Escape the Library

【Not Guilty Defense-04】

Yue Xingwen glanced at the time, it was 5:30 in the morning.

At 5:30 in the morning on Saturday, most of the people were asleep at this time. Qi Xinyu's screams woke up a lot of people. Some people turned over and continued to sleep after being woken up. There were two boys who were close to each other. Going out to see the situation, he asked as he walked, "What's your name, Xinyu, what happened?"

The two walked to the beach, and when they found the body floating on the sea, their eyes widened in surprise: "Dead, dead?" "Isn't that Liu Jiajia? I remember her dress!"

The dress is indeed very distinctive, with a bright red background and some silver sequins embellished on it, which will look good in photos on the beach.

Yue Xingwen searched the memory in her mind. At dusk last night, the girl wore this skirt and took pictures at the beach. There were many people taking pictures at the beach at that time. Yue Xingwen vaguely remembered that the girl in the red dress had a bright smile, and there were several A girl giggled and took pictures with her, posing in various poses.

Didn't expect her to drown.

Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at Qi Xinyu: "Senior sister, how did you find the body?"

Qi Xinyu was trembling: "I set an alarm clock with Zhao Lin and wanted to wake up early in the morning to watch the sunrise. As a result, when we walked to the beach, we saw a body floating on the sea..." Zhao Lin next to her was pale Said: "Liu Jiajia had a good barbecue with us last night, how could he suddenly drown?"

Qi Xinyu bit her lip and whispered, "I remember she can swim. Could it be that she wanted to swim in the sea, but she accidentally twitched and drowned?"

People who can swim are not afraid of sea water. When they are excited, they go to swim in the sea. As a result, their body suddenly cramps while swimming, resulting in drowning. There are many such cases in reality. Their first reaction was accident, not murder. It seems that this Liu Jiajia usually has no obvious enemy?

Yue Xingwen asked, "Senior sister, has Liu Jiajia offended anyone?"

Qi Xinyu was stunned for a moment, and her face changed slightly: "Don't you suspect that she was pushed down on purpose?! She is very popular in our profession, and I have never heard of her having a grudge against anyone. She is still The Minister of Culture and Entertainment of our Student Union is beautiful and kind, so there is no way someone could kill her!"

Zhao Lin next to him suddenly looked around and asked, "Where's Zhu Xiaoting? She lives in the same tent as Liu Jiajia. She should know what happened to Liu Jiajia last night, right?"

The boy walked over and shouted, "Is Zhu Xiaoting here?"

After a long while without a response, Qi Xinyu quickly flipped through her phone and said, "They live in tent No. 037 in Area A."

The two boys and Zhao Lin went over to call someone, but they came back after a while, Zhao Lin said, "Zhu Xiaoting is not here!"

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Of course she's not in the tent, she's currently in the girls' dormitory of Beishan University, armed with a murder weapon!

Ke Shaobin whispered in Yue Xingwen's ear: "Zhu Xiaoting seems to have taken a taxi back to school in the middle of the night after eating the barbecue. When she returned to school, she saw dead people in the dormitory."

The whistle of the police car was heard in the distance, and Yue Xingwen quickly asked in the group, "How is the situation at the school?"

Qin Miao said: "The police just arrived and blocked off the scene. They are questioning several witnesses. The forensic doctor examined Xie Xiangqin's body in the dormitory. Zhu Xiaoting's mood was a little broken. There was blood on her hands and face. The police put handcuffs on her. ."

Jiang Pingce and Xin Yan could not enter the girls' dormitory, and the information on the dormitory side could only be collected by Qin Miao.

Fortunately, Qin Miao calmly put forward the speculation that "the crime scene is not necessarily on the beach" yesterday, and took the initiative to stay at the school, otherwise, they will lose a lot of key information.

Lan Yarong asked, "Did the witnesses see her holding the murder weapon?"

Qin Miao: "That's right. Don't say she was an eyewitness. When I heard the screams and rushed over, I saw her holding a knife in her hand. There were at least 5 girls who saw this scene, as well as the dormitory next door."

Lan Yarong's temples jumped with anger: "Isn't she from a law school? Has she learned criminal law for nothing? If she sees a dead person, she should carefully exit the crime scene and call the police immediately! What did she go in for? She was covered in blood and went to get the murder weapon! !"

Senior Sister Lan's row of exclamation marks made the teammates' scalps go numb. It can be seen that the raging anger of the senior sister is burning.

Liu Zhaoqing sent a sweaty expression: "Sister Lan, calm down, I have to rely on you to defend this girl."

Lan Yarong took a deep breath: "What the **** is going on? Isn't she from law school?"

Xin Yan sent a string of text messages: "Zhu Xiaoting is indeed not from the law school. She is not in the law school list, but in the 703 dormitory list, I put her in the data sheet when I sorted it out yesterday. This 703 dormitory is more complicated, in which Xie Xiangqin and Mao Yue are students of the Law School, Zhu Xiaoting is a student of the School of Translation and Interpretation, and Li Huijuan is a student of the School of Biological Sciences. There are 54 girls in the Law School, and only 52 of them can be accommodated in 13 rooms, and the remaining 2 are followed by others. The extra girls from the academy joined one room."

