I am a super cop

Chapter 1128
With the experience of going up the mountain, when going down the mountain, Gu Chen drove a police car with the license plate ending in AE86, and used the drainage ditch to corner, and the speed of going down the mountain was much faster than expected.

Pass through Hehu Township and go straight to Sanxi Reservoir in Hejiang Town.

Gu Chen knew that going from Hehu Township to Hejiang Town would take a lot of time if he followed the road he came from.

But a newly opened shortcut has greatly saved these times.

When I came to Hejiang Town, the time was not too long, exactly 9 o'clock in the evening.

At this moment, Gu Chen parked the car in front of a supermarket, opened the mobile phone map, and found the location of the Sanxi Reservoir.

"The Sanxi Reservoir is not far from the right, at most it will not exceed 500 meters." After confirming the location, Gu Chen immediately pulled up the handbrake and was about to get off the car.

Seeing the police coming in, the owner of the supermarket asked casually, "What do you want?"

"Boss, how long has your supermarket been open?" Looking at the old building, Gu Chen asked curiously.

The chubby man smiled and said, "It's been a long time. This supermarket was originally a small convenience store. It has been open since my father's generation. If it's me now, it will take more than 20 years."

"More than 20 years?" Looking up and down the supermarket owner, Police Officer Wang asked, "Then you must be more than 40 years old, right?"

"How much is 40? I'm over 50." Seeing Officer Wang's sweet talk, the fat man grinned from ear to ear.

Officer Wang flattered and said, "That's really hard to tell. You look like you are in your early 40s."

"Haha, look at what you said, you must be here today for more than just shopping, right?"

The owner of the supermarket saw countless people, and from the state of a few people when they walked into the supermarket, it can be concluded that these policemen must have come to inquire about news.

Gu Chen didn't go around and asked directly: "Since your supermarket has been open for more than 20 years, you should also know that there was a floating corpse in the Sanxi Reservoir in Hejiang Town 20 years ago."

"Uh……"

Seeing that Gu Chen asked such a topic as soon as he arrived, the fat boss was also taken aback suddenly, and said weakly: "You...why did you suddenly ask this question?"

"Because we came here to investigate the case back then." Lu Weiwei also told the truth.

This startled the owner of the supermarket, and he said curiously, "It's... It's been 20 years, and you're still investigating? Is it too late?"

"It's not too late." Gu Chen smiled and shook his head.

The fat boss couldn't understand, and asked again: "But... After all, 20 years have passed, and many clues have been changed. If you could find the murderer back then, you wouldn't have to go through such trouble."

"But you couldn't find the murderer back then, and it's even more impossible now."

The fat boss's words were harsh, of course, this also reflected the opinions of the majority of the masses.

After all, it has been a long time, and this unsolved case has always been a hot topic in Hejiang Town.

Gu Chen asked: "When the body was found in the reservoir, were you in Hejiang Town?"

"Yes, of course, I was in a small store at the time. My family didn't have such a big supermarket at that time, it was just a convenience store."

Gu Chen got the reply, then turned on the body worn camera, took out the notebook and asked him: "Then what was the situation at the scene then? Can you tell me more?"

"Uh...it's been so many years."

"It's okay, remember what to say, I need to restore the original situation, the more specific the better." Gu Chen said.

Seeing Gu Chen's persistence, the fat boss hesitated again and again, but still nodded in agreement and said, "That's fine, you can ask, I will tell you everything I know."

"When the body was found, what was the situation?" Gu Chen asked.

The fat boss scratched his cheeks and began to try to remember.

"I remember that after the body was found in the reservoir, many people went to watch the fun. I handed the shop to my dad and ran over to see the situation."

After thinking about it, the fat boss said again: "It was quite scary at the time, a corpse just floating on the water."

"Originally, it might not be possible for this corpse to float on the water, because the corpse was still tied with a sack, and there were stones in the sack."

"But it may be that the binding rope is not strong enough to be bitten by the fish in the reservoir, so the body can float on the water."

"Did the sack that bound the corpse be fished out in the end?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes." The fat boss nodded silently, and said again: "I remember that the corpse was floating on the water, but it was still caught by the rope."

"Later, many people came to the reservoir. Some called the police, and some were going to find a boat to bring the corpse up."

"Then the police also came, they fished the body ashore, and then tested it at the scene."

"Is the corpse bound with tape?" Gu Chen remembered that there was a record in Liu's forensic report.

The thugs used up a bundle of tape, leaving the ends behind.

The fat boss was reminded, and immediately said: "Don't tell me, I almost forgot. That's right. At that time, the corpse was tied with tape. It felt quite miserable."

"After the identity verification by the police, it was said that the deceased was a black car driver in Hehu Township, so during that time, the black car drivers who drove were extremely nervous and worried every day."

Gu Chen glanced in the direction of Sanxi Reservoir not far away, and asked, "Now do you still remember where the corpse floated in the reservoir?"

"Uh... now?" asked the fat boss.

Lu Weiwei nodded silently: "If possible, can you take us there now?"

"Ah?" The boss was stunned.

Xin said that you policemen can really make a fuss, don't you even look at what time it is?Want to go to the reservoir?

