Chapter 4475
"What's wrong?" Victor turned back to look at Schiller who stopped.
Schiller seemed to think for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Nothing, let's go."
The two of them drove all the way to the Cat Getan Police Station. The police station was still the same, the gun-gray building exterior showing a pale white under the light of the streetlamps. The ground at the entrance was very muddy because of people coming and going. When they entered, they stomped their feet hard on the carpet at the entrance.
"You're here." Gordon walked out and then said: "Any new clues, great detective?"
"You know I don't need clues." Schiller passed him and walked toward the interrogation room. Gordon turned to look at his back and shook his head, saying: "Acting more familiar with whether there is anything wrong here than me? Oh, it's Rodriguez, then it's fine."
"It seems you have a high opinion of him." Victor said.
"Once reached the peak, now it has fallen back." Gordon sighed and said, "As long as I don't find out that the murderer's profile might be a psychic while investigating, I'll be thankful."
Schiller walked into the interrogation room. This was his first time seeing Milos: a big guy with very short hair, his face had some Latin features, but his hair and eyebrows were golden. He had large tattoos on his arms, and wore nose rings and lip studs, looking very hard to mess with.
"What did you say to him?" Schiller looked at him and asked.
Milos looked up at him, looked Schiller up and down with some confusion, and then said: "Are you a professor in the Psychology Department?"
"Yes. I'm asking you, what did you say to Chick."
Milos laughed disdainfully: "The police can't do anything to me, so they count on you to guess something with psychology? Brainiac won't admit such evidence."
"Yes, he won't." Schiller didn't refute, he said, "So I'm actually not asking you, but just want to tell you that I know what you said to Chick. This led to his suicide, but this is not important."
Milos stared at him, Schiller lowered his eyes and said: "Do you know Fanny is dead?"
"Who is Fanny?" Milos asked with some confusion.
"Perlota's roommate." Schiller continued, "She died on Jenna's bed. You should have heard of Jenna, right?"
"Of course, the prettiest chick in their dormitory." Milos smiled and said, "I originally wanted Perlota to call her out to play, but that little girl is a bit wrong, I haven't succeeded yet."
"Perlota killed her." Schiller said, "But she wants to frame it on you. If nothing goes wrong, she is already in the interrogation room next door, telling the process of how you mistook Fanny for Jenna and killed her with a knife."
Milos changed his face and said: "Don't try to trick me. Perlota wouldn't do that."
"Because Chick's death also has something to do with her, right? You think neither of you can get out of it, so you will definitely keep your mouth shut. However, she has long been prepared. She committed the Fanny case and also intends to frame it on you. Only she can successfully get out of here."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Milos turned his head away.
"Then I'll tell you in detail about this case." Schiller said, "In our previous reasoning, because Jenna went out in the middle of the night, and the time happened to be around the time of Chick's death, she might be mistaken for a powerful destroyer of some people's alibi. The murderer wanted to kill her to silence her, but Fanny lay on Jenna's bed, so she unfortunately took the blame."
"So what? It's not like I killed her, you have no evidence."
"It's not like you killed her, then who could it be?"
Milos frowned. Schiller continued: "Perlota wants to change majors, you should have heard of it. Fanny is her competitor. Killing her and framing it on you is the best choice."
"Impossible, I'm her boyfriend. Why would she frame me?"
"If she really was good for you, she wouldn't instigate you to induce Chick to commit suicide. Aren't you in trouble now?"
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Milos slammed the table, "Whether it's Chick or some Fanny's death, you have no evidence to prove that I did it. Then inferring another case I didn't do from a case I didn't do, what's the point?"
Schiller walked in front of him, lowered his head, and then said: "I'm not a policeman, I'm not responsible for finding evidence. I'm also not reasoning, I just hope you think about the facts you know, whether your girlfriend can really not sell you out."
He stood up straight again and then said: "This is an important choice about your life. Brainiac hasn't abolished the death penalty."
After speaking, he turned and left. Gordon looked at him, Schiller nodded lightly. Gordon let out a long breath and said to his subordinates: "Keep an eye on him for the next few hours. If he calls someone, go over immediately."
Victor outside the door also heard what Schiller said. When Schiller walked out, he chased after Schiller and asked: "Is Fanny really not killed by Milos? Is it Perlota?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "I said, I'm not a detective. I'm also not relying on reasoning to restore the case. Reasoning out the truth is indeed very powerful, but if you can induce the suspects to kill each other and let them spit it out directly, can't you achieve the goal?"
"... That's really your style." Victor couldn't help nodding, "Then do you think they will say it?"
