Chapter 148
Chen He's silence was filled with admiration.
In the empty hospital corridor, Zhou Zhengzheng's voice echoed: "The phone that Master picked up is Qiu Yue's."
After handcuffing Chang Ting in the ward and confiscating his keys of the same specifications, Zhou Zhengzheng returned to the bun shop and continued to check the surveillance.
It was discovered that a black Volkswagen sedan had been parked at the location where Qiu Yue’s mobile phone was picked up.
The car was quite high-end. The surveillance cameras at the bun shop and the shop across the road captured both sides of the car, but the dark film on the windows made it difficult to see the people inside.
The car came from Lanzhou and stopped there for an hour and a half, which coincided with the time Qiu Yue posted on Weibo.
About ten minutes after Qiu Yue's last old Weibo post was published, the driver's window dropped an inch, and a mobile phone was pushed out and fell into the snow beside the car.
The reason why the people in the car threw away their mobile phones may be that they were afraid of the police's investigative technology and worried that even a turned-off phone could be located, so they simply threw it away.
The vehicle then started and disappeared from the monitoring range.
The people in the car never got off or showed their faces.
In other words, people in the car can connect to the Internet without having to enter the bun shop.
He must have known the place beforehand and got the WIFI password of the bun shop.
Plan carefully and come prepared.
Zhou Zhengzheng said to his phone: "We tracked the vehicle's trajectory and retrieved surveillance footage along the way. We found that a radar speed camera captured the driver's image. The driver is..."
A faint voice came: "Zhou Zhengzheng...Zhou Zhengzheng..."
"My master is calling my soul again. Wait a moment, I'll go over and take a look."
Zhou Zhengzheng returned to the ward.
"Master, handcuffing one hand isn't enough, right? Here's another pair of handcuffs."
"I don't dare anymore. I don't dare anymore, okay, Master Disciple?" Chang Ting leaned back on the pillow, raising one hand in surrender. "Just let me have a word with Teacher Chen."
Zhou Zhengzheng handed him the phone.
Chang Ting let the phone stand on the pillow and leaned against his right ear: "Chen He, the man driving the car..."
He was halfway through his sentence when a headache started. He pressed his forehead for a long time without saying anything.
Chen He, on the other side, was already nervous and asked hesitantly, "Who is it?"
Chang Ting finally spoke up and asked, "Who do you think it is? Song Zhou?"
When he has a headache, he wants to hurt others and poke them wherever it hurts.
Hearing Chen He's silence, he felt his hair stand on end again, and quickly confessed: "To tell you the truth, I can't see clearly."
Radar speed cameras are primarily designed to record vehicle violations, not to identify drivers. The images of drivers captured are not clear, and they cannot even see if there is anyone in the back seat.
All that can be seen is that the driver is wearing a narrow-brimmed dark felt hat and a mask on his face, the purpose of which is obviously to conceal his appearance.
But I couldn't tell who it was, or even whether it was a man or a woman.
The black Volkswagen drove to the outskirts of Qi'an City, entered an area with little surveillance, and then disappeared.
Chen He exclaimed in surprise: "Disappeared?"
Chang Ting said, "It disappeared. There are several forked roads in that area, and we're not sure which intersection the car turned from. We should be able to find it by tracking it, but it will take time."
"What's more, we discovered through the license plate number that it was a cloned car. We don't even know who the owner of the car is.
"If you can fake one license plate, you can fake two. So, the difficulty of surveillance investigation has increased several times. It won't be completed in a few days, and there's no guarantee that we can eventually find the targeted vehicle."
Chen He's heart sank little by little.
Chang Ting waved a finger in the air and continued to talk: "Now let's review -
"This driver got the internet password of the bun shop in advance and sent it private messages and Weibo.
"The usage traces have been tampered with, and all the private messages between you and me have been deleted.
“The phone had been wiped and no fingerprints were left.
"Then he discarded the phone. He probably feared the police might have some technical means to locate it even if it was turned off, so he simply discarded it. He was being extremely cautious.
"Also, there are fake license plate vehicles, drivers deliberately disguising themselves, and deliberately driving on hard-to-track roads...
"This series of circumstances shows that this person planned carefully, came well prepared, and had a strong awareness of counter-detection."
Chen He listened silently, fear spreading up from his feet like frost, until his whole body was cold.
Chang Ting paused for a moment, and when she didn't respond, he continued, "Also, there's another coincidence.
"When Song Zhou disappeared from the Qingde Auto Repair Shop, the snow had just started to fall, so it didn't affect driving much.
