On a rainy night, the school beauty knocked on my door and asked for shelter

[Those who skipped to this chapter to find out the killer should start reading from chapter 203.]

Hearing Lin Ranhai's words, Su Yaxi secretly thought she had been clever enough before.

She didn't take the elevator when she went downstairs; she walked down the stairs instead.

She avoided the elevator surveillance cameras because she had come out without her parents' knowledge.

Her parents were already asleep by then, so she sneaked out. Afraid that her parents would find out that she had secretly gone out at night, she avoided the elevator surveillance cameras.

To avoid letting people know that you went out at night.

However, it was precisely because of this decision she made in advance that it became the key to her evading the investigation.

After she returned home, she would use the stairs again instead of the elevator.

Then everything is safe.

The only footage recorded in the elevator was from the surveillance cameras when she returned home in the afternoon.

Since her parents were already asleep, as long as she returned home without disturbing them, no one would know that she had gone out in the middle of the night.

Even if it disturbed her parents, Su Yaxi believed that they would not betray her.

As long as outsiders cannot know that you went out at night, and the elevator surveillance footage can prove that you did not go out at night, then everything is safe.

Most importantly, there is a logical connection between these actions.

If she deliberately avoided surveillance cameras to leave the house in order to kill Su Yuqing, then she must have prepared the murder weapon.

However, neither she nor her parents had any record of purchasing this type of fruit knife.

Even if the police were to investigate her.

It doesn't make sense from the murder weapon.

Since it is assumed that Su Yaxi premeditated the murder, it must be assumed that she made sufficient preparations for the crime.

She must provide the murder weapon.

If Su Yaxi didn't premeditate the murder, and didn't have this intention, then why would she deliberately avoid being seen when leaving home? Why would she deliberately avoid taking the elevator?
Therefore, in the absence of conclusive evidence.

Without any reasonable grounds for doubt, Su Yaxi's age was her protective shield.

Even if there are exceptionally intelligent people among the police, she still has to be suspicious.

That would lead to the two logical contradictions mentioned above.

After all, there was no surveillance footage showing Su Yaxi taking the elevator out after returning home in the afternoon.

It's difficult for the police to suspect Su Yaxi out of thin air. If they wanted to suspect her out of thin air, they would have to anticipate that she was planning to commit a crime, which is why she would deliberately avoid surveillance.

The question keeps going around in circles and eventually comes back to the murder weapon.

This is the crux of the case and the biggest area where suspicion can be cleared.

That is something that others would hardly imagine is that the murder weapon was provided by Su Yuqing, the victim herself.

This fundamentally disrupted the police's investigative approach.

In addition, Su Yuqing barely struggled when she died. After all, she was already beyond grief and heartbroken. Even if she was really killed, she was in a state of no concern. Therefore, there was not much information that could be obtained from the scene of Su Yuqing's death. In addition, the crazy washing away of the torrential rain made the clues even fewer.

To deduce from such faint clues and such an absurd incident that two people who shouldn't have been at the scene were the culprits is unthinkable.

This difficulty is really too high.

Cases committed by chance, especially those where the murder weapon is provided by the victim themselves, are a hundred times more difficult to solve than those cases of perfectly planned crimes.

Normally, even if the victim provides the murder weapon, there is usually a struggle with the murderer, and the murderer eventually takes it from the victim and kills him. In this case, there will be traces of struggle on his body and hands, making it easier for the police to think that the victim may have brought the murder weapon himself.

However, Su Yuqing died with almost no struggle, which is completely unlike the scenario where the victim carried the murder weapon, was robbed, and was ultimately raped and murdered.

The second reason the police found this case difficult to solve was the testimony of the passerby. He fabricated a story about a rape and molestation case where the perpetrator fled, severely disrupting the police's initial investigation.

After hearing Su Yaxi say that she didn't take the elevator when she went out...

Chen Mo suddenly realized.

No wonder the investigation showed that none of Su Yaxi's family members went out after Su Yuqing left.

Basically, the possibility of them committing the crime can be ruled out.

In the subsequent investigation, they fully cooperated and said whatever they said. People who had no problems to begin with were naturally cleared of suspicion very easily.

If Lin Shiya and Su Chengfeng are not suspects, then the possibility of Su Yaxi committing a crime on a rainy night at her age is even lower.

Unless one has a God's-eye view, no one would suddenly suspect Su Yaxi, a girl whose departure wasn't even captured on surveillance footage, after witnesses testified that it was an attempted rape and murder on the run.

Both perpetrators of manslaughter have their own alibis.

None of them had any intention or plan to kill.

There was no evidence to be found that a murder weapon had been prepared.

Naturally, it is extremely difficult to lock onto.

After discussing the matter and calming themselves down, the two left one after the other.

At this point, Chen Mo finally learned the full picture of the case and why it was so difficult to solve.

First, it was thanks to God's help; the torrential rain washed away all traces.

Secondly, there were two coincidences. Lin Ranhai happened to have arranged to go home with a female classmate (who later became his girlfriend) today. Su Yaxi was too clever and cunning, so she deliberately avoided taking the elevator when she went out, leaving behind surveillance footage as proof of her departure.

Thirdly, the murder weapon was brought by Su Yuqing herself and had nothing to do with the two of them. No one but herself knew about the knife she brought.

When these three factors come together, the police have little access to most of the information, which naturally makes it an extremely difficult case to solve.

Moreover, there was a criminal among the perpetrators who was not unintelligent.

She had already anticipated the police's moves.

This makes the already extremely difficult task for the police investigation several times more challenging.

Watching the two figures walk away, Chen Mo felt a pang of sadness in his heart.

I never expected things to turn out this way.

But upon closer reflection, this is indeed an unexpected yet perfectly reasonable answer.

However, under these circumstances, Chen Mo couldn't even pinpoint the killer's identity.

The moment Lin Ranhai grabbed Su Yaxi's arm, the knife just happened to slice through Su Yuqing's neck.

Who is the real murderer?
Is it Lin Ranhai? Is it Su Yaxi?
There is no definitive conclusion.

But Su Yuqing had actually died before them.

However, the murderer who killed Su Yuqing was more elusive and even more difficult to bring to justice.

The real killers who brought her to her death were her broken family, her mentally unstable mother, and her beastly father who could be indifferent even to his own daughter.

It was I who failed to understand the depths of her despair and did not lend her a final helping hand.

Compared to the hatred he felt for Lin Ranhai and Su Yaxi, the two accidental killers, Chen Mo felt even more disgust for the person who had truly driven Su Yuqing to this dead end.

Just as he was thinking this with a pained expression, a small, cold hand gently touched his cheek.

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