Case Files 013

It seems that Gu Chen's investigation has also made great progress, and it isn’t certain that Lu Xiangyang will be arrested in the near future. But with Lu Xiangyang being a seventeen-year-old boy, could he really be so ruthless and unerring? And the murderer seemed to have known everyone's character well, knowing that some people might be scared to death, but the other might use some other means.

The “cure” had come by quick.

However, according to Lu Xiangyang's classmate, Wang Ang, Lu Xiangyang liked to do dabble in these mysterious things when he is normal. Then, it made sense that Lu Xiangyang can kill people with a mechanism that we weren’t aware yet. Otherwise, why did Lu Xiangyang buy a ticket and stroll around the train station but not leave by train in the end?

Moreover, why did Lu Xiangyang use the mobile phone of his partner, Li Xiaojuan, to book tickets? Is it possible that Lu Xiangyang knows that if he kills someone, the police will bring up the incident seven years ago, and they will find out that Lu Zhiqiu had a younger brother? When the police learned that Lu Zhiqiu had a younger brother, and had a good relationship, they would definitely investigate Lu Xiangyang.

Lu Xiangyang may have thought of this, so he deliberately used his girlfriend's mobile phone to book a ticket, so that he could use someone else's confession to create proof of his absence. In this way, the police will divert their attention from the rest of the people.

I tugged at my hair with my hands and thought about it carefully. For the motive of committing the crime, Lu Xiangyang's motive for committing the crime was to avenge his sister. In terms of the time of committing the crime, Lu Xiangyang disappeared two and a half weeks ago, so he had plenty of time to arrange everything.

In this way, there was considerable amount suspicion on Lu Xiangyang.

And now, I just hope that Gu Chen can capture Lu Xiangyang as soon as possible, and then he will be able to figure out a few things.

Zhao Mingkun rode a motorcycle to Liang Mei's company.

I believed that Gu Chen would be able to find Lu Xiangyang. At present, Zhao Mingkun and I have to find Liang Mei first. According to the information obtained by Zhao Mingkun, Liang Mei worked for a design company, and her monthly salary was over 10,000 yuan and afforded good benefits from the company. It was good job for Liang Me, who was raising her child by herself.

When we arrived at the company, we found that not only us, but even the boss of this company was looking for Liang Mei. When meeting with us, Liang Mei's department manager told us that Liang Mei still had an order at hand, but she had yet to complete it, and Liang Mei could not be found.

Having said that, Manager Wang of the department took us to Liang Mei's office.

As soon as I entered the door, I noticed something was wrong with her desk.

Judging from Liang Mei's desk, I could see that it was in a state of disrepair. There were also a lot of scattered documents on the table, as if someone had been through them before. The documents were disorderly, suggesting that Liang Mei had left in a hurry.

I turned my head and asked Manager Wang, “When was the last time you saw Liang Mei?”

Manager Wang said, “The last time I saw Liang Mei was two days ago. That morning, like every other morning, Liang Mei came to the company very early, and then got into her office. As you can see, Liang Mei has her own private cabin, and I don't know when she left.”

I walked over to the desk and opened a few drawers to take a look. I searched carefully, only to find that there was no personal item except for some files. From this point, it could be seen that Liang Mei had taken away all her personal items.

After returning home from the class reunion that day, Liang Mei came back and made a request to move out. The next day, Liang Mei moved out of that community. And at that same time, Liang Mei came to the office early to take away her personal items. And this showed that Liang Mei had decided to leave after the class reunion that day.

I grabbed my chin with my hand and remembered what Yang Licheng said to me earlier.

I asked, “What is Liang Mei's personality like?”

Manager Wang scratched his head and said, with a sigh, “But I'm not surprised that Liang Mei would do this.”

“What?” I asked.

Manager Wang said, “Liang Mei came to our company a few years ago. Her biggest characteristic is her stubbornness. She lost customers several times because she had contrasting ideas to that of her clients. A client originally wanted to change the design a bit. The design was fine, but she just didn’t want to change it. But it's also because of this characteristic of her, that as long as she wanted to do things, such as some seemingly impossible designs, she could always think of the solutions.” Manager Wang continued: “It wouldn’t have taken her long to rise in her career. In fact, she was going to get promoted to a manager position soon, too. I don't get it, but it's her style.”

