【Death of a Lawyer-09】

After Yue Xingwen returned to the Xinghe Building, from the 1st floor to the 40th floor, he carefully checked all the surveillance cameras inside the building.

The interior of this building is a zigzag structure, the elevator is located in the middle, the corridors in the four directions of east, south, west and north are connected to each other, and there are large floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the surrounding scenery.

There are different small studios in the corridors in four directions on some floors, and some large companies will contract the entire floor.

Minghui Law Firm has a lot of money and has rented an entire floor of the 40th floor. Each lawyer has an independent office with luxurious decoration. Even the elevator has a "40f-Minghui Law Firm" sign.

The Moonlight Design Studio on the 39th floor is obviously not so rich, and only rents the room in the east corridor. To the west is a private "accounting firm", and to the south and north are the elegantly decorated "Yiren Beauty Club". The accounting firm and the beauty club all got off work before 10 o'clock last night, and no one stayed in the Xinghe Building.

Yue Xingwen found that there are surveillance cameras on the left and right sides of the lobby on each floor, as well as cameras at the corners of the corridor and inside the elevator. The stairwell is on the south side of the building, with one camera on each floor.

On the surface, there is no monitoring blind spot inside this building.

Whether you take the elevator upstairs or climb the stairs, you will be photographed by surveillance cameras in every corner.

There is also surveillance on the stairwell from the 40th floor to the rooftop. As long as you check the surveillance, you can prove that what Chen Yueqin and Qi Zhao said is true or false.

Because there were too many surveillance videos in the Galaxy Building last night, all the surveillance data on the entire 40th floor was copied back by the Lin team. The police team has a special person responsible for checking the surveillance, and Ke Shaobin is following up on this matter.

They called out the monitoring points on the 39th and 40th floors to check, and found several useful clues——

First, the surveillance of the corridor on the 40th floor showed that a delivery boy delivered food to the 40th floor of Xinghe Building around 20:00 in the evening. Qi Zhao went out, took the takeaway at the front desk on the 40th floor, turned back to the office, and never came out since.

Second, in the surveillance on the 39th floor, between 21:00 and 21:30 in the evening, Chen Yueqin went out to get takeout twice. The first time, the takeaway brother was carrying a cake box, and the second time was the western food she ordered. , which is in line with her description of "invite Zhou Ziyang to come to the Galaxy Building for her birthday".

Third, the surveillance in the lobby on the 1st floor captured Zhou Ziyang walking into the building with a suitcase at 21:50 in the evening. He took the No. 1 elevator to the 40th floor. Twenty minutes later, at 22:10, Chen Yueqin took the elevator to the 40th floor with cakes and takeaways, and sneakily pushed open the glass door of Minghui Law Firm.

The workplace inside the firm is not monitored, and no one knows what happened after that, but it is conceivable that the two should have eaten birthday cake and western food together, had a sweet birthday, and then slipped into the bathroom to make out, during which they were caught. Qi Zhao, who was working overtime in the office, heard the movement and saw with his own eyes the goddess whom he had a crush on had an affair with someone in the toilet, and his three views were shattered.

Fourth, at 23:15 in the evening, Chen Yueqin reappeared in the elevator hall, returned to the 39th floor with an empty cake box and takeaway box, threw the garbage into the public trash can, and then turned around and walked into the "Moonlight Design Studio".

She didn't come out after that.

This monitoring can rule out Chen Yueqin's suspicion. She took the elevator back to the 39th floor at 23:15, which was in line with her confession "Go back to sleep after about eleven o'clock", and Zhou Ziyang's death time was at 24 o'clock in the evening. She has an alibi.

Although Qi Zhao had never come out of the office and never took the elevator, he did not need to take the elevator from the 40th floor to the roof of the top floor, he had to take the stairs.

Ke Shaobin and his colleagues called out the surveillance of the stairwell on the 40th floor and stared intently at the surveillance video.

There are no lights in the stairwell at night, but infrared surveillance can still capture people. No one passed by this stairwell last night. They played at four times the speed until 23:50, when a black shadow appeared in the surveillance.

Ke Shaobin immediately paused and zoomed in on the screen——

The tall man wearing black sportswear is Zhou Ziyang!

He should be slightly intoxicated, his footsteps swayed a little while walking, and he climbed all the way up to the rooftop. never came down again.

Ke Shaobin held on to his glasses, went back and looked at it carefully, and asked doubtfully, "He went to the rooftop alone?"

A colleague next to me said: "No one else has been to the rooftop during the surveillance last night. If you go to the rooftop, you have to climb up the stairwell on the 40th floor. This stairway is monitored, and anyone who appears will be photographed."

Just at this time, Jiang Pingce came over and asked everyone to see the results of the monitoring.

Ke Shaobin cut out these five surveillance videos related to the suspect and the deceased separately. Jiang Pingce watched it carefully and frowned slightly: "Chen Yueqin, Qi Zhao's suspicions have all been ruled out?"

"From the monitoring point of view, Zhou Ziyang went to the rooftop alone." Ke Shaobin said, "Chen Yueqin returned to the Moonlight Design Studio on the 39th floor at 23:15 in the evening and never came out again. Qi Zhao took a takeaway at 20 o'clock in the evening. , I haven't come out of the law firm, and I haven't been to the stairwell on the 40th floor leading to the rooftop."

The stairwell leading to the rooftop on the 40th floor is the most critical part of the case.

Surveillance photographed the deceased appearing here and walking to the rooftop, but no one other than the deceased was photographed.

So how did the killer get up there? Flying over the eaves and climbing the windows?

