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【The Mystery of the Construction Site-12】

Yue Xingwen sent a message on the research group channel, asking everyone to immediately come to the corner on the east side of the 6th floor of Area C. Soon, the students ran over out of breath.

Seeing the terrifying picture in front of them, everyone froze in place with chills standing on their backs!

Before dying, the man who was enclosed in the concrete wall stared straight at them with his eyes widened in horror!

The deceased's body and face were covered with a layer of cement, like a clay sculpture of a living person, and a piece of cloth was stuffed in his mouth, so that no matter how frightened he was, he could not make any sound for help.

Ke Shaobin's face turned pale, and he asked in a low voice, "When he was sealed in the wall, he wasn't dead, right?"

Zhang Xiaonian said: "The murderer should start from his legs and slowly apply cement upwards. He was placed in the wall and watched as his body was wrapped in cement bit by bit..."

Liu Zhaoqing imagined the scene, and couldn't help rubbing the goose bumps on his arms: "He must have been desperate before he died, he must have seen himself locked in the wall, his mouth was blocked, he couldn't speak, fuck... this Too bad."

Jiang Pingce said coldly: "The murderer obviously hated him so much that he killed him in this way, causing him to suffer a long period of mental torment before he died."

If it is a "one-knife" method of killing, the deceased will not feel much pain. The murder method used by the murderer was mainly based on torturing the other party's spirit. Although the deceased could not find any scars or bloodstains on his body and his body was intact, he was in extreme fear every minute and every second before his death. , in despair.

This kind of chronic death is the most tormenting, similar to "death at a later time", and it does not leave bloodstains to cause suspicion. The murderer sealed his body inch by inch with cement, and the deceased passed the final stage of his life in extreme panic.

No wonder he couldn't close his eyes, his eyes were about to pop out.

Yue Xingwen looked away from the deceased, looked at everyone and said, "What do you think? Who is the murderer?"

The students looked at each other.

Ke Shaobin analyzed in a low voice: "Jiang Dexin signed the agreement and left the construction site yesterday afternoon. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. After the car went halfway, he excused himself to deal with personal affairs and disappeared immediately. The time of his disappearance should be around 3:30. But yesterday afternoon , Several suspects on the construction site have been chatting together, and they have no time to commit the crime."

Yue Xingwen agreed with Ke Shaobin's analysis, nodded and said, "Yes, Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, and Zhao Anming, there were many people who proved that they were talking about the wedding together yesterday afternoon. There is no time to commit crimes. I asked everyone to visit the workers before, did anyone leave the construction site yesterday afternoon?"

Everyone shook their heads: "No one has left."

Mr. Jiang disappeared at 3:30 pm yesterday. When he disappeared, all the workers on the construction site had not left here, and there was no time to commit the crime. Then why did Jiang always suddenly appear at the construction site? Could President Jiang sneak back to the construction site, climb up to the 6th floor by himself, and pose for someone to kill him?

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged glances.

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Jiang Dexin disappeared at 3:30 in the afternoon yesterday, and the time of death is not necessarily in the afternoon. In broad daylight, someone sealed the living person in the cement wall on the 6th floor. Such a big movement could easily cause the construction site. Attention of others. I am more inclined that the murderer secretly carried the deceased to the 6th floor and sealed it in the wall in the middle of the night."

This speculation was immediately recognized by the students.

Yue Xingwen agreed: "It's really easy to be bumped into during the day. In the middle of the night, when everyone on the construction site is asleep, and then Mr. Jiang is secretly sealed in the wall, so that we can be ignorant and invisible. In other words, Jiang Mr. Jiang was kidnapped or knocked unconscious yesterday afternoon, and was temporarily hidden somewhere, and late at night, the murderer sealed Mr. Jiang who woke up into a concrete wall."

If they hadn't searched for corpses and dug up the walls, maybe after the building was completed, Jiang Dexin would have stayed in the walls unnoticed. The method of "hiding corpses" by sealing people in the walls in the middle of the night was indeed in line with the murderer's meticulous style. .

Jiang Pingce said: "The key is that Jiang Dexin disappeared yesterday afternoon. The workers never went out in the afternoon. Who kidnapped him?"

Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said, "Is it possible that there will be someone outside the construction site who will respond and join hands to commit the crime?"

Since the workers on the construction site had never been out, it was impossible for Jiang Dexin to meet any workers when he disappeared yesterday afternoon. Jiang Dexin wouldn't be foolish enough to wait until late at night near the construction site? There must be someone outside who tried to kidnap President Jiang. Only in this way, Jiang Dexin's presence at the construction site can be reasonably explained.

Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and analyzed: "Xingwen means that there is a person outside who tricked Jiang Dexin into negotiating yesterday afternoon, pretending to know about the Qingshui Bay project, and wanting to extort a sum of money. The place he made with President Jiang should be It will not be too remote, and it will not easily arouse the suspicion of President Jiang, so Jiang Dexin will take the bait?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Jiang Dexin is the owner of a real estate company. He started from scratch and worked hard for ten years. He may have killed people in the Qingshuiwan project. But he is shrewd and cunning. If you ask him directly to meet at the construction site, he will die just two days before the construction site. , with his vigilance, it is impossible for him to come alone. When he was negotiating with people outside, it would be more reasonable to be kidnapped and taken to the construction site. "

Zhuo Feng agreed: "It makes sense. When he came to the construction site yesterday, he shouted and hugged. He brought his assistants and several bodyguards. He must have been afraid that the workers would get emotional and attack him. Such a cautious person appeared alone on the construction site. Negotiating with people is unreasonable. He was **** with ropes all over his body and his mouth was covered with a rag, so he should have been tied outside."

Lin Manluo frowned slightly: "In other words, someone tied him up and sent it to the construction site. When the night is quiet, the workers will seal him into the wall? Should the two murderers join forces?"

Yue Xing Wen said: "It may also be the same person who kidnapped him and sealed him into the wall. This person kidnapped and hid him first yesterday afternoon, then sneaked back to the construction site at night, carried him up the 6th floor from the underground passage, and sealed him inside. Walls. Of course, either way, there must be a murderer out there."

Jiang Pingce said: "The murderer is physically stronger, otherwise, he can't easily subdue an adult like Jiang Dexin."

Zhang Xiaonian scratched his head suspiciously: "How do you check the murderer who is acting outside? We can't get out of the construction site again."

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment, then said: "Then let's check the people on the construction site first. No one went out yesterday afternoon, but at night? Will someone leave the dormitory, secretly go to Xinyue Building, and seal the kidnapped Jiang Dexin inside. into the wall?"

Jiang Pingce said, "Everyone investigates separately."

Ke Shaobin turned to leave, walked to the door and turned around again. He looked at the deceased lying on the ground covered in cement with wide eyes, and asked in a low voice, "A body was dug up from the wall, should we call the police?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Don't alarm the police first. If we can solve the case before the police arrive, the score will definitely be higher. Moreover, when the police arrive, maybe the murderer will destroy the evidence when he is alert."

Jiang Pingce also said: "Check first, if you can't find out, then consider whether to call the police."

When everyone heard this, they went back to ask familiar workers. The key to the question was whether they went out last night. Zhao Xuemei and Zhao Qiang didn't go out, and their roommates also said that they were more excited after talking about marriage and went to bed late at night.

Zhao Anming never went out, and it was Zhao Liang who testified to him.

To everyone's surprise, Zhao Liang actually moved in to sleep with Zhao Anming last night?

Zhao Liang explained: "Uncle An Ming told me that my roommate is not easy to get along with, and maybe he will beat me again if he disagrees, so why don't you move in with him first, sleep in my uncle's bed, and tidy me by the way? Uncle's relic."

Zhao Liang was beaten by his roommate a few days ago, and he didn't dare to live with the vicious roommate. Zhao Anming asked him to go to sleep, but he did not refuse. Zhao Liang said: "Last night, Uncle Ming and I kept packing my uncle's things, and we didn't go to bed until 1 am. Uncle Ming was snoring so loudly that I couldn't sleep well all night."

Yue Xingwen asked, "Are you sure he was in the dormitory all night?"

Zhao brightened his head: "Well, I was in a daze. I kept hearing his snoring and talking in my sleep. It was after 5 a.m. and I didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn."

Zhao Anming didn't go out last night, and Zhao Liang's testimony didn't seem like a lie.

But in this way, Zhao Anming, the most suspect, has no time to commit the crime?

Yue Xingwen always felt strange. This Zhao Anming graciously offered to live with Zhao Dayong from the very beginning, and also gave them a lot of gossip about Zhaojia Village. After Zhao Dayong died, he offered to live with Zhao Liang again.

Is it pure gossip and enthusiastic people, or did he deliberately pull Zhao Liang to give him an alibi?

After coming out of Zhao Anming's dormitory, Yue Xingwen asked in a low voice, "Zhao Liang listened to him snoring all night, did he record the snoring sound with his mobile phone and play it in a loop?"

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "It shouldn't be. It's played on a loop for a few hours, and the voices are exactly the same, which is easy to cause suspicion. Moreover, Zhao Liang heard some sleep talk in the voice, and he didn't hear him push the door out or open the door in. The voice. I think he probably really stayed in the dormitory last night."

