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"Were you there when Zheng Qi was killed?" Hua Chong put one hand on the edge of the table, "Did you see the murderer?"

Lu Qing nodded, then shook his head desperately, his face pale.

Hua Chong frowned, "Did I see it, or didn't I see it?"

"I only saw his back. Other... nothing else."

"What does the back look like? How tall? Fat or thin? What clothes do you wear? What are the characteristics of walking?"

Lu Qing lowered his head again and stopped talking.

Hua Chongdao: "If you want to clear the suspicion, just confess it obediently. Your footprints are left in Zheng Qi's rented house, do you know?"

Lu Qing trembled violently, biting his lower lip in horror.

"Don't bite anymore." Hua Chong sighed, "Bite even if it's bleeding."

"He, he doesn't have any characteristics." Lu Qing picked his fingers uneasily.

Liu Zhiqin asked: "How can there be no characteristics?"

"He's wearing a delivery man's clothes. People who come to our school to deliver food wear that kind of clothes. It's very, very baggy, and I can't tell if he is fat or thin. You guys, if you catch someone, ask him Whether I am the murderer or not, I will definitely not recognize it."

"Delivery staff?" Hua Chong thought for a while, before and after Zheng Qi's murder, the camera at the gate did not capture the person dressed as a delivery staff.

"It's definitely not a real delivery person." Lu Qing calmed down a little, "I arrived at Xinbei Village at 10:[-] in the evening, and I..."

"Wait." Liu Zhiqin interrupted, "You arrived at Xinbei Village at 10:[-]? Didn't you go through the main entrance?"

Lu Qing was startled, and looked at Hua Chong as if asking for help.

Hua Chong turned to Liu Zhiqin, "I remember the surveillance only captured him leaving, but didn't capture him entering Xinbei Village?"

Liu Zhiqin nodded.

There are two entrances and exits in Xinbei Village. The main entrance faces Luo University, and the side entrance is on the other side. Because of the bad location, almost no one comes in and out, and it has been locked.

"I, I entered through the small door. It is basically impossible to be found there." Lu Qing whispered: "Hell, the murderer also left from there."

"Details."

Lu Qing licked the corner of his lips, as if he had made up his mind, "I have been chasing Zheng Qi since last year..."

Consistent with Zhou Ming's statement, Lu Qing likes men. Last year, he fell in love with Zheng Qi, a senior student of the School of Architecture, at first sight during club activities. He stalked him for several months, but Zheng Qi never agreed.

"He said that I am too young, so I can be his younger brother if I want." Lu Qing said, "I don't want to be a younger brother and continue to cling to him. He refuses to be with me, but he treats me very well. But after the Spring Festival this year , He found an internship unit, which seemed to be a real estate company, and moved to live in the city center. According to him, that company provides dormitories. I, I haven’t seen him for a while.”

"Wanqiao Real Estate?" Hua Chong asked.

"It seems to be called this name." Lu Qing continued: "After he started working, he stopped answering my calls. I miss him very much, but I dare not go to the city center to see him, for fear that he will hate me because of it. I don't know When he goes back to school, he has to visit Xinbei Village occasionally, and the gatekeeper at the gate recognizes me. I feel very, very uncomfortable."

"So you don't go through the gate anymore, but enter and exit through the small gate?"

"Well." Lu Qing nodded awkwardly, "It's actually not a door, it's just a very low platform. It's surrounded by walls, and the platform connects the inner and outer walls of the wall, so it's very convenient to get in and out, but because it's back to Luo University, so Everyone doesn’t go there. I entered Xinbei Village from there that day, and saw the light in Zheng Qi’s bedroom was on from a distance. I was so happy that I ran to Unit 3. But before I got there, the light went out. I hesitated for a while, I don’t know Should I go up? He must be very tired from the internship, and he came back after a long time, maybe he wants to rest. If I disturb him, he might be angry."

Hua Chong asked: "While you were hesitating, did the murderer come down from the building?"

"Well, but I didn't realize that person was the murderer at the time." Lu Qing said, "I was a little far away from unit 3, and I saw a delivery man dragging a delivery cart passing by a side road from the corner of my eye, but I didn't pay much attention to it at all. After hesitating again and again, I thought it best not to disturb Zheng Qi at this time, so I planned to go back the same way, but as soon as I turned around, I saw the delivery man leaving the small door—that is, the low platform.”

After resting for a few seconds, Lu Qing said again: "I think it's very strange, how can the delivery man walk on the platform? Although it is very low, there is still a slope, and he is still dragging the cart, so it is very inconvenient to get in and out from there. I compare Sensitive, likes to think in the wrong direction in everything, and immediately thinks, did he steal something when he came out of Unit 3?"

"So you went upstairs to find Zheng Qi immediately?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

"No." Lu Qing shook his head, "I ran to the platform, and saw that man riding a tricycle in the direction of Luo University. The cart is placed under the platform. That pusher, on top of the cart..."

Lu Qing became nervous again, rubbing his eyes roughly, "Yes, there is blood!"

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin looked at each other, tacitly waiting for Lu Qing to calm down.

After about 3 minutes, Lu Qing pinched his fingers and continued, "I think something must have happened. I went upstairs and took a look..."

