"I don't really appreciate violence, but sometimes, it's necessary."
This was what his grandfather, the mechanic, had told Xia Fan. At first, Xia Fan didn't really understand it, but now that he had entered a cosmic society that was ten thousand times more complicated than on God's Graveyard, he finally began to understand.
To some people, the fist was the truth. After a fierce battle, not only did Xia Fan win the respect of his classmates, but even Yadong and the others avoided him, not daring to cause him trouble.
Not all conflicts could be reduced to small ones. If Xia Fan kept tolerating, would Yadong let him go?
No, they would only torture Xia Fan even more. Everyone knew that a persimmon had to be pinched when it was soft. Bullying was often seen on the news, but the main reason was not that the bully was bad, but that the victim did not know how to resist. Weakness was often a sin.
Everyone was different. Xia Fan told the spirit bird that Yadong didn't like him because a long time ago, a group of speed-type warriors had bullied Yue Yin. Coincidentally, his surname was Xia, and he was also a speed-type warrior. Thus, Yadong and the others hated him even more.
When Spirit Bird heard this, he called his old man to ask about it. After putting down the phone, Spirit Bird said that there really was such a thing in history. A famous ancestor of his family was killed by Heaven's Wings, but he would not hate Xia Fan because of this, because that would be stupid. It was forty thousand years ago, so what did it have to do with Xia Fan?
Not only did their relationship not get affected, but it also got better. They went to training together, ate together, fed the fish by the pond together, and became inseparable. Other than his colleagues in the Britania branch, Spirit Bird was the first peer Xia Fan had made after leaving God's Graveyard. They hit it off very well.
Three weeks after entering the Blue Boiling Point Training Camp, the students began to split up. Dozens of people were expelled every week, while Xia Fan and Spirit Bird, the top students of the same batch, were given more and more opportunities to show off.
At the end of yesterday's technical class, Mr. Wang informed Xia Fan and the Spirit Bird to participate in the technical department's profiling competition with the intermediate students. Today, the two of them, along with a few other top students from the same batch, took the hover car to the Criminal Profiling Center.
Xia Fan, Spirit Bird, and Hei Zi shared a car. Hei Zi was Hei Bolong, the dark, skinny, and wretched-looking fellow. He specialized in scouting, Spirit Bird specialized in tactics, and Xia Fan didn't focus on anything else. He learned all four major elements.
The Blue Boiling Point's intermediate class was much smaller than the beginner class. There were forty-eight students in a class. Including Xia Fan and the other eight students from the beginner class, there were only fifty-six students in total.
Under Mr. Wang's lead, they walked into the mock murder scene. They saw that the victim was a woman in her early thirties, wearing silk pajamas.
The first crime scene was the bathroom. The murderer attacked the woman after she finished showering and changed into her pajamas. He chased her from the bathroom all the way to the bed. Finally, the victim was pinned to the headboard and stabbed to death. She was stabbed twenty-seven times. Blood flowed everywhere, and the scene was a mess.
Mr. Wang was a short, middle-aged man. He wore glasses and looked like a technical researcher. He wore a white coat and had tools like a fingerprint extractor, magnifying glass, tweezers, and gloves in his coat pocket.
"You have ten minutes to investigate the crime scene. Be careful not to touch anything, or you'll lose points. You may begin now," Mr. Wang said and pressed a button on the timer in his hand.
Fifty-six students took turns to investigate the crime scene. Ya Dong was there, too. He seemed to be very familiar with two people in intermediate student uniforms. They were talking in low voices, and he didn't even look at Xia Fan during the whole process. Ever since he was thrown out of the ring by Xia Fan, their relationship had been cold. They pretended not to see each other.
Starting from the bathroom, Xia Fan looked around carefully. There was a white bath towel stained with blood on the floor. Xia Fan even used tweezers to pick up the towel and found two strands of hair under it.
Ten minutes passed quickly. Under Mr. Wang's order, the students left the crime scene in an orderly manner. As for the young woman who was pretending to be the victim, she had to continue to stay motionless. It was quite tiring.
