I have a week of vacation, hopefully I will post 1 chapter/day until next week before I go back to work! 
When Xu Yishen followed the police to the Criminal Police Force, he saw at a glance that the words ‘Beishan Binjiang District Criminal Police Force’ were written on the gate of the police force. Beishan University and the beach barbecue restaurant were located in Binjiang District, in other words, the ‘beach drowning case’ and ‘campus murder case’ that occurred this morning were under the jurisdiction of the Binjiang District Police Force.
When he came to the police force, he would definitely see Zhu Xiaoting, who was brought back for questioning.
Xu Yishen stayed motionless in the police officer’s pocket. As soon as he entered the police force gate, the police officer’s phone rang, he picked up the phone, only to listen to the colleague on the other side of the mobile phone whispered, “Captain Chen, the witnesses and suspect of the Beishan University murder have been brought here, the bodies of the deceased have been sent to the forensic autopsy room. Do you want to interrogate them now?”
Captain Chen was silent for two seconds and said, “No hurry, you go to the office first and tell me the details.”
He pushed the door into the office and poured a glass of water. A moment later, a young police officer hurriedly knocked on the door and came in and reported the situation to him, “Captain Chen, the deceased at Beishan University is called Xie Xingqin, 22 years old, and a senior student in the Law Department. The initial judgment of the time of death was about 5:20 am in the morning, the reporter was her roommate Mao Yue. The reporter described that she went to study overnight last night, and returned to the dormitory at 5 am in the morning. As soon as she opened the door, she saw blood everywhere on the floor of the dormitory, and another roommate, Zhu Xiaoting, killed Xie Xiangqin with a knife, so she screamed, and quickly called the police.”
Captain Chen raised his eyebrows. “Zhu Xiaoting? The girl who followed the Law Department to the beach barbecue yesterday?”
Young police officer replied, “Yes. Captain Chen… you know her?”
Captain Chen said with a smile, “Coincidentally, the person who died on the other side of the beach is called Liu Jiajia, and she happened to sleep in the same tent as Zhu Xiaoting last night. In this way, Zhu Xiaoting left the beach early in the morning, returned to school alone, and then went back to the dormitory to kill her roommate?”
The colleague’s eyes widened in surprise. “Both cases are related to this Zhu Xiaoting?”
Captain Chen frowned, tapped his fingers lightly on the table, and continued to ask, “Did you get Zhu Xiaoting’s mobile phone?”
“It has been collected as evidence, and the identification department is collecting evidence.”
“Did you copy the school’s monitoring?”
“The monitoring in the girls’ dormitory building is broken, only receiving monitoring footage of the door. Xiao Zhang and the others are watching.”
“En, urge the forensic decision to give the cause of death as soon as possible. I’ll ask this Zhu Xiaoting.”
As Captain Chen turned and walked into the interrogation room, a thin girl with tears and pale lips was brought in by the policewoman tremblingly, and said, “I-I’m in a hurry, can I go to the restroom…”
Captain Chen nudged his chin and said to the policewoman, “Take her there.”
Xu Yishen was originally hidden in Captain Chen’s pocket, taking the advantage of this opportunity, he quickly opened his mitosis skill and directly separated a cell to jump into the policewoman’s pocket.
The policewoman took Zhu Xiaoting to the restroom, uncuffed her and let Zhu Xiaoting go to the toilet. Zhu Xiaoting went into the restroom alone, and Xu Yishen quickly jumped on her head and hid near her ears. Zhu Xiaoting washed her face with cold water, and was just about to go out, when she suddenly heard a soft voice in her ears, “Zhu Xiaoting, you didn’t kill anyone, right?”
Zhu Xiaoting was stunned for a moment, staring at the mirror with a face full of horror, “You– who are you?”
Xu Yishen said, “Shh, don’t talk, I’m the one who’s here to help you. If you can’t see me, just pretend… I’m a mysterious force sent by God to save you.”
