Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 62 Devil’s Eye (2)
As soon as she returned to the Criminal Police Team, Zuo Li said to Jiang Yiming: "Team Jiang, a man named Qu Qing called and said that the deceased resembled his daughter, whom he had lost contact with for several days. This person is currently in Malaysia, and he is "My relative took the photo of the deceased on TV with his mobile phone and sent it to him. The image was not clear, so he didn't dare to confirm it. He can come to identify the body as soon as tomorrow."

Jiang Yiming nodded.

At ten o'clock the next morning, Qu Qing, who rushed back from Malaysia, came to the Interpol Team. He was a teacher at the city's No. [-] Vocational Middle School and was applying for a job in Malaysia with a group of students.He asked Jiang Yiming to identify the body immediately.

Jiang Yiming took Qu Qing to the morgue, and Luo Jin opened the air-conditioned freezer and tore open the white plastic wrap wrapping the body.

Qu Qing only glanced at it, his eyes wide open, and slowly collapsed.Luo Jin and Jiang Yiming quickly supported him and asked him to sit down.

Qu Qing took a breath and tears welled up from his eyes: "It's my daughter. How could she be like this? How could she be like this!" He burst into tears as he spoke.

"What's her name? What unit does she work in? Who does she have a grudge against?" Jiang Yiming asked him after Qu Qing calmed down.

Qu Qing shook his head and whispered: "My daughter's name is Qu Liping. She just graduated from college last year and works as a tour guide in a hiking travel agency. She is a very good child and never offends others. How can she have a grudge against others?"

"Your daughter may have been murdered. In order to help us solve the case faster, I hope you will think carefully. Who has your daughter usually offended?"

"What else do you want me to say? It's impossible for my daughter to offend anyone!" Qu Qing almost shouted.

Qu Qing was so sad that Jiang Yiming had to leave his phone number and address and ask Xiao Ke to drive him home.

Zuo Li input the footprints extracted by Jiang Yiming and Wu Jiang into the computer for scanning and analysis. The results confirmed that the footprints of the woman were indeed those of Qu Liping. As for the footprints of the man, after analysis, the general characteristics were obtained: Height is about 1.7cm meters and weighs 60 kg.Through gait analysis, it should be a young man, between 22 and 30 years old.These characteristics are very common. If he is the murderer, it will obviously be very difficult to find him in the huge crowd.

As for the wine bottle, the fingerprints that were supposed to be on it had long since disappeared due to exposure to wind, rain, and sun, and no trace could be found with the naked eye.Zuo Li enhanced the colorization of the wine bottle and used the fumigation method, hoping to reveal fingerprints invisible to the naked eye.The result was as she expected: fingerprint-like traces did appear on the wine bottle. After further inspection, it was determined that it was indeed half a fingerprint.Zuo Li extracted the half of the fingerprint and entered it into the fingerprint database for comparison, but found nothing.

Zuo Li and Xiao Ke drove to Qu Qing's house to look for clues.Qu Qing let them into the house, pointed to a room, and said, "This is my daughter's room. Go in and see for yourselves. If you need anything, take it back."

Zuo Li took a look in Qu Liping's room and brought back some of her personal belongings. After testing, she found Qu Liping's fingerprints on the mirror of one of the dressing boxes.Zuo Li compared this fingerprint with the half of the fingerprint on the wine bottle and confirmed that the fingerprint on the wine bottle belonged to Qu Liping.In other words, Qu Liping did drink before being pushed into the water and drowned.

So does she drink alone, or do they drink together?Judging from the footprints left at the scene, it is certain that there is a man with her, so this man is most likely to be her murderer, and this murderer must be Qu Liping's good friend, otherwise Qu Liping will definitely not Will drink with him.It may be that while he was drinking with Qu Liping, he secretly put sleeping pills into Qu Liping's wine glass and asked her to drink it. After the drug took effect and she slowly fell asleep, he pushed her into the water. , it was not until she died that he quietly left Tianjing Reservoir...

The most regrettable thing is that the murderer did not leave fingerprints on the wine bottle, otherwise his tail would be exposed in a moment.

However, with this information, as long as we investigate Qu Liping's social relationships and background, we will surely be able to find clues.

Zuo Li and Xiaoke found all of Qu Liping's call records through the mobile company and investigated the young men under 30 years old among them.There are 58 people who meet this condition, most of whom are Qu Liping's classmates.They decided to visit Qu Qing again.

After not seeing each other for two days, Qu Qing had a beard growing on his chin. His eyes were dull and he looked very haggard.

After the greetings, Zuo Li asked: "Teacher Qu, who is Qu Liping's best friend? Does she have any particularly close friends?"

"I don't know about this either. She is a good girl and I usually don't care about her much."

