Chapter 529: Who Is So Bad?!!!

"The first point: this silver needle piercing Madam's eye is slightly bent at one-third of its length; it is precisely this bend that, after the needle entered Madam's eyeball, shifted its force trajectory, causing it to strike the eye corner rather than piercing straight through Madam's head."

Li Shang paused, then hurriedly added:

"Of course, we must thank the culprit's mistake, which allowed Madam to continue sitting here."

Li Hanyu looked at the needle with lingering fear, more keenly aware that she had truly walked through the Ghost Gate, with half a foot already stepped inside.

Li Hanyu gritted her teeth, too lazy to quibble over the disrespect in Li Shang's words, and said coldly:

"Continue."

Li Shang nodded, picked up a row of needles from the plate.

These silver needles were given to Li Bashan by "Feng Mu" when he broke out of the window; Li Bashan didn't want them and threw them against the wall, so Li Shang had someone pull them out one by one.

At this moment, he held this row of silver needles side by side between his fingers and explained:

"The murderer used this row of silver needles as a saw, sawing through Shi Wuming's ribs bit by bit. The evidence is the saw-toothed marks left on his ribs, and the nearly identical wear on these needle tips."

When he saw everyone wearing expressions of sudden realization, a strong sense of satisfaction unprecedented surged from the bottom of Li Shang's heart.

It turned out that solving cases openly and aboveboard with his own abilities, being a Divine Detective, was such a refreshing thing.

He raised a second finger and said:

"The second fatal mistake is that the murderer overestimated his own martial prowess; he couldn't beat Li Bashan, and even had his face slapped into a mess, exposing his disguise."

Li Shang raised a third finger and said:

"The third fatal mistake is that although the murderer killed Shi Wuming to silence him, he only made Shi Wuming unable to speak, but forgot to take Shi Wuming's eyes."

Li Shang took two cold eyeballs from the tray beside him; the micro-USB interface at the back of the electronic eyes glowed with cold light, as if silently mocking.

Li Shang said with everything under control:

"The murderer thought that making Shi Wuming shut up forever meant everything was fine, but he neglected that Shi Wuming's eyes could still speak for him."

While speaking, Li Shang bowed and handed the tray to Li Hanyu, explaining:

"Madam might as well take a look yourself; these eyes that cannot lie, what deadly images exactly did they capture."

Li Hanyu caught the eyeballs, her breathing quickened by three parts.

Li Hanyu glanced at everyone in the room, did not rush to play them, but spoke:

"Captain Li, do you still have questions for them?"

Li Shang shook his head.

Li Hanyu then said impolitely:

"Alright, you're not needed here anymore; Captain Li and Secretary Hou, and... you two stay, everyone else leave."

The people in the hospital looked at each other and quickly withdrew.

Li Bashan was actually not very curious, but since Li Hanyu asked him to stay, he stayed, found a spot by the wall to stand, crossed his thick arms over his chest, and his gaze had already begun to go blank.

Instead, Hong Ya's eyes lit up, sneaking behind Li Hanyu like a little fox that had stolen food, her sheep-horn braids jumping cheerfully with her movements.

She propped her hands on the back of the sofa and was the first to snatch the best viewing position.

Li Shang, seeing that the unrelated people had all withdrawn, then took the notebook from the table.

Li Hanyu took the computer and asked casually:

"Captain Li, did you deliberately let the people in the hospital hear your reasoning?"

Li Shang nodded slightly, a glint flashing in his eyes: "Just in case."

He lowered his voice to explain:

"If these electronic eyes really didn't capture anything, at least they could make the murderer think we have mastered key evidence; the doctor who was present just now is a ready-made mouthpiece."

Li Hanyu nodded, appreciating Li Shang's abilities more and more.

The name Divine Detective is not undeserved.

Hou Wendong instead frowned and asked: "Since the murderer came to kill and silence, how could he forget to take this pair of eyes?"

Li Shang also had doubts about this in his heart, but he did not admit it, instead saying firmly:

"There could be many reasons; either the murderer is too stupid, or the murderer doesn't understand Shi Wuming or the Modified Human very well; of course, the most likely is that the order the murderer received was only to silence him, and the mastermind behind did not instruct him to take Shi Wuming's eyes."

"And the murderer is rather rigid, mechanically carrying out the silencing task throughout; taking the heart is because the Modified Human will surely die without the Heart Power Source, he can take it back to report and prove the killing was completed."

"He could actually cut off the head and take it, but the head is too big to carry."

Li Shang expounded clearly and with solid evidence, and what he explained was indeed infinitely close to the truth of the facts.

The mastermind behind indeed did not instruct the murderer to take the eyes, but only requested Shi Wuming's heart, and the murderer indeed carried out the task rigidly throughout, without the slightest flexibility.

Hou Wendong and Li Hanyu were immediately convinced by Li Shang; the latter now had the halo of a Divine Detective, and before this halo crumbled, they had no reason not to believe the Divine Detective's reasoning.

Li Shang took a breath and continued to summarize:

"In short, the purpose of this murderer's trip was: first, to kill and silence; second, to frame Feng Mu along the way."

"He deliberately looked up in the elevator to let the surveillance fully capture his face; all this was to frame him."

"Suppose that needle had not happened to bend; Madam, you probably wouldn't even be able to shout a word, then... the murderer naturally wouldn't be exposed."

"In that case, at this very moment, the murderer would have completed the task according to plan and left the hospital openly."

"Finally, the result of this case is that Feng Mu became the murderer, with various evidence conclusive; he has a hundred mouths but cannot defend himself, either fleeing in fear of crime or being captured and shot dead."

While Li Shang spoke, his gaze seemed to linger on Hong Ya for a moment.

That gaze seemed to say:

"Remember to tell your little junior brother when you go back that this friend of mine saved his life big time today!"

Hong Ya was very clever; she didn't know Li Shang, but there was a thread of kind warmth in her gaze toward Li Shang.

Then she glared, her small face full of cold killing intent:

"Exactly who is so bad, wanting to frame my family's little junior brother?"

Li Shang had actually long prepared an answer in his heart, and he answered unhurriedly:

"There are three possibilities here.

The first: the killer randomly picked a scapegoat, though that possibility is extremely small;

The second possibility: as far as I know, Feng Mu is devotedly loyal to Prison Warden Qian, and behind this lies some struggle within Second Prison — Feng Mu's existence has become an eyesore to them;

The third possibility: the killer, or rather the mastermind behind the killer, has a personal grudge or conflict of interest with Feng Mu.

They want to use this incident to conveniently dispose of Feng Mu as well."

Li Shang paused slightly, then delivered the Divine Detective's judgment:

"In my view, the second and third possibilities are the greatest, and the second and third possibilities may even overlap with each other."

End of Chapter