monologue

Lang Lang went on to say: "In the years of marriage with Wang Yuling, the relationship between their husband and wife is almost obvious to all on the campus of Changqing University. Wang Yuling is five years older than Liang Guoping, and later taught at Changqing University. She has suffered from depression for ten years. Shi, retired early because of this. She lied to us at the beginning because she was afraid of exposing her and Liang Guoping’s broken family situation and affecting their reputation, but she told the truth after I went to her house. She and Liang Guoping have lived apart for two years. She is afraid that she will drag Liang Guoping down. This reason is too far-fetched and basically has no credibility. Combined with what we know about Liang Guoping's sexual harassment of Bai Xiaohan, Wang Yuling should be aware of it, and she cannot accept her husband. Behavior, Liang Guoping's perfect image collapsed in her heart."

"What is the basis for Wang Yuling's knowledge? She said it herself?" Chu Xingmu asked, crossing his arms.

"Yao'er and I went to find Cheng Bai today. I never asked him about Bai Xiaohan and Liang Guoping, but he took the initiative to tell us that he knew about it. Although he said he read it from online reports, his This way of eagerly trying to get rid of the suspicion makes me a little suspicious. He and Bai Xiaohan are high school classmates, he also likes Bai Xiaohan, and Wang Yuling probably knows what Liang Guoping is doing. Don't know? Even if it's a lie that he respects Liang Guoping, it's impossible for him to like Bai Xiaohan. I saw a woodcut by his hand, which is the portrait he carved for Bai Xiaohan."

Bai Yao opened the notebook and said, "But Cheng Bai has an alibi. On the night of the 9th, he worked overtime at the company until after two o'clock in the morning. Liang Guoping's death time was before 01:30 in the morning, so he has sufficient Alibi."

"Zhao Youwei was the first one we ruled out. With that letter as evidence, someone used his vanity to gain attention to announce Liang Guoping's death on the forum of Changqing University. We questioned Zhao Youwei around the apartment. Neighbors of mine three times, they all said that they have never seen anyone suspicious, because the rent is cheap in that place, the tenants are unstable, and the security is not perfect. Not only is Zhao Youwei's apartment downstairs not monitoring, even the monitoring at the entrance of the community is broken. It’s been half a year, and the people living there are all floating population, and the tenants will change for half a year or a week, so it’s quite difficult to check.” Zhao Chen said.

Qi Shaocheng glanced at Chu Xingmu, and said: "I walked around Wang Yuling's house for a day, and I probably learned about the situation. Wang Yuling lives alone, and few people go to her house. She usually goes downstairs for a walk in the morning and evening. The old ladies who were chatting were not very friendly when they mentioned Wang Yuling, because Wang Yuling felt that they were rude. Liang Guoping's photos were shown to them, and they said that there were other people besides Liang Guoping. I was surprised, probably because I thought Wang Yuling would still quarrel with others."

Zhao Chen said: "Didn't we find several threatening letters from Liang Guoping's house? I see that the content of the letters did not reveal the specific grievances between the person who wrote the threatening letter and Liang Guoping, except for threatening to kill Liang Guoping."

"Have you found out where Wang Yuling and Liang Guoping are going to get their medicine?"

"Wang Yuling didn't hide it. They planned to go to the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The director of the psychiatry department and Liang Guoping have been friends for many years, as well as Wang Yuling. The three of them all graduated from Changqing University. Wang Yuling should trust that doctor very much. , that's why she wanted to go with Liang Guoping."

"Have you found the source of the chain lock?"

Zhao Chen said: "I have extended the scope of the search to the hardware store five kilometers away, but found nothing. Later, I went to the staff dormitory, and happened to meet the uncle who distributed the keys there changing the lock on the iron door behind the small red building. There is a psychological counseling room of Changqing University, because the front and rear doors of Changqing University are too far away, many faculty and staff are used to going through that door, the old man said that the lock on the back door was lost, and it had been locked on the iron door before.”

"What kind of lock did you lose?" Chu Xingmu asked.

