Although it seemed to me that their rehearsals were boring, and they didn't need my help, after all, they agreed to Yu Dongting, and since there was no class in the afternoon, I didn't know what to do, and after lunch the next day, I called my roommate to come to the small hall again.

This time, they have been rehearsing all morning with costumes and makeup, and the gorgeous costumes and exaggerated makeup have attracted many students to come and see, not only our dormitory, but also some other students to come and watch the excitement.

I still naturally sat next to Yang Yanyan and asked casually

"Why are these few people left, and what about the others?"

"I should have gone to dinner, and I'll be back in a while."

After a while, the members of the repertory troupe came back one after another, and finally it was Yang Bauhinia, who ran back breathlessly, apologizing as she ran

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm coming back late, I'm wearing this costume is too uncomfortable, it's hard to walk, everyone is in a hurry, let's start quickly."

"Don't worry, you can catch your breath first, the jacaranda hasn't come back yet." Zhu Jin stepped forward and comforted.

Facing Zhu Hibiscus, Yang Zijing nodded awkwardly at first, then looked around, found no jacaranda figure, looked at his watch, and muttered to himself

"Jacaranda is rarely late, it's 1:35, why hasn't it arrived yet?"

"He Huan! Give her a call, what the hell, and make everyone wait for her! ”

The director didn't have such good patience, and yelled at He Huan angrily, as if it was not Jacaranda who did something wrong, but He Huan.

In the face of this kind of unprovoked reprimand, He Huan didn't dare to say anything, hurriedly took out his mobile phone, and dialed the number tremblingly, but no one seemed to answer on the other end of the phone, He Huan turned his head and explained to the director tremblingly

"Horses... Ma Dao, the phone has been connected, but no one has answered. ”

"Keep fighting!"

"Yes, yes, yes..."

The phone kept getting through, but no one answered, and after about half an hour, the director couldn't bear to say

"Forget it! Don't wait, her play skips first, we..."

"Buzz~Buzz~Buzz~"

Before Ma Dao finished speaking, there was a siren outside, and then a group of students ran over from the door of the small auditorium, as if something had happened.

Yang Yanyan took two quick steps, and when she arrived at the door of the small hall, she grabbed a classmate and asked

"Hello, please ask, what's going on? How can there be a siren? ”

The male classmate described it with his hands and feet, pointing to the direction of the artificial lake on the campus from time to time, and ran away to see the excitement after speaking, after the male classmate walked away, Yang Yanyan's whole person seemed to be drained, slowly turned around, and said vaguely

"That's... The classmate said..."

Seeing that he wanted to speak and stopped, Director Ma asked coldly

"What's wrong? Doesn't it matter to us, right? Let's move on. ”

Yang Yanyan swallowed her saliva and said with a solemn expression

"The classmate said that there was a girl in a costume who drowned by the lake..."

As soon as these words came out, the small auditorium of Nuoda suddenly fell silent, and everyone showed an expression of disbelief, even the director, who had always been serious, was a little panicked.

"Girl in costume, is it—" A bad premonition spread around us.

"Impossible!" Yanan shouted and hurriedly ran out, and our group also hurriedly followed, the location of the artificial lake was very remote, and we ran for 15 minutes to arrive.

Out of concern, or rather out of curiosity, when we reached the lake, there were already a lot of people gathered, the police had set up a fence, and the members of the repertory troupe couldn't get in, they just kept shouting

"Let's go in, that could be our friend."

At this time, I saw an acquaintance, this time it was still Officer Hu who came to handle the case, it seems that he should be in charge of this area, and he is asking the couple who found the body.

When I saw Officer Hu, I hurriedly beckoned

"Hey, hey, Officer Hu, it's me, let's go in."

Noticing the commotion on our side, Officer Hu took the initiative to beckon me over

"It's you, what's going on with Song? Xiao Song, come on, come on, come here. ”

With permission, I cautiously walked over the fence and asked

"Officer Hu, what's going on?"

Officer Hu did not answer my question, but pointed to the members of the repertory troupe

"Who are these men dressed in the costumes of the European aristocracy?"

I gave a general account of what had happened, and Officer Hu closed the notebook and stared at me with a very strange look and asked

"What do you mean? Does the deceased have anything to do with you this time? Are you so much of a nuisance? ”

Hearing what Officer Hu said, I was unhappy, and pinched my waist and said angrily

"What's the matter with me? It is not known whether the deceased was a jacaranda or not. ”

When I said this, it seemed to give Officer Hu a wake-up call, and I hurriedly said

"Hey, yes, you just confirmed the body for me."

