You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Just as the entire audience was still captivated by Lin Chen's incredible reasoning,

"squeak--!"

A sudden screech of brakes echoed at the entrance to the underground parking garage.

Several police cars from the Major Crimes Unit arrived with sirens blaring.

The car door opened, and Su Qingge, dressed in a smart police uniform, strode in with a large group of criminal police officers and forensic doctors.

"What happened? What's the situation at the scene?"

As soon as Su Qingge entered the room, she habitually asked loudly.

When her gaze swept across the scene and she saw Lin Chen standing next to the load-bearing pillar, and Ye Qingcheng standing beside Lin Chen with a noble and aloof temperament, Su Qingge paused slightly, and a very complex light flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Just half an hour ago, they were making dumplings together in the Lin family's courtyard. In the blink of an eye, this man brought another woman to the crime scene.

Although she knew this was a serious matter, Officer Su couldn't help but feel a little jealous.

However, as a highly professional head of the serious crime unit, Su Qingge quickly adjusted her emotions and strode up to Lin Chen.

"Lin Chen, you're fast!"

"Have you found any clues?"

Su Qingge asked.

Lin Chen touched his nose and pointed to the hole that had been smashed open in the wall and the sliding rail inside.

"Here comes the 'big gift' from the murderer."

"This case is not simple; the murderer is a highly intelligent psychopath who is an expert in architecture."

"Let the forensic doctor remove the body first. Be careful not to disturb the marks on the body."

Su Qingge glanced at the sliding rail and gasped. She immediately waved for the forensic doctor and technicians to come forward.

Removing a corpse is an extremely difficult and disgusting process.

The not-fully-hardened concrete had already stuck to the deceased's clothes and flesh.

The forensic experts could only use small cutting machines and chisels to break the cement into pieces little by little.

The entire basement echoed with a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound, accompanied by a foul smell of blood mixed with cement.

It took a full half hour before Wang Daqiang's body was finally completely removed and laid flat on a waterproof tarpaulin.

The scene of death was gruesome, with multiple fractures throughout the body, clearly caused during the fall and being crushed by cement.

"Captain Su, there are no obvious fatal external injuries on the deceased's body."

"Preliminary assessment indicates death by suffocation."

A forensic doctor examined the patient and then reported back to his superior.

Lin Chen didn't speak. He squatted down and activated [God-level Insight] again.

His gaze swept frantically over every detail of the corpse.

Suddenly, Lin Chen's gaze fell on the deceased's right hand, the only part of his body that was sticking out of the cement.

The hand was clenched into a fist due to extreme pain, and the nails dug deep into the flesh.

"Pry his hands open."

Lin Chen said in a deep voice.

The forensic doctor had to exert tremendous effort to pry open the stiff finger one by one.

In the deceased's palm, there was a crumpled piece of paper, stained with blood and sweat!

"What is this?"

Su Qingge's expression hardened, and she immediately put on gloves, carefully took out the crumpled paper, placed it on the evidence board next to her, and unfolded it little by little.

This is a drawing made with a special waterproof material.

Although it was crumpled up, the lines on it were still clearly visible.

Lin Chen leaned forward, his eyes quickly scanning the blueprints.

This is not an ordinary modern architectural drawing.

The drawing shows the internal structure of an extremely complex metal device filled with gears, levers, and spikes!

"This is... a medieval torture device, the 'Iron Maiden'?"

Su Qingge looked at the contents of the drawing and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"That's right."

Lin Chen's eyes became incredibly deep, and his fingertip lightly touched the lower right corner of the drawing.

There, a bizarre symbol was drawn—a compass and a ruler crossed together, forming a pattern resembling a six-pointed star.

"The compass and ruler are the symbols of architects and engineers."

Lin Chen stood up, looked around the vast underground labyrinth, and his [Grandmaster-level Micro-expression Analysis] and [God-level Psychology] began to operate wildly in his mind, creating an in-depth psychological profile of this unknown murderer.

"This killer was not only an expert in architecture, but also extremely arrogant."

"He treated murder as a meticulous 'engineering' process."

"As a contractor, Wang Daqiang must have done a lot of shady things like cutting corners and deducting wages."

"His sin value has long been extremely high."

Lin Chen's voice was low and cold.

"The murderer sealed him inside the load-bearing pillar and stuffed the blueprints for the 'Iron Maiden' into his hand."

"This is not just murder, it's a ritualistic 'moral trial'!"

"He's telling us in this way that Wang Daqiang is a 'inferior building material,' so he's going to use the cruelest instruments of torture to imprison him forever in the foundation of this building!"

After hearing Lin Chen's profile, all the police officers present felt a chill run down their spines.

Treating murder as an engineering project?

Treating people like building materials?

That guy is a complete lunatic!

"Lin Chen, do you mean this is just the beginning?"

Ye Qingcheng keenly grasped the key point in Lin Chen's words, and her pretty face turned pale again.

"right."

Lin Chen turned his head, looked at Ye Qingcheng, and gave her a reassuring look.

"A tall building rises from the ground."

"Wang Daqiang was just the first 'foundation' he laid."

"This guy who calls himself an 'engineer' has only just begun to unfold his 'death blueprints'."

"However, since he dares to carry out construction on my turf..."

Lin Chen's lips curled into a sneer of arrogance, his eyes flashing with bloodthirsty excitement.

"Then I'll be the quality inspector and see if his bones are as hard as this concrete!"