I am a super cop

Chapter 1766 Mysterious Footprints 【Two Chapters in One】

noon.

Seremban branch canteen.

Gu Chen and everyone sat around to eat normally, and the atmosphere always felt weird.

I sit here and eat normally, but Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong are helping me to conduct investigations. Does it feel a bit too much?

But in terms of time efficiency, if you pass by yourself at this time, it will take more time.

Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong are on the field, and it is also a matter of going along the way.

Seeing Gu Chen hesitate while eating, Lu Weiwei also asked him curiously: "Junior Brother Gu, what are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking that Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong haven't eaten yet." Gu Chen said.

Lu Weiwei laughed and said: "These two buddies are really righteous. If you take a word from Junior Brother, they will go to investigate without saying a word."

"If you say that you, Junior Brother Gu, have such two good roommates, it's really a blessing you cultivated in your previous life."

"I think so too." Gu Chen nodded slightly.

I feel that the reason why Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong work efficiently and quickly is largely due to their own influence.

Speaking of sharing a dormitory with Gu Chen, many times, some of Gu Chen's good habits also subtly affect the people around him.

Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong also slowly kept up with Gu Chen's pace during the years of handling the case.

Speaking of the previous two people, their presence in the entire Furong branch is not very high. Since they cooperated with Gu Chen and assisted Gu Chen in handling the case, they suddenly felt that everyone was very important.

Sometimes, things that Gu Chen can't spare time to handle, the two of them can handle on the way of patrolling.

This not only saved Gu Chen's time, but also gave Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong a sense of accomplishment during the handling of the case.

Just when everyone's meal was about to end, Gu Chen's cell phone rang suddenly.

Without further ado, Gu Chen picked up the phone and swiped the answer button, asking, "Ding Liang, how are you doing?"

"Gu Chen, the owner of the car maintenance shop of 'Xiao Xu Automobile Home' said that an old man drove his car to the shop for maintenance the day before yesterday. He said he would come to pick up the car after a while, but he hasn't come yet. .”

On the phone, Ding Liang's notification was also the same as what he had guessed before.

Gu Chen nodded silently, and asked again: "Then you ask the boss, have you contacted the old man? Or has the old man called to come to the store?"

"No." Ding Liang on the other end of the phone was also quite sure, and continued: "At that time, the owner of the car stopped the car, and he left immediately."

"The boss saw that the new energy car was pretty good. He felt that the old man was going to work outside, so he left in a hurry."

"I originally thought that after the car was well maintained, I would charge when the old man came to pick up the car. As a result, the wait lasted for several days, and the old man didn't even have a shadow. It's a bit strange to think about it."

"Is there such a thing?" Although Gu Chen was curious, it was reasonable.

After all, even Aunt Liu, Zhou Jiayou's nanny, couldn't be contacted for a few days.

How could the owner of a car maintenance shop contact Zhou Jiayou?

But leaving the car in a car maintenance shop near this kind of road maintenance, the meaning of avoiding monitoring is obvious.

But don't want a car? What do you mean?
Gu Chen suddenly had a premonition that there might be an obvious connection between Zhou Jiayou and Zhou Wencai.

There was even a feeling that Zhou Jiayou seemed to have found Zhou Wencai, and according to what he told Aunt Liu, the nanny, he was going to meet a friend.

And this friend, could it be him, Zhou Wencai?

"There must be a problem." Gu Chen frowned, and then told the phone: "Ding Liang, tell the store owner to pay attention to the owner of the car. If you find the owner comes back to pick up the car, ask him to contact us as soon as possible."

"No problem, leave this to us." Ding Liang said.

After Gu Chen exchanged pleasantries with him and apologized for delaying Ding Liang's meal, both of them hung up the phone.

"Did you come to pick up the car?" Lu Weiwei also asked Gu Chen curiously after listening to Gu Chen's phone conversation just now.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "This Zhou Jiayou, after leaving the car in the car maintenance shop, never came to pick it up again."

