Chapter 432: Dream (13 days a day)
Fan Tianyou’s file bag is not thick, it’s just a normal investigation process.
Since it was confirmed by classmates and other teachers that he had no interaction with Xu Liu and Lu Xiaoshuang during his spare time, he was not the focus of the conversation.
The first document in the file bag is Fan Tianyou’s household registration information, which contains some basic information.
Fan Tianyou is not a native of Hongcheng, but comes from a place called Changfengling. Zhou Yi has never heard of this place, but the name should be a mountainous area.
To be able to reach this level after coming out of the mountains, he can be said to be a child of destiny, and a model of how knowledge changes destiny.
But the problem in the mountainous area is also obvious, that is, the household registration information is very simple and there is no specific information about his family relations.
The second document is the faculty and staff information provided by the school, which contains a more detailed resume of Fan Tianyou.
He was born in 1964, was admitted to Hongda College of Accounting in 1985, and successfully graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1989.
Then he went abroad in 1989 and went to a foreign university that Zhou Yi had never heard of to pursue a master's and doctoral degree. The specific enrollment time written on the information was from August 1989 to June 1994.
After returning to China in the second half of 1994, he joined Hongda with the title of lecturer.
In just less than three years, at the beginning of this year, he was successfully promoted to associate professor.
Zhou Yi didn't understand the academic system, but he could still understand that this speed was amazing.
But this is not the point. Maybe he really has strong academic level, or he has help from noble people.
The third one is the interrogation record of Fan Tianyou.
The police first asked him what he thought of Xu Liu. His answer was similar to that of most of his teachers. He said that he was smart, but his mind was not on studying, which was a pity.
However, he also admitted that the situation in China is different from that in foreign countries. In China, many students study the hardest in high school, and after being admitted to university, many of them just want to graduate.
So he respects every student's personal choice.
When asked about his impression of Lu Xiaoshuang, Fan Tianyou's answer was almost the same as in his previous life: motivated, hardworking, studious, and simple.
I am not the best student in Hongda, but I am the type that teachers like very much.
He then mentioned a different opinion from his previous life, which was that classmate Lu Xiaoshuang seemed to have become much more cheerful than before in the past two months, and her academic performance had also improved significantly.
This just happens to fit the changes brought about by Zhou Yi's appearance.
Then, the police officers of the task force asked him to explain in detail where he was and what he was doing from the evening of April 28th to April 30th, and whether there was anyone who could prove it.
This is also a question that everyone will inevitably be asked when they are surveyed.
In the previous life, this time period was from May 3rd to 6th.
In fact, relatively speaking, it is more complicated to provide an alibi for the previous life.
Because in her previous life, Lu Xiaoshuang disappeared after class on May 3rd, which was a Friday, and the next two days were weekends, so the body parts were found on Monday the 6th.
Therefore, there is no need to go to school or work on the weekends, and many people have plans to go out. Once people start moving, it is very difficult to confirm the authenticity of all their behavioral trajectories.
The same is true in this life. Some people will always be alone for a period of time, or have a low sense of presence in a certain environment. For example, someone says that he went to the basketball court alone to watch people play basketball at night, but not everyone will notice this person, so there is no way to provide complete and sufficient proof of absence.
So based on this situation, we need to analyze the rationality according to logic.
For example, the time spent alone is relatively short, no more than two hours, and there is no continuous time alone. He just makes his presence known in front of other people every once in a while, and then disappears again. This is to prevent the murderer from deliberately timing himself to create a "witness" to prove his alibi.
As for why short periods of solitude can eliminate suspicion.
This is because the entire criminal process itself is relatively complicated and the crime lasted a long time. In particular, forensic doctor Wang Yao, who was sent from the provincial capital to provide support, took more than 100 pieces of body parts out of more than 1,000 pieces, and then used the most advanced high-power microscope he brought to observe microorganisms, and finally came up with a reference conclusion.
There are more than one hundred samples, and each one was marked with the time of search and discovery when it was observed. Then Wang Yao recorded the microbial growth index of each sample, and finally sorted them according to the time of discovery, and found that it was a relatively regular curve.
