Escape the Library

【Death of a Lawyer-03】

Yue Xingwen quickly called 110 to call the police, and there was no trace of nervousness in his voice: "Hello, I found a man who fell to his death in Xinghai Building, and his body was hung on the billboard on the third floor..."

The operator immediately took note of the location and said that the police would be called as soon as possible.

Yue Xingwen hung up the phone and said to the two teammates, "Stand aside."

Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo's faces were a little ugly, and the blood mixed with the rain poured down their heads. Such an experience would definitely give them nightmares! Yue Xingwen took a deep breath to calm down, put the umbrella on top of his head, and led the two of them to the side, then raised his head again to look upwards——

The torrential rain poured down, and through the light of the surrounding street lamps, it could be seen that the deceased Zhou Ziyang was wearing a black sports suit, which was very different from the way he was dressed in the law firm during the day.

Yue Xingwen remembered that when he saw Lawyer Zhou in the office, he was wearing a gray suit with bright leather shoes, a white shirt and a striped tie inside the suit, a branded belt around his waist, his hair neatly combed, and a piece on his wrist. A very expensive mechanical watch - this kind of dress looks like a white-collar elite and a successful person.

But lawyer Zhou, who died in the Xinghe Building today, is not as elite as in the daytime. His hair was washed up like weeds by the rain, his eyes were wide, and his face was covered in blood, and he was embarrassed.

Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the roof: "Is he pushed downstairs?"

Lan Yarong agreed: "Since the exam 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."

The three of Yue Xingwen lived on the 33rd floor of the Xinghai Apartment across the street. He saw someone falling from the window, and immediately contacted Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo to go downstairs to investigate.

Since the elevator was parked on the 1st floor at the time, they waited for the elevator to go from the 1st floor to the 33rd floor. They took the elevator downstairs and crossed the road to the entrance of Xinghai Building, which took 10 minutes. It took another 5 minutes to search for the body at the entrance of the building before finding the body on top of his head.

Yue Xingwen said: "From the moment we witnessed Zhou Ziyang falling from the building to the discovery of his body, the whole process took 15 minutes. If the murderer had been prepared, 15 minutes would have been enough for him to run out."

Yue Xingwen deliberately looked at the watch at that time and calculated the time very clearly.

Lan Yarong looked at the door of Xinghai Building doubtfully: "However, the door of this office building is locked. How did the murderer climb up the stairs and how did he escape?"

Lin Manluo guessed: "Could it be that he 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 vents of the whole building, and found that the air-conditioning vents on each floor were aligned. People with long legs and strong climbing ability can indeed follow the air-conditioning vents. Climbing up layer by layer, but Zhou Ziyang fell from the 40th floor. It is not so easy to climb from the 1st floor to the 40th floor, unless the murderer can fly over the eaves.

What makes Yue Xingwen even more puzzled is: "Even if the murderer climbed up the air conditioner from the side of the building, what about Zhou Ziyang? It's not so, the murderer should let him climb with him."

Why did Zhou Ziyang appear on the roof of the building late at night and change into a sports suit that is convenient for movement? The door of the building was locked, how did he get in?

There were many doubts, and Yue Xingwen couldn't think of a reasonable explanation for the time being, so he sent a message to Jiang Pingce: "Have you arrived yet?"

Jiang Pingce replied, "Immediately."

Soon after seeing the reply, Yue Xingwen heard the whistle of a police car in the distance, and he whispered: "The two senior sisters go back first, it is enough for me to stay at the scene and be a witness. The three of us are at the same time in the middle of the night. Appearing at the scene, it is not easy to explain."

The two had no doubts about Xingwen's decision, and immediately turned to leave.

At 0:30 in the middle of the night, it was raining heavily, not a single pedestrian could be seen on the street, and there were extremely few vehicles.

The sound of the whistle broke the silence in the middle of the night. In a blink of an eye, two police cars stopped at the door of Xinghai Building, and a group of people walked out of the cars with **** umbrellas. The leader was a middle-aged man with a beard, wearing jeans and a leather jacket, dressed casually, followed by several colleagues, and... Jiang Pingce.

