Escape From the Library

【Innocence Defense-04】

Yue Xingwen glanced at the time, it was 5:[-] in the morning.

At 5:[-] on Saturday morning, most people were asleep at this time. Qi Xinyu’s screams woke up many people. Some people turned over after being awakened and continued to sleep. There were two boys who were close He went out to see the situation, and asked as he walked, "Xin Yu, what's your name, what happened?"

The two walked to the beach and found the body floating on the sea, their eyes widened in surprise: "Dead, dead?" "Isn't that Liu Jiajia? I remember her dress!"

The dress is indeed very distinctive, with a bright red background and some silver sequin patterns dotted on it, it will look good when taking pictures on the beach.

Yue Xingwen searched the memories in his mind. At dusk last night, a girl wearing this dress took a photo at the beach. There were so many people taking pictures at the beach at that time. Yue Xingwen vaguely remembered that the girl in the red dress had a bright smile, and there were several A girl laughed and took a photo with her, posing in various poses.

It was not expected that she would drown.

Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at Qi Xinyu: "Senior sister, how did you find the corpse?"

Qi Xinyu was trembling: "I set an alarm clock with Zhao Lin, and wanted to get up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, but when we walked to the beach, we saw a dead body floating on the sea..." Zhao Lin beside her turned pale Said: "Liu Jiajia had a barbecue with us last night, why did he suddenly drown?"

Qi Xinyu bit her lip, and whispered: "I remember she can swim, could it be that she wanted to swim in the sea, but her body twitched accidentally, and she drowned?"

People who can swim are not afraid of sea water. They go swimming in the sea when they are excited. As a result, their bodies convulse suddenly during swimming, resulting in drowning. There are many such cases in reality.Their first reaction was accident, not murder. It seems that this Liu Jiajia usually has no obvious enemies?

Yue Xingwen asked: "Senior sister, has Liu Jiajia offended anyone?"

Qi Xinyu was stunned for a moment, and his face changed slightly: "You don't suspect that she was pushed down on purpose, right?! She is very popular in our profession, and I have never heard of anyone she has made enemies with. She still The Minister of Culture and Entertainment of our student union is beautiful and kind, so it's impossible for someone to kill her!"

Zhao Lin next to him suddenly looked around and asked, "Where's Zhu Xiaoting? She lives in the same tent as Liu Jiajia. She should know what happened to Liu Jiajia last night, right?"

The boy walked over and shouted, "Is Zhu Xiaoting there?"

There was no response for a while, Qi Xinyu quickly flipped through her phone and said, "They live in tent 037 in Area A."

The two boys went to call for someone with Zhao Lin, but they came back after a while, and Zhao Lin said, "Zhu Xiaoting is not here!"

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Of course she wasn't in the tent, she was in the female dormitory of Beishan University, holding a murder weapon!

Ke Shaobin whispered in Yue Xingwen's ear: "It seems that Zhu Xiaoting took a taxi back to school in the middle of the night after eating barbecue, but when she returned to school, she saw someone dead in the dormitory."

The siren of a police car was heard in the distance, and Yue Xingwen quickly asked in the group: "How is the situation at the school?"

Qin Miao said: "The police just arrived and sealed off the scene. They are questioning several witnesses. The forensic doctor is examining Xie Xiangqin's body in the dormitory. Zhu Xiaoting's emotions are a little broken. There is blood on her hands and face. The police put handcuffs on her. .”

Jiang Pingce and Xin Yan couldn't enter the girls' dormitory, and the information on the dormitory could only be collected by Qin Miao.

Fortunately, Qin Miao calmly put forward the speculation that "the scene of the crime may not necessarily be on the beach" yesterday, and took the initiative to stay at the school, otherwise, they would lose a lot of key information.

Lan Yarong asked: "Did the witnesses see that she had a murder weapon in her hand?"

Qin Miao: "That's right. Let alone witnesses, when I heard the screams and rushed over, I saw her holding a knife in her hand. There were at least 5 girls who saw this scene, and there were also people from the dormitory next door."

Lan Yarong was so angry that her temples were throbbing: "Isn't she from the law school? Did you learn criminal law for nothing! When you see a dead person, you should carefully leave the crime scene and call the police immediately! What did she do when she went in? She was covered in blood, and even went to get the murder weapon!" !"

Senior Sister Lan's row of exclamation points made the teammates' scalps go numb.It can be seen that the senior sister's raging anger is burning.

Liu Zhaoqing sent a row of sweaty emojis: "Sister Lan, calm down, I still rely on you to defend this girl."

Lan Yarong took a deep breath: "What's going on? Isn't she from the law school?"

Xin Yan sent a string of text messages: "Zhu Xiaoting is indeed not from the law school. She is not on the list of the law school, but in the 703 dormitory list, I put her in the list when I sorted it out yesterday. This 703 dormitory is more complicated. Among them Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue are students of the Law School, Zhu Xiaoting is a student of the School of Translation, and Li Huijuan is a student of the School of Biological Sciences. There are 54 girls in the law school, and 13 rooms can only accommodate 52 people, and the remaining 2 will be with other students. The extra girls from the academy made up a room."

