is your family matter. However, Reporter Wu I need to remind you, even if I agree to cooperate with you, you can't do anything just to dig up information, don't blame me for not reminding you!"
Fu Xueqing's fierce look really made Wu Fan a little bit nervous and hurriedly said, "That's of course, that's of course."
Fu Xueqing glanced at Ouyang Shanshan again before leaving, "Have fun with your father."
Easily sending this great god away, Wu Fan threw his sunglasses on the table, wiped a cold sweat, and wondered a bit, "Wasn't it a good talk in the beginning? How come you flipped out when you said you flipped out."
Ouyang Shanshan came over with a sly face, "Do you smell a vinegar flavor, daddy, what is the relationship between you and this policewoman in the end?"
"What kind of jealousy is she eating, I'm just an ordinary business partner with her."
Then why did she feel less than happy when she heard I was your daughter?"
Wu Fan's eyes glared, "I wasn't happy when I heard you were my daughter."
Ouyang Shanshan laughed, "Anyway, I helped you cope with her today. But this little wife of yours looks more evil than the first wife, if she gets angry, she won't just scratch your face a few times and leave it at that, daddy you need to be a little bit psychologically prepared for that in the future."
"Don't talk nonsense, my face is all because of you. I'll send you back to school now."
"You're sending me back now? I don't want to." Ouyang Shanshan's head shook like a rattle.
"Didn't you just want to see how the police solved it? Now you've seen it all, nothing new."
"What kind of detection is this, there's only 'detection' but no 'detection'. Neither found out that the man has obsessive-compulsive disorder, nor caught his handle, after half a day's hard work the man still walked away in a dignified manner. What's the point?" "It's the police's job to catch people and solve cases, I'm just a reporter, responsible for faithful reporting is enough."
"That's meaningless. If the police are late in solving the case, you won't be able to write this report?" Ouyang Shanshan turned her big grape-like eyes and said mysteriously, "Since the suspect is right in front of you, don't you want to personally find out what kind of person he is and write about it in your exclusive report? At that point, you wouldn't be an ordinary reporter, that would be the Sherlock Holmes of the press."
"Can I?"
"Of course I can."
"That dares to be good, hehehe ..." Wu Fan was said to his heart and couldn't help but smile.
"Then we can not give up, continue to check down ah."
"How to check?"
"Of course is tracking la, we can even track the police, tracking a suspect should not be difficult."
Wu Fan who got back to his senses grabbed the back of Ouyang Shanshan's neck, "You're pushing me into the fire step by step, aren't you?"
"You're misunderstanding me, I'm doing this for your sake, who let you be my daddy." Ouyang Shanshan said in a serious manner, "Think about it, those famous journalists in the world, which one of them is not facing difficulties and obstacles bravely, the famous war correspondent of the 20th century, Robert Capa, once said 'if you don't have a good enough photo, it's because you're not close enough to the artillery fire'. That's why he was able to take such monumental photos as Death of a Republican Soldier, who was honorably killed in action when he hit a mine in Vietnam in 1954. Then there is the great writer Ernest Hemingway, who covered more than ten wars in his life, and participated in the reports of two world wars, and there were more than two hundred pieces of shell fragments and bullet heads hit on his body, and he had thirteen surgeries in total, and even his knees were replaced with platinum ones ..."
"Okay, you stop, we'll just keep checking."
"Great. I knew you were the bravest, daddy!"
Despite Fu Xueqing's warning, Wu Fan still couldn't hold down his inner restlessness. For a legal reporter, there was nothing more exhilarating than facing a crime head-on, especially a criminal who was on the loose.
In addition to that, there was a deeper reason, Wu Fan wanted to find out if this Guo Chao was the rabbit that predicted death that wrote to him or not.
But after all, Wu Fan was not a police officer, and it was impossible for him to directly run to Guo Chao's office to interrogate him. He could get into trouble if he was not careful now, so he had to be extremely careful, especially with a liability around him.
The only strategy Wu Fan could think of now was to follow him.
First, he would learn about Guo Chao's daily routine and then think of a way. Guo Chao, a person who did not look easy to deal with, differed greatly from the suspect in Wu Fan's profile. However, since he had already learned from Fu Xueqing that the dried corpse had been discovered, he would definitely be psychologically affected, and the probability of him revealing his flaws would be greater.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan, one wearing sunglasses and the other wearing a cowboy hat, walked into the skyscraper in the CBD with a straight face.