In other words, the discovery time is directly proportional to the number of microbial growth, and the fluctuation range is within a reasonable range.
Wang Yao also put forward a lot of professional theories, which left many people confused and incomprehensible.
But in the end, everyone understood Wang Yao's final conclusion.
That is, cutting the body into more than a thousand pieces and frying these more than a thousand pieces were completed within a concentrated period of time.
There is a possibility to perform the slicing and frying steps separately.
But the slicing is definitely done in a sustained period, as is the frying.
Because if it is completed in stages, for example, cutting a part, frying a part, and after half a day, cutting and frying another part, the number of microorganisms that grow will not be what it is now.
Wang Yao said that organic matter will rot, whether it is raw or cooked.
Decay will be accompanied by the growth of microorganisms, so scientific data will not lie.
Based on this conclusion, combined with Song Yiming's previous experimental data of at least eight hours, it can be inferred that even if the two steps of dismembering and cooking the body are carried out separately, each step will take at least four hours.
Moreover, there is the possibility of time spent on the round trip, so keeping the time within two hours is already very strict, not to mention the additional item of continuous alone time.
Therefore, during the two hours of solitude, the task force only understands the situation during the investigation and does not include it in the scope of suspicion for secondary review and investigation.
But this rule did not exist in the previous life, because the crime methods in the previous life were far less complicated than in this life. If the murderer had a very strong psychological quality and relevant professional experience, he could have completed that level of dismemberment within three hours.
As for disposing of the body, it is entirely possible to do so in a dispersed manner over multiple time periods.
After all, if the location where the body is dumped is observed and locked in advance, the act of dumping the body itself will take very little time.
In his previous life, Fan Tianyou’s alibi was like this.
After get off work on May 3rd, he left the school through the side door on the east side and went to the snack street outside the east gate, which was a noodle restaurant on Dongsheng Road, to eat a bowl of pork chop noodles.
Then he rode his bike to Xishan Cemetery, which is about seven kilometers away from Hongda. It took him about forty minutes.
The reason he went to Xishan Cemetery was to visit the grave of his girlfriend, who had died in an accident while he was in college.
Because the night before, he dreamed of his girlfriend, who said that the grass in front of their house had grown too tall recently and was very annoying.
He thought his girlfriend was angry because he hadn't visited her for too long, so he decided to visit the grave on Friday night.
He bought a pair of candles and some paper money in a small shop next to Xishan Cemetery and asked the owner to issue a receipt.
After buying the things, he entered the cemetery and found his girlfriend's grave. He discovered that there were actually very tall weeds growing in front of the tombstone, exactly as his girlfriend had described in her dream.
So he pulled the weeds, lit a candle and burned some paper, then stayed for a while before leaving. It was almost nine o'clock when he got home. After washing up, he lay on the bed, read a book for a while, and then fell asleep.
He lived in a new apartment provided by the school. It was not inside Hongda, but only about one kilometer away from Hongda.
The next morning, when he was going out, he met a colleague downstairs and said hello.
Due to the special environment of the cemetery, the task force did not find any suitable witnesses.
The task force verified Fan Tianyou's photo and the receipt he provided. The owner of the incense and candle shop next to the cemetery confirmed that the handwritten receipt was from him because it also had the date. They also confirmed Fan Tianyou's photo and said it was this person who came to buy things after dark and was wearing a hat.
But more importantly, the next morning, May 4th, the man with glasses came to him with a receipt and said that he bought something here last night, but after returning home, he found that the change seemed wrong.
The boss was very angry about this and said that he had been in this business all his life and never cheated customers, because he was selling things for the dead and cheating people would damage his karma.
As a result, the other party took out a ten-dollar bill and handed it to the boss, saying that he had misunderstood and that he found out that he had been given ten dollars too much when he got home.
The boss thanked him immediately.
Afterwards, the task force also verified the matter with Fan Tianyou.
In addition, at the grave of Fan Tianyou’s girlfriend, the task force did find unburned candles and traces of weeding.
Although there were no witnesses, the physical evidence and objective circumstances basically matched Fan Tianyou's description.