Jiang Pingce took out his mobile phone, typed with his fingers quickly, and sent a text message to Yue Xingwen: "Xingwen, the surveillance ruled out Chen Heqi's suspicion, and found that the deceased was on the rooftop at 11:50, but there was no trace of the murderer. Take a look, can the murderer climb through the window from the 40th floor to the rooftop?"

Yue Xingwen opened the window, stuck out his body and looked up - from the 40th floor to the roof on the roof, the floor height is about 3 meters. climb. It is also difficult to climb from the corner of the building. Because the shape of this building is somewhat special, above the 40th floor, there is a structure similar to "eaves" around it.

The whole building is like wearing a "hat", and the width of the eaves is more than 1 meter. Even if you turn out the window and climb up on the air conditioner installed outside, the top of your head is blocked by the one meter wide eaves. May turn over.

Unless the murderer is a special soldier, he has professional ropes, hooks and other climbing props in his hand.

Qi Zhao, a lawyer, should not have the physical condition to "fly over the eaves" from the 40th floor.

Yue Xingwen took a few photos of the top floor, sent them to Jiang Pingce, and concluded: "I watched it on the spot, and it is almost impossible to climb from the 40th floor to the roof of the top floor."

The investigation of the case has stalled.

All suspects have alibi. Moreover, their testimony is completely consistent with the footage captured by the surveillance cameras. Liu Lan and Liu Minghui have never left their residence after returning home. Qi Zhao has been playing games in the office. Chen Yueqin returned to the studio on the 39th floor at 23:15, and Chen Xueqin played mahjong all night.

The surveillance clearly showed that Zhou Ziyang walked to the rooftop alone.

Before and after him, no murderer went to the rooftop.

How to explain his death?

Team Lin came over with a cup of coffee and stood behind everyone with his arms folded, and analyzed: "The deceased Zhou Ziyang, last night had a leisurely birthday with Chen Yueqin and had an affair in the toilet. He must not have been threatened. It's normal. It is impossible for a person to behave so calmly when threatened."

He paused and said: "The suspects who have been in contact with him have alibi. His death

, must it be murder? "

Jiang Pingce was stunned: "What Team Lin meant... Isn't it murder?"

Team Lin smiled and said, "What if he started to drink wine after having sex with his mistress, got a little drunk, got excited, climbed up on the rooftop to see the scenery, and ended up falling off?"

Ke Shaobin thought about it carefully, and said in a low voice, "In this case, it can explain the clues that have been discovered so far? Zhou Ziyang was not very clear after having a passionate affair with Chen Yueqin because of drinking, so he called his wife inexplicably. Accidentally dropped your phone in the toilet, and then climbed up the roof from the stairs next to the toilet, trying to blow air, but fell down?"

Team Lin nodded: "Well, at present, this explanation is the most reasonable. Because, in all the evidence chains, no murderer has been found, and no one has ever been photographed on the rooftop."

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "What if the murderer had been waiting for him on the rooftop?"

Team Lin looked back at him with a smile: "What was the weather last night?"

"It rained heavily overnight."

"So, do you think that the murderer turned out the window in the rainstorm and climbed to the roof with ease? Or, the murderer went to the roof a long time ago and waited patiently for him in the rainstorm for 3 hours? How did the murderer know about Zhou Ziyang? Will you definitely go to the rooftop?"

Team Lin's rhetorical question made everyone look at each other in dismay.

He continued: "Suppose the murderer sent Zhou Ziyang a message or made a phone call, and asked him to meet and negotiate on the rooftop. Would Zhou Ziyang, a cautious lawyer, foolishly climb up to the rooftop to find death? You can also see that during the surveillance, He did not mention the suitcase, which means that it is wrong to speculate that he was threatened by the murderer and secretly dealt with the murderer."

Several colleagues next to him began to discuss: "Team Lin is right." "Zhou Ziyang climbed to the roof by himself, and it is more likely that he would stumble and fall!" "The money in his suitcase should not be used to trade with the murderer, he said. Maybe it's just hiding temporarily, thinking about dealing with it later?" "If he is threatened, is he still in the mood to celebrate his birthday with Chen Yueqin?"

Jiang Pingce said, "But it was raining heavily outside, so he climbed to the rooftop, why didn't he bring an umbrella?"

Team Lin said: "This lawyer Zhou may have a habit of getting caught in the rain and wants to go to the rooftop to wake up in the rain. This proves that he climbed up the top floor voluntarily and voluntarily. If it was the murderer who asked him to negotiate, he should not be more so. Do you bring an umbrella? On the one hand, it can cover the rain, and in the event of a conflict, you can also use the umbrella as a weapon to protect yourself.”

Everyone: "..."

There was no murderer in all the evidence, and the suspects who were related to the deceased also had alibi. Team Lin's analysis was indeed more rational.But Jiang Pingce and Ke Shaobin came to take the exam. If the answer is "falling after drinking," it would be too ridiculous. They definitely do not agree with this inference.

Seeing Jiang Pingce frowning and thinking, Team Lin patted his shoulder lightly and said, "Xiao Jiang, if you think this conclusion is wrong, you can continue the investigation. But the police force is limited, and other links have to be investigated.The murder case, the case of Zhou Ziyang's fall from the building, is put on hold for the time being, and if no new murder evidence can be found within five days, the case will be closed as an accidental fall from the building."

Jiang Pingce and Ke Shaobin looked at each other and looked at each other.

All the previous evidence is the information given to them by the subject.

The real exam will only officially begin now.

The police will not help them find any clues. How did Zhou Ziyang die? They need to investigate on their own!w, please keep in mind:,