Chapter 962 Behind the Murder Case

Su Tong is the only relatively clear insider discovered during the investigation of Hassan's murder case. Perhaps only he knows the true purpose of Hassan's trip to Port Victory. That is most likely the real reason for Hassan's murder - of course

, and may now be the reason for his murder.

Although there is currently no conclusive evidence for the Sutong case and the Hassan case to be merged, the members of the task force subconsciously believe that the two cases are closely related. However, the modus operandi of the two cases exists.

There are obvious differences, which is also the main reason why the task force is temporarily unable to draw a conclusion.

"Maybe it's because the murderer didn't have enough time to slowly plan a killing method with fewer flaws this time." Fu Li raised a relatively high possibility: "We actually only have one day to post a reward notice to solicit clues.

Assuming that the murderer also saw this notice, he must know that Hassan is dead and the police have discovered his body long ago. Doesn’t our concealment method show that the police are stepping up their investigation into the truth about Hassan’s death? Shopkeeper Su and Hassan

We have met and may be an important insider, so the murderer must shut up Shopkeeper Su completely to avoid exposing himself. He probably also knows that we will soon find Shopkeeper Su, but it is impossible to go to the business district.

I wanted to do it in a place where people were coming and going, so I rushed to Shopkeeper Su’s house and lurked there as soon as possible, and when he came back, I took advantage of him and took advantage of him.”

Now it seems that the reward notice has the effect of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it saves the task force the time and manpower required for large-scale investigations and directly and accurately obtains key information. On the other hand, it is also very useful.

It may be that the murderer who was secretly observing the situation was aware of the police's intentions, so he could get ahead of the police and attack Su Tong, an important insider. Judging from the current results, this measure seems to have done more harm than good in the end, and instead made the case worse.

The investigation work has reached a deadlock.

Zhang Qianzhi said: "We will wait until the autopsy report is available tomorrow to discuss the cause of Su Tong's death, but there is something we must do right now."

Fu Li said: "What's the matter?"

"There may be other employees in Nanyang Pavilion who know about Hassan. We need to protect them all now!" Zhang Qianzhi suggested: "Go and check the employee list immediately, and then gather these people together overnight.

"

"I'll check the list." Lin Nan volunteered to take over the task.

Since there was more than one witness outside the incident of Hassan going to Nanyang Pavilion to meet Su Tong, it is very likely that there were other employees in the store who also witnessed what happened that day. If the mastermind behind the scenes wants to completely cut off the

If there are clues, then everyone present at the time is likely to be the target of his attack. Su Tong is already a step behind, and the task force cannot allow the mastermind behind the scenes to continue to succeed.

However, there is another point that Zhang Qianzhi did not explain directly, that is, the employees in the Nanyang Pavilion store were a blind spot in the previous investigation process. They not only knew Hassan's purpose of going to Nanyang Pavilion, but also accurately grasped Su Tong's itinerary. This is simply

A perfect character. But if the employees were arrested directly, there would be the risk of alerting the enemy again, so Zhang Qianzhi chose a more tactful way of saying it. Anyway, get all the people back first, and then slow down.

Slow interrogation and verification are just that.

When Lin Nan went to the Ministry of Commerce of Fort Victory to obtain the list of Nanyang Pavilion employees, Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li began to investigate Su Tong's social relations at the scene. Although the task force basically determined that the matter was related to the Hassan case, they still had to

Rule out other possibilities first.

Su Tong was originally from Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong. He was originally a subordinate of a major shareholder of Qiong Lianfa. After he was transferred to Sanya to work, he did not join the Haihan native place. And almost all of his family members were in his original place, except for an old slave.

Since I didn’t come to Sanya, it’s not an exaggeration to say that I was working hard alone. There are only two main social relationships in the local area. One is colleagues and subordinate employees of Nanyang Pavilion, and the other is some customers. For example, Hassan may be one of them.

.However, Su Tong does not have much contact with the neighbors where he lives. After all, the nature of his job is to leave early and come back late, and the circle he comes in contact with is also very different from the workers here, so he really does not have much in common.