Zhu Xiaoting: “???”
Was this a teenage anime? And also sent by God to save her?
Xu Yishen had a hard time explaining that he had become a talking cell. After talking nonsense, he quickly turned back to the topic and said, “The police will interrogate you soon, remember what I said. First, never admit that you killed someone, insist that you did not do it; Second, the police have rich interrogation experience, don’t lie. If you lie, it’s easy to find a loophole in the logic of trial. In the future, your testimony will become untrustworthy in the eyes of the judge. When you encounter an uncertain question, just say ‘I don’t know’, and don’t use the ambiguous answer of maybe, perhaps. Intentional homicide will be sentenced to death, and if you want to save your life, do as I say.”
Zhu Xiaoting’s eyes were red, her mind was completely messed up, and she thought she had auditory hallucinations. But the voice in her ear was as gentle as a caring brother, and she whispered, “Why–why are you helping me?”
Xu Yishen said, “Because, I believe you are innocent.”
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After the police came, they handcuffed her as soon as possible.
The cold metal handcuffs made her whole heart sink to the bottom, she thought, she was going to be finished this time. She was the only one on the scene, she accidentally touched the murder weapon, how could she say it clearly?! Would the police believe it?
Just when she was at her most bewildered and helpless, this gentle voice was like a great force that pulled her back to her senses. Whether it was auditory hallucinations or not, at least he was right——
She must not admit that she was a murderer, and once she did, she would be sentenced to death!
Xu Yishen said softly, “Now, take a deep breath and calm down first.”
Zhu Xiaoting took a deep breath and calmed herself down as much as possible.
Just as she was about to speak, Xu Yishen interrupted her, “Don’t speak, clear your thoughts and then answer the police’s questions. Your attitude must be sincere. Don’t be afraid, the police will not spare any murderer, but they will not wronged good people. As long as you really did not kill anyone, there will always be a day when the truth will come out.”
Zhu Xiaoting looked at herself with tears on her face in the mirror and nodded vigorously.
When she turned to go out, her state was already much better. The policewoman looked at her and said, “Let’s go.”
Zhu Xiaoting followed the policewoman back to the interrogation room. Captain Chen nodded and let her sit on the opposite side, and asked, “Are you Zhu Xiaoting, 22 years old, a senior student at the Translation Department at Beishan University?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your relationship with Xie Xiangqin?”
“Roommate.”
“Be specific, do you hold a grudge against her? How do you usually get along?”
“…” Zhu Xiaoting gritted her teeth, and only after a moment she whispered, “I don’t like her, she never cares about other people’s feelings, and she talks with her boyfriend every day until 2 am in the morning. I’m mentally weak, and I can’t sleep if there’s a sound in the dormitory. Because of her, I haven’t had a good rest for a month.”
“So, you have a grudge against her in your heart?”
“… A little, but not to the point of killing. All three of us have some opinions about her.”
“You went to the beach with Law Department’s students yesterday for a barbecue? Why did you return to school alone in the middle of the night?”
“I ate too much barbecue, I had stomach trouble in the middle of the night, and their Law Department arrangement was to play by the beach for two days on weekends. I was not feeling well, so I wanted to go back to the dormitory and get a good night’s sleep.”
The reason for not feeling well, although reasonable, was not convincing enough. Moreover, Liu Jiajia, a girl in the same tent who could prove that she had stomach trouble in the middle of the night, is now a corpse.
“Do you know Liu Jiajia? What is your relationship with her?”
“Jiajia is my best friend. We have been in one class since middle school, and I was also called by her to go to the barbecue organized by the Law Department this time. She said that there are many people who don’t go, and there are many booked seats so I can go to dilly-dally. She helped me pay for it.”
“Can you swim?”
The police officer’s question was very jumpy.
Zhu Xiaoting was stunned by the question, hesitated for a moment before saying, “I can.”
