Mystery Tracker 3

"Black?!" Several other people looked up at the streetlights on the side of the road in unison, but the streetlights as far as they could see were intact.Tang Qing explained: "I just called to ask. It is said that the power supply line of this road was cut off in the front community a few days ago, so there are no street lights here in the past few days. The current monitoring screen is dark, and there is nothing. can not see clearly."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone frowned—the scene was destroyed, the monitoring was also out of order, and all the normal channels for investigating the case were blocked to death.Where are they going to start this case?

After two hours of on-site inspection, the harvest was really very little.First of all, the location of the crime is located in a remote section of the road, and there are few people passing by during the day, and even less people pass by at night; in addition, due to circuit problems, the street lights on the entire road are not on, which makes the road dark at night, making the monitoring It has also become a decoration.The passing construction vehicles and the workers who found the dead body destroyed the clues on the road, making it impossible for the police to locate the suspect through footprints.Coupled with the fact that the victim had very few personal belongings, they could not even confirm the identity of the deceased for the time being.

Faced with such a situation, several members of the serious crime team frowned.Cheng Haiyang whispered to Shen Yan: "Boss, why don't we ask the official account to send out a clue collection to see if anyone knows the deceased?"

Shen Yan didn't answer, he frowned and stared at the corpse, as if he was thinking about something.Cheng Haiyang saw that Shen Yan seemed to be in a daze, so he called again: "Boss?"

"Tell me, why did this person go this way?" Shen Yan suddenly said slowly.The few people on the side were startled when they heard the words, and they didn't quite follow Shen Yan's train of thought.Shen Yan didn't seem to want to wait for someone's answer, he continued on his own: "Judging from this person's clothing and the items he carried with him, he should not have been killed on the way to and from work; he chose to walk instead of taking a car." , indicating that the place where he went before he was killed was not far from his home; and there were no witnesses at the scene when he was killed, indicating that it was probably very late at that time... A person came out at night, went to a nearby place not far away, and stayed until very late. He is most likely to go to..."

"Restaurant!" Qin Kai was the first to react, and several others nodded one after another—indeed, considering all the conditions Shen Yan just listed, the most likely place for the victim to go should indeed be a restaurant, but they seemed to be on the way just now. They didn't see any restaurant, so they looked around together. At this time, they were surprised to find that although their location seemed very remote, there was a restaurant dedicated to crossing the railway only less than 100 meters away. The tunnel where many pedestrians walked, walked out of the tunnel, and the sight suddenly opened up—this is actually a quite lively living area!I saw a large-scale residential area on both sides of the road, and the frontage of the area was full of commercial outlets, a considerable part of which were restaurants of various colors.

Seeing this scene, everyone's spirits were lifted—to be honest, everyone is not afraid of walking too much when investigating a case, but they are afraid of having no direction and no clues.So without waiting for Shen Yan's instructions, several members of the serious crime team divided their duties, and then each of them rushed to the restaurants they were in charge of to find out the situation.The hard work paid off, and soon, the owner of a barbecue restaurant confirmed that the victim had eaten in their restaurant last night.

"This person came to our store yesterday." The shop owner replied with certainty, and then he went to the front desk and pulled out the surveillance video from last night, "Here, look, is it this person?"

Shen Yan looked at the surveillance screen, and saw two people sitting on a dining table at the bottom of the camera, one of them was the victim, and a man of similar age was sitting opposite him, and there was a barbecue grill on the table between the two of them. Next to it are plates with various foods and several beer bottles.The two were eating and chatting, and had a drink from time to time.

Seeing the two people chatting happily, Shen Yan pointed to another person and asked, "Do you know this person?"

"This man is a regular customer of my shop, and he lives in this neighborhood." The owner of the barbecue shop replied, "But I don't know his name."

Shen Yan nodded, and then asked: "When did they come in? When did they leave?"

"Let me take a look." The store owner checked the surveillance again, and replied after a while: "The two of them came in at 8:18 p.m., and stayed until 10:40 p.m. before leaving."

"Show me the surveillance when they left."

The shop owner nodded, and quickly called up the relevant screen.This is the monitoring at the front desk at the entrance of the hotel. I saw the two people walk from the table all the way to the front desk. Both of them seemed to be a little drunk, especially the deceased, walking a little wobbly.The two settled the bill at the front desk and left the restaurant together.

Shen Yan glanced at the time in the upper right corner - 22:42 p.m.

