Chapter 50 Masks
The office of the Serious Crime Unit 7 fell into a brief silence.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
There was a slight knock on the door.
Everyone was startled. You looked at me, I looked at you, and no one moved.
Normally the office door is not closed, but this time, in order to avoid forensic doctor Gu, Feng Xiaoyu deliberately closed the door when deducing the crime process.
It’s almost time to get off work. Who would knock on the door at this time?
Xia Mufan stood up and opened the door.
Yue Yuan and Gu Shaoqi stood at the door with serious faces.
Yue Yuan looked fierce: "You are reopening the old case, but you don't want me to participate?"
Gu Shaoqi said hoarsely: "I'm not as fragile as you think."
Feng Xiaoyu needed Yue Yuan's signature to review the case file, so he was an insider. Yue Yuan thought that although Xia Mufan was a newcomer, he had outstanding investigative skills and might be able to find some new ideas for solving the case, so he planned to come over and take a look before getting off work.
Walking out of the office, Yue Yuan suddenly thought of Gu Shaoqi.
The 10.18 major case has been reopened, and Gu Shaoqi must participate. As a relative of the victim, he can provide information at any time if he has any questions about his parents' social relationships. So Yue Yuan called Gu Shaoqi and went to the office of Serious Crime Unit 7 together.
Yue Yuan pushed the door gently, but unexpectedly, the office door was locked.
Yue Yuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. These little guys were so mysterious? Just as he was about to knock on the door, Gu Shaoqi stopped him. Gu Shaoqi motioned for him to wait a moment.
Just then, Gong Weiguo's vicious voice came from the office: "I'm going to go into the master bedroom and kill them both."
Then Xia Mufan asked: "You are alone against two people. Are you sure you can kill one of them without alerting the other one?"
The Criminal Investigation Brigade has strict access control, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at all. Therefore, the office is rarely closed unless there is something confidential.
The sound insulation was not very good, but Yue Yuan could still hear it clearly.
It seems that the young man is very engaged in rehearsing the crime process. It would be a bad idea to go in and disturb them at this time, so the two of them simply stood still and paid attention to the progress in the office.
It didn't matter what he heard. Yue Yuan almost wanted to applaud Xia Mufan.
She is meticulous and rigorous, never letting go of any doubts, and is able to boldly put forward hypotheses, sweeping away the entanglements when reopening past cases. Her goal is very clear.
She quickly ruled out burglary and murder, and instead focused her investigation on a "vendetta."
She thinks the killer has the key;
She proposed a new hypothesis: the murderer's figure was similar to Gu Shaoqi's, and Xie Lijiao mistook the murderer for Gu Shaoqi.
Based on Gu Mingkang's death posture, she speculated that the murderer was wearing a mask.
It’s really refreshing!
The more Yue Yuan listened, the more excited he became. In the end, he wanted to rush in and see for himself how Gong Weiguo and the others performed. They actually inspired so much inspiration for Xia Mufan.
Gu Shaoqi's feeling is different from Yue Yuan's.
The noises from the office kept coming into his ears, and he seemed to have witnessed the crime process with his own eyes. The pain was like a small insect gnawing at his heart.
Especially when he heard Xia Mufan speculate that his mother mistook the murderer for himself and that his father wanted to pull down the other person's mask before he died, he was in so much pain that he could not breathe.
If he doesn't bring the murderer to justice in this life and watch him die in front of him, Gu Shaoqi will never be able to forgive himself.
Xia Mufan opened the door wide: "Welcome, I need your help and advice." Since Gu Shaoqi has seen him, there is no need to avoid him anymore.
Yue Yuan stepped in, glanced at the chalk grid on the ground, and then looked at Gong Weiguo who was holding a triangle ruler and a pen: "It's a pity that the scene restoration is not realistic enough."
Gong Weiguo chuckled and said, "Captain Yue, we are almost there."
Feng Xiaoyu, who was lying on the ground pretending to be a corpse, quickly got up and called out in an embarrassed voice, "Captain Yue, Medical Examiner Gu."
Xia Mufan understood Yue Yuan's hidden meaning: "Captain Yue, do you think there is anything else that needs to be added at the scene?"
Yue Yuan pointed to the "living room": "There should be a coffee table with a TV and a fish tank on it."
Xia Mufan immediately dragged over a small table, placed a file bag on the table as a TV, and then turned his eyes to Gu Shaoqi.
Gu Shaoqi pursed his lips and said nothing.
Yue Yuan poked his arm and said, "Bring your little turtle here and put it here. Maybe it can awaken its memory and give us some clues."
Xia Mufan's eyes suddenly became eager: "Forensic Doctor Gu, is this okay?"
