Chapter 183 Don’t go out after dark [5,000 words, please subscribe and vote monthly]
Gu Chen’s work today was indeed not going well.
First, he lurked in the forest and did not wait for the man in black to appear, thus wasting a whole night in vain.
Secondly, the man in black changed his previous course of action, hurting people in Xinghua Village for the first time, and this time the random target turned out to be a crew member.
And just last night and this morning, Director Guo specially comforted all the crew, telling everyone to work well and not to worry about the incident of the man in black hurting others, and said that this was not an attack on the crew.
But now, these words are like a slap in the face.
The man in black not only appeared in Xinghua Village, but also cut a crew member.
Now the crew members quit their jobs and spontaneously came to the village committee door to ask for explanations…
Director Guo was helpless now. Seeing Gu Chen was like seeing his biological father.
In comparison, it would be much easier to leave the burden to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen never thought about what the scene would look like or whether the crew could continue filming after the injury.
In addition to today’s injured, there are two more who are being treated. It feels like this murderer is sparing no effort to create panic.
“Comrade policeman.” Director Guo’s words were no longer as domineering as last night, and he asked for help softly: “Look, this murderer actually came to Xinghua Village and injured one of our photographers. This guy is like a ghost. He comes and goes without a trace. If we don’t find him, our crew may have to evacuate, but I can’t explain this loss to the producer.”
“Don’t worry first.” Gu Chen simply comforted him, and then asked: “Who are the witnesses?”
“Witnesses?” Director Guo thought briefly for a few seconds, then raised his head and said to the crowd: “Who was there when Xiao Liao was injured? Come out and tell us what happened.”
In the crowd, a few people muttered a few words before they walked out of the crowd.
“When Xiao Liao was injured, a few of us went over after hearing the noise.” A tall and thin man said.
Director Guo quickly introduced: “These are all from the eighth film crew. They are in the same department as Xiao Liao. They were the first to discover that Xiao Liao was injured tonight.”
“Then have you seen clearly what the man in black looks like?” Lu Weiwei, who arrived later, also turned on the law enforcement recorder and stepped forward to ask.
“Not at all.” Another witness also shook his head and said: “When we arrived, the man in black slashed Xiao Liao’s chest. When we saw a few of us emerging from the other end of the alley, the man in black It was just a run-up, stepping on a few old wooden boxes next to the alley, and jumped over the wall to escape. “
“Can you still fly over the walls?”
After Xu Lang heard such remarks, the BGM scene with its own “laughter from the sea” began to appear in his mind.
“Comrade police, this man in black must still be in Xinghua Village. Please find him.” The old village chief looked at Gu Chen with a frown.
In all these years of being the village chief, I have never encountered such a strange thing.
People in the village have been attacked one after another, and now even the crew members are not spared.
The old village chief is now helpless and can only turn to the police for help…
Gu Chen smiled and said, “Can the witness take me to the scene to have a look?”
The people around who came to ask for explanations were now silent.
Looking at the young trainee police officer in front of them, many people were not convinced when he was instructing everyone to do things.
But after all, he is a policeman, so he can only ask for help from the police for this kind of matter.
“I can lead the way.” The tall and thin man raised his hand.
Gu Chen nodded: “Very good, let’s leave now.”
Several people did not stop for a moment and set off directly to the location of the incident.
Others consciously made way for a passage and couldn’t help but point at Gu Chen’s back.
“Is this young man a policeman?”
“Is he okay? He looks younger than me?”
“You don’t know anything about him at first glance, right? This man’s name is Gu Chen. He is a trainee police officer who has just arrived at Furong Police Station. He has handled many cases.”
“Yeah, I’ve seen his report on the news. Even the old police officers have to give him a bit of a thumbs-down. Did you see those older police officers just now? The ones who have been following him? Those are his leaders.”
“If he is really powerful, find this hurtful man in black so that we don’t have to worry here every day.”
“Anyway, don’t go out after dark.”
The more everyone talks about it, the scarier it becomes…
What the man in black brought to Xinghua Village and the crew was fear, an unknown fear of not knowing when disaster was about to strike.
Now I feel like when I go out to go to the toilet, I have to go in groups.
On the other side, Gu Chen followed several witnesses to the alley where the incident occurred.
The architectural layout of Xinghua Village is actually very standardized, the alleys are also very neat, and every household has a small yard.
According to eyewitness accounts, the photographer named Xiao Liao was attacked at the intersection when he returned to the villager’s home where he lived after saying goodbye to his companions.
“This place is really weird. There are street lights all around, but there are no lights on this section of the road.” Gu Chen briefly looked at the surrounding environment.
Indeed, the killer was very particular about who he chose and where to attack.
This section of the road is at the corner of the alley and is also a blind spot. Although there is a street light, it can be seen that the light bulb has long been damaged.
“We were originally saying goodbye at this intersection. We heard the screams in front of us, so we turned back immediately. Then we saw the murderer escaping over the wall, and Xiao Liao, who had been stabbed several times, was lying on the ground.” The thin man briefly restored the scene he witnessed.
There is still a pool of blood on the ground…
On the wall, there were a few incomplete footprints of kicking legs, and the wooden box on the ground obviously had traces of movement.
