"Alright, it's time to get up." Lawyer Zou's words brought Lin Xi's thoughts back.

The police officer pretending to be a corpse behind him hurriedly got up: "How am I acting?" This thing seems to be looking forward to asking.

"Good." Lawyer Zou said that Lin Xi could see the smile on his face.

But on the other hand, Chen Hao on the side, his face was very gloomy.

"What's going on?" Lin Xi asked.

Zhou Yan stood up very consciously this time: "Actually, the whole modus operandi is very simple, and everyone present can see it clearly, only you don't know the situation yet......"

"Don't talk nonsense, talk about it." Lam Creek Road.

"Okay." Zhou Yan didn't sell it anymore, and directly began to explain: "First of all, I have to correct my identity first, in the reappearance of the case just now, the role I played was not Zhang, but the fake Zhang." In fact, at this time, the real Zhang was already dead. ”

"What!?" Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, but soon, she thought of something.

Zhou Yan opened the case file, pointed to the photo of Zhang on it, and continued: "As everyone can see, the deceased was a bald head.

As normal people, our senses for strangers are first focused on 'characteristics'.

For example, in the first meeting of the first person, the characteristics of "big nose", "mole on the face" and "missing one front tooth" account for almost 90% of our first impression of strangers.

And the bald head is one of the most representative!

So at that time, when I was in the dark, nervous, and drunk, if there was another bald head, wearing Zhang's clothes, pretending to be the deceased, and then inducing me with words, then I would probably treat it as a person with the corpse covered with blood the next day! ”

Speaking of this, Lin Xi also nodded, because this possibility is indeed extremely great, and it can even be said to be inevitable.

Zhou Yan continued: "Then if it is under the premise of [Zhang is not Zhang], many things will be explained, first of all, the door lock.

This door is a double secret room, which is true, but it is based on the fact that people inside and outside the door will not take the initiative to open the lock. If that night, Zhang was pretending to be an accomplice of the group collecting debts, then he could have put a lock on the ground in advance, waited until he woke me up, and then put on a play in front of me, which couldn't have been easier. ”

After speaking, Zhou Yan looked at Lin Xi, who had already followed the train of thought: "Next, in order to make my words more in line with the record in the case file, I will directly repeat it in a narrator tone."

Actually, about that lock, I'm personally more inclined to ...... The lock was placed beside Zhou Yan in advance. The original plan of these people was to let Zhou Yan find the lock and lock the door by himself, because in this way, this secret room would be more convincing, after all, it was the lock in the hands of the murderer himself.

So that night, when the people outside the door came to open the door, they deliberately made sounds such as "stick on the ground" and "door bolt shaking", in fact, they were putting pressure on Zhou Yan to quickly pick up the lock and lock the door.

But they didn't expect that Zhou Yan was so cowardly that he was so frightened that he didn't move at all.

But it doesn't matter, because the sound of those sticks and door bolts is also reminding the fake Zhang of the time.

So after the fake Zhang confirmed that this Zhou Yan was a coward, he directly picked up the lock instead of Zhou Yan and locked the door, all of which were shown to Zhou Yan, making him mistakenly think that this warehouse was a secret room.

In fact, the key has always been in the pocket of the fake Zhang. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Xi also thought thoughtfully: "Then, when Zhou Yan went to sleep, the fake Zhang in the door used the key in his pocket to open the lock inside, and the debt collector outside opened the lock outside, so this warehouse is not a secret room at all!" ”

"That's right!" Zhou Yan said: "After the door is opened, everyone can move in the body of the real Zhang who has died." ”

At this time, Lin Xi suddenly raised a question: "However, this is too risky, because no one can be sure that Zhou Yan is not sleeping at this time, even if he is asleep, how can we be sure that he will not wake up suddenly?" After all, when you open the door, there will always be some movement when moving things, in case you ......"

"No, no in case! These people are pretty sure I'm not going to wake up! ”

"Why?" Lin Xi asked.

"Because of ether."

"Huh?"

"That's a guess on my part." Zhou Yan picked up the case file and pointed to his own testimony above: "I once said in my testimony that my head hurts, but because I drank a lot of wine the day before and received another stick on my head, my headache seems very normal."

