The police's discovery was similar to Chen Ge's speculation; the statue was a tool to transport the body.
After getting Lee Zheng's reply, Chen Ge's mind was clear. After the suspect killed the victim, he hid the body inside the statue and had someone move it to the warehouse. Then, when no one was around, he snuck into the warehouse, dealt with the body, and dragged it to the underground morgue to complete the murder without anyone knowing.
Western Jiujiang Medical University was unique. The morgue was right under the western campus, so it did not take much effort to deal with everything perfectly.
"No one would go to the morgue to look for missing people. This proves that the suspect won the gamble."
Chen Ge finished what Lee Zheng wanted to say, and Lee Zheng was silent for a while. "We still can't confirm the owner of the statue, but we've narrowed the range. After our investigation, we can confirm that the statue did not belong to Western Jiujiang Medical University. It suddenly appeared in the Activity Room of the Art Club. "
"Suddenly?"
"We found the president of the Art Club at the time. He remembered very clearly that when he entered the Activity Room that morning, there was an extra statue. At the time, many people thought it was an addition to the school, so they did not pay it much attention. Coincidentally, the school was moving, so the statue was sent to the underground morgue by a few male students. "
"In other words, the killer did not participate in the transport of the body." Chen Ge thought about it. "The killer knew that the school was moving, so the unwanted items would be sent to the underground morgue. In fact, he might have been there at the time and was there to help."
"I have the same thought as you. The killer could enter the school at night and obtain information about the school, so he could be a teacher or staff member." Lee Zheng heard someone talking on the other end. He replied to the person and then told Chen Ge, "After investigation, we have confirmed four suspects.
"The first is the male counselor that you told me about yesterday. His name is Liu Zhe, and he is very popular at the school. He is tall and handsome, and he is liked by the students. However, after our investigation, we realized that this man is not as simple as he appears. He did not go to school, and the school did not give us a clear explanation for why he became a counselor. They only said that it had something to do with his brother-in-law.
"The second suspect is the night guard of the old campus — Zhang Li. This person is thirty-five years old this year, and he is introverted, the complete opposite of Liu Zhe. He has a very bad reputation, and many students hate him."
"The third suspect is a member of the Painting Club. She is also the only female among the four suspects. Her name is Zhang Shihan. She is Zhang Li's younger sister, and she has a bad relationship with Ma Yin's sister. Before Ma Yin disappeared, they had many arguments. "
At this point, Lee Zheng paused. Chen Ge was listening intently. "Zhang Li is the security guard, and he has the ability and condition to kill someone. Zhang Shihan has the motive and time to kill someone, but their lives have nothing to do with western sculptures. I still think the first suspect is the murderer. By the way, didn't you say there was a fourth suspect? "
The man that Liu Xianxian liked was Liu Zhe. Chen Ge had once followed him into Room 3004 of Fang Hwa Apartments.
"Actually, according to our investigation, the fourth suspect is the most likely to commit the crime." Lee Zheng's voice was strange like he did not want to say the man's name. "You've met the fourth suspect before. He is Doctor Gao."
"Doctor Gao?" This answer surprised Chen Ge.
"Like you said earlier, be it Zhang Li or Zhang Shihan, their lives have nothing to do with sculptures, but Doctor Gao is different." Lee Zheng's voice slowed down. "I met Doctor Gao five years ago. After the first murder, I accepted his psychological treatment, and in two weeks, we became friends."
Chen Ge listened carefully. He did not expect Lee Zheng and Doctor Gao to have already known each other five years ago.
"Honestly, Doctor Gao is a perfect person. I cannot see any flaw in him. In fact, I can't even count his good points." Lee Zheng's voice was low, and Chen Ge understood why the man would call him at this time. "I admire him, but that does not mean that I do not suspect him. During his therapy, I found out many things about him, including his hobby of collecting art and his obsession with Van Gogh's paintings. "
"Just because he likes art doesn't mean he's the killer. Have you seen the statue at Doctor Gao's home?"
