Genius Detective

After dinner, Chen Shi said, "Yueyue, we will go to the Traffic Department to watch the surveillance footage. You can also use the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the process of retrieving footage."

The three drove to the Traffic Department and saw the split-screen monitors in the monitoring center. Tao Yueyue was shocked. "The monitoring system is so developed!"

"Yes, 90% of cases are solved by surveillance footage. This is a good thing. With the public security’s Skynet system, the eyes of the police are everywhere in the city, so don't do bad things!"

"Isn’t the last sentence a bit redundant?" Tao Yueyue asked with a smile. She had already recovered from her earlier panic.

Chen Shi requested for retrieval of the surveillance footage at the site where the accident had occurred. The three of them watched it on a computer. The surveillance footage was very clear. Tao Yueyue and a girl crossed the non-motorized lane hand in hand. When they reached the bus stop, a black-clothed man who was leaning on a pole reading the newspaper suddenly put the newspaper away and walked silently behind Tao Yueyue.

Reviewing this scene, Tao Yueyue was so scared that her palms were sweating, and she caught Lin Dongxue's hand tightly.

The man in black was wearing sunglasses and they couldn't see what he looked like at all. He said something to Tao Yueyue, then pushed her hard towards the road, before fleeing while holding his hat.

"This action of holding his hat!" Tao Yueyue said in a stupefied manner. "It’s exactly the same as the person who pushed Liang Zuoming. They are the same person!"

"Should we go to the site to have a look? Are there any shops around?" Chen Shi said.

"Yes, it’s a bustling shopping street near our academy. When I was pushed onto the road, I heard people shouting. There should have been witnesses." Tao Yueyue said.

Lin Dongxue pondered, "It seems that the murderer was trying to fake a traffic accident. You should go and look for witnesses with Yueyue, and I will go to the traffic police department to see if similar cases have occurred before."

"Okay!"

Chen Shi escorted Tao Yueyue back to the police academy. Tao Yueyue speculated on the way, "That man’s movements were skilled, and he was also very calm when escaping. I think he’s done this more than once or twice."

"Professional killers also use this kind of method. Let me ask you something: have you acquired any enemies recently, and does the other party have the ability to hire a killer?"

Tao Yueyue held her cheeks in thought. "No..."

"Think about it carefully."

"My ex-boyfriend... the one you told me to break up with last time. He’s the son of a wealthy businessman."

"Peaceful breakup?"

"I dumped him. He was very angry at the time."

"What is his name?"

"Uncle Chen, if I tell you his name, you will investigate him, but I think it will be a waste of energy. I think it’s impossible for it to be him. If he was a psychopath who would hire a hitman after getting dumped, then I would definitely have felt his paranoia and extremism when I was with him. A person whose mentality is abnormal wouldn’t be able to act so flawlessly."

"You can know a person without understanding his true nature. Many murderers, before it is known that they are murderers, were all good people in the eyes of others."

"I don't think it's a personal enmity. The murderer harbors some goal that he thinks is lofty and is eliminating us bad kids from the world!"

"Do you know what you’re saying? If that’s the case, it means that Long’an has always had a serial killer who hasn’t been discovered. He doesn’t do it for wealth or personal vengeance, but only to get rid of the ones he thinks are abnormal!"

"Didn't Zhou Tiannan die the same way?" Tao Yueyue raised her voice. "His case has never been solved, right?!"

Chen Shi was silent. Yes, there was Zhou Tiannan's bizarre death.

During that contest with Zhou Tiannan, Chen Shi felt strongly that it would be great if this man who was full of evil but unable to be arrested could suddenly die. Then he actually died!

Chen Shi asked slowly, "There is one thing I need to verify clearly."

"Go ahead."

"Before I told you, how did you know the name ‘Zhou Tiannan’?"

Tao Yueyue lowered her head and counted her fingers. "I eavesdropped on the conversation between you and Sister Gu, and learned that he was the boss behind the scenes. I didn't recognize him until he transferred to my school."

"So it was like that."

"Uncle Chen, have you ever suspected me?"

Chen Shi's expression betrayed him.

Tao Yueyue said, "Ha, you really suspected me!"

"I also doubted Miss Gu and myself..."

"Yourself?"

"I’ve been suppressing Song Lang's identity and playing the role of Chen Shi. Over time, Chen Shi has become my surface personality. Only in my dreams will I become Song Lang. I was looking forward to Zhou Tiannan's death. I was afraid... that I actually did it myself!"

Tao Yueyue lowered her head in silence, and then said after a while, "Actually, I also suspected you. With your IQ, it was also possible for you to devise a trick to kill Zhou Tiannan."𝗳𝘳𝐞e𝙬𝙚𝚋𝗻𝚘𝚟𝗲l.𝑐𝑜ｍ

Chen Shi smiled. "Well, in the end we suspected each other, and neither of us was the murderer."

"I think this murderer did it! He’s like a superhero, secretly getting rid of people who threaten the safety of the city!"

"What superhero?! A murderous hero? Your thoughts are still a bit exaggerated. Zhou Tiannan had many enemies. Moreover, can Zhou Tiannan and Liang Zuoming be regarded as posing the same level of threat? Liang Zuoming just bullied his classmates and killed a kitten. Is this person so idle that they even have to kill bad children?"

"You don't know how bad Liang Zuoming was! He was a mini-tyrant in class, and he knew some hooligans. He had even beaten the teacher, but the teacher did not dare to do anything to him because his father isn’t a good person either."

"Let’s not discuss Liang Zuoming. What about you? Objectively evaluate how bad Tao Yueyue really is!"

Tao Yueyue lowered her head in shame. "In class... I was called the Little Witch. I once caused a scumbag who had betrayed my friend to be caught cheating during an exam, invalidating his grades. Also, there was another girl who spoke ill of me. I made her make a fool out of herself in front of the whole class..."

"Haii!" Chen Shi smiled bitterly. "I told you long ago that you should exercise a little restraint in school... Then back to the topic: Do you feel that you are so bad that you deserve to die? Just like Liang Zuoming!"

"Well... Maybe someone hates me like how I hate Liang Zuoming, but I can swear that I have never bullied the weak."

"Don't worry, I won't take advantage of this opportunity to educate you. Who can guarantee that everyone will like them? Just be yourself."

"Thank you, Uncle Chen." Tao Yueyue was moved.

Chen Shi smiled and stroked her head as he looked out of the window. As it was the weekend, many people were strolling on the sidewalk. He thought of Tao Yueyue’s speculation. If the murderer really harbored the so-called "noble goal", then he would be the most terrifying criminal. This is because when a person does not have any sense of guilt for the murders they commit, but regard them as reasonable acts of purification, he will repeat his actions continuously and immerse himself in that sense of mission.

The most common criminal commits crimes for profit, and secondly for pleasure. Zhou Xiao was hovering between these two levels. Finally, there were those with a "noble goal", which would definitely place them on a terrorist’s level!