But I doubt it...... I actually inhaled ether or some other drug that caused me to fall unconscious that night, but ether was easier to get my hands on, so I was more inclined to it.

The side effect of ether is that when you wake up, your head hurts, but this side effect is masked by the pain in the back of your head.

In addition, after the crime, the forensic doctor would only examine the corpse, and no one would have thought that it was not the deceased who was poisoned, but me, the 'murderer'.

Thereupon...... The fact that I was in a coma naturally became something that no one knew about. ”

"Oh, ridiculous, this assumption has no basis at all, it's just my own crankiness." Chen Hao, who had not spoken on the side, suddenly sneered.

Zhou Yan smiled: "Indeed, this is just my assumption, but it is not without a little evidence.

The method of those debt collectors is actually very monotonous, that is, violent debt collection, but every time they want to 'clean up' some people, they can't all knock people out with sticks, I think, they should be a little more civilized...... For example, covering a person's mouth and nose with an ether-stained handkerchief.

So, I asked Lawyer Zou to check it out. ”

"What?" When Chen Hao heard this, he immediately looked at Lawyer Zou.

Lawyer Zou squinted his eyes and smiled, and also joined the conversation: "I'm sorry, after I sent the letter to your office yesterday, I went to check on those debt collectors, because of the nature of these people's work, it is too easy to check their case records, this group of people not only has a lot of ether, but also has several records of illegal reselling of analgesics and morphine, and several doctors associated with them have all had their medical licenses revoked." ”

"Why didn't you meddle in my case and tell me in advance!" Chen Hao said angrily.

"Your case?" Lawyer Zou seemed stunned: "I'm sorry, but you yourself have already filed for the closure of the case a few months ago, so this is no longer your case." And I'm just doing some post-case visits, and I don't need to report back to you. ”

"......" Chen Hao exhaled a few heavily, but in the end he didn't say anything, he could only clench his teeth and stir his cheeks slightly.

Zhou Yan didn't care about Chen Hao's state of having nowhere to spill, and continued: "Therefore, it is very likely that I just fell asleep with my front foot, and my back foot was asleep, and I was stunned by the fake Zhang with ether...... A small bottle of ether, a handkerchief, and kicking this thing in the pocket of your coat is too simple. ”

Lin Xi's brows furrowed slightly, she didn't stand on Chen Hao's side, but she didn't favor Zhou Yan, she just thought about it from the incident itself...... I have to say that Zhou Yan's inference is very likely, if it is really as he said, then the conclusion that [the warehouse is a secret room] will be directly overturned.

However, at this moment......

"Well, even if you say it's possible, but so what? There is no evidence at all, all the words are speculation and assumptions, I can make up a bunch of this kind of story casually......" Chen Hao said: "Also, you said that the deceased Zhang died at the beginning, so why didn't you find out when the body was examined?"

Besides, if the body was carried in after someone stunned you, as you think, what about the next day? Where is the person pretending to be Zhang? There's no place for people to hide in this warehouse! Did he just go out? If he went out directly, who fastened the lock on the inside of the door?

Also, who killed Zhang, it can't be those who ask for debts, they are just usurers, not killers, why kill people?

At last...... Even if they want to kill someone, why stab someone to death with an iron hammer in the warehouse, use a knife, strangle someone, anyway, it's more convenient to die than to use that thing.

Oh, by the way, the iron drill is right in the warehouse! There's exactly your fingerprint on it!

Compared to your fabricated stories, this evidence is obviously more convincing! ”

Chen Hao is a detective in the end, just when everyone thinks Zhou Yan's reasoning is very reasonable, he only relied on a few simple words to pull everyone's thoughts back.

Yes, all of Zhou Yan's assumptions can only be assumptions after all. If there is no evidence, the most he can do is to extend his sentence. It is not uncommon to then go back and forth between cells and courts year after year, in the midst of constant appeals and sentences, and perhaps in the end, the original sentence will be upheld.

But...... Zhou Yan didn't seem to be flustered, under the puzzled eyes of others, he took out the book in his pocket, flipped through it for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and then took it back......

