Chapter 72 New Victims
Chapter 72
There are sleeping pills in the body.
These few short words on the autopsy report are enough to prove that Tang Xiaohua's death was not caused by "the big zombie king sucking blood" or being bitten to death by a wild beast.
It was more like someone used "animal teeth" to bleed Tang Xiaohua to death.
Qin Ye couldn't help but stare at the cat's tail in the evidence bag. This tail appeared in Tang Xiaohua's shirt pocket. Was it a coincidence, or did it represent something?
At this moment, the phone in the office suddenly rang. It was Li Quan, who was in charge of keeping an eye on Tang's father. "Captain Qin, Tang's father has made a move. He just rode his bicycle to the river alone!"
Qin Ye's eyes turned cold, he picked up the car keys and said, "Let's go!"
…
Mr. Tang stopped his bicycle by the river, looked around to make sure no one was watching, and walked towards the school's recently abandoned sports equipment warehouse.
After a while, thick, choking smoke billowed out of the equipment warehouse.
Seeing this, Li Quan and Wen Tingting rushed forward and broke into the room.
Li Quan pinned Tang's father, who was lighting the fire, to the ground and subdued him, while Wen Tingting quickly picked up a weapon to put out the fire. Fortunately, the fire had just started, and Wen Tingting successfully put out the fire without much effort.
“Cough cough cough…”
Wen Tingting coughed and choked, "Do you know that arson is a crime...Ah!!!"
When the smoke cleared, she saw that the walls of the warehouse were covered with splattered blood...
Qin Ye also quickly led others to the sports equipment warehouse. Tang's father was handcuffed and squatted aside with his head in his hands, covered in dust. No matter what Li Quan and Wen Tingting asked him, he refused to speak.
Qin Ye glanced at Tang's father and said to Wen Tingting, "Tingting, ask Murong and Li Quan to take him back to the police station for interrogation first. We will go to the warehouse to take a look."
Wen Tingting nodded, gave Murong a few instructions, and quickly ran to catch up with Qin Ye: "Captain Qin, when I went in just now, he seemed to be burning some books. But after the fire was out, only these were left..."
Qin Ye looked in the direction of Wen Tingting's finger, and saw burnt paper ashes piled on the charred ground.
She leaned forward to smell it. In addition to the smell of paper ash, there seemed to be the smell of burnt hair. "Pack up these ashes and take them back to the bureau for testing."
…
This sports equipment warehouse is not big. It is more like an abandoned bungalow than a sports equipment warehouse.
Because it was built by the river, the inner walls of the white walls were damp and covered with moss and mildew. But there were more bloodstains splattered on the walls of the equipment warehouse. Some of the bloodstains looked very old and were light brown. Some of the bloodstains had not yet been completely oxidized...
Wen Tingting said, "Captain Qin, the principal of the county middle school said that this equipment warehouse has been abandoned for two years. In the past two years, the key to the warehouse has been kept by Tang's father alone."
For a moment, all clues pointed to Tang's father.
Qin Ye walked around the equipment warehouse again and inspected it carefully. He found some tiny scratches on the wall with the most bloodstains - other than that, he found nothing else.
Obviously, the warehouse had been cleaned up carefully.
Qin Ye exhaled: "Let the forensic department collect the blood on the wall for testing first, and then we can go back and interrogate Tang's father."
…
Liang Dong and Li Quan had been in the interrogation room for nearly an hour, but they hadn't gotten any words out of Tang's father. Father Tang kept his head down, silent, staring at the handcuffs on his wrists in a daze.
Liang Dong was a man of bad temper. He couldn't stand it anymore and slammed the table. "Tang Jun, don't think you'll be fine if you don't say anything! Where were you around 9:30 last night?!"
According to the autopsy report, Tang Xiaohua died between nine and ten o'clock last night.
The old man in the county middle school's communications room said that Tang Jun, who was supposed to stay on duty at the school that night, left the school at around eight o'clock and did not return to school until around eleven o'clock in the evening.
Combined with the testimonies of many classmates and teachers, everyone knows that Tang Jun's attitude towards Tang Xiaohua has always been harsh, even bad.
Tang Jun looked up at Liang Dong and said, "I killed Tang Xiaohua, is that ok?"
Liang Dong didn't expect the other party to be so direct, and hesitated for a moment: "What's your motive?"
Tang Jun lowered his head again and remained silent.
Qin Ye watched outside the interrogation room for a long time, and realized that Liang Dong and Li Quan could not find a breakthrough for a while, so he knocked on the door and walked in: "You two should go and rest for a while, Murong and I will replace you."
Liang Dong glared at Tang Jun fiercely: "You are a teacher, but you even killed your own son. I think you are a beast!"
Li Quan grabbed Liang Dong and forcibly dragged him out of the interrogation room.
