"Hmm … Alright, but," Gu Xizhou muttered to himself for a moment before reminding him, "Don't disturb other people's work."
"Okay," Si Yu nodded and said to Gu Xizhou, "Don't worry, I know what to do."
Gu Xizhou didn't say anything. He squeezed through the crowd to create a path. He paced back and forth and whispered to the onlookers, "Please make way."
Gu Xizhou pulled up the cordon in front of everyone and went in. Si Yu followed him in. When a few policemen saw Gu Xizhou, they immediately surrounded him and shouted, "Captain Gu."
"Captain Gu, you're finally here."
Gu Xizhou waved his hand and strode to the crime scene. Xiang Yuan, who was at the crime scene, stood to the side. His face was surprisingly pale. Gu Xizhou was slightly stunned. Xiang Yuan had seen many strange corpses. Even his face was pale. No wonder the policeman who called him just now couldn't explain the situation of the corpse.
Xiang Yuan saw corpses every day, so his face was pale.
Gu Xizhou's gaze swept across the corpse covered with a white cloth on the ground. He quickly walked to Xiang Yuan and asked in a low voice, "What's the situation?"
"…" Xiang Yuan swallowed his saliva. When he saw Si Yu, who had followed Gu Xizhou in, he frowned slightly and explained the preliminary investigation with a slightly pale face, "The deceased is a child. There's nothing on him that can prove his identity. He's about two years old. His heart was cut with a knife and his heart was dug out."
When Gu Xizhou heard this, the muscles on his back tightened. He continued the conversation and asked, "His heart was dug out?"
"Hmm." Xiang Yuan nodded and gave a short answer. After a moment of silence, he continued, "… There are some strange carvings on the child's arm. They were probably deliberately left by the murderer. The child's eyes … they're missing too."
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou subconsciously walked over and lifted a corner of the white cloth. When he saw the child's dead body, Gu Xizhou's face turned pale. The carvings on the child's arm were very strange. They looked a bit like a special mark. His eyes had also been dug out. His empty eye sockets were bleeding.
Gu Xizhou endured the discomfort and got up to cover the body properly with the white cloth. He asked, "Who found the deceased?"
"It's a young couple who rented a house here." The policeman pointed to a man and woman who were still shivering in the distance and said that they were found by their cat … "
After hearing the general situation, Gu Xizhou looked at the surrounding onlookers. He rubbed his eyebrows and scanned the entire street. This street was a small street behind the main road. It was hard to say if there were any surveillance cameras. However, after hesitating for a moment, Gu Xizhou still asked, "Are there any surveillance cameras around here?"
"No." The policeman shook his head. Obviously, these policemen had already tried to check the surveillance cameras before Gu Xizhou came.
Gu Xizhou grunted in a low voice. He turned his head to look at Xiang Yuan beside him, trying to get more information. Xiang Yuan said in a low voice, "The livor mortis on the child's body is at its peak. The time of death should be around 15 hours. He should have been killed and waited for a while before being thrown into the trash can. I think he should have been thrown here in the wee hours of the morning. At that time, there weren't many people around. Why don't we expand the search area?"
Gu Xizhou nodded and said, "That's all we can do for now. You guys take the body back and see if there are any missing people reported in the past few days. Leave some people to patrol the area and see if there are any missing children!"
"Yes!"
After Gu Xizhou made the arrangements, everyone immediately went to do their own things. Gu Xizhou turned to Xiang Yuan and said, "Give me the results of the autopsy as soon as possible."
"Okay." Xiang Yuan agreed.
Gu Xizhou immediately left the scene of the crime. The street where the body was found was a small alley. Turning left, it led to the main road leading out of the city. On the right, there were residential buildings. At the bottom of the first floor, there were rows of upper bunks. These people might have seen something. Gu Xizhou thought so, so he went door to door and asked if anyone knew anything.
Gu Xizhou took out his police badge and asked the owner of a shop closest to the trash can, "Hello, I'm a police officer. Can I ask you a few questions?"