"I must have gone to see Zhou Wencai. What he said was to see a friend, maybe he was going to see Zhou Wencai." Yuan Shasha also expressed doubts.

In other words, this direction of investigation is already the correct direction in everyone's mind.

Police Officer Wang also let out a long sigh, and said helplessly, "I really don't understand why this Zhou Jiayou wants to join in?"

"If it is said that Zhou Wencai's death was related to Zhou Jiayou, what was his motive? How many years have they not dealt with each other?"

"And this Zhou Wencai is no longer the same Zhou Wencai as before. He is now a bankrupt homeless man. Zhou Jiayou doesn't need to talk to him at all."

"So this is also the difficulty." Gu Chen also told the truth.

After all, the motive for the murder is still unclear.

It was mainly Zhou Wencai's years of wandering, in fact, he had long been at peace with the world.

As far as those relatives and friends back then, they probably couldn't avoid him.

A bankrupt person is almost faced with the situation where the wall falls and everyone pushes him, and the tree falls and the monkeys scatter.

Gu Chen turned his head to look at He Junchao, and said, "Senior Brother He, after lunch, please continue to retrieve all the previous surveillance on Zhou Wencai."

"Since he has been active around the railway overpass for a long time, then you should focus on this investigation."

"Where there are surveillance images of him, or there are some abnormal behaviors, such as contact with certain people, these are the focus of the investigation."

"I understand." He Junchao knew that this time was also the time for him to give full play to his attributes as a tool man.

At least this homeless Zhou Wencai who was burned to death, what are the secrets behind it?He Junchao also wanted to know these things.

For a homeless man to be murdered for no apparent reason and then burned to death, it is almost a challenge to the bottom line of human beings.

Faced with this kind of problem, He Junchao did his part.

After He Junchao was arranged here, Gu Chen also said to Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha:
"After lunch, I think I should go to the railway freight yard and investigate around the railway overpass to see if there are any missing places? For example, Zhou Wencai sneaks into the railway freight yard from the outside every day. It's best to go there and investigate. .”

"I agree." Lu Weiwei was the first to agree after hearing Gu Chen's speech, "I also think that we should go back to the scene to see."

"Before we only knew that this Zhou Wencai might have died before the fire broke out, but who killed him? Then he was burned? Our investigation at the time had no clue."

"But now at least I know that during the few days when Zhou Wencai was burned to charcoal by the fire, one of his business competitors, Zhou Jiayou, disappeared mysteriously. This is very suspicious."

After a pause, Lu Weiwei also let out a long sigh: "I don't believe that these two people are not related. How can there be such a coincidence?"

"Then go and investigate." Just as Lu Weiwei was speaking, Officer Wang had finished his meal and put down his chopsticks.

Lu Weiwei also slapped her thigh and said, "Then let's rest for a few minutes before setting off."

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1:40pm.

Everyone drove again to the railway freight yard, the sundry warehouse that was burned into ruins by the fire.

Due to Gu Chen's previous explanation, the ruins were surrounded by a cordon and had not been cleaned up.

The damaged area of ​​warehouse No. 16 has been repaired, and the damaged parts at the corners have been repaired, at least to ensure that rainwater will not flow into the warehouse.

Since the fire broke out in the railway freight yard, Han Xu, the person in charge, has also had various headaches.

Not only was he required by the fire department to make various rectifications, but he also faced various investigations by the police.

After all, there was a charred corpse at the scene of the fire.

These days, people in the railway freight yard are talking about it, especially the blame on the newcomer Zhuang Qi.

Many people thought that Zhuang Qi shouldn't have let this homeless old man in.

If it hadn't been for meddling, the fire might have been avoided.

Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, everyone still wants to spend the New Year in peace and stability.

But after this kind of thing happened, I feel that this year is not practical.

Han Xu led Gu Chen and the others, and they also introduced in a flattering way: "Officer Gu, according to your request, everything here is preserved, and I told them everything, except for you, Officer Gu, who will not speak." Don't mess around here."

