Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 23 Zhou Tong Detective Series II: Blood Talisman (2)
"There is nothing suspicious about the call records on the mobile phone. They are all friends of the deceased, and the possibility of committing the crime has been ruled out. But the most incredible thing is that there is another person at the scene of the crime, who was unharmed until he was arrested. When the bell rang and woke up, I found my roommate had died next to me."

"What about others now?" Zhou Tong asked immediately.

"He's been greatly stimulated, and he's currently under police custody in the hospital..." Yan Yongjie hadn't finished speaking when suddenly a cry of "help" came from the graduate student's apartment next door.

Section 2 Corpse under the ceiling fan
Most of the usual summer nights are sweltering, but at this time, both Yan Yongjie and Zhou Tong felt a chill.

From the room they were in, they could see 14 postgraduate apartments in the distance. It was pitch black, and the school even cut off the power supply. Who ran in at this time and shouted for help.The two rushed downstairs with the same question.

Under the hazy moonlight, only a figure was seen standing on the roof of the apartment building.Although Yan Yongjie and Zhou Tong couldn't see his face, they could feel that this man's gaze was staring at them both.

"You look for someone from the stairs!" After Yan Yongjie finished speaking, she used lightness kung fu to quickly climb up to the roof of the apartment building through the protruding window sill outside the apartment.

The people on the roof didn't seem to have thought that Yan Yongjie would do such a thing, but his movements were not slow, and before Yan Yongjie came up, he had already disappeared on the roof.

Yan Yongjie climbed to the top of the building and looked around, but there was no one there.There is a stairway in the middle of the roof, Yan Yongjie ran over without hesitation, the guy just now could not just disappear out of thin air, except to escape from this stairway.

Yan Yongjie searched down the stairs, but there was still no one. At this time, Zhou Tong's call came.

Yan Yongjie was worried that Zhou Tong would be in danger, so she immediately ran towards Zhou Tong.

"Zhou Tong!" Yan Yongjie called out.

Zhou Tong didn't respond to her, and stood firmly outside a room.Yan Yongjie didn't know what he was up to, and followed Zhou Tong's gaze into the room.

The moonlight at this time was indescribably weird, pouring into the room like running water through the window.On the ceiling in the middle of the room, there is a ceiling fan, which is rotating slowly, and a blood-stained rope hangs below it. A person, to be precise, a corpse is hung on the rope. Shaking the corpse followed suit, the neck of the deceased was tightly bound by the rope, but the tongue had slipped out, and the eyes were protruding outwards. Although he was dead, his frightened expression still remained on his face.

"Wang Gui!" Yan Yongjie finally exclaimed.

"You know him?" Zhou Tong also woke up from the huge shock.

"He is the roommate with Jiang Shaoqi, Wang Gui."

"Didn't you say he was in the hospital? Why did he come back here again?" Zhou Tong asked a little puzzled.

Yan Yongjie couldn't answer this question either.

"This is already the second life. No matter what the school's position is, the police must take action." Yan Yongjie quickly dialed the number of the criminal investigation team.

Ten minutes later, the siren whistle broke the tranquility of the campus.Then the principal Lin Shuhai hurriedly led the school staff to the postgraduate apartment building.

At this time, the entire apartment building has been cordoned off by the police, and the perimeter of the blockade is full of students, who are all talking about it.

"Immediately arrange for people to evacuate the students around and let them go back to their dormitory!" Lin Shuhai ordered while wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

But no matter how hard the school security tried, they were still unable to disperse the onlookers.

Lin Shuhai sighed helplessly and squeezed through the crowd.

"I'm the principal, what happened, let me in!"

The policeman standing by the blockade said to him very simply: "We have received a call. There has been a murder here. The police officer in charge is waiting for you inside."

Lin Shuhai hurried into the apartment building, and as soon as he entered, he immediately saw Yan Yongjie.

"Officer Yan, your actions will have a great impact on the school, and you will be responsible for all the consequences!" Lin Shuhai seemed extremely excited when he spoke.

"Principal Lin, please follow me." Yan Yongjie is not a person who is afraid of intimidation.

Seeing this, Lin Shuhai had no choice but to follow Yan Yongjie upstairs.

When Lin Shuhai saw Wang Gui's body, he almost sat down on the ground, but fortunately, the person next to him supported him.

"Principal, I just hope you understand the seriousness of the matter." Yan Yongjie looked at Lin Shuhai and said calmly, "The murderer is very likely still on campus, and if he is not found out as soon as possible, there is a high possibility that other students will be killed .”

"But……"

"No need, principal, the police will not disclose the details of the case to the outside world, but the school must cooperate with the police to strengthen security measures to ensure the safety of other students!" Yan Yongjie interrupted Lin Shuhai's words impolitely. , She really doesn't like dealing with such bureaucratic people. In her opinion, the principal of a school should at least be a person with profound knowledge, kindness and humility, but the principal in front of him is clearly the kind , the kind of politician who will shout "let the leader go first".

"It has to be like this." Lin Shuhai said with some frustration.

