Yue Xingwen’s first thought upon seeing the body was murder. He immediately looked around for a suspicious perpetrator. It was just 5:30am, it was dark, and most of the workers had not yet gotten out of bed. The construction site was empty, except for the corpse, there was only the female worker who screamed nearby.

The blood around the body had not yet solidified, indicating that he had not been dead long.

Judging from the location of his body, the biggest possibility was that he fell from a high place in the Xinyue Plaza building. If it was a murder, the murderer would have taken at least a few minutes to push him down from a high place and then flee from the building, so maybe the murderer was still at the crime scene?

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, the latter nodded, and immediately took a few teammates who came over because of the scream, and turned to block several exits of the Xinyue Plaza building.

Yue Xingwen and Liu Zhaoqing stayed on the scene.

Liu Zhaoqing obviously did not sleep well, and there were obvious dark circles under his eyes. There was no forensic on the team, and he was at least a medical student, and could roughly judge the cause of death. He took a step forward and carefully looked at the dead body and said, “He happened to hit this steel pipe when falling. The position of the steel pipe piercing through the abdomen was near the left spleen, and it should be the rupture of the spleen causing the abdominal cavity to bleed profusely.”

People who fell from a building and die usually had two ways of dying, one was that the person landed with their heads first, and the skull was broken directly caused by cerebral hemorrhage; The other one was landed on their bodies and died from ruptured internal organs and bleeding to death, or they hit sharp objects and pierced their internal organs during the fall.

This person died directly, with no chance of resuscitation to survive. Liu Zhaoqing looked up at the building and said, “The location was cleverly chosen ah, specifically to push people towards the place where the steel pipe was placed, and it can do a one-hit kill.”

The female worker who screamed next to them turned pale with fright. Yue Xingwen turned back and asked, “Hello, do you know this person?”

The female worker’s lips trembled as she said, “He-he is my fellow townsman, named Zhao Dayong. He is a cement worker. I got up in the morning after going to the bathroom and I walked by and saw him hanging on this steel pipe with blood everywhere…”

Scattered footsteps sounded behind them. It was clear that some of the workers had also been awakened by her screams and came over to see what was going on.

Someone recognized the deceased and shouted, “Zhao Dayong? What’s going on!”

“Oh my God, how did he die?”

“Call an ambulance ah!”

“You should call 110 first!”

Someone hurriedly pulled out the mobile phone to call 110, and the other one called 120. The entire construction site fell into a mess.

At this moment, Jiang Pingce was leading his teammates to search inside the Xinyue Plaza building.

Qin Lu, Qin Miao, and Lin Manluo guarded the three exits of the building, while the other boys quickly searched inside the building, exchanging information in the chat channel at any time.

Zhuo Feng: “No suspicious people were found in area A.”

Xu Yishen: “I found nothing in area B either, the whole building is empty.”

Jiang Pingce was in charge of are C. Since he had already seen the blueprints of the building’s interior yesterday, he was very familiar with the path here. He searched along the stairs, walking lightly towards the seventh floor, one floor at a time.

Just after walking through the corner of the sixth floor, suddenly a figure flashed past the side!

That person ran as fast as a clever little animal, drilling through the middle of the hole in the wall like a cat.

The interior of the building was not yet complete, so there would be holes in the walls between the different areas for the convenience of the construction workers. Jiang Pingce was tall and had long legs, but it was not convenient to chase people between the holes in the walls.

He frowned, and lifted his right hand suddenly——

The coordinate system instantly positioned the guy who had just run out a few meters away, and was moved backwards in front of Jiang Pingce in a reverse straight line. Jiang Pingce reached out and grabbed the other party’s back collar. “Why did you run?”

The person was filled with panic and seemed to be unable to understand how he could come backwards when he had clearly run out?!

He was confused for two seconds before he stammered, “I-I had an internal emergency, can’t I- I run to the toilet ah?”

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The voice sounded very youthful, like a teenager. Jiang Pingce came over to take a look. Under the cover of the safety helmet, the boy’s face looked small. He looked seventeen or eighteen years old, had dark skin, large and bright eyes. He was not good-looking, but the first impression he gave was very clever.

