The deaths of Xie Xiangqin and Liu Jiajia did not cause much ripple in the school. The school obviously controlled the spread of public opinion and there was no discussion about this matter, only the private whisper of the dormitory building 6.
Qin Miao listened to many people’s views on the matter, most girls believed that Liu Jiajia was accidentally drowned in the sea, Xie Xiangqin was stabbed to death by her roommate Zhu Xiaoting.
Qin Miao also contacted several key suspects personally.
Xu Youyou, who went out in dormitory 811 in the morning, loved gossip. As long as someone asked her what happened in the morning, she was willing to tell her experience brilliantly, “This morning at 5:30 am, I got up to go to the toilet. I heard a scream from downstairs, and I rushed downstairs to see, and saw dormitory 703 Xie Xiangqing fell in blood and Zhu Xiaoting holding a knife in her hand.”
Qin Miao asked her, “Are you familiar with both Xie Xiangqin and Zhu Xiaoting?”
Xu Youyou said mysteriously, “I’m familiar with Zhu Xiaoting. I know that she has a secret crush on their major, junior brother, Zou Yijia. As a result, Xie Xiaoting took the initiative to chase Zou Yijia, Zhu Xiaoting may be psychologically unbalanced to do it. Alas, girls’ jealousy is really terrible, it’s really not worth to murder for a man!”
Qin Miao carefully looked at her expression. This Xu Youyou did not have the slightest expression of guilt, and had a completely ‘passerby gossip’ attitude. If she was a murderer, then she was too good at acting.
Qin Miao asked, “When you came downstairs this morning, did you see anyone else in the corridor?”
Xu Youyou thought for a while and said, “At 5:300 am in the morning, most people are still sleeping, and there’s no one in the corridor at all. When I ran downstairs, I saw several dormitories on the 7th floor with their doors open, and someone came out to see the situation. On the 8th floor, it seems like you’re the only one who went down there, right?”
Qin Miao said, “Yes, I was also woken up by a scream before I went downstairs to see it. On the 8th floor, no one came down?”
Xu Youyou nodded seriously, “There should be none. But I came downstairs from the west side, I’m not sure about the east side.”
After chatting with her, Qin Miao went to find Wang Xiaolu from dormitory 812.
Wang Xiaolu was very cold. Her attitude was not very friendly when Qin Miao asked her, and she only said coldly, “I slept in the dormitory, and I don’t know what happened in the morning. Xie Xiangqin and Zhu Xiaoting, I’m not familiar with them, you can go find someone else to inquire.”
She said that and closed the dormitory door directly.
Qin Miao touched her nose, and there was no reason to continue to talk to her.
The girls’ dormitory had a long structure, with 25 dormitory’s rooms on each floor. The dormitory was facing north and south, and there were stairs and elevators on the east and west sides. The girls could choose stairs and elevators closer to their dormitory to go up and down.
Qin Miao drew a dormitory distribution map on paper and sent it to the group: “The rectangular dormitory building, there are elevators and stairs on both sides of the east and west. Dormitory 01~12 on each floor is closer to the west stairs and elevators, no 13 is in the middle, and dormitory 14~24 is closer to the east. The deceased Xie Xiangqin lived in 703, near the west, and the suspect 811’s Xu Youyou and 812’s Wang Xiaolu were also closer to the west.”
Yue Xingwen carefully looked at the distribution map and said: “So, their dormitory is closer to the west, and when they go downstairs, they will choose the stairs and elevators on the west side out of habit?”
Qin Miao said: “Yes. When I walked around, at that time when we heard the commotion, the onlookers were all people from the dormitory nearby to the 703 and people on the 8th floor who were closer to them. In the dormitory at the east end, many people did not hear the screams, and some people did not go to the scene even if they heard the commotion. There were a total of 5 people who came to the scene in the morning, witnesses Mao Yue, me, Xu Youyou of 811, and two girls in the dormitory next to 703.”
