Chapter 116 Beyond Expectations (2/2)
Out of reflex, the moment she thought about that, Xiang Wan looked toward the window and got such a fright that she nearly threw away her mouse.
Outside the glass window, there seemed to be an obscure silhouette standing right behind Fang Yuanyuan, but the moment Xiang Wan took a look at it, it instantly disappeared.
”Ah! Yuanyuan!” Xiang Wan shouted and immediately dialed Fang Yuanyuan's mobile number.
Fang Yuanyuan was awakened by the call and rubbed her head, yawning away. ”It's already so late, why are you making such a fuss?”
”Yuanyuan, listen to me, don't be afraid, alright? I'll come back right away!” Xiang Wan spoke to her in a low but anxious tone. ”Don't open the window, immediately head to the bathroom and lock the door. Don't ever come out until I come back…”
”What happened?” Fang Yuanyuan's head was now clear due to fright after hearing her words. ”Today's not April Fool's Day, right?! What actually happened when I fell asleep?”
”There's someone outside your window! I just saw someone out there.”
The residential building of her current home was nine storeys high. Although it was not a really tall building, there still shouldn't be a human figure appearing outside the window!
”Oh my goodness, don't scare me! Could it be haunted or something like that?” Fang Yuanyuan immediately got off from the bed and dashed toward the bathroom. ”Sis, don't hang up the phone, don't hang up okay? I'm scared.”
”I won't hang up the phone, I won't!”
When Xiang Wan was talking to Fang Yuanyuan, she was running toward Bai Muchuan's office.
She told him what happened and Bai Muchuan immediately stopped his work to send her back home, with Tang Yuanchu following along.
The neighborhood was as if in deep slumber; there wasn't anyone at all.
Not to talk about outside the window, there were hardly anyone walking around the neighborhood as well.
They went to check on the surveillance cameras and talked to the security guards. The few of them stayed up till 5:00 a.m. in the morning but found nothing suspicious.
”Teacher Xiang, could you have seen wrongly?” Tang Yuanchu yawned and looked at Xiang Wan doubtfully.
”I believe… I didn't.” In actual fact, as they did not manage to find anything, Xiang Wan was not so sure about it now.
Tang Yuanchu remarked, ”Could it be that you're not used to working late into the night and was hallucinating?”
Xiang Wan pursed her lips and paused for a moment. ”Maybe.”
She felt apologetic for making them put down their work and had them worked for nothing for something she saw.
”I'm sorry about all this. Am I… too agitated? This is just a small matter…”
”You seem to suffer from hallucinations lately!” Bai Muchuan took a glance at her. ”Ever since Zhao Jiahang's case, such hallucinations seem to appear every now and then?”
There was a hint of inquiry in his eyes.
As Xiang Wan had not slept for the entire night, her heartbeat was faster than usual and she also seemed to be distracted. She lowered her head so as to avoid looking at Bai Muchuan. ”Those with stronger sixth sense have much active thoughts and greater sense of imagination.”
Bai Muchuan raised an eyebrow. ”Are you sure there's no problem with your nervous system?”
Xiang Wan looked irritated. ”You're the one with a problem!”
Tang Yuanchu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the two of them regaining their usual petty bickering with each other. He felt that everything seemed to become better at that moment.
Hearing them bicker was much better than seeing their charcoal-like faces everyday!
”We need to go back to office now.” Bai Muchuan took a look at Xiang Wan. ”You can take the opportunity to have a rest.”
”Mm, okay.” This time, Xiang Wan did not try to push herself anymore.
She had not slept for one whole night and she felt drowsy and distracted. She really did need to rest.
To make her rest assured, Bai Muchuan and Tang Yuanchu sent her to the doorstep.
However, the moment Xiang Wan opened her door, the door opposite her house opened.
… Cheng Zheng.
The few of them met each other and went silent for a few seconds.
As Tang Yuanchu was the youngest, he greeted him, ”Bro Zheng, you just came back or…?”
Cheng Zheng acknowledged by nodding his head. ”I've come back for a while already. I'm now going for a jog.”
”So cool!” Tang Yuanchu chuckled when he suddenly got reminded of the fact that his boss and Cheng Zheng did not get along with each other and wished he could have held his tongue earlier. ”Erm… Boss, you talk with Teacher Xiang, I'll go back to the car!”
He immediately dashed toward the lift.
Bai Muchuan took a glance at Cheng Zheng's door and narrowed his eyes at Xiang Wan.
”Go in, remember to lock the door!”
”… Mm.”
”Call me if there's anything.”
”… Mm.”
When Xiang Wan went back to her room, she saw Fang Yuanyuan sleeping on her bed again.
At that moment, she was sleeping soundly.
What a sanguine girl you are, she thought.
Xiang Wan went to wash up and sat on her chair with her hair still wet from bath. She looked at the curtains, unable to fall asleep.
Were her eyes really playing a trick on her? Was there really someone behind the curtains peeping around their house?
…
Xiang Wan was awakened by Fang Yuanyuan in the morning.
When she looked at the time, it was 8:30 a.m. in the morning.
She had slept less than three hours! She wished she could kill someone at that instant.
”Captain Cheng asked you to eat breakfast. Don't blame it on me!”
Cheng Zheng was sitting at their living room.
Breakfast was provided by him again, and the reason was even more ”appropriate” than the previous one.
He heard there was a burglar snooping around their house last night, and was worried that they would be frightened so he made them breakfast.
