【Death of a Lawyer-04】

Qingtang District, inside the Criminal Police Office.

Captain Lin Wei zoomed in on the computer screen and checked it carefully. The surveillance at around 12 a.m. did not find anyone entering or leaving the building, so he would move forward and start watching from get off work.

Galaxy Building is a comprehensive office building with a height of 40 floors, in which many companies and studios have settled.

Usually, most of the sub-units will be off work at six and a half in the afternoon. Some network departments have a 996 working system, and it is common to work overtime until 9. Usually, Xinghe Building will lock the door at 10 pm. If there is more than 10 overtime hours, you need to say hello to the security room in advance.

Yesterday was Wednesday, and no unit worked more than 10 overtime.

Lin Wei poured a cup of coffee to refresh himself, and watched while drinking. He started watching at 6:50 after get off work, and soon found Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong, and Lin Manluo walking out of the door on the shoulders. The deceased Zhou Ziyang also followed him. They took the same elevator downstairs.

Lin Wei pressed the pause button and asked, "Xiao Jiang, what do you think?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Wei Yuexingwen, who reported the case, is an intern of Minghui Law Firm. He said that he accidentally heard the deceased call someone in the stairwell when he got off work yesterday, and mentioned that he can appeal if he is not satisfied." Wen should have been waiting for the elevator at the elevator entrance next to the stairwell. After the deceased made the call, he took the same elevator downstairs with him, which made sense."

Lin Wei looked at the monitor thoughtfully: "Do you think Yue Xingwen is not suspicious?"

Jiang Pingce said decisively: "Of course not. If he was the murderer, he would not have been the first to report the case. Besides, he is an intern who just entered the law firm today, and he had no motive to kill Lawyer Zhou at all."

Lin Wei nodded and continued to look back at the monitor.

6~7 is the rush hour of the Galaxy Building. During the monitoring, there are people coming and going, and there are takeaway guys coming and going, but no special people are found. Until about 8, the Oita unit got off work, and the hall gradually became empty.

Lin Wei looked at the empty hall on the screen, yawned, and fast-forwarded four times.

Jiang Pingce also sat next to him and stared at the screen.

The hall was deserted, with the occasional security guard walking back and forth, and the lights were turned off throughout the building.

Until 950 pm, a figure suddenly appeared in the surveillance. saw him wearing black sportswear, sneakers, a peaked cap, and a black suitcase in his hand. He walked quickly into the elevator.

Since the security was not at the door, he was not found.

Lin Wei immediately pressed the pause button to zoom in on the screen, and Jiang Pingce also sat up straight: "Is it Zhou Ziyang?"

Team Lin called out the elevator monitor, and sure enough, Zhou Ziyang walked into the elevator and pressed the 40th floor.

Jiang Pingce frowned: "It turns out that he sneaked in before the door was locked at 10. The security guard didn't notice him coming in. He pressed the door and locked the door. He stayed in the Xinghe Building, and only climbed the stairs to the rooftop at 12. Maybe, the murderer He never left the building at all, stayed in the Xinghe Building at night, and pushed Zhou Ziyang down after he appeared?"

No one has come in after the building is locked, so there are only two explanations——

The first is that the murderer climbed up the air-conditioning pipe from the side of the building. The building is 40 stories high, and it is too difficult to climb all the way to the top of the building.

Second, the murderer never left the Galaxy Building at all. Then, whether the building is locked or not, he can climb to the rooftop in the dead of night and push Zhou Ziyang down.

Team Lin agreed: "Look back and check the entry and exit records of the Galaxy Building to see who didn't leave yesterday."

Jiang Pingce followed Team Lin to watch the surveillance and saw that it was three in the morning, but nothing else was found. He slept in his clothes on the sofa in the duty room.

The next day, Yue Xingwen asked Shang Lin Manluo and Lan Yarong to go back to work in the law firm. The police had already arrived. The police arrived earlier than them and rushed directly into the office of the deceased Zhou Ziyang.

Colleagues in the law firm were all puzzled.

A torrential rain last night washed away the bloodstains at the scene. Therefore, people who came to work this morning were completely unaware that a murder had occurred in the building. It wasn't until the police started asking them questions about Zhou Ziyang in turn that everyone reacted-lawyer Zhou probably had an accident.

A female lawyer who has the closest relationship with Zhou Ziyang said: "Lawyer Zhou is at the same level as me. He was admitted to Beijiang University of Political Science and Law with the highest score in the year, and his grades have always been the first in his grade. After getting married, he signed to Minghui Law Firm after graduation, and his performance is also very bright, and 80% of the lawsuits he handles can be won."

Team Lin asked, "Has he ever had a grudge against anyone in private?"

The female lawyer shook her head: "He has a friendly attitude towards people, and he is very popular in the law firm. I can't imagine who he will have a grudge against."

The police also visited other colleagues in the law firm, and everyone in Oita said that Zhou Ziyang has a "sex" personality, and his popularity is also good. He often invites everyone to drink "milk" tea, and his colleagues get along well.

Only one female lawyer whispered to Team Lin: "In March last year, I saw Lawyer Zhou quarreling with Lawyer Qi. It was like Lawyer Zhou robbed a major client of Lawyer Qi. Lawyer Qi posted on Moments, saying that some people It's hypocritical and contrived, and it makes people hate it."

