Yue Xingwen quickly called the 110, and his voice could not be heard in a tension, “Hello, I found a man fell to death in the Xinghai Building, the body is hanging on the third floor billboard…”
The operator immediately noted the location and said that he would call the police as soon as possible.
Yue Xingwen hung up the phone and said to the two teammates, “Stand aside.”
Both Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo’s face were a little ugly. Blood mixed with rain and poured down, such an experience would definitely make them have nightmares! Yue Xingwen took a deep breath to calm down, propped the umbrella overhead and led the two to stand next to each other, before raising his head again to look up——
The heavy rain poured down, and through 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 what he was wearing when he was seen in the law firm during the day.
Yue Xingwen remembered seeing Lawyer Zhou in the office, wearing a gray suit with shiny leather shoes, a white shirt and striped tie underneath. A brand-name belt around his waist, neatly combed hair, and a valuable mechanical watch on his wrist—— At first glance, this kind of clothes looked like a white-collar elite and a successful person.
But now Lawyer Zhou, who died in the Xinghai Building, did not have the elite style during the day, his hair was washed like weeds by the rain, his eyes were wide, and his face was full of blood, looking wretched.
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the roof, “He was being pushed down?”
Lan Yarong agreed and said, “Since the examination requires us to solve the mystery of the lawyer’s death. He certainly did not commit suicide.”
Lin Manluo said, “The murderer should have fled the scene.”
Yue Xingwen and the two teammates 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 1st floor at that time, they needed to wait for the elevator to come from the 1st floor to the 33rd floor. Then, they took the elevator downstairs and crossed the road to the door of Xinghai Building, which took 10 minutes. It took another 5 minutes to search for the body at the entrance of the building before it was found overhead.
Yue Xingwen said, “From the time we witnessed Zhou Ziyang falling down the building to the discovery of his body, the whole process was 15 minutes. If the murderer had been prepared, 15 minutes was enough for the murderer to escape.”
Xingwen had deliberately looked at his watch at that time and calculated the time very clearly.
Lan Yarong looked at the door of Xinghai Building suspiciously and said, “However, the door of this office building is locked. How did the murderer climb up the stairs and how did the murderer escape?”
Lin Manluo guessed, “Could it be that the murderer stepped on the air conditioning pipe and climbed up from the side of the building?”
Yue Xingwen came to the side of the building to check the air conditioning outlet of the entire building, and found that the air conditioning outlet of each floor was aligned, and people with long legs and strong climbing ability could indeed climb up layer by layer along the air conditioner outlet. However, Zhou Ziyang fell from the 40th floor, and it was not so easy to climb from the 1st floor to the 40th floor, unless the murderer leapt through the roof and vault over the wall.
What made Yue Xingwen even more puzzled was, “Even if the murderer climbed up from the side of the building along the air conditioner outlet, what about Zhou Ziyang? It’s not that the murderer asked him to climb with him, right?”
Why did Zhou Ziyang appear on the roof of the building late at night and change into a sportswear that was convenient for movement? The door of the building was locked, how did he get in?
In doubt, Yue Xingwen could not think of a reasonable explanation for the time being, so he sent a message to Jiang Pingce: “Have you arrived?”
Jiang Pingce replied: “Right away.”
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After seeing the reply, Yue Xingwen heard the siren of the police car sounding in the distance, and he said in a low voice, “The two senior sisters go back first, it’s enough for me to stay at the scene as a witness. It will be difficult to explain if the three of us appeared at the scene at the same time in the middle of the night.”
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Yue Xingwen met Jiang Pingce’s gaze through the rain curtain.
The boy wore a blue uniform, his figure was tall, his eyebrows were cold. The police uniform made his whole person exude an inaccessible sense of abstinence, and his face also looked a lot more mature.
He walked quickly to Yue Xingwen and found that Yue Xingwen aws wearing a thin shirt. Although he was wearing an umbrella, his clothes had already been soaked by rain, and his hair was also plastered to his face, looking like a wet chicken.
