I am a super cop

Chapter 342 Three Selfish Hearts

Gu Chen didn't pay much attention to Jiang Wentao's fingers before.

It wasn't until Gu Chen discovered that the deceased Xu Tian was strangled to death that he had the idea of ​​looking for the murder weapon.

The victim, Xu Tian, ​​died in a relatively closed space, and the only place the murderer could enter and exit was the gap between the toilet cubicle and the ceiling.

Therefore, everyone's previous judgments believed that the murderer crawled out of this narrow gap.

But after Lu Weiwei's experiment, this guess was completely overturned.

It wasn't until Zhang Feng confessed his relationship with Jiang Wentao and Xu Tian that Gu Chen's attention returned to Jiang Wentao.

But Jiang Wentao's fingers were the key to Gu Chen's opening.

"Gu Chen." The officer Wang on the side didn't understand. The officer Wang, who had been thinking about the modus operandi from the beginning to the end, focused on Jiang Wentao's injured bandage for the first time because of Gu Chen's reminder.

However, this can only be Gu Chen's guess, how can he conclude that the bandage is the weapon used to strangle Xu Tian?So Police Officer Wang asked again: "You said that the bandage is the murder weapon, but what is your key factor?"

"That's right." Lu Weiwei was also reminded by Gu Chen, and her curiosity was aroused: "Junior Brother Gu, could it be...the bandage on Jiang Wentao's finger is flawed?"

Gu Chen pulled hard, pulled Jiang Wentao's left hand in front of everyone again, and said:

"When I met Mr. Jiang Wentao in the corridor, I once found the bandage on Mr. Jiang's hand. Mr. Jiang explained to me that the wound was scratched by the rusty guardrail of Binhai Park, right?"

Gu Chen looked at Jiang Wentao again.

"No... that's right." Jiang Wentao didn't know what to say at the moment, looked at Gu Chen with blurred eyes, and said: "I have a hand injury, how can I have the strength to strangle Xu Tian to death? You are obviously reckless Guess."

Seeing that Jiang Wentao was still stubbornly resisting, Gu Chen had no choice but to seriously say: "Mr. Jiang, you made a mistake. I saw that your injured and bandaged finger was the ring finger, but why is it your middle finger now?"

"What... what?" Jiang Wentao didn't seem to realize this, he quickly looked at the bandaged middle finger.

At this moment, on the middle finger, the bandage was twisted crookedly, as if it had been tied temporarily.

Lu Weiwei hurried forward, stared at the middle finger for a long time, then stared at Jiang Wentao and said, "Mr. Jiang, are you kidding around with the wound on your finger? The ring finger and the middle finger, don't mind if I take the bandage off to have a look." see?"

"No no, this is a misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding..."

Jiang Wentao also panicked.

It's just that he didn't expect that such a small detail could be caught by the young policeman in front of him.

Gu Chen ignored Jiang Wentao, grabbed Jiang Wentao's wrist firmly with his left hand, and pulled upwards with his right hand to pull out the bandage firmly.

Immediately, Jiang Wentao's clean fingers were completely exposed in front of everyone.

"Teacher Jiang." Gu Chen stared at him and said lightly, "Didn't you say you were scratched by the rusty guardrail in Binjiang Park? Didn't you say that you bled a lot? Why are your hands so clean?"

"me……"

After being asked repeatedly by Gu Chen, Jiang Wentao obviously couldn't stand it anymore.

How could he have known that Gu Chen would seize this key factor and make himself a part of the army.

Now Jiang Wentao's intestines are regretful, he only hates that he was careless at the time, and in a hurry, he mistakenly tied the bandage on his ring finger to his middle finger.

Originally, this would not arouse the suspicion of others at all, but the hateful thing is that when they collided with Gu Chen, Gu Chen accidentally discovered it.

"Haha, so that's the case." Lu Weiwei at the side was immediately proud.

She quickly put on her white gloves, took the bandage from Gu Chen's hand, and pulled it repeatedly in her own hand.

"That's right, it's a camouflage bandage, it's not elastic at all." Lu Weiwei pulled it hard again: "Besides, it's quite strong."

