I am a super cop

Chapter 2771 The corpse by the river

It was impossible to see anything in the wilderness at night, so Gu Chen and his companions could only rely on the high-powered flashlights in their hands to search the surroundings.

But there are vast wastelands here, and it is obviously unrealistic to find people in these wastelands.

But if it was one minute later, the driver's life might be seriously harmed.

Of course Gu Chen didn't want this to happen.

However, it is not difficult to see from the brutality of the men who attacked Zhang He before that they just wanted to teach Zhang He a lesson.

Moreover, the person behind this incident was very generous, which shows that he had other purposes.

But now, even the driver has disappeared.

Gu Chen took out his cell phone and called He Junchao again.

Not long after, the call was connected, and Gu Chen got straight to the point: "Brother He, please help me verify the identity of this driver. If there is any problem, report to me immediately."

"No problem, leave it to me." After receiving Gu Chen's request, He Junchao immediately began to investigate.

As for Gu Chen, he continued to follow the traces on the ground and began to walk towards the wasteland.

Gu Chen has master-level observation skills, and the other party has left traces. As long as the traces exist, Gu Chen can use the most stupid method to find the person.

"Follow me." Gu Chen reminded.

Everyone immediately took off their equipment, threw out their police weapons and batons, and began to surround Gu Chen to provide cover for him.

Gu Chen was carefully checking the traces on the ground.

Since the soil here is relatively soft, the footprints are easy to identify.

But as Gu Chen continued searching in the wasteland, he suddenly had a bad premonition.

Standing in one of the open spaces, Gu Chen suddenly heard the sound of flowing water.

"It's a river." said Gu Chen.

Officer Wang quickly replied: "There is indeed a river around here."

"No, there is also a smell of blood." Gu Chen said again.

Officer Wang was stunned, and quickly began to identify it carefully.

At the same time, Lu Weiwei answered first: "Yes, I have also smelled the smell of blood, and it seems to be nearby. There is wind blowing over, and judging by the wind direction, it should be..."

"Two o'clock on the river bank." Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei said in unison.

At this time, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, based on Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's judgment, quickly locked their eyes on the two o'clock direction of the river.

Gu Chen immediately began to speed up the search. Since the footprints could be traced and the direction had already been identified, Gu Chen could move quickly towards the target area.

Soon, everyone finally arrived at the riverside following the traces of footprints.

Yuan Shasha pointed at one of the objects and screamed, "Something's going on over there."

Following Yuan Shasha's suggestion, everyone looked towards the river.

At this moment, everyone was horrified to find that there was a dead body lying by the river.

Moreover, the body seemed to be unrecognizable.

The smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and everyone's expressions became more and more serious.

When Officer Wang walked up to the corpse, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose and immediately stepped back.

Then there was a bout of dry heaving.

"Old Wang." Just as Lu Weiwei was about to step forward, Officer Wang immediately stopped her with his hand: "Don't come over here. Don't come over here yet."

Upon hearing this, everyone stopped immediately.

After dry heaving for a while, Officer Wang felt that his body was gradually recovering, so he hurried over to the crowd.

"The corpse's head seems to have exploded, so you must be mentally prepared when you go over there." Officer Wang had a serious expression.

After looking at each other, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha nodded silently, trying to adjust their breathing, and then started walking over with a high-powered flashlight.

Everyone came to the body, shone a strong flashlight over it, and found that the head of the body seemed to have been smashed.

At this moment, blood and brain matter were scattered all over the ground.

Moreover, the body was half lying by the river, and the death was very tragic.

"Who did this? Why was he so cruel?" Lu Weiwei couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She felt like she would feel sick to her stomach if she looked at it any longer.

Although I have seen many corpses, such a tragic corpse is indeed very rare.

It can be seen that the murderer's viciousness has completely exceeded everyone's imagination.

Gu Chen took a few steps forward and began to carefully observe the deceased's clothes and figure.

After repeated comparisons, Gu Chen said with certainty: "The deceased is not Zhang He."

"Could it be the driver?" Yuan Shasha said.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Judging from what he is wearing now, he does look a lot like the driver."

"It seems that we are still a step late." Officer Wang said with regret.

Gu Chen also continued: "Call for support. Also, continue to look for other clues to see if there are any bodies nearby."

"Okay, I'll go call for support." Lu Weiwei said.

Officer Wang quickly said, "I'll go find some clues."

Everyone immediately took action.

Gu Chen began to look for new clues based on the traces at the scene, but in the end, Gu Chen judged that the murderer might have crossed the river, interrupting the clues.

"There seems to be no small boat on the lake, or rather, the murderer left on a boat," said Gu Chen.

"You can ask the residents nearby, they may know the situation," said Yuan Shasha.

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As time passed, the support called for by Gu Chen and others arrived one after another. Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong's team were the first to arrive and immediately began to cordon off the surrounding area.

After the forensic doctor Gao Chuanfeng's team arrived, they immediately began taking photos of the scene to collect evidence.

Gu Chen contacted the local village chief and asked him to come over quickly to cooperate with the investigation.

At this moment, the originally desolate wasteland suddenly became lively.

Various police lights flashed on the roadside.

When a bald village chief parked his car on the side of the road and saw the scene, he was so frightened that he stumbled to the police cordon.

"Are you the village chief?" Gu Chen asked the bald man.

"Yes, I'm the village chief." The bald village chief paused and immediately asked, "Comrade police, you informed me that a murder has occurred here. What is the situation?"

"Someone was smashed to death by the river, his brains were smashed out and his head was unrecognizable," said Lu Weiwei.

"No way?" Upon hearing the result, the bald village chief's heart skipped a beat. He felt that this was a bad thing, after all, this happened in his own village.

Gu Chen walked up to him and asked, "Is there a boat docked here on the river?"