"Yes, yes."
The owner was a middle-aged woman. Her skin was dark, her face was a little old, and her hair was gray. She was short, only about 1.5 meters tall. She was wearing a black and white flowery shirt, an apron on her head, and a pair of loose pants on her lower body. She was obviously shocked by the sudden appearance of the body, and her whole body trembled slightly.
Gu Xizhou glanced at the situation in the vegetable shop. The inside of the shop was full of shelves, piled with different fresh dishes. It was obviously not suitable for people to live in. However, Gu Xizhou was slightly stunned. After confirming, he asked, "Is there no one in the vegetable shop at night?"
"No." After the middle-aged woman answered, she sat on a small chair and shrank her body inwards, as if she didn't want to be noticed by anyone.
The woman pointed to the front and back of the shop and said, "We rented a house in this community. We don't live in the vegetable shop. There are six people in my family, so we can't live here."
Gu Xizhou grunted and continued to ask, "You should have woken up very early in the morning to sell vegetables. Did you see anything?"
The woman pondered for a while, as if she was seriously considering Gu Xizhou's question. She answered, "This morning, we went to the wholesale market at about five o 'clock. We didn't pass by the vegetable shop on our way to the market, so we didn't come here in the morning. However, when my husband and I went out, we looked behind us and didn't see anyone on the street."
In the end, Gu Xizhou still didn't get any useful information from the woman. He thanked the woman and was about to leave when the woman said, "Officer, if you really want to ask, why don't you ask the guard at the entrance of our community? The guard might have seen something. As long as someone enters or exits the yard, he has to get up and open the door!"
Gu Xizhou nodded. "Thank you."
Gu Xizhou asked around, but he didn't get any useful information. There were no missing children in this community, nor were there any in the vicinity.
In the end, Gu Xizhou found the guard that the woman had mentioned. At noon, the family at the guard's office was having lunch. They had fish for lunch, and it smelled very fragrant from afar. It seemed that the owner of the house was a good cook.
Gu Xizhou thought to himself. Before he walked in, the guard saw his unfamiliar face and shouted, "Hey, who are you looking for?"
There was no access control at the entrance. Gu Xizhou walked forward to the open table at the entrance. He took out his police badge and said, "There was a murder about 200 meters away. I want to ask if you saw anyone suspicious."
The bald man in a flowery short-sleeved shirt shook his head and put down his chopsticks. "No, it was just like usual last night. To be honest, I was quite scared when I heard that someone had died.
"I heard that the child died quite tragically. Something didn't seem right?"
The bald man asked in a low voice, as if he was curious.
Gu Xizhou didn't answer his question. Instead, he asked about the basic situation. "Are there any surveillance cameras here?"
The bald man scratched his head and said, "No, the community didn't install them for us. However, they're already talking about it!"
Gu Xizhou didn't get any useful clues. After they left the entrance of the community, Si Yu, who had been following Gu Xizhou without saying a word, suggested, "Why don't we eat something first?"
Gu Xizhou glanced at the time. It was almost one o 'clock. He was also a little hungry. Today had been very exciting. They had just come out of the mission world and encountered a case like this. The child's death was too tragic. "Okay, what do you want to eat?"
Si Yu lowered her eyes and pointed at a shop in front of them. "Let's go there."
Gu Xizhou glanced at the interior of the shop and gave Si Yu a strange look. This shop … looked really greasy. In the end, Gu Xizhou didn't say anything and followed Si Yu into the shop.
After ordering two bowls of noodles, Gu Xizhou lowered his head and ate slowly. The taste was very ordinary and tasted like wax. After eating two mouthfuls, Gu Xizhou put down the chopsticks in his hand. He really didn't have much of an appetite.
He looked at Si Yu, who was at the opposite table, and realized that Si Yu was eating very slowly. After waiting for a while, two men walked in from the entrance.