The two did not speak and just exchanged a look.
The bearded man looked up at the billboard on the third floor, picked up a flashlight and took a photo. The photo of the deceased’s eyes wide and his face full of blood came into everyone’s eyes, and the sound of gasping around sounded. The man took a flashlight to observe the surroundings, and asked in a deep voice, “Is it you who called the police?”
Yue Xingwen said politely, “Yes officer.”
Without turning his head, the man said to Jiang Pingce, “Xiao Jiang, you can ask the witness about the situation at that time. Xiao Liu, Xiao Zhao, immediately block the scene and find a security guard to open the door!”
The experienced criminal police captain quickly made arrangements.
Next to him, Jiang Pingce clamped the handle of the umbrella under his armpit, took out a record book with his left hand, held a black pen in his right hand, and asked Yue Xingwen in a low voice, “What’s your name? When did you discover the body? Why did you pass by here in the middle of the night?”
Yue Xingwen said cooperatively, “My name is Yue Xingwen, I live in the Xinghai Apartment opposite, around 00:00 o’clock, I can’t sleep, so I sat by the window watching the rain. Suddenly, I saw someone fall in the opposite building, I was puzzled, and went downstairs to check. I found a body hanging on the billboard on the 3rd floor, and then called the police.”
Jiang Pingce’s pen paused and looked up at him, “Did you see someone fall down with your own eyes?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “Yes.”
Jiang Pingce continued, “Did you see anyone else on the roof at that time?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The rain was too heavy to see if there was anyone on the roof opposite, but I was sure that he fell from the roof when I happened to look across the Xinghai Building opposite.”
The two asked and answered, and with tacit understanding, they actually said it to the captain Lin.
Sure enough, after hearing this, captain Lin immediately turned around and asked, “Do you know the deceased?”
Yue Xingwen said, “It seems to be lawyer Zhou Ziyang of our Minghui Law Firm.”
Captain Lin frowned and looked at the deceased body on the 3rd floor and said, “Move the body down as soon as possible!”
At this moment, the security guard on duty was woken up, opened the door with a shiver. A group of police officers swarmed in, and captain Lin personally took Jiang Pingce to the top floor, while others went to the third floor to move the body.
Top floor rooftop.
The 40-story high-rise building, standing here, could see the surrounding night scene, the city in the rainstorm seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, Jiang Pingce followed closely behind captain Lin with an umbrella, followed by a colleague in charge of on-site shooting.
Captain Lin looked around with a flashlight and said, “The rainstorm washed away the traces of the rooftop, and no footprints could be seen on the rooftop on the top floor.” He went to the guardrail and looked down, “If you fall from here, you will fall right onto the billboard.”
The man paused and said, “Look around.”
Jiang Pingce stepped forward and turned on the flashlight to look for clues without missing an inch.
Suddenly, he saw a silver necklace at the guardrail. The necklace was very thin, and there was a diamond pendant hanging in the middle. In the dark rainy night, the flashlight flashed a dazzling light when the necklace swept over.
Jiang Pingce immediately said, “Master, there is a necklace here.”
Captain Lin hurriedly walked over and picked up the evidence with tweezers, and said with doubts, “A woman’s necklace?”
The colleague in charge of the shooting next to him quickly took a few photos, then captain Lin put the necklace into the evidence bag, and the three of them walked around the top floor, and found no other things, so they went downstairs together.
Captain Lin said to the security guard, “Give me the monitoring of Xinghai Building around 00:00 o’clock in the morning.”
The security guard knew that there was a dead person outside, and his face turned white with fright. He immediately called out the monitoring, but, at about 00:00 o’clock in the morning, the surveillance on the 1st floor of the Xinghai Building was empty, there was no one, and all the elevators had not run.
Captain Lin frowned in doubt, “Copy the monitoring to me.”
It looked like he had to go back and take a closer look at it.