From now, Liang Mei had left of her own initiative. She didn't tell anyone around her the reason for leaving. I fiddled with the documents on the table, but accidentally moved the mouse. With the movement of the mouse, the computer screen suddenly lit up. It turned out that Liang Mei's computer hadn’t been turned off.

“Who’s moved here?” I asked.

Manager Wang shook his head and said, “No one. Although Liang Mei hasn't come back for two days, we don't know what she's doing. What if she went to do a market research? You saw for yourself that her desk and her computer have not been touched. It has been two days and no one has been able to contact her.”

“This office building has continuous power supply even during night?” I asked again.

Manager Wang said, “That's right, of course we have uninterrupted power supply. Otherwise, how could her computer have been on standby all this while?”

If a person was in a hurry to leave, but has left on the computer, it could only mean that there was something on the computer that they would want to see, or some information that they wanted to take away.

I carefully rummaged through the files on the computer, but found nothing unusual, except for some office software and some design drawings. I frowned and was silent for a moment, then remembered something, and opened the web browser. I looked up the web browser history and found there wasn't a single record in them.

This was unusual, quite unusual. Most people would never delete their search records, unless they were searching for websites that were not suitable for children. And why did Liang Mei delete her search history? Is there something that Liang Mei was afraid of others seeing?

I shook my head. It seemed that Liang Mei was really ready to leave. And because our country is so big, even if Liang Mei was still in Dongxing City, it would not be easy for us to find her.

Just when I saw no hope of finding anything and was about to close the brower, I accidentally right-clicked the mouse button. As we all know, this would only be available if someone had copied or cut something first.

I pressed paste without thinking, and at that moment, a file in image format appeared on the computer.

I hurriedly opened the picture, but at the moment when the picture was opened, Manager Wang was taken aback.

“This. What is this?” Manager Wang touched his chest and pointed at the computer with one finger: “This, this is too terrifying. Why does Liang Mei's computer have this thing? This has nothing to do with design. Is it a good idea to have this to find inspiration?”

I shook my head, but didn't answer Manager Wang.

Zhao Mingkun took a few steps up and said, “Isn't this picture?"

I nodded and looked at the picture on the screen.

Zhao Mingkun and I both fell into contemplation. Judging from this picture, Liang Mei seems to be very suspicious. Because this photo was not another photo, but turned out to be the photo we saw on Hu Pei's lost cell phone before. This was a photo of Lu Zhiqiu's head, but this photo was obviously the original.

Judging from this photo, there was no text added to the edge, and the words “I'm back” were not written. And the photo was much clearer than the one we saw on the mobile phone. This showed that the picture on the mobile phone may have been doctored a lot due to transmission problems.

And this photo was very clear.

As far as we know, these students arrived at the scene when the police were gone and saw Lu Zhiqiu's body. But in this photo, we could clearly see that it was taken by a person next to the body. Moreover, the camera was very close to the head of the corpse. We could imagine the action of the photographer. His feet stood on either side of the head, then he leaned down and took a close-up of the head with the camera.

The background of the head was light, and the background around the picture was a bit dark. This meant that this photo was probably taken at night. So, why does Liang Mei have this photo? This photo, both from the background light and from the point of view, should have been taken by the murderer.

And why did this photo appear on Liang Mei's computer, and why did Liang Mei leave in a hurry after the party? I remember that at that time, Wang Yikai said that thirteen people had stayed in Dongxing City to cooperate with the police investigation. The rest of the people did not leave Dongxing City. So why did Liang Mei alone leave her three or four year job, leave her housing community, with a child without any place to go to?

“There is a problem!” I said to Zhao Mingkun, “There is something wrong with this Liang Mei!”

Zhao Mingkun looked at me, nodded, and said, “It can be seen that Liang Mei is a very assertive person, no matter from seven years ago or now. People who have no opinion, In fact, such people are the most opinionated people. These people often allow others to do whatever they want in small matters, but when it comes to some issues that touch on their own principles, they already have the answers in their hearts.”

After that, Zhao Mingkun added: “Otherwise, she would not have given birth to Yang Licheng's child.”

“What do you mean?” I looked at Zhao Mingkun: “Is it very likely that Liang Mei killed someone?”

Zhao Mingkun waved his hand and said, “I just think that if Liang Mei wanted to kill Lu Zhiqiu, she’s capable enough to see through it.”

(End of this chapter)