Chapter 49 Deduction
Gong Weiguo turned around in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Xia Mushige asked: "Where is the murder weapon in your hand?"
Gong Weiguo patted his head: "Yes!"
He quickly pulled a shoulder bag from the back of his chair, stuffed the "hammer" and "dagger" into it, and then put it on his back.
Xia Mushige shook his head: "From the footprint photos, we can see that the murderer's left and right feet landed with the same weight, and there was no weight on one side. In addition, a shoulder bag affects the movement. I think since the murderer is good at left-handed archery, he should be carrying a backpack."
Sun Xianbing immediately agreed: "Yes, it should be a backpack."
Gong Weiguo muttered, "It's just an act, why take it so seriously?"
Xia Mufan said seriously: "We are recreating the case, and we must ensure that every detail is correct."
Gong Weiguo had no choice but to take off his shoulder bag, take the denim backpack handed to him by Yu Jing, and then put the "weapon" into the backpack.
He squatted down, pretending that there was a door lock in front of him, took out his "tool" and fiddled with the keyhole for a few times.
Xia Mushige asked: "What tool did you use to pick the lock?"
Gong Weiguo: "Thin wire."
Xia Mufan asked: "How long does it usually take a thief to pick a lock with wire?"
Gong Weiguo: "The pin lock will take about two minutes."
Xia Mufan asked, "Is there a light in the corridor?"
Gong Weiguo: “Yes, but it’s quite dark.”
Xia Mufan asked again: "What day is October 18th? Is there moonlight outside?"
Gong Weiguo thought for a moment and did not reply immediately. Feng Xiaoyu was more careful and answered for him: "It was the first day of the lunar month, there was no moon, and it was very dark outside."
Xia Mufan nodded. "Since it's dark outside and there's a light in the corridor, the murderer squatted under the light and spent two minutes picking the lock. Was he nervous? Wasn't he afraid of being discovered by the patrol? Wasn't he afraid of making noise and being heard by others? Besides, picking a lock is a technical job. Does the killer have this skill?"
Gong Weiguo looked at Xia Mufan thoughtfully: "So, you speculate that the other party has the key and used it to open the door directly?"
Of course, Xia Mufan couldn't say that it was Caogui Xiaomo who provided the clues. She nodded affirmatively: "Yes!"
Every profession has its specialties. Killers practice their skills and rarely have any interest in delving into the "skill" of lock picking.
When Xia Mufan was introducing the case earlier, he said that the other party had the key, but Feng Xiaoyu thought it was unlikely. But once she entered the crime scene and replayed it, this detail immediately made her think.
——If she was Xie Lijiao, and she was at the age of light sleep, she would definitely be startled by the rustling sound at the door. Therefore, it is very likely that the murderer used the key to open the door directly.
This was the first time that someone had carried out such rigorous scrutiny on this detail, and Feng Xiaoyu's heart suddenly ignited with confidence: Maybe Xia Mufan can really lead everyone to solve this unsolved case!
With confidence, Feng Xiaoyu's eyes lit up and her expression became serious. She began to put herself into the role, slightly closed her eyes, and pretended to fall asleep.
Gong Weiguo pretended to take out the key from his pocket and successfully opened the door. After entering the house, he closed the door quietly and looked at the furnishings in the "living room".
Xia Mufan asked again: "You are facing the south window, and the TV cabinet is just outside the window. Are the curtains drawn?"
Gong Weiguo was stunned for a moment: "Curtains?"
Feng Xiaoyu quickly followed up: "It's on."
Xia Mushige asked: "Is there any light in the room?"
Feng Xiaoyu officially integrated into the role of Xie Lijiao and whispered, "Xie Lijiao doesn't sleep well. She always gets up once or twice at night to go to the bathroom. There is a small wall lamp by the door for nighttime lighting."
Xia Mufan nodded: "There was light in the room after the murderer entered the room, so we could see clearly."
Gong Weiguo also nodded: "Yes, I can see it clearly."
Xia Mushige asked: "If you were a thief, what would you do after you came in?"
Gong Weiguo: "Observe the interior layout and determine where the valuables are placed."
Xia Mushige asked: "Is the door of the master bedroom closed?"
Gong Weiguo glanced in the direction of the "master bedroom": "The door is closed."
