37 Serial Murders
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Ai Iketani looked towards the door of the emergency room. The door was opened from the inside and a doctor walked out with regret in his eyes.
A middle-aged couple rushed over after hearing the tragic news that their son had jumped off the building. Seeing their son being pushed out with a white cloth covering his face, they could not bear the shock and broke down in tears.
"How could this kid be so desperate as to jump off a building?! If he's gone, how are his father and I going to live from now on?"
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault. I was the one who pushed him to study all day long, and that's why he became like this."
"My son is gone, what's the point of living? I'm the one who deserves to die the most!"
The boy's mother looked at her dead son, her legs went limp and she sat on the ground, beating her chest repeatedly, with unspeakable regret in her heart.
The boy's father looked at his son who had completely lost his voice and felt extremely regretful.
If he hadn't been so eager for his son to succeed, and hadn't stopped the child's mother when she was urging her to study, but instead given the child more breathing space, would the child have been so depressed that he would have jumped off the building and committed suicide?
But it's too late to say anything now, the child is gone.
This tragic scene made Wang Lunan, who was standing next to him, sigh with sorrow and feel scared at the same time.
I immediately decided to go home in the evening and have a good chat with my daughter to relieve her study pressure.
Although Wang Lunan also hopes that his daughter can become a successful person and can be admitted to a good university, the most important thing is that his daughter lives a good life.
Otherwise, when something really happens, it will be useless to regret.
Seeing that everyone believed that the boy committed suicide by jumping off the building due to academic pressure and had no doubt about the real cause of his death, Iketani Ai felt heavy-hearted.
"Are you sure your son committed suicide by jumping off a building because he couldn't bear the pressure of studying?"
Just as the couple was suppressing their grief and preparing to take their son home for burial, Iketani Ai suddenly spoke.
She was afraid that if she didn't tell them, the couple would really take the boy back and bury him without knowing why.
The death of an underage child is considered premature death. In Lingcheng County, funerals are generally not held for children who die prematurely, but they are buried in a hurry.
If she were really buried in the ground, she wouldn't be able to possess the victim and accept the remaining memories.
When the couple, who were still immersed in the grief of losing their son, heard Iketani Ai's question, they were stunned.
The father wiped away his tears and quickly turned to look at Iketani Ai.
Because Iketani Ai came to the hospital to visit the patient in casual clothes today, the man didn't know that she was a public security officer, but when he heard this, it was like he had grabbed a life-saving straw.
After all, the child was killed by someone, which made him feel better than if the child was forced to death by him and his wife.
If this were true, he would now have an outlet for the frustration and anger in his heart that he had nowhere to vent.
"I, I'm not sure. That's what the teacher at school told us. He said the child jumped off the building because of academic pressure."
"When we received the news, the child had already been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. We naturally listened to whatever the teacher said."
"Did the teacher trick me? My child didn't commit suicide by jumping off the building. He was murdered by someone?"
As he spoke, the man began to feel suspicious.
His son has been under a lot of academic pressure recently. A few days ago, he had a fight with his mother because he couldn't stand his mother's strict discipline.
But after the quarrel, his son regretted it and took the initiative to apologize to them.
He also promised to study hard and get into a good university so that they would be proud of him in the future.
His son did what he said. These days, every time he came home, he would study until late at night without his mother having to urge him.
This kind of self-motivated and hardworking spirit doesn't look like someone who can't stand the pressure and would jump off a building to commit suicide!
Moreover, although their son is a bit introverted, he is not so sensitive and fragile as to commit suicide.
Just then, the man saw the school teacher rushing over, and he grabbed the teacher and started questioning him about how his son jumped off the building.
The teacher was also in a very embarrassing situation at this moment.
He is the head teacher of the senior year at the county high school. The principal went to the city for a symposium these two days and has not returned yet.
Now that someone has died in the school under his management, he is also very panicked.
Their county middle school has been established for more than 20 years.
Even during the most turbulent years, no one died.
How unlucky he was that a student jumped off the building when the principal was away.
At this moment, Director Li was being questioned by the student's parents. Although he was anxious, he still patiently tried to comfort them.
The other party's child is missing, and the child is missing at school. So their school is responsible, and he can only endure the embarrassment put on him by the parents.
But when Director Li heard the other party suspect that the child did not commit suicide by jumping off the building, but was murdered by someone, he still found it absurd.
Victimized? How is that possible?
The students in their school are all 16, 17, or 18 years old. Who would have the guts to kill someone?! It's even more impossible for a teacher to do that.
He also asked the boy's class teacher, who knew that the boy had never had any grudges with anyone and had a good relationship with his classmates. How could someone harm him for no reason?
Therefore, it must be that the teenager couldn't bear the pressure of studying and was psychologically fragile, so he jumped off the building.
