Genius Detective - Chapter 108

Chapter 108: 108

Chen Shi asked, "What is your relationship with Kong Tingting?"

"We’re university classmates and friends . "

"Surely it’s not just that?"

"Oh, you must have spoken to Xiao Wang, right? Yes, I tried chasing her in the past, but she never agreed to date me . I actually haven’t been in contact with her for a long time now . When I heard that she’d died, I felt like it was all so sudden . ”

Chen Shi had been observing his body language and expression the whole time . Han Le’s line of sight slightly flickered, as if he was hiding something .

He decided to throw a bomb out . "Did you know that Kong Tingting thought that she had AIDS before she died, so she went crazy and slept with heaps of men?”

"What!?" Han Le looked shocked . "Impossible! She’s not that kind of girl!”

"This is a matter of fact, so you don’t need to assert your opinion on that . "

Han Le stayed in a silent daze for a while . "I see . I guess that people change . Maybe she’s no longer the pure girl who used to recite vocab words under the willow tree early in the mornings . ”

"Do you know if she had any bad blood with anyone?"

"How would I know? I’ve told you that I haven’t been in contact with her for a long time . I also can’t just hang onto a single tree till death . In fact, I already have a girlfriend . There she is . ” He gestured with his chin at one of the checkout counters . There was a short-haired girl with freckles standing there .  

Chen Shi took out his mobile phone and exchanged contact information with him . "Contact us if you think of anything else . "

"For sure!"

"Then we won’t bother you any longer . "

Lin Dongxue tried to use her eyes to communicate with Chen Shi, but Chen Shi consciously turned a blind eye to it . After leaving the supermarket, Lin Dongxue asked, "Why didn’t you ask for his alibi?"

"We can’t ask him too many questions at once . "

"Do you think he is telling the truth?"

"I feel like he’s concealing something . . . Miss Lin, have you had a spare tire before?"

Lin Dongxue widened her eyes . “Why are you asking this? All girls are a bit vain and like being surrounded by stars as if they were the moon . I’ve never done things like that before . ”

Xu Xiaodong said, "I’ve been a spare tire before . "

"Talk about what it felt like . "

"I liked a girl when I was in middle school . I asked her out, but she never wanted to walk with me in front of my classmates . Later on, I found out that she already had a boyfriend . I was honestly so hurt . "

"Did you want to kill her?" Lin Dongxue asked curiously .

"No . I was just sad… Of course, I hated her a little bit . "

"The feelings of a spare tire are truly so tender . We should observe this Han Le guy . " Chen Shi said .

Chen Shi did not leave and instead snuck into the employees locker room . A big sister walked in and questioned, "What are you guys doing?"

Chen Shi gave Lin Dongxue a look and Lin Dongxue pulled out her badge . "We are the police; we are investigating a . . . "

"Case of theft! You have an employee who lost an important item and only reported it yesterday . "

The big sister did not see that Lin Dongxue’s badge said “criminal police”, so she believed that what they said was true . “Why don’t you find the manager?”

"It’s involving privacy . The person who reported the case didn’t want to make a big deal out of things . Can we trouble…” Chen Shi asked as he gestured towards the lockers .  

"Ah yes, no worries . It’s obviously appropriate to cooperate with the police . ”

The big sister went to pick up the keys . Chen Shi asked her to open several lockers one after another as he pretended to look for things . Finally, he asked to open the locker with Han Le’s name on it which contained Han Le’s clothes . Chen Shi saw a hair in the locker with his keen eyes and took it out when the lady wasn’t paying attention .

There was a book underneath some clothes . It was a detective novel named "The Iris of the Night" . The author was called Xin Bai . Chen Shi remarked, "Eh? It’s the author from last time . ”

"Officers, have you found the item?"

"No . Let’s look at the other lockers . "

They looked at all the lockers to avoid suspicion and then thanked the lady before leaving .  

The three discussed where to go next as part of their investigation . In the task force group chat, Peng Sijue said that he had some progress on his end . In addition, Lin Qiupu said that a friend of the deceased had some things they wanted to talk about . As the friend was located fairly close to the area the three were currently at, he asked them to go over for a visit .

Chen Shi said, "Then let’s split up temporarily . I’ll go find Old Peng back at the bureau and you two should go visit the friend to get information . ”

Lin Dongxue mocked, "Captain Peng is always first place in your heart . "

Back at the bureau, Chen Shi went straight to the forensics department . The room was so cold that he could probably freeze to death . The police officers in there were all rubbing themselves trying to warm up . Peng Sijue sat in front of a microscope and looked intently without being bothered by the chill in the air .  

"What's wrong? The forensic squads changed to the Gu Mu clan?"[1] Chen Shi remarked .

A police officer chimed, "The captain is doing experiments on food rot in the refrigerator . "

There was indeed an old refrigerator in the room now . Chen Shi chuckled . "How dedicated!"

Peng Sijue didn’t turn around and said, "The current temperature is 5 degrees . For the ice cream in the refrigerator to melt to that point would take a lot of time… In addition, I also looked at the experimental data from the University of Tennessee . At 30 degrees, the decay of the body will accelerate for five hours . "

"Corpse farm?"

"Yes!"

Three universities in the United States jointly built a corpse farm with various bodies . There were corpses that were put in water, buried, sealed, etc . in order to collect data on the decay of corpses under various situations for the purpose of solving crimes .  

Peng Sijue said, "Was there a power outage on the night of the incident? If so, there would be a five-hour error in the inference of the death time . But how can we confirm that the power outage had occurred that night?"

"On the way back, I suddenly had a conjecture . Maybe the murderer killed the victim at three in the afternoon . Then, they went outside the door and pulled down the power switch . The next morning, they quietly came back and turned the electricity back on . From the perspective of the forensic doctor, the room was always air-conditioned . Therefore, the time of death would be estimated to be less than it actually was . They knew it would be judged that the murder case occurred at 7 o’clock in the evening . However, the house would have been at a normal temperature the whole time . . . This is reverse thinking . If the murderer really did this intentionally, they must be very smart . ”

"Inducing thoughts towards a forensic doctor . That’s too smart . Why would they try and do that?”

"Perhaps for their alibi . When the police find them, they can easily produce an alibi for 7PM that night . "

Peng Sijue indulged in this angle for a moment . "There is another possibility . The power outage might have occurred before . The food in the refrigerator rotted quite a while ago and the murder case actually happened at 7 o'clock that night . Don't forget, the man mentioned that he had a conversation with the victim at 7 o’clock . ”

"I said it was just a conjecture . It’s a bold assumption that requires careful proof . ”

"I think you’re making out the murderer to be more complicated than they actually are . ”

"No, when a person wants to get rid of their sins, they will show more wisdom than usual . This is called desperation . "

"There’s no point in discussing conjectures here . It’s better to go to the scene and look at it again . "

Chen Shi immediately agreed, but then stopped in his tracks . "Wait, I have something for you . " He gave Han Le's hair sample to Peng Sijue, "Compare it with the DNA found on the deceased . "

Peng Sijue gave the hair to one of his assistants . At this time, another police officer came over . "Captain, the results of the sample came out . The DNA matched perfectly to Shao Dahai . "

Chen Shi asked what happened and Peng Sijue explained, "It seems that there’s no need to make a trip over to the crime scene again . The suspect has been confirmed . "

1 . Based on The Legend of Condor Hero, written by Jin Yong . The protagonist’s master and love interest was all part of this clan that slept on this special ice .