"Ma Jie is still having an affair with the old office director? Is this reliable?"
If Ma Jie and the old office director also had an ambiguous relationship, then the old office director's clue basically began to gradually surface, and it was very likely that Li Gang was jealous of Ma Jie's affairs and designed to kill the old office director!
The office director adjusted his glasses and said, "The old office director's surname is Zhao. We all call him Director Zhao. In fact, everyone in the newspaper knows that Ma Jie is a slut who often sells out her dignity for some benefits. When she applied for the job, the interviewer was Director Zhao, and I was just an observer. Ma Jie was not qualified for the job in terms of academic qualifications or ability, but when she applied, Ma Jie always flirted with Director Zhao, and Director Zhao turned a blind eye and approved her application. After that, the relationship between the two began to become subtle."
Hearing what the office director said, I was a little confused and asked, "That's not right, but didn't you say before that Director Zhao is a very good person and cares about you?"
The office director said helplessly: "Being a nice person is different from this. He does take good care of us, but he is also a man after all."
I still couldn't understand what he meant, so I asked, "Does Director Zhao have a family? When did you and Ma Jie get together?"
"Yes, but Director Zhao's wife died of illness a few years ago, and his son went missing because he didn't study hard. Now he is alone, so naturally he can't resist the temptation. As for my affair with Ma Jie, it started on the day I became the office director. I remember very clearly that day she suddenly invited me out for dinner to celebrate my promotion. I drank a little that day, and it was raining and stormy that night, so I..."
"Alright, alright, there's no need to use so many adjectives. Just explain the timeline clearly. In other words, you and Ma Jie got together on the day you took office? Then how did she get together with Li Gang?"
The office director shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about that, but it's very likely that she came before me, or even before Director Zhao, because I guess the reason why Ma Jie came to the newspaper to apply for a job is because Li Gang works here."
After hearing the news, Bai Longfei and I looked at each other and nodded at the same time. It seems that things have become completely clear!
This Li Gang is the murderer in this case. He and Ma Jie might be childhood sweethearts, so he invited Ma Jie to apply for a job at the newspaper so that they could be together often.
But who would have known that Ma Jie was not such a self-righteous person. After arriving at the newspaper, for the sake of her own future, she chose to have a relationship with her direct supervisor, which not only allowed her to keep her position, but also gave her the possibility of promotion in the future.
However, Li Gang soon found out about this matter. Li Gang may have persuaded or even threatened Ma Jie many times, but Ma Jie just wouldn't listen. In desperation, Li Gang chose an extreme measure to end it all, which was to kill Director Zhao!
After Director Zhao's death, Li Gang thought he could finally be with Ma Jie peacefully, but who knew that Ma Jie was actually hooking up with the new office director. After discovering their affair, Li Gang was finally completely desperate, so he used means to kill Ma Jie, and he also wanted to kill the office director in front of him to seek justice for his resentment.
After listening to my analysis, the office director suddenly stood up and said excitedly: "Yes! That's absolutely true! I remember! Three days ago, when Ma Jie and I were doing business at her house, I seemed to hear some noise outside the door. When we were done and I was about to leave, I suddenly ran into Li Gang on the street. I wanted to say hello to him at the time, but he ignored me, and I seemed to be able to sense murderous intent from his eyes, so I ignored him and went back to the newspaper to continue working. Now thinking back, the person I heard standing outside the door must have been Li Gang. He must have known about what happened between Ma Jie and me, so he killed me!"
The office director said, suddenly as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and said excitedly: "This man is extremely evil, and now even I want to be killed, you should quickly arrest him!"
I glared at him fiercely and said, "How dare you say that others are extremely evil? Don't you know what kind of person you are? If you don't get together with his girlfriend, he will come to kill you for no reason!"
"But we love each other and we each get what we want." The office director muttered to himself when he saw that I looked unhappy.
I ignored him and turned to Bai Longfei and said, "Now basically everything is confirmed, but we don't have any evidence yet, because all this is just our speculation. We can only wait and catch him on the spot when he makes a move tonight!"
