I am a super cop

Chapter 565 The Dead Cat’s Conjecture 【Two in One】

"What did you say? Didn't find the source of the fire and the ignition device?" Lu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked: "So... how did this fire start? Could it be that the wires were short-circuited?"

"I'm also very surprised, because judging from the situation at the scene, there seems to be a lot of flammable materials in the room where the cat is kept." Gu Chen briefly analyzed the situation he observed at the fire scene with everyone.

When the firefighter leader heard this, he walked up to Gu Chen and asked, "Comrade policeman, since you are the only one who entered the room, tell me, how did the fire start?"

Gu Chen shook his head and said calmly: "It's hard to judge at the moment, but the fire came so suddenly, it makes me feel a little strange."

"Strange, what aspect are you referring to?" the driver asked.

"For example, in the room, there seems to be a lot of flammable items in it, so you put them?" Gu Chen asked the driver back.

The driver master frowned, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "The room has always been arranged like this. If no one goes in, isn't that normal?"

"Our family has gone out together before, and we also locked the cat in the room, and there is nothing wrong with it."

"Wait a minute." Gu Chen interrupted suddenly: "Apart from that cat, has anyone else been to your house?"

"Who has been here?" The driver was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No one has come to my house. After my wife and daughter left, I have been living in the urban area and have never been back."

"If someone has come to my house, they can only ask the property."

Speaking of this, everyone's eyes suddenly gathered on Kaitian Property Manager.

The property manager couldn't help but waved his hands quickly and said, "No... don't look at me with such eyes, I don't know anything, if someone has been to his house, then the surveillance should be able to capture it." .”

"Surveillance?" Yuan Shasha looked around. On the side of the passage intersection, there was indeed a surveillance camera that could capture the front door of the single-family villa.

So Yuan Shasha asked again: "Apart from this road, is there anything that can be captured by the back door?"

"Yes, the road behind is also monitored. We have surveillance on every road here, which can ensure that the front and rear doors of each villa are under the control of the surveillance."

Gu Chen glanced at the fire brigade leader who was cleaning up the aftermath, and said: "Please don't touch anything at the fire scene after you have cleaned up all the open flames at the scene."

"Hehe." The firefighter leader understood what Gu Chen meant, but he still said with a smile: "Little brother, after the fire, everything that should have been burned was gone, even if you suspect that someone has entered the villa, but you have seen it. "

Speaking of this, the firefighter leader pointed to the villa and said, "See, there are only skeletons left. This villa needs to be demolished and rebuilt before people can live in it. What can you find out?"

"It's still possible." Gu Chen nodded, and said calmly: "I can judge from the burning situation. Generally, the place that burns first is the darkest after burning."

"To judge based on the interior of the house and the degree of charredness, first of all, we must use the charred part of the wall to determine which room it is in, and then search for the source of the fire in the room."

"You... you know all about this?" The firefighter leader also froze for a moment.

Unexpectedly, a policeman also knew how firefighters searched for the source of the fire.

The way he looks at Gu Chen has changed now, and he feels that this guy looks a little powerful.

Lu Weiwei asked weakly: "Junior Brother Gu, if the fire broke out and was caused by vandalism, how should we investigate?"

"This..." Gu Chen hesitated for a moment, but quickly said: "Actually, if someone deliberately caused a fire, then the scene after the fire should also be checked to see if there is any trace of someone deliberately destroying it."

"However, this also requires investigation."

Yuan Shasha frowned slightly, and stepped forward to ask: "So, if it was damaged or other people entered the scene immediately after the fire, the evidence might be destroyed or taken away by those people, right?"

"That's what it means." Gu Chen also nodded, looked at the property manager and the fire brigade leader, and then said: "However, when the fire broke out, before I came, it seemed that no one had entered the fire scene."

"In this way, I may be the first person to enter the fire scene, so if it is the case of entering the scene after the fire and destroying it, it is unlikely to happen. The focus should be on the front of the fire to see if anyone has entered here .”

"Yes, you're right." Xu Zhenggang walked to Gu Chen's side and said, "Gu Chen, this place is within the surveillance range. If you ask their property for surveillance footage, you should be able to figure out who started the fire. .”

