Yue Xingwen sent a message on a chat channel, letting everyone to immediately come to the corner on the east side of the 6th floor of area C. Soon, the students ran over while panting heavily.

Seeing the terrifying scene in front of them, everyone froze in place, and chills ran down their spines!

The man who was sealed in the cement wall stared at them with wide eyes in horror before he died, staring straight at them!

The deceased’s body and face were covered with a layer of cement, like a living person’s clay sculpture. A piece of cloth was stuffed in his mouth, so that even if he was afraid, he could not make any sound for help.

Ke Shaobin’s face turned pale slightly, and asked in a small voice, “He wasn’t dead when he was sealed into the wall, right?”

Zhang Xiaonian said, “The murderer should start with his legs and slowly apply cement upwards. He was placed inside the wall, and watched as his body was encased in cement little by little…”

Liu Zhaoqing imagined the scene for a moment, and could not help rubbing the goosebumps on his arms and said, “He must be desperate before his death, seeing himself was sealed into the wall, with his mouth gagged so he couldn’t speak, fuck… It’s too tragic.”

Jiang Pingce said coldly, “The murderer obviously hated him very much, so he killed this person in this way, causing him to suffer mental torture for a long time before he died.”

If it was a ‘one-hit’ way of killing, the deceased would not feel too much pain. The killing method used by the murderer, however, was based on torturing the other person’s spirit. Although injuries could not be found on the deceased’s body and his body was also intact, he spent every minute and every second before his death in extreme fear and despair.

This kind of chronic death was the most torturous, similar to ‘execution by hanging’, without leaving a blood stain to arouse people’s suspicions. The murderer sealed his body inch by inch with cement, and the deceased passed the final stage of his life in extreme horror.

No wonder that he did not close his eyes after dying, and his eyeballs were about to pop out.

Yue Xingwen looked away from the deceased and looked at everyone, “What do you think? Who would be the murderer?”

The students looked at each other.

Ke Shaobin analyzed in a low voice, “Jiang Dexin left the construction site yesterday afternoon after signing the agreement, and it was 3:00pm in the afternoon. After halfway through in the car, he excused himself to deal with personal matters and disappeared immediately after. The time he disappeared should be around 3:30pm. However yesterday afternoon, several suspects on the construction site were gathering to chat and they didn’t have time to commit the crime.”

Yue Xingwen agreed with Ke Shaobin’s analysis and nodded. “That’s right. Yesterday afternoon there were many people who proved that Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, and Zhao Anming were talking about the wedding together, chatting until 7:00pm before they each went back to their dormitories. These people didn’t have the time to commit the crime. Did anyone leave the construction site yesterday afternoon when you guys asked the workers earlier?”

Everyone shook their heads one after another. “No one has left.”

President Jiang disappeared at 3:30pm yesterday afternoon. At the time of his disappearance, none of the workers on the construction site had left, and there was no time to commit the crime. Then, how did president Jiang suddenly show up at the construction site? Could president Jiang still sneak back to the construction site, climb up to the 6th floor by himself, make a posture and let someone kill him?

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged a look.

Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Jiang Dexin’s disappearance was yesterday at 3:30pm. The time of death was not necessarily in the afternoon. Sealing a living person into a cement wall on the 6th floor in broad daylight could easily attract the attention of others at the construction site with all the commotion. I’m more inclined to think that the murderer sneaked up late at night and carried the victim to the 6th floor and sealed him into the wall.”

This speculation was immediately acknowledged by the students.

Yue Xingwen agreed and said, “It is indeed easy to be bumped into in broad daylight. In the middle of the night, while everyone at the construction site was asleep, and then secretly sealing president Jiang into the wall, in order to be unnoticed by the others. In other words, president Jiang was first kidnapped or knocked out yesterday afternoon and temporarily hidden somewhere. It was only late at night that the murderer sealed the awakened president Jiang into the cement wall.”

If they had not looked for the body everywhere and dug up the wall, maybe the building would have been completed in the end, and Jiang Dexin would have remained in the wall unnoticed. The ‘hiding corpses’ method of sealing a person into the wall late at night was indeed in line with the murderer’s meticulous style.

Jiang Pingce said, “The key lies in the fact that Jiang Dexin disappeared yesterday afternoon. In the afternoon, the workers did not go out. So, who kidnapped him?”

Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said, “Is it possible that there are people outside the construction site who provided support and acted together to commit the crime?”

Since the workers at the construction site did not go out, it was unlikely that Jiang Dexin had met with any workers when he disappeared yesterday afternoon. Jiang Dexin would not be stupid enough to wait near the construction site until late at night, right? There must be another person outside who managed to kidnap president Jiang. Only in this way could Jiang Dexin’s appearance at the construction site be reasonably explained.

Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and analyzed, “What Xingwen means is that there is someone out there who tricked Jiang Dexin into going out for negotiations yesterday afternoon, pretending to know about the Qingshui Bay project to extort a sum of money. The place where he had an appointment with president Jiang should not be too remote to arouse president Jiang’s suspicion, so that Jiang Dexin would take the bait?”

Yue Xingwen nodded and replied, “Jiang Dexin is the owner of a real estate company, started from nothing, fought for ten years, and perhaps once killed someone in the Qingshui Bay project. He was shrewd and cunning, and if the murderer asked to meet him directly at the construction site, where someone had just died two days before. With his vigilance, he would not come alone. It would be more reasonable to be kidnapped and taken to the construction site when he was negotiating with someone from outside.”

Zhuo Feng agreed and said, “It makes sense. He came to the construction site yesterday, going back and forth with his assistant and several bodyguards. He must be afraid that the workers will be emotional and do something to him. It doesn’t make sense for such a cautious person to appear alone at the construction site to negotiate with someone. His whole body was tied with ropes and his mouth was gagged with a rag. He should have been tied outside.”

Lin Manluo frowned slightly and said, “In other words, someone tied him up and sent him to the construction site. Then, the murderer wait for the dead of night to seal him into the wall? The two murderers are working together inside and out?”

Yue Xingwen said, “It’s also possible that the same person kidnapped him and sealed him into the wall. This person first kidnapped him and hid him yesterday afternoon, then sneaked back into the construction site at night, carried him up to the 6th floor through the underground passage and sealed him into the wall. Of course, no matter what possibility, there must be a murderer to act outside.”

Jiang Pingce said, “The murderer’s physical strength is relatively strong, otherwise, the murderer can’t easily subdue an adult like Jiang Dexin.”

Zhang Xiaonian scratched his head in doubt and said, “How can we investigate the murderer who acts outside ah? It’s not like we can get out of the construction site.”

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and said, “Then check the people at the construction site first. It’s true that no one went out yesterday afternoon, but what about at night? Could there be someone who left the dormitory, sneaked to the Xinyue plaza building, and sealed the kidnapped Jiang Dexin into the wall?”

Jiang Pingce said, “Everyone can investigate separately.”

Ke Shaobin turned to leave, walked to the door and turned back to look at the dead body with wide-eyes laid out on the floor covered in cement, and asked in a whisper. “The body was dug up in the wall, should we call the police ah?”

Yue Xingwen said, “Don’t alert the police yet, we’ll definitely score higher if we can solve the case before the police arrive. Moreover, when the police come, maybe the murderer will be on alert and destroy the evidence.”

Jiang Pingce also said, “Check it first, and then consider whether to call the police if we can’t find out.”

Hearing this, everyone went back to the workers they knew well and asked questions, and the point of the inquiry being whether they had been out last night. Zhao Xuemei and Zhao Jiang did not go out, and their respective roommates also said that they got excited after talking about the topic of marriage and did not go to sleep late at night.

Zhao Anming never went out either, and it was Zhao Liang who testified for him.

To everyone’s surprise, Zhao Liang actually moved in to sleep with Zhao Anming last night?

Zhao Liang explained, “Uncle Anming told me that my roommate is not easy to get along with and might beat me up again if we have disagreement, so it’s better to move over and live with him first, sleep in my uncle’s bed, and tidy up my uncle’s belongings by the way.”

Zhao Liang was beaten by his roommate a few days ago and did not dare to live with that fierce roommate, so Zhao Anming took the initiative to ask him to sleep over and he did not refuse. Zhao Liang said, “Last night, uncle Anming and I were packing up my uncle’s things until 1:00am, and fell asleep after that. Uncle Ming was snoring so loudly in his sleep that it kept me up all night.”

Yue Xingwen asked, “Are you sure he was in the dormitory all night?”

Zhao Liang nodded brightly and said, “En, I was in a daze, kept hearing him snoring and talking in his sleep. I fell asleep after 5:00am, when it was almost dawn.”

Zhao Anming did not go out last night, and Zhao Liang’s testimony did not seem like a lie.

But in this way, the biggest suspect Zhao Anming did not have time to commit the crime?

Yue Xingwen always felt strange. This Zhao Anming kindly proposed to live with Zhao Dayong at the beginning, and also gave them a lot of stories about Zhao Village. After Zhao Dayong’s death, he took the initiative to propose to live with Zhao Liang.

Was it pure gossip for the eager masses, or did he deliberately drag Zhao Liang to give him an alibi?

After coming out of Zhao Anming’s dormitory, Yue Xingwen asked in a low voice, “Zhao Liang heard him snoring all night, could he have recorded the sound of the snoring on his phone and played it on a loop?”

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “I don’t think so, playing on a loop for hours with the exact same sound is easy to arouse suspicion. Moreover, Zhao Liang also heard him talking in his sleep, but didn’t hear him pushing the door out and opening it in. I think he was likely to stay in the dormitory last night.”

