"What method?"
Bai Longfei was also very interested in this question, because he asked me this before and I had never answered him, and this was also the only question he couldn't figure out.
I turned to Bai Longfei and said, "Brother Long, when you were checking the wires above the elevator just now, did you find anything out of place?"
"Strange things? I seemed to see two pieces of paper. One of them was covered in blood, and the other had a small amount of blood. The two pieces of paper were very small. If I hadn't looked carefully, I probably wouldn't have noticed them at all."
"Yes! It's those two paper balls! The murderer used these two paper balls to make a time-delay device. It is precisely because of this time-delay device that the weird scene we saw on the surveillance footage occurred!"
Before, when Bai Longfei opened the elevator door on the eleventh floor, I also saw the situation inside and found the two paper balls. However, after I saw the two paper balls, I thought of the loose surveillance camera in the elevator and immediately figured it out.
I think the murderer must have used the successive cutting of two balls of paper to control the quality of the surveillance camera, making it open when he needed it to be opened and closed when he needed to be closed, recording the images he wanted us to see!
After we found that the surveillance camera was shaking, we went to the elevator on the first floor. At that time, we just wanted to prove that the elevator was running when Li Gang died, because at that time there were obvious signs of shaking every time the surveillance screen was opened and closed. So I asked Bai Longfei to touch the surveillance camera with his hand to see if the probe was loose
But when we saw two paper balls tied to the steel wire on the eleventh floor, I suddenly realized that the surveillance camera was loose. So I went to the monitoring room once and played the video of us going downstairs to check the surveillance camera. I found that when Bai Longfei touched the surveillance camera with his hand, the picture disappeared instantly!
From this, it seems that the real reason why the surveillance footage disappeared was the loose surveillance probe!
The murderer first propped up the loose surveillance camera with a ball of paper, causing it to fail, and then dragged Li Gang into the elevator so that no one would see him committing the crime and arranging the scene. The murderer then began to use the method mentioned before to arrange steel wires in the elevator and tied the paper ball supporting the surveillance camera with the end of the steel wire. In this way, as long as the elevator is running, the force of the elevator will pull the steel wire and take away the paper ball, and the surveillance screen will reappear.
This time when the surveillance footage appeared, we saw Li Gang lying on the ground with an unknown birthday. However, the footage did not last long and disappeared again for five seconds. During these five seconds, Li Gang was dismembered.
Since the paper ball has been taken away, why does the surveillance screen disappear again? This is where the second paper ball comes into play.
In fact, it is very simple. The murderer tied a longer string to the second paper ball, so there was a short blank period when the first paper ball left and the second paper ball entered under the surveillance camera, allowing us to see that Li Gang was indeed intact at that time.
Then the murderer calculated the time when Li Gang's body was hung up, so that the scene of Li Gang being dismembered would disappear, so that we would have the illusion. Then after Li Gang's body was dismembered, the second paper ball would be pulled out by the wire, and the scene would be revealed again. When the second paper ball was pulled out, it was exactly when Li Gang was dismembered, so there would definitely be more blood on the second paper ball than on the first one.
My explanation was very clear, but except for Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue, everyone else looked confused. They obviously didn't understand what I meant. I didn't intend to let them understand, after all, our goal was to catch the real culprit.
"After saying so much, why don't you tell me who the real murderer is?" The office director looked at me with a confused expression and asked.
I smiled and said, "Who is the real murderer? Then we have to go back to the previous question. Who is Ma Jie's last undiscovered lover? In fact, this person is in this building!"
After hearing what I said, everyone in front of me looked at each other and became suspicious of each other, because all the men in the building were gathered here at this time.
"It definitely can't be me, because everyone knows my story, there's nothing to hide. You keep talking about that secret lover, so it definitely can't be me."
The office director had a smug expression on his face at this time, and his eyes kept scanning the three security guards in front of him. He no longer had the uneasy expression he had before.
I glared at the office director fiercely, and then said to the people around me: "There is one thing we have all got wrong. We have always thought that Ma Jie's lover must be a man, but her real gender is a woman!"
To explain why I discovered this, it actually started when we went to Ma Jie's home to search for evidence.
At that time, due to Bai Longfei's violent search, the wardrobe of the deceased Ma Jie was turned upside down. At the same time, several hidden men's clothes were found in the closet. After our analysis and investigation and speculation, we finally determined that the two different sizes of men's clothes were exactly the clothes of Li Gang and the office director in the newspaper, and thus the suspicion was locked on these two people.