"The murderer didn't close the door?" Hua Chong raised his hand to signal him to stop.

"Closed." Lu Qing said with difficulty: "But I know where Zheng Qi put the spare key, right, it's right behind the meter box on the second floor."

"You took the key, opened the door and entered? What was the scene like?"

"There is blood on the kitchen wall, but the floor is very clean, as if it has been cleaned." Lu Qing's teeth chattered, "I, already panicked, and rushed to the bedroom to see that the wall was all, all blood! There are bloodstains!"

Liu Zhiqin said, "Blood splatters."

"Yes, yes! It's like splatter! I've seen murder suspense movies, and I know what that kind of blood means! Zheng Qi must have been killed by that person, and the body on that cart is Zheng Qi's body!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Qing leaned back in the chair in horror, gasped heavily, and broke out in cold sweat.

Hua Chong asked, "Why didn't you call the police? Instead, you fled in a panic from the main entrance?"

"I was scared! My mind was empty at the time, and I didn't know what to do." Lu Qing's lips trembled, "I wanted to leave through the small door, but I thought of that person... I don't know if he will come back, I only saw his back, but he must have seen me, I..."

"You left from the main entrance and returned to the dormitory in a hurry." Hua Chong said: "Up to now, I believe you have not lied. But I am very curious—you deliberately led Zhou Ming to the small woods in the North District, which means that you know that Zheng Qi was arrested. Throw the corpse in the grove. But according to what you said just now, you just saw the murderer leave Xinbei Village, so how do you know that the murderer hid Zheng Qi's body in the grove?"

"I went to Xiaoshulin to see it!" Lu Qing swallowed hard, "There is only one road outside Xinbei Village, either to the city center or to Luo University. The direction he was driving was obviously Luo University. I was very confused that night. After I arrived at the dormitory, I thought about it all night, and felt that he might hide the body in Luoda University."

"So you started looking for corpses in Luo Dali?" Liu Zhiqin was puzzled, "This...seems a little unreasonable?"

"I also want to call the police!" Lu Qing cried, "but I dare not. He saw me, what should he do to take revenge on me? That's a murderer!"

"Relax." Hua Chong said slowly, "You are an important witness, we will protect you."

Lu Qing wiped away tears, "I dare not call the police, but I want to find Zheng Qi. Although we are not together, but anyway, I, I still like him very much. He was murdered, I want to do something for him At least, at least let the police catch the person who killed him. I searched for a few days, and what I was most worried about was that the murderer threw him into the lake in the South District, so I couldn’t find him at all. Throw it in the grove in the North District."

"What was the first thing you saw?"

"Head..." Lu Qing began to tremble, and hugged his arms with all his strength, "a head that was smashed beyond recognition."

Liu Zhiqin asked: "Since his face is beyond recognition, how do you know it's Zheng Qi?"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't him?" Lu Qing took a deep breath, "It must be him! The murderer killed him and abandoned him in the grove!"

"You dare not call the police yourself, so you encouraged Zhou Ming to go for a run in the grove." Hua Chong said, "But you don't need to call so many people."

"Yes, yes." Lu Qing said, "There are many footprints of mine in the woods. I can only call as many people as possible to cover up the footprints. I don't want you to know that I have something to do with the case."

Hua Chong was helpless, "Student, you know that you left footprints in the grove, but didn't you know that you also left footprints in Zheng Qi's house?"

Lu Qing muttered helplessly, "I was too flustered at the time, and I couldn't think about anything. When I thought about it later, I couldn't find the key."

"You lost your key?"

"I'm so panicked..." Lu Qing hugged his head, "I don't know where the key is."

After interrogating Lu Qing, Hua Chong immediately called Yuan Hao, and told him to pay attention to the person wearing a delivery work uniform who appeared in the surveillance, and checked Zheng Qi's call and Internet records.

"If Lu Qing didn't lie, then we probably won't find anything from the surveillance." The weather was hot, Liu Zhiqin found a bag of ice cubes from somewhere, and threw some into Hua Chong's cup. "The situation in the new campus of Luoda University is special. The food delivery and courier deliveries are actually the same group of people. They all wear food delivery clothes, and the tricycle is full of courier sacks. The murderer is among these people, and it is very easy to hide himself. And he must have stepped on If you are familiar with the situation of Xinbei Village and Luo University, you may have avoided all monitoring."

"Then what if Lu Qing is lying?" Hua Chong drank the ice cube into his mouth while drinking tea, chewed it twice, and swallowed it directly.

Liu Zhiqin raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say he doesn't look like a murderer?"

"So you believed it?" Hua Chong seemed to say, "I was just guiding him. Anyone can tell a story, and anyone can make up a story. Who knows if he has concealed it or is he justifying himself. Brother Xiaoliu, You are still a little tender."

"Really?" Liu Zhiqin smiled, "I don't think so."

"Ok?"

"On the one hand, I trust your judgment, and on the other hand, I also trust my intuition." Liu Zhiqin folded his arms, "Flower Team, you don't think of him as a suspect at all, why are you kidding me?"

Seeing that the trick was exposed, Hua Chong touched the brows, turned his eyes away, "It's fun to tease you."

Liu Zhiqin laughed out loud, "In the workplace, is the flower team molesting your subordinates?"