Tiger Police

Chapter 198 Debunking
Zhang Hongyan deliberately covered his heart with his hands, and lamented: "Oh, my damn first love..."

This gesture made everyone laugh.Li Wenling ran over to hug her, and the two laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up.

Hu Pingtao smiled and winked at Su Zhiheng, who turned around knowingly, and said to Duan Zhiqing: "Xiao Duan, come out for a while, I have something to see you."

Duan Zhiqing agreed, picked up the overcoat that was placed on the bed, put it on, and followed Su Zhiheng outside.

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There is no one at the end of the corridor, and the lights are on.

Yang Hong took out the key and opened the door of the dormitory management department, and several people walked in.

The fluorescent lamp struggled for five seconds, and finally made a choice between turning on and not turning on the latter.Hu Pingtao raised his head, looked at the blackened light tubes at both ends, and smiled at Yang Hong: "The lighting facilities here have been around for a long time, and it's time to change them."

Yang Hong smiled apologetically: "That's how it is in the school, the funds are limited, let's make do with it!"

She then turned to Su Zhiheng: "Mr. Su, I have plugged in the water dispenser for you. If you want to drink water, pour it yourself. Do you think there is anything else I can do for you?"

Su Zhiheng quickly replied: "It's fine, it's fine. Thank you, Teacher Yang. I'm sorry to bother you so late. If you have something to do, go and do it first! I'll close the door when I leave later."

Yang Hong smiled and said, "That's fine, I'll go first."

In the middle of the night, if the school leader hadn't called to explain, no one would have accompanied Su Zhiheng to the girls' dormitory.

Watching Yang Hong leave, Hu Pingtao walked over and closed the door, pulled a chair and put it behind Duan Zhiqing, and said lightly: "Sit down!"

She sat down timidly.

The light shone on Duan Zhiqing's face, showing a special sense of light that was almost transparent.Her skin is very fair, not at all like a peasant girl from the mountains.If you get closer, you can see light blue blood vessels protruding from the skin near the ear.The cortex is very thin, as if it can be pierced with just a light touch.

Su Zhiheng sat on the chair, staring at Duan Zhiqing who was sitting opposite, without saying a word.

On the way here, Hu Pingtao communicated with him in a low voice, and now Su Zhiheng has a general understanding of the whole matter.Although he already knew the result, he was still a little hard to accept, and his mood was uncertain.

Hu Pingtao leaned against the side of the desk, put his hands in his pockets, and looked down at the concrete floor under his feet.

After 2 minutes in silence, Duan Zhiqing hesitated to speak several times.Facing the two men who kept quiet, she felt that the atmosphere was extremely dull, and she felt an extremely uncomfortable feeling of suffocation that she had never experienced before.

After a long time, she finally opened her lips, reluctantly, but had to make a tentative sound.

"...Ms. Su...you are looking for me...what can I do?"

Su Zhiheng frowned slightly, and was about to speak when he saw Hu Pingtao, who was leaning against the table, waved to him.

"I was looking for you." Hu Pingtao turned sideways, facing Duan Zhiqing.He coughed and asked in a flat tone: "Li Wenling lost a set of cosmetics, you know about it?"

An imperceptible trace of panic flashed across Duan Zhiqing's eyes.She quickly controlled her emotions and nodded obediently: "I know."

Hu Pingtao smiled: "That's a set of Estee Lauder cosmetics. The European style is very different from the Asian style, mainly because there are more basic tools for facial maintenance and double eye cream. Because of the addition of this part, foreign countries In the market, especially in Europe, the price of Estee Lauder suits is much higher than in China. More than 1000 euros, even in foreign countries, it is not cheap."

The muscles in the corners of Duan Zhiqing's eyes were twitching. She almost choked on what Hu Pingtao had just finished, and opened her mouth, "I've never seen that set of cosmetics. I wasn't in the dormitory the day Li Wenling lost it. I was in the library. Chen Ruoyu can Testify... By the way, she came back earlier than me. When I returned to the dormitory, all three of them were there, and it was then that I found out that Li Wenling's cosmetics had been stolen."

