Chapter 335: Wang Ju: I Haven

"What good can you scare out of it," Xu Mo said helplessly, shaking his head. "She isn't even afraid of a Body Fragment; don't you find that suspicious?"

Hearing that, Chen Ke slightly furrowed his brows and looked toward the old lady beside him.

Yeah, why isn't this old lady afraid of Body Fragments…

You have to know, in a scene like this, even a senior criminal investigator like him feels a bit uneasy; there's no reason an ordinary person wouldn't be scared!

Moreover, according to what the old lady said, she used to be a female worker at a knitting factory, and after retirement she survived by scavenging junk.

That's as ordinary as it gets; for such an ordinary person to see a Body Fragment and remain completely unruffled is rather suspicious.

Including Xiao Li, the local Police officers from Hangcheng now realize they have misunderstood Xu Mo.

Xu Mo never asked blindly; there was a reason he asked that way—the old lady clearly has some issues.

"When I first got here I was already a bit puzzled, and then I started doubting her. How can an ordinary person see a corpse and not be scared, not even a trace of fear on their face?" Xu Mo continued.

"After looking at those Body Fragments, I became even more suspicious, because the blow wound on the victim's occiput was very shallow, indicating the killer had little strength; thus the killer must be either female, or an elderly person, or a child—this matches her perfectly."

"Later I even specifically asked about her job. If she had previously worked in slaughtering, nursing, funeral services, or as a Police officer, then her composure upon seeing Body Fragments would be understandable—those professions are special and can toughen one's nerves. But she said she was a knitting factory worker, so she shouldn't have such nerve."

"Even if we take a thousand steps back, the boldest among ordinary people might at most be unafraid of a whole corpse, but not being scared of Body Fragments… I don't think that exists."

"Furthermore, I just asked her whether she knew the victim. Do you remember how she answered? She said she did."

Having said that, Xu Mo turned his head toward Chen Ke and the others.

"Putting aside your roles as Police, suppose you're just ordinary people—what would be your first reaction upon seeing Body Fragments in a trash can? Would you rummage through the bag, pull out the brain, just to see who the dead person is?"

The few of them shook their heads without a second thought; there's no need to think about it!

An ordinary person would definitely call the Police right away; who the hell would pull out a brain from Body Fragments just to see who died?

Setting aside whether it's scary, as a witness you obviously avoid touching the corpse if possible, because leaving fingerprints would cause trouble.

Besides, even turning over a whole corpse is frightening, let alone flipping through Body Fragments.

Finding a brain among a pile of Body Fragments and recognizing the victim? That's nonsense! Except for people in certain professions, who else would have that nerve?

In this situation, the only one who could know the victim's identity is likely the killer; the only one unafraid of Body Fragments is probably the killer too, since those fragments were chopped up by the murderer—she's scared of a hammer?

The victim's identity first came from this old lady's mouth; after she spoke, the onlookers and Police learned who the victim was.

At this point, the Police realized the killer could very well be the old lady standing before them—the so‑called witness.

Seeing the Police stare at her with suspicion, the old woman grew even more frantic and immediately began to explain.

"No, I'm not the killer! I'm not scared because I've seen a corpse before—my husband died at night, I held him and slept through the night before I realized he was gone... so the second time I saw a corpse, I wasn't as frightened!"

"You've seen a corpse once and now you dare rummage through Body Fragments in a trash can? Do you even believe that yourself? Are a corpse and a Body Fragment the same kind?" Xu Mo retorted.

"I—I didn't dare to flip... I didn't flip anything. I accidentally tore the bag, happened to see that face and learned who died, then I immediately called the Police, didn't touch the bag again, and I'm scared of Body Fragments!"

That explanation has even bigger holes.

Tearing the bag and coincidentally seeing a face? How is that possible?

"The tear in the bag that held the Body Fragments wouldn't let you see a face; the brain was clearly pressed at the bottom of the bag. How could you have seen a face?" Chen Ke countered.

When Xu Mo was flipping the Body Fragments, he was watching from the side.

The bag containing the Body Fragments was indeed torn, but what leaked out was not a brain at all.

He remembered clearly that the brain was pressed at the very bottom of the bag, and because of that, when Xu Mo pieced together the corpse on the ground, the brain was the last part he restored.

He hadn't considered those details before, but after Xu Mo pointed them out, he recalled them.

Logically, the old lady as a witness couldn't possibly know who the victim was, since she couldn't have seen a face, yet she somehow knows the victim's identity.

The result is already obvious… she is the killer.

At this point, the old lady didn't know how to continue her story; she opened her mouth again and again but couldn't utter a single word.

Realizing she could no longer defend herself, she lowered her head and shed tears of remorse.

"When my husband died, rumors claimed I was a jinx to my husband, that he died early because he married me. When my son died, she said I was a jinx to my son. I... I couldn't stand it, so I planned it for a long time, found an opportunity, and killed her."

Seeing the old lady had already confessed, Xiao Li immediately took out the Handcuffs, stepped forward, and shackled her.

The case is solved.

The killer is the very witness who reported the case.

She chose to report the case herself instead of waiting for someone else to discover the corpse, perhaps to use her status as a witness to dispel any suspicion the Police might have during the investigation.

……

At this moment, Wang Ju and his team were still driving toward the scene, less than a kilometer away.

Inside the car.

Wang Ju was truly worried.

"It's still a Fragmented Corpse case, likely tricky. This time the higher-ups are placing great importance on it, demanding we close it within forty‑eight hours… I don't even know if we can solve it within forty‑eight hours."

What he didn't know is that before he arrived, Xu Mo and his team had already solved the case, astonishingly fast…

Just then, Wang Ju's phone suddenly rang; the call was from Xiao Li.

"Hello… what? The case is solved!?" Wang Ju was stunned.

After receiving the report, he immediately set out with his men toward the crime scene, without a second's delay.

And yet he's still on the road, hasn't even reached the scene, and the case is already solved?

It's been less than half an hour! Are you kidding me?