The murder scene was located in front of the private villa of the Black Potter Casino owner. The scene has been surrounded by police cordon.
The villa is located at the top of a hill outside Heitao Street. There are no people living in the nearby area, and the view is excellent. It is easy to infer from the telescope dropped near the body that the deceased was still using the telescope to observe the situation of the Black Pottery Casino in the distance before his death.
Nearly four hours have passed since the time of the crime, and the police have finished taking samples. Only the minimum police force is left at the scene, and everyone else has withdrawn.
After all, the matter at Black Pottery Casino is bigger. Too many rich people died there, and the area involved was too wide, and the local police simply didn't have enough manpower.
Upon arriving at the scene, Erica immediately jumped out of the car and asked the police officer who was staying behind about the situation.
An Ming parked the car first, packed his belongings, and then walked to Erica's side.
"Are there any traces left at the scene?"
Erica took out the record book she had obtained from the police and flipped through the pages.
"No, everything is gone, the fire burned everything."
"It appears this was a premeditated crime and they intended to kill him from the beginning."
An Ming crossed the yellow warning tape and entered the ruins that were burned to black charcoal. The large piece of debris blocking the door has been moved away, and a walkway has been cleared. Various seals and on-site investigation marks were also posted in the room. An Ming pulled down his hood and fanned his collar. Even though it was already late autumn, there was still residual heat in the ruins that had just experienced the fire. He felt as if he had walked into a big boiler.
An Ming walked along the corridor to the living room. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows sent cold air into the room, making the temperature here much lower than in other places. A charred corpse lay in the center of the room, his hands covering his chest in pain. His posture was enough to tell how painful this man was before he died.
An Ming took out medical gloves from his bag and put them on, then looked at the charred corpses on the ground. As recorded, the owner of the Black Pottery Casino was killed with one blow, his chest and heart were completely gouged out, and he lost a lot of blood instantly. The boss should have died at that moment.
"Senior, did you see something?" Erica asked.
"No, nothing was found."
"I saw you swearing to look through the corpse with a serious look on your face. I thought you had some crime scene investigation skills." Erica was speechless.
"But if I don't come, will you?"
An Ming was speechless in response to Erica's question. In his opinion, Erica was just a pendant and of no use at all. He was thankful to be out of the way.
But Erica laughed off An Ming sarcasm. She put her hands on her hips and hummed confidently, showing an uninhibited smile.
"Of course I'll go."
"Miss Erica, I know you want to gain my trust, but I don't think a crime scene is a place for fun."
"Senior, how much do you distrust me!" Erica bared her teeth and retorted, "If a tiger doesn't show off its power, then you think I'm a sick cat! Senior, do you know my identity?"
An Ming was confused about Erica question.
"Isn't she the eldest lady of the Maseranti family?"
"Throw that broken identity into the trash can!" Erica still showed her usual disdain for this, "I don't mean the noble status, but my background. Senior, you saw me for the first time today, and I also I'm trying my best to pretend to be a noble lady, but I haven't really introduced myself yet."
Erica took two steps back, slightly lifted one side of her skirt, and showed a confident smile.
"Please allow me to introduce myself again. My name is Erica. I am 19 years old and currently an honorary associate professor at the Imperial University of Technology. My research interests are 'Xenorace Biology' and 'Xenorace Biomaterials', specializing in Study all the incredible creatures and phenomena that have appeared from before and after the "Lan Kingdom Hundred Years Civil War" to the present, and use them as experimental materials to research and manufacture biological agents."
An Ming was obviously surprised when he heard Erica introduce herself. Of course the surprising position is somewhat unusual.
"Are you 19?"
In An Ming opinion, her appearance, which is no more than 14 years old, does not look like what a 19-year-old adult should look like.
"Senior, are you treating me more and more excessively? Is that the point of my self-introduction?" Erica pouted.
In fact, after being reminded by Erica, An Ming realized that the way he treated Erica was a little too affectionate, just like how he treated the director.
But An Ming quickly found a reason for himself. Maybe in his eyes the director and Erica are both psychopaths of the same level. To deal with neurosis, there is no need to be serious.
"Ahem." He coughed lightly, "Then you said that your research direction will be helpful to our investigation?"
"No, my research direction is not helpful for the time being, but my other skill is of some help. You know, in addition to my major, I also took 'Criminal Investigation' as an elective, and I also know a thing or two about crime scene investigation."
The corners of An Ming mouth twitched. If a person who just took criminal investigation in school could play a role in actual difficult cases, then the police would all resign. So he didn't believe Erica lies at all.
But before he could stop her, Erica pushed An Ming aside.
"Senior, give in!"
After saying this, she stood calmly in the center of the room and started dancing. One moment he approached the window, the other moment he picked up the telescope on the ground, and the next moment he was talking to someone behind him.
"It should be here." Erica said suddenly.
An Ming couldn't help but feel a chill in his back when he heard Erica's words. Erica's voice was so cold at this time, as if the person talking to her was not a living human being, but a machine. She turned her face slightly to look at An Ming, and her emerald eyes seemed to be brighter.
"What's here?" An Ming asked.
"This is where the boss was killed."
Erica took a few steps forward, then stepped back, and happened to stand a few steps in front of the body, close to the window.
An Ming looked at Erica position and then at the location of the body. Indeed, as Erica said, it makes sense that if he fell in this position, he would lie in the middle of the house.
Erica didn't stop, she took a few steps forward and approached the window.
"At that time, the boss was here observing the Black Pottery Casino in the distance, and he was very anxious. Of course, his casino was surrounded by personnel from the Bureau of Investigation and Management Bureau, so he must have exposed some flaws." Erica went on. He glanced at the left side and said, "Moreover, there were other people here at the time. Apart from the thing that really penetrated his chest, there was another person standing next to the boss at this time."
