Chapter 10: If I Were the Killer
Returning to the Criminal Investigation Team, Xiao Yu picked up the case file again, forcing himself to discard all emotions.
Only a calm mind can have clear thoughts and complete rigorous reasoning.
As he delved deeper into the various information and clues in the case file.
His brain worked like a high-speed CPU, piecing together the information, and the case became increasingly clear.
He summarized three points of doubt.
Why did the victim go to the dormitory rooftop in the middle of the night?
If it wasn’t the two female employees who committed the murder, who could it be?
How did the killer transport the dead victim to the warehouse?
While Xiao Yu was analyzing and deducing the case, the other officers were also analyzing it.
The time given by the higher-ups was too short.
Two weeks, and now nearly five days had passed.
If they didn’t solve the case soon, everyone would be in trouble.
In his previous life, Xiao Yu had encountered a murder case that he remembered vividly.
The criminal police worked through the night, brainstorming based on clues and making several conjectures about the case.
They gathered evidence based on these conjectures.
Then they overthrew them all and reasoned anew.
When the case was finally solved, everyone was physically and mentally exhausted, nearly collapsing.
Doing this job drains your energy, brainpower, and body;
living long is a fantasy…
Until midnight, Xiao Yu snapped back to reality and glanced at Guo Qiang, who was smoking and pondering the case, “Master, let’s go back to the scene.”
“Go again?”
Guo Qiang came back to his senses and looked at his apprentice in surprise, “Thought of something?”
“No.”
Xiao Yu shook his head, “I feel like the case file isn’t detailed enough, I want to… simulate the crime scene!”
Simulating the crime scene is a required course for every detective.
Professors in police school emphasize it.
If you can fully simulate the criminal’s entire crime process, you can use some details to ‘trace the killer.’
“Click!”
Guo Qiang smacked his lips, “Alright, let’s go.”
Late at night, especially in winter, simulating the scene is painful.
If it were anyone else, Guo Qiang wouldn’t even bother.
But this apprentice was different, too smart, he liked it.
What if they really find something?
So he followed his apprentice for a walk…
***
A police car returned to the crime scene.
Xiao Yu didn’t immediately go up to the dormitory rooftop but stood downstairs observing.
If I were the victim…
He closed his eyes, blocking all distractions, imagining himself as the victim.
This is a form of psychological suggestion.
In criminal psychology, it’s part of simulating the crime scene.
Imagining oneself as the victim to further deduce all the killer’s actions.
At this moment, Xiao Yu’s adrenaline surged, his brain cells highly active.
If pheromones could simulate.
Then Xiao Yu’s brain cells right now would be like koi in a pond, frantically vying for food, the water boiling.
Why did the victim go to the rooftop?
In the dead of winter, the victim wasn’t stupid?
Surely someone called him up.
This person is very likely the killer!
So, how did the killer call the victim to the rooftop?
The case file shows that during the approximate time of the victim’s death, there were no phone call records, no chat records on social media…
Xiao Yu’s eyes lit up, dormitory?!
The victim was in the dormitory at the time, right?
Someone came to find him, so he went to the rooftop?
People who can freely enter and exit the dormitory should be from the factory, right?
People who can go to the victim’s dormitory, familiar people, management, or… female employees?
No, not those two female employees.
Through interrogation, if they were acting suspiciously, they wouldn’t escape the eyes of a bunch of veteran detectives.
Although they are suspects, they don’t seem very suspicious.
All other employees were working overtime in the factory.
That’s not right either; during overtime, they could move freely.
They could have left the factory and returned to the dormitory.
But, the workshops in the factory have surveillance.
At the time of the crime, surveillance footage showed that only a few employees left, and none for more than half an hour.
Sneaking back to the dormitory, finding the victim, taking him to the rooftop, killing him, moving the body… half an hour is not enough!
So, these employees working overtime aren’t very suspicious either.
Is there a trick?
Xiao Yu became puzzled.
Not the two female employees in the dormitory, not the employees working overtime, could it be an outsider?
But how could an outsider enter the dormitory?
After all, there was a guard…
Wait, guard?
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Yu’s eyes.
According to the investigation, the guard was also a suspect.
Not very suspicious.
According to the guard’s statement, he was playing a mobile game at the time.
A check on the guard’s phone confirmed that he was playing a mobile game at the time.
This confirmed his low suspicion.
Low suspicion doesn’t mean impossible.
In his previous life, Xiao Yu handled many cases where suspects deliberately created alibis.
But the guard’s mobile game was an online competitive game, and the network IP address was the dormitory’s WIFI, that’s indisputable.
So there is a trick?
Could an outsider sneak into the dormitory, call the victim out, kill him, and openly move the body?
Is he a magician?
Xiao Yu’s face turned cold.
Even a group of veteran detectives were stumped, unable to find the key.
Now even he was stuck.
From this, it seems the killer is very smart.
As if everything was calculated.
Leaving no clues, this is not something an ordinary person can do.
Simulating the scene isn’t working either.
Wanting to solve the case is a desire; being unwilling is real too.
Suddenly.
A glint flashed in Xiao Yu’s eyes, and his thoughts began to race again.
If I were the killer…