CHAPTER 770: CHAPTER 770 CRUCIFIXION MURDER

"Odd indeed, what do you mean by odd?" Ye Shikai asked curiously.

"Just go and see for yourself, file number 2855, go fetch it yourself." Zhang Ting pointed towards a shelf not far away, where cases were neatly stacked in order.

Ye Shikai easily found file number 2855, the file on the current case, which didn’t contain much, just a few photos, and the autopsy and crime scene reports.

"Damn." Ye Shikai couldn’t help but exclaim when he saw the photos.

"How about it, I wasn’t wrong, was I? The way he died is pretty strange." Zhang Ting said casually.

Ye Shikai looked at the photo in front of him, a man in a white shirt and trousers, his eyes covered with a blindfold, tied to a metal cross with ropes, his limbs nailed to the cross with large nails, bloodied all over...

Ye Shikai’s first thought was of Jesus, a universally known figure who was crucified, and now this very scene was replicated.

"Indeed... It’s sufficiently odd." Ye Shikai slowly put down the photo in his hand. Judging by the surroundings, the crime scene was indoors. Ye Shikai could determine one thing: this was definitely planned murder.

"Have you identified the victim?" Ye Shikai asked, his tone becoming more serious. No wonder the police were troubled by this case. A typical murderer simply kills a person, but in this case, the murderer used the cross, a tool with a strong sense of ritual, clearly meant to express some other "message."

"The victim is named Chen Xietian, a well-known defense lawyer," Zhang Ting said flatly.

"What, a lawyer?" Ye Shikai was confused. Normally, those who get murdered are supposed to be criminals of the worst kind. Why was it a lawyer’s turn now? In most people’s eyes, a lawyer should be a respectable profession, and indeed it is, especially since Zhang Ting had just said that this Chen Xietian was a renowned lawyer.

"Hehe." Suddenly, Zhang Ting chuckled twice, leaving Ye Shikai puzzled. "Why are you laughing at me?"

"Haven’t you been watching the news much lately?" Zhang Ting said cryptically.

"Didn’t I say I’ve been recuperating these days?" Ye Shikai was baffled, not understanding what Zhang Ting wanted to say.

"Take a look at this." Zhang Ting handed her phone over, the news’ headline was quite eye-catching.

Unscrupulous Rich Released Without Guilt.

"What’s this?" Ye Shikai asked.

"A piece of news from four days ago, something happened on a construction site, four workers died, two were seriously injured."

"That serious?" Ye Shikai exclaimed.

"Yeah, but here’s the crucial part, after the investigation, it was found that some of the materials used in the project stored in the warehouse were substandard and expired, particularly where the accident occurred." Zhang Ting’s eyes flashed with displeasure, this justice-heavy policewoman couldn’t tolerate any sand in her eyes.

"Then that’s really a Rich behaving badly, such people deserve to be in prison." Ye Shikai was also angered, especially the Huatao Bridge collapse case, which was due to those substandard materials, leading to the casualties of hundreds; these were the misdeeds of those Rich.

"Of course, but here’s where it gets infuriating," Zhang Ting continued, "this Chen Xietian, really is a corrupt lawyer, taking dirty money, distorting right and wrong, claiming it was the workers’ improper operation that caused it."

"That’s just wicked," Ye Shikai couldn’t help but curse. It seemed that this Chen Xietian was just like that corrupt boss, a Beast in Human Clothing.

"Sadly, those pieces of evidence were somehow destroyed later, the plaintiff strongly suspected it was that boss who destroyed them, but unfortunately, no evidence was found." Zhang Ting sighed, "Without evidence and with that corrupt lawyer’s defense, the businessman was released without charges."

"That’s outrageous." Ye Shikai nodded. The court’s decision wasn’t to blame; the law requires evidence, and verdicts without evidence carry no authority. If Ye Shikai wasn’t mistaken, the one who had the substandard products destroyed was probably this Chen Xietian.

"As a result, the incident was deemed an accident, and aside from paying some compensation, that corrupt boss wasn’t affected at all."

"That’s utterly heartless." Ye Shikai commented.

"This incident has been brewing in the public opinion for a while, and now netizens have started cursing that corrupt boss and that unscrupulous lawyer." Zhang Ting said, her face revealing a feeling of retribution. Indeed, in our society, there are many people or matters of low morality or even utterly heartless, once they enter the ’meat grinder’ of the internet, they’re subject to criticism from all quarters. Even Ye Shikai couldn’t judge whether this pattern of the internet was good or bad.

"So you mean, this lawyer had become notorious recently..." Ye Shikai said, hand resting on his chin.

"That’s one way to put it, it’s so easy to find someone’s information on the net, especially when the matter incites public anger," Zhang Ting nodded.

"This also gives the murderer a great convenience," Ye Shikai sighed.

According to Ye Shikai’s personal opinion, this was just karma. For money’s sake, he sold his conscience and was killed for betraying it. Although there is no evidence yet to suggest that he was murdered for revenge for this particular incident, Ye Shikai had a premonition.

"Let’s first go to the scene of the incident," Ye Shikai told Zhang Ting. The car pulled into an upscale villa community and stopped in front of the villa where the incident occurred.

After the incident, police had been arranged outside to maintain order. Zhang Ting showed her badge, entered the crime scene, and the once luxurious villa now lay dead silent. After the murder case, no one had come here.

"A villa like this costs at least tens of millions, doesn’t it?" Ye Shikai muttered, taking a quick glance at the house, roughly three hundred square meters. Only the Rich could live in this community. For a lawyer, even if he made a lot of money, buying such a villa would have meant "bleeding greatly."

"This villa was transferred to Chen Xietian’s name not long ago. Guess who gave it to him," Zhang Ting said indifferently. The two exchanged a glance, the answer was obvious.

Ye Shikai glanced at the cross in the living room. Chen Xietian wasn’t a Christian; this thing couldn’t have belonged to him, so there was only one possibility—it was brought by the murderer.

"We pulled the surveillance footage; this thing was transported by a truck, and the date was the day Chen Xietian died," Zhang Ting noted, pointing at the cross and explaining to Ye Shikai.