Chapter 158 Abnormal is Unreasonable!

Xu Qingqing's question rang out.

As the case progressed to this point,

basically all the clues were scattered and fragmented.

It required immense brainpower to string them together.

And the more they investigated, the more mysteries appeared.

Did Wen Guodong's appearance have anything to do with the victim, Yan Lili?

Or rather, including the killer,

did the three of them have a connection?

"I'm afraid those questions can only be answered once the killer is caught."

Long Hao thought for a long time before finally giving this answer.

"Chen Mo, what do you think?"

Xu Qingqing hadn't placed much hope in Long Hao to begin with.

At this moment, Chen Mo was the key figure to breaking through the mystery.

"We need to sort out the overall situation of the case first."

A calm voice came from Chen Mo's mouth; he wasn't in a hurry to respond.

Just as Xu Qingqing thought, he also felt that all the current clues were too fragmented.

They couldn't be pieced together.

In an instant, the Clear Mind within his mind began to work,

helping him organize all the circumstances of the current case.

Wen Guodong arrived in Xining three days ago; his purpose for coming to Xining was very likely to meet the killer.

So, was there any chat history between them?

If so, could they track the killer's whereabouts through the content?

And the victim, Yan Lili, met someone at the hotel last night through a forum.

Who was the person who asked her to come?

Was it the killer?

If it was the killer, then this whole thing was a deliberate setup!

First, find a shield, then commit the murder.

Therefore, the current focus of the case is why the killer wanted to kill!

Or rather, why kill Yan Lili!?

"There are no defensive wounds on the victim, nor any signs of sexual assault."

"This indicates that the victim was not beaten before her death and, naturally, did not resist."

"Based on the dress the victim was wearing, she clearly wasn't prepared for death."

"This proves that she came to the hotel simply to take a job."

Chen Mo murmured as he organized the existing situation.

At the same time, the Clear Mind in his head was constantly helping him eliminate useless clues,

retaining only the most important ones.

A moment later, his eyes lit up as if he had thought of something.

"Actually, it seems we've all overcomplicated the problem."

"The reason the victim didn't resist might not be some profound or mysterious point at all."

"Do you remember what was said before? The killer might have some kind of leverage over the victim and could order her to die!"

Early on, everyone had speculated about this point.

It was only because the Wen Guodong incident cropped up that they temporarily abandoned this line of thought.

"Leverage?"

"The killer had leverage over the victim, so he forced her to jump?"

Xu Qingqing quickly ran the question through her mind and then spoke up.

"For Yan Lili, her leverage would be nothing more than her part-time job."

"So, the killer used her part-time job to force her to jump?"

"If it were a stranger, no one would care about what a prostitute does, so the victim and the killer likely knew each other!"

The more they spoke, the clearer the case became.

A look of approval appeared in Chen Mo's eyes.

Communicating with smart people was indeed easy.

He just had to start, and the other person would voice his thoughts.

"Exactly. No one would care about Yan Lili's part-time job; even if they did, they would only discuss it behind her back like her roommates."

"To drive someone to death, there must be another reason."

As he spoke, he combined the fact of Yan Lili's part-time job to reach the most realistic answer.

"A boyfriend!"

To be more precise, Yan Lili's boyfriend.

"Right!"

"If the killer is the victim's boyfriend, then everything makes sense!"

Sun Yi nodded repeatedly among the group.

Her expression also looked as if this must be the case!

The girlfriend goes into the sex industry, the boyfriend feels humiliated, so he uses the internet to set up a meeting with her.

Then, with the evidence in hand, he forces his girlfriend to jump as an apology to him.

Afterward, he frames everything on the suspicious but missing Wen Guodong.

As long as the police can't find Wen Guodong, they definitely won't find him.

"But Yan Lili's file doesn't mention a boyfriend."

Xu Qingqing flipped through the file and looked again.

If there was no boyfriend, then everything they just said didn't exist; it was purely a groundless guess.

"Captain Ji."

Chen Mo's gaze turned toward Ji Feng.

The meaning in his eyes was obvious.

Had the victim's romantic relationships been investigated?

"That was investigated, of course, but not deeply enough. We only asked her roommates."

"They were either unclear or said she didn't have one."

Ji Feng shrugged and then pointed toward the elevator.

He meant that if needed, he could help conduct another in-depth investigation now.

"Sorry to trouble you, Captain Ji."

"The victim's relationship with her roommates probably wasn't very good."

Chen Mo explained why he wanted the other party to do another in-depth investigation.

This one sentence actually explained it all.

If the victim's relationship with her roommates was bad,

then whether the victim was dating or not, she naturally wouldn't tell them.

Not knowing or being unclear naturally didn't mean there wasn't one.