Xia Mufan asked again: "Are the murderer's footprints near the other two bedrooms?"
Gong Weiguo shook his head: "No."
Xia Mufan sneered, "The target is so clear, it seems that the murderer knows exactly where the master bedroom is and where Gu Mingkang and Xie Lijiao sleep."
Gong Weiguo's breathing suddenly became heavy. He stared at Feng Xiaoyu and Yu Jing with sharp eyes: "Yes! I know exactly where they sleep."
Xia Mushige said: "Very good, what are you going to do next?"
Gong Weiguo said viciously: "I'm going to go into the master bedroom and kill them both."
Xia Mufan asked: "You are alone against two people. Are you sure you can kill one of them without alerting the other one?"
Gong Weiguo began to shake his head.
Even though Gong Weiguo was a criminal police officer and was proficient in Sanda, grappling, and fighting, he was not sure he could kill two adults at the same time without making any noise.
What's more, Gu Mingkang and Xie Lijiao died in the living room, not in the bedroom.
Xia Mushige asked them: "Who was the first person to die?"
Feng Xiaoyu: "Xie Lijiao, she is a light sleeper."
Xia Mushige: "What should we do next?"
Gong Weiguo took out the murder weapons from his bag, holding one in each hand, and looked around blankly: "I'll just wait here?"
Of course, Xia Mufan couldn't say that the murderer yelled "Mom", so he could only hint: "The murderer could make some subtle noises."
Gong Weiguo nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, I'll make a little noise."
After saying that, Gong Weiguo raised his hand and pressed the wall lamp twice, imitating a subtle "click! click!" sound with his mouth.
Feng Xiaoyu was startled. She opened her eyes and looked around. She pretended to get up and put on her slippers. She opened the bedroom door and walked into the living room.
Gong Weiguo's figure came into view, Feng Xiaoyu exclaimed, and shouted: "His father——"
Feng Xiaoyu turned around and tried to escape, but Gong Weiguo quickly stepped forward and "slapped" Feng Xiaoyu on the back of the head with a triangle ruler in his left hand, causing Feng Xiaoyu's body to sway.
Gong Weiguo rubbed his body forward, stretched out his right hand and quickly cut Feng Xiaoyu's right carotid artery, with a "hiss-hiss" sound of blood spraying from his mouth.
Xia Mushige yelled, "Stop!"
Gong Weiguo was acting with great enthusiasm when he was suddenly called to stop and he stopped immediately.
Xia Mufan asked Sun Xianbing: "Brother, what do you think?"
Sun Xianbing opened his mouth wide, and after a long while he said, "Oh my god, this skill is definitely that of a professional killer! There's no way he's a thief or a burglar."
Xia Mufan nodded: "Hammer in left hand, dagger in right hand, hit the most vulnerable part of the human body, the opponent is definitely coming for Xie Lijiao's life. But that's not what I'm talking about."
Xia Mufan walked forward, pointed at the line between the bedroom and the living room, and then pointed to the place where Feng Xiaoyu was "killed".
"Look. The bedroom door is about five or six steps away from the center of the living room. When Xie Lijiao walked out of the bedroom, she should have seen the murderer standing under the wall lamp. Why didn't she immediately retreat to the bedroom, but walked to the center of the living room before turning around?"
This question!
Sun Xianbing's eyes widened and he began to think quickly.
Feng Xiaoyu also tried hard to recall the previous analysis, but... this point had been discussed before, but there was no conclusion.
Some people said that it might be because Xie Lijiao woke up in the middle of the night and her mind was not clear yet, so she took a few steps before she saw the murderer.
Some people said that the murderer was hiding at first and was not seen by Xie Lijiao.
Others said that Xie Lijiao was walking with her eyes closed at the time.
But now, when Xia Mufan mentioned it again, Feng Xiaoyu, who was deeply immersed in the role of Xie Lijiao, had different ideas. She said uncertainly: "Could it be that when Xie Lijiao saw the murderer, she mistook him for the one who killed him? After all, he used a key to open the door and come in?"
This is the answer Xia Mufan was waiting for!
"Yes!" She slammed the table heavily. "Because the other party used a key to open the door, Xie Lijiao thought the person standing under the wall lamp was Gu Shaoqi!"