"Very good." Gu Chen nodded silently, affirming Han Xu's work, and then asked Han Xu, "Where's that Zhuang Qi? Call her here, I need her."

"Eh? Zhuang Qi?" Han Xu hesitated, then turned to ask the middle-aged female worker behind him, "Is Zhuang Qi here today?"

"Yes, it's in the office." The middle-aged female worker said.

"Then why don't you let her come here quickly? You have made such a big mess, and now everyone is worried about working every day. This girl is really enough."

Now Han Xu is angry when he mentions Zhuang Qi, and he can't help but say a few words.

The middle-aged female worker ignored him and took out her mobile phone to contact Zhuang Qi.

Not long after, Zhuang Qi, who was wearing work clothes that didn't fit well, ran all the way from the office building.

When going down the stairs, I almost tripped and felt so embarrassed.

Walking in front of Han Xu, and looking at the four policemen beside Han Xu, Zhuang Qi knew that if these policemen came, they would definitely have nothing to eat.

"Zhuang Qi, come here." Han Xu said sharply.

"Oh." Zhuang Qi shrank her neck and moved in front of Han Xu in small steps.

Seeing this, Han Xu changed his serious face just now, turned his head to Gu Chen and the others with a smile and said:

"Comrade policeman, the person has arrived. If you have anything to ask, just ask her. She is responsible for all the troubles. If you have anything to do, just go to her. Now I see her and I will get angry."

"Okay, got it." Seeing that Han Xu was still chattering here, Gu Chen ignored him and came directly to Zhuang Qi.

"Zhuang Qi." Gu Chen said.

"Ah?" Zhuang Qi raised her head, feeling aggrieved, "Officer Gu, what else do you want to know from me?"

"Do you still remember the route that the old man used to enter the railway area from outside?" Gu Chen asked.

"Remember." Zhuang Qi nodded silently.

"Then take us around." Lu Weiwei also stepped forward and said.

Zhuang Qi asked weakly: "Do you want to go back to that road?"

"That's right, we want to find out how the old man came here every day." Officer Wang followed suit.

But Zhuang Qi hesitated and said: "But, the iron net that was cut is now bet by our supervisor again. Do you still want to go out from there? If so, then you have to cut it."

"Then bring your tools, and we'll go there together." Gu Chen also urged.

Not long after, Zhuang Qi walked up to the crowd with a pair of large pliers. Afterwards, everyone climbed down the steps together and came to the railway track area.

Walk along the railway track for a while, and climb to a high ground.

It is a very easy thing for everyone to go up and down.

But for Han Xu, the supervisor with a big belly, it seemed a bit difficult.

When climbing down the steps, Han Xu looked a little clumsy, but when he followed everyone and climbed up to the high ground, Han Xu fully exposed his physical defects.

It was only with the help of the middle-aged female worker that he scrambled to Gu Chen's side.

At this moment, Zhuang Qi pointed to a corner and explained to everyone: "I just cut a hole in this place."

"Because there are a lot of plants here, the privacy is very good, and most people seldom pay attention to it."

"So cut a hole and have plants as cover, it is generally difficult to find."

According to Zhuang Qi's introduction, Gu Chen came to the iron net.

At this moment, the cut iron net has also been reconnected by many iron wires.

Gu Chen directly stretched out his hand and said, "Give me your tools."

"Okay." Zhuang Qi handed the tool pliers to Gu Chen without thinking too much.

Afterwards, Gu Chen asked everyone to take two steps back, while he picked up the tool pliers and cut the previous iron net again.

Several people worked together to pull the iron net apart.

In this way, the entire iron net instantly broke through a passage.

As long as the iron net is lifted, people can get in and out from one side of the iron net.

Gu Chen put down the tools, and after putting on the boots, he took the lead in getting into the vegetation.

Since the surrounding area was covered by a lot of vegetation, the light was not good, so Gu Chen turned on the strong flashlight and began to survey the surrounding situation.

Especially on the ground, Gu Chen found some footprints, so he turned to ask Han Xu behind him: "Mr. Han."