"In addition, please continue to keep my identity secret, the principal will be more conducive to the investigation of the case." Yan Yongjie instructed.

Lin Shuhai didn't speak any more, but nodded feebly.

No matter what you do or what you think, time will not wait for anyone, it will just slip away silently.At this time, if Lin Shuhai had a way to stop time, he would definitely do so without hesitation, but unfortunately he couldn't, so he had to face everything with a strong scalp the next morning.

The first call Lin Shuhai received after waking up was from the leader of the Ministry of Education, asking him to talk.

The police did not announce the case to the public, but all kinds of messages and speculations began to fly all over the sky that night. The students talked a lot, and began to spread widely through the Internet and the BBS on campus at an alarming speed. One of the most outrageous versions of the story is that Jiang Shaoqi robbed Wang Gui's girlfriend, Wang Gui killed him with a grudge, and then committed suicide in fear of crime.It is said that there is a basis for this story, and the basis is that after Wang Gui's former girlfriend Qin Mengyao broke up with Wang Gui, she did have some unclear relationship with his roommate Jiang Shaoqi.The "official" statement from the school is only four words: investigation is underway!
The school is in a mess, and Zhou Tong is probably the most indifferent one. He didn't go to class on the first day, but he was not relaxed. After witnessing a series of scary scenes last night, there is only one thing that can arouse him now. The only interest is to find the murderer as soon as possible.

The first place Zhou Tong chose was to go to Jing'an Hospital, where Wang Gui was supposed to stay last night.Yan Yongjie didn't go with him. Of course, she didn't go to class, but went to investigate another matter. She just told Zhou Tong the address of the hospital and called the police officer in charge to say hello to facilitate Zhou Tong's investigation.

At the gate of Jing'an Hospital, the police officer who was in charge of guarding Wang Gui was already waiting for Zhou Tong.This is a police officer who looks very young at first glance, maybe he just graduated from the police academy, and there is still a trace of immaturity on his face.But he never expected that the person his boss asked him to cooperate with the investigation was actually younger than him.So the first thing he said when he saw Zhou Tong was "You...are Zhou Tong"?
Zhou Tong smiled wickedly.

The ward where Wang Gui was guarded was in room 307 on the third floor.When Jing Huaitao received Yan Yongjie's questioning call, he hurriedly opened the room and found that the window was open, and there was no one on the bed, only the curtains swaying gently in the breeze.

"Has anyone visited Wang Gui in the past few days?" Zhou Tong asked.

"We have registered the visitors, mainly his parents and relatives, but he didn't speak much, and he seemed rather demented, but a girl came to see him yesterday afternoon, and it seemed that he went in and chatted for a long time." Jing Huaitao recalled.

"What's that girl's name?" Zhou Tong showed great interest.

"A very beautiful girl..." Jing Huaitao blushed a little, and opened the registration book and said, "It's the Qin Mengyao who won the runner-up in the SHOW GIRL competition."

"It's her?" Zhou Tong was a little surprised, and quickly took the notebook in Jing Huaitao's hand, and sure enough, he saw Qin Mengyao's name on the registrant.

Yan Yongjie came to the graduate student's apartment again, she really couldn't figure out where the mysterious man who appeared on the balcony on the roof of the building slipped away from last night?If this person can be found, even if he is not the murderer, he should be the key person in these two murders.She stood on the balcony on the top of the building and looked around. It was daytime, so her sight was clear, allowing her to see the surrounding environment at a glance.But there is no place to go downstairs except for a stairway in the middle of the balcony, and there are no other buildings around this apartment building. The nearest one is the apartment building where Yan Yongjie lives now , but there is a distance of more than 30 meters from the graduate student apartment building, even a martial artist like Yan Yongjie cannot jump so far.But if the opponent did not jump to another building to escape, but did not take the stairs, then another possibility is that he jumped continuously from the other side of the roof with the help of the protruding part of the building, or climbed with the help of tools such as ropes. Go on, but for someone with keen hearing like Yan Yongjie, it is impossible for the other party's big movements to escape her ears.

Yan Yongjie walked around the balcony a few times, but did not find any ropes, or traces of using climbing tools such as iron claws and nail hooks.

After Yan Yongjie thought about it, there was only one possibility left.The mysterious man did escape from the stairs. He used his familiarity with the environment of the apartment building to hide first. When Yan Yongjie and Zhou Tong were attracted by Wang Gui's body, he took the opportunity to escape.If this is the case, then this mysterious person is most likely someone from the school, and most likely someone who has lived in the graduate student apartment building.Yan Yongjie decided to get the list of all the people who lived in the graduate apartment building in recent years from the school first, and then check them one by one.

It was already around five o'clock in the afternoon when Zhou Tong returned to school, but what he didn't expect was that there was a person who caused him the most headache waiting for him at the school gate.

"You...how did you come here? Didn't you go to Southern University?" When Zhou Tong saw the beautifully dressed Li Ying at the school gate, his mouth could hardly be closed in surprise.