There is currently no evidence to show that Tang Jun was the one who killed Tang Xiaohua.
Qin Ye pulled out a chair and sat opposite Tang Jun, and said calmly as if he was chatting: "Director Tang, you may not remember that we met at the hospital gate before."
Tang Jun still didn't look up when he heard her words.
She continued patiently, "That day, you and your wife took the child who was scratched by a cat to the hospital for an injection."
At that time, Tang Jun's words were blaming Tang Xiaohua, but it was obvious that Tang Jun's concern for Tang Xiaohua could not be faked.
Hearing this, Tang Jun's ears moved slightly, and he finally managed to utter the first sentence: "Oh, you recognized the wrong person."
"Yeah?"
Qin Ye took out the transcript and connected the timeline she had sorted out with a black pen. "After leaving school yesterday, my colleagues and I went to your family compound and asked many people about the relationship between you and your son."
She gave Wen Tingting a look, and Wen Tingting nodded immediately, and continued: "The neighbors all said that you suddenly changed your attitude towards Tang Xiaohua more than three months ago. Can you tell me the reason?"
Before this, although Tang Jun was strict with Tang Xiaohua, he never used violence against her.
Three months ago, Tang Jun began to beat and kick Tang Xiaohua at will, even to the point of alarming the neighborhood committee.
The neighborhood committee sent people to mediate, but Tang Jun evaded the issue with excuses like "the child is disobedient" and "the child's academic performance is poor."
Tang Jun didn't say anything, but said calmly: "I've already said it, I was the one who killed Tang Xiaohua. The police comrade who scolded me just now was right, I am a beast, you can deal with me as you wish."
…
The more calm Tang Jun's attitude is, the more suspicious the case becomes.
Late at night, Qin Ye sat at his desk and looked through the files over and over again, but it was difficult to find a clear clue.
She was very sure that Tang Jun played an important role in the murder of Tang Xiaohua, but his role was not necessarily that of the murderer. But if he is not the murderer, who is the real murderer? Why should he take the blame for the murderer?
"Qin Ye? Why haven't you left yet?"
Yu Cheng came out of the testing room and found that the lights were still on in the office of the Criminal Investigation Team 1. He looked out and saw Qin Ye who was still working overtime. "The blood test results on the warehouse wall will not be available until tomorrow. Don't be too anxious."
Qin Ye rubbed his sore neck and found that the hour hand of the wall clock had pointed to twelve without him noticing.
She stood up and put away the things on the table: "Then let's get off work..."
Yu Cheng was about to say something else when the phone in the office suddenly rang. Qin Ye quickly picked up the phone: "Hello, this is the Criminal Investigation Team 1..."
She hung up the phone with a serious face and looked at Yu Cheng: "There is another case."
…
Qin Ye and Yu Cheng were the first to arrive at the crime scene. Ten minutes later, the rest of the team also arrived one after another.
"The deceased, Zheng Chaochao, was a worker at the machinery factory. He was found dead in the dormitory by his roommate who had just finished his night shift half an hour ago."
Qin Ye had completed the preliminary on-site investigation and told everyone in Team 1 about the situation. "He died of excessive blood loss, just like Tang Xiaohua. There were also two blood holes on the side of his neck that looked like they were bitten by 'animal teeth'. We also found this on his body..."
She held up the evidence bag, which also contained a cat's tail.
Qian Yaguang frowned and looked at Zheng Chaochao - he and Tang Xiaohua died in exactly the same way: "In other words, the person who killed these two people is most likely the same person?"
Liang Dong was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of Tang Jun's confession: "But hasn't Tang Jun been arrested by us? He can't possibly run away from the police station and kill Zheng Chaochao? Could it be that... Tang Xiaohua was not killed by Tang Jun?"
"Could it be a copycat crime?"
Wen Tingting looked around and found that Zheng Chaochao's dormitory was in a mess and the murderer seemed to be looking for something.
Logically speaking, there are more valuable items in Tang Xiaohua's home. If it was the same murderer, there is no reason why he would only rummage through the drawers in this factory dormitory.
Qin Ye shook his head gently: "It doesn't look like a copycat crime. The murderer should be the same person."
The two murders occurred within less than forty-eight hours of each other. Apart from a few people from their Criminal Investigation Team, only the murderer himself knew the specific details of the case.
It is impossible for anyone else to completely recreate the method of committing the crime on another person in such a short period of time.
"and……"
Qin Ye looked at the messy dormitory and shook his head. "Just like Tang Xiaohua's murder case, this time, the murderer also did not leave any clues at the scene."
Li Quan didn't quite understand: "Then why did Tang Jun admit that he was the murderer of his son?"
Qin Ye stared at the cat's tail in the evidence bag, lost in thought.