Wu Fan registered with his press card and took Ouyang Shanshan to the 34th floor by elevator. The entire floor was the sales department of the South China branch of the Bao Yi Dairy Group, which was also Guo Chao's workplace.
The two of them didn't dare to venture inside, but patiently stood by the elevator, waiting for Guo Chao to get off work.
At first, Ouyang Shanshan was as excited as if she was acting in a spy movie, but when she waited for a long time, she was yawning and bored to death, and sat on a garbage can and dozed off. She was in a daze, when suddenly Wu Fan poked her and whispered, "Get up, it's coming!"
5 She flung herself off the trash can and almost knocked over the person walking to the elevator. She looked up and happened to be face-to-face with the man.
The man looked through two huffy gazes from behind the lenses of his glasses, and his neatly trimmed ringlets squeezed slightly, but didn't say anything.
But Ouyang Shanshan rounded her eyes and opened her mouth in shock.
Guo Chao's face was just too close to her.
It was the face of a murderer, and she couldn't tell if she was more nervous or excited.
Guo Chao seemed to have sensed something and looked at Ouyang Shanshan vigilantly, relaxing slightly when he realized that she was still a child.
At this time, the elevator arrived.
Guo Chao stepped into the elevator, followed by Shanshan Ouyang and Wu Fan, their backs to Guo Chao. The elevator doors slowly closed and began to descend one floor at a time. When the elevator reached the 26th floor, the elevator stopped and someone was coming up.
Before the elevator door was fully opened, Guo Chao, who was standing behind Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan, suddenly stretched out his hand from the middle of the two men, pressed the "close" button, and closed the elevator door again, without letting the people outside come in.
This action shocked Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan.
"This elevator always breaks down lately." Guo Chao calmly explained, no expression visible on his face, "If more than three people come up it may malfunction. Do you guys know what it's like to fall from the twentieth floor or so?"
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan were all speechless, subconsciously leaning on both sides of the elevator to keep their distance from the man.
The elevator descended two floors and stopped again. Guo Chao was already standing next to the control panel, his finger pressing the door close button dead center, not letting anyone in.
Ouyang Shanshan carefully sought Guo Chao's opinion, "It's not a big deal to have one or two more people, right? How rude to not let people come up ..."
Guo Chao glanced at her, a hint of coldness flashed through his originally kind expression, "You're so young, what a pity if you die!"
Ouyang Shanshan's two legs involuntarily shivered.
"Do you think you should get on someone?" Guo Chao suddenly turned his gaze to Wu Fan.
"Doesn't matter." Wu Fan swallowed.
He peeked at the indicator light above the elevator door; it was just now on the 18th floor. He and Ouyang Shanshan were tantamount to being trapped in this iron coffin shell hanging in mid-air.
Remembering that the murderer is best at sneaking up from behind and strangling his victims alive with electric wires, he can't help but touch his neck.
It was good that both he and Ouyang Shanshan were confronted with this person, which made Wu Fan feel more or less a little comforted. Not to mention that Guo Chao's identity might not dare to take risks at a time like this.
"Indifferent? Hehe." Guo Chao looked at Wu Fan intriguingly, and coldly ventured out, "Why do I see you look a bit familiar, have we met somewhere?"
Wu Fan's heart thumped, was he testing himself?
He couldn't help but say, "Really, where have you seen me before?" Meanwhile in Wu Fan's mind had been circling two names - the rabbit that predicted death and Frank.
So this guy in front of him, was he the one he was looking for?
Regardless of whether he was Frank or the rabbit who predicted death, or if they were simply the same person, Wu Fan had never thought before that he would meet in the bizarre way that he was now.
Guo Chao seemed to think seriously for a while and slowly shook his head, ''I don't remember too well, maybe I'm mistaken.
What kind of answer is this?
He had the guts to write a letter to himself and lead himself to the murder scene, but didn't have the guts to admit it face to face?
Wu Fan's blood boiled in his heart, and regardless, he ventured, "Do you know Frank?"
Guo Chao didn't have any expression and stared at Wu Fan for half a day, seemingly not understanding and seemingly meaningful. If this guy was really the rabbit that predicted death, then he should have known Wu Fan, but he had chosen to put on this kind of expression without saying a word, which could simply drive Wu Fan crazy alive. Was he teasing himself? Wu Fan can't grab Guo Chao and say all the words in his heart through him.