Then on the 4th and 5th, although it was the weekend, he had corresponding alibis.
After he came back from the cemetery on the 4th, he met up with two friends for dinner and went fishing nearby. They didn't leave until after eight o'clock in the evening.
Although No. 5 did not make an appointment with his friends, he went to the nearby Xinhua Bookstore in the morning and had a record of buying books. Since he had carefully inquired about the details of several books, the bookstore clerk had an impression of him.
After buying the book, he returned to Hongda, and was captured on the surveillance camera at the main entrance.
He had lunch in the school cafeteria at noon, and there was a consumption record on his meal card.
I went to the library in the afternoon and found borrowing records and witnesses.
He had dinner in the cafeteria again in the evening and did not leave through the main gate until after 8 o'clock in the evening, as evidenced by surveillance footage.
As for the night, since he is single and not a local and does not live with his family, and the huge off-campus talent apartment building has no surveillance or access control.
Therefore, it is impossible to provide a clear alibi.
But this is also a problem that single people will encounter when they are surveyed. Of course, there is no way to prove that they are sleeping alone at home.
However, Fan Tianyou did not have any car or house in his name, and he also took the initiative to suggest that the task force could inspect his apartment. After the inspection, it was found that it did not meet the conditions of the first crime scene.
So based on his whereabouts over the past two and a half days, the task force in the previous life ruled him out as a suspect.
When Zhou Yi was repeatedly looking through the case files of the Hongda case, his only suspicion about Fan Tianyou was this: the next day was Saturday, so why was he so anxious to go to the grave on Friday night? Wouldn't it be creepy to go to the grave so late at night?
But given the sufficient physical and circumstantial evidence, it is possible that Fan Tianyou just thought of it when he was bored.
Beyond that, there's no doubt.
After all, there were no other clues pointing to any suspicion against Fan Tianyou.
Just now, when Zhou Yi was looking through the interrogation record of Fan Tianyou, he began to answer about his whereabouts from April 28th to 30th.
During the day on April 28th, he was in school and had a very solid alibi.
Then, after work on the evening of the 28th, Fan Tianyou said that he went to Xishan Cemetery because!
The night before, he dreamed of his girlfriend, who said that the grass in front of their house had grown too tall recently and was very annoying.
This sentence happened to be at the end of a page, so when Zhou Yi saw it, he didn't pay much attention and naturally turned the page.
But in an instant, it was like a flash of lightning in my mind.
Zhou Yi flipped back abruptly and read the sentence word by word.
That's right, Fan Tianyou's exact words were: "The night before, I dreamed of my girlfriend who passed away years ago. She said the grass in front of our house had grown too tall recently and was very annoying. I thought she must be blaming me for not visiting her for a long time, so I decided to go to her grave after get off work."
That’s right, his answer in his previous life was exactly the same as in this life.
Zhou Yi could even be sure that not a single word had been changed!
But the problem is that in this life, the question was about his whereabouts on April 28th, and this answer was used to explain his whereabouts on May 3rd in the previous life!
How is it possible for a person to have the same dream repeatedly in such a short period of time?
Even if there is an extremely small probability, Fan Tianyou had this dream on the night of April 27th, and then had the same dream again on the night of May 2nd.
But will he go to visit the grave again in just five days?
Even if I go, the question is whose grave has the grass growing so fast!!!
So these two sentences in past and present lives are exactly the same. There is only one reasonable explanation, that is, Fan Tianyou lied!
Whether it was the night of May 3rd in the previous life or the night of April 28th in this life, he lied, and used exactly the same way of lying!
But this exactly the same way of lying was only used for the first time by Fan Tianyou in both lives.
However, for Zhou Yi, this lie was repeated over and over again.
Zhou Yi never expected that the files he had read countless times in his previous life would actually work in this way.
I thought that the victim had changed, the time of the crime had changed, the modus operandi had changed, and the case was completely different, so the corresponding investigation records would also change. The grand case files that I had flipped through countless times in the archives in my previous life were completely useless.
But in the end, the efforts of the previous life worked in the most unexpected way.