"Son of a b * tch scratched my car again. This time, I want to see which stupid dragon is making things difficult for me," the tall man said to his companion as he walked in from outside.
"Pfft, what are you looking for? There aren't even any surveillance cameras in your community!" The tall man's companion said in disdain. "To be honest, the quality of the people in this community isn't high. Why don't you move to another community?"
The tall man muttered, "There are parking spaces in other communities too! This is the only place in the vicinity where you can park!
"Who said there aren't any surveillance cameras? My car has been scratched three or four times in the past, so I specially bought a secret pinhole camera online and placed it on a tree in the community! This time, we'll definitely catch that son of a b * tch! "
The tall man cursed. The two of them didn't lower their voices, so everyone in the restaurant heard them clearly. Gu Xizhou's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Si Yu strangely.
Si Yu dug his ears. "Why are you looking at me? These noodles don't taste good. I don't want to eat anymore. "
Gu Xizhou was speechless.
Si Yu ignored Gu Xizhou's words and pointed at the tall man beside him. "Aren't you going to ask?"
Gu Xizhou thought for a while before he stood up and walked in front of the two men. He gently knocked on the table and said, "Sorry to disturb you. I just heard that you bought a pinhole camera?"
"Huh? What's the matter? I … "The tall man was unhappy to be interrupted, but when he saw Gu Xizhou, he was shocked by the look in Gu Xizhou's eyes. He originally wanted to curse, but he forced himself to say," What's the matter? "
Gu Xizhou whispered, "Is the courtyard next door the one you were talking about?"
The tall man nodded. "Yes."
"Someone died today." Gu Xizhou took out his police ID from his bag and showed it to the man. "Can the pinhole camera you installed capture the situation at the entrance of the community?"
When he saw Gu Xizhou's ID, the man's expression changed slightly. He had sent his car to be repainted because he found out that someone had scratched his car this morning. He didn't know about the death in front of him. He thought for a while and said, "I installed it facing the inside of the community. It can't capture the outside."
Gu Xizhou was about to speak when Si Yu walked over and said casually, "We can't find any clues for now. We can't let go of any possibilities."
"Okay." Gu Xizhou nodded.
The tall man hesitated for a while and said, "Okay then."
Gu Xizhou followed the tall man to remove the pinhole camera in the community. He plugged it in at the entrance of the guardhouse and borrowed a computer. They watched the footage together.
"F * ck, you actually installed this thing on the books in the community. You brat!" The bald guard glared at the tall man and scolded him.
Gu Xizhou was disappointed as soon as he opened the camera. The camera was clearly aimed at the residential area. There were three cars at the entrance of the residential area, and the one in the middle was the tall man's car.
They stared at the video for a while. At around 11 PM, a child appeared to be holding something and scratching the tall man's car. The tall man scolded, "This brat deserves a beating! This child must be from the courtyard! "
The guard took a look and said, "I think it's the child who lives in the second building."
The tall man curled his lips and said, "I'll post an announcement later and make him ask his parents to come and apologize to me. Hmph! How despicable! "
Gu Xizhou didn't care that the tall man had caught the brat. He watched the video for the entire night. The camera had recorded more than ten people entering or leaving the community in the middle of the night, but it didn't help the situation outside.
Gu Xizhou was disappointed. Si Yu pointed at the video and said, "At 4: 38: 21 AM, someone walked by outside. This person doesn't belong to this community."
"What? Someone? I didn't see it! "the tall man said.
Si Yu said softly, "Look at the rearview mirror of the car on the right. The mirror is facing the light at the entrance. Every time someone leaves the community, they will block the street light. At that time, the rearview mirror will turn black. There was also one time at 4: 38: 21 AM, but no one left the community at that time. Other than that time, the lights didn't flicker until dawn. Someone passed by at that time."