"A chain, I'm going to take the chain we found at the scene today and let him recognize it, oh yes, there is another thing that may not have much to do with the case, the dormitory supervisor is the only one in Changqing University. The key will be distributed. Didn’t we always want to know where the key for the murderer and Liang Guoping to enter the teaching building came from? The dormitory uncle said that Liang Guoping had looked for him before and asked him to help distribute a key. Liang Guoping said he put it on the office drawer. lock match."

"When?"

"Probably two or three weeks ago."

"We went to restaurants and restaurants near Changqing University to check. Liang Guoping did go to a restaurant that night. Although it had been two days, the owner of the shop had a deep impression on Liang Guoping. After a few glances, the owner of the store said that he ate a bowl of noodles, paid the bill and left. He seemed to be heading west. Liang Guoping’s house is in the east, and the west is the direction to Changqing University, but he is not sure where Liang Guoping came from. Where did you enter Changqing University?"

Xia Ci asked, "Is there a door behind the little red building?"

"Well, it's easy for faculty and staff to come in and out, so it's not usually locked."

"Qin Feifei met Liang Guoping in the front yard of the teaching building. He was in a panic at the time."

"It turns out that he didn't go in through the dog's hole to avoid surveillance." Wen Ti glanced at Chu Xingmu.

Chu Xingmu raised his eyebrows, "At least the purpose is the same."

"We also checked the janitor. Zhou janitor would go home during the day and live in the staff dormitory at night. That night he locked the door of the teaching building and went back to the dormitory until the next morning. His roommates and staff The management personnel of the dormitory building can testify and eliminate suspicion.”

Chu Xingmu pondered for a while, and asked Wen Ti: "You said the perfume Fang Xiaoqing used is very similar to the perfume you smelled at the scene?"

Wen Ti looked at his face and nodded, Chu Xingmu asked Lang Lang again: "Wang Yuling's family also has a perfume similar to pear fragrance?"

Lang Lang said: "Well, I wondered at the time that using perfume to deodorize the bathroom was too extravagant. This is completely inconsistent with Wang Yuling's description that she has always been frugal."

"Do Fang Xiaoqing and Wang Yuling know each other?"

"I don't know, I can contact Fang Xiaoqing." Lang Lang stood up and went out with his mobile phone.

Chu Xingmu put his hands on the table, looked at the laptop in front of Tang Zhe, and asked, "Have we forgotten someone, Wu Kailin?"

"Wu Kailin? Isn't he the guy with Fang Xiaoqing? He doesn't know Wang Yuling, Liang Guoping, or Zhao Youwei."

"He is a top student in the computer department." Wen Ti understood what Chu Xingmu meant.

Qi Shaocheng suddenly realized: "Surveillance!"

"There is also Zhao Youwei. The murderer knows Zhao Youwei's hobbies very well. Does it mean that the murderer has known and contacted Zhao Youwei? Otherwise, how would the murderer know where Zhao Youwei lives? Although there are many people in the apartment. , but when strangers enter, people will always take a look, and the other neighbors in the apartment have no impression of strangers entering, maybe the murderer knew them in the first place!" Bai Yao said excitedly.

Zhao Chen patted her on the shoulder: "It makes sense."

"Does this mean that as long as you find someone who knows Zhao Youwei, Liang Guoping, Wu Kailin, Fang Xiaoqing and Bai Xiaohan at the same time, you can pinpoint the murderer?"

"There is a person." Wen Ti said, "Cheng Bai, he and Wu Kailin are friends, Fang Xiaoqing told me."

Wen Ti put the phone back in her pocket, "I asked Jennifer to find Qu Huanzhi and his father. Jennifer said that Qu Huanzhi's father had moved wood for Cheng Bai's woodcarving company, and Qu Huanzhi's medical expenses were very expensive. His eyes are in very bad condition and he will either need surgery or have his eyes removed and fitted with prosthetics."

"Didn't they initiate a compensation suit?"

"They can't even pay for lawyers' consultation fees." This is why Wen Ti let Jennifer go. Qu Huanzhi is only 16 years old. Removing his eyeballs means that he will have to live with that dim prosthetic eye for the rest of his life. .

Sometimes, catching the perpetrator isn't really the end for the victim.

"Bai Xiaohan and Cheng Bai both graduated from the No. [-] Middle School of the City, and Qu Huanzhi is also a student of the No. [-] City Middle School." Bai Yao said casually.