Guo Chao looked at him coldly and suddenly stretched out his hand towards Wu Fan. Wu Fan was unprepared, also may be too nervous, even too late to make the slightest reaction, Guo Chao's hand has grabbed his arm.
Wu Fan almost shouted out, however Guo Chao just pushed him aside, "Please make way, it's already here."
Wu Fan turned back to look and then it dawned on him that the elevator had already reached the 1st floor, when did he stand at the elevator door?
Guo Chao walked out of the elevator as if nothing had happened.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan then also got out of the elevator and let out a breath as if they were pardoned.
"He found us?" Ouyang Shanshan asked Wu Fan.
"I don't know, maybe it's just a test." Wu Fan's heart was in turmoil right now, he really didn't know.
Guo Chao had already walked through the hall and headed out.
The two men discussed it and still continued to follow.
They quietly followed Guo Chao out of the CBD building and found that Guo Chao didn't head towards the parking lot, nor did he go to the curb to take a taxi, but instead walked directly onto the sidewalk.
"No way, the hallowed Sales Director doesn't even have a car and has to walk home?" Ouyang Shanshan said with great surprise.
Wu Fan was also a bit puzzled, but didn't say anything. He looked at Guo Chao's back, but in his heart, he was thinking about his own criminal profiling.
In the cut-throat case that happened not long ago, he had criminally profiled the murderer for the first time, and the result proved that his profiling was quite accurate, which also gave him a lot of confidence, so in the dry body case, he boldly profiled the murderer again. However, when he saw the suspect with his own eyes, he realized that the criminal he profiled was somewhat different from Guo Chao. Wu Fan muttered in his mind whether he was mistaken, or whether Guo Chao had changed drastically over the past three years, or whether he really wasn't the compulsive murderer.
Various thoughts warred in Wu Fan's head, and for a while he couldn't make sense of it.
However, this person's dark and sharp temperament was similar to the rabbit that predicted death in Wu Fan's imagination.
Just now in the elevator, when Wu Fan asked him if he knew Frank in the heat of the moment in a very risque manner, Guo Chao's reaction made it hard to figure out. Did he not understand, or was he just pretending to be deep? Either way, things had gotten to this point, and Wu Fan had to find out down the line.
"Daddy." Ouyang Shanshan suddenly poked Wu Fan, "What were you doing just now in the elevator inexplicably asking him if he knew Frank, and who is Frank?"
"Nothing, I made it up just to disturb him and distract him. Otherwise, I was really worried that he would suddenly harm us both in the elevator." This sensitive issue Wu Fan did not want to explain too much, so he casually fooled the little girl. Although this girl's IQ was high, but her social experience was shallow, so it was better to fool her.
"I was scared to death just now. The first time I interviewed with you and encountered such a horrible thing, I really wasn't mentally prepared for it." Ouyang Shanshan chattered on and on, not knowing whether it was because she had palpitations in her heart or she had not finished yet. Seeing that Wu Fan didn't answer, she remembered other questions like a curious baby, "I heard you always say that the murderer has obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, just now he was obsessive-compulsive disorder when he was in the elevator like that?"
"That doesn't count as OCD." Wu Fan said.
"Then what should OCD look like?"
Ouyang Shanshan's words had stopped Wu Fan in his tracks.
From the circumstances of the murderer deliberately placing the dried corpse, he had serious obsessive-compulsive behavior, and such a person would usually often show it when he was not thinking, and the more mentally stressed he was the more he would do so. But Guo Chao did not show any traces of obsessive-compulsive behavior whether he was facing Xueqing or Wu Fan.
Guo Chao in front of him walked unhurriedly, crossing the crosswalk at the intersection, continuing along the sidewalk for a little while longer, passing a residential building ahead of him.
He turned into the fork in the road, went around to the back of that building, walked to one of the building doors, pulled open the iron door and walked in.
"No way, he lives here?" Ouyang Shanshan looked at the half-new, mosaic tile wrapped building, not too old, but at least ten years old. Looking at this frame, it's not even a gated community yet, it's easy to get in and out, and it's not troublesome to track it down.
"This place is very close to his company. Maybe people don't demand high quality of life." Wu Fan said.
"When I look for a boyfriend in the future, I definitely won't look for such a stingy one."
The two people then also came downstairs and saw that the combination locks were all broken, so they could just open the door and go in, which saved them a lot of things. The two people entered the building and could still hear footsteps coming from the stairs, so they followed.
