Chapter 65: Testimony of the Dead (4)

"What did you say?" Lu Xun turned over and put socks on his feet, "What's wrong with Zhao Gao?" โ€

"The day after you returned to the college, Albert Rutgers, a psychologist at the university hospital, was killed." Lao Jia explained, "The scene was horrible, he was nailed to the wall with a knife, and the evidence left at the scene of the crime showed that the murderer was Zhao Gao, the academy had issued a wanted warrant, and now the entire executive department is searching for his whereabouts." โ€

Lu Xun was silent for a few seconds, "They must have made a mistake. โ€

"The person in charge of identification and investigation is Ariana, and she also believes that the murderer is Zhao Gao." Lao Jia continued, "No one else entered or left the school hospital that night, and everyone had an alibi, except for Zhao Gao, the college could not find a second suspect." โ€

"The director is also mistaken." Lu Xun jumped out of bed and took off the hospital gown on his body, "Zhao Gao can't be the murderer, they must have made a mistake." โ€

"Why?"

Lu Xun scooped up the clothes on the cabinet and put them on, "I don't know about the two hundred and five?" He's a bastard, he's a lunatic, he's a psychopath, but he's not a murderer...... I'm going to the Colonel, I can't let them make a big mistake. โ€

"Lu Xun, you are calm, I can understand that you can't accept this conclusion for a while, but the evidence is ironclad, the murder weapon is Zhao Gao's fingerprints, and I don't believe that Zhao Gao will be the murderer, but all the clues point to him at present." Lao Jia sighed, "You have no evidence, there is no conclusive evidence, how are you going to convince the academy to believe you?" โ€

"Are you going to break into the colonel's office, slap the table, and quarrel with him? Slap the pistol in front of him and get him back to his life? Lao Jia persuaded, "Then you will only be locked up for disturbing the order and obstructing the handling of the case, the more unfavorable the situation, the more you must be calm and calm, now you are the only one in the entire academy who is on Zhao Gao's side, and you are the only one who still trusts Zhao Gao...... If even you are locked up, then Zhao Gao is really finished. โ€

Lu Xun calmed down a little, what Lao Jia said was right...... He had just woken up from a coma, he didn't know anything about the current situation in the academy, it was indeed not a wise choice to go to the colonel recklessly, Zhao Gao was wanted as a murder suspect, in the eyes of ordinary people, he was a criminal, how could he be an accomplice if he spoke for a criminal, he couldn't convince the academy without evidence, and he would put himself in it.

This is a criminal case involving human life, and the Academy's attitude is very serious and resolute, and there is no room for error, and he must act cautiously.

"If Zhao Gao is caught by them." Lu Xun asked, "What will be the result?" โ€

"Do you remember the rules of the safe zone? For serious violators, the Enforcement Department has the right to arrest them, and if the other party resists arrest by force, the Enforcement Department has the right to shoot them. Lao Jia repeated this old saying that Lu Xun had heard once, "To arrest Zhao Gao, the ability of the executive department may not be enough, and the colonel will send a hummingbird hunting team." Sanwu, heavy artillery, and zero distance These people will all be dispatched, it is impossible for them to keep their hands in front of Zhao Gao, if the arrest fails, they will definitely choose to shoot and kill. โ€

"If Zhao Gao surrenders......"

"If Zhao Gao surrenders, he will be brought back to the academy for interrogation and accept the verdict." Lao Jia replied, "Lu Xun, you haven't carefully read the rules of the security zone before, right?" There is actually a special "Criminal Law" inside the security zone to deal with crimes within the human race, and this book is on the colonel's shelf, but this kind of thing has never happened before in the security zone, so that "Criminal Law" has never come in handy. โ€

"Criminal law?" Lu Xun was stunned, he really hadn't heard of this thing.

"There is no death penalty in the safe zone, and if Zhao Gao is convicted of first-degree murder, he will be sentenced to life in prison." Lao Jia said slowly, "There is a dark confinement room deep underground in a certain building of the academy, that room is not much bigger than a bathroom, the door is as strong as a vault, the four walls are thick steel plates, no one can escape without tools, and the murderer will be locked in shackles and live the rest of his life." โ€

Lu Xun was taken aback, he didn't expect that there was such a place in the academy.

Zhao Gao would definitely not accept such a result...... It would be better to put him in a secret room not much bigger than the bathroom, and it would be better to die.

He put on his clothes and stood in place for a moment of silence, "Where is the director?" โ€

"Currently in the Colonel's office, investigating the cause of John Jones' death."

"John Jones?" Lu Xun felt that the name was a little familiar.

"It's the mentally unhealthy member of the Executive Department who disappeared on the night of Albert's death, and his body was found hanging from the window of the colonel's office tonight." Lao Jia said, "The scene is very terrifying, like a ghost asking for his life." โ€

"I'll go find the director." The young man leaned over to put on his shoes, raised his head and was suddenly startled.

"Hey...... Lao Jia. โ€

"What's wrong?"

Lu Xun stretched out his hand and pointed to the curtain on the inside of the ward, "Look there, under the curtain...... Do you have a pair of legs? โ€

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"Dead for two days." Wearing a mask and rubber gloves, Ariana rolled the man's eyelids, "at least for two days." โ€

The deceased was lying on the floor of the colonel's office, with a plastic sheet underneath his body, and the face of the middle-aged man was familiar to everyone present, and they had all visited him in the ward of the university hospital, when the man was still a mentally ill man with a split personality, either crouching in the corner imitating a mushroom or sleeping in bed.

When I saw him again, he was hung from the roof of the main building, like a hanged condemned prisoner, and the hemp rope with the thickness of his thumb was tightly strangled around the man's neck, tearing his cervical vertebrae.

The first person to find the body was Maxwell Sean, who sounded the alarm, and the executive department and the hummingbird team on duty that night immediately rushed to the office.

John Jones was wearing a dirty, crumpled pajamas, the clothes he wore on the night he disappeared.

"The heat and humidity accelerated the decomposition of the corpses." Rehe frowned and gently pressed the deceased's skin, the corpse spots on the skin were obvious, "I don't know where he was hiding in the past two days, but fortunately there are no flies here...... Otherwise we'll all have to wear gas masks. โ€

John Jones's face was hideous and distorted, he was lying stiff on the plastic sheeting, clearly terrified of death, but with a strange smile on his face.

Rehe noticed the expression on the corpse's face, swallowed, and looked away, he thought that this person's expression looked very uncomfortable, a corpse smiling at you, it was really a strange scene that could make people have nightmares at night.

"It's just a result of stiff facial muscles." Ariana noticed Rehe's anomaly, "He shouldn't have died laughing. โ€

"Let's say this man has been dead for two days." Belle stood at the edge of the door and looked at the deceased from afar, she didn't want to get too close to a carrion, "Then didn't he have been killed on the night of his disappearance?" โ€

"It seems so now." Ariana covered the face of the corpse and got up to take off her goggles, "The killer killed not only Mr. Albert, but also John Jones...... One of the two central characters in this case, we finally found one, and I need to take him back for an autopsy, and I should be able to find some clues. โ€

The girl looked at the colonel, who was sitting on the couch, and the old man nodded slowly.

"We will get the results as soon as tomorrow morning." Ariana waved her hand, and someone from the Enforcement Department came in and put the body in a bag, "Of course, you don't have to wait...... If it was the murderer who hung the body here, then he should not have run far by now. โ€

"Do you need manpower, Anna?" Sean asked.

The girl shook her head, "You should have a few people here, and if the murderer has the ability to hang the body in front of your window, then he also has the ability to break in." โ€