Jiang Pingce asked seriously, “What are you doing here instead of going back to the dormitory and sleeping?”

The teenager said warily, “I- the bed in my dormitory has been occupied, and I slept here on the floor last night…”

He weighed less than 120 pounds visually. Could this dark-skin, skinny teenager push an adult? Did he just happen to appear here? Or was he a deep-schemer murderer, or an eyewitness to the case?

Jiang Pingce asked in a deep voice, “Did you see, or hear anything just now?”

The teenager said with an innocent face, “I slept in daze when I heard a ‘bang’ as if something had fallen, and then a woman’s scream rang out from downstairs!” He paused and asked seriously, “Is something wrong?”

Jiang Pingce stared sharply into his eyes and said lightly, “Don’t you have an internal emergency to go to the toilet? Why did it turn to sleep in daze again?”

The teenager who was exposed looked embarrassed, “I only had an internal emergency after I was woken up… no, no, you just came up out of nowhere and startled me, so I ran away.”

The little guy was full of lies. Jiang Pingce did not want to waste time with him, carried him and turned around to go downstairs.

Downstairs, there was a group of people surrounding the dead body. Many people recognized the deceased as Zhao Dayong. Yue Xingwen was looking at the workers around to probe for information. Seeing Jiang Pingce, he walked over quickly and asked the other person with his eyes about his harvest. Jiang Pingce shook his head and whispered in Yue Xingwen’s ear, “We didn’t find anyone else when we went up there, only this little guy.”

Yue Xingwen looked closely and the dark-skinned, bright-eyes teenager and asked softly, “He doesn’t look like a murderer, right?”

Jiang Pingce said, “You have to ask him about his relationship with the deceased.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the young teenager saw the dead body in the crowd and suddenly jumped over like a madman, collapsing and crying, “Second uncle, second uncle, what happened to you? Someone, help ah!”

A female worker next to him was persuading him, “A-Liang, your second uncle fell to his death…”

“Alas, how could this happen?”

There was a lot of discussion around.

From everyone’s discussion, Jiang Pingce finally knew the name of the teenager—— Zhao Liang, Zhao Dayong’s nephew. He was 18 years old and just graduated from high school in June. Because he failed to go to a good university, he followed his second uncle to the construction site to learn.

A nephew murdering his uncle? Judging from the teenager’s performance of collapsing and crying, this possibility seemed unlikely, but it could not be completely ruled out, after all, Zhao Liang was the only person who stayed in the building at the time of the crime.

Not long after, the sound of an ambulance and police cars rang out from outside.

Yue Xingwen retreated back to his teammates and everyone looked at each other.

Liu Zhaoqing cursed in a low voice, “This can be reported to the police? If the case is handed over to the police, what can we do?”

Xu Yishen yawned, narrowed his eyes and said, “The police definitely won’t help us solve the case. Either defined it as an ‘accidental fall’ with no evidence can’t be found. Or, they won’t tell us if they find evidence. The police, like exam inspectors in the examination room, just walk around and leave, but we have to do the exam papers ourselves.”

Upon thinking about it, everyone felt that it was really possible.

If they just let the police solve the case, why did they need to take the exam? Xu Yishen’s metaphor of ‘inspector’ was quite appropriate.

Jiang Pingce frowned and whispered, “The murderer is very cautious, we checked upstairs and we hadn’t found any traces. There are more footprints than you can count in this building, it’s very messy and has no reference value.”

Yue Xingwen stroked his chin thoughtfully, “If someone was pushing him down from upstairs at the time of the crime, then this person must have escaped while everyone hadn’t found the dead body yet. He had already run away when Pingce led his teammates over, so they did not manage to block him. He is familiar with the structure inside the building and knows the fastest path to escape.”

Zhuo Feng said, “The workers here are very familiar with the building. The scope of suspicion is too great based on that alone.”

Yue Xingwen nodded. “Yes, everyone could have committed the crime. The key is the time of the crime, the time of death of the deceased is not long, the dormitory of the construction site is full of double rooms, who has gone out during this period? Who is suspected?”

