Chapter 0233 – Zhu Xiu
”The murderer has been found!” Chen Ge stood up at once: “Okay, I’ll be right there!”
Chen Ge grabbed his jacket and rushed out of the haunted house, he didn’t care about anything and went straight to the Xicheng Police Station.
The first date in his life was in the middle of the ghost school, with a red-clothed stern ghost.
There was no joy or excitement in his first date, just learning about a girl’s tragic past.
Falling from a tall building, collapsing in the middle of a pool of blood, pain coming from everywhere, but not yet dead!
Watching the murderer leave with a smile on his face, the truth is buried, the dancing shoes are slowly dyed red, and the kind girl turns into a ghost full of resentment.
Zhang Ya told Chen Ge about all this, and now he is the only one who can speak for the girl.
Taking a taxi to the Xicheng police station, Chen Ge ran inside.
”Team Li is in the room on the left.” Ah Yong stood guard outside and recognized Chen Ge at once.
”Thanks a lot.”
Pushing open the door to the room, there was only Team Li in the small office.
”Here, have a seat.”
When Chen Ge saw that Team Li was the only person in the room, he developed a very bad premonition, “Is the murderer confirmed? Didn’t we say last time that the scope was narrowed down to three people.”
”Found it, it’s him.” Team Li took out there was a file from the drawer, opened it and took out a photo, “This person is called Zhu Xiu, he was once the administrator of the equipment room of the Western Suburbs Private Academy, a loafer, at the same time, he is also the principal’s youngest son, the ex-husband of the dance teacher, Sun Mei Jing.”
The photo was taken from the surveillance video, and there was a dry and thin man in the picture, he was sitting at a roadside stall with a few bottles of beer piled up on a dirty table.
”Sure?” Zhang Ya had restored the original scene in the mirror in the dance studio, unable to see the face, but able to make out a general figure.
The main culprit in the mirror at the time was fat and didn’t match the person in the photo at all.
”We initially just listed him as one of the suspects, focusing on investigating the physical education teachers and outsiders at the West Side Private Academy, but it turned out that during our visit, Zhu Xiu’s ex-wife, Sun Mei Jing, inadvertently revealed a piece of information.”
”What did she say?”
”She was very dead-mouthed and didn’t say anything, but we found a photo she posted on a website a long time ago.”
Team Lee took out his cell phone and on the screen was a posed picture of a couple.
The woman was average looking, but kept her body in good shape, and the man looked a bit younger, fat, and was estimated to weigh around one hundred and eighty pounds.
”That man is the Zhu Xiu from five years ago.”
Comparing the two photos, Zhu Xiu simply looked like a different person after he lost weight.
”In five years, Zhu Xiu lost a full sixty pounds, which caught our attention. After in-depth investigation, we found that this person has no fixed occupation, spends money lavishly, and the most important point is that he seems to suffer from fetishism.”
Team Li took out the third photo: “After Zhu Xiu’s father died, Sun Meijing divorced him, the house went to Sun Meijing’s name, and he has been renting a room outside.”
”We found his landlord and stood outside his house under the pretense of fixing the network cable. His house was messy and reeked, and there were several pairs of women’s shoes thrown under his bed.”
The third photo, taken surreptitiously, documented the inside of Zhu Xiu’s house.
”Occupation, body type, fetishes, it all matches! Nine times out of ten, it’s him!” Chen Ge gritted his teeth, such a person should be put in jail and punished by the law.
”These alone only show that he has the motive and conditions to commit the crime, it doesn’t show that he is the murderer, we need a complete chain of evidence to arrest someone.” Team Lee rubbed his temples, “I have good news and bad news now, which one do you want to hear first?”
”Bad news.” Chen Ge blurted out.
”According to the clues you provided, the other girls who assisted Zhu Xiu in forcing the girls to die together have all died strangely, and we can’t find any witnesses now.”
There was nothing Chen Ge could do about this, the human witnesses that Team Li had asked for were now stuffed into chairs, and one had been made into candy and had been eaten.
”Without witnesses, it’s impossible to convict him?”
”As long as the chain of evidence holds up, there’s no problem with a conviction. But that incident happened four or five years ago, after all, and the physical evidence has long since been damaged. The main thing is that the forensic autopsy showed that the girl did commit suicide, and that no one pushed, shoved, or made physical contact with her.”
”She was forced to jump, that asshole forced her to the window! That definitely qualifies as murder!” That scene had replayed itself in the mirror, everything Chen Ge had seen with his own eyes!
”Whether it’s murder or not you and I don’t count, the evidence does.” Team Li put away the three photos, “Do you want to hear the good news?”
”You say.”
”Zhu Xiu has a strong sense of anti-surveillance, he disappeared the day after he realized we were investigating.” Team Lee took the rest of the photos out of the file bag.
”What kind of good news is this?” Chen Ge was thinking out loud as he looked at the other photos on the table.
”If you don’t cooperate with the investigation and maliciously obstruct the case, we’ll have a reason to take coercive measures, and we can also request assistance from other police stations and so on.”
Team Li said a lot, but Chen Ge didn’t listen to any of it, and he picked up one of the photos on the table, his eyes somewhat unnatural.
”Why is this photo here?”
Team Li raised his eyes for a moment, “That was the last photo we took in plainclothes, Zhu Xiu disappeared in the building where the photo was taken.”
”Why would he go here?” Chen Ge’s eyes gently narrowed, the building in the photo was none other than the third building of the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood!
”We’re pondering this question as well.” Team Li didn’t know what Chen Ge was talking about, “After we searched and organized many clues, we found that it wasn’t the first time Zhu Xiu had entered the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood. We accessed the surveillance for nearly three months and found that Zhu Xiu had entered Building 3 on three separate occasions, what’s interesting is that each time he went there it was late at night, and all of them were late at night on a Tuesday.”
”How long did he stay inside each time?”
”About ten minutes.”
”Can you say exactly when?”
”Goes in after eleven-fifty on Tuesday nights, comes out after zero, and who knows what he’s doing.” Team Lee guessed, “This man seems to have known that his crimes would be discovered one day, so he’s looking for a way out for himself.”
”Tuesday after zero hour is Wednesday.” Chen Ge put down the photo, and the number “three” appeared once again, and he now suspected that Zhu Xiu had also received a flyer from the Weird Tales Association.
That guy seemed to still be trying to actively seek out the Weird Talks Association, except that the first few times he seemed to have ended in failure.
”The Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood is a key area for investigation, only now that there is a big case over at the city precinct, there are not enough police forces, and we alone cannot do a full deployment.” Team Li had his own difficulties, “It may need to wait for a day or two, but you don’t need to rush, it’s easy to arrest someone, what’s hard is to collect enough evidence to convict.”
”I understand.” Chen Ge memorized the buildings in each photo on the table in his mind, “Uncle Li, thanks a lot!”
”What’s the point of thanking me? Breaking the law is what I should do.” Years of experience in handling cases allowed Team Li to detect a hint of something wrong, and he vaguely felt that there was something wrong with Chen Ge’s tone.
”En, I’ll leave first if there’s nothing else.”
”Be safe on your way.”
”Don’t worry.”
After walking out of the police station, Chen Ge put his hand into his pocket as he clutched the flyer for the Weird Tales Association.
”After today is Wednesday.”