Cicada Moving

Chapter 1316 Variables

In the military tent, Zuo Zhong put his feet on the marching table, glanced at both sides, and first called Wu Chunyang's name, asking him to talk about the progress of tracing the murderer's whereabouts.

Wu Chunyang stood up helplessly and truthfully reported Wenrentang's investigation results on the Jialing River, the Yangtze River coast and the ships.

"Vice-in-Chief, Sun Renyi's people almost turned the water in Shancheng upside down. The ships that recently departed from Shancheng and passed through Shancheng did not find the suspect, and there was no problem with the official ships."

After briefly introducing the current situation, Wu Chunyang added: "I suspected that the British and American navies were colluding with the murderer, so I checked their bank deposits and safes."

"What's the result?" Zuo Zhong asked calmly.

"Everyone's deposit amounts are within a reasonable range, and the sources of the items in the safe are clear."

Wu Chunyang's voice gradually became lower, and then he added: "However, this cannot rule out the suspicion of the British and American navies staying in Chongqing. I decided to continue digging deeper."

Zuo Zhong did not make a statement and moved his gaze to Song Minghao's face. Song Minghao immediately explained the follow-up results of the footprint identification.

Apart from confirming that there were three tall and burly men among the eleven mysterious people suspected of being the murderer, there were no valuable clues at the scene, which showed that the other party was acting very cautiously.

The technicians also launched a search at the weather station, the place where the footprints were found, and the Jialing River line, but not to mention new footprints and traces, not even a single hair was found.

After all, it had rained in the mountains for two nights. Even if the murderer left anything behind, it would have been washed away by the rain.

Two of the four detection directions have been scrapped. At least there is no hope of catching the murderer based on the traces. The atmosphere in the tent was a bit solemn, and the expressions on everyone's faces were not good-looking.

Someone gave the military commander a very clear order. The case must be solved before Melos comes to the Republic of China. If this case cannot be solved, the military commander and them will be in big trouble.

Zuo Zhong remained calm. He smiled at his subordinates: "Don't worry, the sky won't fall. By the way, Lao Gu, how are you investigating the leakage of the internal structure of the weather station?"

"We have screened both the construction factory and the bureau. Youguang, please talk to the deputy." Gu Qi motioned to Gui Youguang to speak first.

When Gui Youguang heard the words, he stood up immediately and started talking eloquently.

There are more than 300 workers in the construction factory responsible for building the weather station, but only ten people have access to the architectural blueprints, fully understand the internal structure, and know the purpose of each room.

Gui Youguang checked all these ten people, including their relatives and friends, and found nothing suspicious for the time being.

Being vicious-looking has the advantage of being vicious-looking. The people involved in the case were frightened to death at the first sight of the bald head, and the possibility of lying is very small.

So where did the weather station structure leak come from?

Zuo Zhong looked at Gu Qi, who shook his head. He had investigated all the people who knew about it and found that there were no problems within the army.

Although the military discipline of the military commanders is now much worse than before, no one dares to disclose the information of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute to irrelevant personnel. This is a sin of losing one's head.

Everyone can understand what can and cannot be said, what money can and cannot be earned.

Three of the four breaches have been eliminated. Everyone is staring at Ling Sanping, wanting to see what the forensic doctor has discovered. This is the last chance.

Ling Sanping, who looked exhausted, stood up and distributed the autopsy report in his hand to everyone: "After our inspection, the murderer's re-shooting did not have a specific order or target. It was a random act."

Gu Qi and others sighed. It was obvious that the murderer was not targeting anyone. The last road was blocked.

Unexpectedly, Ling Sanping's voice sounded again: "But something is very strange. I want to ask Captain Gui a question first. What posture do you use when you stab an enemy with a dagger?"

What posture is used to kill?

Gui Youguang was stunned, then picked up the pen and used it as a dagger, stabbing Song Minghao next to him in the abdomen. Song Minghao let out a cooperative sound.

Ling Sanping nodded as he watched the two men's actions, pulled out a few photos from the report, pointed to the close-ups of the wounds on them, and spoke slowly.