The fat boss suddenly wanted to retreat.

But unable to bear the repeated demands of several people, the fat boss finally compromised and said: "Okay, it can be regarded as cooperation between the police and the people. If the murderer is really caught, it will also be credited to me."

"Haha, of course, let's go." Seeing the boss agreeing, Lu Weiwei also responded readily.

Afterwards, the fat boss handed over the business of the store to his family, and he followed a few people into a police car and drove all the way to Sanxi Reservoir.

To say that the Sanxi Reservoir is not too far from the central area of ​​Hejiang Town, but it took a lot of time to drive along the edge of the reservoir to the place where the incident happened.

"Driving a little further, do you see the steps in front? That's where the body was found."

"So it's here?" Lu Weiwei was also curious, staring straight at the steps.

The fat boss said: "It wasn't this kind of structure back then. It was just old steps back then, and there were earth embankments around the reservoir."

"Later, the embankment broke down a few years later, so it was repaired several times before the old steps at that time were renewed."

During the conversation, the vehicle had already arrived at the reservoir.

As the temperature drops sharply at night, the wind is also increasing.

Standing by the reservoir, everyone was shivering from the howling cold wind.

Officer Wang couldn't help complaining: "It seems that the northwest wind pipe is enough tonight, and it's not the right time to come."

"That's right." The fat boss who was also called over also complained, "It's so late at night, what can we find out? It's the same during the day."

Gu Chen smiled lightly and said, "Since it's been 20 years, is there any difference between coming during the day and coming at night? I just want to see what's going on here at that time."

"Then what do you see?" asked the fat boss.

Gu Chen didn't rush to answer, but instead asked the fat boss: "Has the position of the embankment next to it changed?"

"The location of the dam has not changed, it has just been repaired."

"What about the roads around here?" Gu Chen asked again.

The fat boss looked around and said, "It hasn't changed."

"Going from Hejiang Town to Sanxi Reservoir, you came to this location, did you come from where we were just now?" Gu Chen said.

The fat boss replied, "That's right, because the only way to come here from Hejiang Town is to make a big detour and come from the other side, but it's unlikely, after all, the detour is too far."

Looking back at the direction he came from just now, the fat boss said again: "I guess, the deceased must have been kidnapped here, and then directly put on stones and sank to the bottom of the water."

Gu Chen nodded silently, and continued: "I saw that the road when I came here passed between two houses, so I don't know if there was surveillance on this road?"

"Haha." The fat boss laughed dryly, and said with a light smile, "I'm talking about the police comrades. In those days, people didn't install surveillance cameras very much, let alone this road, and there weren't many surveillance cameras in the whole town."

"Understood." Gu Chen knew it would happen, but after some inquiries, he was sure.

Afterwards, Gu Chen was at the Sanxi Reservoir and listened to the fat boss's talk about the situation of cadaver inspection back then.

It is roughly the same as the situation recorded in the report by Forensic Liu, and there is not much difference.

But Gu Chen still learned some clues before the police arrived.

For example, the bodies were found by two children.

But these have nothing to do with the case.

Then everyone returned to the supermarket, and according to the introduction of the fat boss, they found several other witnesses of the incident that year.

Listening to these eyewitness accounts, Gu Chen can probably understand that a few days before the incident, that is, the night of Lu Jun's disappearance, there were indeed vehicles driving on this road.

An eyewitness lived in the building leading to Sanxi Reservoir at the time.

According to eyewitnesses, there seemed to be several people sitting in the car at the time, and there were conversations during the period.

However, the car drove towards the direction of Sanxi Reservoir, which still attracted the eyewitness's attention.

After all, Hejiang Town was not prosperous at that time, and there were not too many buildings.

The direction of Sanxi Reservoir is even more desolate, there are no villages, and weeds grow everywhere.

But in this case, there were vehicles driving in, which aroused the suspicion of the witnesses.

But at that time, I thought, maybe I just went fishing in the reservoir, but the weather was terrible.

The tall and thin witness man said: "When I found that suspicious vehicle, the weather was the same as today, with strong winds."

"So, I don't believe in going fishing in this kind of weather anyway."

"That may be the murderer, and there are more than one." Gu Chen said.

The tall and thin man nodded silently: "Maybe you are right."

"But..." Gu Chen hesitated for a few seconds, but raised his head to stare at the tall and thin man, and asked, "But I don't understand something."

"You... you said." The tall and thin man expressed his confusion.

Gu Chen said again: "According to the investigation report of the year, it did not specify how many murderers there were, and according to the police's dictation of the local people's investigation, there is no relevant record, but you can know so clearly, what's going on? ?”

"Ah?" When asked by Gu Chen, the tall and thin man was a little embarrassed.

Gu Chen continued to ask: "Could it be that you didn't disclose this information to the police? And didn't you let others know?"

"Uh……"

Hearing Gu Chen's speech, the tall and thin man's heart skipped a beat, and he said nervously, "It... it's been 20 years, and I don't remember much."

The fat boss also looked puzzled when he heard the words: "I said Ali, I seem to remember that the police asked you back then, because your family lives on the only road leading to Sanxi Reservoir. Could it be that the police didn't have complete records?"

