Chapter 11 - Time to Showcase True Skills
Chapter 11: Time to Showcase True Skills
In his previous life, Xiao Yu was not only good at solving cases.
But what he was better at was… simulating criminals!
Simulating the criminal’s mental activities, simulating the criminal’s modus operandi, simulating everything about the criminal!
Guo Qiang, standing beside him, suddenly felt a surge of hostility emanating from Xiao Yu, which startled him.
An experienced detective’s eyes are sharp.
They can notice changes in others.
They can sense things that ordinary people cannot.
Xiao Yu’s change indeed surprised him.
“No need to be nervous, I’m simulating the criminal’s mindset.”
Xiao Yu explained as he walked into the employee dormitory.
It’s time to showcase true skills…
Following behind with a puzzled look, Guo Qiang couldn’t quite understand.
He didn’t ask either, just felt that his apprentice’s current state was quite strange.
He understood simulating the crime scene.
But simulating the criminal’s mindset, what was that?
Could someone really simulate another person’s mental activities?
How would Guo Qiang know that the young man in front of him was a transmigrator?
Having been a proper policeman in his previous life, Xiao Yu was best at simulating the criminal’s mindset.
He used this skill to solve countless major cases!
“Assuming I am the killer…”
Xiao Yu stood at the door of the victim’s old dormitory room, pushing the door open.
It was an eight-person dormitory.
An employee dormitory housing so many people was normal, unlike a college dorm.
He walked to the victim’s former bed.
“It was night, from the victim’s mobile game records, he should have been lying in bed playing games.”
Xiao Yu muttered to himself, “Winter night, ordinary people wouldn’t want to get out of bed. Even if someone called, they wouldn’t usually put on clothes and go out, right? Unless there’s a reason forcing him to get up, forcing him to follow the killer…”
What could force someone to get up in the middle of the night, go to the rooftop, and face the cold wind?
Temptation? Threat? Hatred?
As for interest and greed… a regular employee wouldn’t be involved at that level.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t be working overtime in a small factory during the New Year.
Moreover, the victim was resting in the dormitory due to a cold.
Temptation?
Probably not, there were only two female employees in the dormitory, and they were not particularly attractive.
Besides, going to the rooftop to have fun on a cold winter night, how much fake wine do you need to drink?
So that leaves only threat and hatred.
To threaten someone, you need leverage, a higher status, or to oppress their life?
Hatred is simple… no, it shouldn’t be hatred either.
If the victim had a grudge with someone, the police should have found out with their investigation ability.
The victim had been working in this small factory for over half a year, was a good person, had many friends, and was good-looking, so a few female employees liked him.
All this was found out by the police.
“Threat?”
Xiao Yu half-closed his eyes, muttering, “If I were the killer, how would I threaten someone to follow me to the rooftop?”
“Wait… wrong, why would I threaten an ordinary employee? What would make me want to kill him?”
“Killing requires a reason, and for me to be so angry as to want to kill someone, they must have infringed on some of my interests.”
“Given the victim’s status, money is unlikely, and he has no record of misconduct, so… is it a love affair, a conflict between a man and a woman?”
Could a love affair lead to murder?
Ha!
Not only possible, but in past murder cases.
At least fifteen percent were due to love affairs.
The most common, a partner being cheated on, leading to murder!
“The killer was cheated on?”
Xiao Yu’s expression turned strange.
If the killer was male, and the victim was the one who cheated with his partner.
Then the killer found the victim, mentioned the affair, and threatened the victim to follow him.
Is it possible?
Yes!
Assuming this, continue reasoning.
I am the killer, I took the victim to the rooftop…
On the rooftop.
Xiao Yu stood where the victim’s body was found.
“If I were the killer, choosing such a time to lure the victim to the rooftop… it’s obvious.”
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Yu’s eyes, “I came to kill!”
Before killing, I must have made a thorough plan.
So… I must have prepared the murder weapon in advance?
The weapon should have been placed on the rooftop before meeting the victim?
Otherwise, seeing the weapon, why would the victim follow me?
Xiao Yu looked up, scanning the surroundings.
The police had searched the crime scene countless times and found no murder weapon.
But, for the killer to transport the body while carrying a blunt weapon capable of killing, it would be inconvenient, right?
So, the weapon is likely still at the scene?
If I were the killer, where would I hide it before the crime?
Where would I hide it after the crime?
Xiao Yu’s eyes scanned every inch of the rooftop.
Small base station signal tower, small storage room, waste pile, ventilation shaft, and drainage pipes…
Xiao Yu began a thorough search, not missing a single spot.
Until he finally stood in front of a drainage pipe.
Every building has drainage pipes to prevent water accumulation on the rooftop.
This dormitory building had four drainage pipes at the four corners of the rooftop.
Generally, no one would check these places because they seem meaningless, unable to hide anything.
But…
Xiao Yu checked from the first drainage pipe until he reached the third one.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
When his hand slowly stretched out from where the drain connects to the pipe.
A trace of dried, dark purple blood appeared on his fingernail.
Dried blood.
Found it!