"Everyone has seen that when performing the stabbing action, humans will subconsciously place the weapon parallel to the waist and move forward, because this way of exerting force is the most comfortable and less labor-intensive.

The problem is that among the corpses, those who suffered fatal abdominal injuries had cut marks on the lower part of the wound, which shows that the murderer stabbed the person with the tip of the knife at the top and the tail of the knife at the bottom. "

As he spoke, he also used the pen to pretend to be a dagger and made an upward motion in the air.

Several people present, including Zuo Zhong, were breathing heavily. Why did the murderer do this? Was it to aggravate the deceased's injuries?

If so, the murderer could just rotate the weapon when stabbing, which would achieve the same effect, so why bother using such a laborious and awkward posture?

After thinking about it, Zuo Zhong and others' eyes lit up, and four words appeared in their minds at the same time, pretending to be tall.

This is easy to understand. Different heights lead to different knife insertion heights. If you want to cause wounds of the same height with different heights, you can only change the angle of holding the knife.

The murderer originally intended to confuse investigators in this way, but the change in the angle of the knife left special marks on the wound.

Seeing that his discovery had been taken seriously, Ling Sanping took the opportunity to ask for benefits: "If the laboratory had not recently purchased a batch of new equipment, it would be difficult to find this detail on the corpse. I would like to purchase more."

"No, you don't!"

Zuo Zhong quickly interrupted the other party's spellcasting. Good guy, a benevolent hospital consumes a few tenths of the military's funds every year. If we buy more equipment, Lao Dai and him will have to use it as pants.

Ling Sanping, who failed to achieve his goal, shrugged and continued: "For comparison, I calculated the murderer's height in two ways."

"One is calculated based on the existing wound height, and the other is calculated based on the cutting angle of the wound to restore the wound height calculated by the murderer stabbing someone in a normal posture."

"The results are very interesting. The height of the former murderers is no more than 1.6 meters, while the height of the latter murderers is at least 1.75 meters." Song Minghao was the first to react and said loudly: "That's right! Those three footprints are clear The suspects are all taller than 1.75 meters!”

Now the case has a direction. There must be a very important reason why the murderer concealed his true height.

Gu Qi narrowed his eyes. With so many murderers, all of whom were taller than 1.75 meters, the destruction of the weather station did not seem to be caused by the Japanese.

Are there any tall Japanese people? Yes, but there is no need for the other side to specially select operational personnel over 1.75 meters tall for a sabotage operation. Fighting is not about height comparison.

After a long time, Gu Qi had an idea and asked Zuo Zhong: "Vice-in-command, is there a relationship between the height of the murderer and the replacement gun?"

At first, they thought that the murderer was trying to silence him by shooting again, but just now Ling Sanping said that this was a random act, so the possibility of silencing him was ruled out.

But considering that the murderer went to such great lengths to conceal his true height, there may be some intrinsic connection between the two.

For example, the height of the murderer can guide witnesses and investigators to determine the identity of the murderer, so there is a reasonable explanation for the replacement gun.

The other party did this not to silence a certain person, but to kill all the staff of the weather station to ensure that their identity would not be revealed.

So under what circumstances can height be related to identity?

Gu Qi's question aroused everyone's thinking, and countless guesses flashed through their minds. Wu Chunyang was the first to speak out and express his guess.

"The murderer is white!"

These five words made the tent fall into silence. The height difference between white people and yellow people is large, and the difference in skin color makes it easy to distinguish. Therefore, even if the murderer wears a mask, there is no guarantee that he will not be exposed. To be on the safe side, killing and silencing is the best option. choose.

But there are many white countries. Which country did the murderer come from? Why did the other party attack the weather station?

Germany?

The Australian pharmaceutical factory incident caused Abwehr to be very embarrassed. From this point of view, it seems reasonable for the Germans to destroy the weather station to retaliate against the government.

