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Just as my master and I were driving away from the school gate, heading towards Zheng Botao's residential area, his phone suddenly rang with an urgent tone.
"Hello, Captain Zhou!" The voice on the other end was clearly panicked. "There's been an incident! Another student is dead! In the sports equipment room..."
Before the caller could finish, my master hung up. We exchanged a glance—another death at Port City No. 1 High School!
"Let's go!" my master said briefly, and I immediately turned the car around, racing back to Port City No. 1.
As we arrived at the entrance of the sports equipment room, we encountered the head of the teaching department rushing out. Her face was pale, and her voice trembled as she spoke, "It's Zhao Zhe... the one who died is Zhao Zhe..." Before she could finish her sentence, she leaned against the wall and began to retch.
Zhao Zhe? I looked at my master in shock. We hadn't even had a chance to ask him anything, and he was already... dead?
In just a few days, two students connected to the cheating and extortion case had been murdered—this could not be a coincidence!
Several boys from the basketball team were standing at the entrance, their faces equally pale with fear. One of them stepped forward as we approached and said, "Officer, we just came to get basketballs and mats when we saw..."
I nodded reassuringly, signaling for them to wait outside while I took notes later. Pushing open the door to the sports equipment room, I immediately spotted Zhao Zhe's body lying face up in the middle of the room, a clear and horrifying mark around his neck. His body was already stiff; he had clearly been dead for some time.
My master was already on the phone calling for backup. I fought against the nausea rising in my stomach, popped a mint into my mouth, and began to focus on observing the scene. It wasn't long before the forensic team and Technical Investigation personnel arrived.
The yellow police tape separated death from the bustling campus outside.
Seeing that the forensic doctor had completed an initial examination, I couldn't wait any longer and asked, "Forensic Doctor Liu, what have you found?"
Da Liu removed his gloves. "Preliminary judgment indicates that the time of death was between 9 PM and 10 PM last night. The cause of death is strangulation; the murder weapon is likely this jump rope." He pointed to a regular practice jump rope that had already been placed into an evidence bag.
I crouched down to examine the jump rope closely. Zhao Zhe appeared to be quite robust; it wouldn't have been easy to subdue him without considerable strength. Therefore, the murderer must also be someone physically strong...
"Master," I whispered quietly to Zhou Weiguo beside me, "two murders on campus within three days—this is bound to attract attention from the provincial department..."
"I know, but now is not the time to think about that." My master patted my shoulder. "Zhang Tianyu has conflicts with Wang Ruiming; he has no solid alibi either. But suddenly Zhao Zhe is dead—Zhao Zhe was a good friend that Zhang Tianyu wanted to protect... Could it be that Zhang Tianyu isn't the murderer? Are these two murders really committed by the same person? I have a feeling there’s something much bigger behind this case..."
At that moment, a colleague from Technical Investigation hurried over with an evidence bag in hand. "Captain Zhou! We found this in a pocket inside the deceased's clothing."
I took the evidence bag from him; inside was a small black USB drive.
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