Fan Tianyou's lie about dreams was like an anchor, breaking through the constraints of time and space, firmly hooking the riverbed called truth, and fixing the grand case there.
And Zhou Yi is the only sailor who can retrieve the anchor.
The moment he confirmed this sentence, Zhou Yi's first reaction was that the murderer had been found.
In the previous life, after the scope of the investigation was expanded, it wasn't that no one lied on their alibi, but the purpose of the lies was to cover up other behaviors, such as adultery, prostitution, and some theft.
But these alibis were eventually exposed by the police officers of the task force. The reason was very simple: these people just made up lies on the spur of the moment.
For example, in the case of adultery, the person involved may find reasons to hide it from his or her spouse, but ordinary people do not have the ability to investigate and do not have the relevant authority, so it is easy to get away with it.
However, the task force will conduct complex confirmation of witnesses, physical evidence and circumstantial evidence.
These improvised or loose lies will be immediately exposed under the investigation of the task force.
Fan Tianyou's lies successfully evaded the investigation of the task force, especially the receipt, which became the key to his lies.
This shows that his lies were not fabricated on the spur of the moment when facing the investigation by the task force, but were fully prepared in advance.
Although Zhou Yi didn't know how he did it.
Generally speaking, although the process from the occurrence of a murder to its discovery varies in length, basically 80% of the victims have been killed or held hostage within two to three hours of disappearing from public view.
Therefore, the alibis within three hours of Lu Xiaoshuang's last appearance in the previous life and Xu Liu's last appearance in this life are the most important.
In his previous life, the receipt from the incense and candle shop next to the cemetery was the key physical evidence that helped Fan Tianyou successfully avoid proving himself.
What about this life? Did he also rely on this receipt to prove his identity?
Zhou Yi immediately lowered his head and turned the page to read.
Just like in his previous life, Fan Tianyou's route after get off work was to go out from the side door on the east side of the school, eat a bowl of pork chop noodles at a noodle shop on Dongsheng Road, and then ride his bike to Xishan Cemetery.
Looking at this testimony again now, Zhou Yi feels completely different.
Because he was already highly suspicious, every word Fan Tianyou said became suspicious.
According to his testimony in the previous life, Fan Tianyou had lunch and dinner in the school cafeteria on May 5, which was Sunday.
But why did he go to the nearby snack street to eat noodles on the day of the incident?
If you have no doubts, then it's just a simple meal. After all, no one says you can't eat out.
But if you have any doubts, you need to swipe your card to eat in the school cafeteria, and there will be a consumption record in the background of the meal card, which can be checked.
The snack street east of the school has over 10,000 people visiting every day, and the peak time is after students finish class in the evening.
Who would notice a lone diner in such an environment?
If he said he ate in the school cafeteria, the task force would have to collect his meal card records, which would have made it difficult to explain. Because Hongda is open to the public, and to prevent people from nearby from using the cafeteria, the cafeteria does not accept cash payments.
So if you think about it carefully, in his previous life, all of Fan Tianyou’s alibis for the first night had no clear witnesses, and the biggest proof was the receipt.
Although the owner of the incense and candle shop confirmed Fan Tianyou's photo, it was actually quite strange that Fan Tianyou went to return the money the next day.
Even if the boss really gave me an extra ten yuan, is his moral standard really that high? Would he travel fourteen kilometers to return the money?
And take out that receipt?
This is more like deliberately strengthening the boss's impression the next day and "turning" the boss into one's own witness.
The question is, where did this receipt come from?
Does he have accomplices?
But Zhou Yi recalled carefully that Fan Tianyou only mentioned two friends on the second day, but he did not find anything suspicious. These two people did not even have anything to do with Hongda.
Zhou Yi continued reading.
But what Fan Tianyou said next made Zhou Yi frown.
Because after he arrived at Xishan Cemetery, he did not go to the nearby incense and candle shop to buy candles and paper money.
Then of course there would be no receipt that could serve as key evidence.
He said he went straight into the cemetery and visited his girlfriend's grave.
The girlfriend he mentioned was named Chen Lin, who was also a student at Hongda University back then.
