I am a super cop

Chapter 2647 The Sixth Person

The proprietress also had a stunned expression, feeling that the conversation with Gu Chen was out of context.

So he looked at the beer in Gu Chen's hand and said slowly: "Oh, this beer was put here by a salesman from a manufacturer to sell."

"What do you mean?" Lu Weiwei asked puzzledly.

"The manufacturer puts the beer in the small shop for sale first. If it sells well, the merchant will restock it. In other words, the manufacturer distributes the goods." Before the lady proprietress could speak, Gu Chen had already answered her question.

The proprietress nodded silently and agreed, "Yes, that's basically it."

Glancing at the shelves in her store, the lady boss continued to explain: "The products in my store are generally old brands, other miscellaneous brands, that is, niche brands, which are not very common."

"Generally, merchants come to distribute goods, that is, they put them in my store for sale first. If they sell well, I will purchase more goods from here."

Spreading her hands, the lady boss continued, "It doesn't cost me money anyway. It's mainly because my store has a lot of traffic."

Pointing around, the lady boss said, "Look around here, how many restaurants and restaurants are there?"

“There are not many small shops, and every shop has its own drinks.”

"But I have more categories here, many people prefer to come here to buy things, and I am also an old store."

"Many merchants see that I have good traffic and want to consign their goods to me."

"How many distribution points does this brand have in Jiangnan City?" Officer Wang asked immediately.

"How many distribution points?" The proprietress was stunned and tried hard to think.

Not long after, the lady boss quickly replied: "Oh, it seems there aren't many. This brand seems to have just entered the Jiangnan market, and there are only a few salesmen."

"They probably rented a house, and the goods were stored in the house."

“When the sales here pick up, they will rent an office.”

"Are there any adverse reactions among people who have drunk this beer?" Yuan Shasha asked immediately. This is also the issue that everyone is most concerned about now.

But the lady boss waved her hand and said, "No, it's a small brand, but the taste is quite good and quite authentic."

"In my opinion, it tastes better than the old brand. I know for sure after having tasted it myself."

Hearing what the lady boss said, Gao Hu continued to ask, "That is to say, people who have drunk this kind of beer have no problems and are healthy, right?"

"Yes." It felt like this group of police officers were a little different this time, and the questions they asked were very tricky.

So the proprietress started to take it seriously and seemed to realize something was wrong.

So he quickly asked Gu Chen again: "Officer Gu, what is going on? Why did you come to the store to check the beer problem this time? Isn't this something that the Industrial and Commercial Quality Inspection should be responsible for?"

"Because several people were collectively poisoned after drinking this beer, and they bought it in your store, so we came here to find out what happened." Gu Chen did not hide anything and directly informed the proprietress of the situation.

But at this moment, the proprietress panicked and quickly asked Gu Chen: "Gu... Officer Gu, are you telling the truth? Is there something wrong with this beer?"

"It's not that there's something wrong with the beer here. Maybe someone poisoned it. Otherwise, why are you fine after drinking it, but others are in trouble after drinking it?"

Seeing that the proprietress was still a little panicked at the moment, Gu Chen quickly comforted her: "You don't have to worry too much, we just want to come here to understand the situation."

After he finished speaking, Gu Chen showed the photos of Ah Zhong and the others in front of the proprietress and said:

"These guys came to your store to buy beer a few nights ago. Do you still remember them?"

"These few people?" Looking at the photos of the corpses, the proprietress's face became heavy and she hurriedly recalled.

Soon, she snapped her fingers and said, "Yes, I remember that night, they seemed to be at the barbecue restaurant next door and packed a lot of barbecue."

"Then they came to my store and bought some beer and cigarettes. Yes, they must be the ones."

"It's them." Seeing that the situation described by the boss lady was basically consistent with the situation he investigated, Gu Chen quickly asked again:

"Do you still have the surveillance footage from that time?"

"Yes...yes." Seeing that Gu Chen wanted to monitor, the proprietress immediately began to cooperate.