"Eh? You haven't even met the victim's roommates, how did you analyze that?"

Ji Feng didn't care about the rest, but when it came to meeting the victim's roommates,

he had gone personally.

And regarding the roommates' attitude toward Yan Lili, if he remembered correctly, he hadn't mentioned it just now.

How did Chen Mo know something he hadn't even said?

To this question from Ji Feng,

a faint smile appeared on Chen Mo's face.

"I've heard of that school you mentioned; it's not some school for the elite."

"So the majority are children from ordinary families."

"Yet the victim bought designer bags, wore big-brand clothes, and worked some very lucrative but undisclosed part-time job."

"People are naturally envious; it's normal for Yan Lili to be ostracized."

This was determined by human nature.

It had nothing to do with Reasoning.

A beggar won't envy a multi-billionaire, but he will envy a beggar who is better fed than him.

"Makes sense. When her roommates mentioned Yan Lili, their impressions were indeed not great."

"Then I'll head out first. Wait for my good news!"

With that, Ji Feng took large strides and quickly left.

The scene suddenly fell silent for a moment.

"Don't just stare at each other."

Chen Mo signaled for everyone to analyze what should be done next

if the victim really did have a boyfriend.

Soon, voices rose in small groups.

"Arrest him, just arrest him directly. I specialize in interrogation!"

"We should investigate his boyfriend's mental state, of course. Because forcing someone to jump just because their girlfriend took a part-time job doesn't seem like something a mentally stable person would do."

This was actually true.

No matter how angry or unable to accept it one was,

a normal person in a rage would hit!

Or curse, break up, and so on.

Driving someone to jump was definitely not the logic of a normal person.

Saying her boyfriend had mental issues wasn't just talk.

"Yes, I also have doubts about the killer's mental state."

Xu Qingqing rested her chin on her hand, lost in thought.

"Cause and effect."

She said these words in a somewhat uncertain voice.

"The cause is Yan Lili's prostitution; the effect is the boyfriend driving her to death!"

"According to your previous logic, Chen Mo, any abnormality is a problem."

"So, I speculate that the killer didn't drive her to death simply because of the prostitution."

"There must be other factors!"

Chen Mo nodded slightly at her words.

He actually agreed with this and was also thinking about the issue.

If it were just Yan Lili's prostitution, after finding out, the boyfriend should be unable to accept it, unable to understand, and then angry.

Cursing, hitting, and such.

But the killer's behavior was completely inconsistent with public perception.

Either he really was mentally ill,

or there were other factors that intensified his emotions.

For example,

if the value needed to drive someone to death is 10,

and the value of Yan Lili's prostitution is 5,

then the remaining 5 is still needed to reach 10.

That is, the killer's reason for driving her to death.

A part like that is currently missing.

Even saying the killer was mentally ill could actually fill that gap.

But as it stands, the killer was someone who had found a scapegoat before committing the crime.

And before leaving room 705, he even cleaned the room thoroughly.

In that case, the argument that the killer had mental issues doesn't quite hold up.

"There indeed are other factors."

Chen Mo pinched the bridge of his nose.

He suddenly thought of a problem that gave him a headache.

If the killer really was because he felt his girlfriend was a prostitute,

and drove her to death in a rage,

then there should be injuries on the victim's body.

The more he cared about his girlfriend's part-time job,

the more hatred he would actually feel in his heart!

If he could go as far as driving her to death,

could he really not bear to lay a hand on her?

To give a simple example,

the chair you're sitting on suddenly falls apart, giving you a painful fall and making you extremely angry.

Then you decide to use the chair as firewood the next day.

At this time, would you be unable to bear kicking the chair once to vent your anger?

No.

You'd only hate that the chair didn't fall apart earlier or later, but chose to fall apart exactly when you sat down.

So, if the victim's boyfriend was really angry because of the part-time job,

the reality is that Yan Lili should have had injuries on her body.

At the very least, he would have grabbed her hand and asked her why she did it.

And grabbing someone's hand in anger wouldn't be light.

There would be some marks left behind, more or less.

But Wu Tian, who examined the body, said there were none.

This is very abnormal, and it's giving him a bit of a headache.

Because it means there might be other reasons involved.

It's not necessarily one hundred percent because of the part-time job.

"I understand what you mean, Brother Mo. Before the killer drove Yan Lili to her death, there should have been some questioning or conflict."

"But I carefully examined the body, and there really wasn't."

"And the victim still had chewing gum in her mouth; she was clearly in a relaxed state before she died."

"If there really was an argument or conflict, the gum would likely have been spat out voluntarily."

The more he spoke, the tighter Chen Mo's brow furrowed.

Yeah.

The more they analyzed, the less the killer seemed to have acted because the victim was a part-time prostitute.