Then he said that he found that there were actually very tall weeds growing in front of the tombstone, exactly as his girlfriend had described in her dream.
He pulled the weeds and talked to his girlfriend for a while.
Seeing that it was getting quite dark, he prepared to go back.
Then! He said he met someone in the cemetery.
This person is the father of his girlfriend Chen Lin and the dean of Hongda Social College, Chen Gengyun!
Zhou Yi was stunned. Chen Gengyun was the father of Fan Tianyou's deceased girlfriend? What was going on?
Now Fan Tianyou was obviously lying, because no matter how much his existence interfered with the development of this life, it was impossible for it to interfere with Fan Tianyou's mind and affect him to dream about his girlfriend several days in advance.
Therefore, the appearance of Chen Gengyun is also a lie.
And judging from the fact that Fan Tianyou did not arouse suspicion, Chen Gengyun must have proved as a "witness" that this "encounter" in Xishan Cemetery was real.
Zhou Yi immediately flipped back to look for the information on the verification part.
The first page is the record of the task force finding and confirming Chen Gengyun.
The record was only one page long, and its content was to confirm with Chen Gengyun whether he had met Fan Tianyou on the night of April 28, at what place, at what time, and under what circumstances they met, and what they said and did after they met.
Chen Gengyun's answer was exactly the same as Fan Tianyou's explanation.
Fan Tianyou left and Chen Gengyun came. After the two met, Fan Tianyou, who was about to leave, stayed with Chen Gengyun for about half an hour and talked about some things about his daughter's life.
Chen Gengyun also added that there are street lights in the cemetery, so it is not as gloomy as imagined.
The two of them then left and said goodbye at the cemetery gate.
Chen Gengyun said with certainty that it was around 8:30 at that time, because he looked at his watch when he and Fan Tianyou parted ways.
In other words, the receipt evidence in the previous life became Chen Gengyun as a witness in this life.
This comparison raises a series of questions.
Was the receipt from his previous life given to him by Chen Gengyun?
Why did Chen Gengyun only give Fan Tianyou a receipt instead of coming forward to testify on his behalf?
Why was there no receipt in this life, but she directly gave false testimony on his behalf?
Did Chen Gengyun know about Fan Tianyou's crimes? When did he know about it?
Did Chen Gengyun simply perjure himself on behalf of Fan Tianyou? Or was he also involved in the crime? Or was he the mastermind behind the grand crime?
Why was it Lu Xiaoshuang who died in the previous life? And why was it Xu Liu who died in this life, but the blame had to be put on Lu Xiaoshuang?
If Chen Gengyun participated in or even planned a grand crime in his previous life, why did the method of dismemberment change so much in this life?
Zhou Yi's mind is now filled with questions one after another.
If before, the grand case was a problem that he could not solve at all.
Now, the grand case is a problem for which he knows the answer but still does not know the entire solution steps.
The most important thing is that you won’t get any points just by writing the answer to this question.
Zhou Yi scratched his hair and began to read Fan Tianyou's investigation materials word by word, not missing a single punctuation mark.
After reading it once, go back to the first page and read it again from the beginning.
He looked at it over and over again.
Before we knew it, the sky had turned pale.
At this time, wherever Zhou Yi's eyes scanned the information, the next paragraph would naturally jump into his mind.
He was like a human body scanner. After scanning over and over again tirelessly, he recorded all the information about Fan Tianyou in this life in his mind word for word.
Sure enough, apart from tomb sweeping and dreams, other information is completely different from the previous life, which is consistent with the reasonable changes brought about by the passage of time.
But just like in his previous life, Zhou Yi now seemed to be full of suspicion of forcing an alibi.
For example, on April 29th, Fan Tianyou said that he had been working at school during the day, and he had classes from certain time to certain time, academic exchanges from certain time to certain time, etc. He had sufficient alibis for these time periods. He even missed dinner at around 8 o'clock that evening because of academic research and went to the school cafeteria to eat something casually.
