Whether Zhao Dayong was diagnosed with liver cancer or not, Yue Xingwen and Liu Zhaoqing went directly to his nephew Zhao Liang to ask, “Has your uncle not been feeling well lately? For example, he had poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other conditions?”
Zhao Liang was stunned, and looked at Liu Zhaoqing suspiciously. “How do you know?”
Yue Xingwen said, “He does have that condition, right?”
Zhao Liang nodded and said, “He often had diarrhea recently. I asked him what was going on and he said that his stomach was not good. He was not used to eating meals at the construction site, and that he’d be fine after a few days of getting used to it.”
Vomiting and diarrhea. These gastrointestinal symptoms were exactly the common clinical manifestations of liver cancer. Liu Zhaoqing then asked, “Do you know if he has been to the hospital recently?”
“I don’t know. I stayed in my hometown after the university entrance examination and hadn’t seen him for months. Last month, he suddenly called home and asked me to come to the construction site to help and learn along the way, and I came by car.” Speaking of this, Zhao Liang lowered his head sadly. “It’s all to blame for my ignorance, I had not cared about him well before, and I took the money he sent me to play games… My uncle is gone, and I don’t know what to do in the future.”
Liu Zhaoqing patted the teenager’s shoulder and said, “You’re only 18 years old, didn’t the construction team give you a lot of compensation? Take good use of this money and go learn something.”
Zhao Liang said softly, “I know, I won’t spend this money indiscriminately.”
On the way back, Liu Zhaoqing asked in a low voice, “Xingwen, do you think Zhao Liang seems to be unaware?”
Yue Xingwen carefully recalled Zhao Liang’s performance after the incident. The broken down cry when he saw his uncle’s tragic death, the innocent look in his eyes when he was taken away by the police, and the lost look when he mentioned his uncle, all of these did not look like faking. Yue Xingwen sighed and said, “Probably, Zhao Dayong did not tell him the plan in order to protect his nephew.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “In that case, Zhao Dayong is extremely benevolent to his nephew.”
After Yue Xingwen returned to the dormitory, he went to Zhao Dayong’s roommate, Zhao Anming, with Jiang Pingce, and inquired if Zhao Dayong had been to the hospital recently.
Zhao Anming said secretly, “I found the lab examination sheet in Dayong’s drawer, but I didn’t understand it well. Anyway, there was some abnormal data for some enzyme, and he secretly shredded the lab test sheet and threw it away.”
With abnormal lab test data and long-term diarrhea, the inference that Zhao Dayong had been diagnosed with liver cancer appeared to be correct. There shouldn’t be many people who knew about this, and Zhao Anming, as his roommate, was the person who was most likely to approach Zhao Dayong and learn the truth.
Was he deliberately pretending to be innocent, or did he really unaware?
Jiang Pingce asked, “Did you go out yesterday afternoon?”
“No, I was chatting with Zhao Qiang and the others yesterday. Zhao Qiang said he’ll hold a wedding with Xuemei when he gets home in the New Year, and asked me to help to fetch the bride, and I agreed.” Zhao Anming smiled and scratched his head, “I thought Xuemei and Dayong were a couple before. Dayong often sent her something, but I didn’t expect that she and A-Qiang were a couple…”
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He had never left the construction site, so how could he kill president Jiang?
Yue Xingwen said, “He was chatting with people at the construction site yesterday afternoon. Is he really just an insider in Zhao Village who loves gossip? He has nothing to do with president Jiang’s disappearance?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Ask the others again to see if he’s lying.”
Yue Xingwen wrote a line on the chat channel, asking everyone to visit the workers separately and asked who had left the construction site yesterday afternoon. However, the results of the investigation made everyone confused——
No one left the construction site yesterday afternoon.
Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, and Zhao Anming, the key ‘Zhao Village’s suspects’, all stayed at the construction site and got together to chat about going home for the New Year and getting married. At that time, there were still many people chatting together. Several female workers, as experienced people, told Xuemei some things that needed to be prepared for the wedding.
With so many people to prove they had been at the construction all day, how could they have the distraction to kill president Jiang?
Yue Xingwen was puzzled and said, “President Jiang left in a car, and we all saw it with our own eyes, right? If this person wanted to kill president Jiang, this person had to leave the construction site… Unless president Jiang went and then came back?”
Jiang Pingce said, “According to the assistant, Jiang Dexin suddenly said that there was a private matter to deal with, got off alone halfway, and no one knew where he went. Maybe he went back to the construction site and even took the underground passage?”
Yue Xingwen pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement. “That makes sense. He must have received messages from the murderer threatening him, such as the truth about Qingshui Bay. President Jiang had a guilty conscience, of course, he had to see the murderer and he thought that the other party was just extorting him a sum of money, did not think that the other party would directly ask for his life?”
Xu Yishen asked, “If the murderer directly invited him to the construction site and let him go through the underground passage, would president Jiang, a shrewd businessman, stupidly run to the underground parking lot alone to negotiate with someone? Wasn’t he afraid of danger?”
Yue Xingwen thought carefully about it and said, “There are two possibilities. First, the murderer threatened Jiang Dexin with some reason to come near the construction site, then went out through the underground passage, knocked him out while president Jiang was not paying attention, dragged him back to the construction site to kill him and hid his body; Second, the murderer was not among these suspects on the construction site, and yesterday afternoon, he killed president Jiang outside and hid his body.”
Zhang Xiaonian said softly, “Our scope of activities are confined to this construction site and we are not allowed to go out. So, if the murderer kills and hides the body outside, we can’t even investigate, right? Therefore, I’m more inclined to believe that president Jiang’s body is hidden at the construction site!”
