Netherworld Investigator

When Wen Baifan walked downstairs, he heard a few little girls whispering at the corner of the stairs on the fourth floor.

"She really didn't come today."

"Yeah, that poor guy probably can only afford a pair of dancing shoes, so he's too embarrassed to appear in front of us."

"There is no place for her here. The poor guy who owns a broken tofu shop at home and is not even willing to pay for drinks comes to learn ballet."

"That's right, I don't know what Teacher Bai thinks, she actually let her replace Yining as the lead dancer, and let Yining play the supporting role. Everyone knows that the second female lead is to set off the heroine."

Children of this age love to imitate, and these little girls don't know if they watch too many palace dramas at home, and their tone of voice is very awkward.Wen Baifan eavesdropped on both ears, and couldn't help rubbing his arm to soothe a lot of panicked goosebumps.

"That's enough, stop talking!" The girl who spoke had amber pupils and a straight nose that didn't look like an Asian, and her impatient expression looked like a bad-tempered Persian cat.

She should be Wang Yining, playing the little princess in the play.

One of the girls smoothed things over: "Since Gao Kui can't come, the formation is likely to be rearranged. Fortunately, Yining's dance skills are better than ours, and she will be able to quickly master the essentials of the movements."

Wang Yining acquiesced to her statement, raised his chin proudly, "Okay, it's time for a break, let's go back."

It was almost dusk, and the door to the leftmost classroom on the fifth floor of the North District was closed.A pair of gloved hands put on the doorknob, turned it clockwise, and there was a soft "click".

On the ground beside his feet, countless ants crawled into the gap between the door and the ground in a row, and a long and endless dotted line suddenly disappeared into the world behind the door, as if telling a story that ended abruptly.

Seeing this, Wen Baifan's eyes instantly became erratic, as if some memory had been recalled, and a trace of disgust floated on his face.

He has hated insects since he was a child.

The door was opened, and the dotted line appeared again. Following the direction of the ant colony, looking in, a pair of white ballet shoes appeared in front of my eyes. face.

The layout of this room is exactly the same as the scene of the crime—the classroom on the far right in the southern part of the teaching building, and a large mirror is embedded on the right wall.

Wen Baifan glanced in the mirror inadvertently, and a familiar figure appeared behind him at some point.The man's long hair was tied high behind his head, and the thin apricot-colored yoga clothes outlined his exquisite and sexy figure.Her neck is long, white, and well-boned, evoking the fragile beauty of a dying swan.

The corners of Wen Baifan's mouth twitched slightly, and when he turned around, he exclaimed exaggeratedly, as if startled by the woman's silent and abrupt appearance: "Teacher Bai, why are you here?"

"The dance team is going to rehearse today. I just heard from the security guard patrolling the building that I found out that Police Officer Wen has also come to the school." Bai Xue reluctantly twitched the corners of her mouth, her eyes lowered, and the shadow of her eyelashes cast on her lower eyelids.

Wen Baifan put his hand into his pocket and pushed the switch of the recording pen.

"You came just in time." He tilted his head, crossed his legs, and bent his knees slightly, pretentiously imitating a gesture of pinching the hem of a skirt, and interpreting the little girl's playful movements in a particularly awkward manner. "You, the protagonist, will be indispensable for the next scene."

"I was not adopted." Bai Xue's eyes were slightly red, as if she had been greatly insulted, but her tone was calm, "I don't know where you heard the rumors, but they are all smeared by people with dirty minds. Me. In fact, I bought my brand-name handbags and high-end cosmetics with my own salary, and have nothing to do with Principal Xu. If you don’t believe me, I can still show the consumption records.”

Wen Baifan unhurriedly recited a series of 11-digit numbers, and every time he recited a number, Bai Xue's expression turned ugly.

"Principal Xu's personal mobile phone was taken away by you, right? Because this mobile phone is your dedicated line, it only communicates with you, and only you know of its existence, so it disappeared without anyone noticing."

Wen Baifan shrugged, spread his hands and smiled, "Are you curious how I found out? It's very simple. The telecommunications company provided your own call records. I checked them one by one and found that you had 5 phone calls with this number at noon on the day of the incident. After talking for about a minute, Principal Xu used his work mobile phone to ask his assistant to cancel the video conference in the afternoon. Since Principal Xu came back after taking the medicine in advance, the purpose of your date in the afternoon is probably quite intriguing..."

Bai Xue looked away, and unconsciously bit her teeth-marked lips and spat out two words: "Imagination."

