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Chapter 31 The Murderer's Concealment (2)
Wu Wei pushed away the angry Xiao Zhijie and said, "You know what? I checked the relevant bank account information. Every month Li Hanliang will transfer a sum of money to your home address. Why do you think he would How to do it?"
"Because... because he is a good person..." Xiao Zhijie was also a little unconfident at this time, and only then did he know that Professor Li Hanliang had been funding his studies for four years.He wasn't sure if Li Hanliang had really done what Wu Wei said, and the towering statue in his heart was about to collapse.

"But—please note that he started sending money to you four years ago. He must be afraid that he would forget about it, so he has been entrusting the bank to send money to you for him. Four years ago, he didn't I know you, but you don't know him, because you haven't been admitted to the medical department of Jiangdu University at that time. Then, why did he do this? Do you really believe that he is a good person? With so many poor students, why did he only Helping you alone? Doesn't this just mean that he has a ghost in his heart? He is atoning for his sin.

After Wu Wei finished speaking, Xiao Zhijie fell silent for a long time.

Could it be that the truth is what Wu Wei said?
Could it be that Li Hanliang is really a wolf in sheep's clothing, a hypocrite who knows people and faces but doesn't know his heart?

If so, that's pretty scary.Xiao Zhijie couldn't believe it, he felt sad for the collapse of the idol in his heart, and he felt extremely painful for his father's death four years ago.

The circles of his eyes were red, and then a few strings of tears fell down.

There was a deathly silence in the carriage, only the sound of three people breathing heavily.

When Wu Wei asked Xiao Zhijie, Zhou Yuanyi didn't say a word.He wanted to create an unofficial environment for questioning, because Wu Wei was not a member of the police—even though Xiao Zhijie didn't know this.

At the beginning, Zhou Yuanyi regarded Xiao Zhijie as a dangerous criminal suspect related to the four murders.But now, the suspicion in his heart has been shaken a little.

Zhou Yuanyi turned his head to look at Wu Wei, and the two exchanged a knowing look.From his eyes, he could see that Wu Wei also had the same idea as him.

Both Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei had many years of police career, and they had seen too many behaviors of criminal suspects.But this is the first time I've seen a performance like Xiao Zhijie's.

Knowing the truth suddenly, the unexpected truth, the natural reaction of people is the same.Especially for Xiao Zhijie, this experience of the idol collapse in his heart is like a serious emotional trauma.No one can continue to remain calm and rational.Zhou Yuanyi could see that the tears that Xiao Zhijie shed came from the expression of his true feelings, not like a fake.

If Xiao Zhijie's expression just now was fake, Zhou Yuanyi could only admire his acting skills and submit an Oscar award, and he could be awarded an additional statuette for Best Actor.

Zhou Yuanyi turned around, without saying a word, he slammed on the accelerator, and the off-road vehicle drove towards the city like an arrow off the string.

It was already three o'clock in the morning when we entered the city.Zhou Yuanyi suddenly asked Xiao Zhijie: "Are you going home or going back to school?"
Xiao Zhijie was taken aback, and asked, "Don't you think I'm a suspect? Are you going to let me go back now?"
Zhou Yuanyi nodded.

Xiao Zhijie still chose to go home, because it was so late and there was no way to enter the dormitory.

Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei sat down at an all-night food stall and ordered a few bottles of beer and some fried vegetables.The meal that Zhou Yuanyi ate with Xu Tingting at night was really cramped, and he felt a little hungry when he was in the hospital.Of course, the wine was prepared for Wu Wei, and Zhou Yuanyi had to drive, so he didn't drink at all.

Wu Wei took a sip of beer and asked, "Just let Xiao Zhijie go like this? Are you going to ask him to find out more about the situation?"
Zhou Yuanyi asked back: "Do you really think he is the murderer?"
Wu Wei shrugged his shoulders, and replied: "I also know that there is a high possibility that he is not the murderer. But so far he has not been able to find a solid alibi. We can't let go of any possibility, so we should still investigate him. Continue to investigate."
Zhou Yuanyi nodded and said: "Yes, I will continue to arrange for Wang Li to investigate Xiao Zhijie. However, if he is really innocent, then this case seems to be at a dead end... We can't find another murderer with a motive gone."
At this moment, Zhou Yuanyi's cell phone rang suddenly, and it was still the 24-chord "Nunchaku".Looking at the number, it was Xiao Zhijie calling.

He just left not long ago, why are you calling now?