"Is she in a relationship?"

"No, she won't fall in love easily." Qu Qing was a little unsure.

"No way, your daughter is so beautiful, it's impossible for no one to pursue her."

"I heard one of her colleagues was after her."

"What's that colleague's name?"

"It seems his name is Gu Zhong, and he is the department manager of their hiking travel agency."

The two of them chatted with Qu Qing for a while, firstly to ease his pain, and secondly, hoping to get more valuable clues from him.They chatted until evening before saying goodbye and taking a graduation photo of Qu Liping at the Yangtze River Tourism School from Qu Qing.

Zuo Li thought that maybe the murderer was in this group photo.

The excursion travel agency is located in the Limin Building in the city center.This travel agency was founded less than three years ago, but because of its good management system, it has become the third largest travel agency in the city and has become a legend in the tourism industry.Gu Zhong is the department manager of this travel agency. He is 35 years old. Although he is not tall, his angular face is very handsome, especially his resolute expression, which makes people feel safe.With his excellent communication skills, he has become the backbone of the hiking travel agency with outstanding performance and is very popular with the boss.

Regarding the arrival of Zuo Li and Xiao Ke, he seemed generous and steady and expressed his willingness to cooperate.

"Manager Gu, I heard that you and Qu Liping are in a relationship?" Zuo Li asked straight to the point.

"To be precise, I was in love before, but that was already a year ago."

"Can you tell us about your romance? Since you and Qu Liping were lovers, you always hope that we catch the murderer as soon as possible, right?"

"Then let me make a long story short. Last summer, we went to the tourism school for recruitment. Because of Qu Liping's excellent academic performance and eloquence, the travel agency signed an employment contract with her. That's how we got to know each other. I also fell in love with her because of her excellence. I fell in love with her and started pursuing her crazily, and she fell into my arms."

"However, our love is not as beautiful as expected. There is a generation gap between us. She is too young and willful. She often has whims that make me laugh or cry. If I don't listen to her, she keeps complaining and even scolds me. I, a poor boy from the countryside, don’t know anything. This hurts my male dignity. So I decided to give up on her.”

"She was very sad and even said she wanted to commit suicide. But I am a pragmatic person. After all, love and marriage are different. We broke up after the Spring Festival this year. After the breakup, she didn't seem to be sad about losing me, and neither did I. I slowly forgot about this relationship. But I didn't expect that she died... maybe she really committed suicide for me! If so, I will never be at peace in my life..." Gu Zhong sighed deeply .

"Where were you on June 6th? What were you doing?"

"Here, let me think about it... Oh, by the way, I happened to have friends from Hong Kong coming that day. There were five of them and they asked me to take them with me personally. After asking for Mr. Qian's permission, I took them to play."

"Can anyone prove it?"

"There were a lot of witnesses that day. I still have photos with them that day." Gu Zhong took out a large stack of photos.

Zuo Li looked at the photos. One of them was taken at the train station. The date on the station clock showed June 6.Zuo Li and Xiao Ke also visited the employees of the hiking travel agency and confirmed that what Gu Zhong said was indeed true.

Jiang Yiming and Wu Jiang came to Tianjing Reservoir again.Now that it has been confirmed that Qu Liping was pushed into the water from Tianjing Reservoir, and it was a sunny day on June 6, then there might be people going to Tianjing Reservoir to play in such good weather, and maybe they can find her there. eyewitness.

They were wandering around the reservoir, and there was a "dong dong dong" sound in the distance, as if someone was digging something.

Who would come here to dig in this rainy season?What else will you dig?Jiang Yiming became alert and quietly looked in the direction of the sound.After crossing a mountain ridge, they saw an old man digging for Chinese herbal medicine in the woods.

After Jiang Yiming revealed his identity, he asked the old man if he had also come to the mountain to dig herbs on June 6 and if he had found anything suspicious.

The old man thought for a while and said: "It was a sunny day on June 6th. In the evening, I dug out a large basket of herbs and then went home. When I walked down the mountain to the edge of the reservoir, I saw a pair of young people opposite me from a distance. They were arguing about something. I didn’t think much about it at the time and just rushed down the mountain. I don’t know what happened to them afterwards.”

Wu Jiang showed Qu Liping's photo to the old man and asked, "Is it her?"

The old man didn't even look at it and replied: "It's too far away and I can't see the faces of those two people."

"Can you see how big that man is?"

"I didn't see it, but I'm sure he was a young man, probably in his 20s. If I had known you were going to ask me this, I would have just looked more." The old man sighed.

"What clothes do men wear? What colors?"

"White tracksuit."

"Besides them, is there anyone else?"

"No, it was just the two of them at that time."

"Have you seen either of them before?"

"No, that was the first time."

(End of this chapter)