◎Chapter 4     The Snowman is alive
After Hualong led people to arrest Teacher Zhuge, he confessed to the fact that the murder was a few years ago. During the interrogation, Teacher Zhuge said that for several years, he had been living in the shadows and wanted to surrender many times, but he lacked the courage. Now he was arrested by the police, and he felt relieved.
A few years ago, Teacher Zhuge and Gillian met on campus forum. They first communicated through the website news, but later added to QQ, and the two started an online dating. In fact, everyone who surfed the Internet has experienced an online dating, just as a person will experience a first dating. They gradually became familiar with each other. Although they could not see each other, they were two souls talking.
Although they were in the same school, they all deliberately concealed their identities, had never seen each other's photos, had never made phone calls, and did not know the other's real name. They just talked to each other online, missed each other, and loved each other.
Gillian is both good at character and academic performance, but she should be the poorest girl in this university. She is very beautiful, but her face is pale and thin, her hair is burnt. Sometimes, she only eats two steamed buns a day, and uses other people's computers to surf the Internet.
Teacher Zhuge is very handsome, versatile, and has the unique charm of a mature man. Many girls in the school have a crush on him.
Many times, Teacher Zhuge and Gillian passed by on campus, but they didn't know that the other party was the person they loved deeply.
If you love to a certain extent, it will inevitably lead to the desire to see each other.
They made an appointment to meet online - when the first snowfall in winter.
Teacher Zhuge: Maybe, I am your teacher?
Gillian: Maybe, I am the principal, haha, just kidding, no matter who you are, I like it.
Teacher Zhuge: So is me. I like you, no matter what you are like.
Gillian: I don’t have confidence in myself. I will be very nervous when I meet, but I am looking forward to it.
Teacher Zhuge: I will hug you, my little bird, my little fairy.
Gillian: I want to see you in a quiet place.
Teacher Zhuge: Where?
Gillian: It’s not on campus anyway.
Teacher Zhuge: Where?
Gillian: There is a river behind the school, and I want to stand on the river and wait for you.
Teacher Zhuge: This is a bit difficult. Are you standing on the boat?
Gillian: In winter, when it snows the first time, I stand on the frozen river behind the school waiting for you, regardless of whether you come or not!
The two of them chatted from summer to winter, looking forward to it every day, looking forward to it snowing...
The winter in the northeast comes very early. When it snows the first time, a classmate saw two people hugging each other on the river behind the school. Like all men and women in love, they miss each other very much every day, have endless things to say, and love them deeper and deeper. Winter goes and spring comes, and both of them even make plans to get married.
During the summer vacation, Teacher Zhuge suddenly received an unexpected call, which was called by Gillian from the police station.
Because of prostitution, the police arrested her during a surprise inspection in a hotel. She had no money to pay a fine. The police station wanted to notify the school. In desperation, Gillian called Teacher Zhuge's cell phone.
Teacher Zhuge took Gillian back from the police station.
Gillian burst into tears and explained that she was short of money and had difficulty living. She couldn't help but instigate her roommate and wanted to exchange her first night for one thousand yuan.
Teacher Zhuge had a slight face and said nothing, silently sent Jiao back to the dormitory.
That evening, a timid girl was watching pornographic films in the dormitory. It was already summer vacation, and most of the girls in the dormitory building went home. She thought that no one would come in the dormitory. Maybe it was because it was hot, so she took off all her clothes and masturbated while watching the movie. When she was about to climax, the voices of Teacher Zhuge and A Gillian came from the corridor. She heard Teacher Zhuge's suppressed anger and crying in a low voice. After the timid girl turned off the power supply in a hurry, she realized that she was still naked. At this time, she had heard the sound of the key opening. In desperation, she hid in the cabinet.
In the dormitory, Gillian said in grief: "Let's break up."
Teacher Zhuge said coldly: "You don't have money, so you still buy stockings to wear?"
Gillian took off her stockings and cried, "The person asked me to wear the stockings, not me."
Teacher Zhuge was furious: "Who is that person?"
Gillian covered her face and couldn't say a word.
Under impulse, the furious teacher Zhuge finally broke out. He strangled Ah Jiao to death with stockings. After calming down, in order to cover up the truth and avoid the blow, Mr. Zhuge disguised the scene and the body, forging the illusion of Ah Jiao hanging herself. All of this was seen by the timid girl hiding in the cabinet, and later she dropped out of school due to great mental pressure.
Teacher Zhuge has never been married, and the avatar of Gillian on QQ will never light up again.
Su Mei used computer technology to crack Gillian's QQ password. After logging in, she saw many messages from Teacher Zhuge. He has been repenting for the past few years. He talked to himself to the ever-darling QQ avatar. He still loves her. He sang "Snowman" every New Year's Day party.
Su Mei said to Teacher Zhuge: "We re-investigated the case. Gillian's roommates, including the girls hiding in the cabinet, were found by the public security organs in their registered residence. Do you know why Gillian was engaged in prostitution?"
Teacher Zhuge said: "I don't know."
Su Mei said: "She wants to buy you a birthday gift and a guitar."
Teacher Zhuge: "I don't understand, so it won't cost a thousand yuan."
Su Mei said: "A guitar costs about 200 yuan, and Gillian also wants to buy a mobile phone. You should know why she wants to buy a mobile phone, right?"
Teacher Zhuge thought about it, and tears burst out from his eyes...