"Yes." The chubby Han Xu patted the dust on his body, and hurried to the iron net and asked, "Officer Gu, what can I do for help?"

"This place was repaired by you?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes." Han Xu also nodded silently, and echoed, "Isn't it because the iron net was cut by Zhuang Qi? So I asked someone to repair it with iron wire."

"Then these mending workers, have they ever sneaked in?" Gu Chen asked again.

Han Xu frowned, turned to ask the middle-aged female worker behind him, and said, "Didn't you arrange this? You were at the scene, tell me."

"Okay." The middle-aged female worker nodded slightly, stepped forward and said: "Officer Gu, the workers who repaired the broken iron net were standing outside and reconnecting the broken iron net with iron wire, they did not get in. "

"That is to say, they are all standing outside to repair?" Lu Weiwei asked her in confirmation.

The middle-aged female worker replied affirmatively: "Of course, they didn't go in."

"Okay, I see." After Gu Chen got the general idea from the middle-aged female worker, he asked Zhuang Qi: "Zhuang Qi, have you ever come in from here?"

"No." Zhuang Qi shook her head, and said truthfully: "Although I cut the wire mesh fence, I didn't get in. I know that it can lead to the outside, but the plants here are dense and a bit gloomy, so I Don't dare to go in."

"Just tell the old man that he can get in from the outside, and every night in the future, he can get into the railway track area from here, and then sneak into the warehouse of the railway freight yard."

"Okay." After learning about it from Zhuang Qi, Gu Chen continued to search the scene.

Soon, Gu Chen discovered with a bright flashlight that there were many deep footprints on the ground.

Because of this area, most people would not pass through it at all, coupled with the impact of some sand, the surface of the passage mud road was covered with a layer of fine sand.

On rainy days, the fine sand and mud roads will look a little soft, and even on dry sunny days, it is difficult for the sun to shine in.

Over time, the ground in this area will appear very soft.

Gu Chen quickly found many footprints in the middle of the passage.

Since the weather has been sunny in recent days, the soil on the ground seems too dry, but the deep grooves left by the footprints on rainy days will become very obvious after drying.

From the footprints, Gu Chen could see that in one of the footprints, the lines of the shoes were blurred, obviously the soles of the shoes had been worn for a long time, and no lines could be seen for a long time.

But the other footprint, the texture of the shoe print is clear, and it can be seen with the naked eye that it is the footprint of a pair of leather shoes.

Afterwards, Gu Chen searched the surrounding area repeatedly, but no other footprints were found.

Thinking of the monitoring screen provided by He Junchao, Zhou Jiayou left wearing a pair of leather shoes after parking the car at the "Xiaoxu Auto Home" store for maintenance.

Therefore, Gu Chen concluded that the leather shoe footprints in this passage were probably left by Zhou Jiayou.

"Junior Brother Gu, what did you find?" Lu Weiwei, who had been squatting at the exit of the passage, asked.

"I found some footprints." Gu Chen responded, randomly took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the shape of the footprints at the scene.

Afterwards, Gu Chen continued to walk towards the other end of the passage.

It has to be said that the secret passage here is indeed too secret.

The perimeter of the iron net is covered with vegetation, so few people will pass through such a messy corner.

Therefore, when Gu Chen walked through the vegetation and came to a small road outside, he immediately felt that Zhuang Qi was indeed a genius.

Obviously, the secret passage she provided to Zhou Wencai is very convenient for Zhou Wencai to get in and out without being discovered.

Around the exit, Gu Chen also conducted a brief survey, but found nothing.

Because coming out of the corner of the vegetation passage, there is a cement road in front of you, and the footprints end here.

And look around, there is almost no monitoring around.

With a faint sigh, Gu Chen returned to the original route and arrived at the starting point just now.

Lu Weiwei helped Gu Chen out of the cave, and hurriedly asked, "How about Junior Brother Gu?"

"The passage is very secret." Glancing at the position behind, Gu Chen said again: "The exit of the passage is a concrete road, but the area around the exit of the passage is covered with vegetation, so it is difficult for passers-by to find."

