"It looks like Mr. Zhao is behaving so arrogantly because you're very sure that I couldn't possibly have found out how you committed this murder," scoffed Helian Weiwei. "It's true that when I first entered the room, I couldn't find anything that looked like a switch or a trigger. And so because the scene of the crime was so clean, even a murder in an enclosed room requires some sort of auxiliary tool to complete the crime."
"I kept wondering what could possibly be the auxiliary tool, and then the shopkeeper said that the person who provided him the blueprint for this escape room included not only the mechanisms, but even what to say into the walkie-talkie. In most cases, once the various stages within the room have been set, the shopkeeper would be the one who decides on what hints are necessary after the construction of the room. In other words, normally the shopkeeper decides on this part, but the opposite happened for this particular case. And both the previous time and this time, you were the one who was holding onto the walkie-talkie."
Zhao Xiaodong scoffed. "You're really detailed and you just simply associate one thing with another. I like being the one holding the walkie-talkie when we're inside an escape room and that's enough for you to accuse me of being a murderer? What sort of logic is this? If this can be considered evidence, then anybody could be a murderer!"
"Of course, just being the one holding the walkie-talkie isn't strong enough evidence." Helian Weiwei smiled and unlocked her phone. She had picked up a video call and the screen showed an email attachment that had been sent out before. The two words 'Sobbing House' were written clearly in the file name!
"What if the design of this escape room was originally provided by you? Wouldn't that be enough evidence to convict you of murder?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiaodong's back suddenly shook, and his ordinary and unremarkable face revealed panic for the first time!
Helian Weiwei's smile was mischievous. "Come, Monkey, let Mr. Zhao see where you guys are at now."
Monkey quickly moved aside from the camera and the scene on the phone not only caused Zhao Xiaodong's face to pale.
That was the male dormitory of their school!
And it was the one meant for postgraduate students to live in!
How could Helian Weiwei's informants be inside their school's male dormitory?
Guo Tingting and Xiao Jingtian glanced at each other. They didn't understand what was going on at all.
Behind Monkey was a cold and beautiful youth wearing a leather jacket.
The sound of something snapping could be heard from the phone!
"Hello? Hello? Boss, can you hear me? Shit, why is the signal so lousy? You know how dangerous it was just now? L almost had to pull a gun on someone but I managed to stop him in time. And then that stupid A and the rest dressed like a bunch of gangsters here to collect protection fees, but insisted that they looked like university students. They're so bloody dumb..."
Chapter 1085 - Helian Weiwei Concludes the Case Handsomely
Helian Weiwei could hear them practically tearing down the walls on the other side and she used a finger to press against her aching head as she sneered, "Monkey, get to the point. And if the rest of you don't remain quiet, none of you will be allowed to hug my little Qingchen anymore."
When these extremely destructive and rough men heard these words, they instantly straightened their backs and lined up properly!
Gaining the favor of their little boss was the goal they had been pursuing all their lives.
Their little boss hadn't been around for the past two days, and they all felt that they had nothing left to live for.
In the future, if they weren't able to hug him anymore...just thinking about it made them feel so upset and so hurt!
Helian Weiwei was already used to the way her goofy underlings behaved, so the corners of her mouth twitched, but she didn't look at the faces of those men. She said to Monkey, "The doc.u.ments are 100% restored? "
"Of course! " Monkey gave a thumbs up. "If I had to track it down, then things would have gotten tricky, since so much time has passed and it's not going to be easy to track it down. Thankfully, you told us to come to this school to look for the doc.u.ments and it's saved me at least three days and three nights of time. As long as he hasn't changed his laptop, I can follow the traces left in the laptop. But this young punk is pretty smart and he deletes his files on a regular basis. I had to recover his recycle bin in order to get all the previously deleted files out and spent quite a bit of time, but everything went smoothly."
"Very good. " Helian Weiwei's thin lips curved upwards. "Point your phone at his computer screen. I want him to see it with his own eyes."
Monkey followed her instructions.
Zhao Xiaodong looked at that page that he was extremely familiar with and couldn't keep a straight face any longer!
Helian Weiwei's voice still carried a smile, just like a grim reaper who had come to claim his life. "Mr. Zhao, you should be familiar with this chat you see here, right? In order to make sure you can't eloquently exonerate yourself through an argument with words, I got them to restore the email address you used to send the shopkeeper your design for the escape room, and that email address has nothing else but one sent email. Did you think I wouldn't be able to track you down just because you didn't put in any personal information when you registered for this email address? Mr. Zhao, you've underestimated this supposedly pretentious trickster fengshui master you thought I was."
Zhao Xiaodong remained silent and his entire face was ashen.
The shopkeeper was the one who reacted violently instead. He pointed at Weiwei's screen and exclaimed, "It's this email! This is the email address that sent me the full design of Sobbing House!"