"What the hell!? I don't do it, I don't do it. ”

However, Officer Hu ignored my objections and dragged me to the corpse, and Wu Tong on the side stood up to help me out of the siege

"Hello, I'm a close friend of the deceased, let me confirm."

I looked at Wu Tong with great gratitude, and then turned my head to Officer Hu and said

"yes, I've only known that girl for less than 24 hours, so let's let this big brother come."

Only then did Officer Hu let go of me, raised his hand, and asked his subordinates to let Wu Tong in.

Wu Tong slowly walked to the side of the corpse, squatted down, made a few breaths, I could see that he made a lot of determination to lift the white cloth, he glanced at the corpse, hurriedly turned his head over, I don't know whether it was fear or couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and then lowered his head, closed his eyes tightly, and said nothing.

Seeing his reaction, the members of the repertory troupe also understood, Yanan sat directly on the ground, crying bitterly, and the others were also very sad, painful, and couldn't believe it.

Officer Hu sighed, shook his head and said

"It seems that the deceased has been confirmed, what a pity, so young."

I shook my head a little sadly

"Hey, people who were alive yesterday are going to be here today..."

He looked up again and asked

"Officer Hu, when did it happen?"

Officer Hu looked at the crying crowd and replied indifferently

"The provisional forensic report has not yet come out, but the body has not yet stiffened, and according to my judgment, the time of death should not exceed thirty minutes."

"Was it an accident, or was it?"

"Not sure yet, forensic medical examiners are needed... Ay? Why am I telling you so much! What are you supposed to do, what are you going to do! Less here! Want to play detective games again? ”

As he spoke, he pushed me out of the fence, and at this time, the school leaders also came over and drove the students away angrily

"Okay, okay, it's all scattered, it's all scattered, don't look at it."

At this time, Secretary Lu also came, and it could be seen that he was also very sad, after all, he was one of the students he was proud of, and he was so lost at a young age, no one could stand it.

Just as a few of us were about to leave, Officer Hu got the forensic doctor's firm report and shouted at us

"Stop!"

We inexplicably turned our heads and stared at Officer Hu.

Officer Hu shook the report in his hand and walked over to us and said

"The autopsy report shows that the cause of death of the deceased was drowning, but there were obvious signs of fighting, especially serious injuries to the neck, that is, the deceased was held down by the neck and drowned alive."

Hearing Officer Hu say this, Yanan burst into tears again and leaned on Yang Yanyan

"Oh my God, who is so cruel..."

Du Ruo stepped forward and asked

"Officer, we are very sad that the jacaranda is drowning, but what do you mean by not letting us go? Suspicion that we are murderers"

"I just need to take a note of you as usual."

Zhang Kexin said in a low voice

"My friend is dead, and your tone is still so cold?"

After Zhang Kexin said this, I felt that this guy didn't seem to shed a single tear, and his tone just now seemed to be very reluctant to make a record, and I vaguely felt that he was very suspicious.

Just as Officer Hu was about to take us, a police officer hurriedly ran over

"Officer Hu, Officer Hu, there's something new."

As he spoke, he came to Officer Hu's side and whispered in his ear, and Officer Hu listened to it and hurriedly confirmed

"Really? Is there such a thing? ”

Judging by his reaction, it is estimated that there has been a new development in the case, but I am no longer interested in these, and I just want to go back to rest after recording the confession as soon as possible.

But Su Yong, who was on the side, seemed to be very excited and very concerned about the progress of the case.

"What's the matter, Officer Hu, is there something wrong?"

Officer Hu glanced at Su Yong and said slowly

"It's not impossible to say, someone found out that the deceased ended up in a C-flavored juice shop."

"C-flavored juice shop?" When Yanan heard it, he said to everyone

"That's where I bought the juice yesterday..."

"Looks like she really liked yesterday's juice." Yang Yanyan patted Yanan's shoulder and said.

Wu Tong asked excitedly

"Is it possible that the murderer was a juice shop clerk?"

Zhu Jian hurriedly dissuaded

"Wu Tong, don't get too excited, let the police investigate this..."

Yang Zijing hurriedly asked again

"Then when did the jacaranda leave the juice shop?"

The officer just now opened the notepad and said confidently

"It was 1:15 a.m."