After thinking carefully, Yue Xingwen said helplessly, “It seems, this Zhao Anming is an interference item that provides clues. He had been living with Zhao Dayong for some time, and last night he stayed with Zhao Liang, purely because… he is warm-hearted?”

Once again, the investigation had reached a dead end.

Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, Zhao Anming, Zhao Liang, the four key suspects were all at the construction site yesterday afternoon, and they did not leave the dormitory last night. They had no time to commit crimes at all!

Since it was deduced that Jian Dexin’s death was related to the Qingshui Bay project in Zhao Village and the death of Zhao Dayong’s brother and sister-in-law, then the murderer must also be related to Zhao Village. It was not an unrelated person who ‘drew out a knife to help when seeing injustice’, right?”

The murderer was related to the Zhao Village, but none of the four people from the Zhao Village had time to commit the crime, so where could the murderer be hiding?

Yue Xingwen pondered and said, “On the construction site, are there still people from the Zhao Village that we missed?”

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and suddenly put forward a key point, “The people in Zhao Village, do they necessarily have the surname Zhao?”

Yue Xingwen: “…”

That was right. Was 100% of the people in Zhao Village surnamed Zhao? Not necessarily!

Some fragments suddenly flashed in Yue Xingwen’s mind——

“Both of Zhao Dayong’s parents died of liver cancer, and he was raised by his brother. His brother Zhao Dacheng was 10 years older than him, was the best carpenter in our village and later married a wife and gave birth to Zhao Liang. The couple worked in other places for many years, and the child was left to Zhao Dayong, as an uncle to take care of…”

“All the girls in our village have not married outside before, and after a long time, the relationship between relatives is almost indistinguishable…”

These were all the information that Zhao Anming had revealed to them during the casual chat two days ago.

Now, these fragments flashed back in his mind, and Yue Xingwen’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Girls in Zhao Village do not marry outside, but men in Zhao Village can marry women outside—— these girls aren’t necessarily surnamed Zhao!”

Jiang Pingce instantly understood what Yue Xingwen meant and asked, “Zhao Dayong’s sister-in-law, what’s her name?”

This key had been ignored by them.

Before, they always investigated around the ‘Zhao Village’. Everyone subconsciously felt that the people in Zhao Village were the most suspect, like Zhao Xuemei, Zhao Qiang, Zhao Anming. They were also familiar with each other and grew up together. Yue Xingwen even wondered if a group of people from Zhao Village were working together to commit the crime?

But after checking around, these guys always had an alibi.

However, the people related to Zhao Village were not necessarily all locals of Zhao Village, but there were also relatives of the girls who married into Zhao Village!

Both of them immediately returned to the room.

Jiang Pingce asked Zhao Anming very directly, “Zhao Dayong’s sister-in-law isn’t Zhao Village’s local, right?”

Zhao Anming was stunned and said with a smile, “You can even guess this ah!”

Both people: “…”

Sensing that their reasoning was close to the truth, Yue Xingwen’s heartbeat could not help but quicken as he looked to Zhao Anming and asked seriously, “Zhao Dayong’s sister-in-law married to Zhao Village from out of town?”

Zhao Anming said, “Yes. Dayong’s brother, Dacheng, was the best carpenter in our village. He met a beautiful girl when he was working outside and married her back.”

Yue Xingwen asked nervously, “What’s her name?”

Zhao Anming scratched his head and thought for a while before saying, “Her name… seems to be Yan Hui.”

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other.

Yan Hui… Yan Kai?!

Living in the same room with Zhao Liang, beating Zhao Liang and driving him out. He had a label of ‘oppression and a bully’ at the construction site, and the workers had to hide when they saw him. This was Yan Kai, the warehouse manager at the construction site.

Yue Xingwen drew a breath of cold air—— To be honest, they never suspected this person!

In everyone’s opinion, this person was a social gangster who bullied people everywhere on the construction site because he had some personal relationship with the construction supervisor. Yue Xingwen recalled about this person’s appearance, he was strong, and had a tattoo on his arm, his eye sockets were slightly sunken, and his eyes were as sharp as an hawk, he was a person who could not be messed up with at first glance.

He presented himself as a kind of ‘gangster’. He looked fierce, his emotions were written on his face, beating people if he did not like. It was not easy to make people suspect that he would be a scheming and meticulous murderer!

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But on second thought, was it reasonable for him, an adult, to directly beat Zhao Liang to occupy his bed?

Several people in Zhao Village had alibi last night, but Yan Kai had no roommates! Naturally, no one knew whether he left or not last night?

Perhaps, he was looking for an excuse and deliberately drove Zhao Liang away so that he would not be involved in the murder case. He beat Zhao Liang and was actually protecting this child in an alternative way?

Because Zhao Liang was his sister’s son, his own nephew?