"Jiang Wentao, what else do you have to say?" Seeing this, Police Officer Wang also cast his gaze on Jiang Wentao: "It's a pity that you are still a master of fireworks, and you actually strangled your friend to death."

"No...it's not me." Jiang Wentao panicked immediately, and hurriedly said, "So what if I'm wrapped in bandages? Can't my hands hurt and be bandaged? Just because of this, you want to arrest me?"

Jiang Wentao looked at Xu Tian's body on the ground, and said with a sneer, "My brother was strangled to death, that's right, but everyone who has been to the scene just now knows that Xu Tian died in a relatively closed toilet cubicle. Do you think it's possible to kill people in a short time and get out of your body?"

Officer Wang was also stunned.

Jiang Wentao was right. Even if the murder weapon was found, it would be difficult to convict Jiang Wentao without a reasonable explanation for the modus operandi.

Police Officer Wang was stuck here before, but now that Jiang Wentao said it, Comrade Wang's expression suddenly turned ugly again.

Gu Chen smiled and said: "Since I can find the murder weapon that strangled Xu Tian, ​​I naturally know how you committed the crime."

"What... what? Brother Gu, you already know how he committed the crime?" Lu Weiwei was also stunned.

Just now, I have tried so hard to do experiments, but I have not found any evidence of how the murderer escaped. Now that Gu Chen has found the murder weapon, can he know how the murderer committed the crime?

This sounds a bit unreal!
"Senior Sister Lu." Gu Chen looked at Lu Weiwei, smiled and said, "You worked hard just now, so I don't need to bother you to do it yourself this time, let Ding Liang do it for you."

"I...can I do it for you?" Ding Liang was puzzled.

"Just to help me restore how the murderer strangled Xu Tian." Gu Chen explained.

"Oh, so that's the case. I understand when you say that." Ding Liang quickly understood what Gu Chen meant.

That is to play the role of Xu Tian, ​​​​the deceased, and Gu Chen to play the murderer, to restore the modus operandi just now.

Gu Chen put on white gloves, took the bandage rope from Lu Weiwei's hand, looked at Ding Liang and said, "Ding Liang, you go to the toilet first."

"Ah?" Ding Liang was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, and said, "Okay, okay."

"Go in, go a little further in." Gu Chen commanded outside the toilet door, holding the bandage rope with both hands.

"But... is it okay?" Ding Liang had already walked into the toilet cubicle, turned around and asked Gu Chen.

Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, staring fixedly at Gu Chen, as if they didn't want to miss every detail.

On the other hand, Jiang Wentao's heart was pounding, as if the end of the world had come.

"Stand still, I'm coming." Gu Chen took a step forward in an instant, and wrapped the bandage rope around Ding Liang's neck from behind.

Afterwards, Gu Chen closed the door of the toilet cubicle outward.

Using the gap in the door of the cubicle as a fulcrum, he pulled both ends of the rope, and instantly pulled Ding Liang, who was strangling his neck, from the inside of the toilet to the door of the cubicle.

Since the rope passed through the gap in the gate, Ding Liang, who was tightly strangled, was directly fixed at the gate.

"The murderer used the gap in the door of the compartment as a sticking point to attack Xu Tian in an instant." Gu Chen turned to look at Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei.

"Ah? So that's the case." Lu Weiwei understood instantly.

"So Jiang Wentao didn't commit the crime in the cubicle?" Police Officer Wang asked thoughtfully, holding his chin.

"Senior Brother Wang is right, please continue reading." After Gu Chen finished speaking, he released his left hand in an instant, and pulled out the bandage rope with his right hand through the gap in the door panel, and then said: "Ding Liang, you can do it naturally." Go down."

"Ahem, you almost strangled me to death." Ding Liang coughed twice in the cubicle, complaining involuntarily.

Lu Weiwei smiled and said, "Ding Liang, dead people can't speak, can you be more professional, please?"

"Okay, okay." Ding Liang didn't say any more, leaned directly on the compartment door, sat down slowly, and asked: "Is it okay now?"

Gu Chen stepped forward and pushed the door open with his hands.

At this time, Ding Liang, who was sitting on the ground, just blocked the door firmly with his body, forming a seemingly relatively closed space.