Guo Chao went up to the fifth floor, stopped in front of the door in the center, and pressed the doorbell. Someone came to open the door in a short while.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan hid on the jogging platform below, leaning against the stairs for cover, not daring to utter a breath. Ouyang Shanshan curiously stretched her neck and watched Guo Chao enter the door, then excitedly said to Wu Fan, "I saw a woman open the door for him, that woman is very pretty."
"A woman?"
As soon as Wu Fan's words fell, the door opened again and Guo Chao and the woman came out talking and laughing, locking the door and walking downstairs.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan, as if they were thieves, hurriedly returned along the same road, but did not dare to run too fast, for fear of being detected by Guo Chao.
They were able to return to the street, where they crouched behind a telephone pole and saw Wu Fan and the woman come out and enter a nearby restaurant.
Two people followed the restaurant, cats in the corner to watch people eat.
Wu Fan sat behind Guo Chao, but directly in front of the woman. He had the opportunity to observe her, do not say, that woman looks really stunning, are not inferior to many movie stars, although there is no purposeful makeup, but instead, it is better to highlight the clear and lovely features.
Wu Fan could not help but think of Guo Chao's ex-girlfriend.
Yesterday, he heard Fu Xueqing mention that Guo Chao had a girlfriend in college, who was his schoolmate, called Ye Ziqi. After the murder, Guo Chao quietly disappeared and abandoned his girlfriend. This matter to Ye Ziqi brought a lot of harm, until today are on Guo Chao haunted.
Wu Fan has never seen Ye Ziqi, but guess can guess, she should be far from catching up with the dainty beauty in front of her, otherwise Guo Chao may not be so determined in the beginning.
Just three years, this guy from a poor student turned into a life winner, status, wealth, beauty all together. If Ye Ziqi could see Guo Chao today, I don't know what to think.
Guo Chao and his girlfriend ate sheet metal and chatted, Wu Fan could not hear what they were talking about, but the atmosphere was quite cordial. Guo Chao carefully peeled off the shells of the crabs on his plate and picked out the crab meat and put it on the woman's plate.
This behavior made Ouyang Shanshan very touched, "This man is really considerate. I'll definitely look for a man who is this considerate to me in the future."
"So what, at best he is a considerate murderer." Wu Fan said in disbelief.
Ouyang Shanshan tilted her head and suddenly asked Wu Fan, "Are you sure he's really a murderer?"
"What do you mean? You saw him peeling a crab shell for a woman and your opinion of him changed drastically? Just now you were disgusted with people being stingy, but now you're touched. Could it be that your emotional intelligence is inversely proportional to your IQ?"
"I don't mean that, I'm saying that we've been following him until now, and he doesn't seem to have anything suspicious except for being a bit jumpy in the elevator, right? You said he was obsessive-compulsive before, and you and that female shadow inspector have all tested him, but didn't they all find nothing wrong? We're not following the wrong person, are we?"
Ouyang Shanshan was so elfin that she actually saw the problem a long time ago, she just didn't say anything.
Indeed, Guo Chao had not revealed any flaws whether he was facing Xueqing or Wu Fan. The man in front of him looked more like a good man who cared for his family and was dedicated to his work. Only, Wu Fan always felt that there was something hidden in this person that one could not see through.
While Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan were hiding in the corner and exchanging pleasantries, a little abnormality appeared on Guo Chao's table.
The woman didn't know what she said to him, but Guo Chao seemed to have become a little nervous, looking back and forth, seemingly searching for something.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan hurriedly lowered their heads, thinking that they had been discovered. However, Guo Chao looked for a while and then withdrew his gaze, continuing to talk to his girlfriend, apparently not seeing them.
"Is he looking for something?" Ouyang Shanshan asked Wu Fan.
Wu Fan couldn't see it either.
Soon, they saw Guo Chao say something to his girlfriend, get up and leave his seat, and leave the restaurant alone. His girlfriend sat there alone, looking a little lost.
"They had a fight? Just now it was fine ..." Ouyang Shanshan felt a little strange.
"It doesn't look too much like it, but ... "Wu Fan also couldn't guess what these two people had said.
"Then what do we do, stay here, or continue to follow Guo Chao?"
Before Wu Fan could make a decision, he only saw a waiter walking to Guo Chao's girlfriend's table with an empty plate.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan felt puzzled, and Guo Chao's girlfriend's expression was also surprised, only to see the waiter pick up an envelope from the plate and hand it to her, turn around and leave.
