Chapter 459: Public Trial

In the dead of night, inside a villa, the livestream was switched on.

At that moment the director was taken aback; upon seeing the unusual villa setting, the director knew the thing he'd most worried about had happened.

Long before, someone had told the director that livestreaming had its good side and its bad side.

The good side was that you could see a lot of evil, a lot of problems, and that way the viewers could get drawn in and follow along.

Or follow along and start to care.

But the bad side was, if someone used the livestream to do shady things, the impact would be huge.

At that moment, inside the villa, a man held a gun in his hand, and two men stood to one side, observing the people in the middle.

Inside the villa, Chen Fan sat on the sofa, sipping tea contentedly.

The man on one side said, "Hello everyone, viewers, hello, I'm the man who kidnapped Chen Fan, you can call me Boss."

The other man was Second, and the one holding the gun was Third.

The three of them got together, three brothers, and had kidnapped a public bus, along with the passengers on the bus.

And at that moment, Li Tian, who had been about to go to sleep, sat bolt upright, looked at the livestream, and nearly burst out laughing.

"Holy crap, this 093 Chen Fan, playing such a big game?"

Chen Fan had been kidnapped — that was the first reaction of every viewer.

The second reaction was: are the kidnappers okay? The kidnappers can't be dead, right?

In the livestream, Boss said, 'This time I invited everyone here because I want to talk about an interesting case with you. These few people here are all participants in this case, and they're also the people my sister saw that day.'

The people my sister saw?

Sister? 》

Chen Fan asked Boss for the photos and the files, and began looking through them.

Liu Mengyan said, 'I know this case — it's a disappearance case. People have been vanishing during this period, but we can never find them, have no idea where they went. The police have been tracking and investigating the whole time.'

"When exactly did it start?"

'The first person to report it was a little after ten at night, three months ago — the parents finally couldn't reach their child, so they called the police.'

Chen Fan thought it over for a moment and said, "Oh, seems like it takes time before you can confirm whether a person has actually disappeared."

Boss looked at Chen Fan and said, "I don't have the bodies. What I could find were these people, and some photos. These photos are different from the police's — I took them myself. I hope you can help out."

Chen Fan said, "Let me take a look. Let me say this first — I don't do deductions."

"I know, I do."

Boss was very confident.

By now the viewers had already exploded. Holy crap, this absolutely isn't acted.

Is this the real-life version — villa deduction case?

It's a little theater, an absolute classic among classics, alright?

Everyone's emotions were up now. As for safety, nobody worried — because Chen Fan was here, the ones who should worry were the kidnappers.

There were three kidnappers in total. They'd originally planned to observe these people on the bus, but after being exposed by Chen Fan, they had no choice but to bring them to the villa to take another look.

In the photos were some locations where his own sister had appeared.

Chen Fan looked at the photos and said, 'I'm a forensic doctor. What forensic medicine values is evidence — real evidence. Like fingerprints, like certain things left in a person's daily trail.'

Boss said, 'My sister's body was very weak. She'd actually already gotten a terminal illness. We also got hold of my sister's suicide note. That day, my sister actually meant to kill herself, but I'm firmly convinced my sister disappeared — or was murdered.'

Chen Fan said, "Murdered, disappeared — if you want to lump them into one category, that's hard. Why are these cases being lumped together?"

Boss said, 'Because they all boarded this bus, and after reaching their destination, they vanished.'

Chen Fan said, "Disappeared? Then go ask the driver, won't you? Wouldn't the driver know?"

The driver stepped forward and said, "I don't know either. I just drive every day. After I reach the destination, I park the bus at the depot and go home. People disappearing — how would I know anything about that?"

Chen Fan was speechless and said, "Ttraceology, forensic anthropology — they'll tell you one thing: a person's movement patterns are actually fixed. Anyone with a job, their living circle is really just this big. You and I both know that."

Boss said, "Right, so the police investigated all this, but they had no evidence."

Chen Fan was speechless and said, "Sigh, you guys really — this case is actually very easy to investigate. I think Li Tian has already figured it out."

Figured it out?

Boss stared at Chen Fan in disbelief and said, "How could he have figured it out?"

"Sigh, you, you really underestimate Li Tian. But then again, it's because you kidnapped these people that the answer can be known. Actually, I knew the culprit the moment I laid eyes on them — it's the driver. You know, no one can hide a secret in front of me."