"What happened to Lu Fangzi!"

Ji Heng's speculation put a layer of frost on Gu Qingtong's doubts. She suddenly felt cold in her hands and feet. When she held his hand, her fingertips began to tremble as if they were out of control.

"Xiaotong?" Ji Heng felt the abnormality and quickly supported her and asked her to return to her seat to sit. "Wait and see, maybe there is some information error in the middle..."

Wang Hai in the middle of the stage, his grief had already destroyed him.

After standing for about a minute, Wang Hai spoke with sobs.

"Dear viewers, I'm sorry to inform you, you are not able to leave the venue for the time being. The theater has called the police, please try your best to cooperate with the police's investigation."

Ji Heng felt a little cold: "What happened is indeed something."

Gu Qingtong turned to Ji Heng: "It's true that Lu Fangzi has dizziness, but it will never be fatal because of this-" She stood up with her armrests on the seat, "No! I don't want to wait for a second, let's go to the backstage!"

The two left the audience one by one and ran straight to the small door connecting to the backstage that they walked past before the opening.

The staff stopped them: "The scene is blocked, please go back to your seat!"

Gu Qingtong took out his ID and showed it to them for a look: "I am from the serious crime team of the Municipal Criminal Police Team, where is Lu Fangzi's body?"

The staff hesitated for a moment, and Gu Qingtong had reached out to push the door.

"Nonsense!" Wang Hai's voice changed in anger. "Who are you? Why are you doing privately in the backstage?" When he saw Ji Heng's face clearly, he suddenly became stunned. "Teacher Ji? Why are you...who are you here?"

Ji Heng introduced Gu Qingtong to Wang Hai: "Director Wang, this is my girlfriend Gu Qingtong, the deputy leader of the serious crime team of the Municipal Criminal Police Team. She wanted to check Lu Fangzi's situation, worried that if she went too late, the traces of the scene would be damaged."

Wang Hai was as if he had hoped for a savior: "I... I'm sorry, Officer Gu, misunderstandings are all misunderstandings."

Gu Qingtong shook her head slightly and said she didn't mind: "No further ado, Director Wang, you must take us to the scene immediately!"

"You guys come with me!"

Wang Hai winked at the two young men standing at the door, and the latter immediately gave way and pushed the door open.

-

Before the opening, Gu Qingtong and Ji Heng walked through the small door connecting the audience, and she felt very bad at that time.

Not to mention that the moldy smell in the air is getting stronger and stronger. If you smell it carefully, there is now a faint smell of blood. The cleaning lady can't cover it up even if she sprays freshener.

Wang Hai walked with his head in silence, his stiff spine and his inconsistent movements of swinging his arms and legs, which showed how desperate he was at this moment.

Turn right at the end of the corridor and they reach the door of Lu Fangzi's lounge.

Dozens of large flower baskets are like faithful doormen, standing neatly along the walls. Red and pink ribbons are hung obliquely on the top of the flower basket, and are full of praise for Lu Fangzi's success in the performance.

Gu Qingtong showed that only Lu Fangzi received the flower basket, and the door of the other actors' lounge was empty, with at most one or two pieces of shredded paper.

The staff guarding the door saw Wang Hai leading two strangers and subconsciously spread his arms to stop him.

"Director Wang, the theater manager, told me that no one can enter until the police come."

"The lady beside me is a policeman." Wang Hai said, "Don't waste your time, get out of here!"

The staff tactfully retreated to both sides, Gu Qingtong took a few steps forward and entered the lounge first. However, she quickly closed the door and pressed the lock button, and closed Wang Hai and Ji Heng outside the door.

"Officer Gu?" Wang Hai knocked hard on the door, "I am Fangzi's closest person, you can't lock me outside!"

Gu Qingtong didn't make any sound.

She heard Ji Heng comforting Wang Hai: "Director Wang, Officer Gu naturally has her considerations when doing this. According to the procedures, after the forensic examination on the spot, you can see the deceased for the last time."

It was quiet outside the door, and Wang Hai no longer smashed the door.

