Li Xiangnian glanced at the hand-drawn map, and began to use Zhang Yichi's home as .asxs., and followed Lu Tao's departure route to Yonghe Community.
At the same time, Zhang Yichi, covered in cold sweat, stood by the window and watched Li Xiangnian leave. Then he took the key to the basement, left the house, and went straight to the basement.
He quickly went down the stairs, panting and opened the basement room where Lu Tao's body was hidden.
It had been nearly six days since Lu Tao's death. His body had begun to appear swollen, and bloody foam was flowing from his mouth and nose.
Zhang Yichi picked up the limp Lu Tao, and the smell of corpses immediately hit his face. He tightened his body, his face was ashen, gritted his teeth and kept silent, and began to carry Lu Tao out of the basement.
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Li Xiangnian walked out of the main entrance of the community, crossed the overpass, and arrived at Yonghe Community. Here he stopped, looked at the surveillance cameras around him, and began to deliberately avoid the surveillance cameras and walk towards the small woods next to Yonghe Community.
After entering the grove, Li Xiangnian looked around calmly. After a long time, he came out of the grove, put his hands in his pockets, and looked at the sidewalks on the left and right. Whether that person was the real Lu Tao or the pretended Lu Tao, it was impossible for him to be innocent in the grove.
He disappeared for no reason, he must have come out from here, but it is not clear from which direction he left.
If this person is Zhang Yichi, then he must return home.
The surveillance late last Sunday night also hid a secret.
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After carrying Lu Tao back home, Zhang Yichi opened the refrigerator, took down all the partitions, etc., to make enough space, and stuffed Lu Tao inside.
Sitting back on the sofa, his clothes were soaked with sweat.
The cling film blocked the spread of corpse odor to a great extent, but Zhang Yichi was very close to Lu Tao when he was carrying him, so he was inevitably suffocated all the way. The corpse odor is physiologically and psychologically close to what humans can bear.
The extreme taste, he thought about the experience just now, and his stomach twitched violently.
All the dinner was vomited out.
After vomiting, he knelt in front of the toilet, exhausted.
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Li Xiangnian originally wanted to take advantage of the victory and go to investigate the surveillance that night. However, his body collapsed again and he had to postpone the plan until tomorrow.
He returned home and lay on the bed, tossing and turning, thinking about the case, his daughter, his illness...
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Friday, May 12th.
Zhang Yichi got up in despair and went to school in the morning.
Li Xiangnian arrived at the property in his community at 7:30 and called up the surveillance in front of the residential building where Zhang Yichi was located on the night of May 7. The time started at 11:50 pm on May 7 until the next time.
At seven o'clock in the morning.
After playing at double speed, Li Xiangnian gained nothing. Because from the time "Lu Tao" went out at 11:56 on May 7, to when Zhang Yichi went out to school at 6:50 in the morning on May 8, except for these two times,
No other suspicious persons have been in or out.
Could it be that his guess was wrong? One line of thought was blocked, and Li Xiangnian questioned his guess.
Finally he decided to put the issue aside for now.
"Does the owner of each residential building in your community have the basement key?" Li Xiangnian asked the property manager.
"Yes." The pot-bellied property manager who accompanied Li Xiangnian to watch the surveillance replied, "Each household has two keys. One is to open the door to the basement, and the other is to open the private storage room of each household.
The room door."
Li Xiangnian pondered for a moment: "Can you please follow me to the basement of Unit 4 of Building 11?"
"Okay." The property manager readily agreed, "Let me go get the key."
After the property manager found the key, the two of them came to the corridor of the unit where Zhang Yichi lived. The property manager opened the basement door, reached out and turned on the light, pointed down and said: "This is the basement."
Li Xiangnian walked down the steps, with the property manager following behind him.
Arriving below, what comes into view is a long and narrow corridor with security doors lined up on both sides of the corridor. Li Xiangnian turned to look at the property manager: "Are these the storage rooms assigned to each household?"
"Storage rooms are not allocated and require residents to purchase additional units."
"Can you open the storage room of the resident in Unit 5, Room 602?" Li Xiangnian asked again.
"This household did not purchase a storage room." The property manager checked the information book, "And even if it did, we wouldn't be able to open it. Because only the resident has the key to the storage room, and we have no right to open it."
"Ah..." Li Xiangnian put his hands behind his back and walked deeper into the corridor.
After not walking far, he stopped and looked to the side, where there was another staircase extending upward: "What is going on?"
The property manager rushed over and took a look and said: "This is the basement door of unit three."
"What...what do you mean?" Li Xiangnian was very confused, "Is this basement shared by the entire building? Isn't it used by each unit individually?"
“Our basement here is a whole, shared by six units in each building, so there are six entrances and exits in the basement.” The property manager explained, “In the past, there were always naughty children coming in to hide and seek, getting in from one unit and then from another.
He went out of one unit. It was because he was afraid that something might happen to his children, so the basement door was locked."
"Wait a minute." Li Xiangnian heard an important message, "You mean, if you enter Unit 1, you can also exit Unit 6, right? ... Then are the locks in the basement of each unit the same?"
The property manager said: "Yes, the six units all enter the same basement, so there is no point in setting different locks."
Li Xiangnian narrowed his eyes and something was running through his mind.
"Let's go out."
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Li Xiangnian's previous hypothesis was that the man who came out of Unit 4 on the night of May 7 was not the real Lu Tao, but Zhang Yichi pretending to be him.
However, the evidence was not sufficient, so he went to adjust the surveillance to try to find evidence that Zhang Yichi came back in the early morning.
Unfortunately not.
This made him think that his guess was wrong. But now the appearance of the basement made his hypothesis feasible again. What if Zhang Yichi came out of the fourth unit disguised as Lu Tao and entered from other units in order to hide his identity?
He began a thorough investigation of everyone who entered the six units in Building 11 between 11:56 on May 7 and 6:50 on May 8.
Because it was basically early in the morning during this period, there were very few people and the investigation was quick.
In the end, there were three suspicious persons, one who entered Unit 1, one who entered Unit 5, and one who entered Unit 6.
After taking pictures of the three people's clothing, Li Xiangnian went to adjust the sidewalk surveillance outside the woods near Yonghe Community. If the surveillance here shows one of the three people in the corresponding time period, then it means that
Li Xiangnian's hypothesis is correct.
After a rigorous investigation, a result came out that made Li Xiangnian so excited that he almost screamed.
During the fatal time period from 11:56 on May 7 to 6:50 in the morning on May 8, a man wearing a sweatshirt, a hooded jumpsuit, and a bag in his hand appeared separately.
On the sidewalk outside the first unit of the residential building where Zhang Yichi lives and the grove near Yonghe Community!