"Now write down your conclusions. I will announce the results later," Mr. Wang said again.
Blackie scratched his head anxiously. He wanted to see what conclusions the Spirit Bird and Xia Fan had come up with, but they wouldn't let him see.
"Hey, are we still friends? What's the conclusion? Premeditated murder or murder out of passion? "Blackie asked on his tiptoes.
Xia Fan smiled. "You're not a technical expert. It doesn't matter if you're wrong. Just make a bold guess."
Blackie had no choice but to scribble some of his conclusions on the profiling record.
Not long after, Wang Jin asked his assistant to collect everyone's profiling conclusions. Then, he said with a smile, "Before we look at your conclusions, why don't we have a competition to see whose reasoning is the most reliable?"
"Look, Xia Fan, Spirit Bird, Yadong. They are all the best of the new students. How about we let the eight of them challenge you, the seniors?"
The intermediate students, who were already dressed in dark blue uniforms, laughed. The Blue Boiling Point had a strict elimination system. In order to get to the intermediate level, they had to defeat countless opponents. Xia Fan and the other newcomers, who had only been in the camp for less than a month, were like a bunch of insignificant kids in their eyes. Their attitudes were full of contempt.
Spirit Bird nudged Xia Fan from behind, pushing him to the front. Based on his performance so far, Xia Fan was the strongest overall student in this batch. If there was a competition, Xia Fan would be more suitable to fight.
Among the new students, Du Xue was a technical expert. Xia Fan often met her, but they weren't familiar. Du Xue was a quiet and shy girl. When she heard that they were going to compete with the intermediate students, she showed her fear and quietly backed away. She was so lacking in confidence that she wouldn't be able to argue with the seniors.
If that's the case, let's do it, Xia Fan thought. He no longer hesitated and stood at the front of the line with a smile on his face.
Suddenly, Mr. Wang changed the topic and said, "Spirit Bird and the others have only been in the camp for a short time. They don't have as many people as you, so I found them some external help."
Clap clap!
Mr. Wang clapped his hands. Then, a young man in a black uniform and glasses walked in. He was very thin and had a sharp chin. As soon as he came in, he scanned the crowd with his sharp eyes.
"An advanced student?" Xia Fan muttered in his heart.
With the harsh requirements of the Blue Boiling Point, it wasn't easy to become an advanced student. Until now, the graduation rate of advanced students was 100%. After all, the cruel elimination process had already ended in the beginner and intermediate levels. Those who could wear the black uniform were the best of the best.
"It's Senior Leng Yun!" Du Xue was startled and whispered like a love-struck fool.
Hei Zi asked curiously, "You know him?"
Du Xue nodded. "Of course. He's the genius of the technical department, Senior Leng Yun. Whether it's profiling, investigation, or testing, Senior Leng Yun's skills are all textbook level!"
"Oh, so he's that good." Hei Zi scratched his head. "Then we're saved. We might not lose to those intermediate students."
"Yes, with Senior Leng Yun here, we can definitely win!" Du Xue said happily.
Just like his name, Leng Yun was a very cold person. Originally, Xia Fan had been pushed to the front by the crowd, ready to fight. However, when Leng Yun arrived, he waved his hand rudely, indicating for Xia Fan to stand back. So Xia Fan had no choice but to retreat to the side of the Spirit Bird and look at the famous senior curiously from behind.
The forty-eight intermediate students on the other side panicked. Then, they pushed out a young man with a lazy face.
This guy seemed to be sleepy. The top two buttons of his uniform were unbuttoned. Everyone else was wearing snow-white shirts, but he was wearing a T-shirt with cartoon patterns inside his uniform. He looked listless.
"Who's going first?" Wang Jin asked.
The listless guy laughed and shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Leng Yun's eyes were like lightning. He said in a deep voice, "Since Brother Fo You is not interested, then let me be the first."
Only then did Xia Fan know that the careless young man on the other side was called Fo You. What a strange name.
"Whatever." Fo You scratched his head and said indifferently.
Leng Yun walked around the crime scene, then stood in the middle of the scene and said, "This is a premeditated murder case. The murderer sneaked into the room while the victim was bathing. When the victim opened the bathroom door, he rushed up and stabbed the victim's abdomen with a knife."