"Thursday afternoon, you took Teacher Li Xiaohui to the classroom on the right side of the southern district to look for Gao Kui who came back late. But in fact, that classroom is not where Gao Kui practiced at all."

He smiled leisurely: "I am ashamed of myself for the magic that can make people live."

Standing by the window, Wen Baifan was bathed in the golden afterglow, and his body was sunk in gray shadows.

The closer the winter solstice gets, the earlier the sunset will be.But in any case, the sun follows the trajectory of rising in the east and setting in the west. This law is the sacred law that controls all life activities on the earth.

"Xiaokui once mentioned that in the room on the fifth floor where she practiced every day, there would be dazzling sunlight shining on the mirror, so she did not see clearly who was attacking her at that time. But how is this possible? The sun It falls from the west, and the window of the room at the scene of the crime is facing southeast, that is to say, the phenomenon of sunlight falling directly onto the mirror surface can only occur in the morning."

"The crime scene is suspiciously clean, and the thickness of the dust is abnormal for a room that has been abandoned for more than a year. Because that is where you and Principal Xu usually meet, I guess, you are making this secret room After the murder plan, I secretly cleaned the room, erasing all traces that you might have left."

"The fourth grade classroom is located in the North District. What Xiaokui said about going upstairs to practice after finishing the duty actually refers to the room we are in now, which is diagonally distributed from the crime scene. I speculate that this place is also yours. Tell her. Because the layout of the entire fifth floor is the same, including mirrors mounted on the right side of the wall, and more importantly, the house numbers here are distinguished by functions rather than numbers. Therefore, few people would think that Gao Kui said The dance studio and the crime scene are two different places."

"And you appeared where you shouldn't be."

Bai Xue trembled slightly.

"You tried every means to make everyone mistakenly think that Xu Shilin died accidentally during the process of sexually assaulting a girl, but in fact, Gao Kui was transferred to the crime scene where the deceased was located after being unconscious."

"Your original idea was also good. Creating a child molestation case will cause the deceased to be unjust. Naturally, no one will want to defend him from the bottom of his heart. In addition, the secret room cannot be cracked. The probability that the police will quickly close the case with accidental death is indeed very high. .Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the middle.”

"Presumably you are also very distressed. Why did the spare key from the security office just happen to be lost?" Wen Baifan pressed his fist to his lips, imitating that anxious tone, "Lacking a key key, the existence of the secret room will be lost." With suspicion, it is easy for people to mistakenly think that the key was stolen by the murderer and taken away after the murder."

He changed the topic: "But the fact is, it doesn't seem to be the case."

The god of day folded his golden wings and cast a faint brown shadow across the sky.

"Half a year ago, you and Principal Xu started this ulterior relationship. It was in the room at the scene of the crime. For safety and privacy, he replaced the same batch of security guards on the door lock." Wen Baifan said. After a pause, he took a deep look at her, "Didn't expect that, the door lock has been replaced a long time ago."

Bai Xue's hand hanging by her side quietly clenched into a fist, her beautiful long nails sank into her flesh, the pain allowed her to maintain her composure, but her breathing became uncontrollably rapid.

"Zhang Gui'an is a nice young man. Although he is dull, he is very careful. He has already discovered the mismatch between the spare key and the door lock. Naturally, you can't hide your affair with Principal Xu from him." Wen Baifan stood sideways , turned his head and stared at his own eyes reflected on the glass window, the gradually lit lights outside the window flickered in his eyes.

There is one thing in the world that is more transparent and meticulous than a detective's magnifying glass, and that is the eyes of the crush.

At first, Zhang Gui'an thought it was just an ordinary student being locked up. He knew that the spare key would not open the door. In order to protect Bai Xue's reputation and prevent her personal relationship with the principal from being made public, he chose to lie about losing it.

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a murder case.

Zhang Gui'an has always secretly harbored great hatred for Principal Xu, but this strong emotion seems vulnerable in the face of the disparity in social status.But this time, Xu Shilin's accident fulfilled his wish. Although he realized that the truth of the matter was not simple, he chose to keep silent.

Bai Xue was so upset, she was silent for a long time, and then forced out a sentence: "I have an alibi."

"Oh?" Wen Baifan raised his eyebrows.

"I have an alibi." Bai Xue repeated, but her tone was filled with unconcealable panic, "Before school was over, I had been discussing teaching matters with Vice Principal Zhang, and since then I have been staying with Teacher Li Xiaohui. There are children from the orchestra club, they can all testify, from the beginning to the end, I have no chance to do anything..."