Xiao Zhijie said excitedly on the phone: "Captain Zhou, I remembered! The night Zhao Wei died, I went home first. After my mother fell asleep, I went to the Internet cafe outside the house all night. I have been pouring water into the Jiangdu University forum to earn points, you can go to the Internet cafe to check. If you verify it, then I will be cleared of suspicion!"
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yuanyi relayed Xiao Zhijie's words to Wu Wei.Wu Wei took a puff of his cigarette in a daze, then took a few gulps of beer, and said, "It seems that this case has really reached a dead end."
Of course, Xiao Zhijie's words still had to be confirmed.Since that Internet cafe was open all night, it should still be open now.So Zhou Yuanyi hurriedly packed the food, and drove to the place where Xiao Zhijie lived with Wu Wei.When they came to that Internet cafe, they saw Xiao Zhijie was already waiting at the entrance of the Internet cafe.

In order to prevent minors from accessing the Internet, Jiangdu City has implemented a real-name Internet access system in Internet cafes for a long time.Anyone who enters an Internet bar must hold an Internet IC card with an ID card, and can only access the Internet after swiping the card.The online records must also be kept for one month, waiting for random inspection by the Cultural Affairs Bureau.

In the Internet cafe, Zhou Yuanyi found out from the original online records that Xiao Zhijie entered the Internet cafe at twelve o'clock in the evening and swiped his card to surf the Internet, and the checkout time was seven o'clock in the morning.

He turned on the computer that Xiao Zhijie was using, and found the historical records of his surfing the Internet that day.He used his account to enter the campus forum of Jiangdu University. On the day of the incident, he did leave messages and replies to many posts.Almost every half hour will reply a post, and within half an hour, there is no time to rush to Jiangdu University's lover's beach and kill Ouyang Mei and Zhao Wei.

Originally, Jiangdu City strictly prohibited Internet cafes from surfing the Internet overnight, but many small Internet cafes secretly opened their doors after midnight.This approach can also be understood from the perspective of Internet cafes. After all, the cost of running Internet cafes is very high now, computers are becoming more and more popular, and fewer and fewer people surf the Internet in Internet cafes, but there are more and more Internet cafes, and the fees for netizens are increasing. lower.Not open all night, it is really difficult to maintain the cost of Internet cafes.

But unexpectedly, it was this Internet cafe that violated regulations and was open all night, which provided Xiao Zhijie with definite alibi.

Although the possibility of Xiao Zhijie buying a murderer cannot be ruled out, Zhou Yuanyi really can't imagine that a poor student would have enough money to hire a killer.

So far, Xiao Zhijie's suspicion has been completely ruled out.

After sending Wu Wei home, Zhou Yuanyi also drove home.

It was almost dawn, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.Looking at the white belly exposed in the sky, he was thinking.
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The case has now reached a dead end, and no one has been found with a motive for the murder.

Who did this series of murders?
Zhou Yuanyi decided to rearrange his thoughts again.

The first to die was the seemingly incompatible couple, Zhao Wei and Ouyang Mei.Ouyang Mei is Shen Jianguo's lover, and Zhao Wei is Li Hanliang's student.

There is evidence that before the incident, Zhao Wei called Shen Jianguo's wife Xie Yixue, saying that he would help Xie Yixue kill Ouyang Mei who took her husband, and demanded 3 yuan.Then, Ouyang Mei might have been killed by Zhao Wei.

And Zhao Wei was killed?Could it be the accomplice he invited?Could it be that the accomplice killed Zhao Wei in order to monopolize the 3 yuan?People are terrible animals. For 3 yuan, they did such a horrible thing!

And this murderer, because he used Substance A, must be someone related to the Department of Medicine of Jiangdu University.In other words, he must have some connection with Li Hanliang.

But who is this person?Zhou Yuanyi couldn't find any clue.

Let's talk about the second case, according to the sequence of discovery, it was Wei Ling'er who died.She is the girlfriend of Wu Qingsheng, Shen Jianguo's assistant, and the daughter of Wei Lan, the director of health.Why was she killed?This is a question that confuses Zhou Yuanyi.

It stands to reason that Wei Linger didn't have any grudges with anyone, let alone anyone related to Jiangdu University.If I had to find a reason, then it would be - the murderer wanted to take revenge on other people, so he blamed Wei Ling'er.Wei Linger's relationship is very simple, just Wu Qingsheng and Wei Lan.

