False evidence

Chapter 31 About Dogs

Seeing Gao He preoccupied with arranging his troops, Pidan jumped off the bed and came up to me: "Hey, didn't they say the corpse was gnawed by dogs? Where are the dogs?"

Gao He had already turned off the walkie-talkie and asked me the same question: "Where's the dog?"

I said, "We can put the dog issue aside for now, Brother Gao. I've said so much, it's time for you to say a few words."

Gao He nodded. "You've said enough. At least let me know that to complete this case, we need at least two people: one is a security guard, and the other is the staff member responsible for transporting the body. Both are indispensable."

I know everyone has curiosity, and you don't need to be in such a rush to satisfy Pei Xiaofan's curiosity by forcing me to tell you the whole story. In short, the case is the priority; let's unravel the mystery and figure it out first!

Preserved Egg retorted indignantly, "That's just sophistry!"

"No!" Gao He pointed at me and said confidently, "That makes sense!"

Pidan, Monkey, and I exchanged glances and could only manage a wry smile.

Gao He raised his chin at me and said, "Let's finish the case first. It won't be against the rules if I talk about it after the case is closed."

I had no choice but to say, "If I'm not mistaken, the dog's original purpose was just to be a 'detector' to find the 'blind spots'."

Gao raised an eyebrow: "I've raised dogs before. Dogs are smart, but can they be this smart?"

I countered, "You've seen the security footage from last night. Don't you think I spent a little too long in the outpatient building?"

Gao He said directly, "I suspect you've been hiding somewhere between the annex and the outpatient building the whole time, and haven't moved an inch!"

"Do you believe it?"

"Tsk, I don't really believe it, but the outpatient department is a key monitoring area. Even if there are blind spots, they are very few!"

"what!"

Gao He seemed to suddenly remember something, pointed at me, his finger waving up and down, but he couldn't say a word.

"You figured it out?"

"I've got it now." Gao He gasped. "So we met back then."

I nodded. "Yes, we've met. However, I was just conducting an experiment. The meeting was an accident. The purpose of the experiment was to verify the feasibility of some movement trajectories."

The monkey looked completely bewildered: "What are you two talking about? Can you stop using riddles?"

Gao He was somewhat agitated and waved his hand vigorously, saying:

"The caregiver! That caregiver! The caregiver who went in when we came out of the elevator on the first floor of the outpatient building!"

The monkey was still bewildered: "A caregiver? I think I've seen one before..."

I said, "It's not difficult to find a caregiver's uniform in the caregiver's rest room."

Pidan was the first to realize, "Oh, you were pretending to be a caregiver and wandering around the outpatient building!"

The monkey belatedly realized, "I remember now, that caregiver, wearing reading glasses... was that you?"

I told Gao He, "If you check the surveillance footage now, you'll find that the 'caregiver' is even more mysterious, disappearing one moment and suddenly reappearing the next."

"I believe you! I'll believe anything you say now! I've fallen for your lies!" Gao He exclaimed excitedly, "Tell me! What's going on here?"

"This brings us back to dogs."

I nodded to him. “I’m a human, so my movements are limited. But if it’s a trained dog, there’s almost no area in the hospital that isn’t a blind spot for it. Go back and watch the security footage from yesterday afternoon. See when the dog was in the camera’s view and when it wasn’t. You’ll definitely understand then.”

Gao and Lei acted swiftly, opening the door and heading out.

But before the door could close, he came back. "Dude, you've really gone all out! What's the point?" Seeing his face turn bright red, Pi Dan chuckled: "Officer, you look a lot like someone right now."

Gao He pointed at the monkey: "Don't say I look like him! I'm only talking about serious matters today!"

Pidan smiled even more broadly: "No, I think you look like Guan Yu with his hair and beard shaved off."

Seeing her radiant smile, I was also infected by it and blurted out, "Just for a smile."

Gao He couldn't help but laugh: "I'm impressed with you. One minute you're pretending to be a caregiver, and the next you're crawling under the chair like a dog. If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was a ghost!"

"You have to admit, the area under the chairs on both sides of the corridor is indeed the biggest blind spot."

"I admit it, I admit it! The surveillance cameras are all installed on top, so they couldn't possibly capture anything under the chair."

Gao He eventually pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it. Looking out the window, he said vaguely, "Dogs are used to 'scout' blind spots, so what's with gnawing on corpses?"

I said, "I saw that dog from the front. It's a German Shepherd, but not purebred. Its claws are quite strong, but its ears are a bit lacking. But it's definitely very intelligent, with an IQ at least equivalent to a four or five-year-old child. If such a big German Shepherd had ever eaten human flesh, it would be a rabid dog. Did anyone get bitten by it yesterday when it was rampaging around the hospital?"

Gao He shook his head. "So, the dog eating the corpse was an illusion? It was deliberately shown to people? Bian Xiaomao was already scared half to death, and seeing such a horrific scene almost drove him crazy."

As a result, the dog successfully distracted him and led him away, making it easier for the suspect to further dispose of the body hidden in the trunk!

At that time, given Bian Xiaomao's mental state, it would have been difficult for him to distinguish whether the dog was gnawing on a corpse or a fake human intestine!

He suddenly looked at me: "In your opinion, is that dog still in the hospital?"

My heart sank slightly: "I don't know. If it were still here, it might already be a dead dog."

Gao pushed the monkey away and sat down on the bedside again: "You're just a veterinarian, I don't believe all of this is just your personal reasoning. Unless, of course, you're a genius."

I shook my head. “I did learn some things, but those are all abstract concepts for anyone or anything in reality. All I can say is that, in the security room, besides Bian Xiaomao, I definitely saw another suspect. I’m not sure who he is, but my thoughts started to follow him. Another thing I’m sure of is… I also met another suspect.”

I am very certain that this is the lesson I learned from Lin Dan last time.

Gao Hedao said, "Can I understand it this way—you can only act according to or imitate the other party's way of thinking if you have met the suspect in person or someone closely related to him?"

“I’m not sure.” I turned to him. “I just hope that after this is over, unless the school makes a move, you won’t contact me about anything else.”

……

Not long after lunch, Gao He strode in, "The body has been found!"

The monkey chuckled and sat up from the cot. "What are you doing here again? If you've caught someone, go and interrogate them!"

"The trial is over!"

Gao walked straight up to me, staring intently at me: "Use your brain and think about it. What is the suspect's identity? What is his relationship with the victim? Why go to such lengths to pull so many tricks!"

Pidan's mother couldn't help but frown. "Alright, stop making things difficult for the child. The doctor said that if he talks any more, even if his injury heals, he'll still have a lisp!"

Gao He looked embarrassed and handed me a folder. "Alright, alright, I won't say any more. This case is really closed. All the information is in here. I just wanted you to know the general outline."

I opened the folder, glanced at it, and was suddenly jolted.

The doctor examined my wound again this morning and specifically instructed me not to talk too much. Even when I ate, I could only eat liquid food through a straw.

But when I saw a photo on the first page of the document, after a brief moment of distraction, I slammed the folder shut. "I want to see him!"

Gao He, observing the situation carefully, asked cautiously, "Is there something else going on in this case?"

I shook my head: "I want to know where I came from!"

(End of this chapter)