Chapter 302: Could this be a coincidence?

The two victims' social circles had no overlap at all, indicating that even if their deaths were homicides, the killer would not be the same person; their deaths can be said to have no connection.

Both surveillance recordings showed no signs of tampering... This means the two victims really did commit suicide—is Han Fei just being overly suspicious?

Han Fei began to feel a bit at a loss.

His intuition told him this wasn't a simple suicide case.

But all the evidence indicated that the two victims had indeed committed suicide.

Those two surveillance recordings are the most direct evidence.

For a long period before and after the two went up to the rooftop, the surveillance recorded no one else entering the rooftop area, and the recordings had not been tampered with, which strongly indicates the situation.

Han Fei scratched his head and looked at Xu Mo.

"Do you have any ideas?"

"This definitely isn't suicide but homicide; otherwise it doesn't make sense—I do have a Detective Conan physique…" Xu Mo pondered: "I still feel it's homicide, but the information we currently have is insufficient to prove this view."

Han Fei nodded.

"I also feel it's homicide, especially the first victim we found—how could he commit suicide just because he lost a few hundred thousand in stock trading? He isn't short of that money."

But the problem is that all the current evidence indicates that both victims died by suicide.

Without sufficient evidence to prove the two died of homicide, Xu Mo's and Han Fei's opinions can only be considered unfounded.

Han Fei is a veteran detective with deep experience; his intuition is usually reliable and seldom wrong.

Xu Mo, on the other hand, has a Detective Conan physique, meaning any case he encounters is definitely not a simple suicide.

Logically, when these two people agree, the matter must be exactly as they think.

Yet they simply cannot find the corresponding evidence to prove their view.

Investigating a case requires suspicion, that's true, but relying solely on suspicion without any evidence is unworkable.

If we can't even find evidence proving the two victims died of homicide, then this case certainly cannot be pursued further.

At this point, Han Fei faces the choice of either continuing to investigate stubbornly, trying every way to prove that the two victims died by suicide,

or simply give up the investigation and declare that both victims committed suicide.

After repeatedly going over every detail of the two suicide cases in his mind,

Han Fei still found no evidence that could prove the two victims died of homicide.

He began to doubt his own intuition, wondering if his intuition had gone wrong.

Could it be that handling too many cases too frequently lately has given him occupational aftereffects… so that even encountering two suicide cases, he involuntarily casts them as a serial murder case?

For a moment, Han Fei fell into indecision.

He was considering whether or not to announce that the two victims had committed suicide.

However, just then, the police station's operator received another alarm call.

The witness claimed to have personally seen someone jump to their death.

Office.

"Another suicide?" Han Fei staggered upon hearing the news.

"Yes, I just received the alarm call; the caller said they personally witnessed someone jump to their death, the location being the Guojin Building," the operator replied.

Another jump-to-death suicide?

Originally, Han Fei was still torn, wondering if his intuition was faulty and he was overthinking.

But now he has no hesitation at all.

In less than twenty-four hours, three people have committed suicide in succession, and all by jumping?

Could this still be a coincidence?

Impossible, absolutely impossible—how could things be that coincidental!

When things go awry, there must be something foul.

At this moment, Han Fei became even more convinced of his earlier idea—this is definitely not an ordinary suicide!

He immediately summoned the officers, preparing to go inspect the scene.

Guojin Building.

"The victim is about twenty years old, time of death less than half an hour ago, preliminary judgment is also death from a fall, no other injuries on the body, just like before there was no physical altercation prior to death," Xu Mo briefly examined the corpse.

This time the jumper was a female.

Like the previous two victims, she fell headfirst and died instantly on impact.

"How is this again?" Wang Dachuan muttered: "I'm also starting to feel this isn't a simple suicide……"

Earlier, Han Fei firmly believed the victims were homicides, not suicides.

The other officers, however, were skeptical about this.

But within twenty-four hours, three such incidents occurred consecutively, making the other officers also feel something was off.

When did the suicide rate get so high?

And they're all jumps to death!

You know, in this jurisdiction, jumping to death as a suicide used to happen only once every few months or even a year.

Now they've suddenly appeared in clusters, which is highly unreasonable!

"It's daytime now, there should be witnesses, right?" Han Fei looked at the nearby Wang Dachuan: "Go ask the onlookers if anyone actually saw the victim jump the whole way, and bring them over so I can get the details."

In the previous two suicide cases, the victims fell at night, so there were no witnesses.

In both cases, someone discovered the body before reporting to the police.

But this time is different.

The time the deceased fell from the building was during the day.

This is still a bustling district, with people coming and going; there should be witnesses.

Before long, Wang Dachuan brought a person who claimed to be a witness to Han Fei.

"Han Team, this person says he is a witness; he saw the whole process with his own eyes."

Hearing that, Han Fei turned his head toward the man Wang Dachuan had brought.

"Did you see the deceased jump off the building just now?"

"Um." The man glanced at the corpse covered with a white cloth, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his face turned deathly pale, as if his mind was haunted by a shadow: "I… I saw her jump from above with my own eyes."

"Was it she who jumped herself or was she pushed? Did you see clearly? Was anyone with her at the time?"

The man thought for a moment, then said tremblingly.

"I… didn't… I didn't notice; it happened too fast, and the building is a bit high, I couldn't see the roof clearly. I just remember that when I unintentionally looked up, I saw a vague little dot on the roof that looked like a person, and then that person came down, landing less than twenty meters in front of me, all covered in blood… Then I called the police."

Han Fei looked up at the roof.

He found that, indeed as the man said, looking up from below, it was hard to see clearly.

One, the distance was too great; two, the light was against it.

Questioning the witness is probably of little use.

"Alright, thank you for cooperating," Han Fei said to the man.

He then looked at Wang Dachuan.

"You stay down here and guard, I'll take a few people up to have a look."

In the first two suicide cases, the Rooftop had been washed by last night's wind and rain, leaving no usable clues.

But this time is different; the rain last night stopped at midnight.

This time, perhaps the hair will still be blown away and not stay, but fingerprints and footprints will definitely remain!

Maybe this time we can find some useful clues…