Detective Files II

Chapter 173 Disagreement
"I remember before that we discussed this issue. The time when Hou Qiang's car passed the intersection was inconsistent with the time of the last call Zhou Xiaoyue received before he was killed. You haven't forgotten this, have you?" Lu Xiangdong reminded Tian Honey, the car has turned around and is heading towards the 21st Century Middle School.

"Remember," Tian Mi answered nonchalantly, "but this doesn't exclude Hou Qiang. First, although the surveillance cameras at the intersection captured Hou Qiang's car, the light was insufficient, so we couldn't be sure. The person in the car is himself; second, the time of the phone call is indeed very sensitive, but we are also temporarily unable to determine whether it is really the murderer who called Zhou Xiaoyue."

"According to what you said, the suspects in Zhou Xiaoyue's case can't get rid of the suspicion in Li Yun's case? The two cases are committed by the same person, whether it is Hou Qiang or Zhao Guangchao, it is possible It's that mysterious passenger who can get in touch with Li Yun!" Lu Xiangdong paused, and added, "Oh, Zhou Gui is not counted, he was injured like that, he has the heart, but he doesn't have the strength anymore."

After hearing what he said, Tian Mi thought for a while, then suddenly started looking for a phone number, looking up the number, and calling back to the taxi company: "Hi, hello, I'm the criminal policeman Tian Mi who just left your place, I want to ask Wait, did a girl named Zhou Xiaoyue call your company to order a taxi the day before yesterday?"

There was silence for a while, and after about half a minute, there was another voice of speaking.

Lu Xiangdong was driving the car and couldn't hear the voice on the phone, so he could only judge from Tian Mi's expression that the answer given there didn't seem to be what this girl wanted.

"What?" Seeing that she hung up the phone sullenly, Lu Xiangdong had already expected the result, so he didn't want to ask at first, so he asked casually.

"They said that there is no such name in the system, and they also said that when it is not very late, women call a taxi and only ask for their name, without leaving their ID number."

"What are your thoughts?"

Tian Mi hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell Lu Xiangdong her bold hypothesis: "I have an idea, you said, would it be a kind of practice for the murderer to attack Zhou Xiaoyue?"

"Be specific."

"You also mentioned that in the process of Li Yun's murder, the murderer improved his techniques, so could it be that from the very beginning, the murderer chose to attack Zhou Xiaoyue, and his purpose was to rape and kill Li Yun? Preparation and experiment? If this is the case, there will be such a possibility. Isn’t there a mysterious netizen named Zhou Xiaoyue who is comparable to her “husband and wife” on the Internet? This person is so free, and according to Liu Jing, Li Yun My ex-boyfriend also happens to have a lot of free time, if he approaches Zhou Xiaoyue as a netizen, commits a crime, sums up his experience, and attacks Li Yun, it is very possible."

After Tian Mi finished speaking, she looked at Lu Xiangdong, and waited for his reaction. Lu Xiangdong didn't say a word. After a while, seeing that she still didn't speak, she nodded to her: "I'm listening, you continue."

"If that netizen was just a coincidence, there is another possibility that Zhou Xiaoyue called a taxi that day, and the murderer was the taxi driver," Tian Mi put forward another hypothesis, "Didn't our city C take taxis a few times in the early years?" The case of the driver assaulting the passenger!"

"Finished?"

Lu Xiangdong glanced at Tian Mi questioningly, and Tian Mi nodded.

"Well, now it's my turn to say," Lu Xiangdong cleared his throat, "I fundamentally disagree with your statement that Zhou Xiaoyue appeared as a practice object. First of all, have you ever thought about a question, Zhou Xiaoyue usually She likes to wear pink clothes, but Li Yun has always shown people in dark clothes. The pink clothes her mother asked her to wear on the day of the murder were purely accidental. As a murderer, it is difficult to foresee."

"It may be that the murderer's confidence increased greatly after he succeeded, and he happened to see Li Yun wearing pink clothes the next day, so he decided to do it?" Tian Mi argued.

"Do you think the focus of these two cases is the pink color and other characteristics, or Zhou Xiaoyue and Li Yun themselves?"

Tian Mi was at a loss for words, and she found that she had fallen into a misunderstanding of thinking, stuck in the common intersection between the murderer and the two people, and she had trapped herself.

As Lu Xiangdong just reminded, the point is not necessarily who Zhou Xiaoyue and Li Yun are. The murderer may be separated from them or know one of them. There is a connection or not, but the fundamental reason for choosing them is that they are similar. Hair style, color, similar slender figure, similar pink clothes.

The murderer even painted them similar makeup for this!

The conjecture I just made was simply chasing after the end.