Gillian is a rural girl. After returning home during the holiday, she cannot access the Internet and has no phone number at home. During the winter vacation, she has to walk ten kilometers to the county Internet cafe every day to leave a message to Teacher Zhuge. Therefore, during the summer vacation, she made up her mind to buy a mobile phone. For girls in love, it is unbearable to lose contact with their beloved throughout the holiday.
The deputy mayor said to Teacher Zhuge: "Don't be stubborn, talk about the key points quickly. How did you kill the four girls?"
Teacher Zhuge was still crying. After a while, he raised his head and said in surprise: "I didn't kill those four girls!"
After investigation, the police learned that on January 18 and January 19, Teacher Zhuge had been attending the year-end training of the education system on the two days after the incident. Dozens of people could prove that Teacher Zhuge had no time to commit the crime and was not present at the scene at the time of the incident.
When we arrived here, the clues were interrupted, and the only suspect was the murderer in another case.
The case was deadlocked. In recent days, the special case team and the local police were depressed. The school finally couldn't withstand the pressure. Apart from the little demon, the principal decided to let the students go home. The campus soon became empty, and only some students who were preparing to take the postgraduate entrance examination stayed at the school.
The deputy mayor suspected that Xiaoyao was the murderer. Xiaoyao could not tell what she did during the three minutes outside of going to the bathroom on the night of the incident. Xiaoyao's home is in this city, and this curious girl didn't mind the police's control. She even wanted to participate in the investigation of the case. For safety reasons, the police asked her and Su Mei to live in the school guesthouse. Xiaoyao was very envious of Su Mei and said that she also wanted to be a female policeman.
Su Mei said that Xiao Yao is a gossip girl and is more suitable to be a tabloid reporter.
Professor Liang said to Xiao Yao: "You are very curious and good at analyzing. The crackdown of the suicide case of a girl hanging from a hang is your credit. What do you think of the body snowman case? I really want to hear the opinions of you, an outsider."
Xiao Yao said: "You only check in the school. What if the head and the murderer are outside the school?"
Professor Liang nodded and said, "It makes sense, you can continue to say it."
Xiao Yao said: "I know the two girls in the school. Someone bought their school uniforms with fake money. This is very strange."
Bao Zhan also came over and asked with interest: "Why is it strange?"
Xiao Yao said: "We are all college students. Who still wears school uniforms? Someone still buys school uniforms, it's weird."
The special case team visited the students in the school. Some of them did not go home after the holiday because of the postgraduate entrance examination or working.
One student said, "Really, I have never worn college uniforms. After I sent it to me in my freshman year, I threw it away."
Another student said: "Sorry, I don't recognize our school uniforms. Do we have school uniforms?"
Xiao Yao's opinion attracted the attention of the special case team, and the investigation direction began to turn to outside the school. The police investigated in detail the four off-campus personnel who had close contact with the victims. The bar singer did not provide valuable clues. The wealthy businessman who kept Mei Zi claimed that he had a clean relationship with Mei Zi. The owner of a hotel near the school admitted his ambiguous relationship with Xueer. The boss provided a very important clue. At around 9 pm on January 18, Xueer went to the hotel and asked the boss to rent a house for her outside the school. After the boss agreed, Xueer returned to the school.
Professor Liang held an emergency meeting, and he said at the meeting: "This case is not far from being solved. What happened that night, so that Xueer was reluctant to live in the dormitory and wanted to move outside. There must be hidden information here."
Su Mei said: "If an off-campus person enters the school to commit a crime, you only need to focus on the off-campus person who entered the campus in the surveillance video that night, and you can find the murderer."
Bao Zhan said: "I would like to remind you that the murderer is likely to be wearing a school uniform."
The deputy mayor said: "I don't feel like this murder case is premeditated. The murderer ignored the consequences and didn't even think about the escape route in advance. He even entered the school uniform to commit the crime. These two points are very contradictory."
Professor Liang said: "In addition to the suspicious purchase of school uniforms, there is another thing worth our attention. We took a train from the provincial capital to the neighboring city, and came here again. Lei Lei's family is also in the provincial capital. She drove to school, and she definitely didn't drive from home to school. So, where is her car parked? There must be clues on this car."
The principal said: "Forensic experts believe that the wound of the snowman's head was caused by external pulling. Could it be a car accident?"
Bao Zhan said: "I bought two school uniforms in total. The person who bought the school uniforms was a boy, and the snowman's head was a female head, which happened to be two people."
Hualong said: "I agree with the deputy mayor's point of view. If it is the murderer, why should he buy school uniforms in advance? For crimes or other purposes?"
While everyone was discussing the case in a lively manner, Xiao Yao suddenly came in, and everyone in the conference room stopped speaking, not understanding why she broke in.
The little demon said nervously, "I know who the person who bought the school uniform is, I have seen him."
The principal said: "Aren't you sleepwalking now?"
The little demon was so scared that he said tremblingly: "I remember something. It was snowing a few days ago. I saw a snowman at the school gate. Some people were still watching. The snowman was actually alive. He knelt on the ground, wearing a school uniform, and had a thick layer of snow on his body."
Professor Liang and Bao Zhan both had their hearts beat faster. The deputy mayor stood up anxiously. The scenes in the surveillance video flashed quickly in Su Mei's mind: a luxurious car parked at the school gate, a hawker selling flowers, an old man who volunteered to guide traffic, a beggar kneeling on his begging...
Everyone waited quietly for the little demon to continue.
Chapter completed!