The criminal police questioned Zeng Ji again. Zeng Ji stated: "I took the express train back to Nanguang City at Dongyang Station."
The police checked with the train conductor based on his statement and replied that they had no impression of the passenger Zeng Ji.
As a result, the police detained Zeng Ji. According to Zeng Ji's account, the police found a staff member with a square face and about forty years old at the luggage storage area of Nanguang Station for verification. The staff member replied: He receives a large number of passengers every day and has no impression of Zeng Ji.
The police task force identified the playwright Zeng Ji as the suspect in the murder of Wu Ying based on the following aspects: Zeng Ji and Wu Ying had an unclean relationship, and while her husband Xiao Long was out participating in a sailing competition, they went straight to a hotel in Dongyang City. Open a room and have an affair. Although Zeng Ji admitted that he did not hide this fact, he said: While watching the fireworks show from the hotel rooftop square, he did not notice Wu Ying suddenly disappearing from his side. This statement does not make sense.
Assuming that Wu Ying went somewhere alone, he would definitely say hello to Zeng Ji before leaving. Regarding this, the suspect Zengji himself said it was incredible. Even if he ran into an acquaintance on the rooftop square and ran away for a while because he was afraid of exposing the fact that he and Zengji had booked a room in a hotel, he would inevitably return to the room to meet him afterwards. What's more, Wu Ying's suitcase was left intact in the hotel room. This phenomenon, together with Zengji's confession, made the police feel that the suspect was full of doubts.
However, no third person knew the fact that Wu Ying disappeared from the rooftop square, only the confession of the suspect Zeng Ji. Besides, he didn't notify the hotel in time. From the time he checked out at the front desk at around eight o'clock the next morning until he set off from the hotel with his girlfriend's suitcase and his own suitcase in both hands, he didn't say anything to the hotel's front desk.
The police believed that the suspect's behavior was extremely unnatural. Of course, it’s not that I can’t understand Zengji’s excuse. It’s because of the secret tryst trip, so I can’t tell anyone, including the front desk. But the female companion Wu Ying was gone, and she was unfamiliar with the place in Dongyang City. Zeng Ji should have known this situation. She left without saying goodbye on the rooftop square and never returned to her home in Nanguang City. It should be assumed that something major had happened to her. The strange thing is that Zengji didn't take any countermeasures. It stands to reason that Zengji should at least report the situation to the hotel staff and ask them to help search throughout the hotel. However, he did not even fulfill this minimum obligation. He only called the main service desk and said: "My wife seems to be out. Is there any message from her?" And these statements are only made by Zeng Ji. The staff at the front desk also said that he had no impression that he had called to inquire. He also said that he left the hotel the next morning as if he was fleeing.
Arriving at Nanguang Station, Zeng Ji entrusted Wu Ying's suitcase to the station's luggage storage for safekeeping. Why didn't he take Wu Ying's suitcase home instead of leaving it at the station? Maybe the suitcase cannot be disposed of casually, or maybe if it is thrown somewhere, clues will be revealed sooner or later. I want to wait until the news has passed to retrieve the suitcase from the station before disposing of it. Moreover, he has not yet gone to the station to retrieve the suitcase of the deceased Wu Ying.
What's more, the body of Wu Ying, who was strangled to death by Zeng Ji with what looked like a rope, still appeared in a clearing in the woods near his home.
According to criminal police analysis, Zeng Ji's most suspicious behavior occurred on the 17th when he returned to Nanguang City.
His nanny said: "Zeng Ji came home around 12:30 noon on the 17th. He looked exhausted when he got home, and he was still carrying the brown suitcase he brought with him when he went on a trip.
Zengji himself said: "That day, I rested at home all day. I left my house around six o'clock in the evening, took a taxi and went to a cinema to watch a movie, which took about two hours. After that, I went to the street and boarded the building in a certain building. I drank three cold beers at the rooftop beer bar and took a taxi back home around 11pm.”
Zengji explained: "There were many people in the movie theater and outdoor beer shop, but I didn't meet anyone I knew."