"Yes." Schiller said very firmly, "Perlota, this person, has too many flaws. She is the kind of person who thinks she is very smart and can play everyone in the palm of her hand, but she is not very brilliant, often messes up, but the people around her don't directly expose her for various reasons, leading her to think she is smooth sailing, so she becomes more and more arrogant."
"Many people appeared in my mind."
Schiller walked up the stairs and said: "Most people don't care about her, just because they know she is difficult to deal with, even if they expose her, she won't admit her mistakes, she will only make a scene. So few people are willing to waste time with her. However, on the issue of life and death, no one will indulge her."
"Especially, Milos is not a decent person either. He could dump Chick at that time and push the responsibility onto you, which proves that he is also a sinister and selfish villain, and being with Perlota is not because he doesn't know her true face, but enjoying beauty and passion. At the critical moment, he won't choose wrong."
"But I still want to know who killed Fanny." Victor sighed and said.
"Why don't you try reasoning it yourself?"
"But all my reasoning about Chick was wrong."
"The fault is not yours." Schiller said, "If it were the previous era, the development of the case might really be what you said. But now, except for a few remaining graduate students, you can't even find one person in Cat Getan University who can tie a standard hanging knot. You can't expect this kind of person to make an exquisite time-delay mechanism that can strangle people while faking their alibi. How could they be so brilliant."
"Moreover, the previous era wouldn't have people like Chick. Just because of being dumped and being found by parents, the heart collapsed. At that time, ordinary people who were not smooth in their hearts might attack anything, except themselves. Even more so, they wouldn't try to commit suicide again because of a few words of inducement from a scumbag, and then really hang themselves."
"Wait, you said try?"
"Yes, Chick didn't want to commit suicide." Schiller said, "Before seeing Milos, I couldn't be sure of this. But after seeing him, I knew he didn't have the ability to hit someone to the point of being disheartened and hanging themselves with a few words."
"Then Chick..."
"Repeat the old trick." Schiller stood at the door of the police chief's office and said, "This can also explain why he chose such a strange hanging method. After all, I told him how to hang himself correctly before."
Victor was a bit dazed. Schiller continued to explain: "If he really did as I said, find a rope that won't roll, wrap it around the beam and neck a few more times, and tie a tighter knot, then he could indeed hang himself silently. But I said, he didn't want to die. So, he came up with such a posture."
"The shared villa has a total of three floors. Even if he could break through the neighbors' blockade to reach the rooftop, that height wouldn't kill anyone at all. The second floor where his home is located is even worse. So jumping off a building, which is a suicide method that can make a big noise, is not feasible."
"Then why didn't he choose to hang himself in the house?" Victor asked.
"Then why do you think he didn't choose to hang himself in the dormitory, but ran to the laboratory?"
"Because there are many people there?"
"To be precise, there are many people who can affect you. His purpose is to push the responsibility onto you in this way, so he must make a scene in front of those who can affect you. His roommates are scattered in various departments and have no influence. And the students and teachers in the laboratory are very close to you, so that they can exert enough external moral pressure on you to force you to compromise."
"I understand." Victor said, "Hanging himself in the house, his mother might have saved him directly. But in that case, this matter wouldn't have been made public. If he hangs himself outside the house and is seen and saved by others, someone will blame his mother. This is the effect he wants."
"Exactly. Chick knew very well that the shared villa was crowded with people, and there would be many people getting off the night shift at that time. He sat on the windowsill pulling the rope, and would soon be discovered. People would save him and then blame his mother. His goal was achieved."
"Then if that's the case, how could he hang himself?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "I said, I'm not a detective. I can only start from psychology and motivation to restore the appearance of things as much as possible, but I can't understand every detail. This requires behavioral science reasoning..."
They walked into the police chief's office, and then Gordon also walked in. He took a photo and placed it on the table, and then said: "Milos and Perlota have both confessed. The Chick case basically ruled out the suspicion of direct murder, suspected of induced suicide, but an accident occurred in the middle."
Schiller walked over to check the photo, and after looking at it, his expression became a bit clear. Victor looked at the photo he was pressing. This photo was of the window, the very window where Chick was hanged.
"Where is the problem?" Victor asked.
Schiller pointed lightly to the part below the curtain rod. Victor looked over, but didn't see any abnormality. Schiller said: "Remember the window we saw on the first floor?"
Victor's eyes immediately flashed with that window. He said: "To be honest, I don't think that window can still play the role of a window. Those messy things blocked the window."
"Exactly. This is the problem." Schiller said, "Chick wanted someone outside the window to see him. If the window was blocked by too many sundries, then even if he sat on the window, he would only be considered as unsalted fish that hadn't been dried. How could he perform suicide?"
End of Chapter