Yue Xingwen met Jiang Pingce's line of sight through the rain curtain.

The boy was wearing a blue uniform, with a tall and straight body and stern eyebrows. The police uniform made him exude an unapproachable sense of abstinence, and his face also looked a lot more mature.

He walked quickly to Yue Xingwen and found that Yue Xingwen was wearing a thin shirt. Although he was wearing an umbrella, his clothes had already been soaked in rain, and his hair was stuck to his face, looking like a wet chicken.

The two did not speak, but exchanged glances.

The bearded man looked up at the billboard on the third floor, picked up the flashlight and took a look at it. The image of the deceased with wide eyes and blood on his face came into everyone's eyes. There was a sound of gasping around. The man looked around with the flashlight. He asked in a deep voice, "Did you call the police?"

Yue Xingwen said politely, "Yes, police officer."

The man said to Jiang Pingce without turning his head: "Xiao Jiang, ask the witnesses about the situation at that time. Xiao Liu, Xiao Zhao, immediately block the scene and ask the security to open the door!"

The experienced police captain quickly made arrangements.

Beside him, Jiang Pingce clamped the umbrella handle under his armpit, took out a record book in his left hand, and a black pen in his right hand, and asked Yue Xingwen in a low voice, "What's your name? When was the body found? Why is it so big? Passed by here in the middle of the night?"

Yue Xingwen said cooperatively: "My name is Yue Xingwen, and I live in the Xinghai apartment opposite. Around 12:00 in the morning, I couldn't sleep. I was sitting by the window watching the rain, and suddenly I saw someone falling from the building opposite. I was puzzled. Go down, go downstairs to check, found a body hanging on a billboard on the third floor, and then called the police."

Jiang Pingce paused at the tip of his pen and looked up at him: "Have you seen someone fall down with your own eyes?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Yes."

Jiang Pingce: "Did you see other people on the roof at that time?"

Yue Xingwen: "The rain is so heavy that I can't see if there is anyone on the roof opposite, but I am sure that he fell from the roof. I happened to be looking at the Xinghe Building opposite."

The two asked and answered each other, and they cooperated tacitly. In fact, they said it to Team Lin.

Sure enough, when Team Lin heard this, he immediately turned his head and asked, "The deceased, do you know him?"

Yue Xing Wen said: "It seems to be lawyer Zhou Ziyang from our Minghui Law Firm."

Team Lin frowned at the corpse on the third floor and said, "Move the corpse down as soon as possible!"

At this moment, the security guard on duty was awakened and opened the door tremblingly. A group of policemen rushed in. Team Lin took Jiang Pingce to the top floor, while the others went to the third floor to remove the bodies.

Rooftop.

The 40-story high-rise building, standing here, can clearly see the surrounding night scene. The city in the rainstorm seems to be covered with a layer of fog. Jiang Pingce followed Lin Team with an umbrella, and was followed by a colleague who was in charge of the scene. .

Team Lin used a flashlight to check around and said, "The torrential rain washed away the traces of the roof, and we can't see any footprints on the roof of the top floor." He walked to the guardrail and looked down: "If it falls from here, it happens to fall. to the billboard."

The man paused and said, "Look around."

Jiang Pingce stepped forward, turned on the flashlight and searched for clues without missing an inch.

Suddenly, he saw a silver necklace on the guardrail. The necklace was very thin, with a diamond pendant hanging in the middle. In the dark rainy night, when the flashlight swept across the necklace, the diamond pendant flashed a dazzling light.

Jiang Pingce said immediately: "Master, here is a necklace."

Team Lin hurried over to pick up the evidence with tweezers, and said with confusion, "A woman's necklace?"

The colleague who was in charge of shooting took a few photos quickly. Team Lin put the necklace in the evidence bag. The three of them walked around the top floor and went downstairs together without finding anything else.

Team Lin said to the security guard, "Call me the surveillance of Xinghai Building around 12:00 in the morning."