But interspersed between these periods, he had a lot of time to himself, such as going to a nearby place to eat a casserole at noon, and when he had no plans, he immersed himself in academic research in his office. Hongda arranged independent offices for teachers above the level of associate professor, after all, they were high-end talents.
These periods of solitude without witnesses generally did not exceed two hours.
But Zhou Yi calculated that all the time he spent alone, from the time he entered the school gate at eight in the morning to the time he left school at nine in the evening, was nearly six hours.
That is to say, although he claimed that he was in school all day, he was not in front of others for nearly six hours.
Zhou Yi looked through the information of other teachers and found that some of them also had different degrees of alone time, especially those at the rank of associate professor and above who had independent offices, and those who had very few classes that day. So it was not Fan Tianyou's case alone, but Fan Tianyou had the longest cumulative alone time.
There must be something wrong here!
After leaving school at nine o'clock in the evening on the 29th, he returned to the talent apartment and met a colleague when going upstairs.
Then I washed up and rested until I went out to work the next morning.
He had two classes on the morning of the 30th, with only an hour's break between them. The second class was for the 1996 Financial Management class.
After class, it was noon.
Because some classmates asked him a few questions, he left a little late. He knew that there would be a long queue in the cafeteria at this time, so he went outside to pack a rice bowl and eat it in the office.
The classmate who asked him questions was Lu Xiaoshuang.
In the afternoon, he went to attend the school celebration that started at two o'clock, but because he took a short nap at noon and overslept, he was a little late and the event had already started.
The lighting was dim at the time, so he just found a corner and sat down.
He said that when he entered, he saw a registration form at the door and signed his name on it. Later he found out that it was for teachers and students who were participating in the performance to sign in.
During the task force's subsequent investigation, they found this registration form and kept a copy. It was indeed Fan Tianyou's name on it. The technical department made a note to confirm that the handwriting matched.
This shows how meticulous the task force's investigation was, fearing to miss any suspicious points.
As for the exact time he left, he was not very sure, but he described the performance on stage when he left.
According to the performance sequence of the event, this show will be performed around 3:20.
As for the reason for leaving, it was that he felt the environment in the auditorium was a bit dark, which made his eyes uncomfortable.
He returned to his office, put in eye drops, rested for a while, went to the school library to borrow two books and then went back.
The borrowing record was later verified and the borrowing time was 3:48.
Lu Xiaoshuang was kidnapped at two o'clock. Combined with the duration of the ether's effect and the series of feedback from being locked in the trunk, the crime should have occurred between two and three o'clock in the afternoon.
According to the investigation, Fan Tianyou also had sufficient alibi during this period of time.
But since Zhou Yi is certain that he is the murderer, all his alibis are invalid in his eyes.
Zhou Yi would be extremely suspicious of him unless there were two or more witnesses, such as in class, where it would be impossible for him to commit the crime in public.
Otherwise, Zhou Yi would doubt the authenticity of the evidence.
Because of the precedent of the receipt and Chen Gengyun as a witness, it cannot be ruled out that there may be other people who gave false testimony on his behalf.
But suspicion is just an attitude, not a result, nor evidence, and cannot lead to conviction.
So he had to find a way to expose Fan Tianyou's lies and find out the truth.
But the tricky part is, how is he going to check?
It's not that he can't suspect Fan Tianyou, he can suspect anyone, but if he wants to investigate Fan Tianyou thoroughly, he has to report to the task force, or at least get Liang Wei's permission.
But for this guy who has a "sufficient" alibi, he has to provide reasons for a reinvestigation.
Either there are new clues pointing to the issue, or there is sufficient logical support to convince the leadership.
He couldn't possibly tell Liang Wei that Fan Tianyou had also had this dream in his previous life, just a few days later. After all, the current logic only applied to his own memories before his rebirth.
Of course, if he and Chen Yan were the only police officers involved, he believed Liang Wei would not stop them.
But there is also the matter of Chen Gengyun, and it cannot be ruled out that Liu Baoguo may also be involved.
Just by keeping an eye on Fan Tianyou and Chen Gengyun, he and Chen Yan were locked down.
I have to find another helper.
But Sister Qiao and Brother Biao both have missions to complete and are too busy to handle everything.
