The Underlying Reasons I Chapter 8

Lu Yiqiao calmed down for a long time before he finally spoke slowly: "When I was a child, my parents were away on business trips for a long time, and I lived with my uncle and aunt for a long time. They were both very kind to me. Later, my aunt gave birth to a child, a boy. The child was very cute. But when the child grew up, we found a problem. My brother always had blisters on his body and face, especially after being exposed to the sun, the phenomenon was particularly serious. My uncle and aunt took the child to see many doctors, and finally it was diagnosed with porphyria. The doctor said that very few people have this disease, and they don’t have any definite and effective treatment methods. My uncle and aunt spent a lot of money, but in the end they couldn’t save my brother’s life. After my brother died, my aunt also suffered from depression and attempted suicide several times. My uncle quit his job to take care of my aunt. A good family was ruined like this. So, I remembered this disease at that time. I studied medicine in college, majoring in blood diseases, and I wanted to find a definite and effective way to treat this disease, so that it would not harm people again..."

"Did you research that treatment plan yourself?"

Lu Yiqiao nodded. "I saw relevant research in foreign countries, so I combined some of their ideas to establish a research plan... Then, I started clinical research..."

"If that's your opinion, why don't you say it?"

Lu Yiqiao raised his head and said, "Officer, for medical research, it is not enough to just have ideas. We must have clinical medical experiments to support it. After I found the teacher and told him my idea, the teacher said that for a master's student, this topic is too big and will not be approved. Even if it is approved, there will not be much experimental funding. If he takes the lead, he can apply in the name of the entire research team, so that both funds and manpower will be more sufficient."

"So you agreed?"

Hearing Felix's question, Lu Yiqiao smiled somewhat sadly: "How can I disagree? The teacher is right. With my qualifications, I am afraid that in five or ten years, I will not be able to apply for the funds and manpower to conduct research. If I want to produce results as soon as possible, there is only the way the teacher gave me... The research went smoothly. Later, the teacher told me that this project might win an award. In order to win the award, it would be best to have the names of several old experts on the paper..." At this point, Lu Yiqiao became excited and angry: "But I never thought... that the teacher actually... did not sign my name..."

Two lines of tears flowed down Lu Yiqiao's face.

Felix looked at Sean, with some reluctance in his eyes.

After a pause, Sean asked, "Where were you on the night of September 18th?"

Hearing the change of topic, Lu Yiqiao was slightly stunned. He opened his eyes with tears and said hesitantly: "That day was the day of the award ceremony. I was not very happy, so I went out to drink..."

"Who did you go drinking with?"

"Just... myself..."

"Where did you drink? At what time? Can anyone prove it?"

Lu Yiqiao finally reacted: "Officer, do you suspect that I killed the teacher? No! I didn't! Although I was very angry and even hated him a little, I really didn't kill him! Please believe me!!..."

Sean and Felix came out of the interrogation room, and the other members of the serious crime team gathered around them. They had just seen the entire interrogation process in the observation room outside.

"Boss, do you really suspect that Lu Yiqiao killed Li Yuzhong?"

"He has a motive to kill. Moreover, he is a student of the medical school and is very familiar with the location of blood vessels in the human body. It is not difficult for him to get blood-drawing equipment. In other words, he has the conditions and ability to commit a crime." Sean said, looking at Lu Yiqiao who was still a little panicked in the interrogation room, and said slowly: "Now, it depends on his alibi..."

Although Lu Yiqiao revealed the name and location of the bar where he drank that night, the serious crime team went to the bar to ask around, but no one could prove that Lu Yiqiao was in the bar that day. This is not surprising. Bars are places where people come and go. Except for those who are drunk and make trouble, it is difficult for ordinary people to leave any impression on others. Moreover, Lu Yiqiao is an inconspicuous college student. But without a confirmed alibi, he could not get rid of his suspicion. Everyone could only temporarily detain Lu Yiqiao as usual and look for further evidence.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that this "vampire romance" had just begun...

The next morning at 6 o'clock, in a cemetery on the outskirts of S City.

"The person who reported the case was the manager of this cemetery. He had to inspect the cemetery as usual in the morning, and he saw this scene." Jiang Li said, pointing to the crime scene in front of him------

In front of a huge tombstone without a name, there was a dead body of a young man lying. The deceased was in his fifties and dressed in ordinary clothes. He lay on an uninscribed tombstone with a pale face, and a wooden stick as thick as two fingers was inserted into his left chest.

"I...as required, we have to patrol this place in the morning. Just as I walked over here, I saw a dark shadow flash by...I was afraid something was wrong, so I came over to take a look, and then I saw this..." The staff on duty retold the story in a trembling tone, obviously he had not yet recovered from the shock.

"What time was it?"

"5 o'clock in the morning..."