After investigation, it was found that both the cinema and the outdoor beer shop were indeed full that night. The outdoor beer shop was especially packed with people. The waiter at the outdoor beer shop reported that there was no impression that Zeng Ji had been there. The female conductor at the cinema ticket window, the female ushers in the venue and the audience also reported that they had no impression of having seen Zeng Ji. Generally speaking, as long as there is nothing particularly eye-catching about his appearance, and there are no strange words and deeds, his ordinary appearance should not leave any impression on the people around him. The movie "The Disappearance" is a movie that has been released for a long time, and Zeng Ji probably watched it before setting off for Dongyang City. Even if he states the plot and scenes of the movie, it cannot absolutely prove that he watched the movie on the night of the 17th. The taxi driver reported that the passenger Zeng Ji’s appearance was not in his memory. In short, the above situation does not constitute a condition that he did not have time to commit the crime, nor is it a condition that he can claim that he did not have time to commit the crime. It is logical to assume that Zengji deliberately disguised himself.
Zeng Ji lives alone, and the nanny comes to his house during the day and leaves his house in the evening. After Zengji left the movie theater and the outdoor beer bar on the evening of the 17th and returned home, he was completely alone, and no one knew about him or asked him what he had done. Suppose that around eight o'clock that night, according to the pre-made murder plan, Wu Ying was lured to his house to stay for a while, and then after eleven o'clock when there were no pedestrians on the street, he took her for a walk in the nearby woods, and then strangled her to death. …
The police task force believes that Zeng Ji had a motive for killing Wu Ying. Usually, once an unclean relationship occurs with a married woman, it is easy to trigger such a case. A woman's extramarital affair is caused by her husband's betrayal, which is enough to make her addicted to the man outside and burn her own life. Immoral and unhealthy behavior is always accompanied by a sweet feeling of despair.
In this regard, men are too protective of themselves. Extramarital affairs often go in the opposite direction at first, but then they often reverse things 180 degrees later. Because men are afraid of women being entangled hysterically. The ending is usually because the situation develops out of control, and the woman falls into a desperate situation and has to let the woman she once loved disappear from her side forever. So far, there are countless cases like this, especially middle-aged male intellectuals, who often hate endless emotional entanglements.
What is the situation in this case? First of all, why did Zengji return to Nanguang City from Dongyang City alone? Secondly, why did Wu Ying not continue to spend the night with Zeng Ji in the Dongyang hotel on the night of watching the fireworks show?
Isn't this result what Zeng Ji originally wanted and carefully designed for it? This means that if they went to the hotel in Dongyang City to have sex together and then returned to Nanguang City together, the criminal traces of Wu Ying's murder would be clearly visible. Assuming that Wu Ying was never seen again after her sudden disappearance from the rooftop plaza, Zeng Ji was eliminated as the suspect of Wu Ying's murder. For this reason, Zeng Ji deliberately pulled Wu Ying's suitcase out of the hotel in Dongyang, took the express train back to Nanguang City, and then stored her suitcase at the luggage office of Nanguang Station. He did this entirely to fake the appearance of Wu Ying's sudden disappearance in the hotel in Dongyang.
According to this plan, Zeng Ji may let Wu Ying go to other hotels in Dongyang City alone. As far as Wu Ying is concerned, there is no doubt that he blindly follows whatever Zeng Ji says.
However, the hotel in Dongyang could not confirm that Wu Ying walked out of the door. It was crowded that night because there were many tourists on the rooftop square to watch the fireworks. Even if the female guests staying in the hotel went out, they could not be identified.
The above is the reasoning of the police task force regarding the criminal traces of suspect Zeng Ji.
However, there are also opinions that object to the above reasoning: although it is generally logical, there is no empirical evidence. Not only that, there might be an accomplice. Assuming that Zeng Ji had a motive to kill Wu Ying, wouldn't it be Wu Ying's husband Xiao Long who had a stronger motive than him to kill Wu Ying? If Xiao Long had known in advance the itinerary and destination of his wife's secret date with Zeng Ji, it would have been entirely possible for him to kill his wife and blame his love rival Zeng Ji.
