Chapter 173 In My Name 09 The Third Party

Chapter 9

"So what should we do next?" Jing Jue asked the two.

The current situation is that they have indeed found problems with Shi Minjie, but it is still unclear whether the cause of Shi Minjie's death was man-made or accidental.

Lu Changfeng said: "Since we know that there is something wrong with Shi Minjie, the judge has reason to choose Shi Minjie as the target."

Yue Fanglin nodded in agreement and asked Lu Changfeng: "Do you have any new ideas?"

"The Judge's symbol appeared in the swimming pool, which means the Judge at least approached the swimming pool."

Jing Jue said: "After Shi Minjie checked into the resort hotel, anyone who entered and left his room was very suspicious."

"That's right."

And these are what Ouyang Ji is in charge of investigating.

In the office of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Bureau, Yue Fanglin informed Ouyang Ji of the clues he had found.

Ouyang Ji: "Can you confirm now that Shi Minjie's death was not an accident?"

"Not yet." Lu Changfeng said truthfully: "The content we have found so far can only prove that the appearance of the Judge's mark at Shi Minjie's death scene was not accidental. This is the Judge's judgment on Shi Minjie. It cannot prove that Shi Minjie's death was murdered and not an accident."

Ouyang immediately took out a USB drive and handed it to Yue Fanglin: "This is the surveillance footage at the entrance of the villa where Shi Minjie lives. Everything from the day he checked into the hotel until the day he got into trouble and we took over the scene is in here."

"Thanks."

Yue Fanglin took it and gave it to Zhou Yu.

Ouyang immediately gave the conference room to the serious crime team so that they could check the surveillance footage here.

The multimedia screen played the surveillance footage of Shi Minjie's check-in.

On the night of check-in, a woman came quietly.

The mask and hoodie covered her completely, and it was impossible to tell who she was.

The surveillance footage clearly captured Shi Minjie coming out of the house and opening the door for her, and the two of them entered the villa one after the other.

The woman left the villa early the next morning.

"Who could this woman be?"

Zhou Yu enlarged the surveillance footage, but it was still difficult to tell who the woman who covered herself tightly was.

"Can the wrist be enlarged?" Jing Jue asked.

Zhou Yu enlarged the surveillance footage. The woman was wearing a watch on her wrist. From her attire, it could be seen that she was not very tall and had short hair.

Based on this feature, Lu Changfeng remembered, "It should be Shi Minjie's student, Wang Xue."

"Wang Xue..." Yue Fanglin carefully recalled everything that happened when he questioned Wang Xue today.

Wang Xue did have short hair, was short in stature, and wore a watch on her wrist. Although the picture was not clear enough, one could tell from the outline of the watch on her wrist that it was him.

Jing Jue said, "Shi Minjie is not likely to be involved with Wang Xue."

"This is just our guess. We still need to track her based on the surveillance footage and confirm her true identity before we can proceed with the next step of the investigation."

Yue Fanglin handed the matter over to Ouyang Ji to investigate, while the serious crime team continued to check the surveillance.

During the few days I stayed there, the woman would come to the villa every night and leave early the next morning.

She changed several sets of clothes over the past few days, but they all covered her face tightly.

During this time, the resort staff brought them food several times and cleaned the room, and no other suspicious people came.

The serious crime team returned to the resort for an on-site investigation.

The villas are independent and it is unlikely that someone could climb in and throw something into the pool.

The staff in charge of room cleaning said that after the last customer checked out, they would clean the entire room very carefully, including the swimming pool.

Every time after a customer checks out, the swimming pool is thoroughly cleaned to ensure there is no dirt or grime underneath the pool before it is refilled with water.

Therefore, it can be determined that the things in the swimming pool could not have been left behind by the previous resident, but could only have appeared during the time that Shi Minjie stayed there.

Anyone who appears in the room during this period may throw the Judge's symbol into the swimming pool.

"Isn't the judge among those who have entered and exited the room?" Jing Jue leaned against the wall and looked at Lu Changfeng.

Lu Changfeng said: "Combined with the current situation, this is indeed the case."

"Aren't the most likely suspects the last person to see him alive and the first person to see him dead?" Jing Jue thought carefully and came up with the answer: "Wang Xue was the last person to see the deceased alive. Could it be her?"

"The forensic examination results said that he died unexpectedly due to cardiac arrest during swimming. He failed to receive timely treatment." Zhou Yu felt that Jing Jue had made a misunderstanding: "The autopsy showed that there were no other external factors that led to his death. There was no surveillance in the room, and we don't know why he didn't take antihypertensive drugs. It is also unknown whether swimming without antihypertensive drugs would lead to Shi Minjie's death. Not taking antihypertensive drugs does not mean that swimming will inevitably lead to death. His death is not necessarily murder, nor is it necessarily disguised as an accidental death by taking advantage of the loopholes in antihypertensive drugs. It is an accident in itself."

Jing Jue tried hard to follow Zhou Yu's thinking, and thought through it again, and felt that Zhou Yu was right.

"If Shi Minjie really died accidentally, and the Judge's mark appeared in the swimming pool, the Judge wanted to use Shi Minjie's death to let us investigate the dark side behind it. As long as we analyze who has this motive, everything will be clear."