At this time, it happened that a car drove to the door of the Xinghai Building and stopped. The car had a cross-shaped logo, from inside the car came down a young forensic doctor wearing a white coat, and the face walking behind him looked pale… it was actually Xin Yan.
Yue Xingwen glanced at Xin Yan, who looked cold, pretending not to know him, and followed his master to carry the stretcher off the car and place it on a dry platform at the entrance of the building where it could hide from the rain.
The body was also moved down by several police officers, the forensic doctor quickly examined and said, “The preliminary judgment of the cause of death is a brain hemorrhage caused by skull fracture. The time of death is within half an hour, no other injuries were found on the body, further results have to be brought back to the autopsy to know.”
Captain Lin nodded and said, “Bring the body back and talk about it again.”
He turned around and asked several people who moved the body, “Did you find anything on the platform on the third floor?”
Several colleagues said, “There was nothing, even the blood stains were washed away by the rain.”
The rainstorm could indeed cover up a lot of incriminating evidence. Captain Lin touched the beard on his chin and said, “Where is the deceased’s mobile phone?”
The colleague said, “I didn’t find it.”
Another colleague said actively, “I also searched the nearby trash can, but I didn’t find his mobile phone.”
Captain Lin was silent for a moment and said, “Let’s finish for today, we’ll investigate the social relationship of the deceased tomorrow.” He looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Please go back to the police force to make a statement.”
Yue Xingwen followed them back to the criminal police force.
When making a statement, it was also Jiang Pingce who was in the interrogation room with captain Lin. With Pingce on the other side, Yue Xingwen was not nervous at all, he described in detail the process of calling the police. After speaking, he suddenly remembered something and said, “By the way, at about 6 o’clock this afternoon, when I was about to leave work, I heard Lawyer Zhou calling someone in the stairwell, 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 are not satisfied with the court’s decision, you can appeal it, but I guarantee that the result of the appeal will be the same! If you want to waste time, you can do whatever you want.” His memory was amazing, and he repeated what Zhou Ziyang said at that time, word by word.
Captain Lin raised his eyebrows. “Do you know what cases Zhou Ziyang has handled recently?”
Yue Xingwen shook his head and replied, “I’m just a student who just came to the law firm for an internship, and I don’t know much about Lawyer Zhou’s situation.”
Captain Lin asked him many more details, and Yue Xingwen answered very calmly.
It was past one o’clock in the morning when the statement was done.
Jiang Pingce personally sent Yue Xingwen out.
Sending him to the door, Jiang Pingce finally found an opportunity to talk to Xingwen alone. He lowered his voice and his eyes were particularly gentle, “Your clothes are soaked, go back and quickly take a hot shower, drink a cup of hot water before you sleep. Don’t catch a cold.”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said, “Okay, officer Jiang.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Pingce was stunned for a moment before saying, “I’m just an intern.”
Yue Xingwen looked at him and praised him, “This clothes is quite compatible with your temperament.”
was Jiang Pingce looked at his wet appearance, frowned and said, “Go back and rest early. I’m at the police force side, I’ll send you a message if there’s any progress.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and asked, “You are not going to sleep tonight?”
Jiang Pingce replied, “Captain Lin and the others should be working overtime, I listen to the clues.”
It was not good enough for Yue Xingwen to stay here and disturb him, so he turned around and walked to the roadside. Jiang Pingce personally stopped a cab for him and saw him get in before returning to the office.
Ke Shaobin and Qin Miao also did not leave tonight, staying on duty in the police force. The three met to exchange a little and Ke Shaobin whispered, “There is a necklace on the scene. Is it a woman?”
Jiang Pingce said seriously, “Not yet sure, too few clues at present. Tomorrow, we have to thoroughly investigate the social relations of Lawyer Zhou, and Xingwen said that the person who called with him is also very important.”
However, the deceased’s mobile phone was gone. Who was the person who called with him?
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