"Did you see the man's face clearly?"

"No... He had already run away when I came over..."

"What about other things? For example, is the person a man or a woman? What color clothes are they wearing? How tall are they?"

"No... I don't know. I just saw a dark shadow. I don't know whether he is a man or a woman..."

"Which direction did he run in?"

"That...over there..." The administrator pointed in a direction with his still shaking hands.

"I'll go over there and ask around." Felix said to Sean, and then took Chris to investigate in the direction the man pointed.

"Preliminary examination shows that the deceased died from a pierced heart - the wooden stick in his chest. The time of death was probably between 10 and 12 o'clock last night." After completing the preliminary autopsy, Ryan stood up and said to Sean.

Sean frowned: "Last night? Not this morning?"

Ryan shook his head very confidently.

"But the administrator said that the body was found this morning, and someone ran away." Jiang Li said, looking at Sean: "Did he come here to abandon the body this morning?"

"Nope, although this body was indeed abandoned here, it was definitely done shortly after the death of the deceased. Both the corpse spots and the stiff posture of the body can prove this point." Ryan denied again.

Sean and Jiang Li looked at each other, and they both obviously thought of the same question: Who was the person that the administrator found this morning? ...

"Captain Shen, please come over here." Jason walked over from the other side and waved to Sean.

Sean walked over.

Jason pointed to the obviously fallen grass on one side of the tombstone and said to Sean: "The body should have been dragged here. There are obvious dragging marks here. So, the murderer should have come from that side."

Sean frowned again - this was completely different from the direction the administrator saw the man fleeing.

"We searched the dragging route, but found nothing except scattered bloodstains. However, we did find a tire track on the road over there, which is probably the car used by the murderer to transport the body. Jiayu is now extracting the pattern to see if he can get any clues."

"Okay." Sean nodded and looked down the mountain again - hoping that the two guys down the mountain could get some useful information.

On the other side, Felix and Chris also came to a small village at the foot of the mountain outside the cemetery. It seems not quite appropriate to call it a village. There are only a dozen or twenty houses scattered here in no regular pattern. Some houses have high piles of firewood in front of them, while others have wood garbage crowding half of the road. The two walked inside for a long time and only saw the shadows of a few old people. Moreover, those people were looking at this place with a wary look.

"Hey, Felix... do you feel that the feeling here is weird?..." Chris said softly to Felix.

"Strange? Maybe there are just a few people." Felix smiled: "There is not much farmland near this village, and it is close to a cemetery. I guess young people don't want to live here. They probably all go out to work. Didn't you notice that we are all old people? It's normal for the elderly to be a little defensive when they suddenly see a stranger."

As they were talking, an old man in his 50s or 60s came over. Felix immediately pulled Chris over and said, "Uncle, we are police officers and we want to ask you something. Did you see anyone coming down from the mountain this morning?"

"On the mountain? There are graves all over the mountain! Who would hang around graves so early in the morning?" The old man didn't know whether he understood or not. He replied in a loud voice and walked away without even stopping.

Felix and Chris looked at each other and gave a bitter smile.

Just when the two were about to find someone else to ask, suddenly, a slight greeting came from the side.

"Hello------Hello------"

The two were stunned and looked in the direction of the sound. They saw a man in his 20s waving at them beside a haystack at the corner of the road.

The two of them looked at each other and walked towards the man.

As they got closer, they could see clearly that the man was of medium build, with a round face, and skin that was unusually fair and tender. He was wearing clothes that were designed more than ten years ago, and looked indescribably strange.

"Are you looking for someone?..." the man came over and asked in a low voice.

"Yes. We want to find someone who ran down the mountain this morning." Felix said.

"Hey, I know..." The man gave a mysterious smile.

"You know? Have you seen that person?" Chris asked.

The man did not answer their question immediately. Instead, he looked around carefully and found that there was no one around. Then he came up to the two of them and said in a low and mysterious voice: "That's not a person... It's a ghost..."

"What? Ghost?" Chris was puzzled.

"He only appears at night..." the man continued mysteriously, "He can't see the sun, or he'll burn... Puff! Smoke comes out of his whole body!"

"Ah?" Both of them were surprised. Chris was about to ask more questions, but at this moment, the man seemed to have seen something and ran away in panic. Felix and Chris immediately chased him, but this place was complicated and the man disappeared completely after a turn.

"Hey, Felix," Chris continued to look around, with his hands on his h!ps and panting, "Did I hear it right? Did he say that the person he saw only appeared at night and would smoke all over when he saw the sun?..."

"Yeah, that's what I heard..." Felix replied with a wry smile. He knew what Chris wanted to say. It seemed that there was only one species that met these two criteria...

"dmn it," Chris couldn't help but curse, "This time it's really a ghost..."