"Yes."

"Yes, there must be a video in the property."

"I also feel very strange, how did this fire start?"

"It was so sudden. Fortunately, this is a single-family house. Otherwise, my family might be over."

Many residents are talking about it, and everyone hopes that the police and firefighters can find the cause of the fire.

The property manager also felt the strong pressure from the people around him, so he nodded and said, "That's all right, I'll adjust the monitoring, who of you will follow me?"

"I'll go." Yuan Shasha stepped out voluntarily.

Gu Chen nodded: "Okay, then Xiao Yuan will go over and have a look first. If no one is found sneaking into this villa today, then push it forward for a day, and if it doesn't work, push it back. We must find the person who sneaked into the villa."

"I know Brother Gu." Yuan Shasha has always been clear about Gu Chen's thinking in handling cases.

The reason is very simple, Yuan Shasha has to borrow all the files of Gu Chen's closed cases for a closer look.

Therefore, what Gu Chen meant, from the moment he said it, Yuan Shasha could accurately get the main points, just like Lu Weiwei, she had a tacit understanding with Gu Chen.

Soon, the property manager left with Yuan Shasha.

On the other side, the driver, the owner, was also restless, and quickly asked Gu Chen: "Comrade police, you were the first person to rush into the fire just now. If you judge according to your judgment, where is the source of the fire?" occurring?"

"This..." Gu Chen didn't respond directly, but asked instead: "Master, has your cat been locked in this airtight room all this time?"

"Yes." The driver said.

"Then it should be the room where the cat is kept, because this room meets all the points I just said. Compared with other rooms, the wall is also the darkest, but I want to say a few words to you."

"Wh...what?" The driver didn't know what to do, and quickly asked, "Is there any problem?"

"Of course there is a problem." Gu Chen then fished out in his pocket, only to find a burnt piece of paper and said:
"This is the item I found in the room with the pet cat. It is the wallpaper for the decoration of your house. I found a very serious problem."

"What?" The driver was in a daze, and hurriedly asked, "This...is there any problem with this?"

"It's a big problem." Gu Chen took the remaining piece of wallpaper in his hand, looked around in front of everyone for a week, and then said: "According to my judgment on this kind of wallpaper, this wallpaper is not fireproof, and it is very flammable. , Many home decorations on the market have already eliminated this product.”

"And this kind of flammable wallpaper is only used by some stores for aesthetic design."

Glancing at the driver, Gu Chen frowned and asked, "But I'm curious, why do you use this kind of wallpaper? Once the fire burns, such a fire will spread quickly."

"Show me." The fire brigade leader also took the scraps of wallpaper from Gu Chen, and then gently tore them open with his hands, and suddenly said in surprise: "The composition of this wallpaper is obviously a layer of paper and foam on the surface, and There seems to be some latex in it."

"This kind of wallpaper was made many years ago. It is not fireproof at all, and once it is ignited, it will basically spread quickly."

"It's...really?" Hearing the explanations of Gu Chen and the fire brigade leader, the driver had mixed feelings, and said helplessly, "I...I just wanted to take advantage of it."

"The police comrades know about my family's situation. I'm heavily in debt now. You want me to buy expensive firewall paper. To be honest, it's not economically acceptable."

"As for these wallpapers, I also saw that the store was selling them at a discount. They are very cheap, and my daughter has always wanted to decorate her room, so...so I tried to find a cheap one. Who knew this kind of thing would happen."

"I know." Gu Chen also nodded, and said again: "But you have to think clearly, pasting this kind of wallpaper on the wall is equivalent to pouring oil on the walls of your home, and it will burn at once."

Gu Chen looked around and asked, "Who has a lighter?"

"I...I have it." The man who lived opposite the male driver quickly took out the lighter and handed it to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen didn't hesitate, and directly set the flammable wallpaper in his hand on fire in front of everyone.

Soon, the fire spread rapidly, and it didn't take long for the wallpaper to be burned into a stain.

When everyone looked at it, they couldn't help but feel a little bit in their hearts, thinking that pasting this kind of wallpaper at home is really playing with fire.

