After assigning tasks to the investigators, Xia Fan began to visit the crime scene one by one.
In a resident's house, Xia Fan locked Fo You and his colleagues in the technical department outside the room. He looked around and then went to the second floor.
Qin Xiaoqin was killed in the bathtub in the bathroom on the second floor. The murderer took her to the bathtub, cut her up alive, and washed away the blood. The crime happened the night before yesterday.
Qin Xiaoqin's parents were busy businessmen. After learning of their daughter's death, they were on their way back, so the crime scene had not been damaged.
About half an hour later, Xia Fan walked out of the garden house. He frowned as if he was deep in thought.
Xia Fan used the method he was best at to ask the rats living in the sewers. They were sharp enough to detect the smell of blood, but it was very short. In less than ten minutes, the smell of blood in the sewers began to fade.
Cutting a human into 108 pieces in ten minutes? That was very efficient.
Xia Fan could do it, but Xia Fan was a speed superpower user. Could other superpower users who did not have the speed superpower do it?
Another discovery was the smell of disinfectant. It was not ordinary household disinfectant, but the bacteria-grade disinfectant commonly used in hospitals. Anyone who had been in and out of a hospital would remember this unique smell.
High-efficiency human body cutting plus medical disinfectant?
Xia Fan vaguely felt that his previous deduction might not be accurate enough. He must have missed something!
"Let's go to the next crime scene," Xia Fan said to the people around him.
.....
Qin Xiaoqin's body was found on Wednesday morning. Since then, the investigators of the Special Task Force had been busy. When it was Thursday night, they had been working without sleep for 36 hours.
Xia Fan showed great energy. After returning from the crime scene, he locked himself in his office. No one knew what he was thinking.
Fo You, the idle guy, was nowhere to be found. Although Dylan and Ma Zheng were also very tired, considering that this case was related to the status and reputation of the logistics department, they still pulled themselves together and knocked on the door of Xia Fan's office.
"Everyone must be tired, right?" Xia Fan looked up at Ma Zheng and Dylan and said with a smile.
Dylan shrugged. "The brothers in the logistics department are fine, but it's hard to say for the other departments. After all, Director Chu is the bureau's gold medal investigator. He's a veteran. It's inevitable that others will feel dissatisfied if you replace him."
Ma Zheng frowned. "We've already checked all the crime scenes, but you didn't say anything. This is making us very anxious."
Xia Fan nodded. "I didn't tell you because I wasn't sure how simple the case would be."
Simple!
Dylan and Ma Zheng were stunned. Before Xia Fan arrived, the Special Task Force was already in a mess because of Killer Wednesday. How could Xia Fan say that the case was easy?
"Sit down." Xia Fan said to Dylan and Ma Zheng, "I always thought that in order to accurately find so many underage perpetrators, one would need access to the confidential database. I even suspected my colleagues in the bureau."
"But as the investigation of the crime scene unfolded, I discovered more and more details that pointed to the medical system as the culprit.
"The smell of medical disinfectant lingered at almost every crime scene. All the victims were dissected alive within a very short time.
"These characteristics made me think of one thing. Could it be that I was mistaken before? That the culprit was not someone from the security system, but a doctor?
"So, I searched the medical database of the entire Delong Sector and found this."
After saying that, Xia Fan sent the information he had collected to the terminal communicator worn by Dylan and Ma Zheng. They opened the screen and their expressions changed.
"There's information about the victims in the medical system?!" Ma Zheng exclaimed with his eyes wide open.
Xia Fan said calmly, "To be honest, I didn't think of it before, but I've figured it out now."
"The victims of school bullying are all young people, and they treat the doctor as someone to talk to. The doctor records the incident in the medical file. If someone opens the medical file, it's easy to find the names of some bad kids."
"So, the culprit doesn't need to enter the police's encrypted database at all. As long as he has access to the medical file, he can easily choose his target."
"Due to the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, the medical database can't be accessed by ordinary people, but doctors can. Doctors need to learn from their peers, and checking the diagnosis records of others is the best way."
"From the above information, I can conclude that, first, the culprit is a doctor, or was once a doctor, and has the right to enter the medical system database. Only then can he lock on to the murder target."
"Second, the doctor himself or his relatives have been bullied in school when he was in junior high school. This is very important, because on Wednesday, the culprit's target was very clear: the junior high school bully. There are also school bullying incidents in elementary schools, high schools, and universities, but these incidents do not touch the culprit's sensitive nerves, so the targets he chose were all junior high school students."
"Third, the culprit is a chief surgeon. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to dissect the human body so accurately in such a short time. Obviously, he has a considerable understanding of the human body's structure."
"Fourth, the culprit must have a lot of spare time. Twenty-four victims live on different planets. Although interstellar travel is very advanced nowadays, it still takes time to travel from one place to another."
"Take Qin Xiao Qin's murder case for example. The culprit made his move on Tuesday night and dumped the body on Wednesday morning. This means that he had to stay on Meadow Star for more than twenty-four hours. Including the time spent on interstellar travel, the total time spent was close to two days."
"A normal doctor can't be away from the hospital for two days a week for twenty-four consecutive weeks, unless he's retired."
"Based on the above four conclusions, I re-searched the database, and the result I got is that he is the suspect!"
Genius!
Impeccable!
Dylan and Ma Zheng were shocked. They looked at Xia Fan as if he was a monster.