"However, the bathroom floor was too slippery. The murderer slipped, staggered, and fell to the right. There are obvious slippery footprints on the floor on the right side of the bathroom, which supports my inference."
"At the same time, the victim showed amazing explosive strength in the face of a life-threatening crisis. She rushed back to the bedroom when the murderer staggered and wanted to pick up the phone on the bedside table. Unfortunately, the victim's blood loss and panic prevented her from dialing the phone. The murderer rushed up again, grabbed the victim's neck with his left hand, and pressed her to the bed. Then, he stabbed the victim repeatedly with the knife until she died."
"After the crime, the murderer did not have time to clean up the scene. He fled in a hurry, leaving a mess."
"Based on this, I infer that the murderer is between 27 and 35 years old and lives alone or with his parents. Based on the fact that he fled in a hurry after the murder, I infer that he may have been to the victim's house before. We should focus on the neighbors who lived near the victim, the plumber, the satellite TV installer, and a series of suspects who had the opportunity to enter the victim's house. In addition, this is most likely his first crime, and he may have fled."
Teacher Wang Jin nodded. "It's reasonable. The murder scene was messed up by the murderer, which is typical of a lack of psychological quality. This is in line with the judgment of a novice."
He turned his eyes to Fo You. "What do you think, lazy guy?"
The teacher said that he was lazy. Fo You smiled embarrassedly. "Senior Leng Yun's inference is good, but it's a pity that you didn't observe carefully enough."
"Oh?" Wang Jin agreed. "So you don't agree with Leng Yun's inference?"
Fo You scratched his thigh without caring about his image and said, "If you look at the blood on the bathroom wall, the floor, and the bedroom wall, you will find that all the blood is pointing in the same direction, as if someone had splashed it."
"Also, the blood on the bathroom floor is too clear. If the victim had just taken a shower, there would be water stains and some body wash left on the floor. However, look at these footprints, they are very clear, especially the one left by the slippery foot. It's so clear. Oh, this is not normal. If it was slippery from stepping on the residual body wash, the blood should have been partially dissolved by the water."
"Another thing is the knife wounds on the victim's body. There are a total of 27 knife wounds, 19 of which are concentrated in the narrow abdominal area, but none of the knife wounds overlap."
As Fo You spoke, he slowly gestured and said to himself, "Don't you think it looks like someone stabbed the victim after aiming?"
After listening to Fo You's words, Xia Fan's eyes lit up. He thought to himself, "This guy looks like he hasn't woken up yet, but he is a master!"
Wang Jin nodded and asked, "What do you think?"
Fo You touched his chin and said, "I think the murderer may have fabricated the crime scene. His purpose should be to divert the police's attention and make them think that this is a civilian murder case."
"The traces of the murderer's slippery foot and the fingerprints left in a panic are all fabricated. In this way, the police will think that the murderer is very stupid and definitely not a superpower user, so they won't report it to the Special Task Force. Without the Special Task Force's investigators, the murderer will naturally be safer."
"Well, that should be the case. After all, if I were the murderer, I would never want to be investigated by the Special Task Force. Stupid police are much easier to deal with than the Special Task Force."
"In short, the murderer is definitely not a newbie, but he is also not a veteran. I can see through his technique, which shows that he is not very good."
Leng Yun was a little embarrassed. He carefully observed the crime scene, and then his face turned livid. He lowered his voice and said, "The scene is indeed a bit artificial. We can't rule out the possibility that the murderer deliberately suppressed his intelligence and revealed flaws to prevent the Special Task Force from intervening in the investigation."
Woo ~
After Leng Yun's words, there was a loud noise among the intermediate students.
"Lord Fo, you're really something!"
"Even the famous Leng Yun lost to you!"
Fo You lazily leaned against the corner, looking like he couldn't wait to go back to sleep. As for winning against Leng Yun, he didn't seem to care.
Wang Jin nodded repeatedly and glanced at the people at the scene. Suddenly, he saw Xia Fan.
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