Hu Pingtao didn't seem to hear Duan Zhiqing's words. He thought to himself: "This suit from Estee Lauder is very big, and the box is more than [-] centimeters long. There is a soft pad inside, and there is a portable cosmetic box. The box is very beautiful. , There are two kinds of gold and silver. Hehe... I read the dictation left by Li Wenling at the student office: she is a local, and when she brought this set of cosmetics from home to school, she used a mooncake box Carrying it in a paper bag. Later, the cosmetics were gone, but the paper bag was still there.”

Duan Zhiqing blinked constantly, her eyelashes flying up and down showed that she was in intense thinking.She spoke very quickly, and she almost blurted out between words: "I really don't know anything. I went to class early in the morning and didn't come back at noon, so I went directly to the cafeteria to get dinner."

Hu Pingtao and Duan Zhiqing are obviously not on the same thinking circuit.He turned a blind eye to these justifications, and kept speaking in a low, slow, rhythmic voice in a masculine, magnetic voice.

"The key to this theft is the Estee Lauder cosmetics set."

"I have read the information of your school: The predecessor of the School of Information was the School of Economics and Management, which was later upgraded to the third school. The country has hardware requirements for the promotion of educational institutions, so the school of Economics and Management has been fully restructured four years ago, especially in terms of infrastructure. , Demolish the old buildings and build new ones on the basis of the original ones.”

"The dormitory you are living in used to be a two-story classroom facing the street. After the renovation and expansion, a green belt 20 meters away from the street was added, and there was an eight-meter-wide walkway in the middle. In order to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, the college The outer wall is equipped with barbed iron thorns, and there is a group of multi-directional surveillance cameras every 50 meters between the trail and the building. The female dormitory is in the shape of a "concave" as a whole, and there is only one exit in the south. The three cameras can be seen from different angles. Capture that location. In other words, anyone who enters or exits from the dormitory gate will leave a video record."

Doubt arose in Duan Zhiqing's heart, and gradually overwhelmed the spreading fear.After gathering her composure, she asked strangely: "What you said... I don't understand, what does this have to do with Li Wenling's lost cosmetics?"

Hu Pingtao raised his hands and made a gesture of hugging in the air: "A box with a side length of [-] centimeters is so big. Whether it is carried in a bag or hugged, it is eye-catching when walking on the street, let alone Said it was in a place like a school. This is not an academy of fine arts, and there will be no situation of walking around with large objects such as drawing boards. Even if there is, it can only be a change of dormitory."

"The Student Affairs Office and the Security Section attach great importance to Li Wenling's loss of things. On the day of the incident, they retrieved the surveillance video of the dormitory gate, but found no footage of anyone entering and exiting with large objects."

"The management of the girls' dormitory is very strict. It is impossible to take things out of the window and tie them with ropes, and someone below will respond. Besides, there are surveillance cameras on all sides of the dormitory building. The windows of the [-] dormitory where you live Facing the playground, where people come and go, lights are on even at night.”

Duan Zhiqing's heart was beating wildly, she forced herself to be calm: "You... why are you telling me these things? I didn't take Li Wenling's makeup box. I did see it when she brought it from home that day. , but she put it away immediately, and I didn't even touch it."

Hu Pingtao was not so much smiling as he was joking: "Li Wenling is a bit careless. Losing something worth nearly ten thousand has no effect... But, the duty of the police is to maintain law and order. Since someone If we call the police, we must search carefully and deal with it seriously.”

Hearing this, Duan Zhiqing's face suddenly turned pale.She stammered and asked, "...that...you...are you a policeman?"

Hu Pingtao took out his entire coat pocket and opened it in front of Duan Zhiqing: "This is my police officer ID."

Duan Zhiqing's lips parted slightly, the cold air she inhaled stimulated the inside of her mouth, the nerves of her brain that had been irritated suddenly tightened, fear overwhelmed doubts.

She subconsciously took a look at Su Zhiheng who was sitting across from him, and found that he was leaning on the armrest of the chair, also staring at her with deep eyes, revealing a strong questioning.

"I didn't take Li Wenling's things." Duan Zhiqing looked flustered, shook her head, and hurriedly defended: "I really didn't take anything, you must believe me."

Hu Pingtao looked at her with pity and seriousness: "The price of that set of cosmetics is more than 7000 yuan, which is well documented. According to the regulations, the theft of items worth more than 1 yuan and 3000 yuan can be filed and sentenced to punishment. "

A large patch of bright red flooded onto Duan Zhiqing's cheeks, and quickly spread out under the intense nerve stimulation.She firmly grasped the armrest of the chair, the muscles at the front of the arm exposed from the cuffs of the cotton pajamas were tense, and her fingers seemed to be slamming into the hard wooden part: "I didn't take it, I didn't do it."