-

The lounge is a suite, with a dressing table against the wall of the outer room, and all kinds of cosmetics on the table are available.

The chairs equipped with the dressing table fell horizontally on the floor, but the chair cushion was thrown under the window.

Three-seater sand, half a meter away from the window, was casually dressed with three clothes, two skirts and a shirt.

Gu Qingtong wore scar check gloves and gently pinched the collar of her shirt to check.

This is a men's shirt with a classic rounded hem design. There is a small red mark on the right shoulder. The color is bright and not like solidified blood. Gu Qingtong takes it closer and looks carefully. The red is the residue of nail polish.

She returned to the dressing table, found the nail polish of the same color, and put it in the evidence bag she carried with her.

After the external room inspection, Gu Qingtong pushed the door of the inner room.

There seemed to be something blocking the door. She pushed it hard and looked inside through the narrow crack of the door. A falling cabinet just blocked the door tightly.

By changing the angle sideways, Lu Fangzi's upper body is presented in the field of view.

The two braids that Lu Fangzi had combed to suit the role were all scattered, and the messy silk was stained with sticky blood and scattered on the floor at will. Lu Fangzi's eyes widened, probably having suffered huge horror and pain before her death - her costume was not changed, her front button was missing, her underwear was exposed, and there were many purple bruises on the surface of her skin.

Witnessing such a sudden disaster by his favorite actor, Gu Qingtong exuded unprecedented power.

She held her breath and concentrated all her strength to her arms. With a bang, she expanded the crack in the door to a width that could penetrate a person.

Entering the lounge, Gu Qingtong saw that the window leading out was wide open, and there was a clear blood-covered shoe print on the windowsill.

-

The night wind blew into the house, whirling the curtains.

Gu Qingtong squatted down to check Lu Fangzi's body. Due to the sudden change in height, she noticed that there was a reflective object between the foot of the single bed and the falling cabinet.

The item fell very deep, and she couldn't reach it even if she stretched her arms.

The cabinet made of solid wood is very heavy, and Gu Qingtong can't carry it alone. It seems that he can only wait until the brothers from the Crime Team arrive before moving...

At this time, the ceiling light flashed and went out. Gu Qingtong was about to get up to find a backup power supply, but a beam of light suddenly lit out of the window, as if someone was shining the room with a flashlight.

"Xiao Gu? Are you in there?"

"Captain Pan, I'm here-" Hearing Pan Shaofang's call, Gu Qingtong felt as if he had a reassurance, "I locked the door of the lounge, I'll open it for you now!"

-

After Zhong Hao had tested the corpse, he asked the other people in the Forensics Department to put the corpse into the body bag and transport it away.

"The deceased's death time is between 22:oo and 23:oo. He had rough sexual behavior two hours before his death..." Zhong Hao couldn't hide his anger. "Sexual/instrument/official torn, severe hip congestion, and blunt objects were injured to varying degrees in the chest, abdomen and knee joints."

Gu Qingtong gritted her teeth and suppressed her swelling anger.

"Doctor Zhong, according to the autopsy results you gave, the drama "Floating Clouds" 2o:o8 officially started. So the first time the deceased was injured was at the end of the first act of the drama?"

Zhong Hao confirmed the schedule of the drama and said: "Yes, sexual assault was caused by that period. But the cause of the death was a skull fracture. In other words, the murderer chose to kill the deceased at the end of the drama. He calculated the time of each scene of the drama very accurately."

Gu Qingtong truthfully told her feelings when watching the drama.

"At the beginning of the second act, Lu Fangzi was a little out of shape. I didn't think much about it, thinking that she had a dizzy problem again... On the contrary, the first and second acts were eight minutes apart, and the interval between Lu Fangzi's exit from the first act and the opening of the second act was longer than these eight minutes. What I can't understand is why she was infringed on time and why didn't she call for help in time?"

