Chapter 56

The eastern sky was already turning white, and Zhou Zhengzheng could no longer hold on. He stood up and walked away staggeringly.

Other colleagues arrived immediately, set up cordons downstairs and on the top floor, and collected fingerprints, footprints and other traces.

Chang Ting stood there, staring at the high-heeled shoe not far away, frowning slightly.

Yu Aiai has a pair of high heels, one upstairs and one downstairs.

He looked at the height of the concrete fence. According to Yu Aiai's height, it was just at waist level.

If it is suicide, if you are agile enough, you can climb up in high heels and jump down.

If you are not very skilled, you can take off your shoes under the fence, climb up barefoot, and jump down.

But one shoe followed the person down, and the other shoe fell approximately in the middle of the roof, making the scene look a little chaotic.

Could it be that Yu Aiai was so impulsive and hasty when she jumped off the building that she didn't care that one of her shoes fell off as she walked towards the edge, and she climbed up the fence with the other shoe on and jumped down?

Or was it, as Zhou Zhengzheng suspected, that there was a second person at the scene, with whom Yu Aiai had pushed and fought, causing her to lose a shoe?

Chang Ting leaned on the railing and looked down, reviewing the whole process of Yu Aiai from disappearance to falling from the building.

Yesterday afternoon, Yu Aiai asked her roommate to pretend to be her to lure away the plainclothes officers who were waiting there. She then went out and disappeared into the stairwell.

After that, no surveillance camera captured her figure again. According to Zhou Zhengzheng's analysis, she must have left from the underground garage in a car.

But he came back without anyone noticing.

During this time, Zhou Zhengzheng stayed in the monitoring room on the first floor. The security guard on duty at the front gate of the apartment building already knew that the police were looking for Yu Aiai, and if she returned, she would definitely inform Zhou Zhengzheng.

But the security guard hadn't seen Yu Aiai return. Chang Ting had just asked her roommate, who also said she hadn't returned to her room.

Then, she should have returned from the underground garage, taken the stairs to the roof... and then fell.

He tried every possible means to escape, but he returned again. As if drawn by some obsession, he returned specifically to replicate the ending of "Yu Er" in the comics!

Why is this happening?

Chang Ting's head exploded with thoughts. He rubbed his temples and left the rooftop. He walked slowly up the stairs to the first floor, but still couldn't figure out what was going on.

Outside the front door of the apartment, several police officers were busy, including Forensic Doctor Xie. Chang Ting entered the cordon and asked Forensic Doctor Xie, "Did you find anything?"

Forensic Doctor Xie shook his head: "Apart from the bloodstains at the scene that match the characteristics of a fall from a height, there are no other findings."

Chang Ting remembered that Zhou Zhengzheng said that Yu Aiai was carrying a backpack when she walked out of the house in the surveillance video.

He asked Forensic Doctor Xie, "Anything left behind? A backpack, a cell phone, anything?"

"There was only one high-heeled shoe at the scene. Judging from the angle and distance, it was thrown out when the person fell to the ground."

Maybe the backpack was on Ai Ai and they were carried to the hospital together?

Chang Ting took out his cell phone and called Zhang You, who was sent to the hospital. Zhang You said that Yu Aiai did not have a backpack or a cell phone in her belongings.

Where was the bag? And where was the phone, last located at the apartment building?

It was past eight o'clock when the residents who were going to work walked out of the apartment gate and were surprised to see police cars and policemen.

Soon, the cordon was filled with people, pointing at the bloodstains on the ground and talking about it.

Despite the police's efforts to persuade the crowd to disperse, people continued to hold up their mobile phones to take pictures, with the sound of cameras clicking one after another. Then they lowered their heads and posted the pictures on various social media platforms.

Looking at this formation, Chang Ting knew that the matter could not be concealed and the news would spread quickly.

He remembered something and pulled out his phone to open the comic. As expected, reality and fiction were once again intertwined. The comments section was already filled with revelations, and the comic's followers were going crazy again.

[I heard something happened at the Aegean Apartments. A woman jumped off the building (I’m scared)]

[The life-threatening comic has come true again!]

[I live here, I saw it live, it was just like the comics!]

[I took a picture from the window. Look, they're exactly the same! The women's clothes are all in the same style!] (Image cannot be displayed)

[Isn’t the one who died the prototype of Yu Er?]

Is this comic cursed? (Is it scary?)

[Was it really Qiu Yue’s ghost who did this?]

[Believe in science, not superstition. I bet a dollar that the author did it.]

[Please delete the above post quickly. If the author gets arrested, there will be no more to read.]

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Chang Ting looked up at the tall buildings in annoyance. There were many faces looking down from the windows, and many of them were taking pictures.

He couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many residents in this building, it's like a beehive."

He paused as he spoke, thinking of a possibility.

"Damn it!" he cursed loudly.

His colleagues were startled by him: "What's wrong, Brother Chang? Why are you scolding me?"

"I curse myself! I know what happened, why did I think of it only now?"

After saying that, he slapped himself hard, and in the stunned eyes of his colleagues, he broke through the cordon and ran towards the property monitoring room.

Chang Ting grabbed the property manager and said, "Come on, come on, check the surveillance with me."

"Check again?" the property manager said with a sad face. "Officer Zhou reviewed the exit surveillance a hundred times last night, and there's really no Yu Aiai."

"We're not checking the exit, we're checking inside the building!"

"What do you mean?" The manager didn't understand.

"Yu Aiai may not have even left the apartment!"

From the very beginning, he subjectively believed that under the suggestion of the comics, this apartment would become a terrifying place for Ai Ai, and anyone else would instinctively want to escape.

Yu Aiai’s roommate also said that Yu Aiai asked her to lead the people outside away because she wanted to go out.

Furthermore, Yu Aiai called her lovers to find a new place to live.

Therefore, he never considered the possibility of Yu Ai Ai staying in the apartment building.

But there are so many rooms in this building. What if she just left her room and went to another room in the building?

Chang Ting urged the property manager: "Please check the surveillance cameras in the corridors of each floor yesterday to see if Yu Aiai went to other floors."

"No……"

"What's the meaning?!"

The manager quickly said, "Officer, there's no strict requirement to install surveillance cameras in the apartment building corridors."

Chang Ting knew he was right. While the hallway was a public area, residents had the right to privacy. Unless the owner or tenant requested it, the property management company wouldn't go out of their way to pay for installation.

The surveillance camera at the door of Yu Aiai's house was also installed by them.

Chang Ting was scratching his head in anger when he suddenly caught sight of a floor plan on the wall. Several floors were colored in on the plan, each labeled a certain B&B.

Chang Ting remembered that Yu Aiai called her lovers and asked them to book a room.

A light flashed through his mind, and he asked, "How many B&Bs are there in your building?"

"Three, on different floors."

"Give me the phone number of the B&B owner."

The manager found the number and Chang Ting called each one in turn, asking if anyone named Yu Aiai had booked a room yesterday.

When I asked the owner of the third B&B, I got a positive answer.

Yesterday afternoon, Yu Aiai booked a room at Yunju B&B on the 17th floor online!