The task force basically stayed up all night, and the three of them led their teams back and forth throughout Shengli Port. At dawn, the task force gathered again at the Shengli Port Police Station to hold a meeting to report on the progress of the case.

First, Fu Li reported the preliminary conclusion of the autopsy. He had been staring at Wu Zuo's autopsy in the morgue late last night. At this time, his eyes were also congested due to excessive fatigue and became red and scary. Wu Zuo's test results were consistent with theirs.

The conditions seen at the scene were basically consistent. The deceased's fatal injury was caused by a heavy blow to the back of the head. Based on the injuries, the author speculated that the murder weapon would be a hard object such as a hammer or hammer. According to Su Tong's servant, there were no injuries in the house.

Without such tools, it seems likely that the murder weapon was brought by the murderer himself. In other words, this was a premeditated murder.

Then there was the subpoena investigation of other Nanyang Pavilion employees that Zhang Qianzhi and Lin Nan were responsible for. At this link, the case finally took a turn - in addition to Su Tong, the people who were in the store on the day Hassan went to Nanyang Pavilion were also

There is an employee named Li Qin, but the task force was unable to find him at his residence last night. All other employees affiliated with Nanyang Pavilion have been summoned to the case and are still being questioned separately.

"I have a hunch that this person was either silenced like Hassan and Su Tong, or he was related to the death of these two people and escaped overnight!" Zhang Qianzhi made a bold guess: "I

I don’t believe there can be so many coincidences in the same case. Maybe Li Qin’s sudden disappearance will allow us to find out the truth of the case.”

At this time, someone said a few words next to Lin Nan. After Lin Nan listened, he raised his hand to signal, and then took over Zhang Qianzhi's words: "The employees of Nanyang Pavilion reported that Li Qin is good at carpentry, and there are usually some things inside and outside the store.

He was responsible for all the repair work. In addition, our people found a tool box in the Nanyang Pavilion shop, which contained axes, chisels, and saws, but was missing a hammer."

"I went to kill someone with an iron hammer. Since I have decided to escape, I probably won't make a special trip to return the iron hammer." Fu Li immediately added: "I think we can issue an order to arrest this person.

Yes, this is two lives lost!"

"He may not be the one who killed Hassan." Lin Nan shook his head and disagreed with Fu Li's speculation: "The killing methods used in the two cases are quite different. And we also investigated Li Qin's work schedule.

, on the day Hassan was killed, Li Qin worked in the shop until after the street lights were turned on, and by that time Hassan and the mysterious man had already met at Zuixianlou."

"So the person Hassan met in Zuixian Tower was not Li Qin?" This turn of events was a little beyond Fu Li's expectation.

"Judging from the evidence currently available, it shouldn't be him. But the facts of the two cases are very coherent, and I also think there may be more than one murderer." Zhang Qianzhi agreed with Lin Nan's speculation: "But if Hassan is...

The person we met at Zuixian Tower is an accomplice of Li Qin, so everything can be explained."

"As long as we catch the person, everything will be revealed." Fu Li stood up and said, "Let's notify each other separately and start sealing off the port area!"

It seems that we are only one step away from the truth. In order to prevent the suspect from escaping, the port area must be the first place to set up a card. There were no ships leaving the port from Victory Port last night and this morning, and the railway line with Sanya Port was also suspended.

Operations, if this person is alive, he should still be in the Victory Port area. The next thing the task force has to do is to use the power at hand to investigate this area.

At the same time, the case was also reported to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Security respectively. Serial homicide cases with unclear motives like this are still quite rare in the Sanya area in the past two years. The subsequent investigation and interception must have the authority granted by the above, and the project

Only in this way can various local units cooperate.

As a result, the Shengli Port area fell into a turmoil that was rare in recent times. Even the militiamen were mobilized to set up checkpoints at various intersections to check people entering and leaving the port area. Nanyang Pavilion was also temporarily closed, waiting for Qiong Lianfa's internal

Rectify.

On February 1, after two days of large-scale pursuit and arrest operations, something was finally gained. In the canyon passage between Tiandu Industrial Zone and Tielugang, the militiamen affiliated with Fushandong captured a

The suspicious person who tried to flee to Tielugang was identified after identification and was the target of the task force's arrest. Li Qin, an employee of Nanyang Pavilion. Because of the salt field in Tielugang, there are often outside salt ships at Tielugang.