"Public figures consider several times more things than ordinary people. Furthermore, Lu Fangzi is a woman and a well-known actor. In today's social atmosphere, she may care too much about reputation and ignore life safety." Pan Shaofang made a deduction based on the scene, "It is not ruled out that acquaintances commit crimes, and those who have entered and exited the backstage tonight must be investigated strictly!"

-

"The surveillance in the backstage of the theater broke down at the end of last month. The manager said he would arrange for workers to repair it, but there was no movement."

The above sentence was told by Luo Jian, the actor of the male lead in "Floating Clouds".

He also said that the theater was not well managed, and even the security personnel were not in place during the drama. There was a door that was not locked for many years, and anyone could escape tickets and enter the theater.

The door that Luo Jian mentioned that he had not locked for many years was the one that Ji Heng took Gu Qingtong away.

Because there are too many people entering and leaving here, the on-site inspection is extremely difficult. The trace inspectors collected more than 100 sets of shoe prints, but none of them could correspond to the blood shoe prints on the windowsill of Lu Fangzi's lounge.

Before Pan Shaofang could ask, Gu Qingtong told frankly: "Captain Pan, Ji Heng and I also walked through the door on the night of the performance of "Floating Clouds".

"Don't you have tickets?" Pan Shaofang was confused. "Ji Heng asked you to watch the drama. He told me three times on the phone. Why don't you go to the main door and why do you go to the back door?"

Gu Qingtong told the whole story: Ji Heng was trying to save her a motorcycle, but she rode to the theater without waiting for anyone to miss the entry time limit. Finally, the two of them decided to go around and enter the theater through the back door.

"Captain Pan, I know that I always talk about the sixth sense and intuition. But I felt very bad that night, and I felt like a bad feeling. When I passed by the corridor in the backstage, I heard someone quarrel behind the curtain..."

"Stop!" Pan Shaofang shook the folder in his hand and interrupted, "What did you say? Someone quarreled?"

"Yes, I remember it very clearly." Gu Qingtong placed the building floor plan of the theater on the table. "The specific location is in the corridor between the stage and the backstage, behind a velvet curtain more than ten meters long. At that time, I thought the main creator was discussing the script, so I didn't pay special attention."

Pan Shaoluo thought about it and said, "The surveillance probe in the backstage is waiting to be repaired, and the stage and the audience are in normal use. This corridor is just between the stage and the backstage, and it is a completely blind spot for surveillance!"

Gu Qingtong instantly reacted: "Do you suspect that the person hiding behind the curtain and quarreling were the deceased and the murderer?"

"If you choose a place where surveillance cannot be photographed, you must be an internal person who is quite familiar with the theater environment." Pan Shaofang said, "Let's divide the people who are close to the deceased and interrogate them one by one to find the murderer!"

-

Wang Hai sat in the interrogation room, his eyes were dull and his head was drooping, like a puppet with a soulless puppet.

"Officer Gu, the male voice you heard was me. Before the performance, I had a fight with Fangzi. The reason for the quarrel was the one reported by the media. She wanted me to agree to the investor's request for a drama remake. I made a harsh statement, and I would not be able to talk unless my head was cut off."

Gu Qingtong looked sideways and saw Cao Zhe finishing the record before she asked the second question: "Wang Hai, what is your relationship with the deceased?"

Wang Hai said: "She is the most important person in my life, my lover, relative and best friend."

"Sorry, please answer again." Cao Zhe suggested that Wang Hai simplify the complexity, "Just just talk about your relationship directly, and there is no need for too much exaggeration or sensationalism."

"I..." Wang Hai raised his head, as if he had made a great decision, "I am Fangzi's boyfriend, to be precise, we are about to get married!"

Cao Zhe filled in the relationship column: Fiancé.

Gu Qingtong asked: "Wang Hai, when we visited and investigated, there was a strange phenomenon. Whenever your colleagues in the theater, if we ask them how much they know about your relationship with the deceased, they will get an ambiguous answer - some say that your relationship is as good as the same person, while others say that you have broken up long ago. Can you tell us frankly, are there any misunderstandings here?"
To be continued...