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

Chapter 9 Is he really the murderer?
The strong wind and heavy rain continued to beat against the iron roof, and the dense drumbeats were endless.

Chen Mo held the muddy fruit knife in his hand, his fingertips trembling slightly - Zhou Hao's figure had long disappeared in the rain, but the reflection on the blade was like an icicle, piercing his temples and making them throb.

"The murder weapon actually appeared like this, so who is the murderer?"

This is strange. Anyone could have picked up this murder weapon, so anyone could be the murderer.

On the contrary, the original owner Zhou Hao is the least likely to be the murderer.

The forensic report's inference of the murder weapon based on the wound completely matched the knife, but Zhou Hao's motive seemed fragmented.

His mother's serious illness and even his expression when he left in a hurry all point to the image of a filial son who was "forced" to leave here as soon as possible.

Chen Mo took a deep breath, threw the knife back to its original place, and slowly retreated to a corner where it was not easy to be noticed and hid there.

Having been a criminal police officer for many years, he still has some ability to conduct covert investigations.

If the murder weapon appeared at this location, the murderer would most likely pass by here between 22:30 and 23:00 and accidentally discover it.

After all, there was no one else nearby, so it was impossible for anyone to see Zhou Hao's knife fall into the mud, unless someone passed by and accidentally picked it up.

While Chen Mo was waiting, although there were not as many pedestrians as usual on rainy nights, there were still people passing through the rain from time to time.

When the waterproof watch jumped to [22:35], the dense drumbeats of the iron shed caused by the heavy rain did not reduce, but became even more frequent.

Chen Mo huddled in the shadow of an illegal building, the water under his rain boots already reaching his ankles.

He stared at the fruit knife in the mud, the blade flickering in the lightning like a dormant poisonous snake.

Suddenly, there was the sound of glass bottles breaking at the entrance of the alley.

A hunched figure staggered and bumped into the wall, rushing into the awning. The strong smell of alcohol mixed with a foul odor immediately filled the entire awning.

The homeless man staggered to the place where Zhou Hao dropped the knife, but he just raised his foot and kicked over a can filled with water next to the knife. His muddy cloth shoes rolled heavily over the handle of the knife - the blade sank into the mud with a "click", but he was completely unaware of it, and just muttered and reached for the nearby garbage dump.

After searching for a while, he found that there was half a bottle of wine left. He was overjoyed and walked out of the awning with the half bottle of wine.

Chen Mo's fingertips pressed against the cracks in the bricks until the man staggered and disappeared in the rain.

Obviously this person is not.

[22:47] The sound of the electric car speeding through the water, squeezing out the water curtain and spreading it to both sides, reached Chen Mo's ears.

The delivery man braked suddenly inside the awning, and the reflective strips on his waterproof suit drew a fluorescent green arc in the darkness.

He jumped out of the car to check the navigation, but the sole of his boot accidentally stepped on the back of a knife, and he slipped and fell directly into the mud.

"Damn, where did this broken knife come from!"

Seeing clearly the culprit who caused him to slip, he cursed and climbed up from the muddy ground, kicking the blade into the gap of the gutter. The splashing dirty water covered the entire blade.

Chen Mo didn't care too much about the delivery man, because the possibility of a delivery man committing a crime is relatively low. After all, the completion of their orders is recorded.

Based on the time and distance of order completion, it is easy to calculate their route and time consumed.

So it's easier to investigate. If it was really the delivery driver who committed the crime, they would have found it long ago. But the delivery driver kicked the knife so far away and it was covered by mud. If someone accidentally stumbled upon it, it would be very difficult.

At this time, there were only 13 minutes left until the estimated time of death.

Of course, since it is an estimated time, it cannot be said that it can be completely locked in between 22:30 and 23:00. The actual time of the crime may be expanded beyond such a narrow estimated time range.

But don't expand it too much.

The fluorescent light of the waterproof watch jumped to [22:55] in the rain.

The stagnant water at the entrance of the alley reflected the broken red light of the unmanned adult supplies sign, like a ball of solidified blood scab.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed past from behind the illegal building at the end of the alley.

Chen Mo's pupils suddenly contracted - the man was wearing a black raincoat and a black mask covering half of his face.

He hunched his back, his rain boots making a sticky squeaking sound as they rolled through the mud, and he accidentally walked towards the mud-covered blade.

Chen Mo saw that the black shadow seemed to notice the knife!
"Finally..." Chen Mo's Adam's apple rolled, and the muscles pressed tightly against the wet lining were as tight as a bowstring.

At this time, the black shadow squatted down, and his trembling fingertips were about to touch the hilt of the knife. There were still scars of healed corrosive wounds on the wrist exposed by the sleeve - this was exactly the same as the wound on the wrist of Chemistry teacher Li Yan who was burned by the spilled sulfuric acid when he accidentally knocked over a beaker while playing with his classmates in the school laboratory three months ago!
Chen Mo suddenly walked out quickly.

He suddenly saw that the black shadow was the school's chemistry teacher Li Yan. He was wearing a black raincoat covering his whole body. When Chen Mo came over, he had already picked up the fruit knife.

"How could it be him?" Chen Mo was extremely shocked.

Because Teacher Li was a well-known good guy, even though he was burned because of his students, he kindly forgave the two students who were fighting, and even went out of his way to comfort the two people who were worried because they were afraid of causing a big disaster.

His reputation has always been very good, and I have never heard of anything bad about him.

I also heard that he respects his wife very much at home. Basically, his wife has the final say in everything. No one in the surrounding area has ever said anything bad about him or had a grudge against him.

When the investigation was first conducted, no one would have thought of investigating him.

But today, when he saw him pick up the murder weapon with his own eyes, Chen Mo felt that his cognition had been greatly impacted.

Could the person that everyone thinks is a good guy really be the cruel murderer who attempted to rape Su Yuqing but failed and ended up slitting her throat?

"Is he really the murderer?" Chen Mo didn't want to believe it, but the facts were right in front of him.

If it was him, it would explain why Su Yuqing, who was killed in the dark area ahead, showed no signs of escape.

Because in Su Yuqing's eyes, Teacher Li must be a trustworthy and good person, so there is no possibility of chasing him.

When he proposed to cover Su Yuqing with a raincoat and take her to his home, this argument would easily convince Su Yuqing.

Because it is well known that Teacher Li is a henpecked husband. He has a wife at home. He is a good man known to everyone in the neighborhood. He is a man who obeys his wife's orders. In the eyes of women, he is almost no threat to the opposite sex.

It is easy to happen that if a girl is in dire need of help and he offers to take her home to be taken care of by his wife, it is basically unlikely that the girl will refuse.

(End of this chapter)