Chapter 24 Heartbroken
"Before I tell you everything," Jiang Mengli said, "I want to know why you doubt me?" "I don't have any solid evidence. When I realized that all the people involved in the case in Thailand could not kill Shen Zhaopeng, I turned my finger on the people in Taiwan, China. The first thing I thought of was you, you asked My why, I'll tell you, is intuition." "intuition?" "Well, many people will not be satisfied with this answer, but... intuition is a very useful tool in actual investigation. Although deductive logic can give a definitive answer, in many cases, the intuition generated by experience is quite precise. "You were the first to find the body, you were also the closest person to the deceased, and you left work early that day! The point, you are a cohabiting couple. According to the damned love law of human beings, in the real world, no matter what, there are There's a ninety-nine percent chance you're the murderer." "Hmph," Jiang Mengli sneered, "This is the most ridiculous investigative method I've ever heard." "No, you will agree, because this is human nature. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Sakai how many times a year he encounters this type of case." "There was a fierce fight at the scene," Jiang Mengli said excitedly, "it couldn't have been done by a woman, and I have an alibi!" Ruoping sighed, "Can't the traces of fighting be forged? Also, your alibi is too weak. You said that you arrived at the apartment after ten o'clock, and the time of death from the forensic examination was not even a few minutes away. The accuracy of proving the time of death has always been controversial in the forensic science field... No, your alibi is untenable. You may not know that the police officer suspected you at the beginning of the case, but was later misled by the ghostly photo , I thought there was a killer coming from far away from Thailand, so I didn't pay much attention to you. To be on the safe side, I tried to find contradictions in you as evidence. Fortunately, I really found out. Let me ask you, Shen Zhaopeng What kind of clothes did you wear on the night of your death?" Jiang Mengli was stunned, but she said calmly, "I forgot." "Forgot? Very well, let me tell you, we found out that you bought a night snack near the hairdressing studio before you went home. According to the memory of the proprietress, you were wearing a lake green button-up top that night, but when the police When it arrived, it turned into a gray knitted sweater! Why do you have any reason to change your clothes? We know that the deceased was stabbed in the back and the murder weapon was pulled out, which means that the murderer is likely to be splashed with blood." The woman said coldly: "Then what should I do with the bloody clothes on my body?" "You probably hid it in your bedroom, some hard-to-find hiding spot anyway. It's not that hard, is it?" Ruoping stared closely at the woman in front of her. At first, the other person's gaze was sharp, but the originally weak face soon became shaken; Jiang Mengli tremblingly closed her eyes, opened them slowly after a while, and said: "Anyway, there is nothing to hide, but I really don't want to recall...that night was a nightmare! I told the police officer that when I came home from get off work early, I found the window was open. I was really shocked! I thought someone had broken into the empty door, and I was worried about Zhaopeng's safety. I did take a meat cleaver from the kitchen and inspect each room with fear. Since the light in the darkroom was broken, I found a flashlight and went in. When I shot the room with a beam When I was inside, I caught a glimpse of Zhaopeng lying on the ground! "I screamed! I turned on the safety light switch on the side, and suddenly the room was shrouded in red," Jiang Mengli said with a distorted face, "I saw the most disgusting picture in the world! It happened to me right now Where I stand!" She paused in pain, panting, "Shen Zhaopeng, he and Su Kaiyun's woman, the two of them are doing shameless and dirty things! They didn't even notice my presence! Under the light, they seemed to have turned into red beasts, sweating red, that disgusting red! "I should have known. The time between my working hours and his working hours was the time when that woman went to the apartment to have an affair. I didn't realize it... I just thought there was something wrong with us before, but I didn't expect it. It is so... "When Zhaopeng saw me, he pushed away the woman on his body without saying a word, and stood up. He was half naked; at that moment, he was really the ugliest monster in the world. As for that bitch, she hurriedly put on her clothes, and immediately disappeared So she left. It turned out that Zhaopeng opened the window to let her in. The woman probably crawled out of the window while clutching her coat, so she didn't leave fingerprints on the window frame; No one even witnessed it! "At that time, I was completely stunned, I didn't know what to say, all my emotions seemed to be numb, and I needed time to react to what happened; I just stood there holding a meat cleaver... Zhaopeng still didn't Talking, he turned around to pick up the trousers on the ground, and put them on slowly. I broke out, and I swung a knife and knocked down all the items on the workbench like crazy, and tore down the photos that were drying; I didn’t expect his first The reaction was to squat down hurriedly on the ground to pick up those rubbish! Yes, ignoring my existence, this is his usual style! "At this moment, what I saw was a corpse lying on the floor with a knife stuck in its back..." Covering her face with her hands, she began to sob, "He seemed to be struggling to say something, blood trickled down his back; I didn't notice the words he left on the floor at all. Because I lost my mind at the time, I waited until I stabilized myself Only then did I realize that I had to immediately think about how to clean up everything. The window was open, and the scene was already very messy. It could be set up as robbers killing people, but the human brain is really strange, and a better idea flashed in my mind. Zhaopeng and I have been to Thailand for a month and witnessed a supernatural event. Zhaopeng took a few photos of the incident. After returning, he also plans to publish it on the website. Of course I don’t know about the supernatural event I don’t really believe in ghosts. If the