"Regarding who the murderer is."
"Oh?" Mo Ge frowned, "This isn’t one of your university club’s deduction games, nor is it like those detective novels you read. Under modern investigative tools, those legendary stories are worthless. The police rely on details and evidence!"
Yang Ming smiled confidently, "Don’t you want to hear it? It might reduce some of your workload, and I’m in a tight spot now; everyone is watching me."
"If you insist, you can now share your brilliant deduction."
Mo Ge said in a deep voice,
"Now, data from the crime scene has already started uploading to the police network. We called up the surveillance network information as soon as we received the report. The suspect has been preliminarily identified, and our team has begun capturing various details; preliminary results should be available in about fifteen minutes."
Yang Ming asked, "Will you be handing this directly over to the Noble Court?"
"Yes, but we also have to ensure we have backups for such cases."
Yang Ming nodded thoughtfully.
In that case, he didn’t really have to step forward.
He had underestimated the capabilities of the police.
However, since things had come to this point, Yang Ming had no choice but to bite the bullet, hoping to resolve this minor issue before the Noble Court arrived.
After all, it was just the death of a Baron, hardly a major incident.
"The first time I saw the murder scene, a question arose," Yang Ming said. "Chief, look at these two wounds."
Chief Mo Ge frowned and walked a few steps around the edge of the scene.
Yang Ming continued, "One gunshot wound and one chest wound. Chief, which do you think came first?"
Chief Mo Ge replied, "The chest, then the skull, if I had to make an intuitive judgment."
"I thought the same initially," Yang Ming said, "Indeed, it’s logical. The murderer had a dispute with the victim, first severely injuring him and then delivering the fatal gunshot to cause brain death."
Chief Mo Ge nodded, "Is there another possibility?"
"Yes, there is. We’ll discuss that later. It’s also the mistake the murderer carelessly made."
"I don’t really like communicating with people like you," Chief Mo Ge said in a low voice, "Just say everything, no need to show off. I’ve handled more cases over the years than you’ve read books!"
"It’s not showing off; it’s just that there’s no logical foundation as of now," Yang Ming smiled, "I’d also like to explain from aspects like the amount of blood on the ground, the victim’s micro expressions upon death, but I don’t have that much biological knowledge."
"Then come on, don’t waste time," Mo Ge gestured for him to continue and took two steps back.
Yang Ming nodded, mentally prepared with his draft statement.
"The state of the victim says a lot," Yang Ming stated, "His expression was one of horror; looking at the penetrating wound on the skull, the more evident charring at the entry and the smaller diameter at the exit on the back of the head indicates that he was shot from the front. The mark on the wall also proves this point."
Mo Ge nodded slightly.
Anyone not blind could see that.
"But this does not indicate that he was first shot and then stabbed," Mo Ge said, "He could have been shot while struggling from the stabbing."
"There is that possibility which we’ll discuss later."
"The victim was dressed in formal attire, with all but the lowest button undone and his belt loosened, clearly attacked while undressing.
"He said he was coming up here to rest a bit and had a brief remote meeting to attend.
"There are two issues here: whether the murderer shot from outside or inside the door.
"If it was inside, then the victim must have been very familiar with the murderer, enough to undress in front of him.
"If it was outside, then narrowing down who had access to open the door would help reduce the search area. The lounge doors are equipped with fingerprint recognition and auto-lock upon closing, and this lock is still functioning normally without signs of tampering."
Ah, I said too much, can’t confirm for myself whether the door lock had been tampered with.
Yang Ming, to avoid being questioned on details, continued,
"There are cameras in the hallway, which can serve as direct evidence. Was anyone seen shooting outside the door, Chief?"
"It was shot indoors," Chief Mo Ge spoke calmly, "In fact, the surveillance we accessed showed that in the half hour before the incident, only the victim entered this lounge, which is open to all event guests and can be used by anyone when unoccupied."
Yang Ming asked, "What about half an hour earlier?"
Chief Mo Ge answered, "This evening, seven people used the lounge. At the time of the incident, they all had alibis proving they were elsewhere; the victim was the eighth person to use this lounge."
"Has the surveillance video been tampered with?"
"The monitoring networks of hotels and other public facilities are directly connected to our police server," Chief Mo Ge spoke calmly, "We directly access the data from our police server. If someone could modify our police server data, then that means the murderer is not someone we can handle, but I assure you, the server is intact."
"So, it’s quite clear then. This lounge has no windows, and public surveillance is networked to the police server. The likelihood of tampering is low," Yang Ming smiled, "The murderer must have been hiding inside."
Chief Mo Ge spoke gravely, "Why couldn’t the murderer be the person who first discovered the body?"
"The police currently suspect that waitress?"