jdhmnovel Chapter 587 Sand Sea 13
Chapter 587 Sand Sea 13
Chapter 587 Sand Sea 13
After leaving Director Liu's office, Zhang Wen quickly convened a meeting of the special task force to arrange and implement the tasks that Director Liu had emphasized, such as getting Li Yiming to talk, protecting Li Cu, and investigating Shen Qiong.
At the same time, we identified and addressed any shortcomings, making proper arrangements for all the issues that were recently discovered.
In particular, Shen Qiong's habit of running away at the sight of the police aroused his suspicion.
He was initially suspicious because Li Chu's statement mentioned that Shen Qiong, who had returned from her trip, seemed strange and unfamiliar. He also suspected that Li Chu was likely attacked because of the box she had given him.
However, lacking evidence, they could only ask her to come to the police station to cooperate with the investigation.
But now that Shen Qiong has run away, it's as if she's directly telling the police that she has something to hide.
This confirmed Zhang Wen's initial suspicions that Shen Qiong had deliberately given the box to Li Cu.
"We don't know what's inside that box, but we're certain that Huang Yan thought the contents were gone, which is why he attacked Li Chu so ruthlessly. Besides Li Chu, only Shen Qiong has ever touched that box, so our top priority is to find Shen Qiong as soon as possible."
The office was filled with smoke. Some members were frowning as they analyzed the case, others were writing and drawing notes in their notebooks, and still others were fiddling with their computers to organize the information at this stage.
Upon hearing Zhang Wen's words, someone immediately responded: "This Shen Qiong has quite a few problems. Her parents are currently missing, but she doesn't seem worried at all. Instead, she's gotten involved in Li Cu's case. I strongly suspect that there's some connection between these two cases."
“That’s right, Shen Qiong is strange, and Wu Xie is also suspicious, but in the end they both focused their attention on Li Cu. However, we have already investigated Li Cu’s movements since he was a child. He is just an ordinary student with nothing wrong with him. Why are they doing this? What is it about Li Cu that attracts them?”
Others were also baffled by this question. After all, no matter how hard they racked their brains, they could not have imagined that there would be such a shocking reason behind the matter. Li Chu was just a victim produced by a group of tomb raiders fighting each other.
The office fell silent, followed by another burst of smoke.
Just then, there was a knock on the office door, and a young police officer walked in with a well-mannered middle-aged man. He excitedly told everyone, "Captain Zhang, we have news from the trace evidence lab that they found something in the surveillance video of Shen Qiong and Su Wan's contact at the school gate."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the office perked up immediately, and their previous worries vanished.
Now that the country is calling for the resolution of past backlog cases and old cases, several well-known trace evidence experts from Beijing have been sent to local areas to assist in the investigation. The fastest will not be back for at least half a month, so people did not have high expectations for trace evidence. However, they did not expect to make progress so quickly, especially when everyone was at a loss.
Everyone's attention turned to the middle-aged man, and Zhang Wen quickly invited him in to inquire about the situation.
The middle-aged man was named Li Hong, around forty years old. He wore black-rimmed glasses and looked very refined, but he was very decisive in his actions.
After entering the office, I immediately plugged a USB drive into the computer and then projected a video onto the screen.
The video playing on the screen showed Shen Qiong going to the school to see Su Wan. Before the two could exchange more than a few words, a police car pulled up at the entrance, and Shen Qiong hurriedly left.
The video was very short, only about two minutes long, and it finished playing quickly.
Li Hong reversed the video and paused it the moment Shen Qiong left. He then pointed to the very edge of the video and said, "This video was taken from the school's surveillance cameras. You can see there are two people here. Although they were very careful not to expose themselves to the surveillance cameras at the school gate, when Shen Qiong saw the police and turned to leave, the two people still entered the frame for a moment. They are very likely in cahoots."
The group exchanged glances, all somewhat disappointed: "We already knew this information beforehand. Shen Qiong did indeed return from her trip with several mysterious people."
Li Hong shook his head: "That's not what I wanted to say, but since you've confirmed that these two people are with Shen Qiong, you're even more certain that there's something wrong with them. Take another look at the two people in this video."
As he spoke, he opened the second video.
The time in the video is not long after the time in the previous video, and the location is also not far from the school.
The street in the picture is lined with snack shops on both sides, and there are many people coming and going, making it seem very narrow.
Li Hong pointed to the people scattered on both sides of the street in the picture: "You see, although the appearance and clothes of these two people are different from the two people just now, and even their walking posture has changed, their body shape, subtle movements, and their subconscious reaction after seeing the police are the same as the two people just now. Most importantly, the shoes of these two people are exactly the same as those two people just now."
There was a moment of silence in the office. After realizing the meaning behind Li Hong's words, everyone was shocked and felt that it was somewhat absurd.
"How is this possible? This isn't a martial arts drama. Could those two people possibly be disguised?"
"Exactly, clothes can be changed in a short time, and walking posture can be intentionally adjusted, but how can a person's appearance change so much in such a short time? Could the identification have been wrong?"
“There are indeed many beauty bloggers online now, whose appearance changes drastically before and after makeup, as if they have become completely different people. However, these two people traveled from school to this location in less than ten minutes. During that time, they had to evade the police and change clothes to disguise themselves. Where would they have found the time to ‘disguise’?”
The office was abuzz with discussion. Most people didn't believe it, but seeing Li Hong's serious and earnest expression, everyone had to start considering the possibility.
“I know this is hard to believe, but after multiple comparisons by the forensic department, these two people are indeed the two people next to Shen Qiong. After they saw the police, the three of them split up and fled the scene in disguise. I guess Shen Qiong probably disguised herself as well, but because the direction she ran was not captured by the surveillance cameras, we haven’t been able to make a comparison yet.”
After saying that, Li Hong finally clicked on the third video.
“We reviewed all the surveillance footage around Shen Qiong’s house. Although most of the surveillance cameras on the road were deliberately damaged that day, the surveillance cameras of the shops along the street filled in the gaps to a great extent.”
"This video is from the first half hour of the night the victim was attacked. We can clearly see that the assailant came out of Shen Qiong's neighborhood, looking dazed and panicked, as if he was hiding from something. And shortly after he left the frame, six more people chased after him."
"After identification, two of these six people are highly consistent with the people in the two videos just now, so it can be basically determined that they are them."
Upon hearing this, the office fell silent once again.
Zhang Wen's face scrunched up, and everyone else had a similar expression.
Did they travel to a martial arts world?
Or have the criminals of this world evolved?
How could you encounter something as ridiculous as disguise while investigating a case?
The thought of Huang Yan's strange behavior before his death brought everyone to a silence.
I have a feeling that they've uncovered something incredible.