Jiang Pingce thought about it and added. “Moreover, the murderer knows the workers’ work and rest habit, he is very aware of Zhao Dayong’s habits. Zhao Dayong likes to get up early in the morning to work, that’s why he chose this time to do it.”

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and said, “Getting up at 5:30am to kill a person. Is it for love, for money, or for revenge?”

Zhao Dayong’s strange work schedule had become a sharp weapon fo the murderer to target him. What was the grudge between the two people?

Ke Shaobin suddenly asked, “By the way, is there any CCTV at the construction site?”

Zhuo Feng spread his hands helplessly and said, “The monitoring inside the building has not been installed yet, and the current progress is the plumbing and electrical renovation. In order to avoid accidents in the process, the main electric gate is also closed.”

Lin Manluo said, “There are CCTV at the entrance and exit of the construction site and a few corners, so we can check it out.”

Ke Shaobin said in a low voice, “How about I copy the surveillance to my laptop first before the police go looking for it?”

Yue Xingwen said dryly, “Okay, hurry up. You can go with Qin Lu.”

Qin Lu’s plate movement was really useful, transporting Ke Shaobin to the surveillance room without people knowing it. Ke Shaobin quickly copied the data, and when he returned to his teammates, the forensic doctor’s car had pulled the body away. The police were visiting and investigating, and several young criminal police officers quickly went upstairs to collect evidence.

Yue Xingwen stood by and listened for a moment.

A person familiar with the deceased told the police. “Zhao Dayong’s hometown is in a village near City A, he has no father and no mother, he was brought up by his brother. His brother and sister-in-law died in a car accident in the early years, leaving only Zhao Liang as a child. Their family is very poor, too poor to marry a wife. Xiao Liang’s academic performance is poor, he did not enter the university, and both of them came to work together at the construction site…”

The police officer asked, “Has Zhao Dayong ever had an argument with someone in recent days?” The people at the construction site shook their heads, “No, he is honest, he smiles at everyone.”

“Everyone calls him a stuffy gourd, if we ask him something, he will answer with a sentence. He is someone who doesn’t like to talk, but he is very honest.”

“He works hard, he’s been at the construction site for more than half a year. I haven’t heard of him getting into a fight with anyone?”

A few moments later, a couple of police officers who had gone upstairs to get evidence came down and whispered something in the captain’s ear. Yue Xingwen could not hear what they were saying, but judging from the police’s expression, there should not be much gain.

Police cordoned off the scene and launched a detailed investigation into all of them.

The forensic doctors rolled out the exact time of death, which was between 5 and 5:15am. The workers needed to explain what they were doing at the time, whether they heard footsteps, and so on.

It had entered autumn, and it was not bright yet at 5am. This time period was the best time to sleep, and many people did not know whether their roommate was out or not. Most of the people responded with ‘I was sleeping in the dormitory’, and because of this, the credibility of everyone’s ‘alibi’ would be greatly reduced.

The police did not gain much and temporarily stopped the team.

At 8:00am, a large number of leaders came to the construction site and asked for a temporary shutdown.

Yue Xingwen went back to the dormitory and carefully watched the surveillance camera copied by Ke Shaobin—— No one went upstairs.

The building had a total of three exits, all of which were covered by CCTV that could capture footage whether someone was going in or coming out. However, from 3:30am, when Zhao Dayong entered the building, to 5:30am, when Zhao Dayong’s body was found, no one else had gone upstairs or come out of the building for two whole hours.

The only people in the building at this time were only Zhao Dayong and his 18-year-old nephew, Zhao Liang.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and said, “If the nephew is not the murderer, then the murderer must have hidden in the building in advance. Moreover, after the crime, he has not come out of these three exits?”

Jiang Pingce frowned. “We checked in detail at that time, and there was really no one in the building.”

Where did the murderer go? Could people still evaporate in place after killing people?

Ke Shaobin suddenly winced and whispered, “Could he have special abilities? Like Qin Lu, the murderer came out with plate movement?”

Everyone: “……”

It was unlikely, right? If it was true, how could they investigate the case?!