“This old box should have been at this end.” Officer Wang quickly found the clue based on Gu Chen’s gaze.
“Yes.” Lu Weiwei shined the flashlight and crouched down to check carefully: “According to the moved position, the murderer can definitely climb over the wall from here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Chen jumped onto the wooden box with a quick step, and then jumped onto the wall with a slight kick. After looking at the situation in the yard, he showed that this was indeed the case.
“Junior Brother Gu, what did you see?” Lu Weiwei asked quickly, wanting to flip up and see what happened.
“I already know why he moved the crate to this location.”
“Why?” Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang asked in unison.
“Because the original location of the wooden box corresponded to cacti under the wall, so the man in black wanted to avoid these things, so he moved the wooden box to a wall without cacti.” Gu Chen held his chin in thought. .
“Does that mean that the man in black is very familiar with this alley and that he has already arranged an escape route after committing the crime?” Xu Lang also expressed his own opinion.
“Senior Brother Xu is right.” Gu Chen nodded in agreement.
In Gu Chen’s opinion, after he was able to hurt someone, he immediately climbed over the wall and escaped, and accurately avoided the cactus. This was obviously because he had come here to investigate the route before.
And if the murderer was from the village, there would be no need to investigate at all. He would know exactly where the corner of the alley is. The street lights have long been damaged, and there is a cactus under the wall.
As for whether the murderer was a member of the crew, Gu Chen could actually rule it out.
The preliminary staff of the crew, a group of people including Hu Mengyao, came to Xinghua Village just a week ago to prepare.
However, it is generally impossible to achieve an absolute understanding of every location and alley in Xinghua Village in a very short period of time.
What’s more, in other people’s walls, there is no cactus visible from the door.
Can’t we say that the crew has to dig through everyone’s yard in order to do preliminary work?
Even during normal filming these days, all the crew members were on duty. There were no idlers at all, but those wandering around the village had already been noticed.
But I asked many people in the village during the day, and the vast majority of local residents did not find such a suspicious person.
From this point of view, the search scope seems to be greatly narrowed, and the murderer must be from Xinghua Village.
He is also agile and good at wielding a knife.
According to the elimination method, the elderly in the village can be eliminated, children can be eliminated, and women are unlikely. Then based on some characteristics, the only villagers who may be the murderer are only a few dozen people.
“It shouldn’t be difficult to find the murderer among more than twenty people, right?” Gu Chen asked himself.
Lu Weiwei asked in confusion: “Does Junior Brother Gu already know who the murderer is?”
“We can’t be sure yet, we can only take a look and then decide.” Gu Chen didn’t have much to say, he just felt that he was one step closer to the murderer.
If you have never come into contact with this man in black before, your understanding of him can only be limited to the oral accounts of other witnesses.
Through the basic layout of this alley, Gu Chen could basically determine that the murderer must be from this village.
Without so many twists and turns, Gu Chen went to the old village chief the next day, asked for the village roster, and asked the village chief about the personality characteristics of the more than 20 suspicious people in the village.
Among the remaining fifteen people, the similarities are relatively high and difficult to exclude.
“Are you sure you are one of these people?” Officer Wang, who was sitting in the village committee office, couldn’t help but ask.
“I just have suspicions, but no evidence.” Gu Chen held his chin in thought.
If the man in black is not found as soon as possible, then when night falls, anyone who is alone will most likely become the target of the man in black again.
Just as he was thinking about it, a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face walked in, holding a big watermelon in his hand.
“Thank you everyone, the village chief asked me to bring some watermelon to the police officers to quench their thirst.”
“The village chief is thinking about it.” Lu Weiwei’s eyes suddenly lit up when she saw the watermelon. She quickly stood up and came to the Eight Immortals table.
The man pulled out a watermelon knife from the kitchen of the village committee hut and held it in his hand.
Then holding the melon in one hand and holding the knife in the other, he completed a series of operations on his hands, cutting the watermelon into a tine shape from the middle, and then placed it on the table and gently turned it, and suddenly the two halves of the watermelon bloomed like two flowers. flowers.
The man casually pulled off a piece from the canine area and handed it to Lu Weiwei: “Here.”
“Thank you.” Lu Weiwei took the melon, slowly took a sip, and immediately said, “It’s so sweet.”
“This way of cutting the melon is a bit special.” Officer Wang also came over and couldn’t help but sigh as he watched the man cut the watermelon into a work of art.
The man waved his hand: “What’s the point? I also learned from others. There are only a few people in our village who can reach this level.”
“In other words, you are not the only one who has mastered this kind of sword technique?” Gu Chen’s eyes suddenly lit up and he stared at the blade in the man’s hand.
The middle-aged man was obviously startled by Gu Chen’s gaze…
This kind of look seems to be able to see through the little secrets in one’s heart.
The man just looked at Gu Chen for two seconds and already felt a chill.
“Police…comrade police, do you have any questions?” The man hesitated for a moment, then asked proactively.
“No problem. I know your name is Liu San. You are the accountant of the village. You used to be a pig butcher…”
Gu Chen told Liu San all about Liu San’s situation, which surprised Liu San: “So you know so many things about me?”
