Chapter 164: Villa Murder

The six people in the room just breathed a sigh of relief and were sighing, but unexpectedly, the turtle and snake clay sculpture vibrated again.

Several people looked at each other, and then they all crowded at the window, waiting in the night for the sixth Seven Evil to return to its place.

Naturally, their eyes were all on the university dormitory. After a while, I saw a faint trace of black gas floating out of the street lamp, slowly flying towards them.

The black gas hovered above the turtle and snake clay statue, and everyone was surprised to see that in the black air, a beautiful young woman's face loomed, with a thick sadness in her expression.

No one had ever seen the young woman, and they didn't understand why this young woman who had never seen her was one of the Seven Evils. Xiao Song shook his head and said, "Alas, there is another murder." Hopefully, this is just an accident, not a criminal case, and I, the new official, have been in trouble since I first took office. ”

Li Bing handed Xiao Song a cigarette and comforted him: "Team Song, everything has two sides. These seven evil lives cannot be saved by manpower. Although they are dead, giving you a lot of detective work for Team Song, it is also an opportunity, and it is the perfect time to show your talents. By the way, isn't Professor Zhao's case still unclosed? Perhaps the new murder case just now is the clue to solve the death case of Professor Zhao! ”

Xiao Song's eyes lit up, and he groaned for a while: "Li Bing, what you said is not unreasonable. I haven't received a report yet, wait patiently, maybe it's another village that can solve the mystery of Professor Zhao's death. ”

At noon the next day, the criminal police team received a report that there was a homicide in Hongyi Real Estate Company.

The Hongyi real estate company is just across the street from the university dormitory building, and it is separated from dormitory 507, where there have been several jumping incidents.

The deceased's name is Zhou Lihua, female, 32 years old, a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department of Normal University, and her husband is Zhu Zihua, the president of Hongyi Real Estate Company. To Xiao Song's surprise, Zhou Lihua turned out to be the sixth Seven Evil Ghost he saw at Li Bing's place last night.

It was An Qin, the assistant general manager of Hongyi Real Estate Company, who discovered the murder and called the police, and at this moment, she was emotionally reporting to Xiao Song, who was sitting opposite her, what had happened.

Zhu Zihua, the boss of Hongyi Company, entered the palace of marriage with Zhou Lihua, an assistant professor of the university's art department, five years ago. They have always had a good relationship when they were in love and after marriage, but unfortunately, they deeply regretted that they had been married for a few years, but they have never had children.

A year ago, the couple couldn't stand it, and after going to a big hospital for an examination, they came up with a result that made them extremely depressed, it turned out that Zhu Zihua, who had an extraordinary appearance, actually had dysfunction, which led to their marriage and no children.

Zhou Lihua, who longed to have a child, once discussed with Zhu Zihua to adopt a child, but unexpectedly, Zhu Zihua, who has always been gentle and considerate of his wife, was furious when he heard this.

Zhu Zihua believes that adopting a child is to disgrace him, which is equivalent to letting everyone know that he is infertile. This made Zhu Zihua, who was already very famous in the local area, unacceptable no matter what, he couldn't afford to lose that face. What's more, Zhu Zihua believes that his huge family business will be inherited by his children in the future. Adopting someone else's child to inherit his own family property is also unacceptable to Zhu Zihua no matter what.

That day, the couple broke out into a fierce quarrel over this matter, and Zhu Zihua, who was furious, unexpectedly beat his wife for the first time. Since then, the relationship between the couple has changed radically, except for a few relatives and friends who know the inside story, in front of outsiders, out of face problems, the couple still seem so affectionate in front of outsiders, so affectionate that almost everyone who knows them is jealous.

When Zhu Zihua graduated from high school, he had nothing and was so poor that he was dinging. However, his brain is extremely smart, and he doesn't know what luck he had, and he became rich almost overnight in just two years.

After developing, Zhu Zihua began to pay attention to the people who interacted with him, and it didn't take long for him to become one of the local celebrities. Moreover, he is handsome, personable, and has a scholarly demeanor, and almost no one believes that he only graduated from high school.

By chance, Zhu Zihua met Zhou Shuntian, a village chief where the development zone is now located, because of land acquisition, and the two became close friends.

Zhou Shuntian's daughter Zhou Lihua had just entered a university at this time and chose to major in fine arts. Because of the remoteness of the mountainous area where Zhou Shuntian is located, the whole village is a well-known poor village. Although Zhou Shunhua is a small village head, he does not seem to be wealthy.

