Chapter 189

The autumn weather is crisp and the forests are full of colors. The sun shines generously on this deep mountain in Guizhou Province. Looking around, everywhere is lush and green, quiet and empty.

Several police cars were parked beside the narrow mountain road. Chen Pu and several people from the second team were standing on the roadside.

A team leader of the Guizhou Provincial Criminal Police Team came over and shook hands with Chen Pu, saying, "Thank you for your help in the future. I will bring my people back as soon as the case in the city is finished. I have also filed a report, and the higher-ups will soon dispatch a group of armed police to assist you."

Chen Pu nodded, patted the other person on the shoulder, and said, "Old Qin, hurry up, or we will definitely catch him, and you can only follow behind and applaud."

Several people on the other side laughed.

Although the two parties had never met before Luo Long's case, they had become familiar with each other in the past ten days. Chen Pu was a smart and decisive person, with both strong opinions and skills, and the second team he led was very hardworking. The police officers in Guizhou Province had already called him a brother.

Yesterday, a major case occurred in the capital city of Guizhou Province, involving leaders of relevant departments, with extremely bad consequences. Half of the core members, including Team Leader Qin, were urgently transferred back to solve the case first. The heavy responsibility of hunting down Luo Long and Shang Ren can only be temporarily placed on the shoulders of the Xiangcheng police. Although the other party has kept half of the manpower and promised to transfer armed police to take over, the armed police are not criminal police after all. They can make surprise attacks, but they are far behind in criminal investigation. Moreover, the criminal police in Xiangcheng are not as familiar with Guizhou Province as the locals, and many of the accents in the mountainous areas are not fluent, which makes their work difficult.

But now I can only bite the bullet.

After Team Leader Qin left, Chen Pu was in charge of the search team that was originally composed of police from the two provinces. The four people from Team 2, plus the two criminal police officers left by Guizhou Province, left six people. A few more armed police officers might be added later. The other four people from Team 2 were led by Fang Kai and assigned to another team.

After several Guizhou Provincial police cars drove away, Chen Pu waved his hand and everyone continued today's pursuit.

This work lasted from dawn till sunset.

At present, the police's encirclement has been narrowed to the scope of five or six nearby mountains. It can be said that at this moment, there are police on every mountain. However, the mountain area is too large and the forest is deep, so the personnel have to disperse, two people in a group, whistles in response, and the search circle continues to advance.

Chen Pu and Zhou Yang were new partners, and soon they realized that the mountain in front of them was different from the previous ones. In the past, sometimes they would walk on the mountain for a whole day without seeing a single person. But today, after only one or two hours, they met two people coming down the mountain, both backpackers.

Chen Pu and Zhou Yangxin opened the map and studied it for a while, and then called the police officers of Guizhou Province to confirm. They learned that although there were no villages in this mountainous area, there was a small waterfall hanging on the hillside of another mountain behind this mountain. Below the hanging waterfall is a tributary of the Jinlang River, which is famous for its turbulent and steep water flow. The waterfall on the lonely peak and the rushing river are spectacular. However, the scenic spot is not developed, there is no road, and the road is long and difficult to travel. Not many people know about it, but occasionally there are tourists who hike into the mountain to climb and visit.

This is both good news and bad news for the police.

The good news is that there are people living here, which means that if Luo Long Shangren really passes through this route, the possibility of being witnessed increases; the bad news is that if the two men become greedy again and rob passers-by, or even do something more dangerous, it will be troublesome.

Chen Pu ordered to speed up the search.

Around dusk they made an important discovery.

On the narrow mountain road leading to the top of the mountain, there is a "travel post" that has been closed for several years. It is actually a wooden house with several wooden benches built outside for tourists to rest. It is understood that when tourism was popular ten years ago, the local township government wanted to develop scenic spots and built several "posts" on the mountain, but soon due to funding problems, the development plan also failed. These "posts" are abandoned here, with doors and windows closed, rotten and moldy.

The small "post station" in front of Chen Pu and his friends is located next to a small dirt road halfway up the mountain. There are dense forests on both sides and a stream passing by, which will converge into the Jinlang River.

The door of the "post station" was hacked open with a knife, leaving a hideous hole, and wood chips scattered all over the floor. There were several empty cardboard boxes inside, and five or six empty instant noodle bags, with the seasoning packets inside uneaten. There were several empty mineral water bottles, each with residual water stains. There were also at least twenty ham sausage packaging skins thrown on the floor.

Chen Pu immediately reported the discovery to his superiors and requested forensic personnel to come.

"Here!" Zhou Yangxin shouted on the muddy ground beside the stream, "It's them!"

Chen Pu ran over and saw Zhou Yangxin picking up a gold ring and putting it into the evidence bag. They both recognized the ring, which was one of the missing evidences from the family robbed by Luo Longshangren.

Chen Pu looked around again and saw a circle of messy footprints on the muddy ground. It seemed that the two men came to the stream to wash, and one of them accidentally dropped the gold ring from his pocket without noticing.

From the traces and evidence at the scene, it is unclear when the two people left. It could be a few days ago, or half an hour ago. The mountainous area is humid, and the water stains left in the mineral water can last for several days.