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully and said helplessly: "It seems that this Zhao Anming is a distraction that provides clues. He lived with Zhao Dayong for a while, and last night with Zhao Liang, purely because of... kindheartedness?"

Once again, the investigation is deadlocked.

Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, Zhao Anming, Zhao Liang, the four key suspects were all at the construction site yesterday afternoon, and they never left the dormitory last night, so they didn't have time to commit crimes at all!

Since it is inferred that Jiang Dexin's death is related to the Qingshuiwan project in Zhaojiacun and the death of Zhao Dayong's brother-in-law, then the murderer must also be related to Zhaojiacun.

The murderer is related to Zhaojia Village, but the four people in Zhaojia Village have no time to commit the crime, so where will the murderer hide?

Yue Xingwen thought thoughtfully: "Are there people from Zhaojia Village that we missed on the construction site?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and suddenly raised a key point: "Do people in Zhaojia Village have to be surnamed Zhao?"

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Yes, are 100% of the people in Zhaojia Village surnamed Zhao? Maybe not!

Some fragments suddenly flashed in Yue Xingwen's mind——

"Zhao Dayong's parents both died of liver cancer. He was brought up by his brother. His brother Zhao Dacheng is 10 years older than him and is the best woodworker in our village. Later, he married his wife and gave birth to the child Zhao Liang. The husband and wife work in other places all the year round, and the child is left to the uncle Zhao Dayong to take care of..."

"Girls in our village have never married out before. After a long time, the relationship between relatives is almost indistinguishable..."

These are the information that Zhao Anming revealed to them during the chat two days ago.

Now, these clips flashed back in my mind, and Yue Xingwen's eyes suddenly brightened: "Girls in Zhaojia Village are not allowed to marry outside, but men in Zhaojia Village can marry women from outside—these women are not necessarily surnamed Zhao!"

Jiang Pingce instantly understood the meaning of Yue Xingwen and asked, "What is the name of Zhao Dayong's sister-in-law?"

This key has been ignored by them.

In the past, investigations were always carried out around "Zhaojia Village". Everyone subconsciously felt that the people in Zhaojia Village were the most suspicious. People like Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, and Zhao Anming were also familiar with each other and grew up together. Yue Xingwen even thought about whether a group of people from Zhaojiacun were working together to commit the crime?

But after checking, these people always have an alibi.

However, the people related to Zhaojia Village are not necessarily all the locals of Zhaojia Village, but also the relatives of the woman who married into Zhaojia Village!

The two returned to the room immediately.

Jiang Pingce asked Zhao Anming very directly: "Is Zhao Dayong's sister-in-law not a native of Zhaojia Village?"

Zhao Anming was stunned for a while, then smiled: "You can even guess this!"

Two people: "..."

Yue Xingwen noticed that the reasoning of the two was close to the truth, and his heartbeat couldn't help speeding up. He looked at Zhao Anming and asked seriously, "Zhao Dayong's sister-in-law married to Zhaojiacun from other places?"

Zhao Anming said: "That's right. Dayong's brother, Dacheng, is the most skilled woodworker in our village. When he was working outside, he met a beautiful girl and married her back."

Yue Xingwen asked nervously, "What's her name?"

Zhao Anming scratched his head and thought for a while before saying, "Her name is... It seems that her name is Yan Hui."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other.

Yan Hui... Yan Kai? !

Lived in the same room with Zhao Liang, beat Zhao Liang out, and labelled him "bringing power and bullying others" at the construction site. The workers would hide when they saw him. The warehouse manager of the construction party, Yan Kai.

Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief - to be honest, they never doubted this person!

In everyone's opinion, this person is a social gangster who bullies others on the construction site by relying on a little personal relationship with the supervisor of the construction party. Yue Xingwen recalled the appearance of this man. He had a strong body, a tattoo on his arm, slightly sunken eye sockets, and sharp eyes like hawks, which were not easy to be offended at first sight.

He shows people in the image of a "gangster", looks fierce, his emotions are written on his face, and he beats people whenever he disagrees, but it is not easy for people to suspect that he will be a deep-minded and thoughtful murderer!

But after thinking about it, he, an adult, directly beat Zhao Liang and occupied Zhao Liang's bed. Is this reasonable?

Several people in Zhaojia Village had alibi last night, but Yan Kai had no roommate! Naturally, no one knew whether he had left the dormitory last night?

Perhaps he was looking for an excuse to drive away Zhao Liang on purpose so that Zhao Liang would not be involved in the murder case. He beat Zhao Liang, was he actually protecting the child in an alternative way?

Because this is his sister's son, his nephew?