Chapter 0370 – The Sickest Beauty
”It should just be a coincidence that Ruxue Gao wanted to take the elevator when she happened to meet the Raincoat Man descending the stairs.”
The police’s manhunt brought a lot of pressure on the raincoat man, Chen Ge thought differently and felt that the murderer should have wanted to leave the Qixia Lake neighborhood and was preparing to flee the place.
”For the time being, we can’t be sure, we can’t rule out the possibility of a tailing murder.” Li Zheng looked at the surveillance probes in the elevator, “We have also suspected that the murderer lives in the middle of the Qixia Lake Community, because some of the surveillance probes in the community were destroyed three days ago, and that also happened to be the time when the first eye gouging case happened.”
Li Zheng gave Chen Ge a suspicious look after he finished speaking, the police had only deduced that the murderer could possibly be living in the Qixia Lake neighborhood after getting hold of a large number of clues, and Chen Ge, alone and without the help of a team, had not only determined that the murderer was in the Qixia Lake neighborhood, but had even stated the floor that the murderer was living on.
Frankly speaking, if Li Zheng wasn’t familiar with Chen Ge, he even suspected that Chen Ge was also related to this case.
Entering the elevator, the community property staff provided Chen Ge and Li Zheng with the basic information of all the residents on the twenty-third floor.
There were no words Han Bao’er in the name of the head of household, and according to the property staff’s recollections, there didn’t seem to be any particularly beautiful women on the twenty-third floor of the third building either.
”Chen Ge, could you be mistaken?”
The first thing the police did after arriving at the Qixia Lake neighborhood was to cordon off Building Three; they had already checked most of the residents.
Chen Ge wasn’t too assured of Pen Cen’s predictive ability, and he was only fifty percent sure.
After thinking for a while, Chen Ge turned his head and called the property staff to open his mouth and asked, “Is there any surveillance installed at the corner of the twenty-third floor stairs?”
”The monitoring above the fifteenth floor was broken a long time ago, and we haven’t been able to repair it, mainly because we had asked someone to repair it before, and then it was inexplicably broken again, and after repeating it a few times, we didn’t bother about it anymore.” Property staff speak carefully, this is, after all, their dereliction of duty: “We have three shifts of security guards in the neighborhood, and nothing has ever happened before ……”
”Just because nothing has happened before doesn’t mean it won’t in the future.” Chen Ge didn’t bother with the staff, “Are you familiar with the residents on the twenty-third floor of building three? Are there any people living on this floor whose behavior is not normal?”
”Not normal people?” The staff member shook his head.
”Then have you received any complaints from the residents? For example, strange noises coming from a certain room in the middle of the night, or smelling any pungent odors?” Chen Ge opened his mouth to inquire, and Li Zheng couldn’t even interject from the side.
The staff pondered for a while, their eyes looking towards a certain room door deep in the corridor: “We’ve received calls from residents, but it’s not a complaint, it’s a request for help.”
”A request for help?” Chen Ge and Li Zheng both stopped in their tracks.
”There’s a household on the twenty-third floor that often has domestic violence and makes a lot of noise, but we’ve never received a call for help from the person in question, it’s all from neighbors who just can’t stand to hear it and call us.” The staff led Chen Ge and Li Zheng to the door of whichever household was in the deepest part of the corridor: “This is the one.”
Corresponding to the information provided by the property owner about the head of the household, the person who lived here was called Qiu Mang, a very famous upscale club fitness instructor.
”The person you’re looking for shouldn’t be him, Qiu Mang is almost one meter nine tall, I’ve watched the surveillance video of that raincoat murderer, he’s only one meter seven at most, definitely not the same person.”
”Open the door, go in first and take a look.” At this time Chen Ge would not let go of any suspicious places.
The staff seemed to be a little afraid of Qiu Mang, and somewhat reluctantly knocked on the door, “Anyone? We are from the property.”
The house was very quiet and no one responded.
Chen Ge touched Li Zheng’s shoulder, “There might be a problem in this house, call your people over, if you can’t, use violence to open the door.”
”That’s easy for you to say, without any evidence, we don’t have the right to break into the house either.” Li Zheng thought for a moment and added, “At least ask for Team Yan’s permission before doing so.”
While the two were talking, footsteps suddenly sounded from the door of the room, and a moment later the security door was opened, and a tall, handsome, well-built man stood in the doorway.
His eyes were sleepy and yawning, his eyes were slightly red and swollen, as if he hadn’t rested properly for several days in a row.
”Do you guys need something?”
The property staff squeezed out a smile on his face and said with some embarrassment, “A murderer seems to be hiding in our neighborhood, and the police want to ask you something.”
