Escape From the Library

【Death of a Lawyer-03】

Yue Xingwen quickly called 110 to call the police, and the voice could not hear a trace of tension: "Hello, I found a man who fell to his death in Xinghai Building. The body was hung on the billboard on the third floor..."

The operator immediately wrote down the location and said that the police would be dispatched as soon as possible.

Yue Xingwen hung up the phone and said to his two teammates, "Stand aside."

Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo's faces were a bit ugly, and the blood mixed with the rain was poured down on their heads. Such an experience would definitely give them nightmares!Yue Xingwen took a deep breath to calm down, put the umbrella on top of his head, and led the two of them to stand beside him, then raised his head again and looked up——

The torrential rain was pouring down, and by the light of the surrounding street lights, it could be seen that the deceased Zhou Ziyang was wearing a black sportswear, which was very different from the way he was dressed in the law office during the day.

Yue Xingwen remembered that when he saw Lawyer Zhou in the office, he was wearing a gray suit with shiny leather shoes, a white shirt and a striped tie inside the suit, a famous belt around his waist, neatly combed hair, and a piece of leather on his wrist. A valuable mechanical watch - such a dress looks like a white-collar elite and a successful person.

But Lawyer Zhou, who died in the Xinghe Building now, was not as elite as he was during the day. His hair was washed into a mess like weeds by the rain, his eyes were wide open, his face was covered in blood, and he was in a state of embarrassment.

Yue Xingwen frowned and looked towards the roof: "He was pushed downstairs?"

Lan Yarong agreed: "Since the exam requires us to solve the mystery of the lawyer's death, he must not have committed suicide."

Lin Manluo said, "The murderer should have fled the scene."

Yue Xingwen lived on the 33rd floor of the Xinghai apartment across the street. He saw someone fall from the window, and immediately contacted Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo to go downstairs to investigate.

Since the apartment elevator stopped on the first floor at that time, they waited for the elevator to go from the first floor to the 1rd floor. They took the elevator downstairs and crossed the road to the entrance of Xinghai Building, which took 1 minutes.It took another 33 minutes to search for the body around the gate of the building before finding the body on top of the head.

Yue Xingwen said: "From the time we witnessed Zhou Ziyang's fall to the discovery of his body, the whole process took 15 minutes. If the murderer had prepared, 15 minutes would be enough for him to run out."

Yue Xingwen looked at his watch specially at that time, and calculated the time very clearly.

Lan Yarong looked at the gate of Xinghai Building suspiciously: "However, the gate of this office building is locked. How did the murderer climb upstairs and escape?"

Lin Manluo guessed: "Could it be that they stepped on the air-conditioning duct and climbed up from the side of the building?"

Yue Xingwen came to the side of the building and checked the air-conditioning outlets of the entire building, and found that the air-conditioning outlets on each floor were aligned. People with long legs and strong climbing ability can indeed follow the air-conditioning outlets. Climb up layer by layer, but Zhou Ziyang fell from the 40th floor. It is not so easy to climb from the 1st floor to the 40th floor, unless the murderer can fly over the eaves and walls.

What made Yue Xingwen even more puzzled was: "Even if the murderer climbed up from the side of the building along the air conditioner, what about Zhou Ziyang? It's impossible. The murderer let him climb up with him."

Why did Zhou Ziyang appear on the roof of the building late at night, and even changed into a sportswear for easy movement?The door of the building was locked, how did he get in?

There were many doubts, and Yue Xingwen couldn't think of a reasonable explanation for the time being, so he sent a message to Jiang Pingce: "Have you arrived yet?"

Jiang Pingce replied: "Immediately."

Not long after Yue Xingwen saw the reply, he heard the siren of a police car in the distance, and he whispered: "You two senior sisters go back first, it is enough for me to stay at the scene as a witness. Appearing at the scene, it is not easy to explain."

The two had no doubts about Xingwen's decision, and immediately turned and left.

At 0:30 in the middle of the night, it was raining heavily, no pedestrians could be seen on the street, and there were extremely few vehicles.

The sound of horns broke the silence of the night, and in the blink of an eye, two police cars stopped at the gate of Xinghai Building, and a group of people walked out of the car with big black umbrellas.The leader was a middle-aged man with beards, dressed casually in jeans and a leather jacket, followed by several colleagues, and... Jiang Pingce.