Lang Lang opened the door and came in and said, "Fang Xiaoqing and Wang Yuling don't know each other, but she just said that the day after Liang Guoping was killed, she saw Wu Kailin and Cheng Bai together. She wondered why Cheng Bai was at school at that time."

"Cheng Bai told you that he worked overtime. Fang Xiaoqing saw him at Changqing University the next day. His colleagues may have made a fake certificate for him. Let's find out where Cheng Bai went that night."

Everyone quickly closed their notebooks and walked out in twos and threes. Chu Xingmu pushed the chair in, and Wen Ti said, "I want to go to Changqing University."

"What are you doing so late?" Chu Xingmu asked.

"I want to see what Liang Guoping is looking for in the library. My name is the driver." Wen Ti replied.

It is possible to work overtime at night, so Chu Xingmu said, "Be careful on the road, and call me if you need anything."

Wen Ti laughed and said, "Has the braised pork tonight been ruined?"

Chu Xingmu pinched his neck: "I have to do it for you anyway."

Chu Xingmu watched Wen Ti walk out of the office, Shu Zhan frowned again, and he turned and walked into Wu Huanshan's office.

Half an hour later, Wen Ti stood at the door of the library. He took out the note from the book in his pocket. Liang Guoping came to the library for a week. If someone threatened him with something, Wen Ti took the note. Walking into the library, there were very few people on the first floor of the library, and most of them were in the library. He first looked around the lockers on the first floor. The lockers are regularly checked and cleaned, and it is unlikely that they will be stored for a long time. thing.

Wen Ti walked to the elevator entrance and pressed the elevator button, but he waited for nearly 5 minutes for the elevator to come down, so he turned around reluctantly and went to the stairs. Looking at the steps, Wen Ti began to feel melancholy again, and walked two steps Wen Ti stopped suddenly.

"Don't move, keep going up." The cold-bladed carving knife rested on Wen Ti's neck.

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Lang Lang hung up the phone in the office and said, "Cheng Bai is not in the company now, and there is no one in his family."

"he is off from get off work?"

"No, his colleagues in the company said that he will leave in the afternoon."

With Xia Ci's hands on his hips and annoyed expression on his face, they had a clue, and the man disappeared, "Could it be possible that he ran away?"

Zhao Chen, who had gone downstairs to the technical department to get the appraisal results, rushed into the office from the outside, and hurriedly said: "Just now the alarm center answered a call, someone from Changqing University took hostages and jumped off the building! It's Wen Ti and Cheng Bai!"

Just as Chu Xingmu picked up the cup, when he heard the news, the cup in his hand fell to the table with a bang, and the water splashed on the documents spread out. Chu Xingmu hurriedly picked up the documents and put them aside, "Notice Rescue team! Everyone follow me to Changqing University!"

When Chu Xingmu was leaving, he bumped into the door. He didn't even frown. Seeing that Bai Yao was still in a daze, Lang Lang hurriedly said, "Don't be dazed and leave!"

Bai Yao hurriedly followed him out, Xia Ci caught up with Chu Xingmu, and asked, "When did Wen Ti go to Changqing University?"

"Leaving after the meeting, my mother shouldn't let him go alone!" Chu Xingmu ran downstairs at the fastest speed, and after a while other people came out of the building, and several police cars drove all the way.

Downstairs of the library of Changqing University. It was almost evening when the students basically had no classes. Some of the students who had left the school surrounded the downstairs of the library because of the sudden jumping incident. The school security had already isolated the crowd in advance. When the police arrived The downstairs of the library was overcrowded. Xi Rui and Professor Jiang pushed through the crowd and walked to the front of the cordon. Xi Rui was terrified when he saw Wen Ti, who was already hanging half of her body on the top of the building.

She pulled Professor Jiang and said anxiously: "Isn't that my youngest son Wen Ti!"

Professor Jiang took a closer look and recognized the person on the top of the building. He didn't have time to think about when Xi Rui had a younger son. He said, "Xing Mu and the others will be here soon, so don't worry."

On the roof, Wen Ti calmly looked at the carving knife on his neck, and said to Cheng Bai as calmly as possible: "You cut Liang Guoping's wrist with the carving knife."

