Chinese online short story 罪恶有痕 Traces of Sin 33 (Intermediate to Advanced)

A lethal mistake led the cops to find the place wher Zhuang Liqun was hiding.

[simplified Chinese]
罪恶有痕 33

 

庄立群万万没有想到, 他打回家的那个简短电话, 竟是他犯下的一个致命的错误.一直在苦苦寻找他的刑警们, 从这个电话记录入手, 很快查清了来电的位置. 电话虽然是在公用电话亭打的. 但地点离他藏身的地方并不远. 打完电话的第二天, 刘明天, 赵凯峰他们就连夜赶了过来.

调查是从电话亭的监控录像开始的. 尽管庄立群化了妆, 通过对比打电话的时间和监控画面上的时间, 锁定庄立群的影像并不困难.

从录像上看, 他离开电话亭后一路步行, 最后消失在街尾. 而街尾的尽头是一片低矮的出租屋.

 

[vocab table]

 
Simplified Chinese     Traditional Chinese     Mandarin Pinyin     English Definition

万万
   

萬萬
    wan4 wan4     absolutely; wholly

简短
   

簡短
    jian3 duan3     brief

监控
   

監控
    jian1 kong4     to monitor

锁定
   

鎖定
    suo3 ding4     to focus attention on; to target

影像
        ying3 xiang4     image; video clips

 

[pinyin]
 zuì’è yǒu hén 33

 

zhuāng lì qún wànwàn méiyǒu xiǎngdào, tā dǎ huíjiā de nàge jiǎnduǎn diànhuà, jìng shì tā fàn xià de yī gè zhìmìng de cuòwù. yīzhí zài kǔkǔ xúnzhǎo tā de xíngjǐng men, cóng zhège diànhuà jìlù rùshǒu, hěn kuài cháqīng le láidiàn de wèizhi. diànhuà suīrán shì zài gōngyòngdiànhuà tíng dǎdī. dàn dìdiǎn lí tā cángshēn de dìfang bìngbù yuǎn. dǎ wán diànhuà de dì’èrtiān, Liú míngtiān, zhào kǎi fēng tāmen jiù liányè gǎn le guòlái.

diàochá shì cóng diànhuàtíng de jiānkòng lùxiàng kāishǐ de. jìn guǎn zhuāng lì qún huà le zhuāng, tōngguò duìbǐ dǎdiànhuà de shíjiān hé jiānkòng huàmiàn shàng de shíjiān, suǒdìng zhuāng lì qún de yǐngxiàng bìngbù kùnnan.

cóng lùxiàng shàng kàn, tā líkāi diànhuàtíng hòu yīlù bùxíng, zuìhòu xiāoshī zài jiē wěi. ér jiē wěi de jìntóu shì yīpiàn dī’ǎi de chūzū wū.

 

 

[traditional Chinese]
罪惡有痕 33

 

莊立群萬萬沒有想到, 他打回家的那個簡短電話, 竟是他犯下的一個致命的錯誤.一直在苦苦尋找他的刑警們, 從這個電話記錄入手, 很快查清了來電的位置. 電話雖然是在公用電話亭打的. 但地點離他藏身的地方並不遠. 打完電話的第二天, 劉明天, 趙凱峰他們就連夜趕了過來.

調查是從電話亭的監控錄像開始的. 盡管莊立群化了妝, 通過對比打電話的時間和監控畫面上的時間, 鎖定莊立群的影像並不困難.

從錄像上看, 他離開電話亭後一路步行, 最後消失在街尾. 而街尾的盡頭是一片低矮的出租屋.

 

[English translation]
Traces of Sin  33

Zhuang Liqun didn’t realize at all that the brief phone call he made to his family was a deadly mistake. The police, who were searching for him day and night, were able to trace him down from the record of that call. Although he called from a public phone booth, it’s not far from wher he’s hiding. The next day after he made the phone call, Liu Mingtian and Zhao Kaifeng arrived at the place together with their men.

Investigation then started from the security video near the phone booth. Although Zhuang Liqun was wearing a disguise, it’s not that hard to lock down his image by comparing the timestamps from both the video taps and the phone log. According to the video, he walked along the street after the call toward the end of it. What existed beyond that was an area of low-rise renting properties.