Seeing Director Li's certainty, the boy's father hesitated, but Iketani Ai didn't believe it.
Since the system can connect to the other party's signal, it is definitely not suicide.
Director Li became a little impatient when he saw that Iketani Ai was still harping on the cause of the boy's death.
He was eager to get the matter over with as soon as possible and didn't want it to get out of hand.
Their school is currently being evaluated as a key middle school, and the principal went to the city for a meeting for this purpose.
This time, a student jumped off the building at the school, and the school has no hope of being selected as a key middle school.
If the news gets out and is published in the newspaper, it will have a huge impact on their school.
Not only will the school be affected, but he and the principal will also probably face more severe punishments.
When the time comes, the Education Bureau will definitely criticize them as the focus.
"Who are you? Do you know better than our teachers whether the student committed suicide or not? Please go away and stop disturbing people."
Director Li originally wanted to drive Chi Gu Ai away so that he could appease the students' parents.
But when Ikegani Ai showed her public security ID, his heart skipped a beat.
The other party turned out to be a police officer? They insisted that the boy didn't commit suicide. Could there really be something fishy about his death?
Regardless of whether there is a real problem or not, since Iketani Ai is determined to find out the truth, Director Li cannot stop her and must actively cooperate.
Otherwise, he would be charged with obstructing public service.
At Iketani Ai's insistence, the boy's parents also felt suspicious about their son's death.
In the end, the body was not buried hastily, but was sent to the hospital morgue.
If their son was really murdered, they must seek justice for him and not let him die in vain.
Director Li didn't say much when he saw this, he just hoped that Ikegani Ai didn't really find any problems.
You have to know that the negative impact caused by a student being killed in school and committing suicide by jumping off a building in school are not on the same level.
After saying goodbye to her godmother Wang Lunan, Iketani Ai left the hospital, planning to go to the school's jumping scene to see if she could find any useful clues.
The boy's parents had no time to cry and followed him to school after coming out of the morgue.
Because someone died, the school is in a panic and students can't concentrate on their studies at all.
The teacher was afraid that something would happen again, so he gave all the students a day off and asked them to go home and have a good rest, for fear that another student would be overwhelmed by studying and jump off the building.
When Iketani Ai rushed to the school, she found that her colleagues from the Public Security Bureau had also arrived.
Whenever a homicide occurs, the county public security bureau must intervene, even if it is a suicide.
Wang Gongan and Fang Tianhe were standing together, questioning the boy's class teacher.
"Wang Chunming is an introverted but hardworking child. He studies very hard, so his grades are quite good in the class."
"However, in the mock exam held at school a few days ago, his score was slightly lower than last time. I heard that his parents scolded him after he got home. I guess the scolding made him study harder afterwards."
"I don't know if it's because he often stays up late studying at home, but he's not very energetic during the day. He's been dozing off in class these past few days, and I caught him today and scolded him."
"So I think he was too embarrassed to face the criticism and the pressure of studying was too great, so he jumped off the building in a moment of despair. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have criticized him."
The class teacher felt more and more guilty, and felt that he was also responsible for Wang Chunming's suicide.
If he had noticed Wang Chunming's bad mood in time and talked to him, things might not have developed to this point.
Perhaps his criticism was the last straw that broke the camel's back for Wang Chunming.
After hearing the head teacher's self-blaming words, Fang Tianhe and Wang Gongan comforted him.
Originally, the two of them thought that this was just an ordinary case of a student jumping off a building to commit suicide.
But after Ai Iketani came over and went up to the teaching building with her to check the situation on the balcony, they no longer thought so.
The balcony of the school teaching building looked a bit messy because it had been trampled on by many curious students after the accident.
However, after a careful investigation, they found fresh scratches and dried blood somewhere on the balcony railing, which made them immediately suspicious of the real cause of the boy's death.
Looking at the fresh scratches and bloodstains on the railing, Iketani Ai felt relieved.
"When I helped take Wang Chunming to the hospital morgue just now, I found rust between his fingernails and a scratch on his right little finger."
"I suspect the marks and blood on the railing were left by Wang Chunming during his struggle."
"So his cause of death was definitely not suicide."
Since Iketani Ai had doubts about the cause of Wang Chunming's death, she naturally had to pay more attention.
So when Wang Chunming was sent to the morgue, most of her attention was focused on observing Wang Chunming's body.
After all, although she was very sure that there was something wrong with the cause of Wang Chunming's death, she couldn't just say it, she had to provide evidence.
When Wang Chunming's mother heard this, she was stunned.
She also noticed the marks on Wang Chunming's hands.
When Iketani Ai told her that, she didn't care.
She originally thought that the rust was caused by her son accidentally getting it on somewhere, but now she finally came to her senses.
That wasn't something her son accidentally got stuck on, it was clearly something he scratched while struggling!