Cheng Bai acted as if he didn't hear it. Wen Ti saw that his hearing aid was not with him, so he didn't know if Cheng Bai could hear him.

Cheng Bai looked coldly at the crowds of people downstairs. Many students and faculty members walked towards the library. The expressions on their faces included confusion, surprise, and curiosity, but they seldom worried. Cheng Bai always felt that the world The most indispensable thing in the world is the audience, just like when he was stuck in the classroom before, and the teachers and classmates ignored him.

There are low railings on the edge of the roof, so Wen Ti had no choice but to use his heels against the low wall. His leather shoes were covered with dirt. He had no doubt that Cheng Bai's carving knife could cut open his carotid artery accurately, and he was also sure that Cheng Bai would If you let go, he will fall from the six-storey building and his head will fall to a different place, because Cheng Bai is in a very bad state of mind, or if Cheng Bai grabs Wen Ti and the two of them will jump down the stairs together, Cheng Bai is the one. The person who should be most afraid of being caught by the police, but the most dangerous person right now is Wen Ti.

Wen Ti squinted downstairs, there were more and more people watching, no matter how the school leaders and security guards tried to stop it, it was useless, Wu Kailin and Fang Xiaoqing ran over as fast as they heard the news, Wu Kailin rushed into the crowd, and finally The security guard in front stopped him at once, and Wu Kailin yelled towards the roof of the building out of breath: "Cheng Bai! Don't make the same mistake again and again! You let him go! There is still time to surrender!"

He yelled a lot, but Cheng Bai turned a deaf ear to all of them. Wen Ti's waist was leaning against the loose railing, and his center of gravity was basically on his upper body. This posture was labor-intensive and dangerous. Is it reasonable for Cheng Bai to deal with this situation now? For any effect, he was also afraid that if he said a wrong sentence, he would not be able to wait for Chu Xingmu to come.

It took nearly half an hour, and as more and more people watched, some voices began to appear in the crowd:

"Jump if you want to, what are you doing so wasted?"

"Since you can't make up your mind to jump off the building, why hold others hostage?"

"I guess he must not dare to jump, so high, he is threatening everyone."

"If you jump from the sixth floor, if you don't die, you have to become a vegetable. Is he an actor?"

Cheng Bai suddenly opened the corner of his mouth and said, "Did you hear that? They are so impatient to watch a person jump off a building."

Wen Ti said: "Actually, there are many ways to die. I don't like the way to die by jumping off a building. It's ugly."

"Who cares if your death is ugly or not, as long as they have something to see." Cheng Bai never glanced at Wen Ti from the beginning to the end, he kept looking downstairs.

Wen Ti asked: "We don't know each other, but you want to deprive me of my right to live, why?"

Cheng Bai finally moved his gaze to Wen Ti's face, his expression was very confused: "Why? You asked the question I most want to know the answer to all these years."

"Why can Liang Guoping be a professor? Why does everyone believe in him? Why does Xiaohan commit suicide because of what he did! Why do the people below think that I will push you down when they see us on the top of the building? I also want to know why!"

Hearing what he said, Wen Ti thought that even if Cheng Bai didn't intend to kill people and jump off the roof of the library at the beginning, he still has this idea now.

He was even thinking, what would happen to him when Chu Xingmu rushed over and saw only a limp and ugly corpse?

"You haven't really killed anyone." Wen Ti looked at Cheng Bai's face and laughed.

Downstairs, a short boy wearing glasses covered his forehead with his hands and muttered, "If you want to dance, then hurry up, it's getting dark."

"Go away!" With a stern voice, the short boy was kicked and staggered and fell, knocking down the red roadblock under his feet, his glasses flew elsewhere, he struggled to get up and was about to yell, Zhao Chen immediately subdued him .

Seeing Chu Xingmu, Xi Rui hurried over and grabbed his arm and said, "Son, hurry up and save Xiaowen! It's almost half an hour!"

Chu Xingmu patted Xi Rui on the shoulder, crossed the temporary cordon and ran in from the library. The police car and fire truck behind him also arrived. Chu Xingmu pressed the elevator button a dozen times in a row, but it was still a while When he got down, he simply ran up the stairs, but when he reached the top door of the sixth floor and pushed it, he found that the door was locked by Cheng Bai from the inside. Chu Xingmu was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and suddenly caught a glimpse of someone inside the nearby fire hydrant. fire hammer.

