Chapter 20: "The Fire of Passion"
Qi Tian came to the police station, and Li Qi was pacing anxiously, looking at his watch from time to time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Qi Tian knew that Li Qi should practice in the dance studio at this point in time, and she gave up the principle of practicing dance every day to find Qi Tian, presumably the video she wanted to show Qi Tian was very weighty......
"Officer Qi, you're here."
"Let's play the video."
Li Qi had already adjusted his mobile phone to play video mode early in the morning, and when Li Qi pressed it, the video began to play.
The footage in the video is shaky, a group of people are beating a boy with his head to protect his cheeks. They attacked somewhere else, and laughter surrounded the people. What the video doesn't capture is the owner of the laughter, in addition to the laughter, there is also the sound of drinking.
But people began to disperse, and the boy's face was clearly seen, and that boy was Kaijie.
"What is this?"
Li Qi glanced at his watch again.
"I'll take you to the dance studio, we'll say on the way."
"Okay."
Qi Tian took Li Qi to get the car, and she ran in front of Qi Tian, "Officer Qi, can you hurry up?" ā
Qi Tian also ran, and it wasn't until he got in the car that Li Qi became a little calmer.
"Is Kai Jay the protagonist of the video just now?"
"Yes."
"Did you shoot the video?"
"No, it was Ye Jinlong who sent it. They collect protection money at school and use these videos to warn people who don't pay protection money. ā
"When was the video?"
"Just one day before the school anniversary, you see the time is also shown here."
Qi Tian looked at the lower right corner of the video, and the time was fixed at five o'clock the day before the school anniversary.
Qi Tian nodded, ticking one thing off his mind.
"So Kaijie is the one who didn't pay the protection money?"
"He wasn't." Li Qi showed a disappointed look on his face and sighed softly.
"His family is average, and he only comes to school to get food money from his parents, so he has no extra money. If you have to pay protection money, you will probably have to eat several less meals a day. And he is not a cowardly person, he refused to pay the money at the beginning, and he was beaten all the time, and after all, the edges and corners were smoothed. ā
"School violence for so long? Didn't you report the incident to the school or to the police? ā
Li Qi's face turned pale, "There is a person who has gone to denounce him, but it is not like this time when you arrested it completely." So it's just two or three people who pay the price for the school violence, while others who slip through the net intensify the bullying of the whistleblower. With his example, everyone also lost the courage to resist and had to swallow their anger. ā
"According to you, Kaijie has already succumbed to might, so why is he still beaten?"
Indeed, since Kaijay gave up his resistance, he has rarely been the protagonist of a video. But after all, it is a person who has resisted bullying in the past, and he cannot be absolutely trusted in the heart of the bully. In addition to paying protection money, Kaijay also has to meet their requirements, such as buying drinks and doing homework...... And he was forced to enter such a crowded box to play the clown, I'm afraid that that day Kaijie broke out again because he couldn't stand the resistance factor in his heart......"
"By the way, I never understood what the clown was doing in the play?"
"Have you ever seen a toy that pops out of the box when you open it? Kaijie plays that kind of thing. ā
"But why is the heroine you?"
"This ...... I don't know, Liu Yang told me that she was the heroine as soon as she came, and I was also surprised......"
"Eat what's in the bowl and look at what's in the pot." , Qi Tian was surprised by the innocence of the girl in front of him, "Kaijie is usually very confident, huh?" ā
"Well, indeed. Even if he was bullied so many times, he still didn't abandon his studies, which is something he should be proud of. ā
When the dance studio arrived, he immediately got out of the car and ran inside, "Officer Qi, you won't be like the previous police who didn't investigate bullying thoroughly, right?" ā
"Of course." Qi Tian guessed that she would ask this because the people who participated in the bullying were taken back to the police station for questioning, but they went back to school today, and she was probably worried about Kaijie. And Qi Tian also knew that the group of teenagers were just waiting for the court to hear them, and they would be punished by the law after all.
Qi Tian returned to the police station, and everyone was drinking the special drinks from the shop, staring at the documents in a daze, not knowing how the case should proceed.
Yiting saw Qi Tian coming back, and hurriedly asked, "Qi Tian, we brought so many people back for questioning, and we can indeed make them admit to campus violence, but there is no progress on Ning Hui's homicide." ā
"Let's watch a video first."
Qi Tian handed the phone to Pepsi, and the video was already open in the phone, and Pepsi projected the video onto the glass curtain wall.
Everyone looked at the picture of Kaijie being beaten, "You take a closer look at the time in the lower right corner. ā
Everyone focused their eyes on the lower right corner, and when they saw the time, it was difficult for everyone to accept it at once.
"The time of this video is fake, right?" Yiting said.
Qi Tian threw Pepsi a look, Pepsi performed a series of operations on the computer, and Pepsi came to a conclusion about five minutes later.