Her son did not commit suicide by jumping off the building. He was clearly murdered and pushed down by someone.
If her son had really decided to commit suicide, why would he still struggle?!
"I knew it. I knew my son wasn't that fragile. He was being victimized!"
Seeing Wang Chunming's parents becoming emotional, Director Li became even more worried.
It's over, there's actually something fishy about Wang Chunming's cause of death?!
Director Li now only hopes that the principal can come back soon, as he cannot handle such a big thing alone.
"No, that's impossible. Wang Chunming has never had any conflicts with any classmates. Who would harm him?"
"These marks might have been left by Wang Chunming scratching himself when he suddenly regretted jumping off the building."
Wang Chunming's class teacher was still a little skeptical.
As the class teacher, he is in charge of the very important senior year class and he is very familiar with the situation in the class.
Wang Chunming was busy studying all day long, and I never heard that he had any conflicts with anyone.
Besides, the classmates are all focused on their studies, who would be so bold as to harm others?!
It is indeed possible that the marks were left by Wang Chunming out of sudden regret, but Wang Chunming's parents do not accept this statement.
Rather than believing that their son committed suicide, they would rather believe that his son was murdered.
Ai Iketani knew the truth and did not argue with the class teacher about it. Instead, she asked Director Li to call all the students back.
Whether there are any problems among these students or not, she will have to wait until she meets them one by one to find out.
Director Li had no choice but to call back all the students who had just returned home.
Iketani Ai thought she could find clues from these students and find out who the murderer of Wang Chunming was.
It was just obvious that she had underestimated the other party's psychological quality.
Or maybe the person who killed Wang Chunming was not a student?
Chi Gu Ai frowned. If it wasn't still early and she wasn't feeling well, why would she possess Wang Chunming at this time? There wouldn't be so much trouble.
Wouldn't it be better to find the murderer directly from Wang Chunming's memory and then trick him?
Then, Iketani Ai slapped her forehead in self-mockery.
She really has become accustomed to taking shortcuts so quickly.
If she didn't have the system and the ability to possess victims, would she be unable to solve homicide cases in the future?
It seems that improving one's business capabilities has become a top priority.
But these are things I will have to work hard on later, so let’s take a shortcut this time.
Chen Qiudi was still in a trance at the moment.
She really couldn't accept that her classmate, who was still alive not long ago, was dead in the blink of an eye, and was most likely murdered.
However, seeing that Gu Aijie was still worried about who harmed Wang Chunming, Chen Qiudi began to desperately recall which classmates in the class had behaved abnormally today.
But she hadn't really paid much attention to these things before, and now she couldn't remember anything even after racking her brains.
Ikegani Ai thought Chen Qiudi was frowning because she was frightened by the death of her classmate, so she patted her shoulder to comfort her.
Then he told Chen Qiudi that he had something to do tonight and had to stay in the bureau to work overtime, so he would not return to the dormitory and asked her to go back to Chen's house.
With his godfather and godmother by his side, Chen Qiudi could at least sleep more peacefully at night.
After nightfall, Ikegani Ai, who was staying in the bureau with Fang Tianhe to check the students' confessions, couldn't help but yawn.
Seeing that Chi Gu'ai was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyes, Fang Tianhe asked her to go to the lounge next door to take a nap.
Iketani Ai did not refuse. After lying down in the lounge, she clicked on the hotspot connection.
However, after possessing Wang Chunming and taking over his remaining memories, Iketani Ai regretfully discovered that even Wang Chunming himself didn't know who had killed him.
Because he was criticized by the teacher and was in a bad mood, Wang Chunming did not go home after school at noon.
Instead, he ran to the rooftop to get some fresh air to help him get rid of his bad mood.
Unexpectedly, just as he was lying on the guardrail and looking into the distance, he was suddenly pushed down from behind.
The boy only had time to reach out and grab the rusty railing. He didn't even see who pushed him before he fell headfirst out of control.
The college entrance examination was just a few months away, and his years of hard work were about to pay off, but at this moment he was killed by someone. The boy was filled with resentment!
The young man hated the person who killed him.
He really couldn't understand who hated him so much and wanted him dead?
He had never made enemies with anyone before, so he couldn't understand it!
Not only the boy couldn't understand it, but Iketani Ai also couldn't understand it.
Iketani Ai, who was unable to find out who the murderer was from Wang Chunming's remaining memories, could only regretfully cut off the connection and return to her own body.
After waking up, Iketani Ai continued to check the confessions and was busy until dawn before she finished reading all the confessions.
I went to the sink to wash my face, but I couldn't help but think back to the reactions of those students when they were interrogated.
Just when Iketani Ai felt that her mind was a little clearer, screams were heard outside again.
"Someone's dead, Public Security Comrades, another person has died in school!"
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