When the security guard knew that someone had died outside, his face turned pale with fright, and he immediately called up the surveillance camera. However, around 12:00 in the morning, the first floor of the Xinghai Building under surveillance was empty, no one was there, and none of the elevators had ever run.

Team Lin frowned suspiciously: "Bring the surveillance to me."

Looks like I'll have to go back and take a closer look.

At this time, a car just stopped at the gate of Xinghai Building. There was a cross sign on the car. A young forensic doctor in a white coat got out of the car. The person walking behind him was pale... It was Xin. Word.

Yue Xingwen glanced at Xin Yan, the latter looked indifferent, pretending not to know him, and followed the master to lift the stretcher from the car and put it on the dry platform at the entrance of the building to hide from the rain.

The corpse was also removed by several policemen, and the forensic doctor quickly checked and said, "It was initially determined that the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a fractured skull. The time of death was within half an hour, and no other injuries were found on the body. Further results have to be brought back. Anatomy to find out."

Team Lin nodded: "Take the body back and talk about it."

He turned around and asked the people who moved the body: "Has the advertising platform on the third floor been found?"

Several colleagues said: "There is nothing, even the blood was washed away by the rainstorm."

Torrential rain can indeed cover up a lot of criminal evidence. Team Lin touched the beard on his chin: "Where's the cell phone of the deceased?"

Colleagues said: "I didn't find it."

Another colleague said positively: "I have also searched the nearby trash cans, but did not find his mobile phone."

Team Lin was silent for a moment, then said: "Let's close the team first, and we will investigate the social relationship of the deceased tomorrow." He looked at Yue Xingwen: "Please go back to the police and make a record."

Yue Xingwen followed them back to the Criminal Police Brigade.

When making the transcript, Jiang Pingce and Team Lin were also in the interrogation room together. With Ping Ce on the opposite side, Yue Xingwen was not nervous at all. He explained the process of calling the police in detail. After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, around 6 o'clock this afternoon, I am going to get off work. When I was in the stairwell, I heard lawyer Zhou calling someone, 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! If you don't agree with the court's decision, you can go to appeal, but I promise, the result of the appeal is the same! You want to waste your time. Whatever you want." His memory was amazing, and he repeated what Zhou Ziyang said at the time, word for word.

Team Lin raised his eyebrows: "Do you know what case Zhou Ziyang has handled recently?"

Yue Xingwen shook his head: "I'm just a student who just came to the law firm for an internship, and I don't know much about lawyer Zhou."

Team Lin asked him a lot of details, and Yue Xingwen answered them in sequence very calmly.

It was past one o'clock in the morning when the transcript was finished.

Jiang Pingce personally sent Yue Xingwen out.

When it was delivered to the door, Jiang Pingce finally found a chance to speak to Xingwen alone, he lowered his voice and his eyes were extraordinarily gentle: "Your clothes are soaking wet, go back and take a hot shower, drink a cup of hot water before going to bed, don't catch a cold ."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "Okay, Officer Jiang."

Jiang Pingce was stunned when he heard the title, and then said, "I'm just a trainee police officer."

Yue Xingwen looked at him and praised: "This dress matches your temperament quite well."

Jiang Pingce frowned at his wet appearance, and said, "Go back quickly and rest early. I'm here with the police, and I'll send you a message if there is any progress."

Yue Xingwen nodded and asked, "Aren't you going to sleep tonight?"

Jiang Pingce said, "Team Lin and the others should work overtime. I'll listen to the clues."

It was not good for Yue Xingwen to stay here to disturb him, so he turned and walked to the side of the road. Jiang Pingce personally stopped a taxi for him and watched him get in the car before returning to the office.

Ke Shaobin and Qin Miao didn't leave tonight and stayed on duty in the police force. The three met and exchanged ideas. Ke Shaobin whispered, "There is a necklace at the scene, is the murderer a woman?"

Jiang Pingce said solemnly: "I can't be sure yet. There are too few clues at present. Tomorrow, we have to thoroughly investigate Lawyer Zhou's social relations. Also, the person who called him that Xingwen said is also very important."

It's just that the mobile phone of the deceased is gone. Who is the person who called him?