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Chapter 94 The Old Patriarch

Dark shadow again...

When Li Tianque heard this familiar word again, she had already started to feel uncomfortable habitually.

Li Tianque frowned slightly, looked at Bai Ruixue, and asked:

"For this time... why can you remember it so accurately?"

Bai Ruixue's face was still impassive, and she said calmly:

"I was playing with my mobile phone, and I naturally noticed the time when I heard the sound."

"How big is that black shadow, is it a person or something else?" Li Tianque asked.

"I didn't see it clearly, it didn't look like a human or a small animal." Bai Ruixue said.

"Can you briefly describe it?"

Bai Ruixue thought for a while, then said:
"A long, narrow black shadow that looks like an elongated lizard."

Bai Ruixue's description of the black shadow was so brief that Li Tianque thought she might be hiding something.

At this moment, Ma Baoguo suddenly changed the subject:

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about Sombra for now, Lin Ya didn't come back so late that night, didn't the two of you ask her?"

"No, she is with Liang Zhichao."

"However, I heard that Lin Ya seemed to say something that made you very unhappy when we were having dinner at the old patriarch's house that day." Ma Baoguo asked with burning eyes.

"Is there? I don't remember." Bai Ruixue said casually.

Ma Baoguo also looked at Bai Ruixue carefully, always feeling that this woman was a little too calm.

In most criminal investigation films or mystery novels, the most suspected person is often not the murderer in the end.

However, the opposite is true in real life, and only a very small number of suspects are able to commit crimes with Ke Xue.

Li Tianque and Ma Baoguo are well aware of this truth, so they naturally attach great importance to Bai Ruixue, after all, she is now the only suspect with a motive to kill.

But if you pay attention to it, you should pay attention to it. This woman is very rigorous, and she answers the questions calmly, her expression and tone are almost flawless.

"By the way, I read Liang Zhichao's statement, Liang Zhichao heard someone coming out of your room around 11 o'clock.

At that time, he thought that person was Lin Ya.

But in fact, according to the two of you, Lin Ya was not in the room when you came back.

Then around 11:[-], who came out of the room? " Li Tianque asked.

Bai Ruixue was silent for a moment, adjusted her glasses and said:

"I didn't hear such a sound, and no one went out of our room until the police came."

Li Tianque and Ma Baoguo looked at each other, and Ma Baoguo said sharply:

"You'd better think again."

"No." Bai Ruixue replied affirmatively.

Obviously, someone between Bai Ruixue and Liang Zhichao was lying.

Li Tianque stared at Bai Ruixue, this woman's personality was just like her name, cold and hard.

But what Li Tianque was more concerned about was why such a seemingly indifferent woman cherished those insects so much?

How could it be possible to release butterflies?

This seems to be really hard to connect with her introverted and withdrawn character.

Just when Li Tianque and Ma Baoguo were thinking about what to ask, Bai Ruixue spoke:

"If the two of you have no other questions, then I'll go back. There are still some experimental reports I haven't finished writing. I need to finish the draft before leaving here."

"Stop, we haven't told you to go yet." Ma Baoguo said sternly.

Bai Ruixue stood stiffly, looking at Ma Baoguo indifferently.

She looked a little angry, but didn't leave.

"I think you should spend your energy on those who are more suspicious, instead of wasting the precious time of scientific researchers."

"But you are the most suspicious person right now." Ma Baoguo said in a deep voice.

Bai Ruixue looked at Ma Baoguo coldly, snorted disdainfully, and said tit for tat:
"Okay, then please tell me your reason."

"Now I'm interrogating you! You're not interrogating me!
You said you saw a strange shadow, so why didn't you tell others about it?
Why didn't you even tell Su Wei who lives with you? "

Li Tianque thought that Ma Baoguo was still a little level, and soon thought of this key issue.

Indeed, this is a very unreasonable thing.

A weak girl who sees such a strange thing at night will definitely tell her roommate immediately, or ask Liang Zhichao in the next room or Professor Lu in the laboratory for help.

"It was very late at that time, and I think I may have misread it." Bai Ruixue said calmly, still without the slightest strangeness on her face.

