120: The murderer emerges, Han Minghan is proud

Red wine glass shards.

Dried crimson bloodstains.

Lu Ling's gaze fell upon this scene, and her body instantly tensed up.

She hadn't forgotten Officer Gao's autopsy results for Yu Meichan: she had been struck on the head with a heavy object, a wine bottle, causing a fractured skull and massive intracranial hemorrhage, leading to death.

The glass shards and bloodstains all corresponded perfectly.

It was likely that this three-bedroom, one-living room house was where Yu Meichan was murdered.

While Lu Ling was deep in thought, Gao Ze had already stepped into the house, his gaze surveying the room's layout.

This house was a typical three-bedroom, one-living room layout in Donghai City, approximately 100 square meters, with European-style decor. The living room contained a sofa, a rug, furniture cabinets, and other items, looking quite cozy.

In addition to this,

On the living room floor, forensic police had outlined the shape of the body as it lay with chalk.

Captain Han Minghan of the Jinghai District Criminal Investigation Brigade was also in the living room, questioning a middle-aged, gray-haired man in his fifties, too busy to pay attention to Gao Ze.

Seeing this, Gao Ze walked into the kitchen and bedrooms to observe.

The kitchen stove was neat and clean, without any grease. The dishwasher contained neatly arranged pots, bowls, and utensils. The refrigerator held drinks, red wine, white wine, prepared foods, and snacks, but not much fresh produce or meat.

All of this indicated that the owner of the house only used it occasionally and did not cook frequently.

Of the three bedrooms, two smaller rooms displayed many luxury handbags, clothes, and exquisite blind box dolls. The larger master bedroom's wardrobe contained a lot of lingerie, and the dressing table held many high-end, luxury cosmetics.

"Officer Gao, you're one step late! I've already identified the suspect!"

By the time Gao Ze emerged from the master bedroom, Han Minghan walked over with a smile, no longer questioning the middle-aged man.

Gao Ze smiled calmly, "Oh, who is it?"

"Chen Zhending, the man who kept Yu Meichan!"

Gao Ze had, of course, never heard this name and waited for Han Minghan to continue:

"I contacted the community property management and found the landlord of Room 801. According to him, this house was leased long-term by a wealthy businessman named Chen Zhending, for a lease period of up to twenty years!"

"However, Chen Zhending never lived here until about half a year ago when he brought a beautiful young woman to reside!"

"Although this landlord has forgotten Yu Meichan's appearance, I can confirm that the young woman who moved into this house was undoubtedly Yu Meichan. Officer Gao, you've seen the red wine glass shards and dried blood on the ground; they all match your autopsy results."

Gao Ze did not doubt Han Minghan's investigative abilities and asked indifferently, "So, Captain Han suspects Yu Meichan was killed by the wealthy businessman who kept her, Chen Zhending?"

Han Minghan did not respond directly, instead asking, "Officer Gao, after entering the Guangming Resettlement Community, what do you think of this community?"

"The Guangming Resettlement Community is over twenty years old, making it an older community in Donghai City. Its infrastructure is far behind that of normal, standard communities; it doesn't even have elevators!"

As a first-tier city with high housing prices, Donghai City has many communities similar to Guangming Resettlement Community in various districts.

For example, the Minhe Community, which Gao Ze originally rented, was even older than Guangming Community, yet many white-collar workers still lived there.

"Officer Gao observes carefully. Guangming Community indeed has no elevators, and there are no surveillance cameras in the stairwells. However, when I came in, I saw that the entrance and exit of Guangming Community each had two surveillance cameras installed!"

A slight smile appeared on Han Minghan's lips: "As soon as I entered the community, I had a Police Officer help me retrieve the surveillance footage from the community's entrance and exit, looking for footage from 10 PM to early morning two days ago."

"Guess what I found in the surveillance?"

"What is it?"

Han Minghan's smile deepened. He had a Police Officer nearby bring over a laptop, and while clicking to play the surveillance video, he said,

"Officer Gao, look at the Guangming Community entrance video, at 9:46 PM. What's at this timestamp?"

Gao Ze followed Han Minghan's finger and saw that at 9:46 PM in the video, two figures briefly appeared: one was Yu Meichan, with her exceptional looks and figure, wearing an exquisite white slip dress.

Her left hand was intimately wrapped around a middle-aged man with a square face, wearing a black jacket, neither fat nor thin, with noticeable wrinkles around his eyes.

"According to what the landlord told me, this middle-aged man with a square face in the black jacket is Chen Zhending!"

Han Minghan did not finish speaking. He quickly fast-forwarded the video and paused it at 12:45 AM, asking,

"What did Officer Gao see in this video segment?"

In this frozen frame, Gao Ze saw a man wearing a black mask and a brown baseball cap, walking out of the community with his head down, carrying a large travel suitcase.

This man was wearing a casual shirt, but the leather shoes on his feet were still the same pair of brown patterned leather shoes that Chen Zhending had been wearing earlier.

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