Xiao Wenhui’s behavior was weird in every way. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry and had acquired the relevant expertise to fulfill the objective conditions for the murderer to kill with chemicals.
When Chen Xiumei resigned yesterday, he was not in the Chemical Factory, and no one had proved where he was, so he had plenty of time to commit the crime.
His wife and daughter had died, but the cause of death was false. He lied to the police and concealed the cause of his wife and daughter’s death. It was likely that there was a problem with the cause of death of these two people, which led to the distortion of his mentality to launch his revenge.
But there were still some problems that could not be explained—— Where did he get so much material and where did he make hydrofluoric acid?
Yue Xingwen frowned and said, “The employee information of the Chemical Factory was filled in several years ago, and Xiao Wenhui has not modified it, nor has he mentioned the death of his wife and daughter, so colleagues will think that his wife and daughter are still alive, and believe in his excuse to accompany his daughter to see a doctor. The address in the information is his former residence, and the title deed is registered in his name.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Suppose, if his wife had left other properties, would he have converted them into a laboratory?”
Yue Xingwen also thought so. If another house was secretly converted into a laboratory, where Xiao Wenhui conducted experiments, manufactured and stored large quantities of chemicals, it would explain Xiao Wenhui’s modus operandi.
Xiao Wenhui was the most suspicious, and the key was still to find out the cause of death of his wife and daughter.
Ke Shaobin said, “What is his wife’s name? Didn’t the police find out the cause of death of the two?”
Yue Xingwen opened the information found by the police force to Ke Shaobin. “His wife, Qin Ru, and daughter, Xiao Nianru, are not local. The daughter was studying at the central school, and the police investigated the school. The teacher said that Xiao Nianru suddenly did not come to school a few years ago and called home, her father said that his daughter drowned, and the school expressed condolences and had not been contacted since.”
He paused and said, “In other words, his wife and daughter swam and drowned. This is what he said to the outside world, but the police checked the island’s alert records. Five years ago in the summer, 120 did not receive the record of the car out to rescue Qin Ru and Xiao Nianru. Unless, Xiao Wenhui watched their death, but did not call 120 for help.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “This is so strange! Xiao Wenhui himself was not studying medicine, he couldn’t judge whether his wife and child were saved. Therefore, after discovering that they drowned, his first reaction should be calling 120 for help. Unless, of course, he went out and left his wife and child alone in the hotel, then they drowned while swimming. And then both of them were already dead when he got back…”
Jiang Pingce shook his head. “This speculation is not valid. If he had not been present and his wife and daughter were dead when he came back, then he would have to airlift his wife and daughter’s bodies back or have them cremated locally and bring the urns back.”
Yue Xingwen pointed to the police’s investigation records to show everyone. “What is even more strange is that the police checked the local area and the crematorium in the city, and did not find the cremation records of the mother and daughter, Qin Ru and Xiao Nianru.”
The more Ke Shaobin listened, the more outrageous he felt. “These days, he’s not so bad as to find a deep forest and bury his wife and child’s bodies on the spot, right?!”
“There are no bodies—— His wife and daughter did not die at all.” Xin Yan looked at Ke Shaobin and said word by word, “Sometimes, being alive is more terrible than death.”
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Ke Shaobin was stunned, and finally reacted, “Could it be… disfigured?! His wife and daughter have become so inhuman and ghostly and unable to show their faces at all? Can it only be ‘social death’?”
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Ke Shaobin followed this train of thought and said, “So, the accident of his wife and daughter is likely to be related to his colleagues in the factory?”
Xin Yan said, “Assuming he did not take his wife and daughter to the island for a tour, but his wife and daughter came to the Chemical Factory to find him, and some colleagues accidentally caused them to have an accident, their bodies were corroded, and they could not see people. For the sake of his wife and daughter’s self-esteem, he did not make this matter public, but instead made their social death on the pretext of ‘drowning’.”
Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled. “On the day of the accident between the mother and daughter, they should have gone to the hospital to see a doctor, right? Therefore, what we are looking for is not the patient records of the emergency department of the Central Hospital after the fire, but the dermatology department or burn department of the local major hospital, whether there are any medical records of the mother and daughter.”
With Xin Yan’s reasoning based on the keyword ‘corroded’, everyone’s thinking had also become completely clear.
Xin Yan’s inference could clarify the context of the entire case, from the motive to the means of crime, which was very consistent with the characteristics of the murderer—— The last step was the final step of verification.
The time had reached 3 o’clock in the morning, and Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce. “Your coordinate system skill, can it be used yet?”
Jiang Pingce said, “En, it’s already good.”
Yue Xingwen asked Qin Lu, “How many times can your Plate Movement skill be used?”
Qin Lu said, “It ran out just now, so if you want to use it again, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow night.”
Liu Zhaoqing said with a headache, “It’s estimated that it will be too late tomorrow night, right? What we can think of, the criminal police can definitely think of, moreover, they are more convenient to check the information than us, just one call, and major hospitals will consciously send the information.”
Xu Yishen said, “Without Qin Lu’s Plate Movement, if we want to get out from here, we can only let junior brother dig up the base again.” He looked at Yue Xingwen with a smile, “Or, I use my mitosis and take a look, and if there’s no one around, then I’ll have Xiao Nian dig a passageway for you guys. You guys can use Pingce’s coordinate system to go out and investigate?”
Yue Xingwen simply made a decision, “Alright, senior brother go and explore the way.”