In the process of dating Zhou Shuntian, Zhu Zihua fell in love with Zhou Shuntian's only daughter Zhou Lihua, and Zhou Lihua was also attracted to the young and promising Zhu Zihua.

The two of you have affection, I have intentions, Zhou Shuntian saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, and soon made this relationship clear. After falling in love for a few years, after graduating from Zhou Lihua University, she married Zhu Zihua.

In the second year after their marriage, Zhou Shuntian died mysteriously in an accident. After two months of investigation, the police concluded that Zhou Shuntian's death was purely accidental, not homicide, and the case was closed.

A few days before his death, Zhou Shuntian seemed to have a premonition of what would happen to him, and quietly called his daughter to his room, handed her a small box, and took care of his daughter.

Zhou Lihua kept in mind the teachings of her deceased father, and hid the box in a secret place that only she knew, and even her husband Zhu Zihua, she kept it strictly secret and didn't say a word.

After Zhou Lihua's original hometown became a development zone, Zhu Zihua almost included nearly half of the project, which made many developers jealous and hateful, but helpless, after all, Zhu Zihua has a strong capital that others cannot match.

Zhu Zihua also undertook most of the construction projects of the normal university, so he became familiar with the school leaders and local parents, so he naturally transferred his wife Zhou Lihua to the new campus of the normal university, and a year later, Zhou Lihua was successfully transferred from a teaching assistant to a formal lecturer.

Because she hadn't seen Zhou Lihua for more than a day, the university called to ask why Zhou Lihua didn't ask for leave but didn't come to work, An Qin came to Zhou Lihua's residence, and when she knocked on the door and didn't respond, An Qin had an ominous premonition in her heart, so she opened the room with the spare key in the general manager's office and found Zhou Lihua who had lost her life on the ground.

Xiao Song learned that because Zhou Lihua is beautiful and has a considerable affinity, she is quite popular among colleagues and students, and has never had conflicts with others.

At the scene of the crime, Zhou Lihua was only wearing a nightdress, her eyes were wide and she was lying on her side on the floor, and there was a dark red strangulation mark on her neck. According to the forensic examination, Zhou Lihua had no other injuries on her body, and the cause of death was that the murderer strangled Zhou Lihua's neck from behind with a rope, causing her to suffocate to death.

The time of death was more than nine o'clock the night before, when the company personnel had already left work, and only Zhou Lihua lived alone in her luxurious villa built in the company. And according to the investigation, the company's security guards did not find any strangers entering or leaving the company, and the surveillance video inside the doorman also confirmed this.

The time of Zhou Lihua's death puzzled Xiao Song. At Li Bing's place, he saw Xu Xin's soul enter the turtle and snake clay sculpture, and then saw Zhou Lihua's soul also burrowed into the clay sculpture. But according to the forensic examination, Zhou Lihua died the day before Xu Xin's death

Several footprints were extracted from the scene, and after preliminary identification, these were left by two people at the scene. One of them was left by the informant, An Qin, assistant to the general manager of Hongyi Real Estate Company, and the other was a man's footprint, which was preliminarily estimated to have been left by the murderer.

Strangely, according to An Qin's reaction, Zhou Lihua's husband Zhu Zihua had left the company the day before the case and went on a business trip, but when Xiao Song called Zhu Zihua's phone, it was always turned off.

The Interpol Task Force held a discussion meeting at which the possible reasons for how the killer evaded security guards and the surveillance footage at the entrance of the company were analyzed and discussed.

The task force learned that Hongyi Company has only one gate for the company's employees to enter and exit, and there are tall walls around it, on which glass slag is inserted, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter through the wall.

On the edge of Zhou Lihua's villa, a side door was opened, which was for Zhu Zihua and Zhou Lihua to enter and exit, and only the two of them had the key.

The task force hypothesized two possibilities, one is that the murderer took advantage of the company's daytime crowds to infiltrate the company, and then hid in a secluded place where no one was waiting for darkness, waiting for the opportunity to commit the crime; Another possibility is that the murderer was an acquaintance of Zhou Lihua, and it was Zhou Lihua who opened the side door and led the murderer into the villa.

What did the murderer do for the crime? After the autopsy of Zhou Lihua's body, it was not found that she had been sexually assaulted, and the scene was not disorderly, but no valuables and cash were found in Zhou Lihua's room.