Gu Chen said indifferently: "Did you see it? This is what I found in the corner of a piece of furniture, but if you look at your room, the entire wall is completely black. You can imagine the How big is the fire."

"Yes yes yes." Listening to Gu Chen's words, the driver master was also trembling, feeling that he and his family were not in the house, otherwise the fire would spread, and he might be the one who burned to death.

After the rainstorm, the detached villas are still emitting faint white smoke.

Everyone stayed for a long time, and at this moment, Yuan Shasha came to everyone in small steps.

"How is it? Xiao Yuan." Gu Chen hurriedly asked her, "Has anyone sneaked into this villa in the past few days?"

Yuan Shasha shook her head: "No, I have seen all the surveillance images these days, including the passages of the front door and the back door. Almost no one has entered or exited here."

"Yes." After listening to Yuan Shasha's remarks, the property manager who arrived later explained, "The properties here are all professional, and strangers will not be allowed to enter casually."

"Then what if someone from Kaitian Villa entered?" Lu Weiwei said.

The property manager shook his head and said: "It's absolutely impossible, because everyone in Kaitian Villa knows that there are surveillance around the clock, who would be stupid enough to sneak into other people's house to do bad things at the risk of being caught by the surveillance ?”

"We have also checked the gas, and there is no leakage." At this time, a firefighter who participated in the fire said.

The firefighter leader nodded, looked at Gu Chen thoughtfully, and said, "Just now you said that the source of the fire might have come from the room where the cat was kept. I want to confirm your statement."

"Okay, we can go together." Gu Chen said.

With doubts, everyone walked into the burned villa together.

At this moment, the interior of the room was pitch black.

All kinds of wooden furniture have long been burned, and fragments of chandeliers are scattered all over the place.

There was still a strong smell everywhere in the house. Everyone covered their mouths and noses from time to time, stepped on the damaged and dirty floor, and walked in cautiously.

When Gu Chen led everyone to a closed room on the first floor, he pointed to the wall of the room and compared it with the outside: "Everyone can take a look and see if the source of the fire is spreading from here?"

The firefighter leader was the first to walk in. After looking around for a week, his eyes stopped outside and he nodded slightly: "Brother policeman, it seems that you are right. The fire is indeed likely to spread from this room."

"But Captain, there is no ignition device in here." A firefighter said.

The firefighter leader covered his mouth and nose, and said calmly: "Don't worry, just look at it."

Yuan Shasha screamed suddenly, and immediately focused everyone's attention.

"What's wrong?" Gu Chen asked.

Yuan Shasha covered her mouth and nose, pointed to a charred object in the corner and said, "Senior Brother Gu, it's...it's that cat."

Lu Weiwei hurried forward, picked up a burnt wooden stick, and pestered the kitten's body, then turned around and said, "It's too bad. When Junior Brother Gu went in to look for someone just now, this Is that what cats are like?"

Gu Chen nodded slightly: "That's right, the fire was very big at the time, and I saw that the kitten had suffocated to death, so I turned around and went to other rooms to continue searching. It wasn't as charred as it was at the time."

"It's so pitiful." Lu Weiwei threw away the wooden stick, then stood up, and said to the driver, "If no one in your family can take care of the cat, then it's better not to keep it, at least it's life."

"Now look at what it looks like when it is burned? If there is a person inside, they will have to be burned alive!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The driver also blamed himself, and nodded vigorously: "It's our fault, we shouldn't leave the cat alone, but who would have thought that the house would suddenly catch fire, I wonder too , how could this happen?"

While everyone was complaining to each other, Gu Chen suddenly squatted down, took out a tissue from his pocket, pinched the cat's tailbone, and suddenly lifted it into his hand.

Afterwards, Gu Chen observed the scorched dead cat from side to side, frowning from time to time.

Xu Zhenggang, who was covering his mouth and nose, also took a step back and said, "I said Gu Chen, this dead cat smells too bad, throw it away quickly."

"That's right, brother policeman." The firefighter leader also said in distaste: "This thing is scorched and can't be eaten, besides, who eats cat meat now."

Gu Chen didn't listen to the advice of the two, but carried the dead cat's body and searched around the room.

