Chapter 99 Campus
"What's wrong?" Seeing Gu Nankai running in, the rest of the people thought something had happened inside. Wu Qingluan asked hurriedly, and followed Gu Nankai in hurriedly, but saw Gu Nankai running straight to the side of the sofa near the door in Sun Zihan's house, crawling down and putting his arms into the gap below.
Just when everyone was surprised, Gu Nankai also took out his arm, and this time he was holding a magazine in his hand.
"What is this?" Gao Yuan asked while staring at the magazine in Gu Nankai's hand. Everyone's eyes were on Gu Nankai at this moment, not knowing what was in this thing.
Gu Nankai didn't say anything at first, but picked up the magazine in his hand and started flipping through it. Finally, he found something and immediately spread the magazine in front of everyone and said, "Look at this."
Everyone gathered together to look at something in the magazine. When they had almost finished reading, Li Meng suddenly raised his head and looked at Gu Nankai: "Captain, this... do you think this is Sun Zihan?"
At this moment, everyone could see clearly that the person in the magazine was not the same person as the deceased they had seen. However, everyone also discovered that Sun Zihan must have read this article in this magazine frequently.
Gu Nankai nodded: "Although the photo above is not the Sun Zihan we saw, if you look closely, there are many similarities between him and Sun Zihan." He turned to Shang Lu: "Shang Lu, remember to check whether Sun Zihan has had plastic surgery during the autopsy."
Shang Lu nodded quickly, but Gao Yuan said, "This article should be a letter of praise, but the person praised in this article is not Sun Zihan, but a teacher named Zhang Fengran."
Gao Yuan specifically pointed to the name under the photo in the magazine and showed it to everyone. Gu Nankai also took a look and said to Gao Yuan: "So you have to check whether this Sun Zihan changed his name later but there is no record. If it can be confirmed that Sun Zihan is Zhang Fengran, then I think we can get more information by following this clue."
The group finally left Sun Zihan's house with the magazine that Gu Nankai had just found.
After seeing everyone off, Wu Qingluan and Gu Nankai went back . Few people knew that although these two people seemed to be just colleagues, they had known each other for a long time and even lived under the same roof.
The two of them took a taxi home. As soon as they got in the car, Gu Nankai leaned back and pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly. Wu Qingluan glanced at him and asked, "What do you think of this case now?"
Gu Nankai was just about to close his eyes and rest for a while after a tiring day, but when he heard Wu Qingluan ask him this, he immediately opened his eyes again, adjusted his sitting posture, stood up and looked at Wu Qingluan: "I'm a little suspicious now, this is a case of bullying revenge."
"Bullying?" Wu Qingluan was a little surprised, wondering why Gu Nankai would think of this.
"Yes, bullying." Gu Nankai said again in a positive tone, his eyes still fixed on Wu Qingluan: "Think about it carefully. If Sun Zihan hadn't appeared in the first two victims, I would probably have classified them as simple revenge cases before Sun Zihan's case happened. Maybe the two unidentified victims had violated the murderer. But after Sun Zihan's case happened, and I just found the magazine with the protagonist suspected to be Sun Zihan, I suddenly thought that this case might be the result of bullying."
Wu Qingluan listened to Gu Nankai's words with a frown on her face, and followed Gu Nankai's train of thought closely. After he finished speaking, she went over Gu Nankai's words several times in her mind, and then she spoke hesitantly, "You mean, the essence of this case is that we have to return to bullying. You mean, school bullying?"
Gu Nankai nodded solemnly: "Yes, if we can confirm that Zhang Fengran in the magazine's letter of praise is Sun Zihan, then our current reasoning can be 100% established, but I am still a little confused. Could the first two dead people have a teacher-student relationship with Sun Zihan? If so, in our hypothetical bullying, are they the bullies?"
Wu Qingluan thought for a while, then sighed heavily and leaned back: "If it is really related to the school bullying case, then what role did Hai Langui play in this matter? The three dead people all had peony tattoos created by Hai Langui on their bodies. What role did this person play in this matter? Was he on the side of the murderer or the victim?"
She closed her eyes slightly and concluded her speech: "I think we still need to figure out the relationship between these characters."
Gu Nankai had the same feeling. Since his mind was a little confused, he decided to let it rest for a while. He also closed his eyes. The two of them didn't speak anymore. Instead, they were each lost in their thoughts, not knowing what was going on in their minds.
A night passed, and early the next morning, Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan went to Renyuan Middle School in Longhai City.
The first person they met was not Ma Zhiyuan, but the principal of Renyuan Middle School. When Gu Nankai revealed his identity, the principal was obviously very excited. He quickly jumped up from the chair behind his desk and hurriedly explained: "Comrade police, have you come to the wrong place? Our school has been rated as an advanced middle school for several consecutive years. What do you want to investigate today..."
Gu Nankai quickly exchanged a glance with Wu Qingluan before explaining his purpose: "Principal, we have no other intentions for coming here today. We mainly want to find your school's vice-president Ma Zhiyuan to learn some information. It has nothing to do with the school."
When the principal heard Ma Zhiyuan's name, he was stunned and quickly asked in surprise: "Ma Zhiyuan?"
"Yes." Gu Nankai nodded: "Because we don't know Ma Zhiyuan's home address, we can only come to school."
The principal frowned at first, not knowing what he was thinking, and soon looked at Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan with some embarrassment: "Comrade police, I'm so sorry, you came at the wrong time today."
At that time, the principal had a slight smile on his face. As the principal of the school, what he was most worried about was the reputation of the school. At first, he thought that something had gone wrong with the school, which made him break out in a cold sweat. But when the police said they were here to find Ma Zhiyuan to understand the situation and it had nothing to do with the school, his heart settled down and he relaxed a lot when he spoke.
"Why? It's working hours now." Gu Nankai raised his eyebrows and looked at the principal. The principal quickly smiled and explained, "It's like this, police comrade. Our Vice Principal Ma had some problems at home a few days ago, so he asked for leave for the past two days."
Gu Nankai's eyebrows slightly tightened: "Then Principal, do you know what happened in his family?"
The principal chuckled and said, "I'm not sure about that, police comrade. Originally, as colleagues, we would ask each other, but since Vice Principal Ma didn't want to say anything, we didn't ask any more questions. We thought it was an embarrassing matter, so we didn't ask any more questions."
Gu Nankai could understand this. He nodded and asked, "Then, principal, are there any teachers in the school who have a good relationship with Ma Zhiyuan? Do you have Ma Zhiyuan's home address?"
"Oh, officer, if you want to talk about the relationship with Vice Principal Ma, there really isn't one. Vice Principal Ma is very dedicated in our school. He has a pretty good relationship with everyone. He's not too close to anyone, nor is he too friendly with anyone. I'm not sure about that, but I do have his home address. The school has files on it."
The principal quickly answered Gu Nankai's question with a smile, and asked Gu Nankai tentatively with some doubt in his eyes: "Officer, you are asking so many questions, is there something wrong with Vice Principal Ma?"
Gu Nankai smiled faintly: "No, I just want to find him to find out more about the situation."
When the principal saw that Gu Nankai's answer clearly showed that he didn't want to tell him the truth, he chuckled again, but Wu Qingluan discovered some clues from his smile.