"No." Officer Wang shook his head and said, "This is the key clue. No matter how negligent our police are, the oral situation will generally be recorded completely, and there will be no omissions."

After thinking about it, Officer Wang said again: "Unless..."

"Unless you didn't tell the police about this clue back then." Gu Chen answered directly.

This statement surprised the tall and thin man.

Seeing that everyone was staring at him with strange eyes, the tall and thin man shivered, and immediately didn't know what to say.

"What's going on? Why didn't you tell me?" Gu Chen asked.

Seeing that he had slipped his mouth, the tall and thin man patted his mouth lightly: "What do you think my mouth is cheap?"

"That's right, the police asked me back then, but I didn't say this. If you didn't ask me today, maybe I don't remember if I said it at the time, but you little policeman looks like you are only in your 20s. How do you feel about what happened back then?" So understand?"

"What little policeman? This is the captain of the criminal investigation team of our Furong branch. He only needs to look at the files and records back then to know, and what you said was not in the records back then."

Yuan Shasha also said something, and quickly corrected her way.

Hearing that Gu Chen was already the captain of the criminal investigation team at a young age, the tall and thin man immediately felt that Gu Chen had a lot of background, and he didn't dare to be careless, so he directly apologized and said:
"I'm sorry, comrade policeman, I may have indeed not explained this to the police back then."

"Why are you doing this?" Gu Chen asked him.

The tall and thin man's face froze, and he said embarrassingly, "This... You know how badly this corpse died back then. The whole body was tied up with tape and wrapped into a rice dumpling."

"Not only that, a sack was tied to the body, and the sack was filled with stones."

"Just by looking at this posture, you can tell that the murderer must be a ruthless character. If you tell the details of the murderer to the police, what if the murderer seeks revenge from me?"

"So you don't say it?" Lu Weiwei asked.

The tall and thin man looked ashamed: "I... I wanted to say it, but my family didn't agree. At that time, my wife beat me to death and didn't let me say it, because I was afraid of getting into trouble."

"You also know that since the murderer and the others can do such a cruel thing, it's not uncommon to take revenge on someone, right?"

"Hehe." Hearing the words of the tall and thin man, Police Officer Wang couldn't help shaking his head: "You, you really think about yourself."

"But have you ever thought that if you don't report the murderer, the murderer can get away with it for 20 years. During these 20 years, they may continue to commit crimes and let such dangerous people wander in the society. Do you know how dangerous it is? ?”

"I...I know." The tall and thin man couldn't lift his head up, so he could only bow his head and hum.

Lu Weiwei said earnestly: "Actually, you don't need to disclose your identity if you report this clue. Our police can provide you with anonymous protection."

"I know, I know everything, but..." The tall and thin man hesitated for a few seconds, and said in a bad mood: "But I was really frightened by this group of gangsters at the time, and I told my wife that she was a hundred times wrong. willing."

"She also said that if I reported this news, she would divorce me, but after all, I was afraid of getting caught in the fire, so I struggled for a long time, and finally chose not to say it."

After a pause, the tall and thin man continued: "Later, the police found me. Because of the geographical location of my home, I remembered that several policemen came to my house to record statements, so I only talked about the discovery of the body. The other murderers I didn't say a word about it."

Hearing this, the fat boss also gasped, pointed at the tall and thin man and said, "You, you really don't understand the situation, you are as timid as a mouse."

"I'm timid. I've been timid since I was a child. You don't know that?"

"But you shouldn't hide it for so long? Then you should also think about it for the family of the deceased. The son has been dead for 20 years, but the murderer can't be found. You said you did this, is it still a human affair?"

"Yes, I think you are a coward."

"Spineless."

……

It was also after the tall and thin man confessed that several other witnesses to the corpse also criticized him verbally.

"Please be quiet." Gu Chen suddenly interrupted everyone with a word.

So everyone looked at Gu Chen one after another.

The fat boss said: "Comrade policeman, there is already a witness. If you ask him, he must know."

"Yeah, this guy is really a coward."

Seeing that another witness was making trouble again, Gu Chen also explained: "I can understand this gentleman's concern for the safety of his family, but it's really not good to do so."

"But now you still have a chance, that is, tell me the specific appearance of those people back then, the more detailed the better."

"Ah?" Hearing Gu Chen's speech, the tall and thin man couldn't help being taken aback, and said weakly: "Comrade policeman, this... It's been 20 years, I... I have no memory of it for a long time .”

"Harmful!"

When everyone heard the words, they scoffed.

"You say you, what else can you do? If you made it clear back then, then it would be fine. If you can still remember it now, then you have seen a ghost."

The fat boss of the supermarket didn't expect that there were such cowards in the town.

It would be a lie to say I'm not angry.

But after all, this case was once a sensation.

Attention is extremely high.

It was understandable for the tall and thin man to be afraid at the time.

But now there is another problem, that is, with the passage of 20 years, the present witnesses cannot remember the appearance of those murderers back then.

This is absolutely fatal to Gu Chen.

……

(End of this chapter)