When I said this, Lao Zhao, the dean, and even those who were in the room at the time and were related to this matter, as well as some relevant personnel all looked towards me, and Bai Longfei immediately grabbed a person who had just passed by him and handcuffed him on the spot!
The man who was handcuffed by Bai Longfei was stunned for a moment, frowning and asked, "Brother Bai, what are you doing?"
Old Zhao was completely bewildered. He had no idea what Bai Longfei, Lin Yingxue, and I were planning. The Dean of Studies was even more confused. After a long while, he finally spoke: "Isn't he one of your people? Why did you arrest him?"
I smiled slightly, walked up to the captured man, stared into his eyes and said, "Who told you that this person is one of ours?"
"He said it himself. He said he wanted to avenge his girlfriend, and he also got your consent and investigated with you. Your name is Li Yifeng, right? You told me this before, and you have been following these police officers these days?"
That’s right, the person handcuffed by Bai Longfei at this moment was none other than Li Yifeng, the man who had always stayed with us as the boyfriend of the first victim, Xiaolei!
Li Yifeng struggled and angrily said to Bai Longfei: "Brother Bai, you promised me in person that I would investigate with you. I didn't lie at all! Why are you arresting me now? Can't you find the murderer who killed Xiaolei, so you want to arrest me to take the blame?"
Bai Longfei was not frightened by Li Yifeng's words at all. He just snorted coldly and turned to me and said, "Ji Wen, you should speak. I am not as eloquent as you."
I laughed secretly in my heart, thinking that my eloquence was not much better. It was obvious that Bai Longfei knew nothing about what happened and was just trying to pass the blame to me.
I cleared my throat, glanced at all the people who were in the Academic Affairs Office, and then said, "So far, there have been three murders in the school, killing three female students who lived on campus. Each of them died in a different way, corresponding to a chapter in a popular campus ghost story book. I know that some people in the school think that this is not a man-made case, but that the school is haunted. Now I can tell you responsibly that all of this is man-made. The murderer just wants to use the pressure of public opinion to turn this case into a haunted incident, so as to clear himself of the crime!"
Li Yifeng sneered and said, "You said it so nicely, but you just couldn't stand the pressure of public opinion and deliberately framed me to make me a scapegoat? Don't talk about how kind you policemen are. I see through you completely!"
The way Li Yifeng spoke and the tone of his voice made it seem as if he was completely innocent, causing everyone to look at me with suspicion. I also knew that he would make a last-ditch effort, but I was not afraid of him saying it because I would explain everything he did to everyone bit by bit.
"We were not present when the first victim, Xiaolei, died, and we don't know much about the girls' dormitory. So, excluding the motive, anyone could have killed someone at the time and could have been the murderer. So I won't explain the first murder case in detail. The only thing worth noting is that in the first case, the girl who saw the murderer holding the mop with a human head said that the cleaner she saw had long curly hair, which was a bit similar to the third victim, the transfer student. Although this doesn't sound special, you will know later that this is actually a key clue!"
After the first case was over, we came to this middle school and chose to stay the next day. However, on the second night, another murder occurred in the girls' dormitory where we were. The content was the red cotton-padded jacket in the campus ghost story book, but this time it was a little special. Although the murder method was still something that anyone could do, the only strange thing was that the murderer played a trick in front of us and disappeared instantly! At the same time when I heard his voice, he completely disappeared from this girls' dormitory without a trace!
A case also occurred on the third day, which is today's ghost mirror case. This time the murderer's method seemed even more bizarre. He first brutally killed the transfer student, and then he was able to sneak into the laboratory building where Lao Zhao's men ambushed and had no entrance, and stood at the door of the biological laboratory where we were and sang. Then he disappeared strangely when we rushed out. The method seemed similar to the second case, but it was more sophisticated than before.
I told everyone present about the three cases. Some of them had no idea what had happened. They only heard the versions told by others. After hearing the truth, they all showed expressions of disbelief. It was obvious that the real situation was probably even more horrifying and bizarre than the versions they had heard.
