Chapter 387

"You can do deductions?"

Chen Fan said, "Bruises were found on the child's body. Come on, no matter how capable a criminal is, it's hard for them to bring themselves to beat a child. How twisted would you have to be to actually beat a child?"

Li Tian was speechless and said, "What you mean by that is, you're hoping this killer isn't all that evil, right?"

"Then what do you think?"

Li Tian fell silent. Because what Chen Fan said was the truth.

"How else did you see it?"

"The woman's palm and her ring, and the man's overall appearance, all indicate this family wasn't doing well. And when I moved the corpse just now, the woman had a slight spinal injury, and she might have breast cancer."

Damn, are you some kind of immortal?

"You can tell all that?"

"Yes, because once I touch the woman, if her body's specs are off, there are two possibilities: one, she's had plastic surgery; two, she's sick. Given this family didn't have much money, I'm leaning toward sick."

Li Tian was thoroughly impressed and gave Chen Fan a thumbs-up right away. Clearly, this skill looked pretty perverted, but at the crucial moment, it was genuinely useful.

However.

Both Chen Fan and Li Tian knew that because this killer had an accomplice, the case would be hard to judge.

In the observation room, Teacher He said, "What does it mean that there's an accomplice?"

Qin Ming said, "An accomplice means the killer has grown old. An accomplice means this murderer is doing something he believes is worth passing down. It means this murderer is actually doing a kind thing every year."

A kind thing?

That word appearing doesn't bode well.

Meanwhile, Chen Fan followed Li Tian to the area near the factory, looking at the things left behind inside.

The traces here indicated that three people had actually died here.

"This is the scene. Usually, when this person commits a crime, he'll bring a family of three to one area, use rope to end their lives, and then arrange them on the open ground."

Chen Fan said, "Mm, then what can I do?"

"Look around. I hope the fingerprints match up."

Chen Fan nodded, took the toolbox, and searched the area.

Several officers were also searching, but unfortunately, apart from fingerprints, nothing extra was found.

The fingerprints matched, but the fingerprint database had nothing on them at all, which meant these two people had no prior criminal record.

If that's the case, the case would return to square one.

Li Tian said, "Go back. We'll keep looking. Go back and do the autopsy. Your teacher's intention was actually to use your way of thinking to look at this case."

"My intuition?"

"Yes."

Chen Fan stood at the top of the factory floor, looked down, and said, "I think, if it were me, I wouldn't choose to kill a family of three."

"Why?"

"Because killing them means nothing, it doesn't prove anything. Committing a crime and making all this, I'd only be doing it to grab attention. But what I see isn't attention—it's something else."

Chen Fan pointed at the marks here and said, "These are kneeling, and the way they fell shows the dead regretted it before they died. I don't know who regretted it, but if I stubbornly keep doing this year after year, it can only mean I'm not killing—I'm here to fulfill a contract."

Fulfill a contract?

"You mean?"

"Mm, my intuition tells me that among these three people here, someone asked for this family to be killed."

Kill a family.

Someone asked for it.

Li Tian said quietly, "Then actually, I already know who it is."

"You know?"

Li Tian said, "It's the child."

The child?

Holy shit.

Chen Fan was startled and said, "How did you deduce that?"

Li Tian took out some photos and said, "These are photos I found near the dead family's home. A little flower, not a very big little flower, but these are the only common point."

"Go back and do the autopsy. I hope the autopsied corpse can give me an accurate answer."

Chen Fan returned to the forensic office.

The child's body was still preserved. Chen Fan looked at the child and said, "Those two?"

"The third one's yours. The first two didn't turn up anything."

Chen Fan silently took out a knife, cut open the belly, and searched through the stomach and intestines.

Soon he found a piece of candy that wasn't very conspicuous.

Li Tian looked at the candy and said, "This... this wasn't here before."

Chen Fan said, "A new accomplice also means a new pattern. A new pattern, new young people naturally bring new methods, and candy is the best trick many young people nowadays use to coax children."

Looking at the candy, Li Tian said, "Can we find out where the candy was bought?"

Chen Fan said, "I'm a person, not an immortal. I can't look that up, but I can tell the candy's date."

?????

"What do you mean."

"How many days until it expires, I can find out."

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Are you a devil?

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