158: Another murder case!

Another murder case!

In the capital.

A man was following Mr. Gu Yinglei, a retired Mathematics professor aged about 65 years.

Mr. Gu entered his residential building which the man observed. He looked around for a while after which he found a half constructed building situated opposite to Mr. Gu's residence.

The man climbed onto the sixth floor of the building under construction which was exactly opposite to Mr. Gu's condominium.

He then put down his shoulder bag and opened it to take out a high definition camera. He zoomed onto Mr. Gu's condominium.

Mr. Gu was having the breakfast served by his daughter-in-law, a moment which was captured by the man's camera.

His son got ready for the office before which he also sat on the dining table to have breakfast with his father.

Kacha!

Mr. Gu's son was also captured in the man's camera. Every moment of Mr. Gu's life was being captured through his balcony windows. Every person related to him was also captured in the camera of this stranger.

'Son and daughter-in-law leave for work at 8.45 am,' a note was being written by the unknown man after seeing Mr. Gu's children leave the residence.

The man continued capturing Mr. Gu's movements and noted down another time, 'Maid comes in at 9.45 am.'

This continued till afternoon when another note was made, 'Laundry man comes in at 3.45 pm.'

This continued for a few days when all the movements of Mr. Gu and people related to him were captured. The man now knew his full schedule and even the schedule of people around him.

*

Another fine day, the man carried a huge gift box with him to the apartment complex of Mr. Gu.

"Sir, where do you want to go, please report it to me," the security guard of the apartment complex asked confusedly as only a gift box was visible to him and the man carrying the box was hidden behind the box. The box was so huge that it covered half of the body of the man.

"I want to go to Mr. Gu Yinglei's condominium," he reported.

"Please enter your name in this register before I allow you to go," the security guard said to the stranger.

"Brother, can you do the entry on my behalf? See, I am carrying such a heavy gift. It will be a great favour on me," the man requested the security guard.

The security guard glanced at the huge gift in the man's hands and agreed, "Okay, please tell your name."

"Lu Beichen."

"Where have you come from?" the security guard asked another question.

"From Yun Cheng. Brother can you please hurry up? I am getting late," the man hurried the security guard.

"Yes, yes," the security guard entered the details in his notebook hurriedly, "Please tell your mobile phone number."

"xxxxxxxxxx.." the man told his mobile phone number to the guard, "Can I leave now?" he asked the guard.

"Yes sir, you can leave now," the security guard gave the permission finally.

*

After entering the building, the man threw the gift box near a garbage bin and walked away towards Mr. Gu Yinglei's condominium.

'Ring!!' the doorbell to Mr. Gu's house rang. He came out to see who was the guest that rang his doorbell.

"Does Mr. Ye live here?" the man asked Mr. Gu.

"No, I am Gu Yinglei," the latter replied to the man.

The man looked into Mr. Gu's house from the outside and asked again, "Oh this is not D wing?"

Mr. Gu did not find anything suspicious and replied calmly, "No this is B wing."

"Oh," the man left without saying anything.

Mr. Gu tried to stop the man but he strode away, so he shouted, "But there is no Mr. Ye in D wing too," he kindly said to the man.

The man left without saying or hearing anything.

*

Another few days, the man continued the same thing. Observing Mr. Gu's daily life and taking his pictures.

Suddenly, one day he found out what he was searching for.

The maid was dusting the bedsheets and other covers of the house which made Mr. Gu react negatively. He started coughing violently and scolded the maid for dusting in front of him. He was a patient of asthma.

He immediately searched for his asthmatic pump and pressed the nozzle into his mouth to administer the aerosol formulation into his lungs for catching up his breath.

The man captured this moment and took a note of this important thing. His work was done here as he finally got what he wanted.

The next day, taking advantage of the security guard's distraction, the man entered Mr. Gu's building in a stealth mode.

He avoided everyone in the building cleverly and knocked on Mr. Gu's door again after wearing rubber gloves in his hands.

Just as Mr. Gu opened the door, the man pushed him inside the condominium making him fall on the floor.

Mr. Gu was stunned at what happened in that instant. After a few seconds, his face shrouded with fear, "No! No!"

"Just shut up," the man shouted at Mr. Gu. He then started searching for something in his bag.

"Are you a thi...thief? You..you can..take away...the money..I..I also have..some jewellery..You..you can..take that too," Mr. Gu said in extreme fear.

At that point of time, a knife fell out from the man's bag. Mr. Gu saw it and crawled on the floor to get that knife. But he could not compete with a young man and the knife ended up in the man's hands.

"Shhhh...Shhhh, shut your mouth and stand up," the man pulled Mr. Gu up by his collar.

"Who..who are you? What.. do you..what do you want?" Mr. Gu completely had panicked till now and stammered while speaking.

The man asked Mr. Gu to shut up again and took him to the treadmill in the latter's house. He made Mr. Gu stand on the treadmill and increased the pace of the machine.

The last time the man visited Mr. Gu's house, he had noticed the treadmill in the latter's house. He went home afterwards and searched about exercise-induced asthma.

The man increased the treadmill's pace further.

"Stop...stop..please stop this," Mr. Gu struggled and pleaded with the man at the same time.

The man increased the pace of the treadmill further instead of stopping it.

"Please...please..please stop..stop..stop.." Mr. Gu's breathing rate increased and he started panting badly by this time. But the man had a knife in his hand and Mr. Gu could not do anything other than pleading him.

The treadmill did not stop and Mr. Gu running on the treadmill started to lose his focus. The man's face became blur in front of his eyes. He was panting heavily.

The man saw that Mr. Gu was still conscious and did not suffer an attack as he had expected. So he picked up a doormat nearby and started dusting it near Mr. Gu's mouth.

Because of the exercise that was in progress, Mr. Gu was already fighting for breath. He was panting continuously and his mouth was open in order to inhale more oxygen.

When the man dusted the doormat in front of him, Mr. Gu inhaled the dust and panted more heavily.2

Eventually, he fell on the treadmill and moved onto the floor, still fighting for breath. He crawled till the drawer on the side to get access to his asthmatic pump.

On the other hand, the laundry man parked his bicycle in the building premises.

Here, in Mr. Gu's house, the man got hold of the asthmatic pump before Mr. Gu could reach it. He then pumped all the aerosol in the air and handed the empty pump to Mr. Gu.

The laundry man pressed the elevator button from the ground floor to go to the sixth floor where Mr. Gu lived.

Mr. Gu in his house was still pleading the man for survival but the man did not show mercy. Eventually, Mr. Gu fainted.

"Tutututututu," the man's watch rang. It was the alarm for the time that laundry man visited Mr. Gu's house.

The elevator climbed up with the laundry guy in it. The time was tight for the man and he switched off his alarm before picking up his bag on the floor and putting the knife in it.

He wanted to ensure that Mr. Gu had died but he didn't have time to do that. If he waited, the laundry guy would catch him for sure. He had no choice but to run away without ensuring the death of Mr. Gu.

As he came out of the house, he ran towards the stairs. At the same time, the elevator reached the sixth floor and the laundry guy came out to go to Mr. Gu's house.

It was a very close call for the man but he managed to escape. On the other hand the laundry guy saw the door to Mr. Gu's house open. He glanced inside to call his customer, but instead he found the unconscious Gu Yinglei.

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