When Xia Mufan heard the tortoise Xiao Mo talking at Gu Shaoqi's house before, he didn't dare to ask questions, let alone ask for details. Fortunately, Xiao Mo was a chatterbox and muttered a lot.
If we could put the grass turtle at the scene and let it watch the crime scene again, maybe it could be stimulated to come up with more clues. Yue Yuan's suggestion was really brilliant!
Gu Shaoqi nodded: "Okay."
It has been five and a half years since his parents passed away. With so many people worrying about his case and suffering for him, how could Gu Shaoqi refuse Xia Muchan's small request?
Yue Yuan raised his big hand and patted Gu Shaoqi on the back: "Okay, then go quickly, we'll wait for you."
When Gu Shaoqi came back, he was carrying a delicate white aquarium.
The box is made of plastic with exhaust holes on the top. There is a shallow layer of water in the box, just covering the soles of the grass turtle Xiao Mo.
Xiao Mo kept screaming as the aquarium shook.
[Ahhh, I’m going out! 】
[Xiao Gu finally got his bearings today and decided to take me out to play.] 】
Where is this? Oh, I feel a little dizzy. 】
Xia Mushige held back his laughter, took the aquarium and placed it on the "coffee table", placing it to the right of the "TV" according to the photos taken on the scene.
Xiao Mo felt that the shaking had stopped, so he slowly poked his head out a little bit. His little eyes met Xia Mufan's gaze, and he immediately started muttering.
[It’s you again!] 】
[Could it be that Xiao Gu found himself a young wife first? 】
You understand what I am saying, don’t you? 】
If so, feed me something delicious. 】
Xia Mufan looked at Feng Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, do you have any more fruit?"
Feng Xiaoyu walked to her desk, opened the drawer, and took out an apple: "How about an apple?"
Xia Mufan used a knife to cut off a small piece, put it on a toothpick and put it into the aquarium, close to Xiao Mo's head.
When the grass turtle Xiao Mo smelled the fragrance of the apple, he stretched his neck with joy and took the apple in his mouth.
The first time Feng Xiaoyu saw her pet turtle eating fruit, she shouted with joy: "It's eating, it's really eating!"
Xiao Mo ate an apple while talking happily to Xia Mufan.
[You really understand what I say.] 】
[Xiao Gu is too lazy. He feeds me dried shrimps all day long. I am about to vomit. 】
[Hello, you are a good girl.] 】
Yue Yuan coughed and said, "Can we start now?"
Xia Mufan raised his hand: "Okay!"
The actors are in place.
Feng Xiaoyu continued to lie down and pretend to be a corpse.
Gong Weiguo put on a mask and gloves, and stabbed Yu Jing's left chest with a "dagger" in his right hand, explaining: "The stab was very deep, straight into the ventricle. The amount of bleeding was small, but the pericardium was tamponaded, the heart stopped beating, and the brain could not keep up with the blood supply. He fell into a coma in one minute."
Yu Jing covered his left chest in pain, stretched out his right hand, trying to pull down the mask on Gong Weiguo's face, and let out a painful groan of "ah...ah..." from his throat.
Gong Weiguo took two steps back to avoid Yu Jing's right hand.
Yu Jing slowly knelt down, leaned forward, and fell to the ground "unconscious".
Gu Shaoqi looked at everything in front of him with dim eyes. Even though he tried hard to hold it back, his clenched hands and the exposed veins on the back of his hands revealed the pain in his heart.
That's how his parents were killed!
Xia Mushige asked again: "Why is the murderer wearing a mask?"
Gong Weiguo put himself in the role and tried to analyze the murderer's psychology: "I am very cautious. I don't want to be recognized by Gu Mingkang and Xie Lijiao. If they see my face, it will be bad."
Sun Xianbing looked at the "two bodies" lying on the ground and thought quickly: "The murderer has allergic rhinitis and is afraid that the cold wind will wake up the neighbors by causing him to sneeze?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he shook his head and said, "No, no, it's useless to wear a mask when you have allergic rhinitis. You will still sneeze."
Feng Xiaoyu lay on the floor feeling uncomfortable. She turned around and said, "Is he an acquaintance of the Gu family? Or a neighbor in the family quarters?"
When Xiao Mo, the grass turtle in the fish tank, saw this scene, he was stunned for a long time.
It felt that the scene before it was very familiar, so familiar that it made it feel terrified.
[Kill, kill people!] 】
[That bad guy is here again——]
[He is not an acquaintance, I don’t recognize him!] 】
Yue Yuan couldn't hear Cao Gui's thoughts, but he heard the young man's guess and shook his head: "We checked Gu's relatives, friends, and all men with the same height and weight in the entire family area, but no suspects were found."