So Gu Chen and a few others gathered around the computer to check it out.

Since the store area is not very large, there is only one surveillance camera, which is located behind the cash register.

The monitoring range is the direction of the cash register and the shelf area of ​​the entire store.

"It's...it's them." The proprietress found the surveillance footage and immediately reminded Gu Chen.

Everyone noticed in the video that several men simply entered the store, walked around casually, and picked up some beer.

The whole process was very quick. We didn't stay in the store for too long and left as soon as we bought something.

"Is this the scene?" Seeing that Gu Chen and others were watching attentively, the proprietress asked weakly.

"It's them." said Gu Chen.

"Then... is there any problem?" the proprietress continued to ask.

"Not yet." Gu Chen said again.

From the surveillance, it was indeed possible to detect that there was no problem with the beer.

Moreover, several people left after buying things, which means that the beer was poisoned later.

But these people returned directly to their residence afterwards. If someone poisoned, it was one of them.

But the strange thing is that all of these people died of poisoning.

Then we can rule out the possibility that the poisoner was one of these people.

"Could it be that there was another person in the rental house at that time? And that person left in a hurry after poisoning?" While Gu Chen was thinking, he was called by the landlady.

"Gu...Officer Gu, do I have any connections?"

It seemed that she was afraid of being implicated, so the proprietress didn't speak as slowly as before, but seemed very nervous.

"Oh." Seeing this, Gu Chen also hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, we are just doing a routine inspection. If you are fine after drinking this kind of beer, then there is nothing wrong with the products you sell here."

"Oh oh." With Gu Chen's reassuring words, the proprietress finally breathed a sigh of relief. She felt like she was almost scared to death just now.

At this moment, Gu Chen didn't want to waste too much time here. After a brief conversation with the proprietress, he hurriedly left and returned to Lvyuan Community.

At this moment, other police officers began to come here to deal with the aftermath, while Gu Chen's team followed the forensic doctor Gao Chuanfeng's team and returned to the Municipal Bureau's Technical Department to wait for the final autopsy results.

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In the lounge next to the testing room, Gu Chen and others were drinking tea calmly, but Gao Hu and He Qian, who were from the Xiangnan City Police, were extremely anxious.

Keep walking back and forth in the lounge.

It can be said that the investigation into the cause of Xu Tianxia’s death seems to be becoming more and more confusing.

At the very least, everyone who had anything to do with Xu Tianxia seemed to have encountered strange things.

First, Xu Tianxia’s daughter Xu Yaxuan left without saying goodbye and never returned again. Then, Xu Tianxia’s former close friend A Zhong and several people around A Zhong were collectively poisoned to death.

It feels like there is a mysterious network behind this that has been controlling the development of the situation.

On the other hand, I still seem to have no clue.

Seeing Gu Chen drinking tea quietly, Gao Hu hurriedly walked up to him and asked helplessly:
"Director Gu, how long will the autopsy take? When will the results be available?"

"It should be soon." Gu Chen looked down at his watch and continued:
"If it's fast, it might be around 10 minutes, and if it's slow, it shouldn't be more than 20 minutes."

After all, Gu Chen comes here often and is well aware of the work efficiency of Gao Chuanfeng's team.

But Gao Hu and He Qian were a little unbelievable.

I thought to myself that I was just asking casually, how could you, Gu Chen, estimate the time so detailed?

With a faint sigh, Gao Hu and He Qian were also very anxious. They continued to walk back and forth in front of Gu Chen and the others to relieve their anxiety.

Sure enough, 12 minutes later, there was a sound of a door opening in the testing room next door.

Gao Hu and He Qian heard the noise and quickly opened the door of the lounge.

At this moment, forensic pathologist Gao Chuanfeng was coming to the lounge with documents in his hand.

"Gu Chen, the autopsy report is out. As usual, I'll give you a simplified version first, and the details will be given later."

"I understand." Upon hearing that it was a simplified version, Gu Chen knew that the autopsy report should just contain some simple words. However, Gu Chen and Gao Chuanfeng have been partners for many years, so Gu Chen could understand it, but others might not.

