1PIAADITSB Chapter 22

Song Yang was overwhelmed by ‘unbelievability,’ but his reason as an investigator kept his emotions in check. He took a few sips of coffee to finally feel a bit better.

Then, he began to think about what the reporter had said.

He remembered clearly that the person who killed Professor Chen was wearing a Spirit Medium Mask and a Mamian Skirt.

Although the Corpse Bride had appeared before, she didn’t directly kill the professor.

Instead, it was the villain from the Mamian organization who used a small knife to cut off the professor’s head. In the Wang Jie case, the Corpse Bride did touch the knife, then placed it on the windowsill. Judging from the subsequent video, the knife hadn’t been moved.

In other words.

Song Yang squeezed out a question: “Why are there traces of both the professor’s and Wang Jie’s blood on the murder weapon, the small knife?”

“Uh… what do you mean by that?” The reporter frowned slightly.

Song Yang didn’t waste words and played the two video clips, then repeated his previous question.

“If the video isn’t fake, then the murder weapon used to kill the professor wouldn’t have his blood and fingerprints, which is fine. But, in the Wang Jie case, the Corpse Bride placed the broadsword on the windowsill, and the accomplices who arranged the suicide scene beforehand didn’t move the broadsword.”

Pausing at a certain point, Song Yang stared at her: “There are two problems here. First, you say the investigator was careless and didn’t collect such obvious evidence, the small knife. I find that very suspicious.”

“When you came to 302 to find me that day, Wang Jie’s room had been completely cleaned. It’s impossible to miss such obvious evidence. Secondly, Wang Jie wasn’t directly killed by the Corpse Bride in that way, so the broadsword wasn’t used. The previous accomplices didn’t use the broadsword either, so why would there be Wang Jie’s blood on the broadsword?”

“Second, since the Corpse Bride had the ability to kill Wang Jie so easily, she wouldn’t have needed to bring a small knife at all. Bringing a small knife would be completely superfluous.” Song Yang stared at the reporter: “Jiang Ge, can you give me an explanation? Where did the small knife you provided come from?”

“Haha, looks like you misunderstood. Sorry, sorry!” Jiang Ge laughed, trying to brush it over.

But Song Yang didn’t fall for it: “Besides that, there’s another, most important question.”

“Jiang Ge, why did I look for you?”

“Huh?”

“There are so many investigators. If I pretended to be an investigator, and you are an investigator as well, why didn’t I pretend to be you?”

“And if you don’t really dislike investigators, then why did you approach me? There are so many investigators, you could have chosen to cooperate with them. I’m just a newly appointed rookie. What’s your purpose in approaching me? Is it because I’m easy to control? Do you want to take the opportunity to get internal information from the Investigation Bureau?”

Song Yang fired a series of questions like cannonballs. Jiang Ge showed no surprise or confusion.

She kept smiling, as if she had expected this to happen.

“Now I’m also framing Team Leader Yu. Jiang Ge, what exactly am I planning?”

“Oh dear, I didn’t expect you to find out! I thought you, this silly boy, wouldn’t find out so quickly.” She smiled: “If I had known, I shouldn’t have been so impatient, and I shouldn’t have come to find you today. Now look, I’ve only met you a few times, and you’re already hostile towards me.”

“Is what I’m doing making you feel there’s a problem? Do I understand correctly, Jiang Ge?”

“I understand, I understand!” Jiang Ge clicked her tongue. “But what I want to tell you clearly is that the murderer who killed Professor Chen and Wang Jie is Yu Yang.”

“You know I don’t believe it.” The reporter sighed. “But one day, I’ll find the evidence. I hope that day comes sooner, before it’s too late.”

She stood up, turned back, and gave a very obscure expression: “At that time, I hope you’re all still alive.”

After saying that, she turned and left, ignoring Song Yang’s obstruction, leaving him alone in place with a very interesting expression.

Back in his office, Song Yang’s mind was still echoing with the reporter’s words.

Undeniably, these words had a strong impact on him.

Yu Yang returned to the office, glanced at Song Yang, and greeted him. The latter quickly left, leaving Team Leader Yu puzzled.

Song Yang fled to the appraisal department and had the fingerprints on the murder weapon tested, quickly getting the answer.

Indeed, as the woman said, traces of the professor’s and Wang Jie’s blood were found on the small knife, as well as their fingerprints.

In addition, there were several other people’s fingerprints.

Among them, surprisingly, were Team Leader Yu’s fingerprints.

Holding the appraisal report and looking at the results, Song Yang frowned again.

He trusted Yu Yang very much.

He trusted this woman, who had been with him since his first day as an investigator, unconditionally.

Therefore, at the first moment he saw the report, Song Yang assumed that Yu Yang had been framed.

Adding to that the questions he had asked earlier, which the reporter hadn’t answered, deepened his suspicion of her.

‘That woman has too many problems! This small knife isn’t evidence at all! It has no reference value!’

He returned to the office as soon as possible, but the captain wasn’t there, probably out having fun again.

Since he was sure that Yu Yang wasn’t the murderer, he had to find evidence to clear her name.

He put the storage bag containing the broadsword into the desk drawer and logged into the Investigation Bureau’s exclusive internal website to look up Jiang Ge’s information.

Soon, her file appeared before Song Yang.

〖Jiang Ge: Female, eighteen years old. Preliminary diagnosis: suffering from severe psychological disorders and mental illness.〗

The following is her testimony:

〖It takes about thirty minutes to walk home from the East City Bus Station.

I live in Tianguan Cifu Community.

Since I can walk home, I don’t need to pay attention to the time of the last bus. Being able to walk on the night road, which is deep and quiet and has a somewhat tense atmosphere, is actually something I look forward to every day.

