Chapter 33: Slapping Our Faces?
In an instant, Xiao Yu entered the state of simulating the criminal’s psychology!
“If I were the killer, planning this premeditated perverse murder, what steps would I need?”
“Create a perfect crime plan, prepare the murder tools, familiarize myself with the victims’ area, calculate the crime time, design the framing of He Xiao… it would take at least three days to a week. Scouting the area is essential but also the most time-consuming step!”
“Wait, how do I know the suspect He Xiao’s phone number, and how could I mimic the female victim’s tone to send that text?”
“It’s because I’m very familiar with the victims and He Xiao… What’s my relationship with them?”
“Classmate, friend… no, such clues are too obvious. I wouldn’t leave such clear traces.”
“Then why did I send that text? Simply to lure the suspect, or do I have another purpose?”
“Ah, I see… the text not only lured He Xiao to the victims’ house in anger, but also misled the police, even if suspecting another killer, to focus on people familiar with the victims and He Xiao. Two birds, one stone, clever!”
“So, I cruelly and even perversely killed the victims and framed He Xiao, for what?”
“According to the police investigation, neither the victims nor He Xiao had grudges with anyone, certainly not enough to provoke such hatred leading to a family extermination and creating a painting with their blood and bones!”
“Purely a perverse motive? Absolutely not!”
“I am so calm that I could meticulously orchestrate such a plan, clean all crime traces calmly, this level of intelligence and calmness wouldn’t see such perverse actions as worth my time — like a child’s game, too low-level… yet I did it, why?”
“Can’t figure it out, this path doesn’t work!”
“If this path doesn’t work, let’s start with the crime tools…”
“Murder tools, skinning tools, bone-crushing tools, drying tools, powdering tools… although the tools at the victims’ home could theoretically do it, completing in 33 hours is impossible. So, there are other tools!”
“So many tools, they’d be heavy.”
“After killing, destroying the bodies, and creating the painting… I’d be exhausted, how could I take so many tools away? If left behind, they’d provide clues for the police…”
“No, I don’t need to take them away, I just need to hide them where the police wouldn’t notice, wouldn’t find, wouldn’t easily think of.”
“Where?”
“The community septic tank? No, taking them there would easily be seen by community surveillance!”
“Renting a room in the building? No, that would leave identification information!”
“Or… none of these, these places are still too predictable, not likely!”
“Then, where…”
Suddenly, Xiao Yu’s eyes brightened.
As if he caught something, but hadn’t fully grasped it.
Abruptly, a strange smile appeared on his face.
The most dangerous place is the safest place?
A sudden realization!
Xiao Yu lifted his head, looking at the ceiling of the living room.
The task force members started acting, searching the victims’ home’s false ceilings, including the bathroom and attic ceilings…
Nothing!
Nothing?
Xiao Yu looked at the floor, stomped his foot, a smile forming.
The victims’ floorboards were lifted one by one.
Until… when the attic floorboards were lifted.
Pieces of disassembled tools, knives, appeared before everyone’s eyes!
People unfamiliar with construction might ask, aren’t floorboards directly attached to the ground?
No!
Some floors, like solid wood floors, require a wooden frame underneath before installation.
One is to prevent heat and moisture.
Two is to fix and prevent expansion and cracking.
Although the space isn’t much, not tall enough, it can completely store some disassembled tool parts…
The murder tools were found!
As the pieces of murder weapons and tools were laid out, the forensic team arrived to check for fingerprints on these items.
The results made Xiao Yu’s face change slightly.
The task force members were stunned, incredulous.
Not only were there fingerprints on these items.
They were all He Xiao’s fingerprints.
Can you believe it?!
Why were they He Xiao’s fingerprints?
Based on various signs, investigations, and deductions.
He Xiao couldn’t have committed the crime.
Just the timing doesn’t match; 33 hours is absolutely not enough to commit this crime.
Not enough time!
Could it be the killer framing him?
Or is it a form of mockery?
The killer guessed the police would find these items.
Deliberately putting He Xiao’s fingerprints on them to taunt the investigators.
Is he… slapping our faces?
In an instant, the task force members were furious.
They felt their intelligence was being rubbed on the ground.
At this moment.
“No, it shouldn’t be like this!”
Xiao Yu’s expression turned cold, his gaze sharp, coldly staring at the tools and weapons, “It’s not the killer playing us, but us falling into a misconception, ignoring a possibility.”
“What possibility?” The team members, shocked, looked at Xiao Yu.
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yu spoke coldly, word by word.
“Who says the most unlikely suspect isn’t the killer?”