Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 48

“I was also completely baffled as to why the murderer would kill Lin Yue, but today we interviewed Lin Yue’s roommates, as well as Li Jingge’s roommates and her admirer Lu Ran, and I discovered something.”

“What’s wrong?” Zhang Jun was also a little curious. For the first time, he felt that his brain wasn’t working properly.

Regarding Li Jingge’s idol worship, Lin Yue’s roommate and Li Jingge’s roommate have different stories. Lin Yue’s roommate said that Lin Yue does not worship idols, but because her friend does, she helps her follow them and even helps her friend snatch magazines and the like.

However, what we heard from Li Jingge’s counselor and her roommate was that Lin Yue had led Li Jingge astray and that Lin Yue was the one who was getting her involved in idol worship.

There must be one of them lying.

We can actually draw a conclusion about who is lying by analyzing the situation.

Li Jingge’s roommates had a reason to lie because Li Jingge had died, the police came to investigate, and the two people who spread rumors were taken to the police station. The others, fearing that they would be implicated, chose to protect themselves and shifted the blame to Li Jingge’s friend, saying that she had led Li Jingge astray. In this way, Li Jingge’s affairs would have nothing to do with them.

Lin Yue’s roommates had no reason to lie. Even if Lin Yue died, she died in Wutong, which had nothing to do with them. Therefore, they had no need to lie.

Lu Ran, an admirer of Li Jingge, also said that he was angry because her roommates lied, so he pretended to be a ghost to scare them.

However, the murderer was unaware of their lies. If the murderer had believed them, it wouldn’t have been difficult to find out who Li Jingge’s friends were.

If the reason the murderer killed Li Jingge’s parents was that they chose to call the police when Li Jingge sought help, then the reason the murderer killed Lin Yue was that she led Li Jingge astray. If she hadn’t led Li Jingge down the path of idol worship, Li Jingge wouldn’t have been involved in naked loans and wouldn’t have died.

Therefore, the murderer killed Lin Yue because she was also part of the cause of Li Jingge’s death.

That’s how things are in this world. In the eyes of Li Jingge’s roommates, their words of shirking responsibility might have been just an insignificant lie to them, but this seemingly insignificant lie took the life of an innocent person.

“Xiaoxiao, if your speculation is correct, and someone is avenging Li Jinge, then the first few people on the list you made—Li Jinge’s parents, Shen Fei, Wu Xiaoyan, and Lin Yue—all have reasons for being killed by the murderer. But what about the last two people, Sun Hongxia and Wu Xuejun? What is their connection to Li Jinge’s death?”

Zhang Jun raised a question: he understood the first part, but what about the second part? Sun Hongxia and Wu Xuejun had never lived in the same city as Li Jinge, so how could they be related to Li Jinge’s death?

“That’s right. On the surface, the deaths of these two people seem to have nothing to do with Li Jinge, but the murderer must have had a reason to kill them, we just haven’t found it yet.”

Actually, she already had a guess in her mind, but she needed them to verify it.

“Xiaoxiao, is there anything we can help you with?” Luo Xuan asked.

“There is indeed something I need your help with. I’d like you to help me investigate someone.”

“who?”

“Qin Guan, I need to know his whereabouts after Li Jingge’s death, and the reason for his departure, the more details the better.”

“You don’t suspect Qin Guan is the murderer, do you?” Zhang Jun and Luo Xuan both widened their eyes.

“Can’t we have any doubts?” Su Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow.

Ever since she saw the photos of Li Jingge’s death scene, she has become suspicious of Qin Guan.

When Lin Yue died, Qin Guan was the first policeman to arrive at the scene. He was also the policeman handling Li Jingge’s case, and Li Jingge died right in front of him. He could not possibly forget how Li Jingge died, but he never mentioned it.

Even if he couldn’t see Lin Yue’s body clearly because it was covered by snow, he also went to the scene of Wu Xuejun’s death. How could he not have noticed the abnormality of Wu Xuejun’s death?

However, he didn’t mention it either time. It wasn’t until Su Xiaoxiao discovered Li Jinge’s death that Ye Jiuzhou remembered Qin Guan had also worked in the Haicheng Criminal Investigation Team and asked him to come over to inquire. Only then did he tell him about Li Jinge.

Although Captain Ye had checked the alibis of the police officers who were present that day, as a former criminal investigator familiar with police investigation procedures, it shouldn’t be difficult for him to create an alibi.

Su Xiaoxiao had speculated that Lin Yue’s death was committed by someone she knew, and it was normal for Qin Guan, a local police officer, to know her.

If Qin Guan was the murderer, Lin Yue had just experienced the movie theater murder on her way home that day and was in a state of panic. At that moment, she happened to run into someone she knew, who was also a policeman. She would definitely be happy. Who would interview a policeman she knew? She was killed without any warning and would never understand why he killed her until her death.

Sun Hongxia was the same. She was kicked out of her home by her husband on a snowy night and walked alone on the road. She must have felt sad and scared. At that time, she met a policeman she knew. The policeman comforted and reassured her. He might have been smiling when he killed her.

As for Wu Xuejun, he probably went to the mahjong parlor after finding the money at home. He inadvertently saw someone putting something into the frame on Zhang Laifu’s window. It was someone he knew. He might have casually taken a picture of that person. At the time, he didn’t think it would be of any use. He just took the picture out of a gambler’s intuition.

The next day, when he learned that Sun Hongxia had been murdered, anyone who wasn’t too stupid should have been able to guess that what he saw was the murderer.

This scoundrel wasn’t thinking about catching the murderer to avenge his wife; he was thinking about how to extort money from this person.

He was detained for three days. After he was released, he couldn’t wait to contact the man, wanting to get the money and leave this small place.

Little did he know that the money would become his death warrant; with his intelligence, how could he possibly be a match for the murderer?

If Qin Guan hadn’t broken Wu Xuejun’s leg and put him in that position, Su Xiaoxiao would have thought it was just an ordinary case.

However, since the murderer completed the ritual he wanted after killing Wu Xuejun, Wu Xuejun was someone he was going to kill anyway, and he would have died whether he sought death or not.

He killed Sun Hongxia on his own initiative, and there may be other reasons why the ritual was not completed.

Su Xiaoxiao felt that these two people were somehow connected to Li Jingge’s death, or at least that’s what the murderer thought.

Qin Guan is the person who best fits the criteria for the murderer. He was a criminal police officer, knew all the details of Li Jingge’s case, and knew how to evade police investigation. This can be seen from the fact that the police found no clues at several crime scenes.

His presence at the crime scene was so brazen that it aroused no suspicion from anyone.

“But what reason does Qin Guan have to avenge Li Jinge? Is it just because he feels guilty that Li Jinge wouldn’t have died if they had arrived earlier? We’re police officers, not gods. We can’t save everyone. Isn’t that something that happens all the time?!”

This was a question shared by Luo Xuan and Zhang Jun, but Su Xiaoxiao knew the answer was definitely not that.

There must be some unknown connection between Li Jingge and Qin Guan; what they need to do now is to find out that connection.