Yue Xingwen carefully organized the timeline of the dormitory murder case——
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“At 5:21 am, the murderer sent Zhu Xiaoting ‘there should be an end between us’ in WeChat message, and left a WeChat record in Zhu Xiaoting’s mobile phone to further plant the evidence.”
“At 5:25 am, Zhu Xiaoting took the elevator upstairs and opened the door to enter the dormitory. At this time, the murderer had fled, leaving only Xie Xiangqin, who fell in a pool of blood and was still breathing. Zhu Xiaoting went to save her in panic, picking up the murder weapon.”
“At 5:28 am, Mao Yue returned to the dormitory and witnessed the scene of Zhu Xiaoting holding a knife, screaming loudly to wake up the others.
At 5:30 am, Qin Miao, Xu Youyou and others who heard the scream ran to the door of the dormitory 703 and called the police.”
Time was very tight. Once the murderer did not run in time, it was easy to bump into Zhu Xiaoting who was upstairs.
The entire corridor of the girls’ dormitory was about 50 meters long. Because dormitory 703 was located on the west, it was only 6 meters from the west staircase, and 44 meters long from the east staircase. If the murderer fled, she would certainly run from a closer distance to the west, otherwise, once Zhu Xiaoting’s elevator reached the 7th floor, she would still run halfway and she would see her hasty escape back.
This was also the reason why Zhu Xiaoting stopped on the 7th floor by the elevator and heard footsteps in the staircase——
At that time, the murderer had just escaped from the stairs on the west side.
There were two possibilities for her to run upstairs. One was that her dormitory was upstairs, and it was safe to run back to the dormitory; Two was that she wanted to go upstairs to hide first, creating an illusion for Zhu Xiaoting, and then took advantage of the confusion to go downstairs.
If the murderer was a Medical Department’s girl living on the 8th floor, she could fully meet the conditions for the crime.
Xu Youyou’s performance in gossip everywhere was not like a murderer, but it did not rule out that her acting skills were first-class an deliberately spread rumors that Zhu Xiaoting’s killed people; Wang Xiaolu was indifferent, only saying that she was sleeping in the dormitory and did not know what happened.
Because the monitoring of the girls’ dormitory corridor had been broken in the past few days, the suspicion of both of them could not be ruled out.
It also depended on who had the key to dormitory 703 in their hands.
At this time, Jiang Pingce, Ke Shaobin and Xin Yan just walked out of the school gate and were investigating the surrounding area.
They found a supermarket in front of the school, bought a package of tissues, and asked the cashier at the front desk, “Where is the place to make a key around here? I lost my dormitory key, and I’ll go with my roommate to get one.”
Ke Shaobin had a good attitude and a smile on his face. The cashier girl quickly pointed to the right and said, “Go forward, and then turn right after ten meters, there is a hardware store that can make keys.”
Jiang Pingce asked, “Is there the only store?”
The girl nodded, “It’s the only one near the school!”
Ke Shaobin thanked her. The three of them walked side by side around the corner, and sure enough saw a hardware store. A middle-age man was busy in the store, and some students were looking for him to buy nails, saying that the air conditioning line in the dormitory was off and needed to be nailed again.
The boss smiled and looked quite good-tempered. After the two students left, Jiang Pingce took a step forward.
Xin Yan asked, “Boss, can we make a key here?”
The boss replied, “Yes, what kind of key do you want ah?”
Xin Yan took out a key from his pocket and said, “It’s this kind of key in the school dormitory. My roommate accidentally lost the key, give him one.” Saying that as he looked at Ke Shaobin.
Ke Shaobin immediately cooperated with him and said, “Alas, it may have fallen in the gym when changing clothes yesterday. Boss, how much does it cost to make a key?”
The boss took the key and said, “This ah? 10 yuan.”
Jiang Pingce suddenly asked in a low voice, “If I took the mold of the key with plasticine, can you make it here?”
Ke Shaobin looked at Jiang Pingce in surprise.
The latter looked cold, he gazed calmly at the boss.