Looking back at Zhuang Qi, Gu Chen also asked her curiously: "I said, Zhuang Qi, how did you discover such a secret place?"

"Uh……"

It felt a little awkward, but Zhuang Qi still said the truth: "Because I used to pass by here often, so I know that the inside of the vegetation is the iron net."

"And I have also inspected the railway tracks, so I know the situation inside, and I felt that the old man was very pitiful."

"Thinking about the sundries warehouse in our railway freight yard, it has been empty there to pile sundries, and it hasn't been used very well."

"So I just want to help him, let the old man have a place to live, that's all."

"Understood." Gu Chen nodded silently, and then signaled everyone to go back the same way, and came to the burned warehouse again.

This has been checked many times before, and nothing abnormal was found.

Therefore, Gu Chen could only shift the focus of the investigation to the railway overpass outside.

Thinking that Zhuang Qi usually passes there to go to work, Gu Chen called Zhuang Qi out alone.

Several people drove together towards the railway overpass.

After a while, Zhuang Qi pointed to the outside and said: "That's right there, the pillar under the railway overpass, the old man usually hides there, behind the pillar."

Gu Chen made a turn, parked the police car on the side of the road, and then signaled Zhuang Qi to stay in the car, while the others got out of the car and went to see what happened.

The railway overpass is surrounded by various landscape flowers. According to the withered state of the lawn, everyone can probably know which areas have been trampled by people for a long time. Therefore, along a muddy yellow path, everyone quickly came to the other side of the overpass column. side area.

Due to the surrounding low vegetation, a natural concave area is formed under the pillars of the flyover.

And Gu Chen can see from some discarded rain tarpaulins around that Zhou Wencai lived in this area before, and basically used rain tarpaulins to tie them between the pillars and the vegetation, so that this area forms a shelter. Rain on the roof.

And low-lying areas can indeed avoid wind and rain.

"It can be seen that Zhou Wencai is indeed smart. He can survive simply by hiding in this place, but he has been staying for several years. He really has enough perseverance."

Seeing the simple layout of the surroundings, Gu Chen can roughly use his master-level imagination to combine these discarded items in his mind.

Yuan Shasha couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Why does this Zhou Wencai need it? It's a good job. He was a homeless man, and now he was killed by someone."

"But, what was Zhou Jiayou's motive for harming others? How did he find Zhou Wencai?"

"Maybe they met by accident. After all, Zhou Wencai and Zhou Jiayou have known each other for a long time. As long as Zhou Wencai stays in Jiangnan City, there must be one time for Zhou Jiayou to meet."

Officer Wang crossed his arms and thoughtfully said, "But if that's the case, I still can't tell why Zhou Jiayou wanted to kill Zhou Wencai?"

"That's right." Gu Chen's mind is also in a mess now.

After Zhou Wencai was killed, the fire burned the body into a pile of coke, and now Zhou Jiayou is also missing, which makes Gu Chen very distressed.

At least from the present point of view, Zhou Jiayou has obviously been to the railway freight yard, and the footprints in the passage can basically be judged.

As long as you compare the picture of the footprints with the pair of leather shoes that Zhou Jiayou often wore before, it is actually not difficult to judge.

The difficult thing is how did Zhou Jiayou and Zhou Wencai meet and go together?
"Junior Brother Gu, look quickly."

While Gu Chen was thinking hard, Lu Weiwei suddenly pointed to a slope and said, "There are some footprints over here."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen immediately led everyone over.

At this time, the area that Lu Weiwei pointed to was the downhill area of ​​the pillars of the railway overpass.

Due to the constant water droplets falling above the railway overpass, this downhill area looks extremely humid.

There is no lush lawn cover around it, but a muddy area.

This is also easy to explain, this side is a blind spot, on the other side of the main road.

Looking from the main road to the flyover column, there is only a visual range area covered with flowers and grass.

As for the back area, there is no need to spend money on makeup.

