It all happened so suddenly. Just two seconds after Li Gang pressed the play button, the woman who looked fine from the back just now turned into a horrible corpse. I stared at the surveillance screen in shock. Before I had time to see everything else clearly, blood splattered onto the surveillance camera, dyeing the screen completely blood red.
"Rewind, play from the beginning, slow down!"
I hadn't recovered from the shocking scene just now when Bai Longfei suddenly gave orders to Li Gang. Li Gang looked at Bai Longfei in surprise and said, "It seems that real police have come this time. The group of police who came in the morning ran away after seeing the surveillance video. No one had the courage to watch it a second time. I thought I met fake police."
Bai Longfei glared at Li Gang and said, "Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"
Now I finally understand why the policeman who was in charge of the investigation ran away after handing the matter over to us. It turns out that the way the deceased died in this case was so horrible and bloody. Originally, I didn’t have the courage to watch it a second time, but after hearing the conversation between Bai Longfei and Li Gang, I still gritted my teeth and watched the surveillance footage again.
This time the surveillance video was in slow motion, so many details were presented to us due to the fast speed. We saw that the wood, which was almost as thick as a human face, suddenly appeared from behind the camera, then drew an inconspicuous arc in the air and pierced directly into the back of the deceased's head. We also saw that one end of the wood was sharpened to be as sharp as a pencil. No wonder it could directly penetrate the entire head of the deceased.
But what really attracted me was not the sharp part of the wood, but the arc that the wood drew in the air!
If the wood hit in an arc, then the wood must have been hung in the air with a rope, otherwise it would not be able to make such an arc. Moreover, the wood is apparently very heavy, and it would be difficult for ordinary people to lift it, let alone lift it to poke someone to death.
Of course, this is not the point I want to make. What I want to say is that since this piece of wood was hung in the air with a rope, it means that once the wood is fixed by the rope, the angle cannot be changed at all. This piece of wood can accurately pierce the head of the deceased. In addition to precise calculations, there is also the position where the deceased was standing. If either of these two things is missing, this murder case would not be possible!
Bai Longfei also saw this problem and immediately asked the office director: "Has this piece of wood been found at the scene?"
Because at the end of the video, after the wood pierced the victim's head, it was pulled out of the victim's head due to inertia or the murderer's force, and there was no image of the wood after that.
The office director nodded and said, "Of course I found it. In fact, this piece of wood was a prop we accidentally brought back when we went to film an interview in the mountains. It is temporarily placed in my office. However, this piece of wood has always been round at both ends. I don't know when it was sharpened."
Since the murder weapon was made from local materials and arranged in advance, this case must have been premeditated. Bai Longfei pondered for a moment, turned to me and said, "Ji Wen, do you think this woman was already dead? Then the murderer deliberately placed her in a position with her back to the surveillance camera, and then the murderer adjusted the angle and pushed the wood on time at seven o'clock, creating the illusion that the deceased was actually pierced to death by the wood?"
Before I could answer, the office director immediately said, "This is impossible. I have also watched the previous video. Ma Jie (the deceased) was in good condition until around 6:58, when she suddenly stood up and stood in this position, staring out the window. I don't know what she was looking at."
After hearing this, I immediately asked Li Gang to adjust the video to the scene when the deceased came to the office at 6:30, intending to carefully watch her every move to see if any clues could be found.
At 6:30 in the video, the deceased arrived at the empty office on time, took out the breakfast she bought and began to eat slowly at her desk. Judging from her state, she should not be worried at all about not being able to complete her work, and there was a faint smile on her face, as if something happy was about to happen.
After finishing her breakfast, the deceased seemed a little bored, so she took out her mobile phone and lowered her head, not knowing whether she was playing games or doing something else. For the following period of time, she continued to sit in this position in front of the office without moving, a typical "phone-drowsing" person.
This posture lasted until 6:58 in the video, when she finally moved, slowly stood up from her seat with a smile on her face, and then stood near the door, staring out the window with her back to the camera, which was the position and posture we saw when she was pierced by the wood at the beginning.