The boss smiled and said, “Young man, are you questioning me? If you have the mold, of course I can make it ah! The key is originally made by taking the mold. What? You also lost the key?”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “It’s not me. It’s my friend who lost the key to the laboratory a few days ago, afraid that the teacher will scold him, planning to take a spare key to take a mold when doing experiments next time and then come to you to make one and return it to the teacher.”
The boss said, “No problem, you can bring me the mold! A student has done this before, and with a mold, I can make it for you in 10 minutes.”
Xin Yan and Ke Shaobin: “……”
Top student’s ability to talk was really awesome. Ke Shaobin excitedly flipped out a photo from his mobile phone and asked, “Boss, is it this student who takes the mold of the key?”
The boss shook his head and said, “No.”
Ke Shaobin continued to flip and said, “What about this one?”
The boss continued to shake his hand, “No. Alas, you students lost the key at every turn, and there were so many people who came to me to make the key. How do I remember clearly!”
When Ke Shaobin turned to the fifth photo, the boss’s eyes suddenly lit up, “It seems to be this student! Wearing glasses, looks cultured, yes, it’s him!”
Ke Shaobin confirmed, “Chen Kaiming from the Chemistry Department?”
The boss laughed, “I don’t know what his name is, anyway, it’s him. He also lost the key and took the mold to find me.”
Xin Yan whispered in Ke Shaobin ear, “Continue to ask about the girls.”
Ke Shaobin quickly flipped out the photo of Xu Youyou and Wang Xiaolu from his mobile phone and asked, “Have these two girls asked you for a key?”
“No!” The boss thought carefully and nodded firmly, “Surely not.”
“What about her?” Jiang Pingce suddenly brought up a photo of Xie Xiangqin, who had died, from his mobile phone.
“Ah? This girl seems to have been here! She came with her boyfriend, and I remember it well. She complained that her boyfriend accidentally lost her keys…” The boss scratched his head, “By the way, what are you asking these for?”
“It’s nothing, these are my classmates. Come to your place to make keys, they are the ones who introduced you.” Jiang Pingce calmly put away his mobile phone.
“Make us with one, and we’ll get it later.” Xin Yan left the key and 10 yuan, and the three turned to leave.
After returning to the dormitory, Jiang Pingce asked in a low voice, “Ke Shaobin, have you recorded it?”
Ke Shaobin pulled out Xiao Tu from his pocket and said, “Xiao Tu has been recording!”
After Xiao Tu was upgraded, it could record audio, video, and monitor the designated area within a certain period of time. Its body had grown to Ke Shaobin’s waist, but it could also be retracted to the initial palm size for easy to carry and become a mini robot.
In the process of investigation just now, Ke Shaobin recorded the whole process to facilitate it as evidence in the future.
He transferred Xiao Tu’s recording to his laptop and then passed it to the WeChat group.
After listening to the recording, Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but send a thumbs up: “This question set up by Pingce is very critical, someone from the Chemistry Department has been assigned with the key to the laboratory! This person is likely to be related to Liu Jiajia’s death, and he can go to the laboratory to get potassium cyanide. In addition, Xie Xiangqin once lost the key and made it with her boyfriend.”
Lan Yarong analyzed: “So, the murderer who killed Xie Xiangqin did not have a key to the dormitory 703, but took the key that Xie Xiangqin lost?”
Xie Xiangqin lost the key, thi clue was critical!
Lin Manluo followed the train of thought and said: “The boss said that the key was lost by her boyfriend, could it be that the murderer is related to her boyfriend, or maybe her boyfriend is actually suspected?!”
Yue Xingwen suddenly said: “Do you think that the murderer who killed Xie Xiangqin must be a girl?”
A person died in the girls’ dormitory. Everyone’s first reaction was that a girl did it, after all, the boys couldn’t enter.
Ke Shaobin’s brain flashed: “There is a problem with the access control of the girls’ dormitory in Building 6, right? Zhu Xiaoting, Mao Yue and other people can return to the dormitory at 5 am in the morning. So, it’s possible that the boys can also sneak into the dormitory, right? The dormitory door is not locked?”
Qin Miao replied: “Yes, the access control and monitoring of the dormitory building 5 have just broken down in the past two days and are being repaired.”
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