Chapter 456 (2/2)

Chen s.h.i.+ stood up and looked around. There were two cups on the table. The tea inside had already cooled down. The deceased was facing the door, wearing pajamas and slippers. The perpetrator was obviously an acquaintance, and an acquaintance that the deceased would welcome in late at night.

Could it be a woman? He pondered.

Then he picked up the TV remote control and turned on the set-top box. The last viewing time was 11:00 last night. The deceased should have been alive at that time. Someone came to visit, so he turned off the TV. That made more sense.

He opened the refrigerator and the refrigerator was empty. It seemed like the deceased normally didn't  cook. But there was an exquisite box inside. Chen s.h.i.+ opened it and it turned out to hold a bouquet of pink roses.

”Look at this! Could the murderer be a woman?”

Peng Sijue shook his head. ”You're jumping to conclusions. The flowers and the murder case may not be connected. Since it was placed in the refrigerator, it means that he was ready to leave it there for two days before giving it away.”

Chen s.h.i.+ smiled. ”I was just saying it casually. By the way, are there any flower gifting holidays coming soon?”

”Are there?”

When he looked at the calendar on his mobile phone, it turned out that it was Qixi Festival two days later. It's unknown when it started, but Qixi Festival had become China's Valentine's Day. Chen s.h.i.+ wondered whether he should buy a small gift for Lin Dongxue.

Chen s.h.i.+ inspected both the inside and outside of the house and collected all the evidence that he thought would be valuable. On the kitchen floor, he saw a bullet hole in the tile and rubbed it with his fingers. The size of the bullet hole was very close to the size of the bullets that the Russian Makarov pistol holds.

The kitchen was clean and tidy and there were no traces of struggle. It was also quite far from the living room. It was unknown why there was a bullet hole there.

When Chen s.h.i.+ went to the bathroom and lifted up the toilet lid, he suddenly realized everything. There was a mobile phone soaking in the toilet. The phone was already shattered by a bullet. The murderer should have put the mobile phone there and shot at it, shattering the tile. Then the murderer chucked the broken phone into the toilet.

Chen s.h.i.+ picked up the phone, but it was so damaged that it was probably impossible to repair it. Just in case, he also collected some water from the toilet to see if the murderer had used it before.

Peng Sijue found a set of shoe prints in the living room which were left by a pair of size 37 high heels. It seemed that the murderer was likely to be a woman. There were only one set of fingerprints on the door frame, table, and walls. Judging from the size, they belonged to the victim. It was possible to commit the murder with a gun without leaving fingerprints.

The two exchanged their findings. Chen s.h.i.+ looked at the corpse on the ground. ”The deceased's appearance is fairly standard, and he's a well-paid bachelor. It's not surprising that there will be friends of the opposite s.e.x visiting late at night... By the way, since the murderer is an acquaintance, how did she come in?”

Peng Sijue immediately understood his words. ”The doorbell!”

The two went outside the door and collected evidence at the doorbell. They were able to find a small fingerprint.

This time, the murderer used a gun with a silencer, and much of the information couldn't be seen. But Chen s.h.i.+ thought of the last case. Most of the recipients selected by Zhou Tiannan were bitter and full of resentment.

He should have been quite confident that this woman would commit murder if she got her hands on a gun to have sent her a pistol.

In other words, the motivation must be very profound. It was definitely not a spontaneous murder.

At this time, Xu Xiaodong and Lin Dongxue returned. Xu Xiaodong said, ”Neighbors reported that this young man's parents operated a dentist's clinic. His father bought this house for him after he started working. There's also a white BMW in the parking lot below which belongs to him. It seems that his family background is pretty good.”

”What about interpersonal relations.h.i.+ps?”

”The people I questioned all said that he had a docile personality and that it was impossible for him to have any enemies. At the moment, he isn't in a relations.h.i.+p either. He basically just goes to work from 9 to 5 every day. This is all that the neighbors know.”

Chen s.h.i.+ looked at Lin Dongxue, ”What about your side?”

”I'll tell you some bad news. The surveillance footage last night was deleted by someone.”

1. A ghost gun is a firearm made by an individual, without serial numbers or other identifying markings.

2.  The festival originated from the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang, AKA the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd. The tale of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han dynasty. It's the one day each year in which they can be together.

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