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce through the rain curtain.

The boy was wearing a blue uniform. He was tall and straight, with stern eyebrows and eyes. The police uniform made him exude an inaccessible sense of abstinence, and his face looked much more mature.

He walked quickly to Yue Xingwen, and found that Yue Xingwen was wearing a thin shirt. Although he was holding an umbrella, the clothes had already been soaked by the rain, and his hair was sticking to his face. He looked like a soaked chicken.

The two did not speak, but exchanged a look.

The bearded man looked up at the billboard on the third floor, took a flashlight to take a picture, and the dead man's eyes widened and his face was covered with blood came into everyone's eyes. There was a sound of gasping around him. The man looked around with the flashlight, He asked in a deep voice, "Did you call the police?"

Yue Xingwen said politely, "Yes, police officer."

Without turning his head, the man said to Jiang Pingce: "Xiao Jiang, ask the witnesses about the situation at that time. Xiao Liu, Xiao Zhao, immediately block the scene and ask the security guard to open the door!"

The experienced criminal police captain quickly made arrangements.

Next to him, Jiang Pingce held the handle of the umbrella under his arm, took out a notepad with his left hand, and held a black pen in his right hand. He asked Yue Xingwen in a low voice, "What's your name? When was the body found? Why did it grow so big?" Passing by here in the middle of the night?"

Yue Xingwen said cooperatively: "My name is Yue Xingwen, and I live in the Xinghai apartment opposite. At around 12 o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep. I was sitting by the window watching the rain scene, and suddenly saw someone fall from the opposite building. I was puzzled." Down, went downstairs to check and found a dead body hanging on the billboard on the third floor, and then called the police."

Jiang Pingce's pen tip paused, and he looked up at him: "Did you see someone fall with your own eyes?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Yes."

Jiang Pingce: "Did you see other people on the roof?"

Yue Xingwen: "The rain was so heavy that I couldn't see clearly whether there was anyone on the roof opposite, but I was sure that he fell from the roof. I happened to be looking at the Xinghe Building opposite."

The two asked and answered, and cooperated tacitly. In fact, they were talking to Team Lin.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Team Lin immediately turned around and asked, "Do you know the deceased?"

Yue Xingwen said: "It seems to be Zhou Ziyang, a lawyer from our Minghui Law Firm."

Team Lin frowned and looked at the corpse on the third floor, and said, "Move the corpse down as soon as possible!"

At this moment, the security guard on duty was woken up and opened the door tremblingly. A group of policemen swarmed in. Team Lin personally took Jiang Pingce to the top floor, while the others went to the third floor to move the body.

Rooftop.

Standing in a 40-story high-rise building, you can see the surrounding night scene clearly. The city in the rainstorm seems to be covered with a layer of fog. Jiang Pingce followed Team Lin with an umbrella, and a colleague who was in charge of shooting the scene was next to him. .

Team Lin checked around with a flashlight, and said, "The heavy rain has washed away the traces of the roof, and there are no footprints on the roof of the top floor." He walked to the guardrail and looked down: "If it falls from here, it will just fall. to the billboard."

The man paused, and said, "Look around."

Jiang Pingce stepped forward, turned on the flashlight and searched for clues every inch.

Suddenly, he saw a silver necklace on the guardrail. The necklace was very thin, with a diamond pendant hanging in the middle. In the dark rainy night, when the light of the flashlight swept across the necklace, the diamond pendant shone brightly.

Jiang Pingce immediately said, "Master, here is a necklace."

Team Lin hurried over to pick up the evidence with tweezers, and said with doubts: "A woman's necklace?"

The colleague in charge of shooting next to him quickly took a few photos. Team Lin put the necklace into the evidence bag. The three of them walked around the top floor and found nothing else, so they went downstairs together.

Team Lin said to the security guard, "Call me the monitoring of Xinghai Building around 12 o'clock in the morning."

Knowing that someone died outside, the security guard turned pale with fright, and immediately called out the surveillance. However, at around 12:[-] in the morning, the first floor of the Xinghai Building under surveillance was empty. There was no one there, and none of the elevators had run.