"What if. I mean what if. For some unknown reason, Song Zhou got Qiu Yue's phone and drove this Volkswagen from the Qingde Auto Repair Shop to the bun shop.
"In terms of time, it's roughly the time the technology monitors when the phone is connected to the internet.
"The painter's eyes are sharp. Chen He, I'll send you the surveillance screenshots. Can you help me check if this person is Song Zhou?"
Chen He finally managed to utter with some difficulty: "...It can't be him."
Chang Ting was stunned for a moment: "You haven't even seen the screenshot yet, are you so sure?"
"Song Zhou...it's impossible for him to throw away Qiu Yue's phone." Chen He spoke softly, but she spoke to the point.
She suppressed her frustration, closed her eyes, and said, "Even if he was worried about being located, he would find a place to put his phone properly and not just throw it on the roadside.
"If he had any mobility, he would never have allowed the phone to be thrown away."
Chang Ting suddenly realized: "That makes sense."
It is now certain that Song Zhou's disappearance was not voluntary. Moreover, he has lost his freedom.
Should have thought of it earlier.
Chen He was filled with regret. "The private message was signed with a nickname known only to him and me, so I initially assumed it was from him. But now it seems someone must have been impersonating me."
When talking on the phone with Song Zhou, the two of them kept calling each other "puppy, puppy". No matter which side they were on, if someone was eavesdropping or listening, wouldn't they be able to hear it?
It would be inconsiderate of you to trust someone based on just a nickname.
"I was wrong." Her voice was like wet paper, decadent and fragile.
"Nothing." Chang Ting said in a relaxed tone, "It's human nature. I'm not angry."
"I don't care if you're angry or not."
Chang Ting: “…”
Chen He: “…That’s not what I meant.”
"It's okay, I'm used to it. If you two don't argue with me for a day, I feel uncomfortable all over." Chang Ting continued, "You should take a look at the screenshots."
Chen He immediately received surveillance screenshots on WeChat.
She perked up, carefully examining the unclear outline, and quickly made a judgment: "It looks strange, definitely not someone I know."
Chang Ting fiddled with the handcuffs' chains. "A stranger? This is so strange. There's no way such a person would just appear out of nowhere."
"Zhou Zhengzheng..." Chang Ting, still on the phone, asked Zhou Zhengzheng, who was sitting beside the bed, "I haven't met Lu Dun, the general manager of Xingchang Trading Company, in person. Does he look like him to you?"
"It's not him," Zhou Zhengzheng answered clearly. "Lü Dun is 1.82 meters tall and weighs 90 kilograms, so he's quite big. Even though we can only see the upper body of this person, we can tell he's not a tall person.
"Besides, we have someone monitoring Lu Dun. He has never left Qi'an in these days."
Chen He was still looking at the screenshot while talking on speakerphone. Suddenly, she noticed something and her eyes lit up: "This looks like a woman!"
Chang Ting and Zhou Zhengzheng were both stunned: "How did you know that?"
"The collar of a cotton coat." Chen He enlarged the blurry image to its brightest setting. "The neckline is narrow, a characteristic of women's clothing."
"Woman..." Chang Ting repeated, pinching his brows, "Among the suspects we have identified so far, Fu Weiru is the only woman.
"But it can't be her. According to the itinerary tracking, Fu Weiru must be in Lanzhou at this time."
Chang Ting's brow furrowed. Could this really be a completely new character who had never been seen before? Where had he emerged from?
"Well... let's call her Sister Cotton Coat for now." He finalized the code name, "There are two possibilities based on analysis.
"The first possibility is that Sister Mianfu is not part of Zhu Zangmo's group. Song Zhou and Sister Mianfu are collaborators. Song Zhou was also in that car, and the Weibo post and private message were sent by Song Zhou.
"But judging by the act of discarding the phone, this possibility is relatively small.
"The second possibility is that Sister Mianfu is an accomplice of Zhu Zangmo and others, and Song Zhou was kidnapped. We can't confirm whether he was in the car. The private messages and Weibo posts were sent by Sister Mianfu impersonating Song Zhou.
"If the other party is really a woman, it is unlikely that she can subdue Song Zhou by force. But if she uses wits, for example, using Qiu Yue's phone as bait... then it's hard to say."
Chen He understood.
If it is the second case, the private message deliberately signed "Puppy" is a smokescreen.
The other party wanted to mislead her and make her think that the Weibo post was posted by Song Zhou.
As a result, Song Zhou's current situation is completely unknown.
It is not certain where he is now, whether he is safe, or even whether he is alive or dead.
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