Chapter 26
Two o’clock in the morning, Su City University, graduate student dormitory.
Knock knock knock.
The clear knocking sound echoed in the narrow corridor.
Su Jiao stood at the door of the 303 dormitory, he knocked on the door while asking softly, “Liu Hao, are you there? I’m Su Jiao from next door.” His tone of voice was relaxed, as if he was just an ordinary classmate who came to visit the door. However, it was in the middle of the night, and Su Jiao had his hands behind his back, holding a repair hammer.
Inside the house, there was not a single movement.
In fact, this is normal, such a midnight, the vast majority of students are asleep. Graduate student dormitory building accommodation rate is not high, a floor of more than a dozen dormitories, just four or five people live. A lot of male students are notorious for sleeping like a dead pig, not shaken by thunder. But Su Jiao did not give up at all, he is still knocking over and over again, knocking.
At the same time, in the darkness of the 303 dormitory, the curtains were pulled to maximum, covering all the light.
A robust flat-headed ‘crew cut’ youth standing in front of the door, sweaty, trembling, wide-eyed looking at the door in front with a knocking sound.
His chest rose and fell violently, his teeth and bones seemed to be able to hear the cackling sound caused by the warring of bones.
Su Jiao never thought, Liu Hao was standing in the door, and separated by a thin door, silent confrontation!
Is someone going to open the door?
Or pretend no one there?
In the end, whether to open the door, or pretend no one was there?
Or maybe…
Liu Hao slowly raised his head and looked towards the door that buzzed and knocked, his eyes showing a fierce light.
Should I…
Should I kill him too …
Su Jiao: “Liu Hao, Liu Hao? Are you there?”
The dormitory’s balcony curtains were pulled open with a clatter, and Liu Hao was wearing a vest and shorts, sweat sticking in this thin garment to his body. He opened the door of the balcony and swiftly grasped the railing before trying to climb downwards, when suddenly, in the darkness of the night, a clear and cold voice resounded from the balcony of the next room 304.
“Liu Hao.”
Liu Hao panicked, “Who?!”
His heart was pounding in his chest, already on the verge of jumping out of his throat. Liu Hao was so scared that his arms went limp, directly paralyzing on the floor of the balcony. He raised his head to look in the direction of 304, and when he saw the unfamiliar black-haired young man, he somehow managed to breathe a sigh of relief.
…. It’s not Xie Ze.
Under the moonlight, Lian Xi looked at this youth who was so scared that his face was pale. After a moment of silence, he sighed: “Having done it all, what’s the point of escaping now?”
Silent, without sound.
A large bead of sweat slid down from his forehead, down and fell into Liu Hao’s rounded pupils.
Liu Hao opened his mouth and looked at the youth opposite him for a long time, and suddenly, he let out a cry.
That’s right ah, having done it all, what’s the point of running away?
***
Su Jiao went to the corridor and knocked on the door, while Lian Xi and Lie Chen worked together to block the person in the balcony.
This was the countermeasure they had discussed from the beginning.
The dormitory building of the Su City University was simple, and the only two ways to get out of the dormitory were the main door and the balcony window. If Liu Hao was really in the room, then these were the only two ways he could go.
It’s just that Lian Xi didn’t expect that Liu Hao would choose the dumbest and most meaningless path: escape from the balcony.
He could have pretended to be dead, pretended that he didn’t hear Su Jiao knocking on the door, pretended that there was no one in the room at all.
But he escaped, he chose the dumbest path.
As long as he tumbled down this balcony, the road outside was full of surveillance camera, a pair of cold electronic eyes watching him, so that he had no more room to escape.
This brilliant student who was supposed to have a great future was truly pushed to the hopeless situation.
Pressing Liu Hao back into the dormitory, the three of them, Lian Xi, also entered the dormitory and locked the doors and windows.
After entering the dormitory, Lian Xi first looked around without moving.
——No wandering ghosts.
Since there were no ghosts, the rightful owner was the one in front of him.
Su Jiao looked complicated, “Liu Hao, why did you kill Xie Ze?”
Hearing the word “Xie Ze”, Liu Hao’s body twitched. He sat on the chair, hung his head low, and didn’t say a word.
Su Jiao: “Aren’t you and Xie Ze very close?! I often see you guys go out to play basketball together and go to the cafeteria to eat together. Aren’t you guys good brothers?!”
Liu Hao remained silent.
Su Jiao really couldn’t figure it out at all, and it was still a bit hard for him to think of his already tragically dead roommate, “What was the reason you killed him? Where did he wrong you? There has to be a reason.”