If Wu Qingsheng was the cause of the incident, then it is very likely that the murderer was targeting Shen Jianguo.Was his purpose to make everyone around Shen Jianguo die one by one?This murderer is too cruel!
From another perspective, if the person targeted is her father, Wei Lan, the Director of Health.Then who would do this?The director of health is a fat job, and there will be many people who will be offended, especially for drug dealers and medical dealers in the pharmaceutical market.But in the business field, those people in the medical business are all looking for money and profit rather than anger. They are all big bosses. It is hard to imagine that someone would kill the daughter of the health director to vent their personal anger.This is very illogical - if you are really anxious, you will kill Wei Lan, why kill Wei Ling'er?From what I learned, the relationship between Wei Linger and her father is not very good.If Wei Ling'er was killed because of Wei Lan, then she died unjustly.

From another perspective, if it is aimed at both Wei Lan and Wu Qingsheng, then what is the intersection between them?They were all in the medical circle, and Wu Qingsheng's pursuit of Wei Ling'er was largely because of the power in his girlfriend's father's hands.However, who will Wu Qingsheng and Wei Lan provoke at the same time?
And Wu Qingsheng's death can be understood in this way.It might be the trouble he asked for, or it might be because of Shen Jianguo.In fact, the latter is more likely.Because Shen Jianguo was usually driving the Passat, the airbag was damaged, and Shen Jianguo should be the one who was affected.Moreover, both Shen Jianguo and Wu Qingsheng had the habit of instilling eye drops, and if the eye drops were dropped, it meant that - could the murderer think that it doesn't matter whoever dies, and that both of them are his targets?
But who would have the opportunity to enter Shen Jianguo's company to drop the contract?And this person is also related to the drug laboratory of Jiangdu University?

At least Zhou Yuanyi can't think of anyone who possesses these two conditions at the same time.

Zhou Yuanyi's head hurts from thinking about it, but he still can't figure out any valuable clues - it seems that this case has indeed reached a dead end, and no suspect who may be the murderer can be found.Whether it is from the motive or the possible identity of the murderer, there is no breakthrough that can be found.

Looking at the red sun gradually rising outside the window, Zhou Yuanyi suddenly felt a little tired, and then he remembered that he hadn't slept all night.After lying on the bed, he felt that he didn't want to sleep so much.The churning thoughts made him a little overexcited. In order to fall asleep as soon as possible, he found a book in his briefcase and flipped through it.This book was exactly the "Black Hand" that Xu Tingting borrowed from him during dinner.

Zhou Yuanyi had read this book when he was in the police academy.But many years have passed, and he has long forgotten it completely, so it is very interesting to read it again now.

This story tells that the chairman of a company suddenly received a call saying that someone had kidnapped his daughter.After he paid the ransom, his daughter did not come back.He thought it was his daughter who had been torn up, but when he called the police, his daughter came back.It turned out that his daughter was a rebellious girl, and she went to Hokkaido to soak in a hot spring with her boyfriend during a few days off.She was afraid that her father would not agree, so she cut it first and played it later, and didn't tell her family at all.The caller knew the character of the chairman's daughter and pretended to kidnap her while she was out.So the chairman was cheated out of the ransom for no apparent reason.

This is a very simple story, but it is written by Edogawa Ranpo with every detail, which is very interesting to read.Especially when it came to solving the mystery, Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help but laugh.This is really like the disappearance of Shen Xiaoye last night.Everyone thought that Shen Xiaoye was hijacked by Xiao Zhijie, and they wanted to be against him.Who knows the truth is a pair of young people escorting the old man to the hospital.

In fact, from the perspective of reasoning, this is just a misunderstanding caused by looking at the problem from two angles.It's misunderstandings like this that create huge plot conflicts.

Shen Xiaoye's "disappearance", isn't it a misunderstanding caused by different vision?
There are often several ways to express one thing. If you are not careful when judging, you will go astray.

Look at the problem from two angles!

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanyi's heart suddenly brightened—why not look at this series of murders from another angle?

In the past, Zhou Yuanyi always believed that the murderer in the case was Zhao Wei's accomplice, who killed Zhao Wei because he wanted to steal 3 yuan.Maybe this is just going astray and being confused by the murderer's blindfold.

Maybe the murderer wasn't Zhao Wei's accomplice at all.Maybe the deaths of Ouyang Mei and Zhao Wei were two separate cases - Zhao Wei killed Ouyang Mei in order to abandon his girlfriend who was a sauna girl, and the murderer killed Zhao Wei because of other things!

right!Indeed there is such a possibility!In the past, they had been confined to Zhao Wei's side to search for relevant suspects, but no suspicious person had been found.The only person suspected and motivated, Xiao Zhijie, was finally confirmed to have nothing to do with the case.

Now, should we think about whether there were other reasons for Zhao Wei's death?

Zhou Yuanyi's heart suddenly brightened, and he didn't even want to sleep anymore, he paced up and down the room excitedly, waiting for the arrival of work time.

(End of this chapter)