"Yes." Facing Gu Chen's question, the bald village chief immediately responded:
"We do have a ship docked here."

"Now the boat is gone. It is very likely that it was rowed away by the murderer. So, I want to know where the boat should be now?"

"Ah?" Feeling that this question came too suddenly, the bald village chief seemed unable to answer for a moment. He quickly thought about it for a few seconds and said:
"Wait a moment, this boat belongs to Xu Gui from our village. He usually fishes in the river. Let me ask him."

"What's the point of asking him? Can he install a positioning device on the ship?" Officer Wang said jokingly.

Lu Weiwei also continued: "I want to know now, where is the most likely location of the ship? You should quickly send someone to find the ship."

"Okay, okay." After listening to Lu Weiwei's suggestion, the village chief immediately responded:
"I'll send someone to find a boat right away."

The scene was once again busy, and at this moment, Ding Liang had already given the result: "There is no need to look for the ship. We have used drones to investigate and have found where the ship is."

"The drone is still searching for suspicious persons nearby."

"Where?" Gu Chen asked.

"It's downstream of the river, and it seems a bit far from here," said Ding Liang.

"We have to find it no matter how far it is. Let's go downstream now." said Gu Chen.

Afterwards, after arranging the on-site tasks, Gu Chen drove and took everyone to search downstream.

Ding Liang was controlling the drone and using the screen to observe the specific location:

"Drive further ahead, on the other side of the river, yes, there is a suspension bridge nearby. Our vehicles cannot drive over, but we can walk on the suspension bridge."

With Ding Liang's constant corrections, Gu Chen finally found the suspension bridge.

After parking the vehicle on the side of the road, everyone immediately started walking across the suspension bridge to the other side of the river.

At this moment, Gu Chen discovered a bad situation. Because the boat was not fixed to the shore, the boat was still drifting downstream according to the direction of the river.

"Damn it." Gu Chen frowned, feeling a little overwhelmed by this sudden situation.

So several people immediately started to stabilize the drifting boat on the shore.

This is an old wooden boat, usually used for fishing. Gu Chen carefully observed the oars fixed on the boat and found that the fingerprints on the wooden oars had long been wiped off.

Especially the several places on the oar handles, which were almost all wiped clean.

"The murderer is so cunning that he even wiped off the fingerprints." Gu Chen took a breath and felt that the murderer was not only cruel but also very professional.

Don't give the police a chance to investigate.

Moreover, after committing the crime, the murderer chose to leave by boat. Obviously, he wanted to leave traces on land, but the traces were interrupted by the river.

In this way, the police will not be able to track based on the traces, and the river will be the best blockade.

"The murderer may not have landed here. There is a high probability that he left from upstream."

"Because it takes time for the boat to drift down the river, even though it is close to the shore and the current is not very fast here."

"So it will take a long time for the boat to drift downstream," Lu Weiwei analyzed.

Officer Wang also continued to add: "Also, the murderer seems to have planned it long ago. On the surface, the driver was the murderer trying to scare people and silence them, but now I still believe Gu Chen's previous judgment."

"You mean, the driver also has a close connection with these two people?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes." Officer Wang shook his right index finger and confirmed, "That's it."

"I feel that this driver must be related to these two people."

"Besides, I feel that the driver took the job on purpose to bring Zhang He here from the hospital tonight."

"And Zhang He might have asked the driver to go with him. He might be an old acquaintance of the driver, but the driver might not know that he would be killed tonight."

At this point, Officer Wang said unhappily, "It seems that this driver is also in a very miserable state. There is a high probability that he was silenced."

"Where is the murderer?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"It is very likely that the mastermind who sent people to teach Zhang He a lesson, and Zhang He and others did it together."

After a pause, Officer Wang continued, "I really don't understand how this driver could have been involved. Or is this just a random event?"

"Zhang He, there is a problem." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen also said casually.

Officer Wang also replied calmly: "I didn't feel it before, but now I feel it very strongly."

Walking back and forth in front of the crowd, Officer Wang crossed his arms and analyzed:
"First of all, the mastermind behind this incident spent a lot of money to send people to attack Zhang He, but he only wanted to stop at a certain point and send him to the hospital but save his life."

"It can be seen that Zhang He may have offended him somewhere before, so the mastermind behind the scenes is looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Zhang He."

"There's more." Before anyone could interrupt, Officer Wang continued to explain:
"Based on the information provided by those three people, this mastermind is likely injured. Theoretically, this injury should have been caused by Zhang He."

"Otherwise, why would the mastermind spend so much money to teach Zhang He a lesson? But he didn't kill him."

"Because this injury was caused by Zhang He, but the mastermind behind it seems to have something else to cooperate with Zhang He."

"But this driver might be someone Zhang He knows about this mastermind."

"But this person may have offended both of them, so he was brutally murdered."

At this point, Officer Wang took a deep breath and said unhappily:
"But, the man's brains were beaten out, which shows that the other party was really ruthless and didn't even think about leaving the driver a chance to survive."

"It can be seen how badly this driver offended these two people?"

Glancing in Gu Chen's direction, Officer Wang added, "Even Gu Chen said that this driver is very problematic. Now it seems that there is indeed a problem."

"We still have to wait for the results of Senior Brother He's investigation. I asked him to investigate the driver, and I believe there should be results soon," said Gu Chen.

Just as everyone was discussing, Gu Chen's cell phone suddenly rang.

Seeing this, everyone immediately gathered around and saw that the caller on Gu Chen’s phone was He Junchao.

Lu Weiwei immediately complained: "Speak of the devil, and he will appear."

"Hurry up and see if Senior Brother He has found out the driver's true identity." Yuan Shasha on the side was also a little impatient.

Officer Wang also urged, "Gu Chen, answer the phone quickly and see what's going on."

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