At this time, the Dean asked: "You also said that the murderer's ability to suddenly disappear is simply not something that humans can possess, right? Could it be that Li Yifeng has such an ability?"
I smiled and said, "Yes, this Li Yifeng does have this ability, and not only him, but everyone here can do this!"
As I said that, I winked at Bai Longfei, who understood and immediately walked out of the teaching office. After staying outside for a few seconds, he came back in and closed the door.
Before anyone could ask him what he was doing, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, moving towards us in the empty corridor. The Academic Affairs Office, which had been a little noisy, became completely quiet.
Then, we heard the footsteps approaching the door of the Academic Affairs Office. The person outside the door cleared his throat and said, "Open the door, I'm Bai Longfei!"
After hearing the sound, everyone looked at Bai Longfei who was standing in the room, not knowing what had happened. Bai Longfei smiled and suddenly opened the door, but there was no one outside!
Afterwards, Bai Longfei took something down from above the door of the Academic Affairs Office which no one had noticed, and shook it in front of everyone. It turned out to be a mobile phone!
"This is the sound I recorded earlier. Since this thing is attached to the door, it will reverberate and sound clearer and more real. That's why you think someone just walked in from outside."
I nodded to Bai Longfei, and then continued, "Yes, that's how the murderer disappeared instantly! The doors of the girls' dormitory and the biology laboratory are both dark-colored. Using a dark-colored mobile phone to record a sound in advance and then play it at a fixed time makes it difficult for people to notice it. Moreover, when we heard the sound, the light in the corridor was not very bright, so it was easier to hide the phone stuck on the door. This is how the murderer disappeared, because he never even walked to our door!"
I thought of this only after I heard the school bell for the end of get out of class. I also checked the door of our dormitory and the door of the biology laboratory, and sure enough, there were some traces of double-sided tape on them. That was what the murderer used to stick the phone on.
It was about ten minutes after the second victim died that we heard the sound at the door. At that time, I thought the murderer was preparing some way to make himself disappear. In fact, the murderer had already gone down to the second floor, used the key of the uninhabited dormitory that he had asked the security guard for in advance, opened the door of the dormitory, and quietly hid inside. When the people in the boys' dormitory downstairs began to gather around and cause a riot, he took advantage of the chaos to climb out of the window and disappeared without anyone noticing.
The same thing happened to the third victim. The murderer got the key to the laboratory building from the security guard in advance. Because the murderer Li Yifeng had never been suspected by Lao Zhao and the others, Li Yifeng should have known about our ambush. Therefore, he only needed to set the recording timer of the mobile phone attached to the door to around nine o'clock, and then kill the person at around eight o'clock and use the SMS timer function to let the victim's mobile phone send a text message to the two boys at nine o'clock. He could then leave openly and continue to create such a bizarre murder case!
As I said that, I turned my head and glanced at the security guard who had been keeping his head down and said, "So, in this case, you are also an accomplice. Without you providing the keys to these places, the murderer would never have been able to carry out all this so smoothly."
At this time, everyone had an expression of sudden enlightenment on their faces, staring at Li Yifeng closely, waiting for Li Yifeng's explanation, but Li Yifeng still looked disdainful and said: "You made up a good story, but think about it, if it is true, anyone can do this murder, why did you find me? Why did I kill those people? Am I free and have nothing to do? Besides, Xiaolei is still my girlfriend, do you think I would do this?"
When I heard what Li Yifeng said, I immediately sneered, "Still being stubborn? Are all of you in God's Organization so stubborn that you won't give up until you reach the Yellow River?"
As soon as I said this, Li Yifeng's face suddenly changed. He looked at me in disbelief and asked, "What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. We have talked to the Dean twice about accommodation issues. However, every time I talked to him, I felt that something seemed to be wrong. It was not until the second time I talked to the Dean in the girls' dormitory that I understood what was wrong. It turned out that there was one more person in our special case team without anyone noticing!"