Du Ruo asked again

"Why are you so sure?"

He Huan said again

"How can the clerk be sure that the jacaranda is going to the store?"

The officer explained

"According to the clerk, because her clothes are so eye-catching and she wears heavy makeup, the clerk has been paying close attention, the time is absolutely right, and she clearly recognizes the photo I gave her as a customer in the store before."

Not coordinated! The words of these people gave me a sense of incongruity, and one of them said incongruously, who and who said the wrong thing? Could it be that the murderer was one of them?

Just as I was trying to find out what was wrong, the horse guide, who had been silent, spoke

"If the jacaranda was alive at 1:15, then none of us would have doubted it."

Hearing what Director Ma said, Officer Hu turned his attention to him and asked

"What do you mean by that?"

Ma Dao continued

"I know the location of that juice shop, we had it when we were studying, it is located in the northernmost part of the campus, and the artificial lake is in the southernmost part of the campus, even if you run, it will take at least 10 minutes, and from the artificial lake to the small hall, it will take at least 15 minutes, counting the time to drown a person, it must be more than 25 minutes, but among those of us, the latest Bauhinia to arrive in the small hall is 1:35, she doesn't have enough time to complete all this, not to mention us who were in the small hall earlier, So the people we were in the small hall at the time didn't have time to commit the crime at all. ”

Su Yong didn't seem to understand and asked me

"What's the matter? How could we not be murderers? ”

For the first time in my life, I've heard of someone who is unhappy about being cleared of suspicion, explained

"Director Ma is right, the most likely perpetrator is Yang Bauhinia, assuming that after the jacaranda leaves the juice shop at 1:15, it rushes to the artificial lake for some reason, and it will arrive at 1:25 at the earliest, even if you ignore the few minutes of the murder, it is impossible for Yang Bauhinia to arrive at the small hall before 1:40 no matter how fast she is."

However, it is good to clear the suspicion, a few of us simply recorded the transcript and left, but the people in the repertory troupe are more complicated, because of the close relationship with the victim, not only were fingerprints taken, but also DNA tests were done.

On the way, Su Yong expressed his opinion

"I think what the director said is a bit."

"Why?"

"It's slow, but it's okay to ride a bike? It's just too late. ”

Guan Shuang felt that this idea was not realistic

"I've considered this possibility, but it's not much faster to ride a bicycle on a trail like our campus, and no matter what, you can't save 10 minutes."

Guo Hongyi continued to add

"yes, and if you're walking on a bicycle in that kind of clothes, there will definitely be witnesses, and I feel like she's walking by."

"And who will the murderer be?"

"Maybe it's not the people in the small hall at all, there are tens of thousands of people in this university, and the ghost knows who it is."

We didn't think too much about it, so you and I discussed it word by word, but Zhan Tiantian, who had been following us, opened her mouth wide

"Damn... How smart are you? ”

I'm used to being beaten by Zhan Tiantian, but I'm really not used to being praised by her like this, teasingly

"Sister Tian, do you still praise people?"

Zhan Tian smiled and said

"By the way, didn't you solve a case before? I was asleep at the time, so I didn't go with it, so how about I behave this time? ”

I rolled my eyes wide

"Come on, do you really think we're detectives? It was an accident last time, how can it be so simple to solve the case, let's wait for the police. ”

However, Zhan Tiantian was interested and said unwillingly

"Oh, we also belong to helping, if we can help them solve the case as soon as possible and catch the murderer, our campus will not have to be panicked."

Guan Shuang continued to explain

"Sister Tian, if our investigation hinders the police from handling the case, it is an obstruction of official business, and if we accidentally catch the wrong person, it is a crime of defamation, and we don't need to do this kind of thing."

"That's right, and not every case has any clever criminal methods, if it's just an accidental homicide, it can only be solved by the police." I went on to add.

Seeing that several of us were opposed, Zhan Tiantian stopped, stared at his right hand tightly, and whispered

"Hold on... Hold on..."

She looked like she was talking to her own hand, which scared us a little, and we crept closer, and only when we got closer did we hear what she was saying

"Hold on, you can't slap them a few times."

As soon as we heard this, several of us were so frightened that we took a step back, and we didn't know what to do for a while, but Zhang Kexin reacted quickly and hurriedly asked me

"That, Yang'er, didn't you say you had inspiration just now, let's go quickly, solve the case."

"Ahh