Chapter 0060 – You found another murder?
”You found another murder case?” Team Li’s tone on the other side of the cell phone was a bit strange, and he naturally used the word again.
”Four years ago, a girl named Zhang Ya fell from a building at the West City Private Academy, and her death had another motive!” Chen Ge was decisive and said it with great certainty.
”You wait, I’ll go and access the case file, if the deceased’s family requested an autopsy, we should have kept a file here.” Team Li didn’t hang up the phone, turned on the light and ran into the file room, he rummaged around for five minutes and then seemed to make a discovery, “West Side Private School, I said how does it sound familiar, Xiao Chen, you hurry out of that school now!”
”I’m heading out, what’s wrong?”
”That school is very weird, I can’t say it in a sentence or two, I can only give you a number first, just in two weeks, there were six suicides in that school, and all of the deaths were unusually weird.” The sound of paper flipping came from his cell phone, and Team Lee gave the file a general look over.
”Right! That number basically matches what I thought.” Chen Ge had already seen the school gates and would soon be able to get out.
”It matches what you thought? What’s the situation on your side now?”
”Never mind the situation, you should first see if the first girl who committed suicide was called Zhang Ya?” Chen Ge was eager to determine the guess in his heart.
Team Li looked at the documents on the table and double-checked before replying to Chen Ge, “That’s right, it’s called Zhang Ya, but she did commit suicide by falling from a building, and the forensic pathologist didn’t find any other types of wounds on her body. On the day the body was found, the police station also responded to the scene to check it out, the girl jumped from the dance studio on the fourth floor, the window edge was intact, and the soundproofing cotton on the surrounding walls didn’t have any traces of damage or cleanup. It can be determined that Zhang Ya was in the case of no external force to push, jumped off the building by herself.”
”No external force? Team Li, have you ever thought that someone was pushing her? If she didn’t jump she would have been victimized!” Chen Ge spoke out the scene he saw in the mirror.
”We’ve considered this situation as well, there are statements from several of Zhang Ya’s roommates in the file, all five girls said that they didn’t know anything about it, Zhang Ya jumped after they left after class, and Zhang Ya was the only one in the entire dance studio at the time. According to them, Zhang Ya’s mental state has not been very stable, withdrawn from the group, character defects. In order to verify their words, the police at that time out of the police also randomly asked the other girls in the same class, all of them said the same thing.”
”Zhang Ya is by no means what they said, this group of people colluded in perjury!” Chen Ge didn’t expect the other girls in the same class to go so far as to discredit Zhang Ya, she clearly hadn’t done anything wrong.
”What kind of girl is Zhang Ya, you and I don’t count, the witnesses do.” Team Li didn’t understand what kind of madness Chen Ge was smoking, “Don’t you continue to stay in that school, come out immediately, our men will go over to pick you up right away.”
”They are lying! If you look at the exact time of Zhang Ya’s death, it should have been before the five girls got out of school! They lied about the time of death, and those five girls are all accomplices!” Chen Ge’s voice slowly grew louder.
”You’re really wrong about that, Zhang Ya’s time of death was between six and eight p.m., and those girls left school at 5:30 p.m., as usual.” Team Li didn’t know what Chen Ge had gone through in the Xicheng private school, he was only judging from an outsider’s perspective.
”Impossible!”
”There’s nothing impossible, the forensic pathologist did a detailed appraisal through several aspects such as necropsy, necropsy, corneal clouding, etc., Zhang Ya died between six o’clock and eight o’clock, the cause of death was due to spinal fracture, the skull was damaged on her body, and there were bone fractures on her heel bone, hip bone, and the injuries were all from jumping off the building.”
Team Li’s words made Chen Ge unable to refute for a moment, and he stopped in his tracks, “Perhaps there exists a situation where Zhang Ya jumped before the five girls left, but she didn’t die immediately after falling from the fourth floor, and retained a trace of life. However, she had multiple fractures on her body, her spine was broken and she was unable to move, so she could only lie on her back in a pool of blood and wait for her death, and she struggled and suffered in this way for a long time before she died in the true sense of the word between six and eight o’clock.”
”Your hypothesis exists a certain possibility, but you overlooked one point, if the girl jumped off the building and fell down in a pool of blood and struggled, would the other five girls who were present not react at all? Even if the five girls didn’t go to the rescue for whatever reason, then the others in the school would have found her.”
”It was a vacation, only the six of them had come to the school specifically to train for the Provincial Dance Competition, the teacher who taught them had already left early, and even if there were still doormen and such in the school, is there any chance that they were intentionally blocked by people with ulterior motives.” Chen Ge raised a different opinion.
”I’m not going to argue with you about this, and there’s no point in discussing whether or not Zhang Ya committed suicide now. You believe that those five girls forced Zhang Ya to die, and are suspected of perjury and indirect murder, but just in the following two weeks, those five girls also died one after another. The murderer you thought is no longer alive, how else can this case be investigated?” Team Li was now more worried about Chen Ge’s safety.
”Team Li, I never said that these five girls were murderers, they were just accomplices! The real murderer who forced Zhang Ya to die was a fat man who was about one meter eight tall and slightly hunched over!”
”That’s quite detailed, then tell me how you deduced the real murderer? Four years ago, the surveillance of the Westside Private School was not finished, and all the witnesses were dead, now you tell me that there is another real murderer, how do you expect me to believe you?” Team Li had been working extra shifts for a few days for the Ping An Apartment case, and was still on standby at the office at 2:00 a.m. His voice was laced with a hint of deep fatigue.
Chen Ge could hear the skepticism in Team Li’s words, “We can go and line up the characters who were related to the Xicheng Private Academy four years ago, and we can definitely find this person! He was at the murder scene that day!”
”Chen Ge, handling a case is not child’s play, do you know how difficult it is to line up everyone who was related to a school four years ago? Even if you can convince me, there’s no way the higher-ups will give you a case, what you need is evidence, not suspicion and speculation.”
”What I’m saying is the truth.”
”What stands up to scrutiny is the truth.” Team Lee had already started organizing the file, preparing to put it back among the cabinets, “Can you tell me why you are so obsessed with this case that was already characterized four years ago? From what I understand, you’re not the kind of hot-blooded young man with an overwhelming sense of justice either.”
Why are you so obsessed?
Chen Ge was stunned by Team Li’s question, and his mind flashed back to Zhang Ya’s reminder in the wooden house in Ping An Apartment, as well as the ice-coldness and loneliness that Zhang Ya exuded as she leaned against his back in the middle of the dance classroom just now.
”There’s really no reason, in this situation, the only one left who can help her and stand with her is me.” Chen Ge said into his cell phone.
”I still don’t understand what you mean.” Team Li on the other side of the phone spoke after half a day, “But strict impartiality is the basic tenet of the police, since you questioned it, I’ll personally go and help you line up the investigation when the Ping An Apartment case is closed.”
”Thank you Uncle Sanbao!” Chen Ge was instantly relieved, “Catching the real culprit is also an explanation to Zhang Ya, as for this hellhole, I don’t want to come back anymore.”
He hung up the phone and turned back wanting to take one last look at the Xicheng Private Academy.
As soon as he turned around, he realized that the red-clothed stern ghost Zhang Ya was standing right behind him!
They were two to three meters apart, with blood flowing from their school uniforms, Zhang Ya cocked her head and surveyed Chen Ge, she didn’t come closer this time and her expression was a bit strange.