Chapter 259 Yes, it’s him!
Zhou Hu glanced at the prison guard on duty with a gloomy look in his eyes and made up his mind that if he stayed overnight in the prison in the future, he would always keep the door wide open when he slept.
Zhou Hu looked at the surveillance video again and asked in a cold voice, "Are there any signs of tampering in the surveillance video?"
The technical prison guard in the monitoring room shook his head at him: "The network protection system has not been found to have been intruded, and the monitoring has not been tampered with."
Zhou Hu's face became increasingly gloomy. He sneered, "So, a ghost followed Tian Tao in, and all the surveillance cameras were blind?"
The technical prison guard felt that what Zhou Hu said was the correct answer, but he did not dare to respond.
Zhou Hu snorted coldly and asked the technical prison guard to copy all the surveillance videos.
Zhou Hu hurried out of the prison with the copied surveillance video and autopsy report.
He drove along the way and encountered many blue and white cars whizzing past, followed by several police armored vehicles, and there were obviously fewer checkpoints along the road.
Zhou Hu drove all the way and finally arrived at a high-end residential area. He walked straight into one of the high-rise buildings and knocked gently on the door.
The door was opened.
Zhou Hu looked at the hook-nosed man who opened the door and said, "Stationmaster Lou."
Lou Duan's eyes swept over Zhou Hu quickly and noticed the autopsy report tightly held in his hand. His face still maintained his usual cold expression, and he turned sideways to motion Zhou Hu to come into the house.
Zhou Hu quickly changed into indoor slippers, and as soon as he looked up, he was stunned.
Inside the room, besides him, there was actually another person sitting quietly.
"Didn't you say you couldn't come?" Zhou Hu looked at the man.
The man sat upright on the edge of the sofa, his hands neatly placed flat on his thighs. Hearing what was said, he slowly raised his head and revealed his true face - it was Zhao Xing, the warden of the death row ward of the Second Prison.
In the morning, when Zhou Hu heard the news that Tian Tao and Chang Wei were in trouble, he immediately contacted several other prison wardens, hoping that they could go with him to see Stationmaster Lou.
However, without exception, they rejected Zhou Hu's request in person. Zhao Xing rebuked him mercilessly, emphasizing that there must be evidence for speaking and that one cannot slander and accuse Warden Qian without reason.
The scene was so ugly that everyone left in a bad mood.
However, what Zhou Hu didn't expect was that Zhao Xing actually came secretly alone, and arrived earlier than himself.
Zhao Xing sighed, a hint of sarcasm on his lips: "You have colluded with everyone in the Second Prison to oppose Warden Qian. Who do you think is stupid enough to agree to you?"
Zhou Hu said sarcastically: "What do you have to be afraid of? The Second Prison is our territory, Qian Huan is an outsider."
Zhao Xing retorted, "If you weren't afraid, would you come to Stationmaster Lou? Besides, what's that in your hand? It must be Tian Tao's autopsy report, right?"
Zhou Hu's face flushed, and he was about to retort, but he heard Lou Duan snort coldly, and the two of them quickly shut their mouths.
Lou Duan pointed at the sofa, motioning Zhou Hu to sit down, then poured him a cup of tea and said calmly, "If you want to argue, go out and argue. Come back in after you're done."
Seeing that the two were silent, Lou Duan looked at Zhao Xing and reprimanded him, "Zhou Hu has a bad temper. Don't keep provoking him and try to show how smart you are. Smart people don't use their tongues to show off."
Lou Duan turned around and scolded Zhou Hu: "And you, I've told you several times, don't show your anger on your face, don't let people see through it at a glance. If you really can't learn what you are thinking, go look at more dead people and imitate their expressions."
After being reprimanded, Zhou Hu and Zhao Xing lowered their heads immediately, showing an attitude of humbly accepting instruction.
Seeing this, Lou Duan waved to Zhou Hu. Zhou Hu did not dare to be negligent and quickly handed over the document in his hand respectfully.
Lou Duan took the document, slowly opened the autopsy report, and quickly scanned the pages.
When his eyes rested on the last column, he paused for a moment.
"Sudden death from myocardial infarction." Lou Duan read out the forensic conclusion softly. His voice was as calm as water, without any emotion.
Zhou Hu quickly interrupted and said anxiously, "That's right, the previous warden also died of a sudden heart attack. I've long felt that something was fishy. The death of the previous warden was definitely not accidental. It must have something to do with them..."
Lou Duan raised his hand to interrupt Zhou Hu, his tone very serious: "Don't speak without solid evidence. Besides, this matter involves two former and current warden, think before you speak."
Zhou Hu looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Lou Duan was not surprised that Zhou Hu could not produce any evidence.
Lou Duan picked up the USB drive again and asked calmly, "What's in it?"
Zhou Hu: "This is the video footage of people entering and leaving the corridor when Tian Tao died."
Lou Duan nodded slightly, then asked, "Did the murderer appear in the video?"
Zhou Hu's face darkened. "No, but the fact that the murderer was not recorded shows how terrifying he is. As far as I know, no one in our Second Ward can bypass all the surveillance cameras in the corridor."
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Zhou Hu paused for a moment, and when he saw that Lou Duan didn't interrupt him, he continued, "Before Qian Huan came, no one in the Second Prison could do it, so it could only be someone brought in after Qian Huan came. Doesn't that prove that the murderer must have been assigned by Qian Huan?"
Lou Duan waited for Zhou Hu to finish speaking and did not rush to make a judgment. Instead, he looked at Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing understood and said, "The surveillance system of the Second Prison was reinstalled by a professional security company hired by Tianguang Investment. It is well designed and has almost no blind spots."
Zhao Xing thought for a moment and then said, "I am familiar with the guards in the Second Prison. I agree with Zhou Hu's judgment. Before Warden Qian was parachuted in, no guard in the Second Prison from top to bottom could circumvent the new monitoring system."
Zhao Xing paused, swallowed his saliva and said:
"Also, I heard that when Tian Tao died, the scene was quite strange."
What Zhao Xing didn't say was that the strange and horrifying way Tian Tao died was also the main reason that prompted him to rush to report to Stationmaster Lou.
Zhou Hu nodded in agreement and quickly opened the photo album on his phone, showing Lou Duan the photos he had taken of the crime scene. "Yes, Lou Zhan, there are bloody words all over the ceiling. It looks like Tian Tao climbed up there and wrote them himself. It's a bit creepy."
Lou Duan studied the photo on the phone screen, his pupils shrank slightly, but he did not express his opinion. He just returned the phone to Zhou Hu without making any comment.
Lou Duan knew clearly that the two people in front of him were actually a little scared.
He pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to Zhou Hu and asked calmly, "So, do you have any specific suspects? I'm not referring to Qian Huan. Qian Huan can't be touched for the time being."
"I mean, who do you suspect Qian Huan brought into the Second Prison?"
Zhou Hu was quite clear about Qian Huan's various actions after he was parachuted into the Second Prison, including the fact that the latter recruited several new prison guards and expanded the security force inside the prison.
"As of this morning, Qian Huan has brought in a total of 9 people. The most suspicious person among them is..."
Faces flashed through Zhou Hu's mind, and finally stopped at one face. He said in a grim voice,
"Yes, it should be him!!!"
(End of this chapter)
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