Team Lin frowned suspiciously: "Give me the surveillance camera."

Looks like I need to go back and take a closer look.

At this time, a car happened to stop at the gate of Xinghai Building. There was a cross-shaped sign on the car. A young forensic doctor in a white coat got out of the car. The person walking behind him was pale...it was Xin Word.

Yue Xingwen glanced at Xin Yan. The latter looked indifferent and pretended not to know him. He followed his master to lift the stretcher out of the car and put it on a dry platform at the entrance of the building where it could shelter from the rain.

The corpse was also moved down by several police officers. The forensic doctor quickly inspected and said: "The preliminary judgment is that the cause of death is cerebral hemorrhage caused by skull fragmentation. The time of death was within half an hour. No other injuries were found on the body. Further results have to be brought back. Only by dissection can we know."

Team Lin nodded: "Take the body back and we'll talk about it."

He turned around and asked the people who moved the body: "Have you found the advertising platform on the third floor?"

Several colleagues said: "There is nothing, even the blood was washed away by the heavy rain."

The heavy rain can indeed cover up a lot of criminal evidence. Team Lin touched the beard on his chin: "Where is the dead man's cell phone?"

Colleagues said: "I didn't find it."

Another colleague said positively: "I also searched the nearby trash cans, but I didn't find his mobile phone."

Team Lin was silent for a moment, and said: "Let's close the team first, and investigate the social relationship of the deceased tomorrow." He looked at Yue Xingwen: "Please go back to the police force and make a record."

Yue Xingwen followed them back to the criminal police brigade.

Jiang Pingce and Team Lin were also in the interrogation room when the notes were taken.With Ping Ce on the opposite side, Yue Xingwen was not nervous at all. He explained the process of calling the police in detail. After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, I am going to get off work at around six o'clock this afternoon. When I was in the stairwell, I heard Lawyer Zhou calling someone on the phone, and his tone was a little impatient."

Yue Xingwen cleared his throat and imitated Zhou Ziyang's voice at that time: "Enough, I don't want to talk nonsense with you anymore! If you don't agree with the court's decision, you can go ahead and appeal, but I guarantee that the result of the appeal will be the same! You want to waste time You can say whatever you want." With an amazing memory, he repeated what Zhou Ziyang said at that time verbatim.

Team Lin raised his eyebrows: "Do you know what cases Zhou Ziyang has handled recently?"

Yue Xingwen shook his head: "I'm just a student who just came to the law firm for an internship, so I don't know much about Lawyer Zhou's situation."

Team Lin asked him many more details, and Yue Xingwen answered them one by one very calmly.

It was past one o'clock in the morning when the notes were finished.

Jiang Pingce personally sent Yue Xingwen out.

After arriving at the door, Jiang Pingce finally found a chance to talk to Xingwen alone. He lowered his voice, his eyes were extraordinarily gentle: "Your clothes are soaked, go back and take a hot shower, drink a cup of hot water before going to sleep, don't catch a cold .”

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "Okay, Officer Jiang."

Jiang Pingce was taken aback when he heard this title, and then said, "I'm just a trainee policeman."

Yue Xingwen sized him up and praised, "This outfit matches your temperament quite well."

Jiang Pingce looked at his wet appearance, frowned, and said, "Go back quickly and rest early. I'm here with the police force. I'll send you a message if there is any progress."

Yue Xingwen nodded and asked, "Aren't you going to sleep tonight?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Team Lin and the others should work overtime. I'll listen to the clues."

Yue Xingwen didn't want to stay here to disturb him, so he turned around and walked to the side of the road. Jiang Pingce personally hailed a taxi for him, watched him get into the car, and then returned to the office.

Ke Shaobin and Qin Miao didn't leave tonight, they stayed in the police force on duty. The three met and had a chat. Ke Shaobin whispered, "A necklace appeared at the scene. Could it be that the murderer is a woman?"

Jiang Pingce said solemnly: "It's not sure yet. There are too few clues at present. Tomorrow we have to thoroughly investigate Lawyer Zhou's social relations. Also, the person Xingwen mentioned who called him is also very important."

However, the dead man's mobile phone disappeared. Who was the person who called him?