“Do you know that Liu Jiajia can swim?”
“En, she also can.”
“Before going to bed yesterday, have you handed over the water for Liu Jiajia?”
“She said she was very thirsty, and I did give her a bottle of water.”
The more Xu Yishen listened, the more he felt wrong. Zhu Xiaoting must not know that Liu Jiajia had died. The police had been asking questions about swimming, drinking water, etc, apparently suspecting that she gave Liu Jiajia a drug, and then dragged Liu Jiajia into the deep sea.
“Tell me, what did you see when you went back to dormitory 703?” The police suddenly changed the topic.
Remembering the scene at that time, Zhu Xiaoting’s lips couldn’t help trembling, and her hands clenched tightly, “I– I saw Xie Xiangqin lying on the group, still calling me for help. I was frightened and ran over to save her… There was blood gushing out of her, I held the knife to help her stop the bleeding, I didn’t expect it to be so serious. I thought she was just accidentally injured!”
The police officer looked at each other.
After Zhu Xiaoting’s mood calmed down for a moment, the police took out the deceased’s mobile phone and asked, “The last person she contacted before she died was you. She sent you a WeChat message, saying ‘Come back and talk, there should be an end between us’, what does it mean?”
Zhu Xiaoting’s face turned pale.
Xu Yishen whispered in her ear, “Don’t hide it, what kind of grievances between you, make it clear.”
Zhu Xiaoting nodded and said while crying, “I have always had a secret crush on our major, classmate Zou Yijia, but I dare not confess to him. Xie Xiangqin is more daring, and took the initiative to confess to the classmate Zou. She knows I’m jealous of her, and that’s probably what she’s talking about when she says this.”
Captain Chen raised his eyebrows. “She snatched the boy you like, and she took a phone call with this boy every day in front of you, so you have always been jealous of her, had a fierce argument with her in the dormitory, and stabbed her to death under impulse, right?”
Zhu Xiaoting’s eyes widened and she shook her head frantically, “No, I really didn’t kill her!”
Captain Chen: “However, only your fingerprints were detected on the knife that killed her.”
Zhu Xiaoting was stunned, and she looked at the other side with her mouth wide open.
Xu Yishen’s head suddenly turned big when he heard this—— The murderer did not leave fingerprints, but Zhu Xiaoting left fingerprints in a panic, which really could not be denied. Whether she had an argument with the deceased after returning to the dormitory was all her words. There were no witnesses who could testify for her, and the physical evidence was very unfavorable to her.
Zhu Xiaoting came back to her senses in a trance, her gaze was a bit dull. “Only my fingerprints? How did this happen?”
Captain Chen said, “According to your roommate Mao Yue, this knife is also yours. The orange fruit knife, very sharp, and you just bought it from the school supermarket last week.”
Zhu Xiaoting looked at the familiar orange fruit knife on the table, her face ashen.
This was indeed her knife.
She took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, “This knife, I obviously put it in the drawer, it must be the murderer who took it to stab Xie Xiangqin to death and use it to frame me!”
Captain Chen said, “Who has such a big feud with you that the murder wants to frame you?”
Zhu Xiaoting thought for a moment and shook her head. “I– I really don’t know who has a feud with me…”
Captain Chen changed the topic and asked, “What about Liu Jiajia? Did you kill her?”
Zhu Xiaoting replied, “What?! Jiajia, she…”
Captain Chen stared sharply at the girl in front of him and said, “Liu Jiajia drowned, not long after you left. Last night, you first followed Liu Jiajia to the beach for a barbecue, and gave her a bottle of water in the middle of the night. The water was drugged, she drank the drug and passed out. You carried her to the sea and drowned her, and then took a taxi to escape. Back at school, you had a quarrel with Xie Xiangqin and stabbed her to death with a fruit knife.”
Zhu Xiaoting’s face collapsed and said, “No, it’s not like that!”