"The situation is like this." Gu Chen was quite satisfied with this simulation experiment, and said: "The deceased Xu Tian fell into the toilet cubicle after being strangled to death, and his body leaned against the door panel, which made us think that The murderer committed crimes in the cubicle, and then escaped through the gap between the top of the cubicle and the ceiling."

"Actually, our previous speculation was wrong. The murderer, Jiang Wentao, used my modus operandi just now to not only kill Xu Tian in a very short period of time, but also create an illusion that the murderer was committing crimes in the cubicle, so as to confuse him. Everyone."

Gu Chen looked at Jiang Wentao, who was already stunned, and said calmly, "Teacher Jiang Wentao, am I right?"

At this moment, Jiang Wentao's eyes were dull, and he leaned against the wall weakly, and sat down on the ground slowly.

"You...you are right." Jiang Wentao said calmly with his face down, "Xu Tian...he was indeed strangled to death by me."

"You finally admitted it?" Lu Weiwei walked up to him and pointed the law enforcement recorder at him.

"But why did you do this?" Police Officer Wang was also puzzled that the meeting of old acquaintances would end in such a way.

"It was caused by Xu Tian's imprisonment, right?" Gu Chen also asked based on what Zhang Feng said before.

"That's right." Seeing that the matter was exposed, there was no need to keep it a secret, Jiang Wentao said with a heavy face, "If... if Xu Tian hadn't been so aggressive, I... I wouldn't have done anything cruel, this...all of this He asked for it!"

"Clarify what's going on?" Gu Chen had already taken out his notebook and began to record Jiang Wentao's remarks in detail.

"Yesterday, we met for the first time after Xu Tian was released from prison." Jiang Wentao looked up at Gu Chen, and said, "I didn't expect that he would ask me for 500 million immediately."

"How many... how many millions?" Police Officer Wang was also afraid that he had misheard, so he hurriedly asked again.

"It's 500 million." Jiang Wentao said with certainty.

"But why did he ask you for so much money? Why should he?" Gu Chen couldn't help probing, but he seemed to be able to guess a thing or two in his heart.

"It was because he was in prison that year, entirely because I let him steal the company's intellectual property and some documents that were relatively confidential at the time."

"But when he was arrested later, I told him that if both of us go to jail, it might be difficult for anyone."

"And if he shoulders the responsibility alone, I can find a way to get him out. I can help take care of his parents. After they come out, we can use the technology we have to work together."

"Are you sure that's what you told him?" Gu Chen remained unmoved and continued to stare at Jiang Wentao.

Jiang Wentao nodded, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "But I followed a European and went abroad to develop, take care of his parents, and find a way to get him out. It was difficult to implement, so he hated me .”

Looking up at Gu Chen, Jiang Wentao said again: "Comrade policeman, I really didn't do it on purpose. At that time, the rumors were so tight. I heard that Xu Tian's original company had many teams to sue. I was afraid, so I had to go first. Avoid abroad, and come back after this turmoil is over."

"Then you haven't come back all these years? You didn't take care of Xu Tian's parents and family either?" Lu Weiwei has seen this kind of unscrupulous things a lot, and verbal promises like a white-eyed wolf are completely nonsense.

Jiang Wentao was very sad, and explained: "I really don't know. I have been abroad for many years in this job. I have won many international reputations with my team's super performance in various fireworks shows abroad. .”

"I completely forgot at the time that there was another good brother who was in prison because he took the blame for me. He has been living a hard life these years. I am ashamed of Xu Tian."

When he said this, Jiang Wentao's fists were already clenched, as if he was annoyed by his previous carelessness.

Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked: "Then this time when you go back to Jiangnan City, I heard that your mother died?"

"That's right, I haven't been back to my hometown for many years. I miss home and my mother too." Speaking of this, Jiang Wentao couldn't hide his inner sadness, and said:

"My parents are here, so I don't travel far away, but I stayed in a foreign country when my parents needed me the most. I didn't see my mother until the last time. I am not filial."

Jiang Wentao cried.

This time, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, and Police Officer Wang didn't speak any more, giving Jiang Wentao some room to vent.