Su Zhiheng, who had been silent all this time, was irritated.He was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but saw Hu Pingtao waving his hand at him, so he suppressed his anger and controlled his emotions.

Seeing Duan Zhiqing who was fidgeting, Hu Pingtao moved to directly opposite her, bent down, and watched her condescendingly.

"I didn't say you were the one who took Li Wenling's cosmetics. Our police officers focus on evidence when handling cases."

"I just want to tell you a few facts."

"First of all, the location of the girls' dormitory. As I said just now, this is a large secret room to some extent. There are surveillance cameras outside, and students inside and out. Only two days have passed since the incident, you The [-] dormitory where I lived also kept a lot of evidence. Simply put, based on the surveillance records, not to mention me, even the security department of your school can conclude that the stolen set of Estee Lauder cosmetics is still hidden in the In the dormitory building, it was not shipped out."

"When the incident happened the day before yesterday, the four people in your dormitory, including you, were called by the security department to the student office for interrogation. I have read the records. Zhang Hongyan, Li Wenling, Chen Ruoyu, and you all have alibi .”

"Li Wenling used that set of cosmetics when she woke up that morning, and then the four of you went out to class together. Zhang Hongyan had four classes in the morning, Li Wenling finished the first and second classes, and the classes after ten o'clock were electives, so you had to leave the main building. Go to teaching building No. [-]. Five people left and arrived at the same time as her."

"Chen Ruoyu is in the same grade as you but in different majors. There is only the first class to attend that day, and she went to the library for the second, third, and fourth classes."

"You and Li Wenling are in the same class, but in different majors. There were only one or two classes in the morning. After the second class, you went to the library and found Chen Ruoyu. You made a statement to the security department about this, and Chen Ruoyu also Made an alibi for you."

Hearing this, the tension in Duan Zhiqing's heart eased slightly.She swallowed her throat hard, and made the sound of the drowning person getting help suddenly before dying, sticking her head out of the water, and breathing fresh air, mixed with the sound of heavy panting.

"Yes...I...I went to the library and sat at the same table with Chen Ruoyu to read."

Hu Pingtao supported his right elbow with his left hand, raised his right index finger, and shook it back and forth in the air a few times: "The key to the problem is here... But, some things are boring to talk about directly. I'd better turn around and give you Tell me about the whereabouts of that cosmetic set."

"Everyone in bedroom 35 has a cabinet. I saw it just now. The cabinet is built against the wall. It is more than one meter high and only [-] centimeters deep. This size can't hide the set of cosmetics no matter what. Lay out some daily utensils."

"Since the item has not been taken out, it means that it is still hidden in a corner of this building."

"Hiding in another dormitory? There is indeed such a possibility. But the risk is too great. That means colluding with another person, and the chances of leaking and being detected are higher. For a careful thief Saying it is tantamount to putting the handle in someone else's hands, and it is likely to come to nothing in the end."

"You look good, and there are many boys chasing you, but you didn't choose anyone as your boyfriend. I don't know the specific reason. Maybe you don't like those suitors, or maybe you have better The goal, but that's not the point. The point is that you don't have a close relationship with the boys, which means that the possibility of transferring that set of cosmetics to others for hiding is very small, or even negligible."

Duan Zhiqing, who had just relieved her mood, fell into the cold ice cellar again.She almost followed Hu Pingtao's voice, and made an excuse in panic that even she couldn't believe it: "I didn't take it, I really didn't take it!"

Hu Pingtao watched her calmly: "Eliminate all the impossible targets in order, and the last remaining space to hide the stolen goods is the box under Chen Ruoyu's bed. It is big enough to hold the entire makeup box. "

"If I'm not mistaken, Li Wenling brought the cosmetics from home to the dormitory that night, and you already planned to hide it in Chen Ruoyu's box."

Duan Zhiqing's eyes showed deep fear.She felt like she was being seen through.All kinds of horrible horror pictures were spinning around in my mind, but my mouth was resolutely refusing to admit defeat.

(End of this chapter)