Everyone: “…”
This logic was correct. They could not leave the construction site, they could not go to the entire city A to investigate. So, if Jiang Dexin really died, it was probably related to this construction site.
Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s go and search the underground parking lot.”
Everyone immediately acted, followed the simulated path that Ke Shaobin had built a long time ago, went down from the manhole cover on the other side of the pedestrian street, and launched a carpet search of the underground parking lot.
The construction progress of the ‘凸’ type parking lot was still in the early stage, even the lights were not installed, and Xin Yan used an alcohol lamp to illuminate. Everyone opened Ke Shaobin’s laptop map, starting from the lower left corner, and carefully searched the two floors of the underground parking lot, but did not find any blood, and did not smell the rotten smell of corpses.
Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled and said, “The average temperature these days is about 30 degrees. As long as the corpse is not frozen in the refrigerator, there will definitely be a smell if it is left for so long… How did the murderer dispose of the body?”
There was Xin Yan’s spirit lamp suspended in the air, and Yue Xingwen looked around quickly with the help of the warm light.
The entire underground parking lot was dark and cold, with no end in sight. The ground was not even painted with cement, and the surrounding walls and stone pillars were in the very initial state, where else could the body be hidden?
Thinking of the secret room found in the inn before, Yue Xingwen said, “Could there be a hidden secret room?”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “It shouldn’t be possible, we downloaded the construction blueprints on the first day we came to the examination room and carefully checked all the data. There was no problem that the data did not match like the inn. The length, width and height of the underground parking lot were personally measured with a laser theodolite that day, and the data was exactly the same as the blueprints. There won’t be any additional secret room.”
Jiang Pingce suggested, “There’s nothing underground, look for it in the building that has been topped out to find it. Xinyue plaza building is also connected to the underground parking lot, maybe the murderer carried the body upstairs.”
Everyone came together to a location directly below Xinyue plaza, and Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s split up and search. Senior brother Zhuo, senior brother Xu, and senior sister Lin can go to area A. Qin Lu, Qin Miao, young Ke, Xin Yan can go to area B. I will go to area C with Pingce, senior brother Liu, and Xiao Nian. Feel free to send a message on the Research Group’s chat channel to confirm.”
According to Yue Xingwen’s arrangement, everyone was divided into three ways, starting from the first floor and searching one by one to the seventh floor.
Messages kept popping up in the Research Group’s chat channel as everyone typed: “No abnormalities found on the 1st floor of area A.”
“The 2nd floor of area B has been searched, and there is no abnormality…”
Yue Xingwen and three other people came to area C and searched the 1st floor.
The building had just been topped out, and had been under construction recently. There were some traces of cement patching on the walls, and the whole building was empty, without a single figure or sign of blood.
They searched all the way from the 1st floor to the 6th floor.
At the eastern corner, Jiang Pingce’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and he turned his head to look at the wall next to him.
Yue Xingwen followed his gaze, only to see there was a layer of cement paste on the wall, which should have been just painted on not long ago, and hadn’t dried completely. It was only normal for this kind of cement to appear on the construction site. Just now they climbed all the way up, and also found that a lot of cement was painted on the wall.
However, Jiang Pingce walked quickly towards the wall.
Yue Xingwen immediately followed him. “What’s wrong Pingce? Is there a problem here?”
Jiang Pinge said in a low voice, “Here, there was originally a hole in the wall.”
He walked in front of the wall, folded his fingers to knock gently, not hearing a hollow echo.
Jiang Pingce closed his eyes and carefully recalled for a moment, and said, “I remember correctly, in the east corner of the 6th floor, this room was originally interconnected with the room next to it, and between the two rooms, there was a hole in the wall that could allow people to pass through. At that time, I found Zhao Liang in the building, and he ran through the hole in this wall.”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “Between different areas of the construction site, in order to make it easier for workers to move back and forth, they do leave some holes in the wall that allow people to pass through, and then seal those holes when the internal construction is finished.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “I believe that Pingce’s memory will not be wrong. Since there was originally a hole here, but it’s gone now, and the wall appears to be a trace of cement repair, there must be something wrong with this wall.”
Liu Zhaoqing realized the meaning, and suddenly his scalp tingled. “Could it be, the corpse is hidden inside the wall?!”
Jiang Pingce said coldly, “Dig it up and take a look.”
Zhang Xiaonian summoned a smaller version of the excavator, looked worriedly at the wall in front of him, and said, “This wall should not be a load-bearing wall since it was used as a passage before. If I dig like this, the building won’t collapse, right?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Dig with confidence. I remember very well that there was indeed a big hole in this wall.”
Zhang Xiaonian nodded, let the excavator align with the cement-sealed location and gently dug a crack from the surroundings. As the excavator worked quickly, the sealed wall gradually shattered in front of everyone’s eyes——
Four of them froze in place at the same time.
They saw the boss of Dexin Group, president Jiang, who was dressed in a suit, with widened eyes that was almost fallen out of his eye sockets, his hands and feet were tightly bound by ropes, and his whole person was sealed into the cement of the wall in a ‘stand-up’ position.
There were no traces of blood or scars on his body.
He was sealed alive in the cement wall and suffocated!
That was unexpected
no wonder there was no blood 🙁
thanks for the chapter <3
Oh God, how cruel!!!
Thank you very much for the translation 💙💙💙💙💙
The classic ‘the body was in the walls’ haha when I saw it was construction site setting I knew there gotta be something like that eventually, but ah if he was buried alive then definitely confirms multiple people right? After all it would be difficult to accomplish all this cover up so quickly not just the binding and stuff but to get cement, mix up and plaster it well enough to cover the hole etc (idk how construction works 😥)