After being sad for about ten seconds, Jiang Wentao, who was stained with tears, raised his head, looked at Gu Chen and said, "Comrade policeman, didn't you encounter me absent-mindedly twice? Don't you really want to know why? Okay, I I can tell you now."

After a pause, Jiang Wentao said: "It is because of my apology to Xu Tian that I have always felt guilty. The reason why I moved the fireworks display back to Jiangnan City this time and let the city's media public accounts help me promote it has three purposes. indivual."

Jiang Wentao stretched out three fingers and pressed down one by one: "First, I have selfish intentions. I want to commemorate my dead mother in this way. She said before she was alive that she wanted to watch a firework show prepared by her son. , but unfortunately, she did not fulfill this wish until she died, so I want to commemorate her in this way."

"What about the second one?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Second?" Jiang Wentao suddenly sneered and said, "Second, I want to pay tribute to this city. This is the place where I was born and raised. Although I am wandering outside, my heart has always been in Jiangnan City. Therefore, I We want all Jiangnan citizens to watch a top-notch fireworks feast."

"You did it." Gu Chen said, "The fireworks display you brought really opened the eyes of all Jiangnan citizens, and you showed the professionalism you should have."

"Thank you." Jiang Wentao also replied with shame, and said: "The third one, I specifically want Xu Tian to come to me, and I want to bring him to do it together to make up for the original guilt."

"That's why I have been disclosing the address of the hotel I stayed in through the media account of Jiangnan City. The purpose is to let Xu Tian come to me, but unfortunately, until the end of the fireworks display, I didn't Seeing Xu Tian's figure, he seems to hate me."

Gu Chen was stunned: "So that's why you were absent-minded when you were walking that day?"

"That's right." Jiang Wentao didn't deny it: "Just when I thought I was going to miss the meeting with Xu Tian, ​​he unexpectedly appeared in Binjiang Park."

Swallowing his saliva, Jiang Wentao gasped and said, "But this time he was not kind. Since the handshake, he has been giving me power. His strength is so strong that my finger bones were almost crushed by him. .”

"And at this time, it was your sudden appearance that resolved the embarrassment when I met Xu Tian. After taking a photo with you, Xu Tian and I went to an underground coffee shop alone."

"There, we greeted each other and learned about his current situation. It turned out that he had been delivering food in Jiangnan City. His life was not good, but he blamed me for everything."

"Because I didn't keep my promise at the beginning, so that his parents were under unimaginable pressure. Xu Tian's mother also fell ill at that time and passed away soon, so he loves me."

Officer Wang put his hands on his chest and said, "That's right, you are a hateful person. You didn't fulfill your responsibilities when you promised others, but you went abroad and let go of your hands. You really have no conscience."

"I was wrong, I know I was wrong." As if angered by Officer Wang's words, Jiang Wentao slammed his fist on the ground: "It's all my fault, I know, but Xu Tian shouldn't Aggressive."

He looked up at Gu Chen, as if looking for someone to talk to: "Comrade policeman, do you know? Now that I'm successful, I can give him a good life, I can help him, I can give Xu Tian whatever he wants."

"But when he knew that I was already a world-renowned fireworks director using the technology he stole from me back then, he hated me. The kind of gap between two people, one in the sky and the other in the ground, made him feel inferior."

"So he wants to take revenge on you?" Gu Chen asked.

"That's right." Jiang Wentao panted heavily, and said, "He asked me for 500 million yuan as soon as he opened his mouth. As his loss back then, he also wanted everything from me, including my current technology and team. He wanted to be an unconditional investor. He wants to be the major shareholder of my company."

"But you have to know that this is absolutely impossible. This company is the hard work of my hard work for many years. How could I just give it to him?"

"Even if I felt sorry for him back then, the compensation of 500 million is already enough for me."

"But I found out later that he had reached a settlement with the original company. What he wanted was not my company or money at all. He wanted to ruin me. He wanted to make me notorious. He wanted to let everyone know , how I broke my promise back then, and how I stepped on the shoulders of others to get to the present, he just wanted me to lose face in front of the whole Jiangnan city's fathers and villagers."

(End of this chapter)