Suddenly, Zhou Yi thought of someone.
He immediately took out his cell phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, Captain Wu, how's your rest been lately?"
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When Director Wang returned to the office of the internal affairs team exhausted, he did not see Zhou Yi, but only saw a file bag placed diagonally on the top.
He picked it up and took a look at it, then straightened the file bag and muttered, "Fan Tianyou? This person has been checked..."
At the same time, in the grand girls' dormitory area, the dormitory manager had just returned from breakfast and saw a man standing at the door of the duty room.
"What are you doing? Men are not allowed to enter here... Oh, it's you, young man?" The aunt recognized Zhou Yi and said with a smile.
Zhou Yi directly stated his purpose and asked his aunt to call Mo Youyou out.
Seeing his serious expression, the aunt agreed without asking any more questions.
When Mo Youyou heard the broadcast, she had just woken up and was still brushing her teeth.
Everyone was confused and stood there for a few seconds, thinking they had heard it wrong.
After being reminded by the people next to her, she realized that they were indeed calling her, so she quickly ran out with her toothbrush and cup.
When I ran downstairs, I saw a familiar figure standing at the door of the dormitory area.
She quickly ran over and said breathlessly in front of Zhou Yi, "Officer Zhou...Officer Zhou."
"Mo Youyou, I have a few questions for you."
Youyou couldn't hide the worry on her face and said, "Can I...can I ask a question first?"
"What?"
"How is Xiaoshuang now?"
In fact, Zhou Yi had already guessed what she was going to ask.
He hesitated and said, "She's fine, but she can't come back for the time being."
Hearing the words "She's fine," Mo Youyou finally let go of the heart that had been hanging for so long. She let out a long breath and kept muttering to herself, "That's good, that's good."
"But you must keep this information confidential and not mention it to anyone," Zhou Yi reminded him. "Don't say a single word. This concerns Xiaoshuang's safety."
Fan Tianyou is the murderer, and he is also the teacher of Lu Xiaoshuang's compulsory course. If he cannot be brought to justice, it means that Lu Xiaoshuang will lie on the guillotine every day, unless she completely gives up her studies and moves away.
The investigators were certain that this person was the murderer, but they could not find any evidence of the crime, so they had to let him go. This kind of thing has happened before.
Zhou Yi must not let this happen.
Mo Youyou nodded repeatedly: "No, no, I won't tell you even if you kill me!"
"Let me ask you a few questions."
"Okay, Officer Zhou, go ahead and ask."
"Did Xiaoshuang ever tell you about my business trip?"
Mo Youyou said hesitantly, "That night you went to see Xiaoshuang, and I asked her after she came back. She refused to tell me at first, but then I told her..."
"What?" Zhou Yi asked with a frown.
"I said... Officer Zhou must have confessed to you, otherwise why would you have been gone for so long. Then she said you were going on a business trip, so you came to tell her."
Zhou Yi held his forehead and shook his head helplessly. This little girl is really...
"Should I... not ask this?" Mo Youyou asked with some guilt.
Zhou Yi didn't answer and continued to ask: "Have you told anyone else about my business trip?"
Mo Youyou shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, I didn't say that."
"Are you sure? Think about it again. For example, you didn't say it on purpose, but it happened unintentionally?"
Mo Youyou frowned and thought about it again and again, then said timidly: "Well... it seems like I accidentally said it... once."
"Under what circumstances?"
"There was a social event at school on the night of the 25th. I wanted to go, but I didn't want to go alone, so I wanted to ask Xiaoshuang to come along. But she refused, saying it wasn't safe to go out at night. You wouldn't let her go. So I asked another roommate to come along."
"And you told the other party about my business trip?"
Mo Youyou said embarrassedly, "On the way there, my roommate asked Xiao Shuang why she didn't go, and I said...her family officer Zhou was on a business trip, so he was keeping a close eye on her and didn't let her go out to play. That's...that's all I said, and I really didn't say it again after that."
Sure enough, it was exactly as I expected. "Was there anyone around at the time?"