Just when the crowd thought that Liu Hao was going to continue to remain silent in response, he suddenly opened his mouth. Still with his head lowered, his dull voice came from below, “Did you call the police?”
Su Jiao abruptly froze.
Lian Xi narrowed his eyes, his voice calm, “I already called the police.”
Liu Hao let out a soft oh: “I killed him by mistake.”
Lian Xi: “Accidentally killed?”
Liu Hao raised his head, his eyes were crimson, his eyes were still a little wet, his lips and face were slightly twitching from fear, but there was already a determined light in his eyes. He said, “Yes, killed by accident. Didn’t you guys take a closer look at his body? I had a fight with him and I pushed him, as a result, he hit the shelf and died just like that.”
Su Jiao: “How can that be?!”
Liu Hao asked back, “How is it impossible? Didn’t you guys look at his wounds?”
Su Jiao wanted to say more, but was stopped by Lian Xi.
Lian Xi: “You guys quarrelled, what’s the reason?”
Liu Hao: “Tell you guys, for what? I’ll wait for the police to come, then I’ll tell the police.”
Sizing him up, Lian Xi smiled, “You’ll really tell the police truthfully?”
Liu Hao’s body lurched, “Of course, I killed (the person) by mistake.”
Lian Xi: “Then will you also tell the police about Sun Yan?”
Both hands shook violently, and Liu Hao heard this, his own teeth rattling and chattering in his mouth. He stared at the youth in front of him, then at Su Jiao, who stood behind him in righteous indignation, as well as the man dressed in black, who had nothing to do with the matter, Liu Hao gritted his teeth and said word for word: “I repeat, Sun Yan’s disappearance has nothing to do with me!”
A low male voice rang out, and Lie Chen smiled faintly, “Oh, you killed her.”
Liu Hao bristled and turned his head to look at the man in black, “I didn’t!”
Lian Xi: “Then why did you kill Xie Ze, wasn’t it because he knew some inside information, so you wanted to kill him to silence him?”
“Kill him to silence him?” As if he heard something incomparably ridiculous, Liu Hao’s eyes rounded, his nerves had long been taut as a string, looking incredulously at Lian Xi, “Xie Ze knows the inside story? What does he know about the inside story, that I slept with Sun Yan, or that I have a relationship with Sun Yan behind Xiao Jia’s back? Oh that’s right, he knows, he indeed knows everything.”
Tears gurgled down from his eyes, Liu Hao gasped roughly, snot flowing from his cheeks, he looked at Su Jiao angrily, “You think that roommate of yours is a good person right?”
Su Jiao was suddenly asked and was a bit at a loss, “I….”
Liu Ze: “Did you know that Xie Ze slept with Sun Yan? He was with Sun Yan last term when he still had a girlfriend! When he broke up later, Sun Yan also broke up with him. Does he think she really likes him? Seriously? silly, Sun Yan’s cousin, she just likes to steal other people’s boyfriends and other people’s stuff; when they broke up, Sun Yan didn’t want him anymore. That cousin disappeared, right? Why didn’t she go to hell?! Go die ah!”
His spirit facing a collapse, used all of his willpower to hold his sanity, Liu Ze covered his cheeks, tears flowing out of his fingers.
“You guys want to know why, right?”
“You guys think Xie Ze is a good guy, right?”
“Okay, I’ll tell you guys, this bitch, after he found out that I was with Sun Yan last month, he used this as a handle to threaten me and ask me to write his thesis for him! And asked me for money!
“Fuck, didn’t he sleep with Sun Yan himself? Didn’t he fuck schoolgirls too? How dare he threaten me?
“I screwed with Sun Yan, I screwed with her…” The voice ended abruptly, as if suddenly remembering something, Liu Hao looked up sharply and looked towards Su Jiao.
“It’s you!” Both of his eyes shooting out a light of hatred, Liu Hao roared angrily, suddenly getting up and running towards Su Jiao in large strides.
Su Jiao cried out in shock, Lian Xi’s brows furrowed and he was about to reach out to stop him, only to hear Hei Wu Chang snort coldly. In the next second, an invisible wall of air suddenly appeared in front of Liu Hao.
Liu Hao was halfway through his charge when he was caught off guard and hit the wall, he screamed miserably, crashing into the wall with his nose bruised, head broken and bleeding, but at the moment the near-crazed man didn’t notice that he was hitting a wall of air, he sat down on the ground in a sorry state, glaring angrily at Su Jiao, shouting and crying, “It’s because of you, it’s all because of you! If it wasn’t because you suddenly moved back, Sun Yan wouldn’t have thrown you a welcome party, and I wouldn’t have gone to the grove with her that night. I drank too much, I really just drank too much ah…. oooh ohh *sobbing sound* ……”
Su Jiao was dumbfounded, and after a moment, he froze and pointed at himself, “It’s because… of me?”