Chen Pu looked at the surrounding terrain with the map in mind. There was only a small dirt road leading up and down the mountain. There were dense forests on both sides of the stream and the mountain road, and there were no ready-made roads. But since the two men had already obtained sufficient supplies, there was no need to rob them in the short term. If they did not continue to go up the mountain, but crossed the mountain horizontally, they could hide in the more remote mountains nearby and hide for a while.

Chen Pu asked everyone to disperse and climb up the hillsides on both sides of the stream to continue exploring.

It turned out that Chen Pu's prediction was very accurate. They soon found new footprints in the mud on a high place. Because it had not rained in the past two days and there were trees to shade them, these footprints were well preserved.

But these footprints were different from what they expected.

Because they not only found Luolong Shangren's footprints, but also found two other new sets of footprints.

Chen Pu could tell at a glance that these new footprints, in terms of length and shape, were more likely to be left by women. The soles of their feet were narrow and thin, one size 37 and the other size 38. They must have been carrying heavy objects, so the footprints were deeper.

Their footprints stayed there for a while, and then they followed Luo Long and Shang Ren, crossing horizontally along the steeper and more dangerous ridge.

From the location where the footprints stopped, one could clearly see the entire situation around the post station in the valley.

While others were still puzzled, Zhou Yangxin shuddered and felt his hair stand on end. Chen Pu saw what was going on at a glance.

"Chase! We want to catch four people, not two!" Chen Pu immediately gave the order, and the six criminal police officers, like agile cheetahs, began a new round of pursuit in the twilight. They all realized that they were getting closer and closer to the prey they had been tracking for half a month.

But in this deadly manhunt, who is the prey and who is the hunter?
The mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole is behind.

While climbing and jumping on the ridge, Chen Pu put on his headphones and called Ding Guoqiang: "Master, the two female killers have joined forces. They are probably ahead of us, chasing Luo Long and Shang Ren."

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Li Qingyao led a team of people to a magnificent office building located in the most prosperous area of ​​the city center - the Huading Group Headquarters Building.

At the same time, Xia Yongze and another team were entering the villa of Xie Xinrui, the only daughter of the chairman of Huading Group (now confirmed to be an adopted daughter), located in Yanghu Bay, to search for evidence and collect DNA.

Last night, after Li Qingyao learned that Liu Tingmei was taken away by a wealthy businessman named Xie from Hong Kong who claimed her as his daughter, she quickly remembered the Hong Kong entrepreneur Xie Rongcheng whom she and Chen Pu had visited when they were investigating the Luo Hongmin case. At that time, his daughter Xie Xinrui, whose English name is Luna, received them.

Xinrui means the new stamens of a flower. Luna means the moon, pure white and bright. What an interesting name.

Maybe because they only met briefly that day, or maybe Xie Xinrui's makeup was too heavy at the time, Li Qingyao recalled her face now, but her memory was fuzzy, and she couldn't remember what she looked like at all. But she was sure that Xie Xinrui looked completely different from Liu Tingmei back then. She must have been exercising for a long time, because her figure was plump, her muscles were well-proportioned, and she could even be called strong. Moreover, her makeup was gorgeous, her clothes were luxurious, and her aura was overwhelming. No wonder she had a reputation for being arrogant and domineering.

On the other hand, Liu Tingmei, whether in photos or in people's impressions, is thin, pale, innocent, clean, and silent. So even if Xie Xinrui's eyebrows and eyes, which are covered by dense makeup, are somewhat similar to Liu Tingmei, you probably won't connect the two completely different women together.

Last night, the police also got confirmation from the nightclub owner Jin Sheng - although he did not know that Liu Tingmei had followed Xie Rongcheng, he confirmed that the person who came to the nightclub during that period of time was indeed Huading boss Xie Rongcheng.

The list of vehicles on Heilifeng Mountain investigated by Team Leader Fang Hao happened to include a transport vehicle from Huading Real Estate Branch. At that time, the driver denied that anyone had boarded the vehicle. But after another urgent interrogation and pressure from the police last night, the driver finally admitted that Xie Xinrui, then president of the group, had boarded his vehicle after the incident and gave him a reward. Xie Xinrui told him that she went to Heilifeng Mountain alone on foot and didn't want to drive, so she took his car. Afterwards, the police launched an investigation, and Xie Xinrui said that she called and said that she was too lazy to deal with the police and asked him to keep it confidential, so he did as he was told.

Now, the most important thing is to get Xie Xinrui's DNA and compare it with the female DNA in the bloodstains in the cabin. At the same time, confirm whether Xie Xinrui is Liu Tingmei from that year.

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A vice president of Huading Group rushed over and frowned when he saw the police's presence. He said, "I am now the acting president of the group. Ms. Xie took a vacation a month ago. It was her private trip. We don't know where she went."

Li Qingyao showed him the operational permit she had just obtained this morning, and the vice president had no choice but to let her enter Xie Xinrui's office to collect fingerprints and DNA.

While the forensic personnel were busy, Li Qingyao asked Xie Xinrui's secretary: "I want to meet Mr. Xie Rongcheng, is it convenient for him?"

The secretary said, "Excuse me, I want to ask Mr. Xie's secretary. He is not in the company."

"where is he?"

"Mr. Xie has been living in a nursing home in Jiangcheng for two years."

Soon, the secretary hung up the phone and said with some surprise: "Director Xie is willing to see you. Here is the address."