Gu Shaoqi's face was expressionless, but his voice was trembling slightly. "Among my cousins of similar age, none of them have the same build and weight as the murderer. People on my father's side are very strong, and people on my mother's side are shorter."
Yue Yuan and Gu Shaoqi meant that the possibility of the crime being committed by an acquaintance was basically ruled out.
Hearing this, Xia Mufan's eyebrows were twisted into a line.
Xiao Mo said that the murderer was not an acquaintance, and Yue Yuan and Gu Shaoqi also supported this point.
If he wasn't an acquaintance, why was he afraid to show his face?
An idea suddenly flashed through his mind, and Xia Mufan stood up suddenly: "Could it be that the murderer really looks like Forensic Doctor Gu?"
Yue Yuan had never thought of this idea before. He turned his gaze to Xia Mufan and encouraged him, "Go on."
Xia Mufan felt that he was about to touch the thick disguise wrapped around the truth, and his heartbeat quickened: "We just analyzed that the reason why Xie Lijiao did not fall at the door of the bedroom, but died in the middle of the living room, should be that she mistook the murderer standing in front of the wall lamp for her son at first sight."
Yue Yuan didn't say anything, but just nodded slightly, indicating that Xia Muchan could speak freely.
Gu Shaoqi clenched his fists and held them close to his trouser line. The murderer looks like him? Why does the murderer look like him!
Xia Mufan: "We can actually follow this line of thought. Is it possible that the murderer not only looks like Forensic Doctor Gu, but also looks a bit like Forensic Doctor Gu, so he subconsciously doesn't want Gu Mingkang and his wife to see his face?"
The tortoise Xiao Mo suddenly started to get restless.
Its claws scratched desperately at the bottom of the aquarium, splashing water on the shallow surface.
[I remembered!] 】
[After he came out of the bedroom, he stood behind his mother motionless. 】
[Then he took off his mask and said don’t blame him, only blame…]
[I saw his face, ahhhh.] 】
Gu Shaoqi's heart skipped a beat and his eyes were fixed on Xiao Mo. What happened to Xiao Mo? Could it be that it understood what everyone was saying? What does it want to express?
Xia Mushige put his right hand to his lips and whispered, "It seems to understand."
Gong Weiguo was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the grass turtle paddling desperately and swallowed his saliva: "The turtle can understand us? Team leader Xiao Xia, are you imagining things?"
Sun Xianbing glared at him and said, "This case has been unsolved for several years. Can't we try a new approach? You don't care whether the turtle can understand us or not. Just think of it as God can't stand the bad guys getting away with it, so he sent a turtle to help us solve the case, can't we?"
As soon as Sun Xianbing said this, everyone looked at Gu Shaoqi at the same time.
God couldn't bear to see the bad guys get away with it, so he sent turtles to help us solve the case? Sun Xianbing's words went straight to Gu Shaoqi's heart. The case had not made any progress in five and a half years. Having experienced countless disappointments, Gu Shaoqi was almost in despair and began to place his hopes on ghosts and gods.
Gu Shaoqi met everyone's gaze and nodded: "Perhaps, Xiao Mo can really understand what we say."
Even Gu Shaoqi, the person involved, agreed with it, what else could Gong Weiguo say? He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "Okay, okay, forensic doctor Gu is right, then let's ask the turtle to provide some clues to solve the case."
Xia Mushige walked to the aquarium.
The finger gently tapped the transparent side, making a "pop" sound.
"I just said that the murderer not only resembles Forensic Doctor Gu in body shape, but also in appearance, which is why he subconsciously didn't want Gu Mingkang and his wife to see his face. Do you think I'm right, Xiao Mo?"
Xiao Mo began to paddle his feet again, causing ripples on the shallow water surface.
[Yes, yes, that’s it!] 】
[He looks very similar to Xiao Gu, with deep eye sockets, a high nose bridge, and very fair skin. 】
【Especially the eyebrows, which are neat and tidy.】 】
Xia Mufan turned his head and looked at Gu Shaoqi.
Gu Shaoqi's skin color was indeed very white, cold and white, with a porcelain-like luster. The eyebrows are standard double-eyebrows, with the tail of the eyebrow raised high up, the eyebrow body showing two slightly curved sections, and the eyebrow color is shiny black. His eyes are not big, but he has obvious double eyelids, his pupils are dark, the whites of his eyes are deep and cold, and the black and white are clearly distinguished.
Deep eye sockets, high nose bridge and fair skin, this combination makes him look somewhat exotic.
A trace of doubt suddenly flashed through Xia Mufan's mind: she had seen photos of Gu Mingkang and Xie Lijiao, and to be honest, Gu Shaoqi didn't look much like either of them.
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