"What's more, what if I was really the murderer and wanted to ask my girlfriend to help me hide it, but in the end I asked her to knock on Xu Xiaoli's door stupidly, causing the neighbors to make a fuss in the corridor and wake everyone up? This is not me.
Don’t you think Dong Chuang’s incident didn’t happen quickly enough?”
Zhang Ke's rhetorical question was very powerful, and combined with the elevator video, cell phone records and other evidence, it could indeed prove that what Yuan Mengmeng said was basically true, so Li Hao didn't know how to argue.
"Moreover, Zhang Ke didn't know about my visit to Xu Xiaoli last night." Yuan Mengmeng added, "I pestered Han Gang for a long time, and only last night I found out the specific address of her home, so
I rushed there overnight, and I had no contact with Zhang Ke during that period - this is proven by WeChat records."
"Han Gang?" Ye Suling frowned.
"It seems that he is the landlord of most of the buildings in Jixiang Community. Building No. 3 where Zhang Ke lives and Building No. 6 where the murder occurred are both in his name." Li Hao took a look at the information and hurriedly explained.
Zhang Ke secretly applauded in his heart. Yuan Mengmeng's move completely eliminated the possibility that the two of them had made a careful plan earlier.
Because normal people would definitely not think that they could predict what was about to happen, so they deliberately used Yuan Mengmeng to complete the creation of this alibi.
An unexpected situation like Yuan Mengmeng's was not within the control of the murderer at all. This actually proved that Yuan Mengmeng's testimony was more credible, and Zhang Ke's suspicion was also reduced.
"If you - retreat immediately after killing the victim, avoid all possible ways of being witnessed and recorded, and return to your own residence. And Yuan Mengmeng's arrival, although it was an unexpected factor for you
, but you didn’t realize something was wrong until you received her call, and you hurriedly called her back to your home, hoping that she would serve as your alibi?”
Ye Suling thought for a long time before coming up with this hypothesis.
The moment he heard these words, Zhang Ke couldn't help but break out in cold sweat. Although he tried his best to maintain a calm expression on his face, he was shocked inside.
Although she was just guessing, she was almost right. She almost reproduced and restored her action route and plan last night in a simple way.
She had even seen through that she had retreated quickly after the murder, and used Yuan Mengmeng's suddenness as proof to exonerate herself.
"Officer Ye - are you kidding me? That's not how the police handle cases. You can get the result just by scratching your head." Zhang Ke replied with a forced smile:
"You can't be sure that I am the murderer and just put everything on my head. What's more, if I didn't know that Yuan Mengmeng would come, I should have dealt with the body and the remaining traces of the crime at the scene. Why did I escape in a hurry.
"
Zhang Ke paused and then added: "Furthermore, even if I knew that Yuan Mengmeng had arrived at the door and then ran away? Then where could I run, other than climbing through the window? This is the sixth floor."
"What if you hurriedly retreated after Yuan Mengmeng turned around and left, rushing home before her?" Li Hao said.
"The only ways from the sixth floor to the first floor are stairs and elevators. Mengmeng should have taken the elevator when she went downstairs. There was no one competing with her for the elevator in the middle of the night, so she could sit to the end smoothly - and I want to take this short
I ran down the sixth floor and ran home first in just a few minutes. You think too highly of my physical strength."
"There is only more than two hundred meters between Building Three and Building Six. Once you step outside, you will be easily discovered by the other party." Ye Suling looked at the map of Jixiang Community and said to herself, "Indeed, you don't
It is most likely that he ran out in a hurry after Yuan Mengmeng left."
"Yes, but if I had evacuated before she arrived, then I would have been unaware." Zhang Ke added.
"Um--"
Ye Suling fiddled with the pen in her hand. Although the man in front of her had a very sufficient alibi, her years of experience as a police officer told her that things did not seem to be that simple.
"I think maybe it was the fat shrew who killed him!" Yuan Mengmeng rolled her eyes and added while the iron was hot:
"This person wanted to beat me yesterday! It's possible that she killed Xu Xiaoli first, then saw me making a noise upstairs, and then hurriedly tried to drive me away - by the way, if I didn't leave in time, maybe I would
I was also killed by her. At that time, she was holding a rolling pin in her hand and smashed it on me, and there are still black and blue patches on it."
As Yuan Mengmeng spoke, she lifted up her sleeves. As expected, her slender arms, which were as white as gelatin, were engraved with several black and blue patches.
"So, Captain Ye...?"
Li Hao looked at Ye Suling, as if asking her opinion.
Obviously, the current situation has reached a deadlock. Originally, based on the biological traces at the scene and the evidence collected from surrounding people, they learned that Xu Xiaoli and Zhang Ke seemed to have a relatively close relationship, and concluded that Zhang Ke might be related to the murder.
However, his impeccable rhetoric and Yuan Mengmeng's arrival as an unexpected incident, which turned out to be an alibi, greatly dispelled Zhang Ke's suspicion of committing the crime.
Taking a step back, even if Zhang Ke is really the mastermind behind the scenes, he has planned and arranged all of this in advance. This meticulous and sophisticated plan, as well as his almost prophetic predictions, are what make it more difficult for people to start.
There is currently a lack of conclusive evidence and a key that can directly point the suspicion to Zhang Ke.
"Li Hao, concentrate on recording, don't draw -"
Suddenly, a word that no one expected came out of Ye Suling's mouth.
"Ah...?" Yuan Mengmeng opened her mouth wide, feeling baffled.
"Uh...?" Li Hao was sweating profusely, and his eyes were full of panic and strangeness that could not be concealed.
"Hmm...?" In addition to being surprised, Zhang Ke's eyes also burned with a trace of long-lost excitement.
"Well..." Only Ye Suling herself seemed not to realize what she had just said. She glanced at Li Hao in confusion, wondering why her subordinates were suddenly covered in night sweats.
"I, I'm recording -" Li Hao secretly hid the pages of the sketch at the back and turned over the notebook calmly, although his expression was almost betraying him.
"okay……"
Ye Suling rubbed her forehead. She always felt that she seemed to know something, but she accidentally forgot everything.
She looked at Zhang Ke in front of her and knew that this was definitely not the first time she had seen this face, and that it had been two or three times at least. Moreover, an inexplicable intuition convinced her that this man was not completely unrelated to the murder.
It's just that... all of these are like rootless duckweeds and fluttering cotton wool, with no basis for a firm foothold.