"After finding so many covers, you are very cautious. But unfortunately, they can't." Wen Baifan looked at Bai Xue with pity, and said unhurriedly: "Because Zhang Feng is your accomplice."

Bai Xue's face changed, she was on the verge of falling, her pale lips trembled: "You, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"On the afternoon of the day when the crime happened, after meeting the deceased, you took advantage of his unpreparedness, controlled him with a gun, and killed Xu Shilin by hitting his head against the corner of the chair. At four o'clock, you went to the orchestra club to rehearse with teacher Li Xiaohui .”

"Xiaokui doesn't recognize Principal Xu at all, so why did the person who attacked her wear a mask? It would make sense to say that he was afraid of being recognized afterwards, but it is also possible that the prisoner was someone Xiaokui knew, so he did it. It takes a disguise."

"At about 04:30, you came to the fifth floor with the excuse of going to the bathroom, put on black clothes, and prepared a mask. According to the original plan, after you fainted Gao Kui with the medicine, Zhang Feng who was guarding outside the door would People carried it to the classroom on the right side of the southern area."

"Unfortunately, his phone rang at this time. Before she fell into a coma, Xiaokui faintly heard the ringing outside the door, but because the melody was exactly the same as the school's clearing ring, it was Bach's "Aria on the G String", so she raised her voice. Aoi took it for granted that she was attacked at exactly five o'clock."

Bai Xue seemed to feel a cold snake running across her back. Every word this seemingly harmless man uttered made her feel afraid. The almost omniscient and omnipotent vision of God made those who were deeply involved in it suddenly feel a sense of dread. A sense of suffocation from which there is nowhere to escape.

Could it be that there are really gods watching and manipulating everything in the dark?

"Although it was just an ordinary work phone call, it really surprised the two of you. Just as you were about to continue working, there was the familiar sound of high-heeled footsteps in the stairwell. Why did she follow? Because from the orchestra From the window of the club’s activity room, you can see the up and down stairs here. Li Xiaohui saw you and Zhang Feng sneaking around. You were like a frightened bird. You quickly handed over the person and the key to Zhang Feng, and then ran quickly Go downstairs and stop Li Xiaohui."

"In your desperation, you overlooked that Xiao Kui hadn't had time to change into this pair of dancing shoes at the time, and of course you didn't know that the pair of dancing shoes were soiled beforehand, and the sugary milk provoked many ants."

The dusk passed quickly, and the night gradually came. Wen Baifan was leaning against the window, with a quiet look in his eyes.

"You, who had a close relationship with the deceased, knew that he suffered from the aftereffects of craniotomy surgery. For ordinary people, an ordinary impact can kill him. With this information, you could have been more unconscious. Harm him. It’s just that, it’s easy to make your relationship with him public, so you thought of using Gao Kui..."

"No matter how everyone criticizes you, you insist on letting Gao Kui be the lead dancer instead of Wang Yining, so she has to spare time to practice intensively in order to prove herself in front of everyone. Besides, compared with Gao Kui who runs a family tofu shop in a run-down neighborhood, Wang Yining's father works on Qingxia Middle Road, and the family background and influence of the two are not the same." Qingxia Middle Road is located in the west section of Guangming District, Chaocheng, not far from Zhenhai Road where the police station building is located, and is where government agencies are concentrated. area. "If Wang Yining is involved in the incident, there will be an uproar, and the probability of the police closing the case as an accident will decrease. This runs counter to your original intention, so you chose Gao Kui, who has better control."

"In her heart, you are the best teacher. It's not the first time Xiaokui has been bullied in the dance team, and the reason why she persisted is not so much because she likes dancing, but because I like you." Wen Baifan's tone was light, even gentle, but his words weighed heavily on Bai Xue's heart. "And you failed a child's love and trust in you.

Baixue's psychological defense had been defeated, she fell to the ground exhausted, covered her face, tears flowed down her fingers, "I asked Gao Kui to be the lead dancer, not because she was easy to bully, but because she was bullied by everyone." The look reminds me of myself back then. Back then, Teacher Zhang was the only one who treated me tenderly."

"He didn't know that I was planning to kill people. I took the initiative to find him and asked him to assist me in my plan. Our agreement was that, on the premise that Xiaokui would not suffer any substantial harm, Xu Shilin would be ruined by creating a scandal about molesting girls. In this way , I can use this to get rid of this person, and the teacher can also remove obstacles and realize his ideal of education reform."

Bai Xue wiped away her tears, and smiled miserably: "I was the only one who planned to kill Xu Shilin from the beginning to the end."