Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 42

Su Xiaoxiao thought of something and went directly to see Forensic Doctor Sun. He was the one who handled all three cases, and he also issued the autopsy reports.

Forensic doctor Sun had just finished dissecting the body and was taking off his gloves to wash his hands with disinfectant.

Seeing Su Xiaoxiao approach, he looked up at her through his glasses and gave her a gentle smile.

“Officer Su, is there something you need?”

“Forensic Doctor Sun, I have a question I’d like to discuss with you.”

“you say.”

“You were the one who reported for all three of these cases involving a slit throat. Sun Hongxia’s case seems different from the other two. First, the murder weapon was different, and second, it was committed with the left hand. I’d like to ask if it’s possible that the murderer wasn’t actually left-handed, but deliberately used the left hand to mislead the police.”

Forensic doctor Sun thought for a moment, “It’s not impossible. Sun Hongxia’s wounds aren’t that smooth. There are two possibilities: one is that it was caused by the murder weapon, and the other is that the murderer wasn’t left-handed and wasn’t skilled enough. Do you suspect that the same murderer killed them?”

Su Xiaoxiao did indeed think that way; if Wu Xuejun hadn’t also been killed, she wouldn’t have dared to consider it.

However, Wu Xuejun’s murder gave her a new idea.

After confirming with forensic doctor Sun that this was possible, she wanted to go back to the crime scene to take another look.

Ye Jiuzhou and Wan Yan also wanted to go together, especially Ye Jiuzhou, who was very anxious. After all, the series of murders in his territory was a provocation to their criminal investigation team.

The time of Wu Xuejun’s murder is estimated to be around three or four in the morning, which is the quietest time of day.

It didn’t snow that night, but they still couldn’t find any trace of the murderer.

The murderer was cunning; he left some money around the body, and passersby would rush to snatch it, trampling the ground and completely destroying the footprints.

The few valid footprints extracted all belonged to people in the surrounding area, and it was confirmed that none of them had the opportunity to commit the crime.

Su Xiaoxiao started walking along the route where Sun Hongxia was murdered. She closed her eyes and imagined the murderer passing by in the early morning and seeing Sun Hongxia being driven out of her home by Wu Xuejun.

Watching Sun Hongxia’s retreating figure, he felt a murderous intent rising in his heart. He pulled out a fish-scale knife from the window frame of Zhang Fusheng’s house and followed her.

When she got close to the workers’ shed, Sun Hongxia sensed something was wrong, stopped, and turned around to check.

But she found it was an acquaintance, so she relaxed. The two stood face to face, and the murderer might even comfort her for a few words. Then, taking advantage of her unpreparedness, he raised the fish-scale knife hidden in his hand and slashed her neck. Sun Hongxia died without knowing why she was killed, just like Lin Yue.

Su Xiaoxiao felt that she was right; the murderer must know Sun Hongxia, and not only Sun Hongxia, but also Wu Xuejun.

When she reached the spot where Wu Xuejun was killed, she looked around and roughly understood something.

“Xiaoxiao, do you have an idea?” Wan Yan knew from Su Xiaoxiao’s expression that she already had a plan.

“Yes, I do have some thoughts about Wu Xuejun’s death.”

Look at the spot where Wu Xuejun died. It’s not far from where Sun Hongxia died. Why would he be here at this hour, instead of sleeping at home?

If Sun Hongxia’s death was a spur-of-the-moment decision, then Wu Xuejun’s death was a premeditated act by the murderer.

He killed Wu Xuejun with his usual dagger and then used money to attract people around him to disrupt the crime scene. We have encountered this method in past cases, and it has been used by more than one murderer, and it has always worked.

But how did he know Wu Xuejun was coming here at this time? I suspect they arranged it beforehand.

“What? They made an appointment? How did you guess that?” Ye Jiuzhou was completely bewildered.

“It’s not hard to guess. Did you notice that when we questioned Wu Xuejun about Sun Hongxia’s death, his attitude was very strange?”

What’s strange about it?

“He wasn’t sad at all.”

“It’s not normal that he’s not sad because he has no feelings for Sun Hongxia.”

“No.” Su Xiaoxiao shook her head. “If this were a couple without feelings for each other, it might be normal, but it’s not normal for Wu Xuejun. He’s lazy and gambles, and he’s completely dependent on Sun Hongxia. Now that Sun Hongxia is dead, he has no source of income. Shouldn’t he be sad? But his expression doesn’t seem to worry about his future at all.”

Especially on the day he was released, he seemed very relaxed and even had the mood to banter with you.

“It is indeed a bit strange, so what?” Ye Jiuzhou still couldn’t figure it out.

“So, he may have found another way to make money, and as soon as he was released, he couldn’t wait to realize this path.”

“What way could a scoundrel like him possibly have to make money?!”

“Yes, for example, extortion. Do you remember, according to Wu Xuejun’s confession, after he kicked Sun Hongxia out of the house that night, he found the money Sun Hongxia had hidden in a flowerpot, and then went to the mahjong parlor. Maybe he saw something on his way to the mahjong parlor.”

“You mean, Wu Xuejun may have seen the murderer? That doesn’t make sense, the direction he went was not in the same direction as where Sun Hongxia went.”

“That’s right, they didn’t go in the same direction, but the mahjong parlor he went to was in the same direction as Zhang Fusheng’s house. He may not have seen the murderer kill the person, but he may have seen the murderer take out a knife or put it down. At the time, he may not have known what the murderer was doing.”

However, news of Sun Hongxia’s death spread the next day. With just a little thought, it wasn’t hard to guess that the person he saw was the murderer.

“He saw it but didn’t tell the police. Damn it, he didn’t care about Sun Hongxia’s death at all. It turns out he had planned to extort money from that person all along. So the murderer who killed Wu Xuejun is the same person who killed Sun Hongxia. That doesn’t make sense. The murderer who killed Sun Hongxia was clearly left-handed.”

“At first I couldn’t figure it out either, but I just talked to the forensic doctor Sun and there’s another possibility: the murderer wasn’t left-handed. Sun Hongxia’s wounds weren’t very smooth. We thought it was because of the knife, but it could also be because he deliberately used his left hand and wasn’t skilled enough.”

Although Ye Jiuzhou felt that Su Xiao’s words made some sense, there was still one thing he didn’t understand.

“If the same murderer killed all three of them, what I don’t understand is why he pretended to be left-handed when he killed Sun Hongxia in order to distract the police and prevent them from finding him so quickly, but why didn’t he want to hide when he killed Wu Xuejun? This behavior doesn’t make sense.”

“A cunning killer suddenly acts irrationally, something we’ve encountered in other cases as well. Something special must have happened to provoke him.”