The woman opened the envelope, touched a folded letter paper from inside, unfolded it and took a look at it, her complexion changed abruptly as if she was surprised by something, and she sat there for a long time. She was lost in thought as she gazed at the door, but there was no one at the door.
After five minutes, she suddenly stood up and walked out of the restaurant.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan couldn't figure out what was going on in front of them, so they hurriedly paid the bill and followed her out of the restaurant.
They saw Guo Chao's girlfriend pass by her house, but instead of going home, she walked along the street next to the residential building, her footsteps in a hurry, looking as if she had something urgent to do.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan followed her through two streets and found that the woman stopped at an intersection and stood under a pole as if she was waiting for someone, somewhat distracted. No
Ouyang Shanshan hid in front of a snack store and looked from afar, wondering: ''This woman looks honest, why did she sneak out to meet someone else as soon as her husband left? She's not cheating on her husband, is she? Why don't we take a closer look?"
She was about to go out, but Wu Fan pulled her back, "Look over there."
Ouyang Shanshan followed the direction of Wu Fan's finger and saw that there was a man coming from the opposite side of the street, Guo Chao. Carrying a bag in his hand, he walked straight in the direction of his girlfriend.
"No way, what kind of routine is this for these two couples, they don't say something in the restaurant, but have to run here, like secret agents to secret signals." Ouyang Shanshan said in disbelief.
What happened next was even more puzzling to her and Wu Fan, only to see Guo Chao's girlfriend suddenly turned around and walked to the bus stop, hiding behind the awning as if she didn't want Guo Chao to see her.
Guo Chao also did not find her, he walked to the intersection turned into a men's clothing store on the side of the road.
Ouyang Shanshan turned her head to look at Wu Fan in confusion, and Wu Fan shook his head.
Guo Chao's girlfriend seemed puzzled as well, as she stood at the bus stop, quietly looking at the men's clothing store, seemingly waiting for Guo Chao to come.
"I really can't figure out what kind of routine these two people have, it's much harder than school exams." Ouyang Shanshan barred her mouth, her IQ is also a bit insufficient now.
The female owner of the snack store pinched her waist, grabbed a rag and came over, looking angrily, "I also can't figure out what kind of routine you two have, blocking my door for half a day, are you two coming in to eat or not?"
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan were kicked out, they quietly approached the men's clothing store.
Suddenly Ouyang Shanshan pulled Wu Fan, "Guo Chao is here!"
Wu Fan only saw a pair of couple-like people come out in front of him, followed by a mohawked hipster man, besides these three people where was Guo Chao's shadow?
"Where is Guo Chao?" Wu Fan asked.
"Isn't it that man with Mohican hair?" Ouyang Shanshan said.
"Him? You don't have a fever, do you?" Wu Fan really didn't see anything about this man that resembled Guo Chao, especially that face, it was completely different.
"Don't look at what he looks like, look at his figure, doesn't he look the same as Guo Chao in height, short, fat and thin, my visual inspection is very accurate."
Letting Ouyang Shanshan say this, Wu Fan carefully surveyed this hipster guy, except for his looks, other aspects were indeed very much like Guo Chao. This guy entered the store before and after less than ten minutes and was able to transform himself into another person?
This hipster walked out of the men's clothing store in big steps, almost passing by Guo Chao's wife's eyes, and that woman actually didn't recognize this person in the slightest, and still stood there waiting foolishly.
Wu Fan and Ouyang Shanshan stared at the person suspected to be Guo Chao and followed him.
The distance is getting closer and closer, Wu Fan carefully measured the back of the head and neck of this person, felt that his skin looks and normal people are not quite the same, and suddenly realized that this guy is a set of human skin head cover, do not pay attention to it is really hard to distinguish the real from the fake.
This guy disguised as such in the end what do you want to do?
Wu Fan's mind couldn't help but think of the murderer wearing a rabbit mask.
All like masks.
They all want to hide their true colors.
As Wu Fan was thinking, the Moshi Yu Hipster who was walking in front of him suddenly dashed up.
"Has he found us?" Ouyang Shanshan asked.
Wu Fan did not care to answer and then also ran up. Ouyang Shanshan ran after him.
After the man crossed the road, he pulled out a pen-like object and sketched two strokes quickly on the passing street light poles, then proceeded to run forward.