Bai Longfei nodded gently, and I kept thinking about a question in my heart. If all this was done by Li Gang, Ma Jie's matter was easy to explain, but how did he kill Director Zhao? How did he pretend that Director Zhao died accidentally and hide his suspicion? I think if we want to figure out this matter, we can only wait until we catch Li Gang tonight and let him tell it himself. After all, it has been so long since the incident, and there was no record of the case at the time. If I want to investigate, it is really difficult to start.
At this time, the office director suddenly asked, "But how are you going to catch Li Gang tonight? What if he secretly kills me while you're away?"
"It will be absolutely safe for you to stay with us tonight! And I will need you to help us with something later."
After we discussed with the office director, he called and asked all the staff on the tenth floor to come to his office. Soon, Zhou Jingyi and Li Gang, who we were familiar with, and some people I didn’t know all came to the office, making the office seem crowded.
"You have done a great job these days, so you can leave early today. You can leave around 4pm, but Zhou Jingyi has to stay."
Hearing this, all the employees showed excitement on their faces, except Zhou Jingyi who was very puzzled and asked: "Why should I stay?"
"What are you still talking about? The workload these days is so heavy, and you haven't even finished half of it? If you don't finish it today, don't even think about leaving get off work!" The office director said to Zhou Jingyi angrily, and Zhou Jingyi was so angry that she turned around and slammed the door and left, probably to go to work.
Of course, my eyes were fixed on Li Gang all the time. Sure enough, after hearing the news, Li Gang immediately became a little restless. After everyone else left excitedly while discussing where to go after work, Li Gang finally stood up and said with embarrassment, "Director, my boss asked me to fix the surveillance today. I'm afraid I have to stay up late. Will I be paid overtime?"
I smiled slightly, thinking that this guy really had something to do at night and was not willing to leave at all, while the office director pretended to smile and said, "Good boy! Just do it, I will apply for overtime pay for you!"
Li Gang then left with peace of mind. After Li Gang left, the office director immediately said excitedly that Li Gang was definitely the murderer and told me not to waste my energy and just catch him directly. I ignored him and left with Bai Longfei and the others to find some fun places nearby, quietly waiting for the night to fall.
We played until about six in the afternoon, ate something and returned to the newspaper office. At this time, the newspaper office had become very deserted. It seemed that there were only three security guards and the office director on the tenth floor. I first called the local police station to notify them to bring people in quietly around ten o'clock in the evening, and then went upstairs to Ma Jie's previous office, chatting and playing poker to pass the time.
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Not long after, I received a call from the two police officers who contacted me in the morning, asking them to come up to us quietly. After they came up, I found that they were the same two police officers we saw in the morning.
"Is there no one in your police station? Didn't I tell you to bring a few more people over?" I asked angrily.
The two police officers said with some fear: "We told our chief exactly what you said, but no one dared to come, so our chief only let us come."
Faced with these two top-notch people, I was completely out of temper and had to ask them to find a place to sit down and wait quietly with us.
According to the time the murderer gave, he should have done it at one o'clock in the morning. There is still some time before one o'clock, and the office director is right next to us, so we are not in a hurry and can wait slowly.
But who could have imagined that when the time showed eleven o'clock in the evening, a scream suddenly rang out in the originally empty and silent newspaper building!
After hearing the screams, we immediately dropped what we were holding and rushed out of the office. Only then did we hear clearly that the screams came from downstairs, and the sound continued, as if someone was frightened!
So we rushed downstairs, and when we reached the first floor, we found that the screams were actually coming from the security guards in the security room! At this time, the three security guards were in front of the elevator on the first floor. One of them was so scared that he sat on the ground, and the other two were also stepping back, as if they had seen some horrible scene.
I rushed to them and looked into the elevator following their gaze, only to find that the elevator door was open. However, the scene inside the elevator scared me so much that I broke out in a cold sweat!
The elevator was now completely stained red with blood. There was a pile of broken limbs and arms soaked in the blood on the floor of the elevator. It was obvious that a person had just been brutally killed. However, when we saw the appearance of the head on the ground clearly, we felt even more horrified!
Because the owner of this head is Li Gang!