Using the statue to hide and transport the body might seem like a clever method, but there were many loopholes when it came to real execution. If Doctor Gao was the killer, Chen Ge believed that he would have used a more perfect method to commit the crime.
"I haven't been to Doctor Gao's home, but I know he likes art that has great contrast and impact. I also know that his car entered Western Jiujiang Medical University late at night a few days before Ma Yin's sister disappeared." Lee Zheng sounded tired. "He knows the school very well, and he avoided all the surveillance cameras. After expanding the scope of the investigation, we found that his car had appeared near the school, and then it seemed to have disappeared. We compared all the surveillance cameras around the school, and the final conclusion is that he entered the school within the twenty-seven minutes of his disappearance. "
"Wait a minute, is it possible that someone else was driving his car? Using his car to commit the crime? "
"That is what I was going to say next." Lee Zheng's tone slowly turned serious. "There are probably two suspects in this case."
"Two?"
"Whether Doctor Gao is the killer or not, it is a fact that his car entered the school at that time, and there are only two people who could have driven his car into the school — one is himself, and the other is Liu Zhe."
Lee Zheng's words caused Chen Ge's eyes to widen. "You're saying that Liu Zhe's brother-in-law is Doctor Gao?!"
"Yes! This is actually a double crime. It was Liu Zhe who killed Ma Yin's sister and came up with the idea to transport the body through the statue. But this person is very dumb, and he has exposed many clues. If he had carried out the crime on his own, he would have been exposed in a few days. But the strange thing is that when we looked through the case files from that year, all the clues that the police could think of during the investigation were cut off. What's even scarier is that some clues only disappeared a few hours before the police arrived. It's like there's an invisible hand in the dark interfering with everything. "
Lee Zheng sighed softly. "Liu Zhe wouldn't have been able to do all this. I've been a police officer for more than ten years, and in my memory, the only person who could have done all this is Doctor Gao."
"But why would Doctor Gao use his own hands to help Liu Zhe cover up his crime?" Chen Ge voiced out his biggest doubt.
"Liu Zhe is the younger brother of Doctor Gao's wife, and he is the only living relative of Doctor Gao's wife." Lee Zheng seemed to know what Chen Ge was going to say, so he spoke first. "Doctor Gao's wife passed away in a car accident seven years ago. Taking good care of her family was her last wish."
Chen Ge was not Doctor Gao. He could not understand that feeling, so he did not say anything.
"Chen Ge, I know you have a good relationship with Doctor Gao, but I hope you can be more rational at a time like this. I'm calling you this time because of Captain Yan's order. We suspect that there's something wrong with Doctor Gao, but all the clues have been cleaned up by him, so we can only say that we're just suspecting him. "
"What do you want me to do?"
"Gao Ru Xue is Doctor Gao's only daughter and the person he loves the most. If we approach Gao Ru Xue without any evidence, it will only make Doctor Gao more cautious, so this is something that only you can do." Lee Zheng tactfully revealed his real purpose. "Gao Ru Xue is a breakthrough. You've saved her life, so she won't be on guard against you. Therefore, we need you to go to Gao Ru Xue and ask for more information. "
"I'm going?" Chen Ge had always been a 'Good Samaritan'. This time, he was given an official mission by the police, and he was suddenly not used to it.
"Only you are suitable." Lee Zheng chatted with Chen Ge for a long time. He did not force Chen Ge; he merely had this suggestion.
After hanging up, Chen Ge sat inside the dark car, and his expression was complicated.
Liu Zhe's brother-in-law was Doctor Gao, so in other words, the real owner of Fang Hwa Apartments Room 3004 was Doctor Gao.
The laptop that was filled with information about his Haunted House belonged to Doctor Gao, and it was also him who had stolen the video from the visitors at the hospital.
Chen Ge did not think about whether to help Lee Zheng or not; he was thinking about a scarier problem.
Doctor Gao is the chairperson of the Society of Strange Tales?
His body swayed with the car, and the road was bad. Chen Ge took out his phone and searched for the information that Doctor Gao had sent him when he first visited the Third Sick Hall several weeks ago.
