Be in low spirits

Chapter 38: Suicide by Jumping from a Building

Kong Zhixi was no longer willing to participate in the political task of popularizing the law, and she used the kidnapping case as an excuse. Li Li was not in a position to persuade her any further, and he really didn't want her to see him interacting too much with Cheng Xi.

Sitting in the office, she looked at the surveillance video sent by the traffic police, flipping through it frame by frame, trying to find some clues about the murderer. Apart from the car, she could not see any flaws in the details.

Based on the clues provided by the traffic police, she found the scrapyard where the car was destroyed. The old man at the scrapyard said that the person who brought the car was a child, probably about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing ripped jeans and a crew cut. After negotiating the price, he took the money and left. No one asked his name. He left on a bicycle that he had taken from a van.

Kong Zhixi remembered that there were no bicycles in the van that took her, which meant that the bicycles were put on the van at the abandoned building, which meant that the child rode a bicycle from home to the abandoned building, which meant that their home was not far from the abandoned building. After walking for more than 30 minutes along the abandoned building, there was an old building with many people living there. Finding a 17 or 18-year-old child was like looking for a needle in a haystack. She wanted to understand the population structure here first, and then make a long-term plan when she returned.

I walked around for an afternoon and saw someone getting their ears pierced so I went in to get them pierced. I asked the lady who did the piercing and learned that the people living here are just ordinary people, doing all kinds of work, and there are many children. I only knew that it was difficult to find information about a 17 or 18-year-old.

After walking around for a long time, the building area was very large and there were no suspicious children to be seen. When she returned home, it was almost 10 o'clock. Li Liben said he would pick her up, but she took a taxi back.

"Any clues?" Li Li leaned against the bathroom door and asked Kong Zhixi who was taking a shower.

Kong Zhixi washed her face in front of the mirror and said to the bathroom door, "No, I want to take a shower, please open the door." She was a little tired and didn't want to say more.

"I still feel it's a little dangerous. You should wait for me to check it with you tomorrow." Li Li still stood at the bathroom door without moving.

Kong Zhixi opened the door and said, "Can you please hand in all the reports on your case if you have time? I'm going to take a shower and go to bed, brother!"

"Okay, you wash it, you wash it." Li Li sat on the sofa and looked through the documents on the table.

The next morning, Kong Zhixi walked around the old building area again, noted down several surveillance points at the entrances and exits, and asked the property management to watch the surveillance video from more than ten days ago. There were 40 to 50 children riding bicycles out of various exits one after another. Even if the scope was narrowed down to 40 to 50, it would take her three to four days to investigate alone. She copied the video and returned to the bureau, thinking that if she had time, she could investigate slowly.

The office phone rang, Kong Zhixi answered the phone, saying that a child in the school had committed suicide by jumping off a building, and asked the police to come. When they arrived at the scene, the scene had been cordoned off, and the child was lying in a pool of blood. Unlike the previous sultry sister, his was more visible, with brains leaking out, and his face could no longer be seen. Old Sui also appeared at the scene with a box.

The child's parents stood outside the cordon crying heartbreakingly. The police from the police station dispersed the crowd and surrounded the child with a cloth. Old Sui took some photos, looked at the body, sighed to Kong Zhixi, and said: "It can be basically determined that it was suicide. The head bone was fractured and there were multiple fractures."

"What could such a young child be so upset about?" Kong Zhixi asked the parents of the deceased outside the curtain.

"You should quickly notify Lao Li and see how to investigate this case. Did you two have a fight recently?" Lao Sui started gossiping again.

"No, I'll call him." Kong Zhixi dialed Li Li's number. It rang for a long time, but he didn't answer. This made her feel a little lost for the first time. In fact, it was not like he promised that he would be there when she needed him.

"No, go get busy." Although she felt disappointed, she still excused him. "I'll go find out about the situation with his parents." Kong Zhixi lifted the curtain and went to meet the child's parents.

The mother still couldn't accept the fact of losing her child. She slumped on the ground with numb eyes. It was probably impossible to ask her anything at this moment. The father hugged the mother, trying to ease her pain, even though he was also in pain.

They arrived almost at the same time as Kong Zhixi when they received the notice. She could understand their pain, but the pain was long-lasting, the truth took time, and justice needed to be delivered promptly.

"Hello, I'm from the Public Security Bureau. I want to know about the child. I can understand your pain, but I also hope you can cheer up. The most urgent thing is to find out the truth of the matter. If possible, let's find an office to have a good chat, okay?" Kong Zhixi and Li Li are becoming more and more alike.

Although she was sitting in the office, the large group of people around her made Kong Zhixi feel like she was facing an army of thousands. "Uh... teacher, I'll talk to you later. Okay, you, the principal, and that guy, go back together first."

"Oh, okay, okay. I'm sorry for your condolences to Yanan's mother." The teacher stood up first and prepared to leave.

"I'll be waiting for you in the office. We will fully cooperate with the investigation on this matter. Parents, rest assured. It is our responsibility and we will not shirk it." The principal dared to face it. After saying this, he bowed to the parents and left.

"Uh, hello, my last name is Liao, and I'm the dean of studies. You can contact me anytime if you have any questions. I'm next to the principal's office. Dear parents, please accept my condolences." After saying this, he bowed to the parents and followed the principal out of the office.

After they left the office, Kong Zhixi closed the door, sighed, and said to the three parents, "I know you are all very sad about your child's situation, but it has already happened. I still hope you can mourn. Finding out the cause is what we should do."

"He is still so young, how could he be so depressed?" said the mother and started crying again.

"The child's name is Yanan?" Kong Zhixi knew that she couldn't stop crying for a while, so she looked up and asked her father who was holding her mother. Her father nodded and started crying too.

Judging from the looks of the two, I'm afraid I won't be able to get anything out of them today. Standing between them is the child's aunt. Although her mood is a little better, she probably doesn't know much. Kong Zhixi sighed again, hesitated for a few minutes, and went out of the office to find the teacher just now.

"Teacher, please tell me about the child's situation." Kong Zhixi knew that when something like this happened in school, the teachers and the principal would be more or less eager to distance themselves from the matter, and would probably not be objective about the child's performance in school.

"Yanan is an okay student, but he is a bit withdrawn. You rarely see him playing with his classmates." The teacher seemed to be expressing regret.

"What do you mean by doing okay in studies?" Kong Zhixi didn't quite understand.

"Actually, he is not a promising student. His parents spent some effort to send him to us. Although his academic ranking is not very good, it can be seen that he has worked very hard." The teacher seemed to have expected that he would end up like this.

"So what are the specific manifestations of being withdrawn?"

"He seldom interacts with many classmates in the class. He usually keeps to himself."

"Is there a possibility of bullying?" Kong Zhixi raised her doubts.

"Bullying? No, how could such a thing happen in our school? No." The teacher started to panic when he heard these two words. "This child is under a lot of psychological pressure, not to mention that he is in high school and studying is already very stressful. He...he may not be able to bear this atmosphere."

As they were chatting, the door to the office was opened. It was Li Li. "Why are you here?" Kong Zhixi stood up and asked, a little surprised.

"I called you, but you didn't answer. Then I called Old Sui and told him about this. How could I not come?" He pulled out a stool and sat down next to her. Kong Zhixi accidentally glanced at his shoulder and found a red hair. She remembered that Cheng Xi seemed to have red hair.

"Teacher, please continue." Li Li patted Kong Zhixi's thigh and said to the teacher.

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