”Ask me?” The man felt a bit puzzled as he slowly came to his senses, and after seeing the police uniform on Li Zheng, his complexion changed slightly, “I’ve been sleeping at home, I don’t know anything.”
”Can we go in and talk?” Chen Ge’s five senses were very sharp, and when he opened the door, he vaguely smelled a faint odor of blood in the air.
Qiu Mang glanced at Chen Ge, not quite willing to let outsiders into his home.
”This is my ID, I hope you can cooperate with us.” After showing his credentials, Li Zheng took out his walkie-talkie in front of Qiu Mang and told the other members of the group to come and gather on the twenty-third floor of Building Three.
Knowing that he couldn’t escape, Qiu Mang opened the security door, “Come in, the house is rather messy.”
The table in the living room was overturned, all kinds of things scattered all over the place, the vase was also broken, a few flowers that were obviously just bought fell on the ground, and seemed to have been stepped on a few times, the petals were crushed.
”Domestic violence?” Chen Ge was the first to enter the living room, and after seeing the scene inside the house, the first thing that came to his mind was this word.
”Hurry up and ask if you have anything to ask.” Qiu Mang’s face was gloomy, he hated it when outsiders came to his house, it gave him a feeling that his secrets were being exposed.
”Where were you between eight and twelve tonight?”
”At home playing on the computer.”
”Who can prove it?”
”Need to prove what? I’m not a murderer, you’ve got the wrong person!” Qiu Mang shouted, he had a bad temper, even when facing the police he still couldn’t suppress the fire.
”I repeat, who can prove it?” Li Zheng seems to be a different person at this time, his height and size and Qiu Mang compared are not dominant, but gives the feeling that really fight, he can subdue Qiu Mang within a few moves.
”I arrived home at seven thirty, had a meal, and then started playing the game.” Qiu Mang finally gave in, he opened the computer, “I usually have nothing to do like to play live broadcast, teach people how to exercise muscles, tonight a little annoyed don’t want to talk to people, just one person live broadcast to play the game to go.”
Checked the live video, Qiu Mang said the truth, between eight and twelve o’clock he has been playing games.
”Why are you feeling annoyed tonight?” Li Zheng did not let go of any doubt in Qiu Mang’s words.
”Had a fight with my girlfriend.”
”You hit her with your hands?” Li Zheng looked at the messy living room.
”Yes.”
”Why did you hit her? At what time did you hit her?”
”Is that even something to say?” Qiu Mang was in a bad temper, he seemed to be on the verge of an outbreak, “Around ten to ten and a half, at that time, I was live streaming, and the camera was not turned off, if you don’t believe me, you can go look at the video yourselves.”
The time that Qiu Mang said was exactly the time when the raincoat man was squatting outside Gao Ruxue’s room door, preparing to attack her.
If what Qiu Mang said was true, then both his and his girlfriend’s suspicions would be ruled out.
Li Zheng uses Qiu Mang’s computer to find the live video.
Qiu Mang was playing a game until about 10:00 p.m. when his girlfriend’s voice rang out on the screen, and the two sides argued over a small matter, and then Qiu Mang left from in front of the camera, the vase in the house was shattered, and the table was overturned, and then the sounds of insults and cries were heard.
”I know what I did was wrong, but sometimes I can’t help myself.” Qiu Mang’s lighthearted attitude made everyone in the room a little angry.
”Anytime violence is used against innocent people, it’s a trampling of human rights. You should be clear that domestic violence that causes injuries can also be penalized.” Li Zheng stood up and waved his hand towards the property staff next to him, “When you encounter this kind of situation again in the future, you must pay attention to it, and condoning it will only encourage him to make bigger mistakes.”
”Understood.”
Li Zheng stood up and seemed to be a little uneasy, “Where is your girlfriend now? I need to take a look at her injuries.”
”In the bedroom, she locked the door behind her, I can’t get in.” Qiu Mang had his back to the sofa, with no intention of getting up at all.
”You should have a spare key for the bedroom door at home, right? Open the door.”
”Are all you cops so idle? Isn’t there a murderer out there who hasn’t been caught? I can just settle things in my own home myself.” Qiu Mang’s eyebrows knitted together, and a vein emerged on his arm.
”Precisely because I’m a police officer, I can’t just ignore it.” Li Zheng stared at Qiu Mang and pointed to the bedroom, “Open the door.”
His attitude was firm, and Qiu Mang knew he couldn’t muddle through, getting up and rummaging through the closet to find the key, opening the bedroom door.