"Why are you so judgmental?"
"Because the blunderbuss fell on the left side. The boss is right-handed and cannot hold the gun with his left hand. So it would be strange for the gun to fall so far away. It is too far away from the body. It looks like it is here. This is where the boss really encountered an accident. I think the boss was talking to someone he could communicate with. He was facing to the left. When he found that the other party had his tail cut off, he took out his gun and wanted to threaten the other party, but another person failed. One person was killed."
"Why aren't you confronting the murderer?"
An Ming couldn't understand the causes and consequences of deducing the third person.
"Look, the gun fell here, at a right angle to the direction where the body fell. It means that when he was confronting this man, another gangster approached from the right, went around behind him and killed him. So there are at least two suspects at the scene."
An Ming touched his chin and felt that Erica's inferences could only be described as inferences. There were only a few dropped objects as evidence at the scene, so obviously her inferences could not be said to be the truth. But he couldn't find a reason to refute.
He already believed it 80% in his heart.
"So what do you think about the real murderer?" An Ming asked.
Erica nodded and walked around the place where the boss died two or three more times. The police at the scene used chemicals to investigate many places, and many places still had blood stains and were cordoned off.
"I think the murderer is at least two meters tall and weighs over two hundred kilograms. He is a strong man with excessive muscles. And this guy... killed the boss with his bare hands."
"unarmed?"
"That's right, look at the blood splattered here. The angle is very special. From the remaining blood, we can infer the angle at which the blood splattered. From this, we can find that the boss was pierced through the chest by a huge blunt object. Then the angle at which the blunt object was drawn was too short, not like a hand-held weapon, and the traces of blood dripping along it also supported this conjecture. He did not throw away the bloody weapon, but took it away without caring. . If that thing is its arm, everything will be explained. "
After listening to Erica words, An Ming had some thoughts in his mind. He no longer felt that there was no evidence for Erica's survival, because he thought of the identity of the real murderer.
"I know who the real murderer is." An Ming said.
"What? Who is it?"
After listening to An Ming words, Erica suddenly changed from the cold criminal investigator to an ordinary girl.
An Ming couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If she had always looked so cold, maybe he could still think of her as a competent partner.
"You've probably heard of the murderer." An Ming was a little pretentious, "We've searched the arena, right?"
Erica thought of the tragic situation in the arena again, couldn't help biting her lip, and then nodded slowly.
An Ming ignored her mood and continued to ask.
"Don't you think the arena is missing something?"
"Isn't there a lot missing from that arena? All the evidence has been removed."
"That's right, it's just that the evidence is missing. Do you remember what those evidences are?"
After hearing this, Erica suddenly hammered her palms.
"So that's it, it's those chalk beasts!"
"Yes, if the people behind the boss are the ones who really control the chalk beast, then it makes sense for them to use this creature to kill the boss. Besides, among those chalk beasts, I know one who likes to penetrate the heart. Its name is 'Champion', the uncrowned king of the arena."
But then An Ming sighed.
"But now that we know the murderer's identity is a monster, it won't help. We don't have the means to track those guys."
Although the federal government has set up an administrative agency to deal with chalk beast crimes, so far they can only wait and wait, never catching those monsters earlier.
But when An Ming looked at Erica again, she let out the same confident hum she had not long ago.
"Senior, you can still rely on me this time."
"Do you have other skills?"
"No, I don't have any new skills. This time it's my professional skill. Didn't I introduce myself? My specialty is studying 'alien biology'. In fact, I have handled the corpses of many chalk beasts. . Then our research institute discovered that those guys would leave some wonderful chemicals in the surrounding air. That kind of substance is colorless and odorless and hardly reacts with any chemical substances. But at the same time, I A way was also discovered to dye it to track the flow of those substances through the body of the chalk beast."
"What is so magical? Didn't you say it won't react with any substance?"
"Of course, I said 'almost never', there must be substances that can react, right?" Erica smiled slightly, "It will react with my blood."
"Your blood?"
An Ming raised an eyebrow, feeling as if he saw some weirdo in front of him.
"Actually, I haven't studied why my blood is so special, but for the research at hand, I still used blood to make a marking spray."
Erica immediately took out a small bottle of liquid in a cosmetic spray bottle from her pocket.
"How amazing!"
An Ming was about to get it, but Erica retracted her hand and took back the small bottle.
"Senior, I can't give you benefits in vain." Erica chuckled.
Before Erica finished speaking, An Ming knew what she was planning.
"Hey." An Ming sighed heavily, "But in our case at the Bureau of Investigation, you are my partner. If I ask you to cooperate with me unconditionally, you must comply."
"Is there still such a thing? What kind of shady department is the Administration! This is too unfriendly to the subordinates!"
Erica quickly stepped back and hid the small bottle.
"That's how the Federation is." An Ming smiled slyly, "Let's just capture them without mercy."
"No, don't! I refuse!"
Erica kept backing up, almost reaching the point of nowhere, holding the small bottle in her arms and shaking her head.
An Ming looked at her like this and was too lazy to continue teasing her.
"Forget it, I won't kid you anymore." An Ming took a few steps back and waved his hand, "I can imagine your conditions. Since you insist on knowing, I won't stop you. This is the last warning. , after you know the truth, you are likely to be targeted by those behind the Federation. Not only you, but also the family and friends you care about may die. "
Erica smiled bitterly when she heard this.
"But I don't have any family anymore."
An Ming finally relaxed looking at Erica's wry smile with determination on her face.
"Okay, the deal is established. Hurry up and prepare! I remember you just said that those things will dissipate in less than a day, and we don't have much time. When you are ready, sit in the passenger seat and we will drive to chase."
After An Ming finished speaking, he turned and left the room.