Chapter 582: Pick Up the Axe, Chop Forty Times

But under such circumstances with no evidence whatsoever, doing so would be wrong.

"You say you only discovered it when you returned home this morning. I heard from your neighbors that you have been living at home all along. So what were you doing before you came home?"

Chen Fan seized on the inconsistency and asked.

Ma Yingying replied, "This morning, after I finished breakfast, I went out with my classmates to go shopping and didn't return until nearly noon. I discovered my parents' incident at eleven o'clock."

Chen Fan looked at Li Tian, confirming the details Ma Yingying had stated.

Li Tian nodded and showed Chen Fan the surveillance footage from the residential compound.

Indeed, around eight o'clock this morning, Ma Yingying left the house, and only reappeared in the compound just before eleven.

All of this was seen in the surveillance footage.

But merely this was still not enough to rule out Ma Yingying as the perpetrator.

Chen Fan stopped listening to Ma Yingying continue.

Living people can lie.

But corpses cannot.

Chen Fan, accompanied by Liu Mengyan, went to the first floor, the crime scene of the first body.

The person who died on the sofa was Ma Yingying's father, named Ma Shan. According to the records, Ma Shan owned a Waimao Company with an annual income of several hundred million.

It was considered a very profitable Waimao Company within the city.

The deceased, Ma Shan, bore many injuries, over forty wounds in total, bleeding profusely, and some of the wounds revealed the bones beneath.

The only things capable of inflicting such wounds were an axe or a chainsaw.

Chen Fan put on his protective gear and walked to the side of the body in an instant.

Images flashed through Chen Fan's mind.

The "Three Seconds After the Crime" skill had been activated.

"Please, spare me! I am your family!"

Chen Fan saw the deceased begging desperately for mercy, but the murderer, wielding an axe, swung again and again, chopping the axe into the deceased's body without hesitation.

The deceased was in great pain.

Yet the murderer's appearance did not appear in the scene.

From these brief three seconds of footage, Chen Fan could confirm two things.

The murderer was Ma Shan's relative, and during the attack, the murderer did not face Ma Shan directly.

Otherwise, the murderer would definitely have been visible in these three seconds of footage.

After examining this body.

Chen Fan went to the second floor, where Ma Shan's wife had died.

She too had been chopped to death by an axe, and livor mortis had already appeared on her body.

This indicated her time of death was earlier than Ma Shan's.

Chen Fan similarly approached the body and checked it; the wounds on the corpse were exactly the same as Ma Shan's.

The mattress where the deceased lay was covered in her heart's blood.

At the same time.

Chen Fan's skill activated again.

This time, everything before his eyes was darkness, followed by the sound of frantic chopping.

What was somewhat strange was.

In these three seconds of footage, Chen Fan did not hear Ma Shan's wife calling out.

Nor did he see her struggling in any way.

That is to say, the deceased had already lost the ability to move, or even been unconscious, before she died.

That is why the entire scene was black.

After experiencing all this, Chen Fan returned to the first floor.

These bodies had already undergone complete autopsies under the work of other forensic experts.

Li Tian saw Chen Fan and asked, "How is it? Did you discover any special clues?"

Chen Fan shook his head. All surface-level clues had certainly already been recorded by the police and other forensic experts.

Li Tian said, "Actually, just now, through profiling, we determined that the murderer should be in their twenties. Judging from this point, it must be Ma Yingying."

Chen Fan asked, "So what?"

Li Tian said, "But we lack evidence. For Ma Yingying, the surveillance footage I showed you earlier serves as her best alibi."

"And this morning, many people entered and exited this villa. Currently, five suspects have been identified: the first is the deceased Ma Shan's business partner, the second is the deceased's cousin, the third is the child of the deceased's maternal uncle, the fourth is the deceased's other daughter, and the fifth is Ma Yingying?"

"Among these five suspects, only Ma Yingying and the child of the deceased's maternal uncle best fit the murderer's profile."