"Have you discovered another murder case?" Captain Li's tone on the other end of the phone was a little strange, and he naturally used the word "again".
"Four years ago, a girl named Zhang Ya fell from a building at Xicheng Private College. There was a hidden story behind her death!" Chen Ge said it with certainty.
"Wait a minute, I'll check the case file. If the family of the deceased requested an autopsy, we should have it on file." Captain Li didn't hang up the phone. He turned on the light and ran into the archive room. After searching for five minutes, he seemed to have found something: "Xicheng Private School, why does it sound familiar? Xiao Chen, get out of that school right now!"
"I'm on my way out, what's going on?"
"That school is very strange. It's hard to explain it in a few words. I can only give you a number. In just two weeks, six people committed suicide in that school, and their deaths were all extremely strange." The sound of shuffling papers was heard from the phone, and Captain Li roughly looked through the file.
"Yes! This number is basically consistent with what I thought." Chen Ge had already seen the school gate and would be able to get out soon.
"Is it consistent with what you thought? What's the situation over there now?"
"No matter what the situation is, first check to see if the first girl who committed suicide is called Zhang Ya?" Chen Ge was eager to confirm his guess.
Captain Li looked at the documents on the table and confirmed it again and again before replying to Chen Ge: "Yes, her name is Zhang Ya, but she did commit suicide by jumping off the building. The forensic doctor did not find any other types of wounds on her body. On the day the body was found, the police station also went to the scene to check. The girl jumped from the dance studio on the fourth floor. The window sill was intact, and the soundproofing cotton on the surrounding walls did not show any damage or signs of cleaning. It can be confirmed that Zhang Ya jumped off the building without any external force."
"No external force? Captain Li, have you ever thought that someone was forcing her? If she didn't jump off the building, she would be harmed!" Chen Ge described the scene he saw in the mirror.
"We have also considered this situation. The files contain the statements of Zhang Ya's roommates. All five girls said they were unaware of the incident. Zhang Ya jumped off the building after they left get out of class. She was the only one in the dance studio at the time. They said that Zhang Ya's mental state had always been unstable, she was withdrawn and unsociable, and had character flaws. In order to verify their words, the police who responded to the call also randomly questioned other girls in the same class, and all of them said the same thing."
"Zhang Ya is definitely not who they say she is. This group of people have colluded to give false testimony!" Chen Ge did not expect that other girls in the same class would slander Zhang Ya in this way. She clearly did not do anything wrong.
"What kind of girl Zhang Ya is, it's not up to you or me to say. Only the witnesses can decide." Captain Li didn't understand what Chen Ge was thinking. "Don't stay in that school any longer. Come out immediately. Our people will come to pick you up right away."
"They are lying! Look at the specific time of Zhang Ya's death. It should be before the five girls finished school! They lied about the time of death. Those five girls are accomplices!" Chen Ge's voice gradually became louder.
"You are really wrong about this. Zhang Ya died between 6pm and 8pm, and those girls left school at 5:30pm as usual." Captain Li didn't know what Chen Ge had experienced in Xicheng Private School. He was just judging from an outsider's perspective.
"impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible. The forensic doctor conducted a detailed appraisal based on mortal corpse spots, rigor mortis, corneal opacity and other aspects. Zhang Ya died between six and eight o'clock. The cause of death was a broken spine. Her skull was damaged, and her heel and hip bones were fractured. All the injuries were caused by jumping from the building."
Captain Li's words left Chen Ge unable to refute for a moment. He stopped and said, "Perhaps there is such a situation. Zhang Ya jumped off the building before the five girls left, but she did not die immediately after falling from the fourth floor. She still retained a glimmer of life. However, she had multiple fractures and a broken spine. She could not move and could only lie in a pool of blood and wait to die. She struggled and suffered for a long time before she truly died between six and eight o'clock."
"Your assumption is somewhat possible, but you overlooked one point. If the girl fell in a pool of blood and struggled after jumping off the building, would the other five girls present have no reaction at all? Even if the five girls did not rescue her for various reasons, other people in the school should have found her."
"It was vacation time, and only the six of them came to the school to train for the provincial dance competition. Their teacher had left early, and even if there were security guards in the school, is it possible that they were deliberately stopped by someone with ulterior motives?" Chen Ge expressed a different opinion.
"I won't argue with you about this. There's no point in discussing whether Zhang Ya committed suicide or not. You believe that the five girls forced Zhang Ya to death and were suspected of perjury and indirect murder, but in the following two weeks, the five girls also died one after another. The murderer you believe is no longer alive, so how can we investigate this case?" Captain Li is more worried about Chen Ge's safety.
"Captain Li, I never said that these five girls were the murderers. They were just accomplices! The real murderer who forced Zhang Ya to death was a fat man who was about 1.8 meters tall and slightly hunchbacked!"
"You've described it in great detail. Then tell me how you deduced the real murderer? Four years ago, the surveillance cameras in Xicheng private schools had not been fully installed, and all the eyewitnesses at the scene were dead. Now you tell me that there is another real murderer. How can I believe you?" Captain Li has been working overtime for several days for the Ping'an Apartment case. He was still on standby at the station after two in the morning, and his voice was mixed with a deep sense of fatigue.
Chen Ge could hear the doubt in Captain Li's words: "We can check the people who were related to West City Private College four years ago. We will definitely find this person! He was at the crime scene that day!"
"Chen Ge, handling a case is no joke. Do you know how difficult it is to check all the people who were involved in a school four years ago? Even if you can convince me, the higher-ups won't be able to file a case for you. What you need is evidence, not suspicion or speculation."
"What I said is the truth."
"Only facts can stand up to scrutiny." Captain Li has already started sorting out the files, preparing to put them back into the cabinet. "Can you tell me why you are so obsessed with this case that was determined four years ago? From what I understand, you are not the kind of passionate young man with an overflowing sense of justice."
Why are you so persistent?
Chen Ge was stunned by Captain Li's question. Zhang Ya's reminder in the wooden house of Ping'an Apartment flashed through his mind, as well as the coldness and loneliness that Zhang Ya exuded when she leaned against him in the dance studio just now.
"There's no reason, actually. In this situation, I'm the only one left who can speak up for her and stand with her." Chen Ge said into the phone.
"I still don't understand what you mean." Captain Li on the other end of the phone spoke after a long while: "But strict justice is the basic principle of the police. Since you have raised doubts, I will personally help you investigate after the case of Ping An Apartment is closed."
"Thank you, Uncle Sanbao!" Chen Ge breathed a sigh of relief. "Catching the real murderer can also be considered an explanation to Zhang Ya. As for this damn place, I never want to come here again."
He hung up the phone and turned back to take one last look at West City Private College.
When he turned around, he found that the red-clothed evil spirit Zhang Ya was standing behind him!
They were about two or three meters apart. Blood was flowing on the school uniform. Zhang Ya tilted her head and looked at Chen Ge. She did not get close this time and her expression was a little strange.
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