Lu Xiangdong saw that she seemed to understand, and then continued: "The murderer's paranoia about pink clothes and brown hair is one of the important reasons for his crime. From the situation of Zhou Xiaoyue and Li Yun, if Zhou Xiaoyue's The murder was premeditated by the murderer, and Li Yun was unlucky to win the lottery. This is more tenable than your assumption just now. And..."

Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, glanced at Tian Mi's eager eyes, and said: "And put aside for the time being whether Li Yun's death result has already been preset by someone, the timing of the attack is purely accidental, or is it completely accidental?" It's just an unlucky guy. From the smoothness of the murderer's success these two times, and the obviously more detailed makeup on Li Yun's face, I have a feeling that these two people are likely to be victims of the murderer's practice. , there will be others who will be selected unfortunately.”

After hearing this, Tian Mi felt even more heavy in her heart, and sighed frowningly.

But Lu Xiangdong swept away the faintly worried tone just now, and jokingly said: "Then again, with your brain, no matter whether it's right or wrong, I'm surprised that you can think of so many things, and you don't have to push yourself too hard."

Tian Mi was fascinated by his words, and suddenly remembered that he satirized her IQ as inferior to Wang Chun in the morning, so she couldn't help feeling depressed again, turned her face away, and ignored Lu Xiangdong.

Fortunately, the 21st Century Middle School will be here soon. I just went in and out of here a few times a day ago. The staff on duty at the door guards are already very familiar with the two faces of Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong. Just open the door and let them in.

When I went to the office to look for Hou Qiang, he was away and went to class. Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong sat in the office and waited. During the winter vacation, the school remedial classes were one hour long. They waited for more than half an hour. hour.

Because everyone knew the news about Zhou Xiaoyue's accident, it seemed reasonable for the police to come to find Zhou Xiaoyue's class teacher, so no one cast strange glances, but there were several teachers who couldn't bear curiosity and came to inquire about the situation. Tell them to remind them to remind the girls at school to pay attention to their personal safety recently.

Finally, not long after the bell rang, Hou Qiang opened the door and walked into the grade office. When he saw Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong, his expression became a little unnatural, and his movements froze for a moment before he showed a pair of With an unnatural smile, he walked towards them.

"Are you here? How long have you been waiting? Sorry, I just finished class." Contrary to the silence of the previous meeting, Hou Qiang was very active and enthusiastic this time, "Both of you are here today, do you need my help? Is it?"

"Yes, we do have some things that we would like to ask you to verify." Tian Mi glanced at the huge office behind Hou Qiang, "Does Teacher Hou plan to talk here, or find another place?"

Hou Qiang didn't seem surprised by Tian Mi's words, and nodded: "Then it's the reception room from last time, how about it?"

Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong didn't have any objection to this, they got up and followed him out of the grade office to the small reception room at the end of the corridor.

Along the way, Tian Mi looked at the chattering students walking up and down the corridor, and felt deeply moved. Life is so fragile in the face of evil. At this time two days ago, Zhou Xiaoyue was still full of vitality just like them. Unable to predict even herself, her life came to an abrupt end after just a few hours.

And in that way.

When they arrived at the reception room and closed the door, the three of them sat down facing each other, and the smile on Hou Qiang's face faded.

"Whatever you want to ask me today, just tell me." He glanced at his watch, "I have something to do later."

Tian Mi nodded, and also gave him a straight-to-the-point answer: "About the day Zhou Xiaoyue was killed, when you and her left school, do you have anything Teacher Hou wants to say?"

Hou Qiang didn't say anything.

"We obtained the surveillance video of the intersection at the bottom of the mountain, and confirmed that your car should have left the school at around [-]:[-] p.m., and other evidence shows that Zhou Xiaoyue is not what you said before, at [-]:[-] p.m. How long have you been away?" Tian Mi made her words clearer, "Why did you lie?"

Hou Qiang lowered his head, rubbed his hands together, and sighed deeply: "Yes, I admit that I lied that day. In fact, I have been feeling uncomfortable for the past two days."

As he spoke, he raised his head, pointed to the obvious shadows under his eyes, and said with a tangled expression: "I've been wondering if I killed Zhou Xiaoyue, if it wasn't for me, would Zhou Xiaoyue still be alive now? I’m living very well. I can’t eat or sleep for the past two days, and my whole mind is about to collapse, but I can’t tell others, and I have to think about my own future. If it gets out, how can I be a teacher in the future? Even if you don't come to me today, believe me, I will definitely take the initiative to talk to you in a few days."

"Since this is the case, now is the chance for you to vomit quickly what's in your heart." Tian Mi said, reminding him by the way, "No matter what your purpose was, you concealed it from us before, saying I told you a lie, this time, whether you can grasp the opportunity is up to you."

[Thank you yovk and Qianshan Hengdai for the big drops of pink! 】

(End of this chapter)