“There’s an unknown powder found in the mouth of the bottle of water that Liu Jiajia drank. We will soon find out the results of what kind of drug it is.” Captain Chen knocked the table gently and said, “Zhu Xiaoting, just confess, stop being obsessed.”
Zhu Xiaoting forcibly took a deep breath and said, “I really didn’t kill anyone! Have any of you seen me kill with your own eyes?”
Captain Chen said lightly, “You calm down here first, think hard about whether you want to take the initiative to confess or not. If you confess, the court may give you a light sentence.”
The two police officers went out. They should have looked for a forensic doctor to get the results.
Zhu Xiaoting sat there in a daze, and the thin girl trembled helplessly. When encountering such a big thing, no one could stay calm, let alone a 22 years old university girl who did not have much social experience.
Xu Yishen sighed deeply in his heart, using mitosis to follow Captain Chen to listen to the results of the forensic examination.
The forensic doctor said, “Xie Xiangqin, the time of death was about 5:30 am in the morning, the cause of death was a massive hemorrhage caused by the rupture of the aortic of the heart. She was killed by a knife, there were no other scars on the body, and the skin tissue gene found in the nails is consistent with Zhu Xiaoting. It should have been scratched by the other party’s body.”
Captain Chen nodded and said, “What about Liu Jiajia?”
The forensic doctor said, “Liu Jiajia’s cause of death was poisoning, highly toxic cyanide was detected in the mineral water bottle. She was dragged into the sea after death and disguised as drowning. No traces of sediment in the sea were found in her nose and lungs, proving that the deceased was dead when she fell into the sea, and did not breathe and struggle.”
“Zhu Xiaoting’s fingerprints were detected on the mineral water bottle.” A colleague from the appraisal department said, “Zhu Xiaoting’s mobile phone has been unlocked. We found a taxi record and call records. At 4:30 am, she called the Didi Express to rush back to school from the beach, and at 5:10 am, the taxi stopped in front of the school. At 5:20 am, Xie Xiangqin called Zhu Xiaoting, and the call lasted half a minute.”
“It seems that Zhu Xiaoting’s action trajectory is basically the same as the time of death of the two deceased.” Captain Chen paused and said, “Continue to investigate the social relations of the two deceased, and if there are no other suspects, sort out the information and prepare for public prosecution.”
Xu Yishen changed cells with a time limit, and seeing that the time was almost up, he immediately went back and told Zhu Xiaoting, “We will find a way to help you. Now the evidence is very unfavorable to you. If you don’t understand the law, you must find a lawyer to defend you.”
Zhu Xiaoting lowered her head, her face was desperate, and her voice was weak, “However, I– I don’t have the money to hire a lawyer…”
Xu Yishen said, “You can apply for free legal aid.”
Zhu Xiaoting was skeptical, “A free lawyer, is it reliable?”
Xu Yishen said softly, “Of course, many lawyers will be willing to help people like you. There are many legal aid centers in China that provide voluntary services, and the lawyers there are also very professional. This afternoon, a lawyer will come to see you. Cheer up, and don’t give up.”
Zhu Xiaoting hummed softly.
Xu Yishen said, “I’ll go first, see you later.”
Zhu Xiaoting asked, “Who are you?”
There was no sound in her ears.
After Xu Yishen sneaked out of the police force, he recovered his original body on the corner of the street and quickly typed the results of the police questioning and the cause of death finally determined by the forensic doctor to the group.
Yue Xingwen said helplessly, “It’s like ironclad evidence ah!”
Fingerprints, poison, murder weapon, mobile phone records, WeChat records, and witnesses…
All the evidence pointed to Zhu Xiaoting, this girl was simply bloody unlucky.
Such an unfavorable situation aroused Lan Yarong’s fighting spirit: “We must clear this girl’s name. If no one helps her, it will be too tragic that she will be sentenced to death!”
Chinese laws are really… Strict and conservative
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