police can be misled into believing that the murderer came for those negatives and then killed people, then they can completely keep their investigation away from Taiwan, China, and deviate from the track without suspecting me. Here we come. After making up my mind, I wrapped my hands in a handkerchief, opened the door of the cabinet where the negatives were stored in the darkroom, pulled out the negatives from Thailand, and disturbed the other negatives, pretending to be the murderer to check there; the next thing to deal with was the meat cleaver, I Pulled out the murder weapon, cleaned it, and stuffed it into my purse. Although it was risky, I dared not just put it back in the kitchen. If the police took it for a blood test, it would be over. They didn't know anyway. There were a few knives in the kitchen, so I thought it would be safer to take the murder weapon away. Then I knocked out the safety bulb in the darkroom and set it up like a fight, so at least the police wouldn't suspect that the murderer was a weak woman. Finally, I changed the bloody coat and hid it in the secret compartment under the bed. After calling the police, I sat in the management office on the first floor and waited quietly for the police to arrive. I almost collapsed. This collapsed state also helped me , making me a 'poor widow'..." Jiang Mengli's figure at this time is like a dilapidated doll, her eye sockets are sunken, her hair is disheveled; her twitching lips have lost their luster, "I deal with the police's questioning very carefully, and I don't want to It was too obvious to mislead me, but it made me suspicious. The trick of arranging a live fight seemed to have worked, and the police believed that the murderer was a man, and even mistakenly thought that I had an alibi!" The corner of the woman's mouth raised a bitter smile, " I took a shortcut to go home that day. I knew the mountain road here very well. It was a fast shortcut that most people don’t know at all. It cut across the entire mountain; Very fast. I arrived at the apartment at 9:50...the caretaker dozed off, the monitor malfunctioned...I was a godsend. As the whole situation was not against me, I didn't make it sooner about the theft of the film in Thailand It was exposed, and the method of slowly guiding the police was adopted to let them notice the theft of the film bit by bit, and then realize the connection between the murder case and the supernatural events in Thailand. Finally, the police officer finally discovered the theft of the film, and the investigation was completed. Going to the development of the incident in Thailand." Having said this in one breath, Jiang Mengli stopped, seeming very tired. Ruo Ping said: "Su Kaiyun's girlfriend should know that you did it." "Hmph, of course I haven't forgotten that. When that stupid woman climbed in from the fire escape, she left footprints under the window. I was afraid that the police would track her down and give me a confession, so I wiped those footprints away. Case After the incident, I stayed at a friend’s house, and I called that woman when I found time. After she knew that Shen Zhaopeng was killed, she was quite afraid of me. She was a cowardly mouse! I threatened her a little bit, and she was as scared as a I didn't say that I killed Zhaopeng, but I warned her that if I found out that Zhaopeng had an affair, I would also tell Su Kaiyun about her and Zhaopeng, and even threatened to take her life! Su Kaiyun is a A person with a strong desire to control, and that woman is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, she immediately reached a compromise with me." She lowered her head, "Except for what Zhaopeng did, the god of luck seems to be on my side. But...I still can't accept...too many things, whether I did it or him made……" The knife in Jiang Mengli's hand fell to the ground, and she knelt down on the floor and sat down. Sakai shook his head and said to Ruoping: "I don't understand. Didn't Jane admit that he killed Shen Zhaopeng? Why did he stay in Thailand the day the crime happened?" "Sakai, if you think about it carefully, Jane only admitted that he 'planned' to kill Shen Zhaopeng, but never mentioned that he really came to Taiwan, China to kill people. We all misinterpreted his words because of our preconceived ideas. Su Kaiyun said However, after Shen Zhaopeng died, he apologized on the website, explaining that the update mentioned by Shen Zhaopeng was canceled due to an accident with the webmaster, and because Su Kaiyun could not get the data, it was impossible to publish it; it may be that Zhen or Chen Shanjun saw the news before departure. After discussing and evaluating, it is considered that since this is the case, there is no need to come here to kill again. But who would have thought that Shen Zhaopeng died in the end. And Tuo Zhen thought that Zhen would really go to kill, and even this crime would be taken away..." "'Facts are far more surprising than fiction', perhaps this is what it means." Said Sakai sighed. "I've already told you what you want to know. May I ask you to leave now? I need my own time." Jiang Mengli, who lowered her head, calmed down a lot. "Of course, I will abide by my agreement." Ruo Ping glanced at Sakai, nodded, then turned and walked towards the door. Just as the two were about to step out of the corridor, Ruoping suddenly stopped, turned around, and said to the woman, "Do you know what the words Shen Zhaopeng left behind before his death really mean?" Jiang Mengli still lowered her head, she seemed to have lost her mind, "I don't know. I never understood him." "I think I know." Not only Sakai, but even Jiang Mengli slowly raised her head, her eyes were bright and her cheeks were stained with tears. "Shen Zhaopeng didn't want to point out who killed him, but to convey some kind of message—to you." "Give it to me?" the woman said dully. "That's right. Because he can't speak anymore, he can only use what he wrote, using all his strength before he died, to convey the last sentence to you. Unfortunately, even if he tried his best, he couldn't finish writing, only half of it. " "Tell me! What did he write!" Ruo Ping looked at the woman who had already collapsed, and heard the violent storm outside, everything in front of him seemed very unreal. "He wrote a sentence that men all over the world will say when they make a mistake—" Ruoping sighed, and he looked directly into the woman's eyes. "—Sorry."