But when we were about to leave, I accidentally discovered that two of the deceased's underwear scattered on the ground seemed to be of completely different sizes. This discovery immediately aroused my suspicion.
I knew that the size specifications of women's clothes, especially underwear, were very strict. The slightest mistake would make them feel very awkward when worn. The presence of two sizes at the same time made me very curious at the time.
But I didn't think about it afterwards, because at that time we only thought that it was a man who committed the crime and didn't consider women, so we didn't care about this discovery. Although I found that there were more than two pieces of underwear of different sizes, I still gave up this clue until we saw that the murderer committed the crime on the tenth floor just now. I didn't completely understand what was going on, because the only person who might have committed the crime on the tenth floor and was alone was Zhou Jingyi, who worked overtime for no reason today!
Because all of us were basically gathered together, only Zhou Jingyi had the time to commit the crime. Besides, if she was the real murderer, many things could be explained.
Zhou Jingyi and Ma Jie should be a lesbian couple, and it is very likely that they have been together for a long time, and they should even have a very good relationship. Although I personally find this kind of relationship difficult to accept, it is a phenomenon in today's society after all.
Later, the two of them agreed to come to the newspaper to apply for a job and continue to be together. But who would have thought that Ma Jie's personality changed drastically after she came to the newspaper, and for her own benefit, she got to know Director Zhao and Li Gang and had a relationship with them.
I guess Zhou Jingyi must have found it hard to accept this kind of thing. Maybe they had quarreled about this matter, but Ma Jie just didn't want to turn back. In the end, Zhou Jingyi chose an extreme way to make Ma Jie turn back, which was to kill Director Zhao and put an end to it all.
Although all of this is just my speculation and there is no evidence, I think the person most likely to have killed Director Zhao is Zhou Jingyi.
Zhou Jingyi killed Director Zhao during that village visit, and then she thought Ma Jie would come back. But who would have thought that Ma Jie not only did not come back, but instead went to hook up with the current office director, completely ignoring Zhou Jingyi's feelings.
Zhou Jingyi finally despaired. I guess her thought at that time was that she would rather not get it herself than let others get it, so Zhou Jingyi chose the most extreme way, which was to kill Ma Jie!
What happened next was that Zhou Jingyi used a phone call to lure Ma Jie out, and then killed Ma Jie with the piece of wood, attempting to shift the suspicion to the office director.
Later we met Zhou Jingyi, who also told us about Director Zhao's curse and the origin of the wood and the relationship between the office director and Ma Jie. This killed two birds with one stone and made us suspect the office director and get rid of him.
But she didn't expect that we quickly ruled out the suspicion of the office director and started investigating Ma Jie's other boyfriend. So she took advantage of our investigation and killed Li Gang, trying to turn this case into a revenge of Director Zhao's soul.
She first deliberately did not complete her work, so that the office director punished her to work overtime. Then she hooked up with Li Gang in some way, and asked Li Gang to deliberately change the surveillance camera in the elevator to the way she wanted. Finally, she staged the "instant dismemberment" technique that we see now, so that everyone was confused by this method and thought it was a ghost who killed people.
I told the whole story in one breath, and everyone understood everything. The fear on everyone's face gradually disappeared because they all understood that what I said was the truth.
However, although they understood it in their hearts, I still had some questions that were not answered.
First: Did Zhou Jingyi really come up with all these murder methods? Is she really that powerful
Second: When we went to Ma Jie's house to investigate, was the person following us Zhou Jingyi
Third: Zhou Jingyi's method of killing was obviously to wait for the security guard Xiao Chen to patrol at 11 o'clock, and then press the button of the first floor elevator to trigger the mechanism to kill Li Gang. But why was the elevator already stopped on the first floor when Xiao Chen arrived? Who pressed the button of the first floor elevator
And the most important point is, how did Zhou Jingyi know my phone number
Although this series of questions cannot overturn the fact that Zhou Jingyi committed murder, it is also an unsolved problem. I believe Zhou Jingyi will definitely tell us the answer.
Since the matter has been investigated, there is no reason for us to wait any longer. We all came to Zhou Jingyi's office to arrest her. But when we opened the door of Zhou Jingyi's office, we were shocked to find that Zhou Jingyi, who was working, was hung by a rope on the window! Her tongue was stretched out, and she stared at us standing at the door with her eyes wide open!