Repercussions

Chapter 1: The Big Pit-6

They came to the blue lake. Xia mother pointed to the boulder and said that Bingqing was standing here. It was a small cove, and next to the boulder was the forest, which blocked the left, right, and back three sides of the view. Ran Dongdong thought maybe Xia Bingqing was knocked into the water with a wooden block here.

Ran Dongdong stood on a rock looking out over the lake, imagining that at eight o'clock in the evening of June fifteenth, Xia Bingqing stood where she stood now, and that the murderer had struck her in the back of the head from behind with a block of wood. She was knocked unconscious and fell headfirst into the water. To avoid sight, the murderer dragged her under a boulder. She woke up and the murderer held her under the water until she suffocated. Under the boulder, there were medium and small stones so that the murderer could sit on the medium stone and rest. When it was late at night and no one was left on the cruise ship, the murderer stole a life-belt, no, it should be two life-belts, one for the murderer and one for the deceased, from a boat docked not far away. In this way, the murderer dragged the deceased from the boulders downstream to the mouth of the West River, a straight line distance of three kilometers, the body tied to the shore in the grass. More than thirty hours later, the thatch tied to the deceased broke and the body drifted towards the river.

However, trace inspection experts in this boulder around the labor of more than three hours, even a petal wood shavings a little bit of blood are not found, and did not find the deceased's cell phone and keys in the surrounding waters. Ran Dongdong thought maybe Xia Bingqing was knocked unconscious by the murderer when she was walking on the wooden path in the woods, then the murderer dragged her to a hidden place, she woke up, and the murderer covered her mouth with a towel or clothes. When it was late at night, the murderer moved her from the woods to the Blue Lake, then dragged her to Xijiang. They surveyed the wooden path in the woods again, and still found no suspicious spots. Wasn't the Blue Lake the first scene?

In order to verify their own reasoning, Ran Dongdong sent people to investigate whether there is a cruise ship lost lifebuoys, the results of the Blue Lake six cruise ship admitted to lose two. The specific time of the loss is not known, but the owner of the boat was found lost at noon on the 18th. The night of the fifteenth blue lake six moored in the shore from the boulder five hundred meters away, no one on board. The boat had three life preservers hanging on each side, mainly for collision avoidance. So where did the life preservers get lost? Ran Dongdong sent people to the lower reaches of the West River to look for, and sure enough, they found two in Luo Ye Village, the lifebuoys written on the "Blue Lake Six". They were taken off from two bare-bottomed children, when there were seven children swimming in the river, two of which were wearing life preservers. The kids said they found the life preservers in the river twenty days ago. Unfortunately, the life preservers were washed by the water and rubbed by multiple bodies, and it was no longer possible to extract the DNA of the suspects and the dead from them.Reasoning was once again reduced to inference, and Ran Dongdong seemed to be having a daydream.

Xia's mother provides a piece of audio sent by Xia Bingqing, received on April 10th of this year, the third day after Xia Bingqing was intercepted by her parents on the Blue Lake boulder. First, there is a thumping sound, which at first glance is the sound of fingers tapping on a wooden board, but the sound is muffled, as if it is in an enclosed space. Then Xia Bingqing said the first sentence, "Hello, anyone? Hello ......" It was as if she was calling for help, or had just woken up? Second sentence: "It's so dark here, let me out, let me out." Obviously the lights were turned off and someone was blocking her. Third sentence: "I hear someone laughing." Was it someone laughing outside the door? Fourth sentence: "Don't leave me in this box, I'm scared." Is she still in a nightmare? Another thump, thump, thump. Fifth sentence: "Hey hey, I don't like this place, no one knows I'm dead." She treats being hurt once as a death? Sentence six: "Let me out, I want to stay with everyone." Who is she pleading with? Sentence 7: "Hey ...... I can't escape, I can't escape, goodbye, goodbye ......" She finally compromised?

The task force concentrated on listening to the audio and all thought of that private room during the interview three years ago. Ran Dongdong and Shao Tianwei went to that private room and learned what Xia Bingqing had said as well as the knocking sound, and the two recordings sounded quite similar. Everyone analyzes the case. Ran Dongdong thought that the audio is Xia Bingqing and Xu Shanchuan alone in the private room that three hours to record. At that time, the lights in the private room were turned off by Xu Shanchuan, and Xia Bingqing woke up from her stupor and felt scared, and wanted to escape. Although there was no one else's voice in the audio, it felt like someone was trying to stop her. Perhaps Xu Shanchuan r***d Xia Bingqing at the time, which is why Xiao Liu heard crying in the private room, and why Xia Bingqing's father said she "wept with joy", meaning that she cried all day and all night after returning home. According to Xiao Liu said recently Xu Shanchuan with her to find out who is "that three hours" informant, that he was afraid that we know this matter. Three hours later, Xia Bingqing out of the private room, Xu Shanchuan like a little follower to help her pull suitcase, personally drove to send her, but also in the boarding car personally for her to open the door. But Xiao Liu and Xiao Yin both said that they had never seen him help them carry luggage and open the car door. They have the same status in front of him, why did he help Xia Bingqing alone? Because he did something wrong and was afraid that Xia Bingqing would sue him.

"Why didn't the victim report the murder?" Shao Tianwei asked.

"Money." Ran Dongdong said, "Xu Shanchuan used money to fix her up, it was that contract that came later, maybe he also gave her some verbal promises, even including marriage. Otherwise, there's no reason for her to be unforgiving to Xu Shanchuan, they made an agreement. Of course, it's also possible that Xu Shanchuan gave her certain hints or hopes in their later relationship."

"Our main mission is to catch the murderer." Ling Fang said.

"r**e may have been the starting point for the murder, and without it, Xia Bingqing's pestering would have seemed a bit abrupt. There must have been a great threat for Xu Shanchuan to kill. What was his great threat? Was it Xia Bingqing trying to destroy his family? No. His wife Shen Xiaoying does not care about him having a girlfriend, as long as he confesses and the couple unites against Xia Bingqing, the family will not be destroyed. But if she sues him for r**e, the threat is real. Therefore, I think we should attack his r**e first, then his murder." Ran Dongdong said.

"It's all inference. Where's the evidence? If Xu Shanchuan bites the bullet, then how do you convict him of r**e? Xia Bingqing has shut up, who will prove it?" Deputy Director Wang said.

"If I have an accident, please look for Xu Shanchuan." Ran Dongdong displayed the note that Xia Bingqing had left for her parents, "Does this imply that Xu Shanchuan is the murderer?"

"It could also be telling her parents to ask Xu Shanchuan for money, the point is not clear. You guys quickly find hard evidence, it's best to strike a blow, don't just do something to scare the snakes." Deputy Director Wang said.

The case came to a standstill. Everyone is feeling the pressure, especially Ran Dongdong, who feels as if her whole body has been poured with cement and is all knotted up.