"Boss," Fang Liyuan pointed to the victim and asked the owner of the barbecue restaurant, "Does this person often come to your restaurant to eat?"

"I've probably been here a few times, and I look a little familiar." The owner of the barbecue shop replied, "He should have come here with his friend. It feels like they are colleagues or friends, and the relationship should be pretty good anyway. "

Judging from the interaction between the two, it does seem to be very familiar.Fang Liyuan nodded, turned around and said to Shen Yan in a low voice: "The monitoring showed that it was almost 11 o'clock in the evening when they went out. According to the time calculation, the victim should have been killed shortly after going out. It is not too far from here to the place where the deceased was killed. , the road is dark and there are no street lights, it is difficult to see the face of the person opposite. Do you think the murderer is here to focus on the victim?"

"It's possible." Shen Yan nodded slightly.He raised his head and said to the owner of the barbecue shop: "You can pull out the surveillance video of these two people eating and let me have a look."

The owner of the restaurant brought up the previous video as requested, and Shen Yan and Fang Liyuan quickly browsed it. However, the barbecue shop was booming all night, and the two of them ate and drank for a long time. After watching for a while, Shen Yan and Fang Liyuan did not see anyone acting suspiciously .So Shen Yan decided to let Tang Qing handle the video for a while, and they went to investigate another line - the person who had dinner with the deceased last night.

"Boss, you just said that this person lives in the back neighborhood, right? Help me take a shot where I can clearly see the faces of the two."

"Ah, here..." The boss showed a bit of embarrassment, "Officer, to tell you the truth, I'm really not very familiar with this thing. My wife usually does it, but she didn't come here today..."

"It's okay, I'll find someone to do it." Shen Yan didn't make things difficult for him, and raised his hand to call Tang Qing.Soon, Tang Qing rushed over, took a screenshot of the face, and then continued the serious work just now, continuing to check the surveillance video.On the other side, Shen Yan immediately rushed to the community where Hu Qizhi lived with the others.

"I have the impression that this person should be our owner." In the property center, manager Fang looked at the photo on Shen Yan's phone and nodded affirmatively. "However, I don't know the name of this person, but each of our buildings has a responsible housekeeper. They will know more about the residents in the building than I do. I can call them over and ask them to help identify them."

"it is good."

With Shen Yan's consent, Manager Fang immediately contacted all the housekeepers.At the same time, other people began to check the surveillance video of the community to confirm the whereabouts of this person last night.

"Boss, look, this man entered the hospital through the front door at 22:53 last night. Based on the distance and events, he probably came back directly after breaking up with the deceased." Qin Kai pointed to the video captured by the surveillance camera.

Shen Yan nodded.Turn around and continue to look at the housekeeper over there for recognition.After a long time, finally made a discovery.

"Ah! This person is the owner of Building No. 42." A housekeeper pointed to the photo and said.

Everyone was refreshed, and Shen Yan asked: "What's his name? What floor and number does he live in?"

"I remember that his surname should be Hu, and he lives in Unit 1. Let me check later." The housekeeper said, taking out her mobile phone to search, "That's right, the owner of 1601, named Hu Qizhi."

"Okay. Please take us there now."

A group of people soon arrived at the door of Hu Qizhi's house in Building 42, and Shen Yan motioned for the property manager to knock on the door.Soon, footsteps were heard inside the house.

"Who is it?" A man's voice came from inside.Shen Yan winked at the property steward, and the steward immediately answered according to what he had taught her before.

"Hello owner, I'm from the property management company, please..."

Before the butler could finish his sentence, the door opened.The face seen in the surveillance was appearing at the door.Shen Yan and the others walked up immediately: "Hu Qizhi, right?"

"I am..." Looking at the group of people who suddenly appeared, Hu Qizhi was obviously at a loss and guarded, "Who are you?"

"We are the police." Shen Yan showed his police officer ID, and then handed over the photo taken from the surveillance, "Last night, did you eat at the Shuxiang BBQ restaurant with someone?"

"Yes..." Hu Qizhi glanced at the photo subconsciously, and nodded blankly.

"What's the name of the person eating with you? What's the relationship with you?"

"His name is Lu Xiangyang, and he is a colleague of mine."

"Where do you work?"

"We are at the provincial TV station..." Hu Qizhi became more uncertain as he talked, and asked again, "It's not a police officer, what happened?"

"Lu Xiangyang is dead."

"what?!"