So this is a watershed moment.

One side is covered with grass, while the other side is bare mud.

However, affected by the continuous water stains above the overpass, there are obviously obvious footprints on the muddy ground.

As for the area where Lu Weiwei reminded Gu Chen just now, there are several obvious marks.

Gu Chen hurriedly walked around to the footprint area, squatted down to examine it carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Is it the footprint of leather shoes?"

"Then... could that be Zhou Jiayou's footprint?" Since Gu Chen had already found leather shoe footprints in the vegetation passage near the iron net, it can basically be judged to be Zhou Jiayou's.

Therefore, when Zhou Wencai found footprints of leather shoes under the railway overpass that Zhou Wencai had occupied for a long time, Lu Weiwei would naturally put them on Zhou Jiayou's body.

"It's very possible." In order to confirm everyone's judgment, Gu Chen took out his mobile phone, and took the photo of the leather shoe footprints that he had just taken near the iron fence, directly in front of him for comparison.

But this comparison, everyone was stunned on the spot.

"Isn't it the same?" Police officer Wang couldn't help being taken aback, and quickly reminded Gu Chen, "Gu Chen, the footprints in the mud are exactly the same as the footprints in your mobile phone photo."

"It's Zhou Jiayou, he has been here before, and judging from his footprints, it should be new footprints." Gu Chen also echoed.

"Besides, there is another footprint around, the footprint without the bottom flower." Yuan Shasha also reminded.

So Gu Chen continued to flip through the phone's photo album, and found another set of footprints taken near the iron fence.

Comparing the phone pictures, everyone was dumbfounded.

"That's right, it's exactly the same. This footprint without the sole pattern should belong to Zhou Wencai before, because he was wearing a pair of sneakers, and the sole pattern is probably severely worn. After all, it may have been worn for several years."

Lu Weiwei is also very excited now.

Excluding Zhou Wencai who is now dead, Zhou Jiayou is undoubtedly the biggest suspect.

After all, Zhou Jiayou's footprints appeared near the crime scene and near the railway overpass where Zhou Wencai usually lived.

But now Zhou Jiayou suddenly disappeared after Zhou Wencai was burned into coke, obviously absconding in fear of crime.

"But, why did he run away?" Gu Chen couldn't help being puzzled, and murmured:

"Could it be that he is afraid that the truth of the matter will be known by our police?"

"But if Zhou Jiayou absconded in fear of crime, wouldn't that be equivalent to exposing himself? Because Zhou Jiayou disappeared for a few days and didn't contact Aunt Liu, the nanny at home, which is obviously very abnormal."

"If our police investigate deeply, we will definitely come to the door, but in this way, Zhou Jiayou's identity will obviously be exposed."

"That's right." Yuan Shasha heard Gu Chen's words, and said without hesitation:

"Why is Zhou Jiayou so stupid? He is exposing himself by doing this. If it were me, after committing the crime, I would definitely find a way to escape from the scene, but at least I would make sure that I showed up at home or contacted my family."

"Then, find a reason for yourself to go to a friend's house for a short stay, at least have someone give yourself an alibi."

"But he, Zhou Jiayou, is playing missing. If the Zhou family can't find him and chooses to call the police directly, wouldn't everything be revealed?"

"What Xiao Yuan said makes sense." Police Officer Wang crouched in front of the footprints, and said thoughtfully, "This Zhou Jiayou, if he killed Zhou Wencai without anyone noticing it."

"Then another fire burned his body into coke, so why did he play missing?"

Gu Chen shook his head, a little confused: "It would be great if I knew, this Zhou Jiayou may have other ideas."

"But no matter what, we should first follow the clues and find Zhou Jiayou, because maybe Zhou Jiayou didn't want to play missing."

"Maybe he was on the way to retreat, and maybe some accident happened, otherwise he wouldn't be so stupid as to cut off contact with his nanny, Aunt Liu. This is obviously not in line with common sense."

"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei approached Gu Chen, and also reminded, "This side is moistened by dripping water, the surrounding soil is loose, and the footprints are very obvious. We can look for them based on the footprints."