By investigating Shi Minjie's death in detail and following the judge's usual practice of investigating murders, we can find out what he has done over the years. Once this is done, Shi Minjie will inevitably be ruined.

Whoever wants Shi Minjie to be disgraced the most may be the judge.

"Could it be Wang Xue?"

Wang Xue is Shi Minjie's only female student at present and will soon graduate from graduate school.

“This possibility cannot be ruled out.”

Wang Xue might be another Wen Ting.

"It's meaningless to speculate without any basis. Why don't we ask Wang Xue to come over and have a chat, and ask Lan Qi to come over as well, and ask her if she knows that Wen Ting and Shi Minjie were together before."

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Wang Xue appeared at the police station.

In the statement taken at school that morning, she, like other students, denied that Shi Minjie had any problems such as misconduct in teaching.

Wang Xue asked: "Why did you ask me to come here so late? Is there something you didn't finish asking me this morning?"

Lu Changfeng nodded and pushed the surveillance screenshot to her: "Does it look familiar?"

Wang Xue subconsciously covered the watch on her hand.

Lu Changfeng asked her: "What is your relationship with Shi Minjie?"

Wang Xue: "It's just an ordinary teacher-student relationship."

"As a teacher and student, would you come to his B&B every night to visit him?"

Wang Xue said: "I don't understand some questions and want to ask him for advice. He is my teacher. Is there anything wrong with me asking him for advice?"

"Of course not." Lu Changfeng tapped the photo, pointing to the face that Wang Xuebi had covered up. "If you were just an ordinary teacher-student relationship, why would you wrap yourself up so tightly, fearing that others would see your face?"

"Who said I don't want people to see my face? I'm wearing sunscreen because I don't want to get my face sunburned."

"How can you protect yourself from the sun in the middle of the night? For several consecutive days, you came as early as eight o'clock and as late as nine or ten o'clock. The sun would have already set by then." Lu Changfeng pointed to the surveillance time on the photo.

Wang Xue: “…”

"What is the relationship between you and Shi Minjie? I'll ask you one last time."

Wang Xue lowered her head and said, "We are lovers."

"Don't you know he has a wife?"

"I know." Wang Xue's momentum weakened a lot.

"I know you're still in a relationship with him and you're interfering in other people's relationships."

Wang Xue said: "He and his wife are divorcing but not leaving home. They divorced a long time ago and have no feelings for each other. They just stayed together for the sake of each other's reputation. How can it be considered that I am interfering in other people's relationships?"

"He hasn't divorced his wife." Lu Changfeng showed Wang Xue the evidence that Shi Minjie was married.

Wang Xue shook her head and denied it: "That's impossible. I saw their divorce certificate. They are really divorced."

"To be precise, they were divorced, but they remarried later."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Wang Xue didn't want to believe it, tears rolling down her cheeks, "I'm not the mistress who destroys other people's families, I'm not."

Lu Changfeng: “…”

"Tell me, what on earth do you, a young and beautiful girl, see in him?" Lu Changfeng really couldn't understand. Wang Xue is at most 25 years old this year, and Shi Minjie is 53 years old, and they can both be her father.

"Shi Minjie's youngest child is older than you."

"I know." Wang Xue said calmly: "He told me about his family situation and said that we would get married after I graduated from graduate school."

"You still want to marry him?" Lu Changfeng was shocked.

In Wang Xue's eyes, the age difference between her and Shi Minjie is not a problem at all. "There are celebrities who get married with a 30-year age difference. Why can't my teacher and I get married?"

Lu Changfeng noticed something was wrong. If Wang Xue was really a love-brained person, she should have known last night that Shi Minjie was dead. At the very least, she should have known it this morning when the police came looking for her.

But her emotions were very stable. Lan Qi was crying her heart out, but she behaved very calmly. If she really wanted to marry Shi Minjie after graduating from graduate school, her dream was shattered and it shouldn't be like this.

Lu Changfeng: "Why do I feel like you're not sad at all about Shi Minjie's death?"

Wang Xue looked at Lu Changfeng with tears in her eyes.

"Compared to learning about his death and learning that he didn't divorce Lan Qi, the latter made you cry more sadly..."

If you really love someone and that person dies, how can you have such an attitude?

Unless it's not true love.

Even during the visit this morning, Lu Changfeng didn't feel that there was anything particularly wrong with Wang Xue.

She has already completed her graduation thesis defense, and whether Shi Minjie is dead or alive will not have much impact on her.

Her behavior in the morning was completely normal, but looking back now, she was too calm.

Wang Xue: "How do you know I didn't cry? I cried so hard where you couldn't see me. I finally stopped crying and calmed myself down to face you, but you wanted me to cry."

"I'm not a woman like Lan Qi. Normally, she doesn't seem to love her teacher so much, but she came to mourn when he died, fearing that others would say she was not virtuous."

Lu Changfeng: "Are they not on good terms?"

"I don't think there's any affection. Anyway, the teacher is with me most of the time."

"You don't seem to have much affection for Shi Minjie."

Wang Xue's tears welled up in her eyes: "Do I have to cry to be considered as having feelings? The teacher definitely doesn't want me to cry for him. To truly love someone is to hope that the other person can be happy after you die instead of crying."