"Bam—"

Wen Ti and Cheng Bai looked at the gate at the top of the building together. Chu Xingmu threw the fire hammer on the ground. After seeing him, Cheng Bai was not as calm as before. He pointed a small carving knife at Chu Xingmu and roared: "Don't come here! ! Or I'll push him down!"

Wen Ti's upper body leaned out a little more, Chu Xingmu quickly said: "Just ask for any conditions you have, don't be impulsive!" He didn't dare to take a step forward.

At this time Xia Ci and Qi Shaocheng also ran up the stairs, the rescue team did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately raced against the clock to set up a rescue air cushion downstairs, Qi Shaocheng ran to the door of the building and was about to rush in, Chu Xingmu raised his arm to block it he.

"Your goal has been achieved, and you finally have the opportunity to be a perpetrator, those people downstairs." Wen Ti looked at the people downstairs looking up at the top of the building, "They are all your audience, they can't do anything by watching coldly , I can't break free from your hands."

Cheng Bai seemed to be hit by Wen Ti's words. He grabbed Wen Ti's collar and said viciously: "Everyone is forcing me! Liang Guoping forced Bai Xiaohan to death, and Wang Yuling was indifferent to Liang Guoping's behavior. Obviously Xiaohan came to her She asked Wang Yuling for help, but Wang Yuling did nothing!"

"You don't even dare to confess to Bai Xiaohan, but you keep saying that you want to avenge her. The way you avenge is to kill Liang Guoping, make Liang Guoping's crimes public, and expose Bai Xiaohan to the public. You magnify the pain of Bai Xiaohan's mother. , now you let everyone know that her daughter committed suicide because she couldn't bear the sexual harassment of a vile teacher, are you trying to vent the anger you have accumulated in your heart for many years or do you really want to do something for Bai Xiaohan?"

"Bai Xiaohan's mother lost her dependent daughter. She is no less sad than you. You say you like Bai Xiaohan, but you don't cherish the people she cherishes. Maybe she is a ray of light that pulls you out of the darkness to you, but You have extinguished her light."

Wen Ti looked into Cheng Bai's eyes quietly, he didn't have the slightest timidity, Qi Shaocheng and Xia Ci held their breath, looked nervously and cautiously at Cheng Bai who didn't know if he would make the next move, Chu Xingmu clenched his fists Ready to rush over to rescue Wen Ti at any moment, he didn't dare to blink, for fear that Cheng Bai would go crazy and push Wen Ti downstairs in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Bai remained silent, but the carving knife in his hand was gradually approaching Wen Ti's neck. He had sharpened the carving knife so many times that it was so bright that his eyes could be seen. They were dazed and helpless, and they were poked by someone. Confused after the sore spot was criticized again, when the blade touched the skin, Wen Ti still looked at Cheng Bai quietly, just like a dream he had before, his blood flowed from his body, and he couldn’t even feel the touch. exactly the same.

Chu Xingmu couldn't just watch Wen Ti and Cheng Bai compete. Wen Ti always has the ability to remain indifferent in the worst environment, like those who are watching coldly, even if the person in danger is himself.

Chu Xingmu was shocked and frightened, he had never seen two lunatics confront each other but he couldn't get in the way.

"You won." Cheng Bai whispered.

He pulled Wen Ti up all at once, and the people downstairs exclaimed, Chu Xingmu ran over almost instantly, Wen Ti staggered and stood still, Chu Xingmu held his shoulders with both hands, and the next second Cheng Bai threw the carving knife on the ground and stood outside the low railing. When Wen Ti saw it clearly, Chu Xingmu had already jumped on it. The guardrail on the roof was in disrepair for a long time, just when Chu Xingmu thought he had caught it. When he got off the guardrail and caught Cheng Bai, the screws on the guardrail loosened, and Wen Ti watched Chu Xingmu and Cheng Bai fall down the stairs together.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that death was so terrible that his hands and feet were so cold that he couldn't even think, and he couldn't even pronounce a word, just like when he couldn't even speak before he met Zhongming Tower.