Gong Weiguo's mouth opened as wide as Sun Xianbing's: "Does the murderer look like Gu Shaoqi?"
Xia Mufan walked from the "bedroom" door to the place where Xie Lijiao fell, and said with certainty: "Yes, because the murderer opened the door with a key, the noise made by it woke Xie Lijiao up, so she got up to open the door and saw a dark figure standing at the door. Because there was a wall lamp behind the murderer, Xie Lijiao could not see his face clearly, but only the outline of his body. She thought he was Gu Shaoqi, so she continued to walk forward a few steps. But after walking a few steps, she realized something was wrong, so she turned around and tried to escape."
Gong Weiguo said: "But, Gu Shaoqi is 1.8 meters tall."
Xia Mufan: "1.76 meters and 1.80 meters, the difference is not that obvious at night. This shows that the other person's body shape is similar to Gu Shaoqi."
Gong Weiguo said: "There are 140 murderers. Forensic Doctor Gu is so thin!"
Xia Mufan: "Forensic Doctor Gu is thin now, but maybe he wasn't too thin back then? Besides, if a hundred and forty has solid muscles, he will look thin."
Gong Weiguo: "Well, it seems that the murderer is similar in size to Gu Shaoqi, and is a young man."
Xia Mushige: "Yes. Okay, you guys continue."
Sun Xianbing said excitedly: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll write all this down!"
Gong Weiguo glared at him and said, "Waiting for you, I'm so tired of keeping this posture!" At this moment, he still maintained the posture of holding a triangle ruler in his left hand and holding the pen in the air with his right elbow. After a long time, his muscles became a little stiff.
Sun Xianbing suppressed his laughter and said, "Okay, okay, then you can continue acting."
Gong Weiguo retracted the pen in his right hand and the hammer in his left hand also fell.
Feng Xiaoyu held her head with her left hand and pressed her neck with her right hand. She staggered forward a few steps and then fell forward face down.
Gong Weiguo quickly reached out and pulled her back: "Hey, you don't have to be so dedicated. If you really fall, your face will be disfigured."
Feng Xiaoyu glared at him, squatted down, and then posed like in the photo of the corpse.
"The carotid artery was bleeding, and the blood was spurting out. There were bloodstains on the walls, the floor, the coffee table, and the glass jar."
As soon as these words came out, Sun Xianbing shuddered: "Damn, that's too brutal!"
It was Yu Jing’s first time acting and he just stood there in a daze.
Gong Weiguo raised his chin towards him: "Hey, Dayu, come on!"
Yu Jing finally reacted and hurriedly "pushed the door" out. He looked at Gong Weiguo and was shocked: "Weiguo, your eyes are red with anger, it's scary."
Gong Weiguo didn't bother to care what he said. He took the dagger in his right hand and stabbed Yu Jing's heart fiercely.
Yu Jing placed his left hand on his chest, took a step forward, and stretched out his right hand as if he wanted to do something.
Xia Mufan's eyes lit up: "Stop!"
Yu Jing stared at him blankly, his right hand still stretched forward.
Xia Mushige asked: "What are you doing with your right hand?"
Yu Jing replied: "In the photo, Gu Mingkang's right hand was in this position when he died."
Gong Weiguo: "Maybe he wants to hit me?"
Xia Mufan shook his head: "Maybe Gu Mingkang wanted to see the murderer's face clearly."
Gong Weiguo fell into deep thought again: "See my face clearly? Just open your eyes wide or take a step forward, why stretch out your hand?"
Yu Jing said weakly: "Is it possible that the murderer was wearing a mask?"
Xia Mufan slammed the table and said, "Yes! That's right! The murderer was wearing a mask, and Gu Mingkang couldn't see his face clearly, so he kept his right hand stretched forward until he died, because he wanted to pull down the mask on the murderer's face!"
Sun Xianbing wrote quickly.
Gong Weiguo thought for a moment and said, "It's possible. Then I should have put on a mask before entering the house."
Xia Mushige asked: "Why do you have to wear a mask?"
Sun Xianbing reacted quickly this time: "Because the murderer is afraid of being recognized?"
Xia Mufan: "Since you don't plan to leave him alive, what's the harm if you recognize him?"
At this moment, everyone felt strange.
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