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

Municipal Bureau, Forensic Center.

The air was filled with the chilling scent of formaldehyde mixed with disinfectant.

Jiang Tingxue, wearing a spotless white lab coat, walked out of the precision instrument room, which was off-limits to unauthorized personnel.

She took off her goggles, and her stunningly beautiful face, which always carried an air of academic inquiry, was now filled with disbelief and amazement.

She walked straight up to Lin Chen and handed him a freshly printed, still-warm, lab report.

Her gaze swept past the report and fixed intently on Lin Chen.

"You...you're right again."

Jiang Tingxue's voice carried a tremor that she herself was unaware of.

"High concentrations of phosphorus residue and trace amounts of disulfide reaction traces were detected on the clothing fragments."

"Exactly as you predicted."

The corridor fell into an instant silence upon hearing this.

The officers who followed Lin Chen looked at him with a gaze that had changed from admiration to utter awe.

Li Mingyu stood right next to him.

He stared at the report written in black and white, each character feeling like a resounding slap across his face.

His face, which had just regained some color, suddenly turned a deep liver color.

Scientific inference?

Spontaneous combustion of biogas?

His smug analysis from the scene just now sounds like a complete joke.

What a huge joke!

He wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into and then encase himself in concrete, never to see the light of day again.

Su Qingge took the report, quickly glanced at it, and then looked up at Lin Chen with a gleam in her phoenix eyes.

This man once again shattered her understanding of what was acceptable.

His seemingly casual deduction was not a guess at all, but a statement that he had already foreseen the outcome.

"Convene a case analysis meeting immediately!"

Su Qingge wasted no more time, and her voice regained the decisiveness and sharpness of the head of the serious crimes unit.

……

Ten minutes later, in the Major Crimes Unit's conference room.

The atmosphere was heavy and oppressive.

On the huge projection screen, surveillance footage retrieved from the vicinity of the crime scene was being played repeatedly.

The image is blurry, and the angle is tricky.

But it is still clear that the deceased, Wang Erlai, had a cigarette in his mouth, his hands in his pockets, and was walking alone in the narrow alley with an air of indifference.

next second.

"call--!"

A ball of orange-red flame suddenly burst into flames from his back without warning!

Flames instantly engulfed his entire body!

Wang Erlai let out a shrill scream that was inhuman, and rolled and struggled wildly on the ground.

The entire process lasted less than two minutes.

He then transformed into a charred human form, until finally he was reduced to ashes.

The technicians played the video back and forth more than a dozen times, and even used the most advanced frame-by-frame analysis technology.

"Reporting to Team Leader Su, within three minutes before and after the fire, no adult was within three meters of the deceased within the visible range of the surrounding surveillance cameras."

"Ranging out long-range sniping, there were no ballistic traces at the scene."

"Remote-controlled explosion ruled out; no explosives remained in the deceased's body."

One conclusion after another was presented, and then another was rejected.

The case has reached a stalemate.

"This...how is this possible?"

A young police officer stared at the screen, muttering to himself with a chill down his spine.

"Is the killer invisible? Or does he possess some kind of sorcery?"

The officers present were all experienced criminal investigators, but the bizarre scene before them completely overturned their case-solving experience.

Since Lin Chen's chemical murder theory holds true, the murderer must have splashed the solution on the victim.

Where is she?

How did the killer manage to do it?

Everyone looked at each other, at a loss for what to do.

Li Mingyu huddled in the corner, his lips moving as if he wanted to say something to save face, but when he met Su Qingge's cold gaze, he swallowed his words back.

He was afraid.

He was afraid that if he offered any more "brilliant" suggestions, Lin Chen would once again humiliate him.

Lin Chen was the only person in the entire conference room, making him seem out of place.

He leaned back in his chair, unconsciously twirling a pen in his hand, his eyes slightly narrowed, staring intently at the repetitive images on the screen.

To others, it was just a blurry, moving image.

But under his "god-like insight," every frame of the image was infinitely dissected, magnified, and analyzed.

Light and shadow, pixels, and every moving object are all constructed in his mind into an absolutely accurate three-dimensional model.

The pen stopped.

Lin Chen's eyes, which always carried a hint of laziness, suddenly opened, and a sharp glint flashed in them.

"stop."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a thunderclap, exploding in the deathly silent conference room.

Everyone was startled and turned to look at him.

"Rewind 30 seconds, play at 0.5x speed."

The technicians didn't dare to slack off, their fingers flying across the keyboard.

The image reverses and then replays at an extremely slow speed.

Wang Erlai's arrogant figure moved slowly across the screen.

"Slow down."

"……stop!"

Lin Chen suddenly stood up.

Amidst everyone's astonished and uncertain gazes, he strode to the screen and pointed his slender finger at an extremely inconspicuous corner of the image.

The light there was dim, the pixels were blurry, and it was almost a meaningless mass of noise.

Zoom in here.

The technician immediately did as instructed, selecting the designated area and zooming in.

The image was magnified four times, eight times, sixteen times...

As the mosaic-like pixels gradually became clearer, a detail that everyone had overlooked was revealed to the public!

Edges of the image.

About one minute before Wang Erlai started the fire.

A little boy, who was only up to his waist and looked about seven or eight years old, brushed past Wang Erlai who was passing by.

The little boy was wearing a cartoon T-shirt and holding a colorful plastic water gun that could be found anywhere in a convenience store.

The moment when the two intersect.

The little boy, seemingly out of mischief, raised his water gun and sprayed a stream of water at Wang Erlai's back with a "whoosh".

The entire movement was extremely fast, and most of it was obscured by Wang Erlai's tall figure.

If it weren't for Lin Chen's method of zooming in down to the pixel level, no one would be able to detect it!

In the surveillance footage, Wang Erlai seemed to feel a dampness on his back.

He glanced back impatiently, muttering a curse under his breath, but seeing that the other person was just a child, he didn't pursue the matter further. He simply wiped his back and continued to stagger forward.

He never dreamed of this.

This wiping only accelerated the evaporation of the solvent.

This also hastened his death.

Inside the meeting room, you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone gaped, staring intently at the frozen scene on the screen, a chill running from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads!

Lin Chen slowly lowered his hand and turned around.

His voice was low and cold, as if he were reading a verdict from hell.

"The murderer has been found."

"He took advantage of a child who knew nothing and put a deadly phosphorus solution into that toy water gun."

A collective gasp filled the meeting room, and a young police officer even instinctively covered his mouth, his eyes filled with terror and disgust.

Using an innocent child who treats splashing water as a game to carry out such a cruel and bloody murder!

Lin Chen's icy gaze swept across the entire room, and he defined this unknown existence word by word.

"This is not the murderer."

"This is a devil in human skin, walking among humans."