At the time, he knew nothing about the Third Sick Hall, so he had asked Doctor Gao to get him a set of information about the Third Sick Hall's patients. Now that he thought about it, there was something wrong with that set of information. It was not something that anyone could get their hands on, but Doctor Gao had managed to get it in such a short time.
"Why did he help me then?" Chen Ge looked at the information, and he could not understand Doctor Gao's thought process. Did he think it was interesting, or did he want to use the half-abandoned Third Sick Hall to test me?
After Zhang Ya washed the Third Sick Hall with blood, the contact between Doctor Gao and Chen Ge had decreased significantly.
Before that, both Meng Nan and the Pen Spirit's friend had been brought to Chen Ge by Doctor Gao.
Characteristics of No. 10: Seen my Doctor Skull-cracker mask before, familiar with the police's movements, long fingers, familiar with me, familiar with Western Jiujiang Medical University, calling the body on his back his wife …
Chen Ge realized that Doctor Gao matched all the characteristics of No. 10 perfectly. Thinking about it, No. 10's voice was similar to Doctor Gao's as well.
Height, build, and the black robe slowly overlapped with Doctor Gao's.
Could it really be him? Chen Ge's fingers tightened. He was reminded of the time when he and Doctor Gao had visited the Pen Spirit's friend's home.
The Pen Spirit's friend suffered from severe depression. Chen Ge had brought the Pen Spirit over, and after alleviating the man's condition, Doctor Gao had thanked Chen Ge on behalf of the patient.
That gratitude had come from the bottom of his heart. Chen Ge could still remember every word that Doctor Gao had said. He really could not believe that someone like that was the chairperson of the Society of Strange Tales.
"Doctor, patient …"
Thinking about it, the main reason the ghost stories society was formed was to help these patients alleviate their pain. They used extreme methods to treat themselves, to try to find redemption, to become a normal person.
However, the result of doing so was that they sank deeper and deeper into hell until they were no longer fit to be called humans.
"Is this all part of Doctor Gao's plan?"
Chen Ge had once heard from the members of the Society of Strange Tales that to save a patient who had a fear of water, they drowned the source of his fear, his father, right before his eyes. This kind of treatment was insane, and it could only be done in the shadows of the city.
Holding the phone, Chen Ge felt lost for the first time.
He could chase after the madman from the Third Sick Hall without hesitation, but he could not do anything to Doctor Gao.
Be it when he was dealing with Meng Nan or the other patients, Doctor Gao's performance had been impeccable. It was clear that he had put his heart and soul into saving those people.
"Human beings are really complicated things."
Chen Ge leaned against the wall and hugged the white cat in his arms. He glanced outside through the gap of the carriage.
"It's almost dawn."
After driving for another hour, the moving company's truck did not enter the city. After dropping Chen Ge at the edge of the countryside, he suddenly said that he had something urgent to attend to and needed to hurry somewhere else.
Chen Ge's mind was a mess from Lee Zheng's phone call, but he did not think too much about it. He thanked the man and got out of the car.
Seeing the moving company's truck disappear into the distance, Chen Ge woke up from the cold wind. "Something's not right about this driver."
When he got into the car, the car had been bumpy, and the road condition had gotten worse. It was obvious that the driver did not take the main road but was trying to drag him to a secluded location.
The change started when he received Lee Zheng's call. The driver seemed to have heard Chen Ge's conversation with the police, so he turned around and returned to the main road.
"He wanted to kill me? He only changed his mind after he heard me talking to the police? "Just as Chen Ge was thinking, a taxi came from the direction that the truck had left.
Waving his hands, Chen Ge flagged down the taxi and got in.
"Sir, to Western Jiujiang's New Century Park."
"It's so early in the morning. The park isn't open yet, right?"
"I'm one of the workers there." Chen Ge smiled and pointed at the road that the driver had come from. "When you came here earlier, did you see a moving company's truck? That driver … "
"A truck? I didn't see it. I was the only car on the road. "The driver was even more surprised than Chen Ge.
"You didn't see it?" Chen Ge grabbed the white cat's head. "Then did I run into a ghost and move? But the white cat didn't give me any hint. "
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