Chapter 81
When Chang Ting and Zhang You arrived at Yunju B&B, Xiao Qiang had not yet reacted to what was happening.
Until then, Xiao Qiang still believed that the man in black was the murderer of the female tenant and that his purpose in coming there was simply to delete the video. He would definitely not call the police, and his secret filming would not be exposed.
He thought the matter ended here.
He was in great pain, his nose was crooked, and the bridge of his nose must have been broken, and his swollen face was covered in red and purple.
He didn't even bother to restart the computer that the man in black had turned off, nor did he realize that the video had already been posted online.
He took a deep breath and planned to go to the hospital.
As I was holding my stomach and moving towards the door with the help of the table edge, someone pushed the door open.
His swollen eyes made it difficult for him to see who was coming, and he thought the man in black regretted not killing him and had come back to do his job.
He screamed in fear and threw a cup at Chang Ting. Chang Ting turned his head away and the cup exploded on the door frame.
"How dare you attack the police!"
Chang Ting pushed him to the ground.
Xiao Qiang, whose bones were already almost falling apart, suffered a second injury and almost burst into tears.
Chang Ting picked him up and discovered his miserable condition.
"Tell me, what's going on!"
Xiao Qiang burst into tears and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
"Brother Chang, Brother Chang..." Zhang You poked Chang Ting's back from behind, "Zhou Zhengzheng sent a message saying that a video appeared online..."
Chang Ting let go of Xiao Qiang and took the phone. He first looked at the clip of the long video. Having handled many voyeurism cases, he could tell at a glance that the video was shot with a camera designed specifically for voyeurism.
He suddenly understood what Xiao Qiang had done by sneaking into Room 1714 that day.
1714 Equipped with hidden camera equipment.
Xiao Qiang must have known that something was wrong, and he took away the hidden camera before the police found him.
Zhang You pointed at the poster's ID, "Dark Crawling Xiaoqiang," and gestured toward Xiao Qiang. He lowered his voice and said, "Xiaoqiang, Xiaoqiang. It should be him... Is he trying to report someone for merit?"
"If he wanted to report it, he would have done it long ago. The account is his, but he might not have posted the message." He went over and shoved Xiao Qiang. "Tell me, who hit you?"
"A bandit in black clothes..." Xiao Qiang sobbed.
Xiao Qiang was taken back to the police station and quickly interrogated.
Not only did he confess to not reporting the falling incident, but he also confessed to his crimes of secretly filming tenants for years and selling the videos on the Internet for profit.
He also truthfully confessed that men in black came to his house to "delete the video".
At this point, Xiao Qiang still had a preconceived notion that the man in black was the man Yu Aiai met in room 1714.
Chang Ting asked him to describe the appearance of the man in black.
It immediately brought back painful memories for Xiao Qiang.
"He was extremely brutal. He was so ruthless, you could tell he was from the underworld." Tears welled up in Xiao Qiang's swollen eyes. "Officer, can I go see a doctor first? My nose..."
“Answer the question first!”
Xiao Qiang said with a bitter face: "He was wrapped up tightly from head to toe. I only saw his eyes from beginning to end."
Chang Ting asked, "What do the eyes look like?"
"Very fierce, his eyes are like knives."
"Double eyelids or single eyelids?"
"It seems like he has double eyelids... he looks like this..." Xiao Qiang raised his handcuffed hands and measured his swollen eyes.
It's unbearable to watch.
"Okay, stop gesturing."
Zhang You said cleverly, "Brother Chang, the camera at 1712 must have captured the man in black, and the video should be on that computer. I'll go look for it later."
Chang Ting was silent for a moment, then said, "Have you found a banner to give him?"
Zhang You was stunned. "I just feel that even if you do good things, you should leave your name behind. You have to make it clear, right?"
Chang Ting said: "Given his style of doing things, he won't keep it and will most likely delete it."
Zhang You patted his chest and said, "There's no point in deleting it. I can restore it!"
Chang Ting looked at him speechlessly.
In principle, all investigations should be carried out without leaving any blind spots.
But so far, Chang Ting felt that the man in black had no ill intentions. He was hiding, perhaps because he was threatened by criminals.
Or maybe for some other reason, he cannot reveal his identity.
Before any further discoveries were made, Chang Ting felt it would be best to remain calm and let him go, so as not to put the person who was secretly helping him into a passive situation.
However, from the perspective of handling cases, it is not rational and does not conform to the principles of investigation to fail to clarify the doubts when one knows they exist.
So it’s not easy to say this directly.
Unfortunately, Zhang You couldn't understand his brother Chang's tired look at all.
Xiao Qiang stretched his head to hear it and interjected, "Comrade police officer, if he deleted it with that software, it might not be recoverable."
Zhang You asked, "What software?"
"I can't remember the English name. It was shared in our video chat group. They can completely delete all the video files."
Zhang You hissed. "Permanently shredded, 100% erased?! That's it. If you really use this kind of software, it will be difficult to recover."
Xiao Qiang nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's what you said. I shot too much and the hard drive couldn't hold it all. I used this software to shred all the old videos!"
As he was speaking, he came to his senses, retracted his neck and snorted, "Oh no, did I say too much..."
Chang Ting secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhang You, "Then let's focus on 001 first."
Seeing Chang Ting's expression soften a bit, Xiao Qiang immediately felt a surge of anticipation and asked, "Officer, although it was wrong for me to secretly film the scene, I did capture the key evidence that led to that woman jumping off the building. Does that count as atonement?"
Chang Ting slammed the table. "Dream on! You're going to jail, you piece of crap! Zhang You, find that video chat group he mentioned and transfer it to the Cybersecurity Department. We'll wipe them out!"
He waved his hand and had Xiao Qiang taken away and criminally detained on suspicion of violating citizens' personal information and disseminating obscene materials for profit.
Chang Ting watched the long video over and over again from day to night, and found that in the video that lasted more than ten hours, "Male God 001" never showed his face.
I was so angry that my liver was furious.
Xiao Qiang is such a loser that he can't even get to the point when taking secret photos!
After watching the second half, he also heard the phone call made by the murderer.
It turns out there is more than one murderer.
Chang Ting called forensic doctor Xie and played this clip for him.
Medical Examiner Xie nodded, "That's right. Qiu Yue suffered a large depressed fracture in the frontal skull, consistent with a gravitational blow. The object of injury was likely a flat, blunt object like a shovel."
"However, no vital parts of the brain were injured and the injury was not fatal. The stab wound to the left chest caused by a sharp object was also not fatal.
"The metacarpal bones and phalanges of both hands were in a dorsal extension position, showing an upward struggling posture when buried in the soil, which is consistent with the characteristics of the limbs being fixed in place after struggling before death.
"In short, the true cause of death was suffocation due to burial alive. This is the murderer, no doubt about it."
Chang Ting was speechless for a long time.
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