"Okay." Gu Chen stood up, and didn't want to waste too much time here.

Afterwards, Gu Chen used his mobile phone to take pictures of the scene before continuing to search along the direction of the footprints.

Below the railway overpass, everyone continues down the slope, and there is another railway passage.

This place goes from south to north, and two different lines intersect here. Therefore, when Gu Chen and the others searched along the direction of the footprints, they also found that there was an iron net blocking them.

What shocked Gu Chen was that the iron net seemed to be deliberately sabotaged.

Lu Weiwei just wanted to grab the pillar on one side of the iron net, and was about to pull the cut iron net away, but was suddenly stopped by Gu Chen: "Senior Lu, wait a moment."

Lu Weiwei's expression was blank, her hands were hanging in the air, and she suddenly realized: "I almost forgot to take fingerprints."

"That's right." Seeing Lu Weiwei's reaction, Gu Chen took out a roll of tape that he carried with him, and came to the iron net.

"Few people know about this place, and judging from the footprints, in addition to the footprints of Zhou Wencai's skate shoes, there are also footprints of Zhou Jiayou's leather shoes, which means that only these two people have been to this place."

"But I still don't understand why Zhou Jiayou came here with Zhou Wencai?" Yuan Shasha also shook her head, feeling a little incomprehensible.

Gu Chen grinned and said involuntarily: "Some things cannot be explained, but we can find the truth based on clues."

"As long as you find Zhou Jiayou, all mysteries can be solved."

"And from the current point of view, only Zhou Wencai and Zhou Jiayou have been here, so this place will definitely only leave fingerprints of these two people."

"It should be this place." Lu Weiwei pointed to an iron frame that obviously needs to be touched with hands: "This place has some shallow fingerprints."

"Although it's not very obvious, I think Liu Forensic and Gao Chuanfeng from the Technical Division of the Municipal Bureau should have a way to clarify the fingerprints."

"That's right." Gu Chen also nodded in agreement, and then began to follow Lu Weiwei's guidance to stick and extract the parts most likely to touch the fingers with tape.

Gu Chen wore gloves, so his fingerprints would not be left on the tape.

After repeated extractions at the scene, Gu Chen, with the assistance of Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, rubbed them out, glued them with oil paper, and put them in different evidence collection bags.

After that, Gu Chen began to pull away the iron net and let everyone in.

But the footprints are interrupted here, because through the iron net, there is a gravel area below.

Footprints will not appear here.

On both sides of the railway track, there are various vegetation, so it is also difficult for Gu Chen to judge, where will Zhou Jiayou go after passing through this area?

Standing in place, Gu Chen looked around and suddenly suggested, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, and Xiao Yuan, let's divide into two groups here."

"Senior Sister Lu and I are in a group to search along the railroad track on the right side. Senior Brother Wang and Xiao Yuan are searching along the railroad track on the left side to see if we can find some new clues?"

"Yes." Officer Wang nodded in agreement, and immediately said to Yuan Shasha, "Xiao Yuan, let's go to the left."

"Yes." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, and followed Officer Wang directly.

Gu Chen also said to Lu Weiwei: "Senior Sister Lu, let's go to the right."

"Yes." Lu Weiwei also echoed.

The two parties separated at the exit of the damaged iron net, one left and one right.

Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei along the gutter like a railway worker inspecting the tracks.

Lu Weiwei followed Gu Chen, looked left and right, and said involuntarily, "I mean Junior Brother Gu, this kind of inspection feels a bit like finding a needle in a haystack."

"Then look for the most likely place to go out." Gu Chen said.

"The most likely place to go out?" Lu Weiwei was a little puzzled.

Gu Chen turned his head and said, "Zhou Jiayou came under the railway overpass where Zhou Wencai had occupied for a long time, obviously he didn't want to be discovered."

"In other words, he is afraid of being discovered by the surveillance cameras, so he will not pass through the main road. He will definitely try his best to avoid the surveillance area, and then approach the railway overpass from an inconspicuous place."