The reason I go to the East City Bus Station every day is to bring dinner to my brother.

I like walking home alone quietly.

Especially in this season, the silence on the streets is enough to make you suspect that the world has stopped.

The surrounding darkness is even more like a protective film gently wrapping my insignificant human self. Being in it, instead of being uneasy, you actually feel a sense of security.

Just as I returned to my doorstep, the neighbor across the street also happened to drive back. The high-end imported car quietly stopped in the parking lot.

Although I call them neighbors, it’s actually just my unilateral view. The meaning of ‘neighbor’ only refers to someone who lives relatively close.

I heard from another neighbor that the neighbors across the street are rich.

Very rich people.

They bought that house with cash, unlike us, who took out a loan.

People seem to naturally have contemptuous feelings.

Those who buy houses with cash despise those who buy houses with loans, and those who buy houses with loans despise those who rent.

Anyway, they’re very annoying!

When he and I made eye contact, I saw contempt in his eyes.

But I don’t care.

The moment I opened the door, the door made a creaking sound, as if an old woman was weeping.

The room was, of course, pitch black, with no one there.

I didn’t turn on the lights and went straight up the stairs to my room.

‘I’m back.’

I said to the room.

As if there was someone else at home.

‘Brother…’

I closed my eyes and couldn’t help but murmur those two words.

In the first few years after my brother started working, he often went to work early in the morning. Although he always tried to come back at dinner time, I was still lonely waiting for my brother to come back in that large mansion.

So I chose to prepare dinner for my brother.

One was to dispel the loneliness in my heart, and the other was to see my brother.

As long as I see my brother, my heart is filled with gentleness.

Don’t look at me, I’m only eighteen years old, but I’m already mature. I understand too many things that I shouldn’t understand at my age.

Like cooking, like the hate I have for my brother.

I was originally in school, but the teachers in the school were always deliberately targeting me. I knew that there were also several teachers who were staring at me with lewd eyes.

So I dropped out of school.

Before I did something outrageous, I voluntarily dropped out.

When my gentle brother came home, he was clearly exhausted from work, but he still patiently listened to my troubles.

He believed my words and agreed with my ideas.

At that time, I really hoped that my brother and I would never be separated.

The turning point happened on my birthday.

That morning, my brother didn’t come to work. I knew it was because it was my birthday that he didn’t come.

I really like my gentle brother.

He stayed with me all day.

We played games together, watched TV together, ate together, and read books together in the room.

I was too happy.

When it was time to sleep, my brother would come to my bed to sleep with me.

He would gently stroke my head at the bedside and whisper to me, ‘Good night, Jiang Ge. I wish you have a good dream. Then, I hope my tomorrow is a wonderful day.’ When my brother said that, I could feel at ease from the bottom of my heart, and then sleep well all night.

But the next morning.

I heard the sound of ambulances and investigator’s car bells.

I didn’t know the reason, but I was very angry because the noise they made seriously disturbed my brother’s and my sleep.

I could tolerate it, but I couldn’t tolerate disturbing my brother’s sleep.

So, I rushed out of the house and yelled at them.

When I rushed out of the house and returned to my doorstep, I smelled a faint stench.

I don’t remember what I put in the house that stank. I put the meat in the refrigerator, and I threw away what I couldn’t finish.

Oh, I know.

It was the stench from the neighbor’s house.

From a few months ago, I smelled it, a faint stench.

Until now, the stench has become even more intense.

Just as I was thinking that I must go to the neighbor’s house to scold them for being unhygienic later, what caught my eye was my brother lying under the stretcher, being carried out of the house.

‘Hey, what are you doing? What did you do to my brother?’

‘Brother, wake up, what happened to you, brother?’

‘Wake up, brother!’

My brother didn’t know if he had been injected with something, and he was unconscious. Even when I called him, he didn’t show any signs of waking up.

In addition to the investigators and paramedics, there were several adults whose identities I didn’t know surrounding my brother’s stretcher, not letting me get close at all.

My loose grip on the stretcher caused the stretcher to overturn, and my brother’s body was thrown onto the sky. But even so, my brother remained still.

On the contrary, an extremely stunned atmosphere began to spread among those adults.

‘Get a few people and take her away.’

‘What are you trying to do? Investigator, look, what are they doing to me?’

‘Don’t take my brother away, brother, wake up!’

I was only eighteen years old. Even though they said I was fat, I only weighed ninety pounds at most. So, I couldn’t resist those adults at all.

I was pulled away.

‘—Let go of me! Brother! Save me! Brother!’

‘Stop struggling! How long are you going to keep this terrifying thing going! This thing… is too abnormal!’

Someone suddenly said that to me. I was stunned for a moment. Abnormal? How is it abnormal?

We were just purely in hate. How is it abnormal? We didn’t do anything? It was just pure companionship? How is it abnormal?

However, what was cast on me was pairs of eyes that were like watching a freak, mixed with fear.

Tears had already welled up in my eyes.

I can’t forgive them.

I can’t forgive those adults who said that my relationship with my brother was abnormal.

Even if I tried my best to endure it, the tears still kept falling.

At the same time, the anger buried deep in my chest was on the verge of erupting.

‘What exactly do you want? What exactly do you want?’

‘The problem isn’t here at all, Jiang Ge!’

I’ve seen the forty or fifty-year-old woman in front of me, who was holding my shoulders tightly and telling me with a pale face. If I remember correctly, she was my former teacher.

Math teacher.

‘The problem isn’t here, then where is it? Teacher, what do you mean? I don’t understand.’

‘Your brother died as early as a year ago,’ the teacher said.〗

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