"There should be...someone passing by." Mo Youyou immediately added, "But I'm sure there's no one I know."
Mo Youyou and Xiao Bing had no connection, so even if Xiao Bing passed by, she would not notice.
But the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.
If my analysis is correct, it is very likely that Xiao Bing knew about my business trip by this coincidence.
But this point cannot be confirmed, after all, Xiao Bing is dead.
Zhou Yi then asked if Xu Liu had any unusual reactions after he called Lu Xiaoshuang on the night of April 26th. But Mo Youyou's answer was the same as in the previous interview: she didn't notice anything wrong with her.
Zhou Yi told Mo Youyou that if she thought of anything, no matter how small and insignificant, as long as she felt it was strange or abnormal, she should remember to call him.
…
Anyuan and Pan Hongjie walked into the office leisurely, first made a cup of tea, then opened a newspaper and read the news.
The follow-up to Zheng Guangming's case took some time to resolve, mainly because Anyuan had never seen such a large-scale murder case, so the city and the province held several special meetings regarding this major serial murder case. As the main person in charge of solving the case, he naturally had to follow Director Guo to attend meetings everywhere.
However, he felt particularly happy to be singled out for praise by senior provincial leaders for his contribution to solving the case. After all, he had never had such an honor before.
He instantly felt that he had a bright future ahead of him.
It seems that it is not impossible for him to take over Director Guo's position in the future. The word "Pan" followed by "Ju" sounds very suitable.
In addition, after Zhou Yi and the others left, Anyuan was clear and peaceful, which made him smile happily wherever he went these days.
The phone on the table rang. He took a sip of tea slowly before picking it up.
"Hello, I'm Pan Hongjie. Who is this?"
"Captain Pan, I'm Zhou Yi."
When he heard it was Zhou Yi, Pan Hongjie immediately became excited.
"Zhou Yi, oh, it's been a while since we last contacted each other. When will you be free to come visit Anyuan again?"
"Captain Pan, I want to confirm something with you."
"What's the matter? Tell me." Pan Hongjie said with a smile.
"Zheng Guangming's driver, Feng Qiang, is he from Huaixing City?"
"Feng Qiang, wait a moment. I need to look for the case file." He looked up and saw Xia Yu walking in. He quickly called out, "Xiao Xia, come quickly. It's Zhou Yi calling. Talk to him."
When Xia Yu heard it was Zhou Yi, he quickly picked up the phone.
"Hello, Officer Zhou, I'm Xia Yu."
"Oh, Feng Qiang, yes, he's from Huaixing. I remember his home address is No. 43, Laifu Street, Longhe District, Huaixing City."
"Yes, we found Feng Qiang a few days ago through assistance from the south. Captain Pan sent Lao Chen and me to interrogate him."
"It has been confirmed. Feng Qiang admitted to having an improper relationship with Huang Yanli, but he was unaware of the case and left entirely under Huang Yanli's arrangement."
"He was released after the interrogation, but the local police have kept a record of his current address and contact information."
"Okay, okay, I'll ask for you right away and let you know when I'm done."
"No, no, it's all my responsibility. I didn't have time to thank you properly last time."
Seeing that he was chatting enthusiastically, Pan Hongjie waved at him and signaled Xia Yu to give him the phone.
But Xia Yu held up the receiver and said, "Captain Pan, Zhou Yi has hung up."
Pan Hongjie asked expectantly, "What's wrong? What does Zhou Yi want to talk to us about?"
"Let's talk to Feng Qiang about something. It seems to be related to a case they have."
"Really? This could be related." Pan Hongjie said in surprise, "But it's definitely not as big as the case we solved."
…
In Hongcheng, Zhou Yi was walking while calling An Yuan.
He asked Xia Yu to find Feng Qiang to confirm whether he was Xu Liu's cousin, and when the two last contacted each other and what they talked about.
As soon as he hung up the phone, he looked up and saw someone passing by him.
Zhou Yi's blood surged instantly.
He had never seen him in person, but he had seen his photos.
The person passing by him was Fan Tianyou.
Zhou Yi stopped, turned around and shouted, "Wait a minute!"
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