When they arrived at the police station, Bai Linglong was already waiting for them. Seeing Pei Yan's displeased face, Bai Linglong wanted to show her concern at first. But seeing him discussing the case with Su Yao seriously, she gave up the idea.
The forensic doctor had already issued Zhou Zheng's autopsy report based on the results of the autopsy and tests. According to the report, Zhou Zheng died of a type of hypoglycemia.
According to feedback from Zhou Zheng's parents, there were occasional cases of this hypoglycemia in their family. The symptom of this disease was that if a patient showed signs of hypoglycemia and didn't get a timely supply of sugar, they would quickly fall into a coma, go into shock, and eventually die.
"I didn't expect him to starve to death," Su Yao said. "Did the murderer starve him to death by not giving him anything to eat? But how could such a grown - up man starve to death? Unless the murderer had him under control?"
"Forensic doctor, did you find any insulin - like drugs in Zhou Zheng's body?" Pei Yan asked a question in a different direction.
"We can't detect that because hypoglycemia itself causes the body to secrete excessive insulin," the forensic doctor shrugged. "Unless... Wait, there's a place I overlooked. Please wait a moment. I need to go and verify it." With that, the forensic doctor ran out of Bai Linglong's office.
Bai Linglong then told Pei Yan the latest investigation about the department belle that Sun Yang had told Su Yao.
Pei Yan pushed his glasses up and seemed to be deep in thought. After a while, he asked Bai Linglong to investigate the department belle's social relationships again, especially her love history.
"I didn't expect you to be so interested in the department belle too?" Su Yao asked casually.
"I think this department belle might be the key to Sun Shan's case," Pei Yan said. It seemed that Pei Yan had also noticed the inconsistent statements of Ding Rui and the department belle.
Soon, the forensic doctor ran back, extremely excited. He said he had found the real cause of Zhou Zheng's death. The forensic doctor had found an inconspicuous needle hole in Zhou Zheng's nostril, which was presumably caused by the injection of insulin or other drugs.
So there was a major breakthrough in Zhou Zheng's case. His death was indeed a homicide. The next step was to find the murderer who had bought drugs such as formalin and insulin.
"How did you know it was insulin?" Su Yao asked Pei Yan.
"Because the murderer put a dead body in formalin and chilled it. Clearly, the murderer didn't want the person who found the body to be able to determine the time of death. So the time of death was very important to the murderer.
Based on this, I thought that there was no food in Zhou Zheng's body. So I considered that the murderer might have artificially accelerated his death," Pei Yan analyzed.
"Wow, no wonder you're Lawyer Pei who has handled big cases. You can think of this," Su Yao praised. "Please accept a bow from Yaoyao." With that, Su Yao bowed to Pei Yan.
Pei Yan's face turned suspiciously red. He cleared his throat and then said, "We need more information, especially about this department belle."
Meanwhile, on Weibo, remarks about Su Yao's supposed tacit admission began to spread. Since Su Yao had never responded to the sugar - baby rumor, some people began to speculate that Su Yao had tacitly admitted to being a sugar baby.
Kong Yu, who had been "dug out", had risen from an unknown nobody to the focus of public attention. When being interviewed by the media, she even broke down in tears, claiming that she had "suffered serious harm", which made people sigh.
When Li Lin sent this interview to Su Yao, Su Yao sneered. Then he replied, asking Li Lin to find something for him. Their counter - attack was about to start.
At this time, in the hospital, Miao Yue was looking at her phone, enjoying the pleasure of seeing Su Yao being slandered. An unexpected guest came to her ward with a bunch of flowers. Miao Yue looked up, showing a rather shocked expression.
It seemed that she knew this person but couldn't believe his reappearance.
Miao Yue mechanically took the flowers the person offered and blankly responded to his greeting. She didn't know why this person, who only had an intersection with Su Yao, would appear in front of her hospital bed.
The visitor pulled a stool and sat in front of Miao Yue's bed. It seemed that he was ready to have a long talk with her.
At the same time, in the office of Wang's Group, Wang San, Lao Liu, and Lao Wei were sitting together. Wang San was rinsing his tea set, looking proud.
"It seems that Su Yao has really fallen this time. I originally wanted to cultivate her, but who would have thought, hehe..." Wang San began to share his "achievements".
"Brother Wang, although we didn't give her many resources, she has brought us a lot of returns after all. We don't need to do this," Lao Wei said.
"She also got on the hot - search this time. She even made a profit. We haven't treated her badly," Wang San said disdainfully. "Look at how Kong Yu behaved and how she behaved. Can they be compared?"
"Now Du Ou and Kong Yu have been successfully pushed out. As long as we release their drama at this time, it's guaranteed to be a big hit," Lao Liu was more rational and focused on practical benefits.
Su Yao and Pei Yan were completely unaware of these things. They were concentrating on listening to Police Officer Zheng's interrogation record of Hu Zong. The interrogation record once again confirmed Pei Yan's premonition: Hu Zong was clearly afraid of something.
"Officer, when can I get out? I've told you everything I know," Hu Zong had been detained for nearly 48 hours. If the police couldn't find any evidence, they would have to release him. But he was currently the only breakthrough in Sun Shan's case, and the responsible policemen were very anxious.
"Where exactly were you on June 4th?" Police Officer Zheng asked him again.
"I've said it. I just had a bit of alcohol. Then I saw a man in black give me a box. I was just near the bar on Sun Bin Road. I didn't go anywhere else."
"Why were the drugs in your possession found at the crime scene of the Liujia Village murder?"
"Officer, I really don't know. Maybe someone else gave them to the victim. The drugs in my hand are just a special cold medicine. They can be found everywhere. Why are they related to me?"
"Someone reported that you're related to this case."
"Officer, you should discern the truth. Maybe someone wants to frame me?"
Hearing this, Pei Yan pressed the stop button, and the interrogation audio suddenly stopped.
"Maybe Hu Zong really has nothing to do with Sun Shan's case. The drugs found at the scene might just be a coincidence?" Besides noticing Hu Zong's suspicious reaction to Ding Rui, Su Yao didn't find anything else suspicious about him.
"No. Listen to his confession. He's always trying to shift the blame to others. It seems that he wants to tell us that there's someone else involved. According to normal people's thinking, if he really didn't know anyone related to the case, he would just deny it instead of trying to shift the blame. This proves indirectly that he knows something."
Su Yao didn't comment. At this time, Bai Linglong entered the room with a stack of materials in her hand.
"There's a lead about the department belle."