Chapter 16 (1/2)

I Didn't Think You Were So Mean

The s had a view of a corner of the neighbourhood and some streets in the distance The streets were busy with vehicles and people zipping along them Men had built the city but become lost in their creation

“Lei, have you discovered so a little steam

Xia Lei shook his head “No, but I still feel like so’s off”

“What’s off?”

“This place is too clean There isn’t any extra dust in the floorboard gaps; it’s as if the floor had been vacuu’s maid say she hadn’t cleaned yet?”

“She didn’t but who’s to say the murderer didn’t either? Theevidence behind and cleaned up the areas he’d been in after killing Professor Zhang Thatwith their equipment,” said Xia Lei

“There is this possibility, but…” Jiang Ru-Yi looked at Xia Lei strangely “The gaps between the floorboards were so small - can you really see how much dust was in there?”

Xia Lei avoided her question and said, “Where’s the vacuum cleaner? Take me there”

“It’s in the utility roo Ru-Yi did not press the issue of how Xia Lei was able to see the dust and brought him to a storeroo supplies, a mop, a vacuum cleaner, pails and the like, as well as some bits and bobs, all neatly placed

“Did your police technicians check this place?” asked Xia Lei

Jiang Ru-Yi thought for a bit, “A colleague cahly”

Xia Lei walked to the mop and his eye twitched The wooden handle of the rain of as crystal clear to Xia Lei He did not have a lass but his eye more than made up for that

The erprints or waterrew more convinced of his suspicion that the le one of the cleaning supplies used for the coverup This was the only explanation, because if it were Professor Zhang’s , not wipe theweirdly today You lay flat on the floor earlier and now you’re observing aRu-Yi’s curiosity grew

“Shush” Xia Lei went to the vacuu Ru-Yi ating it but you’ve never done this before, right? Can you really do it? If you didn’t find anything, let’s just go out for a walk We et lucky and run into those two suspects Hey! I’ to you… Do you hear ue He finished inspecting the vacuu him and the result was the same - it had been wiped as clean as the day it was shi+pped froe and the black plastic disappeared under his gaze The contents of the vacuum cleaner were laid bare to his eyes

The vacuue in it like dust and carpet fibers A sernail with a hair eht Not just that - he could even see a trace of dried blood on the fingernail!

The murderer was sly and meticulous but he had still left evidence!

Who else but Xia Lei, with the power of X-ray vision, could have found evidence like this?

Xia Lei could not stop a s on his lips He was not a detective and had no experience investigating but he was a natural-born Sherlock with the power of his left eye!

“What are you s Ru-Yi curiously