"Mr. Zhao." Helian Weiwei kept her phone away in a cool fashion and her words were concise and straight to the point, "If I hand this proposal you sent over to the police and let them get professionals to look at it, they would immediately notice the problems inside. Why did a bunch of unnecessary steel pipes appear in the design and what role did the walkie-talkie play? It won't take much to find out why. And you can forget about wriggling your way out of this."
Zhao Xiaodong let out a low laugh. He pulled the glasses off his face and the aggression on his face was apparent. "I really don't understand. My plan was so perfect, so how did you find out? Should the most suspicious person among us be Chen Feiyang? He fits the bill of the murderer more than me!"
"That's because every bit of the backstory and props of this escape room is connected to your inner thoughts. You re-enacted the entire scene of what happened that night out, and I was wondering how could an escape room possibly fit 90% of your experience? There had to be something about this place that I still didn't know about. So by the time we reached the third stage, I got my subordinates to get into your dormitory and we did reap a good result in the end. I'm glad the shopkeeper hadn't forgotten where he first got the design for the room from."
Helian Weiwei stretched out lazily and her voice was unfeeling, "Alright now, the case is closed. I've found all that evidence that you insisted on seeing, so Mr. Zhao, just wait to go to jail now."
Of course, Zhao Xiaodong wouldn't give in so easily. His first reaction was to run!
But as soon as he turned around, something flew over from behind and jabbed his calf!
Zhao Xiaodong immediately sprawled on the ground in pain. He hugged his leg and looked to see that it was a youth in a black suit.
The trap he set would definitely stab someone to death. Those steel pipes would definitely kill the person within that room!
But why wasn't there a single injury on Baili Jiajue?
He originally thought that if a second person died, it would be able to divert everyone's attention.
He didn't expect that he would actually miss!
Zhao Xiaodong bared his teeth and looked up at Baili Jiajue. This was undoubtedly the biggest failure in his plan!
And that high school student!
Zhao Xiaodong turned his
head and looked at Helian Weiwei. His face was extremely pale.
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"Wait a minute!" Zhao Xiaodong endured the terrible pain he felt and his lips trembled. "Since you're so good at investigating all these things and you said that I've made a mistake in avenging Sichun because the one who killed her wasn't Zhang Heng, then who's her killer? Who's the other murderer?"
Helian Weiwei's gaze glanced at him without a trace of warmth. "Why should I tell you?"
"You know who it is, right?" Zhao Xiaodong became agitated. "Help me, help me to expose that person!"
Helian Weiwei paused in her footsteps and said flatly, "I've always thought that no matter what sort of love relationship you're in, the minimum requirement is that both sides are equal. You like her and she respects you. It's not a pity that a woman like Dong Sichun died. There are many reasons why couples break up, and it generally doesn't matter."
"But the most disgusting of them all is the type of woman who breaks up other people's families and plays with other men's feelings. She perished because the heavens decided it was time for her to go. She treated you like that, and you still wanted to avenge her? A s.l.u.tty woman is compatible with a despicable man, I suppose."
"Mr. Zhao, if you have so much time, why don't you spare a thought for your parents? How have they taken care of you all your life? You've ruined your future for such a woman. Is it worth it?"
Zhao Xiaodong didn't say anything else and was suddenly stunned.
He suddenly remembered the time when his mother came to Beijing and couldn't bear to walk into Starbucks.
She said, "Son, a drink costs more than $30, so I won't drink it because it's too expensive. But I'll buy you a cup. What would you like to have?"
He had come from a small town and his parents were ordinary low ranking employees.
There was no cafe like Starbucks in their county.
His mother really couldn't bear to spend the money, but even so, she walked to a Starbucks under the hot sun and bought him an iced cappuccino despite knowing nothing about coffee.
At that time, he was so embarrassed by her. She didn't even know how to order a cup of coffee, so he felt that she was embarrassing.
Starbucks was nothing more than an ordinary thing to the people in the city, especially to Dong Sichun.
Chapter 1086 - The Other Murderer
His mother, on the other hand, looked like a country bumpkin, dressed in ordinary clothes, and was even a little old-fashioned. She didn't even know how to ride the subway, and her voice was unusually loud, as if she was always afraid that he would get lost.
That timid look on her face made him uncontrollably lose his temper at her.
He picked up the coffee and threw it away!
His mother was a little dumbfounded, as if she was frightened by his sudden anger.
At that time, he had told himself in his heart that he must not let any of his friends in school know that his mother was like this.
Because that would be too embarrassing!
He did not want Dong Sichun to look down on him because of this...
At that time, his mother really wanted to go to his school to take a look, and even said that she would treat him and his good friends to a meal.
How could he agree? He didn't check if there were seats or not and just bought a return train ticket for her that day and chased her back home.
He threw a tantrum the entire day.