For example, Gao Hu and He Qian, when they looked at the autopsy report form, although it was filled out in detail, there were only a few words in the report column.

At this time, Gao Chuanfeng also sat on a sofa, got a glass of water from the water dispenser next to him, drank it all, and said:
"These people all died from the poison."

"And according to our testing of the beer on site, we found that someone had deliberately pierced the cans with a needle and injected a highly toxic substance into the beer."

"Then, they used some tricks to fill in the holes on the cans and pasted some trademark drawings on them."

"Have the fingerprints been detected?" Gu Chen glanced at the test report and handed it to Gao Hu and He Qian beside him.

"For now, only these few people have fingerprints. We haven't found any of the others yet. I guess the murderer injected the poison first and then wiped off the fingerprints outside."

"Finally, these people drank the beer containing highly toxic substances without knowing it, which eventually led to their death from poisoning."

"Then there should have been a sixth person in this room at the time." After hearing this explanation, Gu Chen's doubts began to slowly dissipate, and he also analyzed it to everyone:
"First of all, Ah Zhong came from Shonan City and brought four followers with him, so it's five including him."

"Five people went out to buy midnight snacks, and all five of them were poisoned to death in the rental house."

"This shows that the person who poisoned the patient might not be one of these five people, but someone else."

"In addition, these people went to the barbecue restaurant to buy barbecue, and then went to the store next door to buy beer. They just left after buying everything, without staying for too long, and went straight home."

“But these people happened to die of poisoning at home, which means that they were drinking with another person at the time.”

"But this person may have used some tricks. He may have secretly inserted a syringe containing a highly toxic substance into the beer in the can while the others were not paying attention."

"Then he drank with the gang and had a barbecue. Maybe he drank some as well, but his bottle was definitely not poisonous."

Having said that, Gu Chen also looked at Gao Chuanfeng and asked:
"Are there any cans among these that do not contain highly toxic substances?"

"Uh... no." After hesitating for a moment, Gao Chuanfeng soon shook his head to deny it.

"How many did you find at the scene?" Gu Chen asked again.

"That's five cans of beer in total," said Gao Chuanfeng.

"That's right." Hearing this, Gu Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

Gao Chuanfeng was a little puzzled, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen: "What...what is right?"

"The gang bought six cans of beer in total, but we only found empty cans at the scene, which means one of them was taken away by the murderer."

"He was just afraid that we would find him and discover any traces he left behind. He took him away directly to avoid any trouble."

"Oh my God, so this means that these people were drinking with the murderer at home?" Yuan Shasha also felt incredible when she heard this.

Officer Wang also took a deep breath and said, "I really didn't expect that the murderer would be so vicious."

"These are five lives after all. How could they have the heart to do this?"

"Maybe the murderer just wanted to silence the witnesses, or maybe these five people are hiding some unspeakable secrets." Gu Chen also directly stated his analysis.

Lu Weiwei on the side also immediately agreed: "Yes, it is not difficult to see from the fact that these people left Xiangnan City and came to Jiangnan City to rent a house."

"These people may be hiding from something. And Xu Tianxia fell from a tall building inexplicably, and his behavior was also extremely abnormal."

"And the biggest connection between these two groups is that they all knew each other before they died, and they all had a pretty good relationship."

"Good brothers died together, which means there must be some unspeakable secret behind it."

"Then, the murderer wanted to put an end to all the troubles and get rid of these major threats, so he used such a despicable method as poisoning."

"One more thing." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen added:
"Another thing to add is that this murderer might be an acquaintance of Zhong and the others."

"And the kind that's so familiar that you can just buy some barbecue and drink some wine."

"If the relationship was not close, then Zhong and his friends would have taken this person to a restaurant for dinner, but they didn't do that."

"We just packed some food at the barbecue restaurant, went to a small store to buy some beer, and then came home to have a meal together."

With a faint sigh, Gu Chen continued, "It's obvious that the murderer is an old acquaintance of them."

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