My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 84 New Puzzle (13)

"It feels a bit ridiculous. If people wear gloves, they won't leave fingerprints." Zhuang Xiao felt that these people were a bit superstitious.

"I brought it up at the time, but Uncle Li said I was too dogmatic. Of course they had thought of this detail."

Dong Zeyu ate another apple and said, "Uncle Li told me that the corpse is very strange, or the secret room is very strange."

Zhuang Xiao was helpless, "So what's the problem?"

He had also been into that secret room, and at that time he was only filled with anger, and then extremely calm.

To be honest, he didn't think there was anything weird about it.

"Well, they were guarding the door to the secret room at the time because they were afraid of disturbing the scene. They didn't go in until the colleagues from the trace examination department arrived."

Dong Zeyu stroked his folded chin and recalled the story Li Ming had told him. "Anyway, after extraction, there were only three people's shoe prints and two people's fingerprints on the ladder. The shoe prints were from Xu Guoping, Shen Xing, and you, Zhuang Ge, and the fingerprints were from them."

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "I was wearing gloves at the time."

"Yes, they know that, but the secret room is actually a bit dusty, which means no one has been in it for a long time. But because it is sealed well, the dust is not too much. But anyway, no one has been in there except you three."

Dong Zeyu's eyes revealed a bit of confusion, "Brother Zhuang, do you understand what I mean? Not only are there no fingerprints on the body, there is not even any sign of movement, and no one has entered the secret room except you three, and none of you three have touched the body."

"I understand." Zhuang Xiao took a deep breath.

He now understood why Master Dong said that the situation in the secret room was strange.

"You mean to say that the body shouldn't be in the secret room, right?"

"Yes, the body just appeared out of thin air, or..." Dong Zeyu paused, "or the secret room and even the house above were built around the body after the body appeared first, and it was never touched during the whole process."

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Is it possible that she died in the secret room many years ago? Why do you think the body was moved in?"

Dong Zeyu smiled. He was not confused when it came to his professional knowledge. "Brother Zhuang, do you know how mummies are formed? I mean the kind that are formed naturally."

"Desert?" Zhuang Xiao tilted his head.

"It's one of them." Dong Zeyu began to explain to him, "The body showed signs of waxing. Normally, a body will start to rot in one or two days. It is actually a relatively rare situation for a person to turn into wax after death.

“Normally, after a person dies, the blood in the body will no longer circulate, and the water will begin to evaporate from the epidermis. The remaining blood will be concentrated at the bottom due to gravity. This is why the skin turns gray after a person dies, but the back will be blue and purple if the person lies down.

"At this time, because nutrients are concentrated there and the human skin is relatively weak, as long as the environment is right, bacteria and other microorganisms will breed and the human body will begin to rot.

"But if the temperature is dry or remains at either low or high temperatures, the blood or water in the body will be lost faster, and the environment will not be conducive to the survival of microorganisms. Therefore, after the body is waxed and the epidermis is closed, the microorganisms have not yet multiplied on a large scale, and the body loses the conditions for decay, thus forming a mummy.

"So naturally formed mummies usually appear in deserts, dry and windy caves, mountainous areas, glaciers or permafrost.

"Of course, mummies can also form in some peat bogs or saline-alkali lands. Brother Zhuang, now you understand the problem, right?"

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "It's impossible for a mummy to form in that secret room." And Gu Shiyue disappeared on their second day of the Chinese New Year, which was eleven years ago.

But the school building was last renovated in 2003, when they were not yet in junior high school.

"So, the secret room was there first?"

"Yes, although there is no specific record, the administrative building was renovated in 03. It should have been built at that time, or even earlier. Uncle Li and his colleagues later went to ask the former principal who had resigned. The principal said that Xu Guoping was the supervisor at the time because he was the person in charge of logistics coordination at the school."

Dong Zeyu said casually, and then brought the topic back, "So their investigation was stuck here. The secret room was definitely not the first scene, but the problem was that they couldn't find the first scene. Too much time had passed, and the body was too 'new'. The clothes on the body looked like new. There were too many weird situations. Uncle Li said that this was the first time they encountered such an outrageous case. In addition, it took too long, so they couldn't investigate further."

Zhuang Xiao asked, "So Xu Guoping is not the murderer?"

"I'm not sure. He may or may not be the one, but he should know the inside story. But now he is dead and we can't find out anything. The most we can find out is that the cyanide used in the poisoning was indeed taken out from the chemical materials room he was in charge of, and the last person to enter the chemical materials room was Gu Shiyue." Dong Zeyu replied.

Zhuang Xiao stroked his smooth chin, "Then is it certain that Gu Shiyue was the one who poisoned me?"

"Actually, I'm not sure." Dong Zeyu shrugged, "Because Uncle Li and his team re-investigated and found that Gu Shiyue disappeared after she came out of the chemical materials room, and no one has seen her since then, at least that's what the original confession showed.

"The person in charge at that time was looking for a high case closure rate, so that's how it ended. Now that person in charge has passed away, this matter has become an unsolved cold case."

After all, the "Skynet" system was not perfect at that time, and the school was full of loopholes. Even outsiders could enter the school at will. They just had to tell the guard and they didn't even have to register.

"I understand."

At this point, Zhuang Xiao has proved his conjecture.

Gu Shiyue was not killed by Xu Guoping!
Because if he was the one who murdered her, Zhuang Xiao felt that he could definitely trigger the "time rewind" and return to the day of the second grade of junior high school!

Moreover, Zhuang Xiao recalled what Xu Guoping said at that time.

[It seems that you have gone down to check. I didn't put the body there, and I didn't kill Gu Shiyue. There was no body there when I came last time.]

Looking back now, this sentence is not Xu Guoping's excuse.

Because he had already asked Shen Xing and Luo Wei to help him, from his point of view, he could not escape.

So he just explained it subconsciously at the time because he felt he was "wronged".

But these two sentences also contain a lot of information.

"I didn't put that body there, and I didn't kill Gu Shiyue either," which means that he knew Gu Shiyue was not "missing" but "dead", and he recognized the body as Gu Shiyue at a glance.

"There was no body there when I came last time", which means that there was no body there when he went there last time, which means that there is a second person who knows about the secret room!

The person who placed Gu Shiyue’s body there might be this “second person”!
So now the question is, who is this second person?

(End of this chapter)