”Captain Cheng knew about it, too?” Xiang Wan did not stand on ceremony with him and sat down in a worn out manner. Thinking back on last night's blunder, she felt a little embarrassed. ”However, the words 'a burglar snooping around' sounds novel to me.”
”When I went for a jog this morning, this was what the security guard told me.” Cheng Zheng furrowed his eyebrows and asked Xiang Wan, ”You both better be more careful and make sure your windows are closed. Don't go out at night unless really necessary.”
Xiang Wan smiled, nodded her head and glanced at him. ”Captain Cheng's not eating?”
”I've eaten. Now waiting for you to finish and give you a lift since it's on the way.”
The two of them were staying and working at the same place, so it was definitely on the way.
Xiang Wan could find no excuse to refuse the offer, but when both of them arrived at the Criminal Investigation Unit, Bai Muchuan, who was still busy in his office, immediately looked like the dark, gloomy sky just before a storm. In addition, as he had not slept for one night, he looked like a living King of Hell, as if everyone had owed him money.
”Come to the Conference room! We'll have a meeting now!”
He took a look at everyone present and walked away.
Everyone turned their gazes to Xiang Wan, seemingly thinking of something.
Xiang Wan: ”…”
What has it got to do with me? I'm innocent! she thought.
…
After working for an entire night, there were finally some developments.
After interrogating Old Kong, he admitted to tying up his son, Kong Qingping, as well as taping up his mouth up. His motive was for him to stay at home obediently and not go out to create trouble.
He had also admitted that during this process, he had used violence on his son. However, he claimed that when he left the bedroom, his son was sitting on the bed. Besides the fact that he could not hurl abuse at him and could not escape, there was absolutely no heavy injury or any bleeding, not to mention being stabbed.
During the interrogation, he denied having seen that dagger that stabbed Kong Qingping to death.
At the same time, he also denied having the doll that Kong Qingping had stolen from Jinyi Hotel…
”I've said it, the dagger did not contain Kong Guangming's fingerprint. He also has no motive to kill his son.” Cheng Zheng once again stood by his previous conjecture. ”Kong Qingping's death is purely accidental. Oh yes, I did a small experiment last night…”
”What experiment?” Tang Yuanchu asked with curiosity.
”A computer simulation of the scene.” Cheng Zheng opened his laptop and connected with the necessary multimedia display to show everyone the scene while he explained his findings. ”Everyone please take a look at this simulation. Taking Kong Guangming's statement as basis, when he left the bedroom, his son was sitting on the bed. Then his son secretly pulled out the dagger, wanting to cut the rope to escape…”
”Everyone should still remember that there was an old-fashioned bed with a wooden footrest inside Kong Qingping's bedroom. When Kong Qingping got ahold of the dagger, he might have instinctively tried to stand up but might have slipped. As he was tied up, he could not balance himself to reduce the impact, causing the dagger to pierce right through his chest…”
”Hur!” Bai Muchuan laughed, ”So from what you've gathered, Kong Qingping committed suicide?”
”He died of an accident! I feel that his father, Kong Guangming, should not be held responsible for this case.”
”…”
It was all quiet in the conference room.
Bai Muchuan grunted a laugh as he looked at Cheng Zheng.
”So in other words, we can close the case already?”
Cheng Zheng looked at him. ”Commissioner Wang gave us three days. Today is only the second day.”
Bai Muchuan gave a sneer. ”Yes, maybe we can even apply for a commendation?”
”…”
Bai Muchuan took a glance at everyone who had not said a word. ”If this is really so simple, how are we going to explain the critical point of this case? Why did Kong Qingping steal the doll? And where is the doll now?”
”When a thief steals something he wants and realizes that it has no value,” Cheng Zheng answered without any emotion, ”it is normal for them to just throw it away. Doesn't it make sense?”
”If it has no value,” said Bai Muchuan, ”why did he steal it in the first place? Why didn't he take away those items with value instead?”
”Maybe when he wanted to steal the valuables, something happened that caused him unable to take them? For example, Xie Wanwan could have showed a sign of waking up? Or the security guard made a surprise inspection patrol?”
Bai Muchuan grunted coldly and his tone sounded grim. ”That's only your own assumption!”
”Captain Bai, you can't make the whole team continue to investigate the case just because the doll belonged to Xie Wanwan, right?”
Bai Muchuan looked at him coldly.
Everyone thought that he would make a retort back at Cheng Zheng.
But he did not.
Instead, he slowly retracted his gaze and looked at everyone.
”Kong Qingping's death is a homicide case.”
Everyone was quiet.
Bai Muchuan said coldly, ”His father, Kong Guangming, is suspected of killing his son.”
Everyone was startled.
Actually, everyone had similar opinions as Cheng Zheng. Old Kong might have gone to jail and was not a good man, but as the saying goes, ”even a vicious tiger will not eat its cubs”. He might have done a part that led to Kong Qingping's death, but he would definitely not have the intention of killing him.
Cheng Zheng asked, ”Why are you so sure?”
Bai Muchuan got up slowly and his gaze was getting colder.
”He is not a responsible father, he doesn't love his son, and he doesn't care about his son if he is alive or dead.”
This could be called a reason?
Everyone did not move.
”Has Captain Bai forgotten what you've always been saying? Dealing with cases is all about evidence, not based on our feelings!”
Bai Muchuan pursed his lips as he swept a glance at him.
”I'll find evidence. There's still one more day left, why so agitated?”
…A chuunibyou either acts like a know-it-all adult and look down on real ones, or believe that they have special powers unlike others.