"I understand." Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lu Weiwei also suddenly realized: "This Zhou Jiayou will definitely come in from another exit, and then approach the railway overpass from the broken iron net."

"Then if he wants to leave the place where Zhou Wencai has been entrenched for a long time, he will inevitably choose another suitable exit, and this exit, obviously, will also have iron nets, so there must be some damaged gaps."

"That's the reason." While speaking, Gu Chen suddenly discovered that there was a trace of a broken iron net not far from the front right.

Moreover, the iron net obviously showed signs of being pulled, so Gu Chen hurriedly reminded, "Senior Sister Lu, there is a situation ahead."

"what?"

Before Lu Weiwei could react, Gu Chen had already rushed over.

Coming to the damaged iron net, Gu Chen checked left and right, and found that it was indeed cut with a tool, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart:
"Could it be that Zhou Jiayou did this?"

"If it's Zhou Wencai, there's no need for him at all, because Zhou Wencai can go out to the railway overpass in a fair and honest manner without sneaking around, so... Zhou Jiayou who is wearing leather shoes must have done it." Lu Weiwei walked to Beside Gu Chen, he also spoke in a nonchalant way.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Almost, so, quickly extract the fingerprints."

Gu Chen was also overjoyed when he thought that he had a new discovery on his side.

At least everyone went to this kind of place to investigate clues, and it wasn't nothing.

In particular, the discovery of traces of leather shoes made the investigation of the case seem to be developing in a favorable direction.

According to the previous operating experience at the exit of the downhill iron network, Gu Chen took half the time for fingerprint extraction this time than before.

Fingerprint extraction is also quite smooth.

Although the fingerprints are not clear, at least they can be handed over to the Technical Section of the Municipal Bureau, so that Liu Forensic and Gao Chuanfeng can restore them.

The problem is not too big.

Pulling open the iron net, Gu Chen found the leather shoe mark again, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "This side is muddy, and this damned leather shoe footprint has appeared again."

"It seems that this Zhou Jiayou should have left from this place." Seeing this, Lu Weiwei also grinned, and quickly took out her phone and said:
"Then I'll tell Lao Wang and the others to go back and wait for us first, so they don't have to look for it anymore."

"Okay, let them go back to the car first, we will meet them later." Gu Chen said.

Afterwards, Gu Chen climbed up the slope again according to the footprints of the leather shoes.

Lu Weiwei followed closely behind, contacting Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, while observing behind Gu Chen.

When Gu Chen climbed up the slope, he found that this was already the bottom of another viaduct.

This location is very remote, and the road is a little far from the slope where Gu Chen is.

There is a piece of wasteland around Jaga, but it is possible to go to several other intersections through the wasteland.

Since the surrounding area has been covered by vegetation, the footprints cannot be seen, but Gu Chen was able to continue searching all the way forward according to the broken traces of the vegetation.

Finally, Gu Chen walked out of the barren grass and came to the sidewalk, only to realize that this is another road.

Lu Weiwei, who was a little dizzy, also asked Gu Chen angrily: "Junior Brother Gu, where are we?"

"I don't know." Gu Chen didn't see the street sign either, so he took out his phone, opened the phone map to locate it, and suddenly found that he came to an unfamiliar road.

Looking around, it seemed that some surveillance camera devices were found near the intersection of the opposite street, so Gu Chen quickly dialed He Junchao's phone number.

Not long after, He Junchao got through the phone, and Gu Chen hurriedly said, "Senior Brother He, I have sent you my current address."

"Help me check the nearby surveillance in the past few days to see if I can find Zhou Jiayou's trace?"

"No problem, but it will take some time." He Junchao said on the other end of the phone.

Gu Chen also said humbly: "Okay, I'll wait for your news here now."

After breathing heavily, Gu Chen hung up the phone.

Seeing the cars coming and going in front of him, Gu Chen had an intuition that on these roads, some traces of Zhou Jiayou could always be caught through surveillance.

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