She also wanted to know why the murderer left a cat's tail at the crime scene twice.
…
It was already dawn when everyone left the dormitory of the deceased Zheng Chaochao.
Qian Yaguang yawned loudly and felt exhausted all over. He subconsciously glanced at Qin Ye and Yu Cheng who had been up all night.
Both of them looked extremely energetic, which made him swallow back the words that he wanted to complain about being tired.
Yu Cheng stepped forward and hugged Qian Yaguang, saying with a smile: "Are you all hungry? On behalf of Brother Guang, I'll treat everyone to breakfast."
Qian Yaguang glanced at him warily and scolded him with a smile: "You kid, you are being too attentive for no reason. You are either a traitor or a thief."
"Hey, Brother Guang, look at what you said. I just want to ask you, Uncle Xu..."
Yu Cheng pulled Qian Yaguang aside and lowered his voice, "When you were in the military area, Uncle Xu treated you like a half-son. Can you ask him about Li Bai's whereabouts..."
When Qian Yaguang heard him mention Xu Libai, he was also stunned: "Then... I'll ask for you when I have time."
Yu Cheng nodded repeatedly and made a zipper-like motion on his mouth: "Don't tell Uncle Xu that I asked, otherwise Uncle Xu will definitely not say anything."
Qian Yaguang understood.
Seeing the two of them huddled together and whispering mysteriously, everyone else went into the breakfast shop first.
Qin Ye sat in front of the breakfast table and said to everyone, "Next, we will split into three groups. Tingting and I will go back to continue interrogating Tang Jun. Liang Jun, you and Brother Guang will investigate the interpersonal relationships of the deceased Zheng Chaochao; Li Quan, you and Murong will go to the county again and find someone to learn more about the relationship between Tang Xiaohua and Tang Jun and his son."
After the tasks were assigned, breakfast was served on the table.
Qin Ye had just picked up a bun when he saw Yu Cheng suddenly stand up and run out the door, even pulling the table to the side due to the corner of his clothes.
It was the first time she saw Yu Cheng like this. She put down the buns in her hand and chased after him: "Yu Cheng?"
"Oh, sorry, I got the wrong person."
Yu Cheng put his hands together and apologized, letting go of the man he had just forcibly grabbed, "I thought you were my friend."
Only when Qin Ye walked forward did he see that the man being held by Yu Cheng was somewhat similar in figure and temperament to Xu Libai.
The man cursed, "You're crazy," and stormed off.
Yu Cheng squatted in the corner with a disappointed look on his face: "Where on earth did Xu Libai go..."
After the last letter he sent to the prison was returned, he learned that Xu Libai was no longer working as a prison doctor. But as for where Xu Libai went, the prison didn't know either.
He and Xu Libai grew up together, and he knew very well that Xu Libai was not as gentle and sunny as he looked.
In addition, Xu's mother passed away suddenly, and he was very worried... Xu Libai would be unable to get over it...
Qin Ye was stunned for a moment when he heard Yu Cheng's murmur: "Xu Libai? Isn't he a doctor in the Municipal Hospital? I met him in the psychiatric department of the Municipal Hospital more than half a month ago."
Yu Cheng was also stunned: "How is this possible? I asked someone to check a few days ago, and he is not in the city hospital at all."
The two of them stared at each other for a long time.
…
Qin Ye and Wen Tingting returned to the bureau, and the results of the blood test report on the warehouse wall were also out.
The bloodstains on the warehouse wall did not belong to Tang Xiaohua, but to... the cat.
In the ashes burned by the Tang army, there were not only papers but also remains of animal hair.
Qin Ye handed the test report to Tang Jun: "Tang Jun, what are you hiding? What did you burn? If I'm not mistaken, the animal hair residue mentioned in the report is from a cat, right?"
Tang Jun looked at the test report and his face changed, but he still insisted: "I killed Tang Xiaohua, and I also killed the cat his classmate gave him. I was afraid of being discovered by you, so I set fire to the warehouse to destroy all the evidence of my murder and cat killing."
"Tang Jun, last night, another person was murdered. The way he died was exactly the same as your son Tang Xiaohua."
Qin Ye put away the test report and just glanced at him indifferently, "You can't say that the victim last night also died in your hands, right?"
She tapped the tabletop with her fingers. "The bloodstains on the wall of the sports equipment warehouse have different oxidation times, which proves that there must be more than one cat that died in the warehouse. Tang Xiaohua shouldn't have raised so many cats, right?"
Wen Tingting took the opportunity to say: "Everyone in the school says that Tang Xiaohua is a good student with excellent character and academic performance. But is there a possibility that he is not a good student at all?"
"You're talking nonsense!"
Tang Jun suddenly became excited, "My son is the best child!"
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