He clearly knew that she didn't know how to take the subway, but he didn't even send her off because he was in a hurry to buy an iPhone for Dong Sichun.
He didn't even know how his mother got to the train station.
But just then, he received a call from her, and she was still laughing over the phone as she told him not to worry about the family and to just focus on studying hard. She told him to ask her for money if he didn't have enough to spend, and to eat anything he wanted without holding back. She also told him not to catch a chill while sleeping and to remember to cover himself with a blanket at night.
At that time, he only felt impatient and snapped, "I'm not a three-year-old child anymore. I know all this. You're so longwinded." Then he hung up the phone.
Zhao Xiaodong didn't know why, but he only remembered these details now.
Every scene was so vivid to him.
Deep inside, he couldn't bear to let his parents suffer.
But he was willing to give up everything for Dong Sichun.
He simply couldn't imagine how his mother, who was unfamiliar with the place, could curl up and sleep at the train station for one night.
And this was just so that she could save on $200 for a proper place to sleep in.
But he spent more than $6,000 to buy an iPhone for a woman who just called him a dog.
Out of which, $3,000 was a gift that his mother specially brought for him that day...
Zhao Xiaodong couldn't describe how he felt.
After that, he started crying.
He buried his face in his arms and wailed loudly like a child.
Helian Weiwei put away her prayer beads and didn't look at him again.
Many times we forget.
In this world, there is always someone who doesn't ask for anything in return.
Unfortunately, as we grow up, the more selfish we become.
Zhao Xiaodong finally understood this principle.
His mother probably felt very upset with herself when she realized she didn't know how to do those things in the city.
And even though he knew how to do all these things, he didn't teach her and thought of her as an embarrassment instead.
In reality, it is only because they miss you.
When we are children, our parents teach us everything.
But when we grow up, other things get in the way and our parents often become our last priority...
The police car sped down the long alley. They took Zhao Xiaodong and the rest back to the station. Someone had called the police after all, so all of them had to record their statements.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, the murderer would defend himself.
To the police's surprise, Zhao Xiaodong was very quiet, and only came clean with all his crimes.
The only additional thing he said to the police was, "Can you not tell my mother that I liked that sort of woman?"
The police was stunned. "Okay. "
"Thank you." After Zhao Xiaodong finished saying this sentence, he didn't speak again.
Helian Weiwei was the most familiar with this procedure and she was done with just two or three sentences. When she brought Baili Jiajue out from the interrogation, only Guo Tingting was outside.
She looked like she was waiting specially for Chen Feiyang and was clearly very infatuated with him.
When she saw Helian Weiwei and Baili Jiajue walk over, she looked hesitant and tried to probe Helian Weiwei, "I heard what you and Zhao Xiaodong said earlier. You said that there are two murderers among us. One killed Zhang Heng and the other killed Dong Sichun. So there's one more murderer among us - who is it?"
"Who do you think it is?" Helian Weiwei smiled faintly and asked back, "Didn't you see the shadow of that person that day?"
Guo Tingting's face paled and she mumbled, "I...I couldn't see who it was clearly."
"Actually, besides your window, there's another window that can see everything happening on the rooftop clearly." Helian Weiwei's voice remained flat. "Your hostel block is the closest to the rooftop after all. As for who it is, I don't have any evidence, so I won't say anything about it. Besides, investigating Zhang Heng's death is the only case I've been hired to investigate, and any other case besides this is
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Guo Tingting exclaimed, "My goodness, are you going to hide something like this? You know who the murderer is but you don't want to report this person? Won't you feel guilty forever?"
"As I said, I don't have any evidence." Helian Weiwei looked at her and laughed. "Besides, Miss Tingting, I know what sort of conclusion you're hoping for in order to get Chen Feiyang. I'm not some peacekeeping envoy, and this sort of criminal investigation is the police's job, while I just take the money for the part I'm hired for. I don't like Dong Sichun, but I don't have any obligation to find out who her killer is either. And actually, I don't think you're qualified to point a finger at me. You saw what happened on the rooftop but didn't tell the police anything either. Did you think you could make Chen Feiyang yours after Dong Sichun died?"
Guo Tingting's expression froze. "I must be an idiot! Why do I bother saying all these things to such a coldblooded and wicked high school student?!"
Helian Weiwei let out a low laugh. Just like what a certain highness said, sometimes people were really filthy and evil from head to toe.
Such people had double standards on morality and always took the moral high ground to talk to others. Their own actions were understandable while others were dark and coldblooded. What a joke.
"Miss Helian."
Helian Weiwei turned when she heard this voice and saw Xiao Jingtian had just emerged from the interrogation rooms. She was standing behind Helian Weiwei with emotions welling in her eyes. "I'd like to have a word with you."
Helian Weiwei nodded and found a wooden bench to sit on.
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