Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 6

First of all, I have a question about Lin Yue. As Team Leader Jiang just said, she is very low-key in public, and no one knows that she is a fan of celebrities. We only came to this conclusion after searching her residence.

Although Lin Yue is a fan of celebrities on Weibo, Weibo is not registered under her real name; she uses a screen name, and most people don’t know her real identity. Our police haven’t disclosed this information either. So, how did those stirring up trouble online find out?

“Let me explain this. I only recently discovered it myself. The more underdeveloped a city is, the more people there are who are fans of celebrities, and our small town is no exception. There were already many girls who liked Gu Yang, but after his movie became a huge hit during the Spring Festival, even more people became fans of him.”

Putting aside everything else, I have two of his fans in my family: my wife and my daughter. They talk about Gu Yang all the time when they chat at home, and I can’t get a word in edgewise.

Therefore, those stirring up trouble online may not actually know that the two women are fans; perhaps they are Gu Yang’s rivals deliberately provoking this.

When it came to his own affairs, Ye Jiuzhou was also a little helpless. He couldn’t understand the thing about idol worship at all. It’s just that he’s handsome. Why be so obsessed?

However, the other team members also agreed on this point, as many of their relatives and friends were fans of Gu Yang to varying degrees.

“Okay, let’s put that aside for now and talk about Lin Yue directly. After seeing the photos of Lin Yue at the scene, don’t you guys think there’s something strange about her death?”

“It was a slit throat, the cause of death is clear, what’s strange about it?” Zhang Jun asked. He was also a member of the Major Crimes Unit and the one who was bitten by Guan Hongwei at the scene.

“It’s not easy to explain this directly. Could you show me some photos from the scene?” She looked at Ye Jiuzhou.

Ye Jiuzhou gestured to Xia, who went to the side and fiddled with it for a while, and the photos from the scene appeared on the projector.

“I said it’s strange for two reasons. The first is her posture.” Su Xiaoxiao pointed to Lin Yue’s legs in the photo. “Look at her hands and legs. They don’t look like they fell naturally. They should have been arranged like this by the murderer, especially the way her legs are.”

Everyone has seen the forensic report. The report states that her leg was broken after she died. Why would the murderer break her leg when she was perfectly healthy?

“That’s right, we noticed that too. At first, we thought it was revenge, but we couldn’t find anyone who had a grudge against her. Her family and colleagues all said that she was a homebody, never caused trouble, and had never offended anyone. We investigated her surrounding relationships but found no suspicious people,” Jiang Qing explained.

“Have you considered that it wasn’t an enemy, but rather someone you knew who committed the crime?”

“You mean not someone you know who’s your enemy?”

“Yes, hatred is sometimes not just on the surface. Sometimes, even the people involved may not know how the hatred started.”

I’m not saying this without reason. Look at her eyes. She was stabbed in the throat and died very quickly, so her expression is preserved. Her expression doesn’t show entirely fear, but more astonishment. She didn’t expect this person to kill her.

Furthermore, I think the way the killer arranged her was some kind of ritual. As for the meaning of the ritual, I haven’t figured it out yet. If we can find out why the killer arranged her like this, perhaps we can find the killer.

Su Xiaoxiao’s thought was that Lin Yue was following someone on her way home. She was terrified, but when she turned around and saw that it was an acquaintance, she was overjoyed. Little did she know that it was this acquaintance who had delivered the fatal blow. Therefore, her eyes held not only fear, but also shock and resentment.

This person was an acquaintance, and someone she never dreamed would kill her. Therefore, if the police investigated the people around her, they definitely wouldn’t find anything if they investigated in the direction of her enemies.

At least Lin Yue didn’t know that she had a grudge against this person.

As Su Xiaoxiao was thinking, a familiar notification sound suddenly came to her ears.

[Meow, system task triggered: Find the murderer who killed Lin Yue.]

[Meow, mission complete. You have received a random reward.]

[Meow, mission failed. Two reward skills have been randomly revoked.]

Here it comes again. She hadn’t received any task notifications lately, and she thought the system was dormant. Little did she know, it was waiting for her here.

Why do I only get one reward for completing a task, but lose two for failing? That’s not fair! She only acquired a few skills in total, and one of them was even taken away by the system under some pretext.

[Meow, don’t try to reason with the system. The system’s existence itself is illogical!]

[Meow, good luck, host! I believe in you!]

After listening to Su Xiaoxiao’s analysis, Ye Jiuzhou found it interesting. Seeing that Su Xiaoxiao was lost in thought, he took the initiative to ask, “Is there anything else?”

Su Xiaoxiao came to her senses. She had never won a reasoning battle with the system. Forget it, she decided not to argue with something that wasn’t human. Investigating the case was more important. She continued Ye Jiuzhou’s words.

“Yes, I’d like to talk about the note.”

That evening, someone slipped a note into Guan Hongwei’s taxi. The taxi happened to be parked in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras, so it wasn’t captured on camera. Assuming Guan Hongwei’s account is true and someone did indeed put a note in his taxi, that person would have certainly passed by, and you didn’t see any suspicious individuals nearby.

So, I’d like to ask, if you didn’t see any suspicious people, did you see any familiar faces in the surveillance footage, such as Lin Yue?

“Yes, yes.” Xia raised her hand. “I saw Lin Yue. She appeared on the surveillance footage. Judging from the direction she was going to see a movie, it was just over ten minutes before the movie started.”

“Did you see Wang Chen on the surveillance footage?”

“You mean the owner of that cinema?” Xia thought for a moment. “Yes, he was also seen on the security camera.”

“When was it? Before or after the movie Wang Jue watched?”

“Let me think about it, it should be both. I saw him on the surveillance footage two or three times.”

“Why do you suspect that the boss is the one behind it all?” Ye Jiuzhou was a little surprised. He had a deep impression of Wang Chen because he had injured his arm while saving a girl.

“I didn’t say he was the person behind it, but I think he was very likely the one who left the note.”

I went to Sunshine Cinema last night and chatted with the owner for a while. He didn’t know I was a police officer.

I just watched the surveillance footage from the time of the incident, and I feel that Wang Chen was paying too much attention to Guan Hongwei, exceeding the level of a boss’s attention to a customer.

I hadn’t suspected him before, but after seeing the note, I had this thought. There was a similar notepad on the counter at the cinema, the same color as the note. I suspect he wrote the note, using the notepad from the counter, and that he had the means to do it.

“When we checked the surveillance footage, we did see Wang Chen come and go several times, but he’s the cinema owner, so it’s normal for him to come and go like that,” Jiang Qing said, then suddenly exclaimed, “Wang Chen gave Guan Hongwei a bucket of popcorn while he was waiting, and Guan Hongwei even ate some. We haven’t been able to find out when Guan Hongwei was drugged. My God, could the drug have been put in the popcorn? If he wrote the note, he might have also put the drug in it.”

“Should we investigate first and then decide? But if we do investigate, we should do it quickly. When I was chatting with him yesterday, he said he was closing down today.”

“What?!” Ye Jiuzhou was alarmed. He had finally found a clue, and he couldn’t let it go so easily. He immediately ordered Zhang Jun to take a few team members over and bring the person back first.