Lawyer Qi? Jiang Pingce wrote down a key point in the notebook.

Team Lin quickly found him. A lawyer named Qi Zhao had a short head and silver-rimmed glasses. He looked smart and capable, but he was a little grumpy. After hearing Team Lin's questioning, he said with a sullen face: "I have been serving as the legal counsel of the Jinxing Group. Last year, the Jinxing Group suddenly changed Zhou Ziyang's advisor. I was kept in the dark, and I finally found out."

Jinxing Group, the city's largest Internet company, earns more than hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Lawyer Qi will inevitably feel resentment when such an important client is snatched away.

Jiang Pingce asked, "Where were you at 0:00 a.m. last night?"

Lawyer Qi: "Sleep at home."

Jiang Pingce: "Can anyone prove it?"

Lawyer Qi scratched his hair irritably: "I'm single, how can I prove that I sleep alone at home?!"

Team Lin smiled and asked bluntly, "Zhou Ziyang robbed your client, do you always hold grudges?"

Lawyer Qi blasted "Mao": "I really hate him, that's right! I'm a lawyer, I studied law, and if I hate another person, I can't kill him! It's not worth it to build my own future for the sake of people."

Team Lin's eyes were sharp: "I didn't ask you if you killed him. How do you know...he is dead?"

Lawyer Qi was stunned for a moment, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. He quickly calmed down and said, "In the early morning, come directly to his office and ask everyone about Zhou Ziyang's news. Are you the criminal police? Since you are alarmed Criminal police, someone must have died. If it's just a simple disappearance case, it won't be filed within 24 hours."

He was right. Zhou Ziyang was in the office yesterday afternoon, and everyone saw it. The criminal police came to the door this morning. Naturally, he was not missing. The biggest possibility was that he was dead, or he was involved in a murder case.

Immediately after, another trainee lawyer broke the news: "After getting off work a few days ago, I came back to pick it up after I left it, and I accidentally saw Lawyer Zhou enter his office with a woman in his arms. The woman looked like a moonlight design worker downstairs. Chen Yueqin, a young designer in the office, I only saw the two of them entering the office together, I don’t know anything else!”

Team Lin asked, "Chen Yueqin? Does she usually come to your law firm?"

The trainee lawyer said: "I haven't been here before, and I was surprised when I saw her. I thought she had any legal issues to consult with Lawyer Zhou, but... Lawyer Zhou put her arms around her shoulders, and the two seemed very close."

In other words, Zhou Ziyang is likely to have an extramarital affair.

Team Lin sent someone to the Moonlight Design Studio downstairs to inquire about Chen Yueqin, but the other party killed him because he was not familiar with Lawyer Zhou. He had approached him once, just to consult legal issues, because her sister wanted to divorce her brother-in-law and prepared to file a lawsuit.

The investigation into the law firm lasted for two hours.

Team Lin asked very carefully, and Jiang Pingce listened by the side, and wrote down two key suspects: Qi Zhao and Chen Yueqin. The former has a business conflict with Zhou Ziyang, and the latter has an ambiguous relationship with Zhou Ziyang, and both have motives for committing the crime. Moreover, neither of them had an alibi last night.

However, Jiang Pingce felt that the case was not that simple.

At present, the whereabouts of Zhou Ziyang's mobile phone is unknown, and there is no conclusion about the ownership of the necklace on the top floor. Moreover, in the surveillance that saw last night, the suitcase was not found. Zhou Ziyang brought a suitcase into the Galaxy Building, the suitcase must be very important.

Several police officers returned to the office, and Ke Shaobin was at the scene, collecting data from the deceased's computer.

Team Lin asked, "Has the combination lock of the drawer been deciphered?"

Ke Shaobin: "A six-digit code requires a room."

Team Lin: "As soon as possible."

Ke Shaobin was there to decipher the code, while Jiang Pingce and others searched the office. The office area was nearly 100 square meters, and the decoration was luxurious. There was a wall of bookcases behind the desk. The bookshelves were almost full of law-related books. Sweeping the bookshelf carefully, suddenly, his eyes were fixed on a vacant grid in the middle of the bookshelf.

There is dust around the grid, but the middle is very clean. It seems that something was originally placed in it and was taken away? It is elongated in shape. Jiang Pingce is very sensitive to graphics, he imagined it in his mind...

On the shelf, what will leave a long strip of marks? photo frame?

Because the things were taken away, the grid was empty, and Jiang Pingce couldn't be sure.

Right there, Ke Shaobin's voice came from the side: "Team Lin, the password is unlocked."

Jiang Pingce walked over immediately and saw Ke Shaobin opened the locked drawer——

The drawer was full of cash.

Stacks of banknotes should add up to tens of thousands.

Jiang Pingce wondered: "Is it illegal income if you don't save money and keep it secretly in a drawer?"

Following closely, a colleague's voice came from behind: "Team Lin, the box has been found!"

There was actually a secret door in the cloakroom in the corner of the office. After pushing it open, there was a storage room. There was a black box in the storage room, exactly the same as the box photographed in the surveillance.

Team Lin raised his eyebrows: "Open it and take a look."

There was no password on the box, Jiang Pingce leaned over and opened the lock——

The box was also neatly packed with cash, with two large cheques totaling over 5 million.

Team Lin rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "Why did he bring the cash to the office?"