After looking around for a week, Gu Chen found some dirt on the ground, as well as some broken glass fragments.

After searching carefully, Gu Chen suddenly frowned.

Also after discovering Gu Chen's abnormality, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked him: "Junior Brother Gu, did you find something?"

Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but looked left and right at the scene, checking every corner.

At this time, everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Gu Chen.

"I said brother policeman, what are you looking for?" the fire brigade leader asked.

"Cat food." Gu Chen's answer was concise and to the point.

The firefighter leader frowned: "Cat food? What are you looking for?"

Gu Chen didn't say much, brought the dead cat's body in front of everyone, and asked, "Have you noticed anything special about this cat?"

"What's special?" Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling a little bewildered.

So, everyone stepped forward and fixed their eyes on the scorched dead cat.

Lu Weiwei even took a sip of water, feeling that if some seasonings were added, the taste might be better...

Yuan Shasha was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, "Senior Brother Gu, this cat seems to be quite thin."

"Aren't you talking nonsense? This is not an orange cat." The firefighter leader also said with a smile.

Yuan Shasha shook her head: "That's not what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?" the firefighter leader asked again.

Therefore, Yuan Shasha pointed to the dead cat's belly and said, "Look, the skin and bones of this cat are all exposed. Obviously it must have been hungry for a long time, but didn't you prepare enough cat food?"

It was also reminded by Yuan Shasha that everyone lowered their heads and carefully observed the dead cat's body.

After a while, Lu Weiwei finally said: "That's right, this cat is so skinny, it must be because it hasn't eaten for a long time, right?"

She glanced at Gu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, this is what you want to tell us, right?"

"That's right." Gu Chen also nodded indifferently, and said: "When I entered this room before, this cat was suffocated to death, because this room is very airtight, and coupled with the fire, there is not much oxygen in the room. gone."

"And when I rushed in, I was mainly looking for trapped people, so I didn't pay much attention."

"But now it seems that the cat's hair has been completely burnt, so I can see the original shape of this pet cat clearly."

Speaking of this, Gu Chen held the pet cat's body, pointed to the belly and said, "This cat has obviously been hungry for a long time, but the driver said that the family has prepared enough cat food. There seems to be some discrepancy in this statement."

It was also called by Gu Chen in public, the driver couldn't help being stunned, and then quickly waved his hands and explained: "I don't know this, because I was not at home before my wife and daughter left."

"My wife said that she had prepared enough cat food, enough to last for about ten days, because she did the same thing when she brought her two children back to her hometown, so I feel that there should be enough cat food."

"Is it enough?" Gu Chen held the dead cat's body in front of the driver and said, "But since you have prepared cat food for about ten days, why is it only about a week? A cat is so hungry?"

"And I checked the room just now, and there is no cat food residue at all, and there is almost no grain left in the cat food remnants, don't you think it's strange?"

"This..." The driver was suddenly speechless by Gu Chen, unable to say a word for a long time.

Lu Weiwei thought thoughtfully, "Could it be... that the cat died of starvation?"

"No." Gu Chen shook his head and said, "The life of a cat is very hard. Even if it is deprived of food for a few days, it will not starve to death. Otherwise, how can you say that a cat has nine lives?"

"And from all the circumstances, the cat should have suffocated to death, and then it was charred like this."

"No cat food? Could it be that your family has forgotten?" The fire brigade leader looked at the driver, wondering:

"It doesn't make sense. Your pet cat should be expensive. Since you have kept it for so long, even if your wife is careless and doesn't remember to put the cat food, then your two daughters should know about it, right?"

"This... I really don't know what's going on." The driver was also anxious, and he couldn't help but say: "I'm running Didi outside every day, and I also help my brother with odd jobs during the day."

"I'm so busy every day that I feel dizzy. How do I know there are so many miscellaneous things at home?"

"Besides, I'm not at home, how do I know what's going on at home? And isn't this just a fire? What are you asking these things for?"

"Ask these things because your fire is very strange." Gu Chen directly gave the driver's main points of concern.

The driver was stunned: "What's wrong?"