"I'm pretty sure there's no trace of any forgery in this video, especially the time."
"So have we been going in the wrong direction? I breathe at a different pace than a human being? Not two hours? ā
"No, there was nothing wrong with the experiment we did...... Qi Tian refuted Zhuo Xi's hypothesis.
"Then the murderer can only hide in the box, he will not be invisible, he must have found a dead corner of the surveillance." Junyi reverted to his thoughts.
"It's true that we can't give up this possibility, which is why I didn't tell you not to ask questions about homicide during the interrogation of delinquent youths. However, the probability of finding a blind spot in the monitoring is too low and close to an impossible event. ā
Rather than making this assumption, it's better to believe that we're wrong. After all, in any case, when all the possibilities are ruled out, then the remaining possibility is the truth, and Holmes will not lie. ā
"So in which environment did we go wrong?" Xiao Qian is humble to study.
Time. Liu Yang's delinquent youth was beating Jiang Ye and Zeng Liyang that day, and Ning Hui's faction was beating Kaijie, so Kaijie's alibi was also found. Li Qi's alibi has also been confirmed, and the maid Yanyue has also gone shopping. That is, everyone's alibi is valid.
And the alibi of the person captured by the surveillance is even more ironclad. The deceased could not have committed suicide, so we must have mistimed. ā
"Officer Qi, aren't you contradicting yourself? You just said that the rhythm of my breathing is the rhythm of ordinary people. ā
"Yes, the rhythm of your breathing is normal. It's just that the amount of oxygen in the box is not what we imagined. ā
"Are you the deceased on an oxygen cylinder?"
"No, but it's the same. If the time of the deceased's death is certain, then the time when he was put in the box was wrong. If oxygen had been added to the box by other means, the time to put the dead in would have been pushed forward, and we fell into this trap. ā
"What are the other means? Only one bottle was found in the box. ā
"It's this bottle, the box is relatively narrow for a person to hold itself, but there's also a bottle in it. When Kaijie generously admitted to using sleeping pills, I think it was probably because the murderer thought that Ning Hui was drunk, so he put the wine bottle in the box to blame. Of course, this is very unlikely, but I don't want to see the idea of a talent falling. ā
"But after seeing Kaijay's alibi, I knew we had the timing wrong. An idea sprung into my head that deepened my suspicions about Kaijie. ā
"What thoughts?"
"If we want to delay time, we have to fill the box with oxygen. So how to put oxygen in without being detected has become the key to breaking the method. ā
"When I saw the drink that Junyi brought back, my conjecture about the technique deepened. A high school student's experiment on oxygen production can be said to be a compulsory question, and there is a method of collecting oxygen - the drainage method. Presumably, the murderer prepared a bottle of oxygen in advance, then filled the wine bottle with water, and mixed the two bottles, and naturally the oxygen entered the wine bottle. ā
"But why use a bottle? Wouldn't it be more convenient to use the prepared jar directly? ā
"That's because the deceased had drunk the same wine that he didn't normally drink that day, and it smelled of alcohol, and if he had put other bottles, it would have been easy for people to pay attention to that bottle. If I was buying the deceased's usual drink, then the bottle I put next to the deceased was probably a drink bottle. And because of the deceased's need to drink, the only one who can choose the right wine bottle and drink bottle is Kaijie, who helped Ning Hui buy wine. ā
After speaking, Qi Tian brought a bottle of drink that Junyi brought back, and combined the wine next to the corpse, and the mouth of the bottle was just opposite.
Everyone was dumbfounded, "But maybe the deceased will specify what kind of wine to drink?" ā
"The deceased usually didn't drink a drop of alcohol, and he probably didn't even know a few brands of wine, so it is likely that he only asked Kaijie to buy wine and did not say anything. You need to ask the proprietress Kaijie if she chose the type of wine when buying wine to confirm this. ā
"But reasoning is reasoning after all, is there any evidence?"
"No, but it's a big move to stuff a fainted living person into a box, and it's hard not to be discovered. Then I think it is very likely that he put the deceased in a pre-prepared box and then repacked the box. If the deceased is placed in the dressing room in advance, it is likely to be discovered, and even if the deceased is placed in a box, it will not be suspicious to suddenly have an extra box. ā
"But even if this is the murderer's method, he won't keep the box."
"Ordinary people probably won't, but Kaijay is different, he is extremely confident in himself...... And he's been playing with us......"
"Whether the deceased is not tied, in case he wakes up and knocks on the box, he is gambling that the sound of the celebration can drown out the sound of the deceased's cry for help. He doesn't give the alibi directly, he's betting that we won't find the right time, and he'll take his alibi for credit...... Throwing the box away is more dangerous if someone picks it up, so he'll bet we can't find the right way...... He's gambling on the justice of his heart, but that's wrong......"