It had not even been twenty-four hours since Director Huo Jiang decided to let Xia Fan take over the Wednesday murder case. What kind of efficiency was that?!
"So, you've found the suspect?" Dylan jumped up and asked in shock.
Xia Fan shook his head and said, "The search program is still running. Otherwise, I wouldn't have time to talk to you about this."
After saying that, Xia Fan turned the computer screen to Dylan and Ma Zheng. They saw that the automatic search program was running. The Delong Star Region was huge and had a population of hundreds of billions, so the data search would take some time.
The office fell silent. Ma Zheng swallowed hard and stared at the screen. He felt that every second was longer than a year.
Finally, after a few minutes, the search program stopped running. A photo appeared on the screen. It was an old man in a formal suit. His name was Chen Changsheng.
.....
The doorbell rang in the middle of the night. Chen Changsheng frowned and glanced at his watch. It was 11: 05 at night.
When he arrived at the door, he turned on the monitor and saw three people standing outside. The leader was a young man with a smile on his face. He smiled and pointed at the badge on his chest with his right hand. It was a badge of the Alliance Special Task Force.
Chen Changsheng's heart skipped a beat. His hand, which was about to open the door, twitched.
Chen Changsheng knew that he could not escape, but he did not expect the Special Task Force to come so quickly. There were hundreds of names in his notebook that he did not have time to execute. That was his regret.
Chen Changsheng sighed softly and opened the door. He looked at Xia Fan, who was standing opposite him, and stretched out his hands.
Dylan pulled out the electromagnetic shackles from his waist, but Xia Fan stopped him.
"Forget it. He won't run. Let's leave him with some dignity," Xia Fan said softly.
At that moment, Chen Chang Sheng had an illusion. He felt that this smiling young man in front of him, seemed to be able to understand him!
Dylan nodded and put away the shackles.
After entering the room, Chen Changsheng sat quietly on the sofa. Xia Fan sat opposite him. Dylan and Ma Zheng led a group of investigators from the technical department and quickly sealed the room. They began to investigate and collect evidence.
Xia Fan looked around. The low temperature and cold environment made him a little uncomfortable. He imagined how Chen Changsheng, the old man, planned a series of revenge in such an environment.
"Invisibility?" Xia Fan suddenly asked.
Chen Changsheng was stunned. He immediately realized that Xia Fan was asking about his superpower, so he said in a low voice, "Space Element, hiding space."
"Oh, A-rank superpower. No wonder we couldn't catch you before."
Ma Zheng looked excited. He quickly came to Xia Fan's side with a diary in his hand. "Look, the names of the twenty-four victims are all here!"
Xia Fan took the diary with his silicone glove, opened it, and flipped through it page by page.
The cold words were like a scalpel, without the slightest bit of sympathy for the victim. Xia Fan could clearly feel that Chen Changsheng believed in his heart that what he did was not wrong. He was not killing people, but he was eradicating the scum of society.
"The murder weapon has been found! The scalpel matches the characteristics of the victims' wounds. "
"Okay. Put it away."
The glass box with the white Glacier Python was flipped over, and the whiteboard with the victims' pictures appeared in front of all the investigators.
Dylan said in high spirits, "Bring it back. It must be this old man. The evidence is enough to prove everything."
Xia Fan nodded lightly. Dylan and Ma Zheng then pulled Chen Changsheng up from the sofa. This was the logistics department's case. They didn't want to let someone else handle it.
"Wait," Xia Fan suddenly said.
He stood up, walked into the study, and took out the framed photo of Chen Changsheng's son.
Crack!
Xia Fan threw the photo on the floor and smashed it into pieces!
Chen Changsheng was furious. Veins popped on his forehead, and he rushed at Xia Fan hysterically! Dylan and Ma Zheng had to use all their strength to stop him.
Completely out of Chen Changsheng's expectation, Xia Fan squatted down, took out Chen Liang's photo, looked at it, and stuffed it into Chen Changsheng's shirt pocket.
Chen Chang Sheng felt that the well-ironed formal attire he was wearing was suddenly filled with a kind of warmth.
At this time, Xia Fan said in a calm voice, "According to the Alliance's law, if a superpower user doesn't die, you will soon be sent to the concentration camp. You will never be able to return to Delong Galaxy."
"Take this with you. You will need it."
Chen Changsheng's expression changed from anger to surprise, and then from surprise to shame.
Plop!
The old doctor's body suddenly went limp, and he burst into tears! The heart-wrenching sound pierced through the night!
Ma Zheng and Dylan had no idea what was going on. It was as if Xia Fan had cast some kind of magic on Chen Changsheng, turning the evil bastard into a completely different person.
Xia Fan said lightly, "To be honest, if I were you, I would kill someone too. I would kill the scum who killed my son without hesitation."
"But I won't kill unrelated people, because Onmyoji Grandpa said that humans are creatures with souls. Even if they die, their souls won't dissipate and will watch over you from the heavens. Your son definitely wouldn't want to see the father he respected become like this."
"Ah!!!"
Thinking of his poor son, Chen Changsheng let out a painful scream. Tears streamed down his face, and he kept nodding his head. Even the most cold-hearted person would feel their heart skip a beat.
Revenge did not bring him any relief. The pain of losing his son was like a scar that would never heal.
Xia Fan was a man of principle. Although he sympathized with Chen Changsheng, it did not change the fact that he was a criminal.
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