Seeing this, I asked Li Gang to stop playing. Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue thought I had discovered something and came to ask me immediately. I remained calm on the surface and asked Li Gang to play the surveillance video from 12:00 to 1:00 last night.
Actually, the reason I asked Li Gang to stop playing the video was because I didn’t want to watch that bloody death moment again.
Li Gang immediately adjusted the surveillance video time, and soon the picture became brighter. Because it was at night, the lights in the office made the picture brighter than during the day.
Because the video was shot at exactly twelve o'clock, when the picture just cut over, I saw the deceased taking out a phone from his pocket. Then Li Gang pressed the play button, and the deceased took out the phone and put it to his ear to answer it.
At this time, my eyes were fixed on the facial expression of the deceased, because I had heard this voice call before, and it made my back chill even in broad daylight. Now it was twelve o'clock midnight, and I wanted to see why the deceased was still in the office.
Sure enough, when the deceased answered the phone, a trace of fear flashed across her face, and then the frightened expression disappeared in an instant and turned into an inexplicable smile!
The voice call lasted only a few seconds. After listening to it, the deceased first looked back, then hung up the phone and put it aside, and then continued to work.
Seeing this, Bai Longfei was a little confused and asked, "Is she not afraid of death or is she crazy? Why does she have that expression?"
I stared at the deceased in the picture with a serious face, and then said: "She is not mentally ill, nor is she not afraid of death, but she knows who called her, and the person who called must be someone very close to the deceased!"
After watching the whole video, I already had the answer in my mind, that is, the person who called the deceased, or even killed the deceased, must be someone very close to the deceased, or the deceased's boyfriend!
The murderer first called the deceased in the middle of the night with a horrifying voice. Since the deceased was familiar with the voice, or guessed that the call was from her boyfriend, she did not react at all and thought it was a prank. However, after hearing the content of the call, others would not think so and would definitely classify this call as a supernatural event.
The deceased, who didn't care about the horrible phone call, went back home after work. In the morning, she might have received an invitation from the murderer, her boyfriend, so she arrived at the company at 6:30 in the morning and waited for her boyfriend to arrive.
Finally, there is the scene of the deceased's death. Before 6:58, the deceased had been playing with her mobile phone, and there was no sound in the surveillance video. Perhaps at this time, her boyfriend had been standing in the blind spot of the surveillance camera at the door, and then made the deceased stand in the position calculated by her boyfriend in advance, and killed the deceased with the thick wood.
Although this is just my guess, Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue who were present both thought it made sense. I continued to ask the office director, "Does the deceased have a boyfriend?"
The office director was stunned at first, then shook his head and said, "No, Ma Jie is the most popular girl on our tenth floor. Many colleagues pursue her, but I haven't heard that she is in a relationship."
I didn’t expect that the deceased was a person who was hiding her love life. Since she was unwilling to announce her relationship, it means that it is very likely that her boyfriend is one of her colleagues in this newspaper!
Thinking of this, I asked, "Between six and seven this morning, besides the deceased, was there anyone else who came to the tenth floor?"
The office director said a little embarrassedly: "I really don't know about this, because in the entire newspaper office, except for the camera in the elevator, this is the only camera that is intact. The other cameras are broken, so we don't know who was on the tenth floor at the time."
I was completely convinced. Why do these cases always happen in places like this where there are no cameras? Could it be that the people at this newspaper can't even afford to repair the cameras
The office director seemed to feel embarrassed, so he said, "But I was in the office at the time, and it seems that there were people in other offices too. How about I go out and ask?"
"Why don't you ask?"
After hearing this, the office director immediately turned around and walked out of the monitoring room, and we also walked out helplessly and continued to walk towards the crime scene. I don’t know what others think, but I feel that the office director will not be able to find out anything.
The reason why I want to go to the crime scene again is that if I want to verify my previous reasoning, there must be something at the scene. As long as this thing is found, the murderer's method of killing and his relationship with the deceased will basically be a foregone conclusion.
But before we even got to the office where the crime was committed, two young women standing at the door of a nearby office looked at us with disdain. One of them raised her voice and said, "What are you still investigating? This is clearly the ghost of the former office director seeking revenge. You policemen really like to make trouble for yourselves!"