……
Twenty minutes later, ear-piercing sirens pierced through the night, waking up the entire University of Suzhou.
Liu Hao was handcuffed and sent directly to the Public Security Bureau. The graduate students who were woken up curiously lay on the balcony and watched as the police officers carried out a body covered in white cloth and Liu Hao, who had been put in a black hoody.
“Crap, I heard that it was Xie Ze, Xie Ze already died?”
“Liu Hao killed Xie Ze, what’s going on?”
“Isn’t it because of Yan Zi? Yan Zi disappeared before, don’t tell me that Liu Hao is the one who did it. I saw Yan Zi come out of Liu Hao’s dormitory last week, they’re in a relationship, right?”
“Ah, Liu Hao has a girlfriend right?”
Lian Xi, these trio went downstairs, only to see that the undergraduates on the school path at three in the morning were also coming downstairs and rushing this way, surprisingly wanting to come and watch the fun.
A police car was parked under the dormitory building, and the police officers went upstairs to collect evidence.
Soon, Vice Squad Wu in civilian clothes got down from the car, and he walked up to Lian Xi’s trio. His sharp and pointed gaze swept over the faces of Lian Xi, Su Jiao and Lie Chen one by one, and when he looked at Lie Chen, the veteran criminal police officer paused for a long time, and the two of them stared at each other wordlessly.
After a long time, Team Wu gave up first, he looked at Su Jiao, smiling: “Su fellow student, this time related to you again ah.”
Su Jiao: “….”
“I’m accused ah! You go to ask, your men have caught the murderer, this really has nothing to do with me ah!”
Team Wu laughed: “I am just kidding with you. I heard that the three of you discovered the scene together and found the murderer along the way?”
Lian Xi: “Yes, Su Jiao and I are roommates, recently because that female student disappeared. Therefore after that kind of thing happened, he didn’t want to live in the dormitory anymore and wanted to move back, so we came to help him move.”
Team Wu smiled and said, “You guys come to move at two in the morning?”
Lian Xi’s face didn’t change, “I’m a game anchor, and I work until the early hours of the morning to get off the air, only then I have time to help him move.”
Team Wu: “Oh Ohh, that’s right. Well, I won’t talk to you guys anymore, I still have to go to the scene to take a look. Can a few kids do us a favour and go to the station to give us a statement?”
Lian Xi revealed a bright and righteous smile, “Of course, punishing the evil and promoting the good is the responsibility of our young people.”
Team Wu smiled and patted Lian Xi and Su Jiao’s shoulders, he was about to pat Lie Chen’s shoulder again, when Lue Zong swept over with a glance. For some reason, this old policeman keenly detected a hint of danger, he smiled, put away his hand, didn’t say anything more, and went straight up to the dormitory building.
Once Team Wu left, the smile on Lian Xi’s face instantly collapsed.
Lian Xi’s tone was heavy: “He doesn’t have an ID card.”
Su Jiao: “Hah?”
Lian Xi was deeply worried: “He doesn’t have an ID card, how can he make a statement!”
Su Jiao also remembered this problem: “F*ck, it seems like you have to register your identity information to make a statement, so what to do.”
Lian Xi and Su Jiao turned their heads in unison to look at Lie Chen.
However, they saw that Lue Chen had one hand in his pocket, the other hand holding the Black Impermanence Certificate, and with his head half sideways, he was gazing at Vice Squad Leader Wu’s far away back figure.
Lian Xi’s heart fluttered, “Is there something wrong with that old cop?”
After a few moments, not getting a response, Lian Xi was a bit strange and asked again, “Hei Wu Chang?”
Lie Chen looked back at him, “What did he just call me?”
Lian Xi: “???”
Lie Chen: “Little friend?”
Lian Xi: “….”
Lie Zong raised his eyebrows in disdain and smiled contemptuously, “Little friend…. huh?”
Lian Xi and Su Jiao: “….”
The point is the problem now?!
Can you give this unregistered resident or household a little B point?!!
Author’s comment:
Forgot how old he is, but at least 3000+ ‘Lie Zong’: Huh? Did you hear that? What did he call me, little friend?
Can CC who’s furious see the point: Lie little friend, you wake up!!!!
Fuwa: Why are you guys allowed to send voice?