This beautiful young lady, as Zhou Tong's former high school classmate, a classmate who caused Zhou Tong countless troubles, was admitted to a university in other provinces after graduation. Zhou Tong originally thought that he would not see her for quite a while. But within a few days after school started, she appeared in front of him again.

"Surprised enough? I came here on the noon flight." Li Ying had a smug smile on her face, and her orange-red hair was more conspicuous in the sun.

"Be more frightened!" Zhou Tong touched his head and whispered.

"Hmph, you are not enough friends, you didn't call me to tell me such a big thing happened!" Li Ying suddenly scowled.

"What's the big deal?" Zhou Tong was puzzled.

"Just pretend, I saw it on the Internet, and I heard that a terrible serial murder happened in your school?" Li Ying whispered in Zhou Tong's ear with some furtiveness.

"You are really good at gossip, even if you do, what does it matter to you?" Zhou Tong couldn't help but lament the power of the Internet. What happened just last night spread so quickly.

"It's none of my business, but if you are in this school, you will definitely intervene in the investigation of this case, so it's none of my business!" Li Ying said firmly.

Zhou Tong looked at Li Ying and said, "I don't quite understand what you mean."

"You pig!" Li Ying cursed secretly in her heart, but she still said: "Don't you understand, investigating such a case must be very thrilling, terrifying and interesting, and you can also bring the bad guys to justice , how can I, Miss Li, not get involved!"

"I am convinced that you can combine words such as horror and fun, but if you come here like this, aren't you afraid that the school will expel you?" Zhou Tong felt a big headache.

"What are you afraid of? Anyway, I know that I went to this university, it was all bought by that person." Li Ying still couldn't forgive what her father had done.

When Zhou Tong heard her talking about her father, she also felt a little sad for her, and her heart softened, and said, "Since you are here, I will arrange for you to stay here first. As for the investigation of the case, we will talk about it later."

"That's good." The dark clouds on Li Ying's face finally dissipated, and she happily touched Zhou Tong's head and smiled.

Zhou Tong softened his heart for a moment and quickly agreed to let Li Ying stay, but he had no place to arrange for this young lady to live, so he had to leave the trouble to Yan Yongjie in the end.

Yan Yongjie was really surprised when she saw Zhou Tong leading Li Ying to her, but the matter had come to an end, and at least Li Ying had saved her life. The room next door stayed.

After everything was in order, Zhou Tong asked Yan Yongjie: "Yongjie, has Wang Gui's autopsy report come out?"

Li Ying on the side immediately also concentrated her attention, pricked up her ears, and waited for Yan Yongjie's answer.

Yan Yongjie nodded and said, "The deceased was indeed strangled to death. There were no other wounds on his body, and there was no sign of taking any medicine."

"That's really strange. No suspicious fingerprints were found at the scene, and there was no trace of a fight. Who can kill a big man like Wang Gui so easily?" Zhou Tong said in confusion.

"It's not easy, it must be suicide." Li Ying said with certainty.

"Impossible. The ceiling fan above the deceased's head was rotating. In other words, the deceased should have been strangled to death first, then hung on the ceiling fan, and finally the murderer turned on the ceiling fan." Yan Yongjie didn't wait for Zhou Tong to speak. First explained the situation to Li Ying.

"I'll lend you a rope, you try to commit suicide under the rotating ceiling fan?" Zhou Tong looked at Li Ying and sneered.

Li Ying was flushed with anger at Zhou Tong's words, but it was inconvenient to get angry in front of Yan Yongjie, so she could only "hum", turned her head to Yan Yongjie, and ignored Zhou Tong.

"In the autopsy report, there is something more that you probably never dreamed of!" Yan Yongjie was afraid that the two would start a fight again, so she immediately changed the subject.

"Is it about the blood on the rope?" Zhou Tong asked immediately.

"How do you know?" Yan Yongjie was a little surprised.

"It's very simple. You just said that Wang Gui has no other injuries except strangle marks, so it is impossible for him to leave bloodstains on the rope. Of course, the bloodstains cannot be the murderer's own. That's why I guessed this." .” Zhou Tong made no secret of his pride.

"Then why don't you guess who the blood is?" Li Ying didn't know what Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie said, but she wanted to find every opportunity to taunt Zhou Tong.

"If I can guess this, it's Zhou Banxian." Zhou Tong smiled wryly.

"The bloodstains belong to Jiang Shaoqi." Yan Yongjie's tone seemed to have a little more chill.

Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie didn't speak any more, and they stood there quietly. Li Ying saw their serious expressions, but she didn't make a sound, and sat beside them knowingly.

"Strangle Wang Gui to death with a rope stained with Jiang Shaoqi's blood, so it means that Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui were killed by the same person, but why did the murderer do this, and why did he leave such clues to the police?" Zhou Tong repeated in his heart. thinking about such a question.And Yan Yongjie was also thinking about the same question, but at present it was a puzzle, a puzzle left to them by the murderer.

Section 3 Death Announcement
Yan Yongjie focused her investigation on people who had lived in 14 postgraduate apartment buildings. After carefully reading all the household information and doing a lot of investigation work, she really found an extremely suspicious person.

(End of this chapter)