Chapter 315 has suspicious points.
Chapter 315 has suspicious points.
"Why...why are you staring at me like that?" Cai Qi noticed the suspicion in Bai Mengfei's eyes and immediately became nervous.
"It's nothing, don't be nervous." Bai Mengfei still had a charming smile on her face. "Mr. Cai, I have a question for you."
"Alright, ask away. I'll answer everything I know." Cai Qi's smile faded, and his expression became very serious.
Bai Mengfei pondered for a moment, then asked, "Did you move into this house first, or did Chu Anguo move in first? Please answer truthfully, because we will be verifying with other people later."
"Mr. Chu should have moved in first, right? What's wrong?" Cai Qi was breathing heavily, but it didn't sound like he was nervous. Instead, it sounded like he was suppressing his anger after being wronged.
Xiang Yuntian sensed that something was wrong and quickly walked over to stand next to Bai Mengfei, asking in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"It's alright, don't interrupt us." After Bai Mengfei finished speaking to Xiang Yuntian, she turned to Cai Qi and continued to ask, "Alright, let me ask you again, do you usually have contact with Mr. Chu? Or rather, how much do you know about him?"
“Interaction? I only borrowed a power strip once, does that count? It was just once.” Cai Qi was clearly a little angry, turning her face to the side, her chest heaving with anger. “I know you doubt me, but I really wouldn’t do anything immoral. I’m a doctor, and I’m supposed to help people. I still have that much medical ethics.”
"Let's not talk about that for now. Your character isn't the point right now. Please answer my question first, okay?" Bai Mengfei had been watching his expression closely.
In fact, she couldn't be sure whether Cai Qi was lying, because she hadn't studied this aspect in depth.
Cai Qi nodded and said affirmatively, "Okay!" As he spoke, he nervously scratched his thigh. This small action was noticed by Xiang Yuntian and magnified in Xiang Yuntian's eyes.
Xiang Yuntian could tell he was very nervous!
"So how much do you know about Chu Anguo?" Bai Mengfei repeated the question, because Cai Qi hadn't answered it earlier.
Cai Qi immediately exclaimed excitedly, "I don't understand!"
"Alright!" Bai Mengfei thought he probably really didn't know anything. "Sorry to bother you. We haven't found any clues here either, so we'll be leaving now."
"Well, goodbye and don't bother seeing me out," Cai Qi said in an unpleasant tone.
As the two were about to leave, Xiang Yuntian was still worried, so he lay down on the ground and looked under the bed.
He still held a sliver of hope, hoping to find some clues.
However, reality disappointed him; there was nothing under the bed. While there seemed to be many clues, almost none were actually useful—it was a complete waste of time.
After the two left room 601, Bai Mengfei sighed helplessly.
Xiang Yuntian quickly encouraged her from the side: "It's okay, we'll find clues if we keep looking."
It's easy for him to say, but finding a valuable clue is not so easy. Bai Mengfei smiled bitterly and did not respond to him.
The two walked down the stairs, which were quite narrow, so they could only walk one in front of the other. To take care of Bai Mengfei, Xiang Yuntian walked behind her and turned on his phone's flashlight, setting it to always-on mode to illuminate the steps for her.
When they reached the third floor, Xiang Yuntian remembered Cai Qi's reaction earlier and hurriedly said to Bai Mengfei, "There are two suspicious things about Cai Qi just now!"
Bai Mengfei had already ruled out the possibility that Cai Qi was the murderer, but upon hearing Xiang Yuntian's words, the flame of doubt that had been extinguished in her heart instantly reignited.
"What do you mean?" She stopped and looked at Xiang Yuntian, who was standing on a higher step.
As Xiang Yuntian recalled, he said, "He was scratching his thigh just now, which showed that he was very nervous but was trying to control himself. This means that he was very flustered when you asked him questions. Also, he raised his voice at the end and said that he didn't know Chu Anguo."
"What does this prove?" Bai Mengfei asked.
Xiang Yuntian analyzed the situation and said, "Even if you don't know, there's no need to get so agitated, right? Of course, maybe we wronged him, which is why he's so agitated. But think about it carefully, if you don't know, why would you borrow a power strip from Chu Anguo? Besides, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would bother others so easily, does he?"
Bai Mengfei thought Xiang Yuntian's words made sense, but there was no conclusive evidence to prove that Cai Qi was a major suspect, so she kept these thoughts to herself and planned to tell Zhao Fei about them when she got back.
After returning to their lodgings, the first thing Xiang Yuntian did was take a shower. Since he was living with a girl, even though he was a guy, he was very clean and conscientious.
Bai Mengfei took out her phone and sent a text message to Zhao Fei: "We just found a very suspicious person named Cai Qi, who is the roommate of the deceased Chu Anguo."
As a criminal investigator, the worst thing is to arrest the wrong person, so Zhao Fei replied first: "What's suspicious about him?"
“His behavior is suspicious.” Bai Mengfei quickly typed out the two suspicious points that Xiang Yuntian had just discovered, and added her own analysis based on Cai Qi’s behavior and habits. “From what we know, he is a very tidy and clean person. But the environment in that community is dirty, messy and bad, so it is strange that he was there. Moreover, my intuition tells me that he may have moved there because of Chu Anguo.”
"Since this person is so suspicious, then you should quickly find evidence to bring him to justice!" Why was Zhao Fei's reply so hasty, even making Bai Mengfei feel that he was being perfunctory? Because Zhao Fei was suffering from severe stomach pain at the time and had no mind to think about the case.
Bai Mengfei had to send him a message reminding him: "Captain Zhao, we are forensic doctors. Do you think it's appropriate for us to be watching suspects and looking for clues? Don't we have to go back to the station to perform autopsies and such?"
"Let's put those things aside for now!" Zhao Fei's hand trembled involuntarily as he held his phone, but he still tried his best to reply to Bai Mengfei's message. "Sigh, I know it's against the rules, after all, you two are pathologists and forensic doctors. But I'm telling you, you two are the most talented people in our team, so this matter still depends on you!"
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