"What is he doing?"

"What's that book?"

Everyone wondered......

"Don't worry, it's still more than half an hour before the time to escort me back." He said slowly: "Since you have so many questions, let's pick the important ones first...... First of all, the first question: who kills people?

The answer is...... People are killed by those who collect debts.

As for the reason, it's actually quite simple——— accident! ”

"Accident?"

"That's right, it's an accident!" Zhou Yan raised the case file in his hand: "This is very clear, Zhang is a person who is addicted to stock speculation and soaks in the securities exchange every day, but on the night of the crime, the securities exchange closed at 6 o'clock.

I came out of the bar at around 10 p.m. and was knocked unconscious.

During this period, it was a full four hours, in fact, Zhang had already been arrested by the group of debt collectors.

And, under the threat of such a long time, those debt collectors were unfortunate enough to kill Zhang by mistake! ”

At this moment, the entire warehouse was silent......

Zhou Yan's words continued: "Of course, this is not my imagination, because I have noticed from the case file that the target of those debt collectors that night should only be Zhang!" As for me, it was entirely because of an unexpected situation that I was dragged over as a scapegoat. ”

He pointed to the line of confession on the case file and said: "I felt wrong at the beginning, I only borrowed 10,000 yuan, and Zhang borrowed 300,000 yuan...... It's a stick, it's intimidation, and it's illegal detention, can they do it? If you break me, it's not enough for medical bills! ”

This idea, of course, came from the book in his pocket.

[There is no need to participate in business: why would anyone go to great lengths to kill such an inconspicuous Zhou Yan?!!! Or is it that all this that Zhou Yan experienced was arranged in advance. 】

If this person hadn't asked, Zhou Yan might not have been able to think of the above speculation.

"Huh...... Hehe! What a couple of hits. Chen Hao suddenly laughed: "But unfortunately, no matter how fanciful you say, it's still useless...... Because there's a loophole in your words! That's the time!

The medical examiner has already said that the death of the deceased was between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. that day? If Zhang died before you were arrested, then the time of death would have been more than two hours short, are you a fool as a forensic doctor? ”

"No, no, no~" Zhou Yan immediately shook his head: "Forensic doctors are definitely not fools, on the contrary, they have seen too many corpses, so there will be an error in the time of death?" In other words, the real murderers used their knowledge of the corpse to alter the time of death! ”

"......" was silent, and Zhou Yan's words were still so unexpected by everyone. As for the other people present, now they don't even raise any questions, they just think quietly, and at the same time they are waiting for Zhou Yan to give an answer.

Zhou Yan continued: "Forensic doctors estimate the time of death of a corpse based on blood, because after a person dies, the blood will gradually coagulate, resulting in corpse spots, muscles becoming stiff, etc., which even primary school students know. ”

Saying that, Zhou Yan turned the case file to the page of Zhang's body: "So when the forensic doctor sees the corpse, it is natural that he will judge the time of the deceased's death based on the heavy bleeding of the corpse."

But they didn't expect that the dead man didn't die of hemorrhage at all! ”

"Nonsense!" Chen Hao drank a little suddenly: "Then you say, what did the deceased die from?" ”

"I don't know!"

"Huh?" This time, the others finally made a puzzled voice, what Zhou Yan said before was all correct and convincing, why did he suddenly not know it?

But Zhou Yan immediately said: "Don't worry, I said I don't know, there is a reason...... And this reason just explains why the deceased died from [heavy object piercing the heart]! ”

"Isn't it ......!" Lin Xi was suddenly stunned, obviously thinking of something.

"That's right!" Zhou Yan didn't finish listening to Lin Xi's words, so he took over the conversation: "The reason why the deceased died so miserably is because ——— murderer wanted to cover up the real cause of the deceased's death!" ”

Zhou Yan said.

And that's when ......

"Didi, Didi."

Lawyer Zou's mobile phone rang suddenly.

Lawyer Zou picked up the phone, answered a few words, and then hung up the phone.

"It's from the hospital." He smiled, looked at Zhou Yan and said, "Sure enough, it's exactly the same as you think." ”