It's just that the Republic of China and Germany have severed diplomatic relations, and the two countries are not bordering each other. The risk of German intelligence agents sneaking into the Republic of China is very high. Did Muhe's men take such a big risk to blow up a weather station? It's impossible.

Red Russia?

The relationship between Mosk and Shancheng is complicated, but the Red Russians need the Republic of China to hold back the Japanese army and will not do such things that harm others and are not beneficial to themselves.

UK and US?

Just as Wu Chunyang thought, there was no reason for Britain and the United States to destroy the weather station. Even if the British and American navies in Chongqing were paid to do things, they would not do it themselves, and ordinary sailors did not have such combat effectiveness.

Zuo Zhong scratched his head. With the weak foreign policy of the Republic of China, apart from Germany and Red Russia, he really couldn't think of any other white countries that had conflicts with Shancheng.

If you don't understand, just stop thinking about it. Zuo Zhong gave everyone a new order: secretly investigate the white people who came to the mountain city recently, no matter which country they came from.

Afterwards, he returned to the military command headquarters by car and reported the case to Dai Chunfeng.

After hearing this, Lao Dai praised Zuo Zhong and others for their work, and then told some news about the weather station sabotage case and Sino-US cooperation.

"Shen Zhong, as soon as the weather station had an accident, Washington was furious. They began to doubt the government's ability to become an ally of the United States in Asia, and even reconsidered its relationship with the Republic of China.

The cooperative institute was originally led by the national government, but the other party took the opportunity to launch an attack this time, demanding that the cooperative institute be used as the Far East branch of the oss (Office of Strategic Services) for use by US intelligence personnel.

The world situation has affected the whole body, and the changes in the attitude of the Americans have caused changes in many agreed-upon things. The commissioned command of the troops entering Myanmar may be at risk.

The Red Russian side was also restless. They used the weather station case as an excuse to ask Washington to reduce aid to the government and transfer these aid supplies to the European battlefield. "

Dai Chunfeng looked sad. No one expected that a bombing of a weather station would cause so many troubles. As for the troops entering Burma he mentioned, they would become the famous expeditionary force in later generations.

During Zuo Zhong's mission in Japan and the United States, the Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the "Mutual Defense Agreement on the Burma Railway."

The agreement contained a lot of empty words, but only one actual content: the government would send an elite force to support the British army in Burma in their fight against Japan.

At the end of December last year, the expeditionary force headquarters was stationed in Dali and the vanguard troops were stationed in Baoshan. However, the British did not agree to the expeditionary force's entry into Myanmar on the pretext of waiting to see the movements of the Japanese army.

After the Pearl Harbor incident, the Americans proposed the establishment of a Republic of China theater, with someone serving as the supreme commander of the Republic of China theater to command the anti-Japanese armies in the Republic of China, Annan, Thailand and other places.

I don’t know if the Americans did it on purpose. Burma did not belong to the war zone of the Republic of China. This caused the command authority of the expeditionary force to be extremely confusing. Britain, the United States and even Free France wanted to get involved.

Zuo Zhong thought of the South Korea National Intelligence Agency and Yerensan, the losers of the CIA in the future, and immediately reminded: "Teacher, we must not allow US intelligence personnel to enter the cooperation center on a large scale. This is related to the dignity of the country.

The Americans are seizing the command of the expeditionary force to prepare for the post-war order, so let them fight the British. The most important thing for us is to preserve our strength. The Red Russians..."

He suddenly stopped in the middle of his words. Lao Dai was just wanting to hear the analysis of his proud disciple, and asked curiously when he saw him frozen on the spot.

"Shenzhu, do you have any new ideas?"

It was as if a bomb exploded in Zuo Zhong's mind. He was stunned for a few seconds before he came back to his senses. He looked at Dai Chunfeng with a bitter smile.

①The South Korea Intelligence Agency, formerly known as the Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), you can tell what it is just by looking at the name.

② The expeditionary force failed to enter Myanmar for the first time and retreated back to Savage Mountain. Due to the harsh local natural environment and the collapse of logistics, more than 30,000 people died on the way.