"Oh? Why didn't you mention this at all when you recorded your statement for the first time?" Ma Baoguo flipped through the previous transcript and asked aggressively.

"You didn't ask, so I'm not obliged to tell you." Bai Ruixue said.

"You are obliged to cooperate with the work of the public security organs!" Ma Baoguo said sharply, "The deceased is your classmate and colleague, don't you want to find the murderer sooner?"

"Yes, it's true as you said, the deceased was my colleague, but it doesn't seem like a close relationship between classmates and colleagues." Bai Ruixue said quietly.

Li Tianque waved his hand and said to Ma Baoguo:
"Forget it, maybe she didn't expect such a thing to happen at the time. After all, it was already very late, and she was afraid of affecting other people's rest."

Ma Baoguo snorted coldly, saying in his heart that this Li Tianque was really making jokes.

Ma Baoguo originally planned to refute a few words, but because he was very dissatisfied with the arrangement of his superiors to cooperate with Li Tianque in the investigation, he did not respond.

After hearing this, Bai Ruixue knew that there was no need to stay any longer, so she walked out of the room without looking back.

After Bai Ruixue left, Li Tianque began to read Liang Zhichao's notes, while Ma Baoguo lit another cigarette and tapped on the table irritably.

Liang Zhichao was the tall and thin young man they met on the stairs just now.

There is no big conflict between his notes and the contents of the other three.

But there are also two doubts.

First, why did Liang Zhichao hear someone coming out of the next room around eleven o'clock?
Second, if no one came out of Lin Ya's three daughters' room during the previous period, when did Lin Ya leave the room?

Or, how did she leave?

While Li Tianque was thinking, Liang Zhichao had already opened the door and entered.

After Liang Zhichao came in, he first closed the door carefully, and then deliberately stopped by the door for a while.

He seemed to want to hear if the person outside the door had left, and his expression became a little weird.

When Liang Zhichao sat down, instead of looking at Ma Baoguo, he focused his attention on Li Tianque, and looked at Li Tianque very vigilantly.

Obviously, when he was at the stairs just now, he had heard the conversation between Ma Baoguo and Tudeng Nima, and knew that Li Tianque was the one who had been listed as a major suspect before.

Now that Li Tianque was acquitted and participated in the investigation, he naturally felt very vigilant.

Li Tianque also saw the strange expression on his face, and said with a smile:

"I know you may have misunderstood, but Director Ma of our institute is still here, so don't worry too much."

"Uh uh, no, no..." Liang Zhichao smiled awkwardly, and then looked at Ma Baoguo next to him.

Ma Baoguo looked at Liang Zhichao and asked:

"Is there anything you want to say?"

Liang Zhichao swallowed, slowly took out his mobile phone, and said:
"Yes...I didn't say this before because I'm not sure what's going on.

The most important thing is that when I heard that the suspect had been caught, I was thinking that if the murderer had already been found, then my clue would be worthless. "

Hearing this, Li Tianque's eyes flashed and he asked:

"What clue?"

Liang Zhichao involuntarily wanted to look back, but soon he didn't do so, and handed the phone in front of the two of them.

The interface of the mobile phone stays in a WeChat chat dialog box, on which are the chat records between him and Lin Ya.

The chat log stays at around 11:[-] on the day of the incident, and the content of the chat is just some dog food between couples and things about the experiment.

The last sentence between the two was sent at 11:20, the content was sent by Lin Ya, and it was very strange, only three words without thinking:

"Old Patriarch!"

Seeing this chat interface, Li Tianque and Ma Baoguo were a little surprised.

The time when Lin Ya's WeChat message was sent was obviously about the same time as the time when Lin Ya died.

That is to say, when Lin Ya sent this WeChat to Liang Zhichao, it was either a distress signal or an identification of the murderer.

Of course, in most mystery novels or movies, the clues left in this way are often the criminals that the victim wants to correct before he dies.

But in real life, at the critical moment of life and death, people will not give up their survival instinct.

This WeChat message she sent was more likely a distress signal!
(End of this chapter)