"You've discovered another murder case?" Inspector Lee's tone was strange, and he used the word 'another' naturally.
"Four years ago, there was a girl by the name of Zhang Ya who fell from a building at Western Jiujiang's Private Academy. There's more to her death than meets the eye!" Chen Ge said with certainty.
"Wait a minute, I'll go take a look at the file. If the victim's family requested for an autopsy, we should have a record of it." Inspector Lee did not hang up. He turned on the light and ran into the file room. He rummaged for five minutes before coming up with something. "Western Jiujiang's Private Academy, no wonder it sounds so familiar. Xiao Chen, get out of that school now!"
"I'm heading out now, what's wrong?"
"That school is very strange, and I can't explain it in a few sentences. I can only give you a number. In just two weeks, there were six suicides at that school, and they all died in strange ways." The sound of paper flipping came from the phone, and Inspector Lee skimmed through the files.
"Yes! This number matches my expectations. "Chen Ge could already see the school gate; he would be able to leave soon.
"Matches your expectations? What's the situation on your side? "
"Don't worry about it. Why don't you take a look first? Is the first girl's name Zhang Ya?" Chen Ge urgently confirmed the suspicion in his heart.
Inspector Lee looked at the file on the table, and after confirming it three times, he replied to Chen Ge, "Yes, her name is Zhang Ya, but she did commit suicide by jumping from a building. The coroner did not find any other injuries on her body. On the day the body was discovered, the officers from the police station came to investigate. The girl had jumped from the dance studio on the fourth floor. The window was undamaged, and the soundproof pads on the walls showed no signs of damage or cleaning. We can confirm that Zhang Ya jumped from the building on her own without any external help. "
"Without any external help? Inspector Lee, has it ever occurred to you that someone is forcing her to do this? If she didn't jump off the building, she would have been violated! "Chen Ge told him what he saw in the mirror.
"We've considered this possibility as well. There are statements from Zhang Ya's roommates in the file. All five of them said that they didn't know anything about it. Zhang Ya jumped off the building after they left after class. At the time, Zhang Ya was the only one in the dance studio. According to them, Zhang Ya's mental state had always been unstable. She was unsociable and unsociable. Her personality was flawed. In order to verify their words, the police officers who were dispatched at that time also randomly asked other girls in the same class, and everyone said the same thing. "
"Zhang Ya is definitely not like what they said. This group of people colluded to give false testimony!" Chen Ge didn't expect that the other girls in the same class would also slander Zhang Ya like this. She clearly didn't do anything wrong.
"What kind of girl Zhang Ya is, you and I don't have the right to say it; the witness has to say it." Inspector Lee had no idea what was going on with Chen Ge. "Don't stay at that school any longer. Come out now, we'll send people to pick you up."
"They're lying! Take a look at Zhang Ya's actual time of death, it should be before the five girls left school! They lied about the time of death, and the five girls are accomplices! "Chen Ge's voice grew louder.
"You're wrong about that. Zhang Ya's time of death was between 6 pm to 8 pm, and the five girls left the school at 5: 30 pm like usual." Inspector Lee had no idea what had happened to Chen Ge at Western Jiujiang's Private School. He was merely judging from an outsider's perspective.
"Impossible!"
"There's nothing impossible about that. The coroner did a detailed analysis on livor mortis, cornea clouding, and so on. Zhang Ya died between 6 pm to 8 pm, and the cause of death was a broken spine. Her skull was damaged, and her calcaneum and hipbone were fractured. These injuries were all caused by jumping off the building."
Chen Ge could not refute Inspector Lee's words, so he stopped moving. Perhaps there is such a situation. Zhang Ya jumped off the building before the five girls left, but after she fell from the fourth floor, she did not die immediately. She still had a sliver of life left in her. However, she had multiple fractures, and her spine was broken. Unable to move, she could only lie in a pool of blood and wait for death. She struggled for a long time before she truly died between 6 pm to 8 pm. "
"Your hypothesis is plausible, but you've overlooked one thing. If the girl was struggling in a pool of blood after jumping off the building, would the other five girls not have reacted at all? Even if the five girls didn't come to her rescue due to various reasons, the other students at the school would have discovered her. "
"It was a holiday at the time, and only the six of them came to the school to train for the provincial dance competition. The teachers who taught them had already left. Even if there were guards at the school, wouldn't they have been stopped by someone with ulterior motives?" Chen Ge raised a different opinion.
"I'm not going to argue with you about this. There's no point in discussing whether Zhang Ya committed suicide or not. You believed that it was the five girls who forced Zhang Ya to her death. You even suspected them of perjury and indirect murder, but in the following two weeks, the five girls also died one after another. The killer that you believe is no longer in this world, so how are we supposed to investigate this case? "Inspector Lee was more worried about Chen Ge's safety.
"Inspector Lee, I've never said that the five girls are the killers; they're just accomplices! The real killer who forced Zhang Ya to commit suicide is a fat man about 1.8 meters tall with a slightly hunched back! "
"That's quite a detailed explanation. Then tell me, how did you come up with the real killer? Four years ago, the surveillance at Western Jiujiang's Private Academy was not complete, and all the witnesses at the scene were dead. Now you're telling me that there's another killer? How am I supposed to believe you? " Inspector Lee had worked overtime for several days to solve the case at Ping An Apartments. He was still at the station at 2 am, and there was a deep weariness in his voice.
Chen Ge could hear the suspicion in Inspector Lee's voice. "We can investigate the people who were related to Western Jiujiang's Private Academy four years ago, and we'll definitely find this person! He was at the crime scene that day! "
"Chen Ge, this is not a joke. Do you know how difficult it is to investigate everyone who was related to a school four years ago? Even if you can convince me, the higher-ups won't open a case for you. You need evidence, not suspicion and speculation. "
"Everything I've said is the truth."
"The truth is the truth that can withstand scrutiny." Inspector Lee had started to organize the files and was about to put them back into the cupboard. "Can you tell me why you're so obsessed with this case that has already been closed four years ago? Based on my understanding, you're not a hot-blooded young man with a strong sense of justice. "
Why would I be so obsessed?
Chen Ge was stunned by Inspector Lee's question. The reminder from Zhang Ya at Ping An Apartments flashed across his mind, and in the dance studio earlier, when Zhang Ya leaned against his back, radiating coldness and loneliness.
"Actually, there's no reason. In a situation like this, the only person who can speak up for her and stand by her side is me," Chen Ge said into the phone.
"I still don't get what you mean." On the other end of the phone, Inspector Lee said after a long time, "But fairness and strictness are the basic tenets of the police force. Since you've brought up the question, after the case at Ping An Apartments is closed, I'll personally help you with the investigation."
"Thank you, Uncle San Bao!" Chen Ge sighed in relief. "Capturing the real culprit can be considered an answer to Zhang Ya. As for this place, I don't want to come back anymore."
He hung up and turned back to take one last look at Western Jiujiang's Private Academy.
As soon as he turned around, he realized that Zhang Ya was standing right behind him!
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