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

Inside Chu Tianxiong's villa in the suburbs of Beijing.

Jiang Tingxue, dressed in a white forensic coat, rushed to the scene with her assistant.

Her face still wore that same aloof expression, but when she saw Lin Chen, a barely perceptible glint flashed in her eyes.

"Advisor Lin, Team Leader Su said you have made a new discovery."

Jiang Tingxue walked up to Lin Chen and asked in a cold tone.

Lin Chen nodded and pointed to Chu Tianxiong's corpse in mid-air and the overturned stool on the ground.

"Chu Tianxiong did not commit suicide, but was murdered and the scene was staged."

"From a physics perspective, the distance the stool fell does not match the trajectory of the person struggling to hang themselves."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tingxue's eyes instantly sharpened.

Without asking any further questions, she immediately put on gloves and prepared to conduct a preliminary examination of Chu Tianxiong's body.

She knew Lin Chen's abilities; since he said that, the truth could not possibly be suicide.

Su Qingge and Li Mingyu stood aside, watching Jiang Tingxue's actions nervously.

Although they had complete faith in Lin Chen's judgment, they still felt uneasy because they lacked direct evidence.

Jiang Tingxue first conducted a routine examination of the body, and then carefully examined Chu Tianxiong's eyes.

Her gaze lingered on a certain area of ​​the deceased's conjunctiva, and her pupils contracted slightly.

"The deceased had extremely fine hemorrhages in his conjunctiva."

Jiang Tingxue's voice was clear, cool, and professional.

She pointed at Chu Tianxiong's eyes and said to her assistant.

"Take samples immediately for pathological analysis."

Upon hearing this, Su Qingge and Li Mingyu felt a chill run down their spines.

Conjunctival hemorrhage is a common sign of death by asphyxiation.

Next, Jiang Tingxue examined Chu Tianxiong's neck.

She gently traced the edges of the marks with her fingertips, then carefully observed the direction and depth of the marks.

"There are two marks on the neck from the strangulation."

Jiang Tingxue's tone became even more serious.

"One line is horizontal, shallow, and has smooth edges."

"The other one slopes upwards, is deeper, and has obvious friction marks on the edges."

She turned to look at Lin Chen, a hint of doubt in her eyes.

"Consultant Lin, what does this mean?"

Lin Chen's eyes were cold and sharp. He took over Jiang Tingxue's words and said firmly:

"This means that Chu Tianxiong was first strangled horizontally from behind with a rope, and then hung from the chandelier!"

Lin Chen's words once again stirred up a storm in the hearts of Su Qingge and Li Mingyu!

First strangle him, then fake a suicide!

This is more cruel and cunning than they imagined!

"The horizontal strangulation marks indicate that someone strangled his neck from behind with a rope, causing him to suffocate to death."

"The upward strangulation marks were formed when he was hanged after his death, when the rope came into contact with his neck, and when the weight of his body fell downwards."

Jiang Tingxue added that her interpretation of the corpses was extremely accurate.

"This...this is the perfect murder!"

Li Mingyu gasped, looking at Chu Tianxiong's corpse and feeling a chill run down his spine.

The murderer not only killed people, but also meticulously staged the scene in an attempt to cover it up.

"But, Consultant Lin, the doors and windows are definitely locked from the inside!"

Li Mingyu raised his confusion again, a key point that he couldn't understand no matter what.

How did the murderer kill someone in a locked room, then lock the doors and windows from the inside, and finally disappear without a trace?

Lin Chen didn't speak; he simply walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the villa.

He carefully observed every detail of the window, from the material of the window frame to the thickness of the glass and the gaps in the sliding track.

[God-level Mechanical Mastery] Instant activation.

In Lin Chen's eyes, the complex mechanical structure of the window instantly became transparent.

He could clearly see every gear and every latch inside the slide rail, as well as the subtle workings between them.

His gaze lingered on a very discreet gap in the window track.

There, a thin, almost transparent line was faintly visible.

This thread is so fine that it is impossible to notice without careful observation.

Lin Chen took out a pair of medical tweezers from his pocket, and very gently inserted them into the crevice, carefully removing the thin thread.

"What is this?"

Su Qingge and Li Mingyu stepped forward and asked curiously.

Lin Chen held the thin thread up in front of them.

It was a fishing line that shimmered with a faint luster, extremely strong, and almost transparent.

"Fishing line."

Lin Chen said coldly, then he used tweezers to hold one end of the fishing line, the other end of which was connected to a tiny mechanism inside the window track.

"Xiao Zhen, that old fox, may have exquisite methods, but they are full of loopholes in front of me."

"This is a time-delayed locking mechanism made using ice and fishing line."

Lin Chen explained.

"After the murder, the killer tied one end of a fishing line to the inside latch of the window and the other end through the gap in the window track, connecting it to a block of ice."

"After the killer leaves, the ice will slowly melt over time."

"Once the ice melts completely, the fishing line, now free from gravity, will slacken, triggering the latch inside the window and causing a delayed locking mechanism."

Lin Chen's tone was calm, but every word was filled with an accurate reconstruction of the killer's modus operandi.

Su Qingge and Li Mingyu were stunned.

Ice cubes?

Fishing line?

Delayed deadbolt?

This is a crime method straight out of a movie!

"After the murderer left, the ice melted, the fishing line loosened, and the lock automatically re-locked, thus creating the illusion of a locked room."

Lin Chen sneered.

"This method ensures that the doors and windows are locked after the perpetrator leaves, while also preventing any traces from being left behind."

"Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

Li Mingyu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, but he was immediately filled with lingering fear.

If it weren't for Lin Chen, they probably would have been completely fooled by this "perfect" secret room.

Su Qingge's expression also turned extremely ugly.

She knew that the mastermind behind this was definitely not an ordinary person.

She couldn't think of anyone other than Xiao Zhen who could have planned all of this so meticulously and possessed such sophisticated methods.

"Immediately conduct DNA testing on the fishing line."

Lin Chen handed the fishing line to Jiang Tingxue and gave her a stern command.

"The focus is on detecting any remaining skin flakes, fingerprints, or other biological traces."

"yes!"

Jiang Tingxue immediately took the fishing line and turned to arrange the testing.

Lin Chen's eyes were cold and sharp as he looked out the window at the unusually gloomy sky over the capital.

Xiao Zhen, do you think you've covered your tracks perfectly?

You're too naive.

Physics doesn't lie, and neither does biology.

All lies will be utterly torn apart in the face of irrefutable evidence!