"That's right." Gu Chen walked around the room before returning to him, and said, "From the traces I checked in every corner of the room, it can be seen that the fire did indeed spread from this room." here."

"But I'm very surprised. In addition to the flammable wallpaper, there are many books and other flammable materials in your room."

"It can be said that in this house, only a small ignition source is needed to ignite the entire room."

And along with all the cheap wallpaper in your house, the fire can spread quickly, but the question is, how did the fire start in this room? "

"This..." The driver was stunned for a moment, unable to speak for a long time.

Gu Chen nodded, threw the dead cat's body back on the ground, and said, "And the most weird thing is that only this cat is alive in this whole room. Could it be that the cat ignited the fire?"

"Haha." Hearing Gu Chen's words, the firefighter leader on the side couldn't help laughing twice, and also said with a funny smile: "I said police brother, you have a very rich imagination, can a cat cause such a big fire? "

"Of course not." Gu Chen suddenly denied himself again.

"Then what do you mean..." The firefighter leader didn't know what to say.

Gu Chen said: "Of course cats can't light a fire, but what if it's caused by human factors?"

"Human factor?" The firefighter on the side smiled, looked at Yuan Shasha beside Gu Chen and said, "Didn't your colleague have seen the surveillance just now? No one has sneaked into the villa at all, so how can it be said that it is man-made?" ?”

"That's right. The policewoman comrade and I have seen the surveillance just now. It is true that no one has sneaked in here." The property manager of Kaitian Villa also patted his chest and assured.

Gu Chen shook his head and said, "If I hadn't seen the cat's corpse, maybe I would have agreed with you at the beginning."

"It is true that this kind of airtight room does not have any fire source, so it is impossible to cause a fire, but this is obviously the source of the fire, this is the first doubt."

"As for the second doubt, cat food was prepared for about ten days, but after only one week, the pet cat was starved out of skin and bones. This is the second doubt."

Seeing everyone's serious thinking, Gu Chen said again: "You must know that when there is enough cat food, pet cats will eat freely and will never let themselves go hungry."

"But now that this happens, it can only show that there is no ten-day supply of cat food, not even a week's supply."

"So... this is the second doubt?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Gu Chen nodded, and said again: "Isn't it enough to have two doubts in this small room? If not, then I have another doubt here."

After the words were finished, Gu Chen suddenly picked up a few pieces of broken glass on the ground, took a few larger pieces of glass in his hands, and pieced them together: "Everyone, take a look at this, what do you think it looks like?"

"Fish... fish tank?" Lu Weiwei said first.

Yuan Shasha also nodded quickly: "It's a bit like a fish tank. I saw it in the office of the second group, a senior sister, and it seems to be a bit similar to this broken glass vessel."

"That's right, my daughter uses this kind of fish tank to raise goldfish." The firefighter leader also said.

At this time, Gu Chen turned his attention to the driver master again, and asked him: "Master, then I want to know, is this your fish tank?"

"This..." The driver was stunned, a little hesitant, or panicked, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "I really don't know what the family keeps. I only know that this cat has been raised for more than a year."

Gu Chen smiled: "Then I can understand that this is a goldfish raised by my sister-in-law, right?"

The driver master didn't know what to say, he just nodded and said, "You can understand it this way."

"Very good." Gu Chen turned around again, walked back and forth in front of everyone, picked up the broken glassware with one hand, and pointed to the dead cat corpse on the ground with the other, and said, "Have you ever thought about what cats like to eat?" ?”

"Cat food." Lu Weiwei said.

"What else?" Gu Chen asked again.

"And... and dried fish." Thinking of this, Lu Weiwei seemed to realize something, and suddenly realized: "By the way, cats like to eat fish. Could it be this goldfish?"

"This... is this goldfish for cats?" Xu Zhenggang on the side was also stunned for a moment, feeling a little confused: "But it's not right, since we have prepared enough cat food, why put goldfish and cats together again?" What about in the same room?"

"So this is the third doubt." Gu Chen continued Xu Zhenggang's words, and directly raised a new question: "There are so many doubts in a room that seems to be a fire source. Haven't everyone thought about why?"

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(End of this chapter)