“Yes.” Gu Chen nodded and continued to ask: “But now I want to know, who are there who can have your sword skills? Can you help me identify them?”
Liu San laughed at that time: “I understand, the police comrades want to see who among these people may be the man in black, right?”
Gu Chen nodded and said nothing.
“Okay, but first of all, let me explain that I am definitely not the man in black.” Liu San also quickly put out the exemption clause, as if he would be included in the suspect list: “I heard that the man in black is strong, but I Even when I run, my whole body is trembling with fat, but I’m not that good.”
“I didn’t say it was you.” Gu Chen actually didn’t doubt Liu San. He could rule it out based on his pot-bellied figure.
At the same time, Lu Weiwei happened to take out the village’s roster and asked accountant Liu San to help select it.
“This, this, and this…”
Liu San selected six people in total. Except for two who were too obese, the other four were all on Gu Chen’s suspicion list.
“These people are very good at knife skills. Two of them are chefs, the two fat ones.”
Seeing Gu Chen lowering his head in deep thought and not responding, Liu San continued to smile and said: “Haha, it’s impossible for these two to be fatter than me. Do you have anything else to ask?”
“Thank you for your cooperation.” Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and said, “Don’t tell anyone what happened today is the greatest support for our police in handling the case.”
“I understand this, and I will definitely not talk nonsense.” Liu San also quickly expressed his stance.
After all, people have been injured one after another in the village, and now everyone is hoping that the police can find the murderer. After all, this is a person who dares to commit crimes under the eyes of the police. It can be said that he is very arrogant.
Now the crew and the village committee have issued notices: Don’t go out after dark.
After the shooting, you must return to the room and lock the door to ensure everything is safe.
But after all, this situation cannot continue forever.
If the murderer is not found, the villagers and crew will have no peace, and everyone will begin to question the police’s ability to handle the case.
“You can go back first.” Officer Wang walked to Liu San, patted him on the shoulder and said, “Thank you for your cooperation.”
He looked at the watermelon on the table and said, “By the way, there’s also your melon.”
“You’re welcome, that’s right.” Liu San nodded, very politely: “If you need anything, just go to the finance room of the village committee and see me. I’ll be there during the day.”
After a few simple greetings, Liu Sanzhan left tremblingly.
Xu Lang and Lu Weiwei immediately walked to Officer Wang and Gu Chen.
Everyone made eye contact and seemed to know what each other was thinking.
“There are four targets now.” Gu Chen pointed out the four people who were selected and continued: “From various characteristics, they all match the characteristics of the men in black, and they are all good at using knives.”
“In other words, by keeping an eye on these four people, it is very possible to find the real man in black?” Xu Lang’s eyes gleamed and he couldn’t help but smile.
“There are four of us, and each of us will keep an eye on one at night. Is there any problem?” Officer Wang couldn’t wait to assign the task.
He knows that this is also the common thought of everyone…
From two different groups of people, we finally eliminated the four people in front of us. It can be said that we finally have some hope of finding a needle in a haystack.
Everyone nodded silently, maintaining a tacit understanding with each other.
It’s night time soon…
After dinner, for safety reasons, the crew worked with the village committee to implement the order not to go out after dark.
At around 7 o’clock, except for three film crews shooting some outdoor shots, the other film crews stopped working at night.
Everyone goes back to the room. If you are bored, you can play cards, watch TV, or play chess.
But Gu Chen and his colleagues watched the four suspects walk into the house based on the terrain they were investigating during the day.
Afterwards, surveillance was carried out near the door until late at night.
The suspect Gu Chen was following was named Liu Tiangui. He was a carpenter who relied on his craftsmanship to earn a living and loved to smoke. He was nearly forty years old, but he was still a single man.
The overall impression given to Gu Chen is that he doesn’t like to talk, rarely greets people when meeting, and is a bit autistic.
When others get together to play cards, he always just stands aside and does not participate. It can be said that he is a marginal figure.
Time passes minute by minute…
9pm, 10pm, 11pm.
Several film crews also began to finish work one after another, and everyone began to walk together and rush to their respective residences.
Conversations can be heard everywhere at alley intersections, and flashlight lights illuminate every road.
12 o’clock in the morning.
The road started to get quiet…
After Gu Chen and three other colleagues confirmed the situation via text message, he took out a bottle of energy drink and started drinking it.
The fatigue and anxiety just now began to fade away instantly.
Maintaining enough energy to keep track at night is very necessary in this situation.
Gu Chen had said hello to Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Officer Xu. If any suspicious movement occurred and a warning was issued, the others must first go to the room where the suspect was being followed to confirm their identity.
After confirming that it is not the man in black, immediately go to the suspicious direction to provide support.
For this reason, Lu Weiwei also set up a temporary group. Once there is a situation, everyone must immediately send a message to the group, and the dialog box is first set to voice input mode.
The bright moonlight shone on Gu Chen’s body, like a stone statue, waiting alone for the prey to appear.
However, the time soon reached one o’clock in the morning.
Gu Chen’s ears began to hear “rustling” and “rustling” sounds, as if something was approaching…
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