The school will arrange students of the same major to live together as much as possible, but in the case of such a situation where four people cannot live in a room, students from other majors will be assigned to live in a dormitory together.In universities, such dormitory allocation is very common.

Of the 54 girls in the law school, 52 of them live in a 4-person room with their majors. Dormitory 703 is mixed with girls from other majors. Obviously, the internal relationship of this dormitory needs to be investigated.

Lan Yarong's mood finally calmed down a bit. Law students are required to study "Criminal Law", and it's too unprofessional to do something like "touch a murder weapon".If it was a girl from another academy, might she have touched the murder weapon in a panic, or was she trying to save people, not kill them?

Lan Yarong took a deep breath and typed quickly: "What did the police say?"

Qin Miao: "The police are going to take Zhu Xiaoting back for questioning."

Judging from the photos at the scene, the ground was covered with blood, and after entering the house, Zhu Xiaoting may have ran over in panic, and there were many footprints of her on the ground.

Yue Xingwen helped his forehead helplessly: "Zhu Xiaoting was eating barbecue on the beach, and the person who lived with her was named Liu Jiajia, but now Liu Jiajia drowned, and Zhu Xiaoting appeared at the school somehow."

Liu Zhaoqing was on the night shift last night. Seeing this, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "Xingwen, you mean, Zhu Xiaoting's roommate at the beach drowned, and she went back to school halfway, and her roommate at school was murdered with a knife. Stabbed to death?"

Yue Xingwen: "Yes."

Liu Zhaoqing complained: "This is really unlucky."

Jiang Pingce: "I suspect that what happened to Zhu Xiaoting last night and she suddenly returned to school, her roommate Liu Jiajia on the beach should be able to testify for her. Now that Liu Jiajia dies, there is no proof. It is also possible, Liu Jiajia If Jia's death is also related to her, then she will become a serial murderer."

Everyone: "..."

Qin Miao added insult to injury: "She was a bit emotionally broken. After being taken back by the police, if she utters something unfavorable to her when the police interrogate her, it will be even more difficult to clear her name."

Ke Shaobin asked a question: "Can she remain silent? Just like on TV, when the police ask her, can she say that I will not answer any questions until my lawyer arrives?"

Lan Yarong sent a facial expression covering her face, and quickly typed: "Xiao Ke, have you watched too many Hong Kong dramas? Hong Kong adopts the British system of law of the sea, and abides by the Miranda circular 'You have the right to remain silent, but what you say Every word of the statement will be used as evidence in court, so the suspect has the right to remain silent and not answer any questions from the police, but leave it to the lawyer to deal with it." Lan Yarong followed closely: "But the legal system of the sea is not It does not apply to the mainland. In the mainland, if the police ask questions and you do not answer, this is hindering the police from handling the case."

Ke Shaobin: "..."

In the TV series, the suspect keeps silent until the lawyer arrives, which looks cool, but in reality there is no such thing as "I will not answer any questions until the lawyer comes", especially in criminal cases, before the police complete the transcript, the lawyer even The parties may not necessarily be seen.

What will Zhu Xiaoting tell the police?If she nervously utters some unfavorable confessions, things will only get worse.

Yue Xingwen immediately made a decision: "It seems that Senior Brother Xu will have to work hard. Only he can get in touch with Zhu Xiaoting in advance."

Xu Yishen understood, and asked in the group: "I will turn into a cell and hide it in the police's pocket later. I will go back to the police force with them and find a way to find Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible. Is there anything Senior Sister Lan can tell me?"

Lan Yarong said: "Tell her never to plead guilty! Also, don't lie, don't lie to the police with nonsense. The criminal police have rich experience in interrogating people. Her lies will be exposed immediately, which will greatly increase the credibility of her court testimony in the end." Reduce. When you encounter uncertain questions, just say 'don't know' directly, and don't use ambiguous answers like maybe, maybe, or like this."

Xu Yishen: "Understood, I will tell her as soon as possible."

Ke Shaobin: "...Brother, if you turn into a cell and talk to her, won't she be frightened?"

Xu Yishen was also very helpless: "Otherwise, we won't be able to see her immediately. The police will definitely interrogate her immediately when they return. We must tell her these things before the interrogation."

Yue Xingwen said: "That's right, senior brother, let's go."

After the police car arrived at the beach, the scene was immediately sealed off. The forensic doctor went to do the autopsy. Yue Xingwen winked at Senior Brother Xu Yishen.

"The deceased Liu Jiajia, 22 years old, was a law student at Beishan University. The cause of death was drowning. No obvious wounds or signs of fighting were found on his body. The specific cause of death has to be brought back for further autopsy."

The police asked Qi Xinyu, Yue Xingwen and other witnesses about the situation briefly, and then took the body away.

Qi Xinyu tremblingly woke up the students and told them to go back to school early.

Originally they planned to play at the beach for another day today and go back on Sunday night, but one of the classmates died. After hearing the news, everyone was not in the mood to have fun, so they packed up their things and took the car back to school.

Yue Xingwen and his teammates quickly took a taxi back to the law firm.

They must prepare to defend Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible. The current evidence is very unfavorable to Zhu Xiaoting. If they want to clear her grievances, one is to find loopholes in the motive, method and evidence of the crime; the other is to find the real murderer as soon as possible!