Gu Xizhou immediately adjusted the video forward. If the time could be determined, the time taken to adjust the surveillance area would be greatly reduced. After watching the video, there was indeed someone passing by …
Gu Xizhou glanced at Si Yu and took out his phone to call the other colleagues to narrow down the surveillance area.
"What the f * ck? Is that even possible?" The tall man who was filming the video looked at the handsome man in front of him in confusion. He couldn't understand the structure of this person's brain. He could only sigh and say, "His observation skills are amazing!"
Gu Xizhou made a copy of the video because it was valuable for reference. After Gu Xizhou got into the car, he looked down at Si Yu and said, "Aren't you going back?"
"I'll be your chauffeur. You still have to go to a lot of places today," Si Yu said calmly.
"Huh?" Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu exchanged a few words on the way back to the police station after two o 'clock in the afternoon.
Just as Gu Xizhou arrived at the entrance of the police station, he saw a colleague on the second floor stick his head out and greet Gu Xizhou from a distance, "Captain Gu! We found a suspicious target in the surveillance footage! "
Upon hearing this, Gu Xizhou jogged all the way to the second floor. The criminal police officer from the technical department hurriedly carried a laptop and placed it in front of Gu Xizhou. He said to Gu Xizhou, "Look, Captain Gu. This is what we found after investigating the surrounding surveillance footage. At 4: 02: 58 on Lianhua Road, a man passed by here. He was carrying a black plastic bag in his hand. It seems to be a person."
Gu Xizhou leaned in front of the laptop and lowered his head to look at the surveillance footage. It was a man wearing ordinary black clothes with a scarf covering his face. He was carrying a large black plastic bag in one hand. The hand holding the plastic bag seemed to be straining, and he was walking in a hurry!
"According to the surveillance footage along the road, we can only confirm that he was in the suburbs …" The criminal police officer said as he circled an area and said, "He probably disappeared around Liulichang."
To be precise, there were no factories in the suburbs around Liulichang. Liulichang was the name of the place in the past. It should have been there in the 1980s and later moved away. However, due to habit, the people of Ning Qing called the area Liulichang.
Gu Xizhou: "Did anyone report a missing person near Liulichang?"
"No."
Seeing his colleague shake his head, Gu Xizhou pondered for a while and decided to bring some people there.
This time, Gu Xizhou didn't take Si Yu's car. Instead, he asked a few of his colleagues to drive the police car. Everyone was talking about the visit later.
"Gu Ge, Boss Si's car is still following us." Because he had eaten with Si Yu before and saw Si Yu at the door just now, he knew who the driver was. He whispered to Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou was assigning tasks to a few criminal police officers. He glanced at the rearview mirror and said softly, "Don't worry about him."
"Why is Boss Si following us? Why are you looking for Chief Gu? "Lao Guo asked.
The Bentley behind them was driving at a moderate speed and was not far behind their car. Gu Xizhou said vaguely, "Well, there's something …"
Seeing that Gu Xizhou didn't want to continue this topic, the others didn't continue to ask. One of the criminal police officers who was driving turned on the GPS and said, "We'll arrive at Liulichang in 20 minutes!"
After driving for a while, Gu Xizhou finally saw the words "Liulichang". The houses nearby were all farmers' houses. The rent for a single house was cheap. Many migrant workers from other places lived here. There were also some workers in the nearby shoe factory.
There were a lot of people, and it was chaotic.
Once they got out of the car, they followed Gu Xizhou's instructions. They formed groups of two and asked if there were any missing children in the neighborhood. Gu Xizhou sent away the last two people. He turned his head and looked at the Bentley parked by the roadside. He walked over and knocked on the window. Soon, the window rolled down.
"What are you doing?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"I'll take you home later."
"That's not necessary. You should go home and rest early," Gu Xizhou said after thinking for a while.
Si Yu stopped the car and pulled the handbrake. He opened the door and said, "Yes, I want to spend more time with you. Anyway, I have nothing to do. Isn't it good to wait for you?"
Gu Xizhou: "Okay …" You're so mushy. You win.
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