Xu Yishen immediately split into 5 replicas, one of which was directly released to the ground, and after probing for a circle, he returned to the body and said, “It’s quiet outside, and there are no ghostly shadows.”
Yue Xingwen looked at Zhang Xiaonian. “Dig the passageway.”
Zhang Xiaonian quickly used an excavator to dig a secret passage out so that everyone could drill out of the underground base.
Yue Xingwen simply said, “I and Pingce, senior brother Liu, Ke Shaobin, Xin Yan and senior brother Xu will go out, the target is to find the major hospitals in the city, specifically looking for dermatology and burn departments to check the case data five years ago, and see if you can find the cases of Xiao Wenhui’s wife and child.”
Xu Yishen said, “I also have to go to the housing management bureau to check on Xiao Wenhui and other properties in the names of his parents and wife.”
Jiang Pingce said with a low voice, “Hurry up, let’s go now.”
At 3 am, the streets were empty, only a few night owls were active near bars, KTV, and the like. Jiang Pingce flew through the air with the group without attracting anyone’s attention.
Ke Shaobin opened his laptop to find a map of the city. “Go to the Municipal People’s Hospital first…”
Jiang Pingce calculated the parabolic data according to the navigation and let everyone land directly on the roof of the hospital. Based on experience, Liu Zhaoqing quickly found the burn department and dermatology department of the inpatient department, and brought Ke Shaobin to go in through the window to copy the information.
Municipal People’s Hospital, Second Municipal Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical University…
One hospital after another was found, and finally, Ke Shaobin found two familiar names in the burn department of the ‘City Mom and Child Health Care Hospital’ —— Qin Ru and Xiao Nianry, the time of treatment was 5 years ago!
Ke Shaobin excitedly copied the information, and then went to the housing management bureau with everyone.
Xu Yishen found the enquiry center of the Housing Management Bureau, let Ke Shaobin crack the computer password, and then entered the ID card numbers of Xiao Wenhui, Qin Ru and others to inquire about the property. Since the property was now online with real-name registration, soon they found that, in addition to the house in Jingtai Garden, Xiao Wenhui’s wife, Qin Ru, also had a set of property in the suburbs, which was purchased before marriage.
Yue Xingwen quickly entered the progress of the investigation on the chat channel: “Xin Yan’s speculation was correct, Xiao Wenhui’s wife and child did not die, but were corroded by chemicals over a large area of the body and had been treated in the hospital for a while. We also found a property of his wife, in the southern suburb of Yuehua Community, Building 7, no 102.”
Qin Lu asked, “Do you want to go there to investigate now?”
Yue Xingwen said, “That’s right, we’re in a hurry, so we won’t sleep tonight. We’ll head to Yuehua Community after the half-hour cooldown of Pingce’s coordinate system is over.”
Just now, Jiang Pingce had taken everyone around to several hospitals in a row, and the skill had once again fallen into a cooldown. Fortunately, the coordinate system skill of the Mathematics Department could be used again after 30 minutes, which was very easy to use.
Fortunately, everyone was hiding on the roof of the Housing Management Bureau, looking through the treatment record of Xiao Wenhui’s wife and daughter.
Liu Zhaoqing frowned. “His wife and daughter were injured by the concentrated sulfuric acid on the face, corrosion is more than 80%, all the epidermis and dermis were damaged, corrosion reached the muscle layer, even skin grafting is difficult to treat…”
Ke Shaobin whispered, “80%, which is equivalent to the entire face, and it’s really impossible to go to work normally. No wonder he wants to hide his wife and child.” He paused, looked at Xin Yan suspiciously and said, “Since this happened five years ago, why did Xiao Wenhui only start taking revenge recently?”
Xin Yan said, “Let’s go to the Yuehua Community, maybe we can find the answer.”
Half an hour passed quickly, and Jiang Pingce turned on the Coordinate System skill again according to the positioning on the map, and took everyone to the Yuehua Community in the southern suburbs.
This community was far away, and it took Jiang Pingce 15 minutes to get everyone there, even with his fastest motion formula.
7栋，102。
Building 7, number 102.
The doors and windows were closed, and if there were people in the house, they could not break the windows and enter. Yue Xingwen gave Xu Yishen a look and the latter used his ‘mitosis’ skill to directly put a replica into the room to investigate.
After a moment, Xu Yishen opened the door from the house, and his face was a little ugly.
Yue Xingwen asked, “Senior brother, how is it?”
Xu Yishen sighed deeply and said, “Everyone come in and see.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other and walked into the house side by side.
They saw that the entire living room was white everywhere, arranged in the shape of a spiritual hall, and on the wall were the black-and-white portraits of the Qin Ru and Xiao Nianru, the mother and daughter.
This house was located on the first floor and came with a complimentary basement of equal size.
Xin Yan and Ke Shaobin walked down the stairs to the basement, and the spacious space was transformed into a chemistry laboratory, which had a very professional test bench, and many plastic tanks made of polyethylene were neatly placed on the floor.
Ke Shaobin wanted to probe to see, but Xin Yan immediately reached out and pulled him. “Be careful.”
Ke Shaobin stopped alertly, “This is…”
Xin Yan whispered, “Hydrofluoric acid.”
DAMN XIAO WENHUI REALLY WAS THE MURDERER???
NO WAY THAT MEANS THE ESCAPE PART OF THIS LESSON IS ONLY AABOUT TO BEGIN RIGHT?or I really have no faith in the library and am just assuming this lesson will be super difficult
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It’s hard to believe how people can be cruel
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