The school will try to arrange students of the same major to live together, but in the case of such a situation where the four-person room cannot be accommodated, it will also assign students from other majors to live together to form a dormitory. Such dormitory assignments are common at universities.

Among the 54 girls in the law school, 52 of them live in 4-person rooms with their majors, and there are girls from other majors in the 703 dormitory. The internal relationship of this dormitory obviously needs to be investigated.

Lan Yarong's mood finally calmed down. Law students had to study "Criminal Law", and it was too unprofessional to do something like "touching a murder weapon". If it was a girl from another academy, might she have encountered the murder weapon in a panic, or maybe she was saving people, not killing people?

Lan Yarong took a deep breath and typed quickly, "What did the police say?"

Qin Miao: "The police are going to take Zhu Xiaoting back for questioning."

Judging from the photos of the scene, the ground is full of blood, and Zhu Xiaoting may have run over in panic after entering the house, and there are many footprints of her on the ground.

Yue Xingwen helped her forehead helplessly: "Zhu Xiaoting originally had a barbecue at the beach, and the person who lived with her was Liu Jiajia, but now Liu Jiajia drowned, and Zhu Xiaoting appeared at the school inexplicably."

Liu Zhaoqing was on the night shift last night, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Xingwen, you mean, Zhu Xiaoting's roommate drowned at the beach, she went back to school halfway, and her roommate at school was killed with a knife again. stabbed to death?"

Yue Xingwen: "Yes."

Liu Zhaoqing complained, "This is too unfortunate."

Jiang Pingce: "I suspect that something happened to Zhu Xiaoting last night and she suddenly returned to school. Liu Jiajia, her roommate at the beach, should be able to testify to her. Now that Liu Jiajia is dead, it is dead without proof. It is also possible that Liu Jiajia is dead. Jia's death is also related to her, so she becomes a serial murderer."

Everyone: "..."

Qin Miao added to the grief: "She's emotionally broken. After being brought back by the police, if she makes some unfavorable confessions when the police are questioning her, it will be even more difficult to clear her name."

Ke Shaobin asked a question: "Can she keep silent? Like it's on TV, when the police ask her, can she say that I won't answer any questions until my lawyer arrives?"

Lan Yarong made a face covering her face and typed quickly: "Xiao Ke, have you watched a lot of Hong Kong dramas? Hong Kong adopts the British system of the law of the sea, and abides by the Miranda Notice" You have the right to remain silent, but what you said Every sentence of the police will be used as evidence in court', so the suspect has the right to remain silent, not to answer any questions from the police, and to leave it to the lawyer to handle it." Lan Yarong followed closely: "But the law of the sea system does not It does not apply to the mainland. In the mainland, if the police ask questions and you don’t answer, it will hinder the police from handling the case.”

Ke Shaobin: "..."

In the TV series, the suspect keeps silent until the lawyer arrives, which looks cool, but in reality there is no such thing as "I won't answer any questions unless the lawyer comes", especially in criminal cases. The parties may not necessarily be seen.

What will Zhu Xiaoting tell the police? If she was nervous and made some unfavorable confessions, things would only get worse.

Yue Xingwen immediately made a decision: "It seems that Senior Brother Xu will have to work hard. Only he can get in touch with Zhu Xiaoting in advance."

Xu Yi understood deeply and asked in the group, "I'll turn into a cell later and hide in the police's pocket. I'll go back to the police with them and find a way to find Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible. What do you need me to tell Senior Sister Lan?"

Lan Yarong said: "Let her never confess her guilt! Also, don't lie, don't lie and lie to the police, the criminal police have rich experience in interrogating people, and she will be immediately exposed when she lies, which makes her court testimony highly credible in the end. Lower. When faced with uncertain questions, just say 'I don't know', and don't use possible, maybe, such ambiguous answers."

Xu Yishen: "Understood, I will tell her as soon as possible."

Ke Shaobin: "...Senior brother, if you turn into a cell and talk to her, won't she be frightened?"

Xu Yishen was also helpless: "Otherwise, we won't be able to see her the first time. The police will definitely interrogate her immediately when they go back. They must tell her these words before interrogation."

Yue Xingwen said: "Yes, senior brother, let's go."

After the police car arrived at the beach, they immediately blocked the scene. The forensic doctor went to conduct an autopsy. Yue Xingwen gave senior brother Xu Yishen a wink.

"The deceased Liu Jiajia, 22 years old, a student of Beishan University Law School, died of drowning. No obvious scars or signs of fighting were found on his body. The specific cause of death will be brought back for further autopsy."

The police asked Qi Xinyu, Yue Xingwen and other witnesses to briefly inquire about the situation, and left with the body.

Qi Xinyu was trembling, woke up the students and asked them to go back to school early.

Originally, they planned to play at the beach for another day today and go back on Sunday night, but some of their classmates died. After hearing the news, everyone was not in the mood to play, so they packed up and took the bus back to school.

Yue Xingwen also quickly took a taxi back to the law firm with his teammates.

They must prepare to defend Zhu Xiaoting as soon as possible. The current evidence is very unfavorable to Zhu Xiaoting. If they want to clear her grievance, firstly, they need to find loopholes in terms of motives, methods and evidence; secondly, they need to find the real murderer as soon as possible!