Unlike the messy living room, everything in the bedroom is neatly arranged, and I don’t know if it was cleaned, or not messed up originally.
Inside the house, you can vaguely hear a woman’s crying, very low, as if she was aggrieved, but she did not dare to cry too loudly.
”Domestic violence cannot be condoned, if you need help you can look for the local Women’s Federation, or you can directly call the police.” Li Zheng looked at the woman lying on the bed with her back to him, and couldn’t see any problems just from her back.
But his years of experience as a police officer made him feel that there was something odd about this, he walked around to the other side of the bed and looked at the woman’s face.
The bureau’s criminal profiler drew the appearance of the murderer, the murderer of the eye gouging case has several characteristics, holding special killing equipment, not very strong, very beautiful appearance, friendly, it is easy for people to let their guard down.
These Li Zheng had long been in his mind, but just as he was about to see the woman’s lowered face, his cell phone suddenly rang.
Taking out his cell phone and picking up the call, Li Zheng realized that it was from Team Yan, who told him that he had found the eye gouge murderer and asked him to bring someone over immediately.
Receiving the order, Li Zheng hurriedly glanced at the woman on the bed, the woman’s hair half covered her face, unable to see exactly how she looked.
Out of his absolute trust in Team Yan, he briefly explained a few words to the woman before directly walking out of the bedroom.
”The murderer has been caught, Chen Ge, let’s go over immediately!” Li Zheng took out his cell phone and headed outside, but was stopped by Chen Ge.
”Don’t rush, this person seems to be lying.”
Li Zheng was about to see the woman’s face just as he received a call from Team Yan, which didn’t seem too normal to Chen Ge.
What made him feel even more puzzled was that the city precinct CID team usually used walkie-talkies to contact each other at the scene, so why was it that just this one time Team Yan had to use a cell phone to call Li Zheng?
”You guys take a look at this shattered vase.” Chen Ge pointed at the fragments on the ground, “If it accidentally hit the cabinet and the vase rolled off the edge of the cabinet, it should have shattered near the cabinet. However, if you look at the center point where the fragments splattered, this point is more than a meter away from the cabinet, which means that the vase didn’t fall by itself, but was lifted up and intentionally broken.”
Li Zheng took a look and realized that this was really the case.
”When you entered the bedroom just now, I glanced inside, the bedroom was clean and there wasn’t even a single water stain on the floor, which is completely different from the living room. I’m curious as to why a man who has lost his mind would prefer to only go crazy in a certain area of the living room.”
Chen Ge looked around, “The kitchen and bathroom are all clean, only the living room was messed up, and the mess was restrained, so it’s very likely that this was staged on purpose.”
He tugged Li Zheng back a step, “An innocent couple, why would they create the illusion of domestic violence on such a sensitive night? Are they covering up something? There’s also the alibi provided by the man just now, amongst the entire live video, only his own figure is shown, but his girlfriend never showed up, I highly doubt there’s something wrong with that video.”
Being told by Chen Ge, Li Zheng also felt that there was something fishy, he told the staff of the property to leave the room to notify the people at the back, then he and Chen Ge surrounded Qiu Mang with one on the left and one on the right.
While Chen Ge was saying those words, Qiu Mang was acting wronged at first, but at the end of the day he was directly silent.
”Don’t put up unnecessary resistance, stand up!”
Facing Li Zheng and Chen Ge at the same time, Qiu Mang lowered his head, and after a long time, he seemed to make a decision, “Those five eye gouging cases, I actually did all of them, I’ll leave with you.”
”You’re the murderer?” Li Zheng and Chen Ge glanced at each other, and at the same time, they understood this man’s idea, he wanted to take the blame for her girlfriend.
”Stand up! Don’t move!” Li Zheng took out his walkie-talkie and was about to report to Team Yan when his cell phone suddenly rang again, opening it to see that it was still Team Yan’s call.
”Hello? Team Yan! I found a suspect on my side! Requesting support!” After Li Zheng finished speaking, Team Yan on the other side of the phone only said three words.
”Look back.”
Li Zheng instinctively turned his head to look, the woman in the bedroom had walked behind him at some point, and a bony child climbed up Li Zheng’s body.
What was even weirder was that Li Zheng didn’t seem to see any of this, his eyes staring into the woman’s black sockets as if he had been hypnotized.
”I don’t want to kill you guys, you have to seek death.”
The woman’s voice sounded a little hoarse, and it felt like she wasn’t young, but if they saw her face, everyone would be shocked.
It was hard to describe the beauty, a mixture of sickness and madness, as if it was a rose blooming on a graveyard.
Drawing on the sustenance of death, it blossomed into a shocking beauty.