When entering and exiting the port area, the local precautions against outsiders are not like the one-by-one inspections in Victory Port. It is indeed an escape route. But Li Qin probably did not expect that he moved from the inland to this canyon passage to settle in the past few years.

Fushandong actually became a stumbling block for him, blocking his escape route from Sanya at the last moment.

The subsequent interrogation work was also what Haihan's security agency was best at. After Li Qin persisted for two hours, his mouth was pried open by the interrogators, and he admitted that he had killed Su Tong, and successively recruited

The inside story shocked the task force.

Li Qin came to Sanya from Guangdong as an immigrant in 1632, and became a naturalized Haihan at the end of that year. But before that, he was not a genuine native of Guangdong, but a second-generation Chinese born in Manila.

Generation. He first accepted recruitment and training from the Manila authorities, then secretly went to Guangdong, went to the Haihan Immigration Camp as a refugee, and then came to Sanya to perform a latent mission. After obtaining naturalized citizenship, he quickly obtained

He had the opportunity to work in Nanyang Pavilion and gradually turned it into an information exchange station.

"So the shopkeeper Su Tong is also your accomplice?"

"No, he is just a businessman who is greedy for money."

"What is the purpose of Hassan coming to Nanyang Pavilion?"

"Send the message through Nanyang Pavilion and make an appointment with Duda."

"Who is Duda?"

"It was my boss. He was the one who killed Hassan."

“What is this Duda’s local identity?”

"I don't know... I've only seen him in Nanyang Pavilion..."

As the interrogation deepened, the truth of the case was unearthed bit by bit. The Persian businessman Hassan was a messenger who secretly delivered information to the Spaniards. This time he came to Sanya and also brought a secret message from the Manila authorities, and

Through Nanyang Pavilion, they met with Duda, an intelligence agent lurking in the local area. But for some reason, Duda took measures to silence Hassan and tried to disguise it as an accident to evade tracing. Of course, this trick did not work, and in the end

Because of the clues left behind, the Haihan police discovered the flaw.

When Duda found out that the police were using a reward notice to investigate Hassan's murder, the first thing he thought of was Nanyang Pavilion. As long as the police found Nanyang Pavilion and inquired, it would not be difficult to know that Hassan was here and related to

He contacted Li Qin immediately, asking him to solve the hidden danger of Su Tong as soon as possible. Li Qin did not have as many tricks as Du Da, but he knew the situation at Su Tong's home, so he hurried before Su Tong got home.

Move into the courtyard, and then kill him from behind with an iron hammer while he's not prepared.

After Li Qin did this, he also knew that he was likely to be suspected. He had originally planned to escape by boat after dawn. As long as he left Sanya, he could go elsewhere. But he never thought that he would

As soon as he killed Su Tong and left, the task force investigating the case arrived at the scene and deployed measures to hunt down the murderer overnight. In this way, Li Qin's original escape plan turned into a burst soap bubble.

, we can only find another way to leave Sanya.

In the end, Li Qin's idea was to go through the canyon from Tiandu to Tielugang and see if he could take a salt ship there to leave. Although Li Qin knew that there was a shortcut between Tiandu and Tielugang, he

I didn’t know that this passage does not allow ordinary people to pass through. Only special material transportation teams can pass here without hindrance with documents, and the Fushandong Li people living in the canyon are responsible for guarding this place. People like Li Qin

The unknown person tried to pass by the local people, but was naturally blocked. In a panic, the Li militia quickly noticed something was wrong, and detained him and reported it to the Tiandu police.

But Li Qin didn't know much about his immediate boss, the man codenamed Duda. Apart from his general appearance, he didn't even know his public identity in Sanya, let alone his whereabouts.

The past contact between them was that the other party took the initiative to come to Nanyang Pavilion according to a certain schedule. It was Duda who gave him instructions, but he did not know Duda's daily movements.

"First find someone to draw a picture, and then notify all units to assist in the investigation." After receiving the notification, Ren Liang gave instructions to the task force: "As long as this person is still in Sanya, we must dig him out!"
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